skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In total around 50 deaths are directly attributable to radiation

I wonder how you can claim that when, depending on who you ask, the figure varies between 50, 50000 and "hundreds of thousands".

The figures you cite are from IAEA, which arguably is quite a biased source. Let's also not forget that it's very difficult to track and correlate the health of >600k people over 20+ years - even if you try to do it in best honesty.

As a counter-point, here's a study[1] that claims ~1 million deaths and according to wikipedia: "draws on previously classified post-Soviet records and reports by Eastern European scientists and medical experts that have largely been ignored by the IAEA and UNSCEAR".

I haven't read it, it may be fear mongering material. But then again, if really only 4050 people were affected, why is everyone making such a big deal about it?

[1] http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3...
I don't think your PCI guy is overly strict. It's pretty clear that the intentions of the requirements are what you described. What might have worked, though, is to have virtual machines inside the EC2 instances in your VPC, and use this to filter traffic through a separate virtual machine.

Still, it's unnecessarily complicated and as you say, a resolved issue now. :) The new features announced fits PCI needs quite well. I haven't looked into the IDS issue you mentioned in your first post yet, but I hope it's possible to resolve somehow or get around with compensating controls.

(Disclaimer: I'm no PCI DSS expert, just an unlucky engineer trying to make a compliant system.)
The Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)
If you are stranded, and someone gives you a place to sleep, I think I will scream in thanking them. So yes, Apple did an amazing job.
> Anyone here from MS care to explain why they continue to hold back the web and make us front end engineers work harder?

Web sockets. Consider for a moment the issue with web sockets, and how the implementation was wrong, despite being put into browsers. Browsers had support for web sockets, and developers were developing for it. That obviously changed rather quickly.

Microsoft's idea is not to support things before they are relatively stable and supportable. Basically, their idea is if they put something into IE9, they aren't removing support.

That doesn't mean they aren't working on new features, nor are they preventing developers from adding it to their version of IE9 to test out the technologies. They call this "Site Ready". Basically, they feel the technology is ready for end users.

Now, I'm merely providing the information they are providing to developers. Do not argue with me.
More accuratly an advisory role than a hire. Biz is still very active in day to day operations at Twitter.
Linux NostalgiaConf 2011
Well, visitor clicked on 'Get started now', if not starting up, what else do you expect to be there?
Why API Providers Hate You
Community and Purpose: Why I Like Quora
Tokyo Locals Keep Calm as Foreigners Panic
The mess that is so-called 4G mobile broadband
It's things like this which convince me that I am never going to pass an interview at a decent tech place. When I attempt to write solutions to things like this I make a million mistakes and can never quite get there.

My idea was to create a buffer of 1000 bytes and recursively call a function while each byte is dereferenced until it finally hits a byte which causes a segfault... but I just can't get it working.

The function pointer solution is genius...
Ides of March and Twitter
Ahh yes, of course. My apologies!
I don't have any first hand knowledge, but I generally stick with the conventional frameworks for any significant projects (programming language agnostic) especially when user data or authentication is concerned.

Here's a few potentially helpful links:

SO Community wiki on PHP Frameworks: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2648/what-php-framework-w...

SO discussion thread on custom php frameworks:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2885384/custom-php-framew...

SO discussion on using custom frameworks vs. Zend:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4368316/looking-for-custo...

Creating a Secure Login System the Right Way:http://tinsology.net/2009/06/creating-a-secure-login-system-...

I think the biggest reason to use a framework is because of all of the unknown unknowns about web security. You certainly don't need a huge framework to handle the basics of web development, but once you get into anything past that it's better to have a framework. Andre Torrez wrote a memorable piece on just some of the unknown-unknowns [1]. There are a million little pieces that are non-trivial to the success and safety of web apps that need to be addressed.

[1] http://notes.torrez.org/2010/12/learn-to-program-in-24-hours...
> 1. Phone storage vs. SD card storage.

Why? Because power users like to be able to move their data around as they wish. For the typical "mother," they aren't filling up the 8GB internal that's included. The 16GB SD card (or larger) is just gravy.

> 2. The epic list of applications (ELOP)

Not sure what you mean... all apps are installed and available in the app locker? In the market place app list, they are organized by install/update date (I believe that is default).

> 3. I have to manually move apps from the ELOP to the home pane where I want them.

I think I get it... you don't like customization.

> 4. Inconsistent interaction

Huh?

> 5. If I have the power to run multiple apps, then give me the power to close them.

The apps aren't really "running" in the background. This isn't a pc like you're used to. It actually degrades performance and battery life to use task killers. The Android Developer site has a good article on this.
Yeah, the list-making thing was kind of a despairing joke, because people have actually tried it. I realize it's not really fair to ask for that kind of list, but if you're going to make one, make it a list of positive things people should do, not just negativity. If someone only knows how to express themselves in a sexist way, then telling them not to do that makes them feel like they're not allowed to talk to women anymore. Giving them something acceptable to do instead leaves them with some options.
Opera betas open source web debugger
Yes, scripts are removed.

