skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take your point. However I assume Reid meant "a few" anyway and the 7 +/- 2 was just to frame it. It doesn't really change the meaning of the statement either way.
"On Facebook they don’t have spam. Why not? Because, unlike Google Wave, only people who I’ve friended AND who friended me back can send me messages. That’s how Wave should have worked."

I guess that depends on your definition of spam. To me, reminders every minute of what an acquaintance is doing certainly IS spam.
I think you're misreading the list -- black-hat SEO is on the list of vulnerabilities that are specifically not included.
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Please find anyone who has finished in 2 years in Australia. I know of exactly one person who finished in 3 years. 3.5-4 years is considered a "solid pace". A little less than half the students who started their PhDs at the same time as me (who didn't quit) are still working on theirs 8 years later (albeit part time).
He smashed in sales because of all the other ways he's set himself up for success. Patrick has a multi-pronged approach to his business, where even if some of his efforts fail he can make a pretty buck.
The list of developers, with their respective number of commits, as of Nov 1 2010 [1][2]:

Total commits: 15811

Michael Meeks: 2493 (15%) <-- single most impactful developer
Rene Engelhard: 1429 (9%)
Jan Holešovský: 1233 (8%)
Thorsten Behrens: 510 (3%)
Caolán McNamara: 10 (0%)
Jesús Corrius: 9 (0%)
Sophie Gautier: 1 (0%)
Olivier Hallot: 1 (0%)
Cor Nouws: 1 (0%)

André Schnabel (not in git)
Charles-H. Schulz (not in git)
Florian Effenberger (not in git)
Italo Vignoli (not in git)
Christoph Noack (not in git)
Claudio Filho (not in git)
Davide Dozza (not in git)
Leif Lyngby Lodahl (not in git)
Peter Pöml (not in git)
Jacqueline Rahemipour (not in git)
Daniel Stoni (not in git)
Thomas Krumbein (not in git)

some notable members who apparently did *not* leave Oracle:
Kohei Yoshida: 1612 (10%)
Noel Power: 1574 (10%)
Tor Lillqvist: 1203 (8%)
Petr Mladek: 1048 (7%)

[1]: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/

[2]: http://www.documentfoundation.org/develop/
Good, but I wish Google would have (and would continue to be) more serious about 508 accessibility. The accessibility issue has cost them numerous state contracts in California, though they did finally start producing VPATs this past year. If I were the government here, may be able to make an argument that Google hasn't fully vetted its products for 508 compliance, which is a requirement for winning most federal software/web contracts.
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Which I think is a pain, and why I think their goal here is honorable.

Most places I've worked spend weeks trying to get you licenses or trying to remember how to set up every little path in your IDE or whatever so you too can start coding. It's a waste of their time and mine, and a waste of money.
Disagree strongly. At risk of sounding too metaphorical, death is the greatest enemy of the human race. It represents the loss of unique and worthwhile personalities, and places a strict upper bound on mortal human achievement.

Of course we'll have to deal with the sociological and economic ramifications of that in the scope of limited resources. But it is entirely appropriate to rage against the dying of the light.
I'm a customer too, thanks to zaidf.
Other companies will pay for bugs. Mozilla has a bug bounty too; a 12 year old kid just took $3000 for finding a stack overflow in document.write(). There are also other 3rd-party bug buying organizations; iDefense is one of them.

The prices are not competitive versus finding illicit markets for vulnerabilities (as I understand it, it's not that there's one "Russian mafia" that will pay you 3x what Mozilla will, but rather than exploits can be repackaged for multiple illicit buyers). Selling to Google or Mozilla doesn't require a reliable exploit, though.

These figures are also a pittance compared to what companies pay for professional assessment work.
Impressive list of improvements. Can't wait to update.
We know a lot about how a lot of different mechanisms of aging works. Although I agree, he very likely doesn't know which ones are and aren't in play in this case either.
1. Agreed. Should probably engage users first. Will work on that.

2. I wanted to keep their info confidential and just show the demographics based on info provided. What do you think I should show? Should I even include "Meet the ladies" link?

3. Just testing the idea out. So for now, Paypal only, yes :)

4. To an interested user, I think confidentiality and a guarantee that someone will actually spend the time to fully study his question and respond thoughtfully (small monetary incentive). Moreover, the questions we are getting tend to be longer and very detailed. I don't think Yahoo Answers users will have the patience to study the question carefully and take the time to repond to every issues raised.

5. Good point. I will include some examples.

=> Any thought on pricing structure?

=> How about scalability, do you think take-off here is simply dependent on sheer number of users?

Thank you for your feedback.
Hey bravura,

Do you mind elaborating your process of hiring remote workers for short term gigs? Do you make them sign NDA agreements?

