skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is complete hyperbole. Rents here are a little lower, but still higher than anywhere else. Shop windows aren't boarded up, and the ones that are empty will rent as soon as the price drops to a reasonable level.

There was some worry over the last year, but things have quieted down in the last few months. The big changes are mostly localized to the high end of incomes, where lifestyles have been downsized a bit. Non-profits that depend on wealthy donors are putting off plans to expand, and it may be easier to get seats at a popular show or a table in the most exclusive restaurants.

The streets are not filled with bankers who were making hundreds of thousands last year and are homeless this year. The subways are still crowded and no more or less clean than last year.

It's a big city, and it's not going to turn into a warzone because Lehman Brothers closed.
Cut and paste is a good way to get the definitions from the tutorial into the interpreter without reading them.

Personally, I've only ever had a problem copy-pasting from the web. Even then, it is rare; a mild occasional annoyance well worth the price of the clutter free syntax.
Yes you are correct that this should hardly ever be done, and instead be handled the way you specified.

I do still think its interesting and may be useful in cases where you might have access to only CSS and not templates.
SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin)
Why is the author comparing the portable music player market with the e-reader market. In no way are they similar so you can't just throw out that Microsoft sold a million Zune's and the Kindle didn't even come close and use that as evidence of failure. The e-book reader market is vastly smaller than the music player market (which may in itself be somewhat unfortunate).

I actually think the price of the Kindle is very reasonable, when you figure in that you don't have to pay a monthly fee for the cellular service. That was a conscious decision made up front to not subsidize the device with a monthly payment plan.

There have been many reports to indicate that the Kindle is doing just fine including one recently that the NY Times Best Seller list is going to include Kindle sales because of the large number of purchases.
Most humans don't. Some do.
The developer network, which is a precursor to commercial service planned for the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010, will cover more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara, Mountain View and parts of downtown Palo Alto, California.
Ah yes, the Wii is another example. I also have one of those :). Just recently we also purchased a Keurig coffee maker (with the little cups, give you coffee in about 3 blinks of an eye). Also a great experience thats wonderfully convenient.
Can someone explain to me why this is still not dead, while the link to 50 Lectures on Brain Anatomy and Development, Neuroscience, and Psychology is dead?
My advice is, pass page= as your pagination and pass 1/0 in for ASC or DESC. If you have selectable columns, number them in the parameters, don't name them.

Point being, when you compose the query, you should never be inserting text from parameters; you should be converting parameters into known-good values.
How to Get into Seedcamp (In Three Tries)
We published short how to for getting into Seedcamp. Enjoy.
Only adults are full enough of pretense to deny the obvious: we're all different.
Oh, right, syndication profits. I thought he'd given up stand-up, though.

I don't think that making money stops you from being washed-out, though. Look at Charlie Sheen and 2.5 Men. It's one of the most popular shows on television, but it's a washed-out show nonetheless, receives bucketloads of negative press, and Sheen is a loony B-list actor who pitches 9/11 conspiracy theories. I'm sure he makes more money than, say, Jason Bateman, but Bateman isn't washed-out whereas Sheen is.

The attitude about Seinfeld is that he was great 20 years ago, sold out in the process of ending Seinfeld (some people are a little more generous than that), and hasn't done a damn thing since. Bee Movie generated waves of bad press, and that was supposed to be his comeback. The fact that I haven't heard of his doing a new series says something. If he was still trendy, I'd have known right away.
Sub-pixel re-workings of YouTube and BBC favicons
The difference is the type of product it is. The iPhone wasn't just another phone - it was the first to include an app store to encourage a developer ecosystem, among other things. The iPhone wasn't a reimagination of the phone, or a replacement for it - it was a phone with a bunch of other cool stuff.

