skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An echo chamber that's just as bad if all you do is talk to techies in silicon valley all day long...

A lot of people at Google do non-Google things too. I know people training for marathons, doing comedy classes, living in flatshares with 4 artists, etc. But Google's main principle is to design for people like us (everything's tested internally before release), so the cosy bubble isn't all that bad.
This harks back to our corporate goal to “make the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions.” A ghost town, without traffic, does not get people answers, but it does draw a few people away from other sites that might do so. We do not believe that the Internet benefits from putting up placeholder sites with negligible traffic that do not attract high quality communities. And we want the Stack Exchange brand to be synonymous with great community Q&A sites, even if we don’t necessarily cover every topic under the sun.

If Joel Spolsky somehow managed to actually touch Jason Calacanis, would some kind of catastrophic cosmic event occur? Or would they both simply annihilate each other?
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Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the winner?
Ask HN: What is scarce now - what will our descendants be addicted to?
We're addicted to sugar because this power store was vanishingly rare for most of human history.

We horde objects and clutter our lives because "things" were hard to come by in the past.

You obsessively hit reload because your ancestors were starved for knowledge and for glimpses of a wider world beyond their immediate surroundings.

So, what is scarce now - what will our descendants be addicted to?
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Misconceptions about the Big Bang [2005]
how about worry about 5 years after 6 months, it's a much easier routine.
I loved that postscript. Apart from the Google housing, I do pretty much all of those things every day, discounting Google Coffee and Google Bacon. Of course, there's always evenings and weekends... sorry, Google Evenings and Google Weekends.

On the other hand, I wasn't even offered Google housing when relocating. Bah.
Yes, you should assume everything is compromised.

No, that doesn't mean hosting providers can ignore breakins on their own hardware.

Seriously, dude: breaks aren't like unfortunate Internet weather incidents. They're crimes. An actual crime took place using Rackspace computers. How do we even know what kind of forensics could have been conducted if Slicehost can't even acknowledge when their machines are compromised? Hosting providers have special responsibilities.
If you're confused like I was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
If you don't pan at all, and use AE/AF lock effectively, you can shoot some decent 720p shots of static objects. Otherwise, fuggedaboutit. I shot about 3 clips with mine before giving up. I bought it for still shots, but this Canon makes me a bit envious.
If they could use SQL injection to view the password reset token, then almost certainly they could do the same to set a password reset hash to whatever value they wanted.
We have noticed that debugger is not a very good debugging tool for our apps: interactive games with lots of events, animation, multiple threads etc. Stepping through in debugger has turned out to be waste of time.

What has worked? It's much better to produce detailed logs of some of the subsystems and analyze them. This way you get much better understanding of the big picture of what is happening. Why? In UI code (or event-driven code in general) state changes that cause bugs happen over time, not inside one step of an event loop. You just can't get the big picture of event-driven code with a debugger, which is optimized for going up and down callstack.

We have build a custom tracing library (and yes, it uses a lot of MACROs) that allows us to do select what is traced in a very granular level. I can proudly say that it's wonderful tool, every UI platform should ship with something like that.

By the way, tracing is also better for debugging parsers, their behavior often have similarities to event-driven systems

But you are right about compile times. Those get worse with templates.
Hopefully enlightenment.
Awesome. I am on the other side as well, and the next time I need a contractor, I'm going straight to this spreadsheet.

Aside: Best answer to "Why are you doing this" is by cmos: "To support my cat" :)
No mention of whether it supports 1.9 again or not...
This isn't applicable to the current situation. What Apple did with Carbon, though it was inconvenient for Adobe, didn't artificially limit Adobe. Apple simply didn't build in support for something that Adobe was hoping for. It's the difference between refusing to lend a friend your last $20 for a cab because you need it and putting a gun to his head and ordering him to march.

Nack said, "It’s entirely Apple’s call about what’s best for the Mac OS and how to spend their engineering cycles." Conversely, it should be entirely OUR call what's best for OUR software and how to spend OUR engineering cycles, and this is what Apple opposes. Even if we can find a way to make something work, Apple will still stop us.
Or, possibly, like they said in the article, they're doing it because the 5D is more mobile.
My first thought was "woah that's a laborous process". But then I guess that is the intention.
Weird. Wouldn't it be free minus shipping if you had bought form Amazon?
I believe there as an update to the video processing on the D90 which removes a good amount of the jello-cam that blhack demonstrated. Although as an HD video camera, the D90 is still a little lacking (no 1080). As a stills camera, it is excellent.

Disclaimer: I use Nikon cameras (though not for video).
I've never used windows on a netbook. My eyes aren't so great, so I tend to run slightly larger fonts than most people would, and the amount of information I can get on screen at once just isn't reasonable. I can't imagine trying to use Eclipse (say) on it.

