skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From their FAQ->Security page:
"For security reasons Ipredator do not use any American software neither for encryption nor for any other part (we anticipate that most users will in spite of that use an American OS), but there is noting stopping an advanced user from accessing Ipredator with a more secure operating system or use a specific VPN-client."
I don't think I've seen a call to use linux worded like this before..
Isn't the reason why Microsoft's OS is always "almost-there" the fact that they have the US government (and every tech competitor) looking over their shoulder every second, analyzing every new feature to make sure it doesn't sqaush some poor helpless competitor?

It's the reason we went 5+ years without any browser innovation, and it's probably the reason why we don't have a good built in Firewall, Anti-Virus or even paint application. Some of it might be MS protecting their software partners (which is ok in my book) but if I had big brother analyzing every move I made, I wouldn't spend millions building something only to have it excluded because some whiny EU/US politician think it's unfair.

I don't think it's fair to criticize MS for half-baked features when you realize that they need software makers to stay happy, and they need big brother to keep their nose out of their tech.

MS doesn't release it's own PC (ala Apple) because they can't or don't know how, they don't because it would piss off Dell/HP and the politicians who represent the districts where those companies reside.
Why so much engineering? A footpedal introduces an element of accidental turning on why the hands are dangerously close to the blades. How about instead a labelmaker? Or a convention, say red switches mean garbage disposal, closest to the sink, etc.

Mostly I think a big point here is why everyone thinks of the residential power switches as strictly for lights? The are other things I turn on with "light-switches". These include: ceiling fans, wall sockets, vent fans and all power to my garage. I have never thought of this as unexpected, and no guest at my house has ever complained that I should take the fans off of 'lights only' switches.
Plus, most of the original concerns don't even make sense, even if you take them at face value.

100 years to rise a foot? Millions and millions of people dead? Sure....

All glaciers melting is going to cause sea level rise? I see someone's missed the lesson on buoyancy and displacement.
how much money did reddit make the founders?
I didn't mean they are more "scientific" (whatever that means), I just meant that when you make errors you can come to an erroneous conclusion. If enough studies are incorrect, it will impact the accuracy of the overall conclusion, otherwise you'd hope that most studies are correct.
Crank up the mouse acceleration?
You can never prove a scientific theory, you can only disprove it. You can confirm a theory a million times but that does not imply that it will work the next time. It does however give us some amount of confidence that it will.

Your definition of "prove" is too narrow. From my online WordWeb dictionary:

Verb: prove (proved,proven)
1. Be shown or be found to be
2. Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
3. Provide evidence for
4. Prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
5. Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
...etc...

Many senses of this word relate to subjecting something to a test, rather than proof in the mathematical sense.
Rock Band Network Is Creating A Whole New Industry
Lua numbers are not boxed in the usual sense; they live in the Lua data stack (which leaves in the C heap, but this is not isomorphic to the Lua heap), are not accessed through a pointer, and do not put pressure on Lua's memory allocator and garbage collector.

LuaJIT 2's NaN tagging alone does not speed up the stock interpreter: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/44823.
I saw a new microwave with a dial on it. You need to press a button, turn the dial, and then press twice on the dial to actually cook something. They can only have been deliberately trying to confuse people.
Linux 64-bit Sunspider benchmarks

