skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPad users targeted by hackers
Given past behavior, I suspect he knows more about how someone resigning can avoid causing him to overreact than how he can avoid overreacting.
I _knew_ apple was behind this... </smugface>

Now the next question becomes is this apple believing it was stolen ala the california code, or did something else happen in the bar? Since they know the ID of the person in the bar, and aren't going after them, it must be they believe, according to code, it was stolen.

Now we get to see if the REACT team can prove it was stolen according to california code...
In principle this sounds like a good idea if preservation of vertical screen realestate is a priority.
That's the part which confuses me about all this. It's the easiest thing in the world to set up a cut-out Facebook account.
Depends. Where I work, a lot of quants write prototypes in Excel, but then expect the "real programmers" to turn their prototype into something that consistently produces sane results.

I guess, in other words, our "day to day work" is "helping out with any trivial task someone would like to automate", though I personally wouldn't phrase it that way :)
I don't think I know anybody who I would call stupid. I do, however, know people who are intellectually lazy - they don't know, and they don't want to know. Which is not the same thing at all.

[Edit: in case that sounds obnoxious, I was aiming more for "frustrated"]
About the only thing Calacanis got right is that resigning by e-mail is a chump way to quit.

I love how he thinks the company is owed 3 years of your service. I mean really?
I do not find this to be true at all. But to each his own.
That's one reason to favor BSD over the ill-advised GNU/Linux info page movement.

The BSDs take man pages quite seriously.
Great question, and something I'm still learning. I touched on some points I know in the article. E.g., if you have data or lessons-learned that they don't, share that information.

Probably a whole separate post in helping others see your point of view via questions rather than statements, so they learn your method and not just your conclusions.
I know the video you're referring to. It is really cool, and opens up the idea that intellectual intelligence is only 1 type of intelligence.

From my personal life, my wife couldn't care less about computers and probably would never watch a TED video, but her "people intelligence" is very high -- she can relate to many different kinds of people and wherever she goes she makes good friends and people around her hold her in high esteem.

Her dad is something of a bookworm who knows a little bit about everything and quite a bit about a couple of things. If he were younger (he's in his 70's) he'd probably get his news from HN. I've often wondered if his "intellectual intelligence" was transferred to her but in a different form... like she used it in a different way, in interacting with and reading people, instead of books.
Android in 2013
In most cases when I have seen this behavior it was not caused by sshd, but by some overly intelligent device (eg. Alcatel's ADSL modems do this) along the way.
I have the same impression and I do think that if only Toyotas had frequent and widespread problems with breaking systems, you'd hear stories about "Toyota break failures" rather than "Car break failures."

I tested my impression with data:

Google news searches:

frequency term

--- ---

0 pc worm

5 windows worm

12 computer worm

0 computer vulnerability

2 pc vulnerability

7 windows vulnerability

6 pc virus

35 windows virus

161 computer virus
Maybe not right now, but it's headed in the right direction with the <audio> and <video> tags, if only they could agree on a damn codec. It's too bad the W3C moves so slowly, why do we not have a <webcam> tag or a way to do P2P communication in javascript?
Hey, cool, I recognize you from the OBSD-Misc list.

Anyway: I think they used to suck; I think that a lot of their decisions in things like ActiveX and IE 6 implied that they didn't yet have the kind of focus on security that they have now.

But, despite this article, Microsoft has taken a ton of heat from the computer industry for their various security issues, and I do think they've tightened it up a lot. I also think that the quote in the article conjecturing that we wouldn't see Linux botnets is absurd, given the number of Linux rootkits in the wild. The only reason we aren't seeing Linux botnets is because there aren't enough Linux systems to form one. (A joke, but only a little!)

And, I don't think you can sit a novice computer user in front of a Linux or BSD system and expect them to get security right. chroot Apache still breaks a lot of stuff, and the first inclination from the user is to change httpd to -u.

Microsoft does relatively OK these days.
Infinity Ward Employees Group Up To Sue Activision For Compensation
The only thing that needs to be known about Android in 2013 is there will be an app called "Has the world ended yet?" and it will read "YES!" in large font.
If things are going well at the company, and you’re learning and developing, you should stay three years–at least. There is no reason to jump ship if you’re learning and enjoying your time at a company.

This arbitrary three-year mark seems a little one-sided. A lot can happen in three years. You can get married, have a kid. Your parents can get sick and ask you come home. You can stumble on a better opportunity. You can get bit by a travel bug. Your spouse may want to move for his/her career. None of these have anything to do with learning and enjoying your time at the company.
Yes I wish that happened more to be honest.

