skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't it seem like, as part of the engineering part of this project, that they would have a system in place that would sweep through and do a comparison for "flipped bits" and, if found, would keep a clone of what the memory should look like and reset those bad bits? What happens when the flipped bit causes the machine to rotate out of communications view? You would basically be dead in the water without a failsafe system like this. What am I missing?
True, but if you're going into Manhattan it's a long subway ride. Newark is a lot closer and faster.
Adobe abuses AdSense to force “We Love Apple” pop-ups for Mac, Opera users
A focus group facilitator doesn't try to influence the audience. And focus groups usually don't even empathize with the customer, they simply write down what the customer wants, if they prefer blue or red, not why they prefer it and what that says about their overall goals.
This is Gizmodo we're talking about - the depth of their talents include things like griefing a conference by walking around with universal remotes turning people's presentation screens off, and inserting puns into technology news.

Extortion and coercion are clearly not their strength, though they seemed to think it was :)
"Liu says Etacts plans to move to Outlook and other services."
Mark Zuckerberg called FB users 'dumb f..ks' for offering personal details
The way it works is that the ad network puts a pixel on the photoshop page. When your browser sees that pixel you get cookied by the ad network. Then when you see an ad placement from that ad network then you'll maybe see campaigns targeted to the BT profile.

With ad network pixels it is hard to get reach. This is were companies like BlueKai fit in. They make a deal with Adobe and lots of others to put their pixel/JS on Adobe's page. Then when an ad network gets a campaign that needs to target photoshop users, they buy profiles from BlueKai.

Basically, BlueKai will piggyback the ad network's pixel on the BlueKai placement, either by injecting it via javascript or by doing a 302 redirect. This has to run for a couple weeks until the ad network has got enough reach for that profile, then they can start the re-targeting campaign.

That's how it generally works, I don't know if BlueKai actually has a relationship with Adobe.
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More details of the Diaspora project (67 minute video)
You should really try NOLOH (http://www.noloh.com). I'm not just saying that because I'm one of the co-founders, but because we've found it to be the easiest way to create sophisticated websites, and WebApps easily.

Every year we get a batch of interns from high schools and colleges with no real programming experience, but can start writing full applications without any training whatsoever.

As part of the application process we require they write a TicTacToe application in our free hosted sandboxes and 9/10 times the applicant has no issue and replies with a link to their app. We don't guide them, train them, or instruct them in any way beforehand.

Watch our recent presentation from Confoo and see for yourself, http://vimeo.com/10106797. It really is that easy.
Search warrant: Apple feared lost 4G iPhone would hurt sales
Its also useful for other things, I don't have hundreds of emails but i find it nice to have information on the person i am emailing (pic, recent emails, linkedin, fbook etc) all at the side of the email i am composing in gmail.
I like this part: "Subtract Until It Breaks". It's easy to put stuff on a page or in an app because someone might need it, but when you start really limiting yourself it forces you to put it (be it a button or some text, whatever) where it's most intuitive, not just blast it all over the site.
Me: You've taken all my curtains!

Them: Here's a better lock!
They seem to be behaving like a good citizen here.

Although only tangentially related, in the same blog post they said the following, which I found to be exciting news: "next week we will start offering an encrypted version of Google Search"
WebGreeter fails the Turing Test.
It starts today at 5:00 to be more precise. Startups tend to be a 7-day a week sort of obsession from my experience:)
As someone with dust mite allergies this is what I'm going to start doing:
1. Leave blanket rolled up at end of bed
2. Turn fan on to blow over the bed, drying it out

Much cheaper than buying those fairly pricey dust mite cases that seem to have dubious effectiveness.
Facebook and “radical transparency”
I always found it weird having a bunch of Windows kernel operations that are not exposed to Windows apps.

