skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem with learning Smalltalk, Squeak/Pharo and Seaside, for me, has been the lack of easy-to-find, thorough (and free!) documentation. There are some good tutorials out there, but by their nature they tend to give just a limited introduction to their subject matter. (I am a PHP programmer, and have yet to find anything to equal PHP's superb on-line documentation).

However, although "Dynamic Web Development with Seaside" is broadly tutorial in format - forgive me if I'm wrong here, I'm only part way through it - it is far and away the best documentation I have read on the subject.

After reading even the first few chapters, I experienced that sensation that all programmers probably know: the sudden flash of enlightenment, "aha! now I get it! That's how it works!" ... altogether a great book, and many thanks to the authors for their efforts.
You could get a close enough estimate to implement the program from tax data, or confidential surveys of a small sample of employers, without requiring full public disclosure of all compensation.
Why VC's Don't Fund Women Led Startups, by Slideshare Founder
doesn't work if it's any-amount-of-whitespace separated
SNI (Server name indication)[1] is designed to fix this. It's a TLS extension which lets the server know the hostname that the client is expecting. It can then reply with the correct certificate.

However, I note from the Wikipedia page that XP doesn't support this (!). I had thought this a solved problem :(

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Redemption Rates on Coupons Rising
I agree that it's all perception, and that even with wildcard SSL at $500/year (what the cost has traditionally been), it's worth it to protect your customers' data.

What scares me are companies that allow a front 'login' page on a non-SSL domain, and have everything else on their domain name via https, allowing for easy man-in-the-middle attacks.
Linux on Power: Distribution migration and binary compatibility considerations
Modern development practices make the "sticks and lolipops" roadways that you're describing. And that style of residential street isn't all that old, either. Looking at the maps of roads, one could tell roughly what decade a neighborhood was built during.

> Typical urban street layouts generally follow five very distinctive patterns, they are as follows. The Gridiron pattern which dates back to the 1900's. The Fragmented Parallel dating back to the 1950's. Warped Parallel which is from the 1960's era. Loops and Lollipops which was a popular street style in the 1970's. Lollipops on a Stick, this style originated in the 1980's.

http://www.hammondindiana.com/cobblestone3.html
Which manufacturers, and what kind of quantities do you have to buy in?
But as a content producer you're not burning stuff onto writable Blu-rays. You're pressing them in a factory at a cost well less than $1 a disc.

Whereas a USB stick, even bought in large volumes, can only be so cheap.

You don't care if memory sticks can grow - you have, say, 20GB of content you want to deliver to your customer. It's just extra cost if you buy a 40GB memory stick to carry it.

I just don't see any incentive (other than marketing/coolness) for distributing anything on a USB stick.
Reddit’s New Real-Time Karma Tracking App
If you're like most newer startups that have their customers under a TLD (foo.mycorp.com, bar.mycorp.com), you can use wildcard SSL to manage the problem. Otherwise, yeah, you're looking at one IP per TLD.
What Should You Study in College?
If you read his autobiography, you'll see how much encouragement his parents gave Branson. Infact they even mortgaged their house a second time to pay for his first publication "Student".

This is a guy who has been told all his life that he can do whatever he puts his mind to.

So when he's backed up against a wall, he doesnt see the wall. He just keeps trying till he succeeds.

If you dont have this kind of mindset then I think desperation will kill you.

Essentially (IMHO) you have to put yourself in a position where you have the time and emotional strength to devote to a startup.

For me, this is to have a day job and work during the weekends and during the nighttime.

I used play a lot of sports and go out a lot. I just stopped doing that and put more time into my startup when I realised

A - "If I dont do this I'll ALWAYS be working for someone else". (That really really really scares me.)

B- Worse "I never put in a SERIOUS EFFORT to start my own company".

Just imagining myself thinking these thoughts when I'm 40 is a HUGE motivating factor.

