skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I donno. I was looking for opteron serversm (still am, actually). I don't think there's anywhere that facebook would actually know that. I'd ignore any intel boxes, so they'd have to be pretty accurate to get something that I'd click on.

If I was facebook, I'd focus on social activities that I'd be interested in while interacting with my friends. Ski trips, wii games, etc.
I'm working on a Raphael/CoffeeScript IDE:

http://fleetinbeing.net/raffi/

It take's after TileMill, a thrillingly ambitious map-styling tool:

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/16/announcing-tilem...

Morphic is a visual IDE (with a true emphasis on "integrated") that originated in Self. Both attempts to port it to javascript are beautiful:

SVG:
http://www.lively-kernel.org/
Canvas:
http://www.chirp.scratchr.org/blog/?p=34

Check out Protovis for even more inspiration:

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/
>My understanding is that there is no innate talent for programming, math, art, or anything else.

Your understanding is completely wrong. Many, many genes have been linked with specific talents.

Music: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1209186.stm

Athletics: https://www.23andme.com/health/Muscle-Performance/

Art: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article880132.ec...

Also this from a geneticist: http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=91

I realize claims that there is no such thing as talent are very popular and will sell a lot of books. That doesn't make them true. I'm afraid the way things are and the way people wish they were are not the same.
Is this for websites only? Or will you be able to work with other types of products such as desktop (OS X/Windows/Linux) or mobile (iPhone, Win Phone 7, Android)?
Well, no, it's different, but the idea is the same...
For me at least, it remains interesting that what started all this was essentially a bored Japanese exchange student's doing 12 years ago.
The timing is unfortunate, but I doubt they designed and implemented this in a few days.
Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches'
(I work at Last.fm)

Spotify is trying to be the perfect on demand music service, Last.fm isn't. It's something we tried and ended up moving away from a year or two back.

On demand music is a very difficult market to be in. There are lots of companies trying but many failing or hitting difficulties, like Spotify in the US. There are real challenges in a) being profitable and b) stay on the good side of labels.

Personally I believe that the on-demand part of music streaming is commodity and more can be easily replaced, where as scrobbling provides a richer and more personal experience. However, I do agree with parts of the article, Last.fm hasn't moved as fast as it could have, some features need adding and some improving. That's part of the plan for this year.
Last time I used Fabric I switched to Capistrano, no need to use this Fabric since the language of your deployment scripts doesn't really matters.

Lately I want to experiment with Chef using blueprint [1]. What do you think?

[1]: http://devstructure.com/
Any idea how common this is?
At the moment, we're only looking at website and network vulnerabilities for the server hosting the website.

The plan is to eventually expand to other types of products as well, but all in due time. We particularly have lots of ideas on how to secure mobile apps. :)
Facebook has to stay cool, which is very difficult. It also doesn't have a clear way to dominate Google's bread-and-butter business, organic search and paid search advertising. They are no doubt very innovative but I give Google the edge, especially if Google can figure out social.
This might have even worse legal implications.
Really looking forward to what 'borski manages to do with this. This has been a crazy-making problem for me over the last few years on HN --- we get calls from lots of very early startups who just can't possibly afford the going rate for software security work.
Of course, but to an 80 year old man, ten years is a long time also
The impression I got from that article was a concerned teacher, wondering if this gap was normal, and how he can increase his teaching prowess to help the students better. Basically the guy was looking to do better at his job.

As for how smart you are: wow thats great -- have a cookie for having interest and aptitude above and beyond other students who may also have that interest and aptitude, but did not discover that fact on their own.
What do the jar-Files mean, did he program an arkanoid clone in 26 minutes? That would be impressive.
Interesting links... maybe the OP didn't mention biotech at all because it's not within his domain of expertise? And nowhere in there does he claim to be an ambitious technologist.

I think this post does a great job at highlighting those stats of the top 10 killers and showing how little things and some common sense everyday can go a long way at improving your odds at preventing them. I'm a huge Buffett fan, and I really dig the analogy of looking after your own health and lifestyle the same way you would with your finances.

Interest accruing on your bank account doesn't seem like much in the near-term, but compound it over several years and it yields a huge reward, hand-in-hand with having the common sense to steer clear from risky disasters. The same is true of developing good long-term habits like exercising, watching your nutrition, having a positive mentality, etc. Sure, it doesn't sound all cool and sexy, and it doesn't gratify you in the short-term, but they're time-tested principles and they put time (or the effect of compounded growth) on your side - just like Buffett's investing habits.
Actually, this is something of a new problem in privacy considerations - broader than the strict "is a GPS device on my car illegal" question.

