skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower cost of living means lower labor costs: people aren't really working for abstract dollars, but for what those dollars can buy.

BTW, to be having this conversation makes me feel like I'm trapped in Chapter 33 of 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (Mark Twain, 1889):

http://www.archive.org/stream/connecticutyanke00twai#page/32...

Though, Twain first lays it out on p. 304 of the same edition:

http://www.archive.org/stream/connecticutyanke00twai#page/30...

A man who hasn't had much experience, and doesn't think, is apt to measure a nation's prosperity or lack of prosperity by the mere size of the prevailing wages; if the wages be high, the nation is prosperous; if low, it isn't. Which is an error. It isn't what sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
The hard part is predicting the likelyhood of various events. This proposal does nothing to address that problem.

Actually, it does. It lets you, as a potential investor, plug in your own values to the model. So if you think the issuer is undervaluing the default risk, you can use your own default risk numbers and remodel just by changing some values in a XML file or Python script and then running the interpreter again.

Of course, you need your own predictions for the likelihood of various events, but you could even just toss in a "default_risk = default_risk*1.5" line if you wanted to.
Win7 is very good on a touch screen, assuming the screen is any good. I don't know what the HP front end is about, but it's not really necessary. It's not going for the same market either, it's more of a netbook sans keyboard than the iPad, which, as far as I can tell, is a very pretty, but aimless media toy.
Even where states don't have such laws, responsible lending standards used to serve the same purpose. The traditional debt/equity ratio and payment/income ratios that were part of a mortgage loan qualification were relaxed or nearly eliminated in recent years, allowing many people to take on debt that in the past would have been seen as too risky.
I doubt this. Do you have a link to a paper covering this technique, or a conviction that used this technique?
For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal
Blogger Bob works for the TSA, which is a sibling of Customs. The common parent is the DHS.
Lots of important products are designed and developed in Japan and usually are translated into foreign languages quickly but you could get a jump on developing for whatever Sony or Nintendo is doing with Japanese. Japan has a big internal market you might want to do l10n for it sometime, also.

The products designed in Japan (or California) are likely to be manufactured in China. If you want to participate in the final production and delivery of products you program, you'll want to consider Chinese. China's internal market is a desert of failure for software sales, though.

So on a technical basis I'd suggest 汉语 (Chinese) or 日本語 (Japanese). Too bad they're among the hardest written languages in all human history to learn. Save yourself the trouble and pick Spanish, the Internet's third or fourth most popular language. It's not a hotbed of technology but if you're living in the USA, you'll need it soon enough if demographic trends continue.
To be fair, Apple has moved towards the mass market. When you're mass market, and you're the industry leader in certain segments (say, phones) it becomes harder and harder to seem 'cool', or 'outsiderish' - especially since cool is related to how much of an outsider you're perceived to be.
Increasing the design efficiency of airline boarding passes
You have seen this I assume? http://xkcd.com/538/
You may be able to obfuscate the code, but so long as the investor can easily test your model with values of their choice, it doesn't matter if you use a map or a for-loop.
Where are you getting your state & local tax numbers?

The numbers I found show total state & local tax collected per capita for Texas is $3,580 vs. $5,028 for California. That's a 40% increase over Texas. Nothing to sneeze at.

Texas: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/482.html

Cali: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/443.html

Even your numbers show a 20% penalty for living in Cali.
I'd say it happened at the point where the iPod gained mass-market dominance. It's hard to be cool when you're a market leader, and Apple first rose to market-leader-status with the iPod. Everything else - the iPhone, the iPad, the increased popularity of Mac and OSX - follows from that.
Regarding the title of the article, the attackers stole the source to "Gaia", the single-sign-on system used by Google, and could potentially find previously-unknown security holes in it.
This article neither advocates a high nor low confidence level. The point is that your confidence level is meaningless if you don't fix the sample size.

"...when your gut tells you something is true, it probablly is."

