skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong - I absolutely have an interest in using any tool that would be helpful to my business. I was asking for help to identify how best to use the toolset that BizSpark provides.

My question can't possibly be the first time he's heard that; I was astonished that he didn't have a pat answer that was productive. When we have scaling issues, we'll have all the traction and revenue we'd need. BizSpark doesn't help us at that point.
No macros?
It's loading fine for me right now. Any chance you're behind a firewall?

Feel free to email me some details of your setup (browser, OS, Flash version, anything else you can think of) and I'll take a look - bill@justin.tv
Are you serious? ;)
The Bluray vs HD-DVD war was irrelevant to most people. It's a stopgap until we all go digital. They were trying to squeeze out one last physical media...
You're not trying to travel faster than light, you're tying to bend space.

To understand, take a piece of paper and imagine you're on one end of it trying to get across. Instead of traveling the length of the paper just fold it in half and jump to the other side.
On the other hand, I find that oftentimes I will try to discuss a programming topic in an online forum and people will say "Oh, just do x, that is the best practice." And then I will say "but it doesn't completely solve the problem, I'm trying to get this behavior as well, so the problem isn't so simple, it's just pushing the full solution into some ad-hoc mess later..." yet they will be unable to understand. It is disheartening.

I'd say it's almost 50/50. I'll go down more blind alleys, but I can also see more "cunning solutions" too.
The connection is this:

Hypothesis A: ads are useful, people click on them b/c they deliberately want more info.

Hypothesis B: ads are useless, people click on them only when they are somehow tricked into doing so.

It's obviously the case that out of the set of ad-clickers some are type A and some are type B; the interesting question is the composition of the ad-clicking population.

What follows depends on how you interpret adware and spyware clicks: are they clicked mostly out of confusion (b/c the demographic that has adware/spyware-infected computers tends to be the elderly and other "unsavvy" people) or mostly b/c they're useful to the clicker?

Depending on how you do your weightings you might have to revise down the % of type-A clicks that're going on (and revise it down again to take various kinds of clickfraud into account).

I can't actually tell you if those stats are accurate: I've overheard figures like that from people who might know, but figure they're mostly disgruntled employees exaggerating for effect, so I tend to discount the testimony somewhat.
Mozilla Brings Webapps to the Desktop, Challenges AIR, Silverlight
Countdown to Interop: T minus 5
A TV license, or the need to buy one for having your computer connected to the internet? Being Irish, I have a particular problem with the way it's implemented at home because the license fee is onerous but you have to put up with ads as well, so you get the worst of both worlds. I'm in favor of public broadcasting but I feel it should offer value for money.

I lived without television for quite a long time, and would be quite happy to do so again, since the main benefit of a large screen to me is the ability to watch movies (on DVD). So I am rather hostile to the idea of having someone come to the house and insist on looking around to see whether I have a television or the not. Collecting a license even if I don't own a TV is just insufferable.
You can't undo history like he wanted to in a distributed version control system like git. Rather, you have to revert the content/data while moving the history forward. Resets and rebasing will only work locally if the commits haven't been pushed out to remote branches. If you could just "undo" history, how would git know?

Had Ethan read about git-revert he might have stumbled into this link http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.6.2.3/how... that explains in more detail.

To Ethan's credit, Git is pretty difficult to use until you understand the model behind trees, commits, and blobs. I've been in his shoes where I blew away a bunch of work and screwed up everybody's remote branches :)
iTunes itself was built around technology acquired from another company, IIRC.
media producing startups have massive content creation overheads.
My startup is an aggregator: do you mean media creators?
(we have, of course).
My evidence is mainly my own - I've made money off online advertising for 10 years now. I've never had to trick anyone into clicking on adverts. They do so because they find them useful.
Article author here -- apologies for making you dumber. I would love to hear any data you have about when I should choose one malloc() implementation over another; the theory that malloc implementations have trade-offs is basic enough, but I've never come across a memory allocator that says "here are situations where you shouldn't use this allocator, and should use allocator Y instead."

And since the malloc() that ships with any given libc is going to be used by 100% of applications that do not explicitly override malloc (and I have never come across an application that does), understanding which is the best all-around allocator seems like quite the worthwhile exercise.

I also don't necessarily buy the jemalloc paper's assertion that allocators cannot be benchmarked in isolation. It's true that you can't measure the effects that locality will have on the rest of the application, but you surely can measure locality of allocations.
you never know, the thing with physics, is that a single discovery can turn everything upside down and lead to millions of inventions
No, although content creators would be one type of "media-first" rather than "tech-first" business I think. I think there will be an entirely new class of "curation" style businesses that are driven by media ahead of technology.
All I've ever wanted from adblock was a 'Disable ads on this site' button. Maybe they could even make it social so a central list of blocked sites could be generated.

