skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's always been using some sort of tablet for his recordings. In fact, if any of them were achieved by mousing, then Khan isn't just a brilliant educator, he'd also be blessed with godly mousing skills.

What would be nice is if someone could help him out and update the older vids. As others have pointed out, the new vids have great quality. Maybe it's possible to algorithmically improve the quality in the past ones given that they're all lines.
can anybody sum up the article for those who are too lazy to read the longest version of a simple story.
I just look at this and hear a loud SNAP as the whole thing falls apart when you sit on it.
You probably don't buy much equipment.

Keep this in mind: most companies that sell to enterprise and service provider customers aren't looking to make money with their website. Their SALESPEOPLE are there to properly qualify the leads and demonstrate the value of the product.

The whole point of not listing prices is to get customers to self-qualify. Those that genuinely find value in the products as presented will make the effort to contact the company. Price is really only something that is mentioned towards the end of the sale and indicates that there is considerable room for discounting from list price.

THAT's how it's done.
So I just signed a full-time contract with Mozilla and I will be starting as a Mobile Software Engineer next week. Mostly focusing on iOS development but also other platforms.

This is quite a change for me. For the past 15 years I have been doing consulting work and startups on my own and I've always been in charge of my own time and plans. I had never really considered a 'real' job until I started working at Mozilla. That is how awesome they are.

I started working for them in August as a contractor. On the Sync client for iOS, Firefox Home.

It did not take long before I noticed that Mozilla operated very differently than most companies that I had done work for. Mozilla is all about quality and doing the right thing versus maximizing profits and keeping shareholders happy. For me that was a real eye-opener and a change that I was looking for in my professional career.

One thing that I love about Mozilla is that we work in the open. There are no secrets. I have friends at companies like Apple and they are not allowed to talk to their spouse about what they do. That is horrible. Mozilla is completely the opposite. Everything that I do is open. It is part of the mission. It is highly encouraged to share, collaborate and participate.

But don't think this is all easy. Mozilla's mission does require a lot of hard and professional work, organization, deadlines and crazy hours. But I don't care about so much, because it is fun to do that, and because you know it is not to make your CEO rich when they IPO, instead you do it to make the (digital) world a better place. Different mission. Different kind of reward.

I've been working in Toronto office and at home since August. Together with great people from a team distributed over Mountain View, Germany and France. We meet on IRC, email, and phone conferences.

I've also been to Mountain View to participate in the quarterly work week, where all Mozilla people from all over the globe get together to meet and to get stuff done. Pretty awesome to get almost 300 smart folks together.

I personally don't think money should be the biggest motivator, but the compensation is excellent. Competitive salaries, good benefits, lots of perks. Mozilla takes great care of their biggest asset: people.

This will be a great year :-)
I don't think the author understands that state socialism implies coercive sharing, not voluntary resource pooling.
> I've never worked on anything bigger than 10 machines or so, but is this really true? I would think the difficulty of scaling is not any kind of smooth function, but very easy or very hard depending on the bottlenecks you hit at any particular point.

You are right it's not a smooth function. This isn't just about numerical aspect, it's figuring how to get over a hump: going from one datacenter to two is much harder (not even twice as hard) than adding a rack to two datacenters or adding a fourth datacenter when there are five.

In other words, when you're at scale you have tools available to operate at that scale. When you find yourself having to scale out without having done so in the past, you have to build those tools.
Exact same thing happened to me this morning. I set the alarm on my iPhone and my girlfriend set hers as a backup. Woke up 45 minutes later then I was planning and was completely perplexed. Luckiy, I was not trying to catch a flight, just going skiing.
Thomas, I've been curious about this for the past several "who's hiring" threads: What do your devs do? Specifically the web-ruby dev(s)? Are you building a web-based security product? Is it the classic transition from consulting to product type play? Does the product exist yet? Are customers using it? How much of your business does the product represent? If these are sensitive questions, pardon me, I'm really just interested as someone who follows you here on HN.
I don't know the answer, but I presume that 40 lbs of fat requires far fewer calories to maintain than 40 lbs of lean body mass. Does the 11/cal/day/pound rule of thumb apply to fat? Muscle?
How to hire a product manager (2005)
I don't see how having "information about stuff" qualifies a website as non-polluting.

efreedom, mahalo — they have tons of information and are almost pure pollution.
Evolution of the venerable Slingshot MTB and not necessarily one that will survive

http://www.slingshotbikes.com/
If this is indeed such a big problem (I haven't really observed it myself) what I don't understand is how these sites are gaming page-rank.

In order to reach the top of the search page the sites need many incoming links. Where are these links coming from if the sites add little value ?
He's also the author of Skipfish (a fairly new web scanner), which I've been making a lot of use of the past few months.

