skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, I thought this was going to be another 'self hosted > cloud hosting' posts, but instead got some good ol' humour :)

I love having a good after-taste when reading Atwood's posts, but alas it's very rare :(
[Google's] Native Client is an open-source research technology for running _x86_ native code in web applications (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/)

As Ars noted ChromeOS's hardware parters are pretty heavy on the ARM side of the fence. Presumably they could do something like Apple's dual-binaries and implement support for ARM. But it's no longer a no-brainer.

That said Native Client with it's cross platform video/audio libraries etc is pretty cool - shame it hasn't spread further yet.
Almost. You can edit CSS styles, but not add new ones. You can add attributes (style=) to elements. It's been extremely clunky for me, but I have hope it'll be smoothed out in the future.
> One day, an entrepreneur will come up with a business collaboration tool that isn't based off a message board or a wiki.

I don't think that's really possible, as you're likely defining "message board" as "individual contributors make individual contributions over time" and "wiki" as "individual contributors co-author centralized contributions." There aren't really any other approaches to collaboration, online or off.
The guy quotes "Data integrity is 100% paramount, trumping all other concerns, such as performance and scalability." as somewhat of a disadvantage of SQL databases.

Then he goes on to mention that e-commerce orders are examples of things where 100% data integrity isn't needed.

I find that shocking. An ACID-compliant DB engine is essential backup for when customers manage to break your application in ways you never even imagined.
Please do. Few will pay, and the NYT will make itself even less prestigious.
Ah, apparently no one bothered to check the actual facts before downvoting:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display...
Because the number of users on Fx2.0 is low enough that we don’t support it any more. It won’t look broken for the most part, but there’s no guarentees as we don’t actively test in it.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to take criticism
from an 18 year veteran more seriously than from a
2 week new jack.

In both cases you are assuming to gain a new perspective
from the experience of another human.. Is it not reasonable
to assume that someone that has spent a vast quantity of
time in a particular environment would have a better
perspective than a new jack?

And, do we need a study to tell us that groups are hostile
toward newcomers that give them criticism?
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Do you recognize these Sci-fi movies?
As a very happy owner of a Xandros Linux-based eeePC who has numerous other Linux netbook users in his acquaintance, I am very surprised to learn that "no one wants Linux netbooks," at least on an anecdotal level, even though I'm sure the sales data doesn't lie.

I got my first-generation 7" eeePC in early 2008, before XP was avaliable for it, although that would have had absolutely no impact on my purchase anyhow. The embedded Linux environment they built with Xandros is sleek, user-friendly and very self-explanatory.
alt-text on images not correctly shown

What is correctly shown? It shouldn’t be shown as a tooltip as that leads people to write alt text that’s specifically useful as a tooltip and useless to the real consumers of alt text: screen reader users and search engines.
I'm a bit torn on this one since things like delaying settlement and changing the order of transactions is just plain shady. Would the executives who made these decisions stick by them if they had to actually deal with the angry customers? I realize it does self-regulate to some extent, but there's always a new generation of young people coming in to take their lumps.

All that said, as an individual you need to look out for yourself. If you overdraft or run CC balances then you are just throwing your money away. I finally put my CC debt to rest last year, and have been able to start saving serious money. I'm never going back, I watch my budget like a hawk now.
These numbers are lacking context. What percentage of their total revenue do these fees make up? Is $50b even a drop in the bucket when considering all the banks in the United States?
They tried something similar with TimesSelect and then pulled back; their columnists were at a disadvantage in online conversations.

They should first try more aggressive interstitials -- or even a 12-24 hour embargo of fresh news -- both of which only paid subscribers can skip. Then they get the inlinks, and people in a race to link/comment are most likely to pay.

(And the idea that they want print subscribers to pony up $2.50/month for online access? Petty. You'd think they could throw it in for the $300-$400/year print delivery costs!)
got the confirmation mail.
This is a big risk for Facebook -- that they'll no longer be a cool place for HS/College/twentysomethings because of all the older folks.

By making sure everyone's 'view' is different, they fight this a little. Facebook to a college student looks dominated by students and student-related activities -- even if dad and granddad are just a few links away.

They may eventually want to offer a differently-branded sub-network, though, to combat the risk from a youth-oriented competitor. Use much the same backend, but dress it up so differently you know the old folks and professionals won't show up -- and your activity in one sphere is clearly distinct from the other.
A very helpful article for sites where filter/sort/search functionalities coexist.
I think that it is a good idea/experiment to start charging web-users for news content (and I'm surprised that all six previous comments criticized the move)

As for Anderson's "Free" book mentioned in a previous comment, that book isn't free and I suspect that Anderson won't make the content free for downloads.

