skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is time to add *.github.com to the filter list. I read through the whole post before I realized it was not from GitHub, but someone who hosts on github. We do it for blogger etc, can we get github added?
Nintendo 3DS to max out at five hours of play in 3D
I strongly disagree. The App Store does not impose any DRM or copy protection on the software. Apps are free to implement their own methods of copy protection and there is a cryptographically signed receipt in every App that paid apps are supposed to check. That way, an app can verify that it was legally bought with an Apple ID that is present on the computer. As recent events have shown, Apple does not even check the apps for doing so, though.

However, there is no built-in way to prevent copying of the apps (other than in iOS, there is no DRM!). In fact, free apps aren't even supposed to check for the receipt and you are explicitly free to install your bought apps on as many computers as you own.

Moreover, Apple has officially touted the App Store to be one of many distribution channels and Apple in no way prevents you from using different channels such as packet managers, regular online distribution, self compiled source downloads, shop-bought boxed software, or whatever you like.

So, the App Store in no way restricts your right to use or install software on your Mac. I don't see how this makes the Mac 'more closed'.
2011: The year personal computing will reinvent itself
If by "cover traffic" you mean there are other users on the system then you are correct. If by "cover traffic" you mean internally generated traffic that can be used to obscure traffic between any two links (e.g. keep a fixed size bandwidth pipe full even when not in use) then you are incorrect. The former is of little value in thwarting traffic analysis and the latter is costly in terms of already limited system performance and imposes costs on participants that few are willing to bear.
Linux IQ Test
On the same basis the USA bans GPL software, you aren't allowed to export stuff to naughty countries if you are American. The GPL doesn't allow you to block Cuba so nobody in the US is legally allowed to use GPL.

This doesn't seem to led to IBM, Oracle etc stopping selling Linux. Apple put a line in it's\ EULA about only being able to use app store for non-commercial use, which is ridiculous businessmen do use iPhones and iPads
It seems like ever since the conception of iPhone people have worried that somehow OS X will merge with iOS and the desktop platform will be completely closed and therefore dead, leaving only Windows and Linux.

I just don't see it.

> But if we are to follow precedence set by other Apple products, the Mac will become more closed than ever, with the Web as our only option to access the outside world. Much like the iPhone and the iPad. As a Mac owner, the writing is on the wall, a closed computer is my future.

What's all the rage? It's an application distribution platform. You can still and will still be able to install applications of your choosing. The operating system is still and will still be largely open source (http://opensource.apple.com/). Compared to Microsoft and Windows, OS X is a paragon of openness.

Will Apple encourage people to use the App Store? No doubt. But that doesn't mean the door is closed to other distribution methods.

The fact remains that the operating system is far from closed, and there doesn't seem to be ANY indication that that will change in the near or even distant future; it would serve very little purpose as Apple does not have a commanding market share with OS X.
Also, as China is surely the least transparent nation among world powers, I think it is unreasonable to expect foreigners outside the curtain to have an understanding of what really goes on behind the curtain. The lack of transparency fuels wild speculation.
I'm actually describing a future like Douglas Adams and Tom Baker showed in the 1991 film "Hyperland," or the vision Tim Berners Lee has outlined with the Semantic web.

I definitely want that.
Pownce was floundering because Twitter basically made them irrelevant. Flightcaster hasn't been around all that long and seemed to be doing fine. It's pretty unlikely that they sold for a price that they're unhappy with.
Long Term Movement of the North Magnetic Pole
Are you looking for visual inspiration because you're a designer yourself?
While I agree with you in regards to fear mongering, the BLS has changed their CPI calculation algorithm several times since 1980, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living. See:

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

I'd be interested to hear your take on this change.
I wonder about this, too. My guess is that they are afraid people would make fake accounts and game the system, though people are gaming the system with link farms anyway, so... I think another comment that I saw on a different article had the right idea where they should use the votes that people in your social network make, that way some Spammer making a fake account and upvoting stuff won't affect you unless you are friends with him.
Currency is not a debt. Money in general is a store of value and a unit of account. You can buy things with money, you can't buy things with debt.
I don't necessarily agree 100%. I applied to Caltech. I did not have great grades, but I did have published research papers and a few open source projects. If this isn't "love of science and technology" I don't know what is. I got the thin envelope.