FF 3.6 x86_64: 2940 ms
Chromium x86_64 : 656 ms

enuff said
Facebook : Breaking Ground on Our First Custom Data Center
Shannon and Gallagher's research is extremely important to wireless communications, without them we would still be talking using wires. A CRC checksum can only tell you when some bits flipped while in transmission -- these codes can tell you which bits they were and correct them so that you don't need to resend the packet (or drop it on the floor).
Then it becomes an issue to hit buttons. As the screen resolution grows, the percentage of the screen area that the button takes up shrinks. If you increase the speed of the mouse to compensate for the size of the screen, it makes hitting precise targets more difficult.
Nice email trick. I personally hate when I can't easily find pricing online though.
How to make your Gtalk experience more interesting by some simple tips
So far, I'm impressed with the performance of 3.6 -- it's noticeably faster.
Do you have a lot of plugins installed? I tested on a 6-month-old MacBook Pro 13", on both OS X and Win7, and Firefox starts up pretty much instantly (less than 500msecs). Agreed, Chrome and Safari seem marginally faster, but I don't close my browser very often, so it really doesn't matter.
Any chance for a QT entry in the Libraries & Frameworks section? That's defiantly a framework worth noting, but I'm not sure how much cheatsheets are out there for it. They are kind of hard to find.
And certain other parts of the world only think they got it: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/802

"More than 60 foreign citizens representing 22 nationalities are under sentence of death in the United States of America (USA). In virtually every case, the arresting authorities failed to notify detained foreigners of their right to communicate with their consular representatives."
I think he offers an excellent framework for the three kinds of leaders necessary for a startup to scale from idea to major company. Some entrepreneurs have the ability to lead at more than one stage of the company, some try and fail, and the rest are not given the chance.

This reminds me of a story a successful serial entrepreneur told me a few years ago (I blogged about it at http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2006/12/21/two-images-of-startu... ) An avid cyclist, he thought of the entrepreneurial journey with a VC as having two distinct phases: in the pack and near the finish line.

Working with VC’s is like a bicycle race. At first you are all in
the pack and everyone works together, alternating position to
draft and move faster together than the solo leaders.

But as the finish line appears the pack breaks up as each cyclist
tries to cross it first. Even if the VC’s have been good partners
for most of the journey, they can’t resist the temptation
to break away and gain the advantage at the finish line.
I wished it had included the proof that the inverse of a permutation matrix is its transpose. That fact is cute but is not entirely obvious. Since it didn't, I'll outline an easy proof for anyone who wishes to fill in the details.

1. The transpose of a permutation matrix is a permutation matrix.

2. The product of two permutation matrices is a permutation matrix.

3. If P is a permutation matrix and Q is its transpose, then from 1 we know that Q is a permutation matrix and from 2 we know that PQ is a permutation matrix.

4. The lecture showed that anything times its transpose is symmetric. So show that the only symmetric permutation matrix is the identity matrix and you've shown that PQ is the identity matrix. Therefore Q must be the inverse of P.

QED
I'm really skeptical that the demonstrated setup will provide adequate cooling. As a simple example, why not just run your hardware in a big pile on the ground? Answer: your exhaust is too close to the air intake, creating a positive feedback loop. I tried this, and a small pile of 3 2u servers got smoking hot overnight.

After I built an enclosure to ensure the air intake was separate from the exhaust, they now run great. The shelves are 3u, so there is space between the servers (and I don't like this fact), but the system stays cool because airflow is good enough.

Also, with the kind of airflow you expect from rack mount hardware, the Ikea setup is going to cake the insides of those systems with dust. The air intakes are going to be visibly accumulating within a week. In my solution, I added a simple air screen, and it reduced dust DRAMATICALLY.

Regarding this article, I predict disaster, based on my experience with the at-home rack mount hardware...
Yes, it feels like "vinyl" - like I'm listening to vinyl except I'm in a little storage closet and I just tipped a box of records all over my face and my face is bleeding.

You broke your site. This is a visualization with an interface crowded into it. Revert and offer this - let's calm down and be honest - basic slideshow as a new visualization.

Imagine that instead of a pretty picture of the band, there was just a white background. Now look at the interface. It's a nightmare. The song that I'm listening to is controlled at the top right, except for hearts/comments, which are on the left side (except when I try to give a heart, the button slides away from me). The song-forward and back buttons are on opposite sides of the screen, well away from play/pause/volume. None of this would be a problem if the controls were visually/conceptually linked in some non-spatial way, but they are not.

