skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past, an SSL service required a dedicated IP address. This isn’t true any more with the advent of Server Name Indication (RFC 3546) and improvements in TLS.

If any of your users are using Internet Explorer on Windows XP, then this seems to still be true, alas - http://www.alexanderkiel.net/2008/04/22/status-of-tls-sni/

This isn't an issue for the likes of Facebook, of course, but it is a problem for sites small enough to be on shared hosting.
Hmm sorry yes, phrased it wrong. I would really like Nokia to come out with something good, I have nothing against the company and they build nice hardware. Competition is also never bad and I would like to see a truly open platform. I just think that at this point it's really not a trivial feat to regain market share in this very competitive segment with several strong players with years of a head start and (relatively) mature platforms.
Well, Apple probably can't make TV hardware in same sense as Sony can make it. Sony is almost completely vertically integrated when it comes to TVs and consumer electronics.
Thanks for the writeup.
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The point is not that punctuality is a virtue, but that a professional is capable of adhering to certain agreed disciplines, regardless of how important, or virtuous they may or may not be. A professional does not make the mistake of judging these activities for their intrinsic value, but sees them as an opportunity to develop discipline, which is useful and valuable for more important activities.

For examples see: the military, professional orchestras, rowing eights, ivy league traditions, and even children keeping piggy banks.
"People are not really stupid, it is just that you know a lot more. Don’t let knowledge blind you."

No, you dumb fuck. You're the idiot who knows nothing apart from useless technobabble that nobody will care about in 100 years - sorry, that should probably be 10 years.
Ubuntu 11.04 will use Unity UX instead of GNOME Desktop
Are there any specific JS tools in mind? node.js, Express, js_model, backbone?
Bloom Filters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

Sort of a probabilistic hash, where you trade space for accuracy. But it's also like a memory function - it can remember if it has seen a piece of data before.
You don't need huge libraries and labyrinthine frameworks to be a 'useful' language. C is a perfectly good language with just the most basic standard library.
What frustrates me most is that I keep meeting people who seem to know less about their respective fields than one would expect them to, or they should at least know more about them than I or some other laic does.
holy shit, they get one buck for one vote?
Personally I have a hard time seeing what the goal for Arc would be. "100 year language" seems pretty fuzzy. I mean, Lisp is already at least a 100 year language IMO so what could Arc do to make itself more so? What is it going to do that the other two popular Lisp-1s don't? The only differentiator I've seen so far is pg's confusion of terse for concise [1].

I think there is always more room for programming languages in the world, especially given how awful most of them are. I just think they need some clear reason to exist or their creation isn't worth the fracturing effect [2].

[1] Personally I use terse to mean "short and unreadable" and concise to mean "short and more readable" (think: "I didn't have time to write a short letter..."). The first thing that occurred to me when I saw Arc was "oh man, a bunch of cryptic one or two letter functions. Is this meant to be programmed over a 1200 baud modem or something?" Every one of those kinds of things is something that has to be memorized, and given how much more advanced IDEs are today what's lost in readability is not made up in typing savings. For me the classic example of "concisity" is Smalltalk. Most methods are just a line or two, they read almost literally as English yet so much is said with so little. No meaningless cryptic two letter sequences but yet one line is equivalent to at least 3 lines of Java [3].

[2] I.e. users becoming party of a community of this new mostly irrelevant language A instead of helping the community of the language that would have been said to obsolete A if it had been written after A instead of before it.

[3] http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=tr...
It could also have been an unofficial handshake deal where Digg agrees to overlook the 3rd party gaming the system.

They gain plausible deniability, can maintain the integrity of their brand and the trust of users. Or at least that's how they would like it to happen should someone catch on.
Sadly, it also has the side effect of making the dash and a lot of random apps about 10x brighter.
Sorry, didn't read blog post before.
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But maximal matroid matching is NP-hard. ;)

Approximating the minimum spaning tree weight in subliner time
is very unexpected algorithm.
Sorry, that's more precisely ceteris paribus -- "all else being the same".
I have a LaCie IamaKey [1] tid to my keychain. It's a robust key-shaped thumb drive in metal. Looks good, works fine. A bit expensive, though.

1. http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11225
It seems, that when you slow down learning (especially outside your area of expertise and with age), you become more relatively stupid, because the world around you learn faster.
Overview of our startup industry - Daily Deals
I want to write a post and overview about my start-up industry. Unfortunately it's not a pro post, as I’m far from being a good blogger and english is not my 1st language.

That is not a secret that group buying (daily deals, social e-commerce, Groupon) is one of the most popular web topic in 2010 and the biggest trend which is growing world wide. How many of you tried to build something in that area? I guess that's scary to jump to the car overload by passengers.

