skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May be i am not getting the whole story here but if you do allow anonymous comments or "some sort" of anonymous comments then how different is it to the other existing authentication schemes ?

For e.g. on HN i can easily look-up certain nicks and i know what their public persona is via their blogs, websites etc. Does that add value to their comment ? May be. Is that what you are aiming for ?

"We'd love to hear a solution that makes people using their real name without using Facebook Connect." That is a hard problem , more incidental complexity than anything else.

Edit: edited for grammar.
Interesting!

My entire knowledge of that is from Fiddler on the Roof. http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/doyoulov.htm
TalkBurst isn't a success of mine. I own sites that rank in Alexa's top 50 and 500.
How a Healthcare Company Can Accelerate Translation of Scientific Knowledge to Practice, http://sagecongress.org/Presentations/Epstein.pdf

This is (most) of what I had suggested.
It would disrupt the flawless smooth lines of the device.

Design is important.
As much as I love web applications, sometimes they're simply just not suited for the task (music streaming, etc.) right now. Even current simple web applications for the iPhone, like Gmail, aren't perfect (but oh do I love it over the native Mail client). But with Apple's help in creating (albeit proprietary) standard for a mobile web app (http://ajaxian.com/archives/iphone-full-screen-webapps), the mobile web experience should be getting better (why hasn't Google implemented this yet?). The way I see it, we'll be having web apps and native apps sitting side by side on our mobile devices for quite some time in the future (if not already).
Wouldn't revealing your sources be beneficial in making this new project, SinkFloat, a success? I've seen several posts on HN move to the top because the person behind them was credible.
Objectively define 'absurdly high'.

My suggestion of some groups already having deficiency is conjecture based on little hints here and there; more study is needed. My guesses would be: vegetarians, athletes who avoid processed food, ethnicities with a longer history of eating heavily-salted foods, some elderly, some pregnant women.

I suppose that by subjecting the entire population to an enforced low-sodium diet, and seeing who starts suffering from fatigue and early mortality, we'll find out soon enough.
Allow me to recommend "Hello World, Computer Programming for Kids"

http://www.manning.com/sande/

Full disclosure, I know the author, and helped out a bit with the book.
the app store is a great platform, no doubt about it. 50 million+ phones and easy monetization.

On the flip side, the web is the larger platform. HTML5 and the like are going to bring about a new class of applications. I think we'll look back and say holy shit, apple really kicked off a new way for app developers to think about how they make money on the web. I'm Long web.
Okay, let's go with the GAO: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-04-35

Unless I'm horribly misreading the study, the claim a figure around 80 cents on the dollar after controlling for external factors, including hours worked, experience, and occupation. It's a lot worse before that.
I'm pretty sure I don't believe you at this point, for obvious reasons. You come out making grandiose claims and then get cagey when somebody asks for even the most basic details? Would YOU believe you in our shoes?
I think introducing some mystery of programming would be nice. The draft is very linear and predictable. How about a random number generator (linear RNGs are easy to code)? Or a line-by-line chaotic ascii art generator (like Wolfram's CA's)? Or, some other way to combine some of the string stuff with the arithmetic stuff.

Also, I think python's + and * string operators are far cooler than the string escape sequences. A 6th or 7th grader would have mastered + and * for numbers, and the extension to strings might be interesting to them.

Think of how cool some of the examples in SICP are as an inspiration. Simple, powerful, surprising. Not just type this, get that.

The last page is nice, and insightful about the expanding future for using programming to advance another discipline. The bitterness at the end ("go to hell") was an off-taste.
Not the OP, but: probably not. Ruby is big, but Python is pretty big too. In the latest class there is even PHP, .NET, and backend Javascript.
Najarian: Google's Bad Moves 'Akin to New Coke'
I read the article twice and don't see the evidence to support that argument. Can you be more specific?
The R Inferno (Patrick Burns, 2009) [pdf]
So How Much Did Drupalcon San Francisco Rock? A LOT
Hi there, I'm Tatenda the Project Manager. Thanks for the feedback, we only launched less than week ago but the response has been positive. Yes we have textbooks linked to courses at Bradley University. This is our primary entry point, and is an edu sign up only.
Very cool history of a great mic. I use them all the time. For a cheap mic that is practically a commodity in studios and rehearsal rooms and on stage, you tend to forget everything that went into creating it.
Interesting to hear. I'm sure many people would be interested in certain things not taking place on their network, but do you really think it is appropriate for Comcast to make that call?

