skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, pessimistic locking in a public web app.
WeAreSafeAndSound.com Connects People When Disaster Strikes
locate isn't missing. The database isn't built by default, but you can do that.

Mouse-Rig-Test:~ jon$ locate
usage: locate [-0Scims] [-l limit] [-d database] pattern ...

default database: `/var/db/locate.database' or $LOCATE_PATH

Mouse-Rig-Test:~ jon$ which locate

/usr/bin/locate
This is a business lesson.

Say what we want about 37signals, their marketing and community engagement are truly exceptional. They've communicated their value so thoroughly that people will drop $1,000 to spend a day with them.

Why? Trust.

Regardless of any other factor, it's easy to trust the fact that these guys know what they're talking about. They spend every single day showing us, through their products or their blog, or many other channels, that they do.

Rails, for example, is one of the most brilliant marketing moves in the history of software development.

And maybe in the history of marketing.

There's no point to arguing the relative value of their training versus other consultants. The difference between these guys and any consultants who may offer training like this?

Everyone in your industry has heard of 37signals. No one has heard of your guy.

Your ability to generate wealth is a function of how many people trust you can do what you promise. My hunch is that they're under-charging. But clearly, this is entirely in the realm of what the market will bear.
Was it an uphill battle getting dealers?

A system like this cuts into the profits that they'd normally get from naiive customers walking through the door.

How did you pitch them?>
This appears to be similar to choco.js (sammy.js, jim, js-model) but much more lightweight?
Bill Gates actually made/makes 2 million a day, and he's not alone. But I get your point.

54,000,000,000 / (55 * 365) = 2,689,912.83
With $100 you can hire a very good designer in China for a week ...
Negroponte on Media Lab’s 25th: A Salon des Refusés Only MIT Could Have Produced
You did the graph for C. Common!

Should add C++ and C#...ain't much of a decline.
Do you mean Splash?
Yeah you would want it to be a little smarter than I described, but not too smart. Web browsers would remember their tabs and windows, office programs would autosave and autoload temp files, etc.

I imagine there's a hundred tiny problems which make it infeasible, and it would require API changes, but damn would it be nice.
Will it be OS10.7 or OS11? Just guessing, being the lion the "biggest" cat...
I imagine the $1,000 people drop on this conference isn't money they're taking form their logo/copywriting/accounting/legal budget.
This just baffles me. Why would you ever manually arrange your music? I used to do this when I use Linux because I basically had to if I wanted to browse it in any sane way, but I much prefer having some app do it for me. It just strikes me as one of the many things that my computer can do well, so it should do it.

It is more or less automatically arranged (by grip). I make the occasional tweak when grip screws up. As far as browsing goes, mpd supports all of that based on file metadata. Having a filesystem arrangement under my control is useful for this purpose:

$ cp /misc/music/Johnny_Cash/American*/* /media/generic_non_ipod_music_player/

Since I have more music than normally fits on a portable player, this step is unavoidable (I can't just copy everything over).

(Actually there is another step involved since I store music as lossless flac files, which most portables don't play. See http://github.com/stucchio/Mp3FS for details.)
"religions which incorporate ideals about large families will tend to spread, but the same can be said about non-religious cultural memes."

The only such meme that ever had success comparable to religion was nationalism, but it self-destructed in the world wars.

Rationally speaking, I think it's well established that having kids is a huge chore. Morning sickness, birth pains, changing diapers, lack of sleep etc. etc. etc. If you had any doubt, the first baby will quickly cure you of it.

The only way for people to put up with all this, and raise large families, is to strongly believe, as you say, that they have an important _duty_ to do so. Giving birth for the benefit of the nation is no longer fashionable, but the various gods' appetite for fresh believers has never diminished.

By contrast, there is absolutely nothing in the world view of the "Sex and the City"-watching woman that will ever lead her to raise five kids.
The solution to it running warmer with Ubuntu is to run a utility to manage the fan speeds and keep it cooler. It works just fine for me that way.

I've had a few Thinkpads running Ubuntu and now a MBP running Ubuntu.. and I prefer the MBP.
Making people enjoy brushing their teeth.
Why do I keep seeing Free Public WiFi as a wireless access point?
> Sure, but there's "profiling" and there's "racial profiling." One of them is expected, the other starts riots.

In some places printing pictures of historical figures causes riots. In other places beheadings go unnoticed. So, what's your point?

What makes this racial profiling? The fact that there is a where or group by clause in the query which uses religion as an argument for matches? I would have a problem if that were the only criteria, clearly it is not because if it were all people of that religion would be under surveillance.