If you run a data-driven business with a philosophy like that, you've rewound management science to about 1700 AD. Human "guts" aren't evolved for evaluating UX effectiveness from sparse data.
What reason did gizmodo have to release the identity of the engineer that lost the phone? To "prove" that their story was more real? Did they even consider what's going to happen to that guy?

Every gawker website feels like it is just barely a half step above a tabloid, and in some cases, less than that (cf, Valleywag). Behaving this petulantly is not a very good way to discourage the popular perception of bloggers, it only solidifies it.
tl;dr: oil is trading at $80 a barrel.
OK, let's assume you can try 1 billion (10^9) keys per second. Now add numbers to your keyspace (remember, no special characters or capital letters yet!), and make your password 12 characters instead of 8. Not much harder for you.

But now it takes 150 years to brute-force the keyspace.

I doubt anyone is going to devote 150 years of computer time to someone going through customs.
Big Omaha: Tony Hsieh, Dennis Crowley & more
My first job after college (1992) was with Andersen Consulting. All new staff consultants went to a "boot camp" to learn how to program (they hired many people who did not have a programming background, as well as some who did). They emphasized "desk checking" as part of the development process (for this reason: submitting a compile job on the mainframe might have a turnaround time of hours).

So, one of the assignments was to write a program, and desk check it until you were confident that it would compile and run correctly on the first try. It was a one-chance, pass/fail assignment: it either worked, or there was a compile or runtime error.
What's the status of Flock? Seems to have raised the most VC of the group (at least those without an exit).

Anyone still use it?
Good to see an Aussie programming language out there. I hear the GC runs anti-clockwise...
Apple knew whose phone it was, this story doesn't harm him there at all.

It may even help prevent him from being fired or retaliated against, now that his name is public.

It could help or hurt with future employers, but I'd guess on balance it helps. Probably won't be trusted with prototypes again, but that was going to be the case either way.

Not to defend gizmodo, they seem pretty borderline in the whole thing.
I hadn't heard about this incident until I read this link, and had to google Gray Powell. This, at least in my case, caused some more attention to Gizmodo, rather than less.
I can definitely appreciate the fears listed in step one. I am about four years into my career and have recently begun realizing that I will not surpass what I consider mediocrity without taking steps beyond my 9-5 job. Now that I have begun looking seriously at my path, it is amazing to look back at the fears that have been holding me back. I have been afraid to start my own side projects, out of fear that I won't be able to contend with what other people can do. I had to have the very obvious realization that I will never get better if I don't try, and that everyone has to start exactly where they are. Since then it is like a light has gone off, and I have become much more appreciative of those who try, rather than hold back and criticize. Thanks for posting this.
Ask HN: Copying the ACM library (and others)
Hi all,

I'm leaving the university this year, so I thought I should use the access to the resources I have right now. I have the standard university gateway access to ACM, IEEEexplore, WoS, CoRR and others and decided I should copy as many interesting articles as possible for reading in the future. I guess I'm not the only one who thought about it, but I cannot find any ready crawlers/downloaders, or even information about the approximate size I should expect if I wanted to download for example only the journals and magazines...

Maybe it's just my google-fu getting weak - has anyone here tried what I want to do before? Any information about approximate sizes, not-getting-banned strategies, etc. (existing ACM-specific crawlers?) are welcome.
Aside from English, I speak Spanish fluently, Japanese conversationally, Tagalog passably, and I'm learning Portuguese and Italian. I know enough German to sing 99 Luftballons, and enough Latin to translate some of the classics. I wouldn't say any of these have been at all useful in my programming career. I've worked with offshore programming teams in Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Belarus, Mexico, and Pakistan, and they all spoke English better than I could ever hope to speak their native language (except Spanish, but even then the guys in Mexico I work with were schooled in the US).
I have just found out that Mac has a lot of typography options built in so you can use it even in TextEdit.

