skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. We've got this great, robust network for shuttling data around the world and keeping redundant distributed copies, yet we buy spoonfuls of information on breakable discs with restrictions on how we can use them.

<sarcasm>I wonder if that will last?</sarcasm>
Depends on the browser, which in practice means just one level deep.
:-)

ESI: http://www.akamai.com/html/support/esi.html

e.g. When you and I log into ff, simplifying greatly, that page would say, "Welcome, Bret" or "Welcome, Prakash". If you could abstract away "Bret" and "Prakash", that page would be cacheable. And, the db hit is only for that particular fragment.

You would need to re-code the pages with esi tags to do it. The other way would be to use javascript to do the same.

What do you think?
Doesn't everyone die? If so, isn't the question what diseases take the longest time to cause death, and thus require the most medical expenditure? Wouldn't medical expenses be lower if everyone died of a heart attack at 55? That would certainly be cheaper than living till 70 and treating cancer, bone loss issues, bladder issues, and cholesterol issues over a period of several years.
This is a treasure of engineering information about storage. There is a lot to the building of storage if you are cost conscious.
When in Doubt, Make it Public
10 Downing Street: Treatment of Alan Turing was "appalling"
He's just using the Apple event to launch into the same "new media" nonsense that goes around the blogosphere. There's no doubt word of mouth plays a part but it always has. Just because people are talking on twitter rather than gathering around the jukebox in a soda shop doesn't mean promotion is now irrelevant.
I'm actually rather surprised to hear about switches that don't support MSTP. I've worked with managed switches from some rather low tier manufacturers like Milan, Allied Telesys, Adtran, etc. that still support MSTP. MSTP actually isn't that recent. It was incorporated into 802.1q in 2003, but it was introduced as an amendment to 802.1q in 802.1s way back in 1998. If you've got gear that doesn't support MSTP (or the Cisco proprietary RSTP), through it out. Failover and convergence time with original STP is atrociously slow.

At any rate, I still don't see this as a STP/VLAN problem. If you want network redundancy than clearly your redundant links need to carry all of your VLAN's. Otherwise you'll have redundancy for some VLAN's but not others. That's not STP's fault, it's just plain logic.

Not that I think STP is a great protocol mind you. It sucks in MANY ways. Just not in the ways you seem to be claiming it does. :-)
I've almost entirely moved to using Facebook status updates instead of Twitter anyway. Allowing photos and auto-previewed links and being able directly see responses seems much nicer to me.
Record companies had to ensure that magazines wrote about their artists, music was played on the radios and recordings would be available to purchase in stores. The average person on the street could only take their word of mouth so far. Now, the equivalent person on the street could write a blog post with an international reach while also uploading and sharing an MP3, which is basically what the record company was doing in old timey times.
Any guesses on whether that's a sign of a market that's in the early stages of overvaluation?
Yes, you have to use DRM.

Yes, you have to pay for it.

This won't change. In fact, most independent authors and musicians I know would kill for a transparent, workable DRM system that effectively stopped casual piracy. Without it, 0-day piracy would become ubiquitous. For Hannah Montana that won't matter much because Hannah Montana's shit is going to be bought -- and pirated -- in massive volume anyway. For the local musician it could mean not getting the big break he was hoping for because he didn't cross the threshold of 50,000 or 100,000 albums sold necessary for the record company to heavily market him. In the worst case it means not being able to feed his family with the income from his music.

So no, DRM is necessary if you want small independent creators to succeed in the age of the Pirate Bay. And it's not going away anytime soon.
As an early riser, I must ask the question, why am I here? Presumably the adaptation is beneficial, or we would have been bread out.
Initial E-2 visas are generally for 2 years with extensions of 2 years at a time (essentially indefinitely if things go well) or 5 years on renewal at the discretion of the immigration officials. I'm told by my lawyers that there has been a strong increase of refusals to renew. Eg. at the London embassy.

It is also a non-immigrant visa. It's not a matter of a simple "adjustment of status" you have to do a greencard application under one of the usual categories which can be non-trivial and an extremely lengthy process depending on your country of origin.
There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes.

