skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Carmack on iOS development and concerns re: Android Marketplace
i(j) squared is -1 if we're talking about complex numbers and 1 for split-complex numbers. Each is an interesting class of numbers.
It's not because Node.js is a new thing. It just that JavaScript is a client language, why would use it on a server anyway? Use the appropriate language for your projects and in this case it's Erlang.

EDIT: For all those Node.js zealots, thanks for downvoting.
I don't know where they determined the entries on this list, but I'm 100% sure that A List Apart is running on PHP/MySQL via the ExpressionEngine CMS (http://www.expressionengine.com)... which then makes me wonder how credible the other entries are.

Edit: I did a little digging and it looks like they used to be on RoR but switched over sometime in mid '09... so I guess that explains the mistake.
Research your MySQL table sizes
Social Networking: The Past
mentioned multiple times a) it is not clear that there was no intent beside personal benefit and b) it is not clear where the line between personal and business is if your business is schmoozing.

This is not to say this is absolutely positively an instance of either of the above, merely that it is too ambiguous and unclear to not come across poorly.
Since moving a host to another IP address practically requires temporarily setting a low TTL (which may have been what actually caused the DDoS), creating an entirely new domain with a high TTL is a reasonable (albeit desperate) attempt to reduce the load on the authoritative nameserver. I doubt it's a lack of technical knowledge as much as it is lack of resources in what amounts to a perfect storm (hot potato content, inherent DNS weakness, scalability during surge of popularity, etc.).
Under the bad he lists:

When you sign up for Viber, they send
a push notification to everyone in your
address book who has already signed up for
Viber. I’m not sure it’s right to call this a
privacy issue, per se, because it’s only sending
notifications to people whose phone number you
have and who have your phone number, but I’m
opposed to any service that sends notifications
to others on my behalf without my consent. And
there is no way to turn this feature off.

I'd say it is a privacy issue per se, because it is NOT true that everyone whose number I have in my address book has my number. There are people in my address book who I am careful to only call from my office phone, specifically because I do not want them to have my iPhone number. I also have numbers of people who I have never called from any phone, and who do not have my number. I have them there for certain emergencies.
I think it's partly a problem with organizers not paying enough attention to the community aspect of conferences. There are talks and there's sometimes lunch, but a lot of socializing happens too. I think it works better when organizers plan after-conference events or talk with those planning them and make sure they know what's going on and that responsible people will be there the whole time.

People who are going with the flow of a conference often want to stay up and hang out until 10 or 11 and meet people, and it's not difficult to organize or get local companies to organize events that go that late, like hack fests. People who decide to stay up later, well, at that point they're not going with the flow of the conference. Hopefully they know what they're doing. And if they don't, and something bad happens, of course the offender should be blamed.

I just don't think having to wing it should be a normal part of a conference experience.

Edit: I realized that I've only been to small (<500) conferences. It still seems like bigger conferences could have evening events, but they might be trickier to plan. Perhaps having a few evening events that are announced and that the organizers can vouch for would be a solution. Also I don't think it's all-or-nothing; the more well-organized activities there are that fill up the evenings, the less chance of something bad happening at a poorly-organized evening activity.
I don't know if I'm "awsome" or not, but is this bioinformatics thing... what ever it is, for real? Or it just a few enthusiast having fun learning? (Nothing wrong with that, it's just not something that would dislodge me form my "for reals" big corporate bioinformatics dayjob in the North East.)
Prison rape is absolutely a major problem in the UK as well. This seems like another red herring.

Here's a very telling example:

According to Shaw’s report, prisons are failing to conduct investigations. His comments are made in an official report into the case of “Mark”, a 21-year-old man with Asperger’s syndrome, learning difficulties and a history of self-harm, who was remanded to Altcourse prison in Liverpool in 2007. It was recommended that Mark, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, be remanded into a psychiatric unit, but there were no places available.

Despite his vulnerable nature, he was placed on a wing with sex offenders and was allegedly raped by a cellmate who had attempted to assault him several weeks earlier. He attempted to throw himself off a prison landing shortly after the alleged incident and is now in a psychiatric unit.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the language.
I have karma to burn so mod me down as much as you please, but for the record this was not intended as a sarcastic comment either, I was trying to see exactly what this "monitoring of social media" actually implies beyond my stated example.
It doesn't appear that there's actually any new filters... just new buttons and new ways of interacting with them.
That's one of the best ways to say "I've used this product" I've ever seen.
It's always going to be possible to come up with some circumstance the author didn't foresee or insulate themselves from that might mitigate the specific facts they're using to promote their idea. But who cares? That's a nerd message board game.

