skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, this represents your (the user's) agreement to also trust the linked third party? How do browsers display this additional trust / certificate?

Edit: Just to clarify, even if the certificate is authenticated, it is STILL bringing the third party into the communication. Or am I misunderstanding the implications?
In some spaces (financial, perhaps military) running the JVM is the only sensible thing to do. It has special status that allows you to skip steps at audit, which allows your customers to install it, it allows you to use libraries and it's really good for cross-platform so long as you don't care about GUIs (and with everyone using web these days, there's no reason to care about GUI).
I think you can take the luxury of skipping content when you already know it, but that's not learning new material, it's recalling. My suggestion if anyone is in doubt, is to test these assumptions directly to see if they works or not. For me, they don't work when the material is new, technical or not technical.
This link causes FF 3.5.2 to start allocating ram at the rate of 15MB/sec until it crashes. Anyone else?
Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera
Hadoop creator leaves Yahoo! to join Hadoop startup
Tricky uses of Clojure gen-class and AOT compilation
FogCreek still prefix their classes with 'C'? Oh Joel... :(
Lulu.com. A one-off 794 page volume costs £20 a copy and postage (though irrelevant when ordering in bulk) is about £6. It scales in that 794 pages costs little more than 250, except the limit is 800 (a paperback's limit is I think 500)

The hardback has a colour dust jacket which goes right round the book and with inside flaps, and quite classy: there is gold lettering on the hardback itself! It looks like a 'real' book.

As for acid-free, I'm not 100% sure, but a book I printed a year ago isn't going brown.
The Mission and I commute via Caltrain to Santa Clara
The problem with this technique is that CDNs usually don't support HTTPS. It would require a dedicated IP address for the CDN and a separate certificate. The only thing I've been able to come up with is to replace http://cdn.example.com with https://www.example.com on SSL pages.
The same logic (shoes don't cushion you, they weaken you) that applies to other surfaces applies to pavement. If you accept that there is no shoe that will make your running healthier on grass, then there is no shoe that will do it for pavement. The only argument would be that we should not run at all on pavement.
The problem, however, is that somewhere along the way to that utopian society, there's a point where our traditional economy collapses because too many people are structurally unemployed. How do we handle that? What replaces our traditional economy? That's the interesting question, IMHO.
The distinction here is between starting a process and connecting to a listener to request services. Starting a process is not one of the two roles in the client/server relationship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-server
Dupe of this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752852
The key point being that he wasn't rude or insulting or otherwise antisocial; he was just a bit wrong. That doesn't deserve massive downvoting.
I didn't look into how it works on the backend, but fetching the images means all the intermediate hashes are being sent out, right?
Heinlein suggested in his last novel (To Sail Beyond the Sunset) that telephones in the home killed house-calls by doctors, it became too easy to contact the doctor for any little thing that was bothering you. So it would not be surprising to find even easier and "more connected" versions of the phone having similar effects.
The A-Z of Programming Languages cannot be viewed as an alphabetically-sorted list... epic fail.
Probably wanted their team more than their tech.
"Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now."

And so are they.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Data harvesting is the first thing I think of when I hear "Facebook" these days.
>context-free headline

S -> NP.VP

NP -> AT&T

VP -> ADV.V

ADV -> really | totally | clearly | ADV,.ADV | ε

V -> sucks | is evil | hates consumers
I don't have time to have a look at their code right now, but I would love to know how they did their background (The scroll transitions). Neat effect.
Yeah, seriously -- there are ways to tell gmaps to show a limited number of points based on zoom level.

Recommended.
Performance aside, you'll feel some interesting sensations while wearing them. Surfaces that you cannot walk over barefoot - for example loose gravel - are remarkable experiences.

(I've had a pair of classics for a few weeks now. I like to run in them. Sadly, the appearance is somewhere between gorilla feet and ballet slippers.)
3.5 Watts Prototype OLED Desk Lamp from Project TOPLESS
Ohhh .. nice background slider on the home page. Scroll the page and see how background image blends into another. Never seen this done before.

