skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but not WWDC from previous years, which is what I was thinking that Select/Premier would have access to.
yes that is true in the US not in India... public libraries are not that common (I recall New Delhi having 3 or 4 good ones and they have paid membership of about $30-50/year) and not all have internet.
Simple Freelance Project Quote Estimator
The Marvell part is an ARM-based processor.
Really? The impression I get from having seen him talk in a few videos is that he is clearly where he is because he "gets it" - he has that deep, long-term vision that goes way beyond the app, and taps an underlying culture-shift.
Why Larry Ellison hates cloud computing
> So what do you base your "eye" on?

This article refers to everyday people who might look at "ordinary" data. We're not talking about government climatologists or financial analysts here. We're talking about people in Sales and Marketing who might want to know the demographics of their customers, perhaps by location for example. So in this case, I mean quite literally, use what you see in front of you to identify anomalies. Maybe you notice that the age bracket 18-24 year olds seems significantly higher than the rest of the population.

I don't want to discredit the need for statisticians. I'm doing my PhD research on machine learning techniques. But in most practical scenarios, you don't need to resort to such a rigorous analysis. You can get quite far just using run-of-the-mill techniques (mean, standard deviation, normalization, what have you)
That's awesome, thanks.

Unfortunately, I can't get it to work :(
The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective
That depends on how engaged your engineers are in the product development process. If they are mere instruments of someone else's vision, no, but if they are also part of the idea creation process, then yes. Facebook constantly deploys and has an experimental mindset towards product development, so it's probably not as obnoxious as it sounds.
This is fantastic - works well so far and is overall beautiful. If I were you guys though, I'd be a little worried that google is going to kill it because it replaces the ads in gmail, which are the revenue producers. Is there a plan in place for what happens when google starts to get annoyed about that?
The rumor was started by a professor who wanted to teach his students how easily false information could be imparted by authority figures. The lesson would appear to have been even more effective than he had anticipated.
Casing Blackberry Bold OC Warna-Warni
I browse on a 1280x800 on a 12.1" screen and it also looks broken to me
Your point is spot-on.

> A better analogy would be an argument about exposing call/cc in scheme. Is call/cc good language design? There are arguments on both sides. Haskell does continuations differently than Scheme. Which is "better"?

To clarify this, here's a couple of questions whose answers might amuse you.

Is it possible to implement explicit continuations in terms of monads?
Is it possible to implement monads in terms of explicit continuations?

If it is possible to implement A in terms of B (and not vice versa), then B is more basic than A.
I am going to up vote this, and even comment so that I feel less guilty for doing exactly what napierzaza accuses. As a bonus, I will even feel intellectually superior by agreeing with his meta-analysis of the situation.
It may very well be malicious, but it really sounds like someone made a boneheaded mistake. It was not suppose to "strip" affiliate links. I believe that - I really do.

The intended purpose was to add affiliate links to links that do not have affiliate codes attached. I would totally do that if I ran LiveJournal and it makes perfect sense.
wow, well done. Seriously, i am now a user for life and id probably pay you for stuff. Not sure what yet, but you'll figure that out :-).
The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet
In short, it provides next to nothing unless you want/need to be on the bleeding edge. If you or your company has a product that needed to be compatible with a new OS rev on the day of the general release then it is worth it so that you had a pre-release version to build and test against, otherwise there is not much there that you need. I don't think there are any SDKs that you can't get via the free ADC membership.
Congrats to the IdeaX team!
An exploration of human emotion, in six movements (Opens Java applet window)
Does anyone here not experience qualia? What is that like?
Additionally, start with "I am <your name>, I'll give you what you want, please don't hurt me" or words to that effect. The point is to identify you as a vulnerable person with a name - memory sayeth it's psychologically much harder for them to hurt you once you've got a name rather than being some nameless victim (but no, I don't have a citation handy, sorry).
This was actually a website we prepared for investors; we weren't intending a public beta today! But the press found it, and so here we are. That's why you can't see a privacy policy.

In the absence of a written policy, we'll "treat users right" which roughly means we'll "treat users how we ourselves would want to be treated".

That's not particularly computable, so: the bodies of user's emails never leave the browser. We find email addresses in the browser, and send those back to our server to lookup. The emails themselves never touch our server.
That happens in every country on earth presumably. There's some mechanism to take damaged currency out of circulation.

Having been around both paper and plastic notes over the past few years, paper notes just seem filthy by comparison. Unless they are absolutely brand new they always seem to be worn, dirty and sometimes stained with some mystery fluid. shudders
Found this gem on another site being discussed here. Takes about 10seconds to load
I think their lander is a good example for developers who need some help designing their landers.

Just focus on two key things.

