skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the number of servers (and cores) plus 16TB of memory, 1ms is an enormous amount of time. 500ms is 1/2 a second.
there's nothing inherently special about a security firm being compromised anymore than a plumber's getting a leak - what matters is the damage and how they fix it.

A word of advice: If a plumber gets a leak, it's no big deal. If a plumber's office gets massive but avoidable water damage through their short-sighted incompetence, don't hire them.
Cool name and really nice design. Can you elaborate on what frameworks you used and how long it took to make?
Renounce your citizenship for something other than to avoid taxation. Like, you're suddenly in love with socialized medicine. Or to "protest the war" or "America's imperialism". Just don't mention taxes in your "exit interview" and there you go.
I think there must be very few examples of groups of things for which 'best' is a useful word.

What's the best car? What's the best country? Who's the best singer? What's the best beer? Which is the best musical instrument? Who's the best ever artist? Who's the best ever scientist?

As a step towards a more answerable version of your question, how about this: What are some orderings by which we can evaluate programmers? Who comes at the top of those? Who comes at or near the top of several?
I'll echo that that depends very much on funding source. For some university postdocs, it is around $35K, for NIH postdocs, it's less than $50K. Given that the typical postdoc has done a PhD for 5-7 years and many people do two postdocs, it is something to consider. For example, the typical biologist gets her first from NIH at 42....Then, there are those that don't find employment using their science skills, but percolate into other industries (consulting, finance, etc.). I think it's a great lifestyle for those that succeed, but it is extremely competitive--finding faculty positions has also gotten harder due to contracted state funding of universities...
Alas, a restart was required. Hopefully watch.slingbox.com will work correctly now. In the past, I had to restart the browser when navigating to watch my slingbox.
Live coverage of Mubarak's speech in Cairo's Tahrir Square
really love the (somewhat new?) design on their blog
My answer is probably not the best answer here but a friend uses Vim and I was introduced that way. I'm sure if I didn't know anyone using Vim, the chances of me picking it up and trying to dive head first on my own into how Vim works would be slim, albeit not impossible.
Right, good catch there - it was a sloppy typo.
The keycode is unique to each log-in attempt.
Ahh, now that is an interesting angle, but that would suggest that the rate of introduction of new technologies is linear and that every new technology must have a period of exponential growth initially.

(Or I suppose... That the rate of introduction of technologies with initially exponential growth rates is linear. You could ignore those without exponential growth rate provide that a constant number did.)
Adyen (www.adyen.com) is based in Amsterdam, did you check them?
Anyone has any experience with them?
Programming recipes for the use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF)
I wouldn't bet on it. In the "preview" round, Watson seemed to come up with its answers more or less instantaneously. (Or at least, before the host finished reading the question.) My guess is the limiting factor is the quality of the underlying dataset and cleverness of the algorithms, not CPU time.
can one do a chroot?
Look at your startups like projects - Kornar Experiments
Feedback Galore: Email Template to get Real Customer Feedback
A welcome news considering the value of PhD is being questioned of late. But of course, I speak only for those in STEM subjects.
Sigh, why does this have to come out of the military industrial machine?

Little known fact: over 1,000 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have lost a limb (out of 41,000 wounded that survived because of more advanced medicine).

I hope they don't use this development to justify that it's okay because we certainly don't talk about it much otherwise.
As I understand it, you need a secure & clean initial set-up, after which the user should not have to enter a key again as the handshake between your machine and Google will automatically change.

Phishing won't work if the user does not have to enter the key again. It requires a clean (no keylogger etc) initial setup. Once installed if someone phishes the end user wouldn't need to re-enter a key, thus defeating the phishing scheme.
Anon should write it together, using Etherpad.
Here's a better alternate plan for you:

Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco.

They're all fine as long as you use common sense.
Use the bathroom. Hold it in.
$40K for a how many hour week?
I'm curious whether this is actually going to work in practice, because the see-throughish behavior leads me to think that there's a large separation distance between the individual cameras in the experiments (perhaps the test cameras are too large to bring them, say, 0.2 mm apart) whereas this would not be the case on a tiny cellphone camera.
Based on the number of mentions of the "concerns of the Muslim Brotherhood", it seems likely that the Egyptian people are either in for a) military rule or b) a religious theocracy. I'm hoping for c) a true democracy, but the track record on that is pretty bad in the Middle East.
That article is sort of bullshit. They already taped the Watson Jeopardy episodes last month, they just haven't aired them.

Watson won.
What about dust?
Is anyone else concerned that Google is now basically forcing this on us, so it can build a database of not only our online history, contact info, etc... but now linking it to a real-life phone number? Think of what the NSA could do with data like that.

