skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that everybody has been taught that SSL does mean "secure". "Look for the lock icon", "make sure it says https and not http" and so on.

Which in the end is a good thing because people have been made aware of some security problems that way.

The great thing about HTTPS is that it's mostly managed by the browser and looking for the lock or checking the URL is easy enough for anyone to do. But what can one do to make sure they're secure once they checked the basic things they've been taught?
Sure sounds completely and utterly different from "Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority." Thanks for failing us NYT.
Qoute:

"When it launched, Basho was selling itself as a sales force automation (SFA) company. The SFA tool was a test case for the underlying database, Galleher said – but ironically, the founders, acting on VC advice, emphasized the tool over the database.
Now the company has had trouble with VCs who remember its early story."

VCs doing pattern matching.
The problem with pattern matching, that in order to recognize a pattern, you need to see it before, probably several times, otherwise it's not a pattern - just an outlier.
Entrepreneurs driven by real creative process. They can invent something they never seen before.
Try to pattern match that!
Verizon: New York Times' Story is Mistaken
If your website is more like an application, think of gmail, then a framework like cappuccino (http://cappuccino.org/) come with pretty good design defaults. And no css/photoshop skills required. It will require learning obctive-j and a couple of cocoa though.
> "What we mean is if you have one data type like video, you don’t discriminate against one person’s video in favor of another. But it’s OK to discriminate across different types, so you could prioritize voice over video"

Which sounds good, but completely falls apart upon examination.

E.g. Is a video-call video? or voice? Is it a new type altogether? What if a new videochat service uses a new protocol with different encryption/compression/etc? Is that a distinct "type" with distinct 'management' profile?

Given the largely arbitrary distinction of bits into "types" of communication, being able to decide what is or is not a discrete "type" and priority essentially gives the power to decide whether a new service sinks or swims.

And, as many new service types are effective competitors against old service types, getting to decide whether the new type is discriminated against is functionally equivalent to deciding whether to discriminate against arbitrary competitors within a service type.

The only improvement of discriminating by type over discriminating by source, is that you can still have competition among those who use an entrenched protocol -- to the extent that competitors are free to use said protocol.

Because --to be perfectly clear-- there's absolutely nothing stopping that sort of "compromise" being followed by a patented, proprietary google/verizon video chat protocol that they will not license, while they simultaneously throttle FaceTime/Fring/etc.

EDIT: (some punctuation/grammar)
"Go get a science/engineering/JD/MD heck even an MBA and you damn well better be smarter at the end."

Are you sure about that?
How XML Threatens Big Data (2009)
I'm sure you could find dozens of happy laptop-abuse volunteers on Craigslist.
Which timezone are these days and times based on?
It comes down to the level of intricacy in the usage. The extent to which I use...

...the Sistine Chapel - Stand in it.

...my house - Live in it.

...a web app - Click all sorts of buttons, encounter alerts, make micro-decisions.

As the intricacy of usage increases, so too does the risk of negative distraction (as opposed to positive distraction, like being awestruck by the Sistine Chapel's ceiling and not hearing a friend call my name).
Except for "How to Get Rich". That one is great.
Substitute "two person" for "three person," and "JPM" for "Goldman Sachs," and you have my story. My experience wasn't nearly as negative as his was, and my role was slightly different: I was a trader, not a quant. But the startup life sure beats Wall Street, hands down.
Which browser are you using? The speed is vastly different for me when I play this in Chrome vs FireFox...
So, define "value" in the context of an education.
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I don't agree. Not every developer is an super genius who only solves problems using incredible feats of intelligence.

I learn something new everyday. For a learning experience we launched a new site using only HTML5. That was a fun learning experience, but it wasn't a really hard problem. And yes, it is part of our core mission.

Another example is how our company is always looking at new technologies. The concepts can be challenging and fun to learn for a developer. A couple of the more recent ones we've used are MongoDB, Node.js, PhoneGap... I'm sure there's more. Oh, right... we're building our first Rails 3 site. Now that's fun!
Shortage of good developers in London too though.
Yes, one should consider such an issue too. Thanks for sharing.

However, in my case, she was still there because she had been watching us play and afterward we went to a pub all together. I just wanted to say that either she didn't care or she trusted too much other people.
Actually you can't (not in this case at least). Microsoft promised to support ie6 until april 2014, so they can't apply the argument after that. And ie6 -> ie8 (-> ie10) step is probably about as big as ie6 -> ie10.

