skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Root Labs is hiring a security engineer. Wondering what we do?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=898960
ZFS Has Virus Scanning Functionality Built In
In other news he's taking about $5000 USD per month on his bingo creator from direct sales. I think I'd have been more thorough in testing. Maybe.
Exactly. Relation != Table. Tables can represent things other than relations.
This is happy and annoying. Happy because it simplifies the API. Annoying because I have to go back and rearchitect a big part of our site to support this. I just finished a week long project last month ago supporting this crap.
I do my DB design first, set up all the fields and foreign keys. Then I connect my factory to this newly created database and the factory creates the application structure based on the relations etc. The factory then uses code templates to generate a fully functioning web app based on Yii (http://www.yiiframework.com) with MVC, unit and functional tests and most of the boring repetitve work done for you e.g CRUD, search, autocomplete, jqgrid data grids, search engine friendly urls etc. After that it's just a case of adding your business logic and customising the CSS. This is something I'll be releasing in future, probably a lot sooner now that i have more time on my hands
I dint think the title is proper for this post.
I understand that _consumer_ wireless power has not yet achieved its full potential. But those systems do not represent the entirety of wireless power...

For example, RFID access cards (like those found in student IDs) use wireless power to transmit their ID. Quite ubiquitous, and definitely not "useless".

There are also examples of robots using wireless power to great utility -- again, not "useless"

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2008/10/07/wirelessly-powering-sw...
thanks, I'll check that out!
The centerpiece of relational databases is reliably joining tables. NoSQL databases remove this constraint for scalability and schema flexibility, so how about NoJOIN?
Although space150 isn't a startup -- we're an 8-year old digital agency with 70+ employees -- we are looking for great .NET developers and Front-End developers right now.

http://www.space150.com/jobs
Again with the zero-gain "features"!

You almost can't swing a dead cat without hitting yet another multi-track audio studio on PCs. And a great many are very cheap or free, including some pretty good ones.
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31. I think I made a dodecahedron, but I can't really remember so I didn't count it. I never had a Rubik's cube and never felt compelled to get one.
Yes. In the same way as the invention of fire harmed our digestive system and the invention of clothes made us less resistant to cold.
Wow, you're hard to please! ;)

Have you looked at how they have it set up? Your link goes into a queue for the servers that are called "Factories." It is a massive distributed computing environment like SETI where people volunteer their computers to take the screen shots and upload them to the web for you to view.
"[...] the cockpit warning system sounded again, this time with a long "bong" that no one present could recall having heard before.[3] This was the "all engines out" sound, an event that had never been simulated during training"

Whoa. I wonder if it was intentional or not to leave out an almost no-win simulation from the training.
Sounds like a soon-to-be botched attempt at "job preservation".
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft supplied that material themselves. Macs are good-looking computers (and with its minimal design, in a sense, appropriately generic) and Windows 7 runs on computers. Potential Windows 7 buyers probably don't even know what a Mac looks like, will even less likely notice what's wrong, and most importantly - won't care. But it does looks good.
Sounds interesting. Link?

Not that we really need to analyze it. Theres 50 reasons why this is a bad analogy.
Makes it look a lot better than if it were on a $400 Dell, though.
You are right about the original source, but it isn't 'blogspam'. It's just where I ran in to it. If I would be the owner of the blog then it would be blogspam.

Also, unfortunately it's too late for me to edit the link.
right there with ya
"anyone got a good use case for laptop use?"

Their laptops are gorgeus.

OK... The OS is not my favorite. It's currently a tie with OpenSolaris for me (nicer GUI on one, package management on the other), but both bot are behind Jaunty (and probably will be behind Karmic)
This is a classic amongst the EWDs. It contains many brilliant quotes on the state of computing science in that era, shortly before he left the Netherlands for teaching at the University of Texas at Austin.

His view of "software engineering" is at least insightful (and sadly true as far as I am concerned) and the thinking that the programming language is our primary obstacle to finding the Elixir and/or the Stone can be found often--given one tries to look closly enough...
(The metaphor alone is very well chosen and in the usual witty Dijkstra style; reading is highly recommended!)
Apologies. Didn't know it had been submitted at the original source. FWIW/FYI. We have permission to syndicate Mark's posts to SiliconANGLE. Moderaters, feel free to downvote or hide this entry.
Words Only Clock Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard
Just to make sure: is the guy happily married? ;-)
Quite possibly. I think the are playing games and that either they are still owners or they have a deal with someone they do not want to name to 'hold' it for them until the heat is of (as if that would ever happen).

