skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read from line 1758 (at http://pastebin.com/f751e9f5b) and you'll see that those astalavista guys have no taste... Good riddance.
Do you distribute the binary?
It can be eithered.
As in other parts of the country, village customs dictate the groom's family pay the bride's family a set amount -- known as cai li -

I know China is a big and diverse country. Perhaps that is why I've heard of the Chinese custom for the bride's family to pay huge sums to the groom's family. And the proverb: "Raising a girl is like watering some else's garden."

Is this a case of different regions with different customs?
Apple Races to Keep Ahead of Rivals
I don't see what's impolite or unreasonable about that. I really do think the name is stupid, and I really would be prejudiced against a company with a name like that.

I suppose I could have said the name is "suboptimal" or something but why beat about the bush?
Yeah, that's exactly what I get. It's very odd...
What is really needed is to have all vehicles, roads, lights, and stop signs linked together.

For example, a car should refuse to let the driver proceed thru a light/stop sign unless it's clear. Imagine all the money that would be saved from property/medical damages.
Microsoft's Ozzie airs cloud views, backs Windows-based netbooks
We don't have such plugins yet, but our system is built with the eventual release of an API in mind (so that any number of clients could connect, not just the Flex client)... if you want to build something that interacts with it, just contact me and I'll see how we can help you.
Well, they clearly should have talked to pg.

The first comment to the article by Aly-Khan Satchu is about as jargon-filled VC speak as I have seen.
This is the purpose of a great deal of regulation, simply raising the cost of some transaction to benefit those who have already cleared the bar. In this case, it is particularly clear to see because the person being held down has virtually no resources at all, but it is merely a difference of scale, not kind, to many other such endless regulations.

All regulations have social costs. It should be a routine question "What will the costs be?", "Who will bear them?", and "Is it worth it?", but the questions are so rarely asked. No matter how small the cost, it can be the difference between success and failure for somebody. A full economic accounting often shows the costs aren't worth it because of second order effects (which would be beyond the scope of a HN post, but for example, once the gate has been set up, those on the right side of the gate can artificially charge more, often negating the value to society of the regulation).

If you don't like this result, think twice next time you feel tempted to suggest that the answer to some problem is regulation. Maybe it is. But if you don't know what the costs are, and you haven't thought about how people will change their behavior after you've put your regulation in place, you haven't got it all worked out yet.
Are you my ex-girlfriend?

"You're ugly and stupid!!! I'm not being mean, those are simply the facts!"
#microsyntax
Never said they were facts, just my opinion.

So, she's free, then ..? :D
I thought the typical definition of offsite backup also means data is backed up to a media like tape and stored in a different location.

How is your offsite backup implemented? Is the data stored on a network drive, or backed up to tape?
Social Networking In the Year 3000
Physical security, i.e. protection against fires floods and comets, etc.
"Many private schools succeed because the don't have to deal with the same types of children as do public schools."

Or with the same types of parents. A private school can always tell parents to take their tuition dollars and go somewhere else, if the trouble they are causing exceeds the value of the tuition they are paying.

Agreed with the question of scaling. It is easy to poach all of the best teachers and put them into one school, and you should get good results. But is this a solution to raising the level of education nation wide, or even in one city?
4) Microsoft has been spending money on advertising Bing on TV
People who love little things might like this too

http://kolibrios.org , minuteOS fork

I ran this on Virtualbox.
Immersive Virtual Reality will flourish with iPhone OS 3.0
Google Finance Sheds Its Beta Label 3 Years After Launch; Still Can’t Touch Y
yeah useful, also "open `pwd`" to open the current directory
Many times I wish the below mentioned, but perhaps it will take quite a few decades to achieve it.

If we could have a global infrastructure, wherein we tell the car the place we wish to visit, which causes the car to automatically figure out: the optimal route based on constantly changing traffic and weather conditions, refilling, obeying all rules such as one-way / speed limitations and so on, it will be truly amazing achievement.

The technology is there, fragmented in thousands of pieces; it needs to be weaved as a cohesive whole in a reliable and safe manner.

In a nutshell, save the time for driving the vehicles for an entire civilization, :)
This is definitely in the works. The biggest problem is convincing the countless local authorities to upgrade their existing traffic systems to support a technology that's not in the market yet.
Sounds about the same as me for my first two semesters. Only difference is instead of going home on the weekends I would take an hour nap before my early Friday class then go back to sleep until Saturday after the class was over. Glad I'm not doing that anymore :)

Off topic:
Are you the kaitnieks that created Autorune and SCAR?
We are looking at the mobile market, but rather than simply adding another interface to access Woobius we are looking at how we can really make mobile technology work for us and our customers. With the inclusion of technology such as GPS receivers, compasses and high speed internet now as standard, we can do much more than mobile voice communication.
What's wrong with "open ."?
Ask HN: Joomla or Rails?
I plan to build a simple community portal that allows to review, evaluate and discuss software products - imagine it as judysbook.com for software.

