skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was playing with gtkparasite and I realized I could probably make a dial menu (like firedialer) for my evolution calendar using the gtkmodule method.

Despite there not being very much documentation on gtkmodules, the whole thing took only a couple hours of hacking and works pretty well.
Put a warning in the title, please. Blind linking to a browser crashing demo is not cool.

Edit: Thanks.
Just an observation; If someone is getting remunerated to post certain articles on here as a paid shill it stands to reason that that person will not reveal this fact.

The obvious question is why would the payee not just sign up and post whatever it is they want posted and save the money. It would only take a few minutes to post something.
Ask HN: Why are you hiring?
HN has had the usual "Who's hiring"? and "Who's looking for a job?" type of posts. I'd like to know something else.

Why are you hiring? Not the immediate reasoning - "We need a developer", but business reasoning and situation driving the need.

So tell us, why are you hiring? What's the reason and what's the benefit?
"In my mind, the OS question is quickly becoming moot, and will soon be replaced by the already-intense Web browser holy wars--especially with Google jumping into the fray there."
Nope. It does nothing at all except to standardize the notation.
How do we downvote for linking to the actual crash with no warning.
In case of large-scale cluster management, data storage and execution technologies Microsoft chose the same path as Google and bunch of other companies - they develop and use these technologies in house, but do not distribute them to the public.

You can see some such technologies "leaking" to public through Windows Azure on this Dryad release from MS Research, but these are side cases.

Michael Isard (one of the Dryad guys on the linked page) published a paper on Autopilot (Microsoft internal cluster management software) in 2007, but you can't buy Autopilot even now.
Strangely, this site has a fair amount of seemingly obscure medical information. I find myself surfing it in spite of the fact that such photos tend to disturb me.
I'd rather complicate a lexer a little bit than debug parser conflicts.
If Apple *Really* Wants Developers to Love the iPad...
I remember REBOL from year ago. I evaled it for a project, but never did anything with it. Nice to see it's still around.
App stores are generally broken because you can have the ability to ban things. We should have an open appstore.
so does http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ crash for you? It does on my 10.5.8
Big problem with plums is that as far as I can tell the entire tree goes ripe the same millisecond, and you have about three days to pick them all and figure out what the hell to do with a million plums before the birds get to them and they fall off the tree and make these terrible little lumps on the lawn.
While this is true of patents, it is not true of copyrights. Independent creation is a valid defense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Inf...

"[If] two individuals both create a story that by pure coincidence is nearly identical, but each without knowledge of the other, there is no infringement since there is no copying."
Flag it. Linking to a page that links to the crash demo with appropriate disclaimer? cool. Putting a warning in the submission title would have worked, too.
Geez, what a smug jerk that guy was. Next thing you know, they'll be telling people they shouldn't drive after having a "few" drinks.

Really, what is the world coming to when people start objecting to our God-given right to recklessly endanger the safety of people around us?
ClickToFlash for the win.
Physicist proposes method to teleport energy across light year distance
I don't care for the doom and gloom talk, but the story "Star's Reach" from the same author is interesting: http://starsreach.blogspot.com/
Not hacker news.
Are you seriously arguing that millions of people should be taxed more on the basis of what one person may have done?
Ask HN: A Business Guy Getting Hired at a Startup, Help Please
Hi Hacker News,

I am a senior in college and am a business guy into all things tech and I have been offered a job right out of college to work for a hot startup in the online music space. I have been interning there since October so they know that they want me to stay and have asked me to give them a salary amount they would need to match to keep me.
At the startup there's basically just the programmers and the customer service representatives, and to the best of my knowledge the reps make somewhere in the mid to low 30K's and I'm just guessing that the programmers make between 70k to 120k.
They've also offered stock options though I'm not as interested in that and would rather take a higher salary.

Any suggestions?
there's a warning now
Personally, I'm wondering how 200m for Be is extravagant and unthinkable and absolutely absurd, but 427m for NextStep is absolutely fine.
I never choose python like my script language because I don't like the arrogance of pythonist, more now when everybody knows google use python for everything, in python all is perfect and the other languages are crap, I always read articles like this o like python paradox or any other superficial article where the author try feign know others languages for criticize it with "solid arguments" ruby is a infant and don't try compare his libraries w any other language because It's very unfair, but really my questions is WHY PYTHONIST CONCERNED SO MUCH THE OTHERS LANGUAGES?, why they need type all days a new article explain the good language is python or the bad are all others (like java, c#, ruby, perl) I don't kwnow, please explain me it...and don't say the python hacker are much nicer because they are nicer only inside conversations with others pythonist......
Arrington is indeed ..hmm.. how to put this nicely... I have no idea. I'm totally with this guy. For example when cars run a red light with people crossing the street and then they don't understand why you block their way. Such selfless egocentric people!
The original Perl 6 announcement occurred a few months after the Python 3000 announcement.
Let me get this straight: Arrington violates the law by using his cell while driving. Guy crossing the street calls him out on it... and instead of putting away his phone he tries to back up and get a round him.

