skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when Jobs promised my @mac.com e-mail to be free. And I am still a Mac user (last time I counted, I had 9 Macs in my collection, one of which is used regularly to sync my iPod)
Google Analytics and any JavaScript based analytics can only ever be regarded as indicative.

If you think it measures your whole audience you're wrong. People might not finish load the page for example. Or they've ad-blocked the ga.js. Or they are using NoScript. Or they're using an accessibility layer.

It may be the majority of your audience, but I'm fairly sure that even with this add-on/extension that GA will still remain a good indicator of your audience size and your audience habits. That hasn't changed.
I've made a pomodoro timer app that also gives me a summary over which apps and websites I have used during the last 25 minutes when a pomodoro is over. (http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato)

This is good feedback about whether I actually managed to focus on the task that I planned.

However, I find that pomodoros are not the right granularity - to really be productive, I need to focus on one task for an entire day (related: pg's Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html). This is still really hard for me to do.
They could always fix it.

Come on... It's not that hard. It's a relatively simple problem that scales horizontally very well. And it's not like Apple is short on cash.
This article isn't about the fact that he quit his job or how he went about it, it's about challenging the norms of society and not just accepting them.

I think it's this naivety that let's many entrepreneurs, young and old, think that they can tackle established players or entire industries head on and win. It's this naivety that helps them identify the right way to do something rather than the established way.
Sure.

I know such a thing is very valuable, especially for sole founders. You need a support group that keeps you on track, helps you bounce and develop ideas, etc. The groups I saw also talked about coaching and other leadership type seminars, which is not of interest to me.

The range of prices was £90-£400 per session (one group stated £250-£400 per session), with 1-2 sessions per month. I just couldn't see myself paying that for what value I perceived I'd get. A call on Skype or a meeting over beer would be perfectly OK for me.
All I can see is that this code makes no sense whatsoever to me. I guess that means that Ruby is not for me...
"To compete with Fox, Time Warner has to make HBO free."

On the contrary, these products have different business models that intentionally appeal to different markets.

For example, you can't walk into a Google Store at the mall and have someone help you get your Windows 7 laptop and iPhone talking to each other.

Also, if you offer people free coffee versus coffee marked down to a dollar from five dollars, many people will choose the coffee for a buck.

People like to value things, and having paid for something invests them in valuing its utility.
On a related note, can I as a consumer do anything to help IPv6 along?
if I want to opt out from your information-gathering program I have to install something on my computer

Actually I think this is the preferred approach.

Obviously an opt-in service (where you have to agree to web analytics) is a UX nightmare and a non starter. We can't expect that of them.

So that really only leaves a cookie; which is easy to delete or lose accidentally turning on analytics again.

A browser plugin is best because:

a) people can see & audit what code is being run

b) there is positive assurance of the opt out

c) you don't accidentally lose the opt out (and thus Google avoids the eventual "angry blog post" associated with that :P)
You make good points. In a company I worked for previously I got more than one of my friends hired, but I did it when the company was actively recruiting and I spoke with my boss extensively at every step.

In the end, I gave my recommendations and scheduled the interviews, but it was my boss that worked out salary and other details with them.

Unless you are the hiring manager and have direct authority to make offers on behalf of the company, never offer anyone a job. Providing a reference and hand carrying the resume to the appropriate hiring manager is as far as you would be wise to go.
I think most of the experts are just as clueless at this stage as most of the armchair oil tycoons so you're in good company there.

Let's hope not all of them are and that this will work or that they find something else that works real soon.
Whenever is awesome.

(incidentally, check your pull requests :)
I definitely don't think it measures my whole audience. I've just been comfortable with what I perceive as the size of the audience that I'm not measuring.

I think the release of an easy-to-use, official plug-in at a time when people are up in arms over privacy could lead to less accurate statistics.

It's too early to tell whether this plug-in will have a large effect of not. If it is talked about in the right places, it definitely could.
Need to put a furry hat on it or something. Looks like a scarab beetle.
GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store
Client-side javascript-based analytics never were, and never will be foolproof.
Part of the problem is that a lot of security advisories basically say "run the latest version".

Restricting access with .htaccess is a good idea;
http://www.themepremium.com/wordpress-security-restrict-wp-c...
To make Mobile Me free, Apple has to improve it.

They don't want 100x the users until it's ready.
Or, ya know, they could just allow 3rd party MobileMe clone services to be configured. That thing called "competition"? Buuuut, this is Apple, so we shouldn't really expect it.
Apple views themselves as a hardware company and they'll give away software if it boosts hardware sales. iTunes is an obvious example. I could definitely imagine a scenario where Apple makes MobileMe free for iPhone users.
That sounds awful. Credit card fraud is mostly paid for by merchants??
The latest version of the LittleDog Robot
I run into the same problem when trying to submit any unicode data through ActiveRecord. I will try this fix and see if it helps.
>Why on earth would "this shake-up" be needed?

