skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that shot over your head. The comparison is in between laptops with COMPARABLE specs. Good lord. Not a $500 Dell and a $1,000 Macbook. If you'll remember, most commercials weren't too specific, but in most of them at least a thousand dollars was being spent. We're not comparing a low end PC with a high end Mac. I didn't realize I was going to have to hold your hand through that. Man, I guess at least five of you also learned a new word today, 'unsubstantiated'. Congratulations!
pretty damn cool, all this guys need is a single home run, that would get talked about in the press and this thing will take off like a rocket ship.
Tutorial making WYSIWYG editor using HTML contentEditable
Is it dishonorable if it helps Twitter more than it harms them? None of the stuff they've published is terribly damaging to Twitter, and the publicity helps them.

Remember, Twitter and TechCrunch are pretty friendly. Till now TechCrunch tended to be attacked for being too nice to Twitter, not too harsh. So while you boil with indignation, Evan and Michael are probably still on cordial terms.
Honestly, when YouTube cuts off the IE6 users, then the problem is solved, period. Watch the number of people using IE6 plummet once that happens.

YouTube will setup a chain reaction. A large number of users will upgrade. This will push down the IE6 percentage hitting other prominent sites, such as eBay, giving them the courage to follow suit.

The only hold outs will be corporations who have an installed base of web apps developed to IE6, which break on IE7+. I predict that when the C*O's discover they can no longer browse IE6, they will demand a solution, which will consist of one of the following:

1) Upgrade the damn web apps and upgrade everyone to IE8.

2) Install Firefox or Safari on all machines, and use IE6 only for company apps.

Either way, problem solved.
Colbert Report June 15th episode (includes interview with Rushkoff):

http://www.hulu.com/watch/83170/the-colbert-report-wed-jul-1...
66% of consumers like advertising, survey says
This is sad...
They used to be a damned good company with good techies.
cynical view here: it is possible twitter is using techcrunch to push disinformation to confuse its competitors.
I recently found out about internet.bs and have transferred several domains over from godaddy (to godaddy's credit, it's surprisingly easy to leave). Very happy so far with internet.bs.
Do FPGAs count as cheaper electronic circuits?
Sun is gone, but they left behind an amazing collection of Open Source Software: Java, OpenSolaris, OpenSPARC, VirtualBox.

I'll miss Sun and the amazing people I knew there.
Ask HN: Anyone using Softlayer's Cloudlayer?
Softlayer's competitor to Amazon-AWS has been out for more than 2 months, but I haven't heard much about it here since their launch. They seem to have better pricing than Amazon if you need high bandwidth. I know folks here swear by Softlayer's dedicated servers; any experience with their VPS 'cloud' services?
Totally FLOSSed Out - a contrarian view of the gpl
You made my question look easy!

I had to think about it but I do get what you mean. Let me see if I can summarize. If one can make difficult questions seem trivial, then it shows potential.

Thanks.
This was the real success of Linux. It didn't take over the consumer desktop market, but it sure decimated the need for specialty servers and proprietary server operating systems.

Once Sun was forced to compete in the commodity hardware market, it was over.
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What if there was a thin wall that you leaned against during takeoff, with a half seat attached to it? Then on landings you turned and faced the back of the plane and leaned on the half-seat facing the back of the plane?
Some of the information in that piece is definitely damaging for the relationships between twitter and 3rd parties, notably their attitude towards P. Diddy and the Google employees. Techcrunch must know that it is damaging, and that alone might be a reason for legal action. I know for sure that if I were in twitters position the long knives would be out if techcrunch would cross the line.

For now, crime does seem to pay: http://alexa.com/siteinfo/techcrunch.com
can't help but feel down. i really enjoy developing in java :(
Surely the answer as to why it evolved is obvious - it takes more energy during development (and a lot of selective pressure during evolution) to make a reproductive system that produces pleasure only during reproductive sex acts than one that can produce pleasure in non-reproductive situations. Hence, masturbation exists.