How do you make sure they are not abusing the code that you give them?

Thanks
I don't think anyone's making the claim that she will live forever (or even more than normally).
You're making a joke, but this whole story does suggest that it might be good strategy to send a few "red flag" passengers along with the actual terrorist that is careful to appear as a "conforming" passenger. false positives hide real positives.

it does make you wonder to what extent such decoys have been accounted for in the overall security strategy.
Agree. This guy seem to have a bad case of confirmation bias (1). The question was "What role did the Internet campaign play _in convincing you_ to hold this rally? Don't pander" (2), not if it helped to make it possible.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Biased_interp...
(2) http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/30/cnr.07.html
It's worth noting that the video/talk also provides a fairly good crash course on Clojure.
The best part of every OpenBSD release: the release song.

http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
I would guess that the point of Amazon's pricing tiers is so they can say "look, you've already getting a discounted rate" and not waste time negotiating with each customer separately.
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We ought to be able to design a perfect programming language and correspondingly flawless framework, but somehow reality always gets in the way.
Ah ok, I took that from the 'we' in the title.
Pictofigo...say it with pictures (free)
Because one of the largest contract purchasers, the government, limits their options to one solution, the ecosystem is really small for alternatives. Once this is opened up, there is increased potential for more options to arise. Having Microsoft being the only option is artificially retarding innovation and options.
Yes, I get what you're saying.

Risk was possibly the wrong word, I meant it in the sense that people come to think that reviews, documents and meetings are the only way to keep the company 'safe'.
This will be a curious trend to look at next year after the iPhone is available on Verizon in the US.

The iPhone also seems targeted toward a tech-savvy buyer who is not price averse. I see Android handsets on outdated software being offered as free phones, and of course available on multiple carriers.

The underlying tone of all these comparison stories is (I think) about the leading platform in terms of development and market share. Which user is likely to spend more on apps over time? The user who had no problems laying down hundreds of dollars for a premium handset (and likely upgrading multiple times), or the user who got into a much cheaper handset on a lower budget carrier? You could argue it both ways, does saving money on the handset equal more budget for apps? Or are users who won't pony up for the premium phone also unwilling to pay 2 or 3 bucks for some games and fart apps?

Does anyone know the numbers on 'premium' Android handset sales figures?
Doh, you're right. It's late and I'm being daft. Thanks for that :)
Corresponding posts on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/dzl1o/and_like_that_po...) and Hipmunk (http://blog.hipmunk.com/32180170)
I'll know whether we have an interview with YC tomorrow. :) Interviews are held in a couple weeks.
I didn't understand the question. I was thinking it was a survey or something. Well, if anyone's interested, I'm always looking to connect with PHP developers and front-end people who are passionate about social applications :)
"They don't understand, for example, why the guy who was trained to fix John Deer tractors can't readily switch to servicing a fleet of Kubota tractors without taking technical courses on the new product and changing out some tooling. These things cost money that may not be made up by a short term savings on capital expenditure."

They do understand, that is the reason for standards that you could enforce as a mayor customer, if not on all your operations, in your primary ones. It cost a lot of money to depend on just only one company that knows you can't change to their competence(monopoly cost), too.
Thank you! Design is fun. :D
Thanks tgrass.

1. Great point. I will replace them.

2. I need to rework that image.

3. Good to learn about "Risk Free". I had no idea.

4. I never looked at it from that angle. What do you suggest I say / show as far as "Who are the ladies?" is concerned? Or do I even bother? I simply wanted to share the fact that there are real "ladies" involved with the site who will be responding.

5. At this point I do not have any filters set to incentivize the right ladies. Every question asked gets emailed out to all the ladies and I simply ask them to respond only if they can relate to the question. As the user base grows I can certainly allow the "Asker" to target by demographics, etc.

=> Any input on price structure and scalability?

Thanks again. Appreciate your input.
No, it's should be an important clue for people who are not aging researchers.
"On Wednesday Colbert responded to the online campaign with a letter to Reddit users. "You have inspired me by helping untold thousands of students; with the momentum you've created, we could stage a hundred rallies," Colbert wrote. "I might just call on you."

Two nights later, Stewart and Colbert announced on their shows that they will march on the Mall."

Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/09/rally_to_...

The idea for a march to counter Beck's had little value in itself. Putting the effort and energy behind it like the Reddit community did is what made the rally happen. The March then grew into something larger than its humble internet founding.