Then he publicly calls the guy smug, and claims moral superiority because the guy's CEO did the same thing.

Yeeeeep, just another day in Arrington's la-la-land.
Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu x64, Flash v10.0.32.18ubuntu1, seems to survive. Chrome survives too, unsurprisingly. Come to think of it, doesn't Firefox have plugin crash safety in place now?

Midori does insta-crash though.
I'm sure it does, but the difference is that companies have to deal with competition, while governments are effective monopolies. If I, as a customer, dislike the value I get for a product or service, I can switch. If as an investor, I don't like the returns, I can sell. But if I don't like the way the Navy is investing my tax dollars, what can I do? Yes, it can be changed, but I can't really do much about it as an individual. Over time, this situation conspires to create government waste because there's no accountability. There might be oversight, but the consequences of mismanagement and inefficiency isn't organizational death, the way it is (or should be) in the private sector.
They haven't gotten any less temperamental or brittle. The default tokens have a rude tendency to store the entire input stream as it is being parsed, which was a really rude surprise for us (had to rip it out and do LL(1) by hand, with minimal memory demands). I like a lot of features of ANTLR, but it is not the sort of tool I like to use and abuse.
"He who controls the Spice controls the universe"
The Googler has the better version of this story. He gets to end his with "...and the next day I found out that jerk was Michael Arrington."
Weird, it doesn't crash on me here. I'm using Opera 10.10 browser on OS X 10.6.2
http://isrubybetterthanpython.com
Yeah, it also looks like Safari's recent improvements in terms of plugins that they introduced in Snow Leopard have successfully prevented this problem from taking down the whole browser.
Right, right, but what's to say that the BeOS people wouldn't have done something comparable if they had been given the same resources?

I don't argue at all that what would have been the equivalents of the iPhone and iPod would be very different without Jobs and his people, but I don't think that there's any necessity to presume that these projects would have been failures if they had been executed by the BeOS people instead of the NeXT people.
Agreed - this also matches my anecdotal observations and much of what I've read over the last 2 years.

What I can't decide is if in the US this is more driven by a major structural change in the economy (i.e. capitalism's creative destruction) or if companies across the board were using the recession as an excuse to lay off unneeded workers due to broader productivity increases (i.e. capitalism's efficiency-rewarding) or both.

Some sectors seem to be more creative destruction (think auto companies and financial firms) while it looks to me like the broader economy responded by locking in productivity gains (eliminating unproductive positions to save costs) to give themselves enough padding to weather the downturn. Maybe the broader productivity gains were enough that the growing parts of the economy won't need to re-hire as many workers to maintain their growth rates. That means that job creation is going to have to be a lot of "new" jobs - ones in new and/or growing industries - and not just refilling the old jobs.

That's just my armchair analysis, so I'm not sure how accurate it will end up being.
That point was made repeatedly by BeOS fanboys in the wake of the deal, but as the article says, "the BeOS still needed three years of additional expensive development before it could ship (it didn't have any printer drivers, didn't support file sharing, wasn't available in languages other than English, and didn't run existing Mac applications)." In retrospect, Apple gave NeXTSTEP a pretty thorough multi-year overhaul as well, so maybe BeOS would have been fine.
Very true. Of course, the cost of building public infrastructure has also dramatically increased due to the various unions of government workers.
Have you published this case study? I am interested in reading it.
Previously posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060107
Flagged. Has nothing to do with hacker news. Celebrity love over everything TC and Arrington related (and manufactured drama) is annoying. Stop submitting shit like this. pls.

For stuff like this and mildly amusing random stuff you can go to reddit/digg.
Hmmm, another detailed and specific list of Apple's discontents with Adobe which pretty much doesn't intersect with this on submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102512
SSD Technology Forum: Free OCZ SSD Giveaway
DarkReading: NASA Still Facing Weaknesses In IT Security
You may be interested in reading about the Golden Ratio[1] and more specifically the ways people apply it to web design[2]. Helped me a fair bit, especially when I'm at that point where I'm starting a new design and need a jumping off point.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

2. http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesignbasics/a/aa071607.htm http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/the-golden-ratio-in-...

Google for more.
depending on where you live i would say 40-60 would be good for a new graduate. remember, at this point in your story you want experience over money.
do the above in Pakistan?
What did you do as an intern? If it was related to business development or sales, you should expect to make something in the 45K-60K range.
This article cites repeatedly the idea that Windows is less secure than Mac because it has a larger market share than Mac and is thus a larger target for malware writers. Here are some counter-arguments which refute that idea that market share alone makes Windows a more attractive target:

- There's also a lot more anti-malware software available for Windows. Windows users are much more likely to run anti-malware. Shouldn't this make Windows a less-attractive target for malware writers?