I do not really care anymore, but it would have been a cool experience to go to a good school.
A new place for web people to work together
Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011
Lego Compatible Case For The iPhone 4
Why Don’t the Legal Standards of Privacy for Letters Apply to Emails?
Doing the same thing for the webapp is also useful--it serves as visual reminder to QA folk that the production box (white background) is /not/ someplace they should be running test scenarios (vs. the QA box with an orange/whatever background).

Also, you can use different colors for different QA boxes--"I need blue qa deployed" or "That fix is in black qa".

(Yes, this was an enterprise environment, why do you ask?)
I do this by setting the Window Background Color in saved sessions in PuTTY. Works great! (The different colors for different machines, I mean).
It's just less fussy and more likely to be directly related to the work you might be doing. It shows, by example, that you know HTML. A LaTeX might do you disservice by getting the impression across that you're an open-source idealist - whereas an HTML CV will do no such thing.

That's just my opinion though. No doubt if some people read this they will violently disagree...
It's not just another piece of paper. You have to pay your taxes in dollars and you are forced to settle debts in dollars.
You seem to have entirely missed my point.

Of course that speeds up the code. But it reduces the Python profiler output by more than it speeds up the code. Therefore measuring the speedup by looking at the Python profiler is inappropriate.
How much seed capital should you raise
Social Media as High-Tech CB Radio
Different in scale (for now), not in kind.
We do this in a different context for our webapp work. We have three primary environments: development, staging and production. We code a contextual, 20px high, colored div at the top of our master template. It's red for development, yellow for staging, and doesn't exist in production (i know it seems backwards, but you can't really show an extra red bar in production :p ). It also somewhere we dump out some quick and dirty debug info.

I've been burned too many times when jumping back and forth between production and dev browser tabs. This simple hack saves me time, and possibly some headaches.
V. true. Sadly, those who prefer a tyranny seem to have figured this out and are assaulting all of the freedoms you've listed. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which of these liberties are currently under assault.
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This (also) parallels online games and gaming and gambling; of activities that can be addictive.

If anything, social apps are games where your users provide the incremental AIs in the game in the form of inviting and engaging and luring other users into the app. This via invites, ecards, data import functions and whatever you can do to get existing users to entice new users into your app.

Learn too from the casinos and particularly the video-gaming gambling folks, and how they keep the engagement going with sounds and noises and colors and videos.

Learn from the multi-level marketing folks and from the secret societies, too. This via opening new levels or vendor coupons (from advertisers) or granting complimentary status levels and icons, this based on data imports or size of the network of contacts or whatever. And, of course, a way to buy this status is available, too.

Know too what your target demographic really wants. Gossip? Chats? Shiny? A source of information on new technology and on startups? Find it, feed it, and particularly work to get your clients to provide what your demographic wants.

And with games such as Farmville within social sites, we go full circle.
I think it is awesome that Cal Tech is so singularly focused on academics, it shows serious devotion.

However, I think most people would agree that academics are not the only thing that matters for success, either personally or professionally.
I do exactly this as well as add a little blurb in motd saysing that this machine is production, tread carefully. This seems to solve a great deal of mistaken identity problems.
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We have and have had societies in the past where everyone got equal compensation. Do you think those societies allowed loafers to goof off all day and contribute nothing?

That's not better. If someone wants to be lazy, put in the minimum effort, and spend the rest of their time playing games that's their choice and they shouldn't be punished for it by forcing them to contribute to society to "earn" what they've been forced to receive. That cure is far, far worse than the disease.
NAT just adds a port number to your identity. And port number changes more frequently.

Anyway, if you're talking about governments (so ISPs are required to cooperate, by law), 3-tuple (IP, port, timestamp) is enough to identify you. Even more traditional (IP, timestamp) pair is enough for low-to-medium-trafficked ISPs or sites.
When private companies buy other private companies it's often equity-only. Here it's trickier because Next Jump is older and also gearing up for an IPO. It could be cash, or it could be very attractive equity. It doesn't seem like it'd have been a fire sale.
Nice to see well thought out, coherent computer science-based discussions on NoSQL presented in a well produced, informative and educational format. Great job!
I have yet to meet a single person outside SF who uses Plancast more than once a month (from the five outside SF I know who use it at all). Not sure if I'd call it viral so much as quarantined.
Much of the runtime has been developing by trying out existing code, then adding support gradually. Of course most of the code I tried out was ECMA3 compliant.