All the more reason for each of us to take more personal responsibility for our food and our health. I wouldn't count on anyone else helping me much with either any time soon.
ITunes 8-9 the Visual Differences
In January 2009, JP Morgan estimated that 2008 worldwide retail eCommerce spending, excluding travel, totaled $438 billion - of which one third ($152m) was in Europe.

how is 152m a third of 438b?
Cool! I tried something like this, it classified blog posts into 100 different moods... it had ~8% accuracy (It also classified as positive or negative, but I don't remember the accuracy, I'll have to dig it up at some point...). Good luck with it.
>>Oracle already owned the most important component of MySQL: InnoDB

I don't keep us as well as I should.

Falcon seemed like the upcoming champion (the ideas seemed relevant for modern systems) and I thought it ought to be a good/better substitute for InnoDB.

It didn't work well enough?

I guess it is just an academic question, now.
Facebook is copying Twitter's syntax...if anything it shows that Facebook is playing catch-up.

Twitter's advantage is still very distinct: public, compact thought streams that can be easily sliced and diced.

So why is Twitter in trouble? Facebook has semi-public, disparate data that is difficult to parse
Definitely rough around the edges, but looks like a great foundation.

A few notes:
- template.py: "Error-reporting is currently... uh, interesting."
- url mapping looks primitive
- no form helpers
- database.py looks decent, but is mysql only
- Very nice to see the security considerations in signed cookies, auth, csrf protection.

Overall, it looks like they've done the trickier parts of building a web framework and left it to the user/community to add the parts web developers use most frequently (form & url helpers, code organization, and orm).

I love Facebook's enlightened approach to open source. If only one of their open source projects takes off, it will benefit them tremendously.
My experience as a grad student in CS at a UC left me with the same conclusion. I left, in ABD status a year after getting my MS because of the working conditions. It makes no financial sense to do a PhD in CS unless you want a pure research or Professorship. I'm significantly ahead financially of my peers who completed the PhD program and professionally as well due to my experience.

Of course there are neat ways for PhD holders to sidestep labor certification to hugely speedup up their greencard applications so I am somewhat being punished for making the saner professional/financial decision!
Ning Launches Ning Apps Platform To The Public
Holding the TCP connection open does not tie up all the resources of the request handling thread. That way a large number of inactive connections can stay open.
This was actually on my to-do list should I release on DVD.
Can't wait for the Venture Cafe to get started - it seems like a fantastic idea.
The big problem is farm subsidies for corn and soybeans. If they transferred those subsidies to produce we could make it significantly cheaper to eat healthy.

However, if you are smart it's possible to eat much cheaper than McDonalds and almost infinitely healthier. The secret is just eat like they do in poor countries. Start with bulk quantities of some basic staples. I'm Brazilian, so for me it's rice and beans. Then buy veggies and meat that are on sale. Of course if you want it to taste good you have to learn to season and cook it properly, which takes time.

I admit that corn syrup drinks, processed carbs and extremely fatty/salty/msg-y food tastes great and can be quite addictive. I sympathize with people who are stuck in that cycle. However I've found that how I feel from eating healthy and getting a reasonable amount of exercise is far more significant to me than something that tastes good for 5 mins while I eat it. I'm convinced if people were more in touch with their own bodies it wouldn't be hard to convince them to eat healthier. Unfortunately American culture itself is a huge impediment to this, which is why I'm so happy to see Michelle Obama planting a garden. Cultural change is what we need.
Nah, we fundamentally disagree on this point and a lot of people disagree with you on this point. (But many do agree with you, too.)
interesting that they followed up the recent change of bringing in the right hand ad column no matter the width of your browser window to beside your results with something a bit more innocuous.

well - according to http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-sponsored-ads-get-... everyone doesn't see the new pulled in ads.
I kept hitting ⌘0, wondering why nothing was happening.
That's the most heartfelt thing I've read from Gordon Brown (or his aides) .. fantastic. I'm very pleased that the apology was made.
It's not hard to write a utility that wraps an InputStream in an Iterator so you can do things like:

for(String line : readLines(System.in)) {
//do something with line here
}
If so, isn't the question what diseases take the longest time to cause death, and thus require the most medical expenditure

Not exactly. You're missing two variables. The rate of infection in the population as a whole, and the rate of expenditure to treat the disease.
The 500k number comes from people confusing the E-2 and the EB-5 I suspect. The EB-5 program gives you a greencard for a 500k$ investment in an disadvantaged area or $1m anywhere else. The money needs to be "at risk".