I will need to have a closer look at the canvas API and see what actually works across different browsers. It could well be a simpler way to generate images - even if IE6/7/8 will miss out.

Thanks.
NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz
Kinda messes up Euler's Identity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
Punta del este 2012
Of course, I have no doubts that A/B Testing is useful, I take more issues with the way it is being marketed. Likewise a lot of SEO is probably useful, but there are also a lot of black sheep.
Ashton Kutcher! @aplusk
Ashton Kutcher occasionally promotes social media enterprises by throwing the weight of his celebrity behind them. Previously he helped make Twitter. Now it's location-based network Foursquare. Except this time he stands to make a mint.
Look at this article - http://gawker.com/#!5502924/ashton-kutcher-celebrity-angel
Could there be a metal component to the glass?
In contrast to VAT in the US, the equivalent taxes in Europe are only applied to actual profits. Hence, you can directly compare 550$ (price+VAT) to 470€. The difference will be reduced by a fixed percentage (19% in Germany, 7% in Austria), but it will still be a profit.
Here is the link: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html

TL;DR : Android kills tasks on its own based on memory needed. Memory management in linux is different than in windows. Battery and performance drain comes from CPU cycles and not memory used.
Porting Android to x86
In 1963, only 3 quakes had been recorded bigger than this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes#Largest_ear... (as SupremumLimit pointed out, analysis upgraded the quake to 9.0)
If you don't have a glass nearby, this also works when putting your 3GS (and probably other phones as well) at the same angle inside an upside-down clear plastic CD spindle cover. Went from 2 to 4 bars. Took the phone out, dropped down to 2.
just tested it in our office in germany with o2 as carrier, went vom 1 bar to three bars in about 20 seconds inside the glass... amazing.
Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network
Amazon Web Services Upgrades Virtual Private Cloud With Internet Access
Yes. Read Yossi Gil's answer: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13370/13435#13435. Here's an excerpt:

I believe most users (maybe not so in this site) just turn a blind eye to the not so elegant features, and produce amazing documents in no time. The very friendly bunch here does not see these not-so-elegant portions as being so annoying. To most, these are just riddles to enjoy, just like cryptic crossword puzzle.
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The difficult part is in programming something new, something that cannot be found in existing package. There are experts of this dark art: the rest of us just watch them do their wizardry with awe. Luckily, the cases where you really need to do this kind of programming are very rare: chances are that you will find it was done.

In my experience, this is the state of the language. If you could fix this, I believe that even those who currently enjoy the riddles would move over.
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There's 36 countries on the Visa Waiver Program, see if you qualify:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html#...

"The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) enables nationals of 36 participating countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business (visitor [B] visa purposes only) for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa. The program was established to eliminate unnecessary barriers to travel, stimulating the tourism industry, and permitting the Department of State to focus consular resources in other areas. "
Replying to someone else's statement with 'nope' and your own different understanding of facts is inane and rude. Either ask for a citation - which I'll gladly provide - or provide a referenced counterpoint of your own.

Assuming you're actually interested in some kind of discussion rather than just trolling, see http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=908946, the same reference that's provided on the Wikipedia page for TeX if you'd bothered wondering where I got the information from, rather than just replying 'no' without any research.

The quote is: "TeX was designed with two main goals in mind: to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and to provide a system that would give exactly the same results on all computers, now and in the future."

A simple Google search for the statement above will reveal it's in almost every document ever produced on the topic of TeX, which suggests it may have been written by Donald Knuth himself.
http://twitter.com/#!/jurgenappelo
Cars are the probabilistically one of the most risky form of transport. I doubt that you are concerned about that fact when you get in to one.
Strategic advisor for social impact! How impactive title..
> For the typical "mother," they aren't filling up the 8GB internal that's included.

My mother (why the quotation marks?) loves recording videos and wouldn't dream of removing them from her phone/SD, even if she imported them to her computer. Filling 8GB is very doable. She'd be thoroughly confused once she did so.

Giving power users the option of moving things around is OK, but the phone shouldn't report that it's out of space unless all the storage mechanisms (internal and SD and anything else) are actually full, as opposed to;

> Today my phone said I was out of space, but it turns out I have plenty of space, but just not in the right place.
On point 5:

> If one of the top apps in your app store is a “app killer” application, then I think you have a problem.

(Quote from OP)

Yes, there is a problem. However in this case it is one of communication and understanding, as there is absolutely no need for a task killer on Android at all. I uninstalled the task killer I was using and haven't looked back, it's never a problem at all.