It's still fairly beta, but already I find it to be more useful than WebInspect in many cases.
Definitely an interesting idea.

The first thought that came to mind was what happens when I disagree with a couple of items on one of these 3rd party blacklists?

Then I thought, FORK IT and make the changes you want. You could even merge in lists from other people. Github for blacklists?
My phone, 4.2.1, woke me up at 06:53 with a non-recurring alarm this morning. The alarm was set after 00:01 on Jan 1st.
NES emulator lands on Windows Phone 7, barred from the Marketplace
Just sent my resume your way, looking forward to hearing from you
Interesting perspective.

I agree with maxklein that the login help page is not really helpful to your target audience of illiterate people because of the preponderance of text. It's also reasonable that your target audience probably is not using Facebook all that much anyway.

Perhaps a more useful website would explain how to use the browser's address bar or bookmarks? Then you won't be targeting literally illiterate people, but just people who don't really know how computers works, which is a much larger group than the group that can't actually read. You could also create "advanced courses" that teach people not to use IE.

Not that something shouldn't be created for illiterate people, but I think they'll need a solution that involves more of the stack than a simple login help page, like an alternate interface for Facebook that emphasizes images (something like what we see on consoles; Wii and Xbox Live both have very visual interfaces) and has icons on the main tabs (video camera by videos, worksheet by info, etc.).
We're not talking about efreedom and mahalo. They republish other people's content (perhaps legally); this is original content.

Is this really more "pollution" than people's blogs about how they went drinking with their friends last night?
No, normal users cannot see deleted articles or their edit histories (which I think is crazy). Only Wikipedia administrators can see this information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Acces... says:

Because many deleted articles are found to contain defamatory or other legally suspect material, deleted pages are not permitted to be generally viewed. However, they remain in the database (at least temporarily) and are accessible to administrators, along with their edit history unless they are oversighted. Any user with a genuine reason to view a copy of a deleted page may request a temporary review (or simply ask an administrator to supply a copy of the page). Note that these requests are likely to be denied if the content has been deleted on legal grounds (such as defamation or copyright violation), or if no good reason is given for the request.
Ask HN: jQuery Mobile Experience
Does anyone have any experience with jQuery Mobile? Got any stories/blog posts/rants/tutorials/tips you can share?

I know it's still alpha, but I figured you guys were a good bunch to ask.

Thanks and Happy New Years to all!
Disagree on the PHP function thing.
For nearly all function names the php.net page is the top result, even when there is a C function of the same name.
Occasionally there is a w3schools or similar close to the top, but it's not like those guys have just wholesale ripped the docs.
High definition video cameras are proliferating, as well as bandwidth (which creates a demand for digital downloads). I don't think 160GB would work for too long in this scenario.
Re #4, there's a spectrum of reading and comprehension ability - it's not just that some people can read and others can't. That may simplify your problem: you can still provide instructions in text form which are useful for your target audience.

Government departments here in the UK have guidelines, I believe, about what reading level the language used in official forms should target. If you're interested, here are a few links:
http://www.nao.org.uk/whats_new/0203/02031145.aspx?alreadyse...
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=1536729
http://www.cipd.co.uk/housestyle/plainenglish.htm
An argument against an ideology's handling of a particular problem is useless unless it quotes and responds to a respectable proponent on that subject. There are plenty of Objectivists and libertarians who have written about the provision of public goods.

Winer should read PG on How To Disagree: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Thought experiment:

How many able-bodied people are there in NYC? Let's say 2 million.

If each of them had shoveled snow for 15 minutes with a snow shovel (working in shifts, let's say, as there are not 2 million snow shovels) just in the area they personally were affected by, how effective would that have been vs. what happened?
Shouldn't a concept design acknowledge physical law with at least a tiny nod towards actual application? Otherwise it's art for art's sake, not design.
What if this low quality content is able to give the answers the user was looking for when the searched? A lot of the ehow type stuff could be considered low quality to some and informative to others.
They might not look sexy, but they work, so his time is better spent making new stuff rather than redoing the low res videos.
If you record video or download video content. Not everyone does. Just because the iPhone can record 720p footage doesn’t mean everyone uses it. (My parents never downloaded a video and never recorded a video.)
I'd be curious to see your stats on hn-books as well - it always seemed to me like the "right" solution for a HN bookshelf would somehow involve contributions to the EFF, or equiv.
> Rather than having one intuitive factor (personal irresponsibility) which explains several highly correlated outputs (obesity, low income, low education), he wants to propose a more complicated theory which explains only one of these outputs.

