skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/issues/detail?i...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598166 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626966 are linked from there, but they seem to indicate it's done. Perhaps Firefox hasn't pulled in the fix for 3.x yet.
See my answer here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2244559

In order for e=mc2 you are required to have relativity. And a world without that could not exist.
Many App developers are being forced to change their practices, and find the new rules too burdensome to continue.

Which is the best solution to this problem. Please let this be the first use of the remote kill functionality. I have an iPad. While I would be a little sad to see big players like Netflix and Amazon pull their apps, I will be delighted with the uproar when the general public finds out about this. Unless the companies cave to Apple, this will make the Objective-C debacle look like small change.
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Android's browser has supported much of HTML5 for years now. Nobody can claim "full" support since HTML5 is a very vague term with a currently changing set of technologies included. I'm not even sure if it's still called HTML5 actually.

Edit: About Youtube: Yes. You can go there and watch the videos just fine. I think you're (transparently) redirected to the YouTube app.
> I’m increasingly noticing that I’m a mile wide and an inch deep. I find myself lacking any discretionary time to go deep on a subject and instead find myself constantly ‘catching up’ with what my feeds have sent my way.

This was a challenging post for me so I thought I'd share it with HN. I have felt this way for awhile but had not put it into words so well as the author.
http://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-na...
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Have you had a look at Unlearning Meditation?

http://www.unlearningmeditation.com/
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I haven't the faintest clue about how accurate the sort of story I'm about to use as a counter-point is, but what about capable hackers that succeed in breaking into government servers then being given a choice to either work for said government organization, or go to jail for a very long time?

Assuming those sorts of cases actually happen, how is this any different?
> The truth is, Adobe's engineering incompetence aside, Flash is a lot, lot better to make programs with than HTML5. Silverlight is a lot, lot better to make programs with than HTML5. Java, C#, Python, Ruby, C++ are all, as a whole, a lot, lot better programming languages than Javascript.

Your comment isn't very coherent.

-- Other than the fact that "better" is entirely subjective, how many modern web applications in widespread use are based on Flash rather than JS+HTML5? Gmail, facebook, twitter, google docs: no flash. Youtube: flash only for the video codec, not functionality.

-- "ActionScript is a dialect of ECMAScript": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript So what language features were you thinking of that make ActionScript/Flash better than Javascript?

-- Security holes in Flash vs. HTML5? hmm...

-- HTML5 on 64bit Linux? Check. Flash? still buggy.
In my experience, Montrealers develop for an international market by default. Everyone knows the domestic market will be too small to sustain whatever you're doing. And your initial business plan will have to involve two languages and probably two currencies and two legal regimes -- at minimum. So in some ways it's even more internationally-minded than a small EC country.

I was very surprised when I started working in the US and encountered this concept of "internationalization". ;)

I'm not saying it's a killer advantage, but it could be leveraged.
"I suspect you'll have better luck sharing your thinking behind this book, how you went about writing out, how you're going about marketing it, what sort of results you're seeing, how that compares with what you're hoping, what you're doing to make it better, etc..." - I completely agree. Thanks for the feedback! I have plans to do each. That type of lessons learned and analysis will be invaluable to the community. And I wouldn't miss the chance to share the same.

I know it sounds simple, but on this side-of-the-pond a lot of very good people are struggling with the economic reality that they've been gamed. Many will find what I have to say personally relevant and deeply useful.
Sometimes I wonder... if three fortune 500 companies just spent the same amount as their Oracle budget on Postgres devs, they could probably have a RAC competitor in three years.

Then, just another billion on transition costs, right? :)
The cops were "cordial" after rousting him out of bed while pointing automatic weapons at him. In other words, they armed up and stormed the residence of a suspect of a non-violent crime. That sounds pretty standard for the US, and for the same reason indicated by the instruction, "Get out of bed. Do not touch the keyboard".

