skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the police were willing to use purchasing habits/items as circumstantial evidence to go after the wrong person.

Hopefully it is not a great leap in logic to see that the justice system was what went wrong, not the club card thing.
In my experience, companies let you live out the two weeks unless you've done something "objectionable", in which case you are taken out immediately.
Fittingly, we name our servers after universities. Ivy League colleges are web-facing, the Pac-10 are database servers, and the Claremont colleges are dev boxes. Ultimately no scheme will hold up, but at least we have a few thousand pre-made names to use.
While looking at the serverfault thread linked somewhere in this post, I found the following site: http://www.namingschemes.com/

It's a whole wiki full of naming schemes. It actually included the one I am using (Battlestar Galactica callsigns), which I though should have been pretty unique.
My first naming scheme revolved around monkeys, I had spacemonkey, funkymonkey and.. I forget the third. That one didn't scale well.

For a short while I used characters from children's books (mom is a librarian who loves children's books), this included lafcadio, lorax and grinch.

Right now it's robots from Futurama. Bender, flexo (the Win XP dual-boot of bender, which is OSX), clamps, roberto (the crazy, stabbing robot), calculon and my dedicated server, robot-devil.

Not that anyone asked, but hey, naming schemes are fun!
Detecting malicious URLs: papers and a downloadable 700 MB data set
I'm 26.
For my personal systems, I choose names of demons (since they run lots of dæmons). I get a little thrill out of not knowing what to name something, and taking it as an excuse to go look up cool names.
BSG callsigns, cool - I've been naming my machines after 80's transformers for years!
I use names from various books, in no particular fashion. Most of my names are from Tad Williams books, but I've been known to use the names of Anne McCaffrey's dragons as well, with some names from Norse mythology tossed in for good measure.

My current workstation is pfefirrit. In the past, I've had fizz, click, karthwine, ninebirds, nuzzledark, nipslither, bast-imret, earnotch, and knet-makri as servers. My old workstations were cloudleaper, bite-then-bark, pop, hushpad, and tailchaser. My firewall was meerclar.

As far as laptops go, I've used munin, hugin, odin, krelli, skoggi, krauka, nrefa-o, mnanth, and caylith.

Back when I did IT for a couple of schools, I used chemical compounds in a certain fashion to reflect room numbers.
The best advice I can give for someone wanting to learn good web design is get a feel for the aesthetics first - visit CSS and design galleries (cssremix.com, cssdrive.com, unmatchedstyle.com, drawar.com, etc.) and look through designs noting trends, styles and layouts. These designs are showcased because they are aesthetically pleasing, which in turn effects the presentation of your product.

Then start visiting tutorial and resource sites (smashingmagazine.com, tutsplus.com, etc.) and learn as much as you can on techniques and even more on current trends. After you do that it's a matter of imitating bits and pieces of proven designs and following trends. Steal until you are capable and skilled, then unleash your creativity for your final product.

Hope that makes sense.
Cheesy. But don't give up.

Great coders will run into walls all the time. One of my favorite quotes is one by Randy Pausch (author of Last Lecture): "I believe brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. They are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something."

Keep that in mind when you're hacking, as you are bound to run into problems. Just roll and keep persevering.
Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency
I didn't even consider refunds, thanks!
I actually like them.

But someone could make a quick userscript to hide them :-)

Edit:

// ==UserScript==
// @name I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @namespace I-Dont-Like-The-New-Facebook-Like
// @description Hide all Facebook 'Like' buttons
// @include *
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
var i = document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
if(i) {
for(e in i) {
if(i[e].src.match(/http\:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php/gi)) {
i[e].style.display = 'none';
i[e].style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
}
}
})();
I go with colors. My main machines are Indigo and Violet, and I have a server under my bed called Aubergine.
How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up
And not a one does it as well as Facebooks did, not the least because none of those apps have near-universal adoption.

