skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have time and money problem. You have priorities problem. You do have time, you just choose to spend it on things other than turning your ideas into products (for one, you're reading Hacker News).

You claim that some of those projects could be done by 2 people in 3-6 weeks. So 1 person (e.g. you) could do it in 6-12 weeks.

Guess what, I've been working on my side project, on and off, for 4 years. I have exactly the same amount of hours in a day and a full-time job.

If you can't muster the energy and will power to sacrifice your other time consuming activities and focus for 3 months on finishing something, then no amount of additional time will help you. You're just not made for this game.

If you can't convince yourself that your "very good ideas" are worth a little bit of sacrifice to finish them, then why should anyone else believe that? Why would any investor believe that?
Why El Pais chose to publish the leaks
First, you don't realize how lucky you are: there are thousands of posts across the web about people complaining that their employers give them no training at all and you're basically getting 2 years of "apprenticeship" training right off the bat.

Make the most of it. It will never happen again! This is old-skool training and more companies should be doing it.

Second, your manager needs to know ASAP that you can't finish. Whatever the consequences of not finishing are, they will be much worse if it's a surprise to him at the deadline. Just walk into his office and TELL HIM. Don't sugarcoat it, just explain what's going on. I've had to deal with exactly this situation in the past month. It happens, we deal with it.

People not being able to do the work isn't new to any experienced manager, he'll figure something out: that's his job. Yours is to keep him up to date.

How bad is it in real life? In real life, not finishing a project on time can be the end of a company. I sincerely doubt you are doing anything that crucial, but you asked. Things get a lot more important when people are paying you to do them We all do shit that we "just don't enjoy" but we're paid to do them well anyway. It's not like they expect you to do this for the rest of your time there.

Don't switch jobs unless you are otherwise a fantastic candidate and you can come up with an amazing excuse in the interview for why you only lasted 6 months. And it had better be along the lines of "the boss beat me daily with a stick because I wouldn't wash his car." No, I'm not kidding.

What college did you go to that you got "do-overs?" Friggin' lucky. If we were late on an assignment, it was an automatic 50% off and got worse with each passing day (sometimes hourly).

This isn't a rant, and I'm not picking on you. I read inexperience in your post and I think you have a great opportunity you're about to throw away. Think carefully before you do.
Taubes is referring to the 20 grams above maintenance of current weight (difference between red and green lines in your graph), not the grams above what ideal weight would require. The 7 strips of bacon are needed to maintain the excess weight, not to put on more (according to conventional wisdom). His point is that weight control can't be explained by counting calories so precisely for decades - there must be something else going on. He's not being deceptive.
Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals in C/C++
Try viper and/or vimpulse. It doesn't get you all the way to vim, but it gets most of the important stuff.
Good question. I rely on my git repos to store all writing materials, programming projects, etc.

My customers usually have my work on their svn or git repos.

Also, I rely on GMail, my own getting things done web portal, my own (work in progress) consulting management web app, and Google docs. This stuff is available from any computer.

One more thing: I keep a small encrypted partition on all three laptops that contain my .ssh, .ec2, etc. credentials. I use soft links from my home directory to this encrypted partition. Hopefully if I lose a laptop then my credentials are not up for grabs.
Very interesting and in depth article, thank you very much for posting it.

Does anyone know why android chose not to use LSM or other kernel based capability enforcement? It would seem like such a hands off platform would be ideal for fine grained enforcement - allowing some amount of security to be maintained even in light of a privilege escalation exploit.
Urban exploration of NYC (video)
Ask HN: Do you hate running out of toothpaste? (My startup idea)
Show HN: Google search blacklist
Yesterday the top upvoted comment for "Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057772 was adding personal domain blacklists. I offered to build this if there was enough interest so here's a minimum viable product for Chrome (Firefox soon to follow): https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbckmoknagndlhjbeohb. Your feedback is welcome!
Tinkering as Learning
Your comment reminds me of this Calvin and Hobbes strip: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RbiRIw_w4rU/SNkssvl3KeI/AAAAAAAAAC...
Just ammonia since methane is odorless :p
Don't switch jobs unless you are otherwise a fantastic candidate and you can come up with an amazing excuse in the interview for why you only lasted 6 months. And it had better be along the lines of "the boss beat me daily with a stick because I wouldn't wash his car." No, I'm not kidding.

I completely disagree with this statement - a job needs to go both ways, and just like some companies will make the wrong decision in the hiring process, a job applicant will make the wrong decision in which job to accept. It happens. Just don't make it a pattern - because then it's an issue.
Yeah, I don't say this often because I feel weird talking about people who are effectively competitors, but, your company is broken and you should quit. There are better places to work. Drop me an email sometime; even if you're geographically (or socially ;) precluded from working for Matasano, I can put you in touch with lots of other people.
I am watching those lectures as well. I ordered the previous edition of the textbook to follow along with. One thing that really irked me was that the quality of the audio in some of the lectures was spotty. I had to turn the audio up all the way in my headphones and then it seemed to only come in on one side. I know it is a minor detail but when I think about the high quality feeds dedicated to celebrity gossip it gets a little bit depressing.