SWAT-style tactics are rarely about any actual belief that the suspect has weapons and is likely to resist arrest, but about violently (sometimes lethally) subduing a suspect who might destroy evidence and impair the prosecution's case.

And, of course, the overtime pay for SWAT work in many US jurisdictions. Don't know how that works in Germany.
I love cooking. I find it relaxing. It also has the added benefit of eating healthier.
Probably the biggest two features are the dual core processor and the front and rear facing cameras (5 MP camera, 720p HD video capture).

Reportedly the memory is upgradable as well.
This act of coolness on the part of Microsoft makes my head hurt. I can't correlate "Microsoft" with "smart decision" anymore. I need an advil.

On a serious note: this is a really good way to stick it to Sony too, since they're going after GeoHot and making themselves look like assholes doing it.
I go out of my way to avoid using Flash on my Android phone.

Steve Jobs and others are right: Flash apps are not meant for touch screens, or mobile devices in general. I miss it only a little when I'm using iOS.
Yeah, I fixed that. It was just a weekend hack. I think the Goatse guy forced my hand
XSS fixed (I hope)
I am going to try this out. Looks easy and just what I need to store my favorites.
The scientific fact is it changes how your brain works, it's obvious on a brain scanner. That's when they scanned experienced monks, champion meditators.

A better life is something else though, hard to quantify.
I know what you're going for, and while you're probably a little unfairly downvoted and most people didn't get your joke, I think you should know that there are homes referred to as Tudor which weren't built during the Tudor era of the 1600's.
> Return some emails from 2005

My favorite.
Are you aware that 'Tudor' is an architectural style? A house can be brand new, and still be accurately called a Tudor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_architecture#Typical_feat...
Indeed, things that are not possible anywhere else seem to be possible in Silicon Valley. Having visited there myself I also found it a unique and interesting place. Having said that, the real world is not Silicon Valley. And even in Hollywood there's a lot of famous actors who only gained fame for one role and then disappeared, never to be seen again. I wonder if IT is similar in that way as well.
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We're building a product focused on connecting you with people that you can easily have a live (phone, skype, in-person) conversation with regarding your biz/product.

Who would you want to talk to?
- Entrepreneurs
- Designers
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PS We'll have some people donating their time later this week. Looking forward to your response!
> It's not Apple's duty to make it easier for you by building
> a boot loader into the device [...]"

Nobody said it was. In fact, I think for the most part nobody has ever said that it's Apple's duty to do anything. A bunch of folks have said it'd be nice if Apple did allow third-party distribution channels, and a handful of hackers went ahead and made one, but I don't think anyone's ever claimed that Apple had a responsibility to make that easy.
Why not boxing or exercising? It's healthier. I do 60 sit-ups and 50 push-ups every morning before breakfast. It definitely changed my life.
- crushing conformity ? check.

- love of me-too and sequels ? check.

- living off the glory days of the past ? check.

- patronage and network trump talent and originality ? check.

- overwhelming sense of self-importance ? check.

- lack of common sense economics ? check.

Maybe Silicon Valley is Hollywood for startups after all.
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Acceptance testing using Capybara's new RSpec DSL (Ruby)
I'm using EventMachine with em-websocket. But I might rewrite it in NodeJS to give that try with Socket.IO
An important question and I'm not sure why you were downvoted into oblivion:

Yes.

Quick link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_on_meditation
yeah, it was pretty hackish not to plug that. But it should be plugged now
Would "Tudor-style" satisfy your pedantry?
Give them X minutes (you don't have to tell them X) and then at X minutes simply say, "OK... that's fine. We don't need to solve it here, but I just wanted to get an idea of your coding process. Before we wrap this up, do you have any questions for me?"
In other words, apart from videoconferencing, it has virtually nothing to offer non-hacker customers?
The problem is I have yet to see a livestream solution, that isn't based on Flash. I watch soccer and starcraft livestreams quite often, and also did so on my Android in the subway. On a tablet that what be a must have for me.
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The difference between Germany and the US? Those types incidents are uncommon enough that you can remember individual occurrences.
I definitely agree that for a startup team, Github is making CS interview questions extinct. Even github itself claims so: http://ozmm.org/posts/who_we_hire.html - "at GitHub we hire "The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X," where X is an awesome project we all use or admire."