1. Understand the purpose of your page and try to do the least possible. Ex: explain what the product does or create hype, ease of sign up or show benefits of product etc.
2. Reduce the noise on the page so you can accomplish it well. Do this by either increasing contrast for the interface elements or reducing the number of elements.

Too often people get caught up in making it pretty. So their priorities end up looking like:

1. Lets make it pretty
2. Tell them everything about our product

And so for a lot of developers doing design they fail at the first step and ultimately end up with a poorly designed page that is crammed with info.

Take some pointers from these guys and when in doubt "show less".
Ok, I stumbled upon this gem on twistify.com: http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine_pc.html

Takes a few seconds to load (Java applet).
Ah, I messed up. Can you try it again?
This is the part that I find fascinating:

7:48 AM - Internal monitoring graphs first begin to
show that traffic has problems in our primary datacenter
9:35 AM - An engineer with familiarity with the unplanned
failover procedure is reached

And the blog entry keeps sounding like there was only one engineer making decisions for the first two hours.
They still have info here about the Select and Premiere programs: http://developer.apple.com/programs/adcbenefits/, and that is linked to at the bottom of the OP's link. Is it possible that those aren't going away?
Actually, EC had a couple of rather sharp project managers who unfortunately were never really given enough authority to overrule the bulk of the engineering team. EC as a company was the poster-child for "too many mad scientists, not enough hunchbacks." The items Chip describes as being worthwhile Ph.D. thesis projects had their own color on the PERT chart (purple I think...) -- if that is not a sign of impending doom I don't know what is. OTOH, it was great to work with a huge collection of smart folks valiantly trying to impose their vision on the world.
Yes, and it can also be tricky to communicate the key.
Wow we did that over 20 years ago now! There was some crazy estimate I once saw around the time we (us Australians) switched to plastic notes on how American businesses loses millions of dollars a year due to the difficulty of rapidly distinguishing the notes causing mistakes by tellers. (Since it was 20 years ago I don't have a source I'm afraid)

They going to phase out our 5c coin soon as well and good riddance I never use the things and have a tin full of them at home waiting to be taken to the bank for exchange.
!!"eBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true
!!"CrittersByTheBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true
!!"ThePirateBay.com".match(/ebay.com/i); //true
Australian ISP filtering policy is not evidence-based
You guys are all talking about the burden and challenge of being gifted, but really, being gifted is awesome. I would much rather be gifted than not be. And if you are truly gifted, and not just talented with a tendency for the grandiose, you can rise above this challenge too, and become wise as well as gifted (after the necessary trials that any worthy endeavor entail, of course). It can happen, despite the happy mythos espoused here by our dear friend ESR. I am skeptical of cursing any specific group of people, unless the point is that every person or "type of person" has a curse that must be borne. If so, being gifted is hardly one of the worst. "Oh noes, I must deal with my constant state of amazingness! How will I cope!"

Others must deal with you though I suppose. That must be rough for them.
Yeah they need to age a bit but they do wear out and rip eventually but I'm guessing they are longer lasting than paper ones.
Mac users will be happy to learn that:

sudo port install pv

"just works" :-) (Well, assuming you use MacPorts anyway.)
I can't say I like Apple's use of the term license here. In most contexts, licensing is a process by which a central authority grants permission to certain entities with the express denial of those outside the license. ADC is supposed to be a value-add, not a barrier to entry.
There are more than 25 Head First Titles now including Head First Physics
Sigh... One of my favorite line of book series looks to be in a bad state right now. I think O'reilly has taken it too far with titles like Head First 2D geometry and Head First Physics.
Sigh... One of my favorite line of book series looks to be in a bad state right now. I think O'reilly has taken it too far with titles like Head First 2D geometry and Head First Physics.
Ohio gets no love
The Remote Controlled Hummingbird Robot From Chiba
well said. this is probably the most reasonable, logical, and level headed statement ive seen on this entire topic over the past 5 years.
I really don't think you should take your understanding of Einstein's early career from Yahoo Serious movies.
That answer and its brethren are very good answers. However, they become progressively less useful each time you use them in the same presentation. They are useful when you essentially do have mastery over your material, and you will therefore not need to dodge most questions with them. In fact, they are useful because, if used in the most sincere and literal way, they are a compliment to the person who asked the insightful question.

(Of course, they are bad answers to the basic question about provenance asked by the GP - if someone was asking you where you got Graph X and you don't know, telling them that you'll talk with them later will be treated as the dodge that it is, not as a compliment.)
Education and demographics: how do they affect unemployment rates? (1988)
1. You assume a (fairly) anonymous, amateur source based on a single data point is more unbiased than someone who has devoted most of their lives to collecting data? I totally agree with the movement to make scientific data more open, but I think you are really underestimating the motivations of most scientists.

2. Extrapolating from a single data set leads to huge biases in interpretation. There are too many uncontrolled variables to say anything meaningful beyond what the temperature in this city has averaged. I think the rate of change that people are worried about in overall temps would probably not even register on this graph clearly.

