skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what's really going on: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-re...

Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674911
Are We Fast Yet?
> I stopped using Apple products about 5 years ago when they added PT_DENY_ATTACH.

You mean the ptrace() flag that's trivial to bypass? Been a while since I dealt with it, but ISTR it's as simple as:

br ptrace
commands
ret
cont
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In 2009, Engadget wrote a more detailed tutorial about setting up a dual-band network using an Airport Extreme: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/how-to-set-up-dual-band-w...
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674911

Oh, and flagged for excessive and crazy paranoia.
Wanna bet it's so they don't get left behind in the ChromeOS reference designs?
Did anybody else's head explode reading this? He used a mixture of buzzwords and big company speak to say ... almost nothing.
I think this proves that complaining about stuff like this is well worth the effort, assuming that that - and not some backroom pressure - is what caused them to back off. They mention it in their release so I figure it must have been a major factor.

Their mentioning it is nothing but a PR excuse. This had nothing to do with you or me and everything to do with Adobe's lawyers.
One trick I think people underestimate the effect of is that Google caches queries. When you're searching for "Madonna", you are not causing the web index to be traversed, you're retrieving the saved search for "Madonna". Google can take a couple of seconds if you throw a truly novel query at it.

Of course, storing millions of the "common queries" isn't a joke either and that still doesn't answer the question of how they search the internet within a few seconds anyhow; I'm not trying to give a complete answer, just point one aspect out. Google Instant, by design, provides the Google Suggest queries the vast bulk of the time and I guaranteed that those are either largely or possibly even entirely pre-cached, so you're not doing 10 web searches in two seconds, you're doing 10 hash lookups in 2 seconds. Which is still damned impressive, I can't hardly keep my web site loading in less than two seconds for one hit where I work.
The OP responds in the comments:

"Universities are famous for it: small departments filled with people who are expected to spend their entire lives there, with tiny, tiny rewards at stake, a system of recognition that relies on self-promotion, and no chance that any obviously pathological co-worker is going to be shuffled out the door within the next decade. The pressure and pathology can be hideous, and that gets passed on to the students. I can see how the same setup could happen in any school with low staff turnover."
Do you feel that is possible?
This seems like a potentially huge man-in-the-middle hole. Preliminary reading on WISPr makes it sound like you can adjust wifi and such.
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Accredited investors now must have a net worth above $1 million excluding the value of their primary residence.

Alternatively they should have annual earnings above $2/300,000 (this will be reviewed.)

http://www.trowbridgecurriculum.com/blog/accredited-investor...
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Religiosity and marital satisfaction don't seem to have any statistically significant correlation. This suggests that praying together probably won't do what you expect it to, on average.
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I seem to recall hearing once that this was how Subway determined whether a location was a good spot to put a restaurant. If there was a McDonald's, Burger King, etc nearby then they moved in. The logic was that if it was good enough for the big guys, it was good enough for them.

I always thought it was a clever way to avoid paying for market research by piggybacking on someone else's.
I'm still in it... I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Distributed Systems, virtualization, Cloud Computing and so on.

Everything fits perfectly. I always wonder if I'm employing my time properly in academia. But they keep me too busy to think about it deeper. Research also keeps anyone tired, too much time dealing with the same problem, lacking some fresh air once in a while to breathe. We are emotionally involved with the work, loyalty and devotion and so on. Intermittent rewards when some of your articles are accepted... And the real awards are distant, the Ph.D. itself.
Joshua Schachter of Delicious fame (HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu)
Well I hope you make it and don't become like the academics surrounding you.
Try 3 months of weekends.
Telus and Bell switched to GSM because their old networks were falling apart, and because they were missing out on roaming fees from international customers. On top of that, there were a bundle of phones that they couldn't get, or which showed up later on CDMA.

Bell and Telus spending billions of dollars to get the iPhone is a ridiculous notion. Bell and Telus spending billions of dollars to get a new, next-gen 3G network, with higher speeds and the ability to use data while a voice call is in progress.
Those don't have to be mutually exclusive
Using spatial dithering and the iphone 4's retina display, you could make an app that could display HDR and still have the resolution of the old iphone. Throw in temporal dithering if it was something like a static photo viewer, and you would have a pretty massive range.
I'm back at home now and I misquoted the book. Actually it is listing Edison, Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson as ENTP. The book does list Jung, Einstein, and Steven Hawking as INTP which it calls "Visionary Thinkers". That chapter actually discusses the fact that Jung was an introvert who would retreat to his secluded cabin to recharge.
Archive.org moves into single Sun shipping container
Valve on 13 things they've failed at
Debian has just entered a hard package freeze to prepare for the next release (Squeeze). This means that no new packages may transition from "unstable" (where they are uploaded to) into "testing" (which will become the next stable release soon).
If a package in testing has a release-critical (RC) bug, the release managers may make an exception and allow a new, bug-fixed upload to transition into testing. If this is not deemed sensible, the package is completely removed from testing until Squeeze has been released.
The package will still be available in unstable.
While I don't know anything about setting up an internship program, I just came out of an ideal internship, and I can tell you what made it incredibly interesting for me.

