skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this will ward off the demons. I am 35 and was raised in a home without a single TV so I know this. I am relatively demon-free to this day.
The less the goverment controls the better. Mainly because each government can then control it differently.

What really needs to happen is that artists need to get out of these music labels and let these streaming sites/concerts/ect to promote them. They do not need the record labels at all. They are a thing of the past which will not die.
"And here's something else. I have eight different bosses right now."

"Beg your pardon?"

"Eight bosses."

"Eight?"

"Eight, Bob. So that means that, when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it."
Let's Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on Political Greed
"gaaa!" is an entirely legitimate response to this and the same one I had when I looked at it in the middle of last year (and I've been playing the game since 1980 (sic), but not since 2000 ... the threat environment has exponentially increased since then).

I'm afraid my only recommendation is not immediately useful, which is to start reading/skimming a 1,000 page book, Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition by Simson Garfinkel et. al. (http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Unix-Internet-Security-3rd/d...).

But's that reference is only "a mile wide and an inch deep* (from the Amazon.com reviews).

How much time do you have? How much flexibility in choosing your OS (e.g. is OpenBSD or a Linux that really implements SELinux an option)?

And there are so many details today, like how do you get adequate entropy for your RNG on a VPS?

Gaaa!
The reason is it consumes less power compared to your old desktop.

It costs only 7$ to run a plug computer for a year compared to $125 for your desktop
Nice improvements.
I'm really excited by all of the recent activity happening in Django, it's REALLY taking off!

Sounds like Django Advent will allow someone to write a Django-based CRM system. among other things.
Cut the uber-linkbait title. I'm no MS fan, but I was immediately skeptical of such a claim. And here's the relevant info:

In 2010, Albany SHS will move into new purpose-built premises, which include a dedicated server room. Brennan noted that the architects designed the space based on standard New Zealand school requirements, including four racks each capable of holding 48 servers for its main systems. The main infrastructure only requires four servers, suggesting an almost 50-fold saving on hardware requirements.

Actually, it suggests absolutely nothing of the kind. The fact that some architect somewhere designed a room big enough to hold 192 servers hardly means that you've saved 50-fold because you're only using 4. The office I rented is big enough for six people to work in, so I'm apparently doing the work of six people!
This is more than just kinda great, this is definitively awesomely great. Words can not describe how crappy Time Warner is in NYC.

Bonus points for doing this in a recession when traditional companies are running for the hills and laying off people left and right. Google continues to innovate and crush competition in multiple industries. I have no doubt that if they want to become an ISP or even pretend to become one to force traditional ISP's to innovate then good for them and better for us.
Erik Winkels: Google AI Challenge 2010 & Common Lisp
Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes.

Did you hear that? It sounded as if millions of hollywood executives suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
This may be paranoia, but I'm actually worried about this much bandwidth being the hands of ordinary people. My reasoning: super-botnets. This has the potential to very easily create a several 100Gbit DDOS network, which is essentially unstoppable. I understand the need and potential for high speed networks, but I think gigabit might be taking it a bit too far. It's a "with great power comes great responsibility" sort of thing. But perhaps I'm just being overly paranoid.
Another thought... I still have to punch a hole in my firewall and forward some ports to the "plug", right?

The product I'd like to see is a managed consumer-targeted router device. It would be a wireless access point, firewall, and home server all rolled into one. You'd buy the box and then pay a monthly fee for management. The software would upgrade itself so you wouldn't have to worry about manually patching security holes. The configuration would be easy to use and contain lots of templates like, "I want Skype to work well on these machines, so open up these ports" Oh, and you can plug in a bunch of external hard drives and serve up their contents via all sorts of protocols. Perhaps this exists and I'm entirely unaware?
18 years old entrepreneur startup making £25,000 – £30,000 a month.
I for one welcome google as an fiber based internet service provider. Especially if its better than the competitors
"compared to $125 for your desktop" - Does this number include the display?

Perhaps an old laptop with the lid shut would be more efficient than a desktop?
That just hasn't panned out for MS though. Look at its most startling successes in recent memory: Xbox, an innovative product that was the first to put the online experience on a console (PS2 had it, but it was a poor excuse of one)... Office, which went through a completely unforced redesign...

The only teams at MS that seem to be succeeding are the ones not resting on their laurels, doing things the competition isn't doing.