I expect to add in support for ECMAScript 5's Object extensions API (defineProperty, getters/setters) as Mug supports them internally, just as Mug already has a global JSON object. The features which could cause incompatibility with existing code is something I'd have to consider separately, so it depends when a majority of authors start writing ECMA5-compliant code (no function.callee, implicit this object bound to global, etc.)
yet food and energy are the #1 expense for most American households

No, housing is.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/age.txt

games they play with the unemployment numbers -- not including people who have been out of work longer than unemployment covers them

Wrong. You are correct, however, that people with jobs are not treated as unemployed.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed

Furthermore, for a very long period (until 1996), inflation was overestimated by about 130 bps/year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission
Isn't Oracle also working on a new JS implementation on the JVM? I saw a job posting a while back.

Found it:

http://robilad.livejournal.com/71787.html
Meetup Perks Helps Local Groups Find Local Sponsors
> Google stands to make the most money in the long run by being the preferred search engine for the most people.

Not necessarily -- if other search engines drive people to pages full of Google ads, Google still get paid, right?
Does Gartner understand cloud computing?
Ok, two things :
1) i was looking at the viral/social features (graph integration, actions as "count me in", graph discovery, sharing features, ...
2) it's surprisingly taking off in europe, but with tech savvy early adopters, true.
How? I'm experienced with spacecraft design and the like, and have never heard of Bayesian probability theory being used. If it was fundamental I'd expect some mention, somewhere.
Why I'm 10X As Influential As Ashton Kutcher On Twitter*
It's good Assange didn't wiki-leak China. Otherwise he'd be dead, not getting extradited to live in a cushy prison.
The comments are where the meat of the article is. You can also get some info here: http://tumblr.tomhenrich.com/post/2675663088/own-your-data.

I find Tantek's implementation fascinating but I think this is a good critique of it. I also agree with http://twitter.com/#!/glenda/status/24216200326152192 that the ideas of personal data ownership and permanence is one of the next big things to tackle.
It's good Assange didn't wiki-leak China. Otherwise he'd be dead, not getting extradited to live in fame in a cushy prison.
ArXiv blog
This may not make you feel better but here goes. An admissions officer at an Ivy League school once said that for every non-qualified candidate they must admit (son or daughter of wealthy alumni, or maybe legacy) - if the admission rate was 12%, they would have to reject 8 otherwise qualified applicants.

In the case of Caltech, they may have looked at your major and decided that they wanted less Foo majors and more Bar majors. All about recruitment. Either way, I'm sure someone argued your case, as brandnewlow commented.[1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=521107
Wow! interesting visualizations
Stunning content and design, wow.
1) It's not up to the engineers.

2) Google makes a ton of money from spam sites.
it should probably just try to strip ^www\d*?\. from the domain and leave everything else, rather than strip off the first component of the hostname regardless of what it is.

better to print too long a url for some than too short for things like example.github.com, code.google.com, etc.
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Yeah, it being a merger of interests rather than a strategic takeover will serve both the companies well.
There's a Chrome extension for reporting spam: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja...

No idea how seriously these reports are taken, and whether or not something like the fake Mastercam blog would be considered spam.
And why do you think Apple would tolerate spyware in their curated Mac app store any more than they tolerate spyware (ie not at all) in their iOS app store?
Actually he says the opposite:

(This isn't cheating; you aren't hurting anybody else's performance by turning on ECN for only one machine. Like magic, ECN is just always an improvement, and always fair. Nowadays, chances are that the reasons ECN is off by default don't apply to you anymore; try turning it on and feel the love.)
> Okay, then do you think that Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are stupid enough?

People don't say "follow the money" in TV shows for no reason.
Agree with the request and hence upvoted, however not quite sure how you didn't realise it wasn't officially from GitHub as soon as you loaded the page.
Or, simply have the content. Then start conversations about said content. Seriously, it's easy.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/confirmed-motorola-mobility...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/05/yousendit-buys-email-collab...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/next-jump-acquires-flightca...

Third exit by Tandem Entrepreneurs in less than a month -- ZumoDrive, Attassa, and now FlightCaster. All for undisclosed terms.
There's one thing that I really don't understand with this recent trend of Google-bashing. The lack of distinction between the scraper spammers and content farms like Demand Media. The author here lists some examples of searches that have scraper results, but then goes and talks about Demand Media without any specific DM examples. Why is that?