If there were programs I felt were sufficiently reputable I'd go for it. However, I'd want to quantify the risk. I'd rather not get into a situation where some ski resort gets partially built, goes under and funnily enough its all the immigrants money which disappears into dubious hands.. and the immigrants should just be happy they got their greencard.
So much for a posthumous knighthood I guess...

That's a real pity, it would have been nice to see this go one step further up the ladder. But it is quite nice to see something this positive come from jgrahamc's efforts.
I'm installing it right now.
I'm not sure why andreyf was being down-modded, the graph on the original blog post at http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server uses a subtly different shade of blue. This is a clear attention to details that is worthy of at least a small note in a community such as ours :-)
Have you try the mouse gestures?You can open,close,switch pages with simply movements. Not to mention the notes facility, in which you can store and retrieve part of a web page without save it all. And, with a simply click on the notes if you want more information, come back to the page. Try it! For me, apart from some little inconveniences, Opera !0 is an amazing tool. Cheers!
E-Commerce Service Lets Users Pay in Person
It's just MySQL.
Like org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.lineIterator? Ultimately, I choose to either be a Maven project and require half the world, or just a single file that's easily compiled.

If it's the latter, I don't bother creating many abstractions.
As I recalled, FriendFeed uses MySQL as the "datastore" backend, but with very different table layout. Check out this article: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql
Sony invented the 3.5-inch floppy disk, and the audio compact disc was invented together by Philips and Sony. Were these somehow not proprietary?
Carrier Pidgeon Beats Internet in South Africa
Record companies had to do that work to publicize their artists and drive sales. The overwhelming majority of all music plays still go to a small number of major-label artists. The crowd-based blog-sourced promotion model hasn't made a dent.

Record labels are in decline for reasons that have nothing to do with individual empowerment.
Non-blocking sockets. Calls to socket.read() can return no data. It's non-blocking because the program is not stuck waiting for data to be returned.
I found this somewhat confusing. I'm not a big FPS player, so this might be way off base, but wouldn't a 2x2 being the best setup? Unless I'm wrong, most FPS games are designed so that what is shown on the screen is what would be directly in front of you. Wouldn't spreading that out across 5 screens be rather detrimental?

Now, I understand how that would be awesome if a game could sense that and give you the peripheral vision your character would have, but unless that is a feature in modern games, I would think a 2x2 makeup, with the cross-hair created by the intersection would be the best way to go.
Oooh awesome! I'll be there, thanks for the reminder!
I get very confused by reading "Beatles", "Record label" and "Apple" in the same sentence, with Apple not referring to the record label.
Restaurant meals have grown so large that I only order an entree if I'm planning to take home a doggie-bag.

If I want to actually eat all I order, I usually get two appetizers, or an appetizer and a salad.
Apple bans iPhone developer, yanks 900+ apps
I had this same exact reaction. No idea what was happening until I saw this post here.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/PoweredBy

330GB per machine for Facebook's Cassandra cluster.
Quite a change for Google - they tend to avoid these types of tweaks unless it's been absolutely proven to improve the user experience.