I'd like to know the user testing process you used, and whether you ran this by whoever did your already-great former UI layout. I just hope your guiding light wasn't a small group of hardcore users and passers-by shouting "awesome, intimate, inspired, daring, and elaborate". It sure as hell wasn't your community.
Microsoft Will Unveil Its Own Phone, Jefferies Says
Wow - great input. Thanks very much.
A Comparison Between Left- and Right-justified Site Navigation Menus [2003]
Telling that you use the word bible, as the Holy Bible, to which this is a simile, is usually accepted by its believers based on faith, regardless of how outlandish its claims of truth might be.

I'm not saying global climate change isn't real and isn't a threat, but I think there's a lot more religion and faith behind the idea then there ought to be from the scientific community, and especially the media.
10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr
In Chrome under Linux, clicking "Click here to edit your tweet" does not clear the text box or reset the font to black. Also clicking any of the buttons has no effect. Seems to work under Firefox, though...
Agreed, when searching for some kind of library that might potentially be of use to me, it's extremely annoying to have to fill in a form requiring name, position, phone, address, fax number and whatnot; or to go through a lengthy registration and email address confirmation to download a library sample version.
Do you mean that they chronically underpay people (and thus that you could predict success by looking at companies that pay their employees a lot)? Or are you just observing that all else being equal, companies want to pay less, and workers want to make more, and they either meet at a mutually acceptable value or refuse to do business with one another.
Sure. I will look into QT cheatsheets to add. Any suggestions?
Reminds me of the classic http://helmer.sfe.se/
Linux render cluster in an Ikea cabinet.
Oops. I meant to reference the Kindle's price. I already have an iPhone.
I wish Firefox would adopt the single location/search field.
Okay, so the "RE:" was a very very nice addition. Did you ever get metrics without teh mispelling?
yes, incorrect studies are inaccurate, which is bad. :P
Bad design is everywhere. I am typing on an Apple keyboard because the key feel is nice. The machined aluminium and white keys add a touch of quality to my desk. The scruffy A4 notebook it sits on to counter the uncomfortable and unconfigurable propped-up-at-the-back tilt spoils it slightly.

Vista. When I need a new PPTP connection, I open "Network Connections" (where PPTP connections are listed), then go looking for File -> New (which doesn't exist), then File -> Connect which is greyed out and irrelevant, I glance longingly at at the temptress of File -> New Incoming Connection which is available - if only it was for Outgoing connections - then try Right Click -> New..., which also doesn't exist.

After cursing for a bit I remember to go to the Network And Sharing Center (where PPTP connections are not listed) and click "Connect to Network".

Am I the only PuTTY user who opens it, connects to a host, types the wrong username and then gets annoyed when on a failed login it only re-prompts for a password, not for both username and password?
For what it's worth, I actually knew that, but I didn't think the coldness would be clear in context without mentioning it.
While I agree with you to some extent, the other side of the coin reminds me that it's far easier to document your code as you go, then to go back and and do it all at the end.

Documenting the startup process is a valuable endeavour, for both the author and his reader, which may not be done well, or at all, if left to the end.
Do you have a Twitter account that I could follow? Interested in following your story but I killed my RSS reader a while ago.
TV remotes are famously bad, like you said.

I think a good solution would be to use a Wii-like remote, that just has a handful of buttons on it. Put the common options (volume, on/off, last channel, menu) on the remote, and everything else as an on-screen menu, which you would point to with the Wii-mote.
I don't understand your point. If you want purely technical training, go to IIT or ITT or MIT. Universities exist to give well rounded education.
Strip Feedburner campaign parameters (and other campaign parameters) from submitted URLs.

This doesn't have a functional impact on the website, since the link still works, but as a web analyst I have OCD about keeping data clean. If people are getting to the page from HN, then their visit shouldn't get credited to feedburner. There's also a benefit to HN in doing this: In google analytics, campaign data overwrites referrer data, which means Hacker News does not receive credit for the traffic it directs to those sites, if there's a campaign code stealing credit.