- Microsoft have alleged that open-source software is less secure than closed-source because it's easier to find vulnerabilities. As much more of Mac OS is open-source, shouldn't that make it a more attractive target than Windows?

- If Windows itself has more inherent vulnerabilities (including design traits that make it more likely users will do unsafe things) would that not be the simplest explanation as more malware writers see it as an easy target? (E.g., so many cryptic UAC warnings that users quickly learn to click "ok" without understanding them.)
Piracy does not threaten modern business models
Warning - cell phones and WIFI - not so safe
Pakistan must be really safe. They've never even heard of AIDS over there.
IETF dress code
If you're interested in the reasons, google mars metric crash. ;)
Possibly. Really depends on how this company structures their compensation relative to goals, milestones and role description.

If sales, how's commission structured? Is it more base than commission?

To to the OP, I'd really ask them what you'd be doing as "the business guy" because if you throw out the first number without having a clear idea of what typical comp is for a role like yours, you're not bargaining well or positioning yourself for a better turnout.
New Quantum Logic Clock Accurate to 1 Second Every 3.7 Billion Years
Tech4000: Secure my flash drive - How To
Mostly, agreed. Here is the lexer for Lua: http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/llex.c.html

It's 382 lines of ANSI C according to sloccount. Reading the array at the top of the file, there are about 30 tokens in Lua. So, you are probably going to write at least 30 test cases.

Writing that in less than an hour is being generous. But, it should be doable in a day.
Once again, every single issue listed in this article would disappear if Adobe freed Flash. I don't know how they can't see the necessity of this. They should do it soon, before serious HTML5 adoption gets underway, if they want Flash to last.
FBI pushes for 2 year ISP data retention of user browsing
I would guess many of them have never heard of it because Pakistan is a country of young people, with mostly inadequate education (I believe the average education level of Pakistani women is between 2nd and 4th grade level, or was the last time I discussed this on the 'Net):

Pakistan today has the youngest population among all those countries that have more than 100 million people. In its case, the median age of the population is only 17 years which means that of the 162 million people in 2008, some 81 million are below the age of seventeen.

From: http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/25/ebr16.htm
The Tale of the Spy Who Couldn't Spell
"I expect Microsoft to innovate and bring new ideas to market"

And risk their dominant position by creating a new market they can't control as well as the last one?

Don't hold your breath.
What about differences in cost of living? Is a maid in San Fran who earns $80K per year rich?
Dont submit this to reddit. They believe circumcision to be worse than slavery :P
I have not heard of this Blu-Ray/Apple issue before, anyone care to elaborate?
Unless the system contains enough redundancy, having more connected parts to control something creates more points of failure and its probability adds up.

A question for those engineers: Should safety really be sacrificed for efficiency's sake?
Google & University of Waterloo Tron Bot AI Challenge Tips and Strategy
I guess the Adobe CTO missed this one...
The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps
OR allow people to install things by means other than the appstore.
...the sole reason why mortgage rates have been as los as they have, has been due to the Fed's constant manpulation of the MBS market via the $1.4 trillion MBS/Agency QE purchase program. With this program set to expire in 2 months, rates are set to explode.

Uh, yes but it's old story - when the end of a program would mean the end of the economy ... the chance are they'll continue the program(duh).

That's not saying this crash isn't coming, it's just saying you can't be sure it will come on schedule. The US economy is becoming depend on more and more things - the state injecting money, China buying bonds. This kind of situation can go on, it can go on longer than you'd think. It just will eventually go under. The housing boom lasted five years. While the present ad-hoc, artificial economy seems much more fragile, we could plausibly give it a couple years to crumble. 2011, better watch out...
I don't think clone means what you think it means.

new user creation is broken.
new subreddit creation is broken.
comments are broken.
popular/new/controversial/saved is missing.

search is good though. rimshot
You can install Android apps from anywhere.

EDIT: See http://en.androidwiki.com/wiki/Applications
Except with Android, you're free to distribute or install applications through alternate apparently stores, or directly through the internet with .apk files. If Apple allowed that on the iPhone, nobody would care if they banned something from their "blessed" channel...
Supposedly, the swf specification is already available to anyone who wants to implement it, without restriction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#Open_standard_alter...
Fair enough. I also prefer a consumption tax, not flat though. But if we're going to have an income-based tax, I'd rather have all types of income treated/taxed equally.
Hmm. Pat says that their run rate was $8MM at the time of the merger. They were acquired for 941,000 shares (plus a few hundred thousand dollars). Rackspace went public at about $12.50/share so this was about $12MM.

