skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being a graphic designer, I can't explain why the site doesn't say to me, "company that's established enough to trust with my data," but...

That being said, this is a great thing to offer as an appliance. I think that someone who's savvy enough to look for this, though, would probably not want to buy until you have a clearer story about how to do backups. Can I, e.g. install Mozy or equivalent, on the theory that your customer is looking to get rid of sysadmin headaches?
U.S. wants to set up a National Climate Service
Seems similar to FreeBSD's binary updates: http://www.freshports.org/security/freebsd-update/
Whats the Buzz about Google Buzz?
My experience with reviewing papers was that it was pretty easy to figure out who the author was because each field contains a limited number of specialists. And looking at the references on a paper enables you to narrow it down.

It's a bit like the situation with date of birth and CVs: you can figure out how old someone is, if you want to know that, by looking at their degree year.
quick impression: it's taking most popular stories from (social news sites like this?) and then creating a frontpage of them with... editing?

I trust the crowd but want to edit them...
The Ansoff Matrix
I use the Ansoff Matrix quite often when I need to analyze, plan and develop growth strategies through my company’s product and market development...
Optimising Your Web Forms Has Biggest Impact on ROI says Google
Are 'all' games targeted at the same market? It seems odd to me that so many games are being produced for the same people. Wouldn't it be better business to target more groups?

On the other hand, if you're going to buy them anyway, I don't suppose it matters for the producers.
Dear The Government of the US,

Can we have all your banking transaction data in return, so we can mine it to see what your corporations are up to? It's only fair.

Yours sincerely,

Citizens of the EU.
Five decades? Have you given evidence in opposition to your own question?
It is Drudge Report for geeks http://www.drudgereport.com/
I'm still having a hard time understanding the distinction. What is meant by "like a virus" and how is that different from how our service is growing rapidly due to word of mouth?

Are viral services spread "like a virus" because their use is automatic promotion, like how having a virus automatically exposes people around you to it? If users consistently choose to promote you because they are compelled by how awesome the service is, doesn't that amount to the same thing?
Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian
yeah, size matters ;)

because font size is the only original thing for me in this project
Watch Out Boston VCs/Entrepreneurs, A Rip Off is Coming to Town
Have you ever wished you could style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs? Ever wished you could control the look and feel of your form elements between all browsers?

No, because that is generally bad usability design. It's not quite as bad as the ultimate atrocity: making your own scrollbars, but changing the feel of widgets is bad, because it only makes it harder for people to manipulate them. It's ok to change the look if you are careful to preserve the feel and functionality.

A quick test of that example shows it's lacking visual indication of focus. I can still move between them and manipulate them with tab and space and arrow keys, but I don't know where I am. If that's just part of the theme, fine, but if the framework lacks support for it, not so fine.

On the other hand, I hope this library (or similar) becomes very popular among those that absolutely have to change widgets, because then you can address the usability issues in the library. If everyone rolls their own, you will end up with quite a few usability horrors.
It's easy to be so strident.

I agree freedom of information requests should always be respected (if nothing else it's the law). That doesn't mean it's useful on it's own.

Unintelligible source code isn't much more useful than none. See CRU's own source code for example: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/11/about-that-cru-hack.html

It's nice that some spend the time to clean up code and format data. But scientists progress on their career track by total number of papers; so they're being somewhat asked choose between the greater good and their own.

Most research is publicly funded. If open access is important to you then write to your government representative and ask them to require it.
True. I guess you could just do the conversion at some later date when the computer is online -- that would still free the couple from the burden of having to do any video editing themselves, but I suppose it would be a little tricky to build.
>wait until a botched patch causes systems worldwide to crash and burn

I'm not following you here. Why does reboot-less updating of the kernel mean that the patches won't be tested. Also what DoS attack were you thinking of?

Lastly, clean up memory? The top uptimes on Netcraft are >1000 days, is this necessary, are there specific memory leaks you're considering?
A Reddit clone in two evenings and 666 lines of x86 assembly
Want Passionate Kids? Leave 'em Alone
There should be millions of those around if you need one, the problem is that such a widget isn't part of the html standard, there's no baseline functionality that you can extend and make pretty, you have to do it all yourself.
No, there are different games for different people. There are distinct genres as well as games targeted at specific demographic segments (e.g. tween girls).
Sat-nav devices face big errors as solar activity rises
Given the hyper specialisation of most academic research, circle of people involved in an area can be pretty small. You probably don't even need to read the paper - just to know what kind of approach to what problem they are taking and you can make a good guess of the people/team involved.
That's crazy-backwards.

The IMs are 1kBit of data, whereas a phone call (considering voice coding at 16kBit/s for skype-ish quality) probably amount to megabytes of data having to go at near-realtime rates.

