skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but there are several other factors to take into consideration.

1> Very few Macs are running anti virus/spyware software, as the users generally believe their systems to be immune to malware

2> The malware authors are probably already targeting Windows, why not do Macs as well? The sites I work with are up to 25% Mac usage now. That is significant.

3> As Mac browsers have not been attacked as often and scrutinized as carefully by attackers, it appears Apple and other browser vendors have not taken as much care to harden the Mac browsers and OS.

4> Is having a Mac a weak financial signal? I wonder what data is there is out there about the affluence of the Mac-owning audience. Apple isn't targeting the low end of the market, that's for sure.

So, in summary: it might be relatively easy, plus, why not.
The real problem here is that most restaurant owners are too ignorant to realize when they are getting fleeced by a POS seller.
Also, PBS Closer to truth series - more philosophical in nature though, awesome nonetheless. http://www.closertotruth.com
It is curious that he believes this transformation will be unleashed by the iPad. The reason he gives:

"The iPad has a browsing capability that allows you to see any content on the Internet, legal or not, and consume it from just about anywhere."

is untrue, and not just because there is a large amount of flash content on the Internet. Only a small fraction of illegal content on the Internet is available on the publicly accessible web. I see no reason to think the iPad will ever have bittorrent or filesharing applications, or that a large influx of iPads would allow pirates to overwhelm whatever forces are currently keeping copyrighted material off the web. So how is the iPad supposed to be some sort of game-changing tool for copyright violation?
You're probably right. I would expect there to be exceptions, but after doing a little digging, I'm not finding anything to support the belief that a specific age range of individuals is suffering statistically higher foreclosure rates.

I got to that conclusion after a couple too many anecdotes, but there're no numbers to back it up.
I agree you should be able to buy more space (especially since you can with @gmail accounts), but what are your storing that adds up to so much space? I have 5,000 messages stored in my Google Apps account and it only adds up to 871MB.
Check http://www.src2pkg.net/ out---you just pass it a tarball and it will figure out how to build it, for most types of packages.
Very very true. But they put it there to benefit themselves, not the applicant.
It sucks, but if they try to use your salary history to lowball you, that's when you negotiate. I'd just explain I felt I was previously underpaid and that the offer is too low. Of course, then you run the risk of not getting the job at all.
"Foobar inc., Portugal's leading provider of accounting software in the $50-$100 range marketed toward shipping companies".
Scribus?
Obviously avoiding sugar is going to mean you consume less calories and thus likely to lose weight. Sugar is not on its own unhealthy though.

Avoiding salt means you're avoiding tons of processed foods and drinks. I would bet that it's the avoidance of those foods that are making you healthier and not necessarily the salt.
Why can't you change jobs?
Deal! I propose a Long Bet: http://www.longbets.org/
Araxis Merge seems to be the closest Mac equivalent, though it's a bit pricey.

http://www.araxis.com/merge_mac/index.html (there's a windows version as well)
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Looks like very little attention has been paid to performance in favor of praying that psyco works on the player's system. I'm avoiding work and I've forked the project, so watch for a series of little perf tweaks. A few specific complaints:

Why are you using accessor methods? If it's because you might want to change them later, you could just use a property if that unlikely event happens. There is a real cost to accessors in Python. They also add a lot of visual noise.

Why did you make an enum class (ActionType)? That adds an extra hash table lookup for not much benefit over

ACT_SPAWN, ACT_MOVE, ACT_EAT, ACT_ATTACK, ACT_LIFT, ACT_DROP = range(6)

EDIT: the performance seems fine the way it is now. I made some changes but they didn't perceptibly change the way the game plays. I am grouchy today because I didn't get enough sleep. Sorry.
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I am currently in the same situation. As my friends keep reminding me, STOP WHINING! You are employed in the middle of an economic recession. It could always be worse.
That's 400MB of cache on the die, which seems highly unlikely.
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Oops looks like all the traffic blew up my blog. lol.
You have to click the 'assumptions' on the upper left. It seems that vast figure is generated by comparing to Microsoft Exchange, including sysadmin time.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value....

Also, it appears that in various 'assumptions' on this site, it is ignoring the total number of people working for the company. When you edit assumptions in one part, it reads...

How many people work at <company>? 1
[...]
Think of the last time you worked on a group project. How many people were on that team? 10
[...]
What percentage of <company> employees use laptops? 60%

So, apparently 10 times as many people worked on the last project as were employed by the company in total, and .6 of one employee uses a laptop.
It's a paradox: restaurant owners are often disdainful/fearful of technology, so they are the most easily swindled when it comes to understanding a value equation involving technology.
Or Twain's short story "Punch, Brothers, Punch", about a song that only leaves your head when communicated to someone else:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Literary_Nightmare
I came here to post something like this. Too late!
Just as a reminder, this will create and install your software as owned with your local user/group. This means your /usr/bin/ and other directories will now be writable by your local user and group. You can pass '-c y' to makepkg to make all directories owned by root:root and mode 0755, which may screw with some things that expect group 'bin' or more tight permissions.

