skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Name any commonly used Linux executable that deletes the server root when run without any arguments, with no confirmation or warning.

It's a little unexpected.

Even after reading the script, you may not catch the fact that not setting the right environment variable causes massive damage--it's not documented anywhere.
AMD's 12-core Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon
A Quant Mea Culpa
Red Flags for Innovation
20th century
Lazy is not the word. It would take less time to fix then it would to make a smart ass response. This guy has some personality problem, or is having a bad day.
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i would like to..i am from a small town near laval though (7 hour drive)
More MBAs want jobs in sustainability and social enterprise
Hands down the most enticing linkbait headline I've seen.
Why exactly was this downvoted? I'm not trying to justify the lack of multitasking, just pointing out how it's consistent with the lack of swap.
If this approach is indeed the case, then it is extreme and counter productive.

I hope that the case is actually what was stated above, and that apple releases this in their next API version, its a sensible approach.

then again, since there is only one way to load in apps, they can dictate whatever disabling of technology they want, with poorly explained reasons, and it stinks.
Hmm, I'm beginning to see why they used an Apple ][+ in LOST. Jobs as the Man in Black, against Woz's Jacob. ("You have no idea how much I want to kill you.")
I have the same drive. I currently have 6GB of VM, but I've had it up as far as 14GB with no issues.
I was thinking something like this that maintains a column format.

http://i43.tinypic.com/zu2m2d.png
Betraying Salinger
Why can't the traffic just be passively captured from the same wifi network that you computer is connected to? Why is the network bridge needed?
What does that program cost to join, anyone know?
Given their unusual properties I wonder how likely they are to be seeded from 'alien' matter rather than derivatives of known Earth lifeforms.
My least favorite thing about the official Apple iPad case: the Apple logo on the front.

(I'd prefer it look like a cheap pad of paper; less worries about leaving it on a table or passenger seat.)
It's silly to use Nexus One sales as proof of anything because it's had almost no marketing.

It had a hell of a lot more marketing than the iPad did, and was still trounced by the latter's preorders alone.
I am racist against my own colour, which is impossible.

Really? I always thought racism is a certain type of belief about any race, which could include your own. You could hate your own race. I know people that do.
Best article about Ron I have seen. He is awesome. (He is one of our investors.)
That can't be the case, or Unity3D wouldn't be able to use Mono on the iPhone.
Wow, this is interesting, I thought.
Then I looked at the rules.
Argh, stupid Quebec. Which particular law is it that prohibits me from competing anyways?
Seriously, add a "set -e -u" to the top of the script and close the bug already. He wasted more time arguing about it then it would take to fix it.
ACM TechNews is really good source of well-reviewed technology news.
This must be why the iPad doesn't have user runnable scripts.
This could be a default one day really... Like php disabling register_globals. It would stop so many silly mistakes.
Thanks for advice! Unfortunately I think if I applied that standard to the main articles on Hacker News, for example, then most would fail. :)
Entrepreneurial seizure
Funny, but I browsed just as if I had tabs. I effectively had tabs. What I missed was "Open In New Tab.". Instead of concurrently opening, I have to wait for each page.
Vertu To You
How is this different from the iPod Touch and iPhones?
Indeed, this is the sort of fiasco Microsoft wishes that money could buy. "I'm a PC ... because Windows DOESN'T wipe all your data without asking first. "

But I think your comment is still vast overkill. The fact is, I get really, really worried every time I see a BSOD'd airline departures board or worse, an ATM booting up Windows (usually Win 2000). Don't these people know?! That there's another OS out there called (GNU/)Linux and it's fast and free and doesn't have a long tradition of crap engineering?

And then I see this and remember that while Linux is (mostly) well-engineered, it has all sorts of equally well-engineered, completely unmarked "self-destruct" buttons. And if there's anything scarier than Windows near airplanes, it has to be Windows users near Linux near airplanes.
It's generally a bad sign. I wrote at length about it here: http://thesethings.posterous.com/rapping-grandmas-and-ninja-...