Meanwhile look at the IE team - years and years of being bested by Firefox, and now being bested by WebKit, and they still don't seem to have their act together. Every single feature in IE8 was a me-too off of something Safari, Firefox, or Chrome already did.
Eric Schmidt: Erasing our innovation deficit
I for one welcome google as an fiber based internet service provider. Especially if its better than the competitors
I wonder if they will do analytics on the packets or information
I think Google would be better off partnering with existing service providers for this project. It's a hugely complex process to start from scratch. Getting the pole rights alone to build infrastructure is going to take them years. In some area's within the span of a mile you might pass poles owned by half a dozen different entities. Most of them owned by incumbent Internet service providers who will tell you the pole is already at capacity and if you want to put up your fiber they need to replace 50 poles to cover one new street of infrastructure build out. In many places they'll have to dig trenches for new construction. In cold areas that means you lose at least 5 months a year of actual work time or you spend a fortune digging into the frozen ground. They're going to need to hire a small army of contractors to build plant and splice fiber or make the investment in man power, bucket trucks, gear, etc to do it in house. They're going to need warehouses and office space all over the country. And of course they'll need customer & technical support staff. I'd be shocked if Google makes any real progress on this outside of extremely limited deployments. The whole system is setup to make it very hard for any outside force to compete with incumbents.
HP Joins the Infrastructure 2.0 Conversation
I gave up on TV and now just watch cat videos on YouTube. Much better.
That sort of code can get really messy when you have to put PHP code inside the DIVs.

I think I might like the more concise, readable syntax that XHP offers for interpolating {$variables} (and any PHP code for that matter).
Poor Darcs, it's not even considered. I remember how awesome I thought Darcs was, but now we're almost done switching to Git. I would've stayed, but Git lapped Darcs on tools, performance, and stability. A shame.
Faster, higher, techier: Six high-tech ways to enjoy the 2010 Olympics
I think he missed the point to having a tv in this.

Why would you settle to watch your episodes of 24 on a laptop when you have a 42" tv? Your settling for less.

I will agree though I do not like cable tv at all I have not watched it in a couple of months (ever since I signed up for netflix). I however do love my 42" tv. I play games and watch movies ect.

Just because you have a tv does not mean you have to watch cable.
But I highly doubt Google is planning on offering "Cable Video." In the same way that VOIP is differentiated from Voice Service according to the FCC, offering IPTV does not require a Service Provider to register as a Cable Franchise. VOIP & IPTV are seen as "applications," not a native service type.
Why is it a shame that there is a much better product that meets your needs?
Knowing that is what will make you successful in life and it obviously cannot be summed up in few words. You get it or you don't. That's the way I see it.
Another reason it's alright to blog for free is that if you build something worthwhile, you get fringe benefits like recognition and introductions to bigger players.
It's not really a use case I have. If I'm working, I have internet connectivity :/
Some links for you

http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/tech/2009/05/07/dcl.pirillo....

http://lifehacker.com/5208833/tonido-keeps-cloud-computing-l...

http://blogs.scholastic.com/accelerating_change/2009/11/your...

http://maketecheasier.com/tonidoplug-your-personal-cloud-ser...

http://jpwhitehome.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/tonido-open-sour...
Those of us who really don't watch TV don't generally feel inclined to write our accounts down.

Take me for example. After my son was born 5 years ago we got busy and decided that we were going to not be connected. My wife connected the TV for a few days to watch Obama win. Then disconnected it since.

My wife rents movies from Netflix. We get movies from the library for my son. (He probably watches about 6-8 hours a week.) We bought a handful of DVDs. But on the average day the (disconnected) TV doesn't even get turned on for that. And the last made for TV show I'm aware of in the house was when my wife decided to watch Weeds.

But to me it is a non-story. I simply don't feel the need to turn the TV on and I don't seek the content out in any other media. I simply have a full life and TV isn't part of it. To such an extent that the non-presence of TV isn't a story for me, it is simply a fact of life.
Reminds me of the "Death" portion of Steve Jobs Commencement speech. It seems that when presented with the end, our decisions become much clearer.
Don't most South Korean already have fiber to the home? The internet hasn't melted down yet.
Ah cool, didn't think to search for "admin". No, $15 is absolutely not a dealbreaker.
You don't need to. Tonido has a relay service. Tonido also updates the software with just one click. So the software would upgrade itself.
Welcome to Computer Engineering 101!

At the heart of it all are transistors. I'll talk about MOSFETs, Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors. The word semiconductor is important because it means that a MOSFET can be told to conduct or not, which means it can be used to open and close circuits. This is the heart of digital computing.

There are two kinds, created by putting different kinds of gas (doping) on to silicon. N and P type. Each transistor has 3 important points, the source, drain and gate. If you apply a "1" to the gate, the transistor will either open or close, based on whether it is N or P, and allow a signal to move between the source and the gate. You can pair these N and P type transistors to make CMOS or Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor circuits.

If you're really interested, I imagine there should be some good tutorials on how to make a simple microprocessor using a hardware description language like Verilog.
Or will make video ads more practical. Uhm, yay?
So what are you if you are doing research and you aren't paid to do it? I've been in that situation where I had a "day" job (running a software company) and doing a PhD on the side?