For example:
http://tinypic.com/r/27y0uo3/5
I think a lot of Apple's recent success comes from how nice their computers and products look. The iMac has one cord. Compare that to a Dell. Ugh. The PC market contains inexpensive computers that look cheap.
They could never run an ad like this now.

Why not?

I think it isn't necessarily Apple that has changed. The change might be the perspective of our times. I think any company attempting to sell that iconic revolutionary anti-establishment sentiment today will come off as disingenuous, pretentious, naïve, or all three. Maybe it's the medium: you can't get this message across when people expect their video in HD with 5.1 dolby surround sound, and so YouTube, the blurry pictures with the simple voice will seem like fake nostalgia.
Why not a framework which uses plain English like Cucumber? http://cukes.info
Apple has filed lawsuits based on much less[1] and was willing to take the PR hit for it. I'm aware the circumstances are different, but Apple's obsession with secrecy has led it to take PR hits before.

[1] - http://www.eff.org/cases/apple-v-does
Breaking Disk Encryption
Part of the problem with the mortgage bubble though was that no one (other than a very select few, that were shorting them by buying CDSes) really knew what was in all the mortgage bond derivatives, especially once they got put into CDSes and then re-packaged into CDOs. By the end of it even the people that knew what was going on had to spend tremendous amounts of time figuring out what specific mortgages were in what packages, whereas under the new proposed rules at least all that information will be available up front (in theory).

And as sibling comments say- once you know what's actually in them, you can use your own risk models. If you don't know what's in them, tough to do that.
Which is is fine, but their custom shell seems to smack of some attempt to be like the iPad home screen, but overly-complex. I'd rather just have the Windows desktop on it
Thank you for saying this.

As a woman in tech, I've never experienced any hostility, any implication I didn't belong. I was never intimidated by male professors and TAs and lab partners; I saw them as programmers first. I never lacked for role models and heroes because it never occurred to me to ask that they be women. I never had any requirements beyond 'great hacker'.

What I did find frustrating was the obsequious encouragement to stay. Extra scholarships I qualified for. My pick of lab partners. Professional societies just for women. The expectation that enrolling or hiring me would make some bean counter somewhere very happy.

It's frustrating because it leaves me wondering if I'm held to a lower standard. Would my work actually stand out if I weren't a woman? When people tell me I've done a good job, are they silently adding, ". . . for a girl" ? Am I going to get upvotes on this comment just for being a woman, and not necessarily for being insightful?

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of people trying to artificially import women into the field is that sometimes they succeed. There were always women who were there because they got extra attention and extra help. Women who wouldn't shut up about what it was like to be a developer and -- holy crap -- a woman! At the same time! It was, like, worth running a whole blog about!

The more women like that there were running around, the harder I felt I had to work to differentiate myself from them. I don't want to be "second rate, but that's okay because thank God somebody got a woman to stick around." I don't want to be, "wow, that's awesome work and--HEY IT'S A WOMAN, THIS IS FRONT PAGE MATERIAL!" I want to do first rate work and be criticized and compete and fight obscurity right along with everyone else.

There aren't many women in tech. And there are even fewer of them in the really upper echelons. Then again, that's true in general. Whatever the reason, women in tough, competitive fields are rare, and the tougher and more competitive and more elite it gets, the rarer they are. I don't know why that is. Frankly, I don't care. It's not a justification for hamstringing the women who are the exceptions--and no one throughout history has ever said it is. But treating it like a problem just makes problems for people like me.

Seriously, just let people do what they want to do and be who they want to be and stop worrying about why they choose what they choose.
Press does what press does. It was his fault for being irresponsible.
I actually did the same. I rarely get disgusted enough to resort to censorship, but Denton's craven, smug pageview whoring is just begging for the ban hammer.

Also, putting comments down for the day reminded me that Gawker Media is nothing without comments.
Your reasoning, however, isn't very solid. "It's right because he wouldn't say it if it wasn't right"; it's circular and possibly an appeal to authority, and doesn't respond to the issue addressed.

