skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too bad that the majority takes the moral fashions Paul talks about in these two articles so seriously. So, in the end, one can only discuss these topics with close friends, whose reaction you can be fairly sure about.

Case in point: someone's comment in a thread about suicide last night. Sure, it was offensive. And the karma drop that resulted was frightening. Which is exactly the point: if you state a certain opinion on certain subjects, the outcome is something entirely different from rational discussion.
Sunrays are amazing little devices -- one of Sun's hidden gems. I'm amazed it's taken so long for them to get around to offering such a service.

I had a play with one a few months ago, putting a VM running Solaris and the Sunray server in the datacentre, and a Sunray on my desk at the end of an ADSL line. Browsing the web was almost as good as on a local computer, even when I tried watching videos on the BBC news site!
My 8 hour journey to a single character
Premarital sex and homosexuality have also been around for thousands of years, but I think it's safe to say what is generally accepted by the mainstream ("of our default educated east coast beliefs") would shock & awe the mainstream of the 1830s.
Tool of the Day: Send, Sign and Store PDFs with DocQ
Educating teachers to achieve "cultural competence"
This is a perfect example of "because I can". Never ever do this for real.
We can offer you a VPS that comes with a controlpanel, we can probably use one of the free panels around. I don't like offering cpanel, since they are quite expensive. send us an email on info (@) wijtec (dot) nl.

We only use VPSs with dedicated hardware assigned to it, so no shared memory, or shared cpu. Other customers can't cause delays on your service.
An anecdote:

Two colleagues from different industries (one insurance, one technology) were Palm Treo users. After installing various 3rd party apps (not malicious but related to productivity things like emails, note taking etc), both of them started experiencing sporadic crashes of the phone, for example when attempting to answer incoming calls. One blamed Palm for his problems, the other blamed one of the app vendors. Neither wanted to live without those apps. Today both of them are iPhone users.
Why newspaper circulation may be worse than it looks
There is no simple answer to society: The best combination is a mixture of many things. There'll be hints of socialism there.

Why would that be true? Aside from being the mid-point between two mutually contradictory opinions, what specifically makes you think that being a little bit of both is better than either? In the US, at least, the half-socialized sectors of the economy have been responsible for the biggest disasters -- S&Ls, Enron, and Lehman were all the result of smart capitalists exploiting dumb price controls.

Also! If you'd been writing this 80 years ago, would you have said "Dismissing democracy is as silly as dismissing fascism would be.... the best combination is a mixture of many things. There'll be hints of National Socialism there."
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/685

Link to the original talk
I've compiled it and had a brief look at this. I have got only this to say, it is a very important evolutionary step in server-side coding and coding in general. Really impressed! Though I have one more question, how do you handle concurrency? I mean, mutex, locks, etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being picky, just wondering what could be the best solution for this.

Edit:
Or Events in EventEmitter are being executed one at a time, so there is no need for locks?
This is AOL. Lameness is hardly anything new for them.
Don't play chicken with your pricing
That's the inevitable result of the approval process. Make a sophisticated app with lots of functionality, and there's a greatly increased chance that Apple will find something wrong with it. On the other hand a one button fart app will go right through.
This was an idea I had for a website I while back - basically an aggregator for grouping learning resources by topic then ranking them by skill level and quality. (So you could find the best "beginner's guides to x" or "expert tips for x" and so on).

You can take a look at www.nohao.co.uk. It's very basic, and I haven't developed it for a while, mostly because no-one seemed interested. Wasn't sure if it was because the problem it attempted to solve wasn't really a problem, or lack of features, or just not promoting it to the right people.

What could be cool is a site that (using algorithms/crowdsourcing/whatever) generated guides like this one: http://ruby-metaprogramming.heroku.com/ , where multiple resources are compiled into a programme you can follow. I had a few other ideas for the site, such as automatically setting up study groups. Though as I said, I'm not sure if I'd just be building something that no-one would use, so I haven't worked on it for a while.
All sufficiently popular platforms trend towards games. Graphics alone makes the app store a necessity.
Offline works perfectly on Mobile Safari.

http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/iPho...
AOL's branding problems (viz. the "Platform A" mess; you _do_ remember Platform A, right?) are emblematic of the larger problems they face as a company. They sit atop a great pile of technologies on the advertising side, and a great set of sites on the media side, but imagine trying to get anything innovative done at a place that is steered like this by its marketeers. The good programmers leave because of the inertia, the good marketers leave because of the branding they have to work with, etc...
A business which "...generates single-digit or low double-digit millions in revenue..." is "a lifestyle business"?!?!

I thought lifestyle businesses were small craft or bespoke software development shops which allowed an individual to earn modest revenue while following their lifestyle of choice.

