skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Nothing changes for you. Developers can still create universal binaries that run on your macs if the choose to do so. The only thing that changed is running PPC-only apps on intel machines, which is something nobody really cares about since there really aren't any PPC-only apps on the market. You already weren't able to upgrade to the latest OS, as Snow Leopard is Intel-only.

You could be worried about developers creating intel-only apps, which you won't be able to run, but that already happens on a big scale because almost nobody uses PPC macs anymore. This has nothing to do with Lion.

The bigger problem with Lion may be the dropping of 32-bit macs. Most people don't really know if their mac is 64-bit (Core 2 and up) or 32-bit only (Intel Core's, which is mostly the early Mac Mini's, iMacs and Macbooks I think). It's good for developers who want to write 64-bit only apps though, because once Lion has been adopted and SL support is dropped, they can just say 'Requires Lion', instead of the somewhat awkward 'Requires Snow Leopard on a 64-bit Mac' right now.
I wanted to shutdown VPN interface eth0, but ended up shutting down eth1 while I was logged in via SSH

Not done that exact one, but I've added firewall rules that cut me out in exactly the same way.

Another favourite is typing "shutdown -h now" into the wrong terminal: I know a few people who have admitted to doing that.
Another attempt at the same, not as complete in some regards but also includes billing
http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/02/18/startup-toolbox-a-re...
Free (Creative Commons) Book on How To Do Proofs
The age of your customers defines your sales pitch
I see what you did just there :) but it does bring to light the absolute ridiculousness of the current valuations.

At this point I wouldn't even be that shocked if something of the sort went down...
Posted by Dawn Wires in LoL News, Politics on February 27, 2011 7:11 am

(Sunday Humor article at Dawnwires.com are meant to humor our readers. They may or may not be the truth.)
A way to get kids to eat healthy: Give cafeterias a psychology lesson
Refer to the original article stating the auto-adding by Google of emails Into contacts. As well as (for other comments above) that an employee of Google (not the main articles more..generic support response ticket email) is "working on a solution."
Many systems, like Solaris and Ubuntu, don't have a firewall as the default.
Thought I would share my RIM experience. We were pressed hard by RIM developer relation team in 2006/2007 to port our highly successful Palm/WinMo app to their platform. The pitch at the time was for their developer program and attending WES, their "developer conference" which was really an IT/big company gathering. I paid close to $2k per year to be in the program. (Keep in mind this is all before the iPhone was announced and shipped.) we provided a financial tool which was a huge chunk of the RIM customer base at the time.

After a decade of Palm, WinMo and Win development I can say that the tool set and tool process were the worst I had ever experienced, even including Palm OS 1.0 releases. Code signing was a horrible pain. But my $2k bought us lots of help from their tech team, which was fantastic.

Where things fell apart was around shipping. What I thought I was getting was some tech support and marketing position, but RIM's partners were pretty much ignored and we were quickly out of the loop. There were no app stores so site placement at RIM was critical. Any mentions of partner companies were well buried on their site and every time there was a special section focused on our customer sections, we were left out.

We stayed involved for another year until RIM revamped their developer program so you had to meet certain requirements to be involved, all of which were aimed at helping RIM. You had to bring customers or come to their dev conference -- not free -- and a host of other things that would earn us points to participate. This was on top of the $2k per year to be in the program.

So while it is good to see a response from RIM so quickly, I am highly skeptical that the company can really be developer-centric and do what is right for its community. The only way they get us as a developer now is to fully support Android software as all the rumors are indicating.
OO Design Principles Compilation
This definitely is a secure data storage system. We just liked the name passwords.cc (carbon copy).

Do you have any third party that you'd trust? Our code is mostly in Javascript so anyone can check it out.

We will be adding mobile phone apps soon.
It's a good thing to note here that 'code' doesn't mean 'source code'. They're giving the security researchers free access to the same OS X seed you can get by paying Apple $99/year.
Yes, it's currently used by two of our customers for grid computing applications.

Development started in late 2009 but there was a couple of "let's redo this part" and "ho, wait, it's never going to work!".
"Apple didn't invent the tablet..."

Completely disagree. All previous attempts have been nothing more than laptops with the keyboard torn off, and a stylus sensitive screen.

You can actually watch Apple invent the tablet right before our eyes with the iPod touch, iPhone, unibody MacBooks, and glossy displays.
The first Intel Macbook Pro is Core Duo as well.
I remember I'd always question my high school math teachers "why do I need this? What will I use this for in real life?". They never had great answers (although in my old age I can now think of good reasons), but providing real life useful context around what is taught I think would help a lot of kids understand the importance.
Google Apps is based on eNom or GoDaddy for their domain name registering needs.
This may be true in some of the rural areas, but to Ottawa, the free shipping takes 1-2 days.
Lost decade or not, it is impossible to do a startup in Japan. We tried a few months ago, with 2 Japanese classmates. Even though they both spent significant time in the US, they could not say "no" and would not take any risks. If in doubt, be conservative was their mantra. Releasing a mobile app for a conference, we just needed to list the names and companies of people attending, no contact info. It was in the spec from the beginning. At the last second, someone got scared that someone might object, and although there was no evidence, they refused. So we couldn't test the app and we ended up abandoning. There is so much fear among the young.