I'm curious why Google updated web search and image search while leaving the rest (news, maps, videos, etc.) the same. Seems inconsistent on their part.
Common Problems with Conference/Journal Papers
The first thing I noticed was the changed spacing between the links and their underlines. It always looks unnatural when a frontend dev does this. Source:

h3.r a {
border-bottom: 1px solid #2200CC;
}
He should apologise for using the terrorist law against Iceland (I'm Icelandic).
Invoking the need of a panel indicates a fear of assuming a responsibility (i.e. diluting it into the faceless panel.) Why not just try it out, and afterwards evaluate? If it works, great; if it doesn't, if possible learn about why it didn't, and move on to the next strategy. All you'll lose is a year or two. And there is such thing as the right timing. In any case, nothing stops the legislator from doing both: going the panel way and the non-panel way simultaneously.
BRL, Server-side WWW-based application server using Scheme
Thats how I operate. I also aften abort my purchase if a site forces me to register before I can checkout, or see shipping charges.
Ask HN:Are you the founder of "life recorder" Arrington wrote about 9/6?
If you are the founder Mike Arrington wrote about 9/6 regarding a type of life recorder to be released in 2010 please email me.
I think I can help.
I agree. This statement is very good-- a sincere apology-- and I like that it includes the details of Turing's conviction and sentence.

I want to see a knighthood though. By any standard, Turing deserves one.
A spine-tingling read.
>> Breaks any web-caching by a proxy

This is actually a pretty great upside often. Using SSL means that you can be reasonably sure that nothing is messing with your data in transit - caching, modifying, etc.

Free wifi that modifies html pages and adds adverts? Just use ssl instead.

Some firewalls that block based on keywords in pages etc - use SSL instead.
I would say "overproduction", on the expectation of high valuation (i.e valuation compared to the accumulated paycheck sacrificed). I do believe there is such a thing as "too many start-ups", a problem that will self-correct.
SproutCore Is Your New Bicycle
As a Canadian who visits the United States often, I can definitely say the portion sizes are a lot larger in the United States. Every time I go to the US I go into a state of shock when I see the portion sizes.

You would think that after 20-30 trips to US I would have learned to adjust my expectations by now, but it is still amazing to me to witness how much food Americans eat no matter how many times I see it.
Job Boards Are So Over
Night owls are very easy for bears to see at 10 AM when they are sleeping in the grass.
Makes me think they have too much free time.
A good hack but a bad thing for the interwebs.
I remembered ugly page transition effects of late '90's.
From now on we have to deal with unneeded animations for http error pages. I just want simple pages explaining the situation. I do not want to waste bandwith on bad http error animation javascripts and images. What is next? Animated 30x pages? A Firefox plugin to disable fancyhttp errors?
My mother managed to get an O-1 actually - and she's not even college-educated. She's simply quite well known and regarded in her community (knitting, arts and crafts), and that was that.

Maybe more founders ought to look at the O-1.
I've heard this before, but it isn't true. I make one cup of Quaker oatmeal most mornings - cost is around 11 cents. I buy tea and coffee in bulk - another 11 to 25 cents or so. My entire breakfast costs less than 50 cents, and all it requires is boiling water or 3 minutes in the microwave. It's faster than a drivethrough.

Rice and beans are practically free they're so cheap. I buy turkey or chicken cold cuts, again very cheap. I buy "turkey dogs" (hot dogs, but made of turkey) when they're on sale for something like $2 per six. 3 of them is 210 calories, almost all protein, for about $1. I buy whatever fruit is on sale, fruit isn't so expensive either. I don't like bread, but wheat bread is cheap. My girlfriend sometimes cooks a huge pot of stew that sits on the stove for 3-4 days and serves 10+ meals for under $10.

I'm not sure how much eggs are per dozen - maybe a dollar or two?

It's possible to eat very quickly and inexpensively. The problem isn't cost, it's a mix of education and being willing to forsake convenience/delay gratification. Our culture is decent at the former, but quite bad at the latter.
It looks like a common trend in the current marketplace is developing products that make people feel better about themselves...WELLNESS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, CANDY (NOOOO!) etc. This is an exciting realization because it proves that the financial crisis was a humbling one and has forced our country to consider the well-being of each individual. This is profound and leads me to believe that the wellness industry, which comprises of most of the sectors that I mentioned above (NOT CANDY) will be the NEXT trillion dollar industry...talk about endless opportunities...!!!
Newer research shows the "average" is closer to 24 hours--24 hours, 11 minutes in this case.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/07.15/bioclock24.html
And a full pardon as well, note that the statement by Brown is just an apology, not a pardon, so Turing remains a convicted criminal as far as the law is concerned.
Hub-a-dub-bub, feed clouds in a tub
Not necessarily. Just a few months ago I fixed a serious vulnerability in FreeBSD which had escaped notice for over 13 years.
What better product? This kind of thing costs a fortune to commercialize. YES, in a few years solid-state memory devices will become sufficiently cheap to make distribution a possibility...and people will find ways to complain SS-ROM. Network distribution will allow us to throw 40-50GB files around...eventually...at least in large urban areas.

