skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lazy, one-sided, and incomplete story. A good article would have gotten comment from ANY of the competitors, or at least noted they refused to comment.
I'm happy to upvote your comment. This is way old news, its funny because even my tech friends are getting ensnared by it.
Is camarades.com the project you referred to that you founded in 1995 and now produces a "FYM cashflow" for you?
All of the things you say can be had by doing things grandparent's way with minor tweaks.
Whatever the personal scruples of Julian Assange may be, I support the overall aims of Wikileaks to allow whistle blowers to post information in the public interest, exposing wrong doing, corruption, human rights violations or war crimes. In the past too many misdeeds have been hidden from public scrutiny and public accountability.

Putting yourself into the public arena as Assange has done must be very difficult, and take some degree of personal courage. I'm sure there must be many powerful people from regimes of ill repute who want to cut him down a few pegs, or disappear him entirely.
From a grind's perspective:

This article reminds me of my stint in high-end B2B tech sales. The fortune 500 I worked for spent more than $80k just to send one person (me) to one tradeshow. I was the nerd that was supposed to make all the demos work and answer the tough questions. I was supporting the sales team (princes) from another F500 company we had partnered with.

Watching the process was odd. Lot of marketing speak. Lots of expensive "sales lunches". Not one hard technical question was asked by any of the attendees.

The whole time I couldn't help but think of what $80k in equipment and a week of my time would have meant to the very project we were demonstrating. It was also interesting how trivial it was for the sales team to ask for (and receive) all this, when it would have been a month long fight for me to get half as many resources to improve the actual product.
It actually strikes me as a negative to readability; what should look like a format string instead looks like a static value.
You're implying that I endorse using Wikileaks. I kind of don't.
No, he's trying to say he operated a drop site (glftpd?) where couriers from groups like motiv8 used software like flashfxp or linfxp to trade releases from razor1911, paradigm, etc.

This assumes he was integrated at or near the top. Otherwise, he would be further down the trickle.
For those who never lived in the Greater Boston region, you have no idea how accurate this one simple statement about Boston is.
Yep. It's been a steady producer for as long as I've had it with two major hickups, the first (of course) the .com crash, the second the death of iBill.

It has survived both, the first by changing from an advertising driven model to a subscription model, the second because I'm in close contact with someone that owns and operates and IPSP so I could switch on a moments notice.

I probably aged a couple of years for each of those.

Technically the period between '95 and '98 (the pre-camarades days) was license driven, I've written about that elsewhere: http://jacquesmattheij.com/content/story-behind-wwcom-camara...
Would laches necessarily apply here? If the contract did not specify that he needed to take part in the voting or other corporate formalities, it seems like a credible argument could be made that he is not trying to enforce anything until right now. Simply taking a hands off approach to his investments. Also, if he was not notified of Shareholder Meetings, does this raise other legal issues for Facebook's Board? Could this become a can of worms for the Board?

As an illustration, if he bought, or was gifted a Ferrari and didn't drive it for several years, but allowed someone else to drive it, then one day went to unlock the door to begin driving the car, but found the current driver had changed the locks would laches apply in this instance. To me this seems similar.
Tomorrow, the whole front page will be about feeling your face sting and going "Ow! Ow! Ow!" in front of your bathroom mirror.
Me too. Perhaps we'll catch up another time.
btrfs is also an Oracle project.
It looks like it has all the basic photo editing features in addition to the gimmicky features like stickers. It seems useful to me if you don't have Photoshop (and you are using Picasaweb).
Are you somehow only limited to the headers or simply only using the headers?

3rd party access (beyond the email provider) to someone's entire mailbox seems like a hard sell. The product sounds compelling, but I'd be much more inclined if it were something like a local browser plugin.
Looking at the crisis of social security and "performance" of my modest 401k funds I sometimes feel that my own successful startup (with a modest exit) may be my only way to escape extreme poverty at older age. I doubt that anyone will hire a 65 year old programmer and I just don't see how SS+401k will be enough to deal with living/medical expenses. In that sense I'm desperate: starting a successful project is matter of survival.

Is it just me who is having similar thoughts?
I don't think MySQL is in trouble. The MySQL community is strong, and innovation from the likes of Google, Percona, Facebook, and others has been just as important as of late than anything that Sun/Oracle/Innobase has done. There are plenty of ways that MySQL can succeed even if Oracle were to completely abandon it.

I don't worry about MySQL at all.
Two contradicting trends in advertising to men (and culture) i've noticed lately:

Classic masculinity, of which this Old Spice campaign is an example. See also the Dos Equis guy, the sudden popularity of mustaches, steampunk, etc.

