skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting you mention that - a friend of mine has that too, and I never knew it. Only a couple of years ago there was an article about it and I recognized his symptoms (and he himself, too). Apparently it is actually very common, is it something like 10% of people being affected?
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Debian testing(wheezy) lists version 1.8.7. Any chance this will get into wheezy ? Love the fact that Guile has picked up a lot of steam.
That was 15 years ago. I would really enjoy the show if IBM tried to backstab Google and Facebook, while everybody thinks the race is between the latter two only.
Sure, but Background tasks wouldn't alleviate the problem, I think? The tasks would still have to be coded in a "nice" way.
I think they are just starting to understand the amplitude of their mistake.
Firefox uses plenty of new Vista/7 APIs. If you abstract the implementations out suitably, you can easily support both the old XP APIs and the new Vista/7 ones.
Not in Britain, though, where there is no culture of carelessness:
http://www.google.fi/search?q=british+lose+confidential+data
Using sensible wrappers around Net::HTTP would resolve the issues with the unreasonable defaults.

Wrest (http://github.com/kaiwren/wrest) would be a good-fit here: it defaults to VERIFY_PEER for SSL connections, has client-side caching support, comes with a fluent API, redirect support, callbacks, patron (curl) back-end etc. etc.

The project is being actively maintained, and we're working to add async support using EM for now.
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And his recent FOSDEM speech can be read at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fos.... There was good discussion on the recent LWN story, too: http://lwn.net/Articles/426763/
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Windows Phone 7 Connector: Microsoft's First Mac App Store App
I switched from Mozilla to Chrome... Mozilla is just waaay too slow. The only thing I missed were the extensions, but Chrome is getting better on those as well.

Based on my experience, Mozilla has a lot of reasons to be afraid of Chrome.
Yeah you're right, can't seem to update title now.
But thanks.
"best and brightest technology minds on our site, including over 300 Microsoft MVPs"

That's an odd measurement of what it takes to qualify as one of the "best and brightest technology minds"...

To be fair, I once was an MCP.
>> >> You think voting helps you get the right answer; I think it's arrogant and rude that someone else tells you what works best for you.

>> WHAT? You ask a question because you want help and don't know what works for you. How is answering that question arrogant and rude? (Voting is also an special type of answering mechanism).

>> Sometimes the most voted answer may not solve your problem, but tell you that what you are trying to do is wrong. I think the votes let you know which of the solutions to consider before trying out any of the solutions.

Yep, sometimes people up vote things which miss the point of questions (as originally intended) but generally they don't and even when they do (a) the information therein is interesting and useful and (b) the answer is probably of interest to anyone else with a similar problem who might want more than a single opinion on how to handle things.

Surely a fundamental part of these sites is that the person originally asking the question is only one potential user of the answers and others will look at the information after them? The advantage of SO is that it allows you to see two things (1) what did the original questioner think most useful and (2) what does the community think is the best solution to the problem.

The original asker is coming from a real world problem / solution perspective which is great but may have specific reasons for accepting an answer which are not stated in the question and are therefore unclear to me. On the other hand the community judges on only what's there and because it's the voice of many is less likely to be skewed by single specific factors.

But ultimately as someone reading the question after the event both of these are useful to me.

Worst case scenario is you have to review two answers not one - the highest voted answer and the accepted answer. To me that's a very small price which is almost always rewarded with better information so I'm very happy with it.

As for thinking that others voting (essentially contributing their time and experience to read an answer, check it against their knowledge and experience and say "I think this is a great point which is worth reading") is rude and arrogant then possibly he should extend that view to those who are so rude and arrogant as to think they could possibly answer your question. They're both contributions to helping people solve their problem as quickly and well as possible and are basically the same thing.
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Your mistake is mistaking the personal blog of someone on Mozilla's marketing team for an official Mozilla position, I think...

If you want to know why _Paul_ posted this, you should probably ask him.
Because IE is still missing something as fundamental as data uris, and the font is specified that way in the CSS.
Internet != Web
One person out of almost half a million, I am sure it was in jest, anyway, you were up voted the most showing that anyone coming to that topic will see that you have the best answer. It obviously, in that specific example, is just not what the asker was wanting.

Come back to SO! :)
Oops. I didn't know why I squared 4/30, which is better since it is once every ~7.5 months.

