skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true, see my reply above. Users on different StatusNet instances can subscribe, reply, and fave each other.

You can see this in action at https://identi.ca/conversation/60337615 (which also points out some of the rough edges).
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Exactly... that "related" sidebar is terrible for getting relevant search results from Stack Overflow.
Someone posts my Chemistry homework on Yahoo Answers and the answers generally walk all the way through the problems and are very helpful.
no because you own the physical paper but only a license for the content
VCs Leaving Internet Investing to Seek Better Returns in Physical Sciences
I'm only half-joking. The sealevel rise estimates are all over the map (no pun intended). For one estimation on the effect on Florida, see: http://www.globalwarmingart.com/sealevel?lat=30.487&lng=...

For one estimate of +2m, see: http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/...

Again, I don't know how likely this is, but Florida is one of the most vulnerable states in the US. The prize probably goes to Louisiana with North Carolina in the top 3.
I go by the trifecta:

* Disable root login.
* Change SSH port.
* Install fail2ban or denyhosts.
Aww, that's awesome. I've taken my young kids to Signal Hill here in LA to let them watch planes take off from the airport. Highly recommended and memorable.

One of those kindnesses that one generation can do for another who have no idea yet how big and wonderful the world is.
Microsoft learned this lesson a long time ago. In the old days of MSFT, the saying was that BillG believed that everyone's manager needed to be a better coder than him/her. The company learned eventually that the best engineers do not necessarily make the best managers and engineered the IC/manager split-career path that exists today.

P.S I like how Google is finding out they're just the same as pretty much any other large organization :).
Thanks! I used Wombat a lot when I used Ambiance. I'm rebuilding Emacs from git to check your version out.
ADHD has a long history of claims of diets supposedly helping kids with the diagnosis. It began with the Feingold diet, went on to the Gluten-free/Casein-free diet, and now apparently exclusion diets. I am rather sceptical.
I'm not even sure I'd call it rich. As I understand it, they've borrowed billions from other gulf states to build their boondoggles. They even named their recently completed Burj Khalifa to honor the emir of Abu Dhabi, which bailed them out with billions when the financial house of cards collapsed.
I'd like to see those scripts when they are posted, thanks.
Agreed, to repeatedly trivialise the Dubai situation as "penis envy" is lazy. To then continue to spit out angry generalisations that would not look out of place on Fox News (without citing anything) is tedious at best. There's an excellent story waiting to be told about what happened in Dubai and what may happen in the future, but this isn't it.
Thanks for saving me time I could hav otherwise wasted.
oh. I wanted to do something with this concept, see here: http://www.alittlecity.com/yc/lemonaidstand.jpg

awesome execution, I really like it.
I feel this is particularly relevant: http://www.bobbemer.com/DAVINCI.HTM

>One of the brighter students (by the name of L. da Vinci) was immediately promoted to the manager of the project, putting him in charge of procuring paints, canvases, and brushes for the rest of the organization.

Everyone, except businesses (it seems), knows that technical skill != management skill, and the best workers will not necessarily be even good managers. But such knowledge is so rarely followed.
A few newspapers named "Sun" might be interested...
Silent Disco
Laos isn't making a serious bid to be an international power player. Dubai is. The standards are different. Deal with it.

If you're going to build a civilization that depends on 70% of your population being foreigners, many of them second or third generation residents who have never seen their putative homelands, and you're going to reserve the right to deport them at will or to jail them for farting, then this article makes a very cogent point:

Your checks sure as hell better clear.

Dubai is not going to be fine.
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Aren't you are doing the very thing you criticize: criticizing when other things more worthy of criticism exist?
Giftedness Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Testosterone
So, apparently Google found that of their 8 characteristics-of-good-bosses, technical excellence was the least importance. Fair enough. But note that this is looking at a sample of technically excellent bosses! So, e.g., Bock is quoted as saying: "In the Google context, we’d always believed that to be a manager, particularly on the engineering side, you need to be as deep or deeper a technical expert than the people who work for you."

