skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah they are.

The iPad will continue to sell like hotcakes and millions of people will continue to be extremely happy with it. I understand why Apple targets this demographic and a simplified experience, catering to my needs wont sell more iPads and could in fact weaken the experience for other users.

The only thing I hold against Apple is that I love my OS X machines so much -- they are the the ultimate hacker toy, great hardware, pretty OS and you can drop down to a unix shell. They've spoiled me so the iPad stings a bit!

So for now I'm actively watching the tablet landscape for a more open device. I know I'll be happier with one, and I hope to write some software that will make other people happy too.
It depends what you're up to, I suppose. If you were seeking to install keyloggers to record financial authentication details, why not target people whose choice of computer hardware indicates they have more money than average?
DOD considers shielding private networks
A better defense would be to have a device that introduces random frequency variations into the building's power so it doesn't correlate with the power grid anymore.
It's more like pg suddenly deleting your comments here, telling you, "No obsequious comments", leaving you wondering just what how that applies to your comments.
If you're the sole developer, it makes a lot of sense to run a local server for development purposes. It's cheaper, more convenient and really helpful if you're stuck somewhere with a poor Internet connection.
Windows is surely a better server than OS X? OS X comes with an Apache server already set up and ready to go at the flick of a switch. I find it quite satisfactory for testing sites before I go to online testing. I can also fire up a Windows VM and navigate to my local ip, for quick cross browser testing.
Notifo (YC W10) is hiring all of these. Please email chad at notifo dot com with resume/info, etc.

Edit: also requested promo code, thanks!
They're not investors, they're donors. I wonder which is worse...
Tag is not an element. Or is it?
You're just guessing. Much like the author.

Guessing shouldn't should be part of the platform development process.
According to the article, this is only for primary machines. They will likely still have secondaries and/or VMs running Windows, for testing and etc.
50's Orion pulse-detonation combined with a "living off the land" strategy would enable manned exploration of the outer solar system in short order.

MPD thrusters might be good for manned Mars missions, but robotic probes are still a much better deal for the outer system.
I wrote a blog post about it in 2007 with a nice (imho) taxonomy of different kinds of data we should see in the coming decades.

http://natureofdata.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/4/
You know, despite the fact that that poem is about the Nazis, it does have a point beyond that. I've mostly seen it referenced as "be aware of these kind of issues, it could be you next", rather than "<issue> is just like what the Nazis did!" To say that this is a case of Godwin's law misses the point: it is a good idea to be active in calling out injustice even if you are not personally affected, because one day you could be. It does not always warrant the gravitas of comparing it to the Holocaust, but the poem itself is a nice succinct illustration of the idea that preventing injustice against others is a wise idea.

Also, calling Godwin's law on a legitimate comparison is just as bad as what Hitler did. :-P
It's a dupe.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1354542
Unfortunately the 4.0 software update isn't planned to be released for the iPad until the Fall. Which is frustrating to say the least as I would rather have multitasking on the iPad than the iPhone.
There's no way a typical end user is going to know how to deploy an open-source Ruby on Rails application.

Although I really dislike PHP, I feel like it would be more appropriate because at least some technology enthusiasts are comfortable with uploading some PHP files and running a web based installer even though they aren't programmers.

Edit: It's also using MongoDB, interesting.
Why Pizza failed at McDonalds
Starting to?
What's inside the Evo 4G? An iFixit teardown.
Synopsis: We still have no idea why songs get stuck in your head, but maybe it has something to do with positive emotions.
The 10-minute talk at the end mentioned a prerequisite, almost as an aside, to the learning on motivation: pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table.

My experience is that it is the very rare company, even among startups, that thinks of compensation in this way or otherwise meets the prereq. It explains the somewhat extreme sentiment I've seen here on HN of "screw you. pay me." on the topic of motivation and engagement.

When what I do[1] can easily save twice my salary, as a side effect, it's surreal to be negotiating an extra 10%. These days, I just quote an acceptable salary range when asked, despite the negotiating disadvantage. More often than not, it succeeds in filtering out wastes of my time.

To some degree, perhaps not fully consciously, it's also been a test. Assuming the initial need filter is passed, how hard my reasonable asking price is pushed back on is a measure of how much my contribution will be valued.

[1] Assuming I'm actually needed, and not just wanted, perhaps as overkill.
Logical gate with carnivorous plant(french)
A more interesting, if obvious, related question: shouldn't we, through our political representatives, demand that corporations carry a little bit more of social responsibility?