This is my personal view of how daily deals industry started and developing:

1)	Woot.com (2004) – I think this website is a 1st seed in group buying

2)	Groupon (2008) brought group buying in new level by offering deals from services and local merchants. Groupon is the most cloned website in history of internet, more than 1000 clones over the world (Dec 2009 – May 2010). I wanted to make one too ))

3)	Daily deal aggregators (yipit, dealradar and etc). I would compare aggregators to price comparison websites.

4)	Specific daily deals websites (food and dining, fitness and workout, products). More services coming in that area for sure.

5)	Traditional stores start their daily deal section on their websites (target, compusa and etc)

6)	Some big players start their own daily deals services. Aol (with wow.com). Who next? Ebay? Amazon?

7)	Free daily deals – TapZilla.com gives out a limited amount of applications for iphone for free

8)	Groupon starts integration with Ning and Ebay

9)	Groupon offers a tool to merchant to run deals by the own

10)	…

I was tempted to do daily deals website, but decided to jump to deals aggregator, that was a time when the most of daily deals websites did not have the affiliate platforms. We were forced to parsing/indexing their pages without having any affiliate with them. Now the most of them have affiliate with CJ or other platforms (some of them run own platform, which is not good idea). I left aggregator idea too.

We all are in the middle of the road of social e-com. My list will have more items and I hope that I will add one there too (hehehe) )))

Thanks for reading my post, appreciate that.

http://www.facebook.com/saviski
>>And in Europe a lot of people are holding off from expensive phones just as I'm doing

"a lot of people" != "everyone"
Me too. I haven't fired it up in at least a year, but last time I tried it booted up with no problem other than some alarming smoke coming from the air vent. Seeing that customized autoexec.bat float up in ghostly green letters really brought me back.
War-hit countries 'most corrupt'; US drops down the list
Okay, essentially you have no skills to offer. To be blunt, your vision is worthless because everyone thinks their ideas are gold.

So here's where you start: pick a few of the things people mentioned and learn them. If you're not into programming, learn marketing things, like building email lists, or work in sales, affiliate marketing, whatever. Just get started, and build from there.

Then, once you have a bit more experience and can bring something to the table, you'll be much more valuable.
He's freely donating his own room. That's not socialism. Socialism would be if a group of you got together and forced this guy to "donate" his room to one of your friends while forcing the guy to keep paying the rent, then crediting yourselves with generosity and accusing the guy you're ripping off of "greed".
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Not trying to argue with you, I'd just like to mention as a curiosity that you would be surprised by how much 'funky' stuff you can do in C#. It has pointers (not just references, but real C-style pointers), it can pin objects in the memory, etc. It's hidden from the sight of the regular programmer, but it's there and it's part of the language, none the less.
You can get decent Android phones like the T-Mobile Pulse Mini for £79 now here in the UK, on PAYG.

Or you can spend a little more - £99 - and get an Orange San Francisco with an OLED display and capacitive touchscreen.

The prices have really come down over the last few months.
1991: Toshiba adds the first colour screens to laptops. From here on, portable PCs become more than work-obsessed business tools, and begin to pull double duty as entertainment machines.

http://toshibalife.com/featured-articles/25-years-laptop-inn...
This has nothing to do with socialism. Socialism is totalitarism and we are talking here about sharing.
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You seem to understand this, but it's hardly that I'm advocating tolerance for dumb/mean commentary, but rather galled by the hostility towards healthy skepticism.

We probably agree more than we don't. I might as well drop this albatross since I don't have any real conclusions to draw or ideas to advocate.

Back to code.
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I presume there's no info about what kit they're actually using in there? I'm guessing it's not XServes?
Additional hints in this environment:

1) Get a mini-hub for you desk: "To plug a Mac in for web testing" works well.

2) Keep it in a messy part of your desk, with lots of network cables, one of which goes under your desk to a spare computer, which you liberated "for testing" from IT.

3) Most desktops will fit on top of one of those under-desk draw things, and still let you push it under the desk, where no one will notice it.

4) Virtualize! VirtualBox is your friend. Suddenly you have 4 linux servers in your windows-only development environment.
Sony is not one company but more like multiple subcompanies working under the same brand. A merger with Apple would ruin both companies.

I have a hard time imagining even a close cooperation between the two. Apple always wants to control the entire value chain. Apple TV running on Sony TVs? Not likely.
I mean the lack of fine grain the search.
If you believe web apps to be superior to desktop apps then yes, you have a leg up.

However, this is content creation - and if Adobe develop this product, they will have workflow integration with Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator etc which you won't be able to match. Much of the world still have slow upload speeds, so uploading assets sucks.

How will this webapp work, if its SaaS then that's a monthly sub whereas you can just pay Adobe a fixed fee?