How would you call those?
I can't wait for them to do a story on Blackwater/Xe.
You're right, but I couldn't correct it right away (because of noprocrast and life). Also, formatting was wrong:

print '\n'.join([" "abs(int(4.5-i)) + ""(10-abs(9-i2)) for i in range(10)])
I assume you've noticed this already but just in case it is a quirk of my browser or something, the two panes of your main marquee are of different heights, leading to a little bit of a bounce when you scroll between them.

Also, for what it is worth, in this user's opinion:

1) I'd prefer you disable or hide (probably disable) the green scroll arrows when you are already at the edge of the ribbon. (Ie., when you are on "Apppoinment Reminders" the arrow on the left is gray and disabled while the one on the right is green; when you are on "Who is it for?" the arrow on the left is green while the one the right is gray.) The infinite loop aspect confuses and annoys my reptile brain. I expect to see new content when I click "next". (The fact that your image is a placeholder may be making this worse for me. If I saw the same image crop up again it may be more obvious that this is cycling.)

2) I'd make more of each column on the pricing page clickable. Maybe it just that I'm using a short screen, but scrolling down to the "Sign Up" link seems a pain, especially when it looks as is if "Small Business" is already selected due to the highlight.

3) Personally, I really dislike the green of the Small Business column heading on the pricing page.

Since you're keen on testing, have you user tested the pricing page yet, or is this just a first cut?
Of course you can use open source code in C, C++ and Objective C. A framework isn't anything special in and of itself.
Summary: On April 27 that said they we not collection wifi network data traffic. That was incorrect. They were but only unencrypted network data traffic and it was changing channels 5 times a second. So, they didn't get much.

End result -- they are stopping the collection of WiFi network data entirely.
I have a couple of invites left, if anybody is interested.

edit: 1 left.
"A degree makes it easier to be successful at big companies with dumb management -- but why work there?"

Because "big companies with dumb management" hire a lot of people and pay them well?

Most people aren't fortunate enough to have their dream job quite yet and their number one priority for work is just getting the bills paid.
Being able to postpone job-related e-mail coming in after 5pm until 8am the next workday sounds intriguing... I like the idea, not sure about the implementation. (oauth IMAP login and parsing of your gmail inbox)
I can't believe he just wrote that to Steve Jobs. No wonder Apple reacted the way they did. Gizmodo/Gawker is in big trouble.
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I think you could just randomly shuffle the 'examples' and they would make just as much sense.
This is Voyager 2. Launched 1977. This wasn't an era where you could accidentally lose 8GB because it fell out of your cell phone and subsequently the SD-mini card flew out of your pocket when you went to answer it. There were various failsafes (wikipedia mentions one triggering accidentally after launch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Launch_difficulties ) but keeping around a few copies of everything would probably have been a bit expensive.
Boy, I bet you're lots of fun at parties.
Everyone needs a good education. Problem is that colleges aren't providing it.

Time to close them down and replace them with web sites that use experts (rather than ideologs) to impart knowledge.
It does seem as if they relied on their wide readership as insurance against legal trouble, to the point of making multiple public postings undermining their own (legal) position.

I wonder whether the investigation continues, or whether Apple have requested the DA's office not to file charges and the DA has agreed. As prosecutors objected to the unsealing of the warrant, I guess the former.
Shop Class as Soulcraft is an excellent, excellent book about this. PhD who worked as a motorcycle mechanic.

A lot of white collar work is requires no real thought only the ability to concentrate. I think this is why so many people hate their jobs.
I think what you are really talking about is the DOM, not javascript the language.
Why the hell do people propagate this sort of bullshit? Don't feed the stupid kids.
Do we get an apology from all the Gizmodo apologists who ran around with pitchforks and torches against Apple?

edit:
To all the people who screamed that Apple was just being an evil corporation when they executed a search warrant:

Hogan's roommate cooperated fully with authorities and assisted them when Hogan and an acquaintance removed several pieces of evidence from his apartment. The evidence, which included a desktop computer, USB flash drive and memory card, and stickers from the iPhone prototype, were found in a church, under a bush, and in a gas station parking lot.
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The most important language of yesterday was C. Of today, still C. Of tomorrow, Go... hahaha no, the answer is still C.

