skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open Web Applications - Mozilla Labs demo of installed applications
That's fine, can we take back whatever government subsidies they've received as a result of this potential outcome?
The purpose of this lawsuit is to answer that question. Though I have to say that for the past 9 years, the constitution, judiciary, and legislative branches of the U.S. haven't seemed to have much influence on anything that is supposedly "needed to fight terrorism".
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The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of "administrative searches", which aren't targeted, don't require a warrant, don't require individual suspicion, and which are used to protect public safety and not to conduct criminal investigations.
Look forward to the blog post. After reading your answers, I feel like there is no excuse about finding time to do side-projects.
Is anyone here using Smalltalk for a production application? What are your thoughts on this VM?
Outlaw bridges.
SF>LA for sure

I highly recommend you grab a place on Airbnb for a few days and just spend the day checking out SF and apartments. Craigslist is a great resource for apartments in SF.

Airbnb SF search
http://www.airbnb.com/search/v3
This is a completely wrong analogy. In the original post, I said he should have used his followup to focus on what HE did right/wrong. Why in your comment has it suddenly changed to me improving what YOU did right/wrong? This seems like a straw man, that is also trying to be an Ad Hominem attack.
Talks about the founding of Reddit, the dynamic between Reddit and Condé-Nast, what it's like to become a millionaire, and how Hipmunk got off the ground.
FireFox is my main browser, mainly for the extensions (FireBug, SearchStatus, DNS Flusher, etc) and the rock-solid rendering engine. I rarely have problems developing on FireFox and having it work in Safari/Chrome.
I would love to check those out as well, if you felt kind enough to continue sharing :)
Cryonics is just magical thinking. You might as well read 'The Secret' and request eternal life from the Universe.
And no place I've seen matches Houghton on cost of living. The linked article says $1700 for a 2-bedroom apartment. My friends and I rent a 5-bedroom house for less than that.
I logged in once in regular mode, then I logged out, enough for Chrome to remember the credentials. When I go to Facebook in incognito I get the login page with credentials filled in, I have to click the login button but that's it.
That's not true. The lawsuit doesn't challenge the doctrine of administrative searches, and goes as far as to concede that full-body scans are constitutional as a secondary screening measure (for people who set off the metal detector, or who can't go through the detector, or have prosthetics, or are on a watchlist, or become random selectees).

At issue in this lawsuit is the specific question of whether an electronic strip search can qualify as an administrative search, which must balance the public interest against the intrusiveness of the search.
Here's my take on this situation and what I'd do.

1) Validate the idea. This is very easy to do thanks to the new lean startup concept. You want to make sure that YOUR idea, the solution you're providing to a problem is turning heads. Dropbox did a great job at this(here's a clip of Drew's presentation at the lean startup conference: http://en.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510).

2) Make the MVP, launch it, show it to customers/users. If you feel that you're onto something proceed to step 3.

3) Take the money, dont use it unless you really have to. You want to be really ravenous and not do crazy things with it which is really hard when you get 150k+. Perhaps the best thing to do is hire someone once you really need them, I'd probably only spend that money on employees.

Good luck with your venture!
Looking for cofounders? Forget meetups, use Github search queries
In the US we've been doing this for years.
I'm guessing for a Hasbro lawyer just to look at the brief, let alone travel out to the court, would have exceeded the $2000, especially given the risk that the other party might actually win. They probably have a minimum threshold under which they just ignore complaints and lawsuits and see what happens.
The two party system is definitely convenient, for the interests represented by lobbyists if not the electorate.

"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy."

- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

Quigley was an influential thinker and historian, and cited as an influence by Bill Clinton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley#Influence_on_Bi...
It's not ridiculously unfair because you're in the same boat as everyone who has died before.
I noticed you use Paypal for bingocardcreator.com too - aren't you concerned they will kill your account? They seem to do so a lot.
Presumably because the airlines fund the priority lines.
Articles like these make me want to say, "No, of course not, next question." Economics works well in cases like this: people will pay more for working service, which makes it viable for companies to charge more for the service if they need to do so to keep it working. Or Netflix itself will pay by collocating caches near users and not using backbone bandwidth as much. Either way, it's certainly nothing to stress out about.
I'm actually pursuing my private pilot's license so my route would be a little different than most, but here in Wisconsin we have Wisconsin Aviation which operates out of several airports and provides everything from aircraft rental for pilots to full charter services:

http://www.wisconsinaviation.com/
The Github repo has an example application: https://github.com/s4/examples/tree/master/twittertopiccount...

It's a twitter topic counter: "This application detects popular hashtags on Twitter by listening to the Twitter gardenhose."

