skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing to keep in mind is that discounted movie tickets run into another problem - home rentals.

If the choice becomes, watch Titanic for $10, Gigli for $6 or return home and watch last year's Titanic for $5, you're introducing a choice that the consumer would have never before considered.

There was a trend ten years ago to take all those 80's style multiplexes in malls and turn them into cheapo discount theatres. Most of these theatres no longer exist, most likely because the product can't compete with the home rental.

EDIT: You changed your comment, so I'll respond.

Theatres make about 25-55% of the ticket price, and their take increases the longer the movie is shown. That's why you don't have 12 theatres of Titanic. It's also why there is no real incentive for them to reduce the price.
i Don't. why exactly this must be done in the DB, against, say, in kernel or filesystem space?
Actually, you do get history for your searches, and Google's autosuggest, in modern versions of Firefox. What you say used to be true, but from what I can see CTRL-K strictly dominates a bookmark keyword if you're starting from scratch. That said, if you've already got "CTRL-L g space" in your fingers, it's not so much better that you should switch.
Ummmmmm, I'll stick to Calritin thank you very much.
Have you considered parsing the page using javascript, or selectively returning a partial on an ajax request? I use the first method quite a bit. It's a bit slower to send the whole page, but does not require any server side changes.

Once you get the html, libraries like jQuery make the parsing and replacing very easy.

$(html).find('#testimonial').replaceAll('#testimonial');
"RentHop is free to browse and to post listings, but landlords are charged half a month's rent for every signed lease the website helps bring in."

Anyone know how you would enforce this? Seems like it would be easy for landlords/renters to circumvent the charging process.
I do my best to give myself ridiculous deadlines, and then do my damndest to meet them.

If I absolutely have to meet something, I will. Granted, I can only keep it up for a couple of weeks or so, but during that time I can productively code for > 10 hours at a time.
This might sound weird, but under no circumstances start concentrating and working unless you've previously jerked off. Or unless you're absolutely sure your mojo's not going to be awake for some time. This thing distracts you like in a moment when you're really starting to get deeper into the code and it's really hard to concentrate again. Ejaculation frees your mind.
Scientists decode breast cancer DNA
You can show it - you should always have access to your app, whether locally on your pres machine or remotely via the hosts internet, but never, never, leave the presentation demo up to chance. There are enough risks in this process, why add one more huge one?

And yes, you've been VERY lucky. :)
He could give away 10% equity in exchange for absolutely nothing, and probably not die. He could, likewise, give away 10% equity in exchange for some offshore developers building something completely random, look at it, decide not to actually use it, and still probably not die.

Now, actually deciding to replace the active codebase with something that's terrible could kill his company, but that's down the road a bit.
Be organised as hell and keep things under control. The programmer will appreciate when things are running smoothly, and all he has to do is fill in the correct spots and then get to coding, and does not have to worry about if articles are out, if there are spelling errors on pages or stuff like that.

Be the one that stays calm, keeps the processes running smoothly, keeps on doing analysis to make sure things are running on the right path.

When the programmer feels he is in a smoothly running engine, then he will need you around. When you start discussing things all the time and panicking, he will want to step into your territory to help out, and then he will start worrying and become a lot less productive.
A Google Wave Guide For Dummies
If were the tech co-founder I'd dump this guy immediately. I presume he is in a biz-dev position - if he's too dumb or indecisive for this, he has no business being in... uh, business.
the word green today means tax exempt.

period.
Apparently you weren't stuck with IE long enough to find that you can customize their search box to something other than live/bing.
"When what you want isn't in a repository or you want a newer version than the repository has is where you hit problems."

You have an excellent point there. A recent example is that it took FREAKING forever before Firefox 3.5 was in the Ubuntu repositories, and it's still only in Jaunty. If you're running an older version (like Intrepid or Hardy) then there is no simple way to run 3.5. Seriously???? I need to upgrade my entire OS to upgrade my browser? WTF!

You can of course install from source.. That's easy enough for most of us here on HN, but not exactly end user friendly.

IMHO part of the reason package repositories for Linux distro's don't work as well as something like the iPhone App Store or the Android Market is that they're to fragmented. Even for a major open source project like Mozilla, getting your latest release into every major version of every major distro's repositories is a pretty major undertaking. Not to mention of course that the iPhone App Store and the Android market allow for both open source and commercial software.
Hm. If it is content, then it should work in such a way that it can be accessed no matter what tries to get it: webcrawler, javascript incapable browser or user with a "normal" browser but JS switched off. If user agent is ajax-capable, then use ajax. Google for "hijax".