Also I'm trying to stress that you can only jump providers maybe once or twice. Not exactly a great situation to be in.
There are lots of gaps to be filled, but they're being filled pretty fast. Someone needs to do what jquery did for interface/interaction for offline access.
This is mildly sensationalist. Useless to you != useless to others. As an aside, I doubt most of my non-engineering friends know what IRC is (ignoring that IRC and facebook are two completely different platforms with different use cases).
You also don't taste all the salt in meat or cheese, as you swallow bits that don't get fully chewed up. That's how it's possible that there's more salt in a serving of cheese than a serving of salted nuts, even though the nuts taste saltier.

http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/planter...
http://www.thedailyplate.com/nutrition-calories/food/sorrent...
Yes, but popularity and publicity do go together. He's not claiming to have made money out of private deals — he's claiming to have created several "wildly successful" sites.
Changing the taste profile is enough for potential harm. There's a growing criticism of artificial sweeteners on the basis that they break your body's learned mapping of sweetness-to-calories -- likely resulting in overcompensation consumption of other less-sweet foods, perhaps leaving people worse off than with natural sweeteners.

By the same mechanism, a salt that tastes saltier but results in less sodium reaching the blood is enough to similarly break the learned relationship between taste and change in internal sodium levels. If your body is seeking a target sodium level, it will then crave even more salty-taste to reach its internal targets. Good for PepsiCo's many salty product lines; not necessarily good for consumers.
Chamber Of Commerce Releases Bogus Study Pushing For More IP Enforcement
Maybe I misunderstand you, but that's an enormous accusation you're wielding - that Apple could influence a police force to execute an illegal warrant at their bidding?

Do you have any sources backing up that REACT is "corporate sponsored"? While I saw that Apple was on "a steering committee", where did you hear that they were a "high level advisor"? While "steering committee" sure sounds impressive, that doesn't tell us much about how they could have influenced the process for issuing and executing a (allegedly) illegal search warrant.
I fail to concur.
Looks cool but I think 3 histograms with data scaled relative to VM size would be easier to look at and more informative. I am not sure that I have ever seen a useful 3D data visualization. Perception of scale in the third dimension is difficult.
An Infinite Freeway For Music Business?
Note also that it swaps the colors between Xen and KVM between the first group of graphs and the second group. Very poor presentation.
I care about the "environment" because I care about maintaining my quality of life. I like "bike paths" because I think it's retarded to send billions of dollars to dangerous theocrats who want me dead, in exchange for air pollution. I care about endangered species because it would be nice to eat a blue crab, or maybe some tuna, in a decade. Environmentalists are just like everyone else; we look out for our interests. That's not arrogance.
Who needs high-speed broadband?
Has anyone heard of a little privacy? So far it looks to be a cool site. How about you stop arguing about who made the site and actually talk about this site. I like it. Does anyone else?
I'm not trying to necessarily say it's right, but I'd like to think that Apple would have some specialized help available to them, given that they protect multiple billions of dollars in shareholder value and are a not insignificant part of the US economy.

You or me, not so much.
Exactly. Why do people make false dichotomies in tech so much? People paint a picture that one technology will completely dominate over another, when really the interesting thing is the variety. Everything has a trade-off and everything has its niche.
i read this book, but i can't remember the name of it now
Ask HN: Is this a new HN feature?
I suddenly discovered that I can browse more than 400 submitted articles here on HN as against the previous 200 - 300. Is this a new feature? or is it tied to karma score?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwMzQiXlK0 - original presentation of the concept.
Mice, Keyboards and monitors yield fingerprints which show the person in questions physically used and accessed the machine.
Actually, you're right, but I wouldn't say "bad", I would say, you're ready to learn programming. Kind of like this gets you your programming brown belt.
Is your cellphone a next-gen prototype of a high profile phone expected to make billions of dollars in revenue? If your cellphone's details were leaked would it cause you millions of dollars of potential losses because it gives your competitors an advantage (not to mention lost marketing hype)?

I'm not a fan of Apple, but selling proprietary information that was for all intents and purposes stolen is not comparable to an average Joe losing their cell phone.
The output of Zed Shaw is unbelievable in terms of stuff he actually gets done and delivers. Maybe he should deliver a few GTD seminars :)
Jcotton: framework for drawing and animating using canvas
Well, it depends on if the allegation is that Apple could influence a police force to execute an illegal warrant at their bidding, or that Apple could influence a police force to execute a warrant at their bidding.

I don't find the second one particularly objectionable.
Bro. You opened your account a month ago and your submissions are all self-promotional. Maybe your post didn't get a lot of votes-- but it did get a lot of comments-- most of them suggesting your claims are not credible. Perhaps all of the self-promoting cross-posters are what makes HN feel too big?
I was never a coding rock star. That's an image other projected on me along with "he's a Ruby guy", "he's a Python guy", "he only codes scripting languages", and many other bizarre myths.