Now my question: is it easier and faster to construct something like that using a CMS like Joomla (that I have never used before) or
to build it from scratch and on my own in RoR (given that I have already built 2 rails-applications)? Or are they even better solutions - like lighweight open-source CMS I am not aware of?
What about maintenance and later customizations?
AppEngine doesn’t fit the needs of startups on the runway
So You Want My Job: Professional Gambler
Totally agree with both of you guys (and yes the comment was crude - I can be an asshole).

I agree, looking back the post would've been better minus the 'How' - but it was really as simple as I stated in the post. Leveraging social media to work for your benefit isn't that hard.

From that one comment with my linkedin profile (in the replies of my original) I was given 3 or so offers for other startups/companies. Just from the link. 1 crude comment got the attention of Fred (and about 5 other people who emailed me telling me I was a stupid kid).

Fred connected me with as many people as he could and Boris actually took the time to sit down with me. Now Boris is an awesome guy - but I don't think he would've taken me as seriously without Fred Wilson behind me.

One of the points I'm trying to make is, use whatever connections you can. The old saying "it's not what you know, it's who you know" still is extremely true to this day - of course, once you're in the door you have to know what the hell you're doing or you won't last long.
Perhaps they've fixed it. I now see only "Search All Documents..." in the search box.
Ask HN : What do you think of the pay-as-you-use model
We want to use a pay-as-you-use model for our project monitoring service (under heavy redevelopment for now) and we want to know what you think about it.

In short, you pay a monthly flat-rate for every user of your team (ex : 10$/user). If you have 2 users, it costs you 20$/month, 3 users = 30$/month and so on.

I already wrote about it here : http://bit.ly/payauu
I frequently need to create datestamped archives.

Here is a one-line example, given two parameters. $1 is the archive name prefix and $2 is the directory to archive.

tar -cvzf ${1}-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tar.gz $2

Note, if $2 contains path information (such as absolute path), that path will be stored in the tar. So it is usually used with the working dir as the parent of $2.
It's hard not to be bitter about seeing this plastered all over HN, Slashdot, Washington Post, this blog, and just about everywhere else when I blogged about it in September of last year, but get no link love.

Perhaps it was my profanity, or that my SEO-fu was not as strong back then, but for what it's worth: http://www.pixelbath.com/blog/2008/09/dammit-microsoft/
This is a significant problem with legislation in general. We can hardly expect our supposed representatives to have given much thought to the unintended consequences of their actions when they surely haven't read all of the bills on which they vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequence
Make long pulldowns into a search bar using greasemonkey script
I think TechCrunch has discovered their preferred linkbait title format.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari...

Come back in a month once the press frenzy has died down and we'll see.
Can you provide some proof of that last statement? I highly doubt that's the case.

(And even if it was true, how do you know that's not true of the charities, too?)
Who else thinks this would make for a great iPhone port? I really hope Lucasarts jump on that. It did great things to revive Myst.
There used to be one of the only two political parties in this country that at least nominally claimed to care about stuff like this.

Unfortunately, now they are singularly obsessed with defending the right of the government to arbitrarily detain and torture anyone it pleases.

I am hoping that we can get back to having two somewhat viable political parties some day, so there can be an actual debate about issues like the proper role and limitations of government regulations.
I don't know why you were down voted. I fully agree, get angry, get organized, participate in local politics.

Local politics is not as hopeless as national/federal. You do have a realistic chance of making a difference there.
Actually Ubuntu (9.04) doesn't ask you to close firefox, it does "after the install" not before.
erm... yes good point!
How many people who make their own ammunition also own an iPhone ? Perhaps a dozen, and that's optimistically :-)
The problem?

A little less ideology and a little more clear thinking, please. You could certainly convince me that unions are a problem, but setting them up as the source of all badness is just your way of scoring points for your political/ideological team, rather than doing anything to contribute to the discussion.

So, onto your 2nd paragraph. How many "good" programmers are there, out of all programmers? One out of ten? (And that's being incredibly generous from my experience.) How well would these superstar volunteer for-the-love-of-it teachers do with 10x increased class sizes?