I actually hadn't thought about that feature in a few years now. I completely forgot there was a time when I found Facebook genuinely useful. Now I never feel like I'm actually doing anything when I use it.
I think there's really something to this, at least judging by my own experience with the iPad, and I'm not generally an early adopter.

There are really three levels of computing: desktop/laptop (full work/play), pad/slate (light work/play, for which we didn't have a plausible candidate until recently), and phone (work/play only in a pinch).

I'd call the pad/slate a couchtop, though, not a webtop.
I find Geany pretty light and complete for my current project in php, giving me 32 lines to look at a time.
Running awesome wm with yakuake has been great relief on my eee pc 1005p which has just 1GB ram. When I run an xterm, yakuake and vim, along with apache and mysql in background, it just eats 140-180MB of the precious ram.
Get mortgage loans easily
Like most other processes, the Remortgage or mortgage process for home loans requires certain criteria. The mortgage lenders generally have several requirements.
I'm curious to know how this exposure has helped. (Traffic? Sales?) Our startup is part of the BizSpark program and I've always wondered if anyone paid attention to the 'Microsoft Startup of the Day'.

Congrats!
Ask HN: server/computer naming schemes
Everyone has a system naming scheme for servers/computer groups, and I'd hear what yours are (or that you've heard of).

Other than just awesome sounding names, some schemes will have added benefit of working like enumerations (eg. Chemical names, enum is atomic number).
Either you were making a ridiculously small amount to start with, you are making a gargantuan amount now, or there's a mistake in your calculations. Increasing your salary 16X in 4 years seems more than a little unusual.
My portable is always DeepThought, my desktop/workhorse machine is always Earth, and my backup volume/server is always Magrathea
Previously I was running gnome on Ubuntu 10.04 beta, running a browser hogged up ram like anything 780MB when there's just a browser running.
I think minimal window managers like fvwm, awesome, etc really make a good case for netbooks and netbook remix, etc don't really make it easy for you to work on it.
Specially when the desire is to carry a long lasting battery life device with full fledged linux on it :D
Salesforce running on VMware instances in the cloud, pre-configured?
I liked the "About" page...

This webpage collect all news about great and power efficient HTPC Media Center Barebone computer called ZOTAC MAG HD. It is a must have for any HTPC maniac

Can they treat that?
EURion constellation (It's on the new $100 and the one in your pocket)
I'm not going to quit, I'm connected to my family on there. I just don't post stuff there, except for some family pictures and videos, which I can do from iPhoto. I post everything to my tumblr blog which reposts it on Facebook and Twitter so I never have to log in to FB unless someone comments. Also I work on apps that I integrate into Facebook so I'll use it for that.
As the post description, one of my favorites have been the chemical name system as you can also map the names to numbers.

Hydrogen - 1 - 192.168.1.1
Helium - 2 - 192.168.1.2 etc

Another system I've been fond of is using the initial letter to be City names, but the leading letter corresponded to something (D - database, G - general purpose server, W - workstations, R - Routers). Not just cities, you can also extend this to car names, people names, or deities.

Databases - Detroit, Dallas
General purpose - Gilroy, Giddings
W - Washington, Woodlands

And another has been food which works if you have different sub-groups. For example groups can take on vegetables, drinks, fruits, meats, etc...
There's something to be said about the fact that the countries of the world couldn't come together to work for world peace or to eliminate poverty, but they can agree on a mechanism to prevent counterfeiting.
Is Palm Crumbling Before Our Eyes?
IMDb updated with the button the same day FB announced it
I'd like to, but everyone I know (almost literally) uses it. The feed really is a great feature. If I could get everyone I know to move over to Buzz or anything else with The Feed that isn't evil, that would be nice, but it's not going to happen. Facebook owns me.
Qt creator has been awesome on the netbook - http://twitpic.com/1hxgrp I could easily complete a project working at various places - friend's house, college, college bus, nearby restaurants, etc
Though I need to run Qt Designer separately in case I need to design something.
I don't really get where you're coming from. I have no opinion on this one way or the other but I don't see a point in messing with someone here. I think that his company makes a profit is a sign of something good for society at least by some measure. Mahalo isn't Goldman Sachs so to say he's not contributing anything is a bit hard to say from afar. I doubt his employees feel like they're wasting their lives. Maybe they are but I'm not sure anyone from this far could suggest that to them. They know better than we do.

