skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, sorry, I realised my mistake when it was too late to edit. I think the best that could come out of this is a unified interface (eg, pidgin) for those that do want to run it.
You're looking at it wrong. Think of the Google Wave group as being a startup within google.

And also remember that only a small fraction of Google users have heard of Google Wave. It only looms large in the geekosphere, where the plugged in people who look at every new thing and have an opinion about it, live. In the rest of the world it's about as interesting as Knol.

My own take is that the wave protocol is very interesting from a technical standpoint, but that it has yet to find it's audience from business/UX standpoint. And I'm glad that Google wants to fund work in this area.
... in the European Union.

It might make the jump across the pond sometime, but not today. That said, I'm sure that at least one lawyer read the article and is getting some deceptive advertising lawsuit ideas right now.
Over the the limit? (stimulant use among minors and young adults)
FWIW: I started interviewing people in college for non-technical position although a very stressful job (favorite interview question: 'We think this job requires a sense of humor, tell us a joke'). Off and on over the years I've interviewed others for different positions. Regarding technical vs non-technical, both are the same for me; if the person is good it will show in both areas while if they stink then it will show in one area or the other.

Behavioral interviewing as mentioned in a previous post is Situation-Action-Result = SAR. Haldane I believe was the originator (Career Satisfaction and Job Success) although it might be someone else. Easy type of question to 'game' as you can construct answers to the typical questions. "Describe a situation where you made a mistake and how you fixed it."

IMHO much better to ask open ended questions. "You come across a car wreck with a person trapped inside the vehicle, what do you do?" "A 34 kV breaker continues to trip, what do you do?" "You are asked to code a function to compute compound interest, describe your actions and the code?" The idea is to find out how the person thinks; not whether the answer is right or wrong.

I'm good at interviewing people but it has taken lots of practice. One job had me as the plant tour and lunch interviewer; I could tell about the interviewee's technical skill just by the the questions they asked during the tour and at lunch. You do not have to focus on specific technical questions to find out if the person is knowledgeable. If they will fit into the group and have good learning habits then they will learn what it takes to be successful at the company. Technology changes but the ability to think and learn does not.

Ask yourself: If I had a problem, would this individual be someone that I could ask to help me solve it?
You might not need to have a _formal_ process at that size, but it would be good to have some kind of plan to recognize and reward the employees (she's an employee, not a founder) who excel. There are lots of startups that don't get this and lose early employees who realize that they've been working at the same pay and position forever, even as the company has grown around them.

Again -- maybe not a formal program, but she's not crazy for wondering if pay/promotion are something on the founders' minds.
Carbon Footprint Comparison: Meat-eating Prius Owner vs. Vegan Hummer Owner?
Skype becomes AIM in 3..2..
New Intel CPUs now have a CRC32 instruction, which I am hoping Sun engineers will take advantage of soon and add as a choice for ZFS.
My point is that although Jason is not a shining beacon of sustainable living such as yourself, by living close to his workplace - and often working from home - he is not exactly the raging consumer of carbon resources that you make him out to be.
I can't agree more with you on that point !

Just reading it made me cringe for the author. Infant mortality is inversely correlated with usage of scientific medicine and hygiene. Look at history.

Even now, we can inversely correlate any country infant mortality with its level of medical equipment.
The submarine has surfaced.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

This article was written by the publicist for "BlackStone Sports, the Ontario manufacturer of skate maintenance equipment that developed the flat-bottom V method..."
> people get really hungry if they don't eat for long stretches between meals

If you follow garbage diet advice and eat a bran muffin, banana, and skim milk, yeah, you'll be starving two hours after eating. For breakfast I had four eggs scrambled in butter and full fat yogurt with blueberries. I'm just getting hungry now, 12 hours later.

> the hunter-gatherer duo usually do not have to search far for food

Are you kidding? They walk miles and miles.

