skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At work I'm currently part of a support team, and I use the following hardware:

Laptop: Dell Latitude D830 (over 2 years old), Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit

Workstation 1: HP Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 16GB RAM, Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise

Workstation 2: Dell Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz, 16GB RAM, Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise

2 Dell 20 inch monitors plus the laptop screen
Single mouse and keyboard - both plain Logitech models.

Software I'm regularly using:

Outlook, our internal ticketing system, Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse, Notepad++, Cygwin, Baretail, Baregrep, IE, Firefox, the products we support, various other internal tools.

At home:

I primarily use a Core i7 - quad core + hyperthreading, 6GB RAM, 120GB SSD, runs Windows 7 Ultimate.

I use a 1st gen Macbook Air for music and light web browsing, and I have an older desktop that I use as a media PC. Also a Dell laptop - 1 year old that was mostly replaced by the Core i7 desktop. I also have an Acer netbook that I use when traveling.

Finally, I also have a hosted server running CENT OS - quad core Xeon w/ 8GB RAM for hosting various sites and personal projects.
i commented out a
console.log(touch.pageX);
and now the performance in FF seems to be much more smoother? can it be? it did not even get executed? strange.
Who I am: I co-run Mandalorian.com, we break stuff and keep hackers out.

I use pretty much everything. In terms of hardware, I mostly use:

Dell XPS M1530 for day to day work. Possibly the best laptop I've ever had.

Sony SRX 51-P/B (with a Mighty 128mb of Ram and a P3-850 CPU) for home stuff. I'm hoping to move to an MBA after Lion is released and the bugs are worked out.

Mac Mini in the living room for Music, video and photo editing, playing media and browsing HN. This is plugged into a 32" Dell LCD and a Samsung HT C5500 home theatre system.

An iPhone 4 for music/everything on the go. I prefer the stability of my 3G, but it's just too slow these days so iPhone 4 it is. To make matters worse I'm mostly ambidextrous but switch between left and right hand on a phone, so I had to get a mophun pack so I could hold it in my left hand.

I use a Samsonite backback for lugging things around. I don't go to the US so I don't need to worry about TSA searches.

I also have a set of sony iphone headphones that do the job well. They're not quite sennheisers but they have an inline volume control.

I've been using a moleskin notebook for writing things down (instead of a cheap pad). It's not worth the extra to be honest but I got them on a deal. I do seem to take more care of it so I don't lose my notes.

For work, software-wise I use:

Ollydbg, IDA Pro, Immunity Debugger and HBGary Responder Pro for reverse engineering, incident response and the odd bit of vuln dev.

Nessus, Nmap, Hping, Unicornscan, Nikto, Metasploit, CANVAS, Burp Suite Pro and countless smaller tools for penetration testing.

Countless VMs with various OSes on them ranging from Linux to Windows to AROS for various purposes. As the laptop is my main system I also use f.lux. I also have Evernote and dropbox.

On my Sony laptop, I run Arch Linux with Awesome, various zenburn-type hacks and SSH. It's mainly used as an X/SSH terminal, but I also have mutt, irssi, raggle and some other console tools. I use Chromium as my main browser.

On the Mac Mini I use Aperture (although I'm probably going to switch back to Lightroom), VLC, Boxee, Safari, Chrome, GLTerminal, Handbrake, Little Snitch, iTunes (reluctantly), Dropbox and Last.fm.

On the iPhone I mainly use Mail and the built in apps, Salesforce for when I want to check up on sales, IM+ for IM, Backgammon NJ or Game Dev Story when I have a minute, 1Password, AnalyticsPro, Softphone, Facebook, Twittelator pro (for personal) and Tweetdeck (for work), Facebook, FourSquare, Sickipedia, Notifo, Prowl (with some scripts to notify me when certain things finish), Colloquy and TouchTerm, Evernote, MyFitnessPal, Train Times and Tube Deluxe.
Thinking you have a secure connection when you don't is worse. On (generic hostile network), thinking you can check your mail safely is worse than knowing you can't.
Without this syntactic sugar, monadic code rarely looks like an elegant solution.