I would argue that those that are tasked with our security should most definitely keep an eye on and know what is going on with Muslims both home and abroad. This is not to say that all Muslims are terrorists or that all terrorists are Muslims. To discount the fact that we are currently persecuting a war against Islamic extremists would be foolish.

It would be the height of politically-correct-group-think to not watch this group and single out individuals for investigation specifically when there are multiple flags. By "watch this group" I specifically mean using it as a flag in their decision matrix when combing through their vast databases. We can argue as to which flags or combination of flags warrant further action but that does not negate the fact that it should be done.
> As far as necessary until told different by their bosses.

So if they start slaughtering people tomorrow and bosses don't tell them to stop in time, then they are just "doing their job" right?

> ... but law enforcement gets a lot of crap in all seasons.

I wonder why that is? Why don't barbers, engineers, firefighters get as much crap?

And besides, who are bosses anyway? Aren't people the bosses. If people pay taxes for this "protection" they have all the justification to howl. How is that different than paying for a service, not getting it, and then complaining.

> When they get caught following up a terrible lead (eg a Reddit post), people howl, asking how they could be so stupid and blind, and so on.

If people didn't "howl" in that case, then we would have clearly reached some kind of total surveilance stage, where citizens are monitored by law enforcement agencies for any reason, any time, and nobody thinks twice about it.

Notice how the traditional media didn't "howl" too much at it. That's a telling lesson of the kind of biases we are dealing with.
you can drop the "www." prefix, btw.
Incredibly honest interview. $2 million in seed funding, three to four million dollars in expenses, and single digit subscribers. It sounds from the interview, though, that one of the major problems was they came from an enterprise background, where they were very successful, and then were told to make a consumer product, and ended up trying to split the non-existent middle.

Fantastic read.
Why do you think the updates require a restart? To reset the computer's state. I think the problem to be solved is updates requiring a restart (which is unacceptable in this day and age)
Natural weight loss
FireHOL looks like a neat tool, but seeing their last (official) release was in 2008 turned me off. I'm using Shorewall now, and as a plus, it supports ipset (mentioned by rw-).
That's understandable. I'm sure the bulk of the work goes toward the new language characters. I just wonder who lobbied for roasted sweet potatoes...
I don't know what UNIX means to you but where I come from UNIX means an atomic rename(2).

http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html
Unfortunately the dual boot solution does not work if you're writing low-level code as I found out when playing with some gnu assembler code. I mostly do development on a VirtualBox machine. I'm considering switching back to a PC.
I'm of the view that the growth and community killed Digg.

Once Digg hit critical mass, they were killed by the signal to noise ratio. I stopped visiting the site a couple of years ago because of that.

The reason why HN thrives is that the signal to noise ratio is still quite high, and while there is diversity in the submissions, you can probably group them into a few common themes.
Just wondering, is this under Linux or Windows? And what version? Thanks in advance.
If they had a sense of humour they'd release "OSX Kitten" after "OSX Lion"
Apple's running clear out of cats, so I sincerely doubt that they would start off OS XI with a cat. I've seen constellations suggested as the code names for the next series of OSes, which wouldn't be out of the blue considering OS X's recent use of starfields and such for marketing material and desktops.
I will admit that I did not do any research beyond reading the article, but have you thought about how you will tackle the problem of the customer not test-driving the vehicle before purchase?

The article makes me think the entire streamlined process can result in a signed contract in a relatively short period of time, without the customer ever seeing the vehicle that s/he had already into a legally binding agreement for. This could obviously result in all kinds of problems. Perhaps the article has simply left out a few steps...?
I have no inside knowledge of EA but from reading this and the EA Spouse letter in the past, I'm amazed EA can actually deliver any software.
How much does an iPhone app like Twitterrific cost?
Samsung's Epic 4G Smartphone, 3G vs 4G Performance and a Deep Dive Look
So they get in trouble for doing a shitty job and they also get in trouble for not doing their jobs? Wow, that's a catch 22.
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they charge the dealer by providing sales, so yes they are working for the dealer...but the only way they can provide sales is by getting the customer a good price. So they are working for the customer.

and carsidrect is for new cars, I think you are confusing them with cars.com

actually your point that they have a refund policy led me to go look at that page...and my opinion is now even worse. Apparently that money only gets you one car. So you can't cross shop the best deal on a Civic and a Corolla to see which is the best option, without paying even more money.
There seem to be a number of sites that just poorly mirror content from StackOverflow. They usually have the question and then maybe some answers, but don't usually include comments to answers or even which answer was marked as correct.

It's very frustrating when they come up above StackOverflow in Google searches. I end up slowing down a lot to make sure I don't click on those results. Sure I could just go straight to StackOverflow which I often do, but there are other good sources of programming knowledge on the internet that I want to be able to find too.