The Kindle is just a book reader. It can show you any book you want, but it's expensive and doesn't do much more than allow you to buy and read books. I guess it can read book to you, too. But that's about it. It doesn't let you browse the web (now /that/ would be pretty awesome). It doesn't let you play games. There's no developer ecosystem that I know of for it. It's a one-function thing that's very expensive.

Compare:

20 hardcover books, $20 each: $400.
Kindle 2 and 4 books: $400.

It only becomes cost-effective once you've spent $720 on your kindle book reading system: your Kindle, and 36 books @ $9.99 each.
Xkcd: volume0 on sale
I find her final thesis statement interesting though completely unrelated to her argument in the rest of the article:

"Until we teach both teachers and students to value knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well."

Nowhere in her article does she mention that students need to value knowledge and love learning. She talks about possessing knowledge - these two things are VERY different. I believe the methods to teach a kid to love learning, and the method to spoon-feed knowledge down a kid's throat, are two completely separate things. A child won't gain knowledge unless he/she has the DESIRE to do so. Finding that desire is then key.

A second thing, she argues that knowledge helps a person think of better alternatives to a situation. This is not necessarily true. Often, solutions are found by those who are not clouded by a million existing alternatives, but are able to use their own reasoning to come up with a superior solution.
I was at this talk, and loved it, but you are definitely right about the audience of the conference. I was disappointed as I was hoping it would be a highly technical conference, but instead of it was filled with social media "experts" as you said and lots of buzzwords and hype.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/the-workstations-of-...

Maybe these people will answer your stupid question..
No, definitely not. I agree with you 100%.

The claim that somehow this retains all qualities of Lisp is absolutely ridiculous. The single most important property of Lisp is that programs are lists, i.e., code==data. "Indented" lisp breaks this.

I'm not intending to troll when I say that people who don't like the parens just don't "get it."
Some books are limited to how many devices you can put them on.

And there's no way to tell before you buy the book.
That's a scary loophole...
The problem is that ecological niche is a better determiner of size than ancestry...
Not necessarily so. Email is usually company wide so the backup can be extremely large which increases the chances that it will fail. Your CMS may only be for your department or division so its backup will most likely be much smaller. As far as the actual procedures for conducting a backup, that's usually not too complicated.

By the way, Outlook is only the email client. The back end is called Microsoft Exchange.
That's amazing. Stuff at this scale is so difficult to work with, one pixel is the difference between readable and unreadable.
As a former precocious kid, I respectfully disagree. Bear in mind that the first thing she says is that this is what's all over her Dad's computer. Lots of kids like to feel grown up by copying their parents, even if they have no clue why it matters.
TC50: CrowdFlower Crowdsources Mundane Labor To The Cloud
My conversation with my professor was really informal; I just thought his was an interesting view.

Microsoft's campaign exhibits a lot of diversity - ethnicities, ages, roles. Apple's poster boy (singular) is a smart-alec white hipster.

Justin Long's a yuppie, but he's far too casual to be a hipster. Apple isn't a hipster company. They're trendy, but that's different.

I've always held that Apple's strategy is to dehumanize their ads and focus on product. Most of their ads are simply shots of their product. I think that attempting to use diversity to sell a product indicates an underlying weakness in the product.

one of them included the line 'I guess I'm just not cool enough for a mac', which I thought was a clever dig at the snob appeal and pricing of the Mac products.

Sniping at a minority product was a bad idea. It made Microsoft out to be both petty and inferior. It's like if an Apple commercial made fun of a Zune.

Also: Selling a product by saying it's for uncool people never works. It gives you identification but not emulation.

So the CP&B ads mostly establish a direct connection between customer's goals and the product they can use to achieve them (Windows and the computer it runs on).

That's an interesting way to look at it. I hadn't thought about that. Not totally sure what I think of it but I see what you're saying.

I responded to the Seinfeld discussion in our other thread. I'd bet that his new series shows a lot of Macs, though. Seinfeld is famously a Mac user.
"evolving 100 faster"

100 what?! You're making my brain frustrated.

