skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carrying that one step further: why buy "likes" from someone if you can steal them? Maybe the headline should be:

Facebook Offers New Incentive for Identity Theft
ha, genius sound editing at 1:22!
Just take a look at this silly hand wringing editorial about the innovation described in this article

http://plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pge...

When the response to new and cool is "you didn't do it according to protocol", something is definitely wrong.
Unfortunately this capability has been removed from iOS4: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=942533. Just confirmed it on my iPhone 4.
You can always run more... civilized languages on top of the JVM, talking to Java classes without problem.
I believe that refers to the full-length feature, while the trailer itself has been approved for all audiences. Restricted trailers have red background warnings.

It is most definitely not safe for all audiences. It is, however, very funny.
The article drops a couple of names. E.g., Fredrik Ullen, from where I got http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100518064610.ht...
Posterous Thinks Your Startup Sucks, And It Isn't Afraid To Say So
Also for attributes. One of his first code examples shows this.

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No problem, I understand completely, and sorry to call you out on gambling, incorrectly.. : )

You might like this book: http://www.amazon.com/Retire-Early-Live-Million-Dollars/dp/1... He gives some advice about real estate investing for income, and suggests that a 'safe' amount of margin is 50% if you may want income from them to live off. So, you could possibly buy two of those apartments now. If the market drops 30% next year, and you have another 50k, buy another one. The first two are still going to cashflow, and you're making a long-term bet here.

In my experience, it's hard to time the market, really any market. I remember being desperate to buy a place in Cambridge, MA while the housing boom was going on in the late '90s. 800 square foot condos were selling for $500k+, in two to three days. Now, 10+ years later, you might have made a little money, net.

Meanwhile, in 2008, real estate looked 'risky'. Thinking about asset value first, market pricing second can fundamentally change one's decision matrix; this is one of the big points that Value Investors make, repeatedly.
There is a big difference between keeping your options open and being agile versus "changing directions". I think it's very common to spend biz dev time on exploring other options, even in a way that can have a huge impact on your overall focus/product. Look at Groupon, they had a big focus, but spun off Groupon as a side project and it turned out to be huge. So exploring is a good/normal thing. However - that is not the same thing as rallying the troops with a "full steam ahead on this brand new idea" every day.
You are right. I don't need the million euro since I don't know what to spend it on. What I'm looking for is freedom to learn and do new things that interest me.

I used to do this by working 6 months out of a year at most but I still don't own a house and don't have a nest egg. Nothing to ensure my family has a comfortable life if, God forbid, anything happens to me.

I like your perspective of growing passive income from 1k to 10k to 100k!
The People vs George Lucas: director interview
It is my impression that corporate drama around the smalltalk vendors helped to quicken its demise. Image-based development (in the smalltalk, not "rockstar" sense of image) also didn't sit well with a lot of people, though there were projects to support exporting source to files.
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But I think that so often the 'options' management offer to work/life balance are barely more than token concessions. This guy talks about accepting weeks on end of leave at only 24 hours' notice.

It's a world away from "come in after 9:30am" or "here's a laptop and a phone, now ur never not at work"
Because the average business using Java is just so counter-culture.
I personally like to use vimdiff when viewing changes. A quick google shows some easy to follow instructions for setting it up:

http://blog.tplus1.com/index.php/2007/08/29/how-to-use-vimdi...
What I find odd about that page is how it reloads when you switch to different tabs.

I thought... it was Flash? And it could just change to the new tab without the whole HTML wrapper page reloading?
Yep, agreed completely. The Apple app store is a democratizing force.
This is the Apple Store on Regent Street, London. It's massive, and it does £60m sales per annum - over £2k per square foot (http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2010/05/apples-regent-st...). It's the single most profitable store per square foot in the UK.

They're pretty efficient.
It depends on your audience. I agree with your point that they should reinvent themselves (I explicitly say those words in the article), but I don't agree that any business with an audience has potential.

Lets put it this way, actually using your example: If they do reinvent themselves as a student-only network, they effectively have no audience, because as you know, those folks are on Facebook. If they create a premium service and play the privacy angle, they'll be trashing 99% of their functionality today, and also alienating their audience.

Things are definitely not that easy as "having audience" -> "being successful". Not in this case anyway.
Sure, that's why I have a cron job to delete /home/<user>/.macromedia/* every night.
The JVM, maybe.

Some of the stuff you can do on the JVM, yes.

Java? Definitely not.
Thank you so much. I saw on your linkedin profile that you specialize in IP protection as well, can you recommend some books from that category as well?
As long as congress does not allow the nsa/dod/cia/fbi to do this themselves, Palantir will have more than enough money getting thrown at them.

Hmm... better that a private corporation has this power or the government? Jump ball.
TTN has quite a few more features. The key ones would be :

1. Viewing a playback of how the candidate coded the question.

Even a bad candidate might be able to 'prettify' his final code (or even craftily cut and paste code while solving the problem).

