skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren't there to "uplift" them. We're there to stop safe havens for terrorist groups from being set up by the Taliban, a group that was formed in and supported by Pakistan.

If America was taken over by a group that violated human rights like the Taliban, that was refused to even be recognized as the legitimate government by the overwhelming majority of nations in the world, and was the subject of binding UN sanctions, yes I would sympathize with the invaders. But that's just me.
I've noticed that sign up page was http only and felt quite uncomfortable.
As jacobolus said, you can format HFS+ as case-sensitive when you install OS X. I do this because I need to compile code that assumes a case-sensitive FS (for example, the Haiku OS).
From article:

But those of us who worked there know it differently. At worst, you can say it’s a highly repentant, largely accidental monopolist.

If you want people to forgive your "accidental monopoly," it pays to not act the 800 pound gorilla.
One thing I found a bit odd is when editing a course, the button at the bottom says, "Edit <course name>"

It seemed as though I had to click that button to edit the course when in fact I was already editing it.

Seems to me it would make much more sense to have that simply say "Save Changes" or something to that effect to be a bit more clear.
Absolutely. I drool a bit every time I hear Darryl Morey talk about the MIT/Sloan Sports Conference.
That doesn't actually answer the question, it just casts contempt toward voters.
Plupload: for uploading using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5
Found no way to delete my account ;)
By the way, if anyone is interested in finding gigs on Craigslist, elance, etc, try out my learning gig filter: http://www.gigbayes.com/

You do have to be patient with it. It takes 20-30 ratings for it to start knowing your preferences.
It takes us X% less time to create the 2nd and subsequent units relative to the first, and we charge Y% less money for them. They are certainly not 60/20 but if you're thinking in that general direction you understand custom software development pretty well.
Yes, liable for selling a gun, but not for murder.
Replying to myself, but I don't want to edit the former comment.

I think that iPod is the excellent case study for what the innovation actually is. From the technical standpoint, iPod is a garbage. I mean, less space than a nomand, lame. iPod wasn't very innovative in the terms of technology. MP3 players existed for years, and I was, as a nerd, relatively happy with them.

However, iPod played a significant role in bringing in the basic innovation to the masses. Downloading music with a click, instead of ripping it from CD with some weird tools, keeping your music library in a sync. It makes no difference for you or me, but it makes a big difference for your friend from different department, which is not tech savvy.

That's the actual purpose of innovation. It's about a Marry from the street.

People using the standard Microsoft environment, still use their computers as a bit better typewriter, faster snail mail, and an interface for finding stuff immediately, through Google. They do nearly the same stuff they were doing in 1995. Except, Internet is more popular thing.

People in the standard Apple environment, share their personal data between many devices, use nice touch interface, download music and movies with a click, without need to buy/rent a DVD, put their photos on the web easily etc., etc. Soon, thanks to iPad, they're going to enjoy the touch screen on daily basis, and forget about the standard folders-based filesystem, Desktop and other concepts that, actually, might be unnecessary for them.
Twitter originated this way, I believe.
Expected something to happen when clicked on calendar at "Upcoming Tests & Assignments" page that welcomed me after sign in
Startup lessons I didn't learn from a book
I'm also trying Ruby on Mac OS X and I can't run any java simulations. Always throws a Bad Version number in .class file exception. I think I have the JDK, but anyway the most recent version on the Sun's website is not available for Mac OS X...
Man, that is a long way to go for a ham sandwich.

I like some of your thoughts but it I do not believe it is this complex. Maybe the new title should be "How personal confidence affects perceived value, both in business and in meeting chicks."

That is why you got $50 an hour. Confidence.
The library in Appleton had a decent self-checkout several years ago, and it was ridiculously simple: a fixed barcode scanner, de-magnetizing bar, card swipe, and an off-the-shelf computer + monitor. Likely cost a lot more than $1500, but there's no reason it wouldn't have been fairly cheap, and I've never heard of anyone having trouble with it. It also only took up about 3 square feet of ground space.

Grocery store checkouts need to learn something from that design. Swipe card, slide books through & listen for the beep, and walk away. Some are that simple, but most have you click through several layers of buttons just to frickin' pay.
The box is too small for the wikipedia content, and the fact that it's from wikipedia is a selling point and should be advertised.
The best piece of freelancing advice I ever got was, essentially, "raise your prices on every gig you do and keep going until no one will hire you".
CNET has reviewed a survey scheduled to be released at a federal task force meeting on Thursday, which says that seven-year-old girls are virtually unanimous in calling for ownership of ponies. Eighty-nine percent of the girls surveyed, it says, want to be able to "Brush their manes and ride around the yard" through an encrypted, seven-year-old-girl-only "nationwide pony network."
Really? That's the example you want to use. First thing I see on that page:

get / 'orders' >> :orders > :index

with route / :slug / 'order' >> :orders do
get > :show
put > :update
end

get {'item_images' => :controller} / :image > :show

That looks like Ruby all over the place. Yeah, it overloads operator methods more than most Ruby code, but it's very clear that it's Ruby.
You say Woah, what?!, some say Hell Yeah!
Perforce Adds "p4 shelve" Command for Checkpointing
There are plenty of those. But there are also plenty of smart people who are willing to pay more because they understand the value.