If you are going to criticize how science is done, you should probably learn more about how it is done.

And some basic statistics.
"Given modern trends, if a given query isn’t scalable vertically, it also isn’t scalable horizontally, which makes SQL fundamentally unscalable, period."
I think steveplace covered that when he wrote 'we can find ways to view the US healthcare issue as "Hacker News"'.

In that sense, almost any political news can be made to be "relevant" to HN. The California budget deficit, Iraq, the tax code, the next elections, you name it.

And when the topic is politics, even though people here tend to remain civil, the level of discourse inevitably goes down.

For instance, consider your superlative usage of "murder". This sort of thing practically precludes any further fruitful discussion: anyone who disagrees with you is automatically in the uncomfortable position of "abetting murder".
Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain
Are you honestly suggesting that someone would travel to Mexico or India to put their premie in newborn intensive care unit there? Really; that seems remotely reasonable (or even possible) to you?
It seems to me that the guy who controls the plugin would win a technical engagement. Legally they're safe too, I would imagine. If it becomes popular I guess Google is just going to have to buy them!
Away3D Lite Haxe - Embedding 3D models
Call me silly for running NoScript in this day and age of Javascript on every page but it's not often that I get a moment of "WTF" when visiting a site.

This one gave me just that. Took me a scroll down the page, then up again, then halfway towards pressing backspace... Then I remembered! Whitelist NoScript temporarily!

Normally this comes pretty naturally to me because I can easily spot that a site is depending on Javascript or not.

So my mileage varied.
It's about the technology being more generic. If you control the service (obviously you don't with YouTube) the host should have safe harbor. If a host controls the service, they are responsible for it's content.
I also wildcard *.localhacks.com to 127.0.0.1
My first guess was that this required a Google Apps subscription because of that. If I'm wrong, yeah, that could be a problem, but if you later change the product to require a Gmail subscription, then you turn things around by becoming a value-add to Google's premium service, which I'd imagine they'd be quite happy about.
I can't believe I left Nas off that list. I don't think you need to worry about YC applications:
"I'm the Buffalo Solider / Smoke you like a dreadlocked Rasta / loadin' a spliff"
Surely PG would appreciate the poetry in that.

And this is magically topical, since in my mind it reinforces that Kanye may be a great producer, but even Jay says, "If skills sold / Truth be told / I'd probably be / Lyrically / Talib Kweli."
Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House
Searches can take about a day right now.

WOAH:\ Hope you guys can trim that down soon. At the minimum, you might want to state an approximate time on the right. I kept going back at the screen for 10-15m hoping it'd be done.
I cannot see what benefit a fragmented processor instruction set market would bring to anyone. It was more fragmented in the past and as far as I can tell not much was different then except that even fewer programs could run cross platform or virtualized.
Have you tested the difference between cold and warm FS caches on a project with a shitload of files? There's a reason why the core Linux devs love Intel SSDs!

The reason that parallel make helps so much (especially with 2x more jobs than processors) is that you aren't idling while blocked for I/O, and are piling up the I/O queue higher so the scheduler can de-randomize some I/O (elevator algorithm FTW).
It's not just that Steam has carrots and Ubisoft used sticks. The point of introducing a stick is to hit the people who are misbehaving, so that they'll want to stop. But Ubisoft is inconveniencing the paying customers more than the pirates. They're using the stick on the wrong people altogether! That creates an entirely backwards incentive scheme.

Meanwhile, DRMing a game through Steam makes it more convenient for the consumer rather than less convenient[1]. They turned the protection scheme from a hindrance into a feature, and a desirable one at that. Most importantly, the carrot wasn't just stapled on to sweeten the deal, the features of Steam are leveraging the DRM itself. I have never heard anyone say "man Steam is awesome, but they should take out the DRM"--it's an intrinsic part of the additional features. That's what makes it so impressive to me.

[1] There are tradeoffs so YMMV, but the tradeoffs are easily worthwhile for the majority of players, which is Good Enough.
I'll be honest with you, I wasn't really thinking about the NoScript case when writing the post.

I'm not sure if NoScript has a way of telling you that you might be missing something on the page. Kinda like how Click2Flash tells me if it is a sIFR. That would seem useful for minimal landers like these ones.
I don't get the point of this article. After all, the OS is an abstraction layer other the hardware and anyway, most cool developments happen in software, not hardware nowadays.
I see problems where others seem happy about it.

- Security. They appear to be receiving my email address and those I interact with. I wonder how long they store that. I wonder how securely they encrypt that in their database, or if they don't encrypt that at all. Do they submit to annual security audits with that valuable information? Is any of that information subject to USA government security audit laws like Sarbanes-Oxley?

