skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt anyone that who unknowingly transmitted stuxnet expected that the system would be infected.

I also don't understand why people even use USB drives given that cloud storage is so cheap and accessible.

Throw the files on dropbox, grab anywhere, share with anyone.
and their wives too lol
I think you're absolutely right, and given the amounts they invest in customer acquisition for every new title plus the 30% Facebook Credits rake, that's all Facebook really needs.
Is there a question about the federal government trafficking in explicit images of children? While backscatter images taken individually would likely not meet the criteria required for pornography, if a private site posted them a visit from the FBI would be more than likely. All it takes is one TSA agent being convicted as a sex offender and it's off to the races.
Apple JavaScript Coding Guidelines
Thanks for that, the usability is an "epical failure", as kids today like to say.
You don't know what it does until you plug it in.
I have no control over other people nor would I want to. That brings up an interesting point, though. Would it be possible for worms to use Dropbox to spread?
Assuming you're going into a research program (MSc, PhD) rather than a professional program (MBA, MD, LLB): Focus on research. Admissions decisions at the graduate level are almost always made by individual departments, and the top-of-mind question for the person reading your submission will be "could this be a future co-author?"
Not at his level. He'll have all the tools and the manpower at his disposal to realize his dreams. It's not as though having worked at google or sold 'maps' is any guarantee for future projects to be either successful or funded. See 'Cuil'.
Thus, the irony. Thus, my comment.
Ability to pursue higher levels of the Maslow hierarchy without fear for your basic safety and physical needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs
What kind of optimization are we talking about? SEO?

If its all front-end code you see in Dreamweaver, you'll probably end up cleaning that when you do a next major redesign, you shouldn't waste time on it that you could be using to enhance your product in other ways.
I'm afraid I don't understand the question :/ My issue was with the submission title, mostly.
You need to read the link I provided.
That's not true - bad jokes also get you a bunch of downvotes. Downvoting is how you emote a groan on here.
So install silverlight. Or fire up a VM and do it there. It's scott hanselman, a smart guy and a good speaker. Even if you don't like microsoft or their platform, it worth knowing what they're doing.
“Reports of the death of the Web have been greatly exaggerated,” Mr. Beckstrom said. “It’s going to be alive and kicking for a long time.”

Of course reports are greatly exaggerated. For something like 'the web is dead', which is essentially punditry, reports will naturally trend towards being premature as the incentives for publishing are biased towards publishing early.

You don't get page views on opinion pieces if they aren't controversial. Things are rarely controversial unless they're exaggerated.

The more interesting question is not if the web browser will eventually diminish in importance, but rather if the web will eventually be eclipsed by custom fat clients.
Because they don't let you use it unless you flattr people, i.e. unless you pay as well.
The biggest advantage - unfortunately not taking effect until 2014 - is that people can no longer be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. I know several people who would make excellent startup founders, but because they have chronic health conditions like diabetes or Marfan's, they're unable to work anywhere other than big companies or academia.

Small businesses also get a tax credit for 35-50% of their health insurance costs. I think there was also a provision for low-income health insurance subsidies that may affect many startup founders, since oftentimes your technical "income" when you're getting the company off the ground is near zero.
What stock value? They aren't a publically traded company yet, are they?
The only place where the word scary is involved is the title on HN. It's not in the post that it links to.
From a quick test, the search engine is pretty bland and unexciting for normal queries, but it motivates you to make different types of queries, where it does have interesting results.

For instance, just searching for "china" isn't anything interesting, but the site is begging for you to do "china /tech" instead, where it is interesting (and also traffic in China, Maine, but nobody's perfect).
> Or did I misunderstand you?

Apparently, yes.

Nobody needs to rush, it is just that I think it is only fair that if someone completes the job they get paid and I only need one implementation, not 10. So I encourage people to collaborate rather than to work independently, but they're free to do so if they want.

That's also why I offer to list contact info for those busy on the project.

I want to protect myself from people who just go for the cash without any basic q&a because it will mean that a serious contender will not get a fair chance.
What's the best way to jump to the implementation of a symbol in vim?
The cost and inflexibility of datacenter networks
I think he meant when Galileo said that the earth moved around the sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pur_si_muove!
The longer you acclimate the wood, the tighter the joints are. You also are able to spot flaws in the wood. This is one of the reasons why people recover wood from old barns -- a farmer I worked for in high school was offered a substantial amount of money for wood in a Dutch barn built in the 1600's.

These guys are old-school craftsman who are obsessed with quality. Refreshing in this age of disposability.
Google employs the Lake Wobegon strategy:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...

