skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how you define the "reliability" of a "media organization": they take what comes in and make sure it's reliable before publishing it. Incidentally, I have a similar thing to say about your statement: saying something with an attitude doesn't make it true, no matter how superior it makes you feel.
Apple offers a battery replacement for $99, plus $6.95 shipping,
subject to local tax. Apple disposes of your battery in an
environmentally friendly manner. [1]

However,

A properly maintained iPad battery is designed to retain up
to 80% of its original capacity at 1000 full charge and
discharge cycles.

Which essentially means that it will last for 3 years. By then I'm sure the battery will be the last reason to replace it.

[1] http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html
[2] http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
Indeed.

We are just around the corner from Red Gate.
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Google agreed to dish 48m, in retention bonuses. There about 100 employees, so that averages about 480,000 per employee. Not sure what the vesting period is, but assuming it is at least 2 years.

Not bad, but not life changing either. After taxes, you can afford the downpayment of a Condo in SOMA + a bit more, or buy a small one bedroom in Mountain View.

Moral of the story, if you want to be rich, start your own startup.
V8-GL: A Toolkit for creating Desktop Hardware Accelerated Graphics with JS
https://mongohq.com/
Many people expect MongoDB to be the standard datastore for high-performance Drupal sites come the Drupal 7 release. See this session at the last drupalcon: http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/mongodb-humongo...

examiner.com is switching to Drupal soonish and has funded most of the work to write the Drupal/MongoDB integration.
There's https://mongohq.com
Yes looks much better. Personally I would not have it iteliced but it looks fine.

I was going to make a general comment though which was that designers do sometimes miss what is the actual function of the site, which in the case of an information site is to read the content. I think therefore perhaps the primary focus should be on making the reading of the content easy. Then, one can design and ornament the site and add beauty and harmony and all else. But sometimes a designer designs for the sake of great design, or so that the site looks good, which does indeed have an effect on the way the site is perceived, its authority, etc., but that effect only lasts a few seconds and wanes very quickly when one starts to read and feels discomfort.

You can see that for example on sites which use a black background and a #666666 font, or those sites which have those tiny square boxes which create real distraction and annoyance when scrolling down. Those things are a sure way to lose return visits or to require really hard work, such as absolutely awesome, very interesting, or perhaps content that I really need to know.

I am not in anyway qualified to make any suggestions whatever, but I just wanted to express that opinion. I have noticed it in other areas as well and not just websites. To make things beautiful is of course desirable, but not at the expense of functionality. For example, all those pictures of different designs that you posted have certain things in common, which is that you can enter through a door, you have windows, you can navigate easily, it is of certain hight. What they have added are in no way related to the actual function of the building, which is of course to house people, but compliment this function by making the outer surroundings more pleasing to look at.
RedGate are bootstrapped.
True, but I'm guessing the lower-level employees not so much after you take out all the money for the preferred shareholders, even the ones who invested at crazy valuations.

Edit: Maybe they arent so screwed after all, depending on how the retention bonuses are dished out.
Some great improvements and one step closer to full-text search, which is slated for 1.7.x.

http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-380
Sorta. I was more concerned about "prop". I would assume it is about "prop 8", since there seems to be a lot of traffic on that. "Comments" and "link" are too generic words and probably should be removed.

I guess I would say you should be looking for common word sequences.
I've used MongoMapper for a couple projects and been really happy with it. John Nunemaker is doing a great job with it.
Even after a full OS restore? (via iTunes, etc.)
Plus I thought snitching was ratting out your partners in crime to save your own skin, not simply informing on a criminal.
I assume you're referring to the potential for sensitive data such as medical records to be left on the iPad..?

Any institution that takes HIPAA compliance seriously would address this by simply purchasing a new iPad (or Apple could face pressure to offer HIPAA compliant refurb).

If they don't take compliance seriously... well don't worry about the iPad, there's a lot more sensitive data on the truckload of PCs they just left at the local dump.
I'm at work...I have my desktop with dual monitors open for coding, my laptop connected to a Sprint MiFi for private browsing of sites like HN, and an Android phone for calls and apps. It's roughly 40% desktop, 40% laptop, 20% phone during work hours.
Yay! I think I can make this one.
"Do you think a global, managed and secure PKI is feasible?"

Do you think it is possible for a third party completely unrelated to you to correctly decide who you do and do not trust? Do you think it is possible for a couple hundred such third parties?

Your question is nearly equivalent to mine.

Security just can't be made zero-effort, in my opinion. You can only get psuedosecurity for zero effort, which is what we have now. Might even be better than nothing; at least SSL constrains the number of entities that can trivially sniff your traffic to the two endpoints and any MitM that manages to wedge itself in (which isn't impossible but takes effort), which is at least a bona fide reduction in attack surface.
It depends on the specific design. If it's wordy and document-like (eg: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/) then it may be better to bypass Photoshop and start writing the HTML/CSS, since Photoshop is ill-suited for mocking up those kinds of designs.