From http://labs.yahoo.com/event/99 :

"S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data. Keyed data events are routed with affinity to Processing Elements (PEs), which consume the events and do one or both of the following: (1) emit one or more events which may be consumed by other PEs, (2) publish results. The architecture resembles the Actors model [1], providing semantics of encapsulation and location transparency, thus allowing applications to be massively concurrent while exposing a simple programming interface to application developers."

Actor model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
At Webs (Freewebs once upon a yesterday) we allow people to add custom CSS to their websites that they build on our service. To make things simpler on our end we make user-added rules !important so they don't have to worry about the cascade. That said, probably 98% of our users aren't interested in CSS anyway.
I'm an LA native, but I would vote for SF for marketing and hacking opportunities. If you were looking for weather or celebrity sightings, LA would be better, but the price you pay for that in LA is the complete lack of public transportation. That means one car for each of you, with gas, insurance, car payment, maintenance, etc.
John Doerr: Cleantech’s Netscape Moment Could Arrive Next Year
I'm with the GP, and we do better than merely saying it to the airlines: we vote with our wallets.

Given the recent comments by air industry bigshots in the UK, it appears that they're starting to get the point, too.
It's not the airlines. It's the TSA, an entirely separate organization. I've little doubt that most of the airlines hate this - it almost certainly negatively impacts their bottom line.
I wouldn't call Salvia high a high. It's more like a very intense psychedelic trip, to my knowledge, comparable with DMT and stronger than acid or shrooms. People buying Salvia as a replacement for pot are in for a big surprise :)
Chrome Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities and Updated Version of Flash
Nationality may be irrelevant, but a US border setting certainly is not. As a rule of thumb: you have drastically diminished rights at the US border.
While your premise is correct it's not always that simple. More indexes can slow down updates and inserts. A tables overall usage pattern needs to be examined before just adding more indexes. You might have fixed the 20 minute report query while slowing down some other more critical query that loaded or updated data.
I actually like the simplicity of the Linux 2.1 client a lot.

I use version 3 (I think, maybe 4?) on Windows because I find the old interface a lot more usable than the 5.0 one.
This website has a huge list: http://www.startupshiring.com/
Ditching Apache is only "easy" if (a) your blog software isn't designed around Apache-isms like .htaccess and mod_rewrite, and (b) you have time to find and comprehend the documentation for your alternative server.

Nginx is great, for example, but the docs are primitive compared to those for Apache, which has been around forever and which has spawned thousands of hints and snippets all over the web.

EDIT: At this point I should probably say out loud that for accelerating static pages it might well be simpler to get a reverse proxy, e.g. Varnish, running in front of Apache than to actually ditch Apache.
I went to college at 13 (I've graduated now, obviously), and essentially had to answer this question over and over. I went to college, without the getting drunk, without the frat (I did get to do original research, though), and without the getting laid (for the most part). I did it because I loved learning. I still do, but colleges are essentially bureaucratic hucksterism. So a lot people think I missed out -- on high school, college, everything. And I explain, I lead a pretty active life, and I got some awesome chances to do cool things. Now I can spend these years really _focusing_ on doing irresponsible and stupid things.

Why is everyone such a punk about not being able to do cool things if you aren't enrolled in a degree-seeking program?

(Also, I'm American, so all I can do is confirm people have exactly the same social dysfunction you think they do.)
This has some examples
https://github.com/s4/examples
Crawford has extensive writings at his website, and written a couple of books, and I think taught some, so he's arguably made the effort to pass his work along, in addition to keeping track of where he stands wrt mortality.
Does anyone know the througput of the largest MSSQL installation? I'm searching the web to show off a little information at work, but I can't find anything that compares.
As an LA native, I would recommend SF for your particular needs. There are a lot more hacking and marketing opportunities in the Bay Area than there are in LA. At least marketing as it's commonly understood. "Marketing" at most big companies in LA (read: entertainment companies) is a very specific and very different animal, and a marketing professional in any other industry would probably find it very limited/limiting.
I think this comment is heavily downvoted because it's all self-righteousness and ad hominem ("ignorant college students") without real discussion.

You're probably getting downvoted elsewhere for claiming global warming is a myth, but you're making actual arguments, so those comments aren't in the karma hole. Your comment here is just bile without useful content.
Version number aside, the difference in the offered functionality between mac 2.8 and linux 2.1 was considerable as well. I was merely using the version numbers to point out the difference in offered functionality.
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The Security Question
That gets back to the other part of ja27's argument "...they never imagined that they'd want to republish articles electronically...".