Not to mention the whole MAC address collection they did with the Streetview cams as well (allowing them to tie a MAC address and/or IP with a GPS coordinate)

I'm prepared for the down-votes on this one, but it's something to think about.
True, and Barr's idea is not actually far off; Facebook and other social networking sites are intelligence goldmines, linking people to aliases, groups, networks, and a lot of other things. Think of how hard it may be for a fugitive to retreat to a trusted safehouse when he's published a list of everyone he's ever met on Facebook via the Friends list, and/or named the handful of people he hasn't friended in a status or note.

The CIA has shown interest in Facebook's database for a long time, because, besides the normal detective work a normal detective can do if he reads through a Facebook page, if you get a handful of real mathematicians working with that dataset, they can certainly rig something up that would at least return really interesting results.
Please let us know the following:

- at what stage is the startup at, how much pre-work is done?

- what do you bring to the table? (other than idea, idea is worth nothing)

- why should anybody work for your startup vs starting my own?
Okay, but if you are hired after the new offices were designed, you now have no input into the design and no "right" to customize the environment. I"m not a fan of the Zappos office (it would drive me bonkers) but I do think folks should have a right to express their personality in their work environment so that they can feel more at "home". 37signals doesn't just look clean, it looks severe, sterile and unwelcoming - I remember a lot of dot-com marketing firms having offices like that in New York (anyone else remember the shark tanks at KPE?)

As I look around my work space right now, it's reasonably "business-like" but it's also obvious there is a lot of WORK getting done - white boards covered in post-its and sketches, index cards with stories tacked to the wall, etc. Those artifacts allow our team to cooperate better, but they're also part of how we "own" the space and make it ours.
+1 to what lionhearted wrote -

Because programmers don't ask for more money often enough.

In particular,
Programmers never focus on 'ensuring they get what they deserve'.
Other people take advantage of the fact that programmers never focus on this part.
Or as the BBC news website currently has it:

Egypt's Mubarak 'may stand down'
Startups are About Making Great First Impressions
The post is about the rare instances-- the turn-offs. Perhaps I should say "almost everyone."
"In Silicon Valley we have the highest concentration of aggressive people in the United States."

Really? More than Fort Hood, Camp Lejeune, or the Louisiana State Penitentiary? What about New York City? I suspect that SV, in fact, has one of the highest concentrations of beta males in the US, and this club is an over-compensation mechanism.
> Now I can just see you saying, Economic interests? What economic interests. They are a military! Which is entirely reasonable, but wrong. The Egyptian military is somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of Egypt's economy.

Reminds me of China.
To be honest for a long time I thought Quora was a stack exchange site with a different skin; I only ever saw the q&a pages.

In the article he actually says he took 3 months to get the q&a page design done, interesting that they ended up with a design for that page that is so uncannily similar to SO's.

I appreciate that the reward mechanism is different and I can't comment on the home page as it is behind a signup page, but still, they seriously had never seen SO even in June 2009? Not even a little bit of influence there?
First the picture shows a finished conventional camera module, packaged and including the focus, zoom drives, cable and connector. The concept camera apparently doesn't need any PCB or link to the camera.

The limit on cellphone cameras isn't optical it's computational - the CPU and battery power isn't there to stream more than VGA resolution movies at 60fps, so how is it going to do the image combination for this?
The erlang vm isnt magical, erlangs stability is derived from the semantics of the language and that should transfer to the jvm fine.

on the same vein erlangs syntax and semantics are heavily linked, erlangs syntax is not some afterthought with a vm that makes everything stable, its a core feature of the language and a big part of why its a pleasure to program and rock solid
I don't use vim, I use fuv - http://secretgeek.net/fuv_intro.asp
Report: Egypt Turned Off the Net With a Big Switch, Not Phone Calls
You can print out a set of one-time codes and then put that paper in your wallet. That's what I'm doing.
They get to be anonymous by all assuming the same name, "Anonymous"

People have been doing something like that for thousands of years. That's never meant that everything done under that name was wholly aimless and spontaneous.
Customer Service Is The New Marketing
No: profile first.
You should ask over at http://www.flashgamelicense.com/ in their forums, 1000s of flash game devs there, some will have used the packager.
While I have used this kind of authentication before, I'm not intimately familiar with it. From the way Kincaid described it in the article, it seems the key is unique only to a general moment in time, not each log-in attempt (though it wouldn't be hard to imagine it being invalidated as soon as it was used).

If it is only a moment in time, I assume the phishing script could simply log in at the same time and hope the user has the "once per computer" setting enabled. Though this seems like too big of something to miss. Can anyone offer some clarification?
Startup Quote: Aaron Patzer, founder, Mint
You can generate application-specific passwords and then see/revoke those passwords on your google.com/accounts page.
This looks like a great way for the Blaze people to get a whole load of useful data on mobile phones, how they're used, latency, connectivity etc.