It doesn't at all follow that technical excellence isn't extremely important for bosses who haven't been chosen for technical excellence. (Perhaps it isn't; but Bock's work doesn't seem to provide any evidence.)
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"After the horses have run, Elton John will perform".

As he did for Rush Limbaughs wedding, who is clearly a homophobe.

Take away for me is that Elton John will perform anywhere for money.
Not to be pedantic, but endocarditis is not a rare virus that sits on your heart, it's an inflammation of the endocardium - which can be caused by several things, including bacteria.

I've had one aneurysm and endocarditis, among other things (strokes, coma, paralysis, etc.), so I can sympathize with how difficult it is to move forward when you are ill. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. I don't know if it is actually true, but people keep telling me that old cliche about "what doesn't kill you (and keep you dead, in your case), just makes you stronger." Please feel free to shoot me an email if you want to talk...
Vanity Fair still does real journalism, where a reporter goes and finds information to write an article about.

Have you read their article on Iceland's financial crisis? http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland2...
I can't write them off as worthless hollywood fluff after reading that.
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Why I am (not) getting into Y Combinator
Everyone in the class was pissed off at them. They make it seem like its some "education program" but in reality they are making money off our work and we get paid nothing.
That's been my experience as well. I started because people around me started. I knew full well the potential health risks, the cost, etc., but figured I could stay a social smoker. I couldn't, and I smoked a pack a day for over three years now.

I haven't bought a pack in two weeks now, mainly due to switching to e-cigarettes. If you're interested in quitting, the e-cigarettes worked better for me than the gum and patch. Don't know how long this will last (hopefully won't buy another pack ever again), but it's not been nearly as excruciating as quitting any other way.
Very nice website!!
Wow. I was just shy of two weeks old when the oldest domain was registered.

I suppose it says something about my generation and our view of technology to consider that the internet has simply always been there for us.
Front page unreadable on a netbook screen in Chrome, clipped at the bottom and not scrolling.
Do not forget about impromptu:

http://vimeo.com/2433947 - Keith Jarrett Style

http://vimeo.com/2434054 - Part

http://vimeo.com/2579694 - Coding up an orchestra

http://impromptu.moso.com.au/

It's the only livecoding platform i know that doesn't sound all electronicy.
Dubai is emblematic of excesses that have led major developed countries into a major recession. It's about terrible investments in land and energy. That ski park the article mentions? It consumes the energy equivalent of 3,500 barrels of oil per day. Over a barrel of oil for each visitor.
Beware of management employing 'impact' as a verb
To be honest, I just know 36 times 24. I've spent enough time dealing with numbers with all their prime factors small that I can just see it's 864. It might also help that I know there are 24 hours in a day, 3600 seconds in an hour, and 86,400 seconds in a day -- and I probably have a lot of random facts like this somewhere in my head that I at least occasionally pin mental arithmetic problems on.
Startup Metrics 4 Pirates 2.0 (March 2011, SXSW)
The implicit nature of an open client ecosystem fuels innovation. Has twitter, decided they will control innovation on the platform going forward? An Apple HIG-like policy should be seriously considered before this drastic cutoff.
Sure. You know how simple this task is when you have an event loop, right? Here, I'll write a port scanner right now:

class HostProbe
module Probe
attr_accessor :bp
def connection_completed
@win = true
end

def unbind
self.bp.closed(self, @win)
end
end

def closed(obj, won)
@inflight_now -= 1
port = @inflight_q.delete(obj)
if won
puts "%TARGET-LISTENING: #{ @target }:#{ port }"
end
fill()
end

def sweep
Generator.new do |g|
(1..65535).each {|port| g.yield port}
end
end

def fill
@inflight_now.upto(@inflight_max) {
@inflight_now += 1
if(port = @sweep.next)
EventMachine::connect(@target, port, Probe) do |c|
c.bp = self
@inflight_q[c] = port
end
end
}
end

def initialize(host, opts={})
@target = host
@sweep = sweep
@inflight_q = {}
@inflight_now = 0
@inflight_max = opts[:inflight_max] || 10
fill()
end
end

