skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because the original answer (despite beginning with “serious answer”) did nothing to answer the question. The tl;dr guy decided to just put snark there instead of guessing at the real answer. Not his fault.

There are probably many reasons they didn’t base IE on Webkit: pride, marketing, control, ease of hooking it in to other operating system services, existing MS developer familiarity with the code base, etc. etc. “[...] our work towards same markup and participation with the W3C is focused on making the life of developers a lot easier” is none of those. Everyone wants markup to work across browsers and a functional W3C process, so this answer is pretty much vacuous. It’s great that MS is engaging now with the HTML WG at the W3C, but all the other browser vendors have been doing that all along.
Also, after the first comma, the rest go after 2 digits.
I've been in India for 10 years and I'm still tripped by that.

A lakh is 1,00,000
A crore is 1,00,00,000
True story!

This is obvious and old hat for the more experienced corporate drones here, but it's important for all the newbies to understand that [all, but especially HR] processes and policies are made to be broken, and they are often so dysfunctional in large corporations that if someone at an appropriate level wants something done, it will be done.

(My personal experience suggests that managers and below have 0 power, and only directors+ start being able to work the informal network.)
What's actually needed is a secure time stamping service. You can read about those at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

A personal favorite which I highly recommend is the following:

http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm

Under normal circumstances, one would need an expert witness to authenticate the signature, but in several jurisdictions which enacted digital signature laws statues, that may not be necessary depending on the evidentiary status of e-signatures.
The refusal of including auto-update is pretty infuriating to me.

"Will you force users to keep IE up to date so developers don't have to support legacy browsers.

Corporations don't want to have the latest version of a browser."

Alright, I understand that auto-updating could be an issue for IT at large corporations, but why not just make it a feature that is enabled by default? I'm sure IT guys who DO want their users using the latest stable release would be quite happy, and those who don't could easily disable it.
Many years ago, I wrote a web application that provided this file via a FUSE interface and an online interface you could share with your friends.

Nobody was interested. All the good programmers I know have a simple text file or a mental TODO list. This added too much complexity. On the other hand, all the managers I know want checkboxes and reports and auditing and ..., which made this too simple.

So just use a text file.
OTA software updates (a la Android), not OTA syncing
Just think of the release branches as staging branches--once something's ready to move from develop to staging, you make a new branch, so you can keep working on develop while you test staging.
Why entrepreneurs seem to be growing fangs
I am learning python through this book at the moment. It is my first attempt at learning to code, so I have nothing to compare it with, but I must say that this book is very good.

My only gripe is that he poses certain questions/exercises that he fully expects us to solve, one way or another. But if we cannot; we're screwed. He does not give the answer. It has only happened once so far, but that was enough for me to miss out on what seems like a pretty crucial part of the book.
Agreed! I love stories like theirs and so happy to see those kind of folks achieve success.
Spot on. I agree completely.

I was going to add something to my original comment, but I can't get the wording right, so I'll just express my feelings about the article.

When I read the article, I was amazed! What a huge undertaking! And so much detail! But then, as he walked around showing everything, it hit me how much mundane and tiny little bits of work had to go into doing this. That's fine, but interesting that it has so much detail. Then it occurred to me that this kid actually knew how to build a real logic circuit -- a physical thing with value. The time he spent doing this he could have taken a FPGA and made the next super-bang-whizmo. That no matter how much work he put into his minecraft modeling, one day ten years from now they're going to turn off the game and he's got, well, nothing. Except memories and a story. Whereas he could have spent that same talent, knowledge, and hard work and at least have something you could touch. And here we are lauding him like he built the next lunar lander.

And even that was okay -- nothing wrong with modeling out things you are learning as a way to reinforce your knowledge. I think this guy is smart as hell and is going to go far. But then I thought about all the other video-game creations that we've praised. I started wondering if for every one of these guys there aren't a thousand other guys doing the same thing. Guys building things with no real-world correlation or value. Not a happy thought.

I'm sure it's just my contrarianism, but it bugged me. Enough to comment.
I think it's pretty safe as long as no one without the permissions can find (or guess/extrapolate) that URL. The images are probably just hosted by a CDN and serving up the files with authentication might slow it down or complicate the setup.
A Dick-style manager is a sign that you've already hired some B and C quality employees. Theoretically the only bad hire could be the manager, but I've never seen a company with just one sub-par employee. If people don't get work done, bad managers overreact. Terrible managers will also take the opportunity to overreact when everything is going smoothly. They check on tasks constantly. They run extra meetings so that you need to have something new to report within a 5 hour timespan. They play "Gotcha!" style games. They create a butts-in-seats environment of fear to keep employees working at all times.