Normally I'm happy to see the ads. For me it is part of the experience.(Maybe I'm biased in this way cause I work in online media). But there are certain sites that have crappy ads that take too much from the experience.
"Delete domain cookies."

But actually, I subscribe to the NYT, so registering for the site doesn't bother me. I'd rather get something I pay for than get a bunch of crap I don't want (ads) just to read an article.
And Kindle with native PDF support.
First of all in this case I don't think there is a correlation between government spending and life expectancy. A graph with 3 selected countries and two bars is not a correlation. It is not scientific either.

I'll quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation : "establishing a correlation between two variables is not a sufficient condition to establish a causal relationship".

Do you think this is wrong?

You cannot infer causations simply from correlating numbers. Numbers can give you ideas and you can then build a hypothesis that you can test.

I am not saying every correlation is a coincidence, I am saying that there are limits to what you can conclude based on correlations. Have you read about falsification and Karl Popper?
nkurz is right about the intention of the title, but if TLSF is only intended for real-time systems, then why does it claim that it is general-purpose, and not include any caveats of the sort you do? Like all memory allocators I've encountered, none of them say "if you're doing X, you're probably better off using a different allocator." The closest it comes to a caveat is:

> Although TLSF works rather well in many scenarios, it stands out in applications with hard/soft real-time application which uses explicit memory allocation with high flexibility requirements due to a high variability of the data size or adaptability to new situations.

Or paraphrased: "TLSF is great, but is especially great when..."
I think this is a personality thing (as well, perhaps). Some people seem very able to process new information in a discussion / argument, and either evolve their viewpoint or completely change their mind.

Others, me included, do need the time afterwards to process that information.
Babylon, a XMPP Component Framework
What often is the case is that your hosting provider will open up Remote Desktop for you to your server (in hardware/software firewall, whatever you have). Then you install the remote administration application of your choice, and if you'd like - close up the RDP port (I do).

Some hosting providers like SoftLayer give you a Private Net, so you can VPN into the Private Net and RDP from there (without opening up the port to the public facing IP). This makes sense if you have an office, or a # of employees.

A cheap and easy solution is Hamachi (which creates a VPN between machines). You install Hamachi on your server and your trusted machines (your desktop, whatever else) and now you can RDP using the Hamachi IP.

You can allow allow file & printer services in Windows Firewall for your Hamachi or hosting provider supplied network, and get to your files that way (easier than FTP).

LogMeIn is nice too, but you lose all the other things you can do with a real virtual network. I used to use Radmin (radmin.com), which was nice - but I prefer the virtual networks approach.
I thought the whole point to a company was to become big enough that you don't have to serve your customers. They really didn't play mp3s?
What are the market forces driving deeper space exploration? There aren't any I can think of except recreation and science experiments.

What's hot right now in aeronautics seems to be better communication and navigation satellites. Maybe these will push the boundaries of space technology?
am I the only one who avoids little $4/mo charges like the plague? They seem to easy to forget, and of course they never remind you - that your paying them ....

- Just my opinion -

Don't get me wrong, the subscription model is amazing; and a great way to build a business; good luck.
Sony is expert at making money from proprietary standards. Will they, as an organization, be able to adapt to all the changes required for making money from open standards? It's a very different ball game.
Illegal usually applies to criminal law, not civil law. I do know that there are some criminal copyright violations.

My point would be just that it's not proper to say that copyright violations are illegal because most copyright violations are in the realm of property law, not criminal law.
:) That's an interesting perspective, and I agree with your anti-Sony sentiment. But, I believe blueray has sold many PS3s and will be worth their trouble in the long run.

(I've only seen one PS3 game I've wanted to play that wasn't also on 360.)
The road less traveled: My impression of San Francisco coworking spaces
I hated this example of folding space. This example just shows us how confused we are about "folding".

When you folding a paper. Your reference frame is outside that piece of paper. You also possess energy supply outside the paper to exert the deformation of the material on the paper. But you did not posses the energy to fold the "space" around that paper.

In fact, even you fold it, you and that piece of paper are still in the same 4-d space time. Unless you are the lucky intelligent beings that are living on that piece of paper such as a colony of bacteria. Now it is the time to jump to the other side the paper!

So I guess the first step to construct a warp drive is to figure out questions:

1. "Can we as bacteria living on that piece of paper evoke help from extra dimensional source and energy from it?"

2. "Can we as bacteria living on that piece of paper control this mechanism?"

3. "Can the above mechanism to be achieved without ruining basic physics laws such as law of matter energy conservation, laws of thermodynamics in marcophysics scale".