"only hire candidates who are above the mean of your current employees"
The rumors and advice in the media, as silly as they were, were better than the home-grown advice that was passed from parent to parent. Don't let your kid eat fruit -- it's too hard to to see where the razor blade went in! Tell every parent on your block to pass out sealed candies only, not candy with wrappers that can be put back on after they're taken off! (Seriously, there were parents who thought it was irresponsible for honest people to pass out Tootsie Rolls and Brach's candies on Halloween, because it made it easy for killers to pass out re-wrapped poison candy.) And, of course, there were the various numbers (all made up) about what percentage of your kid's body it was safe to paint before the kid would suffocate and die.

Contrary to current stereotypes, anybody taking their kids trick-or-treating in a car was assumed to be poor, and an uncaring parent, because they were forcing their kids to trick-or-treat in "better" neighborhoods so they would get more candy.
Personal statement for...?

I presume it's for a CV, but what kind of work are you applying for? At what level?
Well, sure. But I think it's telling that the only mentioned example of a Mac app that would benefit from this "iOSization" is one that so clearly breaks the iOS walled garden model.
Surprised to hear him say he thought Wave just needed more time and Google wasn't patient enough.

Wave was brilliant, but Google definitely made the right decision there.
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Oh, it's a metacharacter?

/\meta

\ escapes metacharacters
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I thought The DaVinci Code was an execrable book, but I once read slush for a small-press SF/fantasy anthology, and most of the stuff that came over the transom made Dan Brown look like Shakespeare.
I appreciate the link, but I was looking for something more official, and more solid than Blogger Bob saying "..items smaller than the standard sized laptop should not need to be removed.."
can you explain a little more about what web projects you worked on?
Zuckerberg Vs. D’Angelo, ‘Before They Were Stars’ And ‘Where Are They Now?’
An interesting example:

http://blekko.com/ws/global+warming+/conservative

http://blekko.com/ws/global+warming+/liberal

Also, really impressive SEO stats. Be sure to check out all the tabs.

http://blekko.com/ws/http:%2F%2Fblamcast.net+/seo
I stopped using antiperspirant several years ago and just use deodorant. Yes, there is a difference. The former contains aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer's. And if you're a women who applies this stuff after shaving your armpits, you're really soaking it up.

I suspect the sexual pheromones are impaired more by antiperspirant than deodorant, so you may want to do different things for a job interview than for a date.

As far as showering, why not do it more frequently but without as much soap? Sometimes, I just do the smelly parts :-)

There are many things which are worth doing more frequently than doing perfectly. Cleaning in general is one of them. The AVERAGE cleanliness and avoiding extreme uncleanliness is far more important than getting something perfectly clean on a regular basis.
It's hard to say for sure that you could get a fair assessment since peoples' lives are on the line.

If the ladders are twice as much, but due to the peculiar electrical and atmospheric (wind) conditions in SF, could it be argued that these ladders increase the safety of the firefighters?

TCO would also have to be measured to be certain that this is worth it or not. If aluminum ladders are half as much, but last a quarter of the time… then it's arguable that the wooden ladders are cheaper.
Pretty simple, but a couple flaws:
#1 - delete should only be used on properties.
#2 - The example for inheritance is not quite right as the constructor member and the instanceof relationship no longer works as it should.
You just have to differentiate between your short and long term goals as goals often do change and often times they happen due to circumstances outside your control. It is very important to have goals for yourself. Family, friends, charity, career, etc in life to keep you grounded. It is also very good to start getting your children to set goals early on in life. You can't accomplish anything unless you have a goal of something you want to get done. Otherwise what are you accomplishing? Set the goal and then get it done!
I'm in the Emacs camp. However, vi has a certain minimalistic efficiency to it for development. Let me add that a pro might want to quit with :x instead of :wq.
Its a difficult balance...I would say if you are talking to companies, just for gauging interest, assume that you are going to have the users when explaining it to them.

If there is any way you can provide some sort of value to users without needing the businesses or the other way around that could help... or providing it free to businesses initially while you build up a user base might be the best way to go about it.
The Joys of the Edge and Dangers of Ignoring the FAT Middle
That helps if you don't have numbers, but I'm getting the padding left of my line numbers.

Is there a way to swap the foldcolumn to the left of line numbers?
Have you ever seen people/group of friends in the bar or at other social occasion, taking out their phones and start fiddling with Facebook for hours? I've seen many. On the upside, i think it does help people connecting with their friends. As much as it does, it's a site where you see your friends' photos, that's about it!
Good if you want to program JavaScript like Java/C++, but bad if you want to understand JavaScript. At first glance I did not find no mention of "functional programing" in JavaScript, it's a real shame cause that's what's JavaScript is good at. And of course using setters and getters is pointless because it will blow up in IE and unless you want to mess with the DOM, there is no real reason to use them.
Wealth (what people want) can be divided into two subclasses: transferable (money, property, ...) and non-transferable (health, comfort, experiences, memories, fame, power, knowledge, ....) People generally use transferable wealth to gain the non-transferable.