These mirror sites are also frustrating because they are blatantly leaching off of the work of both the StackOverflow developers and the StackOverflow community. Kind of makes me wish Google did have a blacklist for these cases.
At this point I can't see Apple keep using the OSn (ie: OS11) convention because "OS X" has become such a powerful brand in itself. I doubt they'll want to give that up.

My guess is that they'll stick with 10.x for some time and might eventually name their next major OS something like Mac OS X 11, even though it sounds silly. Or what about xOS (vs iOS)? Has a nice ring to it :)

I'm sure there has been countless meetings at Apple regarding this. I wish I was inside Steve's head...
Kim Kardashian No Clothes
"Actors in scala" book, preprint avail
Assuming it has the same lifetime/maintenance costs, then the profitability will be double that of the alternative.
Interesting that the numbers varied so much. My thought being that this is an example of how "de-valued" apps are in some people's minds.
Lead developer, Craig Hockenberry, finally got a chance to post his answer (see [1] for his reply and then [2] and [3] for the back story) and his numbers were far different than the original best guess. Another (non-Icon Factory developer) answered and his were more in line, but based on experience.

[1] http://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/27263467482
[2] http://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/27258821176
[3] http://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/27256591312
It's a great read, but if it were true, why wouldn't the USA or one of its allies have released the same information? It would have been one hell of a propaganda coup!

That said, I can imagine a true conspiracy believer dismissing this with talk of the Illuminati or Bilderberg meetings... guess you just can't win!
maybe a list of such companies should be published - to let prospective employees know where their long term health would be taken into account :)
Wow. The name couldn't have helped.. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swivel
Your OS's copy-on-write page policy loves when you fork things using mark-and-sweep garbage collection. It is full of rage.
That's an embarrassing error in our processing. We just acquired Ohloh and are working hard to identify all such issues and fix them. Stay tuned!
The two buttons needed to trigger spotlight are right next to each other, so you can bring it up by rolling your thumb from one to the other, which is at most 50% more inconvenient than just pressing the first button.
You're both right.

Patrick, I'm sure you get lots of awful customers. You're targeting not-very-technical people, and when you do lots of SEO/AdWords to get as many people in the door as possible, you'll bring in a lot of good customers and a lot of bad customers.

But I don't think Chargify has that many. Of course they had a few, but for the most part, I doubt that those free customers suck; they just aren't making money yet.

But a lot of companies that don't know if they'll ever make $49/month when they start writing their payment code turn into valuable customers.

You need to look no farther than Bingo Card Creator. Would you have been comfortable locking yourself in to paying $49/month so that you could save time writing payment logic when you first started? I doubt it. But today, a billing system that enticed you with a free plan would be extremely happy that that got you to sign up.

The real issue I see for Chargify is that I don't know what their target market is now. They basically have to get new apps, since existing apps will already have something that works. But now they're limiting themselves to new apps with owners that are confident in their success. You're not going to pay $50/month for billing on something that you're just hoping will bring you a few hundred dollars a month, even though some of those apps turn into many thousands a month.
For my wife's interview, we packed a whole briefcase full of documentation. A couple of minutes in, the interviewer asked us for a couple of our lease (with both names on it). We couldn't find it in the stack, and started arguing about who had put what where. After a bit of argument, the interviewer said "OK, you two are obviously married".

(Unfortunately, this was by far the most pleasant part of the whole process. Take, for example, the rejection of her application because the NJ State Police aren't certified by the INS for taking fingerprints. Instead, we had to go to a camera shop in Edison, NJ.)
Dual link is DVI terminology isn't it? Apple use DisplayPort now. I'm not sure what bandwidth concerns devices with integrated screens have.
I have a lot of respect for James Oberg, his posts in the various Usenet space-related groups are great:

http://yarchive.net/space/
But Java is dead, haven't you heard?

... <_<

But seriously, this is cool. I like that they responded to Linux demand!
That is really cool. I guess I met him then. FIRST is an amazing thing, it got me started with Computer Science.
I thought people on HN are more open to technology discussion. It seems people can't handle their bubble being pierced when presented with facts.

It would be more interesting you have facts to refute my statement than downvotes.
Yes, I have some idea of how computers work. And it would be fantastic if the OS could hot-load patches instead of needing a reboot.

It would also be acceptable if Safari could just remember what tabs I had open and reopen them instead of asking me stupid questions when I run Software Update and then canceling restart when I don't answer.
The bug mentioned in that Wired article was fixed in 3.2.1
They are never behind. 2011 papers are already there.
So if we were designing the Twitter front page with Backbone, we would have models like TrendingTopics, WhatYouDoing, NewMsgs and some more. They would be updating against the server using JSON, and calling some render code so they redraw themselves when there is new data.