(And let's not forget all those who are thoroughly passionate about programming (/teaching) yet suck at it.)
Don't know how useful or practical this will be, but I noticed anything sitting on my dash is clearly reflected on my windshield. Placing a HUD screen on top of the dash, close to the windshield defroster vents pointing up, flipped horizontally, and focused on infinity can get your current speed/fuel/etc without taking your eyes off the road.
You know... when you tell me that you get the text "masturbating "mother-in law" hidden -torrent" included on the page and want to know if others get the same behavior, I completely ignore your original question and focus on trying to repro that behavior so that I could open that url on a co-worker's computer and have a little fun...
I'm never going to use this in real life
This is a blog about why school the current school system is outdated and what needs to be done about it.
By the same token you could argue that burning CDs and printing out reams of paper to send via couriers is adequate, and that a system of distribution via the internet is a waste of time. Mobile applications aren't necessarily a replacement for voice communication, but rather an enhancement to.

For example, what better way to communicate information that pertains to a particular geographical location than providing a map with the location clearly marked on it? Add photos into the mix, taken on site with their positions marked and even the direction in which the photo was taken and you can save yourself a thousand words.

As for the price of mobile applications, only a small percentage of mobile applications are stand-alone anyway, the majority being integrated with much bigger systems in order to expand, enhance and mobilize the workflow. We don't expect to butter our bread with mobile applications, but we do intend to increase the usability and usefulness of our system.
It doesn't matter which entity signs the check, it all comes from the tax payers. If the feds weren't paying for the roads, the municipalities would. It's all the same.
Here is the question I have for you, are you versed in php?
If you need to add functionality etc to Joomla, how long is that going to take you to ramp up? Balance that against the time savings you get from ready made components. Also, if you have never used Joomla or anything else that offers 'snap together components', try actually doing it, how easy is it to take the 2 or 3 you want to use and put together, is it really seamless? You might find, that you can do more coding yourself using something else and still save time.
We aren't plumbing settings into the renderers yet. The fonts shouldn't be "unreadable", but I know that fonts are a very personal and emotive topic ;)
Opps! That's a renderer failing to open font files. At this stage we have lots of bugs so that is probably just something which I'll keep at the back of my mind for the future.

However, if you're willing to put some work into debugging it, please free feel to file a bug at crbug.com.
If you've jailbroken your phone, you can: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/IPhone
I live in SF and constantly joke about how gross and dirty it is. However, I recently went to NYC and I'll have to say that relatively, SF actually is much cleaner than I gave it credit for. It's just that the gross areas in SF are REALLY gross. The trash and poo in SF are largely concentrated in the areas you mention. As an example, even in the Upper Haight, it's only bad on Haight street itself. The streets just parallel, Page and Waller, are quite clean. In Manhattan, there's a thin layer of grime and garbage spread out everywhere. I will have to say that I didn't see any human poo in NYC. That seems to be a unique feature of San Francisco.
A CMS will probably get something up faster, but writing your own code will definitely be better for later customization. Maintenance really depends on what you build. How much do you want to fine tune and customize?
If a charity is deemed unsuccessful people will stop funding it and it will go out of business.
Would you please not be so gutter-minded - I have two young ones, and the professional pics I have of them are worth every penny. The reminder is for those in the same boat that may want to spend the money instead of relying on their own N megapixel camera ...
If the employees didn't benefit, they would stop working there. It is axiomatic.
Nothing against this post in particular, but it's much more useful in the long term to learn how to write stuff like this yourself. Compare knowing how to cook with just having lots of recipes.

While there are certainly some people who will pick apart examples like these and learn new tricks, I've seen enough copy-and-paste programming to know that many won't.
No, but you might be one of the few limiting their options and opportunities simply based on names ;-)
Now this is the kind of info I hope to read in your next blog post :)

I don't mean to come down on you - that wasn't my intent. It's just that this blog post is fluff - no substance. And I don't say that just to be a jerk; the HN community here is busy enough w/o having fluff posts upvoted. And, since lots of us read the comments before viewing the link, I thought I'd save some folks the time. That's all. Please don't take my comments as anything more than they are and by all means do not let them discourage you from (a) blogging, or (b) posting interesting content here.
The SCUMM engine (aka Spu(TM) or SPUTM) is a VM, and the game is fully scripted using the SCUMM language. You cannot use runtimes not officially supported by Apple in iPhone apps.

There is an iPhone port of ScummVM, but you'll need to jailbreak your phone, and to get the original data files.

http://www.scummvm.org

But the touchscreen interface isn't that good, because your fingers actually hide the cursor and the bottom part of the screen where contextual info is displayed.

Edit: psadauskas beat me to it.
This is going to seriously screw over China. You have the 4-2-1 problem: 4 grandparents living off of 2 parents who are living off of 1 child. It obviously will not work, China doesn't have the wealth to support the welfare and Chinese parents demand retirement and this sort of support from their children.

China collapses in the 2020's due to demographic pressure and inequality. Demographic trends are all but unavoidable.
> The only reason men want steady jobs is to raise families.