Its the equivalent of the Samurai contemplating their death. "Your going to be 40 in 10 years. Now what are you going to do tonite?"
Forrester Research: Country specific ecommerce vs "International" Sites
While relevant on its onw, right now, this is also linked to from both the top two stories...
I know an ERP company in China that is doing extremely well. Companies like SAP could not get their head around the idea that China was China and their suppliers and those being supplied to like to do their accounting different/opaque. They do not want a single db that contains all their supply and price data. This alone allowed a small startup to take on major customers in China. They built a system that lets each side track their aspects of the supply chain (and did not assume everyone needed to access a shared system) and hide just about everything else.

I guess this shows there is not one model to rule them all.
I personally find that kind of professionalism to be stodgy and counterproductive. If you really care whether someone uses a briefcase or a backpack, your concerns are misplaced.

(Excepting politeness, of course. I consider that to be an important component.)
While Lua is a programming language, it was designed to have a subset usable for data. It's very similar to Javascript / JSON, in that regard. (Lua grew along parallel lines to Javascript in many ways.) You can run it in a sandbox, remove recursion, etc., and its compiler has been optimized for reading large dumps of such data.
As much as I agree with your points, I'm going to side with GMB here in saying that swears are useful in achieving certain things. I see both sides of the story: I'm a writer (and more than that, a stylist) by choice, but I'm also foulmouthed to a fault. There's a time and a place for each.

Jason Scott, the writer in question, is known for using lots of swears to achieve an emotional effect, but he's excused for that by working really fucking hard on the projects he's chosen to care about. So for me, the context of who he is justifies his swearing, because I know where he's coming from.

As for discarding audience: absolutely get rid of them if you want to! That's the choice of the writer. Maybe I don't want the sort of audience that still gets childjitters when I say the word shit in front of them. I had a professor last semester who told me he didn't approve of my describing another student's project idea as "fucked-up", because it conveyed a lack of respect for the idea. Fact was, the idea was disrespectable—but if I'd used that word, I'd have implied in my politeness some respect for the idea, when in fact I had none.

Jason Scott isn't writing to give constructive criticism. He's writing because he thinks the idea of BluRay needs demolition. In the past, when he's critiqued things, he's shown a restraint of language; this deserved none. (I'll also respond to your manner of responding by saying that I find snarky sarcasm as much of a turn-off as you find my crude mouth, and that I'm much less likely to respect snark than I am swears.)
Wouldn't this cause some trouble on humans? If I understand how this works correctly, unless they have a completely empty stomach or levitate in a horizontal position there could be some unwanted levitation of fluids taking place..
Nitpicky: You don't get a key somewhere. You make your own keypair, and send the public key off to be signed. It costs ~$100/year + you need an IP address, compare that to what I pay for shared hosting ($75/year including domain) and you get your answer.
In the early parts of the 20th Century, developers had to build tramways to their developments because there were no cars back then, and prospective customers needed some way to get to work (note that these neighborhoods would now be considered urban, although they were suburbs 100 years ago). That's why LA had over 1000 miles of tramways by 1910, and Devner had 300+ miles of tramways at that time as well. Some of the more upscale neighborhoods are ones along the tramways which had been dug by by the late 50s/early 60s.
nah, lets go whole hog with this one. Data wants to be free ;) Anything less and the system will be gamed.
Facebook Introduces @Mentions in Status Updates
Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs
50.1% of online shoppers who placed items in their shopping carts did not go on to place an order.

Many sites do not show shipping charges until an item is in the cart. I would imagine many of the abandoned carts are from shoppers who just want to see the total price.
If you ran a single CherryPy instance, I don't see how that is possible. The Python global interpreter lock prevents a single process from making use of multiple cores.
Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB. MySQL AB, the independent firm, never owned the core technology upon which their product depended. Oracle has had a death grip on MySQL for years.