That said, I still don't agree with using ie6.
or MS could give them a pricepoint just slightly lower than what it cost to do a proper upgrade?
Due to time difference I didn't get as many responses as I was expecting from the community. Hence the repost.
Github does this.
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/05/25/the-github-stoplight...
AskAKorean - Dog it's what for dinner
Someone at SIGPLAN must really like F#.
Yes, there is a separate model compatible with AT&T's 3G.
it isn't clear to me how he was supposed to realize that by "tea party" you were actually referring to a specific list of politicians you had in mind, but had not named. would a different list of tea party-connected politicians suffice, or did he specifically need to guess those three in order to have good "research ability"?
I understand your general gist... but I find sketching the design by pencil and paper much faster than photoshop - obviously I don't get pixel perfect results, but the intricacies of CSS mean that it's difficult to match a photoshop design pixel-by-pixel anyway. I agree that it's much better to have a visual plan in place first, but photoshop would definitely slow me down, and I've designed dozens of web sites.
Northern lights expected in south again
US Marshalls stored 35,000 "whole body" images
they're only polarized from certain viewpoints. over here off to the side, they're basically in lock step about everything except for a tiny handful of issues. the amount of smoke and noise being produced by those issues keeps going up, though.
I'll add that selection is often the result of a top-down decision, with an attendant disconnect between the needs and interests at the top as compared to those in the trenches. The greater the separation of those mindsets, the worse the result, speaking generally.
You should be good to go. The UMTS bands utilized in the UK are 2100/900.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands#Multi-band
Probably these guys: careers@red-gate.com
The author's examples are not relevant to the argument. If you're just trying to design something that is, on its face, beautiful, there are obviously many viable styles besides modernism. The goal of web design is different from the goal of palace design or ornate ceiling design. Web design must be usable or it has failed. I think a better analogy in the physical world would be the design of tools. If you were driving nails all day, would you rather use a modernist hammer or a hammer that looks like that Rococo table?

I take his point that modernism has become close to dogma for some web designers, but I don't see how an abbey built in the early 1700s relates to a website.
Fun game and impressive script!

Personally, the game was too fast (speed wise) in Chrome. However, FireFox and Safari 5 played at a much more reasonable speed.

While, I was expecting the speed to be a bit slower in FireFox, I was curious about the difference between Chrome and Safari (a V8 vs SquirrelFish difference...??)
I was at HOPE and saw this talk. The irony of "Stop Snitching" shirts appearing on crowds of people who have almost undoubtedly spent zero minutes being interrogated by even local police was not lost on me.

It's a well-worn topic, but I was disheartened to see so many people launch into tangential rants that really skirted (avoided, even) the reality of the situation.
... and business blogs.
For more background see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272541

SEC is proposing that prospectuses (prospecti?) for asset backed securities include a simulator written in Python. The investor can use this simulator to test out the behavior of their investment under various conditions.

Fascinating idea, I wonder, though, what is going to happen when the simulator and the prospectus disagree. I would assume the text of the prospectus would override the source code. It is going to be quite a challenging task trying to align legalese and Python, or any other programming language for that matter.
So is this all about Google wanting to prioritize Google Voice's traffic over YouTube's?
Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market
I really, really doubt anyone's blog is ever a deciding factor in a hiring situation. Really. Maybe this is different in very web-oriented specialities.

Also I am very amused that you think anyone without a blog is a "good little human resource", as if writing a blog was some great accomplishment of individuality. People who don't do it don't do it because they're simply not interested. Doesn't mean blogs are a waste of time or anything, but they are just a hobby. Like stamp collecting.

FWIW I have my name on the cover of a book, that was in actual real bookstores, about the main technology I use. I mention it on my CV. Hasn't resulted in any more than a minute's conversation in the (admittedly very few) interview's I've done since then. And as an interviewer and hiring manager, I've never taken a blog into consideration. Apart from for the author him or herself, blogs just aren't important.

The bloke I'm thinking of with the steam engines, BTW, is pretty talented. He built his first one with electric tools and his second with tools powered by the first. And he's a great developer. Hiring some blogger over him would be a serious mistake for any organization...
The folks here are knocking liberal arts degrees because they don't believe that there are any worthwhile careers outside of hacking.

That's obviously false -- there are quite a few non-technical professions out there that are perfectly viable for careers beyond teaching.

For this forum, non-IT related degrees don't mean much, but that doesn't mean that they don't have value in one of the legion of other fields out there.
The problem isn't on the client, it's on the server. Using the Chrome plugin would break their apps just as well as using Chrome itself.

To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant potential cost to the taxpayer.
> There is no risk of MITM attack, only that "domain.com" is not what you think it is.

That very well could be a MITM attack
If you spend much time on HN or reading programmer blogs or on github you're going to be exposed to a lot of exceptionally talented and/or motivated programmers, because those are the people that take the trouble to maintain this kind of online presence. It doesn't take long for your conception of what it means to be a professional programmer to start to skew in this direction.

