skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tagged.com pays $650k to settle criminal spamming charges
It's a direct quote from an Intel exec but yeah, doesn't make much sense in that context. She should have clarified whether it was all open source ones, or whatever they actually had in mind.
Hahaha. Well, the existing services are expensive ($400+ a year) and only work inside a person's home because they require land lines. My mom is 60, doesn't have a home phone (but has an iPhone), and she loves traveling so yeah... I did it for the moms. :)
I agree, we've got a lot of marketing to do and some clarification as well.
Apache.org hit by targeted XSS attack, passwords compromised
You can already do that:

http://code.google.com/p/live-android/

I tried it with VirtualBox 3.1.6
45€ for 25Mb/s unlimited internet and unlimited landline calls. That’s probably not even as cheap as you can get. How is that possible? Just because the US is such a huge and (compared to Europe) sparsely populated country? Are costs in densely populated areas lower?

Maybe it’s just some random stuff and you really shouldn’t compare international prices :)
My MacBook Pro is able to do everything I need and I have no problem carrying it around. I think "bad" is a bit of an exaggeration.

Desktops are optimized for power at the cost of obliterating portability. Netbooks are optimized for portability at the cost of being fairly underpowered. A good laptop is a generalist that doesn't do either as well as the specialist but can fill either role competently in most cases.
Status probably trumps all three. I'd attribute most of github's popularity to the desire for status.
As a developer, I hate being involved in sweeping generalizations about developers.

I'd honestly, like those that I work with to understand and recognize me as an individual with tastes and needs that may or may not be like any other member in any other role in a project.
Three ways:
1) I see something I like and want it done better.
2) Randomly, enters my head. Like connecting stuff. This happens alot when I walk.
3) Observing a need
4) Testing out a new theory :D(I should stop doing these they are unprofitable)
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You should try to observe yourself when you are creative and what you do. That's how I found out, that creativity is anchored for me when walking[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning].
Why even deal with the copyright issues when you can do an end-run instead?

Link. Summarize. Add insight.

Present the article link, summarize.
Present the discussion link, summarize the major points/concerns/counterpoints raised in the thread.
Present any relevant external posts about the subject.

Having the benefit of a month and the full breadth of the discussion and potentially other posts around the web on the topic, you have an opportunity to add truly valuable insight and analysis to the topic -- the sorts of things that even fervent readers of HN might find value in.

When everything you publish is either a link or your own words, copyright doesn't enter into it.

That said: I think dead-tree format, in and of itself, is your biggest roadblock to success. It dramatically boosts your costs and headaches. It will select out quite a bit of your possible readership. There are non-trivial economic reasons why the dead-tree industry is struggling and it has little to do with the content itself.
It does look much better, but I'd love to see the same done by an independent source.
>Title is on the sexist side and exclusive of female programmers.

I disagree, "when men were men" has been a mostly ironic expression at least since the 1980s, along the lines of "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" (a 1982 book which listed Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of UK, as an example of a Real Man).

I don't disagree that sexism is an issue in some "hacker" circles, but I have trouble seeing this particular title as anything but perfectly innocent.
Well, the edition system isn't mine; it's EditArea, a free client-side JS library by Christophe Dolivet. But opensourcing a part of Akshell may be a good idea. I should think about it. Thank you.
Many basics:

Do not use PNG for photo material. Those images are easily 5 times a good JPEG.

I have no idea what the site is about.

Does not degrade well if Javascript is disabled.

The grey serif text in the ribbon thing looks kinda pixely and tight. Might be the font or the css shadows (you do not have to use them just because it is possible)

I personally find the keyword spamming in the footer very immoral.

What does SSL encryption have to do with user data? Not too much. How do you secure the data you actually store? What is a GoDaddy certificate worth? PS: According to Opera there is a problem with TLS "renegotiation" on your site.
My wife and I dropped a $75/month DirecTV bill over a year ago and haven't looked back. Now, all the DirectTV box does is serve as a stand for our projector to sit on.

Hulu has most of the new television shows and if they don't have one of your shows, it's probably on iTunes. I'm not a big sports fan, but I was concerned about the Olympics. Fortunately, NBC had them online.

Netflix is great if you watch several movies a month, but if you are like me and one is enough then iTunes or Redbox work great.
Microsoft outsources IT services to Infosys
New take on Personal Cloud Storage
These aren't really motivators. They're more like necessary requirements for a developer to do good work. I am motivated by doing good work, and by being well compensated for the good work that I do. The better I am, the more I should be compensated.

Autonomy is required for any type of creative work. It isn't about my favorite T-shirt, operating system, language and chair. It is about having someone peering over my shoulder pestering me for results without giving me adequate time to process the problem. If someone lets me use all of my favorite stuff, there is a good chance I will have some autonomy, but there is no guarantee. I'd argue that good software is often creative.

