skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To them? Sure. On my blog, for (what's currently around) 8000 people to read? Nope.
re: Chrome

several former GreenBorder employees were named in a description of [Chrome's] sandboxing ability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenBorder

via: http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-googles-acquisiti...
How exactly would you be able to prove that your daughter caught a disease from any particular person?

For instance, if someone with whooping cough coughed hard, then left the room, and 10 minutes later your daughter walked through the room on the way to meeting the other person's daughter, how exactly could you tell that?

I think that there ought to be a law against people who think "there ought to be a law against X" ...
Well yeah, and this is true for every field/profession right?

It's weird how this "new" field of information technology is expected to be so radically different that common sense needs to be rediscovered.
It was really annoying when the company I worked for last year told us all to 'follow' them on their latest social account. A blog, facebook, and twitter. Really? You really think that people give a fuck about your latest value-add print marketing data hygiene curation enhancement? Unless you're an Apple or some game developer, It's only your employees and some industry top management that read that shit. What a waste of time.
What makes you think spacing them out will improve her reactions to them?

The thinking probably goes something like, "If A and B each individually cause severe symptoms, A and B combined will probably be worse." This accurately describes most things.
I hear that 95% of the entire world is foreign-born!
Interesting side point: in building their ability to "fight" copyrighted material, YouTube is amassing one of the largest libraries of digital videos ever created. I'd be interested in hearing about this, and whether it really is bigger than any other video library.

Edit: Also would be interesting to hear how many content-owners choose to block video uploads vs. add advertising.
When we say that we have a shortage of farmland, what we mean in practical terms is that we have a shortage of flat areas with good drainage to function as solar collectors.

Well, it is a bit more complicated than that. A huge problem in agriculture is the depletion of soil. For example, over time intensively irrigated soil tends to become contaminated with excess salts which destroys its fertility, yet still leaves it as flat, well-drained, and sunny as ever.

I completely agree, however, that the first-order consideration in growing plants is the availability of light.
Jeff has one of the classic problems of an autodidact - gaps in his knowledge. If you followed along with the saga of SO's creation on codinghorror, you saw him run into these headlong on many occasions. He also tends to pontificate on issues he's learned recently and doesn't understand completely a bit too often for my liking. One thing he does have going for him though is an unbelievable amount of pluck.
"X" is a really bad variable to use, seeing as how it's the windowing system.
Plenty of successful tech startups have been launched by students coming straight out of college, so I think the attitude of "sorry kids, better do your time somewhere else first" is very harmful to both students and the industry as a whole.

Sure there's a lot they have to learn, but there's no reason why they won't be able to learn by doing. They clearly have all of the funding and motivation they need to get to the point of having a stable release. I'm glad the author (of this blog post) submitted a patch, and hopefully momentum on this project will continue to grow, as more experienced developers offer their advice and expertise.

edit: Also, I'm not sure if "startup" is the best thing to call Diaspora. Given the fact that they're already well funded, and working towards the public good, they might be better off incorporating as a nonprofit, similar to what the Miro guys did (http://participatoryculture.org/).
You're only supposed to have one NOSCRIPT tag per document
So couldn't someone just capture (i.e. write to hard disk) the encrypted bits coming out of an HDCP protected port. Then later using the master key they could go back and decrypt the captured data

This doesn't sound any easier than decrypting in real time and recording the decrypted stream — in either case I think you need an FPGA. Also, you may be forgetting the authentication protocol.
If it helps, the second site had some unique "startup-y" name to it as well..
Really, thinking of this as linen armour is the wrong way to do it. Rather than linen armour, which is glued together, it is glue armour, which is scaffolded by the linen. Like modern laminate materials, the weak point is not the binder but the substrate; in this case it is the glue itself that would provide protection. The linen, being flexible, holds all that protection together in a useful non-rigid crystalline form that retains maximal coverage.
1. Put your best people on IE9.