The gist of my post was:
Originally, it was a way to suggest to a technical candidate, "Don't be scared, our place of work respects technical people." It was a code in a way for, "We're not a boring bank. Or if were are, you still might have fun here."

Now I think the term leveraged in the opposite interest: "We need YOU, the candidate, to be awesome. But our wacky language still gives no clue about us, the employer."
Stardust Particle System Tutorials - Getting started with ND3D
I'm surprised noone brought this up, but this has been done (several times) before: the one I remember is called DateLens by Bederson et al at UMD (See http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=972652&dl=GUIDE...)

It's interesting how similar ideas keep coming up every so often.
It's not.

But it is different from the HP slate: http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/Voodoo-Blog/HP-s-Slate-Device-D...
HBO does this on some of their channels. The lack of any branding makes it look more premium in my opinion.
"I've played poker with the same guys every Thursday night for 18 years. We rarely talk about our lives. We talk about cards, betting, bluffing."

The author obviously hasn't experienced a real close friendship with another male.

My close friends and I share a lot of our thoughts on life, our feelings, aspirations, we talk to each other about it, give each other advice, suggestions & support.

I feel bad for the author for not having experienced a true close friendship. He wanted an explanation why he didn't have a true close friend(s) like women do, but just couldn't admit it was him not having found a true friend; so he writes this article generalizing his situation to be a problem experienced by all males.
Do you know that you can tap and hold on a hyperlink to bring up a context menu which offers the option "Open in new page"? Where 'page' is functionally equivalent to 'tab'.
I have a patch

if [ -z $MOUNTPOINT ]; then
echo "MOUNTPOINT not defined. Not deleting your file system.";
exit(1);
fi

This patch will be included in Zippy Zebra due out in 2018
It has been completely borked in Google Listen. No Mixergy updates in 2 weeks now, which is unfortunate, as I often listen to podcasts while commuting. ITunes has been working for me though.
They missed april fools by a week.

Though I do recall an experimental font somewhere that has microscopic holes
in the letters for the same concept of saving ink.

Oh here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofont
I had originally written that they were "cut from the same cloth". In retrospect that's probably a better characterization. I imagine Jobs smiling to himself that he had clearly picked the right guy for the job.
I see a problem with a maintainer like that. Even if he thinks this is not a critical bug: 1) he could fix it in the time he took to argue the user made a stupid mistake (twice!) 2) he should've never said stuff like that as a member of the official Canonical team - in most real companies, he'd get at least a disciplinary meeting

Even if he had more important stuff to do in the meantime, it's no reason to be a jerk about it. If things like that don't get corrected the first time it happens, the history will repeat, but you'll be the one running the script the next time.

About the actual question: Why would you run any command without knowing its purpose? -- User knew the command's purpose. He didn't know that a parameter is required though. It was not documented apart from the source.
Am I the only one that loathes those link previews?
A few comments down is a particularly rich response to this:

So, just to clarify that:

What you are basically saying is that the manpage stating

> start JOB...
> Requests that the named jobs be started. The status of the jobs will be output to standard output until
> they are succesfully running, or in the case of tasks, until they have completed.

should in fact be read as: "might either start the job or delete all your data, and we neither check, warn or document regarding this issue anywhere visibly"? Seriously?
H.P. Says New Device Could Transform Chip-Making
A temp agency:

http://www.idinews.com/bodyshop.pdf
Fair enough. There are certainly a lot of reviews to pick from.
Loved this quote:

"I don't know why Apple won't make something in between the Air and an iPhone."
Reminds me of why I finally left Gentoo. Some maintainers started believing that their default configurations where the only correct configurations. For example, the Apache maintainer believed the virtual hosts was the correct way to run Apache. I felt that my simple static html webpage didn't need that, so I just used /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and /var/www/htdocs/index.html plus a handfull of other static files.