But hey, like David Lee Roth said, "Who am I to fuck up a good myth?"
Try doing that on older Solaris's or AIX machines.
How bad do you want it?
Fidel Castro brought Cuba back from the brink of starvation precisely with a "smarter" farm policy. For decades Cuba relied on Green Revolution techniques that required huge petroleum inputs. When the SU collapsed, Cuba lost its main source of oil. Castro's plan was to encourage local, organic farming techniques including urban agriculture. The result is that not only are Cubans not starving, they are eating healthier than Americans.
It's probably a new feature; pg has been optimizing the code to make /threads and /saved much faster.
The publications may be worried MS will pull advertising. Sort of like political campaign funding: fund only those who can and will support you. Sun Microsystems got quite a bit of bad PR during dotgone because it wasn't advertising as much, and when it did, the press improved. So it works both ways, need to spend $$ to get good pr, or to just to avoid bad pr.
Attempting to keep track of business rules in a system other than your code base will cause more problems than it will solve, and it will _always_ be out of date.

Every business of a certain age has more business rules than any one person can keep in their head at one time. These rules manifest themselves in your code. They are the business rules. Everyone has their own opinion on what the rules are, but the developers know the answers are in the code, not in our foggy memory.

Now that we know what business rules are and where we keep them, we need to think about how we organize them. Instead of a business problem, we have a technical problem. Organizing 'business rules' becomes organizing software. This is a well-worn field, so you'll find lots of good advice on domain-driven design and the organization of software (object-oriented or otherwise).

A related software principal here is 'tell, don't ask' (http://pragprog.com/articles/tell-dont-ask). This is especially important in environments with lots of conditional rules, which must be considered at various times.
Angel-Backed Companies More Likely to Succeed, Says Harvard Study
Exposing bogus laws is what generates publicity/public pressure to repeal them. Ignoring them, but leaving them on the books just because dealing with them is inconvenient is not the way to build a better society.

Not saying that I agree with you, but this is that way that society/law/etc works.
Well, they can't quite code Python when they're done with this book. They could then move onto a book that teaches those concepts.

And if you think about it, there's no point in learning OOP before you've even learned basic logic, functions, and I/O. That's what I learned first (because there was no OOP when I was learning).

Finally, your professor and you are not who this book is meant for. The simple fact you think discrete math is alright for anyone but a CS major is proof of that. Not to be mean, but it is.
Thanks. It is a free to use service for now. We are exloring various monetization methods. For the moment, advertising sales are keeping the lights on. Any suggestions?
Exactly. My article here explaining the difference: http://www.businessinsider.com/no-android-did-not-just-pass-...
I happen to agree with Fred Brooks stance on the matter, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_surg...
OT but my favorite item on his blog is this one http://dbaron.org/log/20100309-faster-timeouts which helped me figure out an animation smoothness problem was with the browser renderer itself and not settimeout specifically
I'm not getting "cagey" - I'm just not sure if I'm going to reveal my sites right now. Plenty of people know what I've created and you could probably figure some of them out yourself. Others you probably won't figure out.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503922675

That's my Facebook if anyone wants to add me.
In case I'm not the only non-coder here who wanted a bit more background on what LLVM is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llvm
I have a question: Why they are not acting against Gizmodo as a company and bothering Chan?
I have a business degree, MIS. CS was boring with no depth, but business let me study a ton of random things and focus on people and computing.

Other than that, I don't drink, so that gives me lots of extra money and free time. Like I just bought another guitar. Woot! G&L Comanche. Can't wait.
I believe it is a new feature along with some other subtle things like your profile (if you happened to look at it recently).
Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle". Always worth reading through again.
He'd just yell at you until you left the room and started doing something else.
Well, my co-founder is an academic, and his contract says that he is allowed to work 20% of his time as a "consultant" but 80% has to be for the university. IP was not an issue.
Worth mentioning: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
A Healthy Human Being: What Does It Take?
sure you do, that's why on your facebook page the only pages you link to are the 2 "failures"

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503922675

btw here is a list of the top 50 Alexa sites...and you aren't a founder of a single one of them:

google, facebook, youtube, yahoo, live.com, wikipedia, baidu, blogger, msn, qq, twitter, yahoo japan, google india, tao bao, google germany, google HK, sina, wordpress, myspace, google uk, microsfot, amazon, google france, bing, ebay, yandex, google japan, 163, google brazil, linkedin, flickr, mail.ru, fc2, craigslist, google italy, rapid share, vkontakte, google spain, livejasmin, conduit, soso, imdb, bbc, go, aol, double click, apple, sohu, blogspot youku
I disagree. I think if anything there are more people dying because of high blood pressure and other illnesses linked through it than low-sodium issues. Besides, the fix to low-sodium, eat more salt. The fix to high blood pressure, exercise and medication.
True, but if someone is ordered to turn over 'all documents pertaining to topic X', they still might withhold documents. We don't allow the police to search all documents, just in case.