As long as we figure the possibility for those questions in physics, then we will know can we travel like Star Trek.

Don't get me wrong. I love Star Trek. And my undergraduate major was physics. But I know very few general relativity theory and problems. What I just said is just consider what is necessary if we want to fold the space time.
There's also just an assload of code out there in C. Regardless of what you think of getting close to the hardware, since most of the stuff running our desktops / servers is C / C++ / Obj-C, it's quite useful if you want to be able to dip into that world.
All that for stuff that a ten year old could tell is stolen. I have no respect for startups that base themselves on theft.

I guess you're hoping that if you repeat this often enough we'll forget that copyright infringement isn't theft? Sadly, that will work on a fair percentage of folk, which is why I feel it's important to reply with something like this at least some of the time.
I'd say about 20-30 years away: http://markii.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/kurzweils-singularity...
Chinese identity theft. Policeman stole student ID for daughter to get into university.
Thanks.

Found more info re. Cydia at http://www.iphonedownloadblog.com/2008/10/28/cydia-applicati... - comments to the article are interesting.
Can you really use hackintosh as a verb?
The four most common use cases for push notifications
we barely know enough about what's on this planet and how it works let alone go anywhere else. 500 years might not be enough.
That makes sense - thanks for the clarification. Assuming there is a similar exclusion for business pcs then it might not be too bad. I suspect the end result will focus on residential homes with a TV or internet access.
Why do men dominate the fields of science, engineering and mathematics
As an occasional angel, I tend to avoid media production - it doesn't scale as well as one might like.

While it's not as flat as consulting (one hour's work gets sold once) the maximum leverage on one hour's work is a multiplier based on the distribution.
If I started a country, I'd keep defense lightweight by training people in small arms and getting a contract in place with Blackwater. Private warfighting and defense are already viable and popular.
Very few people in the “middle ages” lived in pristine wilderness. The vast majority were, and always have been, rural peasants in feudal or semi-feudal societies, working as serfs or sharecroppers or slaves, either on tiny individual plots, or on plantations. They became ill constantly, and most children died before age 5. You seem to be imagining some kind of hunter-gatherer society.
I'd say "yes" to both questions. I should have control of my computer and how it displays data, and you should have control over whom you send that data to.

Everything else is a cost/benefit analysis.
I think it's interesting that this was released by the New York Times. . .this could be prove to be an interesting new model/trend for newspaper publishers to remain as a viable competitor in the 21st century, given the bad-rap they seem to be giving themselves these days as newspaper publishers. D=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_Tenth_Rule
The biggest inhibitor I think would be the lack of economical justifications for it. We don't need the space (or rather, what we would like is the space to be close. Take a plane trip across the U.S. and you'll find a whole lot of empty), and our natural resources will last us for the foreseeable future.

What benefits are there? What we would need is a space 'gold rush' if we wanted to realistically expect any sort of real progress in that direction. Maybe we'll discover that there's oil (for example) on Mars. Maybe we'll see a lot more space speculators.

That's it for financial issues. Of course finances will drive the technology. The most prominent pieces of technology we're missing are faster than light (or warp) engines, and artificial gravity. Warp would let us travel very far very efficiently, and artificial gravity would allow humans to spend extended periods of time in space. A couple other things we're missing are materials to build such starships (not sure if we have anything that would hold such large ships together in space), replicator and transporter technology, phasers, shields/forcefields, and last but not least, proton torpedoes. If anyone knows of technology listed above that exists today, please let me know.
Exactly, Dropbox is "Dropbox for Linux"
aye, waits for the LHC to come back online
One of the things I don't like about prism over AIR is that it doesn't allow you to use free form shapes for your widget. It's basically just another window. That may seem like a silly complaint, but I really enjoy the aesthetics that it allows.
I'm happy you edited your reply to try and clarify your point but you're still over complicating an attempt at a simple explanation.

My original point was that going faster than light in a straight line isn't the goal. The goal is to bend/fold/warp space around you and get to another physical point is space before light does.

Edit: I'm saying bending space, which happens all around us, is more likely a scenario than traveling faster than light. Is this statement wrong?
Even if it's true that you haven't tricked people into clicking on them, without further evidence it's hard to say if your clicks are because people find them useful or because people get confused.
How eBay Stopped being Recession Proof
His proposal seems fair enough to me. But I don't use an ad-blocker. I vote with my feet as they say and don't revisit sites which have a poor signal to noise (useful content to annoying ad) ratio. I personally find those sites which have genuine annoying ads are those websites with a poorly aligned moral compass anyway!
The German version:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebühreneinzugszentrale#Charges...