What if I want to work on my html files, css files, and other components with my own asset management system / source control which is behind a VPN on a company server - I can't integrate that with your SaaS.

I hope you're releasing as a standalone web app I can buy and download - I don't want to invest in a content creation tool which I have to rent and could disappear.

Sometimes desktop apps are much better than web apps, and I believe this kind of tool to be one of them. I am slightly biased though because I am a big fan of the desktop app!
which pronoun should one use ?
What I love about bloom filters is that when checking to see if something is in a bloom filter, you can only get false positives, not false negatives. That property is just awesome to me.
http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12468
Nice architecture!

The point is that Google AppEngine datastore, Clojure, and Javascript all work very well with key/value data so exploit that to drop the use of frameworks.
I hope this means that Adobe, too, have accepted the fact that the world would be a better place if we replaced Flash with something more scalable, instead of sticking to the hodge-podge mess of a closed, backwards compatible proprietary runtime draining my battery at the rate of a stormwater pipework that is the current Flash plugin.

Adobe still has lots of genuine value to leech from their design tools, even if they eventually targetted HTML5 and other new technologies. I hope they won't kill this development in its infancy.
Font rendering is horrible (at least on linux), you have to try various l&f before finding one that is "acceptable", etc.

It's a great IDE, general usability is certainly better than Eclipse (it was meant to be an IDE as opposed to Eclipse which is a platform with an IDE built on top), but personally, font rendering was a deal break.
Locks only keep honest people out.
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I'm the same, currently just have 3 though - om.gd - we.gd and whi.im - things planned for all of them, but am also interested in getting something going with them sooner than latter. Very interesting the money some people are making from links and basic content... hum...

Tempted to work up some decent ideas into ebooks, and have sites specific to each - just making sure they don't look spammy/rubbish. No point if they do.
That's why I'd set up https://static.example.com as well or use a CDN that already allows me to serve my static media over HTTPS. Once again, nothing to do with RoR.
Sadly, this is the one piece of the operation about which there doesn't seem to be a flood of rumors, let-alone informed ones.

Being Apple, could they possible have a joint announcement planned for both the facility and for a total makeover of XServe line (emphasizing GreenPower, price-wise farm-suitable servers). Would it not be embarrassing for Apple to stock the place with a non-Apple product? At the same time, would it not be absurd to risk the success of a data center this size on an (relatively) inefficient, second-rate hardware config?

Either way, it should be an opportunity for a huge Apple PR event.
From Mountain View to San Francisco, there are dozens of startups that have gotten funded in the last 9 months. I'd be willing to be there will be another 3-4 dozen that get funded by the end of the year.

The vast majority of those startups are Web/Mobile/Social/Gaming startups. Take 100 startups with $500k in the bank looking for one two three (web/mobile/flash) developers and you have a rough idea of what the hiring market is like in SF. Add Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, Yelp and Google starting to compete more heavily for engineers, and you'll start to see why recruitment is going to get a lot tougher in the next year or two for startups.

From Mountain View South to San Jose and in the East Bay, the startups have traditionally been more hardware/silicon oriented. Those industries have been consolidating a lot, and those companies have been laying off people. It's people that come from those industries that have gotten laid off.

The 60 minutes episode talked about the San Jose area, and if you read the article [1], it primarily talks about older workers who were in PR, office managers, personnel, etc...

All that to say, is that after we get funded, we're going to be staying in San Jose. Office space is cheaper, housing is cheaper. It's a lot easier to get around by car. There's parking for less than $20/3 hours. And, there's a lot of experienced talent that's looking for work.

ref:
[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/21/60minutes/main6978...
Ah, cool - Javascript is a very plausible language for mobile development.

Actually, it seems a bit crazy that Android and iPhone don't provide 'rapid prototyping' or 'script apps' using the Javascript interpreters they already have on board.
It's just that everyone knows more about their own trade than others.
My Dad's an automobile engineer and he thinks it's kinda funny that I do not really understand how a 4-wheel drive works...and I find it funny that he doesn't get why his computer hangs much more than mine (I use Linux :P )
"I do wish, though, there was more willingness in the OSS community to push the boundaries of UI..."

We kinda did: http://www.suckless.org

Sometimes you have to move backwards to move forwards...
How is tagging any more laborious than saving in directories?

If I save to /home/user/Photos/Christmas/2009, then treat each one of those as a "tag."

If later I navigate to /home/user/2009/Christmas, I should see everything "under" that directory.

The point is that the hierarchical system filters too early. I want to see everything under a directory without having to drill down and filter from there.
Or San Francisco can be forced into a Chapter 9 bankruptcy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_9,_Title_11,_United_Sta...) like and for the same reason Vallejo, California was in 2008.