Debate the macro economics all you want, but there is no doubt this generation is already lost.
Well, I've personally been real happy with Chrome. I've got it on OSX/Windows/Linux.

It's not a weird-ux like IE, it's snappy unlike Firefox, it isn't a memory-hog like Safari, and it's well-supported (unlike the runner-ups).

It also has an epically nice PDF reader, which could be its own product and I would be very, very happy.
I don't know why Gates is advocating for fewer drop outs. Drop outs are one of the few things that is working for kids.

Schools segregate on age now not ability.

For smart kids, school is frustrating and holds them back. It is better for them to leave school at 15 and transfer to a community college where they can take control of their education.

For not-smart kids, vocational education from 15-17 leading to apprenticeships gives them something of interest and useful to them.

For average kids, the system might work if the other two groups who are frustrated were channelled towards more useful pursuits than sitting bored, and sometimes forced to take amphetamines like Ritalin just to have the appearance of being focused.
> I screw my terms up. Changed Negation to Contradiction, and Contrapositive to Inverse.

Even with those changes, your post doesn't make any sense to me.

The negation of logical statements has a pretty well defined meaning [1]. It seems to be neither what you call "inverse" not what you call "contradiction".

Also, I don't see what the " * " operator means in your example. It appears to be some operator to combine two logical statements "a" and "b". However, the original statement isn't a combination of smaller statements at all. (In particular, the original statement is not an implication, i.e. a term of the form "if a then b" or "from a follows b" or similar.)

Anyway, for whatever you mean by " * ", the negation is simply "- (a * b)". The expressions you are proposing ("-a * b" and "a * -b") seem to be different from that.

In summary, it is totally unclear what you mean by "a", "b", " * ", "inverse" and "contradiction".

[1] The negation is true for exactly those instances for which the original statement is false.
Ego's relationship to Expertise
The same way you get developers to work on OSS -- have their high paying corporate job either order them to do it or ignore their participation in it during work hours.
One aspect of the "family component" is also that the US is a much more unequal society than most western European countries, which is further exacerbated by the very local nature of US school funding. This gets lost in looking at averages.
However, contrast that method with the Finnish system, which is nothing like that, and the top education system in the world.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120425355065601997-7B...
Allowance of a "crush" only on a dating site % similarity of a "personality" test perhaps.
It's true. It's never brought up as a matter of principle. In fact, a ranking change that could theoretically reward a site for using Google products would not launch.
Recently, Apple started talking about 24 bit. Now HP/Dr. Dre is talking about 24 bit. It makes a good story. But fact is, most audio bought online is in some compressed format (mp3,mp4/m4a/aac). Digital audio compression works by reducing the bitrate of certain parts of the music (frequency-time blocks). So 24 bit is nice but audio compression reduces it anyway.

So, this is apparently not about compressed music then? It must be about uncompressed music. Well, we can't change the redbook CD standard. I guess these people must be talking about DVD-As and SACDs then? They clearly are not.

Now there is one thing that I would actually love to see (but that these people do not seem to be talking about). I would love to buy 24 bit 96 kHz FLAC-encoded music on iTunes. Or maybe not FLAC but Apple Lossless or whatever and maybe not iTunes but Amazon or some new HP thing. I don't care. But Lossless, High-Quality Music in some major online music store. Now that would be something!
Interestingly there's an unreleased Intel version of Mac OS 9 that you see at Apple stories - it's used via Netboot for testing batteries (amongst other things I imagine, but when I saw it it was for testing). Looks like they still (as of late 2010) haven't gotten around to porting some of their old diags to OS X.
I never thought about using 1Password with Dropbox, but would you be able to install dropbox on all computers as opposed to a web based alternative?

Sharing passwords is quite important in the development world. When a client gives a company their authentication credentials, it is imperative to keep the data secure while still sharing it with all the developers. The benefit to Passwords.cc with sharing is that the other people who don't have accounts can still view shared passwords without ever registering.