> !kung san

I don't think the san illustrate your point, but in any case they are a bad model. They are stunted and generally unhealthy, scraping by on marginal desert land. They were forced off the good land. There really aren't any representative modern day hunter gatherers. There are only historical accounts.
you just found this? do you live under a rock?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912777 - good comments about it here.
LaTeX/TeX style math, syntax highlighting.
in general, i think `if (ptr==0)` is an antipattern and designing for assert(ptr!=0) yields better code.
We conducted a research survey of 11,678 users over the weekend across our publisher network (~500+ applications) with sample representative of the US online population.

This is blatant selection bias - asking people who opt to take a survey rather than sign up for some offer whether they prefer surveys. I don't think this survey adds anything reliable to the social gaming discussion.
Sometimes you can get a good piece of non-fiction that's done very well. For instance, I recently read Newton and the Counterfeiter and found it excellent. In this case fact was far more interesting than any fictional account could've been. Furthermore, I was personally more interested in the outcome since the events actually happened. I get an interesting story, and learn history at the same time. Personally I couldn't ask for more.
Childbirth isn't done in hospitals because it's a sickness, it's done in hospitals in case an emergency happens. I couldn't have been born at home--my mother would have to have been whisked away to a hospital for a c-section anyway. The fact that she was already in the hospital and attended to by an obstetrician made that process considerably safer and more reliable.
goes to show that even the simplest things (that usually make people yawn) are the ones where innovation can be most disruptive.

Anyone else remember that Rbk just recently fought (and won) a battle simply to provide a different, "more efficient" material and cut to the jerseys?
Austen, Joyce, and Kafka I get. I think most people who read Shakespeare do so because they think they're supposed to, though. Seeing Shakespeare, different story.

There are a million things vying for our attention. We should invest it in things that we appreciate. There are also people who think fine wine is an important part of what makes life worth living, or marijuana, or Bach.
http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
It just took you over 300 words to say the same thing you said one comment earlier. I think you know less about how platform technology works than you think you do, and you'd benefit from opening your mind a bit. Again: Dell could probably lock code down to Dell boxes, if they had anything worth locking down.
File Folders Come With Beauty and Perfection
1/73 of the newly minted Ph.D.s should reasonably go on to start a lab of their own (from your linked comment)

Playing devil's advocate:

Isn't this winnowing process necessary to identify those capable of starting a successful lab?

Research worth doing is, after all, extremely difficult - perhaps the only way to identify such individuals is to train them up to the cutting edge, then let them attempt to do independent research (get a PhD) and see who fails (does a useless PhD).

(My own view is somewhere in the middle, but I'm interested in your opinion on this).
A neuroscientific case for arts education
TheFunded's Adeo Ressi: The venture capital 'bubble has burst'
My problem is not with Twitter per se; as I said I hope they are successful. My concern is that we don't celebrate companies like this where the guy actually makes money enough; instead we focus on things which are more speculative in nature. Sure, facebook and twitter may turn out to reap huge profits in the future, but valuing them at around 1B before they've made more in profit than this little $5M company has done is the same pattern of ignoring cash to actual value that led to the Great Depression, the dot com bust, and this latest housing bust/financial crisis. How many funded web companies still don't make $1M yearly in profit?
The accident is that they were desperate and would have bought any decent OS they could to replace the gigantic failure Copland was. NeXT had the one with the more eloquent salesman and the only person who could have given back any semblance of credibility to Apple's lineup.

Were NeXT based on VMS, Amiga, TOS, MP/M or anything like it, that would be OSXs base.
Bad Driving as a Result of Brain Gene Variants?
CRC32? Compared to SHA256? Seriously?
Sweet, the WebKit inspector has had this in the nightlies for a while.