The question is: is taking someone's business card under the auspices of a business inquiry and then using it solely for your own personal reasons unprofessional or not? The answer (I'll go out on a limb here...) is: yes. It's unprofessional. Interesting point, blog author! Thanks!
I suppose I should bite the bullet and get an economist subscription for myself.
A follow up would be great. 0.2.3 apparently had a file descriptor bug which could be the cause of this.

http://twitter.com/#!/ryah/status/10748819335553024
Stanford SNAP's Twitter Dataset for Download: 476M tweets from 20M users
Point taken. It's possible to coerce VS into being a cross-platform IDE, therefore it's not "worse than useless" in this case.
I'll probably skip this one. I wonder, am I missing something or does appsumo not link to any of the sites? I can never find any links, I have to search...
To the extent that home has intrinsic value, the homeowner is saving. To the extent it gains value against the dollar it transfers wealth from non-homeowners. In fact this is the express goal of the current Fed policy.
However, per [3], a subpoena is required which, unless I'm mistaken, does require a judge (and therefore due process).

Also, it would at least be a common courtesy for the government to acknowledge receipt of the request and that they intend to follow through. Instead, the DoJ did not respond, per Wired.

While I do greatly appreciate the detailed insight, I stand by my original point.
Proof is in the pudding. Here are your showcase NOLOH sites:

http://www.noloh.com

http://www.ecrimetools.com/

http://www.theprotectornetwork.com/

http://evolve108.com/#/section=home

For comparison, here are some websites put together by companies that ycombinator has funded, and which, I believe, are html/javascript without the middleman.

http://heroku.com/

https://posterous.com/

http://dailybooth.com/

http://www.justin.tv/

http://www.songkick.com/

http://www.scribd.com/
I met Gary in 2001. I didn't actually know who he was until about 2 years ago after I met his mother Janis briefly and a friend pointed the meeting out. He seemed like a fairly jittery guy at the time, but overall a nice chap (as far as the London 2600 crowd went at the time).

Much of the resistance like many things is not borne out of rational cold hearted logic, such as the kind that permeates through tptacek's comments. It would be great if we had directly comparable systems where we could guarantee that a US citizen would not be sent to Cuba for hacking if we (the UK) wanted to extradite them and vice versa, but the fact is we don't. The guys doing the extraditing are not the same guys handing down sentences, therefore they're not necessarily going to be able to guarantee a deal.

The bottom line is that Gary did some very stupid things, has admitted to them and deserves to serve some time for those things. I don't think anyone can dispute this, not even him or his mum, as lovely as she is (she's just trying to help her son, what mother wouldn't?). The question is where it gets served, for how long and under what sentencing guidelines.

In the UK this is fairly clear. Gary would be sentenced under the Computer Misuse Act, plead guilty and face close to the maximum amount of time permitted under UK law (which would probably see him free tomorrow).

In the US this is less clear. Is this an act of vandalism? Terrorism? Espionage? Is he ideologically motivated? Is he the same as Al-Qaeda? All of these uncertainties cause problems. The inability of the Americans to say, "If he comes here, he will be given X" is the biggest stumbling point. I'm not trying to say that tptacek is right or wrong, I'm not trying to say that the extradition is right or wrong, I'm simply highlighting the common aspects of the sentiment towards his extradition. This is a man who is clinically depressed and is a suicide risk even here, let alone when faced with the uncertainty of gitmo (unlikely but possible) or a long term espionage sentence with no parole.

Ultimately I think he should serve time, the question is under which juristiction and which law. If the US can lay it out and say what they're going to go for I think it would go a long way towards cooperation.
There are sites that don't offer a full page version but do offer print versions- WashPo comes to mind though I know some other sites do it as well.

I think in cases such as these linking the print page is fine- you can argue we should support the originator with ad views, but then I'd argue they should fix their site and offer a single page option.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, gonna look into it. Agreed, shocking - but much less common than in US.
Minor pedantry note: I think you mean OTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Telecom_Platform), rather than OLTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLTP).
Random thought:

Many company and developer blogs? Hosted on completely different technology from their main web sites. Maybe not even hosted on their servers, but instead with a service - like this one.

Maybe we can avoid the increasingly stale snark about <web technology mentioned in blog post> not working so well when a blog post goes down under heavy load.

Doubly so when it's a freakin' iPad app, not a web-app being talked about.
Micros (which are what you get on the free tier) are only available as EBS-backed instances.
True. The written no-harassment policy should also address such things as hand-kissing of maidens after rescuing them.
probably the same issue that Belgium has, banks with a lot of PIGS-bonds.
The reason web devs do this is so that their format doesn't break when Safari tries to make the text much larger than intended. Depending on how you laid out your elements, mobile Safari can render your (non-mobile) site completely broken if you don't set this CSS value, as it doesn't respect your font-size values by default, making text elements take up much more space than intended in the design. Often, it's seen as a better option to make mobile users scroll horizontally and vertically than to render the site like crap with elements spilling out of their boundaries.
Oh but it is otherwise people would be using JS to move robots.
JavaScript isn't a "client" language - it's a language designed to be embedded in a host system, which is exactly how Node.js uses it. Server-side JavaScript has been around since Netscape Application Server back in the late 90s.
One Nation Under Surveillance - Oxford University Press, 2011
Untangling Skill and Luck [pdf]
just use http://viewtext.org/
couldnt attackers then grab your EC2 dashboard cookie and possibly compromise your EC2 instance ?