For those who don't know Android's internals that well, when you "tab" away from an application, it is sometimes terminated there and then. Whenever a pane is opened (can't remember the correct terminology) it is given a context object representing its state last time it was viewed. When a pane is closed (i.e. you go to another application), the O/S asks for a context object for it so it can be restored later. It will then be kept asleep in the background, but if the resources it is using are needed by another app, then it will be terminated without warning. That context item is the be-all and end-all, apps cannot rely on being notified by the O/S when they are terminated - only when they are hidden. It's a neat system IMO, optimising for responsiveness when resources are plentiful, and for resource usage when they are not.
If you liked the Axis of Awesome’s four-chord medley, you’ll love the Pachelbel Rant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
Canvas vs Canvas vs SVG performance on iPad
Is the Tipping Point Toast? Influencers vs Mass Marketing (2008)
I think the takeaway point from this is not that BT is doing something well, it's that AT&T is so horrible they can't even do as good as a terrible terrible company.
This actually looked and performed great on the iPad 2. (You just couldn't move the shadow around)
Fred Wilson's thoughts on Startupvisa
Losing employees like #13 is really a huge loss for Flickr.

Is Yahoo planning to sell Flickr too?
Having your call to action button below the fold is really bad practice. It's no surprise that your conversions increased when you moved the button up. Also, I would suggest putting your registration form directly on the homepage instead of requiring a person to click a button to see it.
No clue what happened to the original, but here's a post which lists what they had on their list:
http://sordyl.info/2011/03/15/10-ios-libraries-to-make-your-...

MBProgressHUD – Progress Indicator Library

ASIHttpRequest – HTTP Network Library

JSON Framework – JSON Support

Flurry – Detailed Usage Statistics

RegexKitLite – Regular Expression Support

Facebook iOS SDK – Facebook API Library

SDWebImage – Simple Web Image Support

GData client – iPhone library for all of Google’s services

CorePlot – 2D Graph Plotter

Three20 – General iOS Library
"- That's not how it should be written. This is a 100 times clearer:

int var1, var2;"

Somewhat aside from the actual article, but this might actually be the least clear way to write a definition, since the pointer marker appears to belong to var1, but not the overall definition of int. Here is how I would automatically read the definitions:

"int var1, var2;"

Of type int (variable), create var1, var2.

"int var1, var2;"

Of type int and type * (pointer), create var1, var2.

"int var1, var2;"

Of type int, create pointer var1, pointer var2.

"int *var1, var2;"

Of type int, create pointer var1, default (variable) var2.

Not sure how this works for and against C, since the language definition is really old at this point and by the standards of its time C is really clear. But languages have moved on and a standard has emerged over the intervening time that is a bit more logical.

Also, I think this article is a real piece of fluff :).
Yes and no - you can not test it all, there might be a point of diminishing returns after a certain level of optimization that has gone into a site. Just as with SEO - SEO is not completely useless, yet there are people who promise too much or even hurt you.

I suspect with A/B tests you could also hurt yourself, for example if you measure the wrong thing.

I don't know, maybe I am just a little bit tired of all the simplified promises.
It's still legitimate to request the full payment of damages, if they occur. Barring, of course, the absurdity of the whole situation. That is, a single individual or organization can cause damages much higher than they can later repay.
Yet again proving that RMS has no concept of the convenience-privacy continuum. Nothing to see here.
A number of prices will be going down because of reduced dividend expectation. Companies that are about to make a big loss due to natural disasters are going to reduce dividends, so the shares are actually worth less than they were a week ago.

That said, the "efficient market hypothesis" of which you speak; that is, the idea that any and all future price rises and falls have already been factored in - is false.

Many investors _are_ ignorant. Many are stupid. Many are prone to panic. They are prone to everything that all other humans are prone to. Many are in fact big funds that have preset automated buying and selling positions and would happily buy and sell regardless of what else is going on.

As evidence, I point to every bubble and crash there has ever been.
Lua, SQLite, the OpenBSD/FreeBSD userland utilities.
Mobile devices tend to operate in the 700 to 900 MHz range which translates to a wavelengths of several inches, so it's quite possible the geometry of the drinking glass is providing a bit of focus to the signal.
Why would it take 20 seconds for this to work? Radio is not slow.
Sparrow 1.1 adds awesome new features
I have said repeatedly:

Why should students do PhDs? For the vast majority of people a PhD is of absolutely zero value.

Why should students go to college/university? For the vast majority of people a degree is of absolutely zero value.

Why should students finish High School? For the vast majority of people a High School diploma is of absolutely zero value.

School is all about assessment, but life is about abilities and skills. Why are we teaching math that's targeted at the pinnacle of calculus, when absolutely no one uses calculus outside of a very, very small percentage of people in highly technical, extremely uncommon professions or jobs?