On the other hand, if it's more graphical (eg: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop) then I'd agree that Photoshop is absolutely necessary.
People are asking for less
Yes, I do think it's feasible to solve the authentication problem SSL is aiming to solve. I think the overwhelming majority of the challenge with SSL is UI-driven, and that any security solution attempted at Internet scale will need to address that same problem.

Specifically:

* Nobody has come up with a user-comprehensible abstraction to represent the machinery needed to represent the chain of actors needed to assert that "this is really Bank of America". Instead, we wound up with a buried configuration box that says "Verisign is God."

* An obvious corrollary: there shouldn't be a single global set of browser-accepted root certificates. End-users should subscribe to CA's as needed (again: the UI abstractions aren't there yet to make this doable). The IETF should come up with a process to run a CA to certify and name other CA's.

* It shouldn't be possible to easily click through warnings about invalid certificates, since that warning amounts to "there is no security provided by SSL on this connection." Implementing this would require service operators to have better ways of making sure their certs were valid.

All this stuff sounds highly dramatic, but I want to remind you that none of these changes would alter the SSL protocol or any of its implementations (OpenSSL, NSS, SCHANNEL, etc).
<button> used to be way uglier than <input type=button> on Safari --- looked like a Windows button instead of a Mac button. Is it prettier now?
open source this thing so I can sudo apt-get wave, it would go good with googles, "don't be evil"-slogan.
In 2010, MITM attackers are the default. It takes only marginal additional effort to intercept SSL traffic. Attackers don't sniff anymore. The disconnect between people implementing SSL --- who appear to be permanently stuck in 1997 --- and the people dealing with actual attacks is... frustrating.
My HTMLcopter goes schwaa schwaa schwaa schwaa schwaa...

Nifty game. Gravitational acceleration constant should be tweaked so my HTMLcopter doesn't go CRASH because I wasn't ready for the game to start. Great proof of concept nevertheless.

Here's one I wrote (but was "designed" by Shinji Kobayashi, a humorous character of mine):

http://www.parodycheck.net/shinji/cannon/
Already heavily discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539509
Trying to let them implement it in any language they want doesn't seem bright. Wonder if someone would try implementing one of these in LOLCODE or Brainf$*%?

If it were me, I would be tempted to say that they can write it in anything, so long as they offer a compiled version that targets the JVM. But I might not have given it enough thought and they probably need more requirements than that.
I think it would be super hard to isolate people who don't eat high fructose in the US.
Yeah yeah yeah. Discipline is something you're born with or have had beaten into you as a kid. I sneered at my Dad when he'd yadda on about self-control and discipline, "yeah, big man, whatever" and I literally had no cognitive grasp of the notion and I _did not care_. If I could go back in time to my younger self this is the one area of my personality that I'd like to change. I shudder to think of the countless hours in my life that I've devoted to useless potentially deforming time sinks - including reading Hacker News. I'll never have discipline and I'm cursed because of it, I coulda been a contender, meh.
Felix Dennis
Sounds like J2EE.

Why don't we just call this QOS board the "FCC" and give it a congressional mandate?
Replace "Here, drink this." with "This drink is good for you and you should drink it."

Better?
Honestly, I like the overall goal of your article. I just wanted to make 2 comments. 1) being disciplined in an of itself is not a good thing. It is a fairly common thing to be disciplined in a practice that is either futile or damaging to your best interests. 2) on this same line discipline for disciplines sake can lead to work for works sake, which wastes a lot of time.

Discipline is a great force multiplier, when used appropriatly. It is important to note that discipline should be a tool overlay to an existing beneficial goal or plan. Or in developing that goal or plan.

That's usually the hard part.

Also, I do know many highly disciplined WoW players
I think his point is that the examples are unforeseeable, not that his example is the one you should be worried about.
You should make the service free and allow people to send gifts to each other in the form of small icons/pictures next to their profile (but charge a small amount). I know this has been done before, but it works.

The guys want to impress the women and the women like the social status of having "gifts". You could make this into a sort of social game (think Farmville) where you feel compelled to spend money on something.

There are way too many dating sites out there. You either need:

1) lots of hot women
2) a really good niche site (example: gay bankers)
3) something else that draws people into your site

OKcupid has done a good job with this.

I also have a question about your current model. How is this different than a 2-week free trial?
One of the authors - Shai Simonson - taught at ArsDigita program. He is a great teacher.
Open Source on the Battlefield
I think that we probably do agree more than we disagree.