That would be the rational thing for us to demand, since a more liberal Pakistan would make both us and Pakistanis happier. Nowadays it is a matter of corporations' interest rather than law.
Wait, doesn't the proposed routing make it impossible to share links? If Dan has friends Mike and Sara and mike wants to say "Hey Sara look at this photo of the three of us" doesn't he end up pasting an invalid link because it contains Mike's key, not Sara's?
Both the local government and the people wanted this solution, hence FB delivered. The problem is when government would want something and people don't. What would FB do then?
Firebug has set the bar for in browser web development tools. Until something can offer the same or better abilities as Firebug, I'm sticking with Firefox and Firebug for my web dev.
The issue with Orion is that the radioactive byproducts of the pulses get trapped by Earth's magnetosphere and fall inward to the planet surface. I believe it was Einstein who calculated that every Orion launch -- whether from the surface or near space -- would cause 2 people to die of cancer.

Finding a politician who is willing to stand up for a cause with that fact associated would be tricky at best.
Adobe rolls out iPad-focused magazine publishing tools
Crashes on startup for me - hopefully they'll get the stack trace I sent.
Ruby 1.9.2-Preview 3 Released
Invitations sent for Work at a Startup
The problem I see with this mission is that it's essentially another "flags and footprints" mission on a grand scale: yes, the mission time is much longer, so perhaps there would be time to do something valid at Neptune or Saturn, but there aren't many things that could be done on such a mission that would make it cost-positive with an initial cost of $14 trillion. So what happens? We go once, can't afford to go again, and suddenly everything in the inner system is anticlimactic and the public loses interest in space for another 40 years.
Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen
Realistically, there's no way a typical end-user is going to deploy their own seed at all. I suspect they know this, as suggested by the fact that they plan to build a hosting service. (I presume that's how they're planning to monetize this, long term?) Anything that requires active system administration or application deployment by the end user is going to fail.

IMHO, I'd consider language/framework choice to be the least of their concerns; they picked something they knew, and moved on to more pressing issues.
Not terribly startling, no. Anybody that has thought much about advanced text editor features probably has a good chance of thinking to integrate a calculator with a text editor, especially given that spreadsheets are the essentially same idea restricted to a grid. I expect it's been independently re-invented hundreds of times.
This:
("oh, so you vaccinated your kid 3 months ago and now he has X?") and reporting it to some tracking body.

Why is this not done? Doesn't that seem a bit odd?

And yes, I was exaggerating, it wouldn't be free. But it could be done for very little cost.
Me too. I greatly prefer the tools that are available to me in Windows, but apparently I'm a freak for wanting a decent GUI IDE; most of my colleagues just use vim.
A keeper, if nothing else (and there's much more) for the ultra-clear chart of three stages of CPU performance, 1978-2006, on page 4.

The Azul Systems site mentions their own 54-core CPU ( http://www.azulsystems.com/technology/vega ), but there does not seem to be much publicly available about the architecture. I was wondering if it was a Sparc derivative (the PDF also mentions Sun's Niagara for Chip Multi Threading). They had a legal tiff with Sun in 2005-2007 ...

Couple of links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azul_Systems ,
http://www.taranfx.com/boost-java-performance-5x-times-hardw...

P.S. Coincidentally, one of the presentation's references for further reading is the 2007 monograph by Ulrich Drepper also gracing the frontpage of HN today at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394346
Can We Do Better at Managing Rare, Big Risks?
I don't know about you, but I know a lot of individuals who act exclusively in their personal best interest.
IE6 usage falls below 5% in The US and Europe
So, what exactly determines whether something is a widget or not?
Beyond Compare is amazing. The only app I miss from Windows. If you are on Windows, and haven't used it, you are missing out.
A lot of "forensic science" doesn't seem very scientific at at all. This though, is really easy to test. All we need is a few independent organizations to send in recordings and get a timestamp back.
Ask HN: What desk and chair should I buy?
I am thinking about buying an Aeron chair this summer and am wondering what kind of desk I should get to go along with it. Is there a desk that has the reputation of an Aeron chair? Also, is the Aeron chair really as good as advertised? I have started cracking my back and neck and I think that a quality chair might fix that problem, is the Aeron the best choice?
I really wish I were able to use SpeedTracer on Chrome and without having to append "--enable-extension-timeline-api" to the command line flag.
This could use a better title. Getting from "hygiene" to "clipboard manager" is a stretch.

That said, I use a clipboard manager and find it very convenient. It helps to lessen context changes: I can copy a bunch of stuff onto the cm and then pull it off at the destination. I can copy/cut stuff onto it that I may need at some indefinite point in the future. I don't have to spend time deliberating whether to keep a record of it; if I need it, it's there. I can copy a subsequent item without worrying about losing the current clipboard contents. And I can keep items I occasionally need to reference available in the cm history.