2. Put these into IE9:

2.1. File API: Directories and System: http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/file-dir-sys.html

2.2. IndexedDB

2.3. WebSockets

3. Adopt WebKit for the next IE.

4. Accelerate the IE release cycle to every 6 weeks.

5. Code the next major Microsoft product range in Javascript, HTML, CSS.

6. Put a copy of Proverbs on every Microsoft desk.

7. Put a copy of Ecclesiastes on every Microsoft desk.
Found it!

https://domize.com/
Sales! Oh my god we'd kill for a great sales person. In our case we deliver exactly what so many of our clients were looking for and could not find [see my profile], simply because selling yourself properly, standing out of the crowd, separating signal from noise in your own sales pitch is ha-a-a-a-ard.
Can you identify a single instance of economic use of grow lights for agricultural (as opposed to pharmaceutical) purposes? Green Houses (Thanet Earth) are designed to trap the Sun's energy.
#1) I don't get this one. WPF/Xaml/Silverlight is the best thing to come out of Microsoft in years. I really can't imagine doing front end development in another tech.

MossyBlog is full of shit. Who cares if Silverlight/WPF merge? Do you really think they would push Silverlight as the dev platform for their new phone OS if it was going to be replaced by html5?
I will certainly concede that, especially given that this isn't anywhere near my realm of knowledge - I'm strictly a coder and don't have the vision or insight into product presentation, preparation, or anything like that.

However, my instinct tells me that the example you mention of say, an ad + landing page, IS an MVP in one good sense - to gauge interest in a potential product (an iPhone app, etc), gathering subscribers to mailing lists, beta signups, etc.

But in the scope of what Diaspora is trying to accomplish, releasing the code base like this doesn't qualify as a product - I think.

I am way more than willing to be wrong on this point, though. I'm also probably just splitting hairs by this point.
Details on the Oracle failure at JPMorgan Chase
At the transistor level? I assume this means that each transistor is simulated digitally, as a pure switch, and not as an analog component, which I imagine would be near impossible to do in Javascript on current hardware.

Not the most practical way to emulate a CPU, but surely a good exercise in learning how a processor works from the component level on up.
Node.js 2.2 released
Kinda? The problem is that once a competitor shows up and does well (Google search, iPhone), Microsoft flails with their legacy stuff (Windows CE Mobile Phone Series 6.5, Microsoft Windows Media Audio PlaysForSure) for a couple years, and then apes the competitor as much as possible while throwing anybody who was invested in their products under a bus of incompatibility.
You are correct. The author did not correctly read the graphs. The time shift was done on tumblr's US numbers vs. The global numbers. The posterous data was ignored at the bottom.
I hope the talks will be recorded and posted.
Three Ways to Solve the DMV Wayfinding Challenge (making the DMV less painful)
looks like a foundation for a B2B (web)service from Youtube:
request - digital signature of content (Shazam or other)
response - results of search against the library.
Agree with the effectiveness of LinkedIn. In my last job I had recruiters calling me on my company with offers.
Oh, so that what the WoW in the SysWoW64 folder name means
Another pretty one:

http://www.namechecklist.com/
They had a plastic mockup to film with and added the screens in post. It never existed beyond a video and some photos.
Whenever I hear something like this I feel compelled to ask - can you please provide some concrete examples of what you are referring to?
Tons of upvotes for a comment that says hydroponic trellises require soil? What's going on here?

Hydroponics uses a fraction of the water that soil-based agriculture uses, and generally uses a very lightweight growing medium. (Vermiculite, hydroton balls, etc...)
Short on details, and I thought the speculation on transferring the user info to a NoSQL solution sounds naive, but interesting to get a peek into the internal operations at a large enterprise. I think I want to go validate some of our database backup right now.
look at y axis and now look at Posterous numbers.
sigh I usually only click on other peoples questions if I think I know how to answer it. That's like 70% there's another 20% which might be curiosity, and maybe 5% other reasons. (This is all not including Unix SE where I read stuff to see if it needs retagging or editing or some other form of moderation.)

