skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the killer feature is having multiple workspaces, in combination with ktimetracker keeping track of how much time is spent on each workspace for billing purposes. Each task gets it's own workspace and can stay live for months.

"Just works" is not incompatible with "being able to customize to my preference". As long you have sane defaults (which Ubuntu does), and as long as customization is not difficult (which it shouldn't be for somebody who's been using Linux for 17 years), the ability to customize is definitely Linux's major feature.

Which is more useful to people who use their computers for more than reading Word documents, granted.
I subscribe more to to relativism :)
(I'm the author of Webdis)

As antirez pointed out, there are indeed ACLs in Webdis. You can enable or disable commands using a CIDR match and/or HTTP Basic Auth. (ex: disable all write commands for everyone, but enable SET for authenticated clients on the local network).
"Accurate in no false positives or accurate in it captured it's best fit to you?"

One false positive for me - Beauty - though that's probably my beautiful wife searching.

Regarding capturing me - not close. A few periphery interests (comics - because I have Dilbert delivered to my Gmail each day?), but not one business category despite the fact that I work as a business coach, write a business blog, used to edit and run social media for a national business coaching company, and spend a heap of time on HN and elsewhere reading business articles.

I also welcomed the awareness because it made me go 'meh'.
anyone know of similar events around the peninsula? i'm in cupertino and as enticing as lunch in the city sounds, it's a bit far.
I share skepticism about what Qwiki has shown so far. But, it's unfair to assume that's all investors have seen.

The pitch was more likely of the form: "On a shoestring, we've launched this public functionality, and can show you this even more impressive private functionality, which needs $8 million to be further improved and scaled up."
Why would sending an array back for something like the Twitter News Feed not be appropriate? Am I missing something? It's a list of tweets, so wouldn't you send back a list? That is an array?
Err, well, I'm pretty sure they could have logged in via HTTPS all along by just manually typing in http://www.facebook.com
I like how "Arrays Considered Somewhat Harmful" becomes "Arrays are Harmful." Do away with those weasel words to make your title more catchy! (not link-baity, no no).
(I'm the author of Webdis)

I agree with you, and to be honest this is what bothers me the most in the current state of the project. The top point in the list of TODO/IDEAS is currently “Add better support for PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS? How? For which commands?”.

I'd be very glad to hear about a better way to implement this. As antirez (author of Redis) and kbd pointed out, Redis supports a lot more than GET/SET. How do I make LPUSH/RPUSH/SADD... RESTful?
Seems you fancy yourself an iceberg hunter. You see just the tip and you seem to know everything underneath? How about you stop knocking other's hustle and focus on yours? You have to learn to let go of this immature angst; it will eat you alive and taint everything you do.
You must've misread somewhere. The OP said "Why not being restful and using HTTP verbs?" I said "because there are far more commands than HTTP verbs".

In other words, this has nothing to do with "the amount of operations you can do with rest", this has to do with not being able to use the limited number of HTTP verbs to correspond to the multitude of Redis commands.
Its official

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/451
Apple Ipad Being Used As An Educational Resource
> the appreciation in bonds is due to a flight to safety

> Precious metals have increased because investors no longer believe that paper currency is a reliable store of wealth

Isn't that also a flight to safety, then? Not an identical variety of safety, but both seem to be driven by the same move-your-wealth-somewhere-safe sentiment that the financial crisis induced; some people picked U.S. treasuries, other people picked gold or copper or whatever. It's possible that one of those flights will be longer-lasting, though, if that's what you're predicting.

Gold prices in particular are also very dependent on central bank policy, because a large portion of the current value of gold is dependent on large quantities being held out of the market by central banks. It's close to fiat money in that sense, in that its value is dependent on central-bank policy propping it up. I'd be willing to grant that the policy risk is lower, though: while Federal Reserve action could tank either treasury prices or gold prices, the likelihood of the Federal Reserve tanking treasury prices is probably higher. But if it decided to sell of any significant portion of its 9,000 tons of gold to raise revenue...
Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’
CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org) for papers. I like the ability to upload PDFs so that I don't have to keep jumping around paywalls every time I want to refer to an article.
If the URL starts with "http:", the attacker gets to decide which parts (if any) are going to be sent HTTPS.
GF110 is a marketing name. The chip was called gf100b in the fab and in the chip rom.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/?menu=browser&article_id=...
For the first time a tablet is being used as an educational resource what do you guys think? Isn't that cool?
Qwiki Is Now Available To The Public
The author considers "immutable arrays" to be different than "arrays". Due to the technical definition of an array in .NET maybe? In Obj-C you would just return an NSArray instead of an NSMutableArray and avoid the whole first part of this argument.
where's the bubble? i don't feel it. can't see a queue of investors at my door! )))
This was my frustration with Google Voice and Google Wave homescreen bookmark "apps". Both of them were extremely laggy and took minutes to fully load. Definitely not the experience I desired.
12 basic principles of animation
It will depend on the space I believe, but both can definately have a community vibe, though the people they attract may be different. A hackspace may attract more of the "hacking/building/creating" crowd, but a coworking space may attract more business-type folks, like consultants and freelancers. The last group still may work together and network.
Also, lots of coworking space host a variety of events, so you can get to know people and network.
Holographic TV using Kinect as Cam: The next big thing? (3D will work!)
It also covers holographic display:

At the receiving end, a PC with three commercial graphics processing units -- GPUs -- computes the diffraction patterns.