It's been my experience that the less someone is willing to pay you for your work, the less they value it. Then every detail becomes subject to scrutiny on the invoice.

If you're good at what you do, and you can prove it, you'll eventually find jobs that pay you what you're worth. It just takes more effort to find them.

And of course, standing firm on your rates helps. You won't get all the gigs, but you probably don't want the headaches that would come with them.

Keep in mind that the negotiation on rate is a glimpse into how future negotiations will go. Contracting is all about negotiations. (Deadlines, feature requests, etc.)

The employer is looking to keep costs down. You're looking to eat. But neither of you should come away feeling cheated. Don't charge more than you're worth, and don't accept less.
They were using older grid technologies. Instead of a VM, you put in a terribly-documented job-script thing that was sorta like a shell script but had extra stuff you needed in there. I spent weeks trying to make it work, and got nowhere. Took me maybe 3 hours to setup in EC2.

It's what happens when management falls so much in love with the idea that they never touch the execution.
Why "Create a New Course" is asking me for name, and after pressing Create course redirects me to the edit page, why edit page appears on step2?
Evolving Business Models at Big Pharma to Replace Blockbusters
I don’t think your example in (2) is particularly effective. At least through 2000 or so, IBM spent more on R&D than just about anyone, Microsoft included. Others now spend comparable amounts, but IBM still got the most patents of any company last year: and they have for 17 years straight.

Big R&D budgets, with lots of interesting advanced research, DARPA grants, etc. etc. can certainly be helpful, but they don’t save a company that lacks a broader product strategy.
It started with the Bogomils, I believe it was on some doctrine about whehter we were born in sin, or not. I haven't check wikipedia, trying to type what I remmember from school, but the orthodox church believes that you are born in sin, while the catholic does not. Off course there are other differences.

Atheist myself, I got married in a orthodox church to make my family happy (grandmothers especially). I carry my wedding ring on the right hand (orthodox rules).

But, I wonder what's the point? Such simple differences, and off course others were the cause of wars (real, and cold) between the sects (to be objective, they are all sects) of the christian church.

Ok, so some fights might've been okay - for example our Bulgarian church (orthodox) "fought" against the Greek (also orthodox) to have the sermons told in bulgarian, not greek, because... people did not understood greek. Or to have the bible written in bulgarian.

But now the bulgarian church is fighting within itself, for stupid things like - whether the black monks (I think those are strict monastic monks), can get married vs. the one carrying white. Again, not going to bother checkin the wikipedia on this one. It's just stupid :) Allow them to get married, and continue...
But Chrome/webkit already has a built-in developer tool that is very similar to Firebug. Isn't Firebug sort of redundant?
I'm glad to hear it worked out. It's been quite helpful the few times I've needed it
Yeah, I should've been clearer. But writing off your entire family as dead is only a consequence of riding the proton, so it has nearly no advantage. And again, there's suspended animation, so not only can you make the trip nigh-instantly (to you) on the ship, you can get back before people forget you exist.
52Framework: html5 and css3 framework
Microsoft Sticks a Cautious Toe Into the Ad Exchange Business
Nailing the Interview
Except they can't simply buy out their internal competition.

To put it in free-market terms, the boundaries of Microsoft got so large that they encompassed many antagonists, but insulated them from the mediating forces of the market.

Reminds me of a situation at a previous company, where we were paying something like 1/4 mil yearly for a transatlantic E3 data line no one ever got to use. If one VP came up with a use for it, the other VPs would sabotage the project, so they could use it someday.
Authentication is Secondary
Great comments on value and scarcity in social interactions. Being conscious of this has made me more successful too.

The notion of value offering is very different from value taking. Value offering coincides with abundance mentality; value taking coincides with scarcity mentality. When you are value offering, you really want to help the other person. You want to present them with the truth and honestly evaluate how you could meet their needs, rather than manipulating and micromanaging to get your end of the deal. You create a win-win situation.

Also, sounds like someone has had some experience with pickup.
"We, hackers, are so used to some concepts, we forget about our dads, girlfriends and co-workers from different departments, which are still in 1995."

Couldn't agree with this more!
I was looking at that too... the trick that I see is that that's a statistical limit, not a "travel X miles, lose X% energy, no matter what" limit. It's still entirely possible for a particle to be over the limit, it's just highly unlikely.