It's good that they're still in business, I suppose.
A bunch of seemingly random "high quality" webdesigns with gibberish explanation riddled with marketing sprech about why they are sooo great.

Starts with "The apple.com design is known for its clear and spacey design." and a very cluttered screenshot of said page.
Why former employees say Microsoft can't innovate
It's my parent's sliver wedding soon and they're having a big party. This seems like quite a cool idea and I was considering setting it up for them.

I'm not having too good a time with the demo though. I ran the program and it popped up the thingy with the video stream and the name box, but then keyboard didn't seem to work. The record your message button just pops up the "whoops you forgot to type your names" message and there appears to be no other way of shutting the darn thing down. I was just about to switch off the mac (and lose unsaved work in Photoshop) when the 10 minute timer kicked in and it shut itself down.

Still, sort out that bit and I think it's a great idea.
Yup, I guess he had a PhD from University of Zurich if I'm not mistaken. Also, he was very well aware of the cutting-edge otherwise he couldn't have "connected 'some' dots". So he was anything but an amateur, imho.
The Patent Office wasn't paying him to do his research - he had a "day job" that he needed to do to make ends meet and to allow him some time to do what he had a passion for in his own time.

What is that if it isn't an amateur?
How A Web Design Goes Straight To Hell
I presume that before this experiment, psychologists believed that lying wouldn't an option they came up with. For example, babies cry when they want/need something or if something is wrong. If you believe that in the presence of this want/need/problem they wouldn't realize what crying sounds like (and thus can't mimic it later) you wouldn't expect them to "lie" by crying.

Of course, anyone holding that theory would need to give an approximate age at which they are able to observe the sound and mimic it. The point here is that the age at which this happens is much earlier then people thought before.

This, I think, is what makes it a surprising discovery.
You can tell when someone asks a question whether they have bothered to try to get an answer by their own effort or not. Even if they haven't tried a different way you can usually tell if they are trying to provide you with help to give them the answer.

Instead of "how can I feed this creature" the blind man should say "how can I feed this creature, it appears to be a snake and my research has shown they eat mice, should I feed it mice?". One knows then what has been tried (or is being suggested), what assumptions are being made and can better aid them.
That Whole Concept is Broken
Chinese see U.S. debt as weapon
Economy + Internet Trends - Presentation from Web 2.0 Summit (PDF, 68 pages)
One-Half of a Manifesto
Congratulations on finding a five letter .com domain name that was available.
ST-Ericsson Helps Handset Manufacturers Make Low-Cost Android Smartphones
That's interesting because Andy, on the first episode of "Nerd TV" said Bill was big on trying to get developers brag about how little time/code/etc, and implied it was so he could try and get them to commit to smaller budgets
It's turd polish, that doesn't make anything shiny.

If your code looks anything like that, or the examples on the Facebook page, you're doing it wrong.
http://www.synctus.com
Google Buzz in Enterprise-Will Need to Overcome Google Apps Limitations
Using Ksplice means that you're letting a private company inject custom code directly into your running kernel. The paper explains that most Linux security updates are applied without modification, but some updates require Ksplice to write custom code for the patches to work (specifically if the update changes any data structures). My pessimistic side says that sooner or later this custom-written Ksplice patch will contain a bug that causes your kernel to crash - worst case would be if that crash happens after the kernel has been running for a while.

I'm sure the people at Ksplice are much smarter than I am, but every time a security update for the kernel is released they will be stressing to release a Ksplice update to be able to provide value for their customers (the whole point of a subscription is so that you get the security update faster than planning a reboot takes).

The way Ksplice works is that it, for each update, injects all changed functions into the kernel and replaces the old functions with a jump to the new version of the same function. Even though it might not cause what you would consider a production-threatening memory leak, I would still like to clear out the old code from memory every once in a while.
I can understand every point of that... apart from the first:

"Jenine Hennis-Plasschaert, made it very clear in her report that SWIFT is actually unable to provide tailored data about individual transactions"

How can anyone seriously believe that organisation which deals mainly with cash transfers cannot provide a filtered report on cash transfers? From a "technical" point of view? That's simply a lie - they might not want to spend time implementing the proper report generation which might take months in such organisation, or might not be able to afford enough storage to keep the needed information to do such filtering, it might be not practical, etc. But who would believe in a "technical" reason?
They imitate ТРУД in cyrillic, meaning "labor". It looks like a newspaper of the ruling communist party in some Eastern European country.

Who is the fourth guy after Eric/Bill/Steve?
I think it looks great and, if it does what you say it will, it's a great product at a great price. The only suggestion that I would have would be a demo vid.
Here's another example, James Ellis, who came up with the idea of public key cryptography: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html

(HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064931)
he's saying they're making too many very good games that he has no time to properly enjoy any one of them.
Wait - I don't quite get it. I've just logged into my google profile and both of those boxes are checked. When I visit my profile page from another browser, I cannot see my contact list. I want my full name displayed but not my contacts.