The one component of the researchers’ experimental system that can’t be bought at an electronics store for a couple hundred dollars is the holographic display itself. It’s the result of decades of research that began with MIT’s Stephen Benton, who built the first holographic video display in the late 1980s. ... The current project uses a display known as the Mark-II, a successor to Benton’s original display that both Benton’s and Bove’s groups helped design.
My argument or question is why does Google (and not specifically Google, plenty of others) need to know all of that stuff?

You or the other guy mentioned "to make money" which is imo a really weak defense - we wouldn't accept that from anyone who kills, prostitutes, sells drugs, smuggles immigrants, or even legal-but-tasteless stuff like RIAA lawyer.

The data they gather is probably almost always "I like x music" or other innocuous stuff. But it's not always. What if you're searching about a rash on your junk (Google Search), or clocking up lots of views on bondage stuff on RedTube (Google Analytics), or you were browsing a forum for suicidal people and clicked a link to a site that had AdSense? Or pirating a ton of stuff?

Google and god knows who else has a lot of deeply personal information that "making money" doesn't justify - we say, search and browse very intimate stuff on the web, and we don't even know who it's being shared with.

My stance is most of it is just none of their business, even if they've chosen to build a business around it. Although I'm singling out Google they're just the easiest example.
Brute-force Safe-cracking
ibooks app on the Ipad with Dropbox ... as long as its in pdf format you can just put it in dropbox and add it to ibooks from there.
love it.
As the submitter and not the author, I stand nothing to gain by sharing the article. But, I see your point. I was thinking that when he mentioned not having a model where a mutable collection with fixed size made sense; thus, it translated to me to "arrays are harmful." I then considered "somewhat" to be pointless.
"What the price of oil does and what you think it will do are often two completely separate things."

Very true. A true Taleb style black swan investment would be to bet on both $30 oil and on $300 oil, and bet against $100 oil. Except that there are a lot of people betting on $300 oil, making that bet exceptionally expensive, so Taleb probably wouldn't bet on it.

"how much does it cost to pull it out of the ground?"

A lot less than $90, the current price of oil. In Argentina's case much of the cost is in refinement, since their oil is very heavy. If my memory serves me correctly, Argentinian oil becomes profitable at about $30 a barrel. Brazilian deepwater reserves do require the equivalent of space stations to extract, but hundreds of billions of barrels of oil is a pretty nice incentive to make that investment...
It's not the concept of arrays that are the problem - it's the implementation of them. As the author points out, it's easy to use arrays to accidentally create a memory hog application that doesn't perform well in multi-core environments.

It's better to abstract arrays through the use of more sophisticated classes like IList in .NET, which can mitigate the issues with traditional primitive arrays and provide developers with something that works better in modern multi-core scenarios.
Yes, that's it exactly. It's a frustrating middle ground where data available to Google is not available to the general public, even though many of these are public agencies to begin with.
Yeah, but you have to admit it's fun to use. I have high hopes for Qwiki just out of how well they've defined the experience with their product.

Whether or not it's useful is something I doubt we've really come close to answering yet.
Heard of torrent-finder.com ? Same thing and DoJ is after them: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-sea...
Foursquare Shares 2010 Check-in Map; Grew 3400% To 6 Million Users
Why the downvotes? Was this not a constructive comment?

I'm not endorsing their currency, just saying they have the muscle power to thrust their virtual currency into the forefront. Its not like I'm saying I want it that way, just that its a realistic scenario.
Put in
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s
Interesting piece on the roadmap: Tegra 3's maximum supported resolution (1920x1200) will still be a notch lower than the (unlikely) rumored iPad 2 display.
I don't know about Qwiki, but these sort of seemingly unlikely capital rounds are often something that happens to well connected startups with business management savvy people behind it (either in the company's executive team or among its early stage investors). These people simply know how to raise money and spin businesses around, and they have access to sources of capital that the average hacker doesn't.