Then around 2005 or so, an update to Apache replaced my httpd.conf with the default and deleted everything in htdocs and added a default index.html. Lots of people complained and the Gentoo maintainers said anyone not using virtual hosts was wrong, so it was not their fault the user's lost all their data and configuration on an upgrade.

After that, I started noticing more and more arguments from maintainers and users. Frankly, I am glad I am no longer using Gentoo and fighting their system. And I am glad I don't use Ubuntu and fighting their system either.
Product Design Startup Quirky raises $6MM from VC's
If you are down and need inspiration now, listen to this.

Chris, if you are reading this, thanks for sharing. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Andrew, the best so far.
Computational feat speeds finding of genes to milliseconds instead of years
Bootstrap More Than Business; Your Life
Sales don't prove sexiness or ease of use.

Consider sales of the Droid. In it's first 74 days it sold more units than the original iPhone did in it's first 74 days.

http://mashable.com/2010/03/16/nexus-one-sales-poor/

But I'm not going to say that proves that the Droid is sexier than the iPhone.

Hell, there both great phones.
> open-source is actually a protection against that, not a liability

Theoretically, but in practice open source software is decidedly worse at this sort of thing than OS X or Windows. I suspect that the profit motive is a driving factor here. You can tell that this maintainer does not care or lacks the capacity to empathize at all about his users. Maybe because they are not the ones paying the bills?
I called my local store and asked - they confirmed the extension to 30 days, but noted that there would be a 10% restocking fee.
Bootstrap actions in Amazon Elastic MapReduce
no pun intended, right? :P
Please everybody, listen the whole way through. The Steve stories are in the first have of the interview. And they're pretty juicy (maybe just because we've never heard them before, unlike lots of other Steve legend?).

You may be tempted to stop the interview after that.
But Chris is an amazing and admirable entrepreneur AND person. He shares some really moving stuff about his background that makes all of the Steve stuff fall away.
"Alluded" (to mention in passing), not "eluded" (to evade).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allusion
Heh, that's the simple case. The weird cases are when there's no literal truth that will properly reflect their feelings, so they just start saying whatever random stuff reflects their feelings. For example, I was talking about people at work and happened to mention a female name, so my girlfriend said, "Does she make more money than me? Did you sleep with her?" That meant she was a little insecure about being unemployed, and I should try to support her by not making any reference to the fact that there are, in fact, women with jobs.
Just so I don't look like a dick: I don't think he stole my idea. We actually emailed back and forth a while ago (started about something else, calendars came up).

People have the same ideas at the same time. It's always nice to get another perspective.
Social media themes in the latest "South Park"
Facebook, Mad Money, Tron, and Chatroulette!

Amazingly topical, at least to a facebook hater like me.
Very unlikely indeed. They are new species but have been classified into previously-known taxonomic groups. They're related to other, perfectly prosaic Earthly animals.
You should especially not say that since the comparison is not really fair, considering the iPhone OS was an unknown quantity, and iPhone lacked an app store, was on a smaller carrier, and was not launched during the holiday season.

Sales are not complete proof of sexiness, but they are evidence. It strikes me that if the iPhone on a single carrier can win out against an entire ecosystem of phones on many carriers, it probably has something they do not.
I don't think having a logo in the front is a big deal. My laptop, monitors, and tv's have logos on them and honestly it doesn't distract me at all, probably because the screens are bright or maybe I've just become accustomed to them.
Yep. I was wondering how a protocol acquired a startup until I read the article.
Perhaps Twilio does pay the carriers, but I send hundreds of text messages a day and pay nothing because I send it through their email to SMS gateway.
It's strange how people say that iPad browsing is tabless. That's true, but it sort of ignores the point. Might as well say Omniweb is tabless.
It seems this was in an upstart script, the equivalent to a sysv init script.

Would you expect to lose your data, all your data, when running '/etc/init.d/mounted-tmp start'?

Thought so.
If it were possible to reach as far back as the introduction of the GUI, I'd be willing to bet that the same thing was being said by people who were most familiar with the CLI.

