skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I remember, during 9/11 the cell networks in NY were unusable due to capacity, should the DoD be implementing capacity guidlines as well, should we budget trillions so the DoD can buy more spectrum for cell carriers? Do CB radios suddenly stop working?

As for the power companies, I'm sure thats why they hire security professionals like yourself :).

The SEC provides regulations.

Billions don't need to be sunk by defense agencies on what is essentially a regulation issue.

A lot of these doomsday scenarios are bullshit. The world ran fine without cell phones and the internet, it'll run just as fine without it for a little while. Aside from a medical case here and there, noone is going to die and no country will dissolve as a result of being hacked on the internet or even being without power for a little while.
I'd love to not need a car. I live in a very pedestrian friendly area myself and rarely drive anywhere except to commute to work (oddly, while I live about a 5 minute walk from MIT and lots of tech jobs, I work in the suburbs).

But, since I do have one for commuting, I have to admit that it comes in handy other times as well.

Also anecdotally, a friend of mine is buying me dinner because I'm driving her to a wedding this weekend.
Engadget confirmed it here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/27/palms-matias-duarte-has-j...
What he's trying to say, I think, is that you can only benefit from "being at the right place at the right time" if you have put in the effort to be ready to capitalize on that moment. If you put in the hard work, then there are many right moments and right places, otherwise they're just another moment that passes you by. DHH seems to be very angry lately, no?
> plus the exhaust of a turbo fan is subsonic

You could funnel it to increase its speed. I am not a jet-engine expert, much less a ramjet/scramjet one, but the vestigial engineer in me suspects there is some practical solution hiding in this space.
Anyone interested in this topic shouldn't miss this either: http://evhead.com/2007/12/how-to-evaluate-new-product-idea.a....
> It's because people deal with strengths every time they use web app, while weaknesses are encountered rarely and sometime can be prepared for (getting maps cached, etc.)

That's not necessarily an excuse. People don't deal with total system failure on a daily basis, but that's not an excuse to poo-poo'ing the idea of having a backup plan that is tried and tested.

Also, I'm not saying that people shouldn't use WebApps, but the idea that the industry is going to completely get rid of locally run applications in favor of doing 100% of your work and data storage 'in the cloud' is short-sighted if we are ignoring the weaknesses of such an approach, no?
Thanks I will check them out.
I'm pretty sure he was going to speak. Steve Jobs cancelled because Microsoft failed to keep it a secret.
> I'm surprised that the ultra conservative advice got voted up on a start up geared website. I would have thought I'd see more risk taking from the users

The "conservative advice" is intended to buy him time so he can figure out what he should do.

Note that startups aren't about seeking risk. They're about exploiting cases where the perceived risk is greater than the actual risk. The advice givers think that his perceived risk is currently lower than his actual risk. They're trying to reduce the latter.
I worked it out with converting z_terminated to a list inside condense_by_removing, and then returning "".join(z_terminated), but yea it does change the problem
All I can say is that you have strong opinions about telephony, the markets, and the utilities for someone who has clearly never spent time working with the backend systems of phone companies, exchanges, and power companies.

But yes, regulations would be nice. That way, after a foreign power we've pissed off by parking aircraft carriers in their shipping lanes decides to inflict tens of billions of dollars of damage on us with a a few hours keyboarding, we can at least try to sue someone.
Of course you can compare them. You can compare the speed of Oracle on a huge RAC cluster vs. text files on an Amiga 500 floppy drive. But no one would, because it's stupid and worthless. I guess that's what I meant: this is a stupid and worthless article.
FYI, here's that reddit 'time machine' of screencaps since day 0: http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
Hey, a reasonable response. I was under the impression this is bigger than the Valdex spill, but the fact that IXTOC was bigger means this might not be as big a deal as I thought.

It's still just offshore from the Mississippi delta, which will hopefully not be ruined. And I still think it's a little perverse to be cheering them on for the fact that our corrupt system won't hold them accountable.
I don't think 'j' nor 'j-1' would make sense here. 'i' would make sense, if you also terminate the condensed string.