We detect super-energetic particles frequently, but only a couple "over the limit". Seems to fit the statistical model to me.
Carbonite Launches Backup for SMBs
A year or so ago I was looking for a polite way to turn a load of work down from certain clients - so I set my rate 8 times what I was currently charging on the premise it would put them off without me outright saying no.

Complete failure there because they happily wanted to pay it (and you cant turn it down then :()
Sexps are better than strings because they are more structured. It would be even better to represent code with separate data types for every construct instead of the relatively unstructured sexps.
I've had this before, it works pretty well to say "do not contact me again" and go on with your life as if it never happened.
That's a link to Apple's chart, not MSFT. And MSFT has been tracking the overall market pretty closely over the past few years. It hasn't been tanking, nor booming. I'd say that's a validation of wglb's point, no? Investors don't care about anything but revenue, and revenue of a company this size tracks the economy, and thus it behaves pretty much the same as the market does.
Networking Arbitrage: The Comment
Hey Zack, your site does have a problem with javascript-disabled people. It only renders "You must have Javascript enabled to view this site."
Exactly right, and now a company like Google which makes almost all of its money off advertising can have a driving mantra like "to organize all the world's information" and utilize that network. Furthermore, Google can pump money into open source and new devices to bring people online - things that make the web more important to people's lives - and it will benefit their core business. Most of the world's population isn't even online, Google could even make a case to buy out ARM and licence it for free to other companies (inter-licencing with other processor companies might be difficult) just to expand the market to nearer to its full potential (6 billion and rising). Whereas Microsoft faces having to sell software products to different markets, like games and movies do, which basically means price-fixing and changing the product (be that through crippled "lite" versions of Windows for the developing world, or the price-fixing that is involved in region-encoded DVDs and regional sales of games).
Oh crap - stop posting those salaries :P

I'm in the 3rd world right now making 12000 U$D a year - and taxed like hell for being in the upper range.

I'll most probably emigrate within the next year, but I know it won't be a bed of roses...
There is a pretty wide gap between the actual bad guys who must be killed (Al Qaeda, other transnational terrorist groups, and the hard core of the insurgencies in many countries..the people who go around blowing up schools, chopping off hands of those who vote, etc.), and the majority of the enemy (who are purely mercenary foot soldiers, or common/pretty criminals, or some kind of tribal/ethnic group).

The ideal outcome is to separate the really bad guys and let tier-1 US units go after them (kill or capture; with kill being the most common outcome), while using politics and economics to reduce the number of the second category, convert them into either peaceful civilians or members of the security establishment in the country, etc.

Saddam, Uday, Qusay, and the other leaders: kill or capture
Top-level baathists: prosecute using local courts
Iraqi soldiers, local tribal militias, etc.: Bring them into the IP/IA/etc.

That's been the (successful) strategy since ~2006.

(I was actually AGAINST the Iraq war, because it was a distraction from going after Al Qaeda globally)
Also

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang=mzsch...
Clicking on "create course" for the second time after pressing back button I got:

An Error Was Encountered

Error Number: 1062

Duplicate entry 'yaraci64' for key 2

INSERT INTO `gm_courses` (`user_id`, `name`, `email`, `public_code`, `is_public`, `created_on`) VALUES ('3333', 'A', 'yaraci64', 850393, 1, '2010-02-04 16:37:46')

I could not reproduce the issue again, though.
> That sank without a trace - no comments, no upvotes -

That's because it didn't mention the Ipad.
They've been playing the "oops, sorry we crushed everyone else" card for a long time :|
Every (most?) software companies has some good products. MS Excel is an example, maybe Adobe Photoshop is one of them.
Indeed, the big variables here have nothing to do with the delay of reaction time but the speed at which each participant can do their thing.

In self-defense training, a standard thing to do is to have a "defender" with a fake gun in his hand, finger on the trigger, pointed at the "aggressor", who is holding a fake knife. For just about any combination of people (including those out of shape), the aggressor can lunge 21 feet and "stab" the defender before the latter can pull his trigger (and it should be noted that hitting someone with one round is not necessarily going to stop them, only a CNS hit will do that for sure, and that's a small target).

In this case, it probably comes down to the simplicity of using a knife; drawing a gun from a holster and using it effectively and quickly (and safely!) is much less natural and requires training.
Polyamory, dude. Balanced rules for the goose and gander :)

But actually, that's so 2009... check out his 2010 plan if you're curious ;)
Releases.mozilla.org SSL and Update Fail
So why not create syntax that catches 99% of the cases for which you intend the language to be used

This just indicates the author is clueless about the substantive use of a DSL.

The only way to implement this is to vastly reduce the scope of that "intend." Basically equivalent to, "all you really need is Blub."

80% would be reasonable. But the last 20% is going to encompass some powerful stuff.
Despite billions in investment, its Xbox line is still at best an equal contender in the game console business.