To put it another way, almost all the job listings I see these days ask for github account info and if you don't have a pretty impressive github portfolio you look like a scrub. There are some upsides to this but, compared to the job market of even ten years ago, it's less forgiving.
Sure there are edge cases, but I fully support a decision that if it comes to dropping a call or interrupting someones youtube watching, the priority should go to the call. Video calls are an interesting case, but it seems to me that the audio stream should be given higher priority than the video.
Your hunch was right. Google's just tweeted ( http://twitter.com/googlepubpolicy ) that:

"@NYTimes is wrong. We've not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet."
It should work with all networks in the UK. It's a nice phone for international usage due to the supported frequencies. The reason the US has problems is their two main networks use incompatible technologies.
Anyone know of a good book on mathematics as a language? What I mean is a book that spends most of its time simply introducing the notation and the concepts that it refers to rather than dealing excessively with the mechanics of doing math.

IMHO math as a language should be taught first.
You're right, but I was on stage and that's what came to mind. Next time I'll be ready. ;)
I think i should do the same thing. I always try to make fancy web 2.0 buttons, but they usually turn out ugly which is really discouraging.
How Flowdock feels about the Google Wave failure
Shortage of good developers everywhere :-) But at least in London you know that they are in the same city, somewhere.
I use a "Shuttle 2.0" case. Since you can work on the laptop with it inside the case, it's very easy to take it to the bathroom. Leave books and the power supply and ask a neighbor to watch your stuff.

http://amzn.com/B000XV8EJU
I think what you're getting at is that Angel investing isn't comparable to buying into an index fund or so in that it's not an investment strategy for the general population. You need domain knowledge in the area you're making the investments, and it'll take some experience before you get good at it. And some people will have more talent for it than others. I don't think there's any argument about that.

The rest of what you're describing are just statistical phenomena, though. As the source says, the distribution for returns on individual investments is very lopsided and far from normal (Gaussian). Early stage and VC funding are risky but potentially high-return in nature. Overall, you'd need a large sample size to approach any sort of predictable pattern on returns [1]. And you'd better be prepared to lose all the money you put in.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
We're quickly going to be in a world where all phone calls are VoIP and I don't think it's unreasonable to allow QoS tiers. I don't want to have my phone not work because my neighbors are torrenting. Hell, I already do this on my home network. Google just wants to make sure you don't have to pay to get in a QoS tier.
Unfortunately, nobody wants to learn about statistics -- they just want it to work so they can make more money. I just wrote a post about behavioral change and understanding your users here:
http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/why-personal-finan...

That's why sites like Visual Website Optimizer are getting increasingly good. They use plain language to explain when to keep running the tests.

Again: It's unrealistic to expect lay users to learn statistics. They don't want to become statistical experts, they usually just want to increase sales. This is where software can help.
I'd love to see Mexico added to that list :(

I wonder about the applications we would be able to hack up (and the excellent handset we would be able to lay our hands over).
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So the sky isn't falling, Google isn't evil [yet]. Amazing how quickly people jump to conclusions.
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The Emerging Scholarly Brain
Thank you for reminding of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA

It's Warhawk Matt Scott in Nike's "No Excuses" Commercial
We've done both. For our corporate site, we designed it and for our product site, we went to an outside designer. We're getting ready to redesign our corporate site again, and I think this time we'll definitely look to outside help.

The reason isn't that we can't handle it (we're a web design and development firm), but because there are several immediate, key advantages gained by going with an outsider:

1. It doesn't come second to other client/product work. When doing the site for ourselves, it takes 3x as long, because we'll push it off when a new client project comes in or we need to make enhancements to our product. By hiring someone we avoid this conflict.

2. It's important to get an outside perspective. We're so ingrained in the day to day that we can lose site of how to present ourselves to our customers. Things that may seem really important to us may not matter at all to people shopping for web dev. A good designer is able to look past our subjectiveness and come up with a design that meets our consumers needs.

3. You care more when you're paying someone. When we do it ourselves, we often say "well, that's good enough for now, we can tighten it up later" -- later almost never comes. When you're paying someone $5,000 out of your pocket, you'll make sure they hit the nail on the head the first time and be more willing to critique them than your own team.
I'm pretty sure people have said this about every technological advance.

Turns out they were partially right about the television, weren't they?
I think what unavoidable is saying is that photoshop, specifically, isn't a necessary step. Personally, I hate mockups in it. I try to use paper and pencil, if it needs to be formal, I use balsamiq.