Sun also had a competing product at the time of their MySQL AB acquisition: Their Postgresql consulting/support group. Nothing happened to it when they bought MySQL AB. Large companies can sustain heterogeny.
I wanted to correct my bad use of CSS terminology above. I should have used "property"|"properties" where I said "selector"|"selectors".
I think both sentences are ugly, but I think that's because "breaking functionality" offsets the simpler words in the idea. "They fuck up their shit just because they can", however, is smoother and faster than either of them. Swears have a certain poetry to them in writing, kind of like how oohs and aahs work in music. (This is my own opinion, mind you.) On their own they convey nothing, but placed neatly into a sentence they help the whole message flow.

So I think I'm agreeing with you here.
I'm all for thick clients, as I said before AllOfMp3 was awesome and it had both thick and thin clients.

I just find it bizarre that Apple don't have a store on the web that you can walk into using standard tools. If I want to just see how much ITunes is say charging for a piece of music or if I want to see if they stock a particular album then I can't unless I install ITunes. I think that's wrong.

Oh and Mitch Hedburg owns. Or rather owned. :(
The lack of ethnic minorities is an indicator of cultural and behavioral homogeneity, not the definition of it (i.e. the important question is why weren't there any ethnic minorities there?).

And yeah, the teacher's response was unjustified (precisely because hairstyle is such a trivial thing).
Majority of US Healthcare Costs Are Caused by Bad Eating Habits
I do not believe that this is how refraction works. It would imply that light of frequencies other than those corresponding to the bandgap energies of the material would proceed unrefracted, or be absorbed. Furthermore, it would render coherent light incoherent, since nanoseconds are very large compared to the frequencies involved in visible light, and this incoherence would result in the light being re-emitted in every direction, not a particular refracted direction. In short, although the phenomenon you are describing is real, it is very different from refraction. It is phosphorescence and fluorescence.

Refraction works because the permittivity of the transparent material is different from the permittivity of vacuum. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permittivity.
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oops, forgot supply chain. That said, I'd venture that a majority of "ERP" installations these days are more about all the other crap, and the folks who need supply chain management get a best-of-breed for that 'silo'.

Which then they have customized to integrate with their ERP. :-P
Greg Kroah-Hartman decries lapsed Microsoft contributions to Linux
They left out one of the more interesting aspects of GPS calculations, which is the corrections that must be made for special & general relativistic effects.
Y Combinator Left Boston--and A Wave of Startup Camps & Programs Filled the Void
This isn't technologically fascinating in the least, but I think it's funny how much Facebook, Inc. is aping Twitter, Inc.'s features. Well, I'm about to go for a quick shop at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. to pick up the newest Microsoft Corporation product!
> learning the language first is my concern for educational reasons; making it useful is my secondary concern.

I'm in the opposite boat, I have to somehow make my time earn me a living, it's hard to justify time out for pure educational reasons (even if I do smuggle a bit here and there).

Great to see you happy about learning a new language though, you can never have enough of those under your belt.

Especially when they're off the beaten path.
I don't support more HTTPS because of the cost of static IPs on EC2 (i.e. ~72/mo)
This tutorial from Trimble is a little more detailed:
http://www.trimble.com/gps/index.shtml

The really interesting innovation in GPS is the way they use a priori information about each satellite's signal to "amplify" the signal by processing:
http://www.trimble.com/gps/sub_amplify.shtml
Turing completeness is a red herring and not an argument against using a language. Turing completeness is usually practically useful only to prove that certain analyses are impossible.

As to why, sometimes you want the flexibility of inferring settings from third-party data sources, or implicitly from the layout of the directory structure, or naming conventions, or any other thing you choose to mention. IMO the power of a programmable configuration language is that the configuration need not actually be written in the language, but stored somewhere else, and just retrieved using the language.
Er.... I've ordered from lots of different music stores without needing a thick client. It's not a technical necessity, sure its ITunes' necessity but that's a hurdle they've intentionally placed there.