If you really wanted to determine 'most important', think about what software you'd be left with if all software and dependencies written in a language was taken away.

Take away JS and a bunch of webapps don't run. Take away C and you have no OS, no web servers, no languages whose leading implementations don't bootstrap themselves, no TomToms telling you how to get to JSconf, and so on.

I do understand the renewed hype behind Javascript, but to enshrine it as most important -- talk about hyperbole and a lack of perspective.

PS: That V8 engine you'd be relying on for your JS -- it's not written in Javascript either.
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Social media is SproutBox's primary source of deal flow. It just makes sense when you have an application process like we do that we would tweet about apps opening and closing-- and that people would retweet the opportunity.

We also use Facebook, twitter and linkedIn extensively for research. If we're interested in an app we immediately look up entrepreneur's profiles. If we know them it reminds us how. If we don't, we find common connections and get some context aout what they are about.

I don't think we could do what we do, at the scale that we do, if social media didn't exist.

BTW... we're missing you out at Big Omaha this year.
There is definitely a demand for this product.

Idea #1: add a recurring feature. Where I can schedule a phone call or an SMS to be sent every week / month / year on a specific date.

Idea #2: This may complicate your pricing plans a bit. But you want to offer: $79 for first 300 appointments per month. 50 cents for every additional appointment.

Or maybe implement the credit system. Like how istockphoto.com does. $1 for every 2 credits (with a minimum $10 purchase). $79 a/c comes with 300 free credits that last for a month.

Such a pricing strategy helps you retain folks who don't want to or can't get stuck (because of policy) to a recurring payment plan.
No, it's a good example, for all the reasons you state.

The fact that a .com often ranks higher than its .org equivalent has nothing to do with it being a .com, but rather that its owners have done a better job of building it into a relevant site. You're seeing correlation, but not causation. As you correctly observe, PageRank and other SEO factors are the important thing.

Here are a few more examples of the same principle in action:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia
http://www.google.com/search?q=slashdot
http://www.google.com/search?q=php
I will admit first ignorance on cellular radio standard, but i'm quite sure its possible to build a CDMA and GSM all in one phone, that are activated based on availability and carrier.

I would love to get a droid phone that does just that.
Furthermore, JPL uses rad-hardened electronics that's far behind the ordinary earthbound stuff of the time.
Foursquare, "We’re Running Like A Well-Oiled Machine" with $1.35M in funding.
They screwed up, admittedly. On the other hand, getting 0.2 seconds of open wifi hotspot data is most likely a lot more embarrassing for Google than any of the wifi-users affected.
Two things stand out to me from today's details.

First, upon being contacted by Steve Jobs directly to recover the stolen prototype, Gizmodo's answer wasn't "yes", but instead "not until...". However bad you think that is by itself, amplify it by the fact that of 28 sentences in Brian Lam's mail to Steve Jobs, no fewer then 17 of them directly reference the business benefits to Gawker Media of unlawfully retaining the phone, and at least 3 of them make direct reference to the possible harm to Apple that could occur should the details of the phone be disclosed.

Second, Apple legal, presumably as an affiant during the process of securing these warrants, stated directly that it's measuring damages in terms of how much the disclosure hurts the current sales pipeline of iPhone 3GS devices. I hadn't considered that, but it makes perfect sense, and it's a pretty scary thought. A very tiny percentage of current iPhone sales can safely be presumed to completely swamp all of Gawker's top-line revenue.

Also "news" to me, but less important, because Brian Hogan is clearly a douchebag who is going to lose more from this event than he could possibly ever have sold the phone for:

Hogan knew who the rightful owner of the phone was before he talked to Gizmodo. There's no pretense here of helping to effect the return of the phone. He straight-up stole it.
The very first of Email Policy that our General Counsel communicated to us:

"Only put in email what you are prepared to see in the front page of the New York Times"

You may suggest that was an overblown policy, but in 1997, Eric Bradley (who worked about 3' away from me in Building 4 on Middlefield) sent an Email to _a lawyer_ at Netscape - venting about how much "I really do hate that company " when Lawrence Lessig had asked about his application preferences being switched over to IE.