The parent post is not questioning whether Gruber believes his sources, but arguing that the information seems implausible. Your reply is that Gruber believes his sources are correct - yes he might state it because he believes it, but it could be wrong.
If anyone is interested in a great presentation about this topic, I really recommend this video[1].

[1] http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/534
the gray powell tweme is pretty funny
Apple once went nuclear with lawsuits and cancelled a product when info on it leaked to AppleInsider and ThinkSecret. This isn't their style at all.
Gizmodo not only ruined it for Apple and the engineer, it also ruined the fun for Apple fans like myself anxiously looking forward to the rumored-filled days just before the next device unveiling in June. :-/
They very possibly did the guy a favor exposing his identity not only to insulate him from hasher retribution but also as pretty clear evidence it was an innocent mistake. No one would leave their identity on the device if they had personally conspired to sell it on the black market. I don't think it's that big of a deal. If the device was being field tested Apple was accepting the risk of theft/loss. If it had been an iPad 2 months before it's announcement maybe but it's just an expected refresh of an established product. Not the end of the world. Apple's software folks leaked the existence of the front facing camera in the SDK months ago. Apple's competitors won't gain anything with a 2 month advance knowledge of the 4th generation design.
The Growing 'Cyberwar' Threat
Heard this on NPR today. I like web development and all... but what really gets me excited is cyber security and hacking. I am curious if anyone
IPhone Engineer Gets Drunk, Makes Tech Media History
The Gawker network (which includes Gizmodo) is run by well known scumbag Nick Denton. He's a leech and a bottom feeder. Don't hold your breath waiting for anything positive out of him.
It's a lot easier to make a good app for the iPhone than for an Android phone. Throw a table controller in a nav controller in a tab controller and you're done. With Android you can mess around with XML for a week and still have an app that looks like crap. I think it's good that they are reaching out, for sure, but I hope they are also really trying to build out their APIs a bit more to make it easier. I've wanted to make an Android app for a while now, but every time I get started, I quit a couple days later out of frustration.
Sounds like I'm not a programmer, either. Working on the Programming Team for my school for many years taught me to consider edge-cases.

And personally, there's quite frequently SOMETHING I forget when writing a binary search, and it usually ends in it infinite looping -- so, I often have to go find my stupid mistake.
How is hotmail's current spam filtering? From my experience with other web email, gmail's filtering is second to none.
Not only, but the JIT has a habit of chucking a sickie.
Just because they added a few sympathetic lines to their post doesn't mean they actually give a shit about what happens to the guy. They had no altruistic motivations in releasing his name. They did it for page views (i.e. money).
While I don't disagree with you in general, I'd be hard pressed to imagine an announcement that drowns out Apple's product launch PR short of "hey, we found aliens, and we're selling their communicators".
Gotta say, your questions are spot on, Andrew. You expertly lived up to the task of interviewing the queen of founder interviews. I liked how you guided her to talk about her rarely-heard perspective of YC, in particular your question on spotting patterns in pg's magic. After hearing him voice his opinions and respect for Jessica a couple months ago on Mixergy, it's great to hear her reciprocate.

Thanks!
Drivel! That's the word I was trying to think of when writing this post, but it just wasn't coming to me.
Sheryl Sandberg: What she saw at the revolution
This is how the New iPhone Looks
Also, this ... http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/04/20/teenager-beat-iphone-...
Heard this on NPR today. I like web development and all... but what really gets me excited is cyber security and hacking. I am curious if anyone here has a background in this stuff and can entertain some of my curiosities:

1) Do they really put crucial electric grid computers connect to the internet? And for what?

2) As a typical, macbook wielding, firefox using, web developer, am I still vulnerable to being part of a botnet? or are the computers on these botnet usually belonging to grandpa Simpson running out-dated Windows?

3) If I am vulnerable, what can I do to mitigate my exposure?