Not very savvy of them, judges are not as stupid as most techies assume they are.
This is pretty standard for maps I think. It's also how Lonely Planet does their maps for guidebooks as I recently read in their book "Unlikely Destinations: Lonely Planet Story"
Hey everyone, similar to using (trying out) Event Gel for setting up the event, maybe give http://coffee.gabandgo.com/sanfrancisco a run as you show up to help people know what crowd you're in, or where you're sitting...any feedback always welcome!
Steven's post: www.inquisitr.com/44153/the-new-dial-tone-a-snapshot-of-of-bloggings-future/
Yeah, right. And they have been hanging to HFS+ for all this time because they knew it's a solid base for future development...

Sorry for the sarcasm, but I couldn't resist, but the very idea of Apple making a storage system like ZFS out of thin air is very... optimistic.
I wouldn't expect them to use ZFS. It would be a really messed up court case when NetApps licensed the patents so Apple could use ZFS which NetApps was suing Sun / Oracle for a patent violation (head hurts). I would expect they would do a license to cover their own implementation of a file system.
curl -I http://example.com/

You can divine a bit of information from the site that way, but it is only guessing. Some sites expose information when they encounter an error, so if there's a method to trigger one, that could be useful.

Many WordPress blogs, for instance, show MySQL connection errors under high load, etc.
I'm not sure why it's a surprise to these people, MS announced a couple of months ago that they weren't going to implement the ballot screen 'out of the box' on 7 until the EU courts made them.

Anyone that had been following the issue enough to be this worked up about it, should have known that the ballot screen wouldn't be there.
wait...so now there's a popularity contest within my own friend network?
Read this and understand where the (justified) fear comes from:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3522

Personally, I am happy that those pieces of source code appear with a big time delay; probably I wouldn't drive a car knowing details of the source code.
broken for me just now.
Absolutely. I have to really pay attention when driving with the navigator on if I want to find my way on foot later in the town that I'm visiting, especially find the car again.

This never was a problem before, but then again, then I would get lost while still in the car.

Amazing how quickly you can get dependent on a piece of technology. The movie 'the knowledge' deals, amongst other things with knowing every nook and cranny of London, that's no longer part of the course I guess. Miss TomTom will take care of that one for you.

Sometimes scary stuff happens: Once I was driving in Budapest and the navigator told me to turn right at the end of the street, right into about 6 lanes of oncoming traffic. Amazing how fast you can back up if you have to!
Hah! It still works on Firefox & Mobile Safari!

http://pronoiac.org/misc/2009/10/server-push-animation/
January 2000:

"With only 24 percent of sales coming from international operations, Bezos began working to expand the firm's international base.

He also changed the firm's focus from pursuing growth at all costs, a philosophy Bezos had dubbed "Get Big Fast," to cutting costs wherever possible, building on the corporate overhaul started by Galli."

http://ecommerce.hostip.info/pages/100/Bezos-Jeff-DEFENDING-...
Facebook’s news feed: The beginning of a recommendations dominated web
I have no idea why everyone wants to get around objective-c, it's really not complicated to learn.
101st bank failure of 2009 - Partners Bank, American United
I was going to submit this as an "Ask HN". I notice a lot of legitimate-seeming dead posts these days.
Again, it's confusing and unpredicted.
I just watched the screencast. I'm sure that the static methods on the controllers and the public attributes will drive purists up the wall, but the speed of development appears excellent. Looks most definitely faster than running glassfish in debug mode and reloading classes/redeploying all the time.
Sprague-Grundy theory (on the equivalence of certain games)
Copyless Crowdscanning: How to Legally Index the World's Books
best way to find maven repo info for open source java stuff, that I know of, is with http://repository.sonatype.org/
GPS is eliminating our sense of direction, not just harming it.

Now if you view GPS as a tool like fire or clothes, that's progress. If you view it as a crutch that prevents skill acquisition like googling for papers or Cliff's Notes, that's worrying.

Either claim seems extreme. But I know that any future war will include attacks on GPS. And I'm really fascinated at how society will respond to that. After all, it's not like in the past a missile could take out "fire" "language" or "clothes" Those were ideas. GPS is a computer system.
I noticed that I stopped learning my way to new places a couple weeks after I bought a GPS.

To fix that, I only use the GPS for the first trip to someplace new. It feels much more like a tool than a crutch now.
overdisk looks good, rest is useless, imho

I'd recommend "foldersize" for seeing how big folders are http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ (I'm not affiliated)
What's with the He and His? Superman is not God!
I believe OP was speaking about the filesystem specifically.
Linus: "Quite frankly, Sun is doomed. And it has nothing to do with their engineering practices or their coding style."