But an overall impression is that they have added way too much visual noise. Bigger font and more colors doesn't necessarily mean a better user experience. In fact, sticky fancy background (as nice as it is) only contributes to the problem.

In short, it was better before. And they should've really run this interface through a public beta first to gather a feedback.
Rockwall, on Lake Ray Hubbard. I have a friend up that way that I haven't seen in a while. By the way, Buddy Guy is coming this weekend. Yall should go if you like blues or guitar, or a good live show, or...
I agree this is one of the sillier Hungarian notation conventions, but with that said it does help with a couple things. First, I can look at the file CBug.was and know it contains a class, vs util.was which contains global utility functions (ugh, global functions, I know). Second, in .NET we've adopted the convention that "C" classes are meant to be instantiated, and non-"C" classes aren't. So the FogCreek.FogBugz.Url class just has some static methods to generate URLs, whereas FogCreek.FogBugz.CBug is actually an object that you instantiate and do stuff with.

I'd never use it on a new project, but it's not 100% worthless...
Premature optimization vs best practice
...in terms of requests for mobile web pages served by AdMob.

The Android browser is pretty good and Mobile IE stinks, so I'm not sure this is a 100% accurate reflection of actual devices in use. Also, I bet enterprise users do less casual web surfing than consumers.

Still, pretty interesting.
You can offer vesting or other stock type transactions to secure loyalty, or it can even be as simple as offering retention bonuses to key staff members. It's not overly complex, and talent would be assessed at individual performance and job function levels.
Don't know about that yet - but techcrunch says its a all stock or mostly stock acquisition. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/first-interview-after-a...
Ironically, how much of the scarcity of time is caused by the need to work?
Let's assume, from the current Windows security state of affairs, that this is precisely what was done.
For the man who built gmail and his hand picked team of techs, $20-40 million (less the actual company value) is probably a pretty good deal, especially for a company that really needs to make some cash in the next year or two.
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At my startup, psonar, we believe in mp3s vs streaming - particularly for the 'kids'. I sit in front of a computer all day so streaming is ok for me, but teenagers spend far more of their time listening to music away from a computer. ipods, phones etc play a bigger part for them than computers.

Its also not just economically that streaming falls down, technologically the battery life and network bandwidth isn't there either - and doesn't show a lot of signs of improving rapidly
“Friendfeed’s core values, portability and aggregation of content created everywhere, will happen at an accelerated pace at Facebook.”

If that's actually true, that would be an exciting turn of events at Facebook...
You didn't really realize the point of the post. The point is you can't plan on "third-party factors" nor can you plan on how the product will "act" a lot upfront. You kinda just have to dive in and feel the vibe.
1 machine, 4 weeks now enough to sequence human genome
If the interprocess communication makes it too slow, then you should change tem implementation. Running unknown code in-process is a no-no by my book and it is a big cause for a whole lot of security problems.
I think the trick is to automate the production/maintenance of our basic needs (food, housing, transportation(?), energy(?)). Seems like we will have a lot of free time in our future (making it less scarce, perhaps but still finite).
Plano, Texas
Amazing shoes, however I would recommend buying either the sprint or the KSO if you will be doing any running in them, the addition of a strap across the top of your foot helps a lot with keeping them on well when running.
Humans continue to evolve
I think he was talking more about hardware.
FB has always wanted Twitter, but Twitter is probably too expensive at the moment. So it makes sense for them to buy FF. Not sure what they would do with it though.
Real men program in C (C is still very alive, especially in embedded)
A crazy idea to overcome fear of heights
Please explain for the dummies: is this sort of naming convention just a fad that is out of style or has some of the latest advances in technology made it obsolete?
Yup, exactly. URL shorteners are disposable. That's why nobody will buy Tr.im. Unlike StackOverflow, this really is something that you can build in five hours.
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "developer convenience" - it seems that to maximize developer convenience, it's best to write plugins in an interpreted language like JavaScript (or as might be more appropriate for the time/place he's talking about, VB6).

