skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060720193601/www.xprogramming.c...

Edit: Damn, he indeed superbly demolishes Larman's "evidence".
Horrible style. They repeat a good couple times how Wikileaks compromised sources not once but twice and go on rambling how no wikileaks source is secure. More like confused ramblings than anything else. It's impressive what passes for journalism these days.

Surprise: you are not secure. You never were and you'll never be. If you really want to leak confidential info anonymously, you have to hide your identity yourself and trust nobody else to do it.
Wow the recorded sessions feature is really cool. Props to you guys, I hope you do well.
A question I asked when these first came out:

how hard would it be to print a faint graphic on one of these? I glued a metal whiteboard to a utility table for gaming; the 1" grid dots are pretty important for the games we play. If I could get a Bertha with pre-printed grid dots I'd be all over it.

Alternatively, how opaque/translucent are these? If I drew grid dots directly onto the table surface and then placed Bertha over the top, how much would the dots show?
Yeah, gotta let them make some money off you.
stagnant like a glacier.
Ok, as someone who rotates amongst coworking spaces quite a bit, I agree with people saying that your daily drop-in rates are too expensive. First and foremost, you need to build a community. You need a lot of people to be doing daily drop-ins and then aim that some will convert to being monthlies. So, the daily drop-ins should be something like "you can come in 7 times for free, and then pay $5 or $10 / day". You essentially want people to compete for the free seating.

$325 is very reasonable if you get a desk, a locker to keep your stuff, and a key for 24/7 access. If you think that you can charge $325/month and yet have people be there just Mon - Fri 9 - 5, you are absolutely delusional - that's just too expensive for not that much benefit.

Look at http://citizenspace.us/ for an idea of what it should be like.
I think the word you are looking for is "culture" :)
Las Vegas will last forever. Arid climate, Lots of concrete.
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1460512
Steve "High Performance" Souders jumped ship and went to Google though.
Is BP Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old?
10 year old fixes oil spill. Maybe BP can learn something.
Well, that is not what I meant at all, I meant that I've seen BSD return in say 2 microseconds after calling usleep(1).

But that's usleep not sleep, which is the inaccuracy I was admitting to in the first place.
Canadian province secretly passes law allowing arrest of those who won't show ID
Oh, and I forgot to mention YSlow - as far as I can tell, that Firefox plugin was available years before anything else like it (e.g. Chrome's performance profiler). Not only did it work and work well, but the Yahoo! devs released lots of documentation and videos around how to improve site performance, i.e. free education from people who dealt with massive scale daily.
Lamo tells us he sent the logs to Wikileaks "To see if they'd be true to their ethos, and publish something, even if it incriminated a source, or if they'd cover it up. I wanted to pose a catch-22.

Um, yeah...

We have since established contact with Nadim Kobeissi, a hacker whose conversations with Adrian Lamo were also leaked.

These are being presented as Wikileaks choosing to identify people who send data to them. While it's a bit difficult to parts what exactly happened, it sounds more like it was really that Wikileaks got hold of some of Lamo's IM sessions and published those. Which seems quite reasonable, given that he's apparently selling people out and spinning inconsistent stories about why.
So, putting it shortly, it does work.

I agree completely Smalltalk 80 kicks Java 2010's ass, but, still, saying Java does not work is kind of exaggerated.
This is a misleading summary of the story. The allegation isn't that Wikileaks has poor operational security; it's that Assange was given documents that later leaked, and that are alleged to only have been leakable by him. This article alleges that Assange deliberately broke opsec.
I'm not sure I believe that. Pocket watches were worn with waistcoats. I am not sure when the average man stopped wearing a waistcoat, but wristwatches were "mass-market" during and after WW2 (massive economies of scale necessary to equip armies with them), probably around the same time. When was the period of history, pre-wristwatch, when men who could afford watches didn't wear waistcoats?
Is it Now Acceptable to Require JavaScript?
Ask HN: 2 page simple term sheet and 100+ page contracts. What to do?
We received a very straight forward term sheet which we completely agree upon. However, after signing the term sheet we received 100+ page legal document. What should we do?

1. Engage a law firm which will take time.
2. Try to find someone who has hands-on experience
3. Read it ourselves and figure it out.
4. ???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter

"The issue has two components: rate of tick and whether all cores (processors) have identical values in their time-keeping registers. There is no promise that the timestamp counters of multiple CPUs on a single motherboard will be synchronized. In such cases, programmers can only get reliable results by locking their code to a single CPU."

