skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physical disk shredding, explained for paranoid sysadmins
Maybe I'm not used to the Silicon Valley processes but I think it is pretty uncool to tell your company you received another offer... even without explicitly mentioning you want a raise.

You should either be happy with your company, or talk with your boss in order to get better conditions. And if there is no agreement you can look around and go in some other place. But playing the game of the higher offer is something that always disturbed me.
I agree completely, and they needed the deal to get the first phone out there. Now that it has been such a success, they don't need that leverage band starting to go nonexclusive and to unlock the devices.
In fact, we do offer embeddable menus. We currently reserve that for paying restaurants but I'd be happy to talk about providing content for you.

scott -at- marksmenus.com
Tim Berners-Lee Details 4 Concerns About Future of Mobile Web
Just because they have cash doesn't mean they want to dig into it, lest we forget that Google already once initiated a hiring freeze during leaner times in the advertising market.
Our site is up, about 30 minute after your post.
More women than men in U.S. earned doctorates last year for first time
Great feedback -- many thanks.

"... user generated photos of the menu items as well. I'm not aware of any sites that currently do this"

We do! User submitted content has been relatively slow, but we have an iPhone app and allow users to upload photos that way, as well as through the website.
And you can in the US?

What other phones can be updated without manufacturer support?

Even for the ADP1(G1) and the N1 you need some binary-only files from HTC.

I was successful in building Froyo for my N1. Not so much for the ADP1. (No GSM and no Wifi) I am missing some binaries that seem not available in the stock 1.6 image for the ADP1.
"Android is only free of carrier abuse if you're geeky enough."

Or if your carriers behave. In most parts of the world they do nowadays.
Stone Finger Rings Varieties: Photo Galley
Sadly, pirates don't actually convince their friends to buy it. They help them pirate it.

He's right about doing what he can to provide features that pirates can't take advantage of, though. That's the only way to actually combat piracy.
Employers often ask questions like that when people hand in their notice - in order to persuade them to stay.

And in any case, it is silly to keep your salary secret - that is how employers exert their control over employees.
The problem for Microsoft is that at least personally I have used IE (6 - 8), Chrome, Chromium, Firefox (3 - 4 beta), Opera and Safari.

In everything I do from ordinary surfing to updating my blog to viewing youtube Chromium beats everything else hands down. From startup where Chromium is virtually instant to search to every other action which is near realtime. I get forced to use Firefox 3.6 at work and it so frustrating that I have Chromium on my personal laptop that I use to search what I want or check something while I wait.

So M$ can talk as much as it wants about how benchmarks do not test sufficiently but there is no way I would go back to IE unless IE 9 was at least as fast as Chromium and then you have to consider the extensions....
Somebody Needs a Hug over the Internet. Creepy or Awesome?
I got two problems with this list. First, for many items on the list, I can actually come up with examples of successful attempts that tackle the problem. Seconds, it feels like that even the ideas that failed so far look like that there is nothing inherently wrong with them, it's just that no ones figured out yet how to do them well.

It's actually a good list of problems that still need to be solved (and you could be the one who solves them), not a list of ideas you should avoid at all costs.
HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK
Or google.com/path/to/resource which we already have...
I really do not care about being able to view photos and video but if I could preview links and manage my lists something like Yoono does then that would be awesome
If only they had this for vim
I'd like to learn vim, and this would really help :)
What the article spoils is actually only a - not that important - surface of the story.
Looks like it is US/Canada only so far, even though it says global =)
"why fight the biggest revolution in information flow since the printing press when you could easily work with it by adding services that actually add some value beyond the free act of making a digital copy?"

This is very intelligent insight on the author's part. It's also the same argument that has been staring the RIAA in the face for over a decade: you can't fight the future, so you'd better figure out a better way to earn revenues.

With Minecraft, Mojang has an opportunity to monetize illegitimate users by creating incentives through community play and online rewards that may not be available using pirated copies of their product.
Two presentations on the web, mobile and the digital divide
Minor correction, you mean Feathers. It's a great book!
2nd most-used category of apps on smartphones are weather apps (Nielsen Report)
A personal message from Stephen Colbert to the reddit community
iPhone is a Gadget. Android is an Operating system. Why are we comparing them?
Lambda's in GCC
Why is that "a big if"?

They seem to have good contracts with all of the major record labels.

And, the artists like it too. Some musicians here in Norway are reporting that they are now receiving more money from Spotify than they are from iTunes.

I don't have any doubt that they've got things under control on the rights side.
All he did was describe the freemium model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium
So the only things that are likely to be impossible are the things that distinguished but elderly scientists don't talk about.
Personally I am more worried of a big company dominating more than one space. Say, I'm happy with PS3 to beat Xbox 'cause Sony is not a threat anywhere else, but Microsoft got the Windows/Office monopolies.