I prefer to do 'make install DESTDIR=./PKG/ && rm -rf ./PKG/ && sudo make install DESTDIR=./PKG/ && cd PKG && sudo makepkg -c n -l y ....'. This first tests if the Makefile properly supports DESTDIR (assuming the 'make install' will fail if it tried to install a file to a root-owned directory). If it does, it runs the 'make install' as root with the DESTDIR argument, which will create all the files with the expected owners/perms.

I put it all in some shell scripts a while back if you're interested: http://psydev.syw4e.info/new/slacktools/
You can watch them on the site linked with this post. It's not entirely obvious but you click on the main frame when you go to a specific episode and it brings up a Flash video player.
Thanks for both of these. I've been making SlackBuild scripts or installing in /usr/local until now.
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Regular old video files FTW!

There is _nothing_ revolutionary about this, NOT if you consider this a backdoor for flash content on Mobile Safari.
if google is a search provider mapquest or other map engine results should have been there like it does web content from yahoo or microsoft.
I think a campaign of linking fiscal responsibility to patriotism might be helpful.

Can you think of any cases where a campaign of linking something to patriotism has actually worked? I cannot.

My sense is that many people would respond to such a campaign with rage: they'd point out that financial institutions and their shareholders made out like bandits with the various emergency programs and that no one ever said anything about BoA or GS being "unpatriotic". The double standard would appall many people I think.

The actions of these people will inevitably hurt the rest of us in the long run.

Are you certain that's true? Maybe the only way to convince banks that they should not completely abandon their own underwriting standards would be for them to suffer some more agony by having a few borrowers dick them around. Certainly, if they just moved out today, the homes they lived in as well as their neighbors would lose value, which would in turn hurt "the rest of us in the long run".
So will dissenters now say that we are just treating people for the test and not for real life?
If you "cannot switch" (hard to believe) then I would suggest going above and beyond your job description to create value for your employer. This will help displace downtime and make your job more interesting. Being passive about your situation isn't going to do anything for you though.
Where I work we do a lot of software development for cities ranging from websites to applications. Most cities/departments are really reluctant to bring in any new systems. regardless how much they help. So I don't see how they would be able to do so much with what will more then likely be a bunch of new developers.

They also have to go out for bids on everything..
Thanks a lot for your comments! Looking forward a lot to your tweeks, performance will definitely need to be optimized in the future.
The problem I was trying to adress with the accessors and the whole *View concept is that there are no private members in python, and i was trying to prevent the minds/genomes from "cheating" by reading data they aren't allowed to. If you can think of a better way to do that, I'd love to hear from you.
I'm not surprised by that.

Back when my brother first moved to Taiwan in the 80s, McDonalds was upscale. Real american food at real american prices with real american plastic! (Plastic at that time and place had associations with wealth and progress.)

Of course now it is not seen as so upscale there. But I'd expect that it is so seen elsewhere.
+1 to "Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once." Drew Houston

I wish we could rate these quotes, and top rated ones stay on top
And about the enum, valid point. Hangover from C.
Except you can't even technically BUY an eBook.

eBooks are merely leased to you, read your EULAs folks and start writing the publishing houses because this is a load of crap.

FWIW -- I can read my iPad in the sun just fine, provided I tilt it so the glare is gone.
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Re: the Multiple Resolutions Problem, it's probably less of an issue if you're writing a utility app. But for games, which frequently make use of resolution-dependent assets, it is far from trivial or fictitious. A larger developer might be able to eat the cost of maintaining multiple sets of assets, but smaller developers frequently can't. Nor can they typically afford to own a comprehensive set of devices to test on, which is necessary if you're trying to figure out things like how many sprites or particles you can display at a given resolution and framerate.
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No surprising picks there.
It can always get better! Spend an extra hour per night on your side project and turn a profit! Then quit :)
Sure, apply to Airbnb: http://www.airbnb.com/jobs

Seriously though, stop making excuses for why you cannot switch jobs and start doing what makes you happy.
Cities should just pay reasonable salaries to a couple developers and build apps themselves.

"Each team returns to Bay Area headquarters and then has seven months to develop their application for their city."

