skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - but that's no where near as likely a story as your name getting out and egg on your face.

Cops could usually care less about who's buying drugs for self use (which in many cases isn't even a felony). There are bigger fish to fry.
Yes, but it's alive again. Though I'm more excited about the clojure-in-clojure thing - it will eventually make it easily portable on a whole lot of platforms.
You've got to be kidding me. 85 points? For worthless "ohh isn't the cute dummy cute!" quotes?

Apparently, Programmer Wives Say The Darnedest Things.

And all you upvoters should feel the sting of embarrassment.
Makes sense - it's a measure of the resolution of your sensory input and ability to discern differences. I can see small differences there accruing into huge gains in learning, confidence, etc over years.
Be careful on alibaba and any of those type of sites though. Lots of scammers and middlemen posing as manufacturers.
That's a strange choice, HTTPS would incur quite a bit of overhead for something that is essentially a (large) drive at the end of a network cable used internally only. Why the encryption ?

To help prevent a network compromise from resulting in storage management compromise? Just because something is internal doesn't mean it's safe. Once a host/network segment is compromised, you don't want it to be easy to jump to the next.

Otherwise, you've built M&M security. Hard candy shell on the outside, soft gooey chocolate insides. Mmm.
Cue the IQ-denialists.
Wow, this is one of the coolest articles I've read in a while. I wish they showed a picture of something other than a red light being shined right into the camera lens.
I have a copy. The .99 correlation seems to be coming from this:

> Paired sample t-tests showed that children diagnosed as gifted in this study (N = 44) achieved equal scores on the HAWIK-IV (M = 126.9, SD = 7.1) and the IDS (M = 128.9, SD = 8.2), t(43) = –1.30, p = .20. Average nongifted children (N = 69) scored equal as well on the HAWIK-IV (M = 101.2, SD = 8.5) and the IDS (M = 99.86, SD = 0.03), t(68) = 1.42, p = .16.

(IDS is this new line/weight-based test, the HAWIK-IV the usual IQ battery.)
Apple has guidelines on how to style the iPhone app's specifically to ensure consistency of the user experience. How does this do anything but hurt them? Do they really want every app developer to create their own style of chat bubble?

If they trademark the navigation bar at the top will they stop developers from using that as well?
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The author, of this piece, likes using, lots and lots, of commas.

I wish more people who put content on the web would spend a little more time understanding english grammar, or at least would find someone to read over a posting before submitting it. This topic is really interesting to me, but the horrible writing is making it very difficult to get all the way through.

Ah, now I understand why:

"We are coming to the close of 2010." (from the article)

He must be translating from some sort of future-language!
They have an app that a fan built, for free apparently, which has alerts and updates, and streams the show. Wow.
How about skipping the contact lens altogether and using Lasik to etch a conductive surface like circuits onto the cornea itself. It's bio circuitry via laser lithography.

Always on augmented reality.
Something I built recently to scratch an itch - and would love feedback on. Cheers.
This info was from a phone call, so unless it was recorded, there is nothing to prove what the content of the conversation was, or if there even was a conversation at all. This story sounds pretty sketchy to me.
v8 isn't faster, smaller, or more portable -- it didn't even work on x86_64 until very recently!
Ask HN: Whats missing from podcasting? Why hasn't the market grown larger?
iTunes makes subscribing to a podcast really simple. With so many iPhone/iPod users out there, why hasn't the market grown lager? What do you think is keeping podcasts from being more mainstream?
And it's werkzeug-powered (well, of course, considering mitsuhiko works there). Yay!
You might've tried while we were undergoing some maintainence, you should see your data in your project today though.

If you still have problems email us at support@mixpanel.com--always responsive.
Yesterday's Most Successful Companies Wouldn't IPO Today
It may be that the analyze method isn't thread safe, and mutates some state inside the myDoc object. So it made one part of creating async/multi-threaded apps easier, but you still need to be careful with mutating state like that.

