skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlike a meeting where the presenters might be annoyed, the opposite is true; they'd like the audience to help them generate hype. This could be especially true at a conference like Demo or Techcrunch50 where many products are being launched. You want people to be able to try it out right then and there. There are potential investors watching. More important could be the tech evangelists with huge followings watching. A blog post or even a tweet from them could be worth thousands of users. You want them to tweet you, get retweeted and generate that viral buzz.
That is a really bad an strange example of a good programmer. Why should a programmer spend his time and company programming a widget if their is an equivalent that can be bought for cheaper. I'd rather be a programmer that finds the right tool for the job than be one that sees everything as nails.

My mechanic specializes in Asian/Japanese cars. He drives a BMW. The shop next to him specializes in BMWs. He could spend $1000s of dollars to get the special tools and equipment to fix his car. Or he could pop over to his neighbor, borrow 30 minutes of his time. His neighbor has the tools, training and competence to work on his BMW. He does not.
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I got an accepted email, yet a denied RSVP link.

"We're sorry to say we didn't accept this application.
We had more than twice as many applications as there are
seats in the auditorium, so unfortunately we had to reject
a lot of people we would have liked to accept."
TDD improves quality but takes longer

this increase in development time is offset by the by the reduced maintenance costs [in future]

Seems it's better to forgo TDD if you need something out the door ASAP, but you'll have increased future maintenance cost if you stick with that codebase (i.e. it's not a throwaway prototype).
Great, I thought that website was the official US ESTA site and started filling it out. Then I saw they required a payment and realized my mistake. I just gave my passport number and other details to "kim eun hye" in Seoul (according to whois). Wonderful.
The real ESTA is here https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta

Luckily I didn't give them any credit card details but you should edit that link out.
Much interest? http://www.xyzzynews.com/ I'm sure it's a relatively small community, but I bet it's still going strong.
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Same here, can't RSVP
I had the same thing happen -- got the acceptance email, visited the link and saw the RSVP form, bought my plane ticket, and then when I went back to submit "Yes", I got the rejection page!
My "I understand now" was just for fun. It's like LOLWUT... given that I'm the author of an in-memory snapshotting DB I belive I know at least the difference between RAM and SSD. So I stopped the thread this way.

That said, seriously, I think that what applies for SSD applies for RAM: that it's going to be cheaper and cheaper, and bigger, super fast, and unlike SSDs the writing and reading latencies are comparable, so even if as today it's a psychological barrier to hold your data in RAM, I think it is going to be much more common in high load applications in the future.

Actually most people are doing it already, with memcached. Sometimes the total memcached memory used could be enough to store the whole dataset well organized given that when you use a K/V cache a lot of space is wasted compared to using it to hold data.
The quotation is simply a gigantic understatement. Usenet search is broken in almost every possible way and she should have said so. First and foremost, I rarely get results that are actually in the archive, but pages from the main web search. Phrases from known existing posts do not return results any longer. Several Usenet providers have acceptable Spam filters, but Google apparently has none.

Google as the buyer of the Deja archive has a responsibility here and they should live up to it (as they did up to around 2004).
yeah, ESTA seems to be phishers' favorite nowadays :)
Submitted and discussed many times. It's still worth seeing again, and the previous discussions have been interesting.

http://searchyc.com/lament+lockhart
Agree. When I was younger I built this monster ESX server for all my programming whims. Now, the server is still there, but it's primary job is a NAS for my kids' DVD collection. I sit in front of it maybe once a week. Most of my hobby programming is now done at work. Friday afternoons are set aside to experimental stuff that may or may not be related to work.
I suppose this question will get asked sooner or later:

How are credentials validated? Will we be emailed a personal unique identifier? A printable pass?

Did I forget that I had to submit my driver license number upon joining HN a year ago?

Do tell!

(p.s. thanks HN for being a continued asset to hacker-entrepreneur-extraordinaires)
Techcrunch50 had really good internet.

They did do a release with some statistics. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/20/techcrunch50-had-intern...

"There were more than 1,200 simultaneous connections at peak points, and bursts of up to 88 Mbps inbound bandwidth usage."

and 28 wifi access points and more than 100 cisco switches incase Wifi was down.

