skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is precisely what I was trying to say. Over time I found myself wanting and liking these replacements, but out of the box these machines work very well. CrashPlan is better because it integrates off-site and local backup and lets you manage backup for a bunch of machines (I'm responsible for backing up family computers).
99 weeks of publicly subsidized unemployment for a non productive commodity? I agree, this is outrageous. These commodities need to transport themselves to a more favorable market and increase their utility through intelligent investment of the resources being generously showered upon them. A shorter period of unemployment should adequately incentivize these recalcitrant products.
Geographically Mauritius may be in africa but 70% of its population is of east indian orgin. So it enjoys a favourable tax treaty with India and thus most of the foreign investment into india flows thro mauritius. In a nutshell mauritius is to india what ireland/luxembourg is to europe!
Great point. I'll do this in future posts.
The requirements are a direct function of our ongoing customer dev work. You're gist is absolutely right - there are a ton of great tutors out there who have never taught a class. However, when you look at the overall hitrate of good tutors amongst populations of educators relative to others, you get a sense for why we are starting where we're starting.

That may change over time as our community grows, but our goal here isn't to create a system that is everything to every tutor. We're focused on a specific problem, and are working on a specific solution to that problem. We'll analyze data along the way and modify our assumptions as necessary.
Demian Entrekin Gender Not Problem when Sourcing Venture PtII
For me, Ubuntu has no good equivalent for several of the Apple apps:

* iTunes (and its iPod sync'ing)
* iPhoto
* Keynote
* GarageBand
Should be titled: "Wanker Libertarian Rich Guy Complains About Poor People Getting $100-$400 Per Week In Taxable Income".

I would guess the mortgage interest subsidy the government gives to Phil Greenspun for his house(s) rather significantly exceeds the payments made to anyone receiving unemployment insurance. Which of course is INSURANCE in the first place - the employee pays for it while working, and then receives it, when not working.

MIT receives something close to a billion dollars per year in government funding. Phil Greenspun is eating a lot more of that government cheese than anyone receiving unemployment insurance. But self-awareness is not a common trait among the libertarian programmer mindset.

So, everyone on unemployment should just take a MIT course to learn SQL for web apps. No problem, except it costs $50K to attend MIT. Hmmm. Well, you could just take one course. How much would it cost to take a three-day course with five skilled teachers ( http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/rdbms-iap-2011 )? Maybe $2000? How many weeks of unemployment payments at $100-$400 per week would I have to save up to pay for that course? What precisely will I eat during those weeks?

There's quote attributed to Marie Antoinette where she advised the poor, lacking bread, to simply consume cake instead. The modern version is the Wall Street Journal's criticism of Lucky Duckies - those folks so "lucky" in their income levels that the government declines to tax said income directly (of course they pay more in taxes relative to their income than any millionaire, but that fact is conveniently omitted). Such statements display a total lack of knowledge - not only does Greenspun not know what he's talking about, but he doesn't know that he doesn't know.

http://gocomics.typepad.com/tomthedancingbugblog/2010/07/luc...
Git-based Rebar-friendly Erlang package index
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers38%5Cpaper3742.htm...

Specifically points 7,8 and 9.
An Intro to Backbone.js: Part 2 - Controllers and Views
New version of Skype for Mac
SANS seems to think quite differently:

http://isc.sans.edu/reports.html

Only one of their 3 top ten ports even lists telnet, it doesn't show in the total volume one.

Top 10 Ports by Targets

Port	Targets
22	83923
1433	69095
445	44441
1434	43076
3389	30991
80	17262
139	12637
137	8677
4559	8246
23	6562 <- telnet port, total: 0.02% of top ten

That 0.02% seems to jibe with what I expected based on seing my own deny logs. I'm not sure what's up with the akamai report because I didn't feel like giving them my email just to let me read something that sounds wildly inaccurate, but I'm calling BS.

Perhaps akamai themselves often leaves telnet open (on some network hardware they use?) and are being targeted specifically.
I think Ubuntu is great, and making iPhone apps under OS X isn't changing my mind.

Renaming a file on OS X requires you to single-click the file name, wait a second, and then change the file name. If you have to rename a bunch of files, that's a ton slower than Ubuntu or Windows. (If anyone is going to suggest dropping to the command line, I'd answer that's not a very OS X solution)

OS X uses THREE keyboard modifiers? REALLY? And they aren't even named? I have to actually look at my keyboard and think about what it what. Nevermind if I'm using a Windows keyboard on a Mac Mini or something...

Right clicking is inconsistent, and the context menus rarely have what I want (like, oh, renaming a file?). This is probably why they have 3 keyboard modifier buttons.

Safari is not nearly as good as Chrome is.

Multiple desktops is trivial on Ubuntu. In fact, it's preinstalled that way.