I'm not sure this is widely agreed-upon. Here's what a program composed of pure functions looks like:

quux = baz . bar . foo

This is a function of one argument that filters the input through foo, then bar, then baz. Just like UNIX pipes, but backwards.

Now let's try it with monads:

quux = baz =<< bar =<< foo

Same thing; this is a function of one argument, one that passes that argument through foo, then bar, then baz.

>>= notation is quite elegant. do notation just makes functional programing look imperative.
There's probably no big "startup scene" here worth talking about (except may be in Bangalore) but if you are in Delhi, it'll be great to to meet you :)
Wasn't there a HN post a while back about how this is actually becoming a really big business? Reverse SEO or something like that.
"entrusted with the management of hundreds of millions of dollars and who have access to the company's financials?"

Some "professionals" have conflicts of interest.
This, except vim instead of emacs, and my desk is a surfboard that I'm currently not using (I have a big wave board and a small wave board, I'll switch out the two depending on if it's summer or winter - provides a good desk and a way to store unused items).
This was my dev environment while building FairTutor on the road over the course of the last year (Parrot shown for scale):

http://img.expatsoftware.com/blog/parrot_vs_keyboard.jpg

- Standard Microsoft dev stack
+ ReSharper
+ CodeSmith
+ TortoiseSVN
No no, he's an expert programmer that can do repetitive tasks better than a computer.
If you quote the rate, and the project takes more time, it becomes their problem; they have to pay more now.

If you quote the overall price, and the project takes more time, it's not much of a problem for them; they won't end up paying any more than they would have otherwise.
Sailing dead downwind faster than the wind. Impossible, but they did it.
How's that free SSL-enabled google maps service coming along? Any chance we'll ever see it without paying umpty-thousands of dollars for the privilege?
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I don't think this would work well. The occasional false-positives would look like annoying glitches, every now and then making it look like your account had been hijacked by hiding the buttons as if you had already 'voted'. Although maybe I'm not getting the math right?

Also, the existence of the 'saved stories' link from the user page would seem to indicate that for stories at least a full list is being stored.
I wonder how many PhDs are doing startups. I sense it's a big chunk of 'other' (+1 from me).
Well, yes. Exactly. :)
Yeah, Amex's site only lets you use 8 characters (and it's case insensitive!).
High (and I mean really high) res images
The host machine for the directory I am distributing and syncing does not belong to me and cannot be dropbox'd.

It's contract work, we don't always get to decide on our toys of choice.

I need the explicit merge awareness anyway, not blind single-source propagation.

When I say that I need a replacement for Unison, I mean that I've already searched exhaustively and found nothing beyond slapping one together with a script. I'm probably going to have to make something myself.
This is awesome.

http://hnsetups.com/interviews/13

Can you "fix" newlines please?
Broadcast.com
With a separate keitai. No, I'm not kidding. There are also iPhone cases in which you can put a FeLiCa, which kinda-sorta turns your iPhone into an RFID-enabled phone.
As someone who has "graduated uni" more times than I'd like to admit, I vote in favor of a graduate school category as well.
someone lost their cellphone and is offering $20 reward in this forest shot:
http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/64101/

(zoom right down the path, last tree on the right)
Accel Partners is obviously a top shelf group but they are still in the venture capital game. The industry in general relies on a minority of investments paying well enough to cover a majority of investments that never recoup. Since a decision to invest $10M into a company that later fails (or fails to recoup) qualifies as overvaluing an asset, Accel must be overvaluing some of their assets. In fact, on industry average, VC firms are in the business of overvaluing individual assets a majority of the time.
Question for you: would you appreciate to be able to opt-out from a site that build upon this content ? (I am currently working on such a site).
> Japanese phones can surf hacker news maybe (after printing out all of the javascript source to screen) but the rest of the web is sort of illegible on those browsers.