The desktop app we plan on having will be a local system with option of syncing online.
This is fine. Just don't forget that training independent thought is just as crucial.
Pricing Power Beats Good Management (Warren Buffett)
A paragraph detailing the "return" or diminishing returns of a Undergraduate degree in more recent years (with differences per degree choice) would have been relevant.
Refuting a Myth About Human Origins
How exceedingly condescending. You honestly believe that no foreigner knows more than what's on the news?
You're right that people have that attitude, but pride in one's work is more advantageous in our industry. We expect our jobs to be relatively short-term (five years at most). And with every job completed, even for failed projects, we learn something new, and probably portable. I don't need my former manager to prove that I know what the "this" keyword does in Javascript.

It's a lot harder to tell whether teachers are any good. I guess this is why they willingly submit to systems that privilege seniority.
The artists make the music, not the gear. This is why compressed music is still great music and some people don't care about audio quality.
On average, the US is not a penny pincher. Given the local nature of school funding, it would be interesting to see how the median, or the 25th percentile to be even more harsh, compares to those countries.
Thanks for your comments!

You already can try and evaluate it for free.

Getting traction is difficult, whatever software you're making. We'll probably have to do a free version, you're right.
Easy, create a "Benevolent Designer For Life" title for your project, then assign to one very talented person.

Designers are simply unable to work in committee as stated by others here...
Or just connect your digital output to your stereo system. Many people already have the necessary hardware to do this.
Graying Audience Returns to Movies
I think the way you've partitioned the universal set of kids into "smart" and "not smart" to make your case-by-case argument is an insufficiently nuanced breakdown. What about other axes, such as work ethic, or affluence, or...?
You can check out all of your applications to see if you're running any PowerPC software. System Profiler -> Applications -> sort by Kind. Only culprit on my system is some random CS4 stuff.
"Capitalist Science"
Yeah, you are right, but some sort of manageable grouping is needed to make the point since this is a conversation and not an academic journal so I don't feel it would be appropriate or needed to completely break down every possible combination. "Smart" means kids that would be in gifted programs which don't exist anymore. "Not smart" is kids who go on to be plumbers. This is not sufficient itself since there are smart people that go into plumbing, and there are dumb people that get degrees. But it's the general idea that the current system of training everyone in identical classes using a curriculum created by bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen selling textbooks in order to pass a standardized multiple choice test is not an ideal one. I hope that is clear.
> Better 100 guilty men go free than for an innocent man be jailed.

This is an awful story, but I'm wary of setting up incentives in such a way that acquittal is the CYA move. People should be held accountable for preventable errors in either direction, but you don't want to make a prosecutor personally afraid to pursue prosecution for a case just because of the possibility that they might be wrong.
Placebo effect works both ways
It's such an obvious principle yet so few appreciate it.

Assuming the punishment is about as bad as the crime, then punishing the innocent is as bad as committing the crime.
So, what's worse: allowing a crime to go unpunished or committing an equally bad crime yourself?

Additionally, a crime committed by the very institution that is supposed to enforce justice is worse than one committed by an autonomous citizen, all other things equal.
Funny you mention GIMP, that's one OSS program that needs a UI refresh badly.
Maybe it would be a good idea to put some donations together and actually hire designers on contract. That way, you are less likely to run into the problem of developers overwriting design changes willy-nilly, and you get a higher quality of design work that can last for several rounds of iterations.
I really don't even see how anything they gave to the security researchers could remotely mean source code. The title's total flame bait
Don't be sure that having DNA evidence will mean there will never be a miscarriage of justice. So many reasons that can still happen.
Romantic relationships & work, can you mix them?
The fact that Quora is on there but Stackoverflow is not makes me question the veracity of the entire list.
Plan? Code! Launch! - Less planning, more doing.
On January 28th and 29th we wrote a web based notification system for developers called SandmanApp. We want to share the process that helped us getting of the ground in one weekend.
RubyQuestions
Note that the anti-aliasing filters necessary to cut off audio at 22 kHz distort the audible range, too. Also, what they don't cut off gets introduced into the lowest frequencies as noise (this effect is called aliasing). With a higher sampling rate, you can use less steep anti-aliasing filter slopes that introduce less distortion and noise. Furthermore, that distortion can be limited to frequency ranges above the human hearing threshold. Hence, higher sampling rates can make a huge difference.

There is no such thing as a perfect, distortion-free filter.
The DNA got him released in the end but it's not the problem with the system since there are cases with no DNA evidence in which people are wrongfully convicted the exact same way he was. Here is a summary of what happened. He is a black. All blacks look alike and are criminals. Therefore he is guilty. This is what went wrong and needs to be fixed, just as with an airplane that leaks fuel and isn't detected because of a faulty fuel readout, the answer isn't to carry more fuel.

Here are some things that are broken.

1. There is a presumption of guilt.

2. Prosecutors are interested in their kill ratio, not justice.

3. Judges are interested in arbitrary exercise of power, not justice.

4. It is very rare to find a public defender who diligently defends the interest of the defense. Public defenders work with the prosecution to get the case through the system.

