skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, more just idly wondering if it'd be possible to build something that is a less shitty experience than LDAP - see above/below. I'm not particularly interested in the NoSQL stuff, by and large, because for what I do, Postgres is more than enough, however, I'm curious enough to wonder "what could be", and think that with all the different new systems out there, whether it'd be possible to build something new and better.

I don't have the answers, I just didn't really like my experience with LDAP, and was idly wondering whether it'd be possible to build something better these days.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=960909

Great tip though. I'm taking a lot of statistics right now and my interests are certainly in this area.
> I sold for a net profit of $125,000 after all fees, commissions, etc.

Where does that "value" come from? The entire real estate market is built on the premise of property valuation continuously raising - causing and eventually surpassing inflation. This is without even accounting for the actual exploitation/gaming of the system.

Everyone has already forgotten, or chosen not to think about it in favour of short-term gain.
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Volcano Ash Cloud Advisories
The route mentioned in the video has 30 stops over a distance of ~2200 km so it's unlikely there'd be much congestion. Stops here in Australia are even sparser over those sorts of distances so it'd work quite well here too.
I still don't get the 200M losses per day.
They are not paying back tickets /natural causes), nor taking care of passengers (hei, no out fault!) and I somehow doubt most people are buying tickets two days before flying.

Can someone explain?
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After reading this, I wish I could blog better. I also wish the author of this article could write better, because he seems to make a lot of the same mistakes I make.

Some good points, and a thread of relevance here, but aside from a general call to analysis I didn't see a lot to chew on. The best line in the whole piece was We are obligated to examine what we are doing, whether we are updating our Facebook status or playing Call of Duty, because the results of those actions will ultimately be our burden, for better or for worse

The worst line came soon after, democracy depends upon demophilia, or love of the people. I'll leave the analysis of that one as an exercise to the reader.

There just wasn't that much here.
Great motherboard - would like to have it at home =D
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Agreed, this is awesome.

I do find that I keep pressing 'up' in order to get to my recent commands and being disappointed. I guess implementing that goes along with implementing ctrl+r.
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As I understand it the major risk is that because the ash cloud is very dry radar won't pick it up at all.

So you could fly 1000 planes and miss the cloud by luck; but if you hit it then potentially game over.

It seems a little silly that an industry with such stringent safety regulations would take that kind of risk...
Maybe ... there's still a big difference between a manager/leader who can do the tech involved and one who can't. Earning the respect of those underneath you and being able to really understand what they are doing (or most of what they're doing) is important.

Let's put it this way, if two of your programmers are recommencing different approaches and O(whatever) is relevant, you'd best know that and why! (And yes, seriously, I've seen one major software client/server project fail due to a new manager coming from a single user CD-ROM application environment and just not being able to grok scaling, which is after all inescapable for almost all modern interesting projects today). Doing 6.001/SICP plus following up on a few things in it you find interesting might be all the CS foundation you really need, though (well, you should study some systems stuff including security as well).

But your point about Software Engineering is well taken; only so much of that is taught in a normal CS curriculum, it's something that needs serious independent study (something I myself started doing a few months into my first programming experience (in high school) and never stopped). Read with attention to detail the 20th anniversary edition of The Mythical Man Month, The Pragmatic Programmer, Peopleware, the Antipatterns book, something that looks relevant by Gerald Weinberg and a methodology book (I prefer The Unified Software Development Process or, now, look for the latest iteration of it (but I suspect you need at least one experienced programmer to make it work), or you could go explicitly agile) and then go from there.

(Even Weinberg ancient classic The Psychology of Computer Programming is still somewhat relevant: I still use the anecdote about two people or teams working on a card reading module. One had a slow one that worked, the other was more ambitious but just couldn't get their version to work. When the latter challenged the former on speed, the former said, "Well, if it doesn't have to work I can make our version really fast." :-)
British Airways are refunding tickets.
They're still paying salaries, plus many other operational costs. And they're foregoing revenues from these days of travel (by refunding/rescheduling passengers). So it's bound to have some impact on the bottom line.
Hardly an innovation. Various people already had the same idea so many times. It seems quite an obvious and tempting thing to do.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/12/18/train-picks-up-and...

Well. It's pretty much unworkable. Train is not a single rigid body, it's composed from bogies and car bodies, and they are only quite loosely attached. They absolutely have to be. So you can't expect it to just sit as a rock on the tracks, even in pretty low speeds. And with speed low enough, you are maybe better to simply stop. Modern electric bullet train unit with high powered axles ratio can accelerate really, really fast.

Anyway, you could spend money much better on allowing higher speeds on the whole track, or improving adjacent tracks so to allow higher speeds even for feeders and conventional trains, which could allow you to make fewer stops.
Certainly a mortgage like that would be a very hard sell in the UK. As in, you'd probably have to offer it only to risky customers. My mortgage provider gives me a choice if I overpay a lump sum: I can reduce the term and pay the same monthly, or reduce the monthly payment and keep the term.