I'd be willing to bet that almost no print media is currently securing the rights to directly load content into the brain. They may regret that 50 years from now.
Except in the third graph of the original Gamespot piece:

> However, Kinect had no problems identifying a third dark-skinned GameSpot employee, recognizing his face after a single calibration.
NASA to research passenger jets that travel at 5x the speed of sound
Google Instant Brings Search As You Type To The iPhone
"Those who are willing to trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
More likely, they will just eliminate the option to opt out.
Reminds me of Microsoft Surface
Do you let employees leave their names in code on your web site?
What's your company or agency's policy on allowing employees to leave their name/developer comments that identify themselves in code they write for you?

Specifically on public facing applications and web sites, and I'm not talking about on a credits page, I mean on inline comments and/or script/page header comments. Is it OK for your employees to leave their names in your code?

For me, than answer is NO. ;)
Yes. Plus, the girl was happy to see a Unix prompt. What's not to like?
http://banksimple.com/
This looks really great. If it delivers as advertised will be a very nice replacement for certain classes of MapReduce jobs.
Why does it matter that Apple is a consumer-facing company? This was a blog article written for developers.

If it's "all about the apps", then cons for developers mean cons for the users, in the long term.

And then you go and repeat an argument that the blog writer acknowledges as one of the tradeoffs in the article. So it's not like the blog writer disagrees with you fundamentally, it's just that you both have different ideas of the relative importance of "stable, similar and uniform"

And he does list some benefits of alternative app stores for consumers.
The thing that surprised me about this story is she claims to have worked in publishing for 30 years and has the audacity to spout this crap.

Sadly, though, Internet scraping by print journalists happens a lot. Wired editor Chris Anderson plagiarized material for his book (or by his account, "failing to cite sources") and there used to be a regular parade of plagiarists having their stories highlighted on Romenesko, a well-known blog and newsletter aimed at professional journalists. A common scenario is copying and pasting from other news sources, but Wikipedia figures prominently as well.

Copying and pasting is too easy and too big a temptation for people with low standards, and cheaters assume they won't get caught.
Learn, Detach, Transcend
Tim and Jeff explain Shuhari, how we learn, and why agile projects are not all the same.
Four stars for that latex-gloved logo. =D
Paying for rights that you don't intend to use until 20 years later sounds like a good way to ensure that your company doesn't last long enough to take advantage of those rights.
Did you do the UI and graphic design as well?
This is an article that to me, non-designer, says nothing at all. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869728
Extended lifespans sound great if you assume you'll won't suffer some significant financial or career setback that leaves you spending 100 years eking out an existence in a slum.
And boingboing, and reddit x2, here, and a bunch of newspapers in the uk. I couldn't go anywhere yesterday without tripping over that link.

He got slammed.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine an internet stamping on a single server— for a day anyway.
Yeah, you can at least try to make the ad sound non-discriminatory: "LGBT-sensitive Programmer" sounds a lot better, and gets the basic point across. (Someone who's not LGBT themselves but has had a friend or relatives going through some serious issues might also make for a highly motivated candidate, BTW).
Exactly. A coastline is probably the most volatile and inhospitable location for an underwater colony of any sort. Frankly, to get an even remotely stable underwater city in place, you'd need to do it fairly deep in the open ocean -- far beneath surface turmoil and major currents. Of course, this would pose its own nigh-insurmountable problems, such as ease of transportation into and out of the colony, pressurization, expense of maintenance, expense of supply routes, self-sustainability, and so forth.

Underwater habitation is a lot further off than people seem to think it is.
Or switch to nginx, which eats keepalives like candy.
jQuery documentation is the best: http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page
This was very uncomfortable to use. It does not feel right, it looks like a poor knock off of Finder, it immediately interrupted my work-flow and sat uncomfortably on my screen (24" on spaces and a 22" secondary; I am not short on screen space).

I reinstalled the old version after about 30 minutes of use. Horrible.
If the PHP code is hosted on your server, you're not redistributing it, so the GPL doesn't affect you at all.

If you are redistributing it (you ship it to your customers and they deploy it on their servers) I would find a lawyer.
Part 3 of Simple Semantics With Microformats by Emily Lewis
Is the gem compatible with Ruby 1.9?
Is varnish a drop in fix for something like this while everything is going to hell, or is there some monkeying that has to be done to make it play nice with movable type?
I can only speak for Cherokee, as that's the only one I've used extensively.

A thread[0][1] came up recently about the possibility of including .htaccess support in Cherokee; I can't predict if it'll go anywhere.

Configuration is done through a web-based GUI (something I'd normally abhor), with wizards for all sorts of common tasks (it's only a few clicks for a working Wordpress install, for instance). The website documentation is horribly out of date for most things, however, but the mailing list is quite helpful for anything you can't figure out.