To a hacker trying to get a complex project off the ground on pocket money, $8 million sounds like a fantastic sums, but there are many circles in which investing this amount of money in people you're connected to is trivial, regardless of market mood. It's not even necessarily the case that this is bad investment. If the investors believe, for whatever reason, in the company's executive team, it's probably because they are counting on them to somehow grow the company into a viable business. Many such companies, for example, will be spun into consulting, services or b2b companies you'll never read about on techcrunch, but which at the very least make a modest return on their investment. The fact that Qwiki is very unlikely to become the next huge internet phenomenon doesn't mean that it's a bad investment - it only has to not die and grow into a business worth more than its current valuation.
Database Monitoring
With today's mission-critical 24×7 applications, monitoring your databases can be just as important as the actual database or DBA itself. But how do you know if your company’s current approach to monitoring is the right one?
> Here, look at a list of the top iOS games from last year:

Do you play iOS games? I ask this because I do and that's not a great list. It's the kind of list I'd expect from a content farm that picked 25 games seemingly at random.

For one thing it doesn't include Angry Birds (either version), Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 2 and many, many others.

Perhaps you likewise have misperception when it comes to mobile gaming?

> These are great diversions for 5 minutes waiting for a train, but most of them are not "great" or even "good" games.

I think you're coloured by your own predilections. I now I've sat there and played Angry Birds for an hour. As for games being "good" or "great", well that's largely subjective.

As an anecdote, my 10 year old nephew has an iPod Touch and plays games on it all the time (when he's allowed to have it that is). Thing is, all his friends have one too.

> Also, individual games cost $30 new at release time, but that cost goes down significantly quickly.

Yes but iPhone games start at (rarely more than) $5 and go down. Angry Birds is one dollar.

A lot of games are free too, some totally so, others ad-supported (eg Angry Birds on Android). Not that Android has an iPod Touch equivalent (yet anyway).

> ... with a better attitude towards their customers

I think your bias is showing here.

> Nintendo isn't going to just disappear

True but, in the phone market as one example, I'd rather be Apple than, say, Nokia or RIM.
For the Netherlands:

- by last name: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb/index.php?taal=eng

- by first name: http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/english

Most of it is Dutch only, but both have historical data (the one for first names in particular is nice)
why SET, maybe POST?
You know, I didn't "get" twitter either when it launched. Heck it still might be suspect.

I have a feeling that Qwiki's value may be more under the covers with respect to its processing of data then the consumer facing product we currently see. Or it could just be overhyped.

With respect to a current bubble. This is a round with 7 investors (mostly individuals) dipping their toes. I think if you're looking for signs of a bubble this is a bunch of people with money to spend and an interesting product. It doesn't really show much irrational exuberance.
The author needs to get a grip, a lot of technology bootstraps on top wikipedia with a capacity to scale from there. Powerset unveiled their natural language search on the wikipedia corpus and were acquired by Microsoft for $100M a few months later. I'm sure MS wasn't just acquiring an index of wikipedia.
Blekko Finally Gets Cool As Ashton Kutcher Invests $200k
Awesomize.me: Rate People, Companies, Products and Services
I am slowly beginning to cut Facebook some slack after seeing how Google manages to master the art of privacy setting obfuscation.

I'm a "superuser" and have used Google for who knows how many years, and I was apparently still in the opt-out program.

If Larry Page needs a cause that will set him and Google apart from Eric Schmidt, here's a good place to start.

"Don't be creepy." How about that?
Rare and Unusual Photos and Images From the Burns Archive
I wonder about the timing of this backlash. Where was the outrage when Qwiki won TC Disrupt back in September?

Is it just because $8m > $50k, or has something changed in the last four months?
Why such low interest rates for savings? In Australia you should expect 6 or 6.5%
> stuff just works on Linux these days.

...

> OpenOffice doesn't interact well Microsoft Office

That's a big one for a lot of people.
Not just with their current journal (the big shots usually have a choice of venues), but with academic publishing in general. But of course, what makes someone a "big name" in academia is that they've succeeded well in the system as it is, and aren't likely to be deeply aggrieved with it.
The power of Google: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=2bb3...
Why not? People already trust FB with all their intimate details and relationships. I don't trust them either, but I'm pretty sure plenty of other people would.

Of 500M+ users even if a tiny fraction adopted it, it would become a huge deal. I don't know what the stats are for virtual currency adoption rates, but even the most widely adopted currency probably wouldn't match what the entire Facebook ecosystem would bring in
Seems plausible.

http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Pritzker_family
Google Android Going Where No SmartPhone Has Gone Before
The thing that bothers me about Qwiki is their "technology" is just a smoke and mirrors reproduction of things we see in the movies when a robot or A.I. talks to the characters. It's made to look and sound like A.I. except what they're doing doesn't involve machine learning or anything A.I-related. It's a simple mashup with a well-oiled marketing campaign (Techcrunch) behind them.
Thanks. Why do you suppose this is required for encrypted.google, but not for, say, JSTOR.com?
I think what he's saying is that the dream of it becoming ubiquitous like Windows is dead. I think, for a while at least, many thought that Linux could make a serious dent in the commercial desktop market dominated by Windows.
It seems the article is talking about having some search interface call some data providers, then display the data returned by the providers. I imagine what your parent was trying to say was that the search interface cannot generify the display and interaction with the data provider's data.
Ooh, Dark Pattern, that sounds awesome. Also, Dark = relative absence of light, or almost absence of light, but not quite. Also, in western philosophy and languages, Dark is equated to evil, as opposed to Light and non-evilness, that can be traced as far as the allegory of the cave, where shadows are illusions and reality is "above", "the light" that creates "the shadows".