1) The company didn't have my project set in stone before I got there, so I got to play a significant role on determining what my job was.

2) I was given a large amount of independence. When I got stuck and asked for help, instead of taking over, my supervisor gave me some resources to look at, or people to talk to, and told me that he wanted my perspective on how to solve the problem.

3) My supervisor had me give a number of presentations on my work (3), which both gave me confidence that what I was doing was important, and gave me valuable feedback on how my project could be improved. Two of these presentations were internal, and one was to customers.

4) While my day to day tasks didn't involve working with the other interns that were there that summer (this was a good thing for me, I preferred working with experienced employees), there was a program set up that had the interns create an event for the other employees to attend. So, I got to make friends, and get to know some people outside my department.

These things came together to make a great internship. I think you're on the right track, though, because the most important thing that made my internship a success was my autonomy and the feeling that my work mattered.
I kind of doubt that the real Google Voice (i.e. the GV app from Google) will ever make an appearance in the app store. Same with the free maps navigation. I feel like Google might want to hold on to those as differentiators for Android.

But even third-party GV apps would make a lot of people very happy, including Arrington for one.
Jailbreaking your phone is legal (as opposed to illegal), but I haven't seen anything saying that jailbreakability is a requirement for phones. If it were, it wouldn't be difficult to apply that to things like game consoles and phones, which is a precedent no one (except consumers) have any interest in doing.

The ruling simply says that you can't be arrested for jailbreaking phones; it doesn't require that a given phone be jailbreakable.
Booked a trip to SE Asia with you guys a few days ago. For what it's worth my first user reaction was:

* Looking good!

* Of course I jumped in without reading any help and didn't realize the full power of the natural language search, in particular "direct" would have been handy to know. I'm sure you recognize this as a potential problem.. That said, my perception is it's not that big a deal from your perspective - it didn't stop me using the site and having done 1 booking now and liked the experience I've bothered to investigate further (including reading the very easy to find help), and now feel much more qualified to drive.

* The flights cost more than indicated because they didn't include luggage. Be nice to see an all inclusive number, especially as I can't help speculating the price quoting is probably not uniform across airlines... some prices being more inclusive than others. Also, I guess it made the real price of the multi-segment route I selected closer to what a direct flight would have been, making me more likely to have wanted a direct flight.

* Would have liked to exclude a specific airline, can I do that? Consider that a lower priority feature though.
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yes, so far, with my previous company and this one, he has been more of an advisor than a co-founder. Though I have lot of faith in his inherrent capabilities, I do not know to what extent he can or is ready to push himself to apply them in this field. That is an unknown quantity for now.
College.
Off topic: is anyone else slightly annoyed when people link attribution to twitter profiles?
You don't really need to hypothesize. It isn't a conspiracy theory that schools were designed to produce good factory workers, it is documented historical fact. (Where by "documented historical fact" I mean as factual as any "historical" fact ever is.) See something like http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm . You do not have to agree with Gatto's prescription for what schools should become or agree with his reaction to the fact that schools were designed to produce good factory workers to agree that the proposition is very well grounded in fact, when it comes complete with quotes about the intention from the people who were creating our schools in the first place.

For myself, I do not believe that people still truly intend it this way; I do not believe there is a mass conscious effort to prevent critical thinking skills from being developed or to deliberately hold people back from realizing their true potential. If you find your brain rebelling against the entire idea that schools could have been created for this purpose, remember this was over a hundred years ago, and I for one don't claim this is still the animus behind schools. In fact I suggest that the vast bulk of people's actions demonstrate a true desire to arm children with the best education they can be given, it's just that the average person, even the average person deeply involved with education, is clueless about how to actually bring that result about in the real world. Meanwhile, the pattern of "what a school looks like" was laid down when this was a conscious intention and through literally 5 or 6 generations now has accidentally been enshrined as Gospel, and few people are yet thinking outside the box; those that do are laughed at at best, vilified at worst. Fortunately, the Internet will, eventually, change this, though probably not until the current teen generation, the one that has never known the world without it, is the majority on the PTA.
Thanks for the numbers, I was planning to ask rdrimmie if he could suggest some numbers.
One page: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_38/b41...
Hmmm, their demos look good. Are you saying the headset doesn't work at all, or not well enough, or not for a broad range of tasks?
Wow, that is my experience exactly.
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From the sample size of two calls in the FAQ, each call takes an average of 30 seconds, so in total they would take over 6 hours to do.
From my personal experience in the past as an intern:

* Give the intern a well-defined task that takes finite time (e.g., 2 months).
* Find out about the intern's interests and try to hire someone who likes the languages / stacks / technology domain you are working in.
* Check up regularly on the intern. It is very easy for an intern to lose his way and not ask questions / ask for help.
IBM Develops Optical Bus; "computer systems 100 times as fast"
While that might make sense for some companies, it would be a bit backwards for Google. Android is used as a means of getting users to use their services (Google Voice, Google Maps, etc). As such, restricting app use to attract users to Android would be like restricting google.com to only run on Chrome to promote their browser.

My fear, though, is that Google consideres web apps better than 'regular' apps - this is apparent in their decision to integrate VOIP into GMail instead of releasing their Google Voice app that had been in use internally for some time:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/exclusive-video-of-unreleas...

This is unfortunate because, although web apps will do in a pinch, they really are second-class citizens on the mobile platform, unable to run as fast or have access to the system APIs that native apps get, and if Google Voice truly wants to replace my dialer I need it to work even when my data connection craps out.
Thanks! I'm seriously thinking on finishing my Ph.D. and getting out of the university. The university is full of huge egos (with very few exceptions), and people are very hard to deal on a daily basis. There are hard people everywhere (I've worked on the software industry before, I know them), but in the university this is the rule. Also, as you predicted, I'm afraid I may become like them.
what, do people think about the ethics of a manager using the 'intermittent rewards' part in the form of unpredictable bonuses over and above regular salary (which would be regular) with the intent of harnessing the addictive nature of intermittent rewards, without using the rest of these things (which clearly cross the line into unethical.)

I'm considering implementing a bonus plan... and the question is, do I make them predictable, based on measurable stuff that I share? or do I add some randomness? do I assign them based on my own shifting perceptions? (the sort of people I hire are going to be better at manipulating the set rules than manipulating my perceptions... This is not true for all employees.)

Furthermore, would it still work if I used a predictable bonus schedule that included some random input... e.g. the chance of getting the bonus is, say, some metric based on increases in revenue or profit multiplied by a random value between 0 an 1 or something?
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What would you prefer? I suspect most people don't need any more email. Twitter is as good a medium as any, and if you do need to discuss in more detail, I'm sure they're happy to receive your email feedback.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Selzer

I've read only this book of essays. His shining part is an unusually polished eloquence.

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Most of Umberto Eco is interesting at least.

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I like Montaigne. http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-ess...
My guess on 4.3 is a combination of liability concerns and some sort of deal with the mobile carriers not to step on existing high-dollar business-focused subscription fleet services.

(Look how AT&T wants $10/month for their turn-by-turn 'Navigator' directions app. Hey -- isn't that fee -- on your AT&T bill -- a violation of 11.2, "utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in an app"?)
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Thank you very much for the reply and advice.

I actually did open a dialogue with a Microsoft recruiter - they want more than I have right now, but it's a possible direction, for sure.

Thank you especially for the profile advice - didn't realize my email didn't show, but I updated with a little more info.

On an unrelated note - notice you listed ww.com - I saw a reference on Reddit today: someone claimed to have seen a male in a bit less clothing than they desired. Nice coincidence to have you post here. :-)
I have found the absolute best way to learn SEO is via experience. There's just nothing better, period.
For government spending to create a job that pays around $60,000 a year, it costs about $100,000. Figuring $40,000 in overhead. These are estimates, but even if you change the figures, the math below will still work.

A business decides to hire an employee or not based on the businesses marginal productivity. Employees, for most businesses, are profitable as the business value of their labor exceeds the costs of their salary and overhead.

However, businesses must factor in risk as a cost, and in many instances, employees or expansions such as new stores or factories are not immediately profitable to businesses. Thus a business that is profitable per employee cannot simply double its workforce and thus double its income by hiring a bunch of new people. This "drag" on growth in employees is the marginal cost, or could be called the profits cost.