Cheers.
I couldn't control it with the mouse reasonably at all, control seemed laggy compared to enter key.
Spoken like someone who doesn't understand QoS. QoS uses latency-aware networking to push low-latency packets closer to the top of the queue. That doesn't necessarily mean that they get full bandwidth priority. VoIP calls may delay Bittorrent packets by a couple tenths of a second. In other words, low-latency applications are usually inelastic, while file transfers are usually elastic.
The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors
Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management
As an employee, you definitely wanted to be at the company when it was purchased since 48 million was earmarked for the soon to be google employees.

It sucks if you're someone who had left the company recently (especially if you paid money to secure your options)... there is something rather backhanded about this kind of dealing. Arrington alluded to it during YC's angel conf, but from an investor's perspective. In this case it can affect employees as well.

I suppose this is the nature of private companies. The controlling parties can really do whatever they want, including diluting you out of the picture or (in this case) laundering value into employee retention plans.
This made me laugh:

In his indomitable way, Dave McClure describes this shift best, but I have to screen-scrape his posts, paste them into Word and clear the formatting to read them.
Many good points in this thread.

I would add that modern computer tech is very, very unstable. The designers of Baroque art and architecture were building upon hundreds of years of tradition. Web design is not yet a twenty-year-old field.

The problem with new fields is that you need to optimize for rapid change. The parts of your design need to be interchangeable. And the audience sees such a variety of experimental designs - the standards are in such a state of infancy - that it's important to design things that are easily discoverable and quickly grasped. Both of these factors tend to favor minimalism.
By that logic, if you want to be rich, win the lotto.
If you can't possibly wait for the book until November, you can get a beta version of the ebook at http://www.manning.com/fogus/ for $28. Highly recommended.
Holy crap, did he really use Flash like THAT for his nav buttons?!
You should read a book called "Blue ocean strategy"; it is about this exact thing. The core part of any disruption in my opinion is to eliminate the value cost trade off. Companies usually compete on 2 grounds; lower price or increased utility. But when a someone enters the market and breaks the value cost trade off (increased utility w/ lower price) the result is usually disruption within the market.

Yes, I know the above stuff is ovious; what you need to know is how to do this. I have put some methods below.

1. Reconstruct market boundaries: you can do this by looking across alternative industries or across strategic groups in an industry. What are your customers alternative? What if they trade up? What if they trade down?

Drawing a strategic canvas and applying the 4 actions framework is useful.

2. Focus on the big picture and not just the numbers

Data driven decision making is good but sometimes people get lost in the numbers; epically the market leaders. By focusing on the big picture (context and consumer intent) instead of just the numbers you are more likely to be able to see outside of the existing market paradigms.

3. Reach beyond existing demand

First tier: “Soon to be” non-customers who are the edge of our market; waiting to jump ship

Second tier: refusing non-customers who consciously choose against our market

Third tier: “unexplored” non-customers who are in markets distant from ours

There are many other ways as well e.g.: Get the strategic sequence right etc...but these were some of my favorites.
http://www.rawa.org/rules.htm

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.htm...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/abuse-of-afghan...

http://www.dhushara.com/book/sakina/stoningetc/immol.htm
I believe the following bit about the pomodoro technique is a bit underinformed:

"Take the pomodoro technique (45 minutes work, 15 minutes slacking off for being a good boy) – what they’re really trying to say is “be disciplined for just 45 minutes – you can manage that, can’t you?” That’s a lot like Joel’s advice to “be funny” when we write - it sounds great but leaves out the important bit, like: what can we actually do when we start getting distracted?"

The breaks are neither slacking nor rewards for being a good boy - they are for preparing oneself for the next high focus period. And the original pomodoro paper (free pdf, google it) provides quite a lot of advice about dealing with distractions. Last but not least it's not 45/15 but rather 25/5, which makes a difference.
With the little exception that some users will miss out because of their carrier, pretty worthless phone to have without the 3G
thanks, just saw this at the bottom which looks interesting:

http://github.com/glamkit/mongo-search
> "It would be silly to let your multi-gigabyte file transfer DoS your VoIP call."

1. I think it would be silly to assume a reasonable person would propose sending multi-gigabyte files down a VoIP connection. You might want to consider asking people if there was a miscommunication before assuming they're unreasonable or ignorant.

2. I thought the qualifier that it would remove the need to open a second app was sufficient to indicate that I was talking about opening a second app. Ergo "connection" meant the human-process of mapping a VoIP contact to a data-transfer app/credentials, opening second app, sending file, etc.

3. No, a second physical connection for the file stream doesn't necessarily mean "everything would work fine". Anything that requires a new protocol/extension would make classification of the product/feature/service game to be, well, gamed, by the ISP, for profit.

As the VoIP connection itself would need to at least be modified to signal/establish the physical data connection, you'd necessarily have a protocol variant - even if the file transfer itself was, say, ftp.

4. The whole point of the example is just "New product that extends old protocol, thereby giving ISP chance to QoS-round-file new product rather than compete". Focusing on the example itself is just wasting our time.

