skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does contain the selectable text where available.

The real problem is that it's an empty-window UI -- it does nothing without Javascript on.
lack of micromanagement != flat organization

the appearance of flat != lack of hierarchy

I work in an open office (looks pretty flat if you're just walking by), but there certainly is a CEO - VP of Marketing/Sales - Sales Director - Sales Person structure, and we only have about 35 people working here. No one is micromanaged, but the organizational structure attempts to make individuals responsible for their team(s).
Except that "it is conscious" is not a hypothesis, because it doesn't mean anything. That is the whole point: the whole task doesn't contain any testable bits.
We've been using this script which you can install on your own server.

http://code.google.com/p/jstexrender/

http://doc.yourequations.com/

jsTeXrender is a small JavaScript program which will convert LaTeX code inside pre or code tags to
high-quality images produced by LaTeX typesetting system.
My read of the advisory was that it's a memory lifecycle issue --- having to do, as the advisory said, with not cleaning up state properly. Which, come to think about it, suggests that it's TCP timestamps --- IP timestamps are stateless.
Bring back SETL. Higher order operations on abstract sets can hide the complexity of parallelism. Under the hood you can implement sets using whatever data structure fits your hardware (single core, multiple cores, GPUs, weird memory hierarchies).
The idea of describing what you want to achieve rather than the steps to implement it is appealing.

Could something like Chef or Puppet be used at the network level?
The question was "Will this teach kids how to use computers" and my answer was "it's an alternative interface so not necessarily"

So I don't see how your comment is relevant. Sure there are situations where an alternative interface is a good thing but not when you're stated goal is to teach kids how to use modern computers. When that's your goal you want to have an interface that resembles everything else that's out there and the simple truth is Windows, OS X and just about every variant of Linux have certain conventions (basically their shared Xerox Parc heritage) that aren't shared by the OLPC
Ask HN: Why are hiding WMs standard, and not tiling?(ie. ubuntu vs. xmonad)
Why do most modern operating systems' window managers implement a system for hiding windows behind each other instead of tiling them side by side? Was this an explicit design choice that there was a reason for? Did somebody come up with hiding first and that became the standard?
Taking template inheritance to the next level
Please do. I have half a mind to send this to my wife...
CodePlex Foundation
As this is probably based on the national debt clock [1] and as the functionality more resembles a clock then a calculator I can't really protest the description.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock
I haven't done any tweaking, just a simple comparison between -d32 and -d64.

My current working theory is that the JITed code takes advantage of the general improvement of 64 bit mode (eg greater number of registers). But right now performance isn't an issue, I'm running in 64 bit mode for the memory not the speed.
Wait, wait. You mean that it can be different from it?
If it's IP timestamps, then certainly yes --- your firewall should be blocking this by default.
What Firefox extensions? Works great here on XP 64.
I searched for http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/slaver...

Few human practices have provoked such deep and widespread outrage as the practice of one human being enslaving another. So why has slavery survived for thousands of years? How did it become so important to civilization? Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world.

Sentiment: Highly Positive (0.77)

Seems off in cases where the tone of the text is neutral but the subject matter is negative.
I have 14 windows open, tiling them would make them too small to use? Windows 1.0 was tiling though and they went the other direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager
My bad English :)
If was trying to say that Nuclear power wasn't that popular in leftist circles, and that they had more influence in Europe than America, therefore Europe didn't like nuclear power as much as America.
I.O.U.S.A (http://www.iousathemovie.com/) is a good but somewhat depressing movie on the national debt.
> and certainly not by better implementations of familiar constructs.

Why not? I sort of took the slides as just that. For a good chunk of the slides he talks about the simple singly-linked list found in LISP. Then shows that implemented as a Tree (conc list), familiar operations still exist, but we get improvements by making operations more parallelizable.