Homoeroticism. This cologne ad with David Beckham sums it up: http://tiny.cc/jhi6h. Or pop open a GQ or Esquire and see how many things are being sold to men using overtly sexual images of attractive men.
Heh, here in NYC, even the debt-laden, paycheck-to-paycheck folks do 1-6

1.) FreshDirect - $99 a year for free grocery deliveries

2.) Any corner dry cleaner - $10 a week to drop off two loads of dirty laundry on the way to work. Your doorman will have it when you return that night.

3.) Your company buys you refundable tickets when you have to fly, which I argue is more stress-relieving than 1st class tickets

(Dining and Taxes need no explanation)

6.) Whatever maid your doormen / super recommends - $60-90 every two weeks. A bit steep, but playing The Sims made me realize cleaning service is worth it.
Without testing, I suggest maybe making the iframe do an "alert" -- "Are you sure you want to Like this page?"

One more step, a lot more security.

Or at the very least make it easier to find things that you have liked ( I am speaking without actually going to look if its easy to find it... I just remember it was very hard to find the last time I tried )
Venus Williams confounds us as Rationalists
But then you're left with essentially the standard php date format, except instead of one-letter tokens, they're all longer.
The best hands down quote in my opinion is:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton
Crash Data Suggest Driver Error in Toyota Accidents
Consumer Reports: Consumers should not have to work around iPhone 4 issues
Or, emigrate to another country where healthcare/living expenses are cheap (most of the countries in Asia) or where the government won't (likely) default on its healthcare/social security obligations (Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Northern European Countries), unlike the US.
>>>able to spend days on end just reading, and in general being unproductive.

I disagree that reading is being unproductive. You want to see what unproductive is really like, track down and watch an hour of "Maury" or "The Jerry Springer Show" on TV.
Same here - I don't think a normal job would earn me enough to have a rent significantly above poverty level in 30 years. Especially not when accounting for inflation (1 million today won't be a million in 30 years).
Roll Through the Ages - Yahtzee meets Civilization. My wife AND parents both like it.
paragraphs 2-3) absolutely. But that's dealing with logical operations, not logic gates. Physical logic gates are an implementation of those operations, not the other way around.

P5-7) I see this as an inherent flaw in CS education, but it's been a rational flaw: multi-core systems are relatively new. Sequential approaches made a lot of sense at a physical and logical level. At least it's improving, if slowly. And, again, EE is an implementation of the logic, not the other way around. EE itself may provide an application, perhaps one that's easier to grasp by most people (to which I must say: proof?), but so is programming. And for programmers, programming seems to me more applicable, and certainly a quicker-to-test method. How much learning a functional language would help the average programmer is another argument entirely.

P8) well yeah. There you're working directly with things resulting from the electronics at the lowest level. This is very very strictly a combined field, however. The same is true for many fields - they are nearly defined by their crossing of multiple borders. Programmers, for instance, have absolutely no requirement that they learn one bit of user interface design - they may only ever design low-level APIs. Top-level design is partly defined by that bit of art / UI theory crossover. Note also that very few CS majors cover UI at all, at least as far as I've seen, unless they're specifically for UI.

P9) If anything that supports the "I had to learn it, so you do too" mentality.

An analogy is perhaps in order: if I'm trying to make a better wood glue, the underlying operation is to connect two pieces of wood. Will studying nails help me make better glue, just because it also connects two pieces of wood? And since nails are (often enough) made of metal, how about some metal-smithing to go with so I can make my own nails to learn from?

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edit: I am actually interested in continuing this, there's no malice here (and apologies if it's been interpreted as such), I'm just fairly strongly opinionated on this. I've had a small chunk of digital electronics, and have yet to see a return from it for programming, though I'll definitely dive into an Arduino some time soon. If you think there's something special about general EE education that's lacking in general CS that is best taught from an EE perspective, I'd love to know what it is, because I'll happily learn it. I just haven't found any in my admittedly-very-shallow experience.