If it is a webapp, then making it crawlable does not make sense anyway.
NASA Prepares to Bombard Moon
Glad you like it. But I am an electrical engineer, not a lawyer. So...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=GNU+Free+Documentation+License&l=1
Keep in mind that taking the deal also includes getting rid of his technical co-founder.

Rewrite the site from scratch. No more technical resources. Sounds like a pretty good startup-killer to me.

I agree the 10% part is not the problem. It's the strategic change of direction into a dead-end that is.
A key feature in RabbitMQ 1.7, unmentioned in this post, is native SSL support. Before this version, stunnel was required to talk securely with Rabbit.
I agree, I think that the problem is the Corp VP's making uninformed decisions.

But when you see Java code like this:

StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();

if(buffer == null){

//do something, in most cases i have seen return;

}

The problem here is in Java new will never return null. One of the worst ones I saw was a point system for exception handling that most of the time crashed the entire app. This is only a simple example of what I have seen. When the entire application is spattered with code like that performance takes a major hit.

My assumption is that the outsourcing company took a programmer that knew C++ and said you now write JAVA. Further reinforcing your point!
Bull in a china shop
There are large classes of web applications which can not work without javascript. Period.

Nobody is saying everything needs to be that way. But some things do. This is an attempt to make those things work better with search engines.
Yes, if you selectively quote people, it becomes very easy to counter their arguments. The next sentence after that wasn't for decoration.
Well gosh, that IS easy. Why not simplify it even further then.

Just pitch until you sell to 1 person. That person will tell their friends and create 1 more customer, and so on. Now you can just sit back and wait while the millions roll in. The rest, as they say, is maaaaagggggiiiiic.
Maybe those people can follow the AA method. Accept that the Internet has control over you, and cut yourself off from the Internet by accepting Jesus.
+1 for Stars of the Lid.
Zeo - a new device that can help you sleep better
I could go for 2 to 5 extra a month since I'd mostly only use it in a few situations and the rate wouldn't be much better than just surfing on my iPhone.
There is another link that provides slightly more info than just the rank
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/Rankings2009-Top200.ht...

Like peer review score, employer score etc. But even then, I think this is more like a voting scheme to obtain scores rather than detailed assessment of each department/ research / paper published / nobel laureates produced/ entrepreneurs produced / innovation quotient etc.
I'm curious as to the limits that AT&T will put in place. All of the USB-teathering providers now (mysteriously all around the same time) now have 5GB caps in place on bandwidth per month. You can't buy more from most, and getting two cards/accounts is the only option. Oddly they all advertised these initially as unlimited plans.

An AT&T Executive said in the NYT a while ago when they announced teathering that they'd place no restrictions on use.

I'm wondering if they keep to their word, or not. Probably not.
I think part of the reason for the horrible descriptions I think is that Linux package managers try to shoehorn one mechanism into working for both system updates (libraries, kernels, daemons, etc) as well as end-user software.
And plugins! I didn't talk about it because there is not much to show at this point, but the BQL plugin is a great example of what's possible. I fully expect that plugins will be the next big thing for RabbitMQ.
yep. people would only go to bmw.com if they plan to buy or if they see an ad.

in a recession, both cases would be false.
I'm thinking it helps concentration by having short small goals and a definite plan for working on them. Sometimes lack of concentration is due to lack of a structured plan of attack on your 'todo' items. Breaking it into small pieces can also help by not making it some sort of 'monumental' task that you feel is going to take a long time causing you to allow yourself time to do other things because the task isn't going to be immediately done.
except we now know that authors recipe.

if your attacking an individual you look for things like this as clues to help you.
The Virtual Autopsy Table
shameless plug: You're welcome to use any of the music from my 2008 album, it's all CC - providing you can find anything worth using, I make no guarantees :)
Just let me know if you're interested.

http://snugglytako.rpmchallenge.com/
Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Techcrunch Crunchpad Tablet (?)
It's not about the stake or the developers. The whole deal sounds fishy. Why won't the investor provide references? Why should the decision be made right away (next day or two)? Why shouldn't this person publicize the site?

When it looks too good (or too suspicious) to be true, it probably is.
Common Bash Pitfalls
I take this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine in the lowest dosage available.

I'm worried about tolerance.

I run regularly, and eat reasonably well. There are risks, but the difference is so dramatic i think it's worth it. As i understand it, amphetamines have been around forever, and are pretty well understood.

To be clear, i tried everything many times. personal organizers, schedules, regular exercise, diet, avoiding stimulants like caffeine and depressants like alcohol, meditation, weird reward systems where i'd buy myself stuff if i did well for x days. I didn't do the full powerset... maybe there is some combination that would work, but my search for a system i could live with for the rest of my life was not successful.