Maybe it would be clearer if the names of the index variables better described their purpose?

http://gist.github.com/416298 (no peaking if you're submitting!)

I think these names make it clearer that neither "z_terminated[condensed]" nor "z_terminated[condensed - 1]" are reliable ways to find the end of the original string.
For those who don't know who Alexis Ohanian is, http://alexisohanian.com/ and on twitter http://twitter.com/kn0thing and on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kn0thing =)

From Wikipedia, "Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, both 22-year-old graduates of the University of Virginia. It received its initial funding from Y Combinator."
Doctors with a darker sense of humor have been known on occasion to call them "donorcycles".
I'm sorry in advance, this comment is worded poorly. I don't mean this as an insult.

This line of reasoning sounds like "As the world moves to computerized bookkeeping, am I expected to take on the extra expense and burden of buying a computer so i can keep up?" In the 80s.

Times change. Technology marches on. You can't always do the same thing forever.
>But then again, "off the cuff" means you haven't really thought about the issue fully.

hmmmm, I actually disagree. I recently moved to a new neighborhood, one that I absolutely love. If you were to ask me about it, I wouldn't have to look up reasons why I like it...I would just tell you. The reason I can do this is because I think about it all the time.

For something as important as the privacy of 400 Million people, I would hope that Zucky is thinking about it all the time...he should be able to answer questions about facebook privacy in the same way that a startup founder should be able to give somebody an elevator pitch without stopping to think about it.

The way it is now (scripted, obviously so), it looks like this isn't something that facebook really cares about.
Wired magazine for iPad sells 24.000 units in 24 hours
Forget Attention, It's an Intention Economy
Google Code Search, not Google Code.
Nulledge:
http://nullege.com/codes/search/file.close
Google Code Search
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=lang%3Apython+file.close&...

Nulledge may well be better for Python, but Google Code Search nominally has the same purpose.
Its and it’s is easy for me but seems to be a big problem for many native speakers.
I think some of that isn't just hating the successful companies, but the big/boring ones. Betting that the huge firm dominating a market will continue to dominate the market in basically the same way, with minor variants of their current products, probably is often the smart bet, but it's a really boring possibility to root for. Some innovative company shaking up the market is a lot more interesting!
Wow, what a gold mine! Does anyone have recommendations for these? I've been looking to get started with some network monitoring for my personal boxes and eventually work my way up to monitoring well over a hundred machines.
I was given some great advice recently. My priorities are now: 1. Health, 2. Family, 3. Work

You may be able to make short term sacrifices in any of them, but long term you will be miserable if you don't take care of things in that order.
The iPhone OS 4.0 update will not bring all the features to my iPhone 3G, notably multitasking. Some things may be subjective and down to individual opinion, but lets not go just making up facts to suit our argument.
I just got the Nexus One, first exposure to Android. The UI seems pretty good to me, love the notification area, menus are easy and intuitive. (I've used an iPhone for ages, but I'm pretty sold on Android now. I switched my SIM over the other day and may well not switch back).
Geoffrey A. Moore - Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
So there were presumably multiple failures? I would assume there is some redundancy in the system (i.e. at least two valves).
SolarBeat - The solar system as a music box
and an elephant is old, wise and never forgets
You touch on it with the carrier point; so let me get to the real core of my argument.

Electronic or financial damage is nothing compared to the ability to level entire nations physically. Any financial/electronic threat has a suitable recourse physically.
Skype problems unfortunately (Jessica and Alexis aren't in the same location).
Or someone other than Ballmer (like Muglia) does show up.
Tony--

I like this...but I think #7 rises above the rest in terms of importance. Or, at least it does for me personally.

Invariably, startups get hard, so when the going gets tough it's hard to keep on chugging along if you don't care.