I was certainly part of the academic community but I wasn't a paid "professional" researcher.
Fudging jobless statistics: Conflicting government stats skew jobless rate
You sound like a real pleasure to work with.
If I am not wrong, this kind of speed already exists for few years in some parts of the world. S.Korea, Japan and England comes to my mind.
Interesting 2007 Cringley article predicting something like this, except more focused on providing the backbone. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_0015... He also claims Google "controls more network fiber than any other organization."
Extensions: What Mozilla could learn from Google
Ask HN: Review my web app - Modern Ballots
I noticed a lot of distain for the two-party system and went about investigating alternatives. Modern Ballots is an attempt to make Schulze STV, a proportional representation algorithm, easy to use for anyone that wants to hold a vote.

Thing is, I'm not really all that savvy when it comes to UI design, marketing and all that stuff. Any suggestions on how to make this kind of thing more appealing? Electoral reform isn't exactly the sexiest of subjects, although it does entertain sporadic conversation.
Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. Constantly trying to improve things. If you have bug reports, please post them in Github's issue tracker. I pay close attention to issues posted there.

There have been a lot of requests to add styles for inputs/textareas and buttons. I do plan to add styles for those in the next version.

Also, Opera support is coming. I played around yesterday and I found a workaround for the bug that was plaguing it: not being able to hide form elements.

Can someone post more details on the Chrome 4 bug mentioned in the issue tracker?
You won't be able to do projections and budgets in Mint. And those are two of the most important things for planning out the next phases of your company.
Why? They still control the content and the licensing. I don't think they really care about the carrier media (DVD or packets), they care about extracting every last possible dime from the consumer for the content.

If the content can be distributed AND billed effectively over this pipe, then it's fine. If the content can NOT be billed appropriately, it simply won't be licensed for this distribution channel.
Jinja 2.3 Released
Odd, but as I was reading this I kept thinking of programming language flame wars:

> So why is there so much hating? I think what’s going on is that people are coming to these languages from Java or PHP, have their massive epiphany on how totally awesome these languages are, and then assume that only their language can have this level of awesome, so they begin evangelizing. The problem, of course, is that the other guy feels the same way, and is also evangelizing, so the Ruby and the Python guy end up in a locker-room-style temper-tantrum over whose language has the best frameworks or whatnot, instead of how much more awesome their languages are than the competition.

> This has to stop.

> Python’s enemy is not Ruby. Ruby’s enemy is not Python.

> Their enemy is Java.
I will likely get this to compliment my aging NSLU2.
great..thank you very much .yes i'am really interested in knowing even further..
I'm not sure why everyone thinks Toyota has failed. If two of the US automakers hadn't been bailed out by the US Government, Toyota (with all of its current challenges) would have bought up thousands of dealerships and dozens of plants in the US and would be poised to totally dominate the worldwide automotive market.

Instead, it had a bit of bad luck (requiring a recall) and it now faces stiff competition from two companies kept in business by massive government subsidies.

I think most people would still rather buy a Toyota than a Chrysler, Ford, or GM vehicle, on the basis of both safety and reliability -- and increasingly performance and styling.

The fact is, Toyota already won in the marketplace. It deserves to have a near monopoly because it fought harder and smarter for decades, slowly earning customer confidence and loyalty. What were the fruits of its labor? Now it gets to fight against massively subsidized ghosts from its past who have already lost the battle but are reanimated by politicians waving American flags, etc.

And now the American press seems to be having a field day claiming that Toyota has failed after one major recall. Note that similar stories about Toyota's demise surfaced after the firm had its first unprofitable quarter ever at the same time that two US automakers became insolvent.

This anti-Toyota propaganda really boggles the mind.
New Telescope Captures Dazzling Image of Orion Nebula
Summary:

Mercurial’s enemy is not Git. Git’s enemy is not Mercurial.

Their enemy is Subversion.

.. most developers are not even aware of what DVCSes are or what they do. .. The goal right now, if you honestly believe that the DVCS workflow is better—and I do—should be to get the mindset out there, to make more people aware of what DVCSes have to offer and why they should be using them. </quote>
This is very true, but google also has a vast amount of resources, and some of the smartest and technologically literate people in the world working for them. Its entirely possible that they have an army of robots or some game changing technology to do things differently from the norm.
VR goggles are OK with 150 mS round-trip delay, as long as the user's head movement is compensated for locally. There are lots of wrong ways to do it, such as moving the robot's head to match the operator's, but it's not too hard to do it the right way.

It turns out the human nervous system has 100 - 200 mS delay. Peripheral nerves conduct at only 10 - 50 m/S, so your brain is already adapted to some delay. More delay makes juggling & stuff harder, but most office work is only slowed down slightly.
I have met some people with Chartered Engineer/PE status who program - not many though. They are the only people I would call "professional programmers".
This is awesome.

The full lists for SF and London are here: http://github.com/mattb/flotsam/tree/master/github-recruitme...