Being a part of something bigger than yourself is something to be proud of. I'm a part of a lot of teams and organizations and while I don't credit for their success (or failures) I might point to them as evidence that I'm at least keeping busy. Promoting startups is a noble endeavor as far as I'm concerned. I'm very inspired by how many people want to encourage people who want to start something of their own. It's something anyone who does it should be proud of.
Probably not very original, but I use titles of SF books I like that also reflect on the machine (sometimes).

Here's some I've used:

- tau-zero

- subtleknife

- Dark Light (iPhone)

- Omega Device (iPod Nano - I like this one :)

- skyroad

- zodiac
Every once in a while I come across a post or comment that's been deaded or a user who's been banned for no apparent reason, which usually turns out to be a mistake by an admin. When I see these I email PG, but there ought to be a more efficient way of going about this. How about a "contraflag" button for calling them to admins' attention?
It's reasonable for this resource to be assigned to an incident of this nature and magnitude. Is it not?
If your boss DOES use Flash Dev edition put try { <code here> } catch(err:Error) { } around all of the large sections of your code whose execution causes these dialogs to better hide your incompetence. Job saved!!
Thundercats. I name all of my machines after the Thundercats.
Persistant. Passionate about his/her chosen craft.
Coruscant,
Hoth,
Yavin,
Dagobah,
Tatooine,
Dantooine,
and of course, Deathstar
Is it just me, or do all the example faces that avoid detection in the picture with make-up look like David Bowie?
Browser performance comparison (2009)
Human genetics research fellow here (well, it's one of my hats). For those of you who signed up for 23andMe, or who wanted to, can you explain your rationale to me?
One problem is that when I saw "ooc" I thought it was the esoteric programming language Ook!: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html
Experimental GitX fork
But you won't see anyone fining CitiBank for putting credit card numbers where they don't belong. Banks are, in my experience, one of the weakest links in the CC security chain.
I have a few ideas that I'll try to bang out -- unfortunately I'm on vacation and TDY for 90% of the timeframe so my app won't be too complex :)

Anyway, I hope this goes well for you.
Mine are named after Star Trek characters.

Troi (MacBook), Picard (iMac), Locutus (Mini), Crusher (MBP).

At uni, most of the computers were named after distilleries. i.e. Livet, Morangie, Grant, Islay etc.
In that case, you should have probably paid attention to the beginning of the book which clearly states that DiP is for teaching Python to people who already know how to program. When I read the book, I already knew how to program in several other languages. DiP was perfect for me, and got me up to speed on Python rapidly. I had no trouble at all understanding it.
Don't blame the workers. Blame the boss.
Closer to 20 than I am to 30, have 700+ 'friends' chronicling most of the people I met in college (and then some), tons of wall chatter between friends and family over the years, almost 900 photos tagged of me (though I don't let anyone else see those) and a few hundred pictures I've posted myself. I use it almost daily to share interesting links / photos / news stories I read throughout the day, and to keep in touch with people since I've moved

I'm seriously considering account deletion because Facebook is making me uncomfortable. In the past, I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt -- like when they responded to user feedback and killed beacon. I thought "Gee, maybe they aren't Evil, just a little misguided."

Now, I think they're Evil. The only thing they learned from the Beacon disaster was that they can't roll out all of the privacy erosion at once; you have to do it slowly, so nobody realizes it, or a least their anger never really reaches critical mass. Taking a hint from the government perhaps.