In some environments, a close eye is required on an employee or two. Never everybody. When Dick appears, he is a sign that a company is already trending downhill.
How many IT Consultants does it take to migrate a business into the cloud?
The same thing happens in Picasa Web Albums. Photos in private albums are still accessible if the URL to the jpg image is known. The situation in Picasa is quite particular, since you get to choose between three visibility options when an album is created:

- Public

- Anyone with the link

- Private

The "Anyone with the link" option means that Picasa generates a "difficult to guess" URL for the whole album. That's fine and well documented, but the "Private" option might imply that anyone with the link won't be able to access individual photos, which is not the case. I'm afraid users might feel that their photos are hidden as much as emails are in GMail, for example.
It's quite common in procedural generated games to use perlin noise to create terrain (anything, really:).

My master thesis was about "PRNGs in game programming", and I've done 2d side scroller shooter with unlimited world generated on the fly using 2d perlin noise.

http://alan.umcs.lublin.pl/~ajuc/programy/gry/hw3/hw3.tar.gz

If anyone is interested there it is - written in C++ with SDL, libparagui and a few other SDL_* libraries. Probably compiling it will be hard - I've used libparagui that was in gentoo at that time, then I've learned it is patched version, and on other systems older version was in the package managers.
Take it to Reddit, please.
That was faster than I expected. Little over a week from the master key release to this.
Custom hardware for chemical physics has been tried multiple times before since the late 70s. I’ve heard most companies only found financial success through bloated government contracts and the custom hardware only provided limited advantages for researchers. In all cases these advantages died out quickly with advances in commodity hardware.

Anton is impressive in that it can provide millisecond long trajectories of protein/solvent systems, but single trajectories are of limited utility. You need many (1000s) of such trajectories for statistical analysis of the molecular system. Further, there already exist several clever methods that leverage chemical statistical mechanics to provide the same analysis without the need for single long trajectories. As an example, see Pande’s work developing Markov models of protein folding using millions of short trajectories between metastable states. This method has already provided a complete statistical analysis of protein folding for proteins that fold on times scales an order of magnitude beyond what Anton can simulate.

As for Desmond, there already exists a plethora of free MD programs (MMTK, LAMMPS, NAMD, CHARMM, Gromacs, and many more). Many of these, especially Gromacs, have already been highly optimized for a range of hardware and I wouldn’t expect Desmond to surpass these free codes by a margin worth dropping dollars.

Personally, I still have high hopes for DE Shaw Research, I just don’t see how their current offerings will turn a significant profit or greatly advance science. I’d love to be proven wrong, and I’m sure they’ll have plenty of additional novel future projects, some of which could be paradigm-shift-changing for chemical physics and molecular biology. My guess is that such advances won’t come from their hardware geniuses, but instead from their math/physics geniuses that will develop new statistical mechanics methods to bend & contract in silico time.
I found apps like Putty annoying. I'd have to go put it into Program Files myself, setup the links, just to keep everything organized. If I didn't, I'd forget where I put putty. In truth, Linux is years ahead in the package management area then either Windows or OSX. Look at Ubuntu's new Software Centre. Apple did this with the App store, and the released documents concerning Windows 8 suggest Microsoft will be pushing for something similar.

This isn't to say you are wrong, just idle conversation. =) At the end of the day, I'd prefer the system handle things by default so I don't have to worry about it.
So, this is the ideal way to host static files? I think this is something like a pseudo security, isn't it? What we call is 'ostrich' approach to security. There must be some better way to do this.
Can't you have everyone sign into the same account?
I've looked into and played around with git flow. I decided against it due to the abstraction. I'd much prefer if everybody on the team understands the underlying commands. I'll probably end up looking at the source to keep my bash-fu in check to see if there is anything the branching model article missed.
Yes, they called it wing-warping apparently - http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/planes/wrightfly.html
It seems likely that you are underestimating the potential market due to the design of your site. A few points:

1. The video walkthrough has no audio, and the notes are too small to read at the video's default size.

2. The upload links on the left aren't obviously links. Someone who is in a hurry could easily overlook them. (And no, they won't read the instructions or watch the video.) I would probably incorporate them into the main content area under a heading like "GIS Converter can convert:"

3. There isn't a straightforward call-to-action on the home page. Even something as simple as a big "Convert My File" button might be helpful.

4. Though the overall appearance isn't that bad, dark sites seem to have a harder time gaining users' trust, especially in business. Changing the color scheme to something lighter would probably help.
I understand. I just fear that Arch users become another group of overzealous fanbois.

I have already seen the joke "How do you recognize an Arch Linux user? He will tell you" floating around on the web...
No ads on the homepage, but I see there are on the subpages. Almost 19000 backlinks and pagerank 7. Should be possible to make some money on this.
How to find missing device ID (UDID) if stuck activating iOS 4.2 beta 2 update
Yesterday's iOS update says it should only be installed on a device used for development testing. Okay, that's what it always says. No problem...