A few million dollars per year in revenue provides one awesome lifestyle!
This is off-topic to begin with, and the referenced article doesn't bring anything new that wasn't discussed in at least two separate threads last week.
3 and 4 are the worst killers. If an "opponent" resorts to them you know you've won.

A forum I hang out on has an "almost troll" that has a favorite argument pastime of thinking up a conspiracy - googling some related idea and posting a long rant about it.

When he butts into the middle of the discussion with one of these you just know it's going to spiral down badly - for example whilst discussing the idea of a back door in W7 (I know, I know :() he sidetracked us onto discussing de-armament codes in missiles :)
How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice
Most items on this list are surprising effective when done by the media.
Ultra-high speed cameras Casio FC150 and FH25 capture 40 fps
Question was just what the coolest software that you have used this decade. I just started using emacs this year so its new to me.
simply untrue - its easy to communicate between javascript and native cocoa code. Take a look at the UIWebView and UIWebViewDelegate documentations here - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi... and here http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...
Counterpoint:

Apple releases a highly-portable computing platform (iPhone) and initially says "if you want to develop for it, all you have to do is write web applications". Developers rage against the irrational locking down of the system.

Google releases a highly-portable computing platform (Chrome OS) and initially says "if you want to develop for it, all you have to do is write web applications". Developers fawn over it and talk about the simplicity and openness of the system.

In other words: if writing a web app is sufficiently bad to not be worth the time on iPhone, why is it apparently generally held that it'll be sufficiently good to be worth the time on Chrome OS?
What is your company? (I tried your domain, and got an empty page.)
Not sure what this blog post says that hasn't already been said.
Note that this appears to be a scam conference. The people who pulled this prank were proving that the conference had bad reviewing practices, not that the study of physics does:

http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/sci/
Yes there are countries that are tied to the US in the sense that they are forced to keep lending. In fact this is the most striking aspect of the current crisis.

The deal is this: China lends money to the US and US consumers buy chinese exports for that money. I'm not quite sure what will happen when this scheme ends. It may be ending right now so we will see.
Comments in ClimateGate source code: unambiguous smoking gun
Is this really a winning analogy? To let everybody bumble along until patterns appear seems like a myspace strategy. Another option is to put up fences. And set folks on a finite number of paths. And call it facebook.
An entire article about waking up to the reality that people respond better to a depoliticized environmentalist narrative, bookended with Sarah Palin as linkbait in the title and punching bag in the closing paragraph. Brilliant.
I wonder if this is really the handiwork of Wolff Olins or if this was just the end result of design by committee gone horribly bad...
A native app with a web UI can present content even when there is no network connection...

My respect for quirksmode just fell, a lot. The willful ignorance he shows in his article is staggering.

And the rude delivery doesn't help either.
What is the advantage over google website optimizer?
Staying Sharp: Straight Razor Shaving as Life
'Noveller' Lets People Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day
Someone (nokia?) has/had farms of different devices which you could test on remotely. However this is unlikely to be available to run-of-the-mill developers.
Yet they were somehow motivated to continue making music.

I'm sure being tax exiles helped keep their motivation up.
To be 100% correct in literature you would need a time machine and a mind-reading device. To be the closest evidential approximation to correct, you would have to do your best to simulate these machines using every possibly accessible causal consequent of the relevant past remaining in the present. This is the "gold standard" but it would be technologically and financially implausible. Thus, "doing it right" is impossibly hard. Only "doing it wrong" is easy.
This is good, but I disagree with #8: Going to the edges

Most times it is very useful to determine just what another person is saying. Language is extremely slippery. I agree that going to the edges can be awful if done poorly, but if somebody says something like "I'm a utilitarian" I think it's perfectly honest and respectful to ask something like "Does that mean you would sacrifice a million people to give humanity an additional ten years of lifespan?"

Because sometimes "utilitarian" means that and sometimes it doesn't. Utilitarian is just a label, and labels don't in themselves have a lot of meaning. Words only have context when related to other words -- this is why every honest web discussion usually ends with a discussion in terms. Unless you explore the extremes you really have no idea what the other person is saying.

Godwin's law is awesome, but just like Occam's Razor, it has it's limits. Sometimes people are really talking about something that resembles naziism -- like say, modern nazis. So sure, 99% of the time you're whacked for bringing up nazis, there's also that other time when you're not. And you probably can't tell the difference! (smile)
Wilful ignorance indeed!

You don't need a native web app to present content without a network connection. You just need to use the HTML 5 offline application cache thats been in Mobile Safari since iPhone OS 2.1
I don't find that particularly true with Twisted because for every common blocking library there is a Twisted equivalent. Whether you need http, ssh, db, or a multitude of other protocols and interfaces, Twisted has them. Sure, you have to be a little careful, but chances are if you're using an event-based networking engine you have a good reason for doing so and a pretty specific purpose.
Carriers and HW companies may not like making side-by-side comparisons so easy. Alternately there should be names other than A,B,C which are not inherently ranked.
So AOL's entire future is built around their Weblogs Inc. properties?

