skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the commitee is five Norwegians, age 58-68, all members or former members of the Storting (Norwegian parliament). One man, the chairman, four women.

See: http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/nomination_committee/member...
Why would any browser let it in 2009?

Dear browser, you are my electronic advocate, not the website's. Act in my interest, not someone elses.
I think the lesson is: the front end is the most important part.

Think about running a restaurant. You have to order ingredients in a timely manner. You have to get supplies and consumables such as utensils. You have to deal with the lease. You have to pass health inspections. And so on.

And does this customer writing his review mention any of this? No.

It's really easy to get caught up in back end stuff. What web server are you running? What language is your app in? Memcached? MySQL? CouchDB? Functional programming? Etc.

Certainly, you have to have a decent back end so that you can have a front end in place. But your clients review the quality of the front end, regardless of what's behind it.
http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/settlement-res...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild#Conflict_with_Goo...
This article manages from start to finish to be as obnoxious as its title. Even if it actually made the big argument that it's vaunting, but somehow never gets around to spelling out, it would still be vile. I don't want to ever read anything by this person.
Good article though it's worth appreciating that leaving things out is not just about adding less it's about knowing more.

You need to know which tools your users actually want to use. You need to know which order they use them in and when to present them. You need to understand what people are doing with your app and how to strip everything out except what they want next.

Focussing on a minimal set of features lets you focus on a minimal set of customers. Instead of half-serving two ill-defined groups with a chimera application you service one well defined group with an application of clear value. Saying "no" to the ill-defined group isn't always easy though.
Acer Reclaims Defective Laptops
So much like me, especially my deficiencies as free-electron are painfully obvious to me. What's even worse, I'm a loner so there's no one to compensate for my deficiencies.
P(G) = 1% <-- Ok, that's in the range I suggested.

P(C|G) = 100% <-- More than what I said, but I see your point.

P(C) = 20% <-- Whoa, where did you get that? That's just an assumption that leads immediately to your conclusion.
Google: Searching for Trouble
The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB port
Just as another data point, I too have a small child (toddler in this case) who gets just about every minute of my time outside of work. The three hours every night after she goes to bed is spent either with my wife or coding.

With that said, not one of his comments contradicts any of my personal experience working with other parents.
I was a loyal Sidekick user right up until the day the first gen iPhone launched. It really was a fantastic device with the always on AIM, server side re-rendering of websites to optimize them for the device and one of the best physical keyboards I have used to this date.

If I remember correctly, Mark Cuban was a sidekick fanatic. I wonder what his reaction to this debacle is.
How not to break the build: make commits transactions.

If they break the build, back them out, just like any other failing database transaction.

(Of course, to do this, you have to have a build process that doesn't take all day, combined with tests that will catch breaking commits.)
It is about time. RealMedia is one of the most customer abusive companies I have ever dealt with.
StrokeIt - mouse gestures in WinXP.
Static typing doesn't necessarily mean type declarations, either. See OCaml. What it does mean is that the compiler knows the type of all variables at compile time, but it's OK if it figures that out for itself.
0% probability in the next five years.
No experience with Cloud Sites (only Cloud Servers) but I can say that their customer support really is pretty darn good.
I've started using AutoHotKey recently, and it's a wonderful little tool to automate things.

Also, this great file search tool called Everything. Basically like locate on *nix, except it uses NTFS tables directly to search (it indexed the names of the ~600k files on my laptop in less than a minute, and searches through them instantly).
That might be useful. I just have a view desktop button I click.
If you're a Linux user, try out tasque + gnome-do w/ tasque plugin + remember the milk screenlet. This is how I manage to sync all my GTD throughout my computers and laptop on the go.

Klok time management software. I like know how much time I'm spending on each project/task. This can be sync'd between machines using rsync but with a small catch. Hopefully they can get some real syncing features built in. And yes, I know it's a memory hog but I like the layout.

Oh and powerresizer for Windows, great tool to have if you have to manage window sizing on 1 screen.
We've been very happy with Unfuddle.

The bug-tracking is good (rapid entry, fairly powerful filtering/organization). Most importantly for us, it offers a hosted, centralized Git repository.

When you add in the email notifications when tickets get closed, modified or commented upon, it has become a vital and vibrant repository of the state of development - critical for our geographically distributed team.

$10/month for <=10 users.

We also rely heavily on Skype, Google Docs (for wiki and company documents) and Dropbox (for media).
Not trying to take all of my school notes on my tablet. There's an extra layer of complexity/distraction that hurts my ability to learn.