So imagine if everyone did what you did and now 50% of question askers really don't need an answer, they're just trying to add yet another source of "documentation*. If the noise ratio was that high I wouldn't bother.
Interesting.

Wikipedia claims "In 4.x and earlier versions, NetWare did not support preemption, virtual memory, graphical user interfaces, etc. Processes and services running under the NetWare OS were expected to be cooperative, that is to process a request and return control to the OS in a timely fashion. On the down side, this trust of application processes to manage themselves could lead to a misbehaving application bringing down the server."

If true, memory protection without preemptive multitasking is still basically unacceptable (just not something you can base a healthy server ecosystem on; we had enough "fun" of that sort with non-preemptive 16 bit Windows client).

The article also notes that TCP/IP was a second class citizen at best until Netware 5.x in October 1998, "during a time when NetWare market share dropped precipitously...."

In general it notes Netware's kernel had a big speed advantage which became less important as systems steadily became faster (and I suspect its tunable caching became less useful).
Of course, one could speculate that if HDCP never existed, cheap HDMI capture cards would have been developed years ago. (Like how criminals probably would be sniffing credit card numbers off the Internet if SSL never existed, but since SSL exists they use other methods instead.)

Currently an HDMI capture card costs $200: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/
How in the world did you get +8 mod on this?

That's utter nonsense!

You can only get as much light as you have surface area - so now instead of fields of crops, you have fields of solar collectors!

Did you think there was some magical light multiplier device that could give you more output light than you started with?

Plants already use the best parts of the visible spectrum to collect light. The small amounts of infra-red you might barely be able to collect and frequency up-convert are not worthwhile - especially since you'd need to throw away all the energy from the higher frequencies in order to get it.

Solar cells are terrible as far as efficiency is concerned - and not because of engineering, because that's simply how they work. (Unless you want a multijunction solar cell but those are very very expensive.)

And for engineering challenges there simply doesn't exist in the world enough rare earth elements to make enough solar cells for everyone - and that's just for regular electrical usage, forget about growing plants. We do have enough silicon, but silicon based solar cells have poor efficiency.
From a work account?

It might depend. Our company's policy forbids those kinds of things based off disciplinary action. From the company's standpoint (not law enforcement) they own everything.
I just watched this documentary yesterday:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/view/?utm_c...

An eye-opening documentary.

Vaccinating a child is not a matter of choice, but compulsory, because unless the parents of an un-vaccinated child can guarantee that their kid will not spread a terrible illness such as polio/whooping cough/ whatever, they should be quarantined. If you watch the documentary, you will understand what I am saying.

Also, the hope is that vaccination will become unnecessary in the future, for example, smallpox vaccines are not being administered anymore, because it has been eradicated completely. That is not the case with many other preventable diseases (there are many areas in the world where they still occur, and so it is necessary to exercise caution).

There might be some legit concern as far as simultaneous vaccination for several diseases goes, though, but that is not sufficient reason to endanger the larger population until the (possible) causal relationship between vaccines and brain damage is firmly established.
+5 for realizing that dbus-daemon is stupid because IPC is the kernel's job

-10 for fixing it by putting dbus-daemon into the kernel

To redeem yourself please try again with the following requirements:

* No dbus-daemon

* No changing or adding kernel interfaces

Hint: put all the brains inside of libdbus
I wish Tumblr would start charging for something. These services that are completely free worry me in the long run. I've put my heart and soul into writing almost every weekday on my blog. I would be devastated if they ever shut down. I would gladly pay to use it.
So, I think I'm a pretty good programmer (Resume's in the profile, if you're curious) and I happen to be interviewing with Microsoft on the 11th, so here's my perspective.