A great deal of what we call "privacy" - in the common English meaning of the word, rather than the legal definition - consists of other people lacking information about our movements and actions. However, in that meaning, most of our privacy comes from the fact that 1) nobody is actively attempting to gather information and 2) it would be very difficult for them to do so if they tried.

With technology, it is both dramatically easier to collect information, and dramatically easier to convert that information into a usable form (whether for sale, or for leverage in a government action).

So although it's true that the technological method by which the FBI gathers information normally does not affect their legal right to do so, the standards under which the FBI operates were made when gathering information was difficult enough that stricter standards were not required.

That's why it's a big deal. Normally they wouldn't bother to follow him. Normally they wouldn't have the time or money. As such, it was OK to give the FBI broad freedom to follow someone in an unmarked car, because the check on the FBI's ability to abuse that authority was its lack of money and manpower. Now that technology has solved the FBI's lack of money and manpower, the legal question is much more relevant.
Given his $1 salary, his effective income is all capital gains, which is taxed at 15%.

In any case, taxes are (in theory at least) paid in return for services provided to you and your country, whereas charity is paid in return only for the feeling you've contributed to a greater good. It's best to not confuse the two.
Fabric is a little more "purpose agnostic" than Capistrano, although both are perfectly acceptable for the same basic range of tasks.
The tone of your comment suggests you think the guy is bragging or showing off, or something -- I really doubt it.

Maybe the guy is trying to be a better teacher? Maybe he thinks that there is a real effect aside from the selection effect you observe, and is trying to maximize his teaching? Maybe he just wants his students to do well?

I submit that the answer to all these is yes. My evidence is that fact that the article ends with questions about how people learn to program well so he can incorporate it into his course.
Or you can just have one-on-one oral examinations. Nah, that's a lot of work.
(Founder Stories) Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley: “Stop Sketching, Start Building”
I can see why you would want it as well, but if you can afford it then you are in the social group who "can afford Apple".

(As long as toughbook refers to Panasonic Toughbook brand, if there is a cheap laptop marketed as durable that would make a difference.)
Or simply talk to the creator at http://www.facebook.com/sonnon
The question, rephrased is: does anyone have a right to exist as a free person when there is suffering anywhere in the world? I say yes.

Need is not a valid claim on anyone else's life. I didn't make them poor. My moral responsibility lies with making my own life the best. In doing so, I'm not harming anyone, because it's not in my interest to sacrifice others to myself (just as it is not in my interest to sacrifice myself to others.) Instead of begging or stealing, I advocate trading.
I thought AMA was incredibly sad. Both for what he thought was important, what he didn't, and how that changed. As a huge baseball fan, I also loved that the one constant were the daily scores.
No, I'm not saying that. I only repeated it to tie it to what yummyfajitas had said to me, because that was the part I was responding to.
Dear Apple: You Aren't Post-PC Until You Cut the Cord
Yammer Is Coming To An iPad Near You
I quit Last.fm when they sold out to become yet another mouthpiece for the music industry instead of a social service for music lovers that put their users first.

I use Spotify these days, which never pretended to be anything else but a music industry outlet, but I'm not half as passionate about it as I used to be about Last.fm. I really miss Last.fm's sofar unrivaled community driven recommendations.

I'm afraid the perfect music service will only come if the industry finally gives up its outdated restrictions.
less characters != equal readability.
I'll stick with SASS for now.
Reuse of old code, familiarity with API's (other's old code).
The title is a lie; none of the techniques you mention will enable someone to live forever. None of them even stop aging; a few of them might slow it down, but there's no good evidence that they do. You don't even mention caloric restriction, and there's good evidence that caloric restriction can slow aging substantially. ("No snacks" is not caloric restriction; we're talking about cutting your intake well below 2000 calories a day.)

By contrast, techniques that reverse aging damage would allow biological humans to survive for many centuries. Nothing on your list comes close.

In short, your comment is also a lie.
Repository of Cocoa objects for iOS & Mac OS X
A great little website providing links & summary descriptions of Open Source code you can use in your iOS and Mac OS X projects.
Right, because Apple never borrowed any UI features from anyone else, and came up with everything independently.

http://www.opera.com/browser/tips/?feature=speeddial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabbed_document_interface#Histo...

http://toastytech.com/guis/alto3.html
Sadly, it seems to use their interface you've got to be Accredited. (I've logged in and tried)

So I can't actually buy stock in their system.

It's not quite as easy as popping on and plunking in a credit card number. Not that shares are like that in real markets either, but it's actually a little more manageable.

Apart from a link to the service, Shares Post being another one (http://www.sharespost.com/companies/facebook). I've also popped on to SharesPost but it's also 'pending approval'

How does a layman go about buying "what he can afford" in terms of Facebook shares?
You can use the argument that people in third-world countries are starving to bash just about anything that anybody on this site does for a living.