All this works so well because the cm I use has a very quick to use and quick to respond search including limited wildcarding that progressively refines results with each keystroke of the search pattern.
I'm happy to see Chris Pederick's Web Developer has been ported.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bfbameneiokkgbdm...
Because the content has already been published elsewhere. I don't want to have to reread an article online to find out what I missed in the print article.
Because Windows vs. Mac is an exceedingly weak financial signal, and because no matter what the signal is, having 20-30 accounts is better than having just 1 account?
This was done by two company vips in direct opposition to the very vocal recommendation of the security team.
The Charlie Rose Brain Series
Live stream of morning, closing keynotes at Open Source Bridge
What Stephen Fry wished he knew when he was 18
The Three Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Related To Intellectual Property
I think this is a very well executed idea. I like how the layout is very polished and beautiful and I feel like this could be something being read standing at a news-stand or in a bookstore.

I haven't read the entire thing yet, but reading Eric Davis's article was more than worth it. I felt like I got a free therapy session.

Keep up the good work.
The streaming URL is at a different domain than the event's site, http://opensourcebridge.org/.

You can see the schedule there.
Rolling Rails Deploys with Passenger
That's not what I mean by editing. It really is important in print to make sure it fits the medium.

You would be surprised how much can be cut without losing content or the style of the piece.
Watch from 3:00-4:30 of the 4th video (IBM Puts on the Dog). That IBM was willing to poke fun at itself in that way must have made it a great place to be.
This post has no real insight, and is written by a 5th grader for a weekend research project. I'm on the edge of my seat for the others.

Reddit has had more intelligent discussions. How is this on the front page of HN?
The Man (and the Spreadsheet) That Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic
i was afraid that i would click on the link and get rick rolled.
Website optimization tools
We're fans of Ikea's Markus chair here at wishli.st HQ. It's a darn site cheaper than an Aeron too...

http://wishli.st/228
Homeowners in Foreclosure Find a Rent-Free Approach
To be fair, the Android Market does still have plenty of issues. Searching is horrible and the organization is terrible for finding new apps. Those are the main two issues I've noticed as a user, but I can see why those would deter somebody. However, if it's a choice between arbitrarily deleted and just not having your app get noticed (which could also be an issue on Apple's App Store), the latter seems like a much more sensible option.
It doesn't actually do the exact same thing:

http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr2.html
This is a great point. I'm the author of the original article, I'll update to link to specific concerns and also add a couple of the projects that some other people have suggested.

The article was in no way meant to be a definitive resource, just an attempt to continue helping new Rails developers learn how to work with the framework. The many useful comments I've received will help improve the article a lot.
Even if this isn't a viable business idea, it would make more an interesting experiment. It could really show how apps are approved or disapproved, and for what reasons. Something tells me the results would vary wildly, with apps being approved and being rejected for unclear reasons at about the same rate. However, that's just a hypothesis, and I don't have the time, cash or hardware to run the experiment.
Useless use of kill -9
Are there any plans to livestream the event?
Beyond compare if fantastic. If you miss it that much then you can run it nicely under Wine/Darwine/Crossover etc. I've been using Deltawalker on the Mac which is nice if a little brittle sometimes. It sucks hugely for FTP/SFTP compares though.
It doesn't have to be a fault in the JavaScript language for it to be disconcerting or fascinating. That NAT pinning attack is also disconcerting and fascinating. An XSS to your router attack is more elementary and so it's easier to grok for the average JavaScript developer and less interesting to a security expert.
>they aren't saying "Show me a map with all the sushi places in Stockholm". They are saying "I want to know more about getting sushi in Stockholm. Can you show me a webpage that can show me that?"

[Citation needed]

Presumably if you're correct, and users aren't actually looking for the google maps interface, they'll skip it and move to the web results. Users have now come to expect this behavior from Google when they type in local search queries.
They aren't saying either of those things. They are saying "show me sushi stockholm" which google interprets as "show me sushi in stockholm" and as far as google knows (and accurately as far as I'm concerned when I use google), any sort of searches explicitly limited to a known geographic area are best answered by a map of that area with search results shown on top of it. If you search for "getting sushi in stockholm" you don't get a map. The language that triggers a map as the first result is very specific and not limited to google. Individuals may find that they don't like the map as the first result for some queries, but as a company every major search engine as decided this is the best way to present certain results. Rail against it as a website owner or user all you want, but it is absolutely a legitimate practice.

Of course it is possible to have better results for certain queries. Is it even remotely plausible for google to reliably decide that? To my knowledge, not without solving some very difficult problems, which they may or may not have any motivation to do, but they are certainly under no obligation to do it either.
The curation of IRC was/is distributed. Facebook's is centralized, which makes them a more lucrative target. Also, the legal and commercial environments have changed.