Looks like I'm languishing at #27 in the London list, better get back to work..
I think their concern is that it will be distributed over this channel whether it's licensed for it or not.
"But my son's assertion that chatroulette is porn doesn't seem exactly right to me."

In my first 5 screens, 2 guys had their junk out (one guy was servicing himself) and a 3rd held a sign that read "Show Your Tits" ...

I guess it's not porn in the traditional sense, but still ... it's obvious what people are using it for.

BTW, wouldn't it be easy for Skype to add a feature like this?
Google's own press release suggests they're looking for new ways to use ultra-highspeed broadband:

Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of university lecture.

Now look at how Geneva, Illinois fought off AT&T U-Verse (called "Project Lightspeed" in the experimental phase) because they already had television franchise agreements in place and didn't want to get sued by the cable company:

http://www.geneva.il.us/att/Lightspeed.htm

(Note, also, that Geneva tried to set up their own broadband network and was roadblocked by AT&T. Karma is a bitch.)

I'm not suggesting that Google is looking to offer cable TV. I'm just implying that you can't waltz into a town and offer these kinds of services without raising the hackles of the existing companies that are providing utility services in most typical towns.

A town might willingly invite Google with open arms, but that doesn't mean it's a done deal by a long shot. Expect lawsuits.
Isn't the poor coverage of decent internet connections a much bigger issue? Highspeed internet in urban areas might be cool but what about the rest of the country.
I've never looked into it, or even thought about it until now, but I wonder what virus / bot infection rates look like in non-English speaking countries.

Most infections seem to result from an automatically created subject line in English... I'm sure there are viruses created specifically in other languages, but are they as successful?
A Few Billion Lines of Code: Using Static Analysis in the Real World
The way Google throws products on the market to increase competition for the benefit of its core products ... it's genius.

Are there any other companies that do this?
Target Toyota: Why the Recall Backlash Is Overblown
Good points indeed. From their (very short) TOS;

"Everything supplied by the user you are connected with is not property of Chatroulette, and therefore Chatroulette is not responsible for what you will find."
I think it's a shame because Darcs has beautiful theory behind it and is written in my favorite programming language. I feel the same way about some hardware, like the SGI Octane with MIPS processors, dual board graphics cards, and a crossbar architecture. Practically speaking it's worthless because it pulls way too much power and even a cheap netbook is 10 times as fast, but it's still my favorite computer. So it's not a shame that there's a better product, it's a shame that the product I want to be the best isn't.
America on the Rise?
It’s easy, in the yin/yang of Hacker News and proggit, to forget that most developers are not even aware of what DVCSes are or what they do.

Can this be true? I'm definitely not a rockstar developer and I've been using Git for more than a year.
Is there code I can download for this project?

I'm about to pay $1,300 so I can legally purchase a Genera system. I'd love to look at similar projects.
Since it's a pilot project, Google can simply choose to install it in places that are easy to install. Of course, the results won't be representative.
Note that I agree with the general thesis of your article.

While you posted a fact (the failed admission test), that fact is a cherry-picked outlier that gives the opposite impression of Einsteins actual academic achievements (especially more so if you omit the rest of the circumstances).

It's like saying the fact that I won my Physics School chess championship in 1996 and leaving it there (true) without mentioning that I'm actually a mediocre player that won because many of my opponents didn't show up.

My rant was more general; I'd swear I've seen in a couple of movies the "Einstein flunked a physics test".
Django blog engines you should know
unfortunately much of themeroller's flexability depends on images. maybe more CSS support among popular browsers and more consistent CSS support will make it possible to achieve more with less images some day (hopefully none some day)
The closer two things are to each other, the more they fight. Like the Hells Angels vs Bandidos, or the Bloods vs the Crips. I mean, coming as someone who is not involved in any crime, it would seem reasonable that the Hells Angels should battle the Crips, seeing as they totally represent different things. But no, they go fight the people closest to them.

What I'm trying to say is that Git is like the Hells Angels, Mercurial is like the Bandidos, and SVN is like the Crips. Microsoft Visual Source Safe is like MC Hammer.
It's not in Google's best interests to reduce competition in the telecommunications industry. If they offer bandwidth at such a low cost that it threatens the viability of existing providers, they have to commit to providing that bandwidth in perpetuity. Their current business model requires bandwidth, and replacing that by raising bandwidth prices in the future when competitors have been eliminated would be met with government opposition fairly quickly.
2 or 3 years sounds about right. It seems lots of people wait to upgrade not wanting to get locked into another 2 year stint if there's a more appealing phone coming out in the near future. Apple stopped selling the 2G iPhone in 2008 but you can goto the Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon store and walk out with a glorified G1 device today. Motorola and a few others actually have these ~600Mhz Qualcom based phones on their road maps for late 2010 releases so it seems likely they will be around beyond 2012 in massive numbers. Probably as "free with contract" options.