If you truly believed that argument, you wouldn't be wasting your own disposable income on broadband and a cell phone.
مشاهدة مباراة يوفنتوس وميلان
Who decides "best"?
Why did you choose to write your own crawler and fuzzer? Wouldn't it have been easier to use Wapiti, Nikto, Nessus, and W3af with a lightweight SaaS wrapper of your own?
Find out when the world would be free of Internet Explorer 6.
"Power hour" is a popular drinking game where a group of people gather and put on a power hour playlist. The 'game' is played by setting up a playlist to play one minute of each song for 60 songs (= 1 hour). Once a song changes, everyone takes a sip of their drink/beer.

The app is supposed to make it simple to setup these playlists. Often times, people make power hour playlists ahead of time and it can take a while. With this app, power hour playlists can be made instantly and on-the-go with an iPhone. Does that give you a better idea of the intent?
I don't think it's an apt analogy because:

1. There are significant barriers to entry in search that do not exist in the browser market, including learning effects, economies of scale, and network effects. Any enhancements to the technology (e.g., algo) or user experience (e.g., UI) by a competitor must provide substantially more value to searchers and/or advertisers to overcome the significant network value (effects) in this market.

2. Despite Google's size it's still quickly responding to market and technology changes making it difficult for a competitor to chip away at its market share. For instance, despite significant investments by Microsoft (and some creative and smart decision-making), Bing has only been able to gain incremental market share, primarily at the expense of Yahoo. Google, thus far, has been able to sustain its dominance, commanding about 90% of the global search market.

"While Bing hit 4.37 percent and Yahoo dropped to 3.93 percent, Google still dominates worldwide with 89.94 percent of the search engine market share, the web analytics company reported."(March 1, 2011; http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Symantec Report on Attack Kits and Malicious Websites
thebigsecurity.com
If they can plant a GPS in your car, what will stop them from planting a microphone or video camera in your bedroom? Wiretapping is so common nowadays that we don't even complain any more.
Of course you can stop eating, but a poor person is more likely to get the 50 nuggets for $10, instead. Twice, for a total of 4750 calories, minus the ones they don't get to in each meal before they get cold. ;)
In the post you replied to I said that google could manipulate the search results to change facebook's pagerank, not dropping them entirely. Just so that results from the domain appear on the second or third page.
Please note that the author is not a medical professional (he's an investor) and some of his advice may be harmful to your health.

“[Instead of surgery], find out first if there’s any other non-surgical procedures. (…) first check with an acupuncturist (a good one that is recommended by friends who were actually helped by that acupuncturist) or a chiropractor.”

He refers to some pop-science articles here and there, but overall it's just a ‘common sense’ advice, which you must decide for yourself whether is valuable or not.

For example, although probably everyone here would agree that tobacco is very bad for you, please note that his method of arguing for that (“Of the 250 known harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke...”) is one that can be (and has been[1]) used to argue against vaccines.

[1] http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html
U.S. Wavers on 'Regime Change' in Middle East
I would take a look at Flask. It is great for small applications. Read the quickstart guide (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/#a-minimal-applicatio...). Follow the tutorial for making a blog (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/tutorial/introduction/).

After that you will know how to do URL routing, rendering views/templates, and making database calls -- the backbones of making a web application.
Second place in a market can still allow a company to be profitable and growing. Second place in a lawsuit can impact not only profits and growth but viability.
They filed a friend of the court brief [1] which the judge didn't seem to get the point of [2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/efflet...

[2] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2011/03/speror...
Posted November 18, 2010: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/11/how-to-live-forever/

Posted March 5, 2011:
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/03/12-unusual-ways-to-how-...

Isn't this the same article, republished?
We're doing both, actually. There are some things we're doing that are fairly unique, but part of the scanning system is in fact wrapping already existing tools.

It's the unique parts that are custom-built. Finding 0day is hard with the existing tools. :)
Are you referring to moot? Because moot definitely is not Japanese.
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/last.fm+thenextweb.com/

Just sayin' and that's not even counting the amount of people that don't go to the website and just scrobble all day (me), or use the streaming app (me sometimes).

Last.fm is far from dead, in fact I love it (and many people does). Like a previous comment said: it's actually useful.
Could this be what Facebook is planning? They have all the like info from users and plenty of more data beyond that, plus tons of business and developer contacts for leads.
The point of paying for the license is that you get the right to use all of the patents in the collection in one step rather than having to negotiate more than a thousand separate licenses. Even if you have to deal with other patents later this is still valuable.

Both sides are simply not saying the same thing. You are putting words into their mouth to make it look as though the MPEG-LA is saying the same as Google.

I think an unencumbered format would be a good thing, and I'm asking a genuine question. Why is Google making a claim they aren't prepared to back up? Why should other people take the risk for them?