This is what happened to me...I wrote about a startup I was involved with once (http://www.scottporad.com/2009/07/13/the-key-lesson-from-a-s...) where we had a good idea, but we didn't care. We ended up never even launching the product. :(
The charges were for copyright violations. It was merely a way to tell them to stop, as Blizzard has done this in the past, having lawyers show up to the doors of people making or promoting wow emulators.
The fact that the Android Marketplace lists apps in Dollars, Pounds, Euros, Yen, and other currencies. You need a currency conversion app just to use it. That is an example of TERRIBLE UI.
I view it as an apples to oranges comparison, because you are comparing a fixed cost with a variable cost.

Why should I pay $40-$50/month for home Internet and just to pay another $50/month for 3G Internet (which isn't even 'everywhere Internet' because it only covers certain areas; metropolitan areas better than rural obviously)? Keep in mind that these are monthly costs, not fixed costs.

> Times change. Technology marches on. You can't always do the same thing forever.

Things aren't always better just by virtue of being new.
Luck comes to the prepared mind. --Louis Pasteur
Facebook to Roll Out Q&A Feature
i stand corrected and updated my original comment accordingly.
I'd be interested in experience, tips and comparisons, too!
Especially how GWT compares to extJS and jQuery in terms of performance, ease of use, customization (complex ui design and implementation), maintainability, tools, benefits overall.. was wondering for some time now but didn't get around to use GWT for some project, yet :(
No doubt, but if my desire is not to see other answers, I'm not going to read the assembly closely enough to understand. Your objection makes more sense with indented programming languages whose indentation structure may give away more information.
IMO a better question is why does every Web app now qualify as being "in the cloud?" Cloud computing started off (if I remember correctly) as being related to on-demand servers (coined around the time Amazon EC2 was released?). Now it's like everything is the cloud. Like the Web turned into the sky.
Method and system for transferring large data files over parallel connections
It is depressing to hear Scott Adams trot out the tired old lie about the liberal media.

But he is right that BP is a good buy. The sad truth is that after the Bush years the law is so much in favour of oil companies and the federal courts are so packed with conservative judges, that it is doubtful that BP will have to pay much for this disaster. You probably do not remember but the Exxon Valdes case concluded just a couple of years ago and Exxon got away with paying a very minimal sum considering the scope of the disaster.
> but also make sure that you have local backups of any data you consider to be important.

One of my points is that operating on this local data becomes impossible if we make it so that all of our computers are thin-clients to the cloud (which is what I think a lot of people are pining for).
I'm really amazed at the variation I'm seeing in the solutions that just my friends are providing. One said his first try would be quadratic, and his second would require allocation; another used a strange mix of indexing and pointer arithmetic. Even those who commit to either indexing or pointer arithmetic have significant variation in their solutions.

I actually think there's a distinct best solution to this problem, so it's remarkable to me that there's so much variation between people that I consider to be good programmers.
Interestingly enough, I was thinking about how I would do a case study this morning and here's what I came up with:

* Tell a story. This would be in the form of an interview. Basic questions from my company and let the business do most of the talking. Get to the heart of how the person uses my product.

* Use basic data and charts.

- Show how the bottom line increased

- Show how productivity increased with the use of my product

- Show how my product improved conversion

* Let the person pitch themselves a little bit.

The best case studies are done by 37signals. I actually enjoy reading them and peeking into how other companies work. For example: http://productblog.37signals.com/products/2010/05/make-sport...
Did you go into the Mission? Or Hayes Valley? Or over by Jtown? And god help you if there is any sort of Event nearby. During the maker faire every iphone read "5 bars" but no one could get their iPhones to do anything. Oh sure, it said it was sending texts and trying to make calls, it said it was trying to load webpages, but it all failed.

We Are Not Making This Up; and it's not just iPhone customers.
I specifically avoid Elance, ODesk, and RAC type marketplaces.
And people will return them because they wanted XP
Yeah, I feel like there's another blog post. Startups seem to die from lack of faith more than anything else. Even if they run out of money, if people can believe that they can turn effort into some sort of win, they'll tough it out.