As far as performance, the tradeoff just doesn't seem worth it - sure, interprocess communications have overhead, but at least Word doesn't crash because someone else wrote bad code ;) This seems really obvious once you get your head out of the technology - for a computer user, the crashing of a word processor is probably pretty high on the "worst things that can happen" list. A plugin not working fast enough is really, really low.
Makes sense: people download far more music than they listen to.
They also tie pieces of tire treading to their feet when they run.
Good question. One possible, partial answer is through making it easier to gain the new skills needed. The unskilled labor market can die relatively peacefully so long as there is a proper glid path to skilled labor for those people being displaced.
"Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential" -- Winston Churchill
The main background is a PNG with the robots and zombies. It has black objects, gray objects and the rest is transparent. Beneath that PNG, there is a JPG gradient that goes from gray to black. The PNG is fixed to the bottom, while the gradient isn't, so as you're scrolling, the gradient makes the background of the PNG appear different, revealing different objects.
I'm talking about the online service. If you rely on a service, and put time and energy into organizing what you like, then the fear is that at some point it might disappear. Possibly a little irrational, but thats why I like to 'own' and store myself
I'm saying Toronto, because on a global scale you would have to add Waterloo (being 1h outside of Toronto) to the greater Toronto area.
Now all they have to do is get some new interesting products!

I've been shopping Thinkgeek (mostly t-shirts, but sometimes other things) since 1999, and it's been a while since I've seen any new, interesting shirts.
The png: http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/refresh/robozombies7.png

Or, one of them, anyways. There's 2 to 6 as well.
These kids actually think they own the mp3s they download?
An extremely valid, if unpopular point.
Yep. FF 3.0.12.
That would mean that less than everyone on earth edits wikipedia, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

/humour
Ask HN: Should links from popular blogs be excluded from karma pts?
I believe posting links from popular blogs (e.g. Techcrunch, Mashable) almost guarantee a lot of karma points that it becomes a race among HNers to post them.

My suggestion is that Karma points should only be awarded for HNers who discovered and contributed links that the community might not easily find.
'Replace PHP with your real wife's name and the silliness of the question is apparent'. You probably right. Maybe a fling on the side though, might not be such a bad idea :). Learning and exploring for me is a lifelong passion, however, I try to separate what I should use professionally with what I explore.
I speed read the Tribes book by Seth Godin. That was my first ever speed-reading attempt, and i have to say, it was rather exhausting, even though i got through the book in just a few hours.

On the other hand, when ive used techniques from "How to read a book", the process has been much slower but i've felt ive gotten a lot more from the book on first read without having to go back a number of times. Its a pretty difficult artform though.
I suspect 220B is quite an exaggeration, but there may be a difference between the number of unique lines of COBOL and the total number of uniquely deployed source instances. I wonder how many 80's era third party apps there are that are installed on 1000 different mainframes around the world. A couple hundred thousand lines x 1000 machines puts a dent in the 220B number.
Yes to (mostly) all of the above -- it's a complicated story.

I don't know much about the calcium/prostate-cancer link, but the quick search that I did suggested that the link was seen in cases of rather extreme calcium supplementation in men (i.e. >1500mg per day, which is something like 50% more than the US RDA). Also, at least some of that research hypothesized that the relationship was due to calcium-related suppression of vitamin D metabolism...which would beg the original question.

I think that if the researchers behind this study were to do an equivalent study for men, they'd reduce the calcium levels to the US RDA for whatever cohort they chose.
I'm sure the typo domain squatters could probably come up with a way to squeeze money out of the residual incoming traffic from links -- since tr.im links will continue to get some volume of traffic for a long while yet -- so the question is how much traffic, for how long, and how much of a CPM can you get? Do the math & you have a minimum valuation...