That doesn't make or break a smartphone. The iPhone introduced desktop-class browsing to phones in the west, but a number of westerner smartphones still have terrible browsing experience (BlackBerry OS 4 and 5 devices, Symbian stuff, etc…)
Rockmelt: A browser built to be bought (by Facebook)
Interesting excerpts, although I found this a little funny:

"I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women."
> I would probably have gotten arrested for assaulting the experimenter, myself

You keep thinking that, if it can make you feel better about yourself.

> I would expect the vast majority to comply or politely leave

That's the point: it's not the case in any way, shape or form.
Have you heard of Obscura Day?
As incompetent as the wireless players are technologically, I don't think they're in any danger.

Whether they're just the dumb pipes they should be or the vertically integrated content providers they dream of being - the fact is that they're the ones controlling the pipes. Nobody can force them to provide access for cheap.

So without government help the tech companies depend on AT&T and Co. Now if the FCC decided to open up some frequencies, then things could get really interesting. But I think for now the Telco lobbies still outgun the tech lobbies in Washington.
The only reason people are scrutinized right now is because it's a small number of people (relative to actual population) having embarrassing things archived online. Once everything stupid anyone anywhere does is online either they wont be able to find your sins for the sheer noise or they wont be able to find enough candidates who don't have similar/worse things.
It was more a general statement about the industry, so I would like to address that point: Given that none of us here are privy to most of these company's balance sheets, and as pointed out before, given our industry's history of overvaluation, I think that being critical is a much more prudent response than optimism or blind trust.
You may want to look at ShrinkSafe and the Dojo build system. While it does not create quite the compactness of the Closure compiler it does get you close without enforcing constraint on the way you write JS.

As well, if you are doing large apps with jQuery then you should take a look at Backbone. It helps organize the JS application architecture. In saying that though there really are better toolkits for large JS apps that are designed to provide the frameworks of application architecture in your app.

Dojo is the one that I use and recommend, once over the learning curve you will find that it is designed to handle large JS application is an intuitive manner and not just by making it look like Java in the browser. It exploits the best parts of Javascript while bringing in language constructs from several schools of thought to provide a very robust toolkit.

I have used most all of them and it is my choice when the webapp surpasses a certain point in complexity. I always tell people that I can save them a lot of time when it comes to JS toolkit selection and then I tell them if it's small use jQuery and if it's large use Dojo. It is meant to be slightly humorous but there is a grain of truth to it.

There is nothing faster to learn and more intuitive that jQuery but it comes at the cost of reduction in it's robustness. There are tools to address this but to me they always feel like bolt on's.

Dojo on the other hand trades up front intuitiveness for robustness. A trade off that toolkits like Closure make is to make JS more like Java to bring back some of that intuitiveness but at the cost of some of that robustness. Dojo is unapologetic a JS toolkit and uses JS concepts as first class citizens. It then borrows best of class language constructs from other areas of language progression.

Anyway, my long winded point is, if you are having issue with growth of your jQuery application you may want to give Dojo a try. Rebecca did and was pleasantly surprised:

http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/2009/11/12/dojo-confessions-o...
Hypothetical musings about the future aside, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's probably a duck? :)
According to the video posted by another commenter, those who refuse to continue giving a shock are given explaination about real experiment. And then the "victim" comes in to the subject, in a good health.
As a Mercedes it sounds like this:

"There's not much point lamenting about how your Mercedes could be appropriated in ways that you don't like.

If you are worried about that then your only option is to refrain from parking it in public places.

Otherwise the golden rule of the road applies: When it's out on the road then it's out on the road - and there's no taking it back."
Narayana Murthy unlocks his success mantras
It is common in the UK to have a four year undergraduate course and end up with an MSc. Although this probably would not count as "graduate studies". A 3 year BSc + 1 year taught MSc is generally considered graduate level though.