5. In some jurisdictions elected judges don't need to have law backgrounds, or have demonstrated any competence or knowledge of the law.

6. The prison system is about punishment and exercise of power, not rehabilitation.
I'd love to know the information that's being presented here, but it's presented in such a lousy and verbose way that I just don't feel like reading it. Why is it so common for journalism to be faux novelism?
For most OSS devs, the benefit is having a more interesting portfolio, especially skills they don't get to use in their day job. Wouldn't this work the same way for designers?
In theory, it is a simple enough request. In practice, Apple has been doing a lot of things (e.g. the new subscription model and in-app purchasing rules) that only work because Apple is the sole source for iOS apps. Changing that is unlikely to be easy for them.
You missed Yahoo! Answers. Ha!
Please don't focus on bits, when the [loudness wars][1] are the primary enemy of quality sound _reproduction_ in most (not all) music recordings today.

This is about radio.

As you sit in your car, tune your radio to your local Top 40 station. You'll notice that, even when you turn down the dial to the lowest audible setting, you perceive a constant drone of music/noise (depending on how you feel about pop music). Now, tune to the local classical station. Little spurts of noise can be heard, punctuated by... quiet spots. The average consumer thinks: "What's wrong with this music?! I have to turn up and turn down my volume all the time!" Connoisseurs of classical music, however, encourage dealing with this high dynamic range, because [dynamics][2] are a critical part of classical music.

Here's the sad part: POP MUSIC DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE ITS DYNAMIC RANGE SMASHED! Radio stations can easily take high dynamic range source material and run it through a [compressor][3] to limit the dynamic range, thus making their music more car compatible (solving the classical music 'problem'). However, consumers expect to hear the same when they download an AAC/MP3 and play it outside their car. "What's wrong with this old recording, it's so quiet", is a common complaint. Of course, when iTunes (and competing software) have features like automatic output leveling ([Sound Check][4]), compressing dynamic range at OUTPUT and not at MASTERING should be the choice producers make.

Yet, the industry persists, making the music louder at the expense of eliminating its dynamic range. They're painting soundscape with a more limited palette (though, doing a surprisingly effective job, given the limitations).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
[4]: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2425
"I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave." - Charlie Sheen
Can you provide a link to #1 please? I would like to know more.
But the thing that the traditional publishers won't be able to counter is pointed out in Konrath's recent blog post about time is money: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/02/time-is-money.html.

And until I actually investigated it, I wouldn't claim that editing and such takes a four-figure outlay. I would defer to patio11 there.
So that's the secret behind the AHT!
On January 28th and 29th we wrote a web based notification system for developers called SandmanApp. We want to share the process that helped us getting of the ground in one weekend.
The same language used by lawyers and prosecutors are the same words they hear on TV when the ads roll. Are you surprised?
This makes me sad because some of my old fun games won't work anymore (well, without a VM at least), but since I rarely play those, I like the fact that all the other stuff I use will be forced to "go native".
I used to love Chrome, but as of late it's crashing on a daily basis. Perhaps it is a flash issue, but Safari seems to handle it OK.
Your comment doesn't show his to be irrelevant at all. It's less clear what language someone hitting the belgian site would speak; at least Apple does the geolocation stuff automatically, which RIM doesn't. Nice try, though.
Hiring a professional editor and copy-editor is probably going to run you four-figures for a feature length book

Do you have evidence that outsourcing this will actually cost that?
Fair points. I was basing my terminology off of this table, after realizing that I had used incorrect terms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition#Comparisons

> If it is meant to be a synonym of what I'm calling negation [1], it would be "- (a * b)" for whatever you mean with " * ". However, this is by no means equal to "(-a) * (-b)".

This is absolutely correct, and was what originally prompted my comment. In your original comment, you say that

> The correct negation is: "we shouldn't work hard on getting our proofs correct."

which, if we let a = "should work" and b = "getting proofs correct", would mean that you said (-a) * (-b) is the negation, as opposed to -(a * b). By the quoted text, the negation would be either (-a) * b, or a * (-b).

This distinction is what I was trying to communicate, though it seems I did a poor job of that.
I don't think it is actually OS 9 (how would OS 9 handle the current model SMCs?), I think it just looks like OS 9 but is instead running OS X/Darwin.
Misleading title, at least from the quote attributed to Buffett. He says that "The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power" and does not compare it directly to management.

And it is not easy to stumble upon a business where you can raise prices without losing demand. That can be either due to luck in some rare cases but most of the times is because of good management.
The rules were inserted at the behest of Google, which was bidding for the spectrum but who some cynics contended got involved not to win but to ensure that whoever got the spectrum couldn’t hamper its business, which requires a free and robust internet.

Cynics? I'd have thought a cynic would accuse Google of having an ulterior motive other than wanting Internet freedom.