But, if you hadn't previously registered this device ID in your dev account, then after wipe and install, iTunes blocks saying the device isn't known. Problem...

Unfortunately, the usual method of getting the device ID by option-clicking on the device info screen in iTunes won't work, because iTunes is stuck refusing to activate and access the device. Nor can you use the device itself.

Go to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup, where your iOS device backups are in folders with 40 character long names. These 40 hex character names are your device IDs. Copy the folder name that's the backup of this device, and paste it as a new device ID in your Apple Developer device ID control panel.

Unplug and replug your device, iTunes will activate it, and you'll be offered to restore your backup as usual.
>>XP is a platform that doesn't allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience.

>WTF sort of a response is that? There's some good answers in there, but this sort of spin-driven markety rhubarb works so hard to hide it. Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.

I love how every time MS makes a new OS they publicly trash their last one. NT had the greatest uptime of any OS around... Until Windows 2000 came out. Then it suddenly had an average uptime of 9 days.
As for another solution - wouldn't a private github repository work for your needs? You could do this for $25 a month, and would do the same thing you're doing now, wouldn't it?
Requiring attackers to guess a 128 bit random number (actually, fbcdn seems to use 136 bit random numbers) isn't "psuedo" security.
How the butterfly botnet was broken
Being able to test the browser that is the most "off" when it comes to standards without buying a license of Windows is of course an investment. But the PR would be much better than what happened here.
I am surprised this is standard behavior. So if I allow user X to see my photos it means that user has a right to publish all my photo urls. It doesn't look good to me.
He does not give the answer.

Welcome to graduate school! (And, for that matter, real life.)

As in grad school, the secret is: If you can't figure it out, ask around. Form teams that stay up until 3am waving their hands and sketching on chalkboards. If nothing else, it's a bonding experience that you'll treasure for life.
Apple Shares Slide as Rumor Mill Strikes Again
Zed,

May I suggest making it available in other formats, assuming that it is possible, once it is finished? Perhaps as text or HTML files in a tarball? Or even as an epub (for Nooks and iPad)?
Flickr changes a photo's URLs any time you adjust the privacy settings.

Downside: toggling privacy breaks links to the photo.

Upside: toggling privacy breaks links to the photo.
IE was available for Mac and Unix earlier.
Assembly line eye surgeries in India - http://96.0.107.6/?q=node/view/1829

I've read elsewhere that many medical students intern at Aravind Eye hospital simply because they can see and treat more cases of a rare disease in one week than they could in years in the developing world.

India has the potential to become the Medical tourist capital of the world. And as with everything else here, there are hospitals which treat the ultra-wealthy at international standard with the latest technology, and absolute hell-holes catering to the poorest destitutes. They may even be neighbours.

The entire system is very screwed up by the pathetically low number of doctors (per capita) we produce every year on the one hand, the vanishingly small number of openings for MDs, and the ridiculously small pay for a doctor without an MD degree. A friend of mine has been trying without success for 4 years to get an MD position.

Medical tourists are good and bad. Good because of the forex inflow. Bad because they take away meager domestic capacity.
Thanks for posting it. I think a blog on this would be interesting to the HN audience.
Same here. On the one hand it might be a good thing not to give the answers away so you also have to learn to search the web, use stackoverflow... but on the other hand it can be a huge time sink if you just want to know if your solution is correct.

Maybe some kind of forum in addition to the bok would be a good idea.
Doesn't the general idea of BitTorrent break down when you try to do streaming?

I don't see any incentive for BitTorrent clients to exchange information here: each client is only interested in the next few seconds of video. Why would they waste bandwidth on transmitting earlier segments to other clients, who have nothing to give in return?
Sept. 29, 1920: Radio Goes Commercial
Clearly this is something that that makes this issue even more dangerous.
How is that any different from being able to save the photo as a file and upload it to a free image hosting site? From a security point of view?

Since it can be easily circumvented anyway, disallowing sharing static photo URLs would be the real "pseudo security", in my opinion.
Are passwords pseudo security too? They are easier to guess than a random url. That one is entered in a form field and the other in the url bar doesn't really matter does it?
Regarding your adwords strategy, you should talk to HN user zackattack. He's really good and recently helped me test some ideas.

Have you thought of making add-on tools for the big GIS software? For example, we used to use this one a lot - http://www.spatialecology.com/htools/tooldesc.php. You could possibly start with selling small scripts which fix problems people mention on the ESRI forums and build up a toolbox over time, which you could then sell as a package.

That way, you have a readymade market.

Earning karma by helping people on forums is probably your equivalent for an SEO strategy here.