Bringing "benefits into line" will likely require breaking contracts, which is one of the utilities of bankruptcy.
Einstein is basically consider to be the stereotypical genius in pop-culture; it's not so much the details of his work that's important to the weirdness here, but that he is widely known for having been brilliant. (Consider common phrases like, "I'm no Einstein, but ...") The fact that he is unfamiliar with Einstein is like being unfamiliar with King Tut or Mozart or George Washington; at least in the US, you'd expect most people to recognize the names, even if they might not remember all the precise details about them.
Let me re-iterate, he's speaking for 731 million people in 50 territories. So what constitiutes "a lot", plucked from bad_user's thin air.

Lets have a look at some actual figures

"Android's share of the UK mobile contract market has grown from 3% in Q1 2010 to reach 13.2% in Q2 2010, GfK Retail and Technology's latest figures have revealed."

http://www.gfkrt.com/news_events/market_news/single_sites/00...

UK Android Sales Up 350 Percent This Quarter

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/uk-android-sales-up-350-pe...

Holding back ?
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Thanks, I'm aware of couchsurfing (and airbnb), but I'd rather host other hackers this time.
But, that could just mean Digg spotted somebody else was gaming their system and they stopped it.
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Interesting study.

Why don't you share this on your own blog/site? You can refine and add links it as you go.
BSP trees blew my mind when I discovered they were under the hood of Doom. This was back in the era of 386 and 486 PCs.
am I the only one who thinks JDK 7 (for OSX) will be released by Oracle when Lion is launched?
at the end of last year they released JavaME 3 for osx. so it wouldn't be that far off
Sidetrack: "ramen profitable" finally, a reachable goal for my start-up.
My issue was this: when I have set the ocacity/trasnparency of an element, in IE6 it did not effect the child elements, which was a real pain to fix. I also had very hard time with aligning elements on top of each other and avoiding CSS rules that behave differently in IE and non-IE browsers.

TL;DR: Doing animations in web applications is hard for all the wrong reasons.
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
I am an EE student but with a lot of interest in CS . I personally am no big fan of C,despite the fact that most of the courses are in C . It is kind of cool when working on compilers or embedded systems but for anything else I would any day prefer something like Python or Haskell - the speed of development and the fun involved being the two main reasons.
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Seems more like a marketing strategy to me. Even newer and unrelated technologies would now be sold under the "Qt" banner.
Why hasn't any VPN StartUp used the PR Hype of Firesheep to promote itself?
There should be several already existing VPN StartUps that enable me to tunnel to their gateways, when i am using public WiFi.

Shouldn't the Startpage of HN be filled with Promotion and Comparision Blogposts?

DIY: Do you know any you would recommend?
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I actually get downvoted for saying blasphemy like this:

"Actually there were no HTML5 stuff shown in the demo, I can code those effects to work with IE6. In fact that demo may even work in IE6 if you would include some hacks."

I mean does this sound mean?
I usually get a month of out of 4 AA's. It's very power efficient...
Fingers crossed, though I rather suspect they will keep this schtum (especially if they've gone non-apple).

Alternatively, I might just be full of Mac Mini Server boxes — but I wouldn't bet on it.
So there's plenty of room to choose, isn't? ;)
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Let me give you a handle on how big (physically) this farm is: half a million square feet, with another half million they're planning on building.

In comparison, the Boeing Everett plant, where they manufacture half the world's airliners, is 4.2 million square feet. That building contains, IIRC, four production lines.

The Apple server farm, when finished, will be the size of the Boeing 747 assembly line.
Answer: Have Morgan Freeman read it.
I receive a lot of downvotes for "well formed" comments too. The only thing that bothers me is that people downvote them and do not specify the reason, it's like they don't care, they just there to downvote. If I do not include any of my bluntness in a comment it annoys me that people just mark them as bad and don't reply to them.
Ridiculous: Speculation of an Apple Acquisition Drives Sony's Stock Price Up
I'm actually in China right now, on a due diligence trip to check out factories. I'm normally based on the West Coast of the US.

Visit manufacturers in the US (or other developed countries) to study how they do it. Then, go to China and evaluate the factories yourself. You have to see the factory.

If you don't, many times you won't discover that the "manufacturer" you're working with is nothing more than a trading company, taking a cut.

They won't take you as seriously if you don't show up.

You should make follow-up visits afterward to monitor QC. Have rigorous QC methods and standards, and agree to them beforehand.

Also, consider countries such as South Korea, which are more sophisticated manufacturers than China currently but still offer significant cost savings. It depends on the complexity of your product but it may make sense. Labor is much more expensive in Korea though compared to China.

I can answer any other specific questions people have.
Just when I was about to start working on Gnome, they announced it's demise.