Jason Calacanis said in an interview they paid 86k for the two days. Not sure if this is right but it could be a rough ballpark.
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Ask HN: Worst examples of ambiguity ?
A recurring theme in industrial accidents and related issues is the ambiguity of 'English'. English not being a programming language it is very easy to make sentences that can mean different things dependent on the mindset of the reader.

Here is an example:

"When going around after an aborted landing: take off power"

During the landing of an airliner the captain decided to abort and go around, the key phrase, straight from the manual caused the co-pilot to reduce power on all four engines causing the airplane to stall and drop out of the sky.

English is full of opportunities for such mishaps, lots of jokes are based around them.

So, my question to you is do you have any examples of mishaps caused by ambiguity in English ?
Giving it out wouldn't make much sense :)

People will start to chase parameters YC looked at this year but the selection algo will probably change next year.
The whole netbook format owes its existence solely to the market being utterly flooded with portable DVD player LCDs -- those awful 7" 800x480 screens cost ASUS less than $5 each!
o Support for <IMG> tag: inlined images in HTML documents.

That's a cool feature indeed.
ouch !

Apologies, edited the link.

So much for googles anti phishing fu.

Ok, I've reported the site to google support.
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If you are a professional it just might be that. A lot of artists and athletes have insurance contracts that require them to only do work when they are working. This is why you'll rarely hear of a basketball player doing a pickup game. A sprained ankle or blown knee off the court and they can, really, lose everything. Most of them do enjoy the game so they'll play in disguise or an alias.

When millions of dollars are on the line, sometimes, your passion can become your prison.
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Something to do with flying kites during rainstorms?
Thanks, good for the beginners
I worked as a consultant at Twitter for a while [summer 2008] and saw no evidence of TDD in action. More like - someone monkey patch the running server, we're on TechCrunch again!
No worries. DHS could have picked a more memorable URL
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What's great about "done" is that there are so many interpretations of it.
I like the idea of a smarter template if tag but after having looked at the snippets page it doesn't look quite like what I was hoping for. I was looking for something more the tornado framework's implementation.

I prefer tornado's template system in general. It's much closer to actual python in terms of syntax and the ability to pass functions from a request handler to the template is sweet!
I got an acceptance email, but the confirmation link says the application was rejected.
It is always good on the power points, how mysql will scale for terras of data will this replication over 4,5 or 10 servers really survive.
I don't see this as any more troubling than the fact that Google turns over my email if the US government demands it for a lawsuit.
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Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize
U.S. President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. The motivation mentions "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Congratulations.
The dense unoriginality of people tires me, 70% of other peoples' searches that I get are something like "what is this?" or "I don't get it".

Great idea spoiled by the banality of the morons using the internet.

Although whoever put "django is overrated" is likely to be from around here? ;)
There is a fix for the unnecessary double click issue:

http://darwingimp.sourceforge.net/guides/install_leopard/

(scroll to the bottom)
Is this rule plausible for other professions viz lawyers, doctors?
Barack Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
I work for the Internet Archive, which has agitated against the Google Books Settlement, but I don't work on the Archive's books projects and I speak only for myself here.

In my opinion, Google Books is wonderful. The problem is the Settlement. It's an abuse of the class-action process to obtain certain monopolistic privileges -- making Google the only company with the right to preemptively scan out-of-print books while waiting for authors to come forward.

It was wrong for the Author's Guild to be given class status sufficient for them to grant that blanket permission. It was wrong for Google to choose a purely self-interested bilateral settlement with the Guild rather than continuing their original fight for the very same fair use principles that enabled searching the web -- the presumptive right to index even copyrighted material as a transformative use.

Brin is justifiably proud of their technical progress scanning so many books, but that early lead is not, as Brin implies, a reason to grant the leader even more privileges -- as the default scanner, the default collector of fees, and the de facto manager of the entire 'Rights Registry'.