The RIAA isn't going to go after gopher and BBS MP3 sharers any time soon -- a certain level of obscurity is close enough to nonexistence.
Yes, on Justin.tv.
Exactly. I got nothing out of this article. I did not even get a song stuck in my head. It does not answer the question the title poses, and it does not even acknowledge that it is unable to answer it. In addition, it does not contribute anything useful (or anything at all for that matter) to the subject in terms of expanding the knowledge of the way the mind works.
It's also worth noting that a decent number of these donations probably came from the whole Facebook privacy scandal and wanting to stick it to Zuckerberg. Still, I hope they succeed.
No. In fact, the incentive for attackers is exactly the inverse of what you claim it is. The author of WinAPI malware can expect multiple tens of conversions for every one obtained by Mac malware. That's because, breathless accounts in the media aside, malware infections don't compete in any practical sense. You would need to deliberately eschew all financial incentives to target OSX. The logic here is exactly the same and exactly as simple as Joel Spolsky's article about investing in OSX dev from 2002.

As for the rest of your comment: both Windows and OS X are conventional monolithic operating systems written in C with core facilities designed and built in the '90s. Both are multiuser operating systems repurposed for single-user deployments. Both have strong kernel/userland barriers with well-defined interfaces. In fact, if you've done systems programming on both, they simply aren't all that different, even to a software developer.

But: for the past 10 years, Microsoft has been getting hammered by attackers, and has the benefit of a decade-long trial by fire. So when Microsoft randomizes library offsets, they don't (for instance) miss the entire runtime loading subsystem.

Also: most of Microsoft's most sensitive application code is written in C for WinAPI on x86, which is one of the best-understood application runtimes in the world. Much of OS X runs on cross-platform Objective C, which has received nowhere nearly as much research. Put simply: nobody knows how to write exploit countermeasures for OS X. I think mostly because nobody cares.

(Again: I say this as a Unix dev from '93 at a company standardized on Macs).
That's the Martingale System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_system), and it fails because no one has an unlimited supply of capital. Lose 20 times in a row and you've lost $2,097,151 since your last win. And you will eventually lose 20 times in a row. Since you're only winning $1 every time you win, you'll have to play many times to win any significant amount of money.
Good points. This is our about: http://thinkcode.tv/about. It's not exactly "how you doin'", but it's doesn't contain any bullshit either. What do you think?
The fact that Hoffman's router attack wasn't XSS is an example of why I'm disappointed in this talk. I grant you that the talk was probably fascinating, especially to generalist Javascript programmers. I'm only disappointed in a "Hacker News" sense. Of course, it's not Hoffman's job to be fascinating to (or appropriately headlined on) Hacker News.
Day and Night cycle created using only CSS3
Agreed. I also combine that with a Linux server VM. This way you can mess around with server configuration without nuking your development environment. Plus you're developing on a server that is very similar to the production server.
ObamaCare's Economic Dominoes
F5 Week in Review, May 24th – 28th, 2010
Superstitious? Why Even Rational People Hate to Tempt Fate
Even if the acceptable price consumers are willing to pay for content approaches zero, that hardly means the value of content approaches zero. To the contrary, if you're able to search vast amounts of content for what is most interesting to you, the value you receive from that content increases with the size of the search space. It's a clear win for the audience.

But what about the content producers? Already, most "real book" authors don't publish to get rich from royalties, and derive most of their value in the form of personal and professional publicity they receive from their work. If the acquisition of such publicity shifts from big corporate publishing houses who have the business deals in place to get you on The Daily Show to something more democratic, authors benefit from an increasingly meritocratic system, as well.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but haven't courts ruled that corporations must act in the interest of raising money for their shareholders above "social responsibility"? I could be entirely wrong here, so it would be great if someone with more knowledge in this area could speak authoritatively here.
Listiki - A wiki for lists
I worked at McDonalds as a teenager and in college. Our store owner seemed to be enjoy being a test-bed for new products or concepts that actually made it out of the labs.

Some things our store did while I was there:

* Fried Chicken. Yup, McDonalds fried chicken. We installed this huge vat in the back of the store and boxed up greasy fried chicken. And it sold pretty well.

* Home delivery. I'm not kidding, we actually implemented a home delivery concept where the customer would call in an order to some call center, and out popped an order on a special printer in the store. Someone would box up the order, and drive it over to the customers house. It was a pain in the butt from a resource scheduling perspective, but a wonderful thing for the hamburger-flippers (tips, and 15 minutes away from the store in the car)
So you're saying that 98-99% of people have some musical talent?
I had one of those when I lived in the USA, it was OK, but really not a chair that I would feel comfortable spending the rest of my life in (dramatic, I know, but I really do spend a lot of time at my desk).
Also, one of the screws I used to assemble it didn't quite fit.
Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5
This is an interesting article. However, most of it has nothing to do with pizza or McDonald's.
Number two just seems foolish; boring marketing is about as sensible as ordering flavorless food.

It makes sense for pregnant women. The substances with a distinct taste and smell often arose as plant defenses, which aren't necessarily good for developing babies. Don't know if that does anything for the analogy, though.