Because you can't be top dog in the pack when you're looking at Nintendo's cute wagging backside inching further away. Wii is the PS2 of this millennium. There's no way the PS3 or XBox 360 will touch it.

Microsoft isn't used to being second fiddle. Hell, look at how they're stagnating in the web browser arena. Firefox and Chrome et al. are eating away at IE and MS doesn't seem to care because they can't control the browser with all these open standards anyway. Bing is an also ran that can't even come close to Google's dominance, no matter how much money they throw at consumers with that cashback scheme.

The reason they became successful (then, with the introduction of Windows 95, dominant) is that they were cheap and kinda worked. That's great in the era of big iron and 20lb. "portables" and all that. But now, people are willing to pay for "just works" and "magic". Plug, main screen turn on, device do thing, you use and it no hard.

When the vast majority of users are obsessed with social networking, writing small little text/tweets, bite-size 2D addictive casual games with one-button control, and playing music and youtube videos, how are you going to cash in on that if you're a Microsoft? Try to replicate Zynga and Twitter? Then what? Watch as you're yet again late to the party and throwing massive gobs of money down the pit to fill it up and catch the competition?

Maybe -- and this could be the key -- MS needs to start _aquiring_ technologies instead of trying to reinvent them like they're some garage startup. Go buy some big sexy new technology, actually ship it (or hell, ship surface/origami/courier/etc.). Because you're not going to outsexy Apple or outcasual Nintendo playing by their rules. You just won't.
It's a good explanation, but it can only be valid if they store passwords in plain text. No financial institution would do that, right?
In Ruby I defined these on Object. A little ugly if you are doing a long chain, but works fine in many cases.

def if_present?
# example: User.find_all_by_something.if_present? || User.find_all_by_something_else
self if present?
end

def send_if_respond_to(method, *args)
# example: string_or_nil.send_if_respond_to(:strip)
send(method, *args) if respond_to?(method)
end
It's not really a matter of months/years. If you've built an application (or piece of an application) that other people use or have used, I'd say you can call yourself a programmer. (Though your skill level may still be in question.)

If you haven't built something yet, do that. If you're new to the field, having something to show off and talk about in an interview is a big win.
You should set some variables (SHELL, PATH, HOME) in your crontab. Just run "sudo env -i SHELL=... PATH=... HOME=... cmd"; this should work if cron would work.
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/mar/29/scripps/

apparently several newspapers run off a Django install, including the newspaper that employed the web developers who wrote it:

http://notesofgenius.com/django-web-framework
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Something is wrong with your setup. I have been using that flash blocker for 2-3 months now and it blocks 100% flash objects for me both on mac and Windows, haven't tried it on Linux yet.
MyPaint lets you draw beautiful freehand pictures
Agreed. I have been in the position as a hiring manager, and if one of my employees had done this, I would have been furious. This would have put me in the awkward position of telling the person that thought they had a job lined up that they needed to interview, may or may not get the salary they thought they had locked in, and that they would have to wait at least a week (likely longer) while I considered all other candidates, especially possible internal candidates.

And that is before talking about the fact they trained someone who had not yet signed an NDA in our processes and internal workings. I know in some areas this is not a problem, but in some industries I worked with this could have caused major issues. In fact, if working with any kind of sensitive data, this could involve actual crimes being comitted.

And that is not to mention the fact I would have to then have a long talk with legal about whether or not we needed to pay her for the week of training already done. And, again I am not a lawyer, but I suspect this could have opened up horrible liability situations if she had actually been injured in an employees only area while being trained without an employment contract.

The only saving grace is that most managers generally (I certainly did) have a good enough idea of what is going on in their areas that this would have been caught and corrected within hours instead of an entire week.

[Edited for minor grammar and spelling fix]
If you fail to upgrade immediately, malware is often installed and remains after an upgrade. I missed one site by a day and got infected. The default option to print the WP version in the <head> of each blog would certainly lower the likelihood of a script finding an outdated site. Unfortunately once hacked, truly cleaning the site requires

1. Backing up theme, making list of plugins installed
2. Inspecting theme for any hacks. (difficult if you wrote your own)
3. Deleting _all_ files
4. Walking through the wp_options table for any leftover holes (very difficult)
5. Re-install WP
6. Re-install theme and plugins.

The WP team needs to work in something like you linked to into the core.
Minimal Viable Product
Actually, I'll go further and say I hate the existence of bytestrings. I should not be required to know about bytestrings to do text processing at a reasonable speed.

(I have no opinion as to whether it's reasonable to use bytestrings for interaction with the FFI.)
This article is a confusing mix of three unrelated arguments: that MobileMe should be better, that MobileMe should be free, and that iPhone OS devices should be first-class computing devices.