Whether thats because they can't be bothered to make a web app, have made some strange technical decisions that mean it can't be a web app or are just being mean (lock-in!), I don't know. But I do know that I don't like it.
Grant citizenship to anyone who comes to the US and completes a PhD.
@Facebook Launching Status Tagging for Friends, Pages, Events, and Groups Today
This would be serious competition for upstart Online Journalism, which is building a similar system:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/journalism-onlines-charging...
I pay taxes that go to pay for the roadways and highways near you. You don't pay the actual costs of building and maintaining those roads as the tax burdens get spread all around. Some of my taxes have also gone to overthrow dictators, prop up existing dictators (like Saudi Arabia) or to put dictators into power (such as the Shah) so that we could have cheap oil. Politicians have repeatedly claimed that oil revenues from Iraq would pay for the war and reconstruction of Iraq.
More on [the neuroscience of] Cannabinoids
I don't know that this article actually says anything useful. It gives a very short high level overview of 3 non-relational databases and regurgitates quotes from another couple of blogs about databases from digg and friendfeed.
Motorola's First Android Phone Takes Aim at Social Networks
Look, I see where you're coming from (and I'm irritated that you're treating me like I don't know what I'm talking about), but this is and always has been Apple's achilles' heel. They are not the sort of company that attempts to subvert the mainstream. As a company, in fact, they're practically forbidden from showing any personality, because it goes against their message. That means they've got to side with the masses, give people what they want, and generally dominate the mainstream, because it's what's expected of them.

My point is that Apple's aware of that and does what it can, little as that might be. They use indie music in most of their commercials, promoting an artist at a time (though never anything edgy), they offer free promos of musicians, though not many. That's all they can do. There are thousands of indie artists, Apple can't show them all off, and to be honest most people don't care about them. They care about Maroon 5, because Maroon 5 is easier to swallow.

iTunes isn't trying to make a statement. It's trying to reflect popular opinion. I wouldn't doubt Apple would be glad to be able to show off something more diverse, but our culture isn't diverse and so Apple's not going to do a thing until that changes.
Amen... I'm a recovering mathophobe, and I was discouraged by how utterly impenetrable this article was. I mean, I honestly had absolutely no idea what was going on, despite really wanting to understand.
A small guide on choosing a scripting language
Huh? There is no cost for an elastic IP address when it is in use.
I would suggest that saying anything as substantial as an automobile being "widespread" or "affordable" during the 20s and 30s is overreaching, considering there was something of a worldwide economic instability at the time.

I think a major piece of the puzzle is that living in a car dependent area has been an effective way for the middle class to segregate from poor people.

For me, personally, this very much drives my choice to live in the suburbs and to drive a car instead of using public transportation: I'm unwilling to settle for the lowest common denominator.
No, it doesn't. I/O bound tasks can heavily use multiple cores just fine using threads.
Elastic IPs are $7/mo. only if they are unused. They cost nothing if attached to a running EC2 instance.

See: (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing)
Why though - would anyone want to browser a site like news.ycombinator.com over SSL? The vast majority of web data is public data so encryption is of little value, and due to the way SSL works, then there's arguably little value in SSL for authentication (if someone can hack the site, they can generally apply/install for a new SSL cert easily enough). In terms of privacy, SSL gains little - given that SSL breaks Host based virtual hosting, then accessing dodgysite.com's IP address lets a man in the middle know (almost) as much as about your browsing habits as accessing the site without SSL.

In terms of downside, SSL adds latency (ignore CPU time for now, it adds a further 2+ RTT times for the CLIENT_HELLO and SERVER_HELLO + cipher negotiation/key exchange on connection. Breaks (until SNI becomes about) HTTP Host based virtual servers. Breaks any web-caching by a proxy, and in many cases by the browser (most browsers don't use their disk cache for SSL content).