EDIT: Ahh FTA: 100 times historical levels.
Video: Playing handheld videogame with your mind
There is an important aspect that not many "fat clients" have solved except the iPhone (except for the fact many iPhone apps are pirated and end up torrented): a reliable way to charge users... 50% of Photoshop installs are pirated; I wonder how many users of Salesforce are using pirated copies?
I kept hoping the next paragraph would address this, but it didn't.

It's cool and all, but it sounds like you're still going to basically need a server stack there to enforce permissions and some logic and consistency things. For example, say users have some private data. What stops me from modifying the javascript to insert a record that points to someone else's email address in my record? Unless the database can see this and prevent it I might then be looking at or even able to change someone else's email on their account. It can get very hairy if you don't have full control over the database interaction because you have to start guarding against arbitrary database operations.
You really need to read the article. Because it talks about this idea in detail, and its conclusions are that what you are doing does not work.
Permit me to elaborate. So, you are in Drupal or Plone or Sharepoint and you are looking at a page. Maybe the page has content which is rich text formatted. Maybe the page also includes a link to a MS DOC file or PDF. The content of this page is the document that you are collaborating on. If so configured, then you will also find some kind of "reply" or "comment" link at the bottom of that page. You also see everyone else's previous comments about this document. This is how team members can collaborate on that document instead of emailing each other about it.
Amazon Web Services to support the Federal Government
I don't have such a simple example handy, but it's not drastically different from your setup except I subclass an Application class, which subclasses Sinatra::Base. I'm loading about 10 subclasses, not 3. I don't have the numbers handy but when I last tested it, adding subclasses did add several MB of memory per instance.
I know that we’re in a recession, and I don’t mean to nitpick such a huge technical/political advancement, but what happened to the guys who designed whitehouse.gov?

This is clearly only meant for official use, but if we can see it, there’s no reason to hold back criticism: I’m seeing unnecessary images and flash, tiny font size, annoying horizontal scroll bar (only in Safari, of course), Trebuchet (for the logo?!), cheap stock images, etcetera, etcetera.
"Nobody 10,000 years ago had blue eyes," Hawks said. "Why is it that blue-eyed people had a 5% advantage in reproducing compared to non-blue-eyed people? I have no idea."

Now that's interesting. Any theories?
I think its a brilliant concept. I think there is a huge market for mundane jobs and no specialized place to go for. Guru, elance, odesk are all for project work. Amazon turks is too spread out. They actually have found out a niche, now it is just going to be about implementing it. I will definitely be giving these guys a try.
In this case it will just move into the database. You'll have to start writing procedures and rules in the database instead of in your web framework and only expose those instead having only trusted code interact with the DB.
You're not disagreeing with what the article said. The article claimed (rightly or not, I cannot comment) that the iPhone software claimed to the Exchange server that it did support encryption, then just didn't encrypt anything.

I don't believe for a second that "everyone in corporate IT" knew this and yet allowed their users to connect with iPhones and endanger the security of the network.

Again, I don't know that the article's claims are accurate, but your comment clearly does not clash with the aforementioned claims.
Poll: What happened to Project 10^100?
What is Google doing with all the ideas we submitted?
Working diligently to identify the truly outstanding ideas.
Put the project on the back-burner until the economy recovers.
Consulting with lawyers to identify how they can claim some of the great ideas as their own.
This might work for the simplest of sites like some have pointed out (e.g. a blog) but what I can't accept is having application logic on the frontend. Beyond authentication (let's say OAuth et all solve that issue down the road), one of the benefits of having serverside code is that when it comes down to it, you as a developer don't care if the user messes with the frontend (exposed) business logic (usually form validation of some type) because you're always checking it again / cleansing it on the serverside. That's the tip of the iceberg...ranking algorithms, limits on certain activities (rules in general).