Nevermind the potential issues from giving development seven months without having heard requirements. My question is, why just one application? Cities are huge machines. I have enough trouble navigating around a single councilwoman's website - let alone the DMV's. How is one application supposed to service an entire city in a meaningful way?

Before reading the details of this program, I imagined it would be something like this:

CFA puts you up in the city you'll be helping. Lodging, food, transportation, etc.

Instead of visiting the city you're helping, you visit SF headquarters - for a couple weeks, to go over your vision for development.

After identifying the applications that would be most beneficial to the city's residents, you build them. The applications start small – you iterate as you get feedback from citizens.

The benefit of this approach over CFA's is that you don't end up with one monolithic application that is difficult to add functionality to. Instead, you have a few examples of efficiency throughout the city. Enough examples, hopefully, that other departments will be inspired to invest in their own department's application.
This seems like it's trying to build public services based off of the data in the cities' systems. On top of that, I think it's more of a non-profit so I'm assuming (and perhaps incorrectly) that they'd be more welcome as a partner.

My thought is this is to spread some of the openness that cities like SF and NYC (albeit at a much smaller level) have started.
Also, http://www.sbopkg.org/ takes the drudgery out of using SlackBuild scripts from http://slackbuilds.org/ ; you may wish to check it out.
Are you learning? Every job has grunt work, even the interesting jobs. If you're not learning from what you do, and if your boss doesn't have your advancement/education as a top priority, then learn. But if you have to put up with a couple months of boring work in order to get what you want, you should.
Perhaps something like this:
"Don't you hate 'checking in' to five different services, updating your facebook status, posting a tweet every time you go somewhere? 'Spib it' once then sit back and enjoy your latte."

I realize that's a bit snarky but that's the type of message I would want to see:
"This is your problem. Here's how we solve it."
To a certain degree this is sensible. It will probably make them safer in the short-term.

Ultimately though this is just a TSA level maneuver. It's reactionary, short-sighted, and imperfect to a degree that is likely to make it nearly useless.

Security is a meta-property, for organizations as well as for software. You can't create security in software as a line-item feature. Nor can you create security in a company by using, or not using, a particular tool. Security ultimately is an overarching endeavor. If google is serious about security they need to approach it that way. The particularly dangerous failure mode for google's recent actions is that they think they've made a serious security enhancement (at best it's incremental), they become complacent, and then they get owned harder than before.

Hopefully this is just a teeny, tiny aspect of a larger security initiative, but from the outside it's difficult to tell if that's the case.
I'd rather keep Tumblr and WP.com apart.
Sigh. Looking at this and the walk-through you would think Mozilla would have a little more vision. SQL queries on the client? Guess I was secretly hoping Mozilla would adopt something more along the lines of CouchDB.
To me the key point of this post was:"And in the long term, as the mobile industry gets more accustomed to the idea of upgradeable phone software, more and more devices will be be upgraded."

Google is doing a fantastic job with Android, it's just that the carriers and OEMs are dragging their feet at properly supplying their handsets with updates. To make matters worse they continue to fiddle with the Android system (see HTC's Sense UI) for no apparent benefit to the consumer other than to make their phone 'stand out'.

I'm currently very angry with HTC and T-Mobile for their last century attitude to mobile devices. It's ridiculous that they have promised to upgrade my Hero to 2.1 since March and still nothing - also the last firmware update also conveniently disabled all possibility to root the phone. Say what you want about the iPhone, it is at least supplied with updates for a reasonable amount of time (~3 years?) and older models don't get their update months late.
It'd be fun to compete in a Lisp vs Python—maybe one language would lend itself to a certain kind of tribe.

Lisp vs. Python would be most interesting if cells could pass arbitrary information to each other. This would make it easy for Lisp cells to modify their own code. Cells signalling each other and querying each other's information would enable interesting interactions. Some sort of sand boxing would seem to be desirable.
I second this. Especially for those of us who are technical, but don't want to program.
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Messing around with Core Wars is a great way to ease into Assembly Language!
What do you do? (Details aren't 100% necessary, but just trying to get an idea of what you do so we could perhaps help you make it more interesting in some way or another--if leaving really isn't an option.)
My work proxy categorizes the site as "Spam". Reading this description, I sort of agree.
Thanks, ordered a print copy.
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New technologies often get started in a niche. Because server rooms already have multiple computers, and standard infrastructure for handling them, it is a natural fit for many-core chips (though bandwidth to RAM/disk may be a problem).

Once established in this market, the feedback loop with users who pay money will drive the technology to improve to suit that niche. The bugs will get ironed out, deficiencies worked around, specific infrastructure developed. Chips will use less power, and will get faster and cheaper.