I think he doesn't give Microsoft enough credit on this. They entered a game console market with two entrenched players, where one was clearly dominating the other. People gave Microsoft little to no chance of succeeding and yet, on there second iteration were able to put themselves on equal ground to Sony and Nintendo. And that is with producing one of the most unreliable consoles ever made.
I made that method absurdly generic, how about:

get "/hi" do |url|
print url
end

?
Side-by-side view of the 2 psalms in a diff viewer: http://i.imgur.com/ipaPW.png
That's an aliasing bug in the data, though. The 2001 date was cherry picked to show the release of OS X, but not the switch from the Win9x codebase to XP. You could play a similar game with the summer of 1995, where windows was "innovating" rapidly with the sudden switch to a 32 bit operating system while Apple was mired in tiny feature additions to system 8/9.

The truth is that neither the XP/Vista/7 codebase nor OS X have changed much over the last decade. Desktop computing is pretty much a solved problem. Incremental improvement is all we're going to see from here on.
I know it's high time I learn how to use git, but perforce is what we use at work and their 2-user/5-client evaluation version has served me well at home. Just letting those perforce users among us know that it might be worth upgrading. I know shelving has been on my wishlist for a while!
MSFT has been able to maintain the stock price near $30 levels for sometime while paying dividends consistently
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
For those who don't know, Emily Short is an author of many "interactive fiction" games and helped design Inform 7, a constraint-based programming language for interactive fiction. Her latest blog post has some short examples of Inform 7 code:

http://emshort.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/coding-puzzles/
My point is that what someone could create shouldn't have any bearing on the discussion. They are using c++ as an intermediate language, fine. Just because we could make a machine that executes it shouldn't alter that distinction. We can still call that compiling, but hypothesizing new machines doesn't help.
My mistake - I must have made a wrongful assumption based on practice in the UK. While public librarians in Britain are also expected to have a postgraduate qualification, that doesn't mean very much here and librarians aren't particularly well paid unless they are heads of service. An experienced librarian would expect to earn about half what an experienced software developer or systems administrator would - indeed, they would be fortunate to earn more than a junior developer on their first year in the job.

As an indication of their status here, a study published by the British Psychological Society in 2006 suggested that librarians are amongst the most stressed and frustrated workers. In the study, librarians themselves described feelings of severe boredom, a lack of control over their careers and insufficient opportunities to exercise their skills. As a heavy library user myself, this news story gelled strongly with the perception I have of librarians - intelligent people with very little to do, shuffling about the place with the demeanour of a lackadaisical hound, looking for something to puncture their tedious routine.
This is very similar to Powerset (http://powerset.com). They were bought by Microsoft a while back for a fair chunk of change, so you might be on to something.
Giving the 'unconscious' a voice
Security flaw puts iPhone users at risk of phishing attacks
Hope its not consider poor HN etiquette to post this, but i took a very different view about how i feel about Microsoft.

But to be fair, i have never worked there and i am assessing only from the outside.

http://krmmalik.posterous.com/why-i-dont-think-microsoft-has...
The reason is that the commandments are not clearly numbered, so it is a matter of interpretation when one commandment ends and the next begins. Different ways of splitting the commandments leads to different interpretation.

In Jewish interpretation the second commandment starts with "do not make an image...", in Catholic and Lutheran interpretation this is part of the first commandment, giving it less emphasis. The numbering of the rest of the commandments are then one off, until the ninth/tenth, which is two separate commandments in the Catholic interpretation.
Diffus pollution dress is turned on by CO2, prefers a clean environment
What about LINQ, Transactional NTFS, F#....

I'm no Micrsoft fanboy, but to say that they haven't done anything innovative at all is a bit harsh.
Microsoft and Sony coming out with motion controls doesn't mean that's where they think the future of their market is, they're just trying to tap into part of the Wii's market - to introduce the casual and first time gamers to a console with a rich library of more serious games. It's kind of like a drug dealer offering a sampler of a harder drug for free to get a new customer.

And for the hardcore gamers I know, XBox Live is a redefinition of consoles. Before Live, PCs were the only serious online game in town, now the XBox actually offers a better (less painful) online experience. Sony's online system is a joke in comparison.

(I own none of these systems, but I'm an ex-gamer and know a lot of gamers.)
Prostate Alternatives
Brain Hack: Stop Procrastinating with "Push Motivation"
Thanks Max. Right now it's completely free and not designed to be used as a school wide system. The main purpose is for individual teachers to use it in their classrooms. We wanted to make something that teachers could use to manage all of their course material and eventually view really granular reports on their students' progress as well as use the service to add more collaboration to their classes. We have discussions set up now but are planning to roll out project pages and and public profiles for students.

Hadn't thought as in depth about the language but that's a great point.