I mean if you need to login there first via an unsecure session, its not really that much safer
The license is BSD.
> It just that JavaScript is a client language

No, JavaScript is a language, it's been used on clients and servers for quite a few years now.
What? That second sentance is a non-sequiter....
Even worse, the New York City authorities missed the opportunity to tax the filming:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/070108_moftb_adopts_r...
Having worked in retail for a number of years, I would always feel bad after seeing an item go on sale after I helped someone purchase it the day before. I know a lot of consumers would like this, and if I worked at BestBuy I would probably tell my customers to use it.

Does your app look at price drops of competitors? If I buy something at Best Buy and Staples sells the same thing cheaper, will I be notified? Do the notifications stop after the 30 days or however long they guarantee the price for?
Mobile messes up the lean startup seed funding economics
I don't think you'd be very happy if the imap server crashed, a random user restarted it running as them, and then logged all the passwords entered...
What I Learned From Side Projects
They are: http://www.ros.org/news/2010/08/javascript-for-ros.html
From original comment: "I've been involved in startups for the last 9 years (the last 4 as a technical founder)."

He read the last part as the last 4 companies instead of years. FWIW that's also how I originally read it.
For game development at least I've found that a 10 minute phone interview with simple 'these are things you must know or I will not hire you' questions works wonders for screening. I like to think of it as a bounding volume check for the position you're interviewing for. It's simple, and if you're not intersecting at this level there's no way you'll be intersecting at the more detailed levels.

This works because game development is relatively specialized and there actually are things that I expect anyone claiming to be a game developer to know.

Stuff like basic linear algebra (What can you use a dot product for? What can you use a cross product for?) and simple data structure do's and don'ts (What's one advantage of using an array over using a linked list?). Throwing in a few simple domain specific questions for the position their applying for works well too (I wouldn't ask a network programmer to tell me something about shaders, but I would expect a graphics programmer to be able to talk about them for a few minutes)

Some of the questions are designed so that there are lots of right answers, and some of them impress me more than others. For instance, if you mention that an array is generally more cache-friendly than a linked list and you can explain why when I ask you, you get bonus points.

If they do well on most of the questions then follow up interviews (phone or in person) are in order. Occasionally someone will nail all the questions, I tend to get excited when this happens.
I picture Jack Nicholson in this role.
Celebrity Hairstyles
http://aahairstyle.blogspot.com/2010/11/he-hopes-that-stars-are-trendy.html
Where's WikiLeaks? The "infowar" is on as site hops servers
But the EC2 login should be via https, although I'm not 100% sure that is actually the case.
The "insurance" torrent contains all of the (unredacted) cables and other damaging information in encrypted form. If Wikileaks can't keep their site up, they just might release the password.
So you're saying she's asking for it?
I'm sure that there are at least 10 - 20 different trackers, though, that are tracking this torrent. If they all disappear, more will pop up.
Of course not. We can open bugs... and then the bugs are left to rot.

Like the Arabic text input, Portuguese dictionary, imap folder support...

The last one with hundreds of comments and no word from google for half year.
I find point 3 (OOP Rules) an interesting conclusion. It seems like there is a greater push towards data driven game development and component based entity systems that have a more functional or procedural feel than OOP.

It seems that people are moving towards a set up where the processing is handled by globally available managers and GameObjects are instead contained across multiple Component types.

That's not to say you can't build an component based system in an OOP language of course.
Has Google jumped sides in copyright war?
Wait, what? How do you know that? Are you making an inference about the absolute numbers, or the per-capita? And how does it apply to McKinnon, who isn't going to end up in high-security prison anyways?

(Note that McKinnon is destined for federal prison, not state prison. With very few exceptions, incidence of sexual misconduct in Federal prisons is much lower than in State prisons, which themselves house the majority of violent offenders).
Take a look at quaternions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion) where ii == jj == -1, but i != j
It's about any women (lesbians and non-lesbians alike) not actually being harassed, but rather just running around trying to enforce their own agenda on the world. My bottom line is this - if I say something to someone and did not mean any offense/harassment, did not consider it to be offensive/harassing - and someone else still wants to cry about it, then f-*ck them.

I guess in the particular case of the particular lesbians I mentioned above - they seem to be looking/seeking to find something, anything, that they can hold up as harassment and persecute the shit out of someone. That's bullying in my book plain and simple.