De-consolidating my email accounts. Instead of using Gmail to access all of my accounts, I keep them each separate. It makes categorizing my emails much easier. Wonderful on my iPhone.
Is there any particular reason you say without bubbles/gas? I'm a big fan of Pellegrino but I can easily switch to water with a slice of lemon if it is beneficial.
I've used and had good experience with both platforms. The only performance issues I've ever had were with SimpleDB when it was in beta.

For support the nod would have to go to Rackspace, in my opinion. The two times I've needed help I was talking to a real person in San Antonio within twenty seconds or so, which beats a post in the AWS forums that might eventually get answered from an employee if your lucky.
Guy is whining that Google dared to clear up some of the mess of book copyright that was hurting human knowledge preservation and dissemination. He thinks that since Google is rich and can spend money on what they want then whatever they achieve is cheating. He perceives that any endeavor Google decides to spend their money on indicates a precious market that they want to monopolize. He somehow not manages to take into account that before Google took its shot it was a messy desert.

To paraphrase Nancy Kress, question is not who should be the repository of such public trust as knowledge. Question is who can be. And it seems that Google is first to stand up to this task.
Police stop more than 1 million people on street
Customer Support is good. Functionality is pretty meh. You have no SSH, no SCP, no gzip.

We host on EC2 and it's been really cost effective, and everything that we've needed EXCEPT multiple IPs to an instance. each instance can only have one IP, and therefore one SSL certificate (until.....SSL tech in browsers catches up with standards, and TLS is fully adopted in browsers and apache)
What if a company gained a monopoly through pure goodness?

Do people have the right to persecute them for simply being a "potential" threat even though they did nothing wrong?
Running is rubbish, slow and boring, and you never get anywhere exciting. Try cycling, you can actually go places, have a great time, and see a lot of the world around you.

Running if for people to cheap to buy a bike:)
Codepad.org | a pastebin that executes code for you
I think he is bitching too much. Nobody is forced to join a class action lawsuit's judgement. If you do not want Google to touch your books, then you can simply decline to be included in the class and go sue Google by yourself.

The theory that Google is the only entity that can do this project (which seems to be the main point of his article) is also wrong. The author's guild settled with Google for over 100 mil. Why wouldn't they settle with someone else for a similar sum? They probably would. In fact they would probably be willing to settle for less with the second person. Also the technology to digitize all books would probably be cheaper the second time around too. So if somebody else wants to throw the same resource in the task as Google did, I am sure they can get a another digital of all books.
In Safari, Cmd-1, Cmd-2, etc. activate the first, second, etc. bookmarks in your toolbar. Great for things like readability. (e.g. Cmd-1 to make the current page readable.)
I like how the article goes from implying that these books were already easy enough to access ("...that would otherwise rot in such obscure libraries as Harvard, Oxford, and the University of California...") to complaining that Google will have an effective monopoly on making these books available ("...a deliberate attempt to sucker the public into letting Google have a monopoly on millions of digitally archived books."), mixed in with some snide remarks implying that the books being scanned probably aren't worth much anyway ("We're sure graduate students everywhere will thrill to the prospect of reading first drafts of Henry Miller erotica or something.").

So basically, Google is wrong for having exclusive rights to books, except that anyone can go look at them anyway, and it's bad because they'll be the gatekeeper of knowledge that isn't worth much.

Wait, what?
> Is this purposely to provoke people into trying to prove you wrong?

I wouldn't put such a negative spin on it. It's purposely to ask people if they can think of anything I've left out, i.e. to spark discussion.

I would actually put finance in category 9, mainly 9a and 9b. The whole point of finance is that you're dealing with money, not things. But money is an artificial construct (that's the whole point of money), so dealing with money means dealing with the rules that society has laid down to govern the behavior of money. Indeed, most of the actual activity in the financial industry is doing mathematical modeling (9a) drawing up legal documents (9b).

Reasonable people could disagree.
First, if an organization acquires a "monopoly" because they were the only ones to believe in, invest money in, and actually do a grand thing that others called impossible -- a thing of great benefit to humanity -- there is something wrong with people who want to kneecap them for that.

Second, let's have some evidence that Google, in this case, is doing anything abusive at all. From what I've seen so far, their actions have all been directed towards trying to make more books accessible. If that's true, it's perverse to accuse them of being the ones going against the public interest.
This is great news- i love to listen to radio1 and now that installing real media to listen online isnt an issue I can listen at work!
I think it depends upon what that company does with their monopoly. E.g. Microsoft basically has a monopoly in the OS market, which was fine until they unfairly used that advantage to put Netscape out of business. Now they are in trouble with the EU, etc.