Parallelism I'm divided on. There's indeed much more focus on it in EE, and much more needs to be in CS... but I'm not convinced the timing diagrams will help any programmer more than some of the basic algorithms in CS, and my own experience has essentially only served to waste my time.
There was so much going on visually that by the time my eyes made it to the animated tour graphic, it was already on step 2. Being forced to move through an animation at your pace was uncomfortable, it should be manual.
Like a crumb to a cake.
I got rid of TV a long time ago, I figured it took too much time while giving too little in return. Instead I read online news with an appetite that has me labeled 'news junkie'. It happens in waves though, sometimes lots of it sometimes nothing for weeks or even months. It usually depends on whether or not I have something interesting to do, or a lack of energy or inspiration, it's like a low-activity level thing to do that is still moderately useful because it at least keeps me informed.
I wish you could buy a Wave appliance or Wave server to run behind the firewall. I think it could make a killer enterprise collaboration tool. Much better than kludgy crap like Sharepoint, etc.
Iphone 4 External Antenna Implications
My brother pointed out to me that he thought life would be great if he "had enough money to control his schedule".
Polyglot Stall
This is not correct.

Overall quality and price point for razors manufactured over the last 150 years or so are generally well documented, and there are more everyman cheapo razors floating around on the market than heirloom collector's items. Having done restorations on both types I can tell you "cheap" razors typically shave just as well (or better) than heirloom pieces.

Also it's substantially more likely that a "good" razor would have been used to death due to hone wear.
Nothing in there about planning and management? In big projects that usually seems to be the major downfall. A technology problem is not always specifically a technology problem.
http://fatagnus.com/unrolling-your-loop-for-better-performan... has a better variation on the technique. In any case I would not bother with any of this without careful profiling in different browsers. In particular a lot of them have JIT, and I would expect JIT to automatically optimize some of this stuff. (Either now or in the future.)
I saw the same thing. Add a trailing slash and you'll get the HTML page.
My impression is that most countries don't have as generous of immigration laws as the US does, and judging by the experience most of my immigrant friends have gone through, that's saying something. Have I been FUD-ed?
The World's New Numbers
There's a bunch of "hidden features of X" on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%22hidden%20features%22...) if you liked this one
Excellent! Though, I have to add that if you like C++ with STL, D2 with the latest Phobos standard library is the way to go. Hopefully, we will see a stable LDC for D2 in the future.
That highly depends on where you're emigrating from and what your standing in life is.

If you are looking to emigrate from a 'third world' (what a ridiculous term) country to a wealthier one it can be quite hard. If you already have family or friends somewhere that can make the process considerably easier.
Mosquitos don't like the wind/breezes. This is pretty well-known amongst outdoorspeople. A house fan would generate sufficient airflow around you to keep them away.
Hypothetically supposing your logic is accurate, there should be an army of unemployed talented 65 year old programmers desperate to run your business(es) for you while you sit on the beach, right?
Sadly, you're right that there isn't a known solution to this yet. If you see my post below, it shows how even if they weren't in an iframe, there are still ways around current framebusting techniques.
Canada is really easy. Denmark is pretty good, so is Australia/New Zealand. Asian countries love high quality labor. Other than that, try investing or marrying into the country :)
No, he's not scared, he's just very good at manipulating a certain segment of the media
Alert boxes tend to be horrible in terms of usability, but it is the only way to actually require a second step, since anything else you do will be constrained to the iframe and you can just clickjack a second time.

I think the solution they'll end up implementing (if they do anything) is an "I didn't Like this" link that users can click to report false clicks. If a company gets more than x% of those they get taken down. It's not a legit solution but should be fairly effective.
Agreed. 90% of the accomplishments on my resume are thanks to writing good essays in applications and receiving fellowships, internships, and admission to Stanford. I'd say I'm a competent engineer but nothing extraordinary. Writing made all the difference.
So by induction, you need to learn N - 2, N - 3, ..., 2, ... 1? I wholeheartedly disagree. By that logic, why stop at transistors? Let's get down to the physics of how transistors work, or hey, atomic physics.
There's no such thing. You're always going to have to be nice to someone - even if you're Mel Gibson.
I'm unfamiliar with those incidents. So sure.

I was of course using them as examples of a reference news service or the closest thing we have one in this age. Wikileaks was in a position to become such an institution. One that no one could ignore. That does not seem very likely anymore.
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
A 65 year old programmer seems strange today because very few 65 year olds are even computer literate. I have to think that will change as time goes by (although I don't know far off 65 is for you).

That said, I'm pretty sure there are some CS professors that are 65; if they can hold that gig we should be able to crank out software (I hope)!
No organization is 100% perfect, but AP/Reuters is a far cry from wikileaks in terms of journalistic integrity. Did you read the New Yorker profile on Assange? He doesn't even claim to be objective. He talked about selecting audio for the "collateral murder" clips to maximize emotional impact.
You can always exit via (System/exit 0), 0 being the return code.