However, it is almost impossible to do so in a playback of the entire coding process.

It is like the difference in complexity between creating a fake photo vs creating a fake video !

2. Adaptive testing

Depending on the performance of the candidate, the questions presented will increase or decrease in difficulty - allowing the system to accurately assess the candidate's skill level (that is the advantage of using several small questions, as opposed to a few large questions).

3. The ability to embed the testing widget both on your website or even on a job posting on a job site - that way candidates never even have to leave your website.
The JVM is the x86 of the VM world. Ugly, used for things it was never designed to properly handle, but also heavily optimized.
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The problem with pdf is that everything about it is clunky and slow. I didn't decide to groan whenever I see that something I want is trapped inside a pdf; years of annoyance just built that up as a reflex.

Edit: actually, there is an exception, and you mentioned it: printing a pdf, once you have it open, is almost always a good experience. Too bad it's the thing I want to do least often.
I'm a computer scientist working in a Parkinson's lab that is very closely tied to the names in the article. My main duty is data analysis simply because there is so much information to process. If you want some more information regarding state of the art treatments, our website is http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/bankiewicz .

I also maintain our website, so if you see anything that needs fixing, drop me a line :)
Outsourcing to succeed for a micro-isv
My understanding is that in addition to determining the proper prescription, grinding lenses to fit them is something that many third world countries don't have the infrastructure for. Self-adjustable, 3rd world-friendly spectacles do exist[1], but at that point, does one really need a prescription, or can you just dial in until you can see well?

[1] http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/josh-silver-adaptive-eyewe...
The Invisibles: undocumented college students
I think you're right about Toyota, but I don't think the opposite extreme is justified either.

Apple's flippant handling of the situation just shows that they have a crappy attitude. Sony's the same way; when they got complaints about a shoddily made button on the PSP, they completely dismissed them, with some line about it being a work of art or something.

It leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. Sure, Apple can afford it (much more than Sony anyway) but it still doesn't make it the right move. They're too prideful to admit it's a flaw, but I can guarantee that this will be fixed in the next iteration of the iPhone. And they'll come out with this same crap line, "We did fix it, even though it was never a problem."
Allowing only trusted search results would greatly reduce the number of links returned. For most searches no results at all would be returned.
Apple Retina Display: Under the microscope comparisons with 1G and 3G
I wonder what exactly a "human-based" algorithm is? How do you not use stats, NLP, ML and/or network based approaches at that scale?
Here is more info from the security researcher who wrote the app that got removed:

http://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-ins...
Which OS interprets sleep(1) (ie, "sleep for 1 second") as "sleep for as short as you can"?

On WinAPI, Sleep is denominated in milliseconds.

On BSD, sleep(3) is a library wrapper around nanosleep(2).

Linux's man pages make no mention of the magic number "1" as a "sleep 1 timeslice" shortcut; also, older Linux man pages warn that sleep(3) can be implemented in terms of alarm(1), which is used all over POSIX as an I/O timeout and would blow up the world if it alarmed in milliseconds.

If you want to sleep "as short as you can", sleep for 0 seconds, or call any other system call to yield your process back to the scheduler.
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Here is one option for a water-proof iPad enclosure, though I'm sure it can be improved upon: http://gadgetsin.com/waterwear-waterproof-ipad-case.htm
semi-related. People who build tube guitar amps (lots of high voltage AC) take component placement very seriously. The magnetic fields floating around the chassis greatly affect tone (and noise, which is sometimes a big part of tone.)

Some of the high end amp builders I know have spent a lifetime of experimentation figuring out the best way to place components and route circuits [anecdote, no references available]

If you want a simple example, have a look inside any audio amplifier. The two transformers will always be mounted at a 90 degree angle to each other (power xformer/output xformer) to minimize noise.
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If you'd like to flip real estate, you might want to look into investing in Uruguay (South America), or another reasonably lawful third world country (Costa Rica?) where 100K Euros might get you somewhat far (taxes are the killer here, though).

However, building over here is better investment than flipping. You'd need a reliable partner or heavy hands-on overseeing, and I'm not him :P

I also agree with other posters that you stick to your strengths, and research VERY carefully.
Edit: sailing over here is quite nice :)
Wait, what? If I call sleep(1), you're saying it's going to sleep for THIRTY EIGHT SECONDS?

People, it's right there in the man pages.

Are you maybe thinking about WinAPI's Sleep? That's ms-denominated. It would make sense that attempting to sleep for 1 millisecond wouldn't work, and would build in the time for the scheduler and the timeslices for every other process. We're talking about OpenSSL and POSIX sleep(3).
I don't understand this point:

> I don't remember the exact details of the buyback at TheStreet.com but we started buying the stock and it kept going down. We kept buying it. But we were losing money on each buyback because we were overpaying for our own stock as it kept going down.

