skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the AGPL would stop people from providing Diaspora servers. It would just remove some of the incentive to improve the software.
Apple appeal in Japan is turning the tables
I'm a bit surprised that there was significant internal use of Windows at Google. I had the impression that most PCs there ran Linux.
Of course you can't prevent people from copying stuff. But you can control who you want to trust. If the interface allows easily grouping people, you can easily publish your political thoughts with your friends and your children photos with your family. Everything else is not a technical problem: before you tell someone something confidential, you'll gauge wether she will repeat it to everyone and to whom she might repeat it.
There are about 75 million netbooks sold every year. Let's guess that the tablet market is 100mm at peak. Apple will be pretty happy owning the top 20% segment of that market. That is where all of the margin is at.

The Android tablets will probably have razor thin margins with Google trying to make money on the advertising and Google Apps aimed at enterprises.
Sorry, for some reason I only read the first and last sentences of your post. Maybe they are used for economic forecasting by governments?
Something tells me that the senior staff at Google was also surprised, and somebody's making this move (or was told to make this move) to save their job.
I realize you're being sarcastic and this doesn't apply to you directly, but this has been bugging me for a while:

Everyone needs to stop saying these guys are "well funded." $200k is nothing especially for a team of 4 people. It's certainly not enough for them to hire anyone else full time to join them. Yes, they didn't have to do much to get this money and I realize it's infuriating if you're really struggling to get your business off the ground when 4 nobodies get a chunk of money out of nowhere, but please recognize that the amount is so small that it doesn't warrant outrage.

Furthermore, they didn't even ask for that much. It got a big network effect in light of the recent facebook privacy issues, but it's a one time thing and most likely the last money they'll ever see for this project. I don't think their situation is repeatable in any sort of predictable way, so it probably doesn't warrant studying (please correct me if someone's figured out a way to do this, cause I think most of us would like to figure out how to get free funding). We should wish them the best of luck and only care when they make something people want to use.

I can already see the headlines of outrage when they don't produce something that destroys facebook overnight, or maybe don't release on time, or their code is really bad. Anyone who contributed to them only expected to give facebook a little jab. There are reasons to question their abilities, but jealousy over their gimmicky funding really needs to stop.
This one is excellent, in that it allows free download to the device of multiple versions (and language), with instant switching among them:

http://referenceapps.com/bible-hd-iphone-app-review/

Kindle / iBook is for reading page by page. A good bible program has many methods of jumping around as reference material.
Is there meant to be anywhere on the page where you can vote/sign/subscribe to show your support? Or is it just a concept still?
Let's not ignore non-technical employees.
1. You're trying too hard with the joking tone - it gets in the way. Jokes are funny in tutorials when they contrast with something, but if the whole thing is a long-running joke there is nothing to contrast against.

2. Inverted contrast of instruction text makes it hard to move the eyes from tutorial to command window and back.

3. There isn't actually enough explanation for what's going on. For example here "let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst villain" it's never explained what the actual syntax is. Which is where I stopped reading.

4. You have a hint that tells you how to get to current page. But I am already on the current page! What I need instead is a shortcut to get to previous page.
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> which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally

I thought the number was higher. Wikipedia says 20,621 (2010)... still thought it was higher.
And if they have any issues, they could start compiling GCC with LLVM. I hear Clang's implementation of C++ is pretty fast, and it could help track down bugs in both suites.

That is, assuming that GCC doesn't use a ton of GCC-specific extensions, which I'm fairly certain they do.
Because the code is deployed as a network service, if you make changes to the source code (probably to be a better service provider than others), you have to publish your modifications.
unluckily they have very strict restriction over debit cards. I verified two cards on PayPal that were restricted on MoneyBookers because they weren't issued from the same country I live on.
nice - i just added our new coworking space in asbury park, nj - http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cowerks:_Asbury_Park,_NJ
It's overwhelming to try to comprehend how much space there actually is and how small we are.
Well they did introduce their browser as Windows only at first... They have a lot of non-technical people who probably opt to use at whatever they used before (Windows).
Let's just focus on one thing that many people are used to: the news feed.

Say I want to find out what all my friends are up to lately. Since this information doesn't live in a (more or less) central place any more like it used to on Facebook, I need to go out and contact each node (in an encrypted, secure way) that my friends run/pay to host on an ISP and ask them, what they're up to lately. That information then gets merged by my local node (that I presumably access to view a news stream) and displayed to me.

Isn't that more than a bit inefficient? Hundreds of friends, means hundreds of connections going out, to grab friend updates, each with encryption overhead. And all those nodes have to be up and running of course.