In general, I just wouldn't consider a netbook suitable for doing a day's coding on - it's great for short term use, or if all I need is a couple of terminals, but it just doesn't have enough power or usability. That said, if it works for you, then great! I imagine it probably comes down to how much time you spend at your desk - if you're largely in a fixed location, then I see that having a powerful laptop just isn't worth the money.
I found this via DDG, should be the right one http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=503237
would "pool capital from members’ personal investments as well as direct agreements with outside investors" mean that the outside investors would have no say? if they have ANY say or influence, then it would be just like the current model (marrying people without ideas to your idea). This sounds like it is more like "collective bootstrapping", which is an interesting concept...
But what if I phone up your hosting provider and tell them that your webserver is attacking my site? Should they shut it down immediately before notifying you? How long should they wait for a reply from you? How many checks should they do? We're not talking about instantly recognizable traffic here; this was likely HTTPS traffic. Should the hosting company have circumvented your access controls and looked into your VM?

My understanding is that Slicehost is responsible for the VM 'hardware', and you're responsible for what goes on inside it. There are exceptions for illegal behaviour, but I'm sure those involve checks and balances and processes, probably for legal reasons as well as for simple reasons of fairness.
As far as I know, it does. http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2010/03/21/asset-packa...
Craftsmanship.
"Specialized CRM software? Issue tracking software? It just did not work for us - our customers are small and really want simple, personal communication."

This doesn't mean that you should go back to using plain email. It means that the CRM and issue tracking software sucks.

If you want to run a business with more than a few customers and keep your sanity, you have to have segregation.

Gmail / any mail client does not offer the tools you need to do really good customer service beyond a few customers, either.
As I suggested I doubt they sent them a quick mail :) I would have hoped they provided detail and logs to show what happened.

We're not talking about instantly recognizable traffic here; this was likely HTTPS traffic.

It's trivial enough to spot if you review the logs and the information available. Anyone with an ounce of security knowledge would spot it very quickly.

Should the hosting company have circumvented your access controls and looked into your VM?

They do this anyway; as root on the dedicated machine they have access to your VM anyway :)

There are exceptions for illegal behaviour

This is illegal behaviour isn't it :)
New study reveals concrete effects of spanking
Below are some notes-to-self that I made back in January when I was researching laptop purchases for friends and family. It includes the best information I found; unfortunately, the non-HN links in the below are in German.

Summarizing the linked content: It's been a while, but my impression of the best choice was the 520M. The 540M gave a bit more performance, but depending on price bump wouldn't be worth it. The 620M actually degrades when running 3D rendering on the integrated graphics (maybe not an issue in the new Macbooks with their dedicated graphics switchover); speculation was that it was hitting its thermal envelope and stepping down.

Integrated graphics on the 3xx are significantly slower. IG on the 4xx are a bit slower. However, it's only at the 5xx level that hardware support for 256 bit AES, and a few other things, get turned on.

This is from memory; I may have mis-remembered something.

Also, speculation was that the next revision would be out in summer and that there was a good deal of room for improvement in efficiency / power reduction. (I think this last may have been speculated at anandtech.com (or maybe elsewhere), in an article I don't have linked below.)

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1/21/2010 1:14:27 PM

http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Intel-Core-i3-i5-i7-Prozes...

via

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066938

1/24/2010 12:54:01 PM

The notebookcheck article cites these further articles:

NBC vor Ort: Intel stellt neues Prozessoren-Line-up vor
http://www.notebookcheck.com/NBC-vor-Ort-Intel-stellt-neues-...

Test Dell Studio 1558 Notebook
http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Dell-Studio-1558-Notebook....
I'll have to take another stab at it. It'd be nice if I could get that working properly.
I absolutely agree with the author's observation. I was in my 20's when Apple released the Apple II and Steve is basically repeating history which is that Apple is the only game in town until the rest of the world figures out their secret sause and gang up on them. I wrote this up recently, hope you like. http://buzz.dennykmiu.com/ipad-is-the-prequel
Frankly I think this sounds terrible.

Instead of providing a service that allows people to create, maintain (and yes, perhaps fail) their own community Q&A sites as they see fit, the Stack Exchange team now seem to be aiming to crowd-source the creation and maintenance of Q&A sites deemed interesting enough to exist. And if you've listened to the past few podcasts, "interesting enough" generally means "contains pages likely to rank well in Google".
Are spreadsheets private? For instance does this data appear in Google results or is it cached indefinitely or anything like that?
Upvoted, project euler is really great for learning (or relearning) techniques in languages you are interested in using, but good tutorials / books may not exist -- lua I'm looking at you.
I understand the move to 16x10, but why the change from there to 16x9? That doesn't seem to do anything but lose more vertical space.