Its not as non-random as csomar suggested, since you could have the day off any day of the week. However you usually get a day off once a week. I guess it should be better estimated at 1/7 chance of having the same day of, per week. That gives roughly 1 day every 2 months
You may always invest in places that don't have the "accredited investor" limitations...
Nokia had three options they were considering:

A MS WP7
B Google Android
C Both MS WP7 and Google Android
I agree with you that using nicknames is hankering back to the "old" way, but I can't see why it wouldn't be possible anymore to separate on & off. Simply because a couple of IT moguls (Schmidt, Zuck and such) have predicted one future for us? We humans have enough talent and imagination to escape, distort and nullify those bleak predictions. AT least I hope so.

And yes, using a nick on FB means exactly this: you don't want anyone to call you. I simply don't want to network with my friends & family on facebook (better ways are available), but i needed access to the API ^^
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Here you can find a huge resources like: Photoshop Styles, Shapes, Business Cards Templates, Brushes, Icons, Buttons, Textures, Web Elements ....
Is Profounder actually working? Any experiences?
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(project offline for now, link will 404 - sorry)
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Hehe, forgive _my_ ignorance..these companies are doing pretty much what I was suggesting. I'm not that versed in the details of reasonably young companies.
Please consider doing at least the following:

Generate a separate file (csv/sql or something) with the structure:

IP Address, number of submissions

and make it available for download.

I guess people could use it to flag probable spam.
A few months ago, I sat down to talk with Naval because of problems that I was seeing with a lot of garage stage startups that were showing up at Hackers and Founders. We talked for a few minutes about how I thought that early stage funding was the definition of an inefficient market.

He stopped me, mid sentence, turned his laptop around and showed me what they were building on Angel List. I was floored.

It's exactly what the article talks about: a marketplace for startups to sell equity. This is revolutionary, and because of it, there are going to be thousands of startups in the next few years that will have access to capital that never would have gotten funded otherwise.

Silicon Valley is going to be a very interesting town in the next couple of years.
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there's more than one definition crux,
Victus is also translated as nourishment. My favorite words have a few contradictory interpretations.

http://www.online-dictionary.biz/latin/english/meaning/victu...
The one valid point in the original EE blogpost for me is what is the SO/SE business model.

I'm assuming that there is one, I don't believe Joel and Jeff are stupid, it's just not clear to me what it is.
Actually, that article is one of the most interesting and useful examples to point to when discussing the insanity that is Joel. That solution is just so ridiculous.

His software runs on a compiler that has had 2 months work put into it and worse, it compiles to either VBScript or PHP.

It's probably the most counter-intuitive solution ever implemented to solve the problem of needing a web-based application to run on both Windows and Linux.
> Enough regulation (and entrenched interests/semi-monopolies) to make new entry in the field prohibitive, but not enough to force incumbents into e.g. line-sharing and local loop unbundling, compounded by incumbents holding great sway over politicians and (directly or indirectly) over those supposed to oversee them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
If you have a net worth of over $1M, you qualify to be an angel as per the SEC. Or, if you've made over $200k in the last 2 consecutive years.
Are his presentations disappointing because he's the world's pre-eminent name in presenting visual data and you wouldn't be impressed by anything short of having information downloaded, Matrix-style, directly into your brain? Or are they actually disappointing compared to other presentations, providing strong evidence that his books and theories are highly overrated?
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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites, ‘By Mistake’
Facebook has lists and fine-grained privacy controls, use them. I've got a list for 'friends' and 'acquaintances'. The acquaintances list only gets to see the wall posts and photos that I approve as acquaintance-friendly.
While I don't disagree with you, I wonder how much of this is a function of Apple not being able to figure out how to monetize the Internet to the profit percentages they want and/or use the Internet to constrain people to the Apple ecosystem (which I suppose it just another path to monetization).
The title should really be 787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing a costly lesson in due-diligence. This sort of thing has nothing to do with outsourcing and everything to do with poor decision making by management.
Experts Exchange's need to talk about Stack Overflow is a sign of the shifting dynamic between the two sites

This. In a competitive market, you attack the guys above you, and ignore the guys below you. EE has just let the world know where they view themselves vis-a-vis SO.
Couldn't I just run the images through a service like tineye and get the peoples names that way? Seems like a weak test.
It's in their best interest, too, like for WP7 or Windows 8 for ARM. Otherwise, both WP7 and Windows ARM for tablets will be less appealing for consumers because they won't have enough apps.
Agreed. On top of that, the discussion about time in app is an implicit straw man. It's no surprise that one set of metrics might be more important to LinkedIn versus for Facebook, but the relative importance of a set of metrics for two different businesses targeting different audiences is a weak argument for their relative valuations.

Facebook has fundamentally changed the way millions interact with their social circle; LinkedIn's impact is smaller by far. I find this a pretty simple explanation for much of the difference in their valuations.
That's where we have Meta.SO for @Tyrannosaurs:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/79435/130099
How do these firms get away with such "strategies"?? Unbelievable.
.NET documentation is really good. I can't quantify it as being the best but there is so much training material out there.