OK, so let's assume your own node is smart enough to cache these updates. Maybe it even gets updates pushed to it when my friends update, so it's not constantly polling all of them in search for updates. That means if my friend withdraws permission to see their updates, I still have access to their cached info local to my own node.

So perhaps there's also a push update system that handles revocation. You remove permissions and send another message to those affected to forget your info. But what if I run a modified node that chooses to ignore this information? The whole thing is open source and anyone can tinker with their node code. Say I friend a malicious entity, decide I don't like them anymore, and take back their access. It could be too late.

See, this is the kind of technical detail I was hoping for. Real life examples and a vague outline of how they're going to tackle them.
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Which should be a pretty big wake up call to anyone not doing the math. 1 in 20 events happen all the time, yet naively reading the results makes it look like one is almost certainly better than the other.
It takes a lot of time to deal with attention in a human fashion.
Lots of new Mac and Linux users. Hopefully, some of the people will be dedicating some of their 20% time to improving the Mac and Linux platforms.
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Just as I think there could never be a fully automated editor of my books,
I also think the limits to intelligent machines and automation will lie
in a much better understanding of tacit knowledge - and especially of
collective tacit knowledge.

Now hang on just a minute. Is he postulating that Strong AI is impossible, here, in the very last paragraph of the column?
The big hack was apparently based on a zero day IE flaw.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/hack-of-adob

Wouldn't it be easier to make their employees use chrome?
You're right on the mark there, I just haven't even gotten used to the idea of images yet!
Funny how often "lap"-tops stay on the table. Maybe the iPad is the first actual laptop.
I don't think it's jealously over gimmicky funding, I think it's more along the lines of all this hype was raised, all this money was raised and we're still sitting here, sucking our thumbs to see what's supposed to happen.

The launch date is in September, and so far the last update since the NY Times article was a redesign. The only technical information is that it's using Ruby, "a little bit of rails" and some "other" frameworks.

This feels to me like giving a kid $0.25 for a glass of lemonade, and him telling me he'll bring it to my house after he's built his lemonade stand, bought the ingredients and actually produced a beverage.
so what happens when an exploit other than IE is used in the future when something goes down at Google?

Seems like a decision taken in haste and more of a knee-jerk reaction.
I'd have assumed that Google Chrome or Firefox would have been default browsers at Google considering their involvement.
http://tryhaskell.org/?input=%3a%74%20%69%64%20%3e%3d%3e%20%...

Tada!

Type something in the console and hit enter. Then type "link" and hit enter. Or type "link :t id >=> id".

How's that for a slice of fried gold?
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I think that's a really good point.

- Gates, Allen: Harvard

- Bezos: Princeton

- Page, Brin, Yang, Filo: Stanford

- Zuckerberg: Harvard

All these had the brains, drive and position to at least get accepted by a top-notch school. But that got me thinking, what exceptions are there? I thought of Jobs/Wozniack, but what other big hitters out there went somewhere besides and A-list school? I know they are out there, especially the multi-million dollar hits, but naturally, the press doesn't mention someone's school, unless it's a big name.
Glancing at the US portion, I find it interesting that a lot of the states that traditionally think of themselves as the "Git 'r' done" and "Do it yourself" states have fewer hacker spaces. (e.g. Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota and more)

I wonder if that is because they lack a more hackeresque spirit or because those states being rural don't need a designated hacker space.
I completely agree that this is not - and should not be - the place for childish behaviour. It's however, hard to show MS SQL's installed side by side with Debian's APT and not look like you are trying to ridicule SQL Server. The WTF's are mostly noise I really haven't noticed until a second pass through them.

And "Windows folk" may very well not be appropriate terminology. This is a hacker place. There are Windows users, Windows enthusiasts (who tend to severly mod me down when I get carried away) and some Windows developers (the kind that develops Windows, not for Windows) and we should really try to keep everything civilized.

A humorous jab here and there won't hurt, however.
The big issue with client side decryption (which sounds like a must if you don't trust all the nodes) is that brute force password guessing turns from almost impossible to extremely simple since it's done offline.
Which is hilarious, because their site claims they are almost done.
As if they needed another blow to their already tenuous credibility, the site doesn't even validate.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joindiasp...

I have zero confidence in this group.
Sure, but there's only one way to completely uninstall IE and it sounds like that's exactly what they're doing.
Perhaps we have the best situation possible in terms of evolutionary and revolutionary innovation.

We get huge leaps in revolutionary innovation by Apple, followed by strong evolutionary innovation as strong competition arrives (eg. Android) and forces Apple to continue improving, lower prices, etc.
If this were true then over time humans would never have evolved to be as intellectually capable as we are. Why can we do so many things ape's can't yet have a common ancestry?