Ultimately, we live in an age where people pay $4 for latte and iPhone users pay money for cheap-to-develop, crude entertainment apps.

Sending reporters to Afghanisthan, covering the war in Iraq, tracking child abuse in Congo or investigating political corruption in Washington is an expensive proposition.
So ...to the people who like the news/analysis, but won't pay for it, please consider whether the NYT (or your other favorite newspaper) is really worth less than the other things that you spend money on.
It was something like no alt text being rendered when images are not displayed or found, I don't fully remember and could not find it in 5 minutes Bugzilla search hell. I did stumble on the still-open bug some days ago though, I think it was 8 years old now.
They are in MySQL, which everyone here seems to be using despite everyone knowing it is the least performant database system out there.
Use a funny memory aid that is a term you a very familiar with that sounds funny and similar to the actual name or find a short form of the name. My name is very much unpronounceable let alone memorable for most people in the world so I made up a new short version of it, Tad Chef. My actual name is Tadeusz Szewczyk.

Your nick name is a good example: "niyazpk" is very difficult to memorize. It sounds like a "no yes pic". This memory aid should work especially when you try to imagine the appearance of a no yes pic.
Your arguing shades of Grey here.

Are you honestly saying that majority of
artists (musicians, painters, poets) in history
have been independently wealthy?
Actually, you can read Anderson's book "Free" online at:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17135767/FREE-full-book-by-Chris-A...

(He explicitly mentions in the book that he's giving it away for free, so this is legit.)
Well, OK, I have an old Mac SE/30 at home. It's a fine machine for basic word processing etc. I'm running Word 5.1 on it, how old is that? Yet despite it being closed source, Microsoft, utterly unsupported, yadda yadda, it works fine. In 20 years, will I be able to have my own completely independent Google Docs running on a Unix that doesn't exist yet, in a datacentre operated by a company that doesn't exist yet, and have all my old docs still there?

Basically, I don't think this has been very thought through.
Looking up Wikipedia is the opposite of education. Also this entry just confirms what I said. Costa Rica has only security forces with very basic fire arms.
The problem is not the look of the site. At least I don't think it is.

The problem is that is Mum checks facebook once a week, 19 year old daughter doesn't want to post drunk pictures of herself making stupid sexy faces at last night's party.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/classmates_com_e...
This is most likely because linkedIn is not as cool as Facebook.

The 30-40 age group might actually be beneficial for Facebook. This group arguably has highest disposable income. I would think this age group is most likely to spend money on Facebook apps.
You mean practice SEO. You can't "write SEO".
A $0.99/month is almost as much of a problem. Most times that I hit NYT it's because of a link here or on a blog or someone emails it to me. That amounts to probably 1-2 per week. That disappears with a paywall.
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They are when compared to no joins. Rebuilding a data structure is more expensive than not taking it apart in the first place.
This isn't meant to be my view, this is how the internet is viewed by the average non-techie.

That would be a non-techie in the US. Outside the US, people have to deal with more TLDs, more people are multilingual and hence exposed to more information from more countries, in more languages.

If non-techies in the rest of the world have one common trait, it is that they recognize the www-prefix as "Internet", not the com-suffix.
the writes have to be done on every box while a read only has to occur on one box

That isn't true. Well, it is with MySQL, but not with Oracle, and hasn't been for over a decade. As usual, most complaints about "SQL databases" (no-one who actually does databases calls them that) are really complaints specific to MySQL.
You're right, I should have said that Texas chose to drill their oil.
Has Microsoft Killed the Linux Netbook?
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Mono outpaces Java in Linux desktop development
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I'm just experiencing "hostility to newcomers" on HN. My comments have been repeatedly voted down for no apparent reason. I just can't imagine people loving nuclear weapons and such so why vote me down for speaking out in favor of pacifism.
Oh definitely - sorry, I didn't mean to be flippant or to suggest that dropping indexes on everything were some sort of magic scaling powder. I once worked on an app a client brought in from an outside company that had slapped indexes on every single column in the database (including longtext - it was Postgres). I've never seen something so broken.

But yeah. It's complicated. "Software is hard." But the best thing you can do is become aware of your ignorance, then try to eliminate what you can.
Whats so bad about the awesome bar?
Or: How consumers are screwing themselves by spending more than they can afford. Get over the victim mentality. You are responsible for your own actions.

Just because the bank offers you credit doesn't mean you have to take up on the offer and use it. You know there are fees. Don't act surprised when you have to pay them.