Currently the issue is that it is a logistical nghtmare die to how large police forces work. Unfortunately we are on the outside so our suggestions mostly fall on deaf ears at management level :(
Colas have 35-50mg of sodium per can, depending on the brand.
Superconductor: A hackerspace + coworking club for tech startups in NYC.
It's one-sided because it's nonsense. There's a million reasons why you might leave in 2 years, 1, or even less, even if things are going well for you at the company. You don't owe them your employment.
There are no rules for how to resign, or for how to accept a resignation, except that of treating the other person as you yourself would expect to be treated in like circumstances. Both parties here went out of their way to provoke and then needlessly made a public issue of it.
Also, a lot of the salt on salted nuts falls off and ends up in the bottom of the jar, so you don't actually eat it.
I worked at my college's computer help desk while earning my undergrad. Since the college distributed laptops to every student over half time (or by request if half or less) and every professor, lots of people needed help.

Not to pick on the gender, but girls who came in almost always started the explanation of their problem with some variation "I have no idea what I'm doing with this thing" or "You must think I'm a total idiot, but..."

A lot of the time, problems were simple and I could show them how to fix it in a matter of minutes. All I could ever tell them was that if they played with computers for a living, they'd get the hang of it too.
Resigning by email is not a "chump way to quit". It's a very final and low-drama way to quit (if you are friendly and upbeat in your mail, which you always should be).

Every employer, myself very much included, would be very happy to get personal, private, advance notice that you're thinking of leaving. If you want to do us a favor, do that. Give us a private heads-up. But you don't owe it to us.
Perhaps job hopping is a good thing?
VMware leverages Spring for a new cloud-based Java application platform
Right, just like it has won on the desktop and all applications are now in the browser. Right? Pass the joint around...
Headless unit testing of Raphael.js is possible, and it's awesome
Apple May Have Traced iPhone to Finder’s Address
Great insights. I think I've fallen into this trap more than once.
Google Confirms Android 2.2 Will Support Flash
Sodium ferrocyanide sounds like it might be somewhat toxic and/or need FDA approval...
Yes, that is a non sequitur, fortunately that is not what those proposing we abolish the farm policy are saying (at least not the thoughtful ones.)

They are rather laying out problems with any farm policy. Any farm policy will distort the economics of food production. Any farm policy will influence individual consumers choices in a non-market-based manner. Any farm policy will have international implications, and any farm policy that looks anything remotely like ours at all will harm less developed countries.

I personally am inclined to think we should have a farm policy. If we are going to have an intelligent discussion about it, we should start by acknowleding that those that disagree with us might have valid points that are at least worth considering.

Really trying to understand the viewpoint of someone you disagree with is far more productive than tilting at strawmen.
The author's point, summarized, is "Don't recommend books to new programmers that you haven't read yourself". My recommendation is to go read those books that you recommend. Even if you read them after you recommend them.

Did you ever see that stack overflow post which says in dozens of ways that you can't fully take apart (parse) HTML with regular expressions? If not, you should. It is informative and entertaining.

Don't you think that if those who attempt to separate HTML with regular expressions had read and understood either of the dragon books that they would even try the task with RE? I don't. Once you put something like parsing and code generation in your personal toolbox, you would be surprised at the tasks before you that are a lot less intimidating.

I agree with Thomas about TAOCP. I'll give you a particular example. Volume 2, "Seminumerical algorithms" has a description of how to do long division. It turns out that we needed to do that when shipping a C compiler for 8086/80286 targets that didn't have an '87. And there is a reference to it in Coders at Work about that particular rare case that turns up only seldom.

Have you read the chapter on random number generation? How he made up this convoluted procedure to use one number to go to a page in a reference book to pick another number, and eventually ended up with a cycle of numbers that was disasterously small? It is fun.

And having an original edition and the recently issued boxed set, it is fun to see some of the problems change from HM 50 to something else. For example Fermats Last Theorem.

The lesson from that is repeated in people writing and using crypto. Just ask Tom.

While there are downsides to a university education, as often pointed out here on hacker news, the experience take you, if you are willing, to places that you wouldn't have on your own.

Similarly, the problem in front of you might not automatically make you run to get the dragon book or the others on the list, perhaps a friend can twist your arm to get you to read it.

You don't always know what you need ahead of time. There is a common word for that here, I think.
Why Job Hoppers Make the Best Employees
http://www.xilinx.com/technology/roadmap/processing-platform...

Here's a link to Xilinx where they talk more about this. It still baffles me that news outlets can't figure out what bloggers have known since day one: Link to the relevant parties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS ?

It wouldn't be much of cold war if both sides didn't have missile navigation systems.

Also China seems to be building their own:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_navigation_system
The girl in my office almost always starts off a request for tech support with the words "tom, you're clever".

Out of the two people she shares an office with she is definitely the most tech literate by far... People do undersell themselves.
RavenDB: A linq enabled document database for .NET
Wait a minute. Tufte doesn't like the plain graph either. He wants you to maximize data ink, to plot more than a single series of data, to be as multidimensional as possible. He wants you to be able to synthesize lots of different stories out of the image, including ideas that weren't even evident to the author of the image.