UPDATE: Maybe I'm ascribing too many personal motivations for their behavior - all I can say that many/most of loudest voices in the Drupal community regarding all things 'harassement' are lesbians. At the very least they have a hair trigger response and get set-off by comments that their straight counterparts do not.
I don't know about Soviet Russia and Soviet Communism, but I think the latest China-bashing is the inevitable backlash against the "China ascendant" and "Chinese Century" hype of a few years ago.
contact me @roder to talk about the performance. There was a bug in 1.0 on the iPad app that didn't keep the line up with your finger. Now in 1.0.1, which is in the queue for approval, that has been resolved. Hopefully the network stuff was ~ok~
Your single paragraph summary was immeasurably clearer than her entire rant. Yes, under those exact circumstances it is both unprofessional and stalkerish.
I've got a Milestone. The reason I haven't rooted it is that I don't want download and run a possibly trojaned ROM off some guy from the internet.

I would like to pay a company for access to regular updates to Android on my phone (as long as there was QA to make sure my phone was supported).
There are daily, updated releases of the cables available to date. There is not, as far as I know, a torrent of the entire dataset (it is being released piecewise). These torrents are trivial to find on google, etc. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=wikileaks+cable+torren...

There is also a torrent of the "insurance" file, but no-one (publicly) knows what that contains.
Actually, there's barely enough for a single person.

"Payload & Payload Bay: 500 lb (227 kg), 7 ft x 4 ft (2.1 m x 1.2 m)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37#Specifications
...and it's quite clear that using it on the server is not that efficient compared to other languages that were designed to run on the server. The article proves that point.
The purpose of charging fees to own a domain is to ensure that they are allocated optimally. Sure, fees are a crude way to achieve this, but they are also a relatively inexpensive and they generally work. If domains were free, squatters would just start registering names in sequence. Personally, I feel like the fees are too low and encourage speculation as it is. They should go back to the $100/year levels for second-level domains. Perhaps they should open up some very inexpensive ($1-$2/yr) tertiary domains.
Scientists learn about fear by scaring rats with Lego "Robogator"
A small minority of men cause the vast majority of the problem. Unfortunately it doesn't take many to create a real problem.

I recall a study which found that among the IT community only 3% of males make unvanted advances to women. But because the share of men to women is so lop sided, the women experience a near constant stream of unwanted advances.

I think there might have been an HN discussion abou this... And a few men in traditionaly female dominated professions, like nursing, might have shared similar experiences.

Or I am mis-remembering it all.
you could dynamically generate a lot of this list using http://isitrails.com (a list apart shows not rails)
Interesting that this is out of the MIT Media Lab, since the Minority Report interfaces were based on earlier work there by another guy, who has since spun it into the spatial operating environment g-speak (oblong.com).

That said, I'm super into the fact that the extension is open source and the technology is available for others to build spatially-aware interfaces. Really, really cool work that I know I'll want to check out further.
People have been trying this since the beginning of DNS, especially back in the 90s when domain names were expensive.
Your argument is completely valid for this community, people who like to go off the reservation and run their own applications, code and OS.

However, the big draw of an iPhone is that it is a managed device, not a full-fledged computer+phone. Anybody who really wants to root their phone should get an Android device, the overarching purpose of an iPhone is to take away this control for the type of stability a casual user needs. It's totally counterintuitive to want to have complete user control of a managed device.

Furthermore, the issue of carriers not updating phones is an issue anyone who doesn't root their phone. It's like saying your car can get double the mileage, but you have to pull out the transmission by hand to install a clutch.

I made my parents get a Mac so I didn't have to keep fixing their BIOS. I'll be damned if I'm going to drive 370 miles to re-flash their phone after Android gets buggy and slow due to background processes. (They dig their feet into the ground, and will simply not learn about this.)
It means the average direction of the wind, which is an important factor in many places.

Of course this might need to be combined with an average windspeed to get a better picture of what the wind in a certain location is really like.
Lesezeichen: Firefox Add-ons
The video is missing how the plane itself looks like. Otherwise, amazing!!
I think the point is a reasonable one, if overly specific. A programmer who does no outside reading on his profession will be ill-equipped to do research when the need arises, and is more likely to want to be spoon-fed easy problems and cook up naive solutions.

While Programming Pearls is a reasonable test -- akin to checking whether someone has a classics background by asking a question about Moby Dick -- it should be acknowledged that everyone has some holes in their background, possibly even glaring and regrettable ones. A better question might be, "Describe a favorite clever hack and where you read about it."
Harassment is not simply unwanted attention: agreed. However, this is not sexual harassment:

"A presenter had a title slide followed by a slide of bikini-clad women holding laptops, which he said was just to get people to pay attention."
the language has very little to do with efficiency or suitability for server / client side.