Can someone point out how I can find my contacts from this page? I just don't quite get it, I think.
Midnight Commander 4.7.0.1 su Ubuntu
Okay - I get it now: Google Buzz is a product. I had it in my mind that it was a feature of Google Profile. Sorry for the confusion.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15559/google_buzz_and_you_tho...
Why Enlive templates return seqs of strings
That's true, when you use the metric to influence some material gain or loss for the developer. As an indicator for the state of a project (and its speed) together with other metrics, it may not be too bad.
Don't tell me that they only thought that the Chinese might do something like that now, it's not as if that wasn't a predictable move.

Of course the Chinese will use US debt as a weapon, just like the US would use it if the situation were reversed.

Don't forget that Russia crashed because of being unable to keep up with the spending patterns of the US, not because of some moral overweight or military pressure. Their economic structure wasn't capable of matching the US and the Afghanistan war (the previous one, the one 9/11 was an outgrowth of) sealed the deal.

The US is in between a rock and a hard place economically when confronted with China, a massive sell-off could destabilize the dollar to the point that traders would favour other currencies (most likely the Euro), and that would accelerate the fall. If you live in a glass house you should not throw with stones.
Jesus Quintana.
I'm not sure he counts as an amateur. He was employed to do this sort of thinking, it was just done in secret.
I'm getting tired of this "Einstein also failed a test in university" meme (usually suggesting in was in physics or math).

From what I remember from a biography he always did excellent in physics and math, and in that famous entrance exam (that I think he took a year earlier than usual) he only failed in French, which he didn't care much for.
I generally don't get games on release, unless its something I'm already a fan of and I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment, but theres only one game this has happened with in the past two years (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, I'm looking at you). This means that I hear about the great games months later, or friends bug me to get them or whatever. I do occasionally browse through gamespot, steam and Impulse to see what games people have rated highly and sometimes I'll buy one.

Then again, the only games I've played this year are Modern Warfare 2, Dawn of War 2, Company of Heroes, Fuel of War and Red Faction Guerrilla - all but Modern Warfare 2 came on the THQ multipack I got off steam because I wanted a copy of Company of Heroes. Before this, I'd never even heard of Red Faction Guerrilla, but have been playing it a lot over the past two weeks!
Great post, thank you. I have a similar problem to you with a constant urge to check my sales page, web stats (clicky AND ga) and adWord campaign stats. I'm really trying to get it all into one place so I can just glance at it and see. It's good to see someone who has already done that :)
First ever single-mode low energy module Bluetooth chip for wireless devices 
Nordic Semiconductor has announced a new single mode Blue-tooth ultra low power technology µBlue that will revolutionize the Blue-tooth devices. The low power wireless transfer technology will provide way better Blue-tooth solutions combined with astonishing battery life. It is basically a single chip which has integrated radio, base-band and micro-controller having fully attuned software stack.
Here's something egregious: the names of the radio buttons or the check boxes aren't labels for the input, and you can't click on them to select the option.
Did I claim that? It's entirely factual to say that he didn't get into ETH Zurich, had a hard time getting a research job and did his best work while employed by the patent office.
The url itself is quite odd (firefox instead of facebook).
Perhaps in the US or Switzerland or Canada. I guess we do not have enough handguns in most of Europe for this to become feasible.

If I was a survivalist, I'd stockpile canned food and some can openers.

By the way, do you have any data for your argument i.e. any incident after which ammo was the primary means of exchange? After the last war in Germany, cigarettes were pretty big. What do people in Haiti use? (Or is this not large-scale enough?) What did people use after the Tsunami in south-east Asia?
I went to the google wave page requested an invite ages ago, but never got one. I'm still curious to see what it's like.
As a geek, I slightly balked at the claim on the Locking and Coherence page that it's "the first file replication system" to keep files coherent via locks, since I think of stuff like AFS as doing that. But looking at your product comparison page, it's true if you think of "file replication system" as more application-level sync stuff like Dropbox.