Instead, that early lead is a reason for extra scrutiny, to ensure that no cartel-like arrangements or effective monopolies arise -- either organically or by court order -- that reduce competition and author/reader choice.
I don't know about that, for instance I suspect that a significant number of accepted applicants aren't news.yc participants at all -- how are you going to game that?
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"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons."

I'm happy for him, and I'm glad to be rid of Bush too, but isn't that a little premature ?

Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Gorbachev made sense at the time, but plenty of these nobel prizes seem to be very politically motivated and not because of actual achievement.

For instance, Al Gore won the prize, as did Yassar Arafat.
> If this is a great idea then let me be the first to propose removing the handles off of tea cups....just as clever....

Actually, it's funny, that is a clever idea and it's exactly why key-plus-ring is popular: Aesthetics. Specifically, minimalism. Less stuff. Less bulk.

It's not desirable in everything, but here is an example of your handleless tea cup:

http://www.jollygoodtea.com/ProdImages/206-050green-tea-cup....

I think it's pretty, but I do like classical East Asian minimalism and modern minimalism.

But other designs can be nice too - highly functional and somewhat spartan can be great. I also like really grandiose Victorian stuff, like a big sturdy wooden desk with a globe on top of it and paintings and brass fittings and craziness everywhere.

So minimalism/less stuff isn't the only way, but enough people do that this will sell well. I gave myself a light kick for not thinking of it first.
Nothing comes to mind on written words, however, last year our HR phoned our sub-continent recruiting agent to arrange 50 tilers for a construction project in the Gulf. Three months later they all arrived, but none of them could lay a single tile. He sent taylors.:)

On Air traffic Control see (http://www.scribd.com/doc/19647051/Miscommunications-in-Air-...)

I quote a classic!

Turkish Airlines said yesterday it had sacked two pilots who had a cockpit punch-up over control-tower instructions on a flight between Bangkok and Istanbul. "Are you deaf? He's is telling something and you are doing something completely different", one reportedly told the other. A junior pilot completed the flight. (Reuters, 7th May 1997)
not much chance of you being tortured or killed for the content of your email though.

While I get the sentiment - if you operate in a country you need to follow the laws of the land no matter how you might personally view them - the reality is that this action might have actually killed people. Even if it didn't do - do you think that in that position yourself you could have said with a clear conscience: "nothing bad will happen to these people" if I give out their details?
Same here. I'm showing up anyway.
Hard to believe, the guy didn't do nothing yet , he has no achievements just successful talk show appearance, I am afraid that the fact he is pushing U.S. to the edge had a big weight in that decision.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870921
If you search for "site:vldtr.com" on http://search.yahoo.com/ you automatically get redirected to the site explorer.

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185: you are -killing us- over here. My ribs hurt and I'm almost crying.

You know who you are.
I didn't think US companies were supposed to operate in Iran in any case.
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Err... for some values of 'disposable'...
This thing fails the smell test, IMO (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870920).

The idea that Yahoo, in a matter of a few short hours, was able to search and index all the user accounts that touched a blog system over the course of five years is a bit odd to me.

It's not impossible, and given the China issues in Y's past, it's not implausible, just not that likely to me.
He has done some things, for example http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/b...
An extra bit of room between those arrows would go a long way to solving that I think.
I'd like someone to inform me of one accomplishment of his that warrants his receiving of the award. And pushing a catchy a slogan of 'change,' to get elected, isn't one of them.
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Pres. Obama pushed for diplomacy with enemies when it was politically risky for him. I think this was both right and courageous. But they should have waited till his diplomatic efforts bore some fruit to give him a Nobel. Awarding it now shows remarkable lack of faith in him AND diplomacy.

Way to jump the shark, Nobel peace prize committee!
Excuse me for being obtuse, but is the key sticking out at all times while you are wearing the ring? Does it fold out or something? Is there a picture of someone wearing this?