EDIT: Oh and $10 is wayyy too low. Don't charger per conversion. If someone needs this tool, they are going to use it a lot, not just once. Charge at least $100 for unlimited conversions. Then charge more when your product is better. Even if your adwords CTR is low, at least make it count.
No, they aren't.

Every photo in Facebook is accessible if you know the its secret photo ID, which is an unguessably large random number.

It's not completely optimal that Facebook embeds secrets in URLs this way (for example, if you browse directly to a photo via its fbcdn URL, you'll have planted the secret in your browser history). But it's a common industry practice, and since it's used on URLs that shouldn't normally end up in your browser history, it's hard to see the major problem with it.

So yes, you're missing a major point, and you haven't found a big privacy leak. Sorry.
i think its just indicative that IE will always be behind the curve. or, to look at it differently, they're a big company willing to let others blaze the trails while they follow behind at a safe distance.
If I'm understanding this right, it's a similar idea to what several F1 racing teams have been using this year, a concept that's been dubbed the "F-duct". [1]

The idea is that downforce on the car is generally paid for by aero drag, and thus if you want grip in the corners, you have to sacrifice straight-line speed. But what if you could aerodynamically disable that wing on the straights, so you don't suffer from the drag? (mechanically movable wings are illegal)

They devised a completely passive system that routes some air from the front of the car back to the rear, dumping it out behind the engine intake, just in front of the rear wing. When the driver seals the duct with his knee (or hand, in the case of Ferrari), the air can flow through this path, thus stalling out the rear wing, significantly diminishing its aero effect both in terms of downforce and drag.

From the video, it sounds to me like the plane is doing sort of the opposite: directing air not to stall, but to cause an aero effect over the normal surface.

[1] http://www.suite101.com/content/the-mclaren-f1-f-duct-how-it...
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A secret Id that every user you have shared the photo with knows and hence can publish them ? Uh.
Dammit, I still run XP on my laptop. The latest Chrome and Firefox run just fine on it.

Not that I ever run IE anyway, unless something I need to do has been written to require it specifically, but seriously, Microsoft - your marketing team should not be writing the specs.
It's different because in this case if someone dumps all your photo links Facebook can in theory just assign them new random secret IDs, whereas if someone uploads your photos to a hosting site there's nothing they can do about it. In other words, from a security perspective, it is in no way worse.
Is there any legal issues when going into other countries? I am talking in regard to a company that is dealing in purely virtual goods. My company is thinking about expanding into Canada (where everyone (mostly) but Quebec speaks English) with our app. I wasn't sure if there were any legal issues though, we are an LLC based in the States.
The problem is that the random number is static. As Aegan says, anyone allowed to see a photo can leak its URL. It would be better if the URL would depend on the user to whom the picture is served. But that'd be expensive.
It could just be that the aircraft doesn't need flaps. The purpose of a flap is to change the wing geometry such that the aircraft can fly at a lower angle of attack. This allows the plane to fly slower without stalling the wing. If the aircraft can already fly sufficiently slow to land then it doesn't need mechanical flaps to adjust the wing geometry.

As for replacing the control surfaces with jets of air, I can't help but wonder how that affects airflow around the aircraft. I'd bet something like this doesn't scale well to larger aircraft.
The ultimate end of all this is when he uses Minecraft to compile and run Minecraft.
Fair enough. Sounds like we have very different usage patterns. But I absolutely agree about Linux. I've always thought it had the worst desktop of the "big 3" but I love how one manages packages on e.g. Debian or Ubuntu. I agree that it's way on in front on that.

The comparison of the App store and Linux package management (for most distros anyway) is very interesting. Online people groan endlessly about the App store and its "draconian control" but the main fundamental difference I see between it and e.g. debian's package management is that volunteers manage the repo on debian.
The photograph itself is just a larger and less random number that can also be published.
While I do agree those principles are useful, I think introducing those topics would diverge the focus of the book. I think the goal was of introductory nature not comprehensiveness.
http://www.registeredcommons.org/
Anyone allowed to see a photo can leak the photo. Why waste time protecting the ID?
Hey man - The History Channel has ad spots to sell, and those televangelists have lots of cash!
Since I was introduced to AWK I didn't look back, 80% I have to do on the command line end up using AWK for it.
Make your bootstrapped startup work - Lessons from the trenches
This is true everywhere, not just in California. All forty-one states with a personal income tax have laws on the books to collect taxes from non-residents who work in their state. If you're affiliated with a pro team (including players, coaches, trainers, etc.), you can expect to file your taxes about a dozen states (plus Canada.) If you're a musician or other entertainer (circus clown, for example) on a huge tour, you could conceivably file 41 state returns plus a few for other countries.
Your "friend" can download the photo and publish it somewhere else, open for everyone.