skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well I guess the hope is similar parties can get a break in other countries (hopefully, for me, w/o worrying links to TPB et all).

Your right, it does validate copyright reform as a political platformn important to the people.
"Indigenous American and Hindu culture, for example, have traditionally had no such division between religion and culture."

Isn't that just a bias from watching too much discovery channel? We are used to seeing other cultures presented as being preoccupied with fancy rain dances, perhaps because they look good on television. But they must have a "normal day routine", too, which I would consider to be culture as well? It might be the "bag of rice in china phenomenon" - mundane daily life might not make for interesting movies, so we disproportionally often get to see special events from other countries.
For the non UK people 100.000 = 100,000 or 100 000 if you want the ISO version.
No offense, but it does not even make sense to talk about Europe like that. Europe consists of lots of different countries, that are very different and often don't even know much about each other.

Though I must admit I have no idea how much of that applies to the US, too.
The Pirate Party and friends are, in many ways,
the new face of the libertarian left in Europe.

Avoid 'left', 'right' - it lacks meaning but alienates people. I'm a hardline libertarian who would be characterised as 'right wing' by those who care for such terms, but identify with the pirate platform.
This feature sucks. So once stylehseet authors start using !important everywhere, users will have to use !important everywhere, too. Then in the next incarnation they will introduce a !moreImportant property to overide the !important setting of the user stylesheet.
Sure, using and creating/improving open teaching material (wiki{pedia/versity}...)should be one major disrupting point in such a university.

But even online you can't neglet two kinds of human interactions: with teachers (much greater level in a field, can play as role models, etc...) and with students. I'm pretty sure they are important while learning! Like irc/online communities, it can be less intense if you don't end up meeting, but i think it's an integral part of learning.
I know it's the NYtimes and so fairly reputable.. but the opening paragraph ends with an amusing faux pas.

"It’s just that the frequent visits ensure that vandalism is quickly removed, aided by automated tools that can recognize crude writing before it ever appears."

freudian slip or amazing new discovery? :)
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thanks for the link.
here are 50 more:
http://speckyboy.com/2009/02/02/50-of-the-best-ever-web-deve...
Number of open connections is a little bit meaningless until they're actually under load, sending and receiving packets in a real world situation.

I'd agree, Java+NIO is a great system. Extremely fast+scalable.
You could theoretically streamline the process some. For businesses, simply verifying a link to the twitter account exists on the official website is a good step. For consumers, I don't know the easiest way - but of course, it all depends on how much they charge.
>> "I have faith that Comet will have its day eventually, but clearly it's not quite time."

??? Many many big sites are already using comet, and have been for some years, so I'm not sure I understand your comments.
It seems a bit like the author is rationalizing why he's still using Google. Although I personally despise Google for the way they mangle my search queries, I don't think there's a need to explain why you choose to use the search engine you use.
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credit cards, merchant accounts, merchant services, credit cards payment processing, credit card companies accept credit cards, merchant account credit card processing, credit card rates, debit card processing credit card merchant account, internet merchant payment gateway, student credit cards, merchant account reviews, get a merchant account, phone credit car processing, visa credit card processing, offshore merchant account, ecommerce merchant account.
Is there a neat and simple pdf resume template that replicates something like this? What tex templates have HN people used for their resume?
Interesting. I'm writing a comet server right now, using Ruby's EventMachine. I might do some tests to see how many connections I can stretch it out to; unfortunately I have the feeling that local connections are not going to quite match up to real live outgoing ones.

If I was doing it For Realz™ I reckon Erlang would be the go, still haven't gotten up to anywhere near that level of proficiency though. 37Signals recently rewrote their push server in Erlang and reported great results.
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Not knowing much about Java's NIO, how do you handle 'long running calculations'? One of the great things about Erlang is that you can sit there doing some big huge long loop, and it won't block the rest of the system because it's got an internal scheduler. One way to do that kind of thing with C or Java is simply to manually divide your big long calculation into smaller chunks that yield control at regular, brief intervals. Does Java provide anything higher level?
afaik orbited is written using twisted, in python.
The consequences and public reaction would probably be more severe if the journalists were white instead of Asian American.
What sort of long calculations? If you're doing massive number crunching, you could just have a queue->thread->callback for it if it's not easy to break up into bite size chunks...

I don't know of anything else built in.
I think that the University of Phoenix should get appreciation for fighting and gaining valuable ground for non-traditional universities becoming accredited (in the late 70s)

"The battle for accreditation was a battle for survival."
-John Sperling, Founder, University of Phoenix

"Institutional theory argues that legitimacy, rather than efficiency or efficacy, best
safeguards an organization’s survival (e.g., Powell and DiMaggio 1991)."