It seems to me that if your stock is trading at under book value, then you would be underpaying if you are buying it. Especially if it keeps going down.

Isn't the idea that the stock is undervalued? Why not buy low now and even consider selling high at a later date?
Are relationships discovered automatically across DBs?

Does anyone have any insight as to how this might work technically?
"Cigarette smokers also seem to have a lower chance of developing Parkinson’s"

I realize it's not really a science article (it's even possible all the information on Parkinson's came directly from Brin himself), but they didn't say cigarette smoking staved off Parkinson's completely - they said it lowered the odds of it developing.

Thing is, the human body is so complicated, you can do all the right things and still come up on the short end. Load up on omega-3s and still get clogged arteries. Eat a well balanced diet and still get cancer.

Doing the "right" things can only improve the odds - something's going to get to you in the end.
This has nothing to do with timing attacks and would do nothing to defend against them. Read 'daeken's comment below, though.
The Two Generals' Problem (wikipedia)
>There is no publicist, no sales or marketing team and Karp adamantly believes that there will never be one.

When the press call to ask for an interview, or just for info about the product, who do they speak to? That person/those people are your publicist(s).

Who writes copy for the website? That's your marketing team.

Who do I speak to when I want to buy? That's your sales team.

Not labelling some thing doesn't stop it from being that thing.
Potential for what though? MySpace was purchased for $580mil, expectations were high.

Who wants to turn MySpace into a little $10mil niche product? Certainly not Murdoch. And anyone with that ambition probably would rather start from scratch that associate themselves with a failed brand. It's all psychological.
Megaupload and most similar services are easier to use for file downloading than Scribd. Which does look like a benchmark of some kind...
The thing here is that this is the start of a different way of doing science, and as such you want to be careful of the precedents you set.

It's a good thing that someone is thinking about how all this stuff is going to be protected.

The protocol there is one of ensuring anonymity for people that want to remain anonomous. Making sure that that sentiment is retained moving forward is not a bad thing.
That's a good reason, but another reason might be the fact that they can't afford losing their job because they have to raise their kids.
True however Sleep on windows is different than sleep on posix/unix.

Sleep() on windows takes ms.

sleep() on nix takes seconds.

Windows:

VOID WINAPI Sleep(
__in DWORD dwMilliseconds
);

Sleep(1) is as fast as it can go which turns out to be 15-20ms.

nix:

#include <unistd.h>
unsigned int
sleep(unsigned int seconds);

usleep() can be used for more granular delay on nix.
"Check the NIC status"? What network API are you using? Even if you're injecting with libpcap, you can still just select() on the device handle.
I think this is just about the advertising dollars. Facebook is quickly learning that on-page advertising conversion rates (and thus ad rates) are much lower than search. So they want a piece of that action.

The other thing they really need to do is become the default search engine on some popular browsers. Obviously Chrome is out and probably Firefox, but there's no reason they couldn't become one of the options on IE 9.
> At this point in the real estate cycle, you could probably buy two single homes,

For $100k? Where in the US would that be?
This is strategic spin -- an emphasis on having technically-savvy people fill sales roles under the 'Business Development' label.

About half the titles advertised as open positions on Palantir's website, across all locations, fall under the 'Business Development' category. They're requesting engineer-level technical aptitude, sure, but the work is lots of pre-sales customer contact.
Folks, their customers are intelligence agencies and the government. They spread through referrals from the CIA to NSA to State to DOD to NIH to whatever the hell. Then they get referrals to their counterparts at friendly governments. The hard part was getting their first sale. Hell, I bet they're still not on the GSA schedule, even with tens of millions in government revenue.

Palantir Finance sells to hedge funds and financial institutions, but the whisper referrals work in that insular industry just the same.

These guys need salespeople and marketing folks like I need a hole in the head.

EDIT: turns out I was wrong about the GSA schedule: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ffLq8fxcGdAJ:h...

EDIT 2: Ha! The last page has their pricing. And it comes with a 90 day warranty!

EDIT 3: Double ha! "Implementation Ninja Services" is the official name for their lowest-level customer support.
From what you have written, it seems like you are a hard core programmer.If you like programming then shifting to some other profession to earn more money , might not help much as you will always have the craving to sit on your computer and create code.
Trading is good but risky, i would suggest not to risk all your hard earned money there though you might allocate a smaller portion for this.
Since you mentioned you take only those projects that you are interested in that means you do get more offers, start a consulting business and give the other projects that you are not interested in to other folks that you hire and earn from their hourly rate.
I'm surprised that he didn't invest more than 0.3% of his net worth (if it really is $15B) into this. It's his choice, but I think that if I was in his position, I'd spend more than that (but yeah, I guess that's easier to say when it's not you).