While the same applies to any sort of analytics campaign tracking query parameters, Feedburner is the only culprit I've seen on hacker news, and they generally have the Google Analytics tracking parameters, which all start with UTM.
Had the same thought, 'taht' would make me _less_ likely to buy.
Odd. I have two 1920x1280 monitors (arranged as yours). With my mouse acceleration I can go from extreme left to extreme right without much effort (don't have to lift my palm off the desk). Yet I can easily hit small targets a few pixels across. Buttons are easy.

This is on Windows - haven't switch to Mac to test it - maybe the OS X acceleration is linear and hence a bit sucky?
I find that writing an email is a good way to let people know you wrote an email.

Several unethical sales tricks.
The author doesn't test his hypothesis, by comparing the success rate of outsourcing to a low PDI country.
What to do if compromised [pdf]
Why did you decide to quit RSS? Distraction, not enough bang for your buck?
Maybe it's different in OS X, but my (admittedly single) large screen doesn't pose a problem. If I'm mousing from one corner to another, I move the mouse more definitively and I cross the screen in 3.5 inches of mouse travel (just tested). When I'm near a button I move the mouse more tentatively, and one inch of cursor travel corresponds to an entire inch of mouse travel.

So it's not just cursor speed, but acceleration that matters. And if it's implemented properly, I don't think your issue would be an issue at all.
Yes it does have some bearing and I think it's reasonable to suggest that "rosetta" is part of the common language especially in the context of translation. I recall that Microsoft has had problems defending "Windows", even though it's a registered trademark. I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the main consideration is whether someone could be seen as "passing off" their work under the name of a competitor. The courts won't allow me to exploit your reputation to sell my products.
Yes, roughly in the middle of both of them. I don't do the misspelling anymore, just for sake of proper grammar, but it was always the best converter with.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Dromaeo

It looks like it is not ready for wide usage.
Read the following Scott Adams blog quotes:

"I can't get past the fact that it's sitting there wasting energy while its only function is to confuse me up to three dozen times per day."

"Lately I have been wondering whether online reviews should remain legal."

"I can't help seeing world affairs as essentially a bunch of middle managers sitting around a rectangular table coming up with clever ways to convince the masses that turds are diamonds."

"Humans are obsessed with their weight. I think a big part of that obsession is the simple fact that weight is easy to measure."

"What the world needs is software that makes it easy for senior citizens to use e-mail."

Now imagine them being read by an angry Andy Rooney.

I'm just putting that out there.
If it was at terminal velocity it should be considered, but it's yet to get off the ground.
Until then, psyco is a great JIT compiler that really works.
Ask HN: Review my site - readit.me
Holiday Inn UK: Using "bed warmers" to bring temperatures up to 68F
So, anyone know any companies that subscribe to the above article? :P
Former gang member turns entrepreneur... by giving tours of LA gangs
Indeed. Although the idea was more to draw a general point. There's not a chance I would buy it, because the site looks exactly like every scam e-book site I've ever seen: yellow background, way too much text down the middle with a cheesy picture, an overabundance of bold text, randomly quoted text (why are any of the headers quoted?), and (you guessed it) made up testimonials. Everything about the page screams, "This is a scam. Don't give this guy any of your money." For comparison, this is what the page of the only e-book I've ever bought directly from the author looked like:

http://todoodlist.com/

It's the polar opposite. It has an amount of text that someone might actually read. The typography is restrained and not screaming at me with bold text and big headers every other word. It tells me things I'm actually getting instead of just making lofty promises. (When you tell me you have a chapter called "Zen Kitten in a Box" it's pretty easy to believe you really have fun essays. However, when you tell me I'm going to get laid by reading a career book, I'm skeptical.)
Think about this: If the email ended with something like "Sent from my iPhone", I would probably overlook certain spelling errors and assume that the mail was a real message from a real person, not a form letter.