People can be classified based on their patience in turning transferable wealth into non-transferable wealth. Wealth accumulators tend to be more patient in trading on transferable wealth than wealth dissipators who tend to immediately convert wealth into non-transferable form.
On the issue of doctors. HIPPA imposes severe civil, professional and criminal concequences for leaking protected health information, standards that backscatter scanner operators likely are not required to meet because it would be expensive. Additionally, I very much doubt that the risk/benefit analysis works out. Subjects are dosed with low levels of ionizing radiation. The benefit is shorter time at checkpoints. Use of ionizing radiation is controversial. Physicians justify its use based on the specific benefit of improved diagnosis and treatment to the patient, not solely because of improved workflow.
Blekko: A New Search Engine, Where Less Is More
Google TV is aiming for the Living Room - With or Without Hollywood
Not tech/startup/business related but I just made it a goal to climb the nose of El Capitan in 5 years.
Engineers at Rocketdyne, the manufacturer, estimate the total probability [of catastrophic failure] as 1/10,000. Engineers at Marshal estimate it as 1/300, while NASA management, to whom these engineers report, claims it is 1/100,000. An independent engineer consulting for NASA thought 1 or 2 per 100 a reasonable estimate.

— Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R.P. Feynman http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...

As of STS-132 2010-05-26 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-132

Total launches	131

Failures	2

Successes	129

Failure rate:	1.5%
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Online to Offline commerce...a new payment battleground.
Willstream to address this ...but globally. Buy online from the US, Europe ...and let beneficiary redeem in the emerging markets.
Back in high school, I became incredibly paranoid about hygiene to the extent that I damaged the skin on my hands through overwashing, and was paranoid about not touching my shirt/pants after i'd been on a train, between the time when i'd washed my hands and walked to the kitchen table to eat.

At one point I realised it had all gone completely crazy, and during uni I took a conscious choice to relax, and to try and be more 'normal.' This meant observing the way others behaved, when they washed their hands, what they touched, what they considered normal. The diversity of the way people act, and what they think is clean/dirty is startling. I'm still perfecting my own middleground, and the people in this article are doing their best to reconcile so many differing ideas.

The instance in this article that people perceive deodorant-ness as cleanliness is amusing in the least, and nauseatingly smelly for the worst scented deodorants.
Tag searching. I don't remember what key combination, though - my fingers remember for me.

It's in the docs. Essential.
I've always remapped WW to save without quitting. I'm not sure why ZZ is standard but not something like WW.
So what are some things that I could do outside of Front End SEO. Keep in mind that I sell Life Insurance so the main objective of the page is to Create Real Time Leads.

Thanks,
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One of the ideas on http://failin.gs
You need a license to drive a car.

You don't need a license to write a book, publish a newsletter, to form some sort of organization and assemble, etc...

Your license can be revoke if (for example) you get too many DUIs.

Your rights to freedom of the press, expression, assembly, etc, can't be revoked.
I remapped esc to jj based on some excellent blog post I recently read and I love it. Will get the link or post how if anyone is interested.
I don't think I get it..
The slashing, is this like public bookmarks?

How will they stop spammers / SEO gamers? They say search results shall involve people, but spammers and SEO gamers are people too.
r.e. Wave, visionary != incomprehensible.
I like the project; I don't know how I feel about the name.
So then why isn't Facebook as notable as laying the first landlines across the US? Sure it's not the first time people have been communicating in this way, but by your argument Facebook is implementing the way that the current generation communicates with each other. Now there certainly are nuances to the situation; there are parts about communicating through Facebook that are richer [1] and also scarier [2] than the telephone. But if your claim is that Facebook has taken place of the telephone for certain types of communication, I fail to see how that isn't changing the world.

[1] Sending various forms of media to each other, having a historical record of communication, etc.

[2] Privacy controls, control over your data, etc.
It's a lot like privately funded research.
Needs to show the full url, not just the domain, as I use that quite regularly to filter results manually, and to exclude likely duplicates.
Given the CLI syntax we're pushing in the search box, we were looking for a novel way to describe it. "Hashtag" caught on pretty well on twitter, so we figured with the / modifier in front of what are essentially category tags, "slash tag" would be pretty descriptive. It strikes some people as being a cheesy marketing term. Not sure what to do about that though.
Ask HN: Does the concept of karma(rating of users) essential for social networks
I have the idea of building a new social website which will basically rely on user generated content and I have the ultimate debate in my mind for a quite long time if I should have some sort of "rating of users".