It's a simple calculation really, how many customers will actually pay off their mortgages early vs how many customers you will attract by offering the option to do so.
I always thought it would be a good anti-piracy strategy to seed trackers with your own subtly broken cracks (a crack that intentionally stops working after 2 weeks, for example). The key is to upload your fake crack before anyone gets around to making a real one.
maybe the connector cabin could move along the train and dock above every car. my main concerns are existing tunnels and the aerodynamic profile.
BA at least say that satellite images show the cloud as smaller than the Met Office's computer model predicted it would be. Airspace was closed on the say of the latter.

Note that the Met Office's models have been way off since at least last winter...
"Once upon a time, back before you got real popular, you used to take part in the public square."

Really?

True story: back in the mid-90's, I worked as the Relationship Manager with the Arizona Macintosh Users Group (AMUG) in Phoenix. This was the largest MUG in the world at the time, and to say it was an uphill battle would be an understatement. With Performas going unsold in places like Office Max and acquisition rumors running rampant (Apple is going to be bought by Disney! Apple is going to be bought by Sun!), it was incredibly difficult to be an Apple fanboy.

Frankly, they could have added the name "beleaguered" to their name and nobody would have blinked. Every bloody news story that ever came out about Apple described the company as "beleaguered computer maker Apple Computer..."

Anyway, AMUG was a source of pride and optimism for the company. At least it should have been. I can't tell you how many times I tried to call on reps at the company for assistance and was rebuffed. I'm not talking about financial support, either. I was asking for things like t-shirts and stickers. Simple stuff. Apple reps treated MUGs like they were the proverbial "Cousin It" of the family -- to be barely acknowledged, if at all.

I'm happy for Apple's success. Really. But for Battelle to claim that Apple was somehow part of the conversation at some mythical time in the past seems rather ridiculous.
Are there any free OpenLDAP alternatives out there worth mentioning?
Oh, I'll agree with you on that. Sometimes people even use 'addiction' in a positive sense, to describe their dedication to something. But in the context of this debate I want to draw a clearer distinction.
They are paying care... they have to cover alternative travel or accomodation.

They are still paying for gates & slots in airports but are not recouping on those.

They are still paying for staff who now sit around.

They have an overhead of a communication system that is busy, combined with increasing demand for telephone support.

The only thing they're saving on is fuel, but everything else they're still covering and additionally they're covering the lowest amount they can get away with for the passengers who are stranded.

As for the passengers stranded, they have their only issues. Most would budget X on a trip that now will be rising substantially.

And that's before we touch businesses who really want their resources back earning good revenue.

Everyone is losing.

Except for some people. I live in West London and looking out and seeing a sky devoid of planes is a very very rare thing. And it's a beautiful day and I swear there are more birds than normal around. Quite lovely really.

It kinda explains this stuff here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8624663.stm

[quote]
The IATA said its estimate of a $200m daily loss of revenues was "initial and conservative".
"In addition to lost revenues, airlines will incur added costs for re-routing of aircraft, care for stranded passengers and stranded aircraft at various ports," its director of corporate communications, Anthony Concil, said.
KPMG was less conservative in its estimates, predicting a £200m loss in traffic revenues as a result of the UK shutdown, assuming that all ticket sales would have to be refunded to passengers.
[/quote]

I'd say KPMG was rather silly, in that obviously passengers will need to get back and there's a bottle-neck at the channel tunnel and ferry ports. However as care is being paid they could actually end up paying out more than the cost of travel and make a loss even in the time after the skies open.
Not surprising at all since that would hurt iTunes.
I'd say it depends on the kind of person you are. Some people are fine actually learning the concepts (or actually learning anything) on their own, while others might have a problem.

I attended college for a year, but eventually dropped out after a year to start working as a C++ programmer. I'm working on games but currently I'm focussing on some advanced machine learning related systems. I haven't really had a problem with the majority of the concepts, so from my experience I'd say you can do it if you really want to. If your global knowledge of maths is decent you should be fine on the majority of the stuff.

Attending a top school will help you to establish a good CS base on which you can build and will also give you some good networking opportunities, while attending classes of a less good CS program probably aren't really worth it.
Stuff like this was part of the reason some artists (including Springsteen) started experimenting with "paperless ticketing" (i.e. they check the purchaser's ID at the gate, so it's basically impossible, or at least significantly harder, to resell tickets).
IMHO, moving from a 23" screen and multi-GB memory to a 3.5" screen and 128 MB is strong justification for changing an interface.