Research paper on University of Phoenix's 1976-78 accreditation:

http://www.allacademic.com/one/www/www/index.php?cmd=Downloa...
This somewhat misses the point. The reason why FamFamFam (aka Silk icon set) is so popular is not just because it's free. There are loads of free icon sets out there. However, Silk is consistent and extensive. It has a consistent graphic style throughout, and covers an extensive range of possible icons.

Using icons from half a dozen different icon sets will make your application look a bit Frankenstein-like. All those other icon sets are way too small to be of any use in any full-scale web app.
They've taken a talking point that is shared between liberals, libertarians, communists, anarchists and some socialists/social democrats and that directly affect peoples lives (a huge percentage of people share files etc. and don't see it as something wrong) at a time when big media are trying to tell people they're all criminals.

That's probably key to their success - they can take voters from across the spectrum who don't have a voice at all in large parties (the closest in Sweden perhaps being the socialist/communist Vensterpartiet - Left Party - which also wants to significantly limit copyright) but who have liberal tendencies.

This has been brewing for a while, and it'll likely spread outside of Sweden, limited by non-proportional voting in some countries. What is particular about Sweden is that Sweden had one of the most liberal policies on copyright in Europe to start with - non-commercial copying for "personal use" (including sharing with friends) was (is it still?) legal. This is a right that was ingrained. So when these rights are being taken away, it's natural you get a backlash.
Well, it's not that meaningless. Comet is basically long polling; those connections aren't really doing much of anything until something turns up on the back end to be pushed down them, at which point the connection is usually closed and then re-requested by the client. Maybe with the occasional ping, I've seen some people do that too.

How much memory and CPU is required to simply hold open the connection and sit there is definitely of interest to people. Of course, I'd like to see real world tests too, but that might be rather difficult to pull off without specially written, extremely efficient code on the test side.
Distinction understood. Many think that the risk of misuse * potential cost is unacceptably high however. Misuse is also relative to current political fashions and those tend to change over time.

If you want, surveillance on that scale makes the system unstable.

Sweden has a history of a government that registers details about those with views not aligned with the sitting government without legal or, I would claim, moral right to do so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB_affair. More recently, there was a potential leak from FRA http://www.thelocal.se/12778/20080702/ - as in the recently passed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law. Of course, illegality does not imply immorality/misuse, but it might explain why Swedes are weary of what lines their government might cross.

The activities have not verifiably, as far as I know, been seriously misused in Sweden (in the sense that people have been killed, tortured, or wrongfully imprisoned), though one other European country comes to mind where that did happen, most seem to agree, in the 20th century.

Thus, my guess is that many people assume logging/monitoring personal information implies misuse of that information because they consider the risk*potential cost of the latter unacceptably high, even though it's not strictly an implication. The assumption should be explicit though, so I agree on the importance of making the distinction.
That Omegle site uses orbited, seems to work OK with reported load of a few thousand connections.
How to save image as a PDF?
Sure. It's the "basic" level requirement. Holding open a tcp connection should be pretty cheap though unless something is badly wrong.
"a human mind without a human body is not human"

Care to elaborate? Because it sounds like you're saying that, for example, someone with both legs amputated is somehow less human than non-amputees.

How much of the body would you have to lose to not be human any more? And what is the basis of this theory? I was under the impression that if you keep the brain, the spine, and some compatible means of sensory input, the rest is basically optional.
The article seems to be missing the evidence to show that people treat their kids in a given manner as a result of where they work. Just as possible (although certainly less palatable) is the conclusion that parents who are capable of getting white collar jobs, or any job at all, are inherently more inclined to treat their children in the way that they do. This possible conclusion is not even considered, so the article pretty much amounts to guesswork.
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I just wanted to highlight part of a BBC news report (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8088309.stm):

Sweden's Pirate Party, which wants to legalise internet file sharing,

They also got mentioned right after the far-right parties. I find it a bit worrying that mainstream media is still vewing them in this light. It smacks of not being taken seriously still - I wonder how that can be addressed?
The day pain died
Correct. If you're Google, and can devote a team to build and maintain a webserver specifically designed to handle Comet, then you can use Comet.

If you're small and need to use off-the-shelf tech to get your thing up and running quickly, you're still best off going with Polling today.

A quick example would be to look at Thinkature vs. Twiddla. They had a team of two, one of which spent an entire year building a web server from the ground up so that they could use Comet. Twiddla only has me as a developer, and I'd rather spend my time improving the product, so we use Polling.

One year later, Twiddla has a ~300ms lag between when you draw a line and when it appears on a remote screen, whereas Thinkature is out of business. I don't think it's that black and white of a tradeoff, but hopefully you see the thrust of what I'm saying.