I am happy with Apple being strong in iPod/iPhone because they are weak in PCs. And I am happy with Google being strong in search, and Facebook and Twitter having the social network market.

If we got a Facebook killer from Twitter I'd love it. But from Google? I think they got enough fingers in enough pies for the time being. :)
But playing the game of the higher offer is something that always disturbed me.

Not me. Here's my experience (many times):

Phase I
Me: I deserve more $ because <27 good reasons>.
Boss: I can't because <14 stupid reasons>.

Phase II
Me: I quit (not bluffing).
Boss: You can't. Here's more $.
SMBs Embrace Social Media and Pay the Price
Aliza Sherman Tells Her Startup Story, Speaks About Women Entrepreneurship
True... though "clone it and eventually users will come" was Microsoft strategy, wasn't it? :D (ah, Microsoft, if you had only patented it! ;P ).

But I'd be careful to consider Google vs. Facebook a done deal. Yes, Facebook has only one service... but Google gets all its money from ads, a Facebook could potentially have a much better profile of its users than Google. If Facebook starts chipping at Google's ads de-facto monopoly, it will really hurt Google.

It will be a good fight for sure. :)
An ex-cop, Bradley Jardis, has contributed this account of his refusing to answer any questions whatsoever put to him by a cop during a traffic stop. It went quite well.

http://freekeene.com/2010/06/08/a-thank-you-to-the-nashua-po...
What theoretical computer science papers should everyone read?
By repeatedly covering this topic, and websites like this linking to the source, it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Essentially, TC is partly to blame and it reminds me of when they went after last.fm.
Wow, sounds nice.
I second your experience, edw519. Unfortunately, often the only way to get management to loosen the purse strings is to come back with another offer from another firm. This exact situation has happened to me. Sad, really.
I am not sure about that. Though I do think there is a certain feeling of elitism within Google, like all the brightest people are inside (which to be honest it's probably a pretty good assessment). So I am not sure how much they can get the very real but very (intellectually) shallow world of social networks.

Googlers seem to love to tackle hard problems (e.g. Wave and Instant search) but social networks are not a hard problem from an engineer point of view.
My goals with programming is to create web and desktop (mac, iphone) apps if that's relevant.

Then you have it backwards. You should be building, not reading.

Slow way: Read book --> apply what you learn

Fast way: Write code --> Get stuck --> Find a book

I know this is not intuitive, but trust me, it works much better. We all love the feeling of cracking open a fresh new book (or pdf) and bathing ourselves in all this newfound knowledge. But this method is not very efficient. Much of what you read you will never use and much of what you need you will never read about, no matter what the book is.

Better to pick a project and just start building it. Come up for air every once in a while and consult whatever book fills in what you need to know to build your project. True learning comes from building, not reading. This method takes the best of both worlds and gets you to your stated goal much quicker.
Phase III

Boss: You're fired. We just offered you more $$ temporarily so we could have time to find a replacement because we no longer trust you after you quit the first time.
Good question. I had to score a Motorola Droid off eBay and put in a decent microSD card to fill this void.
Put it online and downloading the client lets you pirate the game like downloading Firefox lets you pirate Basecamp.
I feel the same way too. Most of what I knew about HTML/CSS was through trail and error (especially for CSS). Now I am thinking of redesigning my whole site using what I've learned from these videos.

Also, I know of some friends who have expressed interest in learning web-design, they might get some use of this, as it is simple, comprehensive and easy to pick up. An excellent piece of work from Google.
The sooner you learn C the better. It (along with assembly) really helps to develop an understanding of how computers really work on a low level, which will be important later when you will try to write efficient code in high level or functional programming languages.

It's always important to understand what's going on under the hood, even if you don't need to open it.
Documents show Homeland Security tracks anti-drill groups in Pa.
AOL working with Jonas Brothers to 'redesign the Internet'. I can't wait.
Ok, this is what I think should be the best behavior:

Phase I
Me: I deserve more $ because ...
Boss: I can't because ...
Me: Ok

Phase II
You look for a better job where you can get what you deserve, without telling your company about it.

Phase III
I found the job.
Me: Sorry, I'm leaving, I found a job with the right $
Boss: Ok, we can match the offer
Me: no way, I'm leaving.
Not exactly. More like the freemium model but with the free part "hidden" for most users.
Am I the only person who has bought a game after pirating and playing it through?
Also I'd be more inclined to buy more games first if there was some way of getting my money back if I really don't like it. I'm looking at you, GTA4, you blurry, poo sandwich.
For a start we should try to get rid of all those www: that will be the greatest help. The rest should be pretty easy: a website can always set a forwarding link so that, say:
www.cocacola.com/offer
goes to the page of the actual offer.
Boss: You're fired.

Is this your experience, Andys, are you speculating, or is this just a joke?

This has never happened to me or anyone I know. Loyalty doesn't mean shit anymore and everyone knows it.