Mastery is a personality trait. I don't see what this has to do with the workplace. I could see challenges as important, as challenges allow you to become better. So maybe 'challenging work'.

Purpose kind of ties into challenging work and autonomy. I think I agree with it. If you have autonomy, you have the ability to tell your boss 'hey, this is a really bad idea and probably won't make us any money or be useful' or 'hey, i have a prototype for a great project'. If the work is challenging, that's another source of purpose.

But I think that these are necessary but not sufficient conditions. Those three things are important if you want to get the most out of your devs, sure.

But if all of your devs are masterful self-starters, who take personal interest in their work, you sure as hell better be paying them well.
I think you speak for all of us.
Not to be a downer, because this is a great type of service, but I don't see any of the elderly I know using this because it requires an iphone or using the web. That is still just too complex for many of them and it is not the app, but rather all the other factors (browser or opening the app) that is the issue most of the time.
The module used in the article was simply to demo the exploit. It could be used against any null deference vulnerabilities found in current kernels (the article uses a recent one as an example as well).

The point of the article is to demonstrate why they are dangerous, and how they are exploited, not to provide an example of a current vulnerabilty.

If you found such a vulnerabilty (which does happen, hence the example given in the article) you would be able to use this technique to root. (Assuming you were able to circumvent mid address limition on mmap, which the author says used to be, and possibly still is feasible.)

The title seems to accurately describe the article, given a "kernel NULL pointer vulnerabilty" here is how to root it.
I wonder how they make sure the location submitted is the actual location. Otherwise one could simply sniff the traffic and send any location you would like to be.
I actually think a common login across all Akshell apps is what will make this superior to AppEngine, AppJet etc. Also, it would be good if there was a per user data store in addition to a per application one.
Dunno how bad their shipping rates are to Europe, but:

mini-DisplayPort to DVI adapter $8.55 @ monoprice.com

Lots of small accessories are as little as 1/8th the Apple price there, you could batch together a big order.
One thing I like about this service is that I would use it because we're not a GPS tracking service. It's a single-player game unless there's an emergency.

I did my fair share of wild stuff in college like trips to Mexico border towns. I'm fortunate to be here now but things could have turned a lot differently. This services protects my privacy, nobody has to know what I'm doing unless something bad happens.
I don't think you understand what's going on. A kernel-side null-pointer dereference is normally a denial of service, but this article explains how to convert it into privilege escalation.

Using a kernel module with the bug in it lets the article talk about that particular transformation, without emboldening a bunch of script kiddies with a new rootme script. You can of course replace that kernel module with any null-pointer dereference you happen to notice in the kernel changelog.
I don't know what area you're from, but calling (supposedly yearly) salary raises of (just) under 10% to 'hardly make up for inflation' seems like, to put it mildly, a stretch.
"personal" means something no one would pay me to do and its sure for money.
Oh, it's a great idea. It's nice to see some actual utility from check-ins rather than just game mechanics. I wonder how much concern there has been about AT&T's spotty service playing into the reliability of this kind service.
Yeah, I know quite a few people who get sky for the Bundesliga, other than that, though …
Because there is a percentage of people heating long waits... Safari is very nice but not responsive enough, and sometimes if you want just to read a news site, the user experience is just the same. Also I think that EDGE users will enjoy the fact that finally it's possible to have decent loading times of web pages.

I live in a city covered by 3G but when I from in my home town it's almost impossible to suft the web with Safari, while it was ok with Opera Mini on a Nokia N70 phone.

Opera Mini is surely not a drop in replacement for Safari Mobile, but it surely is a useful tool, much more useful than most of the other top-downloads in the Appstore.
I am primarily a tweet consumer, and I find that my twitter feed already contains too much noise, from 4square check-ins miscellaneous ramblings, etc. I have purged followers for the issue in the past. If Twitter adds advertisements to the mix, and that might be enough for me to look elsewhere for keeping in touch with various people. How quickly will we see the first ad blockers appear in the various twitter clients?
I'm rooting for RISC in this round of the RISC vs. CISC saga. X86 is so bloated and legacy ridden that it is great barrier to entry to the CPU/compiler space, and that's the way Intel likes it.
You are aware that this is somebody's personal blog, yeah? And that it's only here because people other than the author submitted and voted it up, right?

In other words, you're not the intended audience. If you can find value, so be it. If not, it's not the author's fault or problem.

By the way, I think you missed a healthy dose of sarcasm in the post, but nevermind.
the problem is that they bundle it with so much bullshit and you cant just get bundesliga alone so you end up paying 35€ minimum :(
Just like that other posterous post currently on the frontpage this too is "stolen content". For example:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=All+browsers+will+read+through+the+...

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+first+command+is+the+regular+mi...
> It's a bit big brotherish in a way too, but soooo comfy. Where did I put my soma again?