I really don't see what any of them have to do with one another.
Not really. You could enable Teredo so that the fraction of IPv6 traffic on the Internet rises from 0.1% to 0.2%, but nobody is going to take action based on that.
Rumor has it that the Mobile Me product and infrastructure as it currently stands is going into maintenance mode. I doubt Apple would give up entirely on something so important, so my best guess is that they are going to launch something entirely new that does many of the same things in a better way.

This is hearsay, so please treat it as such.
It seems that this is newer...

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H...

Also, there you can download PDF.
I use Chrome's built-in javascript blocking. It's simple and gets the job done. Best of all, my whitelist is synced across all my Chrome instances, including fresh installs.
Really?

I know a number of people who got advanced degrees (eg MDs) paid for by the military. The terms say that if you work for the military for a certain period after graduation, your tuition is paid in full. If you don't, then you owe your tuition. Either way you have an MD. (I know people who have gone both ways on that.)

That sounds very similar to this situation. And I've never heard of any legal objections to the arrangement.
Making tomorrows technology obsolete today.
GA already works that way.
followed by "I am Alf and I hunger" and "cherry blossoms fall" if you're going for Zen.
Have you any sources other that experience?

This is not catchy question. My wife and I contemplate starting company together. Its easier avoid something expected.
Expensive Book Collections
That's just an ad for 'homerun'.

Find insecurity in competitors service, make loud blog noises, drop payload.
Bucket Sort with Clojure
Incredible. I especially like the demonstration on how you found a leak in Rails3. I hope those working on Rails3 use this!

I love sane tools. Very cool. I'm going to give it a try.
The card issuer has two parties they can stick the charge to, one is the merchant, the other their customer.

The merchant is the easy way out, they're not going to cancel their connection with the card issuer because that's their bottom line. Sticking the charge to the customer is harder because the customer will cancel.

Follow the path of the least resistance: stick it to the merchant.

Now if they did the right thing, they'd fix their acceptance rules and a bunch of security issues and eat the remainder of the charges.

Fat chance of that happening any day soon.
... you mean like letting people install dropbox and configure gmail?

Tell me I'm lost in the sarchasm.
Legendary psychiatrist Viktor Frankl on Human search for meaning [vid]
Yup, merchants don't just end up paying for the actual credit card fraud via chargebacks, they often lose tons of money on fraudulent chargebacks. In those cases the merchant will win the dispute and get the money they were owed, but will be out various non refundable fees ($20 per instance with the last dozen accounts I've worked with).
How is your tax money funding the lottery when you admit that it more than pays for itself?

In fact, the lottery where I live pays hundreds of millions of dollars into a school fund every year; money that your tax dollars otherwise would have to pay for.
http://andand.rubyforge.org/
This is what I am looking forward to. Cron, atd, and init all have functionality that should be integrated and udev aware.

And this functionality should be easily available to all applications. If I want to send a specific email at noon, or backup my laptop drive every night at 3am only when on my home network, etc., I should be able to without using 5 different daemons or programs kept running in the background and hacked-together scripts.
If you're lucky and a bunch of fraud cases happen in a month of low turnover you could even lose your merchant account.
I don’t understand why would someone buy something that has been recently banned by Twitter. What am I missing?
Anyone know anything about sucuri.net? Reputable?
I don't feel it needs to be free, but the service certainly does not feel like it's worth $100/year (or even the $69/year it costs if you buy a MobileMe activation code on Amazon rather than direct from Apple).

But that's because I'm paying for stuff I don't use. I only subscribed for the "Find my iPhone" service and the contact/calendar sync. I don't use the cloud storage features and I already have half a dozen other email addresses I don't check anyway. If not for "find my iPhone," I would've just relied entirely on Google's sync service.

I don't see why they can't implement a pricing system that unbundles some of the services -- sell "find my iPhone," the sync services, the remote access, and cloud storage services a la carte.
I know we all love to hate Comcast, but you can find similar short-term hacks in any code base. 3 lines of code doesn't necessarily make the rest of released source useless.
I have no idea why you're getting so many upvotes. I have yet to see anything about NYTimes.com that would preclude it running on Drupal. It seems to be working for whitehouse.gov, fastcompany.com, thenation.com, economist.com, and quite a few other high traffic sites.

EDIT: And I also have done Drupal development for several high-traffic magazine and newspaper sites that get millions of monthly visitors.
Water usage will become a big issue. Especially if the planet keeps warming up, which could see many glacial fed rivers drying up. Impacting millions of people’s across the globe.

There’s several things that needs to be worked out very soon:

- Sustainable water desalination in arid countries that doesn’t consume hydrocarbons (Solar-Thermal desalination? Nuclear desalination?).

- Better reuse of human waste for the growing of food. Currently most food is grown with artificial fertilisers, which aren’t sustainable in the long run. We need to make better reuse of our waste so that the amount of phosphorus (Another resource soon to peak), potassium, and nitrogen from artificial or mined sources can be reduced.