I'm not going to say that Demand Media content is world class, or even good, but it's a far cry from scraper-spam and I don't think it's honest to group the two.
Any chance of getting antirez for a Redis talk? I did see someone else on the future list talking about Redis at use in a company, but it's not quite the same thing.
you could use something like xtermcontrol (http://www.thrysoee.dk/xtermcontrol/) and run it from your ~/.ssh/config file per-host:

Host someproductionbox
LocalCommand xtermcontrol --bg=red

Host sometestbox
LocalCommand xtermcontrol --bg=blue
Why can't school be mostly focused on academics? It's hard to excel without focus.
1. Would prefer a non-FB/Google login

2. I can't edit ingredient or direction entries after saving them from the "create recipe" form, I have to delete them and re-enter them.

3. The font is a little over-the-top IMHO

4. Consider using hashtags or something else to make the site more bookmark-friendly and back-button friendly.

EDIT: Thought of some more things:

5. I'd like to be able to optionally have my cookbook accessible to the public via some URL (or maybe on a per-recipe basis?)

6. Mobile styles need a little work (browsing from Android 2.2, the white space for headings / lists looks cramped, text isn't big enough, etc)

7. I'd like to be able to export recipes or the whole cookbook in some plaintext format, email recipes to people, have a print view of recipes, etc.

8. This is just a random idea, but it would be cool if the app automatically formatted ingredient listings, i.e. turning "1-1/4" into "1¼", autocorrecting "t." to "tsp", "T." to "Tbsp", or something? I'm not sure if there is a standard way to do this with non-Metric cooking units, but just something I was pondering.

9. It's really easy to lose your work! No delete confirmation, info gets lost if you refresh the "add recipe" form, etc.
Here's the same for those of us on Macs and who like transparent Terminals.

http://geek.swombat.com/setting-up-terminalapp-with-tr-0
Is a Kalman filter considered a type of Bayesian statistics? It doesn't seem that way to me, but I'm not so hot at higher math.

In any case, many years ago, I worked on a radar system for a fighter plane. Its air-to-ground radar (at the very least; this was the part I was involved in) did indeed use a Kalman filter.
/Older readers know how the leading American universities, which had risen to world-class status by the 1930s and 1940s, were upended by the traumatic campus events of the late 1960s and their aftermath. Riots and boycotts by student radicals, the decline in core curriculum requirements, the loss of nerve by university presidents and administrators, galloping grade inflation, together with the influence on research and learning of such radical campus ideological fads as Marxism, deconstructionism, and radical feminism all contributed to the declining quality of America's best institutions from what they had been in the middle years of the 20th century. /

Er, what? I'm not following any of the author's points here. The introductory paragraphs read as a barely coherent rant against every major event that's occurred on university campuses since the 1950s. While I agree that not everything has been to the benefit of academics, I definitely disagree with the author's point that American universities reached their peak prior to World War 2. Pre-war, there were institutions in Europe and Britain that could match American universities; post-war, American universities were far ahead of the rest.
except when you're doing something like editing a file, tailing a log, or doing anything other than staring at a command prompt.
Nice way to work the numbers. This emphasizes the superiority of dialog over broadcast.
The problem has been out for a long time. Mahalo.com is a good example. Google will lose a lot of money if they remove them from the search results. If their engineers have been working, as you say, it's the slowest fucking project ever.

What you don't realize is that since Google went IPO, it's not all about building an amazing search engine. It's a lot about revenues and net profits. There are lots of businessmen in charge who want to make lots of money quickly, and couldn't care less about the quality of the search results.
Google Goggles gets faster, smarter and solves Sudoku
> In order to enforce contracts we must have identities.

In theory - no, we don't, except for ephemeral one-time identities which are actually anonymous.

In real world - yes, (un)?fortunately we must. Still, there's no reason to require that anyone must have one and only one identity, and this identity must be state-issued.
I have never seen anything like that in my life. I had assumed they must be some kind of purposeful artwork or something—and then I saw that the author had reproduced the same effect for himself. It was like being introduced to a minor law of nature that I had never happened to meet before.
Oh I agree, but for that you need everyone to be similarly educated, which I'd argue requires participation on the part of the citizen. Which might be impossible.

I think it's enough to provide all the basic needs so no one needs to spend extra money on survival. Given that, I get philosophical about work: I think people would contribute more to society if they had the choice of how to do so. My theory is people flourish pursuing goals when the pursuit defines their identity.

It's hard to make office work meaningful when you don't care about the business you're in. Most will settle there for needs met. The parallel is the poor farmer who loves her job but doesn't make enough money to survive.

I'd love to study how identity effects job satisfaction.
Interesting benchmark idea: run JavaScript benchmark suites through Mug then GWT, compare to original.