My current personal theory is, I wear glasses cause my eyes are a little screwy, and take speed cause my brain chemistry is a little screwy.

I'd suggest doing everything else first. 5 hours of exercise (or so) a week is a big win. If you only eat horrible food, diet changes help ... if you occasionaly eat horrible food not so much. Meditation helped, but if you only do 1 thing, pick exercise.

If you still suck at finishing things after you've done all that, talk to your doctor.
ARM announces 28nm Cortex-A9 implementation
MySQL 6.0 Nixed?
Has Mossberg always been the king of trumpeting diminished expectations, or is this a new thing? Is Microsoft a major Wall Street Journal advertiser?

So if a critic expresses a view contrary to your own views he's a shill? Great argument. Windows 7 is actually really good. And here's the shocker: so is Mac OS X.

Must we have religious wars over which bits are on your hard drive?
Supposedly listening to music while problem solving or coding results in similar productivity, but more errors.

On the other hand, http://pom.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/33/2/173.pdf claims that music listeners (with practice) produce similar quality results in similar real time, but 1) have less actual time working (the music does distract) and 2) feel better.

I often listen to (mostly classical) music while programming, but I'll pause it if I feel memory-impaired, or need to make an important decision.
In general, it's solid advice to always refuse solicitors and not make decisions under time pressure.
So, according to Marco, Win 7 will have to be better than Mac OSX in "ALL" the areas only then will it be able to better compete with it, else not. If Mossberg's review is biased (not that I'm saying it is), Marco's take on it is even worse.
The article mentions that the OS and shell matter, but I think this is mainly due to differences in the behavior of "echo". The "printf" program is at least consistent.

What actually matters for this is the declared terminal type, and the terminal program you're using.

In this case, the article uses sequences I don't recognize and doesn't specify what terminal is supposed to support them. None of their echoes work for me.

But perhaps a more common and supported approach is xterm:

- use a terminal program that supports and declares the right type, e.g. "xterm-color"

- use xterm-style title sequences, and "printf" to print them, such as:

printf "\033]; `pwd` \007"
Personally, I think the data is not a problem anymore; what is the problem that we lack ways to understand the data and make any sense of it.
Its a shame that the c++ pretty printers are packaged with libstdc++ (ie with gcc sources) not with gdb.
Metalinguistic Abstractions in Ruby
exactly.

part of it reads as if he was defending it against macos (mentioned it 6 times).

then he describes in excruciating detail small GUI improvements that gnome (or any other wm i guess) pushed through in 6month (oh wow windows-previews in the taskbar).

he admits that in the area of networking there is still room for improvement but at least "now you can see all available wireless networks by just clicking on an icon in the taskbar". way to go!

but windows wins in other areas: windows7 has "some of the same kind" (!?) of multitouch gestures the iphone made popular. yeah.. how would i even..

Compatibility is also satisfactory: firefox, adobe, etc. work. good job MS! though he fails to mention that they don't work out-of-the-box. how could they: they are not in the box.

let's just hope their migration plan gets better when the next BIG THING gets pushed out in 10 years... or so. improving shouldn't be hard: it's not possible to upgrade without whipping your HD - assuming you now have an XP install.

oh right: that's basically everybody.
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> While XP ... is relatively weak in ... security, networking and other features more important today than when XP was designed around 1999.

Yeah, when I was installing Novell networks in the 1980s I could hardly find any customers!!

Security, blegh, who needs it
No idea about his programming skills, but I have read Kent Beck's Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns and it is pretty useful and it was often recommended to both Smalltalkers and non-Smalltalkers.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Smalltalk-Best-Practice-Patterns-Kent/... (it's not a gang-of-four-type patterns book, more like a style guide.)
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/index.html

http://www.markleith.co.uk/?p=245
Well that's a good point. I guess the author didn't realize his recipe was his secret key.
Digg to Diggers: You’re a Cowboy No More
The problem isn't the acute supertick bite, but the chronic, expensive condition that arises from it.
Graph coloring
I don't know what you mean by less performance impact; ltrace works by putting software breakpoints into the functions you want to trace, and such breakpoints work by causing a soft interrupt (e.g. INT 3 on x86), which causes a drop into kernel mode and invokes the appropriate interrupt handler, then the kernel suspends the process that caused the interrupt and queues the ltrace process which is ptrace-ing your app to be woken up when the scheduler thinks it's convenient, then ltrace has to write out its output after it figures out why it was woken up, yadda yadda, etc etc... overall it's pretty heavy-weight in comparison to a log message, but in practice is probably only a negligible performance impact for 99.9%+ of programs.
It appears that they've disabled RSS feeds for custom searches (pretty much any search that sets url query keywords), but they used to accidentally have a pretty sweet REST api.
More things I'm bumping into for class.