I love the statistic that male Macaques spend 1-6% of their metabolism on production of ejaculate though.
Really? Crap. My high school yearbook quote was "The computer will never need more than 640kb. -Bill Gates". Oops. All that being made fun of for nothing.
Nothing went wrong with economics. The austrian school of economics predicted the great depression, the economic failure of communism, the '01 nasdaq crash, and the recent housing bubble. If you keep looking to the keynsians after the stagflation of the 70's completely refuted the core tenant of their entire economic view, well, you've got no one to blame but yourself.
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TechCrunch's Faustian dilemma: to sell or not to sell its moral soul (or what's left of it) for an astronomical number of page views?

Gee, that was hard - now where's the damn 'post' button?
I have written an ominous-sounding article (entitled "Mistakes Founders Make - Ill-Documented Relationships") that describes some of the risks here. (http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_009.html)

For the venture: the IP developed by the loosely-affiliated team will belong to its individual members and not to the venture. Solution: need simple work-for-hire agreements (promise of future equity alone is OK as the "consideration").

For the individuals: getting stiffed on the promised equity.

By all means, do document this at least informally with a founder's term sheet.

By no means should you attach a money value to the services performed. If you do, and it gets audited, you will all have tax problems (generally, your services would constitute immediately taxable compensation even though all you would get is a piece of paper for it at the end). Keep all discussion on this framed solely as "x will get _% of equity in exchange for [whatever]" but without reference of any kind of money value.

Do remember to describe the attributes to be associated with any equity (e.g., "100% immediately vested," or "20% immediately vested with balance to vest ratably over 48 months subject to repurchase by company at cost upon any termination of holder's service relationship with the company" or whatever fits your team's expectations).

This kind of situation is inherently nebulous and can easily lead to problems with a far-flung team.

Best advice: keep everything on a short leash. That way, if someone gets burned, hurt will be minimized.

When trust is established, and company seems viable, get it documented legally ASAP.
I don't see a phantomalert iphone app in the app store.
"Hey, I'm badass" is the way to get Michael Arrington's attention :-)
perl has a more stable vm than java :)

I like this trick though, it will help me with my seaside clone in java :)
While I'm sure you understand the distinction, I think a lot of people miss this:

When BCPL or B are said to be "untyped", it's not in the same sense as Lisp is dynamically typed. These are languages for word-oriented computers, without byte-addressable memory. Everything the CPU can do is on a single word of the same size, and memory is just an array of them. So it's untyped in the sense that in C you can do math on both integers and pointers, and convert between them.

What C added was originally byte orientation, "typing" was just the glue required to make that work (so that e.g. an int was 2 chars on a PDP-11). Only later on were first class arrays and structures added to the "type system", and likewise the space of "pointers to types".
The article itself says it's just a "humorous" look at PPP.
The article says that because there's a strong correlation between ratings by people who have only seen 30 second clips and ratings by people who have been in class all semester, that first impressions are very accurate.

The alternative explanation is that we make snap judgments easily, and have a hard time letting go of them even after several months.
Reading that article, one thing that stood out is how the game industry was so focused on such a young market segment: they talk about kids and trying to get them to spend their allowance money. It's interesting how much the gaming demographic has expanded in the years since the mid-nineties.
> Is it dishonorable if it helps Twitter more than it harms them?

Yes, it is. TC's breach of conduct consists of publishing stolen confidential information, and then, apparently (see above thread), lying about having permission to do so. Whether this will ultimately reflect well or badly on Twitter is a complete non-sequitir to the question of honor.
To claim that someone else would have done it anyway is not a very good defense. It also totally ignores the ethics of the situation.
Fork early, fork often. It's the GPL that legalizes merging, past that, the worst that happens is that someone wastes their time on code that doesn't get used. If it's the fork, tough cookies for them. If it's the "original author", they can choose whether and how to benefit from the code that has been written to extend their codebase.