These questions are pretty rudimentary, but I am just asking for the sake of getting the discussion rolling. Please educate me if you have knowledge in this field.

Oh, btw, I am asking on here because I wanted to hear from the perspective of a web developer. Your knowledge of technology is at a level I can adequately understand. Thanks.
Anatomy of a Lego Man
Nothing like a only x% of you can write this to get programmers frantically posting code fragments.
Animals Are Not Things
This is true. Part of the reason I think is that it puts the main ideas to the forefront so when you read the chapter you actually know what to look for.
A Veho Muvi Micro DV Camcorder attached to a remote controlled car or helicopter. Will be doing that on my next trip to the Serengeti
From a related CNET article (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002870-38.html):

In a 2002 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects "an individual's fundamental right to purchase books anonymously, free from governmental interference." The justices tossed out a subpoena from police to the Tattered Cover Bookstore asking for information about what books a certain customer had purchased.

And in a 2007 case, federal prosecutors tried unsuccessfully to force Amazon to identify thousands of innocent customers who bought books online, but abandoned the idea after a judge rebuked them. Judge Stephen Crocker in Wisconsin ruled that "the subpoena is troubling because it permits the government to peek into the reading habits of specific individuals without their prior knowledge or permission."
Conversely, no one typesets their throw-away napkin notes.
Seems cool. The most interesting "Do you remember..." things I can think of are the ones that are no longer around and you never really think about... things like Pepsi Clear, or like PDA's back before they had anything to do with phones. But I don't remember any of the things currently posted on the home page (except for the ones that are still around obviously).
Sorry the 25 reasons page is down. We'll fix that asap.

At HippoCamps, we hope to be the the 'Wikipedia for Memories'.

The idea is that users can record and relive memories publicly AND in private groups. We then take all of your memories and remind you of old moments and experiences that you may have forgotten, or may want to update.

The hope is that, like a brain, we can help you relive and recall moments based on other inputs and memories over time.

Twitter is awesome, and is great for subjects, but HippoCamps wants to help you better manage your actual moments.

Thanks for the great feedback. We'll work harder to make our service clearer-

Thanks,
Ben, HippoCamps Founder
Tried but files were corrupted.
wow - this is basically a not-so-thinly-veiled Horatio Alger rehash with a condescending sense of humor. Life is so simple when you mistake other people's problems as errors in judgment. Thanks, Superman - you've saved the day once again. but what do you expect from a guy who, according to his bio, "[brings] wines to the market in bold new ways." No thanks. A lá Gang of Four, I'll get drunk on cheap wine instead.

Plus, it's a flawed analysis because on the one hand he's critiquing a particular aspect of capitalism (the consumerist side - what did he think was going to happen with all those advertisements and credit cards), while still maintaining that as a whole it works (he proudly states he's an "entrepreneur," who can balance work and family (subtext: so why shouldn't you?)). What's more, his arrogance turns into hypocrisy, because as an entrepreneur, whether he wants to admit it or not, he profits off of the backs of other people, the same kind of people that make poor decisions regarding long-term financial matters. As a matter of style, his flippancy which lacks the slightest modicum of decorum is insulting, while his failure to call into question the root, systemic causes to the problems he outlines is inexcusable.
Wait, you like accidentally buying stuff that's about to be replaced with a better model?
Seeing the name-drop of the Apple engineer on Gizmodo made my jaw drop. I couldn't believe that they would do such a thing. This no doubt casts a shadow on his career and life. It's a reckless attempt by what appears to be a subpar site to make itself somewhat legitimate. In this respect, they've failed miserably.
"Composing Contracts" launched much of the use of FP in the finance industry. It was specifically cited in Credit Suisse's use for modelling contracts, for example.

That said, any required language should be fully formally specified -- what's the semantics of a Python contract? Implementation defined? A testsuite?
No Shit in the App Store? Oh Please
I love how sibling posts by jfornear and nathanieljones take the raw data and apply opposite opinions: more is better vs more is worse :-)