This was in 2001. How does one get such prophetic skills.
I don't know how they expect to be taken seriously without a related work section.
Zuck Joins Facebook Group “I AUTOMATICALLY HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK HOME PAGE”
Nice, but since it's not being developed anymore, might be useful to mention their referral to http://www.gosu.pl/dbkiss/ which is also 1 file, easy to install, and pretty easy to use... and supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Ask HN: Good open-source examples of properly tiered ASP.NET architectures.
After working with ASP.NET (C#) for around 3 years, 2 of which was with a company that had no real solid architecture, I've realized that I have a lot to learn when it comes to creating properly designed Web Applications.

I'm wondering if anyone has examples of open-source software that I could study, tutorials to walk-through or even a good book to pick up so that I can better understand this process.

A lot of the work I did at the aforementioned job was a (small) step in the right direction with trying to separate presentation from logic, but in most cases the Code Behind files for our pages were tightly coupled with the Database structure. They did use a database management object to handle the actual database call, connections, command, data adapters, etc, but the page itself was still constructing the query and sending it off to the database object to fetch.

Towards the end of my tenure there, we outsource a new product to a very capable team based out of Boston and I had the pleasure of working with their code for integration purposes. This is what "woke me up" to how we were going about things all wrong. Their designs had calls out to a Business Logic Layer, which then called a Data Access Layer, which returned objects, collections or just straight DataTable/Sets depending on the need.

What I still struggled with, in my own designs, is what goes in the business logic layer and what goes in the data access layer. When to use objects and when to not, etc. I know those questions are somewhat subjective and based on the project at hand, but I'd love a really good example or book that covers these exact techniques so that I can be a better programmer.

Obviously, pseudo code examples and open discussion on the topic is also very much welcomed.
Is the US really the land of the free still?
This is precisely the response I predicted I would get.

Logic Audio is not identical to Cubase or anything else out there, which is why there is a substantial base of musicians who swear by it and the increased productivity they feel they get from it.

It seems you're saying "it all just software" and so therefore you can just randomly swop out App 1 that offers feature X, with App 2 that offers feature X-bar. But the fact of the matter is, its still not the same, and the little details add up.

Eg perhaps you can export PDFs out of Office, but can you do it out of your browser, or your IDE, or <arbitrary application>, does it work precisely the same way every time, could you do it without thinking about it, and did you ever have to explicitly think about installing some extra software just to make it happen?

And sure you can run VirtualBox Ubuntu just as well on Windows, but how easy is it for you to roll back your virtual machine's rootfs to the version it was at 1pm, 3 days ago? And did you have to explicitly think about how to set up your backups that way, or is it a benefit that just magically happened?

I'm sorry but it just seems you're missing the point of what I'm trying to say. Its not about the individual parts, but about the sum of the whole. Frankly I don't care and I'm not interested in continuing this debate; as I said at the outset, I have no interest convincing anyone to switch to Mac, I'm simply stating the reality for me which is significant benefit in the Mac (and I never do anything for the print industry, by the way).
The problem is that most of the people who think that Java is too constraining are in that very group who think they are smarter than they are. (This is not to say that there aren't people who can be more productive with a language less constraining than Java.)

Indeed, most people who think they are smart, aren't, including myself.
I do love my touchstone charger for my Palm Pre.

Still sticking a thing on an iphone and buying a $99 matt is way too much of a kludge.

Best if it is built into the design.
I suspect that you are "smart", you may just not be "the smartest." Indeed, if you're lucky your intelligence is only average in your peer group.

It's very easy to lose sight of where you fit in the larger scheme of things on the great bell curve of humanity. But I assure you, it's almost certain that if you can post to Hacker News you're smarter, richer, luckier than at least a billion people.
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." - Mark Zuckerberg
The majority of the open source web applications out there are not going to be written in ASP.NET and C#.

I would suggest looking in to the 'codeplex' offering, if that's your flavour of icecream. Personally I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole, but I don't think Microsoft Windows should be a server platform anyway.