EventMachine::run {
HostProbe.new(ARGV[0])
}

I think that may be it? I'm not even going to bother seeing if it evaluates. I write that stupid script once a month or so. There is probably a set of nmap options that crushes it for speed, but with the default options and a firewalled target network (ie: most professional nmap targets), I lap nmap with it.
I do not work for AMD but am close friends with an AMD employee working in the Markham (Toronto) office. They enjoy their position considerably, but complain that the work-life balance isn't there. Just a note to those who are thinking of applying, but who are also seeking that balance.
>"The class was originally created because some of the Cal Poly's teachers were tired of the project that students were given at the time for the Technical Writing for Engineers class"

That is not true, iFixIt CAME to the english department to ask for free content for their website but covered it as a "great technical writing experience."

>"Most of the responses from teachers and students has been positive now that we have been running the program for two years."

Uhhhh where are you getting your responses? Most people will give good reviews since YOU MAKE OUR GRADE. If you report to our teachers that we did a bad job, WE FAIL. Of course we will say we enjoyed it since you control our fate. I think its crazy that iFixIt has control over students grades.

>"and want to write a twenty page paper instead"

That is not standard practice in ANY 149 class. There is a final project but 20 pages? Thats extremely class-dependent!

Edit: and their standards are EXTREMELY high. We have to go way out of our way to meet them. Perfect cameras, perfect room lighting, perfect hands to hold the devices, perfect backgrounds... Many times we were forced to redo our guides and go well over the bounds of a 100 level class....all so iFixit could benefit financially.
What is the "standard political perspective"?

The Independent and The Guardian are two fine newspapers. They generally run interesting and intelligent articles, often covering stories that you don't find in other newspapers or media outlets.
There was indeed criticism when this story broke a few months ago here in The Netherlands about the applicability and breadth of the study, meaning more work would need to be done to be able to apply this for more ADHD kids.
It is possible for a writer now to make a good living selling his self-published ebooks on Amazon's kindle platform, to maintain a living writing blogposts for an audience larger than many smaller magazines ever had, etc.

But that is beside the point: job creation isn't the goal of any business nor is it the responsibility of any business to hire a certain amount of people, and the country as such doesn't need to put a large number of people to work - people are responsible for their own life and if they are not willing to do that (and you may very well be right about that I don't know), that is their own problem.
Indeed, Zynga almost split from Facebook; they had the fortune of being equally valuable to Facebook and could, perhaps, exist on their own.

Twitter don't think of third-party apps as any benefit to them, whereas Zynga was a boon to Facebook.
so this means my headphones will work now with VOIP sip calls on my ipad?
Oh come on.

You can't translate these studies into real world results at all. If you hand people two cigarette packs and say "which one looks healthier," sure, they're going to pick one. They might even pick one over the other pretty consistently.

This does not necessarily translate into real world consequences at all. You have to prove that.
Is there really any good reason for this, or is it just asserting dominance? I know it's often ignored, but I think with a site as important (and as entrenched in links around the web) as Sun's old site really should heed this:

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively.

What large hardware companies have done similar moves successfully in the past? (honest question)
For mobile. It's great on a desktop - to me at least.
anyone have a mirror to this?
#startupvisa Twitter Bomb
For a firewall (frontend for iptables) I recommend csf: http://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html

Features: stateful inspection, protection from different types of attack, ability to ban port scanning attempts, ban brute force logins for various services (ssh, ftp, ...), numerous configuration options but very easy to configure with excellent inline documentation. For more info see the link above.
Wonder if this will break anything hardcoded to point to java.sun.com/foo
PGP is a good example of what happens when non designer types do the UI and UX.
>Vanity Fair still does real journalism