If my job was to keep people's money safe and give them access to it when they needed it, and they constantly withdrew more money than they put in, I would also demand some sort of compensation for their lack of discipline and economic rigidness.
Huge Money from LeapFish
Software: Arc

http://arclanguage.org/

Hardware:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122
In a fast changing world you need to question traditional ways everywhere as the reality they are based on is often a thing of a distant past that does not address the actual issues of the present.
Thanks for the info. I should have checked to see if the book was available for free. I'll take a look at the book.

My point about the relative value of news/analysis content vs latte etc. still applies
Yep. Texas actually has a better grid within the state, but it has a very "it's all mine and I am not going to share" attitude when it comes to commecting to the regional/national grids; it does the bare minimum it can get away with according to federal statute and is effectively it's own little island for the purposes of power. This worked just great for them when a certain groups of assholes in Houston were raping California by rigging the power markets and for as long as their generation capacity exceeded demand, but now that the intra-state supply is falling short of demand this is not looking as good as it once appeared...
afaik, everything is stored in memory. I might be wrong though.
We do a few things differently than everyone else:

1. Event based tracking: the steps of your funnel don't have to be page views; you can easily track user interactions (songs played, links upvoted, etc) as funnel steps.

2. Dead simple segmentation: any additional data you send us about the funnel step can be used to segment. If you know the user's gender, the ad campaign they came from, or anything else we can give specific conversion rates based on that segmentation.

3. Easily create funnels on the fly: Each step of the funnel is tracked with one line of code. When you want to make a new funnel, you just start sending us data with a new funnel name.

We didn't mean to come across as having an attitude - sorry if it felt that way.
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Maybe they should get rid of the adless login/register interstitial first (read: stop bouncing readers before they serve an ad). I don't know if they can make it with just ads, but with the way they're doing it they are doomed to failure. A while back there was a post about how plentyoffish had ads on nytimes.com. So plentyoffish is stickier/has higher cpms than nytimes? Pathetic. A lot of their articles they don't even provide a comments section (easy page view doubler). Their UI looks like it was designed by a 19th century type-setter. I know they're trying not to stray from the brand, but the brand is good writing, not ancient design.
What are an-caps arguing?
Volterra's principle: eradicating a pest may increase the population [pdf]
While I can see your point, my approach is more of a middle way.

I use a up to date standard compliant browsers like Firefox 3.5 when developing sites, but I keep the my CSS restricted to what I expect will be supported in MSIE. If I go overboard with new CSS features, I know I will be creating a much bigger job trying to fix it for older browser (like Firefox 2.0, not just MSIE).

I find that so far that has worked well for me.
isn't that typically "Up to 55 days" i.e. you still have to pay it monthly?
Exercise won't necessarily prolong your life, but it will prolong your quality of life. There are 60-year-olds who are helpless and 80-year-olds who are independent and active.
I think you've missed the mark on a few points. As far as I know safari has the fastest javascript engine no matter where it runs, including ARM. It also supports local storage without google gears, buy using html5 local storage. With html5 I'm not sure what the point of gears is.

As far as native client is concerned regarding ARM, it'll probably happen but not because of the iphone and android, they have ways of running native apps. Apple wants you to use the app store and as far as I know android locks you into a vm so you'd need to write custom code anyway. It'll be for chrome os on netbooks.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/iphone-3gs-javascript-p...

http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-dat...

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/05/gmail-for-mo...
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You know, I remember the times when Firefox was called Firebird and Phoenix and I adored it for loading way much faster than IE. It's surprising how much FF changed since then.
I think the confusion comes from the use, in English, of the word sort in phrases like "sorting laundry", "sorting recyclables", and "sorting mail", which is actually an "iterative filtering" (ie "grouping") operation. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting and http://www.google.com/search?q=define:sorting

This is similar to the confusion between "and" and "or" I've seen people have when using computers to do searches. In plain English, "and" is often an expansion term, in that it often expands the result set rather than restricts it, similar to "or".

go through that file cabinet and find
all records for Alice and Bob.

This actually means "give me records matching Alice or Bob", because the name/ownership/topic field is mutually exclusive (if a record is for Alice, it can't also be for Bob), and people intuitively understand that. So it expands to "give me (records matching Alice) and (records matching Bob)", not "give me records that match Bob from the set of records that match Alice".
What a fabulous little tool! Thanks for the link.
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Not an angel funding article...

The Wikipedia article is informative too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_angel_problem
What about motivating your team? Caring for the people who work for you? Assigning he right tasks? those that fit? When you're a misanthrope, people won't "perform" for you.
Redfin Turns Profitable, Real Estate Industry Shudders
Yes, the most important 'look' of the distinct subnetwork is: you can't see mom, and she can't see you.
You don't need to be Jay Leno to use a 3d printer. Personal 3d printers start at below 15k $ these days.
I have to wonder how many managers implement a policy like that but keep traditional bonuses for themselves.