[0]: http://lists.octality.com/pipermail/cherokee/2010-October/01...
[1]: http://lists.octality.com/pipermail/cherokee/2010-October/01...
Speaking as a SF local for over ten years.

LA is huge, you have to drive everywhere, and software scene is much more fragmented there. On the other hand it's hot and sunny (if you like that kind of thing).

SF is small, has decent public transport, great food, great music scene, beautiful nature, and you can get by without a car, or sharing a single car with your fiancée. I definitely recommend SF/Bay Area. Huge tech scene, very easy to find software development work or freelance. There was a good thread with comments about cost of living around different parts of the Bay Area recently - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?aid=1824445

Before you decide one way or another, it might be a good idea to come and visit both places for a week or so and see which place feels better. You can grab a place on AirBnB cheaply or couchsurfing.org for free, should give you a chance to look around.
I am lucky to have alcoholic tendencies that are pronounced enough to be noticeable but weak enough to be manageable. Sometimes I drink more than I should. And then I do the same the next night and wonder why. If I do the same thing a third or fourth night in a week, I get really, really careful. My bedrock rule if I catch myself doing that is not to drink alone or, if I'm with someone, not to drink more than them. Luckily, when I detect a bad trend and stop indulging, I don't miss it. Not like I miss eating, certainly.

Speaking of drinking alone, is anyone else who lives alone really annoyed at the high price and crappy selection of half-bottles of wine? It's hard for me not to finish a bottle of wine when I open it. When I drink beer I typically have just one or two, but it's hard to stop halfway through a bottle of wine.
Screen readers may treat small as optional text, as it's intended as the inline equivalent of the aside block-level tag. b and i are likely going to wind up having ramifications for how screen reading browsers apply emphasis, as they now have semantic instead of presentational meaning.
Thanks for the advice. I didn't mean to sound discriminatory, but as you mentioned, I want someone who would be committed and passionate about the LGBT issues I am trying to tackle.

Of course a non-LGBT programmer who is sensitive about the issues and would be willing to promote said issues would be amazing to have on board.
Chrome and FireFox.
Just that FireFox eats up too much RAM.
I might agree for myself, but what about our wives and children? We simply can't allow it.
Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders
"Yes Monica, I have been doing this for 3 decades, having been an editor at . . . I do know about copyright laws. It was "my bad" indeed, and, as the magazine is put together in long sessions, tired eyes and minds somethings forget to do these things. But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn't "lift" your whole article and put someone else's name on it! It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of, especially on college campuses, and the workplace. If you took offence and are unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally. Now it will work well for your portfolio. For that reason, I have a bit of a difficult time with your requests for monetary gain, albeit for such a fine (and very wealthy!) institution. We put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me! I never charge young writers for advice or rewriting poorly written pieces, and have many who write for me... ALWAYS for free!"

The thing that struck me most about this reply was how perfect it is as an illustration of how not to deal with people when a problem arises.

1. When someone is angry about something you did, it is not right to adopt a breezy tone, as if you are doing some online chat with a friend. This is a disrespectful way of denigrating the concerns raised by that person.

2. The same can be said about the patronizing attitude - the "I have been around forever and know all there is to know about copyright and don't need to hear complaints from someone is an ignoramus on the topic" attitude. Even when you are in the right in dealing with, say, a disaffected customer, you never patronize in this way. It immediately causes the person to feel "shat upon," if I might use that phrase, and to react badly, even if you are correct in your position. When a problem exists, address it directly and don't play games with trying to act superior to the person making the complaint.

3. If you are going to address a legal complaint, at least make some minimal effort to understand what you are talking about. I understand that people can have philosophical disagreements about how copyright is enforced but one should not purport to make statements about technical issues of law when one has no idea what one is talking about. Here, just about everything the writer says about copyright is wrong and very obviously so.

4. When someone is already upset, you don't go about gratuitously provoking that person in responding to the complaint. "We stole your work but it really stunk and we did you a favor by writing it far better than you ever could have done" is the sort of response that must rank right up there with other classics in asinine fatuity.

I am sure there are other things wrong with this as well but this is surely a list of very obvious things to avoid in dealing with a complaint. This sort of thing is guaranteed to provoke, inflame, and escalate the problem to a point where this person will surely regret it.
I think part of the reason Skype hasn't done Skype In for Canada is due to some of the requirements the CRTC puts on telecoms here (there's some rigmarole to do with 911 and municipal taxes). I'm guessing the regulatory hassles aren't quite worth it yet for them.

It is too bad they don't have it though. I would have preferred Skype In over Vonage when I was looking for a home phone a few years ago.