skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that developing for the PS3 has gotten better over time.

The real difference now is that they have had experience with developing for the 360 and it doesn't suit they're style. Many of Valve's most recent games have been of the multiplayer variety, and they have a strong ethic of continuing to tweak their multiplayer games over time, adding content, tweaking game balance and game mechanics, etc. This style of development, which is familiar to anyone who's played PC multiplayer games over the last 2 or 3 decades, is at odds with the way Microsoft handles game releases. There is a long QA pipeline to go through (which can be onerous if one also has their own QA pipeline) and there is a general standing policy of charging money for major content releases. And this has caused an immense amount of frustration for Valve.

The divergence of TF2, for example, between the console version and the PC version has been extreme. To the degree where it's probably fairer to call the PC version perhaps something like TF2.5, because there has been so much ongoing development in the game.

The PS3 is recognized as being the weakest platform (in terms of developer interest, game sales, profits, etc.) in the current generation, so Valve was able to negotiate a sweet deal with Sony in allowing them to put Steam on the PS3. This is no small thing, and fully explains why they have gone back to the PS3 despite the problems they've had with the console. The ability to have their own way in terms of content updates is enormous for Valve.

tl;dr Developing for the PS3 may be more technically frustrating but Sony's huge concessions mean that Valve gains the freedom to deliver game updates on their own terms which more than makes up for the technical difficulties.
Well, HTML/DOM is not used, but you should be able to do something of the sorts to the UI elements, yeah.
Apparently you can't have a party, even a political one, without "Arrrrrr."
Tracking scroll depth to reveal content engagement in Google Analytics
Nothing to be proud of here, but very recently a huge child pornography case was uncovered in a dutch day care center where a guy molested and filmed the molesting of upwards of 80 children together with his partner.

The case is extreme both in scope, gravity of the offenses, duration and in the position of trust the perpetrators were in and it will take a long long time for that to blow over again.

'Eek A Male' is very much a response heard around daycare centers here.

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Mr. Munster gets quite a lot wrong. I am starting to think make a site to solely catalog and score predictions by analysts would be a pretty popular public service.
Anyone else notice that 30 Rock's lampooning of Comcast doesn't mention Comcast, whereas the jokes about NBC are about NBC, and GE, etc? I wonder if that will change now, or if not, if it speaks to the underlying tone of the whole deal.
TL;DR: "Even crypto experts make mistakes. Don't design or write your own crypto code, use someone else's well tested and analyzed code"
The author has not charged money for his app yet so while we know some users like the application, it doesn't tell if they are willing to pay for it.

But my real point is that it depends on the type of users you have. I sell my web apps to towns and city administrations and also to some small businesses. At first we had a few clients for free, their employees didn't use the application much and we did get some feedback but not that much. The year after, we found clients (including one from our original free clients) who were willing to pay for the service (incomplete, buggy and all) and things changed a lot. These clients had much more users day to day using the system, they also provided much more frequent feedback.

If your client is an organization, the importance something has for them is very often tied to how much of their budget they dedicated to that something.
But the question is not about whether some men are suited to the job. It's about who is on average more suited to a particular type of job. It is well established scientifically that women are - generally speaking - so I would prefer to see more women taking roles that are suited to their innate capacities whether it be in technology management, education or any other role that takes advantage of their innate higher capacities in empathic communication.
I get your trying to be cute, but your example is pretty poor. One can reasonably argue that the Germans were either part of or led by the Nazi party. You could argue there hasn't been a gasing in 50 years. You can argue that they occurred in Europe (maybe you're in Europe, but just in case you're not).

I can't give you any reassurance like that. I can't say that men with college degrees don't do it. That it hasn't happened in the US. Or has happened at all in the past 10 years or even past week.

There doesn't exist an objective measure, that I know of, that I can use to rationally reduce risk. Now I've left this open, and clearly stated "that I know of".