> "I think Google is aware that any agreement would need more teeth than trusting the goodness of Verizon's heart to comply."
I think Google is doing nothing more than hedging against the possibility that legislation will undercut the FCC's net neutrality kick; particularly given legislative power being likely to tip back to the strongly pro-corporate side.

I sincerely doubt they're negotiating with Verizon over treatment of any traffic that does not come from Google.
Prediction: something with just as nice a form factor but which allows easier user <--> programmer interaction through faster iteration and no interposed controlling App Store will come to dominate as the medical field tablet.
I'm a designer so yes. The point is knowing CSS doesn't make you a good designer just as much owning a Nikon D5 doesn't make you a good photographer. Some people have natural talent for balance and aesthetic, some others acquire that with lot of practice. I say, if for you the design of your site is important, hire a professional. I develop simple stuff I do it myself, but if I need things to be solid and scalable I hire a developer.
Chasing Wikileaks
Lifehacker's Gina Trapani - Non-obvious reason for Wave Shutdown
You're correct that I could have used some better examples. But I'd been sitting on the article for a while and thought it was better to get it out than to keep holding it back indefinitely. :-)
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I like the Sensepost people, but can sum up this talk very succinctly:

* You need to make sure you've firewalled (and/or on single-host configurations bound it exclusively to lo0) memcached so people can't talk to it from the Internet.

* If you survey the Internet, you'll find a lot of people who have not obeyed this rule.

* If you don't obey this rule attackers can get and possibly alter most of your data; an exposed memcached is probably game-over for your site.

The only things you should be able to talk to on anything in your data center are ports 443 and 80, plus 25 on your single mail relay if you have one, plus 22 (heavily filtered) on a single relay SSH server. If you can talk to more than that, you've probably done something very wrong.
A Motorola Droid is $440ish, almost $100 cheaper for what looks to me like a better phone.

Any thoughts? I'm an iPhone developer, but I'm considering dipping my toe in the Android water, and I'll need a decent phone. I'm thinking of going 2.0 and up, rather than kill myself supporting a whole bunch of different apis.
Recently my mom witnessed an interaction at our county fair where a woman was feeling symptoms of a heart attack, and feeling very ill. This woman flagged down someone, and handed her her iPhone to call for help. The passerby promptly took off with the phone, which is where my mom stepped in to use her phone to help.
You are losing sight of the fact that restricting gay people from marrying is unjust.
OK, here's what I got when I opened this site:

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!

The website at www.davidedicillo.com contains elements
from the site 79.135.152.197, which appears to host
malware – software that can hurt your computer or
otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting
a site that contains malware can infect your computer.

For detailed information about the problems with these
elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page
for 79.135.152.197.

Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful
software online.

Whether that's a genuine warning or the content of the site itself, I don't really care.
They can rebuild it, but they can't get back all the burned books.
Just because there are a lot of over-simplified, tabloid-headline creating blogs that are trying to get to the front page of Reddit or Hacker News, it doesn't mean I am going to tell people to stop reading all blogs. In the same vein, there are a ton of amazing business books that entrepreneurs should be reading in spite of the others. The Map of Inovation for example. The key to to pick the right ones and read faster.
While the problem your discussing is legitimate, your proposed solution is far from the only one, and I doubt it's the best one.
Outdated opsec? No. The documents Assange published via Wikileaks exposed innocent Afghan sources by name and by village. These people are now in danger and I've seen a report that at least one of them has now been killed. Personally I con't see any real sunshine value in leaking these particular documents but I'm amazed that Assange didn't take the time to sanitize them using plain old common sense. And I'm surprised that people don't see him for the thoughtless prick that he is. And for that, I'm afraid, he becomes the collateral murderer.
The Geography of High-Paying Jobs in the US
I don't do much photography anymore, but in the early 2000's I used an "ImageTank", which was a laptop hard drive enclosure with built-in memory card readers. You put your card in, push a button, and it copied everything to the disk. There were lots of these "portable digital storage" devices back then -- ImageTank, X-Drive, Tripper, DigiBin, CompactDrive, etc.

You might want to check out the Storage & Media forum at dpreview.com. They used to talk about these devices all the time, but these days my hunch is that people are switching to netbooks. It seems like the newer photo storage devices include lcd screens and are as expensive as a netbook. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Stand-Alone-Data-Storage/c...
I would categorize relentlessly resourceful under determination, but there's a strong connection between discipline and determination. They're all part and parcel.
Knowing what you can do in Python, I guess they'd like something where you can't do the fancy metaclass things that you can do with Python, because they are rather tedious to implement - ask the Jython and IronPython people.

None of their arguments seems to preclude some compiled subset of Python, e.g. what you can feed into the shed_skin compiler (plus some sandboxing...)