{edit} It would get messy if he was on a computer that had a faulty cmos battery (i.e. randomly your system clock is reset to the unix epoch). Trying to figure out the true date of files with timestamps of December 31, 1969 would be difficult. ;-) (I know that's prior to the epoch, but I had a faulty cmos battery in an old PowerBook and that's what would happen)
I dunno, that seems more like a "lighting a joint in front of a police car" kind of thing. An offense that the police might let slide becomes a priority when it's done publicly or obviously.
Actually ascii art is in the works, but not yet. There will be a couple manual ones, but then the logic section will do more fun stuff. Remember, at the beginning the ready doesn't even know boolean logic, ifs, or looping yet.

If you have ideas, throw them into the proposed exercises wiki:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/wiki?name=Proposed+Exercise...
It looks cool but it's not actually any more usable than just a table / gridview list...

Consider :-

1. A list can quickly be filtered to show only critical state servers - I probably don't care about servers which aren't doing anything

2. If I want to look for a specific server - I have no idea which one it is - I have to click to find it. A grid means I can look for it instantly

3. The info being displayed takes a while to digest as to what I'm seeing on the 3d axes with regards to ping etc... A grid just gives me the numbers and I can read them quickly.

Yet again a use of pretty graphics where it really isn't needed
I've known about ~. as a way to end an ssh session for years. Unfortunately, it only works about 50% of the time. (It fails when the current session is piggy-backing on another session to the same host.)
Yep, that's correct. It's just a key to open the rusty lock.
Attrition.org: Sticker auction to support OSF
IIRC, in that case the guy unlocked his encrypted drive for a border agent, the border agent saw child porn, then the computer was turned off (disabling access to the encrypted drive). The guy already showed the authorities that he had incriminating evidence on his encrypted drive. It's not exactly the poster-child case for being compelled to turn over your encryption keys/passwords.
I never knew arrogant meant precisely that. Thanks.

Although what he wrote certainly is gauche, I think what I was going for was actually closer to ... goes through thesaurus ... 'vainglorious'. Or just 'boastful'.
I believe the Gawker CEO has said publicly something to the order of: Our employees are not journalists. Journalists have to do it right, we just have to do it first.

However I can't find a link to back it up so..
Ohhhhh, I forgot some people equate "serious" with "grown up". Sorry, yeah, I'm totally grown up now that I took that one joke down. :-)
No one's lying here. You're very pessimistic.
It looks like it was fun to make, but I can't see how it's particularly useful. I can't see anything useful in a 3D visualization like that.

> "and it's the first cloud monitoring system in the world that you can watch in real-time as it checks your servers."

Yeah Cacti does that with an HTTP refresh every few seconds. 'realtime' enough for most instances.
I listened to the first half, but didn't listen to the second half, since by that time him constantly cutting out on the mic had driven me insane.
my first reaction was "they're reducing the sodium in pepsi the beverage." didn't seem to match up with a video circulating not too long ago that claims sodium was intentionally added at high levels in soft drinks (proportional to high fructose corn syrup to mask the taste of sodium).

if it's food snacks, i guess that makes more sense.
At the very least, the courts should forbid the police from looking at any file timestamped before March 18, 2010

As already pointed out timestamps can often be a problem.Limiting searches to a specific timeframe is difficult because of how the forensic tools work. It's infeasible to tell the tool "only search files and data between these dates". Indeed I wish that was possible - it would make things much faster!

But more importantly we are limited in what we can investigate. Not just for legal reasons but for cost as well. As a forensic examiner I feel (and I know most of my colleagues do as well) ethically obliged to stick to the requirements of the case - as tempting (for personal interest) as it is to poke into other corners of peoples lives it is entirely unethical and wrong.
The late 19th century called, they want their rationalized institutional cruelty back.
Non-exportable data is pretty much the definition of a lock-in. There's essentially nothing that's impossible to walk away from, so the only thing worth considering is getting out what you put in.

In terms of a social application, it's legitimately harder to make a not-locked-in service. Who owns what, and how much of it is valid when you transfer data to another host? But it's still a lock-in, because there's no way to leave and retain things.

Imagine if your phone would only export contacts to a new phone if you stayed with your provider. Sure, you can still leave, but a data-lock-in is still a lock-in technique.
The problem therein is programs that record your 'most recent documents.' If they refer to documents that aren't anywhere in what they confiscated, and/or on a volume that doesn't exist they may suspect that you have a hidden volume.
Incidentally, you ever read the ingredients list of Fritos? If not, you're up for a pleasant surprise.
You don't gain credibility for your argument by equating the loss of a top secret research prototype for a multi-billion dollar product with your $400 personal phone.
This could be subtitled "IA for really simple sites"
Should we fear space aliens?
How's that a conflict of interest? It's valid context, but in what ways are EFF obligations in conflict?
Because splitting people into "teams" evokes tribe-response and drives page-views/circulation/discussion/etc.