If you can show me a key piece of statistical evidence that I've missed that will make this clear, I'd be happy to see it. And I will make an effort to avoid Nazi daycare teachers.
Facebook.com=MySpace: COX Internet is victim to DNS poison attack? (Phoenix, AZ)
Today I experienced something peculiar when I browsed to Facebook.com and instead of seeing my friendly news feed, I saw the homepage of MySpace. I was very surprised, I hadn't been to MySpace in years, and hadn't ever even been on my computer. So I tried again and realized that www.facebook.com was <i>resolving</i> (not redirecting) to www.myspace.com.<p>It seems like a DNS poison attack.<p>To make sure, I did an nslookup for Facebook.com and went to the IP address listed. Facebook came up just fine, but the domain name still resolved to Myspace. A few other things were not resolving correctly, and some pointed to individual Myspace band pages.<p>I didn't even want to try going to Wells Fargo or Chase bank. There probably was a good chance those domains were compromised if the attacked was being very malicious.<p>I tried a second computer connected directly to the modem to eliminate my browser's cache and the router cache as possible causes. It appears COX communications is victim to a DNS poison attack in Phoenix, AZ.<p>So I immediately changed my router's DNS to use OpenDNS which solved the problem right away. I posted the problem to my Facebook, and had many people comment that this has happened to them before, and quite frequently it seems. What?!! This seems like an incredibly serious problem. I'm on hold with COX now to report this, but I'm afraid they won't know what a DNS poison attack is.<p>I'm no DNS expert, but if you are I'd love to listen to your comments in case I'm jumping to false conclusions.
Nonces aren't cryptographically secure random numbers. They merely have to be different for each encryption, which is why even a counter suffices. The problem was, the counter was being incorrectly reset to zero.

It's just as secure to concatenate a string that is a function of the time of day with the counter. Another scheme would be to start out with a cryptographically hard number that is incremented each time.
I hope not, that would kill their P/E ratio.
You haven't met my mother.
Thanks for the advice. So target the niches rather than fortune 100. That sounds like a more promising way to get your foot in the door. You are right it is really tough getting noticed by the bigger players I guess my approach should be to squeeze in with the smaller ones first.
I agree on all of this.

However, since Colin presumably doesn't want to raise his prices to pay for actual review, it is encouraging that he is at least going with bug bounties. These, at the very least, gives us a good excuse to assign them as fun things to do for graduate students with some hope that one will want to procrastinate so hard that they will actually look at the code.

Also I think any reviewer who wanted to get paid would not start with Colin's code as an easy place to find bugs.
A startup is made of two kinds of people: hackers and businessmen. Often it's got people who are both.

This post is about going around meeting the businessmen. It misses out on the hackers. They're not hard to find! At least visit Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. It's near Google.
Golang does that, right (++ is a statement, not an expression)?
You're right in the CTR case; I just default to recommending random nonces because that's what you need for CBC.
Nice idea! Can break in mobile sometimes...
7 million iPads is a pretty good market to develop for. How many Windows users where there in, say, 1990?
14.79 Million iPads sold since the April 2010 release. I think the term 'hotcakes' applies.
I find it interesting that I was downmodded on this. They ask for citations, I provided them. People wanted different kinds of data, I got data to address their points.

I don't think the problem is the citations or the data, but rather the viewpoint.

Lets be clear, you don't want citations or data. You want me to change my mind.
The key distinction is 'are we making money of each other' vs 'are we making money together'.
I'm sure you got it - but my point was that I was expecting them to use all 'HTML 5' to render their HTML 5 logo...

Not that I am condoning it, I was just expecting it.
Technology is just one challenge. Once you're over that there are fundamental platform differences you can't gloss over.