Hopefully they'll release some findings. It'd be useful to know for example how Android and iPhone connectivity differs on the same cell at the same time.
The future of online messaging
Fair enough ... I have a PhD in CS (recent). I make it a point to warn people it is not the good life profs and stupid articles make it out to be.
Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they’re going to steal it.

- Aaron Patzer (@apatzer)

http://startupquote.com/post/3218837306
From a material point of view.
I do this with my CR-48.
Wow, I guess my experience (in applied math/computational science) was atypical. I didn't get a single offer below $45k, and the only person I know who took less than that was working in New Zealand.

I guess applied math is the place to be if you want to stay in academia.
XP came out almost 10 years ago. Now is probably a good time to upgrade.

October, 2001
You can print out a set of one-time codes and put them in your wallet, plus you can specify a backup phone number. That's what I did.
It's pretty, and sounds good. I've used Nagios for server monitoring in the past and that can be a bit of a pain, but that's because you can use it to monitor damn near anything. As a sometimes-sys-admin, I assume that in order to achieve your claim of "Monitor virtually any Linux, Windows or Cloud Service" that you're going to be offering only pretty basic metrics. Can you elaborate on how you'll keep it simple when dealing with virtually-infinite possible combination of server configs?
Keep it very affordable or have a workable free plan and I will be happy!
The best, sure, but the majority? I've seen many people in academia fall prey to the flaws and capriciousness of their advisors, so people often toe the line in order to minimize confrontation. And we haven't even taken into account the evil, corpulent morass that is the world of academic bureaucracy.
Why would someone trust OpenLeaks after what he admitted to sabotaging his old associates?
I believe twitter and Facebook's influence is painfully overstated.
I guess it comes down to what people expect from a "ShowHN" style post. I want to say that ShowHN posts have been, for the large part, requests for feedback on completed sites.

If you need responses on the validity of your idea, a simple AskHN with the outline of your idea would probably have yielded better results. I had a similar reaction to Joachim, eg "this looks more like an attempt to get signups"
Are you sure it was CheddarGetter that turned you down? I've also been denied but it was one of their supported payment gateways that denied me (even though I applied through CG).

Recently been thinking of changing to Chargify now that they support a payment gateway in Scandinavia. We (http://beaconpush.com, push service for Web Sockets) currently have our custom-built system for recurring payments. It works, but I really don't want to spend time hacking on it. I rather be focusing on our core business of developing our service.
Best measured by dollars - Bill Gates.
Does it now support css transitions/transforms?
Despite it's practicality, I for one enjoyed the statistic.
If you don't want this feature, don't opt in--it's not required. I love that I don't need to worry as much about people trying to hack my Gmail account.
BOOM Goes The Dynamite 500 Startups Announces Accelerator Program
That was a practice round: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/ibm-watson-jeopardy/
Defamation and libel are civil offenses, meaning (in my lay understanding) a person can be held financially liable if sued but cannot be imprisoned or otherwise restricted except as far as he can be constrained to pay the judgment filed against him.
Ethan, that's exactly what I'm going for! If you're interested in connecting about it let me know (vladik dot rikhter at gmail)
You say that, but Zappos' offices look more like most hacker personal spaces I've seen (just replace streamers with cables and turn the lights right down..) I know more geeks who live in a mess than those who adopt a stylistic, minimal approach. But maybe I know too many Unix nerds.. ;-)
I've had no end of success by simply slapping a name sticker over my coat, wearing my side-backpack/laptop-bag, both of which because I usually have limited time before class, and simply having fun.

Booth-sitters are usually bored, know less about the details of the job you might get than the people you'd be working with (they're often HR), and have dealt with many kids wearing suits and sounding important. But they are there to be the first line of defense. So be yourself, someone they could work with and maybe even like, rather than someone who sounds like everyone is trying to sound like!

And bring a resume. One page. If you can't sell yourself in half that, they won't read the rest, so make your point and make it fast.
So a tripit like product for shipping wouldn't interest you?
Fingers crossed that they do it right this time. Right now I informally group browsers to test into four groups: IE6, IE7, IE8, and all the rest (where it's rare to find inconsistencies or WTFs). It would be great if IE9 went into the "all the rest" category.
I can't imagine an internal view of programming that's so much more quantitative than qualitative that it could lead to forming a question like this.
I have no idea when I made my Gmail account. It was years ago when "gmailswap" was the place to be. I know there's other options, but still.
so a tripit like product wouldn't interest you? i'm less interested in going to a dedicated site, would much rather just get email/sms updates.
Charlie: the CIA's robot fish
I don't see "compliant" in that sentence.
I wonder how skewed this community is. Within the HN world there is a healthy skepticism about the value of Twitter, yet at the same time support for it, and everyone claims to be getting value from the service.