If you're angry that he forked your code, fork his code back into your project. Or at least the parts of it that you want. The parts you don't, leave behind. Does it burn that you didn't get to order him around on how the project should have been improved? He doesn't need your permission, get over it.
I meant to write PCAs (PCB with all the parts included and assembled).
I think this is probably something that looks worse than it is. I can't see them flat out lying. I suspect they've been talking to marketing who said something like "we really wish you wouldn't publish this but if you're going to please..." followed by some requests as to how the information is presented. They then expressed that sentiment as "Twitter has given us the green light".

(Still a bit of misrepresentation but not the flat out lie it appears to be)

I could be wrong. But in a world where the CEO of Twitter can so quickly call B#S* I can't envision a scenario where TechCrunch doesn't have some explanation
Indeed, while Dell, et. al. just spent their time pumping out ever-cheaper products, Sun actually spent cash developing the aformentionted technologies.

Nice "real success": killing the innovators in the UNIX space and letting the vultures come in and eat up all the market share.
I did that with a dell laptop except they did all the work at my home.
and by printing currency out of thin air.
I have a hard time accepting that documents about Twitter were mentioned in an analogy to the Pentagon Papers. And after that I have an even harder time agreeing with the conclusion that this is somehow newsworthy information which needed to get out.

(in other words, even if we grant that there was no breach of relevant law in publishing the documents, we come back to one of my favorite phrases from my philosophy days: having the right to do a thing does not make it right to do that thing)
It is quite strange, but it does reflect the needs of finding a real solution to a real problem. I'm not aware at least of similar multitenant site that serves so many customers, with so much data, with so few servers, and such extensive customization. Having said that, Oracle seemed non negotiable in his mind and I wonder if that wasn't so if a different solution might have evolved.
The compiler generates the anonymous class. To the runtime, isn't it just a class with a name given to it by the compiler, not a developer (question mark...my key broke today)

It's true that it uses up permgen though, but if it only adds an initializer we're not talking about much space.

Edit:

I did an experiment. This is the code:

new ArrayList<Object>() {
{}
};
new ArrayList<Object>();

Here is the bytecode:

0 new Main$1 [16]
3 invokespecial Main$1() [18]
6 new java.util.ArrayList [19]
9 invokespecial java.util.ArrayList() [21]

And, the class:

class Main$1 extends java.util.ArrayList {

// Method descriptor #6 ()V
// Stack: 1, Locals: 1
Main$1();
0 aload_0 [this]
1 invokespecial java.util.ArrayList() [8]
4 return
Line numbers:
[pc: 0, line: 10]
[pc: 4, line: 1]
Local variable table:
[pc: 0, pc: 5] local: this index: 0 type: new Main(){}

Just a regular old subclass.
Gearman is a batch queueing system. They aren't really the same thing.
You think Java will be discontinued?
The __.__ as a seperator is way too visually distracting. Why not just a '|'? Also, 4 levels might be too much information.

The result links are hard to read as well. I have no idea what the numbers mean... perhaps it should just say result? Whitespace between each line would help readability as well. The whole result page is wall of text.
> A smaller, leaner, cut down alternative is most welcome.

Perhaps, but Gearman isn't it.
For initializing lists there is a less verbose expression in Java:

List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5);
I like the idea ... but:

> Look back 3-5 years from today and ask yourself if you could have been substantially more effective at your past job in your present form.

That assumes that the only goal of learning is to make you more effective at your job. I certainly don't make that assumption.

> Now I’ve come to believe that the thing to really be worried about is looking back a few years and being impressed with your past self. If that were to happen, it probably means your learning has stalled altogether.

Good point.
Like the part where they call Google and Microsoft a 'distraction'

Or diss Marissa Mayer?
very good info.

this is extremely helpful as is your article.