But I don't believe this would create a monopoly. My understanding is that the settlement does not stop any other company from going out and scanning the same books. In fact, due to the settlement, I believe it would be far easier for a second company to embark upon the same endeavor since Google will be setting a precedent for many of the legal issues involved. Without the settlement, no one would have access to these books because in many cases it is impossible to track down the rights holders. All in all, I think this settlement does a lot of good for the public.
It's easy to get caught up in adding features with the belief that adding X or Y feature will help you get a little bit more market share. When in reality, you should be focusing on doing something simple, but doing it really well.

Barry Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice) puts it best: "[as people are given more and more options they] become overloaded…. Choice no longer liberates, but debilitates. It might even be said to tyrannize."
Well, sure, but one should be careful about bringing moral legitimacy into the discussion. We might accept that the US was a more benevolent hegemon, and still allow that it willfully provoked Japan to attack.

You seem to imply that since there was a legitimate reason, this was in fact the motive reason, or that legitimate motive precludes subterfuge.
Apparently they botched an upgrade of their Oracle SAN.
I use graph paper, I can't concentrate without something to write on.
thanks for your feedback..
that API limit is for the current beta version. it should be changed after that..
Netscape was actually killed by apache. Netscape doesn't make its money in the browser market, but actually in the server market.

Note, this is from heard-so. So it might be false. Nonetheless, it is an intruging idea that open source competitors are actually silent killers of proprietary software companies. Kinda make you wants to examine history to see who is really the true players and the true good guys and bad guys of civilization.
Launchy on a PC is great, I miss Enso, it had more of the power of QuickSilver but its not very stable any more
One thing to consider is that rackspace doesn't seem to have an EBS (elastic block storage) equivalent. You can not mount any of their NAS offerings to a cloud server.

This means a few things:

1. Your cloud servers top out at 620G storage per
instance.

2. You can not scale the storage separately from RAM/CPU.
To get more storage you have to buy the more expensive
instance types, even if you don't need the additional
RAM/CPU.

3. You can not increase throughput nor reliability by
doing a soft-raid over multiple mounted storage
devices.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, this is the last info I got from rackspace.
RealMedia: only second to Internet Explorer as the most annoying Internet software ever.
I think the key phrase in the summary is "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access."

Why is it necessary for the president to be able (by himself, from what I understand) to shut down entire networks without regard to law? Don't the other two branches exist to write and decide laws? What is the point of a check and balance if this action can be taken without regard to law?

Also, why aren't the security policies of the network providers good enough? If the US were under a serious cyber-attach (which actually happens a lot), wouldn't the providers just shut down the offending IPs? Why is it necessary for entire networks to be at the mercy of the government? Perhaps I don't understand the internet well enough. Would someone be able to enlighten me?

Note: I am neither a political scientist or an internet engineer. If any part of what I said doesn't make sense to someone who understands these issues better than I do, please correct me.
I have two bikes. But I still prefer running everyday, keeping cycling more of a holiday activity.
It just shows how dumb are large organizations. Single human being doing educated guesses can be smarter than corporate entity.

Great leaders perceived efficiency is effect of two factors. One, they manage to actually strongly influence what happens in their organizations. And two, they are not dumb.

At least one of these just must be false for Steve Ballmer.
Glad to see GitHub get some focus. As a paying customer, I think they've let their free users degrade the service for those that finance the site.
I understand that in the end this is for the greater good, but shutting it down just because you can't be bothered to fix a few things is just ridiculous. At least offer gem building while you still support gems.github.com so people have time to migrate.
Tell HN: First Item on Ebay
From wikipedia:

The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar [Ebay's founder] contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."
Those flashing lights are simply the way the device communicates with the user. (Presumably) in the absence of haptic feedback on the controls the device needs to feedback what it is doing to the user visually. Without screens the current method of doing that is through flashing lights. Controlling pretty much anything complex and electronic will involve some flashing lights.

It looks as if some serious thought has been given to the usability of the device for music production. If the device succeeds in allowing the musician to produce more complex, interesting and diverse sounds, everyone will be playing one, and you'll be eating your hat ;)
I'm not saying it's not for profit, it wouldn't exist if it was non-profit, and of course there is a risk that it could make a loss any given year.

If you are referring to Mike and Jason as investors, then I don't think either invest heavily in companies and I don't think they invest in TC50 companies. There are, I assume, investors at the event and watching the streams who do not get paid to watch and probably even pay to be part of the event. Those people are genuinely interested in making investments on their own merits.

An investor, as far as I am concerned, is interested in seeing the best companies and any barrier that stops them seeing companies, like paying, does not help.