Put a cute bunny picture on top of 10 line graphs, and keep the other 10 totally bare, and the bunny graphs will be more memorable. Does that mean we should be putting bunnies on our infographics?
>This is all great - if you're already a programmer and decide to pursue a different career, but still like programming.Notice how weird that is? If you like programming, why are you doing something else?

Because if you know even a little, it goes a long ways in other fields. And honestly, a huge number of programming jobs SUCK. I mean, it's a field specifically excepted from overtime laws!

>why would you add programming to your duties as a race car driver?

Because you want to race better? And it's not the driver who I know who does this (it's actually motorcycle racing), but instead some of the pit crew who does. Even hooked up a neato GPS thing for the racer.

>Otherwise, you're just wasting time that you should be working on your actual job by piddling around in related programming projects

Spoken like someone who's never worked outside of software development. If your job is "select the 10 best properties to turn over", you job could very well include "write software to help do that". If your job is "Make sure this data is sane", you can most likely write some software to help the process along, decrease repetition, and otherwise make you look awesome.
I agree, but consider that MSM journalists are probably writing stories based on embargoed press releases, so the relevant Web sites are not available when the stories are written.
So, either Calacanis seriously thinks he's in a position to give "resignation tips" now (lost touch with reality?) or this is just a calculated attempt to spin the news coverage.

Strange guy.
I'd like to ask why people think "copying apple" is a bad thing. They "copied microsoft" with how KDE looked before and now with a similar look with Gnome to OS X.

Good for them. At this rate Linux will have it's very own unified UI system in place sometime in 2020 and it will be better than both. For that, I can't wait!

(I never use sarcasm, just in case anyone was wondering)
Doesn't necessarily make you happier though...
It's a neat idea in theory, but a lot of smart, well-meaning people have tried it, and that's rarely what you get.
Why do you say so?
Apparently, the original finder contacted Apple to return the device before selling it to Gizmodo.
Facebook Testing HTML5 Video for iPad?  Debate in blogosphere...
Visualization of air traffic returning to normal levels in Europe
Well, when I wrote a compiler (on a team of 3) the dragon book (first edition) was very helpful, from lexers, parsers, to code generation. So we read it cover to cover (except for Jeanne, who got her PhD from Ullman and who wrote the LALR parser) and used it profusely.

As noted elsewhere in this thread, I think that, in contrast to the OPs article, everyone should read it or Hollub's excellent work that followed the Dragon book by a number of years.

So I would disagree with your opinion about this being a good book, but then I may have the advantage of having spent substantially more time with it.
Building a platform from open source (Symfony @ Yahoo)
Well it looks like this site is doing well so far. plenty of voting going on today
The <title> element reflects the current page, which is a nice improvement over his other new sites <g>.
It would be nice to at least have the option on the desktop, even if it is not the default.
This is an argument against Java web frameworks. I agree with his analysis in that context.
Bionic eyes coming soon [video]
Step by step Shuttleworth moves the Ubuntu UI to in one way after the other be like OS X' Aqua. A good move in my opinion.
That's interesting, but I don't think that's what positr0n was describing. The Washington Post reporter describes Gawker's work repeatedly as journalism. Even the photograph caption uses "Gawker Web site reporter" to mean blogger.

It does say that the CEO cares more about breaking the story first than verifying facts and sources--but I don't see where he goes so far as to state or imply that he doesn't consider Gawker to be journalism. And he is quoted as saying: "We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention." I can see how that might mean what positr0n says but I can also see how that could have a nuanced meaning in the context of the WP article.
This doesn't seem to be linked to any upcoming or finalised W3C/WHATWG standard. It certainly looks like a nice idea, but isn't this arbitrary introduction of non-standard features exactly what we hated IE3-6 for? Prefixing it with "moz-" doesn't really make it less propriatory (we can easily have imagined all the IE* 'extensions' having an ie- prefix). If IE9 came out with a load of new CSS selectors and syntax that nobody had heard of, there'd be uproar in large sections of the technorati.

This kind of experimentation is certainly useful. However, with the vendor- prefixes leaking into real world sites, we seem to need a real playground for experimental new CSS/HTML features that ensures they don't get used in production. Alas, I'm not sure what the best route to this would be.
He does a very good job of bringing the nerd rage but unfortunately reality doesn't back him up — even his own implementation doesn't support his design choices very well and the ones in larger systems basically ignore them.
According to that site, Microsoft and/or Bill Gates personally have editorial control over the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and most other major news outlets (both print and broadcast). They also claim Microsoft has successfully bribed (to the point of being able to dictate government policy) the Obama administration, the French government, the British government, the US DOJ, the EU competition commission, and various others. (I'm not even going to get into their claims that the real purpose of the Gates Foundation is a eugenics program to eliminate minorities and to colonize Africa).