Slide 24 starts showing how `first`, `rest`, `append` can be implemented with conc lists, and 31 shows `map`, `reduce`, `mapreduce` as well. Then, he goes on to show `length`, `filter` and `reverse` in terms of `mapreduce`.
IPhone 3.1 Firmware is Now Available for Download
Oracle To Sun Customers (And IBM): We’re In It To Win It
I thought that was the title of all Windows hotfixes.
List of the Best Free iTunes Alternatives
The influence of mobility in American society goes far deeper than just the physical mobility discussed in this article:

-land rights mobility

-class system mobility

-economic mobility
And different default applications. And different themes. And different goals. What else is there to an operating system, anyways?
Would be nice if it didn't need http in front of a url.
I had this idea months ago... but I have a job. I still call dibs on it.
Your site goes down?
clearly you've never ran any big site (yahoo, netflix, unitedheroes, etc) where complex configs are required.
Avoiding the software 'fail whale'
What he says is very true, but let me take it one step further. Great marketers spend their time developing products/services/stories that don't drop off, but they also spend their time encouraging their first circle to talk to their second circle.
Cul-de-sacs where you'd have to cut through neighbor's yards are one of the reasons public transportation does not work in suburbs (straight line distance is not walking distance)
It seems pretty conspicuously absent, in fact.

MySQL's best hope is that Sun throws it overboard before the acquisition completes; there's no way it will survive within Oracle -- it competes directly as a zero-cost alternative to Oracle's core products.
Flexigrid is a lightweight Web 2.0 Javascript Grid for jQuery.
GCD and Blocking Kernel Calls
This is old but this version of arakanoid was always pretty impressive.

http://www.schillmania.com/arkanoid/

Note it does cheat and use flash for SFX
Website Quote
This is an actual response after a interview with a company about their website
I'm pretty interested in the stock market, so when I'm not actively working on something on both monitors I like to have real-time stock information up on my secondary (using the thinkorswim desktop application). I get a little obsessive sometimes, so this could potentially be a big distraction
It does exist - we at FathomDB offer a SQL based database as a service, and have a bunch of customers happily (if quietly) using us!
Study Finds Wide Use of Ghostwriting in Medical Journals
Every time Seth is the author of an article, someone complains. Pretty standard.
Looks like this is a jab and a hook http://www.oracle.com/features/sunoraclefaster.html . I wonder if their claims will stand up, and why they are waiting a month to make those claims.
Forget the iTunes LP, Apps are the New Album
Those are my comments.
Yea, apparently. Working on it. Sorry. :D
Something like Chef or Puppet could, in theory, be used at the network level. The problem with those two applications specifically is that they expect to run a client on the machines they configure, something that's not possible with most network gear. But you certainly could build something like Chef or Puppet that runs centrally and connects out with Telnet or SSH to the each piece of network gear to configure them.

There are some commercial systems (like CiscoWorks) that are kind of like this, but all the useful functionality is bogged down in enterprisy crappyness. :-(
I wasn't referring to security researchers. I'd be more interested in someone sitting on it as a zero day.
What happens when Russia or Ukraine cuts off their gas supply again?

David JC MacKay has some better ideas on alternatives to micro-CHP.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c21/page_14...
It's a great idea, and with a reliable vetting process in place, could help spur US innovation even further.
If I'm understanding this right, someone can download and cache the decryption key (while it's available) and then decrypt the cipher text at any time they want in the future, right?

I don't think it's beyond the NSA's ability to just pre-emptively cache every decryption key, just in case they need it later.
Yeah, which is why it's so much fun to write Danah Boyd instead, at any opportunity.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=815124
Witty, but untrue. Seth has some very good articles; I have several bookmarked. However, sometimes Seth just can't resist stating the obvious. He can get away with it because of his reputation.
Skydiving from space scifi story a step closer to reality
Ask HN: service to transform PSD files into clean HTML
A few months ago I discovered a specific service, which turned your PSD files into clean, standards-compliand HTML+CSS for a small per-page fee. It sounded neat.

I can't remember their name, does anybody know what I'm talking about? Even better: have you used it and if so, how was the service?