If we didn't have Backbone, we would probably call a main JSON sync function repeatedly, and iterate on this new data updating the different parts of the page "manually".

Is that it?
Ubuntu runs hot on the MBP and will chew through your battery power

This was the case with my Lenovo as well until I found powertop and followed its suggestions.
Don't lose too much sleep over it. The conventional wisdom in this area is not very reliable, for a variety of reasons. IANAL but am studying to that end, and being a Euro I was already interested in immigration law.

I would say the USCIS website itself is a good source of general information for the immigrant/family. After long being criticized as overly bureaucratic and unhelpful they've made a lot of 'customer service' type changes - for example, there's a tool to look up the status of petitions online which is quite new. The latest thing is provide more assistance to people being naturalized, eg via http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/citizenship which got a big makeover just in the last few weeks. Previously the would-be citizen's contact with the agency leading up to naturalization consisted of submitting forms, getting fingerprinted, and having to take the US civics quiz.

Anyhow, separating a couple during the interview typically only happens at a second interview when the USCIS officer (not agent) has specific reasons to doubt the veracity of the relationship - the couple hardly seems to know each other, or their filings are contradictory etc. If they have doubts after the first interview they usually issue a Request For Evidence inviting more documentation/clarification. Policy is to adhere to a neutral rather than skeptical stance by default, and proceed using an evidence-based methodology - challenging or accusing people at random is just going to result in complaints and slows everything down.

Merely applying doesn't put you under 'suspicion,' it's just a process of verification. The FBI does a fingerprint match and checks against the person's name in national and international law enforcement databases - this takes a while just because there's a lot of applications to work through. Most people are legit of course, so then it's just a process of going through the form evaluating the credibility and general stability of the applicant, verifying the authenticity of their marriage certificate/professional qualifications, medical reports etc. etc.

Now when they do suspect fraud, sure they might lie to see if they can catch a person out - as is true of any police interview. But it's not the default position. ICE agents (who go out looking for workplace violations etc.) are a different kettle of fish. There was a fuss at the end of last year about agents Utah in dressing up as Mormon missionaries.
Even for copying files, the keyboard is often quite a bit faster. Especially if you take the time to learn bash well.
How to Copyright Stolen Ideas
fail2ban (also mentioned in the article) would help you too..
Can you press them both at the same time if you have a fat thumb?
Use OSSEC ( http://ossec.net ) to monitor the logs/system for attacks. Not only brute force, but all sort of stuff.

*open source.
Computer beats human at Japanese chess for first time
That would increase the load on the database. Why does that increase the load on the webservers?
Voting system hacked in 36 hours
Must Read Interview with David Appleyard, Author of iPhone App Entrepreneur
Mobile Orchard recently had the privileged of interviewing David Appleyard, author of iPhone App Entrepreneur, which will be available today.
It will be interesting to compare x264 against Sandy Bridge's GPU encoder; they added a scoreboard to accelerate wavefront-parallel motion estimation (AFAIK this has been problematic for previous GPU encoders).
Good for them. They've worked very hard and been extremely thoughtful about how they've built their business.
> but if you've got nothing to hide then the above article is a non-starter.

Wow! You snuck that one in there.

Here is an article by Bruce Schneier you might find interesting, it dissects the lazy assertion that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
I really like the looks of your product so far. If you offered the option of financing the purchase for the consumer, that would be a huge value proposition. I imagine the dealerships would not like this, but I urge you to consider it for the future.
Assuming a proof-of-concept is developed, this guy has just managed to create a more-efficient way of converting heat into electricity. If that's the case, that technology could be applied to other heat-generation plants (nuclear, coal, gas), so those technologies would hypothetically still be more efficient. Am I missing something?
It has been known for quite some time now that the upcoming iterations of Apple's operating system will be using HP Sauce's 57 varieties as a naming scheme, allowing for an unprecedented amount of revisions before trying to think of something else.
The dual-link thing only applies to DVI, which Apple doesn't even use externally anymore, let alone internally. Also, the success of AMD's Eyefinity shows that modern GPUs can handle very high resolutions effortlessly for anything other than complicated 3d rendering. 2D and simple 3D (of the sort that might be used by a compositing window manager) are too easy.

The only limitation is that producing very high DPI displays in large sizes with acceptable defect rates is extremely expensive.
Mostly it would require all of the apps you use to release new versions that support checkpointing their internal state when asked to by the OS.

There's basically no way for the OS to do that for them, they'd each have to implement it themselves in a manner specific to the application.