I also don't understand why there doesn't seem to be enough demand to continue offering 4x3 models. Maybe not in every size range, but it seems like there should be enough demand in a couple popular sizes.
You'd think so, but this is the 3rd review I've read where the adult was relatively disappointed in the iPad, but OH BOY does his child love it. It's starting to make me think its for kids.
President Obama is the first to have his "official portrait" taken with a digital (not film) camera. They used the 5D mk II. http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/14/president-obamas-official...
"This one spins out a few overdue extractions into plugins"

This has happened to me several times -- upgrading to a new Rails release breaks my app because things have been removed from Rails. Granted, a simple plugin install usually fixes said issue, but it's weird to me anyway.

I would expect code to be improved and proven in a plugin, then ultimately integrated into the framework. Rails tends to do the opposite for some reason.

Maybe someone smart can explain it to me.
Ditto. 3:2 is ok, 16:10 is pushing it, and 16:9 is getting into the absurd. Especially since most windowing UIs have fixed-size vertical elements, so eliminating 10% of the vertical pixels actually loses more than 10% of the usable space.
"The attack was crafted to steal the session cookie from the user logged-in to JIRA. When this issue was opened against the Infrastructure team, several of our administators clicked on the link. This compromised their sessions, including their JIRA administrator rights."

I may be wrong here, but isn't using a session cookie to authenticate a login which allows one to upload files to an executable directory a bad idea?

Wouldn't asking for the user's password again when the he needs higher privileges (a la popular bulletin board software) stop the whole attack in its tracks?
Well, that's sort of what the study is saying... That it doesn't work like that.
OK, point taken. But you're assuming that Slicehost ignored the issue, rather than being bound by their own process.

I simply expected more from you: as dfranke said, this is your opportunity to hammer home the importance of good security practice, and instead you're talking about something basically beyond our control (Slicehost's incident response policy) rather than the root cause (a large number of fairly basic security mistakes)
Are contracting rates really this low? I would have expected $150-$200/hour range for serious programming skills, which most on this list seem to have. Instead it looks like the number is somewhere between $75-$100.
A friend of mine has a Canon SX1 which also has full HD video and it looks great. Sometimes the video looks even better than the pictures
You're also forgetting that a tweet is 'something that someone said.' If I published a book of quotes overheard at cocktail parties, or just walking down a busy street in the city, would I be falling into the same issues?

I think that the length of the tweets also comes into issue here. Tweets can only by 140 characters long. If I made a book that was a compilation of 140-character quotes from blog posts, would I fall into the same issues? Can I not use a tweet as a quote under fair use just because 140-characters is also 100% of the content, and not just a portion of the content?
I don't have kids, but I'd feel exactly the same about letting her explore and try out things.

What I was saying was that if it was a disappointment for you, but your 3 year old loved it, it's probably not worth keeping. Child curiosity can be appeased for less than $500.

Now if you loved it as well, it's a different story.
Of course copyright should have a minimum length of expression.

There's a reason why quote compilations don't get their publishers sued... by famous people, who actually say serious and meaningful things. When the twitter shirt debacles happened, quite a lot of lawyers came forth to give their opinions that tweets are simply too short to constitute original works.

Repeating someone's tweet is no more copyright violation than quoting Hemmingway's 6-word novel, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." And a damn sight less moving, I bet.

Oops, I copyrighted violated again.

And I bet Hemmingway never ran a Tumblr full of somebody else's photos. And quotes. And videos.

What we're seeing with the "outrage" over the book is not anger at being quoted, which of course happens all the time (and is perpetrated by the twitterers in question) -- but the sneaking suspicion that SOMEBODY IS MAKING MONEY!

Which, of course, is faintly ludicrous.
I'm in the same situation. I'd drop cable tomorrow if it weren't for the NFL and ESPN. I'd pay a good amount for online access (in HD!) to both.
A very close friend of mine has the 5D and she uses it to shoot video. The 5D is absolutely fantastic as a motion camera. If I didn't already have a stock of nikon lenses, I absolutely would have gotten the 5D.
True, but you could probably pick them up OTA in that case.
And the 5D becomes _much_ more useful for film making with the much improved, open source Magic Lantern firmware patch from Trammell Hudson

http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wi...
Tell PG: This is what Paul Graham's next essay will be about
Paul Graham's last essay was written in November 2009. Submit your proposals for what Paul Grahams next essay should be about.