Examples:
Tons of free video tutorials:
http://www.asp.net/web-forms
http://www.asp.net/mvc
http://www.mvcconf.com/

heaps of books
http://www.asp.net/community/books
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

then of course there is the Microsoft Developer Network
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/ff380144

with training courses/hands on labs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/VS2010TrainingCourse_AspNetM...

plenty of people who can answer your questions on SO (C# and ASP.NET are a couple of the most popular tags)
http://stackoverflow.com/tags

and msdn forums
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-au/categories

if you want to pay for training, there's plenty of that too, as .NET is used lots in the enterprise there is training centres and other paid services a plenty:
http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/
http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/catalog.aspx?brand=msd...

additionally, they have a certification program with all the training materials and training courses for that
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-v...

I realize that there is probably great documentation for other open source frameworks as well, but I can see that it's likely Microsoft will always have great documentation on the very latest versions of their tools as they pay people to make the documentation, whereas OSS frameworks are more likely to rely on people to write boring documentation in their spare time.
In Boeing's case wasn't there a secondary goal in outsourcing of drumming up foreign demand? I seem to recall reading an article a few years back where Boeing agreed to outsource the wing sub assembly to some Asian country and in return that country agreed to buy some number of Boeing planes. I can't seem to find the article now though.
Actually, FogBugz is trivial to scale - there is never any more than a few dozen, to hundreds of users for any one project.

And Copilot wasn't even envisaged or created by Joel, but was rather a project created by some interns.

FogCreek doesn't innovate (they have a bug tracker and a remote support application based on VNC). Joel just happened to be one of the first to blog constantly about technology. He doesn't even allow comments on his posts because he doesn't want to have to deal with people contradicting him (not that he doesn't do an excellent job at this himself).

There are so many great developers and businesses out there that you could use as an example to model your business and software on. Use them, not Joel. Let Joel's business and opinions fade away as other smart, innovative companies run rings around his ageing product suite.
More stable than Ruby? Rails may have started off quite leaky, but to call anything that's been put into production in the past 2 years unstable is just plain FUD.
Designing Java Classes For Inheritance
You are right about reuse across multiple internal systems not being strongly discouraged.

Where it does discourage reuse is across multiple systems, and with websites. Making me change my corporate password every 90 days is an effective way to ensure that I don't use my current password across a large number of websites. Maybe I'd go to the effort of making my gmail password the same as my corporate password. The password on that random news site account I forgot about? No ways.

It's not a panacea, but password expiry does effectively limit the spread of passwords in many cases.
I'm small-talk challenged. I feel uncomfortable calling up friends unless I have something specific to discuss; uncomfortable getting together with them on the weekend just to hang out. Facebook bridges the gap that leaves, and lets me keep up with their lives without having to constantly make extraordinary social efforts.
The two aren't as mutually exclusive as one might think. I'm anti-Apple when it comes to their walled garden media strategy, their iOS App store approach and most things connected those. I am however very pro nice, solid, laptops with a unix based OS that just works out of the box, and that basically means buying Apple.
Now that Oracle has usurped the Sun patents, Microsoft is keen on getting the Nokia ones. Plus, they can control Qt better, which is used in a few desktop systems that compete with Microsoft's products.
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Sell to people who jailbreak. Take advantage of Cydia. You just won't be able to reach people as easily (just like if you don't like Amazon's terms you make people jump through hoops to put your books on a Kindle).
An interesting explosion of Nokia plans after the B one. There's certainly not a lack of creativity out there.

It begs the question: what if Nokia, instead of selling their soul to Microsoft, simply would have asked their fans for help?

Yes, I know. Crazy. But, what if...?
Guile was RMS' counter-argument to tcl as an extension language back in the days, right? And wasn't it supposed to be a possible elisp replacement, too?

It would be very nice if someone could summarize the current state of the language, i.e. why one would use it instead of Racket or Gambit.
Not much different from what happened to airbus only a couple of years before.
Is anyone using guile for any fun project? Or are there any fun projects to work on with guile?

I would love to learn Scheme as my next hobby language and guile seems like the way to go with all the things that have started to happen with it lately.
I know we love to complain about this, but has this actually happened? Has anyone actually been sued by Apple for jailbreaking? Last I checked, the worst that happens is you void your warranty, and even then, people have restored iOS and gotten warranty service.
Even free service customers are still "customers". Mozy could have even spun this warning e-mail off as a promo for their Pro service. Send out an e-mail saying "Warning, your data will be deleted in x days", then the body can say something like "Mozy Free customers need login at least once every 30 days to keep their account active. Please click the link below and login to let us know you're still using our service. If you do not respond your data will be deleted.