I do not disagree, but I think grandparent's point is that a magazine filled with profiles of billionaires and ads for luxury goods is maybe not the most credible publisher of criticism of materialism and the evils of the idle rich.
Jake Gyllenhaal Movie ‘The Source Code’ Markets Itself To Techies
Cisco is working pretty hard to get their enterprise stuff out there (though really it's just part of a plan to drive more hardware sales).
All attempts to pretend that remote calls are local calls have failed thusfar. Chances are you will regret going down this route.
something about the site leaking facebook information but wanting me to login with my facebook just doesn't feel very appealing to me
I wonder when this hiring is supposed to start, the jobs sure aren't on AMD's site yet: http://www.linkup.com/results.php?c=Advanced%20Micro%20Devic... (linking to my site instead of AMD's since our results are prettier than https://www.amd.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=...)
TED talk: Home videos used to analyze child language acquisition
The suggested slashtag for [how to get pregnant] is /pregnancy ... those results are pretty nice, albeit less medically-focused than the /health results.
Yes, that article draws attention to the important issue that the study was not "blind" and thus subject to influence by observer-awareness effects.
Wow, I didn't know of fail2ban and denyhosts.

I actually have a home-made script similar to fail2ban.
I agree that we need to get to a more secure internet, but I'm not sure a walled garden is the way to accomplish this.

No, it's only the first step! Think about how infrastructure gets established. It doesn't appear everywhere at once. That's usually a logistical impossibility.

I feel like security holes are inherent in the nature of technology and its rapid development and evolution. The security threats that plagued the internet in the 90s are now obsolete. With new technology comes new threats. That's the way it will be and the only option we have is to stay vigilant and attempt to think of every edge case before black hats do.

Sounds like a ratrace to me. Sounds like you're giving up on the idea that things can be better. Sounds like a lot of work. Sounds like the general security situation sucks. Sounds to me like there's latent demand here.
It should belong to Oracle. They can't release www.sun.com but still keep other subdomains (blogs.sun.com for instance).
One of the most important parts of ElephantDB is that it disassociates the creation of an index from the serving of that index. This means we can create, read, and update an ElephantDB domain solely on Hadoop without any dependencies on other systems being alive and functioning. Additionally, Neo4j is not a distributed database, while ElephantDB is horizontally scalable. You can read more about ElephantDB here:

http://tech.backtype.com/introducing-elephantdb-a-distribute...
Could you present some examples? We'd be interested to learn from the past.
There's also the possibility that there will be parents that severely restrict their child's diet in a way that causes malnutrition too...

[edit] Not saying that it's a good reason to make that statement, but that's what that CYA aspect probably is...
OK- thanks for the clarification.
I've run into a few scenarios with Yahoo Answers via Google:

1) Question with answer.
2) Question with no answer.
3) Question with answer, but answer was poor/incomplete/wrong/lacking.
4) Different Question than what I was searching for (irrelevant if answered).

I'd argue the issue is with search results, not always Yahoo Answers. #1 should always appear in search results. #2-3-4 never should. #2 should be easy to filter out. #3 and #4, that's the tough part. Maybe they can appear in search results, but not page one.

Every time you run into #2-3-4, you waste the users time (scarce resource). The more you do this, the greater resentment users have towards Yahoo Answers/Google. If #2-3-4 are occurring ~50% of the time, that's a lot waste. If it's in the 10-20% range, annoying, but not terrible. Less than that and you're doing a "good" job.

The responsibility falls on the shoulders of Yahoo, but also Google:

- If Yahoo reduces #3, search results will be less polluted.

- Stack Exchange does a better job with #3. Their community/insentive-system works.

- Google needs algorithms to eliminate/reduce #2-3-4.

If Google can't do that, they should measure how much time Yahoo Answer's wastes of their users. If it's large, consider de-indexing YA, but that's a nuclear step.