Outside of this bubble what I hear is that FB subsumed all of Twitter's features a year or two ago and they have abandoned their twitter accounts. Of course this is just my experience and may not be representative in the bigger picture, but having worked on a project that analyzed the various hoses from Twitter what I found was that when you eliminate spam and filter out all the people that tweet less than one every couple of days, the actual number of people using the service (at least for lang=EN) was dramatically lower than the accepted numbers. Possibly the growth is outside of the English speaking world.

Of course there is all the hype around Twitter saving kidnapped children in China and being behind revolutions in the Middle East, but I suspect these are news stories without much substance. Given that Egypt is 165 and China 105 in world literacy ranking (CIA world fact book) I seriously doubt that Twitter plays a role anywhere close to word-of-mouth communications.

That said, who knows what it's worth. If Twitter had come up with the "Like" idea and integrated that into its service before FB did then I might agree with the valuation, but in this economy he who holds the most ad-centric data, and who garners the most user eyeballs and time has the most potential to monetize. And right now that's FB.
In my experience, recruiters who set up at career fairs tend to do it wrong sometimes, too. I haven't been to a career fair since I graduated university in 2004, but there are reasons I stopped going to them.

1. Show Up. This is self-explanatory, right? On a number of occasions, a company would set up a table with a poster or two alongside a locked bin for people to drop their resumes in. I don't mind if a one-person booth steps out for a little bit for a snack or to use the restroom, but I've seen more than several booths totally unmanned during an entire fair. It puts a bad image on your company that you can't even bother to send an individual or two to represent your interests.

2. If you don't have positions open, don't show up. This might contradict point #1, but almost worse yet were people who were just there to collect resumes even though they didn't have jobs open at their company. It's just as stimulating as getting an email saying "We'll keep your resume on file." If you're not hiring, why am I talking to you?

3. On demanding absolute GPA minimums. I get that each company wants to hire the best and the brightest especially when hosting booths at university fairs, but honestly those who are expecting a certain GPA without giving any consideration to experience or what the candidate demonstrates in knowledge.. well, it makes you look like asses. I recall(read: I was bitter for a little while about) talking to a recruiter from a well respected financial company looking for developers. The first thing he asked me was my GPA, and after telling him it was about .08 points under their minimum cut-off, he simply handed my resume back and refused to talk to me. Joke's on them since I got hired at a larger one a little while after I graduated about a year later...

4. If you're a big company, send multiple people. Our time is just as valuable as yours, and I don't want to wait for 30 other people to each get done shooting their 4-minute breeze with you as the only person at your table. Having multiple people to talk to candidates helps everyone feel like the line is moving, and distracts me from having to mentally figure out how many other companies I could've talked to while I waited in your line. I understand it's not always possible since career fairs are pretty low on a company's day-to-day priority list, but nevertheless it should be taken into consideration.

5. Go beyond brochures I'm a literate person and I've probably already combed through your website. Talk to me about what you do, and what your experience with your company has been like. Smiling and handing me a brochure and hoping that I'll walk away isn't going to leave me with a memorable impression.

6. Free swag rules This isn't actually a bone to pick.. but having unique swag to give out is good PR. If you don't have anything it's perfectly fine, too. But people like free stuff :)
Well, except that according to a few news outlets, WebOS will be coming to desktops and notebooks as a layer _on top of_ Windows. But of course that can be a transitional stage.
Website works on Firefox but NOT on Chrome - intermittently.
Often I find certain websites work properly in Firefox but not on chrome. I used to think its network issue till I try with Firefox when it would load correctly.

Ex: godaddy.com does not load correctly in Chrome from time to time, but works fine with Firefox.

Is it just my network or laptop acting weird or is this really an issue?
More ominously, we may be entering a broadly inflationary new cycle where nearly all assets are priced higher, but in dollars that are decreasing in value. Commodities prices seem to indicate this. With a zero percent fed funds rate, there's no where else for the money to go...
It appears that document outlines a conspiracy to commit Federal computer crimes.
What does tradition have to do with anything?
Relevant video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I
Same for us, their gateway turned us down.
Generally in line with guywithabike. 7 is surprisingly not-bad[1], I'd argue an actual improvement over XP unless you're running on really old hardware (relatively speaking, of course). Vista, of course, should never have existed.

[1]: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/30/
I don't get your point. The choice of a language determines how a company will be run? No startup would ever use Java to create their product? Java is a bad language because it's used in large companies? What was your point exactly? Or is it that there is no point and you just felt the need to bash Java a little?
Any booth that doesn't have real workers on ignore.
There is no point in talking to MSFT HR drones at a MSFT stand - what have learned that you couldn't get from the application web page.

ps. It is worth looking for companies you have never heard of.
While there is no point in listening to a speech from a MSFT HR drone - the small company that have their CTO on the stand who are making a cool technology might be worth your time.
After installing, slingbox.com worked without a hitch! Good work guys and gals! (I know, replying to myself)