"Do remember to describe the attributes to be associated with any equity (e.g., "100% immediately vested," or "20% immediately vested with balance to vest ratably over 48 months subject to repurchase by company at cost upon any termination of holder's service relationship with the company" or whatever fits your team's expectations)."

this part i will need to research a bit to fully grok. it's great though to have a starting point here.
I downloaded it and tried it, but the UI was way too "productivity app" and not nearly immersive enough. It felt more like checking my Mail than dueling wizards. I already deleted it. For the price, I can't say I wasted my money though.
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/twitter-even-more-open-than-...
Twitter’s 1,928 Percent Growth and Other Notable Social Media Stats
good concept.

nothing like that?

at any rate... if I were you, I would try linkedin groups if you haven't for posting your offer.
Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979
Speculative work?

I'll pass.
In her jurisdiction, it is illegal to use the phone while driving without a hands free device.
If you're running as a user with administrative privileges, as I believe I already pointed out. Our users don't, since they run on multi-user boxes.
Let me say, I think what they did was immoral. So I'm not defending them per se.

But there is a reality to this situation that at least mitigates things. In some situations morality only brings a result if everyone in the world acts morally. Like here, TechCrunch knows someone else will publish these papers if they don't. Given the hits they'd be worth it's an absolute given. So in judging the scale of their guilt you have to consider a subset of morality.

Because if you're TechCrunch and you are deciding what to do with these documents you have to accept an immoral thing is going to happen. So the question for them becomes: Is it immoral to cheat your employees out of the revenue this information would generate because you want to stick to a moral code that you know will have no consequence?

That doesn't excuse what they did but it's a mitigating factor. So while I'm not saying they're right in doing what they did I think saying things like "I have no respect for TechCrunch" might be a slight over reaction.
Agreed - it's a crap and immoral defence (sic).

It's unfortunate bloggers don't have their own Geneva Convention (and no, that's not a tech conference in Europe)
It is pretty neat. This is actually an area where 3D printing could be fairly useful. You could design custom or choose components or choose pre-designed ones from a catalog and have them printed in plastic or metal. They would still be fairly expensive, but if you are going for a family heirloom it might be worth the cost. You could also do quite a bit with higher end boards, laser cutting woods and plastics.
Ask HN:  What is the probability of being human?
It seems that there is a much greater probability of being an insect say. There are an estimated 10000000000000000000 (10 quintillion) insects alive on Earth.

So are you extremely lucky? Or is there some other explanation?
Same happened before with chemestry / alchemy and astronomy / astrology - there were alchemists that were trying to please their king with promises of gold out of nothing or horoscopes, and there were scientists, that used it as a source of funding for their real research. Chemistry and Astronomy won, unfortunately our economic alchemy refuses to die.
A quick follow up. TechCrunch got in contact and we had a quick back and forth. They confirmed that the security vulnerability I was pointing out was something they had worried about already and taken action to mitigate.

They also said "We have had thousands of breakin attempts over the past few days". No surprise really.

And they are planning some posts pointing out the vulnerable nature of apps in the cloud.
I agree, the whole "Web meets world" concept is simmering and ready to boil. There are a lot of technologies (Laser cutters, CNC mills, 3D Printers, and POD) when combined with cool, web based design tools will enable people to make objects as easily as blogs. Services like Shapeways and Ponoko are starting to do this, but I think it is going to be companies focused on specific product categories who drive it to the mainstream.
You can always copy and paste a question mark (?). I don't recommend coding that way, I once tried coding with the left quarter of the keyboard broken, not fun.
Oh, look! Here's how "newsworthy" the content TechCrunch got from Twitter was: so newsworthy that they're going to trickle it out one-per-day to maximize page views.

Again. I hate to be a killjoy. But last time I suggested this, it worked, so maybe it'll work this time too:

What happened to TechCrunch could happen to any YC company, or any company with HN contributors at it.

We can't make TechCrunch manage their publication differently, but we can refuse to promote what they're doing here. Just hit the "flag" button on these stories.