I clicked into some of the other courses and was disappointed to see that video lectures weren't available for all the courses. We really need to get to a point where all the math, comp sci, etc is available in high quality format. Another thing we need is redundancy. I think G. Strang is an excellent lecturer but we need variety for different learning styles. Still I am impressed with what MIT is doing and hope to see more of this in the future.
Lessons Learned from a year of underground markets
On a side note, it seems like people value persistence more than creativity because it's more attainable by everyone. We can't all be creative freaks like Tesla, Van Gogh, or Einstein, but we can all work really really hard at what we do. Telling someone to "be more creative" doesn't have the same effect as "be more persistent"...you either have it or you don't with creativity.

It's almost like the naturally creative are cheating somehow, and there's a quiet resentment towards them by those of us who are non-creative-but-persistent, as if we want to forget that natural creativity gives a distinct advantage that can't be duplicated by persistence alone.

I think a couple of the posts in this thread exemplify this attitude.
I agree this wasn't that technical, but it was mostly just for laughs. If you wanna see some more technical stuff I haven't posted about check out one of my youtube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JW-_s-ecE
My younger brother bought out all the 4 Loko (in bulk) from the local store the week before it was banned in his college town. He now sells it at 1000% mark up.

Legal issues aside, I'm impressed with the entrepreneurial drive.
It is rather surprising that someone attaches so much importance to being near a Dunkin' Donuts.
Did they ever add a way to make it not clear your clipboard after pasting? I know you could delay the clearing but that just resulted in randomly losing stuff from the clipboard while working, even more annoying than the original problem.
No mention of AMD fusion? Kind of a biased title for only web-based technologies.
An interesting point of this post is that Twitter is effectively about to replace RSS, and that in order to use Twitter one has to have an account with it and "follow" such and such.

But is this really true? Wouldn't it be possible to build an (authorized) interface to Twitter that would serve search results according to topics/keywords without actually creating an account with Twitter?

Something along the lines of

twitfeed.com/topics?q=topic1+topic2+topic3

I'm sure this already exists somehow?
When was that ever the stated goal of Wikipedia? Cite a source?
Detroit in ruins: the photographs of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
Aggregating and editing abstracts for a chemistry conference. Researchers entered their abstracts into a wildly broken custom chemistry conference abstract editor, which produced a file which would be sent to me. I imported the non-broken files, did my best to fix the broken ones (among other oddities, the software could write a file containing a 64 kB image, but couldn't read such a file), then scanned through for obvious typos and spelling/grammar errors (a large proportion of the submitters were not native English speakers).

Two good things came out of this experience: First, I learned a lot of chemistry (I remember asking my father, who was one of the conference organizers "so... what exactly is a Highly Frustrated Magnet, anyway?"); and second, my commentary on the abstract-processing software contributed to it not being used in future years.
Isn't it also used by Canonical's Launchpad?
A large chunk also celebrate Ramadan, Diwali, and others. No one seems to suggest that you shouldn't release software on those days.

Also, saying "you may have have time off work anyway" suggests a restricted view of the world.
You can find a few outliers (such as the usual crop of left-anarchists who want to smash governments and replace them with, um, different organizations that make people in their territories follow rules through coercion), but they are of no significance and give no cover to the sloppy American tendency to call a capitalist society with a welfare state "socialist".
I'd like to know what DID enter the public domain, more than getting sorry for what did not.
My non-technical sisters know what RSS is and use Google Reader to watch blogs of family & friends. I couldn't believe it when my sister first mentioned RSS or Google Reader, I remember exclaiming "You know what RSS is?!"

I bet if someone made a sports oriented RSS reader a whole lot of people would use it. Some people like going to <= 10 sites to see what's new but people who follow more than 10 sites would like the idea of RSS.
It's really hard to find features missing from Emacs after 23 releases.
I hate running out of toothpaste, and you probably do too!

Every month or so, I use up all of my toothpaste, and have to run out to the store to pick some more up. This annoys me every time - toothpaste is NOT an impluse buy!

I mean, I've used the same brand for a decade. I brush my teeth twice a day. Clearly, toothpaste (and all of my other toiletries) is something I shouldn't have to worry about - it should just appear in my bathroom when needed!

My startup pitch is this:

A service that would, once a month, deliver by mail ALL of your needed toiletries - toothpaste, shampoo, shaving cream, deodorant, soap, etc. These would be the products you use normally - Old Spice, Colgate, Gillette, etc. The prices would be equal to, or often less than the store prices.
It's perfectly reasonable to leave a job after six months. Hell, it's reasonable to leave after the first day if you can see that life is going to suck.