It is defiantly learned behavior how you want to make use of the capability but as plenty of people with learning difficulties would attest, if the underlying function isn't as strong as in others it makes it a whole lot harder to learn even with the motivation.
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Slightly off-topic, but through this I learned that Processing was ported to Javascript by John Resig. The demos look good http://processingjs.org/learning/basic
I was at MIT during her reign as dean of admissions (I dropped out about a year or so into it). She was actually rather offensive, claiming that the generation after me cared more about fitting in than academics, and she did a pretty good job of skewering the extracurricular activities which were one of the major defining parts of MIT (at least for undergraduates).

Actually, I have nothing good to say about MIT's administration above the individual professors and departments -- they spent huge amounts of money on pointless things, and mainly consisted of professional administrators (educated at e.g. BU) vs. alumni. During my time at MIT they destroyed the FSILG system (student-managed small housing groups) due to one fucknozzle drinking himself to death next door to my residence.

I haven't kept up with MIT since around 2000, but it was definitely on a downward trend from 1996-1999, surviving mainly on past reputation.
Paul Allen went to Washington State University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
That's why they're ditching not IE but windows altogether.

Doesn't seem knee-jerk to me when you look at the security track record of the various platforms.
Google is getting in to the OS business. I suspect this is as much about dogfood as security, but hammering on security is instant bad press for Microsoft.
Is there any evidence that Windows 7 is less secured than Snow Leopard? Windows employs more advanced security techniques. IE has outlasted Safari in Pwn2Own since IE8. Windows releases security fixes much faster.

If they favor OS X over Windows that is completely fine, but I think they are implying something that isn't true in regards to security. If someone exploits OS X on them, is everyone moving to Linux next?
"Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks"

Wait, so they're phasing out Windows for security reasons, and moving to Mac instead? It at least made sense when they were moving to Linux or ChromeOS, but OS X's security track record as of late is far worse than Windows.
Most companies do not give non-technical employees a choice of OS.
>>unreasonable to believe that deniers are going to become less prevalent in a world where more data is published

this is almost a tautology. if data isn't published, there's nothing to deny. are you suggesting... everybody just shut the data up behind closed doors so people can say whatever they want and at least none of those pesky dissenters can stir up trouble? If the data is out there, more people will see the truth. You really can't argue with #s - if I include studies X,Y,Z the mean is M and if I exclude Z it's N. You may argue about Z but people should make those decisions for themselves.
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1. Admittedly I am just trying to be friendly and the later lessons don't really have any joking tone. If others think this detracts from the experience I'll take the jokes out.

2. I haven't heard that complaint yet! I can try lightening it up in the stylesheet.

3. I hope that's not throughout the tutorial. That one has been flagged up (my non-programmer friend had no idea what it meant, but even he persevered! Shame on you! >_-), and I knew it when I wrote it; the basic issue is there is no support for saving variables in the session state for later re-call, so you have to write out your "let x = .. in .." expression every time. As mentioned in other posts, hopefully with the introduction of loading code, this problem will be solved and I can rewrite that part of the tutorial.

4. I added that hint by request, people want to know how to get back to where they were. I can add a 'back' command and mention it within that sentence, perhaps?

Thanks for your feedback, nicely laid out and constructive!
You, sir, are the man.
"Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO approval," said another employee.

I really hope that's quoted out of context (e.g. maybe it's really getting a second machine, regardless of OS, that requires CIO approval?).

I doubt we're getting the whole story here. I'm sure there are everyday tasks that can be done more effectively on Windows (I've been Linux-only for a couple of years now, so I can't imagine what they are, but I'm sure they exist). And "Windows isn't secure" is absurdly simplistic (particularly at a company which can presumably hire the best sysadmins in the business). Constraining your employees like that to save the IT department a little effort doesn't sound like a good tradeoff.

I'd speculate this is more about politics, or dogfooding. Maybe they're trying to move employees from Office to Google Apps, and that's easier if Office is no longer available.
I can assure you that the only users at Google that are affected by this decision are sales and marketing.
The engineers in question are probably Chemical Engineers. If my college experience was any indication, Chem Engineers are some of the most right-wing people you'll ever meet. I guess it's because a lot of them go into the petroleum industry, and since they don't want to bite the hands that feed them, they end up swallowing the entire conservative ideology (including skepticism towards evolution).
I think she did an OK job, except for her recent campaign to admit more of the "well-rounded" type that most Ivies also go for. I think that somewhat diminished what makes MIT special.