Yes. I believe many Mac developers attempting to leverage GCD are going to get a long-overdue wakeup call regarding their extremely prevalent use of mutable state.
Seems like I was right; Opera 10 for Mac IS slower:

http://arstechnica.com/software/reviews/2009/09/first-look-o...

(scroll down to benchmarks)
Multi-pupil gestures? Cross your eyes to zoom out!
Is gmail down? Ask twitter
I think Opera 10 is wonderful.
Google, Gmail experiencing downtime worldwide
i agree. furthermore, $200-300 to get in, plus travel and accommodation expenses (either in $$ or time if going the car-sharing and couch-surfing route)

networking is definitely important, but only if you have someone on your team who is super prepared and ready to take advantage of the experience.

(personal note: while that person could be me, i much more enjoy staying home to code and go salamander wrestling)
I wish there was less spam on Hacker News.
I Am Not An Economist, but maybe it's because those 7,000 tonnes are all being extracted in China, and they are ratcheting down on exports.
Ok, that's legitimate. But it sounds like your complaint is really with network manager, not Ubuntu's VPN support. And hey, at least you have a place to report bugs :)
Gmail is down :(
Gmail Goes Down
No, that's wrong. It may predict MBA types but not financiers.
Gmail 502 error from San Francisco 12:52 pm PDT.
As a fan of Erlang, it might have been better to stick to your initial point rather than trying to disagree with tjogin about what is/isn't a central purpose of GCD. That tangent was orthogonal to the syntactic elegance you wanted to highlight.

Of course, if that sort of thing was a core design goal from the outset it damned well should be more elegant! It's much harder to bolt closures on to C, and a bit of syntactic elegance had to be traded off to make it happen, no doubt. I'd say they did a fine job given the constraints. My favorite touch: they chose a glyph for the block pointer that was actually pointy: ^

I don't want to detract from Erlang, because you were right to highlight what it does so well...but it's nice to see these ideas make it into the C foundation of a mass-market operating system in a manner that is both central and grand, even if the syntax isn't quite as tight.
Didn't Apple lose on the Look & Feel front against Microsoft a long time ago?
Quite possibly the only time I find twitter useful. (Although since I had a HN tab open, I clicked "new" and found my answer without twitter)
Agree 100% about the typical Mixergy interview being terrific. The Reddit and OJByrne interviews were great. This one's just too sketchy for my tastes.
That's irrelevant. If the problem is people attributing a company's success to one person, trading one person for another doesn't solve anything.
Even Google's internal corporate mail is down. Yikes.
So a bunch of website and web app developers are the speakers? Doesn't anyone else get the feeling that everyone is narrow-minded when it comes to the software industry?
There's obviously some inconsistency going on here in the app approval process, but the main gist from Apple has always been the same; they don't want users getting confused about whether or not they are chatting it up on Chess Wars or via SMS.

My company was told something similar by Apple reps at an iPhoneDevCamp event: make sure the chat bubbles look different so as not to be confused with our native app.
Well I think the underlying concept is that we need additional terminology to support multiple issues. Here, technical debt's the intentionally short-sighted design decisions written in such a way that it's easy to refactor (e.g. debt, but low interest).

Messy code may be called something like "Junk Code" (the metaphor being high-interest, high-risk junk bonds) or, if you're talking about code you didn't write yourself: "toxic assets."
"TCP is a leaky abstraction because it can't recover from cut network cables."

OK, technically true, but the issue is the scope of the abstraction, not that it is leaky. You could say that C is a leaky abstraction because C programs don't work if you shut off the underlying CPU. Technically true. Completely irrelevant.

C can't control your power button. TCP can't control crazy people with scissors. Both are out of the scope of the abstraction; inside the scope of the abstraction, TCP ensures that packets arrive in the correct order, and C ensures that your program can work on a variety of CPUs.

Finally, I don't think that ORMs are leaky. With enough effort, all object graphs can map to a relational model. Most people don't want to exert that much effort, but that doesn't mean object/relational mapping is a leaky abstraction. It doesn't really mean much of anything.