But in real life, the next person to interview you will want to know why you left so soon. If your answer is along the lines of "I was being rotated through different departments for training and I didn't like the first rotation" that person will probably not hire you, expecting that you'll leave the first time things don't go your way.

You are correct that an applicant can make the wrong decision, but that's not what matters. What matters is how he responds to making that decision.
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable is what happened? :-)

Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...
One reason: design.

I have virtually no design ability. Believe me I've tried and failed miserably. Over the years I've read a number of books and tutorials, I've tried to emulate styles and designs from sites I like, I've spent countless hours in photoshop and I've asked for input and feedback on public forums. Nothing seems to help. It takes me a disproportionate amount of time to complete a design task compared to anyone with even a basic proficiency.

When I see apps like this one and others for example, from rails rumble put together over the course of a few days I'm truly envious of people's design ability. I've lost count of the number of projects I've abandoned because of frustrations with the design.

I've finally just accepted that I was never cut out for design work, that I'm much happier and far more productive writing code. For the next project I start, I'll save enough money to hire a designer first.
There's some truth to what you say, but I think it's a little over-cynical. I know the biology/chemistry world so that's all I can speak on. In bio/chem the peer review system has flaws, but it's largely effective, IMHO. I've never seen a paper take longer than 6 months from submission to publication (I've published 22 papers) and the majority take ~3 months. There are bad reviewers out there that are unscrupulous, lazy, or incompetent... but there are also plenty of good ones and a good editor can tell them apart and adjudicate appropriately.

As to the purpose of peer review and whether it's still needed: Biology/chemistry is huge and there are probably 100-200 journals that each publish ~50 papers/month that are potentially relevant to my work. I skim them all (and use e-mail alerts to notify me of anything especially relevant) but I certainly don't have time to read them all with sufficient depth to be critical. As such, I rely on editors and reviewers to pre-screen papers and only let the highest quality research into the most-prestigious journals. The system is, of course, flawed in many ways... but, if nothing else, the competitive-ness of the top-journals "keeps the riff-raff out". With the exception of articles that are directly relevant to me, I only take a close look at papers that appear in the top ~5 journals because most of the lower-tier journals are pretty boring. My behavior is pretty typical, from what I've seen in my field.

In a perfect world I'd have enough time to evaluate everything on it's own merit, but I don't (no-one does). But if a paper has made it into a good-to-great journal, that at least means that (a) an editor thought it was interesting and (b) three or four respected scientists read it carefully and thought it was pretty good. As you pointed out, there are lots of places where this system can err, but overall it does a pretty good job and serves my needs well. It's sort of like the point-system on HN: good comments sometimes get missed, and bad comments sometimes get up-voted... but overall it's a pretty effective way to help people separate the interesting from the banal or trivial.
"Here's what happened."

A 503 error? ;-)

Hopefully the article is available soon, I'd really like to read it.
You would need to correlate that information with other type of information to be able to identify the user. As long as you take certain precaution, you should be fine.
It seems to be 5-7x faster, according to http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2010/10/macbookair_benchmarks...
Let’s End the Myth that Ideas Are Worthless
Good writeup overall, I cant put a lot of stock into things because he admittedly did not spend lots of time in the development environment. Probably more aptly titled 'Windows Phone 7 usage and development from an iOS developer' as most of the article was about usage not coding.
Oh wow, never had that problem before. I'll work on it -- in the mean time thank you for posting the cache (sorry guys!).

Edit: Apparently the maximum number of connections for a GoDaddy Linux shared hosting account is 50 [1].

http://blogulate.com/content/godaddy-503-error-service-tempo...
Step Away from the Smartphone
Marketing hogwash...

Mainframe ain't dead and won't be for long... It's quite interesting how IBM plays this game underhandedly - promoting cloud while betting strong on mainframes which ain't going anywhere.

In my opinion - the cloud is on its way to a peak. I do believe that it has a place - It's just not be all end all. Cloud is the new outsorcing.

Unfortunately there are only so many people who are capable of doing a competent job. And if you're not the company that attracts creme - then it doesn't really matter what kind of IT CDO you purchase - below its the same old gringos.
I am a developer and would love to hear about some of your ideas. Hit me up.
Hey, companies try new things all the time and then retreat when they realize that it's counter to the direction the rest of the organization wants to go. I'm willing to bet that some people felt that moving to an online sales model was a good idea. I just think that a lot more people felt otherwise.

AAPL tried to license their platform for a little while. That died too.

My point (to get back to the original discussion) is that selling $1M+/unit equipment is fundamentally different from selling boxes that cost $2K. The OP shouldn't be surprised that the price isn't listed b/c that probably indicates that the whole pricing exercise isn't a neat process and involves more $$$ that they would be willing to part with.

