skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article but I think everyone at Microsoft knows the registry was a mistake at this point. It was designed in 1991 after all.

Microsoft does seem to be slowly moving away from it (see point #9). But outright replacing it just isn't an option.

Do a cost/benefit analysis and you realize that it would be very expensive to replace it (while maintaining backwards compatibility) and 99.9% of people don't care one way or the other.
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Unfortunately, I'm not a specialist in the subject -- I have an interest in it, but also an interest in everything from artificial intelligence to Indo-European linguistics -- so I will reluctantly say that I'm out of my league here; but I advise that you look into the field more widely, and not confine yourself to RealClimate.org -- which has long struck me as on the same level of sincere inquiry as the kinds of people who deny the reality of the Sun Streak project or the plausibility of plasma cosmology. (Make of that what you will, of course; you may be proud to be a member of that group...)

Edit: One thing I can say is that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did occur world-wide; following Fernand Braudel's _The Structures of Everyday Life_ and the _Annales Histoire_ school of economic historians in general, the same climate phenomena were encountered in both Europe and China, which are by no means part of the same sub-planetary climate spheres.
I have a zillion of these seemingly simple ideas and barely ever execute on them. So, congrats on the finished minimum viable product and rapid release!

I'm commenting here because I'm very interested in how this small project works out for you.
Sure, but your fingerprints at the scene of the crime and the stolen stuff piled in your closet is going to look a little worse.
Does anyone else dismiss this phenomenon as just a generation misusing an interactive medium? I think the "noob" label is misleading given the scope of the problem.
My Asus laptop has one. It's small and green, and if it weren't there, I would always be paranoid that my laptop was spying on me.
Every-time this guy opens his mouth something ignorant and unsympathetic comes out and a bit of my Google-love dies. :-(
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Yes, WinMob 6 development, at least with the Compact Framework, is not a pleasant experience.
It looks like a proxy for the twitter landing page, but I won't use it to login.
The EPA maintains a list of green power companies at http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/pubs/gplocator.htm. It's honestly worth making the change if you can.

Here in NYC all you have to do is change which ESCO provides you power; I switched to ConEd Solutions two years ago. It's either 1 or 2.5 cents more per kWh (depending on which plan you pick) which works out to only a few extra bucks. Your energy is still technically the same (the electricity generated from your ESCO just goes into the general pool) but it's another step in the right direction.
Why current browsers are not using this, or some improved version of this algorithm?
IIRC, the point was that it wasn't entirely that the officials' actions were illegal. There were some earlier rulings and issues of being in loco parentis that clouded the issue sufficiently that the Supreme Court's hands were effectively tied. Of course, now that the Supreme Court has given an explicit ruling in this case, it would be pretty difficult for anyone to pull that defence in future.

None of this means the actions weren't grossly disproportionate, unreasonable, and abusive in the eyes of any sane, independent observer, but unfortunately that isn't what court rulings are based on.
this is a great news, it should be a good news for weapps coder, build once and use on all plattform, good news.
Your perception of what Flash can do is very limited.

Case in point: almost all publishers use Adobe InDesign to create their publications, which thus translates really well into multimedia magazines (such as the Wired demo).

Flash is also the core platform for RIAs wherein companies and services can provide rich media interfaces. Inasmuch as HTML/JS is popular on HNews, designers still use Adobe products almost exclusively, so Flash-based RIAs are going to be the most interesting to experience (and easiest to publish).
Microsoft to Google: We've got a better corporate email product
The Data that was exposed was in effect, who your top 6 or so most emailed contacts are. That data was never made public before.

How would you feel if somebody took the top few contacts in your address book and shared them all with each other? That is exactly what Google has done.

As a freelancer would you want the email addresses of your top 6 clients all exposed to each other?

Would you want to explain to your current significant other why you are now following your ex-girlfriends Google buzz? Would you want them to have each others contact info?

Would you want your top six most emailed contacts to be publicly available to your current employer?

Whether people opted in to this behavior via some obscure, hard to understand TOS agreement or not is immaterial. The end result is just poor design though and through.
Good observation. I think you're right ;)
Do you have any plans on intra-character spacing as well? I know this is done in print to reduce the word gaps in justified text but I'm not sure if the resolution on screen would allow it.

I have a &shy; hyphenator using Liang's algorithm as a YUI3 module if you're interested.
You may carry as much cash as you like across the United States border (in either direction), but, as you correctly say, amounts over a specified dollar limit are supposed to be reported to the federal government. It is indeed unclear how the government could know how many persons comply with this regulation. Regulations like this usually have the effect of giving law enforcement officials something to charge a person with if the cash is discover during a search prompted by probable cause to suspect some other illegal activity.
Also posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1133939
I do the same here in NYC, and by using a mixed fixed/variable pricing plan from my renewable supplier, I often find I save money on electricity costs, especially during peak usage/high demand periods.