Most of AppKit just doesn't make any sense in a single-task, single-window system. They could have kept some of the classes, but what would be the point? A tiny minority of Mac apps are as simple as jwz's clock. Everything else would need rewriting anyway.
try it - if you copy from the bar it adds http:// into the buffer
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Yes, but honestly, in my world "a strange feeling" doesn't qualify for ojective proof that a system is bad.
There are plenty of powerful tools, and if you don't like the commandline (although you say you use unix a lot, ldap commands are straight forward), you probably could've used GUIs in the most cases. My "feeling" of this thread is that people were unsatisfied with openldap and now blame a protocol.
The major enterprise directories have a lot of additional commands/features/web interfaces to fiddle with.
It's not the protocols problem when a specific implementation is hard to use, isn't it?
The questions that all entrepreneurs asked.
I did and it doesn't. On OSX. When pasting into adium.

It seems to work when pasting into a terminal. Haven't tried other apps, yet.

And yes, that's a big problem. I don't want to double-check my urls when pasting them into various messengers, skype or whatever. Here's a tip google: If you can't implement it 200% reliable then don't f-ck with something as essential as URL copy/paste. People will not be amused at all.
This won't work -- the ashcloud is currently above any significant amounts of water in the air. You can't make rain from dry air.
Exactly. My company is selling its own directory and of the telcos and other major ISPs worldwide we have as clients everyone uses LDAP. Nobody really just comes down to people coding alone in their basement. Enterprises typically have a whole, distributed, companywide infrastructure where LDAP plays an important role. And LDAP is doing the work just fine for a lot of years now.
That's strange; I don't remember how I did it (maybe by starting out without a Google account???), but I have only one account with as far as Groups is concerned two associated email addresses (the Google one I never use and my real one) and it works just fine, whenever I join a Group I'm given the option of which to use.
Check if your behaviour matches one of these:

code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:HTTPStripping

and file a new one if not.

EDIT: I am intentionally not including the "http:// since:

* after looking at it in the omnibox, I decide I like it better this way indeed, and 6 less keystrokes. The others will have to copypaste or the webapp writers will have to figure a way to highlight it :-)

* the copypaste is not working in the linux case either, but that's one of the logged bugs.

It's really the first point that I am trying to say is the biggest impact that this change will have. "If it works in Chrome, it has to work everywhere".
Could be that the Sun impl is better, but many problems seemed to be inherent. Like pretty much every app expecting a different or redundant schema.

What does that look like in your setup?
Do you have ssh/kerberos, samba etc. all under one umbrella without nasty hacks?
Air companies are process-based businesses, like chemical processing plants. They have an expensive infrastructure that costs money every day simply to exist, whether or not it is being used.

It costs less money if no planes are flying at all (just like a chemical plant presumably costs less if you shut it down), but there are still ongoing costs to meet: salaries, administrative overheads, maintenance costs, regular check-ups, etc. If you count just these, the loss is already substantial.

Then of course there's the opportunity cost. Every day that they're not flying planes, they're not earning fees from passengers. As the costs are, presumably, just a bit lower than the revenues (hopefully), this more than doubles the previous number.

Also, they are actually paying back tickets (at least EasyJet is).
Although not used myself, Suns OpenDS:
http://www.opends.org/

Just for reference, other directories:

IBM Tivoli
Microsoft Active Directory
Novell eDirectory
Red Hat Directory Server
Critical Path Directory Server
Or SIP: http://www.packetizer.com/ipmc/sip/standards.html
You need some Dutch courage :-)
"Too often the objective of student projects seems to be "empowering" the kids and giving them a feeling of accomplishment instead of getting the right answer and learning scientific principles."

I would argue that these two goals are not mutually exclusive. If all you do is teaching kids the right answer, which is largely what schools do, then you end up exactly where we are today, where kids largely don't feel like science is about investigation at all but just about rote memorization of facts.
What does it take to hold the attention of 75,000 people at one go?
I am currently stranded in Tokyo with a group of passengers from Finland that I will need to accommodate until the ash stops being an issue. These are the risks that entrepreneurs take, nobody could expect that some random volcano in Iceland of all places would cause 300 eur / day of losses, but life goes on.
Where as recent US elections have been almost entirely hubbub free. (I agree there is a difference in extremity)
I said walking to work that's not exactly a huge area. Now 2 miles from me there are homes for sale, but driving that distance and parking in a parking garage is far more time consuming than walking. Taking a bike could also be an option.
The longer restrictions are in place, the more airlines will push to be allowed to fly. I was due to fly from the UK to Qatar today, and I would much rather delay further than take any chances. Safety should be more important than profit.
Yep. It was just a straight up IE view embedded in skinned chrome. When it booted up there was this nice voice that would say "Neoplanet... Online".
This reminds me of what happened when Microsoft decided to trim known suffixes off displayed filenames. Has everybody forgotten the hot-babe.jpg.exe viruses? With unicode allowed in domain names, it's only a matter of time before someone registers http：／／gmail.com.
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.com is also useless technobabble. We should strip it and only show TLDs other than com.
Adium's text entry is rich text, it'll accept actual hyperlinks. Paste a URL from Chrome in and right click > 'Edit Link', it should show the correct URL, with the link text as the URL minus http://.
ObamaCare hits medical device companies with a special new federal excise tax. "Reform" indeed.
Adium uses rich text. The person on the other end gets it in the form

example.com/foo (http://example.com/foo)

It's a bug in Chromium, but also an annoying idiosyncrasy of Adium.