This always confused me, as the fourth year of many undergrad MSc courses are rather tough. They are usually preceded by a third year with some 400 level prerequisites (also tough!). This is not the case for a 3 year BSc where students are generally taking whatever courses are available to bump up their grades.
I agree, the reverse proxies are becoming a bottle neck. Perhaps we need to team up and contribute it to nginx? It shouldn't be very hard unless their architecture really does not do persistent connections at all (they currently use HTTP 1.0 for requests to a backend) ... Do you have any experience with varnish ?
The wikipedia page notes that moving the
experiment out of Yale into a local office building dropped
the 450v obedience to 48% but "was not statistically significant"

it seems hugely significant - nearly 50% reduction. Does anyone know why it's not considered significant ?
In actuality, all of his subjects resisted to some degree at some point. The crucial point is that most kept going after only a few verbal suggestions.

The transcript here is misleading. You might come away with the impression that it was what the subject said or did that ended the experiment, but it is actually the experimenter who halts it because the subject is still resisting after the fourth of four specifically worded orders. The experiment does not simply go on until the subject complies or walks away--they need only resist up to a certain point for the experiment to end. Real authority figures are not so bound.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on why Facebook is not overvalued, since you have as much of an understanding of it's financials and strategy as I do (assuming you don't have internal information, of course).

Facebook has stated that it's profits are in the "tens of millions" annually. Assuming, for ease of math, that translates to around $33 million a year, that puts their P/E at around 1000.

Their strategy seems to be a combination of ad space sales, and the sales of Facebook credits, although they've stated that the majority of their revenue comes from advertising. I'm very skeptical that advertising is the kind of business model that can meet that level of speculation.

Do you feel this is an incorrect set of conclusions, given the information culled from Facebook's representatives? Or do you feel that I've overlooked information about it's strategy or revenues? If you have information that conflicts, or adds to this, I'd be very interested, as I'm sure many people here would be.
Call it America's brainiest place to live.

I will do no such thing, CNN.

I grew up in the DC metro area. It's a horrible place, don't ever move there. Where SF has an entrepreneurship draw and LA has a fame draw and NY has a money draw, DC has a power draw. People literally move there so they can take their shot at being the best Machiavellian sonofabitch they can be. There aren't any brainiacs around there. Some very smart people, sure, but no brainiacs.
The usenet example is an interesting one, but I'd be firmly on the other side. If someone is going to the trouble of creating a new method of access (via the web), they should be rewarded for it.

> "That is basically profit-making on the back of others' work without their knowledge or consent"

I disagree. Should a paid usenet client download be similarly thought of? If you make money selling a usenet reader, should you be thought of as making money out of other peoples work?

How about a browser? Surely that's making money off other peoples work (The website authors).

I'm of the opinion that anything posted in a comment is pretty much public domain.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/09/30/rice-university-study...

quoting:

"The Rice study found that 66% of the 150 merchants responding found the program profitable, while 32% said they were unprofitable. Forty percent of the respondents said they would not run such a promotion again."

and

"The owner criticized Groupon for not putting limits on the number of coupons it sells and taking too high a percentage of those sales. “There came a time when we literally could not make payroll because at that point in time we had lost nearly $8,000 with our Groupon campaign,” the owner wrote. “We literally had to take $8,000 out of our personal savings to cover payroll and rent that month. It was sickening, especially after our sales had been rising.”
Ugh, I should've searched for this before I wrote it up, but see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881875

and an excerpt, which makes my main point, that Rockmelt is in a great position to be bought– by Facebook:

"Additionally, the Chrome Web Apps store is unlikely to support Safari or Firefox, which makes the fact that almost all of these browsers (including the latest version of Flock) are based on webkit a moot point. Standards support will be the minimum requirement to use a web app, but the real value will be in the specific technologies that these different browsers adopt and the rate at which they adopt them, as well as the way apps get incorporated into a user's browser. The 2nd browser wars have begun.

Apple understands this, which is why it maintains a Windows port of Safari, has a Safari Dev Center, and is building a huge server farm in North Carolina. I fully expect to see an Apple backed cloud apps platform, running on a Safari for an end user, next year."

because it's about browser enhanced apps and the browser web app stores.
does it mean I need a facebook account in order to sign up for the beta?
I believe they got 50% compliance at Yale, from the same format. The 92% obedience was in the format where the "teacher" is in a group of paid actors, and one of the other actors was actually pressing the switch while the "teacher" read the questions.