In my experience, though, it seems like most people aren't even aware that you can do this in many states. Anytime it comes up in conversation people always seem to be amazed that they can choose to have their electric company purchase renewables for their account.

It seems like this option needs a better marketing strategy, as there are lots of people out there that would be interested in taking advantage of this, yet have no idea it exists.
So you wish you'd exercised the equivalent of a robots.txt?
I'm sure he'll have a reason why you're not writing "English", either.
75,000 computer hacked, one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says
Copy/Paste please with a cited quotation.
Not so be mean but Songkick is on a one year lowest on compete.com: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/songkick.com/

I believe the idea is nice but I'm not sure if anyone can survive referring ticket sales online.
Technology enabled spying seems to be completely ubiquitous now. Maybe new laws can be passed, but given recent history I'm not optimistic about that. Probably the best strategy is to try to encourage more equiveillance.

As an immediate workaround if you are the parent of one of the children with these laptops:

i) Complain to the school. Make sure your complaint is formally registered (not just verbal on the phone).

ii) Install an operating system onto the laptop yourself, to ensure that there is nothing untoward installed in the background. Preferably use some linux distro, or if you are an ardent Windows fan take a backup image after a new installation which can easily be restored later to overwrite any nasties which may have been installed later.
duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134022
No. Most desktop developers don't get PowerManagement. Unless they've managed to abstract all of this away now? :D

I'm interested to know how much of a change this is, is this a new skin or REALLY a brand new operating system?
Can I finally send sync on a socket AND use a timeout? ;)
Sweet; I haven't yet had an opportunity to use the new equation editor. That's exactly what I want; though.
This is lateral thinking. You're in the "All or Nothing" camp. The binary reasoning. The very thing that makes innovation impossible.

In your world, YouTube, Vimeo and experimental web development wouldn't exist.

HTML5 video and audio is being implemented TODAY because Flash created that demand at it's current rate of absorbency.

So it should die? Flash is a breeding ground for ideas. What if Flash introduced a new approach to video conferencing / VOIP and allowed developers to play with the experience among multiple audiences?

We wait for the "standards" bodies to "aggressively" implement these advancements?

Or watch all browsers attempt to implement features inconsistently and cause more pain circa 1998?

Flash death = death of experimentation and innovation in RIA.
If Matt Taibbi wrote an article on a stick of poo and mailed it to me, I'd still read every word.
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#dreamitpitch New search engine with better results and less garbage. Better results through zero-click Info, official sites, and more.

#dreamitpitch A book that demystifies how businesses get traction. Made up of interviews with successful entrepreneurs and investors.
It could be a development version as well, they've hosted their blog on [corrected from comment below]Blogger for as long as I can remember...

[Google] http://blog.twitter.com/ -> http://whois.domaintools.com/74.125.113.121

[NTT/Verio] http://search.twitter.com -> http://whois.domaintools.com/168.143.162.123

[NTT/Verio] http://twitter.com -> http://whois.domaintools.com/128.121.146.228
You are completely right. My bad!
The linked blog has created an new way to access the registry that happens to also run on Linux. The larger project (http://libguestfs.org) aims to be able to make changes to virtual disks that comprise virtual machines without having to actually turn them which is pretty neat if the same registry tweak needs to be applied across a bunch of machines. But that explains why their new registry access api needs to be compatible with the various windows OSes.
This is wrong. I don't think their actions are justifiable in any way, but that's my justice-prevails-US-POV. But this line from an officer is crazy: “But this is Foxconn and they have a special status here. Please understand.” Just represents their altered state of operations over there. shrugs I'm just happy the reporter didn't suffer major injuries.
For those interested in this subject, I would suggest looking into ROWE - Results-Only Work Environment.

http://gorowe.com/

The basic tenet of ROWE is to stop doing busy-work, and start doing only what matters. Stop wasting everyone's time. All meetings are optional. You work when and where and how you like, as long as the job gets done. That's key, by the way... as long as the job gets done.

The most common objection in the corporate world seems to be "but how will we know if people are doing their job if they aren't in the office from 9 - 5?" and the answer, of course is "how do you know now?" (hint: for the most part, you don't, unless you have clear goals and are judging people solely on output rather than on face-time etc.)

In a start-up this is hardly an issue!
While I agree that such a data display would be a big problem, it's simply not true about Buzz.