You really think that.

It didn't occur to you that a man would want a steady job because:
- he loves it?

- he enjoys the freedom that it provides to participate in hobbies

- he loves the time he spends with his coworkers

- each day brings something new and exciting?
...

I have a steady job and each of these things is one thing I love about it.
Higher Primates Can Program After VB.NET Training
"experiments last month with baboons have proved that higher primates can perform software testing, traverse complex menus, and code simple XML schemas. The finding have implications for the entire software industry, with some scientists predicting routine programming such as maintenance and report writing will be performed by teams of primates within 10 years."
Tweeting For The Environment
Yes, they appear to have fixed it. Interesting, I guess someone from Scribd read my post... I wonder what caused that.
Of course, if you don't Firefox will generally start behaving in strange and disturbing ways...
No offense taken. I'm going to edit it up and throw in my previous comment right now at the bottom of the post. Thanks for the feedback.
http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

(Also, take a look at http://news.ycombinator.com/lists )
This reminds me of:

"The Audacity of Shamelessly Asking"

http://blog.lodewijkvdb.com/2009/01/the-audacity-of-shameles...
Q&A with SiCortex Founder (supercomputer startup postmortem)
Also: he named his fists "(" and ")"
Warning: Page Speed effectively kills my FF (3.0.10 on Ubuntu Hardy) _even after it is disabled_ (creepy) where I have no more than 6 tabs (with 3 of them being Google Notebook, Google Reader and Gmail).
perma link: http://infinibuy.blogspot.com/2009/05/im-never-going-to-use-...

Every generation has this bug bear (well, I suppose every modenr generation). For a LONG time I've thought you could scrap large parts of most Physics courses and instead get the kids to read A Brief History of Time (the one with some actual math), In Search of Schroedingers Cat and a couple of others. They make it much more digestable.

The Blind Watchmaker covers most important biology.

And I've always argued that the Mitnick books should play an integral part of any school/college level IT class.

But it wont happen :)
My views come from years of working in government and politics, following current events, and reading inside accounts of how the political system works. Probably the best book on getting an understanding of how government works in practice is "Government's End" by Jonathan Rauch. If you want a more entertaining view, watch a few episodes of "Yes, Minister", which was based on the diaries of British cabinet minister Richard Crossman. Or simply take the time to learn in depth the politics and policy of one particular area, such as education. For example, the other day I was talking to a mayoral candidate in Boston. He explained that the biggest factor blocking all of the major reforms he would like to do were the teacher unions, and that they are extremely powerful because they vote as a block in a way that promotes their own interests.

The difference between government charity and private charity is that the workers in government charities form voting blocks that can redirect government tax payer dollars to fund their pay. Private charities must convince donors to voluntarily donate money.
Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine
Thanks, the original site didn't load for me. I'm on Ubuntu/FireFox what file type was it, flash?
You could try couching it in some politeness: "The idea looks good, but my honest opinion is that the name sounds awful". Also, keep in mind the "what would you say in person" guideline. I guess some people would be that blunt in person, but for most people, it puts things in enough perspective to produce something polite.
In the same vein, I remember seeing online the storyboard of the game, where each puzzles were detailed, but I can't find it anymore. It's very instructive for would-be game designers.
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Slavoj Zizek's thinking on violence is worth quoting here:

"The two faces of Bill Gates parallel the two faces of Soros. The cruel businessman destroys or buys out competitors, aims at virtual monopoly, employs all the tricks of the trade to achieve his goals. Meanwhile, the greatest philanthropist in the history of mankind quaintly asks: 'What does it serve to have computers, if people do not have enough to eat and are dying of dysentery?' In liberal communist ethics, the ruthless pursuit of profit is counteracted by charity. Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a superego blackmail of gigantic proportions, the developed countries "help" the underdeveloped with aid, credits, and so on, and thereby avoid the key issue, namely their complicity in and co-responsibility for the miserable situation of the underdeveloped" (Violence 22).

Gates "give away your wealth, billionaires. It's fun!" rhetoric focuses only on subjective violence - violence, as Zizek writes, "which is enacted by social agents, evil individuals, disciplined repressive apparatuses," etc. The "do-this-now-its-fun" call distracts attention away from the systematic violence nestled at the root of capitalism. Zizek writes, and I think he's right, that Gates call for a friendlier robber baron "signals a sad predicament of ours: today's capitalism cannot reproduce itself on its own. It needs extra-economic charity to sustain the cycle of social reproduction" (24).

That is not to say that Gates money will not do some good. I imagine it will do and has done. However, I do think it is a distraction from the real issue, which is the massive global economic exploitation necessary to produce Gates's wealth in the first place.