StewartColbert:Reddit::Edison:Tesla
edit: this analogy is terrible as colbert has yet to execute an elephant. and other reasons.
Agreed. Still, I don't see why not to implement this, as it will enable me to claim my site is safer to use over wifi than other sites.
But the iPod touch and iPad are not phones, and only a subet of the iPads have the ability access 3G cellular networks. And i doubt any statistically significant number of iPad 3G users are using the device in place of a phone.
I'm really excited about this. I just requested a weeks vacation to try to get more deveopment time this month.
Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
If they're permanently toddlers, I doubt they're doing a lot of travel.
for an outsider to clearly see the structural problems that an insider can not.

This is usually only possible if the outsider obtained a lot of knowledge from the insiders, which is exactly what's missing in the article.

Also, while (sufficiently informed) outsiders may be able to spot problems, it is very improbable that they can spot "the biggest" problem, let alone reliably determining whether they did so. Claiming to be able to do that is boastful and nothing else.
Mine came up as Hiroshima...I couldn't bring myself to click "Nuke It".
That's the biggest problem with billing something as the "Next Big Thing"... no one has any idea what that will even look like, so trying to hype something as the next big thing before it is released is setting it up for disappointment 100% of the time.
This is actually a perfectly legitimate practice - there are various regulations that govern these types of single-vendor/single-product requests. Usually you have to show (based on an analysis of currently available solutions) that no product except the one named could possibly meet your requirements.

In this case, it appears that the DOI actually followed those rules and came to the conclusion that only MS could provide a working solution. Google is essentially saying in the complaint that

a) Their solution meets the stated requirements and the DOI knew about it.

b) It is unclear if Microsoft's solution even meets all the requirements (specifically the security requirements since Microsoft is not currently FISMA compliant and has a bunch of known problems in its exchange server)

therefore the justification for naming Microsoft's solution is invalid and solutions involving Google's product should have been allowed for consideration.

Since I didn't actually read the DOI justification (only Google's summary of it) and I am not familiar enough with the specific regulations that govern this sort of thing to comment on its validity, I simply wanted to point out that "naming the winner" in the RFQ is not enough to invalidate it and is not necessarily a problem if the proper research has been done.
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"With computers nowadays. . ."

I was thinking today about the potential of digital textbooks/instruction especially in subjects like math. Schools group so many students so arbitrarily that most kids are not engaged at all in their class. The teacher gives a lesson but half of the students didn't understand yesterday's lesson so they don't understand today's either, one third of the students are ready for something new.

Give every student a laptop with extremely limited internet access. Students rotate from class to class getting mostly individual help from teachers on different subjects and work on their individual progress on a web-based teaching curriculum. All Johnny or Suzy has to do each day is make progress towards his/her educational goals, stay on task, and not break anybody or anything and they can be "successful" in the most modest sense. Somebody breaks a laptop, oh well. No work is lost, it's all web based, get a new machine and move on. Smells like the future to me.
Yes, very much so; her story took place at my hospital. The way that her story is presented to us varies with who does the presenting, but no matter the spin, it's hard not to feel terribly for her and her family.

I'm not familiar with how this works abroad, which is why I tried to qualify my statement.
Red Hat/Novell/Canonical could add/change Linux features just as easily as Microsoft could add to or change Windows. The Linux community isn't just a bunch of people who are writing code for the fun of it.
Am I the only one here wondering "Why are you answering questions at all?" The Fifth Amendment still applies at the border and you aren't going to talk your way out of anything. When asked a question at the border -- IF you are a US citizen, shut up. Don't say anything. You are more likely to get in trouble for making a false statement to a federal office than to talk your way out of something. You can't be denied entry to the country for not answering questions. Just shut up. You have the right to remain silent. Use it.
Struggling to provide estimates of user adoption and hoping to get realistic numbers from someone else that you could use as a wild guess? Stop wasting time dreaming, get the app out, and get your numbers up. Don't scale until you need to, and don't sell numbers you won't live up to.
The article doesn't outright say "she will live forever," but it refers to her as "Brooke the Immortal," says her DNA is the "key to immortality" through which humans can live "at least 1000 years." If they're not trying to claim she's immortal, they're being pretty deceptive.
I find your tone very disturbing.

The point which keeps going over your head is that GA approaches a exhaustive search in which you randomly select cases to test until you've either tried them all (and wasted many cpu cycles along the way with repeated mutations) or luckily stumbled across the global maximum early (in which case you would never know if it was global).

The reason why people use it instead of exhaustive searches is because they don't care about a global maximum, or in this case "obviousness". But to say that non-obvious solutions are a strong suit of GA is wrong, and that is what I had an issue with. If you knew the solution was non-obvious, you'd have better luck randomly testing solutions without the overhead of cross-over and mutations.