The cynic in me says a company paying for a study like this will "save" orders of magnitude more if they follow its advice...
Think creative commons and open source. Copyrights will only stifle your business. Give away CAD files now and lead the market tomorrow.
Whatever your feelings on mono is, it's hard to debate the closing statement of that article:

"The Java community has taken Linux for granted," Hargett said. "The assumption is, 'What else is Linux going to do for managed code?'
I'm using Firefox 3.5 on Win XP SP3. Hope that helps you.

EDIT: I noticed that the page jumps when I click any of the rounded white buttons (like the buttons for the different sites on the example account).
Yeah, no more Made in China. Made in the garage or living room instead. This will be a huge improvement over now.
Any progress on this since 1996?
The cost and simplicity argument is a valid one. On the other hand the reality is already a different one: People in Africa use mobile phones much more than we in the West. Even banking is managed via cell phones. So 3d printers might allow the to leap frog the industrial society stage. It's the same with alternative energy: They don't need nuclear power plants down there, solar and wind is often enough.

I'm very optimistic.
At least the last time I set up a computer for an elderly relative, it required an extension, I think it's called Default Pagezoom.
Flickr founders name project "Tiny Speck"; starts hiring
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I read the NYT every day and I'd gladly pay $5/month for it.
This is true, but I wonder whether this would have been the case had more image formats been patent-encumbered. The web is a product of open standards and formats, and Firefox is attempting to apply that ideology to HTML5 video formats as well.
Bebo's Michael Birch launches $49m startup fund for Europe
According to the article, the 3D prints are his way of carefully speccing.
I switched to a credit union 8 years ago when Washington Mutual charged me 300 dollars in fees in a single month (10 accidental overdrafts in one week).

Havent been charged a fee since.
Rfc 1149 (CPIP) support for linux
I think the strangest thing about this is that someone at mit would have an iPhone. (Rather than android, or palm based one.)

Maybe he jailbroke it.

:)
How to interview a client: Before you take on the project
Daring Fireball is once again right on target. I do, however, still take issue with two points:

1) "Is it feasible to use Chrome OS as your sole computer?" This question is asked, but then the arguement proceeds as if this question was answered "no". However, in reality, I think that this question is a definite yes for the vast majority of home users... minus iPod support... not an insurmountable problem.

2) The entire "An odd name" section. Yes, I agree that significantly different things should have significantly different names. However, Chrome OS and the Chrome browser are NOT significantly different things. That's the beauty of this. Chrome OS is a straight forward extension of Chrome the browser. It's actually a huuuuge win for Google that people don't know what a browser or an OS is. They know that "Google Chrome" is something that you can get on a small laptop or something that you can get on windows or something that you can get on a Mac. Who cares? The point is that people will learn that some web sites work best "Powered by Google" or "With Chrome" or WHATEVER and they will ask "how do I get get this program?" and just because that question has two answers (an OS or a browser) doesn't mean they have to have two different names. You walk into a store and say "Give me Chrome". You can get a Chrome netbook or you can get Windows with Chrome OEM installed. The sales rep will explain, in a non-technical and probably highly-incorrect form, what Chrome is, and people will buy a Chrome OS netbook or an Windows laptop with Chrome OEM-installed, and be less confused.

Technical folks can overcome the naming confusion, but non-technical folks won't even know that the naming confusion exists.
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I have some sites that don't have indexes. At <1000 views/day it's not necessary. Caching generated HTML is as easy and more effective in making it faster.
Easy IP-to-country lookup in Python
I think Red Alert 3 runs on the iPhone, so it's pretty good if you're willing to put a lot of effort into optimizing things.
Both use lots of memory though. Tomboy.exe, which is a note taking app, currently has a VM size of 386meg, 33.8 of which is resident. From looking at /proc/../maps for this process, it looks like most of it is taken up with Mono .dll files, which, while it's good these are mmap'ed and sharable libraries, ain't much being shared since this is like the only popular Mono app. It looks like every Mono .dll is being loaded for this program.

But this reminds that I wanted to remove Tomboy from my panel since I don't use it and it has some serious reliability and UI issues.
Yes!.I got it.
Html list rendering standards vs Internet explorer
Free seems to be a relative term. From Germany I get the following:

"Sorry, this content is geographically restricted
Due to our agreements with our publishing partners, the document you requested is only available to users located in the United States."