I don't understand this attitude at all. You spend a quarter of the week at work (not including travel time or overtime, 40hr work week). Would you rather work at a shitty company that didn't try and keep you happy?

And really, it's your productivity that pays for that shuttle, housing, cafeteria, etc. Would you rather have it all go to the execs of the company? Or would you rather have it spent on making your work environment better?
I agree, I don't see my grandmother using this service but my mom just turned 60 (I'm 28 btw) and she has an iPhone as do all her friends. There's a generation gap for my parents' parents when it comes to computing but I think it's coming to an end.

We are putting a lot of focus on accessibility and will continue to do so. For example, once a Pulse or Watchdog is created then you can check in via email. We've got some more stuff similar to this to make the barrier low and usability extremely simple.
A real case illustrating what Jerf helpfully explained to me just 45 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154379
I already have. Most of what I want to watch is available on Hulu, Netflix, or CBS' (crappy, admittedly) website. For the one other show I watch, I subscribe on Amazon.

I haven't watched over-the-air or over-the-cable TV in almost two years now.

Why subsidize the 95% of TV I don't watch with a cable subscription? I'd much rather directly fund the shows I'm truly interested in via Amazon's subscription (or Hulu's ads).

The article notes that expected subscription-droppers are to double over the next year. If that stays steady at doubling, in eight years cable and broadcast will be dead. In all likelihood, however, that rate is only going to perform as an S-curve (there will always be holdouts to new technology - just look at the transition from analog to digital airwaves).
I was actually trained in chemistry but I left the field and got into software development for two reasons:

1. By and large, it's a meritocracy. Your degree matters a lot less than the quality of your code.

2. Two people in a garage can still make an impact. Most other technical fields require large teams and big budgets to explore.

A single good developer can make a huge impact and seeing my work make a big difference in the everyday lives of other people is my primary reward. Nothing is more demotivating than being mired in an awkward bureaucracy that resists any change or improvement.
So did I. But this seems appropriate:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
Today is the day that tptacek gets to run around screaming "I told you so" :-).

I don't remember when or why I created it, but I have an account on the compromised server. It was a non-unique password, but fortunately one that I've never used on any account of value, and one that I rotated out a while ago on every account that I ever use at all.
Bummer this was downvoted; I laughed. Perhaps you could use Wesley Snipes jokes here to greater effect.
I think the money motivator is important, but as presented in the TED vid, it can definitely narrow your focus. I.e. pay me enough and let me spend some of my time on interesting work and you'll benefit more than pay me alot and micro manage me.
A per user data store could be easily implemented as an application :)
Reuters Cameraman Dies, Leaving Seven Minutes of Violent Footage Behind
I hardly ever use my mobile browser, so I can't speak much for which one's better - but if nothing else, I think it's good that there's now more selection and variety available.
I'm not the object of "your", but I might propose:

Atoms have a higher power/computation ratio than ARMs. Atoms are attractive because you can run desktop/laptop software, but that is also a liability on battery. You are starting with a vast and possibly opaque codebase that was not designed for energy efficiency.

I wonder though, as processors become more efficient and screens get bigger at what point does the backlight power dominate and the CPU efficiency become subordinate?

A quick googling suggests laptop sized LED backlights are ~2 watts.
a hypothesis: it's easier to come to a (tentative, possibly false) conclusion that the reward is not worth it, than to execute a high level task to completion. The carrot works for mechanical tasks because high level cognition shuts down.
My major bugbear, I guess, is that a netbook has a crummy, tiny screen. I can live fairly happily without dual head for coding, but I find netbooks' screen/keyboard/slowness unbearable.

My laptop has enough power for my day to day needs (running web browsers, dev IDE, mail, and not taking forever to compile large tex docs), and for my larger needs, well, I need a 32GB RAM server for those, so I wouldn't have a desktop that could handle them either :-). Unless I'm really caning it, it doesn't make a sound, and all I have to do to turn it into a workstation is plug in a USB hub and monitor - not exactly a chore.

In terms of portability, my macbook is light enough for me to easily carry around, and in practise I get around 5-6 hours battery life even after a year's usage. If I upgraded to a newer macbook (I have one with a removable battery), I'd get closer to 10.

I completely agree about not buying a bad laptop. I have no interest in lugging around a behemoth that gets two hours battery life, or one that trades weight for being too slow for my everyday needs. A good laptop (and I'm not just talking about macs here, although I've had extremely positive experiences with mine) is powerful, light, and has good battery life. Unfortunately, you have to pay extra for that, but considering it's my only work-related expense, it seems cheap at the price. I love not being tied to my desk.
The blog is not responding, so read the official mailing list announcement: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg010...
So how did you end up in TechCrunch?
There are over 100 million televisions in the U.S. - so while this is a great indicator (and I'm a huge fan of abandoning TV and am one of the 800K) there's still a while to go before TV becomes a truly irrelevant screen.
If I had to guess, 'good' or reputable attorney in this area probably do not price for people in your situation. They probably have plenty of wealth clients that give them more than enough work.