However, it is a different question if you are running a company like Google or Facebook. For instance, recently there was a news that Google received > 75,000 applicants and is looking to grow by more than 5000 employees this year. http://goo.gl/9fpkt

If you want to scale at this level, you won't have time to look at Github or similar sites for every candidate in detail. There will also be great candidates who have never published their code (although they might be the minority). To maintain hiring standards in this kind of situation efficiently, asking very difficult algorithmic questions might be the only way to go - at least you will be able to maintain the same hiring standards for 75,000 applicants.
No, you aren't. And what I find galling about the article is how they go out of their way to use sympathetic language in describing him. Just one example:

"Gembe's malware crimes, while undeniably exploitative and damaging, were crimes driven by a passion for games rather than profits."

I understand that it is important to explore his motivations, but the way this is phrased (in particular what seems to be an attempt to contrast the boy's "passion" with Valves lust for "profits") is pretty terrible. I don't think his "pure" motivations matter at all-- what matters is that he chose to steal the property of Valve and make it available to others. Whether Gembe meant for it to end up on the internet doesn't matter when it ends up on the internet.

I see a lot of comments on this that are sympathetic to the kid, and while I understand that feeling, I think a more sensible look at the situation demands that you feel sorry for him because he brought this upon himself, not because he was any kind of "victim".

I'm glad to see that he was able to get on with his life, and I probably don't agree with what U.S. authorities would like to have sentenced him to had they gotten ahold of him. But that doesn't make him the persecuted hero that so many people seem to think he is. And that doesn't mean he shouldn't have done some jail time either.
Do you have any photos you can link to?
* Can play HD video without downscaling

* Dual-core CPU

* Two cameras

* 4x the RAM (1GB)

* Expandable memory (SD slot)

* Supposedly 4G LTE data

Many of these may be more even when the iPad 2 comes out, but we'll have to wait and see.
> Getting anything equivalent to Active Directory up on Linux is an absolute nightmare, or at least so it was last time I tried. Making something as basic as making a Linux machine join a domain and authenticate against the DC work cost me a full weekend, and yet in the end I just had to give up.

I feel that your account of making a Linux machine play nicely with AD deserves a 'YMMV' addendum. In my experience it is not common that this should be so difficult to implement with a reasonably up-to-date Linux system. It also doesn't hurt to use a distribution that has undergone testing for this usage scenario, which is definitely true for the "enterprise" distros - both RHEL and SLES should give you very little trouble when it comes to joining a domain and authenticating against AD. It is indeed mostly a "just works" type of thing in the majority of cases.
Yes. Here's my own leek recipe:

http://www.pathelectronica.com/journal/public/2010/05/02/dea...
We usually name our stuff with the following very boring format:

[Server Role]-[#][d/t/p]

On the plus side its easy to maintain, easy to remember, and easy to explain to new hires.
This is essentially free R&D for Microsoft. No brainer.
What if Google changes its interview game and asks people to actually show what they actually built?

This is not likely to ever happen in a big way. Way too easy to show stuff that you built that you either didn't really understand or didn't really contribute to.

I've interviewed people with significant open source contributions who seemed almost incompetent in the interview. I almost suspect that they hired someone to do the checkins as I'd ask why they did X vs Y and it was like they didn't really know what X was, much less Y.
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Well he explains pretty well why adding people (any kind of people) won't work. To summarize it in one phrase: communication overhead.

You need to educate technical writers and testers on what the system does, but this is the easy part - you also have to allow for a period of transition of organization to accommodate all the new folks, that means education of the original team who is probably already panicked and stressed out..