From a recruiting point of view, the way you guys outsource travel arrangements is a total PITA. Source Sure (or whatever) really, really sucks, and it's bogus that interviewing for a job should be more time consuming and paperwork intensive than my taxes, and complete with an audit. You don't have to go full-out Fog Creek on your interview process or anything, but I think taking the arrangements back in-house would do wonders for you guys.

Other than that, it'd be cool if I could be convinced that I would work on something interesting and meaningful without having to watch out for Office Politics and mismanagement (what I was overwhelming warned about by former full-time employees as well as former interns). It is my sincere hope that such bubbles exist within Microsoft for at least a small portion of your developers.
This whole thing makes me wonder...

Many startups are started/coded by young programmers in or fresh out of college -- people who probably haven't really earned their 'black-belt' in programming through time and experience. This would lead you to believe that many startups (even relatively successful ones) have plenty of bad/buggy code under the hood, but they have the benefit of not being out there under the scrutiny of public eye.

That said, if you're a young (and thus, probably somewhat inexperienced) coder, it would seem you can get stuck in the conundrum of wanting to have enough experience to write good code, but also wanting to go for starting a company while you're still young. Would love to hear opinions/thoughts on how to solve that conundrum.
It asked me to update flash, and restart my browser. After that, I just get a grey screen.
Edit: Safari 5.0.2, Snow Leopard, Click-to-flash installed, but with logic.ly whitelisted.
Well-put... I completely agree with you on this. Name them and shame them!
A Blog is not a Journal -- Why I Made MotoDiary
Using grow lights 100% of the time? No, that's definitely not going to work, unless major gains in efficiency are made. But using led grow lights to supplement passive solar and elongate the grow cycle is what I'm referring to, and designing low-rise greenhouses to capture the sun's energy for the light hours. If you capture excess solar energy, store it, and use it at night, then the energy pull from the grid for night-time grow lights is reduced, and then it's an economic question of cost of energy versus sale potential.

I'm not specifically thinking about staple crops (ie, wheat, rice, etc), but supplementary crops like tomatos, lettuce, cucumbers, etc. Mostly, what Thanet Earth is growing.
Good thing: the project already has 292 forks and 2051 watchers on GitHub!

I believe they will get an amazing quantity of outside work.
As it does for many others, news of this chip brings back fond memories.

I was hired for my first programming job at the age of 19 and was tasked with writing a macro assembler for the 6502 from scratch. My manager/mentor had already designed the basics, and handed me a big pile of notes and flowcharts on my first day or work.

Before diving in I wrote a FORTRAN version of the hashing algorithm that we planned to use, and found that we could improve performance considerably with a slight change (I got a raise for doing this).

I wrote the assembler in 6502 assembler, using an existing non-macro assembler that ran on our Ohio Scientific machine. I got it to the self-hosting point as quickly as possible so that I could use the advanced features that I had built into my version. We wrote a set of "default" macros to make the instruction set more regular, filling in some holes.

After some fine-tuning, I was able to compile macro-dense code at several thousand lines per minute. This was on a machine with two floppy disks and 48KB of RAM.

This was an incredible "first project," given that all of my 6502 programs before starting the job had run on my Apple ][ and would fit on a printed page.

I still have the listings for the assembler, and pull them out from time to time to reminisce.
I'd much rather have excellent documentation, and less crappy defaults so I don't have to ask so many questions, or do as much search, or blog as many "how to's", but we can't all get our wishes.
If I were using this in a computer architecture class I would probably want to have subdesigns and a great deal more components. The things you can do with this are sort of limited without these features. Also, I would need to have waveforms. It looks pretty good though.
Ripping a Blu-ray disc requires a $50 BD-ROM drive and a $100 copy of AnyDVD HD.

HDMI/HDCP ripping requires a $200 HDMI capture card, a $XXX FPGA, and a RAID array.
Which is exactly the kind of research I'm talking about - to determine what chemicals are in the injections, and the statistical incidence of side effects for them and any indicators that a person might be at risk.