I don't like it because I don't watch any TV programming, but it makes perfect sense to me. People that were watching things on TV are now watching them online. Many young people don't have televisions. So either public programming goes or it gets collected based on internet usage.
Yes. I thought that Hacker News was better than that. I'd expect this kind of "Stifle Things I Disagree With" to be more a reddit phenomena.

But I am not as active on HN these days (very busy post-acquisition), so maybe I've lost touch with the pulse of the community.
Why do I think it'll turn into yet another Megaupload or Rapidshare crack/porn/app upload site?

All you gotta do is wrap your stuff in encrypted zips and dump the passwords where the links are.
I suspect the author may not have ever had the task of filling a specific developer position on a project with specific skills. Putting out woolly descriptions like he suggests will flood your inbox with hopefuls, wannabes and chancers. You've then got a mountain of work to get through to filter out all the garbage. I suspect in a flat job market like we have at present, the task would be that much worse.

You might triple the amount of candidates you get for an interview, but chances are you're still going to go with the one that has the best cultural, technical (read:language/environment) and business experience fit for the job. Which can be done by explicitly stating this in the job ad in the first place, saving everyone a lot of bother.

The only reason to frame an ad in less-than-specific terms is if you're looking to fill long-term positions, like graduate jobs, jobs where the whole team will be learning a new technology together or research-like jobs.

Paying employees to learn on the job is not a successful recipe for time-critical projects, no matter how bright the candidates are.
The whole point of the "cloud" is to be able to scale, instantly. Tonido (and MS Windows Home Server) are just singleton, so I don't think they can be considered "cloud" solutions, simply because they cannot scale on-demand.
Real-time stream of WordPress.com posts and comment
Many critics offer a better solution: Make the mice want to go through the maze.

Or, find the user when they are already looking for a maze to go through, and take advantage of that to entertain the user and get some brand placement at the same time. That feels like a better analogy to me; it's far easier to get a user to play your game when they're in a playful mood already. In this case, the maze is the cheese. :-)

Enticing people to go through mazes when they are not in the proper mindset is hard though, even when the maze is compelling and might be enticing given a different mindset. Your potential users need to find out about your toys somehow. I'm not totally familiar with how BK has been marketing these games, but if I'm not in the mood to play a game, no amount of enticing will work. There are a lot of times when I am searching for specific information, and even the most compelling offer of fun and engagement is just an annoying distraction.

I guess this is the long way of saying: make sure to engage them when they want a maze to go through, and make them want it to be your maze. Marketing works best when people want to be marketed to.
Sure, they pay the bandwidth bill, after all. I don't see any ethical issues with them banning users for whatever reason they want.
The Programming Language with the Happiest Users
How a thief gave me 10 reasons to be grateful
Experts Exchange is notorious for being a bait-and-switch website. They cram organic search with their results, then force you to sign up for an account before you can view the answers.

For a while there was a hack where you could piece together your answers by browsing the source (they just had some JS to hide it unless regisered). Now I think they browser-agent sniff to get their content indexed by google but put it behind a paywall for humans.

Bottom line: they're they crappy version of a site like StackOverflow.com. Check out SO, before experts-exchange.

Also of some amusement is that their website was (for a while) expertsexchange.com, without the hyphen (get it -- ExpertSexChange.com ;) ).
Mathematical symbols editor plugin for Rails?
Textile is a pretty neat rich-text editor to embed into Rails (and even a WYSIWYG editor based on textile: see link below).
But has anyone embedded any Math symbol editor into rails? Any plugin you would recommend?
unwind-protect handles this case. (Note that most lisps have GC so if freeing memory is the only reason you're calling the destructor, you don't need to do anything.)

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec...

There's a reason why PG refers to non-lisps as "blub".

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
http://www.lisp.org/mop/index.html
WYSIWYG editor based on prototype: http://slateinfo.blogs.wvu.edu/plugins/textile_editor_helper...
For posterity the quote:

You can search from, to, subject, and all headers. If the message isn't on your iPhone, you can continue that search on the server.

I have no idea what they mean by "continue that search on the server".
Your algorithm seems like it's well made, though I have not taken a close look at it's capacities yet. My suggestion: get a better interface. You're competing with similar websites such as http://www.newspond.com
Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16.25 hours and a terabyte in 62 seconds
I really dislike it when people (especially people of a technical mindset like math/physics/CS majors) summarize the above article in the way, and use it to justify their dislike of the social sciences. It's not about the problems of methods in psychology in general, but about blindly applying methods (of any field) without understanding the motivation, underlying assumptions, or unintended consequences behind them.

Most modern psychological research is surprisingly rigorous and depend on sophisticated statistical methods. The results may not be as strong or conclusive as those of, say, chemistry, but for a discipline that has to study something as mercurial as human behavior, it is certainly a useful and worthwhile.