Personally I like what Blu-ray does now and can live with the restrictions. It's preferable to me to both watch and potentially distribute that format than to sit around waiting a decade for the infrastructure to catch up with the leading solution for low-cost bulk media.
Truly I do not understand.
Part of the problem is likely that some menu items are simply far worse for you than you'd guess, if you don't check the nutrition information.

As an example, I was on the road recently and I stopped by a Burger King drive-thru to get a quick lunch. I knew that a Spicy Chicken Sandwich is 450 calories, which isn't wholly unreasonable.

Sadly, they were out of those, but they asked if I'd like an "angry tendercrisp sandwich' instead. It sounded similar, so I said yes.

The angry tendercrisp sandwich: 1030 calories, 61g of fat, 15g of fat, and 2670mg of sodium.

But I'm sure there are some people who order them, thinking they're healthier than a burger.
Do all .NET/Microsoft bloggers have cheesy profile photos on their blogs?
The guy can't win! If he hadn't he would have been done for not apologising, and now that he has it's a political gimmick.

When I read it I just thought it was a nice thing to do.
I agree, I find that going to the grocery store and paying upfront for my meals to come is more cost effective than constantly buying fast food. Fast food is not very cheap at all actually. Unless you're buying from the dollar menu, in which case it's $3... for your kids. It's hard to get full on 99c fries and a mini burger.
That's right, I forgot about FreeBSD :-D Anyway, I still wonder with what other licenses it is incompatible.
Facebook Lite Launches
I've just come away from watching series one of The Thick of It so I'm nothing but cynical about this. I do hope my doubts are wrongly placed.
The Ten Top Business Trends for the New Future
load "tab-separated" (
:f1:::'\t',
:f2:::'\t',
:f3:::
) as x;

create "just-the-2nd-column" from x (
:f2:::
);

--
http://github.com/shuLhan/vos
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 102 - The Chetan Show
"8. Human capital, the value of talent will be the most valuable resource in the 21st century."

Although this was probably always somewhat the case, this will be the FOCUS for the next generation of innovation. Human Capital can be defined in a number of ways, but my belief is that this equation captures the essence of this term...

DETERMINATION + INTELLECT + PEOPLE + VISION = HUMAN CAPITAL

what do you think?
Don't Make Your Startup Look Stupid [Booth Babes and Chotchkies]
Most Vulnerable After You Have Been Told You Won the Deal
I agree completely. I am shocked by the amount of food they serve here in the US. I went out with a customer recently to one of those Mexican chain restaurants. Basically I was "done" at the appetizer stage. They proceeded to have the main course, and ordered dessert!

There are many times when my (petite) wife and I go out, and we share ONE meal and sometimes even have some left-over!
Except that 87% of France's power is produced by nuclear power plants...
"In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ - in effect, tried for being gay. His sentence - and he was faced with the miserable choice of this or prison - was chemical castration by a series of injections of female hormones. He took his own life just two years later."

Yes, and he killed himself by eating a cyanide-laced apple. This poetic method of suicide allowed him, as one final gesture, to give his mother the comfort of thinking her son's death was accidental. His mother maintained that her little Alan was always tinkering in the lab, and it was most likely an accident that his apple became contaminated with the cyanide that killed him.
If I am reading stuff at the library or other public wifi (says right hear "The Library's wireless network is not secure") I don't want eavesdroppers to know.
You can mark your account as private on Twitter, if you like.
Well perhaps 'gimmick' is a loaded word; what I meant was that a full pardon would have been more fitting, and also that he's apologising for something done by someone else long ago - I can't think of a better word, but I do take your point.