Specifically, for skill based multiplayer games (such as most FPSes) the advantage of a keyboard and mouse over a controller is hugely significant. To a degree to where it might as well be cheating. The inevitable result of cross platform play becoming available between PCs and consoles in games like Black Ops, Halo: Reach, etc. would be that gamers quickly segregated themselves by platform, to keep games interesting.
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This may have worked well for Justin, but I would be wary in using anecdotal evidence to disprove an entire concept.

"Charge From Day 1" isn't just a meme, it is a method of validating cash flow channels and delineating between paying and nonpaying customer segments. Perhaps Justin got lucky, or perhaps he'll get bit in the ass by it in the coming months, but I doubt that he just disproved an entire school of thought.
The problem was, the counter was being incorrectly reset to zero.

The counter was being correctly reset to zero. The nonce was being incorrectly not set to non-zero. (In CTR mode, there is a 64-bit nonce which is different for each message and a 64-bit counter which starts at zero for each message and increments as you move through the message.)
That is a deadlock isn't it. To get Big you need to start off Big or lucky enough to know someone Big.
It's probably not the best place to ask, but I really liked Pushing Daisies and thought the opposite of you :) The premise, eh, the narration okay, the writing really good, and the characters rich and faceted :) Guess there's no accounting for taste, eh? ;)
Will a backup created in 1.0.28 still be de-duplicated against backups created in previous versions of Tarsnap?
Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data
they also know how to sit on that money as well... which has quite a few investors pretty antsy.
IMO you're "doing it right", but I've never worried much about buzzword compliance.
>...hoo-hah?

I don't think that word means what you think it means...
That's for the 1986 student population with 1986 dollars. If you correct it for the estimated 2018 student population and 2010 dollars, you're already around $190 billion. And that's not counting the cost of building new schools, or factoring in the rise in per-student spending. You're easily looking at well over a trillion dollars when all is said and done.

Also, decreasing the class size to 15 students wouldn't get you very much improvement over current class sizes. It's only for every incremental decrease below 15 that you start to see meaningful improvement.
What is described is already reality - I see it every day.

I work for a company writing its own video codecs, who have a format that downloads a 70KB jar file before streaming the video. It's a Java applet (and still supports Java 1.1 - we've been doing this for a number of years now) and largely allows the model that Stanislav wishes. Is it ideal? Probably not. We can't do fullscreen or hardware-optimised playback. We have to implement our own controls that are out of place of the L&F of the OS and browser. We need people to install the Java VM. On Java versions older than JDK6u18 we still only get to use 64MB of memory (on a 2GB machine? Hah!). Not always going to work on your latest smartphone.

On the flip side, I also see a lot of video container formats where people try to standardise something as generic as possible. Particularly OMFI (Bento), Quicktime, AAF. The simplest AAF File which simple refers to a piece of video content elsewhere is 250KB, because it has to define a complete vocabulary of items that it might deal with in the file, and jumps from pointer to pointer to actually get to the data. It's pretty much the closest we have to Stanislav's 1961 Air Force quote example, with everything short of actually including a decoder specification for the audio and video content. It's a minefield to work with. It's too flexible for its own good, and reading or writing it is anything but a trivial task (cue large libraries, larger than video decoders, to do that. Anything but ideal).

So, one side involves a virtual machine to standardise hardware, and the other needs large libraries to parse and emit even the simplest of files. I've seen this world, and I think I'd rather have well-implemented standard decoders working on simpler wrappers instead.
Exactly ... I had this same problem on windows trying to run Rails and I just assumed it was still being worked on.
My mistake.
"Analysts" who go contrarian on Apple are fairly common, and they have spent the past decade being wrong. At this point low-balling Apple has become so common that I think a lot of analysts do this just in case they manage to draw the lucky lottery ticket and "predict" a miss by Apple -- if they are correct their prediction stands out and when they are wrong they just get filed into the long, long list of bad Apple predictions.
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The issue is that there should likely be different amounts of "bad" meted out to the two instances, and using the same word for both confuses that issue a great deal.

I mean, by what you're saying, you can call killing a pig for meat murder as that's what we kill it what Damer did it.