Many thanks
Twitter finally reveals how it plans to make some money
Build retweetable content.
Also, if they provision these households with something like the WhisperGen, then there's also a gain in efficiency from the use of a Stirling engine. There would also be a benefit from economies of scale. Right now Stirling engines are expensive because they are uncommon. Increasing demand for them would make their high efficiency cheaper, and therefore more widely available.
As someone who went to high school in the suburbs, yes, that was the case.

There were essentially two classes of kids at my high scool: the cool kids and the uncool kids. The cool kids were your standard preppy (American Eagle preppy, not actual New England preppy) football player types. The uncool kids wore black and were in band.

Fun story: I decided to start wearing my hair in liberty spikes one time. Every class period that day, each teacher started off by asking wtf was wrong with me. I almost got sent to the guidance counselor over it.

Oh, and there were no ethnic minorites at my school. When I was a senior in high school, I heard rumor of one black kid just starting the 7th grade, but I never saw him. But no Asians, no Indians (of either kind), no Hispanics. I didn't interact with a non-Christian white person on a regular basis until college.
The Kidnapped Reporter’s Account: 4 Days With the Taliban
Awesome move. Congratulations.
"Everyone knows if you're not a founder, you aren't getting stock that's worth working for peanuts."

Which is precisely why parading it as a perk makes the ad bad. A great startup should publish their stock option agreements. Let people see how great it is. "psst, I'm gonna show this secret agreement, don't tell anyone else what it says..."

After all this time of so many thousands of startups, we've finally gotten to a point of having a library of startup contracts, investment contracts, etc... You should be able to say "We use Law Firm X's published stock agreement. Its well vetted and easy to understand."

If you want to attract great talent, show them the money!!!

Transparency Rules!!!
Good to see that someone is acting on it.
However, the following quote makes me worried about the bureaucracy.

(1) set up a non-government board consisting of credible VCs, entrepreneurs, and lawyers to vet applicants.

It probably is a better solution than what PG proposed in his original essay.
"let the market decide. Startup investors work hard to find the best startups. The government could not do better than to piggyback on their expertise, and use investment by recognized startup investors as the test of whether a company was a real startup."

PG's version would eliminate anyone who would bootstrap a startup without external funding. Brad's is a little inclusive.

I would rather prefer to leave it at "let the market decide."

Any interesting ideas as to how you could convert that statement into an actionable policy for immigration authorities to follow?
WILS: Automation versus Orchestration
While I use xmonad and love it, I would have a hard time teaching my spouse (or parents, or child, or even most of my co-workers) how the layout and controls work.

"Normal" window managers have a nice "physical" interaction model that is fairly easy to grasp. Click to bring a window to the front; click and drag to move it to the location and size that you want.
http://www.psd2html.com/
Plus, it may seem crazy, but some people LIKE getting out of the office and traveling.
Its like EC2 for power generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Slightly Negative (0.33)

Extract From the same link (text only as shown below) Highly Positive 0.81!

>The usual German term for the extermination of the Jews during the Nazi period was the euphemistic phrase Endlösung der Judenfrage (the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"). In both English and German, "Final Solution" is widely used as an alternative to "Holocaust".[16] For a time after World War II, German historians also used the term Völkermord ("genocide"), or in full, der Völkermord an den Juden ("the genocide of the Jewish people"), while the prevalent term in Germany today is either Holocaust or increasingly Shoah.

NLP is H A R D, I know and defining a range value for sentiment even harder.
You're thinking of indefinite pronouns ("If anyone wants to borrow this book, he can come to my office"). This is a different case - you're talking about a specific person whose sex you don't happen to know. 'The author' would have worked fine.
It seems to have escaped you that you need iTunes (the software) to make purchases from iTunes (the store).
None that should interfere... Firebug, Site Launcher, Colorzilla.