The Data that was exposed was in effect, who your top 6 or so most emailed contacts are.

Only if you have the box which says it makes your following-list public to people following you checked and they set up their public profile. If it's not checked, then no, they can't see the data. Try checking someone you're following who has that box un-checked, and all you'll see is their public profile page and whether or not they're following you.

Again. It's opt-in, and only shows things which are public anyway. If you see a request to make things public, like Buzz offered from day 1, then for the love of God, READ what's being made public. Especially if you have sensitive data on the account, or use it professionally. It was idiotic of them to check the box by default, but individuals are still responsible for leaving it checked.

edit:
The original notification: http://img694.imageshack.us/i/buzzflaw.jpg/ Note that it says "people you follow, and people who follow you". Editing your profile via the edit link before approving allowed you to turn off the "people you follow" display, and now there's a checkbox right on that popup (which should've been there to begin with, but still).

edit2: bah, static link fail. Updated link. Original source: http://is.gd/8Fduj
https://gmail.google.com - Make sure you're getting Google's SSL cert and not the schools. For private browsing there is Tor.

Better to just work around the system. If you try to change it you'll be flagged as a criminal or terrorist and they'll start watching you more closely.

Move along student/citizen... nothing to see here.
Getting users for my niche product
I recently launched the beta for http://gainstudio.com, a subscription-model scheduling, project management, and facility management tool for recording, film, and production studios.

I have a dozen or so beta testers who I've been working with throughout development, but it's time to put some real energy into driving lots more people to my site.

This is a pretty niche product. How would you market it? I have an adwords campaign set up, but haven't quite seen the volume I need to get signups. I've hit up the major bloggers in this arena with offers of discount codes and extended trials for their readers, but nobody has written anything yet. My next step is to go out to forums and other discussion sites and just start posting and conversing, but I think that could take some time to build up a critical mass.

Has anybody had luck with print advertising? What about industry trade shows? Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
Unfortunately, the notion that Yahoo management could decide to do something and then do it makes me laugh and laugh.
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Google took the address book of each and every buzz user and made a subset of that data public with little or no warning that this behavior would occur.

This is a huge, huge miss step for a company who wants to be the banker for all of your personal data.

Trust is everything.

Look at how many services Google offers They can know your buying habits, where you live, where you are right now, your credit card number, your friends, your contacts, your browsing habits. If they can't be absolutely trusted with your data it is game over. Period. The end.
How is it easy to disprove? The trojan could delete itself after downloading CP. Should be impossible to reconstruct what happened exactly.
Clickable link: http://gainstudio.com
Even worse actually. If the mandatory reporters at the school heard about this girl being strip searched by mom & dad for drugs, they would, without a second thought, report the parents to some authority. But when they do it in loco parentis the same behavior is OK?
Their blog is hosted on Blogger, not AppEngine, which is also part of Google.
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Conversation between a user and a restaurant website
Which is balanced by all of the cool projects in the apache incubator:

http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/
http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/
http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/

(and that's just the stuff out of FB)
they're well funded.

If they can accumulate data about consumer behaviours and music trends that makes for a really valuable data asset, no?
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i've long had an irrational fear that someone would compromise my computer and upload some modified firmware to the camera that would allow it to record without illuminating the light.

i always keep a piece of electrical tape over the cameras on my computers now.

</tinfoil_hat>
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Good tips. I love my job right now, salary is good, work is not too hard, I have time to learn new skills. However, one thing that is frustrating is that there are those on my team that refuse to work and management never disciplines them for any reason. They are allowed to just collect a paycheck, while only putting in about 2 hours of actual work every week. This is mentioned in the article.

Any tips for me? Just suck it up and try to do good at my job is what I've been doing for the last 3 years, but sometimes it gets frustrating.
I think you make a lot of good points. The video and voip examples are pretty convincing.
I read a lot of controversial Schmidt quotes, but when I occasionally get to the context they're much more benign. It could be that the guy is simply a prime target for this kind of thing.
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It's that utm_* tracking garbage again, messing up the dup filter.
> * some way of knowing when a city wasn't found - right now if I type the name of an unrecognised place then it isn't clear that the time displayed is no longer valid

I second this. I tried to type in Zurich at first but the time didn't change and there was no error message either.

Great job though. Very useful tool. Bookmarked.
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Didn't the "privacy" quote also come from the Guardian? Could there be some kind of bias here you think?

Nowhere in his full quotes did he blame users for being confused.

"I would say that we did not understand how to communicate Google Buzz and its privacy," he said. "There was a lot of confusion when it came out on Tuesday, and people thought that somehow we were publishing their email addresses and private information, which was not true."