Watch the Youtube links from the comment above, they're absolutely amazing.
in what/which jurisdiction(s)?
title = "<something boring> in Node.JS"
Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm,  Expressed as One-Liners (1999)
Right now, you do need a Facebook account to sign up for the beta:

http://twitter.com/#!/rockmelt/status/1524230806052864
The thing I'd be curious to see is how many of the startup/site that were showcased here eventually died or thrived.
What about it bro?
Scientists doing an experiment may well use very formal speech, and it stands to reason that (sufficiently well-educated) subjects adapt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Summary_of_v...

The number can go to as much as 92.5% if the subject was not pressing the shock button but was telling someone else to do it.

It goes up to 90% if the subject sees another go all the way.

If subject is just watching it goes upto 70%.

Another interesting case, is that none continued when two authority figured disagreed[experimenters] on whether to continue the experiments.

These are just some of interesting results of the variation in milgram experiment, see the link above for more.
> I once heard somebody -- maybe Guy Kawasaki-- say "Create more value than you capture."

Google and my memory suggest it was Tim O'Reilly (of O'Reilly Media) who coined (or at least, popularised) the phrase but Guy Kawasaki rephrased it as "eat like a bird, poop like an elephant".
oh but michael, you're forgetting: facebook has all those eyeballs!
I stopped eating McDonald's burgers years ago, when I accidentally dropped one on the floor at home while taking it out of the bag. I tossed it out the window for the birds to deal with.

A week later, it was still untouched. Even the goddamn crows wouldn't eat it.

That's when I realized that the critics were pretty much right about McDonald's. Whatever those guys are selling, be it harmful or benign, it doesn't qualify as "food."
Minor remark on the quote at the end of the article:

Screenshots were available publicly therefore submitted to the public domain.

Again with the public domain? Of course that's not what the whole article is about, but I'm astonished how this kind of reasoning seems to have manifested itself.
Man that was a great read. Amazing man.
The last link in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881668 is the video that goes with the transcript in the article. The shock that is administered is 150V, which means that at least one participant (this one) did back out before the 300V level.
This is a really good explanation I saw a while back of the phenomenon. This debunker (a PhD @ Google) originally said it was impossible - and then realized he was wrong.

Initial claim of impossibility: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/12/windpowered_perpetu...

Recognition of truth ;-): http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/12/the_real_bozo_attem...
Review my project, simple, low cost WW conference calls
Been following HN for a long time but never posted.
ConfStar.com is a side project born out of scratching our own itch. As a small software consultancy we needed a simple and low cost way to make telephone conferences with our customers but couldn't find one. Either they were too expansive per minute, or didn’t have WW access numbers.
Focus is on creating a very simple UI with minimal clicks and functionality. Do one thing and do it well.
Also enables quick join via iphone / other mobiles. And downloading an outlook invitation.

Thank you for your time.
Also a good thing to talk about the 3rd party apps on facebook is the privacy....
The MeeGo Progress Report: A+ or D-?
This seems really interesting but I found the article almost unbearable to read - it seems like the author's train of thought directly transcribed. The project's website is http://www.fasterthanthewind.org/ though I'm still looking for a good explanation on how it actually works.

EDIT: do follow the link in smanek's comment. It's good. I think I've understood it from that explanation.
Eh? SSL provides security against eavesdroppers, network manipulation, etc. - it doesn't help against a malicious site that you actually intended to communicate with.
I graduated High School, but just barely, and lack of funds and a poor GPA kept college out of the list of options, but luckily by 18, I had a pretty extensive set of coding skills, so I can't say it hasn't worked out for me.

I would very much like to go to college at some point, although I would prefer to go for something unrelated to computer programming, either something related to material sciences or alternative energies, or if I ever became independently wealthy, creative writing or film.