But I hope to hell they're not evil enough to sell off to those scum. :)
I doubt they used much cash. Facebook is bleeding cash and tossing around that kind of coin for a mostly talent based acquisition doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
the background is amazing
Your advice is untenable as .htaccess are used mostly with PHP based shared hosting(as newer non php frameworks mosty have smart urls by default), where allowing everyone to dump their Rewrite rules in httpd.conf is not possible.
Another App Store ratings snafu, or Garage Sales are for mature audiences only
If there was a point to be gleamed I think it's more that planning should drive your goals, not planning just for the sake of having a plan.

Guess what: "Dive in and feel the vibe" is still a plan.
True. I was basing this on their previous statement that they're not going to sell to typo-squatters or someone equally nefarious.
In somebody's environment hardware 3D rendering was I/O bound so they used software rendering instead. The fact that this merits an entire article just shows that dogma has replaced engineering in too many areas.
My suggestion: Make Karma (and other points) COMPLETELY invisible in the system. Make them invisible in the UI, the system uses them behind the scenes to rank and order data, but never display them.
Agree wholeheartedly - I went jogging up in the santa monica mountains in brentwood (near la) yesterday morning with my fivefingers (sprint), on a trail with lots of loose stones and gravel. The feeling of walking on gravel and stones was incredible, as long as I didn't step on anything sharp directly (but that'd be enough for it to hurt in any shoe). I liked it even more because it's something I enjoy doing barefoot but usually don't because it's harsh on my feet :)
Can anyone explain why the "feedback tab" on the lower left of homepages is becoming so popular?
My fear of heights isn't about balance, but about being in high, exposed places.
yes please...

but it isn't going to happen.
The Role of Amplifiers in Science
Great Job!! I've replied to your group post at
http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/t...
And do not underestimate a good maid. She may not have a PhD but she is more skilled, faster or efficient than you imagine.
I don't feel this karma issue decreases the overall quality of the frontpage.
I decided not to support IE6 on a new project, but not because of some self-righteous desire to tell people what browser they should use. It's just a feature that I'm not implementing.I don't have an iPhone app in the works either, but it's not because I hate Apple. I'm prepared to lose some fraction of people who can't/won't use a better browser. It's just not worth the initial effort and continued maintenance. Especially considering that that fraction will only be getting smaller.
+1 anyone go to summerfest last weekend?
That's pretty sweet, unfortunately it's not working on firefox 3.0.13 on linux. Looking at it from Safari it works and I like the idea of making microformat data easier to read and to write.
I'm in Clairemont right off the 5. It's about 15-20 to Solana Beach from here if you don't go at peak hours. Pretty much everything north of here until Oceanside is fairly expensive, unless you want to go way east. Just try to find somewhere near the freeway as that will save you the most time.
I think he was saying that the tech, impressive as it is, pales in comparison to the talent.
This article isn't about owning music at all!!

In my mind the issue is: do people want to own music or do they want to pay for a subscription--these are not one in the same.

The point by the way is valid. People get value out of listening to all-you-can-eat music, so they would pay. The tricky bit is making the transaction simple and automatic.
I think it would be so useful startups would do whatever they could to stay off it.

Nobody needs their secret sauce exposed like that ;-)
It's only a race if you feel that you are losing it, simply don't assign too much weight to karma. Treat it like an odometer, it's more a function of how much time you spend on HN than anything else.
The founder of friendfeed was employee 20-something at Google. His washing machine probably cost 200k.
Is it true that when an Internet company stops growing, people jump to the newest big-growth company (for reasons of stock options)? Like Microsoft to Google, and Google to whoever?
If Mike Olson wanted to hire me to sweep floors and wash dishes, I would. (Former banking client; the best combo of tech smarts and people skills I've ever seen.)
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html

Free for personal use.
It was started by the GSFN (getsatisfaction.com) tab. Although this one isn't GSFN.
Not sure this would have helped in your case, but it looks like they are coming out with a model more suited for trail running called the KSO Trek: http://barefootted.com/labels/fivefingers.html
DHH has a solution to this problem that I like: http://gist.github.com/29752