I think it's safe to agree that, as a collective, Stack Exchange has "better" answers than Yahoo, but users don't feel the averages when searching via Google. An answer is an answer, regardless of where it comes from. Google's job should be to present #1 and filter out #2-3-4. YA's/SE's job should be to eliminate #3, and their reward for doing so will mean more satisfied traffic from Google.
I've run into a few scenarios with Yahoo Answers via Google:

1) Question with answer.
2) Question with no answer.
3) Question with answer, but answer was poor/incomplete/wrong/lacking.
4) Different Question than what I was searching for (irrelevant if answered).

I'd argue the issue is with search results, not always Yahoo Answers. #1 should always appear in search results. #2-3-4 never should. #2 is easy to filter out. #3 and #4, that's the tough part. Maybe they can appear in search results, but not page one.

Every time you run into #2-3-4, you waste the users time (scarce resource). The more you do this, the greater resentment users have towards Yahoo Answers/Google. If #2-3-4 are occurring ~50% of the time, that's a lot waste. If it's in the 10-20% range, annoying, but not terrible. Less than that and you're doing a "good" job.

The responsibility falls on the shoulders of Yahoo, but also Google:

- If Yahoo reduces #3, search results will be less polluted.
- Stack Exchange does a better job with #3. Their community works.
- Google needs algorithms to eliminate/reduce #2-3-4.

If Google can't do that, they should measure how much time Yahoo Answer's wastes of their users. If it's large, consider de-indexing YA, but that's a nuclear step.

I think it's safe to say that, as a collective, Stack Exchange has "better" answers than Yahoo, but users don't feel the averages when searching via Google. A good answer is a good answer, regardless of where it comes from. Google's job should be to present #1 and filter out #2-3-4. YA's/SE's job should be to eliminate #3, and their reward for doing so will mean more satisfied traffic from Google.
Nice to live in if you're on top, but not so nice if you're part of the majority of laborers. Just because other places in the world are worse doesn't mean the problems of Dubai should be considered insignificant or ignored.

True, compared to the rest of the middle east it looks great (which isn't saying much) but with closer analysis it becomes clear that it's a husk of a city that owes much of its "success" to oil rather than social progress and ingenuity. Is it better than many other places? Sure. Does it serve as a model or inspire other countries in the region to improve themselves? It doesn't seem like it.
Or, more likely, "a" lost city. There are a lot of those, you know. Just because it's near the Straights of Gibraltar does not make it "Atlantis", tribute cities or no.
> Yea, let's not listen to the people that know what they're talking about.

Really? People with reputations at stake rarely or never spin information that minimizes impact to their reputations? People with dangerous information rarely or never, rightly or wrongly, minimize the impact of that dangerous information for concern over spreading panic?

Next you'll tell me POTUS never lies, Congress is looking out for our best interests, and nuclear power is essentially 100% safe.

> Give me one example of someone who was harmed by Three Mile Island which had a full meltdown with containment.

http://pittsburgh.about.com/cs/history/a/tmi.htm

Quote:
A new analysis of health statistics in the region conducted by the Radiation and Public Health Project has, however, found that death rates for infants, children, and the elderly soared in the first two years after the Three Mile Island accident in Dauphin and surrounding counties.

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb97/wing.html

Quote:
Exposure to high doses of radiation shortly after the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island may have increased cancer among Pennsylvanians downwind of the plant, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill say.

That's two.

> Chernobyl is irrelevant

Excellent news.

--

Another angle is that the "people that know what they're talking about" very often don't know what they're talking about, particularly in the minutes/hours/days following emergency conditions. TMI timeline:

Scranton held a press conference in which he was reassuring, yet confusing, about this possibility, stating that though there had been a "small release of radiation,... no increase in normal radiation levels" had been detected. These were contradicted by another official, and by statements from Met Ed, who both claimed that no radiation had been released.[21] In fact, readings from instruments at the plant and off-site detectors had detected radiation releases, albeit at levels that were unlikely to threaten public health as long as they were temporary, and providing that containment of the then highly contaminated reactor was maintained.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
You're missing a really important ssh setting: disable password-based authentication!

However, this still won't protect you from vulnerabilities in your ssh daemon itself. Optimally, you would use Single Packet Authorization.