I like how this displays the source code inline, though. WebKit just displays the event object, which is a bit more awkward.
I'm trying as hard as I can to figure out what your point is. Apple isn't selling this stuff because they've decided not to. No matter how big you think this "hole" is and what your "equation" says, they get to pick what their product line is, not you.
When it's that kind of comparison, that's an argument for putting the constant on the left. Then you'll know you're getting the kind of equality method defined for the constant (which is more typically what you want).
I'm just saying, even as a kernel dev, you're unlikely to need to write things in assembly.
@butterfi I apologize for how that sounded. I can see how I would be able to use their service and make it a fun activity for the kids in my life. Perhaps I should have asked why it isn't clear this is a useful service?

I think it's great telling a story over the phone makes your kids happy. Maybe their site can give you something different every now and then?
For a Rails newbie like me this was very, very helpful. I still haven't used the framework enough to know what a complex code base looks like, so this is a useful reference.

I hope this will be republished as a text article sometime, because that would make referring to the code examples easier.
"If a restaurant served more food than everybody else but lost money on every diner, would it be successful? No. But on the Internet, for some reason, if you have more users than everyone else, you're successful. No, you're not."

That seems like an important business principle that is often forgotten in reporting on Internet-based companies. Keeping revenue in mind can have some powerful effects on a company's future. Especially, the example is good because it focuses on making revenue by pleasing customers who could take their business elsewhere.
Good rep for Penn State!
of course there is value. Do you know anyone who benefits from a pension fund or endowment? Well-- those guys benefit from someone like Paulson who can profit when the market tanks.

But let's go broader.

You are looking at capital incorrectly. Let's say you are given money from investors for your start up. Eventually though, your start up begins to tank. Competitors are coming in, you are just not good enough, and any incremental reinvestment in the start up will likely yield negative returns. Is it really wise of you to squander your investor's money like that? No.

You would be better off parking that capital where it will generate returns (i.e.: a financial investment) or giving it back.

Warren Buffett was confronted with this prospect when he took over Berkshire Hathaway, a failing textile mill. Textiles were rapidly going overseas and Buffett had a choice to make. He could take the business' cash flow and buy new equipment, to try to compete. Or he could invest it elsewhere. He chose to invest it elsewhere and look where Berkshire is today: $10K invested back then would be $50M today.

Sometimes investing in the business is the wrong choice, especially when you have a responsibility to your investors.
You can digest a movie much faster than a novel, so it's easy to see why you'd avoid novels if your time was limited.
Thanks so much. As for the licensing, working with the rights holders is the only way I know how to do it.
it's a good trick but letting the compiler warn you is better (and of course always compiling warning-clean so you'll notice it). There's plenty of times where both sides are non-const and this trick won't save you when that happens.
Not to mention that 15k over 6 months isn't something you can live on. Hypothetically yes they could "scale" and launch 5 equally successful apps but things never work out that way. I wouldn't be surprised if the author had other apps that are not nearly as successful.
VAX had a CRC instruction.

While it might seem flippant to compare VAX to x86, it was found (on VAX) that a programmer could potentially get better aggregate performance by avoiding that instruction; that having an instruction doesn't automatically mean that the code is faster.
So given this acknowledgment, when will there be a formal protest by governments to Japan to stop their dolphin slaughters? Shouldn't killing dolphins be an international crime?
The article's second claim is incorrectly stated initially, but corrected further down the page.

"After conducting the survey, we looked at our respondent data on both offers and surveys completed within Peanut Labs. Interestingly, we found that all the users we surveyed complete at least twice as many market research surveys as offers. Users between 20 and 29 complete nearly 4.5 times as many research surveys as offers while users between 40 and 49 of both sexes complete over 7 times as many market research surveys as offers. The specific numbers on that are below."

Yes, these are people that took a research survey, but I think the numbers are striking.
In case anybody is curious about how this is actually accomplished, do a web search for "diamond roller dresser."

Also, there's a huuuuge thread about "flat-bottom V" skate sharpening over at Mod Squad Hockey (a popular hockey-player forum):
http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=423...
Okay, that's fine, but it's still vendor lock-in. I don't know why it's so hard to understand. If you buy a product and use it and then you can't get out or switch or use the product with some other hardware or whatever, it's vendor lock-in. You are locked into that vendor. If you buy a Mac and put a bunch of files on it that only work on a Mac and your Mac crashes, you can't restore the backups to a windows machine or an ATOM processor machine.