(There's lots more stuff that irritates me, but I'm actually on Ubuntu right now, and it has allowed me to forget such nonsense)

I'm not saying Ubuntu doesn't have issues, but given that Ubuntu is free (in both senses) and runs on hardware I can select piece by piece and get a much better machine for a fraction of the cost... I seriously doubt I will ever have more than a single development Mac.
The Facebook Effect

It's real, it's true, it's my version of Cinderella story. I've read many motivational books, they're good, but Facebook Effect conveyed the idea of possibility to me, and I love it.
It takes more than two weeks to become skilled at PhotoShop. I've been using it 10 years and still have lots to learn.
Intel CTO says new technology will stop zero-day attacks
The number of active Facebook native app users for Windows Phone 7 is probably a pretty reliable metric for active usage.

Windows Phone 7 / 366K

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=7933375107&#...

Blackberry

http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/facebo...
This is a very easy way to setup RoR on Windows with a nice IDE.
:)

Again, and I won't take the time to count the times, I repeated that boys get interested in the technical topics that are "around them" and appear to be important and wrote:

I read it.

You are totally wrong. (how many times do I have to say that ;))

Hence my suggestion for you to try and observe this apparent phenomena. Bottom line is; you will struggle to.

I grew up with my Dad in the RAF; but have absolutely zero interest in planes. I could cite similar examples ad-infinitum. I honestly challenge you to find teenage boys that have an absorbing interest in the technical aspects of their dad's job - sure, you will fine some, but a minority.

It's as plain as the difference between boys with short hair and girls with long hair. If you can't see this, then you are obtuse about society and women.

Is this also down to genetics (random irony; I have longer hair than most of the girls I know :))? Or do you think it might be to do with social/historical situation?

Even the series of Legally Blond of chick-flicks...
Seriously? You are using a film to demonstrate your point? Seeing as that film series is a classic example of female stereotype it probably says much that you see a general point in it.

Neglecting what I'm saying will bring large risks in dealing with human females, especially in the US now.

I think I am doing ok :) but thanks for the concern.

Basically; your claims about women being genetically pre-disposed against technical topics (and towards "caring/sharing" careers) is, despite the bluster on other tangential topics and terrible examples, complete crap and not something you could begin to support with reasonable evidence.

To return to the original point: the barriers to women in technology are almost all social and psychological, not genetic.

And all the guff about women being like this and that seems representative of reading some pop psychology without going any further (I recommend reading something good on social interaction, one that looks at the similarities in gender groups)
You hit on the second biggest flaw that I spot in job seekers (and startup founders). They focus too much on their own wants/needs and not enough on the needs of the people they're trying to sell to.
>so working for a startup isn't much more different to a desk job in a big company

Why would invest so much of your life and earning potential at a start up? Because of that negligible chance that you'll be the next Facebook? You'd be better off working in a desk job and just using your extra money to buy lottery tickets.

In my opinion the attitude you attribute to London is the wiser one.
If you were in exactly the right circumstances, it's possible you pieced together 99 weeks through temporary extensions, but it's not the normal period, or something you can count on.

During the recession, a sequence of stimulus bills authorized temporary extensions for people who were nearing the benefits expiration (normally 26 weeks) and still hadn't found jobs, basically as a way of propping up demand. If a bunch of people lose their jobs at approximately the same time, and the economy stays weak such that many of them fail to find jobs within 26 weeks, then 26 weeks after the onset of the downturn there's a second downturn as a bunch of people lose a source of income. There are alternative ways to cushion that, like just handing out $n to everyone (or everyone below some level of income), but a temporary extension to unemployment benefits was the form of stimulus that managed to get political consensus.

There was never anyone at any time who had 99 weeks of guaranteed unemployment benefits, though. The only way you could've planned on that is if you lost your job near the beginning of the recession, and then correctly bet that Congress would pass a series of temporary benefits extensions.
If you think that VLC is a good Quicktime alternative you should try out mplayer. There's an awesome Mac gui for it called MPlayer OSX Extended (http://www.mplayerosx.ch/). It's a lot more streamlined and will play at least everything that VLC does.
Well I have family who are basically using it to supplement their retirement. They are about to get to 99 weeks and will get no more.

I think back to when I was out of school and the only real skill I had was "I'm good at learning things." I couldn't program very well and I didn't know much about databases. I had some connections and found a job and fixed those problems (mostly).

Unemployment sucks but there's no doubt many people aren't really using the time well.
But the money taken from working people's paychecks are more likely to not be as stimulative (although you could argue that it effects morale which then indirectly has impact).

Giving money to people in unemployment is probably 90% of the way to giving money right to small business. Which in turn will pay their employees.

There seems to be very little reason not to do it except for the two psychological effects we alluded to earlier:

1) My paycheck is now lower by .2%... I'm going to spend less.