Perhaps there's a good reason for this strategy. I can't see it, so I'm asking if anyone else can?

Saying "the other side is just as bad" is uninformative and just turns the discussion into a question of who's side you're on.
TechCrunch on the Facebook comment widget
Possibly too late to be seen now, but I've been wodering about this too; for instance how do you talk about windows?

A blind person who has a sense of the size of a room, have they any idea that windows are transparent and have a view over a vast area of cityscape/fields/oceans/length of road/etc?

Standing on a hilltop or in a viewing tower, you can see people in the landscape, but too small to see their faces or identify them - still identifiable as people by shape and gait.

I often automatically turn to Google images for an idea of what something I'm unfamiliar with "is", having to revert to a dictionary and textual description would feel like a step backwards, and that's a very recent (last 5 years) development.
He didn't find it "due to Reddit."

His mechanic noticed it when doing maintenance work (it was hidden improperly and was an older, bulkier model). Then the kid posted a picture of it to Reddit and asked what it was. Shortly after the FBI showed up at his house and asked for it back.
Is anyone else bothered by the jerkiness of the rendering? The scollbar seems to jump slightly as the presenter is demonstrating it. Comparing the scrollbars on my mac, they move smoothy.

Jerkiness is something I notice a lot when using linux and windows and to a minor degree some OSX programs. Is this a hard problem to solve?
I think there are a number of possible sources for the observed phenomenon. Students find it very difficult to get started. Students also find it hard to abandon code preferring to try to make poorly structured and thought through code rather than starting over. Finally, students find it hard to invent the abstractions that they need to solve large problems from whole cloth. Programming classes often concentrate on the details of expression and ignore the issue of using them to create patterns and abstractions to solve real problems.

One way you can improve things is to provide a framework for each of the assigned problems, either a program with stubbs or a working program which can be adapted to solve the assigned problem. I don't know how you teach students to throw away code rather than trying to make it work. Finally, teach programming rather than the programming language.

I also have found that having many small assignment works better than having a few larger projects. When I taught beginning programming I assigned on or two small programs per class meeting whereas the other sections had three larger projects. It is also useful to have the small assignments provide a library of abstractions (procedures) which can be used in later assignments. I also think it is useful to teach test focused programming where student need to present tests which validate their program as well as the program. These days I'd be tempted to require students use one of the source code control systems, probably Mecurial.
I think this speaks to the general attitude towards education that many of our politicians have. For a $40 million deficit, they fired every single teacher? Not laid off, fired.

It is incredibly irresponsible of them to play around with the education system like that. If they thought the teachers were lackluster before, they just took the wind out of all of their sails, that's for sure.
First impressions: Well, initially, I didn't really know what to do... some sort of explanation would definitely be helpful (maybe brought up by hitting the "power play" button at the top). Also, I would recommend against using the UITabBar for selection or control, as it is generally associated with completely separate views. It should at least be styled differently, so that people don't think of it like, for example, the clock app. This relates to the settings selection... you can select it, and then remove the view with 'x', but settings is still highlighted. Finally, I'd recommend adding background audio support and better resume from close functionality.

Just my 2c, overall its a well executed app.
Call it a chat, then. Chatting is perhaps the fastest way to get to know someone and discover what they're interested in. And working with them is the best way to see if they're up to the job.

Testing is unpleasant and it doesn't work anyhow, IMO.
I've been using a simple Fabric script from http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/nov/8/building-django-app-... to automate Chef deploys. Blueprint tried to install a lot of nonsense on my box, and I decided that learning Chef proper would be a much better investment of my time.
Hack your bike into a cargobike (Xtracycle)
This sounds like a great idea - I would definitely attend.
Practice, but also starting to look at problems in a more realistic way. For example, I used to marvel at how one might make a simple 2D game. Now, I realize it's a lot of illusion and design based off of some pretty simple ideas. I think a lot of young developers are fearful of problems because the output seems magical.
Interesting. I have heard many good programmers say that to them reading code has become more important than writing code.
All 1,926 public school teachers in Providence fired
Very common for plaintiffs lawyers in many types of cases (consumer class action (sort of), personal injury, among many others). Almost impossible to have a contingency fee for a defendant. And often the defendants are the ones with the burden of producing (and first reviewing) a high level of documents.
US citizens are not elidgable. Offering was not FTC sanctioned.
Facebook is more like a wolverine than a docile rabbit. Google is a bear; much bigger and should be more capable, but the wolverine is 10x more violent and will easily back it down in a fight over the salmon. The wolverine is quick, fearless and single-minded ( "eat!" ) while the bear is large, slow, probably well fed, and therefore isn't nearly as tenacious. With that analogy, who you should bet on is clear.