It's the underlying abilities and skills that these kids, and then young adults, need. (Actually, there's much more needed if you want to go on to programming, engineering, physics, etc, and I haven't forgotten that. But what percentage of people do those? What percentage want to do those?)

But they don't get to develop or exercise those abilities and skills. And the reason is that these can't be assessed en masse - which is required for schools.

So how can we develop these skills and abilities in the students, and then make sure that they have the evidence of them with which to go into the job market? Employers really no longer care about diplomas, degrees and qualifications, because they no longer trust them. Instead, every employer that I know of now asks for those out of habit, but administer their own aptitude tests.

Remember, though, that we can't let potential employers drive education, because the students don't yet know what they might want to do, because they don't know what's possible.

It's hard, and experiments such as those reported here are tremendously valuable and interesting. I just hope we see them bear fruit, in the form of balanced, valuable, educated young adults.
> We used our new revenue tracking feature to see impact of “popup forms” on actual $$ made, however it is still to early to say anything.

I think this last sentence is key. Raise a barrier and of course the number will go up, but average value per signup will go down. This might be fine for freemium or very good email marketing, but it may also have a negative effect. Only further testing will reveal the complete funnel around total visitor value.
Twitter posts don't have titles
Google: All private profiles will be deleted after July 31
I was wondering about that... title of the article is definitely a bit misleading!
Lessons from 11 years of community building [video]
The 8GB in his example is internal memory, used only by the phone to store the Android system image and application packages. All user data, including videos, are stored on the SD card, external memory. The vast majority of users will never install enough applications to fill internal memory, hence the OP's point is relatively moot.

I assume the author probably bought a dirt cheap Android device that doesn't actually have a decent amount of internal memory; my original G1 for instance only had 512M of internal memory, and installing some big apps or games could quickly fill that up. Modern, powerful Android phones can have 4G or more of internal memory for installed programs, which most users will never have a problem with.

Granted, I'm not saying this still isn't confusing, but for most people it should be a non-issue because the only thing they'll care about is filling the SD card.
That's why recording video, camera pictures, browser downloads, app cache is being stored on the SD card. Most apps, however, get installed on the internal storage of the phone, which is usually around 1 to 1.5 GB.

Sadly, most app developers tend to ignore the SD storage option, and store all their maps, levels, save games etc on the internal phone storage. Whether this is an OS or App design fault is debatable.
If you're a programmer, you might be more interested in Pure Data (http://puredata.info/) or cSound (http://csound.sourceforge.net/). Both are free.

There's also Renoise (http://www.renoise.com/) which is inspired by old school mod trackers. There's a free demo, and the full version is really cheap.
Surely it's just a result of the bars being smoothed/some sort of running average of strength.
In the 20 years I've lived by a nuclear power plant, nothing has gone wrong. The coal plant two counties over has had two major explosions, resulting in dozens of deaths, hundreds of injuries, and an exorbitant amount of property damage. So if we're going off of anecdotal evidence here, I'll take nuclear power. The closer the better.
How can you garantee that you won't show any private information? Suppose the user was filling a contact form with some private info that he wouldn't like you to see, do you strip this out? What about password fields? You might want to get an option asking the user if he allows the screenshot to be sent... Other than this, the only thing would be the afforementioned jpeg screenshot. Great job.
If anybody wants to learn some music theory and Haskell at the same time, I can warmly recommend this:

http://cs.lth.se/english/course/edan40_functional_programmin...
>but do I really expect someone like my mother to understand this and use it?

His usage of mother seemed to be an allusion to someone non-technical in nature, not just his mother. Therefore, I "mother" to include the more generic person he was talking about.

I think at the end of the day, you're mom is an exception. I consider myself a power user and don't even come close to the 8gb internal and 16gb sd on my phone. Most people now listen to music on the cloud, use apps like qik to post movies online, upload pictures right to facebook, etc.

Also, I think a lot of my apps save created files (like pictures and movies) to SD by default. Not sure on that. But, one of the reasons most apps write some data to internal is because it has higher security privileges.

It's not much of an argument. For some people, the easiness and out of the box nature of the iPhone is preferable. For other people, the customization abilities and expandability of the Android OS is nicer. Every one wins.
But if I move my iPhone around in the room, it seems to change pretty quickly.
I also support this advice. Places that are doing exciting things are generally pretty busy just trying to make stuff happen, and don't often have time to define requirements and advertise jobs for interns or dedicated HR people to do. This works to your advantage in that you can generally get talking right to the people who can bring you in, not some HR screen looking for a set of buzzwords on paper.

Back in college I did this and it was an amazing experience. Imagine a position that you would fit into perfectly, then pitch the position and you as the ideal candidate to whoever will listen and pass it up to the boss.