Thus, you're locked in. Thus, vendor lock-in. It's pretty cut and dry really.
"Bloom", "Trope" and "Air" will do this on iPhone.

http://generativemusic.com/

Edit: oh, wait, you wanted beats... "Mujik" has an "auto-mujik" mode which will do this.

http://www.luckyframe.co.uk/mujik/
Google Adds Longer Text Snippets and Image Previews to Search Results
He has in fact bought land: http://ranprieur.com/me/land.html
Why do we have an IMG element?
Nick Lippis on infrastructure 2.0
Isn't this winnowing process necessary to identify those capable of starting a successful lab?

Sure, some winnowing is necessary -- but do you (or the devil you're advocating for) think only one out of every 73 newly minted Ph.D.s is capable of starting a successful lab?

On the other side, who is the 1 out of 73 who gets the tenure-track job in research? It seems quite often departments make decisions based on number of papers the candidate has, and the brand of journals those papers appear in. Optimizing for these parameters can, I think, be very different from optimizing for deep and/or transformative science. The best postdocs can optimize for all parameters at once, but this is a very difficult row to hoe, and usually requires a bunch of luck to succeed.

I'm not saying that the system is broken. Good science is getting done, by good people. I'm saying that from my (admittedly limited) vantage point, the system is unnecessarily adverse to certain kinds of science, to the possible detriment of human knowledge and the public good.

(Whew! That was a fun soapbox to get on, thanks for the invitation...)
Sorry. Too late to edit or delete. I thought they were only present on 64-bit processors.
"Whether this really constitutes fraud depends on who knew what, and when did they know it."
College Competitiveness Reconsidered
An interesting thing is that Jeff Bezos is the only investor in 37 Signals according to that article. Amazon.com was the poster boy for "Don't worry about spending money now, we'll be profitable one day" mentality. That said, most other dot com companies slightly misinterpreted this strategy. One thing that Amazon.com did differently than its counterparts which were also losing money was it pursued moderate and steady growth rather than exponential curve growth. I think we see a similar situation these days in startups. It's all about scaling up as fast as possible to millions of users. But here we have a company liked 37 Signals saying "don't worry about scalability, we'll get their one day, just throw more hardware at the problem". Scale eventually, has sort of been a 37 Signals tenet hasn't it? For all the companies pursuing functional this, and threaded-that, jumping onboard the latest greatest languages and platforms for scalability, 37 Signals and Rails is chugging along quite nicely. In fact, I bet they'd reply "What scalability problem?" if anyone were to ask, as they likely don't have one right now.
AFAIK you can run FreeBSD and of course Windows on KVM

The only requirement is your CPU's full virtualization support. A lot of CPU recently are capaple of hardware virtualization, except low end processors.
You can't capture the output buffer on a fatal error; the script just aborts. You do have to wait till the end of your script to write your output otherwise this doesn't work very well but here is some (simplified) code:

$errorTemplate = file_get_contents("errortemplate.html");
$templates = explode('%error%', $text, 2);
ini_set('error_prepend_string', $templates[0]);
ini_set('error_append_string', $templates[1]);
ini_set('html_errors', '0');

The errortemplate.html file is a static HTML file that can contain anything you want. Ours is themed up just like any other page on our website. When a fatal error is triggered, the text %error% will be replaced with the fatal error text. We place that into a form using a hidden textarea so our users can submit it to us.

<textarea style="display: none;">%error%</textarea>

The server log will contain the fatal error, so you don't care about users submitting it you can just wrap it in a comment.

<!-- %error% -->

And that's all there is to it.
As a circle expands, its area grows proportional to its circumference. The circumference is proportional to the radius.