PS: Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you.
The reason IMO it's more an optical illusion is your brain extrapolates it as "_ behind a fence" even though you know it's just some funny lines behind the screen. 90% of the background image is blocked but you easily block out all the vertical lines and just see the object behind the fence.
And just like a chemical plant costs more than it's normal operating costs to start back up after a shutdown, an airline in a situation like this will have a major repositioning exercise to go through. Planes, people, baggage, freight, all are in the wrong places.
No, they got some intern who was completely unfamiliar with the old library to just write a new one from scratch without looking at what already existed.

It's 2010, and we're still innovating on how you pass color components around. Seriously?

Actually, in the first example, the MacOS code looks like the API designed by clueless interns that don't get OO. It's the same classic mistake of passing in an X and a Y instead of a Point Object from the 1st generation Java GUI library. The iPhone code does the right thing. Instead of passing around un-encapsulated data, pass around Objects instead!
There are two separate problems. One of them is the shortage of women in tech fields and the other is women being treated poorly in the workplace.
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They still do that. One of the first things I do on a new Windows system is to turn that "feature" off.
If I lived in a world full of people who never had a thought that didn't come out of their mouths, I would value most the eccentric individuals whose words were sparse but well-considered - and those who silenly spoke through their actions. Even if I didn't always agree with what they had to say.
Who is JWZ? Is he well-known as a techie? As a techie who runs a non-tech business, I find him interesting due to the fact that he runs a nightclub.
Until reading this I had no idea about the background story to this classic test image. It's faintly amusing, given the contemporary hysteria surrounding copyright, that the cropped face of Lenna was actually a flagrant copyright violation which has been perpetrated in academic papers for decades.
OK, I'm being tongue-in-cheek here, but aren't they providing value by making the market more efficient? ;) That is, they're providing a service to the music industry and the artists it represents by enabling ticket prices to reflect their true value rather than some artificially-capped value.

I don't really believe this of course, but from a 10,000 ft view, it's not such a different argument from the one hedge fund folks would make to justify the "value" they create. Yes, I realize the two situations are different, but there's still a point to be made somewhere in there.
@stuntmouse: We're aware of this issue, and it's due to a limitation in Safari. We have an open Radar with Apple on it.

@jaustin, @Groxx: DTerm isn't really meant to be a full-on TTY or a transparent wrapper for a shell. It's more of a shell substitute (which allows it to do things like splitting out the results from the different commands that something not managing its own jobs couldn't do), and can kick over to a full Terminal anytime you need. Think of the analogy DTerm:Terminal::Spotlight:Finder.

While we're not likely to change its "shell substitute" nature, we are indeed interested in making it formally set up a TTY (though it already handles stuff like ANSI color/formatting codes and whatnot), we just haven't gotten around to it yet. Once you understand where the line is drawn it doesn't really impede functionality as you can go to a Terminal anytime. But if you're a TTY guru and would like to help with us getting that into a future guru, drop us a line.

@Groxx: The action menu contains a number of nifty commands. Try playing with modifier keys, too!
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Probably from the same people who put the "S" in SOAP
Like I said:

> All I know is that for people who can afford to buy and afford to rent, money has very little to do with buying vs. renting.

If I could afford to buy a $600k house and afford to rent a similar house in the same location, whether I buy or not would depend on my personal choice (which is to buy, not rent). If I can't afford to buy, then why even get into a debate. Of course I will rent.
"nice" book
If they're as lean as the article makes out (it is from 2008, so maybe they're bigger now) then I can understand why.

I have many, many fewer users than that and I'm still overwhelmed with tech support requests. Can't login, forgot my password, mistyped my email, feature X isn't working right, etc, etc, etc. Now mind you, most of these are flat-out user error, not actual bugs to fix. Still, I try to reply and help out with each one. Usually it involves some hand holding.

I don't know what I'm going to do if our userbase keeps growing.
Hah, I invented something like this in my head for amusement, except mine used swappable modular carriage pods that plugged into the train from the side, and a steam catapult for high-gee synchronization and emplacement. I can't see a sensible use for it though.