- Better waste water and grey water management systems to recover domestic waste water for use in industries and farming.
Phishing and OpenID: Bookmarks to the Rescue?
I once gave my card to a waiter.
"This page is secure"?

This comment is complementing American Express.
I never understood the gray goo problem. Isn't life, evolution's best attempt at gray goo? Developed over the past few billion years? How could we invent something that replicates faster and more efficiently than life does?

Even it's ultimately possible, I can't imagine it would happen by accident. It would certainly require a lot of deliberate effort, and 1000s of new technologies.
I don't think this model has been banned. Isn't it services like ad.ly who are paying users to tweet out ads. FeaturedUsers is a service that is like an adwords model which allows people to advertise their Twitter account.
By your logic, we might as well call it 'cracker news'.
This site doesn't do in-stream twitter advertising from what I can tell so it wouldn't be banned by Twitter.
Maybe. But their fraud detection is pretty good. I've seen some unauthorized charges before, and Amex has called me before I had any idea. I've also had unauthorized charges show up on a Citi card -- their customer support didn't care and refused to help me. I just paid the $60 (for some scam software, apparently) and canceled the card. So Citi may protect their numbers better, but Amex actually helps you when someone gets your number.

(I also had a Paypal debit card canceled for authorized charges. Needless to say, I just buy everything with the Amex. Good customer service, good interest rate, cash back.)
"In many ways, Mobile Me isn't that good" - hence Apple will gain nothing from making a bad product free. Their captive audience right now are Mac users, and it's a far easier sell.
Certain aspects of Mobile Me need work, like iDisk. Other aspects work well, like email and Mobile Me sync.

I'm saying that Apple should make Mobile Me free, and put more resources behind it to make it better. They should focus on increasing its adoption, and making it a core piece of their mobile platform.

As opposed to trying to monetize from it directly.
Check the comments. Their service isn't banned by Twitter (yet). That's not to say the risk factor didn't just shoot from a 0.1 to 0.99, but it's viable for the moment.

Between Apple's alteration to their AppStore T&Cs and Twitter's change in API usage T&Cs, I think we're facing a little bit of a correction in the "internet is free (as in freedom)" movement. This is a natural consequence of a model where corporations roll out features before they've figured out how they'll monetize them. In other words, if I'm not sure how I'll make money from my service, I must reserve the right to change the rules to support a viable business model at some point.

Personally, I hope the backlash doesn't push things too far in a conservative direction, but I do think companies should put a little more thought in to the future of their product's interaction with the target network of developers and affiliates before they open the doors to integrate.
In the USA, by law, they are not allowed to stick it to the customer for more than $50.

If they ate the charges, they are afraid that a lot of merchants would deliberately ring up fraudulent purchases for the guaranteed profit.

Those two facts force them to the current system. And the fact that merchants are not allowed to charge customers different rates for different cards gets rid of incentives for merchants to charge customers for the poor security practice that the credit cards have.
IPhone, Facebook, oAuth 2.0 and the Graph API. A Tutorial.
How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet
Presumably this will also install the Google Updater so you can have 7 updater instances humming away in your task manager at any given time...
There is the issue of expertise, to scale this fast into a system that ambitious would be something that apple didn't tackle before. Apple talent poll seems to be focused on other problems, very large scale computing is an expertise Google completely dominates at present and is closely aligned with their core business.

this isn't resolved by throwing money at it, its a whole other class of engineering problems, and the talent is currently elsewhere, much of at the rivals employ.
https://post.craigslist.org/sfo/S/wan/
Yes, we are reputable :)
Our data is so deduped that no two bits are alike
I appreciate the link, but the article describes a wide range of fluids for various purposes. I didn't read it super-carefully, but I don't think this purpose was mentioned.

I'm curious about what they plan to use tomorrow. And, like you, I'd really like to hear somebody describe the mechanism by which it would work.
This isn't really an overnight sort of problem though, it's not like all the existing sources will suddenly run dry over the course of a year and leave us with nothing to bootstrap new sources.
I think it's more interesting to look at what the crossing point is where it becomes useful to multitask.

Surely, when on hold with some company listening to "your call is valuable to us; please do not hang up; the expected wait time is 45 minutes" he wouldn't advise to just be on the phone.

When I need to run a 5 minute test suite before checking in some code, should I go read my email while I wait? What if it's 30 seconds instead?

Where is that point where switching to another task is the right thing to do?
I would be inclined to take this more seriously if there wasn't an enormous distorted AMEX logo at the top of the post.
Apple has a frustrating habit of neglecting certain products (see AppleTV).

It's quite inexplicable when seen from outside.
My clients are pretty effective at keeping me moving along the right track. It would be nice to have a network like you describe, but I don't have time to try to find them!