I typically have cookies disable, but I turned them on and it made no difference.
The desktop metaphor requires "hiding" WMs -- On a real desktop I can move stuff around, make it overlap, etc. At this point I also think the "hiding" ones are expected, and most people would freak out if they were given one.
I stopped reading at "Job description written in Ruby", heh.
Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4)
ObVid: http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/1450_procrastination.mov
Like Steven Finch said, "Most people im sure would probably agree that Apple’s iTunes software isnt a lightweight application. I was wanting to put together a great list of free alternatives to iTunes that are actually worth checking out."

So many people are stuck on Itunes because so many people have Ipods, which is the newest, gadgety, user friedly handheld device on the market. That's a given. But Itunes is really the only service that works seamlessly with the Ipod. Of course this is done on purpose, and I don't blame Apple. Gotta protect your product, business, and market share. But, a combative service can be built to loosen Apple's grip. Just takes less complacency, and greater "out of the box" thinking.

Foobar 2000 and Songbird are looking good. But, they still have a ways to go to actually be considered competitors, and not just alternatives.
Please Oracle make ZFS GPL as Btrfs is. :)
Summary: "IT geeks are hard to work with because they're smart and care about doing valuable work (and by implication, everyone else is the opposite)."

At first I felt like the article was really hitting the nail on the head; but then this attitude came out more and more clearly as I continued to read.
Also, http://codemyimage.com/ or http://htmlburger.com/

I've used psd2html and their html/css is the cleanest code I've seen, 100% standards-compliant and SEO optimized. We used them for the Movable Type templates on http://www.steves-digicams.com and they did a great job with the template tags as well. In the last few months, we've done 3 Movable Type jobs with them and gotten 3 completely different results - all good, but they took completely different approaches. The first one we got a zip file with mtml files ready for import with the template installer plugin. The second one they gave us flat text files to copy/paste as drop in replacements for the default template files. The third was a SQL script that wrote the templates directly into the database.
Yup, I agree -- though more data provides more oppurtunities to make a better guess.
The article is full of poorly written handwaving. Every problem looks easy from a distance. The devil is in the details. Sure it sounds like networking should be "just plug a bunch of boxes together and let them figure it out". But that's about as naive as saying we shouldn't have bother with these pesky programming language things.. We should just be able to describe what we want the computer to do in english! :-) Yeah, that's likely.

Aside from the run-on sentences and other grammatical problems with the piece, specific comments in that article also lead me to believe the author doesn't know much about networking. Take this one for example:

"We don't need a cable between every pair of switches carrying the same subnet, though; a switch will happily forward traffic coming from one trunk out to another trunk, but we need to be mindful of our uptime requirements; if an intermediate switch or trunk fails, then the subnet will be shattered into pieces unless we set up alternative paths through the network (andsuffer the consequences of Spanning Tree Protocol aka STP, which doesn't yet support VLANs very well; you pretty much have to trunk every VLAN to every switch if you're using STP and VLANs together"

Say what? Every working network engineer in the world will be quite suprised to know that STP doesn't support VLAN's well. They'll also be quite surprised at the assertion that VLAN trunking is required because of STP?!?! That whole sentence is so wrong I'm not sure where to begin.
Actually, there are not a lot of interface concepts that are common to Windows, Macintosh, and Linux that are not present in Sugar. Textboxes, buttons, scrollbars, dropdowns, icons, context menus, toolbars, etc. are all present. It even has alt-tab application switching.

The major things that Sugar lacks from the common UI experience is overlapping windows and text-based menu bars, which are not difficult to learn once you have a solid understanding of the other stuff.

(It's kind of funny: people argue for a traditional interface for OLPC to teach kids to use Office, while Office's new "ribbon" interface is arguably closer to the toolbar-based applications in Sugar than most other Windows applications.)
You can hire PR agencies to do that kind of thing for you, you know.
who said anything about complaining?
sed, grep and awk are among the major reasons why I love Linux so much. It took months until I first used them, now I use them daily and they made me work so much more productive than before.
XP is affected by this but XP is not vulnerable in the default configuration because there is no service listening set up with the firewall by default and the firewall is on by default. I am curious to see if this causes problems for Microsoft down the road.
The problem is that subsidies and encouragement make people forget that actually, yes, it is possible to go places and have a job without a car.