If you're going that route you might as well get it from the horses mouth.
Zed Shaw's so popular that everything Zed is now associated with him? I guess everything published on Hacker News. But what if the title is lifted off a blog post? Does Zed own the blogosphere? How far does his empire reach?
Google Audio Launches Next Week
Absolutely , that was the first thing that came to my mind - this is <i>Worse is Better</i> and taking a further leap its a result of <i>Release Early and Release Often</i>.
There's a difference between SQL and RDBMS. One can interact with a relational database using a "non-standardized query language and API." Part of the problem is that people are conflating the language abstraction of SQL with the physical relationship of the data.
I think "graph database" is probably the best term I've heard so far.
I've wondered the same thing.
I think many people prefer this pattern of news discovery already. Here I am on HN reading this article because a bunch of people have upvoted--recommended--it for me...
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you have to setup and maintain this separate proxy and headless browser. This is surely more complicated than outputting html from your web app.
FWIW I don't like the new feed (yet). I don't think removing items is a good way to go about this. Certainly make the UI such that recommeneded items are more obvious, maybe roll-up the 'boring' items in the timeline, but don't remove them all together :/

Also at the moment it's just confusing, since the news feed isn't ordered chronologically. I assume it's ordered in a reddit/HN type way, but that's certainly not obvious.

Maybe I'll get used to it idk. At the moment it seems quite random.

I think they need a method to feedback also - upmod/downmod - show me more/less of these types of updates/from this person.
It should be possible to install Windows 7 on a MacBook. Perhaps it is a subliminal suggestion for people to do exactly that.
What's wrong with being skinny ? I can see the point of not having to eat constantly, but if skinny is one end of the spectrum and overweight is the other I'd rather be skinny.
Potential Windows 7 buyers probably don't even know what a Mac looks like

I find that hard to believe
Looks like some lawyer needs to justify his compensations.
Reflikta has launched a new PDF Search Engine
Weird, I had just convinced my boss to use Spring Roo, because of the productivity, and this seems to be more productive
I've asked friends who work Google why they didn't have any music search or other music-related projects. One popular theory was that Larry and Sergey personally just aren't that interested in music, so ideas in that area always lacked their enthusiastic support. Regardless, it's nice to see someone finally managed to release something.
Oh, no. I lived with two of them for several years. Though their joke papers were never quite this amusing.
The only equalizer will be applications online. Right now running web os apps suck compared to PC equivilents, but when they don't and people start using them instead of Office, or other programs, then who gives a rats ass what OS we use. We'll all be on dumb terminals and we won't give a shit. That will be Microsofts fall.....or will it? I heard somewhere that their office online product was way better than googles. I don't know.
The Cloud Isn’t a Mainframe. Seriously.
The Designers of UNIX are called Ritchie and Thompson.

Linux is a re-implementation of that design.
N900 is interesting in that it is both a tablet PC (or whatever term fits best) and a phone. One less device to carry.

I do not know re. if the UI experience has changed. I can see how N-series tablets can appeal to hackers who like to modify the software that is running on their device. From this POV having a full-fledged Linux on a mobile device is a plus. But N710/N800 was indeed less slick in terms of the user experience than Apple's devices.
Not if you are supporting multipal clients and want to seperate out your concerns. The point is that the UI should be decoupled from your core application logic. The advantages that brings, negates the few hours one will spend setting up an out of the box server and proxy to support SEO. There are many web apps that don't even have SEO as a problem domain.
The founder of Browsershots is a member of the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrocholl

But he is no longer working on the project himself.
Yes indeed, I totally agree that there is a feedback. Something starts to be interesting, then people start to talk about this thing and it's comfortable to name it in some way. Then some name will arise and the discussion will move even faster. Eventually the field gets names for every important concept, and so on...

Still there is something "magic" in this process. Once you get a name for one thing, it starts to get much more obvious. For instance think at the "web 2.0" or "Ajax" cases. NoSQL, in the name itself, is the negation of something else, and this allowed to collect a number of different projects under this name.
Also both make me think of the color orange.
Gruber doesn't quite go all the way here, but it's important to note that no company can operate in a vacuum. However, what's important, vitally important, is that you don't operate such that one of your key suppliers is a monopoly! Just look at Apple's suppliers: Intel? They better keep up with AMD or else Apple will do to them what they did to IBM. Flash memory providers? Apple plays so many of them off each other that you can tell when a new Apple product is about to launch just by watching the market price of Flash. Graphics? Apple's been bouncing between nVidia and ATI like nobody's business...

...so really, it's not so much about hardware vs software vs hardware+software. It's that the smart businessperson doesn't knowingly make a deal with a monopoly.
"It’s that Apple is the only one that even can be different"

someone from apple should tell this guy to stuff a rag in it, he's producing an ongoing hagiography that no company can match in the long term
This is a really great quote. There is a lot of truth in it and the effect of a company build on the principle is breathtaking. Facebook moves at lightning speed considering their size. It seems that they somehow found a way that let's them add engineers and scale their development speed linearly.