One day soon, there will be a mod_comet for Apache, or IIS 9 with Comet support built in. That will be the day it makes sense for small, lean teams to build a business around it.
Anyone who has used MPI - is it any good? A cursory glance makes it look like slightly gold-plated RPC.
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What makes you think an apparent body can't be simulated as easily as a mind?
Ok, fair enough. What's neat about Erlang is that you just write your code and don't have to worry about divying it up, or sending stuff of to a queue. I suppose one possible disadvantage of the Erlang way is if the scheduler is divying resources up equally, you could be 'thrashing' between too many "processes", rather than working your way through a FIFO queue that's going to only work on so many things at one time. But at that point you could just write a queue system in Erlang...
How to Create a Firefox Plugin (hacker-friendly javascript framework)
axod is a team of one, and mibbit apparently uses "Comet".
And the Killer App for Private Cloud Computing Is...
or you could not use general purpose web servers for edge cases, mochiweb for example is pretty great at handling comet requests.

axod does mibbit by himself, we(hypernumbers) use comet and are a small team, meebo used comet from the start.

there really isnt much of a barrier with comet, it was actually a hell of a lot easier than the flash sockets setup I implemented before it.

* probably worth mentioning facebook used mochiweb for their chat (off the shelf), I do find it hard to believe the only lightweight webservers around are in erlang
So far at Plurk we have struggled to overcome scalability issues - - and none of them are due to Python, even thought we use Python a lot.

Most of the problems we have seen have been related to the database. It was and still is the biggest bottleneck. And all the people I know that drive big sites will confirm this.

This all said, one should evaluate problems and not blindly use Python for everything. Python is a great language, but some other language is a better choice for some problems. And here Java and specially Java's NIO library is a much better choice for doing a server that should handle tons of open connections.
I just got a letter about this the other day. I threw it away assuming I would get nothing.

There should be a limit for lawyers to get 33% of a class action. Lets see $600k for claimants, 600k for anti-spam organizations, and then 600k for the lawyers.
Another case of lies, damned lies and statistics. When I lived in the U.S. I found the differences to be much bigger than I expected. Obviously, I did not expect or find a god-fearing nation of Darwin haters. Rather, I found a society that is different on every level. Despite being void of any religion or conservative views, I found myself to be a traditionalist. Given an alternative perspective I found the key principle behind European society to be tradition, whereas in the U.S. it is business. These principles have perpetuated into every aspect of society, from holiday celebration to city planning, on to social welfare, politics, religion, etc. It was quite a culture shock to me, but I really learned to appreciate the differences. Or as I described it an American friend: Europeans know how to party, but Americans know how to have fun.

More recently I've moved to another European country with entirely different socio-economic and religious statistics. Same old.
just glancing over the instructions it already seemed harder to get working than jetpack(https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/)
and they seem to have the same goals
Try as I might, I cannot find any information on what the Computer Science program (+) actually contains. Are hundreds of students actually signing up and paying without having a clue what they're getting into, or am I just unable to navigate the site properly?

(+) http://www.uopeople.org/ACADEMICS/Programs/ComputerSciencePr...
Enterprise Apps May Flourish With iPhone 3.0 Software
Viaweb FAQ
This article seems relevant, BTW:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334506
GeoFill - find users by IP or lookup and prefill forms for them
Missing point: physical keyboards will have I/O buffers. So you can queue up your key-presses when the machine's slowing down. My iPhone (irritatingly) slows down all the time, and they keyboard is unresponsive. I have to wait for it, like a small child having a tantrum, until I can type again.
The above wasn't meant to be a judgmental statement, though I realize now that they way it was written came off that way. More appropriately I should have written something to the extent:

Many of the Chinese students I have met over the last month have expressed this same concern (without and without provocation) that educational systems in China stress too heavily testing and rote memorization. Additionally, at least at PKU, there is an increasing motion toward "western" teaching and evaluation methods, especially in post-graduate studies, which are considered an improvement. The same critiques have been provided by American college students, of course, but comparatively the systems seem to suggest that American colleges produce more "real life" experiences which aid students especially in research settings.

I agree entirely that there is plenty "art for art's sake" practiced every day here. A simple example includes the man who teaches his child calligraphy several mornings each week outside painting it in water on the concrete. My Chinese isn't strong enough to have a deep conversation with this man, but it was plain that he's doing it just because he loves his art and wants to show that to his son.

Finally, I'd like to refute the pigeonholing: I've studied Chinese for two years and am here now both to do research and have those deep encounters you refer to. I can't say I have anything comparable to your experience, but I also feel I'm on the side of trying not to make superficial generalizations.
Logging all unhandled exceptions can be an additional measure for ensuring quality. You have coded defensively, you have done a careful testing but it still crashes. It happens.