And as they forget, it slowly stops being true.
Google moves toward micropayments for newspapers
Congrats to the Boxed Ice guys! I'm sure we'll be meeting during the week.
One of the things to keep in mind is the kind of leverage Branson employs and how he uses it to reduce his own capital investments in the businesses. If the businesses go belly up, the damage to Brason's wealth for his Virgin start ups are actually quite minimal.

Virgin Atlantic was started with virtually no capital up front, the outlay was small -- something like $500K with a low-cost lease on one airplane.

There are a few other businessmen who take a similar approach. Sam Zell is probably one of the most famous, his Tribune buyout was largely regarded as a failure but even so, the actual impact to his own personal wealth was minimal.

Deal structure is really key in these situations.
Tell HN: Try Opera 10 Browser.
Tell HN: Try Opera 10 Browser.
sex.com! Now the big question: why am I in this brain, but not in your brain?
These things can only deliver power to the local distribution node. As for load balancing, I don't think it's an insurmountable challenge to respond to the local distribution network's load. Microprocessors excel at this sort of thing. Install a large, over-sized hot water tank to the customers with this, and it's even easier. Install larger generators at local power-hungry businesses that also use hot water, and it's even easier.
Ask HN: Power and Cooling Cost compared to Server Cost
Has anyone done, or is aware of any, calculations to compare the cost of power and cooling compared to the cost of hardware (servers) in a typical data center? This is to compute a true total cost of ownership of self-hosting servers. Of course real TCO includes:

hardware_cost + power + cooling + rental + human_cost + maintenance

Is there any study that says something like (TCO - hardware_cost) = 40% of hardware_cost in 3 years?

Any pointers will be appreciated.
Polaris Ventures Opens 2nd “Frat House For Geeks"- Dog Patch Labs
Ask OP: Why?
OpenSocial API Blog: Ning Apps Launch Across 1.5 Million Ning Networks
MP3 Blogs and wget
The roots of ERP are in logistics and bills-of-materials (BOM). Say you wanted to build... A space shuttle. The BOM is a hierarchical database that breaks it down into major components, then each of their components, and so on all the way down to individual nuts and bolts. These all need to be assembled in a particular order, they come from different vendors, they have different lead times, and so on. Classic ERP is about saying, OK, if we want to fit the wings on this date, we will need to have ordered the bolts by that date from this supplier, or if the wndscreen is a day late, how will that affect the rest of the work on the cockpit. Think of it as a huge Makefile.

All that crap about HR and payroll and so on was bolted on afterwards.
See
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813368

It's a single page version with much discussion already.
This is the kind of faulty reasoning that might be caused by looking at anecdotes (e.g. the exceptional story of Richard Branson) and assuming that a single anecdote tells you something about the world, when actually you are ignoring the other 1,000,000 over-extended, Richard Branson-wannabees who went broke and never had books written about them.
Inside a Restaurant Startup
VoIP Reality Check
Google "street car conspiracy". The evidence is that car ownership rates had pretty much leveled off. Everyone who wanted a car had one. Most people were pretty happy with street cars. There was an active campaign from moneyed interests to use government to build highways and rip up street cars.
To stop a deletion, you would have to get everyone who has a part of the file on their computer to preserve it. Since there are a large number of unrelated parties running these computers, and the uploader can choose which to use when uploading, an attacker trying to prevent deletion will have quite a lot of fun convincing all these people to cooperate.

I was skeptical at first too. But it might just work in practice.
Why? I tried opera 9 and I tried Opera 6 or 7 before that. It is solid software that lacks any real hook that makes me want to use it tomorrow. If I am going to waste time on it again it is going to have to do a little convincing.