skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that they are proposing it more as a general exercise, but I'm pretty sure that failing to have a conversation with every person who asks me for money on the street isn't actually making my life boring. Also, I can't imagine anyone actually saying the words, “I am determined to make new friends tonight and I bet you are just the kind of people who make good friends.”
Scientists finish first sea census
I would be interested to know how this is a 49 point worth submission
but the parallel I have in mind is the downfall of Nazism in Germany.

That took the systematic leveling of a good chunk of Germany, just for starters. Perhaps not an optimal parallel.
Hipmunk funding may also be a clue to the 3 big online travel aggregators that they need to provide better search UI. I agree that the front end is not difficult to copy.

If even one of the Big 3 rolls this out, Hipmunk will be challenged to pull traffic... because their improved UI will be where the existing travel visitors are searching already.
This rant is a mixed bag of decent advise and dismal advice.

Let's begin with Squid. I can't speak to the performance of Squid. Never measured it. Don't care. I do care about how it is described in this article.

We're told that you tell Squid how much RAM it may use, and how much disk, and it honors those constraints.

Then we're told that, as a result, Squid page thrashes and so it performs badly.

A well-written program described that way page thrashes because it is running on a poorly administered system. The entire point of writing a program like squid to let you say how much RAM to use, is that you then use Squid on a machine on which you can ensure that it will not ever need to page.

Some programs (and this was as true in the very earliest days of virtual memory as it is today) are purposefully designed so that they will run correctly even if they page, but will run very fast if they do not page. Server software is often in this category because server software often runs on dedicated hardware where the hardware budget is large enough.

If you look at a server program (like squid) running on some dedicated server and find that it is paging a significant amount, you don't just decide "that program is poorly written" --- you must consider the possibility that the machine is poorly configured.

When writing a program, you've a choice: manage your own working set and write assuming you won't be page-thrashed? Or punt it to the underlying OS. Which is better? The answer really depends on what you know about the memory-use patterns of your program. If you know nothing, consider leaving it to the OS. If you know the OS's paging policies are a good fit, leave it to the OS. If you can beat the OS's policies and count on not being page thrashed (and performance is worth the work) --- then write like it's 1975 for goodness sake.
Microsoft IE browser share dips below 50%; Google Chrome rises
Thanks for the link. I stand corrected.
There’s no such thing as defeat
Top reason for Facebook unfriending: Too many useless posts
That case was goofy because he initially typed in his password in front of law enforcement and provided them access, which nullified any claims of self incrimination.

It'd be similar to confessing to murder, telling the cops where the body is, and then invoking your right to remain silent, and expecting them not to look for the body under "fruit of the poisonous tree" logic.
Why are technical recruiters so clueless?

because technical recruiters, contrary to popular belief, are not hired to get the best candidates.

Technical recruiters (and agencies) are hired to give the middle manager denyability if a hiring mistake is made. I mean, if you hire your brother's friend and he turns out to be some kind of crack fiend who ebays your spare parts bin for more drugs, well, you've got a fairly good chance of getting fired in the fallout. Now, if a recruiter recommends the same guy and the same thing happens, well, now you can push some of the blame off on the recruiter. there's no question about nepotism, etc.. the professional recruiter recommended the guy.
What happens if you say you forgot the password, and the files in question haven't been accessed in over a year? This is a question in my initial post that's still relevant to UK jurisprudence; an answer to which could move the conversation forward in a way far more productive than imagining I didn't know the article was about something that happened in the UK.
It's astounding that they just land in random fields, and have since the beginning of the program. How rough are those landings, I wonder?
Trouble is that there is a knee in the learning curve.

Everybody works with electrical equipement - it would be helpful if some of the 'non-technical' employees here understood about checking that it was plugged in, and not spilling drinks into it.

It's not clear that a little bit of PCB layout design would help that - just like knowing a bit of logo wouldn't help them with not remembering where they had saved the word file they expect me to find.
Web design does not evolve that way. It evolves in fits and starts. In other words, someone does something new and other quickly follow. Half of the Web looks like either 37signals or Mint. :-)
VC Super Angels: Filling a Funding Gap or Killing The Next Google?
I would absolutely not. What if they decide that the music branch of their business is expendable? "We're shutting down our servers in a month, gl;dd". Remember Microsoft.
What absolute rubbish. The author clearly doesn't know the first thing about how iOS works, which makes the title ambitious to say the least. For starters, contrary to what the article claims, the Citibank app did not store information where other apps on the phone could get at it - indeed, one of the really frustrating things for iOS devs is the fact that there isn't actually a convenient way of sharing data between apps. This is the only example of a security flaw in iOS that is listed in the article, and it is completely bogus. To add insult to injury, the same app written on Android would indeed have this exact problem as Android allows sharing of data between apps, making it clearly the less secure of the two platforms if you were silly enough to make that call based on this one example.
The American you are talking about is Greg Mortenson?
I personally try to segment my time so that I'm focused in one language at a time. This gives me an opportunity to search the web and read documentation on the language at the same time, so I'm improving my ability to use the language.

For example, I often work with Objective-C (iPhone/iPad) as well as Ruby + Ruby on Rails + HTML + CSS (backend). Some days I really need to work in both environments, but I try to spend most of my days focusing on one.
Mahoney is also a well known and liked music mixer at
http://remix.kwed.org/index.php?search=mahoney
just tell 'em you forgot it
I'll guess that it's because many HN readers (including myself) heavily rely on Dropbox, pretty much every day of the calendar year.
Here's the actual FTC case:

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723241/c0903814.shtm

Some context that isn't really spelled out on Jason's site:

* Jason was an officer and co-owner (apparently, 1/3 co-owner) of the company; he was not simply the VP/Engineering employee of Swish.

* Swish was targeted in an investigation of a Payday Loan promotion that surreptitiously enrolled applicants into a scam private Mastercard/VISA program.

* According to the FTC, "hundreds of thousands of consumers" ended up inadvertantly getting signed up for these cards, and for each signup, Swish was paid something like $10-$15.

* At issue was not the private MC/VISA card or its terms, but the fact that people signing up for payday loans on sites controlled by Swish were asked to provide bank account information, which was then surreptitiously used to enroll users into the private MC/VISA card.

There are no doubt many shades of grey surrounding the line Swish was alleged to have crossed. They may not have crossed any line at all. But they were hip deep in the muck on this. It's possible --- Jason doesn't say! --- that the FTC may not even have recovered all of Swish's revenue from this VISA/MC scam.

If your company has the words "Direct Marketing" in its value proposition and it operates a website that collects bank account information, lawyer up, run far, and run fast.
I think there was a tiny little bit of hyperinflation in Germany in the 20-30s.
IIRC the exchange rate was 1,000,000,000,000 Mark = 1 Reichsmark
>The barrier to entry in the recruiting industry is low, i.e. a cellphone, an internet connection and some available time.

There is something more to it than that. I've tried to become a recruiter several times, and I've gotten shot down every time I tried, even though I can demonstrate a history of hiring good people.
Twilio is now a BizSpark Network Partner
Google seeks dismissal of Oracle copyright claim
My understanding of the feature is that is is impossible to verify whether or not you are using a hidden volume within a TC encrypted volume.

Although file-hosted TrueCrypt volumes (containers) do not contain any kind of "signature" either (until decrypted, they appear to consist solely of random data), they cannot provide this kind of plausible deniability, because there is practically no plausible explanation for the existence of a file containing solely random data. However, plausible deniability can still be achieved with a file-hosted TrueCrypt volume (container) by creating a hidden volume within it.

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
>Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for hipmunk. I would love to see them succeed. But they need more than shiny.

I'm not just talking about the interface, I'm talking about the experience overall.
Interhoods
My recent traffic from HN (a few hundred hits):

Chrome: 55%
Firefox: 30%
Safari: 9%
IE: 4%
Other: 2%
One big advantage of rsyslog over syslog-ng is that you can spool messages to disk if the remote syslog server is down (syslog-ng only offers this in their 'enterprise' paid version).
Poster a day for 365 days in reaction to a headline on the BBC news website
It's nice to see Microsoft partnering with companies that offer cool technology to build businesses with. It presents some nice alternatives to many of the popular FOSS technologies. Competition is good for everyone.
It may not be related to the build system but just look at logging in java versus logging in Ruby.

I was in a meeting once where I was the lone "cowboy" Perl programmer amongst amongst a group of Java dudes. One Java dude told another off for doing logging wrong. He said "I have a book on this logging package if you want to borrow it."

None of them knew why I laughed, but to me, logging was just a fancy print statement. And somebody wrote a book about it.
a) Fair point. The justification is 'laziness'. The data is from 2010-10-05 04:00-05:00 GMT (late night PDT).

2). It uses a python script to save the twitter stream to json bz2 files, one per hour. And another script to analyze one bz2 to find the top values for any json field (in this case, 'source'). Pretty simple really.

3). Sure, that would be better.

4) Imperfect != Useless. I haven't seen any other recent data on twitter client usage, so I thought this may be interesting. For instance, I was surprised by how popular the website is, vs 3rd party clients.

If you need better/more results, contact me and maybe I can provide them commercially.

Always Be Closing,

rphlx
Why Scientists Should Be the Real Role Models
store.nsa.gov is as realistic as any other answer I can think of.
I have to jump between JavaScript and Java at work. The biggest problem for me usually is the small syntax mistakes I create, e.g. using var in a java file or "int i" in a javascript for loop.

But I find the differences in syntax help compartmentalize how I code. As soon as I get the compiler error in the java file it jar's be back into the java way of thinking.
My comment about this being "not quite ready yet" no longer holds. I shouldn't have posted it, I think, because it might've killed the discussion.

Anyway, this is the best Lisp-in-Python I've seen, including my own.
Obviously a little late to read this.. but the source now shows this:

Now the that big switch is gone, here are some fun facts:
1. This site was created in 2002, using Visual Studio 2003.
2. Yes there was some editing done in frontpage. The editors worked better than VS 2003, and we had a license for it.
3. A lot from the funky mark-up is from some early generation .NET thirdparty controls we've been maintaining.
4. We look forward to updating the site as much as you (probably more in fact!)
Thanks for the QA, Redditors!
3 to 1 sounds about right for initial responses, assuming you pick jobs that you are obviously qualified for. this goes up and down, obviously, depending on how qualified you appear to be for the position you are responding to.

Once you get the initial response, there's still a pretty good chance of the gig falling through for whatever reason. Contracting is rough this way, really no matter where you get your clients.
Thats what we do - your problem is to get a certain signal level in as small as space on the PCB as possible.

We use our 20years each of studying physics, software we spent a lot of time and money writing, and a lot of expensive test gear - to design a clever pattern of copper.

That's all we sell - the shape of that patch of copper.

ARM sell the shape of some layers of photoresist - same difference.
The FTC settled with "VirtualWorks", the makers of the "private VISA debit card", for $0. That's the $0 figure in the post.

Jason is irate because he believes VirtualWorks, being the party that actually offered the card, should shoulder all the blame for deceiving consumers. He appears to find it bizarre that they could get off scot-free while he, the mere VP/Engineering of an ad network, could be stuck with an $800k settlement.

But if you read the FTC case, the issue that triggered the investigation wasn't the terms of the card, but rather the web-based promotion of the card, and specifically the way the enrollment for the card was buried in a payday loan signup. According to the FTC, presumably after discovery, these were matters under Swish's control.

I think you're being awfully knee-jerk here. Jason may be right, but it's not as if his story is uncontested; it in fact directly conflicts with much of a detailed formal statement submitted to a real court by real lawyers for the FTC.
Selling. That's all. Selling your vision to investors, selling your company to potential employees, and, most importantly, selling/marketing your product to customers.

You can outsource noncritical tasks like bookkeeping, but the business people must absolutely know how to sell. If they do that, you're in good shape. Of course selling well requires in-depth knowledge of your product, your target market, your industry, etc.
Nice little trick. And pretty useful, too, I imagine.

I suppose the reason JPEG files don't allow for transparency information is that the DCT would mess it up? (I'm imagining little waves of semi-opaqueness appearing just outside the boundary of an opaque portion of an image. And little waves of semi-transparency appearing just inside. Ick.)

Of course, there's no law that says JPEG formats have to use the DCT for absolutely everything. Heck, [ordinary JPEG + PNG mask] probably wouldn't be a bad file format. Now if we could just get people to start supporting it ....
How easy would it be for an officer to present an encrypted computer and say - if you don't unlock this, you're getting thrown in jail. This is no different than a witch hunt, it's totally unprovable and throwing people in jail over not knowing a piece of information is unethical.
Longer Exits Are New Norm in VC Deals
Also, DropBox is a YC-funded startup.
I'm running a production server (RAID setup, i7, so decent specs too) with multiple jails, each with their own ZFS filesystem. Honestly, I may be biased since I've been a FreeBSD fan since about '99, but it is really a sysadmin's dream. The system has been rock-stable for years. I'm currently running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. Upgrading from 7 to 8 was not a problem, even from remote.

I'm a fulltime developer, so the less time I spend sysadmining on this system, the better it is for me. Upgrading packages, the kernel and even the jails is a quick job and can be set up to happen automatically.
Sick of This Text: 'Sorry I'm Late'
I think your porridge is just right.

Don't make me read a wall of text to get a simple answer to "is it down?", but clue me in on what's going on and, if possible, when I can expect service to resume.

Dropbox isn't critical for us where I work, but it is something we use daily for passing documents around.
I'm good for $20.

Consider it payment for your work growing the tech community in Madison, WI as well as a down payment for your future evangelism on the behalf of Madison.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind some baked goods!
I think "Write a music player client that can stuff your music into an encrypted blob" is a bigger hurdle for most people than paying $25/month.

Besides, doesn't Grooveshark already do this for free?
It's kind of tricky. I don't have a big problem with friends of mine who post their Farmville junk on their streams because it is dead simple to block those types of updates. Unfortunately, facebook doesn't offer a "filter this user's complaints about things you don't care about" so your options are to unfriend or block them from your stream. If you use Facebook mostly for the stream, if you block all stream posts, you might as well just remove them.
I apologized man... What more do you want?
In the US, how does the fifth amendment work in this type of issue? If he complies, then he is testifying against himself.
Yeah... I had similar experiences on E-lance... you'd do the work within e-lance or whatever, and if it was successful, there was a lot of other work you could do direct for the client.

Also, the people who frequent those sites tend to be very cheap. the $10K in 3 months of work number sounds pretty realistic to me; while where I am, a reasonably good sysadmin can expect to make that much in a month of agency contracting full-time.
Yeah, I'm sorry but I was unable to recall his name ;)
Exploring jQuery .live() and .die()
How Not to Fight Colds
>Really? Even though they call it a distribution mechanism themselves[0]? Interesting.

It's not a mass distribution mechanism where, for example, you could just add the UDIDs of all your users. Of course it's a distribution mechanism, but it's just meant for testing, not a competition to AppStore. That's what I was talking about.

>If you do custom work for clients, then clients are supposed to get their in-house license for distribution.

Really? And what do you do when the customer wants you to start work NOW and they'll apply to Apple in the mean-time for their own keys ? Do you just tell them you can't email them a simple prototype because, well, you're too lazy to add some device IDs to your own list ?

Anyhow, your reply seems to be quite orthogonal to what I meant and those links and your tone are mildly insulting.

My point was that the developer account isn't really designed as a way to install your own apps for the masses (hence my examples).
Weird to see PHK being referred to as "the Varnish guy". :P
New Facebook TOS change allows app producers to sell your data
He probably volunteered that information.
The code is open source under a BSD style license, so it's not really about benefits for the company, which in this case is VMWare. They make their money elsewhere and pay antirez to hack on Redis, which is a pretty good deal for users of Redis.
No, That quote is about the businesses, not the customers.
There are other legitimate reasons to not want to reveal the contents of your hard-drive besides principle or self incrimination. For instance, if you had the private information of any other people. My SO works with HIV, and recently got access to sensitive data that had to be sent on DVD via courier.

Who here trusts the police to not disclose their HIV status?
Well, as a startup, I mean. There shouldn't be any legal hurdles, anyway - it's really just a backup system specialized for music.

And I'll be honest, I have no clue what Grooveshark's business model is. I like it, but I don't see how the RIAA doesn't come down on them like a ton of bricks, and I really doubt the ads they show can cover what they ought to be paying in royalties.
What Google TV Means for Movie Fans
Epic fails
Re: icon: I always liked explicit text on my buttons. I remember reading something about icons not being very user-friendly.

http://uxmyths.com/post/715009009/myth-icons-enhance-usabili...
I'm guessing you'd need some huge surface area to power a human with photosynthesis.

Perhaps an acre (wild guess)? Maybe someone could look that up?
I dunno maybe this http://www.robichaux.net/blog/2008/02/ferris-research-lotus-...

Or maybe nothing and just get back to work ;-). Devs brag about lots of things.
They are printing money to directly manage interest rates and indirectly manage inflation. If the Chinese liquidate the debt they own, the Fed printed money to buy the debt, and Chinese spent the money employing americans eventually that might cause wage inflation. That process seems slow enough that inflation would be no big deal to manage.
A quantum computer is not a commodity product. You can ask these guys to wire one up for you:

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2005/June/a...
People did that as a protest when the law was introduced - they emailed random numbers to the then home secretary (the minister in charge of the police in the UK)
This shows that the "company who made it" settled for $52,000, despite what the OP says:

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/08/everprivate.shtm
The Dream was over a while back when digital music and Internet got popular. Apple iTunes store kind of brought it back except Apple as the dreamer not Record Labels.

The Dream being control over distribution. Selling over and over the same product. Selling lots crap (most songs on album) on the backs of 1 or 2 hits. Being the gatekeeper between artists and their fans. Near monopolistic control over supply and demand. All of it, a cash fucking cow.

Over, for the Record Labels. Although they're doing a damn good job at legislating their dream into law. Their government mandated welfare will live on similar to but more insidious than farm/corn lobbies subsidy program. And just like corn subsidy it(warping of copyright) will fuck the rest of us for decades.
Cool idea, but why do you require permission: "Read phone state and calls"?
Do any of the FTC have much business or technology experience? SEC is run by ex-bankers, should FTC be run by ex-marketers?

How much of Jason's settlement will actually go back to affected consumers? Zero. It will go into the FTC's budget.