(I agree that polymorphism and graph structures are hard to model, and that's why I generally use object databases. But that is mostly irrelevant.)
Sometimes its pretty nice to be the end user of a big problem.

I feel sorry for those poor sysadmins
True, leverage comes in many forms. But what form of leverage could a VC firm engage in that they could not easily be restricted from in order to qualify for less onerous regulation?

Restrictions on the use of derivatives is as easy to restrict as debt instruments.
Data Storage, Lego-Style
Now if only twitter could tell me when it's going to be back up...
That's a fair crock of bullshit you've got going. Both genders are human, and do human things, and women aggrandize, and men entrap.
502 Server Error

[ $date -u => Tue Sep 1 19:59:05 UTC 2009 ]

#fail
There is also an ongoing discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/brows...
I agree with this, but would add one point. You can add a downloadable option later if it is something your customers say they want.
I suppose that's true, but then I'd still have to plug in a USB cable even. I guess I just really like the idea of not having to plug in ANYTHING.

If I'm away from the docking station, I mumble curse words when I have to plug in so much as an ethernet cable.
Of course. But with contacts, you don't have anything hanging on your face, and you have better peripheral vision.

For me, glasses are better for reading paper and the screen. Contacts are better for everything else. Being able to play various sports without having to choose between worrying about breaking my glasses or being seriously visually impaired is freeing. Even things like running and lifting are so much easier because I don't need to constantly adjust my glasses. And I didn't realize how nice it feels to not have something constantly on my face until I started wearing contacts.

There are ups and downs to both glasses and contacts, which is why I wear both during the week and day. But implying that people wear contacts because they feel a sense of accomplishment by putting them in is foolish.
here's the abstract of the actual study: http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/355/26/2725
All those articles warning against having all your data in the cloud are coming to mind. On the bright side, without email, there's temporarily one less distraction to worry about. http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
Gmail Now Really Down - Can I Get My Email Back Please
I'm guessing that backups are accessed rather infrequently and that someone recovering their data won't mind a few seconds in lag time. This isn't my area of expertise, but their trade off seems sensible. It's just a different scenario than what google is dealing with.
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en
Honestly, I think the Apple looks are not that great. The window resizing is smooth, but a lot of the designs remind me of the Java Swing Metal theme from sometime in the 90ies (I think). iTunes+AppStore are an example.
No gmail at work = Its lunchtime for me. Hurray Google for naturally putting me on break!
Sure, pasted-in emails are much more reliable.
Okay, I took some time to find a better link.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/recent_news/cha...

"In one 1932 study of children living in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the I.Q.s of 6-year-olds were "not much below the national average, but, by age 14, the children's I.Q.s had plummeted into the "mentally retarded range," with the degree of falloff directly related to the years of school the child had missed. Likewise, a study done in the 1980s shows that I.Q. scores for kids on summer vacation drop by a statistically significant amount, as compared to their I.Q. scores before vacation. Swedish psychologists found that finishing high school bumps up I.Q. by about 8 points over what it would be if the same child had dropped out after junior high. Likewise, an American research team found that every year of schooling increases I.Q. by about 3.5 points."

Believe me, this subject has been studied quite a bit.
I fail to see how having a linked list datatype is a crisis. Use vectors if you don't like them. You can write a very large amount of complex, fully-functional scheme code without ever typing in any expression matching "c[ad]+r". PLT Scheme also comes with a host of sequence-agnostic (or sequence aware for performance) comprehensions:

Please refer to: http://doc.plt-scheme.org/guide/for.html
As a sysadmin for organizations of different sizes, I've been acutely aware of this for quite some time.

The more painful corollary is that, even if one measures not by total storage but by performance (a more critical aspect of, e.g., databases), the prices are still an order of magnitude or two apart.

I would argue that the reason "No One Sells Cheap Storage" in the backup/archive sense is that there isn't enough demand. Obviously, this is starting to change.