I'm contending we should have two words similar to how for killing we have "Slaughter" (Implies animals and farming for food), and "Murder" (Implies purposeful taking of a human life except for certain animal rights/vegan groups trying to use the overloaded meaning).

Perhaps "Fringing"? "Freeping"? "Warezing"? etc.
Really? Let's debate. Do you have a study documenting the case of a statistically significant number of children raised in an environment where every single other person isn't constantly treating them like they should behave a particular way because of their genitals? Because otherwise you're just redemonstrating the already well-documented fact that children tend to behave the way they are expected to behave, which doesn't tell us anything useful about genetics.

Okay, that's a cheap shot. I know you don't have any such study. Tell you what, I'll settle for any study demonstrating that the divergence between the mean of all women and the mean of all men is greater than the divergence between individuals of either gender.

In any metric.
Apple is simply printing money now. Remarkable financial success.

It is notable that between Q4 2010 and Q1 2011 (the latter includes the holiday season), the growth areas were the iPod [115%] and the iPad [75%]. Macs increased 6%, but actually decreased by 7% in the Americas.

It's hard to hold it as a "bad" result, but among such stellar results the relatively small 15% growth of the iPhone does stand out. Tomorrow the talking heads will probably play that up despite the incredible scale of these results.
4 years - Netflix started its streaming service in January 2007.
Interesting story about Netflix, I wanted to order "Earth final conflict season 2" from Netflix but they only offer season 1 for some reason.

I spent an hour on their website looking for a way to request they carry a movie, or even a "contact us" email or phone and found nothing. Would it really hurt to let users at least submit something that's missing?

Why do they randomly not have the second season of a series anyway? This sucks.
Apple profits soar 77% on sales of 4+ million Macs and 16.24 million iPhones
There is definitely a point at which low unemployment lowers corporate profit (as staff turnover gets pretty high when you get full employment) and salaries greatly rise.

I'm guessing we're far from a point where that happens though.
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I think that, for now, their $130 share gain in the last 52 weeks is more than making up for it.

They can talk dividends when their shares are near Microsoft's level and their product pipeline is less stacked and hype machine is dying.
I was an avid reader of Nate Silver's from the moment in 2008 that I noticed he was figuring things out about the Obama v. Clinton race ahead of everyone else. When his blog went to the NYT I thought, "good for him". But just a day or two ago I finally admitted to myself that somehow, being at the NYT has made it lame. I've stopped reading it, even stopped checking it. I doubt that Nate has gotten dumber. It must be something about the NYT.
How do the holidays come into play if you look at numbers like that? iPods have always spiked tremendously in the holiday quarter and iPads might be similar while the iPhone might be less of a Christmas present. Is there some way to normalize the data?
This also extends to other areas as well.

If a man is furiously yelling and striking a woman in public the police will be called on the man. If a woman is yelling and furiously slapping a man, the police will be called on the man.

Consider that:
1. Men receive stiffer sentences for the same crime.

2. Men are routinely ruined by family court, because of the instant trump card that an abuse accusation brings. Additionally they have few options when they are the victim of abuse.
Hence the disclaimer at the bottom of the post "As always there is no one truth, so if you have any counter (or supporting) examples please feel free to comment below." :)
Apple Crushes Earnings, Ships 7.3 Million iPads
I'd quote from the Unix Haters' Handbook http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/handbook.html

> "I liken starting one's computing career with Unix, say as an undergraduate, to being born in East Africa. It is intolerably hot, your body is covered with lice and flies, you are malnourished and you suffer from numerous curable diseases. But, as far as young East Africans can tell, this is simply the natural condition and they live within it. By the time they find out differently, it is too late. They already think that the writing of shell scripts is a natural act."