If the word "Dark" invokes a racist meaning for you, you might want to consider retraining yourself in language and philosophy, you're on the fast track to becoming racist - racist being someone who connects meanings of human discrimination based on physical traits to any word (that could relate to color, light, whatever) regardless of the context and original meaning of said words. You're discriminating those poor harmless words!
How usage based billing will affect you
They raised a seed round of $1.5M to build a proof of concept and have now doubled down and raised $8M. What is bothering about that, isn't it ideal to "get something out the door asap" for this ambitious a goal (a visual search engine)?
Seth Godin: Three ways to help people get things done
Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities
Looking into Stephen Benton, the holographic video guru mentioned, I found the Mark II display mentioned in the article:

http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/M2.html

Some numbers: To acheive [sic] the goal of a
150x75x75mm image... Each horizontal line of the display is 256-thousand pixels of holographic fringe pattern translating to 36Mbytes of information per frame, fed at a total data rate of 2Gpixels/sec into the display from the frame buffers.
bibtex + file system
Revolt of the Elites
I think this would be best delivered as a gem too. Forking and pulling down a copy is a good start, but having this as a gem would make me smile.
The Next Step for Facebook Credits
I went from the stay-up-till-the-sun-comes-up hacker lifestyle to getting a fulltime gig ... all of a sudden all of my old habits were in conflict. I was too exhausted after my commute to hit the gym in the evening like I used to, and I was not finding time to work on my freelance/personal projects.

So I made a drastic shift in my schedule ... now I'm up at 6am ... at the gym by 6:15am ... back home by 7:45 ... at work by 8:30pm ... out by 5:30 - 6 (at the latest) ... I get home and screw around for an hour and a half ... then from 7:30/8pm I get 4 solid hours of work in and hit the sack at 12am sharp.

Its completely changed my life and made working 60 hour weeks not seem so intimidating. Working out in the morning also makes it so that if I have a long night, I can get up and go with only 4 or 5 hours of sleep without a problem, where before I'd be dragging for at least half the day.

The problem is that my schedule is very regimented and the slightest thing (or very rough week of work for example) can throw everything out of whack ... but I've been learning to plan ahead so that I can adjust accordingly (not schedule side work during a particular stretch, or plan on not working particular days).

Its been 3 months and it requires a lot of discipline (which I really need) but I'm very much enjoying it, plus I value my time sooo much more now.

Highly recommended.
Smooth Scrolling in Mobile Safari with JQuery
Traffic internet: vacuum tubes that zip drivers to anywhere on earth
>My argument or question is why does Google (and not specifically Google, plenty of others) need to know all of that stuff?

Alright, but do you assume that they know it is you? By name, by your identity? If not then why do you care if they know your user-agent likes bondage? Are you worried about seeing ads for bondage movies while you're not searching for bondage, while perhaps someone is looking over your shoulder?

>we wouldn't accept that from anyone who kills, prostitutes, sells drugs, smuggles immigrants, or even legal-but-tasteless stuff like RIAA lawyer.

I've noticed something about people arguing on your side of the fence. They keep dragging in ridiculous extremes to try and prove their point; Comparing those extremes to Google (or whoever) knowing information about you. Another guy in here was comparing this to being watched in your home with video cameras against your own will.

>Google and god knows who else has a lot of deeply personal information that "making money" doesn't justify

So stop giving it to them. They won't know who is searching this information unless you link your identity to an account and therefore enable them to link it to your human identity. As for whether or not it's justified I think is subjective. It's a moral issue and it's entirely subjective.

>we say, search and browse very intimate stuff on the web, and we don't even know who it's being shared with.

There was a time when you could search and browse anything on the Web without the repercussion of someone else finding out about it. But that era is over. No amount of arguing this fact will bring it back. In the Web of 2011 and beyond if you search for bondage videos and you are logged into your Google account then Google will have a way to map it to you. If you don't log in, don't create an account, then they won't. It's that simple.

In the Web of today, if you search for it, you just have to be aware that people have the technological means to know about it and there is no good reason for them to not want to know about this information. It helps them make the decisions they need to make to generate more money -- the entire purpose of a business. No altruistic causes here.