For a lot of other organizations, price is (very nearly) no object since they are often the only suitable customer for whole classes of product. Since they're the market, THEY set the price. If you're a Telco or CableCo, you are squarely within the market for high-end $1M+ routers. If you're a financial exchange, you're in the market for ultra-high performance OLTP systems.

Lockheed doesn't sell fighter jets to school systems. I doubt a vice principal would find it insulting that they couldn't order one via a webpage. That's what "qualification" is: determining whether a customer has a use for your product and the budget (more or less) to purchase it. Qualification isn't about making snap judgments about a customer; it's about making sure you're allocating finite sales/engineering resources across the most likely purchasers.
You didn't debate issues of any service. You tried to score points with a snarky and ultimately false comment.

(Also, apropos nothing, but because I just looked up who you are: that CRAM-MD5 proposal on your website is terribly broken; please don't recommend it to people.)
Why would you want that? Handwriting is slow, certainly slower than the keyboard iOS provides. I’m honestly puzzled why handwriting was ever a favored input method.
> Although there are better ways to accomplish what you need to do, the immediate way to fix this is to validate the errmsg parameter to make sure it only contains safe values. This means that there should be no <, > &, " or ' characters in this parameter.

No! XSS is an encoding failure. Don't try to solve it with sanitization. That leads to silly situations like users named O'Malley getting errors because you don't allow quotes in names.

Sanitization is for controlling the structure of data, like making sure names aren't a million characters long, or making sure all orders have at least one order line. It prevents situations that shouldn't be possible, that aren't sane. Get it?

"Encoding" means representing data in different ways, for instance so it can be stored/transported in a stream.

Raw string: <>&"'
XML-encoded: &lt;&gt;&amp;&quot;
JSON-encoded: <>&\"'
URL-encoded: %3C%3E%26%22'
SQL-encoded: <>&"\'
CSV-encoded: <>&""'

Same string, different representations. That's encoding.
I think Plato's "Republic" will enter the public domain next year, although legislation is pending.
Emacs 395 would be much nicer than Visual Studio 2150 or an Eclipse named after a small asteroid that hasn't been discovered yet (because, by then, all rounded-body names will have been used)
The 'public domain' hasn't been what's acceptable to share according to lawyers for quite some time now.
that and strong-ai-load-brain-state for loading brain dumps of great programmers to do pair-programming with.
Sundance Film Festival 2011 is under scrutiny
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Ideas are not important, execution is.

Everyone has good ideas, and most of the smart folks i meet have a million-dollar idea a day, and a $100M idea every month.

You're overvaluing your ideas in all likelihood.... which makes you think you're missing some opportunity. You're not, part of being an entrepreneur is selecting between multiple GREAT ideas, or pivoting between them.

In terms of risk, you miss 100% of shots you don't take....

.... and most folks over-estimate the down side risk. Save up $50k, quit your job and try for a year. If it doesn't work out then you go back to being a working stiff for another year or two while you save up another $50k and try again.

If you ask investors for money for your idea they won't give it you... you have to create something with potential, show it to them and ask for advice. If it's good they will then give you money.
Really not Hacker News material at all. Politics best left elsewhere.
No, but I hate it when my girlfriend does!

I buy my toiletries by the dozen, I never run out, I shop at Sams Club!
too bad it's not the case for many other people :)
My theory: I think people feel more like they owe the "Wikipedia Founder" (or at least would derive some benefit themselves) than some random author named Kartika.
Probably just as important for a MacBook replacement: "The introduction of Large Physical Address Extensions (LPAE) enables the processor to access up to 1TB of memory."
I did something similar. Guess I'm not a real person, either!
Thanks for sharing, good post.

While you are working on things, I got a javascript alert on your homepage:

SyntaxHighlighter

Can't find brush for: vb
5 Anti-Piracy Strategies Designed to Hurt Torrent Sites in 2011
Very detailed and entertaining to read.
"If it came out of anyone else's mouth but John Gruber, no one would care."

And why is that, do you think? His predictions tend to come true.
Normally I don't have a problem with it so I think it's related to the current traffic. I deactivated the plugin until things slow down a bit. Thanks for pointing it out.
This Month in Scrivling: December 2010
That doesn't show anything empirically.

You can lose the same weight on a twinkle diet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.profes...
Israeli innovation contributes $2.4 billion to the Massachusetts economy
I use Google Reader, because I want to know when there's new stuff on certain sites without visiting them all, but I don't like it that much. I prefer to read the stories on the web site, with its "native" formatting and whatnot. Is there a tool in any of the common browsers that will highlight a bookmark (or something like that) when there's new content on the site? I think I'd greatly prefer that to the whole business of using a feed reader. Am I the only one?
There are many grocery stores in Hyde Park -- it certainly is not a food desert.