On the other hand, my experience has shown that having the balls to stand up for yourself and do whatever you have to do earns new respect.

Phase III (what really happens)
Boss treats you better than ever before.
Immediately go about my business as usual and not download it.
No sure why this is downvoted - it's correct, and it appears that the parent is confusing Great Britain and the former British Empire (where the popularity of cricket is widespread).
Content Curation: Essential Advice from Industry Thought Leaders
content curation and content marketing
Ultralight Javascript Templating
Google fires engineer for privacy violations
What was the historical reason? I know that originally the actual domain name was written from "largest" to "smallest": com.google, for example.

I find my perfectionist side slightly annoyed by the current form, but then if we ever change it we should move to year-month-day too, and putting the currency symbol after the number, and use decimals everywhere (no more hours but centi-days ^_^)... oh well, I guess the world is nice because it's imperfect. :)
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley ( http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/ ) is a pretty easy read and introduces the reader to algorithms quite nicely. There's a few important takeaways from it in how to approach problems, and it's almost universally applicable (even though almost everyone reels at being presented with Visual Basic in the example code).
he he... I do that often for Wikipedia... even though I don't get why Wikipedia hasn't implemented a nicer looking URL (in particular removing the middle /wiki/). :(
The problem is understanding if the inability of a given company to recognize the value of an employer is a good enough reason to move away...
Business Blogging: As Easy As A, B, C?
curation and business blogging software tools
I would peg the "Hotshot early player" label to MySpace / Netscape
this is what I think should be the best behavior

This is exactly what not to do.

Don't ever let your employer know you're unhappy, disloyal, or "looking". This leaves you totally exposed, walking a tightrope without a safety net. You'll piss off your boss for no good reason and only reconfirm your current situation by not already having another offer. If you're so damn good, then why don't you have another offer?

There's a big difference between what should work and what does work. On the job, you and your employer are teammates. When it comes to your renumeration, you are adversaries. Don't ever forget that.
I think he means regarding the US...
Apparently labels have been ripping off artist compensation from streaming. http://torrentfreak.com/spotify-isnt-ripping-off-artists-the...
Rivals Spar over Cocoa DNA
Yahoo brought in $1.6 billion of revenue this second quarter, making $213 million in profit. It's not IBM or Exxon, but still a lot of money.
Personally I think we shouldn't move away from the concept of: URI <=> resource, just for some short-term gain. I think that metaphor will be a lot more useful in the long term.

What we may do, and to be honest it's starting to happen already, is to get rid of the address bar as an always-visible user interface feature. It could just be an overlaid window for those times when you actually want to type in the url (or if you jus want to check its value) that disappear once one click enter. And to be honest this is already happening in mobile phones where space is limited.

The breadcrumb idea, especially if as customisable as the author suggest, should be done in the site... which we already can do.
Those results would be roughly similar to the other poster's if you removed one of the four 4s in the Opera results. Maybe just a typo?
Do you allow custom layouts by restaurant? (Basically, I would like the layout of the menu to be similair to my restaurant menu. My special sauces are listed in a box in the middle. They are an additional $2.)

If I have 6 menu items that can have multiple $2 additions, how can I display that?
Additionally, I hear they are already underpaying programmers. (I hesitate to mention this because I don't actually have any data.)

If shareholders cared this much about micro- financial issues, Google's headquarters would be based in Kansas and not Silicon Valley. And they wouldn't have solar panels or ball pits, or ... Sparing gross negligence, it seems like shareholders are willing to accept that you need to spend money to make money.

(Incidentally, I work at huge megacorp with annoyed shareholders, but I still get to fly business class when traveling abroad for work. My last flight was something like $11,000 when economy was $1200. Oh hai, order of magnitude! It might seem like a waste of shareholder money, but they accept it as a cost of doing business.)
A new bubble would result from investors putting more money into tech companies that had no chance of success. Google raising pay for some of its engineers is not a bubble.
The reason local rates in Europe are so low is not regulation of the rates, it's regulation of the carriers, forcing them to open up the networks they build subsidized to competitors basically at cost, in part through mobile virtual network operator agreements. This removes the barrier to entry, I think in Denmark starting a MVNO takes a deposit on the scale of $8-10.000.

This is also reflected in the outrageous prices for roaming - this market is not opened up.

I suspect the case in the US is that the carriers aren't forced to open up in the same way.

But, the essence of my disagreement with the GPs post is the idea that entering a two-year contract to get a subsidized phone is "customer-slavery", "clearly" in need of regulation. Just get an unlocked phone and a monthly/pay-go plan. (Putting an APR on the contract I could get behind, though).