I am, however, startled that a driveless pod is so expensive ($2467 or $54.82 per drive), considering that external performance is, effectively, limited by gigabit Ethernet.

Two SuperMicro 846E1s would be $2k for 48 drive bays, and one could easily connect 10 of them to a single $300 SAS RAID card. Add another $1k for mobo and cables, and that's $11300 for 240 drives or $47.08 per drive, without having to do a custom case.

Granted, it takes up almost twice the rack space, but it's still a decent power density at 50W/U AC (assuming 6.5W per drive DC).

It takes 52 groups of 13 1.5TB disks (Hmm.. 13 pops up an awful lot in their setup) to make a PB using their pods. 51 groups means 17 pods is .9945TB for $134k ($134.5/PB).

Using my pods, it would be .936TB for $120.3k ($128.5/PB), but what's $6k/PB between friends?
I haven't had an issue all day, till you guys mentioned it :) Down on the east coast 4:02pm

You can login here.
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail...
FriendBinder Launched
And that is why Google Voice is not a replacement for cell phone service. Take that Arrington!
Australia down as well ... was just about to click on an exciting mail when .. pop !! you are now accessing offline mail :(

waits while twiddles thumb
nvm that only gets you the login screen

Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.
Cable management using Ikea Antonius coat hangers
It looks like Red Gate is building a miniature empire over there between this and their incubator program.
Industrial egg farming. Watch, if you seek the truth about eggs [video]
I wonder what the load on that little machine that's spitting out 502's is right now...
rotary engines.
You can do these within PLT scheme quite easily. In fact, PLT Scheme comes with an Algol 60 reader that reads Algol 60 and turns it into scheme forms which are then executed. It's a cute trick.

http://docs.plt-scheme.org/algol60/index.html
Huh. GMail is down for me, but GMail's IMAP is still working. I didn't even notice.
maybe you can be inspired by this list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782428
What should newspapers have done?
> but it's nice to see these ideas make it into the C foundation of a mass-market operating system in a manner that is both central and grand, even if the syntax isn't quite as tight.

Absolutely. And I find the syntax pretty tight anyway.
Even with the success of Apple, the Mobile Ecosystem is still a wild jungle.
And Microsoft and Yahoo employees bust out the champagne :D
TweetSaver.com Launched - Backup, Tag, Search and Share your tweets
second that. And now techcrunch down too.
Despite problems like that it is still the best feature set out there and is actually worth the money.

I don't care what people here will say, gimp doesn't cut it in some major area's including things like photography and camera raw.

Gimp is darn good but missing 30% of the sort of features that make me hand over a wudge of cash while shouting "It must be mine!"
From [ http://clojure.blip.tv/file/1313398/ ] I got the impression that Clojure on the CLR was back-burner at best. There appears to be only one committer to the CLR source base since February (possibly longer).
I thought that article was about indicating academic success, rather than real-world success.
And Larry and Sergei only answer their phone after two and a half rings!

See, I can do it, too!
=> denotes a lambda. The left side is the args, the right side is the body. Lambdas are typically a single expression, but can have a statement body instead. A semicolon denotes the end of a statement.

var square = x => x * x;

var square = x => { return x * x; };
At 800 x 600, you can't read the event date. So I changed resolution to read the date, but now I can't find the time.

This sounds like a worthwhile event, and I imagine the speakers don't make their customers jump through hoops like this website makes you do.

Honestly, shouldn't pros have a better website?
Wow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.
I'm slowly drifting away from being a tech geek, and so articles like Siracusa's let me see in ridiculous detail what's going on with a piece of technology that I love. It's a damn good read for the sake of reading.
Pray, isn't the 'e' in "English" supposed to be uppercase?
Aerospace Giant Building a Gravity Tractor to Deflect Killer Asteroids
In reality, I have a hard time imagining that anyone would be able to distinguish anything meaningful from a display on a contact lens. That's like suggesting that you could read a printed word on a contact lens today. You wouldn't be able to focus on something that is directly on your eyeball.