If you're going to be ignorant, then you should go ahead, trust your doctor, and get the vaccination. But I don't think it's wrong to do the research on something before it goes into your child's body, just as long as you are properly scientific about it and rely on good research.
Felton made it already: http://daytum.com/
Yikes-- I misread the graph. The post is adjusted. Sincere apologies to folks for the incorrect analysis on my part.

The point stands though. This is a race without a finish line. With two runners circling the track, it's more about who cramps up when. Tumblr was at ~7m uniques per month at the stage that Posterous is currently at (~2.5m uniques). Certainly ahead, but not quite the blowout the RWW is reporting.
New orkut is amazing, one step ahead of facebook
No soil.
Maybe he built SO both due to the amount he knows and he doesn't. Build a website with your knowledge so that you can learn what you don't know.
I used my own code, as gwt-on-rails isn't maintained.
Ah, yes, that is where it becomes a grey area.

Legally speaking this is very complex; because clearly under investigation (i.e. civil discovery) work email will be accessed. How they can use that mail then becomes difficult; UK courts will pretty much summarily reject anything with overly personal communication - no matter what the source - unless the personal communication is directly relevant to the case. US courts are more lax but similar.

From the company's standpoint (not law enforcement) they own everything

They like to claim so :) The distinction that happens is that the company could turn to you and say "we have evidence of you using your company email for personal communication" and discipline you - so long as they followed all sorts of guidelines to make sure that they complied with the law. They couldn't, though, then say "we see you are having a sexual relationship with X at Y company...." UNLESS they entered the investigation with the aim of proving such a relationship (in which case I think they probably would need a civil discovery allowance).

It's a legal minefield that is an absolute pain on a daily basis :)

(I much prefer criminal matters where everything on a computer is fair game)

[it's worth pointing out that if I am investigating a corporate computer and come across personal mail/details I am generally not allowed to communicate that with the company hiring us]
This is the sort of moronic ignorance that should be shamed. The anomaly noticed by the researchers is one that does not have a known biological explanation but that does not mean that exposure to a small amount of mercury in infancy does not actually protect against ASD. It just means that the study confirms previous studies that found no risk from these vaccines and suggests that there might actually be an irony-laden protection provided by these vaccines.

This study is, to date, the most complete and conclusive study available. It shows that vaccines, and particularly those that used ethylmercury as a perservative, do not cause autism or autism-spectrum disorders, just like EVERY OTHER FUCKING STUDY OUT THERE!
I agree with you up until your last paragraph "a startup was probably the worst endeavor for them". The sheer gumption to throw yourself whole-heartedly at problems you are unqualified to solve is one of the most important characteristics of a startup founder. Even if you spent time learning to be a great coder, there would be a dozen other things you'd need to be doing for the first time when you first start a startup. Rather than spending a bunch of time learning in industry, it's just as well to just try it when you are young and have less to lose.

Diaspora is also a somewhat unusual case. For most consumer web startups, the back button is a much bigger threat than security vulnerabilities in the early stages. Once you've iterated a lot have a better idea of what you're actually building, one of the first steps is usually to hire coders who are much better than you. In Diaspora's case, it's unclear to me whether their vision is a business or an open-source project - in the latter case then having stronger coders lead the effort is more important.
So - I say let's build a couple of these vertical farms, see what we discover, do the math and realize it will never make sense, and maybe discover something else that we never even considered!

You're suggesting doing something that we already know makes no damn sense in the hopes that we might learn something useful in the process. This argument could be used to justify an awful lot of things which make no sense.

This is, of course, just fine, as long as you're spending your own money on doing nonsensical things, and not mine. Good luck rustling up the hundred million dollars you'll need to build a skyscraper though.
What about the delay when loading a humongous table?

I occasionally need to load a page with 10,000 (or more) table cells, and those are always slow, and no one seems to test browser speeds on those.