Didn't they buy those for just $12 million or so?

I don't know if it's sad or awesome that a company of AOL's size and profile has decided to focus in on something that was once just a small pick-up.

From ISP to blog network....
They should rename the company to MediaGlow (the division that owns all their blogs).

http://www.mediaglow.com/

The AOL name is tarnished with both investors (from the disastrous merger with Time Warner) and consumers (nightmare cancellation tactics) alike.
Zynga May Be Valued at $1 Billion Feeding Off Facebook Craze
I would not lend USD to the US. I would lend euros to the US but they don't want any. If my income stream was US based I might lend money to the US in the form of TIPS (Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities).

The US is not going to formally default on its debt. What they are going to try is to inflate the debt away and TIPS protect you against that if your income is in USD.
Android vs iPhone for sysadmins
The data on the efficacy of political assassinations
We can sort of account for pre-marital sex, since most fathers, irregardless of the century, don't like the idea of their daughters screwing around too much, but what they like even less is them getting pregnant prematurely. Society has invented solution for that latter.
That's quite funny. IMHO, that's a failure of Palm to market/position the Treo properly. The marketing message I think would work well for smartphones is that they allow you to do anything you want. There is an app for everything, all conveniently located in one place. Actually there is more than one. See which one works for you.

Apple in all its marketing genius can pull this off. Honestly, I think they're the only company who can pull this off. My Google Android example above is certainly not part any marketing message I've heard - it's just there working in the background without anyone noting it.
How are they borderline literary theorists? One of them has a PhD in theoretical physics, the other one in mathematics.
I do not trust Silverlight, because I do not trust Microsoft. The day will come when Microsoft will make it Windows-only. Silverlight is, fundamentally, a way to undermine the open web and foster a dependency on Windows. It's also happens to be a Flash replacement. It might even be better than Flash, but it simply cannot be trusted, so I do not install it.
Hacking in the Public Interest: Protecting Yourself Early
"Lifestyle business" doesn't have to mean "cheap lifestyle".

Also, a business that generates a few million a year doesn't necessarily have 100% profit margins (in fact, I think it's safe to say that most don't).
I'm probably not thinking this through all the way, but wouldn't a memory profiler be more straight-forward, and less dangerous in Smalltalk?

I haven't built one myself, but I know that the Seaside framework comes with a built-in memory profiler.

Doing intercession of messages to objects in Smalltalk isn't trivial, but it isn't voodoo either. I whipped up a quick method replacement class that swaps out a database 'save' method's behavior for testing. However, I would imagine that trying to replace VM primitive calls would lead to some not-so-nice side effects (maybe... or would it just make the image slower?).

I like Ruby, and I like Smalltalk, but I'm liking Smalltalk much better lately because the "turtles all the way down" aspect which makes things like a memory profiler much less "voodoo-y".
If you're doing .NET development, VS is still pretty useful without all the knobs and buttons.

That said, are there any "out of the box" solutions for using a simple text editor along with some sort of build tool for working with VS projects? I realize I could write my own build scripts, but I was wondering if there are any tools available.
What I attach to here is the idea that buzz comes from very rapid assessments made by a target audience.

It's such a classic engineering mistake to demo their perfect casino server with crappy graphics on the front-end: I've made that mistake many times.

Engineers frequently fail to understand what non-engineers care about and need. Anyway, I like the general ideas he presents, but I think that his film and casino project stories would have been really different if rather than sending something that had all the technical guts in place, they sent something flashy which still needed plumbing work.

In the case of the movie, this could have been 10 minutes of awesomeness.

In the case of the casino thing, this could have been a cheapo flash demo made by some uber-designer, with a lot of handwaving on the back-end.

Both of these would have yielded better results than showing real state of the projects.

I guess I believe that nobody cares about plumbing except plumbers / engineers. Unless engineers are going to buy your product (and they'll still likely have to demo it for a non-engineer to get a purchase okay), I think it makes a huge amount of sense to aim for some initial flash.

Probably nobody needs this advice more than me, so I'm going to read it back to myself every day for a week in the hopes that it will stick..
Ask HN: Which is the best php framework in terms of performance?
I have been thinking about writing a web MVC based application in PHP (though i dont have prior php programming experience)

Initially i settled with Zend framework, and was satisfied with the tutorials available; the rich feature set it presented; but lately googled and found that the number of requests that it can handle is very meagre.

Since I did not hear about any enterprise applications built in the Zend framework I decided to switch to DooPhp.