It will vary by industry, but it seems that a %10 factor for the marginal cost seems like a reasonable estimate. EG: for each $100,000 in operational profits we will hire another employee (With the rest going to capital investment, paying down loans, dividends to shareholders, etc.)

Thus, for the Obama administration to spend $100,000 to create one $60,000 a year job, they must take $100,000 out of the economy... and in the process remove that $10,000 from ten businesses, destroying 10 $60,000 jobs in the process.

This is why stimulus is never beneficial to the economy.

Fortunately, businesses are still generally profitable and the economy naturally wants to grow, so it will eventually recover from this damage. And when it does, people will give credit to the "stimulus" though by looking at the cost as well as the benefits, it is easy to see that it does more harm than good.

I used example figures here that will vary by industry, but you cant' deny that most employees are profitable, that businesses decide based on marginal value and growth factors, and thus the "cost" of a new employee is a fraction of their salary, and thus the creation of one job by the government will destroy a multiple of jobs in the private sector. The ratio may be 10-1 or it may be 5-1, but it is not "profitable" to the economy.

If it were, greece would be a roaring success story, because their government has done nothing but spend, spend spend.
Excuse me, but 7% for one of the most important economies is HUGE.
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I really like Isaac Asimov's essays, at least most of the ones I have read.

There are a huge number of them on many topics too: http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/essay_guide.html

(A little searching and many/most of them are on someones website somewhere)
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It's great to see an article like this. There are a lot of people in the tech/startup community who talk about not being afraid to fail, but very few that actually talk about their own failures.
I submitted a similar story a few weeks ago, it was "Smoking Hot Bartenders" back then: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637782
That was the first question he raised when I first proposed about him becoming a partner - "What would I be able to bring to the company?", its because of such questions that I value his opinion.

Thats true, I would not be able to afford to spoon feed him about what he can, he should or how he can do different things. I would have to spend more or less full time on development, finances and customers. He would have to be a self starter and go about trusting his own instincts, if he joins this company. But currently it looks like I have more trust on his instincts than he has on them (at leaast with respect to this venture)
This is complete fluff; he says nothing about how GE uses Hadoop, just that they do. Whoopee. It's not journalism, or even good blogging, it reads like it's a straight-out reprint of marketing material for the Hadoop World conference.
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So %0.0012 (11/920'000) of their workforce has committed suicide? What is the average percentage of suicide deaths in that age range in china?
Wireless call quality, Verizon leads, AT&T trails
I used to do this too. My experience has been that certain email clients (Outlook on Windows, for one) will render your email address as

first@last.us (sent by first.last@gmail.com)

Clearly not desirable, and in my case, unacceptable. I actually switched from the GMail webapp to multiple accounts in Mail.app for this reason alone. I miss the webapp, though.
Major parts of that aren't true. I think something like 30% of queries have never been seen before, and Google provides low latency on those as well.
And someone as successful as Valve, no less. It kind of put my own failed game development projects in perspective. Normally I don't really care where my submissions go but I hope this one doesn't get buried.
Yes. It's huge.
You can count to twenty million very, very quickly in manufacturing. There are individual buttons in and near Nagoya that cost more if you press them once.
I wish more investors announced themselves like this...
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Significantly higher than that, from what I understand. It's actually one of those unfortunately 'uninteresting' headlines that will just never make headlines: "Foxconn suicides significantly below national averages."

Remember: newspapers and blogs are in the selling eyeballs business, not in the reporting news business.
This story was posted on March 26th, 2009.
Ask HN: What do you perceive as worth spending money on?
For myself, I value spending money on non-fiction books, craft beers, well designed things, and experiences with friends and family.

What do you believe is worth spending money on? What is the right price for some of the items you value? How do you determine this?
except that when the browser window is resized, at google the dots were moving
Aww, I always wanted to find out how to type upside-down. :-(

Joking aside, thank you very much for the feedback. You've given me some things to think about and directions in which to head.
I came here to say the same exact thing, albeit with my iPhone's autocorrect feature disabled. ;)
On a street where there are several Startbucks, it's wise to open up another Starbucks?
Interesting. Is each character dynamically generated, or is there a hard-coded mapping from characters to dots? I'm guessing the latter as it doesn't seem to work with non-latin characters.
To be fair, Alan did most of the hard work after my initial prototype :)
Interesting, I'm totally OK with that representation. I guess I'm not quite as vain as my vanity domain name would imply :) as long as my business cards look awesome (they do) that's all I really care about.