So I'm "hip," as you kids say. But here I am, weighing the benefits of simple and wide-reaching communication against a provider that keeps proving it's willing to sell my information without much warning.
Don't worry about being downvoted with a throwaway account. The people downvoting are most likely over 30, paranoid as fuck, and have no hand in creating today's internet. These are the same people that gave me -4 for saying "Yahoo is a rotting carcass on the landscape of the web". I get a kick out of these people, and offending them, because they are sooooo out of touch.
I wish I had something more insightful to say other than "very clever". I do wonder where this car will end up after the shoot. The corporate headquarters? The ad agency lobby? A science museum? Barrett-Jackson?
Yes you can download it and then you can use a tool like Promethease to link provide a report on how your SNPs match up with various research on SNPedia. It's a bit rough but it certainly has lots more info than the reports from 23andme.
I hope your PCI slides start by pointing to the biggest security problems in the CC industry: the banks themselves. They have no real interest in fixing the security problems.
I heard of one organization that used disasters. Titanic, Hindenburg, Ishtar... the nice part is that you keep getting new ones all the time.

I'd probably avoid Eyjafjallajokull, though.
I can agree to this. I think the entire struggle I've gone through with Python is realizing at it isn't the language PG promised me :-P
For the record: I only read the front page, and didn't look much further. The had trouble reading through it because of all the cutesy references to internet-memes. Very distracting, and honestly, I just don't think the jokes are funny enough to warrant the distraction.

I like the approach of dropping the reader immediately into the language, and introducing new concepts as as you scroll down. This works well, I think. I think they should go a little more in depth. People who don't know what a class or inheritance is aren't going to experiment with new programming languages, but we do want to know whether the language has value or reference semantics, what the type system is like, and so on. 90% of the text was explaining what the syntax does... and that's frustrating when you just want them to get to the point.

Examples.

1) Don't explain that `for x in [1, 2, 3]` is a for loop, I can guess that. Explain whether it's lazy or not, whether you use iterators / generators behind the scenes or whether it's just syntactic sugar. Explain whether the "x" is a copy of the variable in the container, or a reference to it. Does `for x in [1, 2, 3] x *= 2`, work? If not, does the type checker warn me? Or does it work like most scripting languages nowadays, where it doesn't work for primitives, but does work when iterating over something more complex like [[], [], []].

2) Objects on the stack or the heap? Both? Objects on the heap, rest on the stack? What about structs?

3) I see you can almost have a 1-1 mapping between C structs and OOC objects, but OOC just has "integer". How can you map that faithfully to "unsigned char", "signed short", "long long int", etc? Are they arbitrary precision integers? And if so, do they magically become heap objects when they exceed 2^31 or 2^30 (see: ruby)?

4) And objects... Multiple inheritance? Mixins? Single or multiple dispatch? Messages based system? I think the answer is: all method calls are virtual, single inheritance only, but that's just a guess.

5) Their claim that "garbage collection is fast and if you disagree you're an idiot" (liberal quote) is silly. What kind of garbage collection do they have anyway?

6) They mention templates/generics, but not whether their type system works w.r.t. covariance/contra variance. I suspect their type system / inference system simply isn't sound.

Anyway, most of these questions are rhetorical. The language has a number of nice characteristics, but the cutesy approach and focus on syntax over semantics doesn't give me confidence.
Generative Modeling Language
Do people really use the whole "social bookmarking" part of Delicious? I mean, I've tagged a few things for:whomever, but 99% of my usage has been bookmarking stuff for myself, or looking for stuff I've bookmarked.
Or any kind of sharing widgets, for that matter. If only web admins would trust visitors to have their own bookmarklets or extensions, so that pages wouldn't have all the cruft.
Doubtful. Here's Hesiod around 800 BC:

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint"

Between the two hypotheses a) "society has been declining for thousands of years" and b) "older people tend towards grumpiness" I know which one sounds more likely :)

Although Hesiod's "I see no hope for the future of our people" may be vindicated by the fact that his culture no longer exists.