There are two ways you can go about it IMHO to prevent total loss - triage the features and roll the thing out ASAP. Or you could try to make the most of situation by indeed adding people - but not in parallel since this will only increase the confusion. I would assign apprentices to the original team and branch off later.

In a situation like this you have to accept that you have screwed up and that there are no short term solutions. In longer term you can try to prevent similar mistakes.

Once the torpedoes are in water no amount of wishing is going to make them disappear. Time to tie down cargo and brace for impact.
For an ultraportable like this, battery life seems to be the most important thing. I'd like to see the methodology used under their BatteryEater Pro benchmark. If I'm reading the article right, it looks like a peg the CPU at load benchmark. I'm a much bigger fan of real world usage scenarios, which other review sites like Anandtech use for their battery life tests. (I'd also like to see battery life figures under a default load of Ubuntu.)
Anything. I enjoy baking more than cooking meals, but I happily do both.

Simple delicious dish: carnitas.
Use cheap pork shoulder (incidentally, the cheaper the cut of pork, the tastier!). Cut into 1" cubes and drop into a pot and add enough water to cover. Squeeze half a lime and add some salt to taste. Bring to boil and skim off the yucky stuff floating on top. Partly cover and reduce to SLOW simmer and let all water boil off. You are causing most of the fat to render out of the meat. It should cook for at least an hour. When water's all gone and pork is starting to fry in it's own fat, add chilies, garlic, onion and maybe more lime juice. The meat will be falling-apart tender by this time and now crispy outside since it's been frying.

Eat as is, or add a cup of rice and let the rice partly fry in the oil, then add 2 cups water or veggie broth, achiote (cooked, crushed annato seeds), more onions and peas & carrots and cook until rice is done. Enjoy.

Delicioso one-pot meal! Much easier to do than to read about it. Should not take more than 5 minutes preparation time.

Aside: in my single days, I quickly learned that one of the easiest ways to impress women was to cook for them. Following JWZ's philosophy of doing what gets you laid...
I am mad when a brand is obviously and garishly inserted into a movie in a way that breaks my suspension of disbelief. I am not mad when it adds to the suspension of disbelief by making the setting seem more real. Product placement is obviously banned on the BBC, and it seems totally ridiculous when characters in soaps/sitcoms only ever ask for 'beer' or 'wine' in the pub.

The second case is an artistic choice as well as a marketing choice, unlike the blatant mentioning of product names in dialogue that is so annoying. This corresponds to my point about social interaction solely for profit being the problem.

Similarly, my friend who likes certain music spams my feed with links because he likes me and because he wants me to share the enjoyment he derives from the music he's found. He may also want to increase the income of the band, but that isn't the only reason he puts the links there. I have other friends who are in bands or promote bands, and it does sometimes annoy me when they spam my feed.

I might be mad if a chess robot brought up a product, it would likely depend on how well it blended into the conversation in a similar way to how my attitude to movie product placements varies with how well they blend into the movie.

It would also depend on how good the robot was as a chess partner compared to other robots that namedrop products more/less. If it outshines every product on the market I might put up with a lot of marketing. By then we'll probably have adblock for our implant firmware anyway.
Reminds me Lego's success story with it's Lego Mindstorm vs the "hacking" community(http://open-your-innovation.com/2010/04/01/open-innovation-c...)
"With the introduction of LEGO Mindstorms ... advanced users began to hack the system to customize and use it ... After trying to fight these hackers, LEGO finally became aware of the potential that laid behind them. LEGO finally allowed such forced collaboration. " That quotes from the Open innovation and crowdsourcing section a little down the page.

Good job Microsoft for realizing the possible same community fate awaits you. =)
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I came to Forth after programming in Postscript and still have a fondness for stack-based languages. I actually think Postscript was the better language of the two, it seemed to easier somehow.