The entry also mentions that hibernation can affect the counters. I wonder if power savings implementations that speed up or slow the CPU could also have an effect.
Nadim alleges that he's the one who provided Assange with the IM transcripts, and that Assange outed him along with the transcripts.
All this fuss over the perceived problem of the antenna, it reeks of premature optimization. Has anyone actually observed this being a problem while on a phone call? I'm not talking bars, since bars are a very loose indication of signal strength.
I just checked Safari, they don’t actually do any subpixel antialiasing. Just “normal” antialiasing. I would guess that if it’s not used in Safari it’s used nowhere, so no problems with that :)

(Subpixel antialiasing seems unnecessary with resolutions like that. Heck, even any other kind of antialiasing is beginning to become unnecessary with resolutions like that.)
So you consider an entrepreneur the same thing as a business person? They are two totally different things.
Yes. The TSC, which counts cycles, is what WinAPI reads with GetTickCount(), and is not the same thing as the HPET timers.
We need ideas to replace oil or at least find safer ways to extract it -- this X-Prize model does not work in a crisis, especially when there are already credible strategies. There is not time to start from scratch, and BP sure as hell isn't the entity to evaluate the feasibility. They have enough to do. BP's call for ideas is pure PR.
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Our Web site and applications have scooped up a lot of awards and notice lately, including an Edward R. Murrow, a Peabody, an EPpy, several Webbies...but that's not why you want to work for us. You want to work for us because we have awesome people who produce interesting, creative stuff while keeping a solid work/life balance.
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If you like our content -- on air, Web, or mobile -- you'd probably like working here. (Bonus: you can catch anyone from Tom Jones to The Swell Season to Weird Al at our Tiny Desk Concerts.)
I chose to go the other route which takes even longer. Load the XFBML version, and include the open graph meta tags.

I did the same thing that you did, wrapped it all in a like_url helper.
They make money off of the discount rate, regardless of whether they make money off of your interest. Some credit card companies have become addicted to the much more lucrative trough of penalty fees and interest payments, but they make money regardless.
Completely agree. Personally, I've been using the javascript testing framework from YUI 3 and it's been great so far. It's pretty easy to setup and I can even have the test output as a JUnit xml file. Did someone say Hudson integration?

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/test/#test-reporting
Cute, I guess, but, um, I'm guessing the pressures involved are a bit much to just do this. Why the hell is this on a news channel??
Ok, but (a) this article is talking about literally POSIX sleep(3), and (b) there is a ton of confusion on this thread about whether sleep is ms-denominated or seconds-denominated.

Sorry to pile on you, though.
(It’s, by the way, not that the gaps got necessarily bigger, maybe a little, it’s just that they didn’t shrink either and, with more pixels, there are also more gaps.)
As a real world example: Synctus depends on being able to do this correctly (what it does is described at http://www.synctus.com/tech/ and the right hand column at http://www.synctus.com/tech/locking.html) - consider how the lock transfer might work in the context of the Two Generals' Problem. How exactly I do it is currently a trade secret. I've worked around the problem, but the issues surrounding this are a big part of the solution.
I suspect the difference is in the perceived upside potential of the relationship. The news media has been conditioned to think of "startups" and "entrepreneurs" as being backed by VC money and taking shots at really big targets. Even if 98% of these bids fail, the ones that succeed are mentioned in headlines stating "So-And-So raises $500,000,000 and promises to be the next big Whatever.ly"

On the other hand, when you think of the small-business owner at the copy shop down the street, you see an upside of maybe expanding his one shop to three shops. The downside is that he'll welch on his bill if money gets tight.

Who would you rather do business with?
You could move to Argentina. EUR $100k = ARS $480k

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=eur+ars++exchange+ra...
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This quote, plus the author's misuse of Buddhist concepts reminds me of a quote from the book Zen at War, attributed to a prominent Buddhist priest: "If ordered to march: tramp, tramp or shoot: bang, bang. This is the manifestation of the highest wisdom of enlightenment."

In other words, loyalty and absolute submission to military leaders and the state was seen as a sign of egolessness and enlightenment.
The price of DRAM isn't falling though. A year and a half ago 6GB of DDR3 was cheaper than it is now. Sure over the long term its getting cheaper, but it takes awhile.
in europe is the same. you always need to have the id with you.
I thought everyone knew $10 4x8' sheets of shower board from home depot was the shoestring budget whiteboard solution. $250 framed whiteboards are for the "Enterprise".
That's what I do too. However, there are a lot of users who simply want to buy something. There are also a lot of users who are on Facebook all the time. It almost IS the internet to them.
I normally post my book summaries on HN because people get value out of them. In this case, I made a comment on HN, I replied, a discussion ensued, I decided that it was too big for a comment and I'd blog about it. Tichy asked me to submit the post to HN when I was done with it and his request got modded to +5. I would love to hear which part of the writing you think was bad because I have also been told that this was one of my most well written posts yet due to the relaxed tone. (In the past, I have also been accused of having the tone of a hyper rigorous basement-dweller, and although you can't please everyone, a proper balance is maybe the better approach.) If you think that too much of the post is speculation, then you will be appeased to know that most of my points are actually backed up in the bibliography of Flow. Certainly my blog post was not meant to be construed as scholarly - just intellectually interesting and hopefully insightful.
They're fairly opaque. If they showed at all, they would be very faint. If you had a lightbox underneath, that would be a different story.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/06/performance...
Before you can turn 100k into a million... First attempt to turn 100 into $1000
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The material is paper thin.
> Ben Graham famously loved buying companies under book value