His email (and venting) appeared soon thereafter in the New York Times.

Around here - if you have even the _slightest_ doubt about whether something should appear on the front page of the NYT you either:

o Communicate in person, audibly.
o Print it out and hand deliver/email/fax (with the expectation that it will be shredded)
I wish you guys had mentioned this yesterday, we could have planned ahead a bit. Pretty much stuck in Marin for the rest of the day.
I so wish I could be there! Please give Dusty and Jeff my love.
Ntdll.dll contains the userspace side of the NT API. Specifically, Zw* and Nt* contain most of the APIs that map directly into the kernel. Then there's the Rtl* stuff which provides a lot of fun functions for manipulating processes, and the Ldr* stuff for loading binaries; Ldr is a lot of fun to hook into, if you want to manipulate binaries with a high degree of transparency.

Edit: One thing to note, though, is that it's easy to subvert the Win32 subsystem by using these APIs directly. I.e. if you want to fork a Win32 process, you're going to need to not only fork it the standard NT way, but then tell CSRSS what you're actually doing. It's easy to run into a situation where the Win32 subsystem won't play nicely with you, because it just doesn't have enough information.
I love Python the language and all the great libraries that come with it. The reason I chose JavaScript for server side has a lot to do with V8. Also, if you follow best practices for coding styles and use JSLint, javascript is very powerful.
Its a totally different beast, not an apples to apples comparison.

EE is simply a patched MRI, so it will be faster on strings (known issues with rbx), but rbx has generation GC and JIT which can only improve.

Right now in my limited testing the performance is a wash, but if your app is memory hungry the improved GC is worth it alone. If your app is CPU heavy the JIT becomes your friend. The only way to be sure its to test it (how about running your test suite on it?), but I suspect rbx is going to get very fast as soon as a few big players shift on to it and the sweet spots for the tuning knobs are discovered.
Agreed. I am wondering if sleeping at a higher temperature would help, so that there could be less heat released through skin.
I have same issue. Latest patched Steam, 10.6.3. on 1,1 Mac Pro. Tried -autoconfig on launch in case of video issues. Runs fine on same system under BC, Win7. Menus are there and can find them after clicking around, dialog boxes also text-less.
I bought an unlocked Nokia and have a prepaid T-Mobile plan, you don't need to buy phones from carriers.
Yeah, just run a phpBB forum on your own personal webserver, and give only your friends access to it.
"HIPAA Compliance Guaranteed" seems like a strong statement to make. Just out of curiosity, can you explain what you mean by that? I mean, if you're allowing "custom reminders" how do you know they aren't recording "Mr. Smith, we have the results of your HIV test and it's positive." or "This a reminder for you to come in for your colonoscopy" or something like that? Are your custom reminders more templated than that?
I'm picking familiar examples. Consider Ableton Live or Metasynth instead.
> PS: That V8 engine you'd be relying on for your JS -- it's not written in Javascript either.

It's not written in C either :-)
What dumbass thinks email is off the record?!

Hey Steve, this email chain is off the record on my side.
Ask HN: Any Tips on Disputing Incorrect Credit Information?
Hi there,

I figured if there would be a group of people who would know best how to handle this situation, it would be you.

I just got dinged on my credit report by a collections agency. Unfortunately for me, I have a common name. It looks like this agency just found me from somewhere and hit me with this.

I first got a letter from them a month ago. I made phone calls to both the agency and the original creditor to clarify with them the details of the delinquent person. (Apparently, he ran out on a utility bill up in the SF bay area. I've lived in southern California for the past twenty years.)

I was hoping that took care of it, but instead I got an email from my credit guard service today saying that they reported me anyway. Not sure how they did that, I can only assume they don't have my social security number, but I might be wrong.

I'm trying to line all my ducks up so that I can take care of this as efficiently and quickly as possible. I've heard horror stories and am hoping that I don't turn into one of them.