2) Unemployment isn't so bad. I can slack off, because I wouldn't mind a 99 week vacation. (or other similar sentiments).

I'm not sure either is happening in measurable numbers to offset the gain had by the extra money pumped into the economy.
The certification question is a really interesting one. We looked at a lot of other sites focused on various kinds of tutoring while building. We found that the ones that offered online "tests" for certification were producing false positives as to legitimate quality.

If I see a high schooler with certifications in 58 subjects, those certifications tend to lose their meaning. Likewise, if I have a friend with a Masters in English who taught writing at the college level fail your writing certification, it seems a little funny. That's part of the reason we took a different route.
In theory it might be beautiful, but I'd say 5x5 is a pretty awful way to start if you are new to lifting weights.

If you've been sitting on a chair for 8-12 hours a day you will have lots of muscular imbalances that needs to be corrected before starting a program like this.

For instance, you will most likely not be able to activate your glutes during the squat or deadlift. Your lower back will take the load. Meet pain and, if you are unlucky, injury...
as long as it isn't Python :p
I'd be inclined to try to find a tech-savvy private investigator (no idea how) to track them down. These guys have backchannel contacts with law enforcement and can find out things that you may not be able to on your own.
Yep. Telnet is standard in embedded devices where there is neither the CPU power nor the electrical current available to support encrypted protocols like SSH.
1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner
I don't disagree except with this:

> But if you've ever been in the situation, or seen it up close, you know it's not at all what it looks like.

I've personally known a guy on unemployment for over a year, able-bodied with a college degree. He snowboarded 5 days a week, but admitted that when his unemployment ran out he was probably going to have to start looking for a job. It really was "party time" for him, though I don't claim he was the norm. I'm just giving this anecdotal evidence to say that if we want to discuss the usefulness of long-term unemployment benefits, we're going to need hard data. Your descriptions of what unemployment is really like aren't any more convincing evidence than the OP's.
"Don't need training"? This idea is incompatible with my world view, but particularly when it comes to unemployed people.

'Limited supply of training' is falling as well, with no small thanks to a series of projects like Arsdigita that have put knowledge online. Anyone who has internet access and isn't learning is being held back by personal culture issues.

There's lots of poor culture issues at work in this recession. For example, there's a population of homeowners who have paid for houses and now find the value them to be underwater. They don't want to realise the paper losses. This prevents them from moving for work.
The "drunken coding contest" might or might not have been made up for the sake of the movie. But say Dustin Moskovitz was a fully vested partner.
Rather than replace Quicktime with VLC, you're much better off, in my opinion, installing the Perian plugin. It runs almost everything: http://www.perian.org

I suppose I've also technically "replaced" my dock and Spotlight search with Launchbar, which gives you, essentially, an Apple-fied version of a command line. Hitting a shortcut (cmd-space for me) opens the app, and it auto-completes application names and common OS tasks for you. Quicksilver is an FOSS alternative that does much of the same.

Launchbar: http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/

Quicksilver: https://github.com/tiennou/blacktree-alchemy

Finally, not a replacement, but anyone who runs Boot Camp or anything similar owes it to themselves to install NTFS-3G, to read and write to NTFS partitions: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

edit: Fixed a bit of formatting. Also, saw a few of these were already mentioned (at least in passing) while I was putting my reply together. Sorry about the repeats.
> Any quick hint or URL you can give for forearm strength?

The deadlift worked well for increasing my grip and forarm strength. When you lift 400 lbs off the ground your grip has to improve.

Just don't use wrist straps, this leads to muscle imbalances. it's better to go slow and have your entire body's strength grow together.
The D gc is not more a problem than C++ new is for real-time... RAII is possible and you can avoid allocations, also make custom allocators.
If you want to work on grip strength by itself take a small wooden dowel and drill a hole through the middle. Tie a rope through the hole and then tie a weight to the other end. Now use your hands to roll the weight up and down.

Another fun one is a modified dead lift. Your plates need to have a lip on them to make it work. Put a plate on each side of a curl bar. Now DL the curl bar by only gripping with your finger tips around the lip of the plate.

Personally, my grip strength has increased the most from doing pulling exercises and dead lifts. I'm to the point now where I can DL 405lb w/o straps. I still need straps to get into the 500s though.
I was hoping for something similar to delicious library - http://www.delicious-monster.com/ - where you scan the bar code and you have access to it in your library :). (yes, there are tons of ways to abuse this, but it'd still be nice)
PirateBox - self-contained mobile collaboration and P2P file sharing device
> But yes, keep positive, assume you will soon be back in the game.