I've done that, and with my actual usage pattern it's significantly cheaper over two years (actually, I've been upgrading more like every year for a while), because I also don't need the big plan I'm forced into when buying subsidized. I haven't done the math counting in interest on buying the phone, but I'd be surprised if it didn't still come out cheaper.
Stacktrace or gtfo [image]
Still Fighting The Wrong Fight
Minus the Phase II (never tell them you're planning to leave), I've done this a couple times with good success.

It's healthy for both sides. You get a better job and a bit of self-satisfied pleasure during the "no, you lost me" speech. They get to understand why they lost a good worker, and the real costs associated with it. With luck, the team you left behind will have a better environment, since just maybe management will learn something.
Any app that makes you go "Whoa" when you first use it, and then only impresses you more and more as you use it has to be on to a good thing.

It's a simple app, does exactly what it says on the tin - and is fast as hell. Brilliant. The fact that the free model plays adverts every once in a blue moon (significantly less than commercial radio) is a massive boon.

Well done Spotify, and good luck!

edit: typo
Fair enough.

Do you know whether those prohibited recordings would be admissible as evidence in court, despite being non-consensual? Or is the weight of their prohibition that they are inadmissible?
Don't go down this road. Do you want to be knee-deep in legacy code? Better go out and build your own stuff. Forget about the TAOCP, it really is overrated. Cormen is more recent and to the point. But don't read it cover to cover, but consult it when you need it. Furthermore, read the Dragon book (first one is enough) on compiler construction. Finally, learn to program in Standard ML, for example via the book by Larry Paulson (ML for the working programmer). That should be enough for the basic theory. If you got the above stuff under your belt, then this will take you pretty far. For the rest, rely on your mind and logic and feeling for elegance.
Looking back: 1 year in banking vs. 1 year at a startup
No, pricing is fine, it's just that the anti-piracy brigade get more airtime than the validity of their arguments merit... as has been demonstrated ad nauseum by experiments such as this.

It's almost as if they know damned well that their reasoning is wrong, and are just trying to milk as much as they can before the rest of the world catches up. Hey, wait a minute...
No, I'm not just trying to over-complicate things for the sake of it.

My first though was eye-level, then, after thinking about air density, it was infinity.

But the problem with distance is that *as things get farther away, they appear to move slower". So although some pulsar in the crab nebula might be moving millions of miles an hour, and there is no sound, there is also no movement, therefore the angle of the sound source to the light source is nothing. No sound.

So the only other (natural) constraint I would mention would be that the sound has to be able to reach the observer.
Wow. Didn't think of refraction. Wonder how much the delta in appearance and sound source for a high altitude jet is due to refraction?
But what if that person likes that game, talks about it to his or her friends, and then I manage to convince three of them to buy the game?

This is as bad as the logic spouted by the media industry that a piracy = one lost sale.

If not even worse (because it is just plucked from thin air)
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I personally haven't done this but you bring up a good point.

What is so crazy about releasing a fully playable free demo that lasts 10 days that enables you to save your progress and pick up where you left off after purchasing the full version?

No doubt a system like this would have multiple weaknesses but if this system existed I can guarantee you that I would own more games.
Did Twitter steal Scribd's design?
Did Twitter deliberately steal Scribd's UI? I haven't as yet experience the new Twitter design roll out but I can't stop seeing the similarities between scribd.com and the new twitter.com design.

Compare the pair, I dare.
I've seen it happen (Phase 3: fired), though fortunately not to me.

- company scrambles to come up with a good counteroffer, with more money and a transfer onto a more exciting project.

- company decides it needs to lay people off

- "more exiting project" manager sees some new guy on his roster, making more than everybody else. Seems like a safe choice for the axe.

So in a few months, you can go from having two really good offers to being on unemployment and having your best possible alternative being a company that you've left hanging.

The rule in situations like this is to always go to the new company. You can play offers off each other if you like, but the risk of staying put is just not worth it.
When I find myself watching Netflix instead of putting in time on something I've been wanting to do, it's because at that moment the movie is more appealing than the work.

When this happens to me I challenge myself first to figure out why the work is less appealing, and then once I've figured that out I attempt to remove the block. This strategy has been somewhat successful, but sometimes the barriers are too big and annoying and horrible to push through :|

In those cases, on goes the movie and I simply hope that time and help from others will resolve the issue.
Hate the Laffer Curve? Try Woodhill's
Awesome! While it is still a long way away this is a first step in getting HTML5 to be a real alternative as a full replacement to native apps for mobile phones. Obviously optimizations might need to be made for HTML5 to be comparable in speed to native apps, but imagine mobile applications that are mainly write once, run on most phones.
WOW! They're very similar indeed...
Sort of like putting measures in place so that pirates are using more of a trial version of your software. I think this is the way most new programs are going these days. But that still doesn't solve the music aspect of pirating. What bonus stuff can you give over the music that can convert a considerable number of the pirates to paying customers?
Taking out the partisan-baiting in the article, this could be a nice economics hack. Also note that the author is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and the creator of the hack.