"I think it was our fault that we did not communicate that fact very well, but the important thing is that no really bad stuff happens in the sense that nobody's personal information was disclosed."

Be careful not to take news reporting - especially headlines - as fact.
Awesome! What was the url to that public-facing API again?
Nokia also currently have a Gecko-based browser on their Maemo platform which seems to aimed at the high-end and future development of the market.

And Mozilla have launched Firefox for that same platform too, with work underway on Android.
>I even tell my dealer to change my tires twice a year
>What?! Is this guy completely oblivious to the way he spends his money?

Being a car guy, I can say that properly maintaining sports cars is not cheap.

To the average person who loathes paying $300 for a set of all-season tires every 40K-50K miles, maintenance budgets for a high-performance car can be terrifying.

I had to do long distance commuting in a Lancer Evolution MR for a while. The ultra-grippy tires would last about 10K commuting like a sane person. You could destroy them during a single track day at Watkins Glen. At $1300 a set (shipped, mounted, and balanced). And you still needed to maintain a good set of winter tires despite an absurdly complex torque-vectoring AWD system. And tires were not the biggest items on the maintenance budget.

Even the cheapest sports car money can buy in the US, a Miata, tears through $800 sets of summer tires pretty handily.

People aren't oblivious. Everyone has their priorities. Home. Cars. Technology. Food. Travel. Other hobbies. What some find ridiculous, others find normal, and vice-versa.
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Nor has he taken a look at Java EE within the last couple of years - the difference between EJB 2 and 3 is like night and day.
I'm not sure those averages are so unlikely. Sure, the "typical" (median, 75th percentile, whatever) user probably doesn't clear cookies or switch browsers that often. But it only takes a small number of users with unusual behavior to raise the average by a lot.

If just 1% of users have cookies set to expire on exit, or use a "private browsing" mode, or whatever, and those users visit the site an average of 101 times per reporting period, then you have a 2x overcount already.

101 visits per month is probably high for most sites, but if you also have a significant minority of users who visit your site from two or more computers, that will raise the average too.
Of course there is an upper limit to how provable it is. But that is fairly elaborate malware your describing (because if that is all it did it should be fairly apparent - it also has to fake fairly extensive use as well).

Mostly it is very easy to see the CP activity (dont forget were not just talking about images on the HDD here but actual activity indicative of behavior). If it were downloaded all together, with no references in, say, web history etc, no thumbnails and nothing in the cache files (which are FULL of rich information) then it would ring alarm bells :)

Eventually even the most elaborate malware will make a mistake with activity that is not "normal" - and the investigation is intensive enough to pick this up.
Ahhh. Thanks. After thinking about that I realised I don't understand Go's syntax :o)
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Makes sense (esp. these last few years where device come with the least physical switch possible, e.g. the iPhone), but given the benefit, I personally wouldn't mind the added clutter.

One good first step would be to cut the link to the microphone on lid close (for a laptop or a cellphone, say). Or have a global "privacy switch" which would still allow apps to run to but electrically cut off the privacy-invading sensors (mostly gps, camera, microphone... other?).

Just dreaming out loud here...
I think compete have become the least accurate of the stats websites.

Alexa and Quantcast seem to give a far better idea of what is happening.
That didn't stop Gnome from re-inventing it with gconf :-( Ughh...

Now rgrep /etc for a config setting is broken, apps leave garbage sitting in there upon uninstall and you need a stupid GUI tool to deal with it.
This is true, but should be a minor concern--you can easily ping it every once in a while to keep it hot without using very many resources. You might even be able to use App Engine's built in cron jobs to do it from the instance itself (might need more often than once a minute though).
#dreamitpitch Sucker twitter users into giving us ideas for free and toss a grand to one of them.
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No it shouldn't. As long as there is no indication that there were sexual motives, than no accusations of sexual motives should be made. The invasion of our rights in the name of our children has gone far enough. You shouldn't gratuitously say anything that encourages child pornography hysteria. You are just saying it because it serves your point that these guys should be punished severely. However, not even these guys deserve to be branded as child pornographers if they aren't.
I've seen a lot of stuff on the web, but that video is truly shocking. The complete lack of concern for the privacy/dignity either of the children or their families and the complacent attitude of the IT guy is really disheartening to see. I think it shows how organizations can become enchanted with the technology, whilst forgetting some of the most basic human values.
Remember the facebook login debacle?

Just because the option is there and is easy for techies to find doesn't mean that it is reasonable to expect actual not particularly computer literate users to figure it out and uncheck the box if they don't want it.