Now, that serverside code can be javascript serverd on something akin to 10gen if javascript is their tool of choice, but exposing any of those to the user so that they may edit them without any secondary sanity check is unacceptable.
Did you read to the bottom? They wanted to generate not only valid output from valid makefiles but wanted to catch the same errors in the same way as their reference.

I like their approach and I would consider it an excellent bug hunting tool. Focussed fuzzing.

Would you consider their markov chained output a derivative work though ?
huh. Interesting blog. But what I read doesn't have anything about objective value, or price signaling preference. Link?

Yes, I understand that one of these 32GiB ram, 8 core servers is worth about $1500 to me, or $6000, to someone unable to assemble a server from parts. There can be no value without a valuer, so technically, there can be no objective value. (just like I can't prove that you are not a figment of my imagination. It's impossible to do with the tools provided by philosophy. But I am unlikely to live a very successful life if I act as if others around me don't actually exist.)

However, the price of a commodity tends to fall to just above the cost of production, because, in the example above, building a server is fairly trivial once you have a good ESD setup, so if you charge $3K instead of $6K for the $1.5K server, someone else is going to charge $2.5, or $2K, until you get down to the smallest profit margin someone will accept to do the job.[1] This is what I mean by 'objective value'

Of course, some businesses try to say "Oh, our product is not a commodity" which is fine, but I would argue as a businessperson, I want as many of the inputs to my business as possible to be commodities. The idea is that if I use commodities, it is easy to compare pricing between vendors, and if one vendor fucks it up, I can easily switch to another. 'differentiated' products usually cost more, but they usually provide less value for those very reasons.

Of course, some businesses seem to prefer to spend $6K on the $1.5K server, even after seeing another vendor charge $3K for what amounts to the same hardware. I don't know why this is. My theory is that the people making that decision, the managers, do not have enough technical knowledge to know that the hardware is comparable, but more importantly, they are more concerned with minimizing their own personal risk than with maximizing the total expected return for the shareholders, who are ultimately paying for the hardware.

Clearly, I don't understand that market. Quite possibly there are good rational reasons why they like to pay 3x what they need to pay for hardware. I don't target this market because while I can build good servers, this market wants something else. I don't understand them so I can not serve them well. Besides, there are many good companies serving that market, and right now, I'm scaling at a comfortable pace. Serving a large corporation would require speeding that growth perhaps more than is healthy.

I will stick with serving my people for now. If shareholders start demanding that larger companies watch their budgets more closely, well, I'm here, and I'm learning more every day. Hopefully, when that day comes, I will be prepared. Until then, there are enough technical people with hobbies and small businesses to make me quite comfortable

[1] see serversdirect.com - I have no experience with them, but a co-lo customer of mine uses them. their prices /as posted on the website/ are very good; about what I'd charge if you asked me to build you servers.
He told me sales of the Kindle were sizzling. But that’s not quite the case if you really look at numbers. While Amazon did sell out of Kindles in 2008, it hadn’t actually made that many of them.

This exactly what I suspected, and got into a bit of pointless internet arguing right here on HN over it, good times.
No but, by the principle of Occam's Razor, given two or more solutions of equal merit the simplest solution is always the best. What is simpler, creating a sub folder for every document and moving email appropriately or just clicking on the reply link to a page in your CMS?
The theory I've heard is that a blue iris makes it easier to see pupil dilation, which is an indication of attraction. People are more likely to hook up when they can tell the other person is attracted to them, so...
Does the winner get money, or is it just for fun?
FTFY, thanks.
Indeed =)
Also, just take a look at some examples of lower bounds on a problem. Even the simplest one I know (sorting):

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~karl/2270.spring03/sorting.html

is much tougher than showing the running time of an algorithm.
I'll take a stab at it.

If you think you are good enough to write code resistant to SQL attacks, you are wrong. If you think the best coder in your company is good enough to write code resistant to SQL attacks, you are wrong. Now realize that it is neither you nor the best coder in your company that you have to worry about, but the performance of the worst guy employed by the team in Bangalore on his first day back at work after his mother's funeral.