// In the early 90's I got a job that needed me to create a lot of reports / graphs out of a foxbase database. I had a postscript printer and a copy of Turbo C 2.0 (don't forget to download the floating point patch). Gotta love hand coding Postscript templates. I was loving life when I finally got a openstep box.
I think Robbie does a great job acknowledging that you can make it in other cities, while pointing out that there is something special about the valley.
Sent, same subject line.
So let me get this straight, because this wasn't "some evil corporation", but rather a corporation who "make cool games", you think that some kid deserves a "long time" in fucking PRISON?

Are you not familiar with the American justice system at all? I have a hard time wishing American prison on murders and rapists, people who do actual tangible harm to people.
The point I'm trying to make is that while I'm sure you could make an XML-based DSL that does its job, I don't think anyone would enjoy using it over an alternate way of implementing the language. Thus, being forced to program in it would drive them insane.
Show HN: Homemade rocket ship treehouse, from hardware to custom OS
A few of my friends at Microsoft Research just capped off a two year project to build a working rocketship tree house "equipped to explore the lower frontier of the troposphere."

http://rocket.jonh.net

The vehicle is a hexagonal capsule, 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) high, atop a tripod 7.5 feet (2.3 meters) high, for an overall height of about 15 feet (4.6 meters). It is about 6.5 feet (2 meters) across at its widest point. The frame is welded mild steel with riveted aluminum siding. It contains nearly 800 LEDs forming dozens of numeric displays spread across 14 control panels, each with an acrylic face laser-cut and etched with labels such as "Lunar Distance" and "Hydraulic Pressure". The pilot controls the rocket using a joystick and panels full of working switches, knobs and buttons. Underneath the capsule are three "thrusters" that shoot plumes of water and compressed air under the control of the pilot's joystick, simulating real positioning thrusters. Takeoff and docking sequences are augmented by a paint-shaker that simulates the vibration of a rocket engine. Sound effects complete the illusion, with a powered subwoofer that gives the rocket a satisfying rumble.

Behind the scenes, rocket operations are controlled by three Atmega328 microprocessors on custom-fabricated printed circuit boards, running a small operating system, RULOS, that they built just for this project. The processors communicate using an in-rocket TWI network and will eventually talk back to the house over a serial port. A trench running from the house to the rocket carries 12VDC power for the lighting and electronics, water for the thrusters, compressed air, and several data signals.

This isn't just a cool hack, it's a labor of love...
I don't agree that Apple's rules have to be structured the way they are. I do agree that if one merely extrapolates out the current structure, then the rules make sense, but I don't think it's a logical extension of how it has to be.
I wonder how this works for apps connecting to APIs that they don't own. For example, if I'm not 37signals and I make a Basecamp app, would it get rejected because I don't have access to their billing API?
yes, but even reading it correctly, it was an empty comment that added nothing to the conversation. It doesn't deserve those up-votes.
Nah - they'll just change the rules later and try to take 30%...

Good move, Microsoft. Apple, are you seeing this? This is how you get people to use your stuff.
I haven't been impressed by the technical offerings in the e-book market. The titles are there, but whether it's the particular reader device I have or the publishers fault, these books are terrible. Broken layout, slow load times due to large chapter sizes and counts, not being able to easily flip to different spots in the book, etc.

I'm sticking to dead trees for technical stuff.

(Novels, biographies etc on the other hand are great as ebooks)
Most of it seems pretty nice (although I can hardly believe Ruby 1.8 does not have named groups), but...

tip "Ruby 1.9 supports 4 ways to call a proc!"
f =->n {[:hello, n]}
p f[:ruby] # => [:hello, :ruby]
p f.call(:ruby) # => [:hello, :ruby]
p f.(:ruby) # => [:hello, :ruby]
p f === :ruby # => [:hello, :ruby]

wtf? Why are they writing that like it's a good thing?
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Although I couldn't finish all assigned tasks with the deadline, I did some good job. Should I start presentation with completed or uncompleted tasks?
UP TO SOME POINT. If you think you will be lifting weight for 80 years and look bigger than someone that does that for 30, you wrong.

same goes with yoga.