I could go pick a bunch of correlated things and ascribe them all to "magic" or "Zeus" or what-have-you, but stuffing all the entropy into a black box like this shouldn't make it count as a "low-entropy theory".
technology is to humans as humans are to apes. Neural networks, the internet, nano-technology, robotics, etc. This is the next level.
This is still a really terrible argument. The Nexus S I have is far, far smoother and responsive than an iphone 3gs and you saw no "half baked" comments about the previous iphones.

Not to mention that you don't have to think at all about how your finger will translate: despite a bit of chop occasionally, it still ends up exactly where it should, just like all the previous iphones.

As far as I can tell, android is getting a lot of criticism for no reason other than iphones are popular. It's ridiculous, both the nexus s and iphone 4 are extremely advanced, amazing pieces of technology and people argue over some minute perceived jitter or other non-objective observation. From this, they jump to over the top criticism like "half baked," "inferior device," and "second rate."

Your Lamborghini sure is half baked compared to my Ferrari. Consumers will never like Lamborghini until they fix the feel of the steering wheel material!
facebook is going to contact you shortly because you are infringing on their trademark

I don't see how that can be. Trademark isn't like copyright and patent law. The latter are intended to protect the owner of the IP. But trademark was is different: it's intended to protect the consumer.

Thus, one may be found to violate tm law if they're creating confusion in the mind of the consumer, leading or allowing them to believe that they're using Facebook (or buying a real iPod, etc).

If Mr. Markham's site simply provides help for users trying to figure out Facebook's site, while making it clear that it is not, itself, Facebook (and he does say, at the top of the page in a red font, "this is a fan site and is in no way associated with facebook"), then he's got no problem.

It's not against the law to employ someone else's trademark. It's obviously legal to say that your product is "compatible with Microsoft Windows", and it's perfectly fine to publish a book "Adobe Photoshop for Dummies". This site is analogous to that.
If this gets upvoted enough I will build a browser plugin that does this.
You Can’t Go Home Again
Cached copy: http://www.garytaubes.com.nyud.net/2010/12/calories-fat-or-c...
The author suggests that Ayn Rand would have had no response to the question of "who cleans up the snow storm?", as if the idea of events affecting the collective simply never occurred to her. What the author claims to be a gap in her philosophy is actually a lack of understanding of it on his part. That she had responses to many common criticisms should be obvious, but a focal point of his argument rests on the false assumption that she did not.
In almost any realm it is easy to design things that are "cool looking but useless". This is all the more troublesome when one manages to deceive oneself into thinking that it is not useless and to deceive others into investing or working on it.

Something to keep in mind while you're kicking around those ideas for new startups in the back of your head.
Americans, through blatant ignorance and misuse of the term over the last few years (on both sides of the political aisle), you've ALL forfeited the right to use the world "socialism" until such time as you can prove you actually know what the word means and can use it properly.
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You've got a point, but you're going way overboard. Blind naturalism is a good first approximation for health advice, though it's obviously not an end point.

Men can conceive children into their 70s, so evolution does favor long life in some cases. We still have "modern afflictions" because evolution isn't perfect, and it isn't finished, and because there are tradeoffs in the biological design. For example, resistance to malaria comes with a propensity for sickle-cell disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease)
That would be a good idea, but they seem to do the same thing every year.
Indeed.

I recently replaced a containment relationship with an inheritance relationship.

Sometimes inheritance does make sense yet despite it being the least-bad "tool for the job", it seems awkward, fragile and ill-thought-out. You have some attributes hidden in the parent and attributes right there in the child. The idea that the ontological relationships "is-a", "has-a" etc should map cleanly to the class as buckets-of-functions-and-attributes isn't always correct and muddies the water IMHO.

I wish that there was something that worked like inheritance but was better. Perhaps a system of passing interfaces from objects to the object they contain would make things clearer and more flexible.
No probably not. At the time though I thought I needed to use them as a reference.

I made good friends with my boss though, so I probably could have used him as a reference and quit without the two weeks.
Sorry, but it's a fair cop. Social services != socialism.

Socialism is the government control of production, and it's largely dead outside of Cuba and North Korea.
Screen space is OK. However, I need to run NetBeans, web app, and DB 2. The 2 gigs of RAM is insufficient. I am happy keeping the Air for everything else and setting up the Pro for this one project.
Is anybody else holding out for the 3G compatible Air?
We currently sell a product (Playbook) that manages firewalls for large companies that have lots and lots of firewalls. Think Github, but for network security teams. That product is staffed by full-time developers (not consultants).

We are starting work on a new, totally unrelated product. Same deal: small team of full-time developers, "funded" by the output of our (considerably larger) consulting shop.