I think in addition to the technical challenge of actually getting something like this working in a contact lens, the issue of physically being able to make use of such a device needs to be addressed.

To those suggesting a pair of glasses be used instead, I think this is a more practical suggestion for both reasons (the biological and technical). If I try really hard I'm barely able to focus on something as close as my glasses.
Interesting idea. I wonder if this will evolve into a "TweetKick" service that lets you migrate your twitter content to other similar services.
But if you stored it locally you would still have downtime. Downtime (problems) are inevitable. It's just that only you would notice, so it might not get on the news.

I doubt the actual uptime would be that different for any one person.
Windows Cache Extension for PHP
I actually like that they give a specific time to expect the next update down to the minute

"We're aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 4:53:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change."

This is one of those things that is extremely helpful for a sysadmin taking heat from employees looking for answers.
Skype Doubles Connection Fees For Some International Calls
> Most conferences are only good as networking opportunities, if that.

Like being able to eat lunch with the Speakers of the event?
Yeah, that's down too now. 502 error
I might be too close to this interview because I feel like I'm missing the sketchiness that you guys caught.

My understanding is that Warren's site works because networks like CJ.com, which do things like ensure that affiliates get paid, won't cover the casino industry. So Warren filled in the gap. He helps ensure that affiliates get paid and that affiliate managers find new sites to work with.

Before we did the interview, I pre-interviewed him, checked him out with trusted friends, and confirmed his company's revenue with Inc Magazine.

If I missed something, please email or call me: mail(at)awarner(dot)com or 650-450-4098
IMAP and POP3 are working fine
On the 28th day - we crash.
Tweeting about your proceedings all day long might help too.
So Technical Debt is natural and expected where messy code should be avoided. While this all may be true messy code has the same results as true technical debt. Get too much of it and your producitivity will take a dive. Maybe with True Technical debt (i.e. code that can be refactored to your understanding) you can fix and maintain. Messy code will just have to be abandoned eventually and can't be fixed.

So we all agree messy code == toxic assets? :-)
Coincidentally, their "Go Google" billboard campaign just ended today.
I don't think she was exaggerating.

Atlas Shrugged was a formative influence during my late teens, but Rand is above all things an extremist. Still, she had some good ideas, she communicated them well, and she got me into philosophy. If you take the best parts of Rand and leave the rest, you'll be well served.
Workarounds: GMail gadget for iGoogle ; IMAP/POP3.

It's not all that bad :)
http://www.google.com/ig shows me signed-in in chat-mode. Can anyone explain why so ?
He spent a few months researching it and finding the guy to do the branding. It wasn't just a drunk night out.

Still, you have a point. Is spending a few months deciding on something so permanent enough time? Hopefully we can ask him in a 5 or 10 years.
FTA: "By now you’re probably wondering how a person wearing one of our contact lenses would be able to focus on an image generated on the surface of the eye. After all, a normal and healthy eye cannot focus on objects that are fewer than 10 centimeters from the corneal surface. The LEDs by themselves merely produce a fuzzy splotch of color in the wearer’s field of vision. Somehow the image must be pushed away from the cornea. One way to do that is to employ an array of even smaller lenses placed on the surface of the contact lens. Arrays of such microlenses..."
Microsoft on the Upcoming New Windows Mobile Phones
"It also seems to help the claim that school dumbs you down."

The people who say that aren't talking about IQ.
I guess this comes down a question f whether the bubbles are a normal part of the API or not. If this is the case, then what next? 'We don't like your new Mac app...it's consistent with our design guidelines, and your buttons and window borders look just like ours'.

This whole App Store thing is starting to remind me of the great videogame crash, with Apple occupying Atari's role.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...
Then there's Wittgenstein, who did the same thing, except twice and with entirely separate ideas. He's the philosophical equivalent of one of those bands that makes a major stylistic change halfway through their career, lose a bunch of their fans, and pick up an entirely different set of fans.