You never left the game. Failed start-ups are as much a part of it as anything else; as long as you're doing the right things, you will always be +EV as time progresses.
> Renaming a file on OS X requires you to single-click the file name, wait a second, and then change the file name

There's at least one other way to do it - single-click on the file, press enter, then type the new name.
It is interesting because we put a lot of ourselves in the code we write and the ideas pursued. So when something fails, It can be a process to get over it. Although trying and failing is better than never taking a risk.
Actually pull-ups and lat pull downs are often forearm/grip strength limited. In my case (and many of my friend's), I find that as my grip starts to fail, I have to work my back and arms even harder to transmit enough power.

In fact, you can see this demostrated by trying to do pull-ups or something on a thick bar sometime. It will crush you.

Captains of Crunch as mentioned by sister post is great stuff.

There's also the really old school style of just carrying heavy stuff in your hands and walking around for a good while. Just remember that most grip strength exercises focuses on one of con/iso/eccentric movements, so you might need to mix and match. Also, depending on what you need, you'll have to mix up low rep high weight, as well as low weight high rep. With grip, it's not just a question of how hard you can pull, but really how long you can pull, and more importantly, how long you can pull while your forearms are -dying-, which is something you'll miss out if you did all low rep stuff.
Can't read the article since the server seems to have died but if you want a combination of the strength training in Starting Strength and the conditioning for sports like cross country skiing or soccer, Crossfit is excellent. I've been doing it for a little over 2 years now and it combines all the aspects of getting strong with the ability to do activities like skiing and soccer easily.
Reference counting is a bad C++ substitute for a real GC.
You can edit a file name by tapping return.
There's a spectrum of responses from buying less-objectionable nutty-crunch bars, to financing a mercenary sweep of chocolate farms and whisking the kids off to an orphanage.

I don't know how effective it is to change buying habits - are elephants any safer now that we don't permit selling ivory in the US?

As dilute as the effect of changing my checkout-counter impluse buy is, so must be diluted the responsibility for the crime. After all, cynically, 90% of the cost of that bar is the transportation and sales cost. So only a penny or so is going toward child-enslavement.

Sadly I fear that on the scale of ineffective responses, blogging comes even further down the list.
>Many of the students had very limited programming experience and many were not MIT-affiliated, so it is not as though we took MIT computer nerds and made them slightly more nerdy.

There seems to be some deliberate dishonesty here. First of all, you're posting this on the Harvard blog, so this sounds like a group of undergrads from the Ivy League and top 20 schools. So this little anecdote has almost no relevance to those who have been on unemployment for over a year. The deliberate omission of where these students come from makes it difficult for me to take this article seriously, especially with the explicit assumption that only MIT students are nerds of a serious caliber, and furthermore that basic SQL is something difficult for non-nerds to pick up.

Furthermore, the article doesn't recognize that retraining and job-hunting are separate tasks, and not only are they difficult to do at the same time, but it's actually counterproductive.

Finally, the assumption that people are sitting around playing XBox with this money is slander. I doubt the author has spent more than 10 minutes in a social setting with anyone on unemployment. Unemployment checks in most cases probably won't even pay rent.
Not really an answer to your points, but FWIW to rename a file in Finder all you have to do is press enter.
Perfect example of why it's always a bad decision to put all your hope in the Google machine. There are lots of other places to do ads (MSN, Facebook, LinkedIn). Use them. Don't be dependent on just one source of traffic.
G4 Mac Wall Clock
What about amarok? ( http://amarok.kde.org/ )I find iTunes to be terribly annoying and slow. I also don't have an iPod so... Do you run rockbox on it? ( http://www.rockbox.org/ )

I've found digikam ( http://www.digikam.org/ ) to work pretty well. Never really cared for iPhoto though.

Keynote, again never really used it. I hear it's much nicer than the MS equivalent.

The wife likes GarageBand and it does seem to be a pretty sweet app. Not really sorta thing so I don't really know of any replacement for it. Audacity is the only thing that comes to mind and it's not exactly the same kinna thing.
Quora is the most recent SV hyped start-up.
A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency (Python)
That's because the memories of the random, intense aggravation associated with owning a Linux laptop are starting to fade.

External hardware generally works when plugging it into my mac, unlike the incredibly irritating experience of trying to get a webcam to work with my Linux laptop.

My mac never updates its kernel without updating its nvidia drivers, forcing me to reboot and select an older kernel in grub.

My mac never suddenly disables my ability to log into GNOME, forcing me to log an as root if I want a GUI.

If I want to output from my mac to a TV, I can do this without editing Xorg.conf (or whatever the fuck it was called), occasionally fucking up and having to reboot in text mode and restore it.

Sound works. Always.

My macbook pro also seems better at power management than my old laptop, which was itself better at power management when it ran windows.
Anyone did write benchmarks with durability enabled?
I wonder if that number includes giveaways? I recall they gave away approx 100K phones to Microsoft employees alone.