Flawed premises are par for the course there. (For those who don't recognize the site, it's the old boycottnovell site, with a new name to try to dodge their old reputation).
Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term ‘Simple’?
Regarding Go4, Norvig suggests and I agree that patterns in that sense are a sign of problems in the language you are using.
The First Amendment doesn't, but the Congress in its infinite wisdom could (at least for Federal law breaking). For whatever reason, the California legislature may have done this with their shield law.
Man, downloaded Kid Pix the other day and found out that it wasn't the version that I played on the fruity i(e?)Macs. I was sad. I hope I can find it someday and play it in a PPC emulator...
The fact that American protection of the defenseless isn't completely perfect doesn't mean we don't care about it as a society.

I don't think this a reasonable way to analyse societal priorities. Obviously, all human societies are going to place some value on protecting the defenceless. I mean, can you think of any human society that placed no value whatsoever on protecting the defenceless? So if that's the metric you're going to judge on, then no society can ever fail. As a result, this strikes me as a pretty useless metric.

The original comment used the phrase "especially high value on protecting the rights of people who cannot defend themselves." The only reasonable way I know of to assess such statements is to compare America to peer nations that have similar levels of wealth and similar forms of government. I mean, "especially high" seems to require a relative comparison. Specifically, one might look at child poverty, child malnourishment, or infant morality. On any of those metrics, the US ranks dead last (or near dead last) when compared with peer nations. That result does not seem to be compatible with the notion that the richest country in the world has a greater concern for the welfare of defenceless children than other western nations. Don't you agree?

Look, you can point to my examples and claim that they're special cases, but human organizations demonstrate their values with their budgets. Talk is cheap. Paying for enough CPS staff is not. Well, actually, it is really cheap given the benefits. Underfunded CPS? American society doesn't care all that much about disadvantaged children. Or rather, American society values low marginal tax rates and absolute parental autonomy higher than providing for child protection services. That doesn't mean that American society is bad or evil or that Americans are monsters, but it does mean that you can't justify policies by talking about our unique commitment to protecting defenceless children.
How not to act as a CEO with a sour reputation of a company with a sour reputation

0. upon receiving an email from someone resigning, disrespectfully tell them to fuck off, insult their new employer, delete their account, then instead of apologizing, make up a list of 6 rules telling other people how they should resign to post to TechCrunch and try to regain reputation.
Heroku Update & Roadmap
It's a very final and low-drama way to quit

Perhaps, but it's also a cowardly and unprofessional way to quit. Every job I have ever left I have had the decency to sit down in person and explain to my boss that I was leaving and the reasons for my departure.

My feeling is that if this person was respectful enough of my capabilities to give me a job that allowed me to provide for myself and my family, the very least I could do as a common courtesy and sign of respect would be to sit down with them and explain why I have decided to leave.

Put another way: would you consider your boss firing you via email a "chump way to fire an employee"? It's simply a matter of giving your superior the same courtesy that you would expect if the roles were reversed.
If your boss is on Twitter, you could also do it on there.
No.

The guy stayed 1 year, not Jason's 3-year minimum for a place you're learning at. The guy didn't do it face to face. And the guy didn't offer unlimited transition time.

He pretty much didn't do anything Jason wanted him to do.
Technically what is visualized here isn't "the kernel trick". This is the general idea of how nonlinearly projecting some points into a higher-dimensional feature space makes linear classifiers more powerful. You can do this with out SVMs. Just compute the high-dimensional features corresponding to your data, then use logistic regression or whatever. Trouble is, if the higher-dimensional space is really big, this could be expensive. The "kernel trick" is computational trick that SVMs use to compute the inner product between the high-dimensional features corresponding to two points with out explicitly computing the high-dimensional features. (For certain special feature spaces.)

But this is definitely a cool visualization of the value of feature spaces!
> If you would rather stay at your company, but need to make more money, be straight with your boss and let them know you would like them to match, or come closer to a competing offer.

I think this is bad advice. Even if they don't want to keep you, employers are likely to match just to keep you around until your current project is complete.

Your best bet in this situation is to simply ask for a raise without mentioning your other offer, and leave if the answer is no.
Resigning by e-mail is fantastic if your boss happens to be abusive, manipulative, or otherwise you feel like a face-to-face encounter is going to escalate in the wrong direction.
Forensic guys want to take images of the storage devices. They use tools such as dcfldd or purpose-built devices (Tableu) to do this. They'll then analyze the images and probably never touch the guy's hardware again. It will sit in a evidence room for eons. They could return the hardware as soon as they've done the imaging, but I've never seen that happen. Use whole disk encryption everywhere :)