Exactly. In symbols, this reads dA/dr = C ∝ r. Setting τ = C/r = 6.2831853…, we have dA = C dr = τ r dr => A = ½ τ r². Q.E.D.
OMG Ponies (Aka Humanity: Epic Fail)
Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget
I will come out and say it: categorically dismissing fictional books as "not real" (and therefor uninteresting) is both strange and stupid.

Fiction can be as real as the author wishes to make it, as an endeavor to elucidate their ideas and insights regarding the 'real world' through the telling of a story. I'd never be so audacious as to state "I hate non-fiction, there's very little to learn from boorish, presumptuous, and poorly considered interpretations of the author's reality"

This sort of navel-gazing article is uninteresting and of questionable real-world value, reminiscent of breathless puff pieces on the (soon to be forgotten) luminaries of .com technology that were so popular in the mid to late 1990s.
Despite Slump, Greylock Raises $575 Million Fund
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

When markets move this much, there's bound to be at least one person who made an out-of-the-ordinary amount of money. Doesn't mean he can do it again.
If he's selling, someone is buying, and vice-versa.
...and just finished last week. I'll be honest: if you really learned most of the depth in your field in college, and you've been out for a while, you've been a slouch.
ZFS gets inline dedupe - Switch it on and off at the dataset level
> Why run your stuff on inadequate, antiquated hardware?

Sometimes the problem isn't about performance, rather it's about fault-tolerance and redundancy. Granted, if all of these servers are located in the same data center, redundancy takes a hit. But all else being equal, having one's software running on multiple machines reduces down-time.
I can personally attest to the fact that ServerPronto, at least, lets you run OpenBSD. (Of course, you'll have to upgrade from their very old version yourself, and I presume support won't know much about it. But it works, about as well as can be expected for the price, and most virtualization doesn't.)
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It's not really HTTP that is going to be a problem - as long as you are willing to live with the latency and low (upstream) bandwidth, that is - it's SMTP. Many mail servers will drop anything from a residential line without even telling you, and with (some) good reason(s).
I also dropped out of high school. I just stopped showing up, and spent my days writing code. Way better education than classes.

About truant officers: One day, walking along the sidewalk at 10:00 a.m. or so, I saw a truant officer walking along the sidewalk, too, in the opposite direction. He spotted a different teenager, also walking along, and arrested him. I think the truant officers ignored me for two reasons: because I didn't look like a truant, and because I lived near a college campus. I didn't have a computer of my own, so I went to the college campus and wrote code there every day. I probably looked like a "precocious" college student (I was 15, and probably appeared 13).

BTW, I never saw any difficulty later in life due to dropping out of high school. I've never seen anyone look at anyone's grades on a résumé or job application, never had anyone give a damn about my lack of credentials.

And now I'm a Ph.D. student.
I vividly remember this because of the way the xnu kernel switches in and out of 32 bit mode, which broke Dino's Vitriol VT-x rootkit, which I needed to have working for a Black Hat talk on rootkit detection, which necessitated me tracking down an old Macbook to run my demo on.
The examples presented here could be handy for learning about Rails techniques or (in my case, at least) helping you re-evaluate scenarios in your own code.

Very thoughtful presenation.
Bandwidth is only cheap if you commit to buy large amount of traffic, like a 10Gb uplink. It's still expensive from single server level.

Take a look at EC2, i think income from bandwidth charge is the main source of profit. The base price of an instance only covers electricity, maintaince and initial hardware cost IMO.
I voted "other". Associated of Arts in Humanities. Certificate in GIS (equivalent to graduate level work). Certificate in something my employer required and sent me to. A few classes short of a bachelor's -- and have been for several years.

No bachelor's plus graduate equivalent work in something most folks haven't heard of means I'm simultaneously overqualified and underqualified for just about any job I might apply for. Time to start my own thing, I guess.
"you need to understand at least this much: there is no legitimate way to extract $X from users who don't have $X to spend."

Unless you're in the real estate business.