skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And many other countries in late April:

"iPad will be available in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. International pricing will be announced in April. iPad will ship in additional countries later this year."
"on the" not "off of the"
So it spends more than the NSF. Either that US government spends too little or Microsoft is full of BS.
I think the key here is the exact amounts matching going in and out, that does look suspicious.

You need to structure it like a real business(which it is).
O.K. It makes more sense now.
Yeah, those were fun times when they were on 64kbps! I have a "Integrity, we've heard of it" t-shirt :)
Same here... it feels like Ukranian to me, but the only Slavic language I know is Russian.
Does Microsoft Excel still need to support two different date systems?
You might be surprised how widespread the non-understanding of division is among the normal population. That includes the accounting profession, who have mastered addition and subtraction, and possibly multiplication as well.

It's not clear whether an understanding of division is really required for Google's marketing or not.
Agree. Overly firm handshakes just freak me right the hell out, like they're either A) trying to socially engineer me, or B) establish dominance, both of which are immediate turnoffs.
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Now if they would only release some updated MacBook Pros. The current line is really outdated specwise.
Only got as far as rule number 1, remembered that I'm a masochist, and ctrl w.
Do you Believe in Voodo?.
I don't usually criticize articles but this one I can't let pass. What kind of drivel is this where breaking the other guy's wrist is supposed to make me happy in life? This is the kind of advice I would expect a mid-level manager at a used car dealership to dish out to new salesmen. This is Hacker News, a place where I get to directly converse with the folks who run the coolest and most promising startups in the world. There is no place for cheesy articles like this here. I wish there was a "does not belong here" flag.
I wish someone did that for BYTE too.

But with PDF downloads.
I couldn't agree more with you. The applicant did the right thing in reading up on the company, but just didn't have the skills.

For example, she knew how many ad placements GMail had, but it took her a lot of tries before she answered the question about how much Google makes from Gmail ads, and surely for the position she was applying for, the ability to make an educated guess (backed up with figures) at these things would be vital?
It looks like they are ready to take a shot at it: http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-first-look-how-penguin-...
Is Twitter the Ultimate Customer Service Channel?
Heh, I know this company. What a godawful way to say 'we provide software that inserts affiliate links into vBulletin installs so your forum can make a bit more money', which is what they actually do.
NHS IT: How much is the government paying to keep suppliers sweet?
That all depends on your definition of "language". For most linguists, all that matters is mutual intelligibility. For others, a language is a "dialect with an army and a flag", i.e. a political construct.

A Swedish person like me most of the time have no trouble at all understanding spoken Norwegian, and reading both bokmål and nynorsk is quite easy. Spoken Danish requires some effort and getting used to, but it is still quite possible to have a conversation.
IIUC one of the key acronyms in the advertising world is “CPM”, the cost of an ad per thousand people in its audience. That word “per” is division.
I find it hard to believe that the solar radiation falling on a moderate area for a moderate number of hours per day is more than the power a single house uses. According to Wikipedia it's about 1kW/m^2 at sea level. Four hours of cloud-free sunlight per day is an over-estimate for most places. Is 4kW enough to power a house? That assumes 100% efficiency.
If you're willing to pay Oracle, you can get a SQL database that runs queries using the same execution plan every time. I don't remember exactly how to do it, but basically you run the query wrapped in a command that says "fix the execution plan of this query." The execution plan gets saved in some table keyed by the query text. Whenever Oracle sees that query, it commits itself to the same execution plan. This feature is like a decade old.

A lot of the NoSQL arguments are really "No-MySQL" or "NoMoney" arguments. If you've never used Oracle (or DB2, or even SQL Server), you really don't have a full understanding of the capabilities and limitations of SQL databases. AFAICT, there's almost nothing in MySQL that wasn't old and boring in Oracle over a decade ago.
We've been using astrails in production for 10 month now and are quite satisfied with it so far.
I could read that with no problems.
Actually, it's a decimal point shift, which is a little easier than general division.
This is one I'll have to watch closely. Given the near-parity of the US and Canadian currencies, I'm not sure how forgiving Canadians will be if the iPad ends up costing noticeably more up here.
The appropriate credit supposedly goes to John Gage (also of Sun)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gage
Her assumption that one out of four GMail ads gets clicked on seems wildly off-base; I thought that these days, a click-through rate of one percent is considered a smashing success. But of course if you know that every GMail page has four ads, and you assume that one quarter of the ads gets clicked on, the math for the rest of the problem gets a lot easier.
Maybe 15 years ago I was watching a knife defense course,

the only thing I remember from that course:

"Respect the knife"

it seemed hilarious at the time, yet at the same time very apt.
The Ipad and other devices that will undoubtedly appear are probably the best shot they've got. It's not about paying it's about psychology and transaction costs that are too high and cumbersome.

Apple already proved with the Ipod/itunes combination that consumers are willing to pay for music even though the recording industry said they weren't. The same is probably true of print - it's simply a question of delivering a great user experience, no hassles, and low transaction costs.
In other news, Apple reports record sales :-P

OK, OK... I know Microsoft really does some impressive research (as opposed to copying Apple products), but I couldn't resist.

On my defense, I was there in the low 80's when Microsoft announced Windows and it grew increasingly Lisa-like on every press-release.
It's fine if you communicate it up front. I'd make sure this was somewhere in a nice big font on sign-up:

"You're using a free service, and we need to make money, so we modify certain links to e-commerce sites. When people click on those links and then buy something, we get a small percentage. This doesn't affect the content of the linked sites at all - the experience will be identical. It does mean you'll be unable to make money on your own by linking to e-commerce sites and using an affiliate code. Sorry - but this is a free service."

In fact, removing affiliate links almost certainly has a beneficial effect - your service is less likely to be seen as a tool for direct marketing lowlifes.

A lot of things that seem shady when done on the sly and hidden from users are fine when explained up front and in clear and simple English.
I assume that you're talking about obtaining a root SSL cert private key.

In order to do this using this exploit, you'd need physical access to a machine that has that private key stored on it already (presumably a few very high security servers at Verisign, etc).

I'm pretty sure that you'd find it easier to compromise such a server remotely using some other attack not discussed here. I'm also sure that companies holding such a key take their security very seriously.

In short, I don't think that this side-channel attack is even close to being applied to anything but a DRM system; certainly not to a root SSL cert.
I am perpetually surprised at the lack of innovation that Microsoft has. Like Google and Amazon, Microsoft is overrun with smart engineers, but somehow they have mysteriously manage to avoid introducing any products with any creative features in the last 10 years.

Microsoft: Give your engineers some 20% time so they can start churning out products in "Microsoft Labs".
Congrats, your comment had more value add on top of a press release than a techcrunch post.
This kind of attack is not useful for taking on a server, but, for example, it could be used to completely break HDCP. Get a couple of Blu-Ray players, use this to sniff out their keys and distribute those. Do it a couple of times and key revocation becomes infeasible because of the cost of replacing hardware.
I thought the consensus was that starting a business after your 20s was much more difficult, due to life issues (mortgage, kids, etc.). So, are there actually advantages to starting a business later in life?
Every x86 processors, however, is decidedly a kludge...
I use the Jython (or Scala) REPL to explore Java.
As a very early filer I already received money back. I am considering getting either an iPad or a new computer with it.
I wish I could recode my DNA to make pizza my ideal diet...
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I PERSONALLY THINK YOUR JUST THINKING ABOUT DOING THIS TYPE OF BUSINESS,SO THESE COMMENTS ARE ACTUALLY TEACHING YOU HOW!
Woobius introduces: the Eye
scenarios like this make me want to be a fifth-grade math teacher. maybe I could do a better job than this person's did.
Thank you! I literally JUST BOUGHT a machine with no O/S and a GTS250 and was about to install the O/S along with those drivers that I had already downloaded. What are the chances I saw this article just in time?
Hey everyone,

Would love to have your comments on this new tool that we've just launched into public beta now. How would you use it? Would you use it? Is it useful?

And in general, what do you think of it? Any feedback is welcome.

Direct link to the new tool: http://woobiuseye.com
If you're developing on Rack-based webapps on MacOS, check out http://github.com/alloy/passengerpane -- it's a System Preferences panel to automatically sets up local DNS and Apache/Phusion Passenger vhosts for projects.

If there's a similar tool for non-MacOS or non-Rack stuff I'd love to hear about it.
If they really want to stimulate development, make it free and don't require a Mac to do the development.

Less barriers == more developers.
What's the source for this? UK Apple site make no mention of late April as far as I can see...

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EDIT: Ahh, in the press release: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05ipad.html
It is (and has been) free to develop and distribute Mac apps. The Mac Dev program just gives you access to some pre-release stuff and a bit of support and some other things like that.

How does it even make sense to not require a Mac to develop native software for the Mac?
Django advent was an awesome idea. Sad to see it go, but I have a feeling with the success this release it will be back for 1.3!

Thanks to everyone who participated.
The whole age discussion just seems so useless, because it's something you really can't do anything about. If you want to start a company, go start it rather than watch a video of people blathering about it, whether you're 16 or 60.
I would imagine they've got stuff in the pipelines, but they'd most likely want to get through the iPad intro season before distracting the world with lesser updates.
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Isn't that the same as doing a "STRAIGHT JOIN" with a "USE INDEX()" in MySQL?
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2012 Olympics: Police to enter private homes to remove posters
Years ago I implemented a network file cache using a file-modification-count returned in every open handle. At that point it became an order of magnitude faster to build over the network than local, because the local file system had no such cache. Anyway this race between speed, space and network performance has been around a while.
Having a subscription to PopSci in the late 70s-early 80s was like reading Gizmodo or Engadget today. Every month was filled with magical things that you wouldn't see in person for months or years.

Optical discs! Fuel injected cars! Weird crap from DAK!

And Wordless Workshop FTW.
After all the discussion on HN lately about how the iPad is bad for the future of software development, it seems good that Apple is taking steps to reduce friction for potential Mac developers.
Every company has their own way of interviewing candidates. Some of the ways they measure a candidate might not make sense to an outside observer. I think Google has every right to hire with a math bias. If they are looking for analytical mindset in every position, then they should be asking math questions.
If you don’t have a Mac to develop on you don’t have a Mac to test on, and who wants to release untested software?
Yes, but you can hardly blame VMWare for that.
Well, USE INDEX is just a hint, and MySQL is free to ignore it. You probably mean FORCE INDEX, but I've still encountered situations where the index was ignored because the optimizer (incorrectly) thought there was no way to use it. (That was probably a bug, though)
How exactly did you download them? Nvidia removed them from their website, and you should only download drivers from there.
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While that is a good wish, I wish I could make Beer part of my ideal diet.
It seems really useful. I would use it with no-tech people. One thing I disliked thought: The sound of the pen drawing on the board. I'm not a native english speaker and I'm not sure how to say it.. but that sound "freeze my back" - the same feeling as one might have with a chalk on a board.
I've just watched the demo video, and I really like your UI for taking screenshots. Other than that, there have been many "shared whiteboard" implementations, many of them in Flash, over the years, which haven't really taken off massively - probably because drawing with a mouse is hard. I know Woobius targets architects, etc. - I assume they use tablets, and it could work really well with those.
The classified ads in the back bring back memories (1980s-1990s): Plans for building a jetpack, helicopters, hovercraft, tv descramblers,
"plasma fire sabers", "ion ray guns", "blaster defense weapon". A boy can dream can't he?
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I really enjoy ecommerce development and have spent the last 4 years professionally doing something related to it.

It's flat out amazing the poor security standards in the industry.

"Hey just email me an Excel spreadsheet of customer's credit card numbers, I need to charge them all," is not unheard of.

I know there are places where security is of high importance, but I've seen some places where it's really poor.

One of the problems is ease of entrance. In an afternoon, you can get a website set up, sell products, and take credit cards (along with other personal information) with absolutely no knowledge of how to do anything properly. In all honesty, that barrier for entry needs to be much much higher.
Feds weigh expansion of Internet monitoring (to private networks)
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The phrase you're looking for is "sends chills up my spine".
Exactly this has happened to me early this week with a 9800GTX+ (for some reason the drivers identify it as a 250GTS) except I was lucky enough to catch it before the GPU itself became damaged. I thought it was merely a broken fan, so went about ripping apart a case fan and McGyvering it onto the card.

However I haven't played any of those games, or really done anything terribly intensive aside from Zbrush and Maya, so I'm uncertain if it's related or merely a coincidence. Although, to be fair, I've never had a fan of any description die.

Does anyone know of some way to check or ultimately claim for this?
In my case, it was Windows update iirc.
Ease off the capslock, captain cool.
If only Google listened to Rob Enderle, their business might be as successful as Dell's MP3 player business (the last venture I remember Enderle being involved in).
The Air Force fails most pilot candidates. Not because they aren't qualified; because they have an abundance of candidates. They have to screen somehow, and choosing folks that not only have the requisite skills or trainability, but also have additional perhaps unrelated skills is as good a screen as any.
"Oh, and by the way, RethinkDB is hiring right now to create the next generation of products that will fix all these problems with SQL."

It's an interesting article. But isn't he just saying, P=NP is a problem, so let's ban P=NP? Is this programmer newspeak?
I could see this being turned into a fun game - sketchroulette?
Also, there are programming contests that accept other languages, but because these contests tend to focus on finding an algorithm of a given efficiency, it becomes hard to tune the time limits for multiple languages. So they tune to the most efficient/popular languages, which puts everyone not using C++ at a disadvantage.

See, for example, the comments on this page: http://www.spoj.pl/problems/ABCDEF/
This looks like Netmeeting whiteboard, which came with Windows 95.

http://imgur.com/dBP1u.gif

http://i.technet.microsoft.com/Cc723477.nm3feat2%28en-us,Tec...

Netmeeting also had video conferencing and chat to go with it, though.

http://www.microsoft.com/PRODUCTS/internet/netmeeting/demo/w...