- Do a whois on them and you get a DomainsByProxy thing. That doesn't give one a warm fuzzy feeling, security-wise.

- The Notes area at the bottom -- does that mean that someone can write something malicious about me and everyone who receives an email from me, who has Rapportive installed, can see that message? Or, is that just a personal, private notes area just for me and no one else? If it's a public thing, then wow -- I have a serious problem with that.
That was the line that jumped out at me too. The justification: information grows exponentially, machines grow polynomially, therefore horizontal scaling doesn't help - the information growth is still exponential - and therefore vertical scaling is the same as horizontal scaling.

Seems rather unrealistic and academic to me.

The point about a query language that provides a complexity guarantee is more interesting.
Jalalabad's Fab Fi: How Junk Was Turned Into a High-Speed Wireless Network
I like your way best.
You're forgetting history- BitKeeper, mostly. The way I heard it told, Larry McVoy sat down and showed it off to Linus, who finally said "ah yes, this is a tool and model that would improve my life."

git didn't come along until Bitkeeper withdrew their support, after a prolonged series of arguments with kernel developers mad about a private company owning the code repository.

I guess I'm saying you should give credit to Larry McVoy for showing the way.
unless, like many criminals, the robber is a sadist or a sociopath or a psychopath
KATIF APPAREL
The app store model is largely a success. it seems logical they would use that model elswhere.
I used to own a set of throwing knives. They're not exactly point and click and remember, thieving is an opportunity thing. They're likely to just let you run and steal an old lady's purse instead.
When an apology that admits you made a mistake cannot be used as evidence against you in a lawsuit.
Currently, only you can see your notes. In the future, we want to allow sharing across teams and integration with CRMs.
I agree. That quote applies to all possible queries, especially the worst-case ones that touch every record in the database. Obviously such queries don't scale in any paradigm, and thus they aren't useful for comparing systems. Small queries are more interesting IMO, because they scale on some systems but not others.
The article is pretty ridiculous. Why would a company like Google run their Perforce servers under Windows?
Re: approximate time remaining - good idea!
My /etc/hosts has:

127.0.0.1 me

So I can do http://me/website-to-test/
You are standardizing on HTTP and HTML

Indeed. That's an excellent point. If HTTP and HTML didn't exist, we would be compelled to invent them... as we were fifteen years ago when we did invent them.

However, HTTP and HTML do exist. And all these other tools are already built on that common platform. So exactly what are we trying to further standardize? What remaining problem are we trying to solve?

Because the remaining technical barriers to publishing the same text on (e.g.) Twitter, Flickr, and Blogger are very few: A bit of login hassle (ameliorated by persistent cookies), a bit of copying and pasting. You can automate even more of these keypresses away [1], but I suspect that such efforts are approaching the point of diminishing returns. Because the ultimate bottleneck to publishing the same content on multiple platforms isn't really the time required to paste it. It's the time required to recraft the content to fit each different medium, and the (far longer) time which you must spend living in each medium's community before you learn the difference between what is locally appropriate and what is painfully tone-deaf.

---

[1] See, e.g., http://www.janrain.com/.
I suppose I do want to write and read specific platforms, and it annoys me when people have stuff auto-propagate in ways that, as the grandparent mentions, are tone-deaf to the platform, like tweets auto-pushed as Facebook status updates, while totally failing to respect the conventions of Facebook status updates as a medium of discourse (you don't use #hashtags on Facebook, for example, and it's common to exceed 140 chars).

Constraint matters, and different constraints produce different forms of media. (I'm a big fan of McLuhan on this.)
Coby's logo will always remind me of The Simpsons episode where they go TV shopping.

Homer: [gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!

Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.

Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
ナイキスニーカー|アディダスシューズ|UGGブーツ, ブランド靴通販サイト
"The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary."

... in federal government networks.
The nice thing about this, for all of you people who understandably don't get it, is that setting up wildcard dns on OS X is a royal PITA. You can't just modify /etc/hosts, you have to http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200511022035208...

Given all rails developers use a Mac ;) this is useful.
So it basically covers up Google's ads in Gmail? No thanks. I get a great product for free from Google and I want them to benefit by selling ads that I see.
Frankly, I don't think this is possible. Just because the attack vector is via machines doesn't mean that the weakness isn't human, via social engineering.
IE8 Tab Isolation
Building high-speed wireless in Afghanistan out of garbage
My intention was not to cast aspersions on the author of the post, I was merely pointing out that an employee who has to write about his boss on an official blog can't do much other than sing his boss' praises. Or as you put it, there are limits to what an employee can say about his boss on the official blog.
Chrome Dev supports Geolocation API
What we know about Windows Phone 7 development
The story so far on what Microsoft is planning for the Windows Phone 7 development platform
Bug/issue trackers, release dates, due dates. having someone else bothering you if stuff doesn't get done. partner, manager, etc