I do agree that you need SOME sort of mockup, but I actually think low res mockups are more effective because people aren't distracted by the fact that an underlined link in PS doesn't quite look right.
With Compass you get fancy buttons for free: http://github.com/imathis/fancy-buttons/
This is addictive in the way Canabalt is. Well-played, sir.
A Brief and Glorious History of Pixel Art
I admire tarsnap's design it is clean and rather functional (except for maybe the tables for usage).

I don't mind websites trading style for functionality
There is always a variance. Even with huge tests.

The question is whether it is statistically significant.
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For those wanting a more light-hearted summary, it can be found on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juytk2OA4GI
um.

Users (non institutional investors?) will download a program with the asset backed security information in a separate XML file, use that file to perform their own analysis of the possible performance and cash flow (called the waterfall in the proposal) to make an individual determination of the actual value of an ABS pile of investments.

You've got to be kidding me, right? This is how we are to increase transparency in pooled ABS investments?

Forget the fact that the ACM is weighing in on the appropriateness of Python as the program's implementation language here - say there is a bug in the implementation of the program that allows you to model this waterflow cash flow. Who can I sue, if as an individual investor, I relied on this implementation (along with my subtle tweaking of simulation variables) to make an investment decision?

Forgive my naivete, maybe I've made a bad assumption about what the program is supposed to actually reflect. Does it represent a firm contract or rule set about how cash flow in the ABS pool will work given certain inputs?
I had about 10 other things I wanted to demo, but that's all I could fit in the slot they gave me.
It's funny that a lot of this would not be an issue if Verizon, et al, actually had the ability to deliver the speeds they quote you on any sort of consistent basis.

Most consumer-grade networking problems can be solved with "QoS via excessive bandwidth". But, what the carriers want to do is oversell their backbones by 10,000%, and then charge extra to deliver the kind of service you would have expected to receive in the first place.

Wholesale bandwidth to a Tier 1 provider is ~$15/Mb these days (monthly). This doesn't include loop charges of course. But still Verizon, Comcast, etc. should be able to deliver a symmetrical 5Mbs pipe to an average residence (ie: in a populated suburb) for $60/mo. without the end user every really worrying about running up against capacity for any practical application.

The ISP's are worried about being reduced to "dumb pipes", yet they could easily differentiate based on speed, uptime, customer service and other things that don't rely on packet tagging and prioritizations.
On board with the both of you. In addition, minimalism in design often involves minute tweaks to make the overall better, easier, or whatever. This method is very reminiscent of how developers optimize code (should).
Your games don't load in Chromium from the dev channel, could you please fix that?
Jeff Jarvis: Google is too big for its own good
MongoDB 1.6 Released
Hey, I'm not calling for protectionist laws or anything. I'm just pointing out that people who outsource are optimizing the wrong thing if their goal is net wealth creation in the long term. And it most likely is; we'll all retire one day.

Gambling is an entertainment product; it's no more or less a suboptimal use of money than going to the movies.
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Thanks for the suggestions, we'll definitely have more people review the copy.

And you're right, people who don't follow very many people don't need this app and people who are on all day long don't need this app. But we suspect there are many people who do need it.
I will check it out. strange that any of the feature tests would be failing.
I actually preferred the square, beige boxes, compared to a lot of the boxes they sell nowadays. It was very sturdy, harder to scratch, didn't look dusty after a couple days, and because of the shape easy to clean, store or transport. Downside: sharp metal ends.

Take the interior of a modern case, with the airy wires, no screws drive bays, air filter, put it in a square beige metal box and you'd get a great utilitarian box for office or general geek use.
From what I know about this, Adrian Lamo initiated the contact. It has nothing to do with being interrogated by anyone. He himself decided to rat on the whistleblower.
I'd be willing to bet that writing a blog about programming is positively correlated with programming talent and productivity, for at least one reason: it shows interest in the subject, and the extra attention compounds over time.

The typical programmer has little interest in the profession other than as a monthly salary, and spends most of their life doing copy & paste-level implementation and reimplementation of business rules into straightforward code and UI. Domain knowledge is usually (a lot) more valuable than coding ability for these people. Sure, the kernels and architectures of the systems these typical programmers work with are designed and implemented by people you would probably more recognize as hackers, but there is so much more drudgework that needs to be done to make it all a useful piece of corporate IT infrastructure. There are armies of these people doing it, and the work isn't interesting code-wise.

These typical programmers, as a rule, don't blog about their work.
We designed our website. Product design and web design go hand in hand.
But does that mean that a call takes priority over a live video feed? Does talking to your grandma take priority over a live feed of some major world changing event?

The key is to make the entire case moot. That can be done with a combination of software engineering and increasing bandwidth.

the challenge is how do you promote developers to build bandwidth efficient systems, as it seems bandwidth is now a distant thought in the minds of most developers.
Any idea, what is their main moneymaker product?
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