You can remove this restriction by upgrading to Mozy Pro, for only $9.95/month."

Wham. Informs the customers, let's them fix their problem & gives them an alternative if they don't want to do this every 30 days.

Instead they elected to delete his data w/o giving a warning besides something deep in their ToS. There was a failure with him getting back into his account. When he finally got in and found out his data was gone, they basically sent him canned responses from customer service reps who obviously don't have the power to help customers. The only thing that saved his data was being able to write a angry blog post which caught the attention of Mozy PR. Surprise! Surprise! The data actually wasn't deleted after all.

Needless to say, if they really didn't have the data, then that would make them seem better in my eyes. The fact that they did have the data, but their customer service rep didn't have the power or the training to find it - or maybe he did but was not allowed to divulge it to a non-paying customer just reeks of mismanagement.
I don't floss every day, but I certainly wouldn't go to a dentist with obvious gingivitis.
WikiLeaks row intensifies as US makes 'privacy' move against Twitter
This isn't exactly the right place to ask this sort of questions. Why not email your distro's guile maintainer? Or open a bug report. Or just search for an already existing discussion on this topic on Debian's usual maintainer communication channels.
Yeah, Tcl had/has an "evil" BSD license.
Yea, that's what I've heard as well. I think India for example basically told Boeing and Airbus, "we're buying from whoever creates the most local jobs for us". So it has nothing to do with outsourcing to save money, and everything to do with outsourcing to close sales.
i first loved StrongSpace for the ability to programatically back things up.

now i love it for the automated snapshots.

who needs carbonite or mozy? this is backup done right for geeks
> OK, but in that case, what you really mean is a web app built for browsers that haven't even been released yet.

It is true that I am pushing to the future, but only because clients are so demanding. There's a lot of stuff out there that works fine with IE6, though.

IE8 is a generation behind. IE9 should be on-par when it comes out. That big web project I did should run on it without modification, (not counting any instances where I'm out of spec.)

> Sure, those are annoying, but as you point out, solutions are easy to come by

Well, sometimes. There's a jQuery plugin for postMessage-like functionality... but it's relatively limited in data size because it uses a hash hack. Neither FF nor Chrome flinch at postMessage-ing huge amounts of data.

> http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/

"I tried that. Don't you think I would have tried that?"

The solution people are using is to write a custom Flash piece that does the functionality they need specifically and interfaces with the JS.
As far as history goes, http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/History.h... is where it's at.
They could brand him as a butler. Maybe rename him to Jeeves! What could go wrong!!
The ELisp frontend of Guile 2.0 will allow a gradual migration from ELisp to Scheme by integrating Guile into Emacs and letting it execute code in both languages. I can't wait for that to happen.

Guile hacker Andy Wingo (wingo on HN, hi!) gave a talk about this and other recent Guile developments, which I summarized (and linked) here:
http://jugglingbits.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/andy-wingo-rece...
Personally I would prefer Racket over Guile, but if it starts to keep its promise about becoming the scripting language for linux then I would get more interested.

Any link for all the things that have started to happen with it lately for those of us who are out of the loop?
"The most likely cause of failure is your incompetence, not losing to the competition"

It is amazing how far you can get by not screwing things up too badly.

Whilst you keep pedalling and don't do any truly daft - competitors you once feared find novel and surprising ways of eliminating themselves.
Why is your doctor not prescribing technology?
I don't know. I mean, if you feel Oracle treated you like shit you can behave like this if you want to. To be the bigger man can be noble and all but blowing off some steam is pretty healthy.
Doh, should have thought to look.

Interesting, though not 100% convincing for me. EE is riddled with ads and yet clearly see the need to charge as well. SE and SO both benefit from the ability to target ads really well but programmers in particular are notorious for not clicking which will offset that for the core three sites at least.

In terms of the careers and CV model, it works fine for SO / SF but the rest of SE contributes nothing in that area which begs the question how do they support themselves (just low key ads?) and if they don't then aren't they just an overhead? Or are they deemed to basically be a very cheap by-product of the existing SO technology? In which case they don't really need to bring in much, just enough to cover hosting and ad sales so maybe that's the answer.

But I'm still thinking that there has to be something more.

That said the point about the home workers basically being cheaper is well made - there are two ways to be profitable - high revenues or low costs.
Not always so straightforward though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Giana_Sisters

I guess, as with anything, you can buried under legal nonsense if you're unlucky.
SE/SO == "Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow"