skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To paraphrase a comment seen on Ars "oh crap it's a lion, get in the car!"
Indeed. The GPL protection only covers OpenJDK as it is released now. However, Oracle would have to tailor the features in JDK 7 as to be under patents they own or licensed, but that are not used in OpenJDK.

And the OpenJDK folks can always implement around those patents.
Depends on what you mean by conversion.

Interesting stats: over 50% of the people who sign up never click the "verify email" link in the welcome message they get. About 90% of the people who sign up are "born dead" meaning they are never seen again after the first few days.

It's difficult to inject your site into a person's habits, routine, and life. But once someone is hooked, they stay forever (or until a major life event like moving to college).

That site can deal with crappy signup numbers because the site still brings in over one million dollars every month from teenage girls buying "virtual items" for $2.50 to $9.99 each: http://vator.tv/news/2010-07-23-gaia-makes-1m-a-month-in-vir...
Eeepc 1000.

No noise sad.

Truly portable.

5h plus battery

Do not heat your lap.

Got last year for 300. Amazon has now for 700 :(

And most important. It does not have CPU to run things like silly flash games :)
For the lazy: http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...
Millions sell their time for money everyday. Surely you should be able to sell others time if they give it to you.

Suggestions: remove spam from the discussions forums, help the newbies, write tutorials, etc, etc.
I just finished reading a classic book about this called "Applied Imagination." It was written in 1952 and established many commonly accepted ideas about creativity and brainstorming.

I pulled relevant excerpts and posted them here: http://www.youthandyoungmanhood.com/applied-imagination
One theory: programmer utilization at companies has increased with the recession, so there is less time for open-source commits.

Another theory: a huge fraction of open-source in recent years is written by programmers paid by companies to work on it. The recession has caused these programmers to be pulled off and put on projects where their time can be billed directly.

Third theory, there is more use of distributed version control "offline", which would not be detected by Ohloh.
Sure it depends on what task I am trying to accomplish, I should have prefaced that. If I am in the IDE I use the keyboard. But, if I am doing tasks like managing files I tend to use the pad.
OpenJDK is not a dead end - you can extend it and correct any bugs that are a problem to you.
my guess is a touch display on a new mac book pro line
And often they come from a template that sounds nothing like what a real person would write. I see so many that they all start to look like each other. A good, personal one really stands out.
Charging the buyer gets the incentives right. The whole story is that "CarWoo is working for you, not the dealer like those lead generation sites".
"Inchvesting" in Detroit
I hate the endless "zomg angry birds is teh best evar" rhetoric.

How is it that one of the most copied game mechanics in Flash gaming gets treated as original?

Raise your hand if you have played 20 different pre-angry-birds catapult destruction games! Worse yet is that it is like an instant implementation with Box2D.
Beware this could have a huge security hole if you are taking method names from the user like that -- they can include a qualifying package name (normally you see SUPER:: used in this context, but it could be anything loaded).

In your example not so much, but if the params to that call were also under the user's control. Say IO::File was loaded and I went to 'do=IO::File::open', I might be able to read/write files.
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This is an interesting way to plug an "analog hole" in secure environments (or, more accurately, environments where information security is desired). It reminds me of stories of financial institutions filling the USB ports on desktop computers with epoxy.

Here's my question....It seems that the confidential information with the highest value is small and qualitative. "Company X is considering the purchase of Company Y." Obviously, the value of that information for insider trading is huge. But, if I've read that memo in the law firm's office, I don't need to make a photocopy to profit.

Perhaps the next tier down is where such hole plugging makes sense: A customer list is valuable, but I couldn't remember 10K names and email addresses, so I'd have to make a copy (digital or analog). One headhunter at a local office of a national firm told me that their client/resume system was Citrix-hosed and had copy/paste disabled to make it harder for employees to harvest data before leaving. Of course, access was logged at the record-level as well.

What about cases where a needle might be found in a haystack? Copy all 10TB of a law firm's documents, take them home, and look for deals which might happen in the future. In either the digital (thumbdrive) or analog (copymachine) cases, it seems easy to figure out retrospectively that a breech occurred -- Look, Bob copied 5K documents and then quit!. However, the horse is already out of the stable at that point. Perhaps the preventative nature of this copy machine technology is what makes it attractive?

Restaurant POS systems have all sorts of rules in place to prevent employee fraud. One scheme involves a server's friend making a purchase and leaving a HUGE tip on a credit card. The server gets his paycheck, and then the friend disputes the charge. To prevent this, POS systems can be configured to require a manager's approval for a tip larger than X%. I wonder if similar schemes could be employed to force collusion in data theft. Let's say that any user could print 100 pages without manager (or even peer?) approval, but someone else would have to vouch for the legitimacy of the request after that point? I wonder what percentage of breeches that would prevent. The same could be done with accessing documents from a law firm's document management system -- You can see N documents not related to your own clients before somebody else has get involved.
A working modern version of samba in the server version might be a nice touch
Another possible reason is that as systems become more mature they require less maintenance. I know the 2 or 3 projects that I am involved with are pretty mature right now and we are mostly just fixing bugs.
Hum. The App Store opened in mid 2008 and the Android Market in late 2008. There might be a link.

Also, there is a growing quantity of proprietary Web Apps which might have helped shift interest of many users and programmers along.

I'm not all that surprised as it has been one of my concern lately. The Open Dream might come to an end with the make-it-all-online meme.
For me the three OSes feel like this:

- Windows: snappy until it fucks up, best fonts, Flash runs perfectly, you feel mainstream, pragmatic
- Linux: great support for developing, ugly fonts and lousy hardware support, you feel a hacker
- MacOS: Youtube makes the MBP hot, never need to boot again, just close/open the lid, good looking apps, you feel modern and cool
Nobody /needs/ a MacBook Pro. They're just fancy toys.
Spend half the money on an inexpensive brand and get the same laptop.
Linux will run on anything ( literally! ), so just buy the laptop that fits you the best, and don't worry too much about the rest.

Personally I've been developing on a modest 10' ASUS eee PC for years.
Ubuntu loaded with all of the above and much more have been no problem at all.
Lately I've been considering replacing it for the new 12' model though, since both the keyboard and the mousepad buttons are beginning to show wear from using it so much.
AMD Aparapi: Java API for Expressing GPU Bound Data Parallel Algorithms
This is really 37signals cashing in on years of blogging, so saying it was made in single day is a bit misleading.
I hope, we would not have to write native application on several platforms.
Changing Bits: Fun with flexible indexing
At the same time, occasionally a single person telling you just the right thing (and you having the faith in them to believe they are right) can change the face of your business completely. It isn't about a logo, time with your accountant, or listening to podcasts- but having someone that's really in-tune with the market thinking about your product critically and passing on just the right single piece of advice to you that stops you from running into a wall.

I've run technical training sessions that cost this much before, and I think everyone in the class felt they were worth it.
My default google query for a programming problem has become.

[keywords] site:stackoverflow.com

And with 1M Q/A it looks like this isn't going to change any time soon!
Tropisue\u00f1o has epic burritos. They haven't quite figured out how to get the right thing to the guy who ordered it. The burritos, though, whether or not you ordered them, make up for it.
I hate to play the devils advocate but actually this kid more or less fits the profile of a "person of interest". Let's run through the facts as reported in the wired piece, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device....

- young Muslim male

- travels extensively to / lived in a Muslim country

- linked to another "person of interes"

- has immediate family that currently lives in a Muslim country

- sends money to family members in a Muslim country

- he returned alone to the US while the rest of his family stayed in Egypt.

Now, although traking does seem like an over reaction in this case you gotta ask yourself what job it is the FBI is tasked with. I have yet to see a comment mentioning the end of the article where the FBI agent says to the kid "don't worry you're boring", meaning they figured out he is not a threat. Also, we do not know why the FBI specifically wanted to track this kid. Perhaps the kid knows people even more interesting and they want to use him to get to them. Who knows.

I also do not agree with warrantless tracking and if they did need to get a warrant perhaps they would have thought more and decided not to track this kid. That said, the FBI watches potential threats all the time and this kid has all the flags, for better or worse.
FYI, the event is not sold out yet.

Eventbrite holds a ticket for a while once someone clicks "Order Now". If they don't complete the transaction the ticket is released back into the pool.

We had a mad rush of people click the "Order Now" button which made it look like the event sold out, but there are plenty of tickets available.
You might want to try Rapleaf. Or what Rapportive is using!

As a third option... tailored google searches?
Are they tracking commits made to github?
The tragedy of it all is that Eventbrite won't let you order more than 3 tickets in one go...
OpenGL 4.0, like the rest of the world.
No. And no. The initial link was in Values, not in Percentage. When you click Update, the graph shown is switched to Percentage. Here is your link in Value:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...
No they haven't. The only one that is dropping is Perl:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...
You make some great points and the no support option for free users was something that was and is an option, as I said in the post.
Fixing all the problems that OSX is still plagued with. On a daily basis. Here are problems I deal with that are Apple related, almost on a daily basis:

* iChat and Bonjour. I cannot, for the life of me, get my iMac and my wife's MBP to chat, let alone do anything else iChat says it can do. I've not found a solution. I can occasionally see the MBP on my iMac, but I cannot do anything with it.

* Make iLife make sense. Videos are stored in iPhoto, but need to be transfered to iTunes to send them to the AppleTV. But I need to create them in iMovie. iMovie is for editing movies. iPhoto is for editing pictures, but also organizing movies. Movies are also organized in iTunes. Also, plugging in a devices starts up iPhoto by default. Setting this up silently isn't easy to discover.

* System Preferences. The best way to demonstrate the complete craziness of this is to explain that to disable the Remote Control, you need to go to the Security panel. I'm not even going to mention that fact that certain panels literally lie to you. No, that keyboard command you say I should use doesn't actually do what you say it does.

* Window Management. Sure, their are programs you can install for this, but it should be something handled by Apple.

* Fix Safari so I can log into their support pages. I'm mean, it's evil that I need to download Firefox so I can log into their support pages. Yes, I've cleared the cache in Safari, and cookies, etc.

Apple does great on the polish, and their system sits on top of a solid foundation, but in between that, the meat, is lacking.

Sure, OSX is stable, but it's still frustrating by default.
iTunes on Windows and Zune on Mac: a race to the bottom.
js-model has some nice support for serializing to local storage and so forth baked in, which I've found to be really handy.

Backbone looks like it forms a much more cohesive package though, which is nice.
There is also a new “miscellaneous symbols and pictographs” block, including a lot of user interface icon type symbols:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf

And new “transport and map symbols”:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F680.pdf
charging me up front, tells me the story that they already got their cut and that they have no actual incentive to give me a good service.
HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, and Python all have steady increases, and ruby is mostly stable. It could just be that focus is more on the web (HTML in particular seems to have taken a biggish jump mid-2009 - related to HTML5?)

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?measure=commits&p...
This reminds me of the banknote copy protection which is builtin in many scanners and copiers, the so-called 'EURion Constellation'.

It consists of a number of circles in a specific configuration. For a picture and more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurion and/or http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/security/currency.htm
Considering how long it normally takes startups in the US to expand outside the country, you are properly better of launching it yourself.
China's trade surplus falls to $16.9bn
> There is no trust fund.

That's a different claim, of course, and a totally unfalsifiable one. (Suppose the Social Security trust fund did in fact take the form of a big vault stuffed with dollar bills, or something of the kind. It would still be true that the government could spend them on other stuff if it wanted to. You could equally say that "there is no trust fund".)

> So let's say they have to dip into the trust fund for 100 million dollars, that means that either the regular budget will have to increase by 100 million, or 100 million in services will need to be cut.

The trust fund contains $2.4T (or whatever the exact figure is) in Treasury bonds. That money is already accounted for as money owed by the government. It's part of the national debt. The fact that there's a big national debt may well be a problem, but it's not a problem specific to Social Security. It's a problem with all the other things that the government has spent money on, effectively raising the money by selling (kinda) T-bills to the social security fund.
On the StackOverflow podcast they had talked about some of the issues faced with awarding points for asking questions.

Apparently many people feel that asking a good question isn't worthy of points (or as many points) as answering a question.

They at one point (IIRC) were awarding points for asking a question, but that led to people spamming in low quality questions.

My personal rule is that if the question was interesting enough to make me read it, it should probably be upvoted.
> Snow Leopard was all about the internals.

God, they fubared that. I can't count the number of times my wife complained about Snow Leopard's constant WIFI problems. It's sad when my iPhone has better connectivity then her MBP.
I liked setfenv() for its versatility.

I implemented a toy markaby [1] clone in Lua using it.

tpl = html(function()
head(function() --> tag names should be non-locals. They will be rebound at runtime.
title "Barbazor"
link {rel = "stylesheet", type = "text/css", href = "style.css"}
end
body(function()
h1 {"Big title"; id = "title"}
div {class = "foo"; function()
for i=1,5 do
p( "counting: " .. i )
end
end}
end
end

render( tpl ) --> returns clean, well indented HTML.

I don't think it can be done with the new environment system without reimplementing setfenv. You could achieve the same effect by passing an explicit param to anonymous functions, but it would look worse IMO.

This example also highlights a weakness in the language syntax: lambdas are ugly. Functions are first-class, semantically, but not syntactically, which is sad.

[1] http://markaby.rubyforge.org/ , just in case ;-)
Two things. One is a possibility, and one is a dream.

1. The Finder is going to change. What is becomes I don't know, but I think the filesystem will be further downplayed as Apple tries to take its vision of user friendliness even further. This is the possibility.

2. Window management goes away. Imagine software that didn't need its UI sorted and resized. Personally I hate even thinking about where something should rest on a screen. Given that there are tons of legacy applications out there that use windows in a variety of ways I don't see this happening. This is the dream.

-- Edit:

Graphics drivers that are on par with Windows should probably be added to the "dream" category.
A sha256 would be handy for block-level deduplication.
Travian's been around a while.

And I believe the Ultima game is Lord of Ultima [.com]? Played it for a bit, was an ok timesink but eventually I grew out of it since I mostly used it as a Sim City type game.
What's the cost per page view in each case?
I haven't noticed too much change in Google; I generally just go straight to Stackoverflow first.
Yes, everyone who works on software for any company other than gaming doesn't "really care" at all. We don't care if your ATM transaction works flawlessly. We don't care if the health monitors keep you alive while you're in a hospital bed. We don't care if you accidentally show up on a police blotter because a database went corrupt somewhere.

Nope, but if we were working on games, we would care then.
Say what you will about Digg, but at least they rolled out new software.

Digg is a discussion site, not an operating system -- what is the value in "rolling out new software"?

Digg's value is in the quality of the discussion and community; "innovation" that doesn't improve that is pointless. Look at HN: it remains nearly as minimalist as always, and mostly receives occasional tweaks and performance improvements.
Zune.net has worked on Mac with Silverlight for ages.

Given that WP7 doesn't support email, contact, or calendar sync with your computer even on windows, I'm guessing this is just for firmware updates and maybe Zune downloadable content?

Don't get too excited. Zune on PC makes very heavy use of WPF, which would be epic to port.
I'm sure if fb had a feature to allow checking who has seen your profile, a lot of people would be happy to pay for it. Maybe it could be a new way for facebook to make money? I'm not pretty sure facebook users have more value than they cost to facebook (based on money from ads (to my knowledge, the only way fb gets money from users 'directly) vs bandwidth/server/development expenses)
>>The server will email the administrator a PDF copy of the document in question if a user attempts to do so.<<

The document is important enough to not allow to print, yet lets make a few extra copies and store them on the mail server.
Macbook pro, because Linux on a laptop sucks balls.
$1000 is cheap. If you're willing to pay a lawyer $200/hour, why would you be reticent about paying one of the pre-eminent web product design teams half that rate for a day of consulting?

I don't know why it is, but there seems to be a certain resistance that many people in our field have to considering ourselves professionals, deserving of the same rates that other professionals charge and subject to the same types of standards that other professionals have.

If IDEO were charging $5,000 for the same thing, I don't think many traditional product designers would complain; they'd simply wish they could afford it or ask their companies to send them.
In the latest version of Ubuntu (Meerkat), the annoying delay before being able to enter a password in the lock screen on resume is gone.
That depends: How wide an audience do they want to reach? Sure, they don't have to support IE, but just like a business, if they want the widest possible amount of readers, then yes, they should support IE.
Select Your Blog Subject Early For Success
They're tracking any open source project that's registered on their website. If you have or know about an open source project that's not on Ohloh, you'll have to register it and specify its repositories (and branches).
Same link but in Values, not Percentage:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=html&l1=javascript&l2=php&l3=python&l4=ruby&l5=xml&l6=css&l7=-1&measure=commits
We're going to get a list of all the dealers we're working with up ASAP. We spent the last year building up the dealer network, thanks for pointing out we forgot to show which dealers are participating. One thing to note, is we rarely have a situation where we don't have dealer coverage. Even in areas where we don't have dealers, we have a group of "Dealer Happiness Reps" that reach out and recruit dealers and we get them on as a dealer. There's no charge to dealers so it's very simple for them to signup and participate.
I wondered what exactly was being measured here too. I checked around the site quickly but found no answers. Bah. Might as well be made up numbers as far as I'm concerned.
This is because it switches to percentages by default. See http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?commit=Update&l0=...

Everything is going down.
- A new Finder. I want tabs (like TotalFinder) and two instances in the same window, so that drag+drop doesn't require multiple windows. Like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12925/finder.png

Other than that, I'd like to see it continue to get faster. Booting, opening apps, etc.
I stand corrected. Thank you for commenting.
I can't for the life of me remember which options I got. I didn't know much about cars before this, so I didn't even realize that cars came with options.

This is pretty much the car that I bought:
http://www.marinadelreytoyota.com/vehicle/specs/toyota/corol...

One of the first dealers I visited in person told me the sticker price of $18,050, and I didn't think much of it since I thought they would easily lower it. At the desk, they quoted the sticker price and wouldn't budge until we walked out and were already halfway down the driveway, then whispered a price of $16,800.

Second in-person dealer, my dad called a friend and asked for a dealer recommendation. He went up to him and talked about all their mutual contacts and asked for his best price and was quoted $16,400 and that he couldn't go lower than that.

I sent a counter offer to one of my Carwoo dealers and got my car for $16,200. I also got a $1,000 college graduate rebate (which I would've gotten at other dealers too).

To skip all that running around and haggling, I would feel more at ease sitting at my computer and clicking "Accept deal" and paying the $49 for the service.

Edit: Before using Carwoo, I tried to get a quote from a local dealer through their website. I guess I skipped some fine print because they ended up leaving me voicemails and emails for the next 2 months.
iLife and Safari are updated outside of system releases, so I wouldn't bet too heavily there. iChat will get an update though, surely with FaceTime support baked in.