That's what I just did.
There's no doubt the content is fascinating - but they're private documents. TC had no right to publish them, and we should all feel a little guilty for in part legitimizing TC's decision to publish them.
SPARC with Solaris is pretty inferior to Linux on x86 for many purposes, including the entire web-stack. This competition forced Sun to innovate, giving us the UltraSPARC T1 and T2, which is simply amazing technology. Suns UNIX innovation (i.e. Solaris 10 with dtrace and ZFS) came as a response to the success of Linux, not in spite of it.

Sun paused to sleep on their .com laurels, and it killed them.
It would be wrong for Techcrunch to NOT publish this info, because by not publishing, it would simply circulate within the elite by other means. Techcrunch's friends, and any of the many companies with a stake in this, would find a way to get the info.

Its the little guy who is disadvantaged by this not coming out.

Whatever damage this leak has caused is not from TC publishing this, but from their negotiating partners getting this info. Which would happen no matter what TC did.
The documents are not so positive.

They diss a large number of celebs, call GOOG and MSFT 'distractions' and really go to town on Marissa Mayer.
Turtles and tortoises make a noise that will tell you quite definitively what's going on.

It's tough to describe this tactfully, but some tortoises at the zoo here were feeling particularly amorous one day and you could hear them from a quarter mile away. Watching the parents try to explain to their kids what was going on was good for a laugh though.
Great attempt for a WYSIWYG editor. We are getting closer to turning browsers into Operating Systems. Compared to desktops we are in the 1980's era. This reminds me of my HP 9816!
Thanks, I think I'll give her the books you recommend as a starter. She'll probably dig the more conceptual stuff first.
I'm not sure how this could look a lot worse than it already is. If they asked really nicely and just annoyed Twitter into allowing this to be published, TechCrunch's actions are still appalling.

There's no way around it: what TechCrunch is doing is incentivizing the kinds of attacks Twitter is dealing with. Twitter will survive this, but a lot of the kinds of companies represented on Hacker News won't.
LLVM-powered Mono
Trade secret law is more complex than you make it out to be (and depends on which state has jurisdiction), but assuming any of the documents they disclosed meet the legal qualifications for a trade secret, you may well be right.
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There are a lot of stories that were based on leaked documents.

Stories on watergate, Abu Ghraib, etc. were published because somebody leaked something private.

I have to admit though that they have more significance than Twitter.
Very true, though if they up the ability to customize the pieces using custom manufacturing tech that will give them a strong point of differentiation. It is a great product category to start with.
Leadership Tactics: Brute Force vs. Consensus
Alternative to tab browsing in OS X
screen is a powerful shell command which lets you open multiple instances of shell in a single window.
Microsoft's Empty Promise [re: C# and Mono]
alt + keypad 63 works too (at least on Windows)
Economics isn't not a battle between Keynes and the Austrians, though. There are numerous neoclassical schools with varying degrees of prominence. Greenspan, for instance, was a monetarist, not a Keynesian. Other fields include behavioral economics. Meanwhile, while the early Austrian School provided a lot of important insights, most of them have been accepted by the neoclassicals.

Most of "Austrian economics" today is merely an apologia for anarcho-capitalism, popular among libertarians who have studied the early Austrians, lack grounding in economics otherwise, and are more interested in rationalizing libertarian economic policies than honestly learning economics.
Totally agree, when you are selling pre-manufactured products it is even more important than usual to nail down the aesthetics and provide clear product previews. Amazon can skate with small, not so great product images because people trust the brands, but with this kind of Mass Customization visualization is key.
"idea types"

This is why you "got laughed out of town." Why in the world, if I'm a coder-type, would I want to give even 1% of the benefit of my work to an "idea type"? There are plenty of people with great ideas and skills to make them happen, and the best part is, there's reason to believe that being the sort of person who can put execute on ideas makes you come up with better _ideas_ as well.
Raw speed can certainly pose a safety problem! Your vision distance is a constant. Therefore, the faster you are going, the less time you have to react to sudden obstacles (e.g., deer, lane closing, merging vehicle, debris in the roadway, etc.).
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When the storm fades away you will go back to the site.
TC knows this.
check out socat too