You probably will do fine with a tax attorney. For your sake I hope you didn't inadvertently also not report the income that was the source of those funds. Hard to make that look like an honest mistake.
arm has a lower power draw, is cheaper to produce, smaller, and has a larger number of suppliers.

Apple used the arm processor with good reason.
In my few hours of use so far Opera Mini is the clear winner in terms of page load time, caching, and battery life. This is on a 3G. I have no good answers on the privacy side.
Very nice! Everyone should show this to their kids as soon as they can grasp it.
...it's complete bullshit? ;)
Obligatory GNU Emacs video editing reference:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521548
I'm doing about 90WPM, down from my usual 150.

Still pretty f'ing good.
Stars all the way = infinite amount of stars = infinite mass = doesn't make any sense

At least that's how I understand it... but IANAC
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Shake to undo always prompts for confirmation to undo the last action. Touching the top of the screen to scroll to the top of the page does not ask for confirmation, which is a pain when you are 3/4 of the way through a very long article.

Thus, being able to shake to undo the action of auto-scrolling to top of the screen would be a nice solution.
> That the iPad is consistently classified as a media consumption device seems an attempt to trivialize its significance by people who consider themselves power users.

Not really. It comes from an idealism that technology (especially the internet) would, speaking broadly, shift our society away from a centralized model where the many are beholden to the few and towards something more distributed and egalitarian.

If you cherish that goal, you're fairly likely to see the iPad as a step backwards -- it is not about the size of the step ("significance") but its direction.
Except then you realize that they're doing this only to benefit their primary business, advertising.
Just for kicks, here's what the straight port of Nodule.js looks like in CoffeeScript.

http://gist.github.com/364845

A little clearer, about 25% shorter, pretty fun.
Hi Armando,
I like your work and if you are looking to do some freelance UI design work please drop me a note. I am interested in working with you.
Neat; but C++0x does this:

[](int x, int y) { return x + y; }

instead of this:

lambda<int> (x,y) --> x + y

Ironically, the template hack could be shorter in many cases.
"be mining you" :)
yea sorry agree with the other two here...
Or India:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601205&sid=ag8h...
Related (or why I'm asking): http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/bqcut/ask_rweb_d...

Related submissions: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+intitl...
And MLB.tv doesn't let you watch local market games which are just about the only ones I'm interested in. You can get around it with a proxy server and alternate billing address, but that's a nasty hack.
Apple also made the switch from powerpc to intel, so i don't think it's unimaginable.
I agree, that ARM has by far the upper hand in this segment, though.
But they had a hammock district in Scorpio's town, how could he be that bad?
That's all in the standard package here. €16,45/month for 60 channels, including discovery channel, comedy central and sport. The most popular channels come in HD for free, but to get Discovery, National Geographic and History in HD you need to pay extra (€4/month). Maybe we pay the difference with taxes?
Why Twitter shouldn't pursue an advertising model
Piece from December 2009 argues Twitter shouldn't pursue and advertising model.
IANAL but spent a long time researching FBAR. It's pretty straightforward. If you didn't declare in the past, declare ASAP. Make sure you post two copies - one with your 1040 and one to whatever the other address is.

If you've been hit with a penalty on the other hand, not much advice I can give you sorry.
From what I gathered about your posts on japanese salarymen though in Japanese BigCo that's the rule whereas in this article Tim points out that his recent experience was the exception.

Postscript: This is a little unfair. Normal people with lives in the neighborhood, aren’t doing this every day or even most days.
Canadian:
"The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning"

Easy read, covers all the basics.
Google stores the original uploaded videos, just for purposes of re-encoding later.
Can you expound upon why government mismanagement of the property market has caused NYC's absurd median rent? Or, at the very least, point me towards an interesting/insightful article on the subject?

Thanks!
This is all so true, and yet hard to focus on in real life.

I mean if the decision were phrased 'Would you rather pay a babysitter, take your SO out for an excellent meal, followed by a night of drunken shenanigans, and finish up making passionate love in a wonderful hot tub suite at a local hotel or would you rather buy an iPad?' than the only people buying an iPad would be the very lonely or those with a direct business interest.

It's just hard to keep that kind of perspective sometimes.
except the kids tend to be lazy...so instead of a peace of mind, the parent goes nuts that the kid didn't check in.

my mom is facing this problem with my sister(she is 25). She is overseas, so they have a deal that she checks in at least once every two weeks. i.e. a basic email "mom I'm ok"...well she's been there for like 2 years, and I don't believe there's been a single month when she checked in on time.
Isn't it more likely that the pad would belong to the parents and a $1.99 app would be the child's toy?