I read 'The Snowball' about Buffett, and one of the things he mentions was sitting around compiling these forms about companies to determine their value. Isn't that the kind of thing that's automated these days? And if it's automated, it means someone big is likely doing it better than you can. In other words, Graham had an advantage because he was doing something noone else did at the time, and had some very real costs associated with it (paying people to sift through data) that don't exist today.

But then again, I don't know much about this stuff...
Not entirely related, but if you look closely at 0:50, you'll see that Apple's Mac OS X "Clownfish" desktop image appears prominently in the photo gallery.

That said, the OS looks much nicer than the previous release - at least, on par or a bit above the native Froyo components. I have a hard time getting past the hardware, though. There are tons of diehard BlackBerry users, but I'd have trouble bringing myself to use any of their devices in their current form. Even so, it's great to see that people have choice and that the UI/UX bar is rising on each of the most popular mobile platforms.

[edit: topical content added]
Anyone passing by your computer already can get to your files.
Only the right hand rule can tell us that.
What is the resolution for touch sensitivity in the iPhone 4?
I've been pondering hanging sheets of glass on my walls. I've been taking notes on my bathroom mirror with a dry-erase marker for a while. The ability to get out real cleaning products and get the writing surface really, really clean is compelling.
That sounds nice, but I fear the effects of such a wide law.

Consider the situation in which I start a company which acquire personal information that is normally not available to anybody else, such as your medical files and tax records, etc and turn around and sell this information to others.

Today that would get me shutdown fast, but under such a law I could counter that since you would be using the law to hinder progress.

Or consider a situation where I want to build a strip mall on a piece of land where you currently have your company. Under your proposed law, I could do that since otherwise you would be using the law (specifically the law of private property) to hinder progress.
Isn't it possible in image-based environments to have live objects but not the code that created them? This idea makes me extremely uneasy. Being able to derive everything in a running system from source code seems almost necessary for maintainability and comprehensibility.
Well, I'm trying to avoid bashing anything, and instead trying to articulate my perspective on how things work.

Incidentally, I am writing this on a MacBook and have mostly great things to say about my experiences with Apple (except that they were too aggressive in trying to charge me $100+ for a new battery adapter when the cord of my old one started to wear).
s/peak/peek/
It would be pretty intrusive/noticeable, since the user has to opt in to allow the site to use it. So it's probably only a risk on sites that also make legitimate use of Web Storage.

localStorage is subject to same-origin restrictions (so advertisers can't easily use it to track you across sites). And localStorage is handled like cookies when you use the private browsing mode in browsers like Firefox and Chrome, e.g.:

"When the browser goes into private browsing mode, a new, temporary database is created to store local storage data; this database is empied, and is thrown away when private browsing mode is turned off."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/dom/storage#localStorage

(This is true of Flash 10.1 also, but wasn't true for older versions.)
> If you want to check out Smalltalk, check out Squeak or Pharo. You can also download VisualWorks noncommercial.

If you're running a windows machine, I found Dolphin pretty enjoyable (if the noncommercial edition is still available, i believe they're working on their next generation but x6 was pretty nice)
I never heard the term "hypermiling" until this article. Did anyone else find it term cryptic and misleading? I envisioned windmilling the engines by setting them to idle or something alike.
Hah! If that would go over well at a party of yours, you'll need to introduce me to your friends :)
Yes, I'm beginning to develop vuvuzela-hate hate as well.
For what its worth, the G20 coming to Pittsburgh and exploding like it did more to moderate my politics than anything I've ever seen.

The police's actions were what police do when they're scared and charged with doing the impossible. It doesn't excuse them, but it certainly doesn't provide a case against any standing governments.

The 'anarchists' actions were presented by them to be 'the right thing to do.' If deliberately getting the police to hurt people is a good thing, then I want no part in it.
Reminds me of http://www.ideapaint.com

Different solution to the same problem: special paint that acts as a whiteboard when dry. Has the advantage that you can paint over it if you get the "ghosting" effect and it comes in a variety of colors.
Downside seems to be that its probably harder to get it off and that it has to be on a wall, unlike the stickers that you can just put anywhere.
At least they are finally realizing UX is their weak point and sort of addressing it. But yeah, embarrassing.
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Is it bad that this is the first time a toroidal transformer has been explained to me this clearly?
I don't think the agilistas get it -- there's too much hero worship in the industry, and the newbie developers who haven't bothered to learn how to design software that actually works play right into the hands of the legions of incompetent managers out there who still believe that lines of code and hours in seat are measures of productivity.
"hypermilling" comes from hybrid car enthusiasts who try to max out mileage from their hybrid cars, most commonly Prius.