Faith seems to come from how much you "care"... Though I think success can be a huge factor here. Example: You build CRM software for Dentists and realize that you don't care about it. You go to a convention to see if anyone wants to buy it and get 2500 orders from desperate dentists who will pay $10k each. All of a sudden you care again.

I'm sure the guys are groupon aren't super excited about people getting deep savings in hair removal-- but I imagine they go to work every day pretty jazzed!
Extensive downvoting and contentless replies is good enough of an answer for me :)
Sounds like Beautiful Code (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046).

Maybe if a user's submission becomes well liked they could be asked to write a more in-depth explanation or article.
Perhaps that is how Richard Stallman and Donald Knuth feel about the web, particulary the (un)social web. Who wants to voluntarily let their mind be invaded with idiotic comments like those you refer to on Reddit.
DHH has always been like that. His personal website is loudthinking.com
I'm pretty sure just about everyone has realized this by now. IMHO the media companies are using it to draw out their demise to maximize revenue before collapse or drastic change inevitably comes about. It also buys time to think of a better answer.
I'm not sure, but I think a lot of the failure prevention systems went down with the rig.
Ugh! I came up to Justin.tv to broadcast today so Randall (of Justin.tv) could oversee things. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a problem with the Skype connection that was beyond our control. I may need to do these interviews in person.
Funny, I had a 30" Cinema Display that I passed on to one of my colleagues. It was just too large, in the sense that I had to physically pan my head a lot just to see things on the screen (couldn't just move my eyes). I find a 24" display more comfortable.
The big, reflective lights are there partially due to the fact that we're using LEDs for brake lights instead of bulbs. The advantage here is that LEDs respond much faster than bulbs, which have a significant delay between power applied vs. light generated.
Robot Co-op Diet Update (Shutting down 43 People)
A good collection of articles, tutorials and slide-shows on Perl one-liners, all in one place:

http://bufferfly.members.winisp.net/Perl_oneLiners.html

(I remember especially liking the one from Sial.org - a lot of good Perl content on that site, the two from Cultured Perl and the FMTYEWTK on mass edits.)
Blizzard aren't being completely honest here. They aren't just making Battle.net so awesome people will want to pay for the game — they're specifically disabling LAN multiplayer so that people have no choice but to use Blizzard's servers for any real gameplay.

Fighting piracy by making people authenticate with a server just to use a feature that would otherwise work fine without an Internet connection? Back in my day, we called that "DRM."
Easiest path to $2000 a month?
> But they will defend Battle.net to the death.

Of course they will. I should hope they would. It's the best and most successful alternative to DRM (that I am aware of) when it comes to curbing piracy, which they as a company NEED TO DO. DRM may be bad, but preventing piracy is not. I don't think they are trying come across as saying "we don't care about piracy".

Besides, Battle.net has provided some pretty darn good extra value.
From iPhone to Android
Brilliant and unique PPC strategy
[accent=French]Listen to me very carefully, I will say zis only once![/accent] ;)
It's harder to find the news articles discussing the early efforts to close the valves because it's not exactly news anymore, but here's what wikipedia says.

"The rig's blowout preventer, a fail-safe device fitted at source of the well, did not automatically cut off the oil flow as intended when the explosion occurred. BP attempted to use remotely operated underwater vehicles to close the blowout preventer valves on the well head 5,000 feet (1,500 m) below sea level, a valve-closing procedure taking 24–36 hours. BP engineers predicted it would take six attempts to close the valves. As of May 2, 2010, they had sent six remotely operated underwater vehicles to close the blowout preventer valves, but all attempts were ultimately unsuccessful."
People would come to a deeper and more complete understanding of a subject by reading a document whose actual intent is to bring them to a more complete and deep understanding of that subject.

Fascinating.
Still not working for me for some reason (chrome 5.0.375.38 beta), upvote anyway.
Also did you make calls on your phone much? In the mission my phone shows good signal but on Saturday literally every call dropped. 15 dropped calls in a day.