Anyway, if you have any advice at all, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!
Archlinux, gnome, chrome 5.0.396.0 dev. Page loads but buttons don't work.
I used to buy celebrity domain names and create "fan" pages. And this is not true.

.com .net .org worked equally well in getting ranked for the keywords in that domain.

A lot more people buy .com domains. So we see a lot more .com rankings higher up in the search engines.

But as far as my personal tests and experiences show, keyword.org will work as well as keyword.com in getting ranked if the same amount of link building is done for both of them.

The only downside of a .org is - if you plan to sell the site or the domain, a .org gets a lower price than a .com. But from search engine point of view, both work equally well.
The police headed to Hogan's parents' house, also in Redwood City, and were let in by Hogan’s father. They found Brian Hogan sitting on his bed with his girlfriend. When the cops told Hogan that removing evidence implied 'consciousness of guilt,' Hogan agreed to cooperate, and phoned his friend Warner, who had taken the computer gear and the stickers away in his car.

Well that was a bad move. What part of "never talk to the police" don't people understand?
That's over three times the fourteenth-percentile four-year income of eastern Europeans in the tech sector!
At least over here, Colleges are struggling with quality of education and therefore hollowing out the worth of the degree because of larger classes.
Brian Lam: worst poker face in the history of tech 'journalism'?
I think you're missing the point. I don't think anyone is against education or certification of some kind. The problem is the quality of it.

Academia is insular and has adopted the extremely broad mandate of "making better citizens" which has resulted in a lot of degree programs that are utterly useless. There was a post on HN just a few days ago from someone who was about to get a CS degree and who felt they had no idea how to actually program.

That's the problem and what this article describes is a trend in which those useless degrees are losing favor while more specialized education gains it.
Rolling up the blanket at the end of the bed is only going to allow the mites in the blanket to live.

It'd be better to hang up your blanket during the day so it can dry out.
Here are some reasons why JS sucks.

- Global variables by default, which means you will have "var" sprinkled everywhere.

- Brain-dead binding.

function Constructor() {
this.foo = 'bar';
var that = this;
window.setTimeout(function() {
alert(that.foo);
}, 1);
}

- You can call a function with less arguments than specified, meaning you potentially have to make sure each argument is not "undefined" .

- Somehow JS isn't weakly typed when it comes to switch statements.

a = 5;
b = '5';

if( a == b )
alert("Equal");

switch (a) {
case b:
alert("This never shows");
}

I am fairly certain that JS popularity is mostly in part due to its monopoly on the web. I'm sure there are more experienced JS users who can point out more flaws.
And besides, it's run just fine for 33 years, so the original design obviously wasn't too badly flawed.
The problem with this article (other than the usual SM lack of substance) is that almost all the examples are portfolio sites for artists and designers. How about showing these principles applied to more complex projects - applications, e-commerce sites, corporate sites, admin systems, etc?
Ironically, better search. Gmail search is nowhere near as intelligent (or as permissive of "fuzzier" queries) as Google itself.
"off the record" has a fairly specific meaning(s) in journalism, none of which mean "never to be seen or read by anyone"
At a certain point they probably have to do whatever they can to mitigate damages. Because they expect this stuff to get reviewed carefully in civil court.
When you exchange mail with journalists (yeah, yeah, have the argument about whether Gizmodo staff are journalists elsewhere) it's fairly common for them to clarify when they will not plan to directly quote a reply you send to them in a story.
The latter example has little to do with identifying individuals, but with targeting in general.
Is this a problem people search for?

I think direct marketing (postcards, ads in trade journals, banner ads on trade portal websites) will work better than Adwords for this.

Because I think that your solution is something that a lot of businesses need and can get a benefit from. But its not a solution that all of these businesses search for.

So you will do better with a more pro-active marketing tactic. Take the educational approach - get case studies written about your first few clients - in their trade journals. Such a PR / case study approach will work better for you than Adwords.