Maybe there are bottlenecks that make it so more money wouldn't speed things up, but I bet there are ways to use resources to help alleviate or remove these bottlenecks.
I suggest you stay with what you know, (software) and do not try more investing in stocks and equities
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Exactly.

Bad managers actually think they're being generous with allowing staff to move their day forward or backward by a half-hour to avoid the worst of the traffic. This demonstrates such a staggering lack of perspective that it could be a Dunning-Kruger case study.

Good managers, meanwhile, start from the premise that as long as the employee is making a reasonable effort, getting the job done, and not putting any other aspect of the business at unnecessary risk of harm, working arrangements can be whatever everyone is comfortable with.

Basically, bad managers default to saying "no" on work-life balance issues, while good managers default to saying "yes" and will say "no" only when they have a clear business reason for refusing.
Why should we treat the situation differently just because you distributed the application electronically, versus shipping it in the traditional/literal sense on CD-Rom or floppies?

If you wrote an application that contained (say) code that wasn't yours, and shipped a few thousand copies before anyone caught on, well you'd be S.O.L. I'd imagine that the damages you'd be responsible for would depend in some way on the number of copies that made it out the door.

But I don't see any reason why a developer ought to be able to conduct a sort of clawback to cover their own ass if they let something out the door that they shouldn't have.
The book and the BBC TV show both gave the answer toward the end.
My iPhone 3GS (and probably all of them) have a somewhat similar problem: when I hold it at the bottom I cover the microphone with my palm and the other side can't hear me. When they start asking me to repeat, I change the way I hold it. Not sure how I discovered this is the problem, maybe other people think they have poor reception.

But there was no media hype about this one. Maybe if Steve Jobs didn't mention the innovative antenna design, no one would have noticed.
i thought one of my vm's had shut down.
Ugly Common Lisp Data Type Questions
No way it could be as ugly as an x86. The x86 has been with us since the 8080 days (the 8086 was a 16-bit 8085, done in a hurry because the i432 flopped). It's a kludge wrapped in a another kludge.

Or, as people say, it's kludges all the way down.
In the mockups shown, the tab doesn't extend fully to the edge of the window, which unfortunately means you don't get the "infinite pixels" advantage. The same is true for Chrome on OSX and Windows.
Intel Concurrent Collections for Haskell
That's what I said. The JVM is cool.

Java certainly isn't.
I thought he was basically bemoaning the capitalist carrion call "Companies exist to enrich the shareholders." and suggesting that there was greater worth available in investing the monies rather than handing more profits back to shareholders.
IRB review is a very important part of modern science, and the system is simply not setup to deal with research that hasn't been throughly cleared by a review board. You could consider IRB approval the first step in peer-review: your study is worthwhile and you aren't going to do anything unethical.

IRBs are designed to protect the subjects/patients, the researchers, and the institutions. To skip that step is pretty unusual, and some hoops had to be jumped through in order to deal with it. I think the fact that the 23andMe study was published at all was a big leap, and represents the flexibility inherent in the scientific community.

The response to "new and cool" wasn't "you didn't do it according to protocol". It was: since you didn't do it according to protocol, we need to verify that you did this ethically.

Imagine what would have happened if they used someone's DNA in their study without their knowledge. When you're talking about publishing links between diseases and people's DNA, you better be damn sure you have permission to use their genetic data. That is what IRBs are good for.

In a world where movies constantly are pointing out how scary/evil/unethical scientists can be (Andromeda strain, Splice), these checks are very important, even if it slows things down a little.
Ruby.

The strongest agile proponents that I have met prefer Java. I think that's probably enough to estimate their "caliber" right off the bat.

The strongest proponents of agile that I've met use agile as an excuse for cowboy coding, though my friends and I generally refer to them as hackers, because all they do is hack things together in a big hurry.

You work in "agile" environments like that for a few years, and you start to equate "agile" with "sweatshop."

Since without exception every "agile" project I've worked on has been a sweatshop with an agile label, you'd be hard pressed to convince me to use agile methods for anything even vaguely related to developing software.
That I vacuum the floor in our workspace doesn't mean my startup has a janitor.

There is a well-established game around enterprise sales. It involves golf, steak, strip clubs, and (as tptacek memorably put it) gnawing off your own toes. If these guys are succeeding at selling big-box enterprise software while refusing to play it, then they are rewriting the rules and others will follow. I don't want to be over-optimistic about this, but it sure would be a good thing, and I find it more interesting than either their analytics platform or their bubble machine.
Clubs will keep a line out the door by instructing the bouncer to slowly let people in or to randomly decide to not let anyone in at a given time (when the line is not long enough).

Restaurants will do this by having the waiting area artificially small. Restaurants where you order before you sit down will have the cash registers near the door, and understaff the registers.