skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another important inaccuracy to add to the catalog of accidental-on-purpose mistakes in the Facemash sequence: the actual Facemash was gender-blind. I'm sure in practice a lot of its appeal was for men looking at women, but male students' looks were rated and compared on an equal footing.
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It was NIH and ego that stopped adoption from some of the more advanced knowledge available at the time when the relevant portions of linux were developed.

There was no 'working software' to abandon at the time, there is now.
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Plan 9 came much later than Linux, if I'm not mistaken. Things like microkernels were around then, sure, but is Plan 9 interesting because its a microkernel or because of how you interact with it and how it's architected (everything is really a file)? Edit: it appears that Plan 9 existed internally at Bell labs at about the same time Linux was being developed, but was only released to the public, under a commercial license, in 1995. It was finally open sourced only a few years back.

Also, there certainly was plenty of existing Unix software out there when Linux (and BSD) came out. Not nearly as much as now, but nothing to laugh at either.
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> Thanks yeah I was thinking along the same lines, how is this risk best mitigated? By requiring that the analytics provider has had the code pen tested and testing it ourselves?

Ultimately you can't. For example, you include script src="http://some-analytics-server/foo.js - at no point can you assert on behalf of your end user that the contents of foo.js are not malicious. Even if it was penetration tested that only provides a snapshot in time. There's no reason why the .js requested in one request should be the same in all and there's no real means to provide any assurance of it's integrity.

As for my second point if you look at Google Analytics' code you'll see ga.js invoked as in a script src. This means that the code is executed in the browser. That URL could contain anything (although it's unlikely to in the case of Google without people noticing, the fact is you have no control over the content or protection of that content and have to adjust your risk assessment model accordingly to take that into account). It could contain a picture of a horse, it could redirect your users to goatse.cx, it could read the contents of the page it's loaded on (depending upon browser and server configuration), strip out the bits it wants and submit to another server somewhere. You just don't know.

Another thing worth thinking about is that some browsers (thankfully not most modern ones as far as I know) will execute javascript in an img src tag if sufficiently seduced by malicious code.
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In what sense are Google "missing a trick" here? Before there's any prospect of getting all cars automated, car automation has to be good enough that that's a credible suggestion.

Google has (presumably) good lobbyists and plenty of money, but persuading legislators to require all motor vehicles to be automated before demonstrating safe automated motor vehicles would be a mighty tall order.
I guess I live in some alternative reality where my HTC desire is actually much more enjoyable to use than an iphone. I can see how iphone users could enjoy their device more, I just wish they would extend the same courtesy.

fanboy ranting aside I dont think I could trust microsoft to give me a nice computing experience again, even if some people like it superficially, there must be something wrong in there.
Excel formation and consulting looks like an interesting niche. It is really business oriented, quite large, with a lot of people probably willing to improve. How did you reached your initial customers ?

This very good start seems to prove it. I wish you good luck.
Productivity tips for programmers: stop bumming around on HN and go code something.
> it's just a sampling from the subset of HN users that can figure out what the buttons do

Or those who don't experience layout problems. Often there is a significant part of the down arrow that results in an upvote or vice versa. Generally happens in FF for me. I feel like I need to check the URL before clicking.
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Hmm... I wouldn't call an artist that inspired Johnny Cash to cover him, irrelevant.
WARNING: My brutally honest opinion ahead.

The quality of this demo horrible. The UI is hideously blocky, oversized, and ugly. The pinata/bat look like a chopstick on a rollerblade trying to hit a pair of yellow truck nuts. The lighting is horrible and it looks like it's set up inside a dog house. The camera you're using (which I presume you also sell) is very low video quality.

It really just looks very chintzy and not well done. As a "showcase" for your product it is a very bad one.

I'd call this a prototype and start over from scratch. Make it look really beautiful and slick. Scale up the size to a real size pinata. Use a real baseball bat. Use a real video camera. Light it properly. Have an awesome prize inside for the person who breaks it.

Basically, go all out and make it amazing or don't bother.
Don't forget to try Plan9 for user space, the Plan9 utilities ported to POSIX systems.
Damn you, I've lost the whole morning on trying to master this game! :)
The Office 2010 Beta is about to expire. Are you ready?
So you're suggesting changing every single plug socket in every house/business/office premises in the UK? Then changing every single plug on every appliance you own (or using a converter)

Seems like a huge undertaking to me.
every profile is what/how you want to be perceived now so much how you actually are

But what can they do about it? It's not like they have access to your youtube play logs or winamp stats or anything like more like that from which to derive "you".
Low consumption lifestyles create more wealth than acting "rich"
Has anyone not seen this already?

It was posted on Reddit a few years ago. It's been posted on HN twice already, it's gone around twitter.

Are you all new to the internet?
I was strictly confining my comments to the implementation the poster was discussing coding up in a weekend.

The Rijndael algorithm itself is of course, very well reviewed and perhaps one of the most solid algorithms publicly available. Which is part of why it was chosen for AES. (Speed being the other factor.)

I think perhaps you misunderstood the conversation.
That's not really fair.

Given a choice between US plugs (spark, fall out of sockets, flimsy, dangerous, bendy pins), and UK plugs (Built to last, don't spark, fused, solid) I know which I'd choose.

There's also large advantages to having each plug individually fused - individual appliances blow rather than the whole circuit.

So I wouldn't say we're "stuck with huge plugs". The only real time it's a slight issue/pain is when you go on a plane and the cables take up a bit of space.
I explained more of the details and some of the "why's" in http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advan... , but most people seemed to stop reading before getting to them.
We do have our SAS70 and know that SAS70 has nothing to do with real security. It's just controls that an organization sets and gets audited on.

Also, the SAS70 is going away for the SSAE 16. Read more here: http://www.csoonline.com/article/622277/sas-70-replacement-s...
This is where I have to plug my alternative to rolling your own: http://railskits.com/saas

You can use it with Braintree and have complete control over how the billing runs.
The last thing we want is to be 'in sync' with Europe. We're British. Not European.
Pen Testing for Low Hanging Fruit - Part 1 of 7
Since when did full blown applications start being called scripts? The only "script" I can see in that lot is php.js.
In the Hall of the Mountain King, also used in The Social Network regatta scene.

Coincidence or intentional?
There are several hundred millions who would love to legally settle in the US. If the only requirement for a legal VISA would be to file a 99$ registration at sites like incorporate.com, there would be a flood of unproductive applicants with no real goal for their business other than getting a VISA. There has to be some sort of screening process.
sold!
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Just got an iPhone 4, after 'upgrading' from a 3G.

It has the new hotness. Retina screen is nice, but it's so annoying that I can't use it with my left hand. Thanks apple.

I can see things hotting up if Microsoft can get it together, but they're very much the underdog and lack a reason to buy one (unlike say, iphone - the shiny, android - the geeky, blackberry - the constant messaging).
...it’s going to get stranger and more frantic if Microsoft once again becomes a big player in the mobile space. If they get there, will they use their power to try and bend the carriers to their will? Or will they take the Google approach and let them walk all over the place dictating features and bloatware?

If M$ doesn't bend carriers to their will, then they might end up with crappy software on superior hardware. Not only does Microsoft have to guard against design-by-committee from within, it has to deal with the same from the carriers. In other words, Microsoft has to fight its DNA to be beautiful, while Apple just has to follow their usual tendencies. On the other hand, individual companies in the Android space can decide where they fall in the luxury/bargain spectrum.

Apple vs. Android is cathedral vs. bazaar. Is Windows Phone 7 going to be another cathedral, a bazaar, or will it be a half-assed combination of the two?

(Note that cathedrals took advantage of the efforts of several generations of individual workers adding their own contributions, but in a way which fit the whole. In other words, cathedrals were also a kind of ecosystem!)

The mobile space is about to be a full-on gun fight. And at least Microsoft seems to have walked into the middle of it with the right weapon.

A 3-way standoff? Who's the Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?
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I agree with the article and use truly free dev tools whenever possible, but for some there is no choice because of the platform they have chosen to target. If you decided to do Android apps, you'll probably use Java for 90% (or more) of the work.
I'm not sure that a captcha should be considered part of your authorisation, identification or security framework. A captcha is just attempting to block out robots - it doesn't help you identify if a human user is who he says he is, or has the authorisation he says he has.

No captcha is 100%. And they are trivial to break using human drones in India or China who solve hundreds an hour.

That said, the best, and clear market leader in captcha technology is reCaptcha, now owned by Google (they paid $100m for it) http://www.google.com/recaptcha
why not just let anyone live anywhere?
That might be on purpose. The HN commenting interface is meant to discourage back-and-forth arguments.
Yes, self-hosted Rails solution here: http://railskits.com/saas

Shameless self-promotion, yes, but it's actually relevant. :)
car automation has to be good enough that that's a credible suggestion.

I completely agree. I suppose what I was trying to get at is that the direction Google seem to be taking this is one where it will end up as an amazing feature on top end luxury cars whereas the technology could be very different if evey car on the road had the same technology and each was constantly aware of every other vehicle in its proximity thus reducing the risk of human drivers interfering with a predetermined path.

The latter sounds like it would require additional or even very different technology to implement.

That's my two cents, keep in mind I know more about the internal combustion engine than I do about programmed automated technology!
Really the only thing I don't like about HN's UI is how the comment lines aren't formatted to a readable width -- they run about twice as wide as a standard book line and maybe 4/3 as long as a normal online article.

What's more, comments are really difficult to read on a mobile phone, which is surprising, given that they are basically just plain text which should have the virtue of being easily reworkable.

That said, HN rocks, so I can't complain too much.
> or winamp stats or anything like

IIRC, there's a last.fm app for syncing your Facebook music section every week to your actual top artists for that week.
Is this what's keeping all the e-learning UIs so crappy and 1990s-looking? That's sad.
I see it as a part of defense in depth so worthwhile being part of the framework but obviously not the only authentication and authorization component.

Thanks for the reCaptcha recommendation
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The best thing about expression trees isn't that it lets you declare a method like Func<Func<int>, int> = ... (or whatever), but that you can inspect (and modify) the expression tree at runtime. This is what powers LINQ, and the 'static reflection' used by fluent APIs like Fluent nHibernate.
so what exactly does this business do .. online training ?
One huge issue is that many enterprise apps are only certified to run on older JREs. So updating the JRE will break the application and put you in "unsupported mode" with the application vendor. So companies must stay at version 1.6.9 (or whatever).
Yep. The NetBank project also seems to have involved every second developer in Sydney at some point or another.
Lloyds TSB in the UK, too.
So basically, premature optimization sucks. Don't search for a solution of a problem that doesn't exist. If you spend lots of time writing the same code: optimize that. If you dont do that, dont optimize it. I think lots of people belive that its some kind of magic that made Sergey, Larry and all the other successful programmers successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY <-- There you got productivity by Notch (Minecraft creator for those who dont know). Its like three seconds of twitter, 30 minutes for food and some sleep, for a total of 48h. Actually that makes me take back the idea of the magical thing, since the magic seems to be complete dedication to the task you are supposed to do.
I agree on the Slashdot iPad issue. Expanding a hidden comment is useless.
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The context is important. A lot of popular websites are still unreadable messes (thank you Instapaper & Readability) but it was more prevalent when this article came out, when many web designers thought “typography” on the web was just choosing a typeface—any typeface that wasn’t Times New Roman—and changing the default leading.
It has become the de facto dark humor tension building track.
A few beers helps take the edge off, but there's a distinct difference between one or two bottles of Sol and a couple of pints of strong pale ale.

I'm currently cutting out caffeine, which seems to affect my ability to concentrate. I'm more twitchy and jumpy at the moment and less focused, maybe that's withdrawal.
That didn't bother me as much as the quirky use of red for links which seemed to go against the theme of the article (having typography support the content).
I call it NASCAR navigation. I keep clicking links, thinking each will lead me to the info I want, but more than once I found myself clicking in circles. The other big issue is the number of broken links.
I use Django and PostgreSQL. Currently I'm using Eclipse which is much slower than Vim, but leaves my Vim free to do more general text editing (like RST).
revision3.com - I watch the show Filmriot. Each tv series has its own section, but you must navigate through several clicks to watch the current episode.

Also, if you don't interact at the end of the episode, it will start automatically playing older episodes in reverse chronological order.

...and there is no cohesive source of information. It is spread between revision3, facebook, and twitter.
Ireland also use them.
Good points, my thinking is that we are placing a level of trust in the analytics provider, we will mitigate this via the standard mechanisms: due deligence, contract clauses, requiring they have secure development practices (this is where I was going with the pen test). But yes I will capture in the residual risk that there is a risk that the script could contain malware or be subverted. However the analytics vendor has a very large incentive to avoid this, we will also put in service credit and cancellation penalties if this actually occures.

On the point regarding vs. script tags, I doubt the business will allow me to request no scripts, but rely only on cookies, session identifiers and zero pixel images. Wonder if the business benefit could be delivered without scripts....
Which TV sites do you not like and which do you consider good UI?

I am currently working on a video site, and looking for suggestions.
Is Windows Phone 7 going to be another cathedral, a bazaar, or will it be a half-assed combination of the two?

I was thinking about this, I imagine the midpoint between a cathedral and a bazaar could possibly be a shopping mall... How profitable do shopping malls tend to be? They might have something, if only because they're doing something different with enough marketing steam behind them.
It has happened in other countries and in other times. It may be called progress by some, even.
With a blank gif you'll only get what the browser sends. You could set a cookie and track that (to see who else visits sites using your analytics tool), but you're unlikely to be able to pull data about flash configuration, javascript engines, browser resolution and certainly wouldn't be able to build heat maps.
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I just got my iPhone 4 yesterday. I love it, I really do.. I haven't been able to replicate the deathgrip to the same extent that others can. Best I can do is drop 1 bar.
Don't forget minix and the Tanenbaum / Linus exchanges.

That's a pretty well documented era, and guess what, Tanenbaum was right.

But Linus was riding high on the momentum that he'd generated and Tanenbaum lost the popularity contest. But that didn't make him wrong, and over time those few disadvantages that have been trotted out as the reasons why he was wrong have all been put to rest.

That's part hindsight, but Tanenbaum had a huge amount of experience and was already ahead of 'conventional' unix. Some people think he wasn't ahead enough, but it was certainly a step forward from where linux is, even today.
Because that's the wrong kind of "globalization." Investor-oriented globalization is the kind where a wealthy person can move his factory to Mexico and demand many of the same rights he gets in the US; but a poor Mexican can't go to New York and do likewise. For more information:

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/2006----.htm
As a long-time developer of Windows desktop applications, I am quite excited about the possibility to using Visual Studio, C# and .NET to create software for my phone. I like what I see so far, and suddenly, Android doesn't look that much exciting to me anymore.
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This is not trolling. I honestly ask: why is TCK important? How does it prevent Apache Harmony from ever shipping a "real release"? After all, before OpenJDK, GCJ and lots of other free Java implementations released fine without TCK.
Except that the UK has to be a bit more "special" most of the time. For example it's not part of the Euro zone nor the Schengen area[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_zone#Members

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area#EU_member_states_...
django with postgresql. The reason for Django was because of the admin screens that cut down the dev time for the custom cms that i built.
if I take admin screens out of the scope, I most likely would have gone with Pylons ...
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> you can enjoy a band's music without subscribing to the band's "movement".

You've never listened to proto-punk, have you? ;)

Anyway, I make no judgement about Reznor being right or wrong. I think you're totally right, it's not surprising that 40 years later, a notable band's audience is large.
I see message of this ad as: "You clearly love to use your phone. We'll change that".
You would practically need to be Bill Gates to
do the Disney-esque Version of living with a
life-threatening medical condition.

That or live in a country with a working single-payer health care system. I.e. anywhere in the first world except the US.
Even if it did, would it matter? It is $2500 per transaction. I am sure it would only take 2 or 3 transactions for him to sell $100M worth of shares since there are so many people hot on being in at the floor (what they think is the floor) of the IPO which will inevitably happen just like it did with Google.
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Sorkin explicitly agrees with you:

> (It's only fair to note that the women--bussed in from other schools for the "hot" parties, wait on line to get on that bus without anyone pointing guns at their heads.)

You seem to be pretty riled up over this subject but it doesn't seem directly relevant to the article in question.
...and that's exactly the point. Oracle is suing Google, complaining that they are violating Oracle patents by running Dalvik on Android. Perhaps they'll win, and every app written in Java for Android will become useless.[1]

[1] - Note: not a realistic possibility. Someone would pay a billion dollar ransom instead. But the fact that the threat is out there, regardless how how credible it is, shows the problem.[2]

[2] - Note: the problem in this case is NOT due to non-free implementations: no one questions whether Dalvik is sufficiently free. The problem in this case is software patents. The only proper fix for that is to change the law. Please call your congresscritter.
I think that's simply so that the wire runs parallel to the wall instead of sticking out at 90 degrees. Without a movable part it's hard to have one feature without the other.
I would not call Apple vs Android as cathedral vs bazaar, more Cathedral against lots of little annoying Cathedrals who want to extract every cent from you and disable functions on your phone to do that.

Clearly Apple = Good (they started this new smartphone revolution, and care more about consumers than careers), Windows = Bad (will do anything to try to maintain their monopoly), and Google = Ugly (not really ugly, but they seem to be letting the carriers have more control).
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The transition will likely take dozens of years so the first automated cars will have to be able to handle human error.