The real goal, to make the message seem personal and trick the receiver into seeing it as a positive interaction, is surprisingly easy to achieve.
Without a moon there are no tides, so I suspect there would be no tides with the rings since they're evenly distributed. Is this right? Anyone smarter than me care to chime in on this?

Also, wouldn't this have a drastic effect on the weather? Would higher order life even be viable under such an arrangement?
That is (a) false and (b) has nothing to do with the point at hand (the OP has "good skin" as one of his indicators of quality -- he's clearly not talking about quality in a deep sense, unless you think that having good skin makes you worth more as a human being!).
You sure about that? Imagine there are 6 or 7 vendors selling a component you need for your software. Most are sending you form replies. With one you are talking to a real person who emails you and answers your questions promptly, and speaks in a normal way and made a spelling mistake in his rush to email you, but otherwise spellt correctly.

Would you not feel reassured that someone will fix your problems when you have them? Would that spelling mistake be so critical in your choice?
I started out with Java, but I've worked in PHP for a few years now. I dabbled with Django, but this is my first attempt to build anything useful in Rails. It uses the Amazon API to gather book data, and obviously authlogic + facebooker for Facebook Connect.
I've heard the story where there was a 10x difference in the time it took CS students to complete a series of system programming assignments, but are there other anecdotes out there? I'm very suspicious of this story, and think that a lot of this fabled 10x multiple can be explained by extrinsic circumstances or luck. At least that's what I've observed in science where easy experiments in a field that is new and fashionable can yield lots of interesting papers, where taking on more difficult projects in established fields can require much more work to achieve incremental results.
This one went for $1 million, or was going to until he was arrested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
My grandfather's house has light switches for the lights in the garage, the doorbell, and the garage door opener. People have dented their cars, which were parked halfway into the garage, trying to ring the doorbell. There is now a sign posted with very detailed instructions.
That's what mouse acceleration is for (in comparison with mouse speed) - acceleration deals with when you move the mouse slowly it moves slowly for precision use, but when you move it quickly it moves faster than a linear proportional speedup of the slow movement.

When it's not right, the end result is moving the mouse quickly to get near a button, then slowing down and the cursor slows down more and you both miss the button and get annoyed that it's only creeping ever more slowly towards it like a digital Zeno's arrow.
That convention alone didn't keep my kids from accidentally turning on the disposal. I replaced the light switches with ones that glow when off, and left the disposal switch normal. Nobody has turned on the disposal by accident since.
Sudoku.
Yeah completely agree. As a startup founder, I know what I am good at. I also know that it isn't yet the time to bring the 'mainstream management' on board. I have to eliminate the risk and create a business based on some defensive position and repeatable customer sales proposition.

In short take us somewhere unambiguous to then hand the reins over.
Microsoft releases out-of-band patch for zero-day attack flaw
Brain Rules review
OK, this wasn't a "mistake". It was citing pop science as peer-reviewed research because it happened to support their preconceived position. I'd expect that from Wikipedia, not from self-proclaimed "real" scientists.
Confirmed: Facebook is the 'Company X' Data Center
In Sweden I wouldn't say that kids enjoy learning it, but everyone sees it as absolutely necessary. It's also used every day because all music, all TV-shows (except some really bad Swedish shows) and all movies are in English.

Since we start so early and never stop until we're 18, everyone just kind of accepts it as something part of life and by the time you're 18 you're perfectly fluent.
Hey that is really nice. Will it show me recommendations in some way?
Apple, labels talk music in the cloud
The wii mote grates on me - there I am holding a device with buttons, with up/down/left/right buttons, and not only that, but with a directionless bluetooth connection instead of infra-red and what do I need to do to choose menu items? Hold it up in a place where it can see the TV(!), accurately point to a few square centimeters half a room away, and then press a button on the device anyway.