I do agree with your point that logging exceptions that might be handled upwards the call stack is silly and probably makes the whole log useless.
Pre-release review of O'Reilly's new Erlang Programming book
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There was a nice write up on Erlang based Comet apps here: http://cometdaily.com/2007/12/14/getting-started-with-comet-...

Has anybody tried comet using Yaws?
We use 100,000 in the UK too - 100.000 is used by some European countries (Spain is one, not sure about the others).
> Why not take the short term ethical hit?

Because it's unethical?

[Edit: add a little more of my thinking.

Ethics should count towards your reputation. A reputation for honesty or dishonesty should be important professionally and publically. I think that honouring and rewarding those who get results unethically is corrosive to public expectations, leading people to expect less of others. When this percolates into public life and people have low expectations of the ethics of, say, politicians and police officers, systemic abuse of power is more possible/encouraged - since the main counterweight to such abuse is public opinion, which has had it's expecations neutered. End repetitive rant.
http://www.waveprotocol.org/draft-protocol-spec

"The connection MUST be secured using the TLS feature of XMPP."

So yes, you will need a cert to run a public wave server, but there is no sensible way to avoid this.
Because the amount of attention he received made people think it was a scam?
It looks quite useful, and it fills in a huge gap in the market.

The gui could use a bit of clean up though.
I spent a year or so building my own comet server. Because I did that, I'm able to finely control every single element of it. I know in absolute detail how it works, what sucks, what rocks, etc.

Obviously you have to decide how important things are to your success, and decide if you should build it yourself, or use some existing code out there. For me, it was a no brainer decision.

mod_comet is missing the point. Apache is the issue when using comet. Apache is what needs fixing/replacing.

If Mibbit was using polling, my bandwidth bill would be through the roof.
Explaining the Cloud
No, the poster was just being very precise.
For hands on (and a sales pitch) great first reply from Rob La Gesse (Director of Customer Development for The Rackspace Cloud)
firefox plugins aren't really all that hard to begin with. i'm not sure if you're gaining much with this framework
Isn't that what they said about Microsoft in the 90's?

How is this different? Microsoft was seen as playing dirty vs Netscape when they started giving away Internet Explorer for free. And, Microsoft is still in trouble with the EU because of bundling a free media player with its OS. The argument for Microsoft was that they were "adding value".

I'm not really trying to defend Microsoft's actions. I'm just curious to hear why others think that Google is different than Microsoft in this regard? Google gives almost all of its products away for free: Search, Gmail, Docs, Analytics, Calendar, etc... Some call it "adding value" others call it a monopolistic behavior.

I know MSFT got into trouble because of its deals with hardware companies. But how is that different than Google building Android and bundling their apps on my G1?
They both have a tigered cat in them, so they seem very similar to me. The humor is also kind of the same, in that nothing really happens and the actors just stand around staring into nothing for frames on end. It is supposed to be a witty comment on the absurdity of daily life (they both also seem to convey the message that food is all that matters). After about one frame or so, it becomes boring.
"Enterprise applications and google stake, if everything is open (as it seems right now) what will be Google’s interest on it? I might be being naive here, but I can’t see clearly how will google monetize the huge enterprise market for this. Wave provider hosting?"

Imagine your company invented email, or the web, and built all the initial software. Even without any lock-in, you would do alright.
Farmers & Merchants Bank 
Farmers & Merchants Bank and personal banking of services,account and loan types, branch locations.
Well, yes and no. Navy SEALs would have to simultaneously rescue the hostages and disable NK's nuclear capability. That's a tall order.
It is kinda difficult to be sure if they were journalists or spies, right? If they were indeed spies, they are getting the same punishment Korean spies would be getting in the US.

While the media portrays them as victims, it would be kind of naive to believe it is completely true.
Don't you think the article is lacking depth and is based on unfounded assumptions. Moreover, the author doesn't cite any examples.

To me the title of the article seemed interesting, but when I read it, turned out to be very vauge.
Who invented spam filtering as we know it? I recall a transition from useless spam filters that blocked ~50% just fine but if you made them more restrictive you started to get your own messages blocked. I realize he did little more than say, this is a problem, here is an algorithm that works. But, who would you suggest first pointed out this type of approach?
Disappointingly little information on the site.

I can see that there are two programs: CS & BusAdm. Are these made up of courses? Which ones? 3 yr full time? 4?
Are humans cruel to be kind?
>> The micrcontroller community today is analogous to the personal computer/homebrew computer clubs in the early 70's...

I totally agree, in fact I was harping on this to great lengths just a few days ago :-))