`java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main` is the preferred method of starting Clojure rather than using -jar, I think.
Why I don't trust Clay Johnson: He thinks that US Army is an angel. He has ties with politicians. He is jealous of Julian Assange and it is easy for him to sit around his ass blame Assange for trying to be a Messiah while Assange has to travel constantly to protect the whistle blowers' identity and to keep organizations & governments honest.
As an ex-pat Canadian, I worry about long term prospects for Canada. Even though the Canadian government seems to be doing the right things, economically, can Canada really avoid a crash if things in the US really tank? The US is Canada's largest trading partner.
I get that void* lists are even worse, but randomly malloc'ing a bunch of struct-foo's and linking them with pointers is worse than keeping a pool of memory chunks of struct-foo size and maintaining a length counter, since hopping from foo to foo isn't likely to hop from page to page.
Chaining comparison operators in Ruby: http://judofyr.net/posts/chained-comparisons.html
Ehhh... only partially. If you need to work well at level N-1, then yes, the inductive proof works. They only mentioned knowledge about a level lower than you're working at, though.
My favorite feature (just released in Python 2.7, already in P3K) are dictionary comprehensions. E.g., you can now do:

>>> {s: len(s) for s in ["one", "two", "three"]
{"one": 3, "two": 3, "three": 5}
Yeah, I don't do 401k. Nor am I depending on social security. I plan to start my own business(es) and get wealthy that way. I don't care if it's "risky" to start a business. That's what I choose to do. Also, the more cash/liquid savings you have, the more once-of-a-lifetime invest opportunities you can seize. I've gleaned this info from existing millionaires such as Mark Cuban, the book "The Millionaire Next Door," and others.
No kidding. And remember, if you're doing good in search, they can destroy you overnight. I have a nonprofit wiki where people can share code, and about a month ago my search traffic dropped 95% for no reason. I've never done SEO on this site -- it doesn't even have ads or links for christ's sake. I submitted a reinclusion request which was "processed" - but nothing has changed.

The Google gave, and the Google hath taken away.
There is a such thing as not having to be an employee anymore, and I think that's the general consensus here as to what FU money is.
South Korea: Super fast, and finally Free
Agreed, it's a weird term, but since it was used in the original I figure I'd keep it, but I did add a clarification as to what it means to me.

In fact, the people that have 'fuck you' money (that I know) tend to be pretty rude to people that are simply trying to make their lives a little easier, such as people waiting tables or running a store. You can instantly tell from the way they treat those 'below' them in stature (if there is such a thing anyway, my grandmother used to say about such people that they smell just the same on the toilet) whether they're nice or not.

As a rule, if people are rude to others that are in a 'lesser' position to them then you can do without them just fine.
This is awesome! I'm just scared some C level guy over 50 will find out about it and not understand it and then kill it...
Abstract: "Imagine a country that has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world, and yet its government effectively forbids the use of GNU/Linux through a requirement that everyone employ a decade-old Windows-only technology for many key [eg, requiring encryption] online transactions. That country is South Korea, where 1 Gbits/second Internet connections are planned for 2012; and that Windows-only technology is ActiveX."
Well, the field hasn't been a popular choice of trade for very long - not sure there's an army of 65 year old programmers, period.
If money was you only motivator in the first place.
I imagine a browser plugin would have access to the entire content of any email you opened.
Five Lessons to Learn from Web Startups
My favorite comes from Gerry Weinberg: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
I will almost certainly move to RTP within 3-5 years. My fiancee is from Burlington and she's extremely close to her family, so I can only keep her in SF for so long :) I'd like the move too since I'm also from the South.

For those of you that are employed in the area, what are the job options besides RedHat? I enjoyed the challenges at the YC startup I was at previously and I'm really enjoying working at LinkedIn now. While the move is very far away for me, I'm worried about a possible lack of interesting positions and a smaller talent pool to run my own startup.

Thanks for any advice!
That's a very good book to read, even as a man from a completely different time and circumstance than Virginia Woolf's when she wrote it.
The tty demystified
Multiparker in Budapest
Recently found this also. Looks interesting for anybody who might find this in a search....
http://litmusapp.com/
That said, I'm pretty sure there are some CS professors that are 65; if they can hold that gig we should be able to crank out software (I hope)!

there's no concept of tenure outside of academia, though :/
IIRC the removed post was just piling on and name calling after the issue had been pretty thoroughly discussed. Maybe it was killed by user flagging?
I can't really smell much difference between any bathroom products. Whichever she wants to buy is fine by me.

Using old spice will remind me of some of the awesome lines from the adverts, which will be a good start to the day.

As long as it smells "good/clean", that's fine I'd say...