Maybe your problem is actually a graph coloring problem...
You're not going back after your break?
Well said !

I am surprised an article of such low quality made it.

The difficult part would be to create a _bi-weekly_ newsletter that people these days will be willing to pay 25$/m for.

What has this to do with startups ? This article is about making infomercials to sell the next AbsShaper.
Twitter and Angry Outbursts = #Big Problem
Agreed, I went to find a nice apartment in Toronto and realized that it only caters to New Yorkers. Craigslist allows me to find almost anything ANYWHERE.
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To most computer users, overall industry progress has seemed stagnant for nearly a decade.

If we are considering "most" computer users, then I'm not sure a majority really care.
5watts is the consumption for the device itself, which includes 512mb of storage. An external hard drive would require additional storage.

It's a packaged sheevaplug http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/develope...

You can do the same thing using fuppes, an updated version of uShare. Fuppes also supports transcoding, uses a sqlite backend and can rescan watch folders to rebuild the database pretty quickly (either from cli or web interface, without restarting). I use it to stream to an xbox360 and it works perfectly. Haven't tried transcoding though since all my video is compatible.
Vapourware FTW! I'm surprised they didn't include Apple's tablet. [/sarcasm]
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it's an easy to understand piece about the advantages of win7 vs winxp, as perceived by the average (definitly not HN-reading) user.

that, for me, reads like the ads on TV selling drugs.

please ask your doctor / sysadmin which OS to use, not that guy on TV / tech column. or else we will make fun of you.

sorry for ranting so much, but it drives me crazy. my girlfriend actually was asking about windows7, how much she needs it and how much better everything is going to be.

of course i will encourage every normal person i know to install windows7 (just to get rid of IE6 within the next years, hopefully).
The title 'MySQL 6.0 Nixed' sounds so negative; it should probably be something more along the lines of 'MySQL starts cleaning up their act' ;)

I, for one, welcome the promise of more regular releases with open arms.
Sort of misleading. Near the end of the article it states that the 39 day trip could be made possible by coupling a much larger version of this engine with a nuclear reactor.
I've found that - on a Mac - you can simply make a Dashboard widget with it. You have to go in the options and uncheck "Play audio only in dashboard", though.
A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism
I have to disagree with you. I used the term evil in a considered fashion to describe the moral situation in which anyone who is running a health insurance company in the US at this time finds themselves. To anyone who has bothered to investigate the actual functioning of the system at this time the idea of the current form of health insurance as the rational rationing of scarce resources is laughable.

The structure of health insurance protection in the US at this time extracts almost a third of every dollar spent on health care. And those administrative costs do not contribute towards better health care, chronic or acute. And that is why I am not afraid to make a moral judgment; an industry that steals the third part of the money entrusted to it's care at the expense of the sick and dying is evil. How can we remedy this evil?
>>This is an attempt to make those things work better with search engines.

Can you give an example of a Web application, which relies on Javascript to function, which also has content that even _should_ be indexed but is hiding behind Ajax?

Does Google need to index Backpack or something?
If someone will not talk to your co-founder, that is a huge red flag.

Either they are taking advantage of you, and know the co-founder will catch on. Or they have issues with the co-founder, which tells you that the moment conflict arises, they will shut down communications and frustrate you.

A lack of communication is an immediate deal-breaker on any of my projects.
so much for assed out solutions passing out as clever ones.
We're too far away from understanding metabolism for that to be a realistic path to defeating aging in the near future.

The engineering approach of periodical repair seems like the only game in town.
I know exactly what he's proposing. What I am saying is that it won't work, because aging has to do with developmentally fixed processes.

Sure, you can replace blood cells, but do you really think we can replace all your cells, including your neurons? If you want to go in for a complete brain transplant, be my guest.
> My wife is pregnant with out first child, and everyone is scared/nervous how I will handle it.

I hate to ask this, but as an infectious disease that could be spread by a tick bite, isn't it potentially communicable?
There are a lot of people working in the computer industry, and it moves much faster than other industries. This is why 10 years seems like an eternity for users to accept no real advancement.

Then again, if you aren't really into computers, and just use them, you might look at it as a tool like any other. My car is 10 years old, there are probably people at Ford who hate that I still have it, but I don't yet see a reason to change it.

Similarly, while I'm very aware of how the actions of one dominant company (Microsoft) have made the computing industry practically stand still, I am also mostly aware of this because I'm in that industry. There could be a Microsoft of vacuum cleaners, that has kept us away from truly great cleaning machines for the past 50 years, and I wouldn't know. People don't generally have the time, or take the time, to figure out which products could be truly great for them.
Is Light Peak a USB killer?