Somewhat separately, do you care at all about selling to companies that might otherwise consider a more heavyweight solution like setting up an NFS volume that everyone mounts? You have a clear ease-of-use-and-maintenance win, but it'd require separate marketing to a different kind of audience so as not to confuse people who don't even know what that is.
Five Greatest Scheduling Disasters of All Time
It is difficult to overstate the potential of an effective calendaring solution to increase productivity. Not only are personal and business goals at stake, but lives and even nations may indeed hang in the balance! A look back through history will reveal how crucial it is to have a working calendar solution, not only for yourself but one that communicates with friends, colleagues and customers.
Google eye view of search. USA: dot coms, India: cricket & sex, Brits: shopping.
I've not looked at the source, but clicking on them works for me (Chrome 4)
Is there something about British culture that avoids hero figures and prefers to emphasize the team contribution? Read in a certain context, this article could be seen as an attempt to discourage differentiation between individuals based on their levels of ambition, or in other words, to keep the heroes at bay.
When did Scrooge become a role model?
The profiler in Perl DBI - new talk by Tim Bunce
The Power of IMAP + Sync
Is it time to move Exchange to the cloud?
The font and its size make the headlines extremely hard to read.
Very good, detailed high level overview of how Microsoft's management structure, style and bloat makes it currently unlikely to innovate well.

One simple and concrete thing that struck me was how the distance from the top to the trenches has severely increased as of late. The old metric of "no more than 5 levels" is being wildly violated by a factor of a bit more than 2.

Also high level overview on who was RIFFed in last year's surprise layoffs (hint, not much in the way of middle management).

Bottom line: What PG pointed out a while ago continues to the true and there's no signs that will change.
Maybe it's them who can't innovate .. any maybe that's why they're former employees.
Warner to stop free music streaming. "Not positive for the industry"
Great Bloggers Are Better Than Teachers
I like Buzz after using it a bit more on my iTouch (still not available on my computer yet ... :/ ). Still trying to decide if I like Buzz better than Foursquare. It's really fun checking in and competing with your friends, but if you don't live in a populated area like myself, there seems to be not as much interaction. When I signed on with Buzz, there were already people interacting. Sharing tips about restaurants, what they were doing for the day, how they liked Buzz, and etc. Both are definitely fun though! Anyone get to use it on their PC? How is it??
As explained in the comments in the article, it is effective even without HipHop. Rasmus explains that as well in his article.
What's your email and I'll send you one. I have 30-some left.
Modal dialogs are evil
At the State Department, spokesman P.J. Crowley dismissed the economic threat as potentially self-defeating. "That would be biting the nose to spite the face," Mr. Crowley said. "The economies of the United States and China are intertwined."

The effect will be to lower the dollar value which would be good news. (That is how Argentina came out of its Debt Crisis). It will also drive manufacturing back to the United States, where it belonged in the first place.

I always advocated that America should have imported the cheaper labor - like it did for many years - rather than exported the jobs.

Bottom line wish for it, if you live in the States.
Safety Mode: giving you more control on YouTube
A year without TV
We need WAY more than we already have. Not the fabled press stories, but the guys+gals that inspire more of us to build world changing products.
His disclaimer that starts with "The heavily politicized branches might not be egalitarian..." since he has no experience with them covers the particular exception you point out.
I would hope that they left in order to be able to innovate, if the working environment was really that suffocating.
The point in specifying fonts that you might consider "generic" is visual consistency. Different fonts end up being very different on the screen, and, as a designer, your goal is to make your site look good across browsers and operating systems. If you have no way of knowing what fonts they're using it is very difficult to do that.

Plus, the number of people who actually change their web browser font defaults is vanishingly small.

Also, absolute font size specification used to be bad practice because browsers couldn't zoom very well. Now that all modern browsers (including IE7) have good full-page zooming it doesn't matter, and using exact pixels allow you to avoid browser rounding inconsistencies.
>It would be like punching mist.

Ask Dmitriy Guzner his opinion on that, though you'll have to wait until he's released from prison. You might help him with his $37,500 fine too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/17/scientology_ddos_gui...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23263853/Dmitriy-Guzner-Sentencing...
About mint:

The design has one main purpose to ensure a sense of trust to its visitors. Using the color green as a main color it also helps you quickly realize it deals with money.

Funny, the colour of trust and money is blue, not green.
He's nothing if not ambitious.
Well, to be fair, the entire idea is really quite stupid (in my opinion.) It's novel, to be sure, but realistically, at least in most of the US, it would just be easier to use a boring drill to make the hole, and then lower a regular (or even torpedo-shaped) coffin into it.
Can you name the US Anonymous member that was imprisoned for a year and fined $37,500 for DDoS ing the Scientology website ?
It is actually unrelated to games released this year. On page 2 he lists games that he is waiting until he has free time to play several are over a decade old. Most are not current Generation console games. Several are from the original Nintendo, several from the original game boy, several from the original play station.
JungleDisk + S3 will lock network shares at the file level.

In theory, you could accomplish offline access in JD with syncing, but I don't yet trust their sync features for anything critical.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"a massive sell-off could destabilize the dollar to the point that traders would favour other currencies (most likely the Euro), and that would accelerate the fall" >> I understand that you mean the fall of China. Can you elaborate?. How will traders favouring Euro is going to crush china?. (If they have already sold of the Treasurey Bonds, that is).