Now it is used for all sorts of cars. Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiling for more info.

In fact per the above Wiki article, "In 2008, the word hypermiling was selected as the best new word of the year by New Oxford American Dictionary."
Seems like there are now around 1/4 on 1.9: http://survey.hamptoncatlin.com/survey/stats
I expect that to increase a lot once 1.9.2 is out and Rubinius, MacRuby, and JRuby match the spec.
And I raise my hand, I'm happily on 1.9 for over a year now.
>only ever given you a fraction of the machine's total power

And cloud instances aren't precisely that, albeit generalized and abstracted further?
Every occupation has it's jargon.
It goes both ways. The Canadian border patrol routinely denies US citizens entry for having a criminal record, even for misdemeanors. It's all up to the officer's "discretion", whatever that means at a given time.
Certain, Quick, Legal. Pick any two.
Not terribly informative. Most of these things are just common sense in any social situation, not only job interviews.
Google Remotely Deletes a Pair of Apps from Android Phones
North Koreans claim World Cup Championship Victory vs. Brazil
North Koreans claim victory over not only Brazil (whom they lost to) but also for the entire World Cup.

In other news, Kim Jong Il will be visiting a biscuit factory tomorrow.
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They missed "It'll be awesome!" from the list of possible Steve's replies.
Palantir is hiring: https://www.palantir.com/careers/positions

I'll be the first to vouch for the fact that this is the most amazing place to work. Interesting technical work, huge impact on real problems in the world, great culture, talented coworkers, and stock options that mean something.
I am also using a Macbook Pro and I have an iPhone. I am more than happy with both of them. There is just no way I would ever consider waiting in line for a day for the iPhone 4. My 3gs can last until I can get conveniently get one.
Been using MailChimp -- it seems to be the cheapest of the mailers that actually have a "professional" interface and analytics.

I'm happy with em.
They are, indeed, "so 2008".
You have no way of knowing whether I'm gaming Google or not.

But anyway, what I'm referring to is the amount of spammy content that comes up when you do a Google search, while truly useful content doesn't do so well. Honestly, have you ever read a good article on About.com? Yet they rank very well on Google.

Search could still be much better. While Google is great, they don't understand people well enough to make the necessary improvements.
I am curious. If Alice and Bob have a private conversation and Bob knows he leaked this conversation to Adrian and then the conversation is made public, how can Bob be absolutely sure Adrian, but not Alice, leaked the conversation?

It's a tangled mess right now. Anyway, if you are a spook leaking info, you should, at least, cover your steps. During my life I have many times been in possession of secret datasets (not government-lock-me-in-jail-secret, but very secret anyway) and I am quite sure they were tainted in ways they would be traced directly back to me if they ever leaked. It's very easy to watermark files.
I've had no problems with iOS4 on my 3G. Definitely a better experience than 3.0 a year ago so far.
People really do have a bad habit of telling me about their personal problems in interviews. Get the job, then work out the logistics.
Is he absolutely sure he was the only one who could provide Assange the transcript?
Bad show Wired. 1400 pounds of fuel… out of how many? What is the typical variation in transoceanic flights? Is this noise?
Back in the day we’d all have scoffed at such a thing... What’s changed since then? Why is this now an acceptable practice?

The only reason it wasn't acceptable to require Javascript many years ago is because each implementation was so different that it was impossible to guarantee cross-compatibility. If you used JS, it would almost certainly mean that you would render your site useless to a significant group of your users.

Those times are over; Javascript is so consistent across browsers that it's extremely rare to see cross-browser issues unless you're on the cutting edge of web development. And those implementations are converging, so these problems are quickly going from rare to nonexistent.

So the answer is yes, it's acceptable.
You've provided enough details that one of your cofounders or investors could certainly recognize themselves in your posting. How do you think they would react to this?

How would you react if your CEO posted something along the lines of

"""How do I deal with a technical cofounder who refuses to do his job? We're in a critical period, our site goes down more often than twitter and my partner and I are out there everyday making sales but the guy we brought on board to build the site doesn't seem to understand how critical it is; he doesn't even want to shell out for internet so he can fix the site when it goes down out of hours."""

I'm guessing you would not be pleased to be pilloried like that , even anonymously. It would have been one thing if you'd turned to a mentor for advice, but by putting it up on HN you have created a situation that will turn what is already a tense situation with your cofounders into open war should it be discovered.

And really, my sympathy is limited. If your site is crashing or failing regularly, then you should be fixing that instead of hanging out on HN looking for validation of your hurt feelings.
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