Maybe you could partner with Chat Roulette ;)
This is the output from a recent session on #startups:

http://www.skitch.com/swombat/n2drp/woobius-eye

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President of Detroit School Board Suffers from "Communications Issues"
The Oracle fixed execution plan feature fixes the entire execution plan, not just which indexes are used. Think about a query where there's ten (indexed) tables involved. Saying "use this index for this table, this index for that table, etc." isn't the same as saying "First, filter the third table down to the fields that match the criteria given for that table using index Foo, then filter the 7th table given its criteria using index Bar, then join them together using nested loops, then join them to the result of ...".

Think about an Oracle execution plain as your declarative SQL query rewritten as a procedural program as you would write it in C/Java/Python/Ruby with hashtables, nested loops, if statements, etc.
I would assume that the posters in question would be non-sponsor advertising posters facing sites associated with the games, although the original article doesn't elaborate.

Nonetheless, the tendency of governments to violate civil liberties to prevent "ambush marketing" at big sporting events is quite disturbing.
If you can't solve a basic algebra equation you should be ashamed of yourself applying for any financial/math/cs jobs. I learned that in 5th grade (alas in another country though where school actually teaches you something).

All he had to do was write the problem down and solve for P:
0.10 * (P*0.2) = 20 ->>> result 1000 P eople.
*.somesite.com has been around since 2003 and points to 127.0.0.1.
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i would pay a small fee to legitimize our relationship so i can trust you more.
Although I agree with most of the premises of the article, I was dumbfounded by the assertion that marketing is a creative role that doesn't require mathematical skills. Marketing is quite analytical in nature, and is not about dreaming up ad campaigns (that is advertising). So Google's sins in this case were: 1) an inexperienced interviewer; 2) a rude interviewer. Despite these flaws, Google accomplished its goal, which was to rule out a candidate with poor analytical skills.
I don't know anything about SH5, but until someone 100%s the game with a "cracked" copy I remain sceptical that the DRM has been cracked.

I really don't think there's going to be a "when", TBH. I don't know for sure, but I'm worried that this is a last attempt at trying to make the big-budget PC games market profitable. Either it works and stays, or it doesn't work and publishers start to drop out of the market. EA are doing exactly the same thing with the next C&C by the way.
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There's definitely a benefit to doing that. Didn't have to pay this year, so I took part of my refund and got a new MacBook Pro.
What amazes me is that there are services like paypal, google checkout and others that can handle all this for the vendor. If someone wanted to set up in an afternoon they could: just use a pre-developed card and protect yourself from fraud too.

Even quick time-to-market is not an excuse any more.
I have been an entrepreneur my whole life, and I'm 50, married with 3 kids. What it takes is a tolerant spouse.
This may not seem like Hacker News. But it's of interest to anyone who cares about the intellectual future. Here's an excerpt from an email written by the President of the Detroit School Board:

Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row's, and who is the watch dog?

Detroit's teachers report to the person who reports to the person who reports to him, more or less, so the average teacher's writing skills could well be worse.
Quote: "Moves to safeguard company trademarks and stamp out ambush marketing, to preserve the monopoly of official advertisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) logo, are raising concerns among civil liberty groups.

Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events."

Wow. That's ridiculous.
"According to your DNA test, you need to eat less and exercise more. That'll be $5,000, please."
Yeah, at first I thought that maybe "poster" means something completely different in UK English.
Great looking site.. And that's a really good idea to contain it to a single sentence.
Also private, sadly.
Google Responds To Privacy Concerns [The Onion]
There is Folkspraak. Although it is meant to be for all Germanic languages (including English) not just the North Germanic languages.

http://www.langmaker.com/folkspraak/folkgrammar.htm

http://www.langmaker.com/folksprk.htm#Introduction
Hmmm - sounds like a real-life backdrop for V for Vendetta.
While I have immense respect for the United Kingdom, in the United States, you could almost certainly put up a poster saying "The government says it has the right to prohibit me from saying 'Go Nike'. The Constitution says I have the right to say 'go suck eggs'."

(Even the most ardent defender of the Supreme Court's commercial speech jurisprudence -- which is in my mind largely mistaken -- would have a hard, hard time finding against a private citizen for political commentary of that nature.)
Dear god. Whoever came up with that idea and thought it good :(
Why is IP being allowed to take precedence over civil liberties and cultural inheritance these days? WTF?
Two-dozen unnamed sources for a one page article that doesn't nearly convince us of anything. Wow.

This article would make a great centerpiece on journalist ethics.
I disagree. Touch screen has been "in the wild" for quite some time in various forms. Pre-iPhone the most used one was the stylus approach. And it was awful. All the different things that come together in the iPhone made people see this as finally being the right path to moving the computer from the desktop into the hand. It might have happened without them, but judging on how all previous attempts turned out I wouldn't be surprised if they saved us decades.
What control? Anybody taking part in a big important Stanford research project may be 2-3 times more likely to stick to their diet.
Here is a cover view of all the issues, courtesy of Google Books: http://books.google.com/books/serial/wzsEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1
iPad app?
Designer Ethics