I don't see any way in which this is practical (although the cool factor is indisputable).
Well this is a bummer. I quite like having multiple windows. I hope they haven't completely gutted the multi-window layout.
He didn't deserve that - he haven't even closed gitmo yet.
Gandhi died before he was awarded the Peace Prize, even though he was nominated five times. Obama gets it less than a year into his Presidency? I like Obama, but that's just wrong.
Same here, hopefully is a glitch.
Not really hacker news in any case. It looks like politics and current events.
Requires further explanation. :)
Would there be any legal recourse for the technical co-founder in this case?
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Nobel Committee could not resist after seeing all of this accomplishments:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99945/saturday-night-live-obama-ad...
I am watching Glenn Beck show on Fox News every evening, he revealed that Obama has inserted a bunch of Marxist into the white house, fellows that admires Hugo Chavez , Lenin , Che and other nice dictators that are responsible for most of the blood in last century.
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bash is an awful shell. Significant whitespace, multiple ways of doing the same thing, 3 levels of nested escapes, horrific bloat (how often do you do binary arithmetic ?).

It is a fine example of what happens when you let a Gnu loose in your userspace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development helps me a lot in concentrating on my work.
This sort of commentary is why we avoid politics here.
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Congratulations Americans. Above all, this award is a recognition that the United States still stands for something unique.

(It's hard to imagine the Peace Prize going to any other major political leader currently in office. Hu Jintao? Dmitry Medvedev? José Manuel Barroso? Nah.)
The laws of a religious dictatorship doesn't count for anything - you can and should break them.
Was it really politically risky? Everyone I know didn't like the Bush administration foreign policy. The only places he'd alienate by his policy were places that were going against anyways, but he picked up a lot of swing voters who care about America's international reputation.
But Glenn Beck is an emotionally driven and controversial talking-head hacker!
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It does seem awfully fast, but for what it's worth:

1) He banned torture (waterboarding)

2) He wants to close Guantanamo. I know he hasn't done it yet, but it can't be easy.

3) He's willing to negotiate with Iran without pre-conditions

4) He's actually trying to push for a Middle East peace deal, and is being vocal about settlements

5) He wants a world without nukes.

6) He didn't put the missile shield near Russia, significantly calming things down over there.

Probably some other stuff too.

Is he like Nelson Mandela or Gandhi? Absolutely not. But considering how leaders of Superpowers have behaved in the past, he is unique.
MLK gets imprisoned, shot at, fire bombed and beaten. Encourages millions to stand with him at non violent civil disobedience actions. Millions do so DESPITE the fact that they will be imprisoned and beaten.

Nelson Mandela . . . yeah . . . ditto. Oh, did I mention 27 years in a notorious prison for 'enemies of the state'.

Gorbachev. OK, when was the last time American school children practiced what to do in case of nuclear attack? Anyone remember 'civil defense fallout shelters'? I didn't think so.

Obama . . . WTF?!?!?!
Diplomacy between peoples . . . WTF!?!?! Did Israel and Iran give up their nukes and I missed it? Did the Palestinians stop slaughtering Israelis and vice-versa?

Alright, alright, those are too much. How about something simpler? Can I go to Cuba, drink rum, and lay on a beach just because, without having a US government Customs Agent detain me on my return?

No?

Didn't think so.

This Obama Love-fest is sickening.

Even Gandhi is blushing at this one.
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The simple answer: Because Slashdot runs on MySQL. It's not such a bad choice for their app: very simple queries, and reads massively outnumber writes, 1000:1. Unfortunately that's about all it's suitable for.
Said differently:

Wants: To close a nasty illegal prison, but hasn't yet. Talked to some people. Wants less nukes in the world. Didn't build a defense system.

Did: Re-banned torture, in accordance with international law.

Result: Nobel peace prize.
Hi David,

I wasn't the first to start this thread but once it was started I am adding comments that are relative to the context.
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You do realize that 4 out of those 6 things you listed are nothing more than his desires and wishes, and number 6 is giving him credit for not doing something? Hell, I have at least 50 wishes to make the world better, and a list twice that long of things I haven't done.
The committee is probably thinking Obama will now need to live up to the prize--if is isn't a real peacemaking dude from here out, people will certainly whine.
You have to remember, it's a big deal for the leader of a Superpower.

In a vacuum, these things don't sound so great. In today's world, they actually are. Obviously there's something wrong with that, but that's just the way it is.
We can see all the searches coming in, lets just say one person had some excellent, twisted ones.