> Ken Pier, Xerox PARC

but while that jab illustrates the Everything Is Fine; Nothing Can Be Done mentality in computing very clearly, it's probably unfairly disrespectful to East African people.
Do you also avoid black people? Statistically they are much more likely to be criminals. So you only allow your family to be around white people right? Do you feel safer that way?

This is an excellent question. Do I avoid Black people? Honestly, there are some Black people I do avoid. The difference between "Black people" == criminals and male childcare workers == pedophile, is my ability to differentiate when I think those equalities are true in a specific instance.

The majority of crime by Blacks fits into a subset of the Black population that is distinguishable by a variety of factors. Not perfectly (not near perfectly), but close enough that I don't roll through certain areas of Detroit or BMore at 2am. I work with Blacks on the job, and they're no more likely to commit crime than Whites.

I seriously wish the same could be said of pedophiles. Seriously, I'd pay money for that ability. I don't have that ability or insight. If someone else does, more power to them, I'd love to know what you know.
One interesting figure is: 16.24 million iPhones versus 7.33 million iPads + around 10 million iPod Touches. That's around 17 million non-iPhone iOS devices versus around 16 million iPhones, and illustrates why increasing Android sales don't seem to dent iOS sales/usage statistics as much as the phone OS debate might suggest. Most iOS devices being sold are, in fact, not iPhones!
Thanks for your feedback. I have some questions:

1) Can you give me examples of some sites that have designs that are more trusting to your eye?

2) Care to go into the list of features that I'm missing?

3) Are you suggesting that calendar information be imported from Google Calendar or exported to it? Exporting information should be easy. I'm not really sure what type of information could be imported since the information stored in Google Calendar is probably too basic.

4) I was thinking of adding a section in the admin that would allow for custom fields to be added. Add additional fields and give them a custom label.

5) Shorter than Reservv? Could be tough.

6) I'm going to allow the logo to be changed at no cost. It's on my to-do list.

7) I was thinking of adding the option to prompt customers to enter their payment information when making an appointment. If the appointment is not cancelled, the payment would be automatically processed at the time of the appointment.
Young girl survives 13 degrees C body temperature
MediaElement.js - HTML5 video player with Flash and Silverlight shims
Cause frankly, the invention sucks.
Downvoting is not shaming. Comments calling the poster out as being an idiot, pointing out his fallacies, etc would have qualified as shaming.
Why not just have a non-compete clause within the license. At least legally this would allow for internal use with local backups. I highly doubt execution of a similar service using tarsnap would even happen, if that's what the worry is.
Since this is an earnings report ... would you buy AAPL right now?
The job market for newly minted accounting PhDs is very, very, good. ASU placed an accounting student at USC for example.
1.78 Million Facebook Users May Die in 2011
Presumably because he has better things to do with his time. His commercial competitors universally do not release their source code at all. Stop picking on him for his license.
Isn't this the same category of bug that led to the Sony master key leak? Amusing, if so.
Easier still: Right Click -> Inspect Element -> Delete key
How did you estimate the number of iPod touches?
As far as I can tell, sarkozy doesn't have a study proving his point (or proving your straw-man version of his point) and you don't have a study proving yours.

Now, why is it that you are entitled to an opinion and he is not?
Oh man, there goes all that PageRank from when they mentioned my site!
That's how society gets rid of future kids (AKA "solving problem of overpopulation").
The more dangerous it is to deal with kids (because of potential legal consequences), the less people want to deal with kids.
End result: childcare (formal and informal) is getting more expensive, potential parents have less children or don't have children at all.
"7 million iPads is a pretty good market to develop for."

That's just the quarter. I think there's 15 million total running around. For a product that is not even a year old. Astounding.
Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose...No one can be that stubborn, specially after being proven wrong time after time.
Bandwidth.com and Verizon Just Made VoIP Sustainable
Yes, you are missing something, though your overall point is correct.

"Some people probably wish" refers to the people who stand to lose business to Netflix, not suggestion that consumers will wish it, or that it's bad for consumers in general.