"What is this GUI thing? What good is it for? What can it do that can't be accomplished by the CLI?"

And it would be wise to see how that played out. That there would be certain situations where a CLI or a GUI and now a touch-based interface would be the appropriate means to accomplish certain tasks.
Reviving my Commodore 64 history with a uIEC/SD
It would be polite to identify yourself as the author of Arq when you advertise it.

I often mention Tarsnap here, but I do my best to make sure that people understand that I'm somewhat biased when I espouse its benefits.
Micro-documentaries
most wireless network card firmwares/drivers will only pass down traffic destined for its own mac address (or broadcast frames) even in promiscuous mode.
By the way, Apple does just that in Snow Leopard. The processes now have a "Sudden Termination" flag, and if a program has no unsaved data and is ready to quit, it sets this flag on itself. When shutting down such a process, the system sends it SIGKILL instead of a usual SIGTERM.
Mars next?
Would you use this? Could doing something like this be a turn off to other angels in the future?
I've actually had Photoshop run out of the 20 GB that are free, by allocating all of it to manipulate a huge image. It takes about two seconds for it to allocate all of that space.
Personally I want one that says Don't Panic.
Interface stuttering due to swap is an issue on PC's due to hard drive latency, but would it be as much of an issue with solid state storage?
That is brilliant. I think I'm going to steal it for my next app, for integration sometime after the MVP is done.
Sandbar, a new Clojure web library.
Modular Innovation: Beyond Web 2.0
And for a contrasting view, from Allen Iverson:

"We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice, man! How silly is that?"
First ever multicellular animals found in oxygen-free environment
I wonder if some future politician isn't going to "elude" to something in order to get away with something else. (With an American public which is much less literate than past generations.)
I'm from MTL but I'm in T. at least twice a month. Anyone else from La Belle Province interested in going?
Here is the author's blog where he describes the process behind it.. http://formpluslogic.blogspot.com/2010/04/sandbar-021-is-rel...
Cool. That worked! But how concurrent is it?

Answer: not concurrent but still snappy feeling. I have to wait longer than on the desktop because of no concurrency, but I mind less than I would otherwise because I can watch the pages zooming around.
Why doesn't iPhone Safari support this? It just has to be trivial.
So in terms of curing cancer... where does this get us? (i'm not being sarcastic. it sounds very promising but I don't know enough on the topic to judge how significant it is)
But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someone with more natural gifts than me, but fewer than Michael Jordan, might work hard his whole life and only brush the minor league/NBA border.
While I understand where J D Salinger is coming from, this reminds me of a couple customers that I've dealt with over the years. They come up with some ridiculous request, and you smile and agree because they're the customer and you want the deal, then the whole thing turns out to be a lot more trouble than it's worth.
Tabbed browsing in desktop browsers also brings concurrency with it. On my Macbook, I can open lots of links "In New Tab" and read them as they load, so not have to wait for any one of them to load except the first one. With the iPad, I have to wait for every single page.
A Conversation with Ivan Seidenberg (Verizon CEO)
Google App Engine turns 2
Bespin 0.7.1 (“Bryce”) released: Bespin Rebooted
Ubuntu has a cultural problem at times, wherein sane bug reports from experienced UNIX users are dismissed as "not getting it", or similar. There seems to be a certain smugness when they make decisions that are obviously wrong, and certitude where there shouldn't be. I don't know why this is so; Debian has a somewhat argumentative culture, and occasionally makes dumb decisions, but folks usually try to argue their way to a consensus rather than just say "This is the way it is". Ubuntu has diverged from that seemingly entirely, and maintainers sometimes make bizarre proclamations and stick to them against all reason.