It's rails code, but the concept could be ported to other languages/frameworks.
No, it's not fetching images for each of the hashes; it's a pure-JS MD5 which selects CSS background-colors for DOM elements.
Not only have hiphop artists been rhyming about business, and making references to the industry, but they have been conducting legitimate businesses outside of rapping, for years. From Run DMC's major sponsorship with Adidas, to Russell Simmon's and Phat Farm, but also 50 Cent's deal with Vitamen Water and Coca Cola, Jay-Z's minority stake in the New Jersey Nets, and much more. But now days, rappers are actually getting into the web startup game as well. LL Cool J has created Boomdizzle.com, TI runs Streetcred.com, Dame Dash heads up Blocksavvy.com, and Russell Simmons now has Globalgrind.com. HipHop music lovers are heavy web users, and loyal consumers. And hiphop artists and record label moguls are capitalizing on that fact, by bringing their current following, and their buying power, to their other business ventures, including their web startups.
Its pretty clear to many people that Cloudera is a rocket ship heading skyward, both in terms of innovation and valuation. Working there as an early employee means participating in the profits as the company grows, as well as being able to focus on turning Hadoop into the kernel of the network computer of tomorrow. As cool as Yahoo is, its not hard to see why Cloudera could lure Cutting away.
sarcasm -> Congrats to the marketing teams at SpiralFrog! Take the money and run is what I always say...

Actually, anyone who worked on the marketing team have a copy of Spiralfrog Club? I'd love to relive that experience.
The bottleneck when I read is not the time it takes to recognize the words, but the time to understand the ideas and relate them to my experience. It can cost me an hour to read a page of a computer science research paper involving enough mathematics.
MY EYES!!!

Gah! "More Loud Colorful Clutter" does not automatically equal "Better". It's a store for geeks, not the MySpace crowd.
Instead of having your plugins be able to execute SQL commands, why not use something like ActiveRecord + NHibernate (or some other ORM) with LINQ? NHibernate 2.1 was just released with LINQ support, so you could do something like:

int BugCount = Bug.Where(case => case.Id = caseId).Count();

(Where caseId is a parameter or something). It'd really simplify the API and keep you from doing safety checks on the SQL passed by the plugins. You might even be able to simply some of your "display" code to use Dynamic LINQ queries for the sorting and so forth.

I've been using the ASP.NET MVC + NHibernate + ActiveRecord + LINQ "stack" for several months now (though I've been an ASP.NET developer for about five years), and I have to say that my productivity has gone way up thanks to it.
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If karma matters that much to someone let them have it.

And not everything by techcrunch or mashable garners karma either; it has more to do with the currency and importance of the story.

#adjusted for local definitions of what is important, obviously.
One thing I learned a while back at one interview (or rather, I just worked it out after experiencing it a few times) is that I find it much harder to think/code on a whiteboard. I don't know what it is, but it seems much easier for me to sit down with a pen and paper and work things out.

I mean, still coding without a computer - but it's something about standing up at a whiteboard. Maybe it's normally not so bad for me, but with the pressure of an interview, it's bad enough to give me problems.
New Artificial Bone Made of Wood
Reasonably strong typing + better IDEs have made type-naming redundant. If you don't have both those two available, go ahead and use it though.
It depends on language.

In Delphi/Object Pascal the convention is/was to prefix classes with T or TProjectName. Because Pascal is case-insensitive language, classes are prefixed to avoid mixing them with variables (Cat = TCat.Create).

In Objective C classes are usually prefixed with two capital letters (unique for company or project), like NSString. Because ObjC/C doesn't have namespaces, this serves the purpose of avoiding collisions with other classes that may have the same name. So yes, while it's a convention, it's here because there's no latest advances in technology to make it obsolete.

In Ruby you don't have to prefix classes because there's a convention, enforced by language, to write class names in title case.

In C#, the convention is not to prefix classes with letters, since it's case sensitive, has namespaces, and compiler takes care of type checking.