You may think of the idea of my website very similar to Redddit. Users will be contributing the website and the content provided will be shared among the community. In such communities what is the real purpose of having karma-based systems. I cannot think objectively.

For example:

- Does it help encouraging people to add more content?

- Does it help encouraging people to add more "quality" content?

- Does it discourage people if they encounter with negative comments?

- Does it help user loyalty?

- Is it sufficient enough to rely on such karma-based system where users rate each others content to find out the better content? Or it could be misleading?

- Does these rules apply everybody?

Please think of rating of users in every possible way. Up votes, thanks, likes, retweets.
Sony Ericsson timely releases Xperia X10 Android 2.1 upgade
OS X is a solved problem.

I think all of Apple's R&D efforts are now focused squarely on iOS and mobile. So when Apple reached into their bag of tricks for the next version of OS X and the next Mac hardware, all they had was iOS stuff. That's the new MacBook Air, that's OS X Lion.

It's convergence, but only on a purely superficial level. A Mac is still Mac, OS X is still OS X. I don't see Apple wasting engineering resources on changing the Mac into something it's not.

Real convergence will come from iOS working its way up, not OS X slimming its way down.
Which unfortunately includes my hometown in Vermont (as well as anywhere remotely close to it).

I've been stopped at border-patrol checkpoints 100 miles by driving (so shorter as the crow flies) from the border before. It's certainly "unreasonable" in the 4th amendment context.
> I generally find engineers to be more in favor of standards than anyone else

I am an engineer and I am very skeptical about standards as in those ISO, ANSI, ECMA or IEEE publish, as they tend to get convoluted, all-encompassing and generally over-engineered. I am very happy with a no-strings-attached standard that someone somewhere published that makes sense and has wide adoption.
It's like two CS guys who both have an interest in solving big problems efficiently. They have ideas. They talk to each other about their ideas. They really love working on their ideas. One of them gets a ton of research money so he asks the other to come work with him in the new lab allowing him to work on his ideas as he wants.
Why bother getting through security indeed. There are plenty of targets available to would be terrorists. Airport security has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with the self interest of bloated bureaucracy and government contractors. One of the driving forces behind the body scanners is the Chertoff Group, owned by the former Homeland Security secretary. Security measures are a money grab and mechanism for keeping people fearful and obedient, not a way of keeping anyone safe.
Its based on ShashTags and has API. I can not find how to add/edit my SlashTag via an API. Since I run a directory that would really help them, its a bit of a pain.

I do like the search though.
Wired reports that something is dead?
Surprise!
I can actually stream it here: http://edtech.rice.edu/cms/?option=com_iwebcast&action=v... - using Windows Media Player plugin (ugh!)
"... HN is based on karma ..."

HN is based on the quality of your ideas.
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Sony Ericsson timely releases Xperia X10 Android 2.1 upgrade
Why I quit Google to join Facebook: Lars Rasmussen
I'm always a little sad to see good talent go to Facebook, because I have no intention of using their products. I would rather see that talent working somewhere else.
DO NOT do it yourself first. Hire a consultant for a few hours to setup a campaign for you. Work with him to slowly get it dialed in an then take over.

You'll save yourself a ton of cash on wasted clicks.
I spent a summer in Utah and Wyoming a couple years back climbing in various spots, and have been pretty addicted to it ever since. Needless to say, I can definitely appreciate that goal!
How to balance being nimble with being productive? Scaling a company.
Now it seems to be a general consensus that working the at a small nimble company with a startup atmosphere is "our" ideal working environment. Its the environment that promotes our creativity, and allows us to work with the least amount of useless bureaucracy. If you disagree or have different preferences, please share. However, all companies want to grow up as well. It seems to be another general consensus that large unwieldy companies are not as good a place to work for conditions are opposite as mentioned above (see microsoft, google, yahoo etc). So how do you balance this? How can you balance this in a business? At some point you need more employees, but once you get too big, you become unwieldy. Its a paradox.
Look into ctags as others mentioned. Also, while over a word you can press * to jump to the next occurrence of that word. Press n for the next, etc.
They also say that they last several times as long. Considering they have a large stock to begin with spending buying a 30' ladder @ 100$ / foot vs 30$ a foot X 3 replacements works out to about the same amount of money.

http://www.duosafety.com/price_list.html
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There are examples where facebook has been the catalyst for something 'world changing' - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/business/worldbusiness/08i...

When you can connect and understand the social interactions of 500 million people, you can do amazing things.
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1. It is better to post such an announcement on Monday. Weekends tend to be quite here.

2. I couldn't get what is meant by "slash in" and "slash out" when visiting the main page.
Excellent find, those SEO features really are great, especially for free tools.