I also doubt that an exhaustive search to find this 7 roach build is infeasible when today's chess engines are able to brute-force 10 steps in a matter of minutes on standard hardware. I also never "whine"d about how GA didn't work for me, so I don't know what to say about that except that it is now obvious you are trolling.
BPOS is now called Office 365.
Various super high bandwidth dod constellations (TSAT which was recently cancelled due to costs) included optical inter satellite links in space. Basically, a few gbps of connectivity dorm each satellite to the ground via rf, and then laser links in space at 10-40 gbps linking the satellites.

Not really as feasible for the ground link for a variety of reasons, but the space part actually makes sense.
I think you'd be surprised how many contractors end up suing the government (or competing parties) in regards to a flubbed bid.

This happens a LOT. The Federal Acquisition Regulations are designed to prevent exactly the sort of thing that Google is suing for (e.g., write bid requirements to functionality, not to products) -- and it is violated all the time.

They government should be sued more often, probably, to keep from violating the rules it sets upon itself.
Good Luck with that. They'll need it.
Sure, but there's a big difference between "customs agents were jerks" and "customs agents violated my civil liberties." So much of the latter happens that I'm not inclined to care too much about the former.
Does anyone know of a well-supported equivalent to FreeBSD's NanoBSD build system (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html) on OpenBSD? I've been using a FreeBSD since '96 and love how easy it is to build, distribute, and maintain NanoBSD images in any number of places (embedded firewalls like Alix, VMs that support HVM, etc). Pf is a little outdated in FreeBSD now (patchable to 4.5), and having the original would be nice.
Re: 4.

I would show profiles. Let the females write their profiles and showcase say a half dozen at a time. Additionally, I wouldn't call them "the ladies." It seems to cheapen them. If you're selling a more machismo site, see what Maxim is calling women in general these days. Realize that whatever label you use must appeal to both the men but also the women. Maybe be euphemistic, but not as vulgar as nuts and bolts.

Your prices seem reasonable. You might consider having a level which is free, receiving an answer from a newbie, where a higher paid level could get a more thoughtful reply. That would allow new users to experience without commitment.

I really want to stress that the idea looks good. The aesthetic execution is rough.
Treesaver is looking for iOS & Android development help.

We've built a sophisticated JS framework for creating adaptable page and column based layouts, and are launching this month with our first clients. We work beautifully in all sorts of browsers, but many of our clients are also interested in app store distribution.

Although the core layout is done by hosting a web browser, there is still a need for data management/sync and other features in native code. We've got a working iOS app for our first client, but need some short-term help generalizing it for our clients.

Previous press coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/business/media/11nomad.htm...
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/meet-treesaver-a-new-...

If this sounds interesting, email me at: filipe at <this hn user name>.com
Ask HN: How should i present my skill sets with my cv
Recently when applying for jobs i've come across fill in the blank type resume submission.

In the CV part I've been providing my skill sets as a list. What is the best way to list the skills with out just slapping key words and listing languages.

I start the list with "proficient in" and "excellent in". Seems thats what everyone does, and I want to stand out.

Thanks
Currently, http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=manpack shows luggable military radios. Wonder how long that will take to change.
They even dropped the reduced redundancy storage rate.

I wonder if with reduced redundancy and export to your own hardware (using Amazon's sneakernet) you can mimic the standard durability at a lower cost? Maybe too much work.
If the degree certificate is worth anything (debatable) then it should be reserved for those who gain it. Either it's worth nothing, in which case why give it, or it's worth something and should be reserved for those who have fulfilled the academic requirements.

Instead of handing out degree certs they should work out some other system to brown-nose "celebrities".
I've found that if you are going to report a security flaw to a large company that doesn't have a security team that monitors security@ your best bet for a response is to find the email of an employee, the higher up the better, and email them directly. Rather than emailing a support@ address.
rewrite: "Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to (Aging) Developing"

If they can find someone's who's telomeres haven't shortened or aren't shortening (and they haven't contracted any cancers) then there might be a chance.
The reasons his idea of immortality has an end time may be for other reasons. For example, perhaps you aren't going to die of old age but over the course of time your joints wear and can't repair themselves fully, so you wind up alive and healthy but broken. Or perhaps you inevitably accumulate CO or some other trace toxin in your bloodstream and can't get rid of it.

Immortality in his sense I believe simply means you don't die of age, but there are a lot of other ways to die.
My guess would be: not at all.
And what percentage of time is spent by regular employees not working on whatever they're paid to work on?
I don't disagree with your central point, but it's worth noting that in the UK the iphone is on many carriers and is being heavily outsold by Android phones.
Is there a site somewhere that lists which registrars are owned by enom and/or Demand Media? I want to make sure I don't unwittingly use or recommend anything owned by these companies.