Perhaps cultures stagnate and corrupt over time, and complaints about youth is a symptom rather than a cause? Perhaps the collapse of a civilization every now and then is one of the mechanisms that keep human societies sustainable in the long run?

There are interesting questions here, but I don't think the older generation complaining about the younger generation is one of them. Not in and of itself, at least.
This isn't bad advice. In particular, when you see a piece of design figure out exactly what you like about it. Is it the color palette? composition? typography? copy? The goal is to learn the rules so you can decide when to follow/break them. It'll also help you figure out who's actually a good graphic designer and who's merely aping the trendsetters.

Just be aware that both graphic and interaction design are fields that are as deep as software development. I say this because I talk to a number of developers who want to do the same thing and they're really not prepared to put in years of effort to be good. If you think you're good after a few months, you're the equivalent of that guy who thinks he's an awesome developer because he knows VB6. Fortunately, simply avoiding absolutely sucking design-wise is enough to get you through as long as your content/app is compelling.
Two facts corroborate Gizmodo's story. One is that the iPhone was disguised to be an older model. If it were just a model designed to sit on a test bench, I doubt it would be camouflaged. If it were intended to be tested in bars, however, then that makes sense.

Secondly, the identity of the Apple employee was released. He has a great incentive to say, "someone came into my lab and threatened to stab me if I didn't hand over the prototype". But, he has not denied the lost-in-a-bar story, even though he has an incentive to do so.

So I think the "story" is probably right.
i hope you mean it in sarcasm way...

btw i cant believe nobody point a finger on google yet, this part of their fault too. there should a 'proper' mechanism on their webmaster tool an option to excluded a sensitive data Or make it an opt-out features Or add one regex line to detect an anomaly data on their search.

ffs they have billions to tinker around with it
Of course the next step would be to create clones or use their genes in breeding programs. Hard to see exactly where the monetisation would come from. Probably evil as guess.
Django Pluggables gone?
From the DjangoPluggables site: "NOTICE: This domain name expired on 04/07/2010 and is pending renewal or deletion"

I don't know if I'm posting a PSA or a question, but I was about to post a new app to DjangoPluggables and noticed that its domain is in limbo.

Did they call it quits? If so, was it replaced by some other website that serves a similar function?

Otherwise, if any of you know the domain owner, could we please pass the note along so that it gets renewed?
Seeing as how their COO and legal adviser is not a US lawyer (http://gabydarby.blogspot.com/), they may be in for a surprise.

Usually people with a "C" in their title don't actually do the work for the departments they manage. The CTO of my company is not a Haskell programmer, but we have working Haskell production applications.
I don't care for the unnormalized "number of diggs/tweets/karma" etc.

I'd actually use the "like" buttons if they learned what I liked/disliked, rather than just being there to show off an unnormalized and somewhat meaningless figure.
Reading comments about how writing comments is a waste of time is a waste of time. Writing comments about reading comments about how writing comments is a waste of time.

And now you have to read a comment about writing a comment about reading a comment about writing a comment about reading a comment. I think.
If you press too far away you can make bad notes. This mode is actually pretty intensely fun if you try to tap the right places.
If I had a screen in front of me, the temptation would be to do something, to try out the idea...

The nice thing about a longish honest post like this is that the writer is likely to tell you what you need to know whether he meant to or not. This is a good example of condemning something while meaning to praise it. Trying out ideas is half the point of programming!
With the exception of narrowly beating out Safari on cache speed, IE is last in every category. Heh.
Not to worry, there'll soon be plenty of Greasemonkey scripts that take care of this well enough for you that your brain can tend to other tasks.
RoR was the "it" thing four years ago. The "it" thing today is server side JS with NoSQL.

That said, RoR sounds like a better choice for your goals.
What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce?
Great that it's possible to starting using it now but would doing so improve or hurt SEO? Anyone know if search engines are setup to parse this data better?
Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt]
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