I think it may be part of the reason that so many of my classmates went into finance and consulting after graduating. Many seemed to be more in love with the name than with tech itself.

This isn't universally true, of course, and much of it is based on hearsay, since I wasn't there to observe other time periods.
I think my example may have been unclear, so let me give an analogy I picked up from a demographer who analyzed the study in question:

"Imagine that if you took 32 water samples in your child's school and found that arsenic samples were 60% higher than the national standards, and you were 98% sure that you were above the standard. Then you took one more sample that was ten times higher than the standard. The logic endorsed by Michael Fumento is that we do nothing about the water supply because this outlier broadened our statistical confidence interval and we are not sure that we are above the national standard."

If the data were available, independent third parties could analyze it and say - hey ok, Fallujah was actually a valid data point so we present report B or whatever.

So, in the example above, do you really think that anyone claiming "oh, there's no reason to believe the school's water supply is dangerous since the confidence interval has been pushed out far enough that there is a minute possibility that the water is safe" is acting in good faith? I am curious: do you believe that any professional can make such claims in good faith and in accordance with their professional obligations?

If the data were available, independent third parties could analyze it and say - hey ok, Fallujah was actually a valid data point so we present report B or whatever.
The question is, if you include rationality with an IQ test, which I imagine is relatively easily to do, does this correlate even more strongly with "life success" than IQ alone.

Do you know of any research along these lines?
I've worked with loads of highly religious Christians, Jews and Muslims in web startups, both in the Bay Area and NYC.

Chem Engineers are right-wing, though. Just wanted to point out that it's not just them...
Sorry I didn't reply earlier; working. Your chosen method is perfect.
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Though several startups are addressing this area, I like the timeline approach taken by Eternos (http://beta.eternos.com)

[Disclaimer: I've blogged enthusiastically about them in the past and we've discussed a possible advisory role.]
I really like this format for uploading videos of a talk. Excellent to-the-point speaker as well.
connectnow.acrobat.com with skype voice conferencing

It's free for 5 or less participants
I would agree. Windows has the largest population of
non-computer literate people worldwide so hackers get the bigest bang for their buck and windows gets a bad rap. If everyone jumps to another OS so will the security problems.
I entirely disagree with this article.

[First a factual correction: the original job she applied for (some administrative job) did not require the high-level credentials she faked.]
Now my opinion: Whether or not somebody is fit for the job is not for the applicant to judge but for the employer. You cannot fake something in order to seem well-fit. For the same reason that a student, who feels she is capable of doing PhD level work, can't inflate her GPA. For the same reason that a student who feels she can make it through MIT can't add additional honors and awards to her MIT application. It is not about who can make it and do an OK job. For many positions, there are many more qualified applicants than slots. The faking of the credentials is extremely immoral and pretty much nullifies her worth to me.
Human frailty, you say? More like human greed? It's not like she got caught faking credentials during her first year of employment. She was at MIT for 20 years. At some point she must have realized what she did was immoral. 20 years is more than enough time to quit the job, without a public spectacle, just giving a personal reason, and going into some other business without faked credentials (maybe her own business, like she does now). Money must have been too good to take the right path.
PS: I am not bitter against MIT or MJ in particular; I actually was an MIT student admitted under MJ's leadership.
It probably makes more sense to also have the states/cities alphabetized as well. Otherwise, you have to scroll up/down or search for "Chicago" to find all the Chicago hackerspaces.
http://bigbluebutton.org/
?! Are you missing the part where OS X is based on BSD?
Well Google is also competing with Apple's OS business. The bigger point is that Windows doesn't offer users any advantage over Linux or OS X anymore. Its not like the old days when Windows had the most applications and driver support.
We are 140-character ideas. We are the pictures of your cat. We are blog posts about the economy. We are the collective knowledge that is Wikipedia. The internet is a canvas – of which, we paint broad and fine strokes of our lives with. It is a forward extension of our physical lives; a meta-self comprised of ones and zeros. We are all that is digital: If we weren’t, the internet wouldn’t either.

sounds like pr-speak.
Hmm. I think we can take the risk and if others complain we can deal with their layout too. Someone else also suggested ignoring e.altKey with this patch: http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=25853#a25859

I will try applying this patch and let you know.
I can see how it may potentially work with fine crafted bloom filters - lossy, of course! I'm just not sure if training the set of filters would be worth the effort, because computing the filters might take a looooooooooooooooong time on that level of information complexity. I've been toying around with something like that over the years actually, had some models I've programmed (not for pictures though) - I gave up.
Should say easterlies, not westerlies. Sorry about the double post; went over my HN limit for the day.