All that downside, for what upside? Yes - for the few forms where someone submits passwords or other private data, yes. But why on earth would you want to use SSL otherwise?
I implemented the same idea in Ruby event machine: http://gist.github.com/184760

Obviously missing features (auth, nicks, scrolling) but that can all be added in a few mins.
Just a few years ago, you had to buy an SGI to the tune of several million dollars to get six graphics heads.

Now it's 2010's $500 video card. Which you install in commodity hardware.

I could never have predicted that standing in 2000.
Ask HN: How does Microsoft calculate commercial intent?
Would love to know what goes behind the scenes in calculating online commercial intent...
We could just sell Visas to anyone

Great, so all the rich sons of the Saudi Arabia royal family will buy their green card so they can travel freely, and all the entrepreneurs will stay home.
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09/09/09 - The Day the Record Industry Died
If you go to bed really late, you often wake up really late (unless you're bound to a schedule). I would not crash at 5pm if I woke up at noon.
Can somebody lend some insight into how SSL certs function for international users? I've had no problems with the inexpensive SSL certificates with domestic (US) users, but I've had complaints of users accessing things from other countries. Do SSL certs not function the same globally? Is it common for the CA's to not be globally accepted?
I want to solve my immigration status and not resort to non-immigrant temporary visas like E-2

What's wrong with E-2? 5 years is plenty of time to get your company far enough, and then apply for adjustment of status (green card).

I favor something realistic, that has a chance to pass: extend the E-2 regulations to setup some ground rules so that you know that you will be getting the visa if you are a bona fide founder.

There is no $500K requirement on E-2.

As they stand, there are essentially no regulations around E-2, so you don't know what your application should contain and how it will be judged. That can be fixed fairly easily without 5 years of debate.
What about Fluxbuntu? I thought that distro's goal was to be lightweight and put little demand on system resources? In the article he mentions the distro, but instead draws a comparison between Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu. What?
I'd add more, but the web already has too much ADD
Blu-Ray is a transition format anyway. Long-term, my money is on network-based digital distribution.

It sucks... but for a couple hundred bucks, I'm fine with my blu-ray player, my netflix subscription, and my purchased copy of Planet Earth.
> Discarding x% of your audience for no apparent reason

Not necessarily 'no apparent reason.' Maybe you just don't care if your audience is offended, because people that are so easily offended are people that you don't want as part of your audience. Granted we're talking about people and blogs here, not corporate/startup communications with the public/customers.

If I start talking about my support of gay marriage I immediately offend x% of the population that view gay marriage as some sort of 'affront to God.' I am probably ok with this if I'm in support of something that offends them, but from a company/startup perspective, I probably don't want to talk about gay marriage if it will alienate potential customers and has nothing to do with my underlying business (e.g. it would be appropriate if my business was in selling gay marriage accessories or gay wedding planning services or something).
Well, I'm definitely an early riser (before 6AM on most days), and I get some degree of exercise on most days (12 miles of cyclo-commute on office days, longer rides on other days), and I'm generally good 'til about 9:30PM. After that, I definitely start to crash.

However...if I go to the climbing gym at, say, 6:30PM or 7PM, and stay for 90 minutes, I can make it a little further into the night without being tired.
And (of course) every piece of writing that is not a reasoned argument is rubbish.
I wonder if the C/C++ code compiled with LLVM/Clang would make a dent in the run time?
but those aren't the names of the albums.

edit: I had no idea about the 'grouping' tag. I'll have to give that a try, thanks.

another edit: okay 'grouping' is still useless if I choose to sort by album or album by year (preferred). I guess my only solution is to append (mono) and (stereo) to each album but I'm REALLY pissed I have to do this.
Except "fuck up their shit" doesn't say what they actually do. It contains less information than "break functionality."
They didn't even give links to company websites. This page have more detailed stories

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090701/
If you are trying to be sarcastic with this then I have to question how saying, "Fuck BluRay!" dehumanizes or demeans me...