Ten million bucks for $8m in annual subscription revenue is ridiculously cheap. Either I'm misisng something significant here, or they got ripped off.

Source: Rackspace S1A filing
Can't wait for Apple banning apps because their developers use GMail.
That's fine and well, but not all hackers are developers or programmers. I like threads like the one we have going here.
"Circumcision prevents AIDS. The UN says 'Clinical trials have confirmed the results from observational epidemiology that male circumcision reduces transmission of HIV among men'"

You know what works even better? Consistent condom use and not visiting prostitutes.
It seems Flash 10.1 beta is not affected by this bug.
Wil Shipley (the Delicious Monster guy, formerly of the Omni Group) tweeted that they wrote their own Flash player for Rhapsody, and it wasn't hard:

http://twitter.com/wilshipley/status/8404153085
NeXT was contractually obliged to not compete with Apple, which pretty much meant they had to stay out of the consumer and home markets, and focus on business and education. That's why their products were very expensive hardcore UNIX workstations (with the best GUI that had ever been put on a UNIX).

If Apple had chosen Be, then Jobs would have had to wait until the combined Apple+Be was well and dead before moving back into the personal computer market.

On the other hand, had NeXT stayed independent, they would have been able to continue their relationship with Sun and the merger of OPENSTEP and Java, and the combined product could have started weakening the Windows monopoly long before OS X became competitive due to the Intel transition. (It's not too hard to imagine the NeXT/Java development environment seriously catching on in enterprise environments circa 1999.)
Not too sure about this one. A 30-year study in Scandinavia showed no correlation:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/no-tumour-link-to...

"Deltour's team analysed annual incidence rates of two types of brain tumour -- glioma and meningioma -- among adults aged 20 to 79 from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from 1974 to 2003. These countries all have good cancer registries that keep a tally of known cancer cases.

...

"It is possible, Deltour's team wrote, that it takes longer than 10 years for tumours caused by mobile phones to turn up, that the tumours are too rare in this group to show a useful trend, or that there are trends but in subgroups too small to be measured in the study.

"It is just as possible that mobile phones do not cause brain tumours, they added.
Given the recent acquisition prices for 'hot music startups' (Lala, iMeem, etc.), I'd personally go for a higher salary.
Right, but that doesn't really help. See http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/134378 . Adobe's release of the spec followed by their removal of license restrictions from it was a PR move; if not, Gnash and swfdec would be a lot farther than they are. They are still incompatible with a large percentage of recent (like, last five years recent) Flash content.

For Flash to really be open, Adobe has to open all of its associated technologies and they have to provide a decent reference implementation. The most obvious path to this is opening the Flash Player blob.
I love the way the IETF is still issuing reports formatted for ancient mainframe line printers, with hard-coded headers and footers and whatnot.
This isn't new either. Matthew posted this over a year ago.
Here is the complete scanner for a C-ish language I wrote a compiler for a while back:

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/scanner.c

It's 387 lines of C, and if you wanted to prove a point, you could get the line-count down by compacting the table and removing braces etc.

Note that it doesn't make any C specific assumptions. Each type of token is matched by its own function, and then in the end the longest match is chosen. This is exactly what lex does - with two differences: (a) my scanner is slower, and (b) you have the full recognition power of C instead of just regular expressions. These days (b) outweighs (a) so much that it's just not funny.

I'd agree that flex/lex are just not worth it anymore.
Retrospective on ScrumPad Product/Market Fit
ff 3.5 on a similar setup crashes. 3.6 was when ff made itself less vulnerable to this sort of thing, following webkit's and chrome's ideas on isolating plugins.
How about the fact that Flash (besides having performance issues) would more or less end the reason of having an app store and apple's one large source of revenue?

Do you think if iphone had flash, developers would go through the trouble of app betting process by apple? Every streaming music service, video service and flash games and applications would make Appstore irrelevant.

That, in my opinion, is the single biggest reason why we will _never_ see flash support in iphone of ipad no matter how fast and secure flash becomes in the near future.

Not that I care about flash in mobile device. But, using performance as the main reason for not supporting flash is silly. It can be one of the several reasons, but definitely not the main reason.
> For most web and content app developers, this is fine, it is a great run-time and offers an excellent user experience and Adobe has done a very good job keeping the platform contemporary with the most demanding needs of video delivery and quality.

That's from the Flash-as-a-video-platform section. Really? How come I can't play Hulu in full screen on Linux unless I have a quad core CPU and a GPU with a gig of ram?
Demonstrate a physical mechanism for this, and there's at least one, probably two Nobel Prizes in your future.

As for me and my house, we will follow E = hv.
On Snow Leopard and Safari, the browser doesn't crash, but the Flash player crashes.
Think of it as future-proofing their documents.

Paper has two advantages: it keeps carbon from becoming a greenhouse gas and quite probably outlasts all our other backup mediums.