After researching a bit abt the various available frameworks (Zend Framework, Code Igniter, Yii, DooPhp, Prado, Kohana, SolarPHP .... ) I found that there isnt much genuine comparisons done!

We are building an application which will connect to a database(Postgres) and would do basic CRUD operations, require features for sending html mails, pdf creation and reporting tools(to represent data graphically).

We dont expect very heavy loads; but in case we would definitely want to scale.

Which is the best php framework I should choose?
An eco-system is born: Linked-in opens up API
I've always been frustrated by this. I realize that as a landscape architect there are aesthetic choices and perhaps for park lovers those shortcut trails can ruin a scene; personally I think there's a certain, non-dismissible, beauty in those natural pathway formations. At the end of the day -- well, most days -- people just want to pass as fast as possible and I think it's insane to expect anything different. At the local park where I live they built small fences (about a foot tall) to guide people around the grass, and what they got instead was stomped down broken metal bars, effectively adding trash to the park.
Many of them as well are "lifestyle" businesses that are probably not going to need capital scale (and thus do not need any VC)

What would CarbonMade do with a $3 million investment?
Facebook ActionScript API Gotchas
Yeah, I'm spinning up a startup that will require about $2M in yearly sales in order for us to make a decent living off it. But, it's a marketplace app where we take a commission on each sale, so our margins are very low compared to (hopefully) what the actual sellers are making.
You may want to look at http://www.RackspaceCloud.com Sites
I found the writing here far too inflammatory to be taken seriously.
Better than Spotify
I mean offline as an experience, not as a caching problem, which in my case means games and other apps that rely on the full capabilities of the hardware. I thought that would be obvious from the context as a native app that needs online access isn't much better on the subway than a webapp.
I'm gonna call bullshit on the general conspiracy theory, here. Mobile Safari is the best mobile browser, period. And WebKit is the engine for the next best.

Adding camera, accelerometer, address-book integration etc. needs to wait for W3C standards to emerge and stabilize before they can be put into Mobile Safari.

What might prove interesting is if a standard for payment mechanisms emerges, so that a web app can take payments mediated through the iTMS.
Holiday gift ideas: Video games and toys
"...anyone who's not involved in CS research treats the products of this endeavor as if they were smallpox-infected blankets. Even when it is clearly - in my opinion - good, it winds up ignored. Because of the inescapable grant-related propaganda, it's impossible to tell what's good and what's not.
For example, recently some of the same people involved in the PL research I so dislike built a language called Cyclone, which adds some very useful safety features to C. There are still zillions of free-software projects written in C, and probably most of them could benefit from upgrading to Cyclone. But the thing has the academic kiss of death on it, and no one will touch it. The mailing list is virtually empty.
This is not just prejudice. It is rational mistrust. Academics, as we've seen, have no incentive to build software that's actually relevant, and every incentive to build software that appears to be relevant. They have every incentive to overpromote, and no incentive at all to build an actual user base. In fact, an actual user base is an enormous drag for a CS researcher, because it demands actual support, which does not advance the researcher's career at all. Also, because of the nefarious Bayh-Dole act, CS researchers are frequently armwrestled into patenting their work, which of course they have no incentive to disclose. If the rest of these factors didn't give you a reason not to use academic software, this certainly would.
The result is a world of Potemkin software which appears to be enormously useful, even revolutionary. In reality it is unusable. The researchers are some of the smartest people in the world, and surely some of what they're doing has some merit. But it is almost impossible to figure out what's wheat and what's chaff, and most sensible people just don't come near it."

- Mencius Moldbug's Unqualified Reservations

(http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-w...)
Bing has not yet carried out their plans.

Hypocritical because you think it wrong to degrade a search engine's index in return for money... but degrading a search engine's index to send a message is fine.
'Company X' Plans Large Oregon Data Center
For those of you who have taken a look at this, is there any library or construct in python that would be equivalent to the Events in Node.js? http://nodejs.org/api.html#_events

That's the deal maker for me... To have custom defined events. Correct me if I'm wrong but even Twisted doesn't have this facility?
"That could make San Francisco-based Zynga the third-largest U.S. video-game publisher by market capitalization, bigger than Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the maker of crime-game franchise Grand Theft Auto."

Awful. A company that uses sleazy monetization tactics (until someone called them out on it) and blatantly ripoffs games from competitors will be worth more than one of the most innovative game developers.

Mobwars > GTA?

I guess the valuation though reflects the business fundamentals of social vs console gaming.
I love stories from the trenches like this! I'm currently diving into the shallow end of Lucene trying to accommodate ridiculous customer requirements. I'm sure in a couple hours there will be a "hidden flag" story somewhere in here.
Totally agree. I would rather invest into companies that are starting to pick up traction. Just a personal preference. And invest into superstar entrepreneurs that are about to launch something versus investing into their idea.