I think it's an interesting aspect of the different Linux distributions. Someone else mentioned Gentoo being similar to Ubuntu in this regard, and I would agree...though it takes it to such an extreme that it's hard for me to even take it seriously as an OS. At least the end result of Ubuntu's obstinance is pretty solid, even if every new release has some weird quirks that I just can't figure out how they made it through QC (and more often than I'm comfortable with, those quirks are intentional).
No man, you're either with us or against us! </sarcasm>
And you can fake your location, or run FourSquare in an emulator, or open up your phone and inject fake signals on the GPS traces, or ...
"We want rock stars" seems is used by some companies to mean "We want someone who is 5 times more productive than average but who will work for much much less than 5 times average pay."
It's certainly something to be overweight and expect your partner to maintain an athletic figure, whatever language you want to put on it. There is probably some small portion of athletic women that prefer overweight men, but the majority will prefer athletic men, so why should my partner settle for flubber?

There have been a lot of comments about - oh, unless you do it for yourself, you'll quit! This is nonsense. I know a lot of extremely fit guys and the many of them are doing it to impress women very successfully. It's also just one more motivating factor among many to keep your body in good condition.

I've been working out for years and I find the actual activities inane. Pick up the heavy thing. Put it down. YAYYYY slightly heavier. However, I want toned muscles for many reasons, so I just do it. It's really not that hard to just discipline yourself, particularly if you are as interested in longevity as I am.
We can take care of both your wish and gojomo's complaint with stickers!
What operating system are you currently using? I just transitioned from Ubuntu to Gentoo, but now you've got me wondering if I have overlooked a better alternative.
Astronomers take close-up pictures of mysterious dark object
What money do you suppose they are making? It's probably cheaper to pay Apple to maintain Google as the default search engine on the phone than to make their own. It's unlikely that a whole lot more internet searches are happening because of Android that wouldn't have happened in any other arrangement of the ecosystem, so I still don't see how Google benefits.
You're confusing interface and implementation. You can inspect objects and click links to follow the object graph, and you can change the objects as you like while the program is running.

An around modifier, IMO, is a terrible way to implement debugging functionality, because now everything that's not debugging also gets the side-effect that the method modifier adds. This is a better idea: http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/contextl.html
like hopeless said, the lens is a big deal. I'd ABSOLUTELY SKIP THE KIT LENS. If you're going nikon or canon, buy yourself the 50mm f/1.8 lens. it'll run you 100 bucks and teach you way more about photography because you'll get to play with the aperture a lot more (open that lens all the way up and you'll get a really narrow depth of field compared to the widest open on the kit lens).

Camera: to start with and learn on, xsi is a great camera. if you're thinking nikon, i'd get a d40 if you want to stay in the same price range (skip the d60, its not better than the d40).

i generally recommend the d90 for nikon as a starter if you're a little more flexible with budget (same sensor as the d300, cropped sensor, but i think thats a nonissue for most beginners, especially if you're shooting for posting online).

between nikon/canon -- just pick one. this is basically the same sort of question as "ruby or python".

i've bought happily off craigslist, but if you're even slightly concerned that the seller is sketchy, skip it, unless you know what to look for. better to pay 50 bucks more as insurance that you're getting quality early on. B&H photo is a great place to buy online and they'll match any reputable vendor (usually they're the bst though).

read kenrockwell.com. he reviews a ton of cameras and generally has a higher concentration of quality information in one place than you can find elsewhere.
Actually, I think both are right.

For a connections business like Ron's, he's got to be in more places at once, and as available as possible. This gives him a direct advantage.

For a creative business like DHH's, you simply can't work 90 hours a week sustained.
along similar lines, one of my favourite things about the iphone is the lack of carrier branding. i can only speak for australia, but carriers over here like to stick their logos all over the phone itself and re-brand the software interface also. it creates a horrible ugly mess.
if there's anything scarier than Windows near airplanes, it has to be Windows users near Linux near airplanes

... an all-time great quote
we also want to know, at what and how badly?

there seems to be some areas where the iPad excels unequivocally (its speed, fit/finish etc) some areas that take getting used to, and you'll either like or not like (keyboard) and other areas in serious need of work (document syncing etc).