We're not at a place where we're comfortable talking specifically about what the new product is, but it meshes with our consulting services much more than Playbook does; it's a web application security offering.
I have been also a intern a remote intern and was a complete success, I also participated two times in Google Summer of Code and I learn tons of things.
This is why you shouldn't use Visual Studio 2010 for any C++ SSE development
This is fantastic to hear.
Dawghouse is an exception. I actually quite like that one. However, I don't like it because it's "pretty", I like it because it follows good design fundamentals and includes nice little touches - like js button highlighting on mouseover. It looks well-put together. I'd hire them.
This is a content-free political rant, as you'd expect from the title.
Visual Studio 2010 emits SSE2 instructions when targetting SSE1 hardware. Hopefully fixed in a 2011 update. Happy New Year!

Also affects the C++ compilers in Visual Studio Express and the Windows SDK for Windows 7
i'm surprised that a big site like Wikipedia only spends $155K on legal advice
and meat (high fat meat is great...no worries)

Wouldn't you think that seafood is more preferable than meat? It is a great source of omega 3 fatty acids and also, while cattle is usually grain-fed and/or fed some hormones, the fish would not have such an issue.

Another interesting point I came across recently is that fish may accumulate mercury in its tissues. Therefore, it is recommended to eat smaller and short-lived fish which do not have enough time to accumulate any significant amounts of mercury. Not sure about what science says, but seems logical.

Fully agree to all other points.
In his defense (despite an apparent lack of understanding of what "socialism" actually means), the author wasn't talking about state socialism, which isn't the only form of socialism.
I imagine one day technology will accelerate in intelligence so far ahead of humanity that it will simply escape out of our laboratory into the universe with the final message to humans: "Thanks, and good luck".
Valid question. There is a bug in the Android SMS app that sends your text to unintended recipients. See:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9392

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/android-still-has-horribl...

http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/31/android-bug-that-sends-sms-mes...
My biggest gripe is OS X not having working high DPI support. This really makes it impossible to use high res displays with OS X. I had to switch my 17" to Win 7 as I was killing my eyes in OSX badly. I have learnt to live with the lack of trackpad features on Windows but that's nothing Apple can't fix in a driver update - hopefully soon.
Buying wikipedia would be like paying money for an empty shell. Editors would leave, starting another service, since all the content is free to use and duplicate.

In fact there are several wikipedia clones out there which just duplicate content, with ads inbetween.
"Will code for karma points"
Was he always thin?
I find that DDG does a pretty good job of filtering spam sites on its own. That's the biggest reason that I use it.
kamloops$ pgrep -c apache

pgrep: unknown option -- c

Usage: pgrep [-filnvx] [-d delim] [-G gid] [-g pgrp] [-P
ppid] [-s sid] [-t tty]

[-U uid] [-u euid] pattern ...

kamloops$ uname -sr

NetBSD 5.99.42

kamloops$

edit: formatting.
I love the 60's fashion. lol
With the exception of "Can't miss, must catch International Flights to Australia" and one "Stayed out late drinking and have to give a major customer presentation in a strange city in precisely 4 1/2 hours" - I haven't used an alarm in 6 years. There are a lot of people, particularly after you turn 30, that basically wake up after 6 or 7 hours of sleep, and, as long as you went to bed with a personal mandate to be somewhere at a particular time, have relatively little difficulty getting up.

This is very, very, very different from when I was younger, when _every morning_ waking up was like some sleep deprivation torture - it physically hurt to get up, and I would have done everything to get a bit more sleep.

I used to fantasize about how wonderful it would have been to go to sleep in my school classroom, and then just wake up and start working.

And then I went to work at Netscape in 1996, 25% of the people had little sleeping bags and mattresses under their desk - and yes, it was wonderful. :-)
Took Christmas day off and worked the rest, but most of the staff was able to be off for about two weeks surrounding Christmas. Everyone should be back to work Monday.
They certainly did not refund all preorders -- WakeMate have held onto my $5 and claim to no longer have access to their PayPal account.
I cannot be the only person who thought this would be about the free software movement (e.g. GNU) rather than the movement towards software being released gratis.
Are you sure the Unibody Aluminum Macbook (Macbook 5,1) supports 6GB of RAM? I have this laptop and both the apple specs and crucial say it can only support 2x 2GB.
Bug causes emails to 'go missing' from Hotmail
Yes, because those blogs aren't located at drinking-with-my-friends-last-night.com, and the posts don't reference "drinking" and "friends" a combined 61 times.
You express the situation quite well here.

Are there any languages that do separate implicit delegation and type polymorphism?
It sounds good until you ask 'where are they going to put all that snow'? Can't put it on the sidewalks, cars are parked on the sides of the roads. The process of getting rid of that much snow in NYC involves industrial snow melting machines, the sewer system, the rivers, and coordination of trucks. Not so simple as getting together and shovelling out.