All code by necessity has a weakest link. The best you can do is make sure it is the library you are using.

(Incidentally, this also describes manual memory allocation.)
Sure. But evolution prefers to reuse rather then innovate, this can often lead to interesting limits. For example, we still have a blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina, in all this time we have not evolved a blind spot free eye. Thus I was wondering if there are some odd limitations in how big, how quickly a little eagle can evolve, vs what the giant raptors could do. It was basically evolutionary fan.fic.
... just in case anybody missed out on running Windows while on IRC in 1997.
I liked that he put excerpts from the interview. Does he talk about financials in the video? Fit Fuel now redirects to http://www.allstarhealth.com/fitfuel.aspx So there must still be market for this.
I was confused by the part that said white skin allows more sun light to be absorbed. I'm quite sure this is wrong:

Dark skin means more light is absorbed, and therefore doesn't bounce back at the viewer's eyes.

the only explanation I can think of is that the rules are somehow different for light outside the visible range?
i read this article the other day, linked from zero hedge, and i was struck, as some other commenter above are, at how divorced from reality this piece is. i live in new york, grew up in new york, left for college, came back in jan 2007, just as the wall street obliteration of everything in the city reached its peak, and am still here.

with that said, things have changed...every wall street job lost is 3.3 other jobs lost (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQJz...), and rents/prices have moderated on the high end, especially in door man buildings. the vancancy rate on rental apts in many neighborhoods has moved from fractions of a percent to a couple percent...hardly a crisis. of course something dramatic happened in nyc--it being the epicenter of the credit crisis--but this author simply doesn't know the city he is writing about, so he has turned anecdotes into broad generalizations.

"Stores are closing or barely scraping by, offering "three suits for $250." No one is buying. "Food traffic" -- taxis ferrying people straight across Manhattan to the coolest restaurants -- has dwindled to a trickle. Theft, violent and drug crimes are on the rise. There are New Yorkers who pretend to be surprised if a bar only accepts cash, say they're going to an ATM, and never return. "Impulse shopping," the practice of popping down to a boutique over lunch, has died a death."

I would guess that the author saw a) one store advertising a suit sale, b) someone told him about perhaps taking the subway over a taxi to dinner, c) someone else who slipped out of a bar, and d) someone else who isn't shopping on impulse any more. He then interpreted them as broadly occurring trends. The Times does this all the time for 'trend' pieces. He just took it to a crazy hyperbolic extreme.

i could pick apart a lot more, but i think the example of Virgin closing is the best example of why this author is so off.

1) Music/Movie retailers are suffering not because of a downturn in NYC....they have other structural issues to their business. Tourist visits have barely dropped, and Broadway had its most successful year ever (http://www.eturbonews.com/11665/new-york-city-welcomes-new-b...).

and 2) The Virgin chain was bought by real estate companies in 2007, primarily b/c NYC's Times Square and Union Square locations had long term leases at below market rents. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/arts/music/15virgin.html
Bentley built his Markov chain using his Bell labs colleagues Pike & Kernighan's Markov algorithm from The Practice of Programming

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=to6M9_dbjosC&pg=PA62&...

Pike had used this technique earlier when coding up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney with Bruce Ellis

I'm sure they were not the first
The Art of Engineering - Building the ultimate car for Larry Ellison
Tools for developing Qt and Java applications are also free and are much much better than anything that has been created for DHTML/JS so far.

Java too has a very large install base. It is a shame that SUN didn't do much to promote it but you can still take advantage of the fact that many many people have the JVM installed.
I get a 404 on the submitted link.

sinatrarb.com points to 208.67.217.132 which does not seem to have http running (at least not on 80).

www.sinatrarb.com points to 65.74.177.129 (which is the sinatra website)

That, and sinatra has been around for years, but I guess by the discussion nobody cares if it's not new...