I note that, Y Combinator even pays expenses to companies that come to pitch to them - that is the way it should be done.
I downvoted because it has nothing to do with the point under discussion, which is whether the US knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened. Imperial Japan certainly was nasty, but "Imperial Japan was nasty, so Donald Gibbs, lisper, and lionhearted are wrong about this factual question" is a non sequitur.
And does this customer writing his review mention any of this? No.

But you can bet that he will write something when you are closed because you failed the health inspection.

If you don't have a good backend, nobody will ever have the opportunity to see your frontend.
Too bad. We never got CPAN indexing (as promised) either.
It doesn't have to be the case of no backups. Many different things can happen... They could have a faulty backup design. They could have lost the backups. They could have a fault in their backup verification / checking procedure. They could miss some part of the data that wasn't crucial before, but after a couple of updates, they cannot restore contacts without it. Etc.

There are many ways this could have happened - not that they are excused because of that, but it's not fair to say "not to have backups" until we know the whole story.
The author appears to conflate feature-bloat with "rich" web UI platforms. This doesn't have to be the case.

When I'm making something using Flash, AJAX, scripted SVG, or <canvas>, I like to think in terms of which UI elements can be simplified or eliminated by having a more expressive interface.

For example, AJAXified controls can eliminate the need for a "save" button in some forms, drag-and-drop can simplify moving and reordering operations, scripted SVG can bring sanity to working with tree-structured data, AJAX polling or Comet streaming can eliminate UI actions like page reload or manually checking for updates, etc.
I am chilean, but just so you know a bit of my background, I went to Berkeley and worked in San Jose at a company in the semiconductors industry.

There is a very good startup community here, there are regular events like First Tuesday and DELM.

It is not hard to find smart and capable people, in fact a few Americans have scolded me for stating the opposite in the past. There's a lot of potential here, checkout bligoo.com, needish.com, betazeta.com, voxound.com, to name a few.

Hvng trbl rplng on my cell
Ask HN: How to deal with a niche idea, that can be part of an existing service?
I'm debating whether I should run-off with an idea I currently have in mind. What I'm afraid of is that before I gain a solid base of users, this idea could easily be implemented by a well established company who has the infrastructure already set up. What do you do when you have a specific niche idea that can easily be grabbed, implemented, and released by an already established company? The only options I suppose would be:<p>1) Do nothing about it.
2) Run wild with the idea.
3) Give my idea to an established company and see if i get anything out of it(maybe they'll at least say thank you).<p>I've been thinking about if for the last week without coming to a decision, maybe you guys have been in a similar situation and can give me advice.<p>Thanks in advance.
I don't think this is really showcasing the dangers of the cloud, but rather the dangers of companies not knowing what the fuck they're doing.
Firefox preferences -> Content -> Javascript|Advanced ; uncheck whatever you want to disallow. You probably could make similar change in other browsers.
I agree, although the way you make your argument makes you sound like a fanboi.

The advantage of cycling is that you get tired/bored when you are 30 miles away from your house. When I run, I get bored after a block, and can just walk home :)
One developer commenting other developers code? That's ridiculous.

It's not. When you write something, it's often not at all obvious what to write as a comment, precisely because the purpose and detailed reasoning is obvious. When someone else comes along and doesn't immediately understand the code, they're in a much better position to comment it.
Surely there is some way they can find to make this work without too much trouble, or at least integrate seamlessly with someone who wants to. Just about every howto article out there that uses custom gems uses the <username>-<gemname> format which tells you its coming from GitHub. As a paying customer, this is something I would very much like to support!
Note that I didn't actually agree with all points (well, rather the point implied by the title) of your original article, I just thought that the irony was thick of someone who appears to be about 24 leading their argument with a dig about the other side being a bunch of inexperienced 20-somethings.
It's like you haven't noticed he is trying to break data out of the web jail. MVC is an in-process architecture. Evidently, he's thinking about an inter-process architecture that could be fronted in multiple ways.
I always laugh at people who talk about the job security in writing bad code. The most secure job is for the one person that knows what he/she is doing, because they will find another one easily.
I'm now using a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, which is awesome in ways I didn't appreciate till I tried it; see more here: http://jseliger.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage .

DevonThink Pro is a tremendously useful program that I didn't appreciate till I began organizing bits of my life around it.
Juli Crockett[1] - singer-songwriter, playwright & director [just had a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival], blogger, philosopher [currently writing her doctoral thesis], and retired professional boxer[3-0]. And she's a lot younger (and prettier) than any of those listed in the article.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli_Crockett