Do you know if T-Mobile is any better in the mission?
As soon as being "in the cloud" became progressive and good, everyone who could spin it began billing their services as "cloud-based". Use as a marketing buzzword transformed it's colloquial meaning.
The SR-71 Blackbird's engines were hybrids; AFAICT they didn't quite use this approach, but instead had a layout where the same engine could function as a conventional jet and a ramjet depending on how fast air was hitting it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J58
I guess I must be the only person with an iPad for whom it is now just going dusty in a cupboard.

I had an enthusiastic few weeks with it but after that it just seems to be sub-optimal for most of the use cases I have. I really dislike browsing the web on it, which is the main problem.

It's great for viewing photos but I just can't work with iTune's retarded methodology for putting them on there. It's nice for viewing videos but only at close range and then you have to hold it so it doesn't really work for me for movies. It is far too hard to type to be a practical device for email.

It's really interesting to watch how people's reactions to it change as they adapt to this "new" kind of device.
I think that was more a result of the unnecessary comment about "Apple fanboism" than your actual question.
This makes me think there is room for a service that does nothing but AMA with famous people only.
So that'll be ten questions about the flavour of the stuff between his toes then...
To borrow a phrase from the Borg: WinMo is irrelevant.
Exactly. A flamethrower is more capable but everyone buys lighters.

As technologies mature they become more simple and elegant not more complex and capable. The problem is that it's a pass/fail test. There is a small difference between something simple and something useless.

IMHO, the future is dockable smartphones. Tablets may be a milestone on that path.
How To Land Big Clients Even If You’re A Bootstrapped Startup
I think his initial conclusion is still correct: the iPad isn't going to be the same kind of hit the iPhone was. I think that's a direction where computing is going to expand, but it'll happen a lot more slowly. Especially while the it's expensive enough that the target market is people who are "replace their kitchen computers."
Isn't it the whole thesis of the Outliers book?
not sure how closely (or if at all) related this article is, but you might find it interesting:

"Culprit in [San Francisco] Wi-Fi Failures: Chicken Wire"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126221116097210861.html
luck = preparation + oppurtunity

- Jim Greco
I've never used Instapaper on an iProduct, so I can't compare. But I'm addicted to Instapaper and I'm very happy using it with InstaFetch on a Droid Eris.
I'm lucky in many ways to have the girlfriend I have. She's a very patient, logical and intelligent human being. She understands my conviction for building a business and penchant for spending ungodly hours on the computer. She's also an invaluable resource: anytime I have a problem, I talk to her. Almost every time I come out of that conversation with a better, more elegant solution than I could have ever dreamed. Her ability to reason in both a right- and left-brained fashion and communicate to me in my extreme left-brainedness is incredible. It doesn't even matter that she doesn't program: her ability to step back and think in a different, elevated fashion is just so helpful.

And that's the thing: I talk with her about everything. She's not a part of the company, but she's incredibly integrated into our workflow. Because she's there with us in everything we do, I think our relationship has actually strengthened — and quite a bit at that. Being able to share this experience with her has been wonderful. She cares deeply about what I do and wants to be a part of it. And I think that's key. Even despite the distance (we spend 9 months out of the year over 3,000 miles apart), we're extremely close and I'm hopeful for our future, notwithstanding the insane hours I put into building the company.

And, above everything else, I think that's important. Don't overlook her; instead, integrate her. There are a lot of great tips in this thread, but I'd say if you take anything away, it's this: allow her to fall in love with entrepreneurship as much as you have. If she truly loves you — and I very much believe this to be true — she'll love what you do as well. That's especially true with us: we're entrepreneurs to our core and with everything we have.

My girlfriend truly believes in what I am doing and my vision for the future. She supports me in everything I do and without her, I'd probably have given up long ago. Her steadfast support keeps me going. The adage "behind every great man is an even greater woman" is so very, very true.
Or may be use wired phones?