Eventually, other uses will be found for the product - perhaps on the desktop, perhaps as mobile devices, perhaps in applications that were never imagined before, because they were not conceivable. The key benefit might be from a feature that is not considered very central to the technology, from an engineering perspective, but happens to be unique with respect to the alternatives.

Perhaps it could be compact size, low power consumption, doing many distinct tasks, greater reliability through redundancy.
Not related to the FF4 but am I the only one to see that FF 3.6.x loses address bar history?
Last I knew, the official word is that there is no way to stop Python code from reading any particular value. Python can even crack into the values contained in closures if you know the right incantations. If you are looking to rigidly enforce that only accepted interfaces are being used to read data in the face of a hostile adversary writing the Python, I believe the current state-of-the-art is that it is impossible.

If this is a core feature requirement, then as far as I know your only option is to change languages to something where you can rigidly sandbox. Your nearest option in programming space would be Perl and some variant of Safe (that's a CPAN module name). Otherwise, if you can live with a gentleman's agreement, you're fine. This may make the automatic-online-matchup really tricky, though.
In case others have the same issue, http://gist.github.com/421406. It's a copy/paste of CFA's "For Developers" page.
Did the application process exclude non-technical people? It was just a big text field saying "RESUME GOES HERE."

I think they would have wanted solid sales/marketing/design people to apply too.
Giraffes don't swim. Simulations demonstrate they could, kinda, but it'd suck. Giraffes don't swim.
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Widescreen monitors killed the fluid layout. It's extremely difficult for a website to look good at both 800px wide (typical netbook) and 2560px wide (27" imac).
The decision on whether to release your work under a free license depends a lot on the purpose you write it for. If you're writing, say, a blog to express your thoughts or as a self-promotion tool (e.g. to make your name recognizable to people in your field, like Joel Spolsky, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Paul Graham), then you loose nothing by allowing your work to be disseminated as widely as possible. Maybe you stand to make a little bit of money from a particularly popular piece, but for someone like Spolsky, the income from a contract resulting from his blog's popularity is likely much more than he could expect to make from publishing a few of his blog entries.

If you intend to be a writer, you might think about things a little differently. As a given, you'll want to get paid for what you write, probably by being commissioned by a magazine for a piece or by working as a staff writer. In this case, you probably feel squeamish about giving your work away for free since you're sometimes able to make money off it.

If you're already willing to publish a piece for free on your blog, it seems unlikely that you would later be able to sell it to a magazine. Magazines seem to like original content, and (with the exception of Hacker Monthly) wouldn't want to republish something already out there.

A few people have experimented with republishing their blogs as books. The two that come to mind are PG's Hackers and Painters (his essays weren't exactly a blog, but they're pretty similar in that they're regularly updated freely accessible online content) and Scott Adams' Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain. From what I've gathered, both of these had limited success, making this strategy of generating income from blog content seem rather unfeasible.

The only remaining strategy for making money off your blog is ads. This has certainly been proven to work, although only for blogs in the top one percent or so in terms of readership. Boing Boing, the most read blog on the web, licenses it's content under a Creative Commons license, and it doesn't seem to have hurt it much. XKCD also releases all its content under a CC license. (They both use the Attribution-Non Commercial license, which does raise some questions about what would happen if they removed the non commercial clause.)

So, if you're not in the top one percent of blogs, it seems like you don't have much to loose by giving your content away, and having it available in as many places as possible. You can turn the notoriety you gain from people listening to your thoughts and ideas into something profitable if you like, such as promotion for contract work, publicity for a book you write, or even starting a startup incubator. Don't get caught up in the details of the value of a few blog posts, think big picture.
Same job? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227850
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The thing that you're missing is that MSSQl is much more than just a database server. Now, I agree that if all you're trying to do is install the bare minimum RDBMS then IIS shouldn't be required. .Net though is always going to be required because you can write extended stored procedures in c# and have full access to the .Net object library (very cool btw).

IIS is going to be required when installing parts of MSSQL like SSRS or MSAS since they can interact with client tools and users through IIS.
Thanks. I don't see a legend at all, might be a Gnash/Flash incompatibility.
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from your submission history ( http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=f2ender ) it seems you've been in this position for a while. did you turn down the offer you mentioned a while ago? are you saying you "cannot switch" because no offer is available?
Why even visit SF? Just setup a irc channel for all the devs and a weekly conf call to deal with announcements and attaboys.
That is a mistake when they later ask you to bring in a recent pay stub.
In both World Wars the US had nationwide "rationing" and volunteer recycling programs. This was all done in the name of patriotism.

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Those unoccupied homes would simply burn down sooner rather than later and the neighborhood would be better off. Remove the blight and re-use the land for something else.