You can find Paul Grahams previous essays here: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

Note that I haven't checked this idea with PG, but if enough proposals come in, then perhaps he'll write a new essay.
The missing/sacrificed vertical resolution could be solved if more laptops would offer better, higher resolutions than 1280x800 / 1366x768 on laptops as large as 15.6". High resolution 12/13/14/15 inch laptops are ridiculously niche.
At least with MySQL, it's much harder. You can only have one statement in a query. For reading you can add queries using a UNION, but I don't see any way to embed an insert in a select.
Their fsck will ensure the consistency of data you didn't even know you had.
I was wondering that myself. I have been holding off upgrading my 13" MB for the new line MBP. Now I'm thinking I should just bite the bullet and shell out the extra couple hundred for a 15".
confessions of an economic hitman
I'd imagine anyone on this list is in the top 5% of programmers at least but I don't think you'd get work here in Australia at $150-$200.
I agree with Joel on this subject:

"They don’t care about money, actually, unless you’re screwing up on the other things. If you start to hear complaints about salaries where you never heard them before, that’s usually a sign that people aren’t really loving their job. If potential new hires just won’t back down on their demands for outlandish salaries, you’re probably dealing with a case of people who are thinking, “Well, if it’s going to have to suck to go to work, at least I should be getting paid well.”

That doesn’t mean you can underpay people, because they do care about justice, and they will get infuriated if they find out that different people are getting different salaries for the same work, or that everyone in your shop is making 20% less than an otherwise identical shop down the road, and suddenly money will be a big issue. You do have to pay competitively, but all said, of all the things that programmers look at in deciding where to work, as long as the salaries are basically fair, they will be surprisingly low on their list of considerations, and offering high salaries is a surprisingly ineffective tool in overcoming problems like the fact that programmers get 15" monitors and salespeople yell at them all the time and the job involves making nuclear weapons out of baby seals."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...
I doubt that very much. I would say you're going to get far more than you pay for from any of these.
So it's free? Doesn't this fly in the face of Joel "charge for software" Spolsky? Venture Capital rules!
IP law can vary significantly between Europe and the US, and the publisher of this book is in the US. This is the take of a US IP lawyer on whether or not tweets are copyrighted:

http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/

Essentially, he says it's very unlikely. Perhaps if you write a short poem, it could be construed as copyrighted, but otherwise you don't have much of a chance.
weird that it's not ported to i7
AFAIK, 1.9.1 incompatibility was due to a fault in Ruby itself, rather than Rails. And even though it seems to work with 1.9.2-head, that does have some major issues, like SEGV/Bus errors in native classes and gems alike (see http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3132)

I've put my Rails 3 projects on hold for a while.
Thanks for the science!
Do you mean a firmware update? I hadn't heard anything about that (but would love to)

Do you have a link? My googling is failing me :(
The goal here is to slim down Rails as much as possible. A slim Rails means fewer moving parts, and an end product that's easier to comprehend. "Batteries included" sort of features are candidates for extraction.
The i5 is newer.
Yeah, we know it exists...
I want my MTV (Sysadmin FAIL @ http://style.mtv.com/)
I'll give you that. I wouldn't expect to see rampant slavery in a truly free-market society. There aren't many people who would voluntary choose to become one, though no doubt they exist. And I definitely agree with you that it's too expensive to try and eliminate ALL slavery (not just in dollars, but in rights.)

The thing that scares me about a truly free market without regulation are issues of coercion. Force may be eliminated, but there are so many other ways to take advantage of compromised people. Drug addicts, homeless, desperate parents, etc. Also, for a truly free market to work, you need enough information on both sides for people to make educated choices, but either side would prefer he have the information advantage.

Basically, I just don't see it working any better than the current system, but perhaps it would.
Yawn.

Call me back when the organization that's now running Microsoft IT services starts swapping in Unix servers on Power or z/OS on System z10 boxes or other notable migrations.
Mapping the fruit fly brain
Well, we have dueling anecdotes, which makes it sound like it's time for a study. ;-)

(Unfortunately from what I can tell, the studies on how different kinds of motivation [intrinsic, tangible extrinsic, social, etc.] relate are all over the map, and appear to depend sensitively on the specific kind of task and setting.)
I tried 3.0pre with Ruby 1.9 a while back - seemed to work OK.
I want to update my last sentence.

The rate of adoption (not the adoption percentage) is not going to perform as an S-curve. Once the adoption rate peaks, it will quickly drop to zero.

In other words:

Adoption rate is likely going to increase, either linearly or exponentially (we humans are terrible at seeing exponential rate change at the beginning) until the actual adoption percentage approaches its asymptote.

This asymptote represents the technologically and financially marginalized portion of society. Adoption rate will likely be extremely slow on that end.

Adoption rate increase will likely look like an S-curve with a very sharp drop-off at the point where the actual percentage of persons adopting TVoIP technology approaches 85-90% of the population - unless an extremely inexpensive TVoIP solution (Google-funded?) is adopted.
It looks pretty, but I'm having a hard time figuring out when this would be handy. How often do you need to work with a file but you have no idea where it is?

If it included in-text search, that would add a lot. But even then I'm not convinced that I want a whole separate application just for searching and opening files. I always already have Vim and a terminal window open. I can search (using find, grep, ack, etc.) from the terminal window and then open via Vim. Having said that, I just don't find that I often need to search that way. I know where the files are: I put them there.