skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this whole vocabulary for describing your office environment (empire-builder, fiefdom, turf war, etc) to be incredibly negative. Thinking or your peers as bumbling warlords has got to make your time at the office a pain.

That said, I have not worked at a large company before, so I might think the same way in your shoes.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with managed risks (hospital staff dealing with infected patients and rock climbing being the two biggies, I guess), I'm not sure that what gets interpreted as macho attitudes is a flippant dismissal of risk. I think it's a much more complex interplay including elements of having to re-assure others that even though they may be scared, the situation is under control, as well as playing the same mind game with yourself.
Very interesting post, I would have loved to have taken this course, if only to write a an essay giving an unequivocal "Yes" to this question.

It would have been great if he hadn't placed all the emphasis on the Holocaust but also discussed two other well-known, widely believed denials: one scientific ("Americans didn't land on the moon") and one very recent ("9/11 was actually planned by the US government").
I don't think it is fair to frame it so dramatically. I think you're arguing for strong diplomacy in negotiation, which I completely agree with. You could presume the original dialogue was not indicative of absolutely perfect diplomatic practices, but to say he is extremely arrogant... I would say he is justifiably confident if he has encountered relevant situations many times before and an adequate technical skill set. Either way, to pass any judgement, we're making way too many assumptions.

And ultimately, isn't this irrelevant? They are just a few general, entertaining anecdotes. I hope you don't take Dilbert or The Office seriously as well.
After visiting the Newseum last summer in D.C., I fully support things like this. We need entities still doing journalism and not just creating content.
IIRC antirez implemented another tcl dialect long time ago (named jim IIRC), so he had a clear idea of where he was going I guess :)
Their pricing seems too straightforward. $15 for .com and smartphone. $20 for .com and tablet. $35 for .com, smartphone, and tablet. 35 = 15 + 20...

.com, smartphone, and tablet should be less than the first two combined. Incentivise people to pay more by making it seem like less.
Viking introduces new Dual Fuel Ranges with Electronic Controls
Mastin Tibetano: El Perro más caro del mundo
Long time coming. Great product and great service. They're fighting for the survival of the paradigm.
Interesting how the prices (from http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp0145.htm... rated at "every four weeks" rather than "per month". A chance to squeeze out one extra payment per year?
I have managed to read NYtimes for the last several years, without having an account, and primarily using bugmenot to pass around the user registration, which annoyed me to no end.

With that said, I would consider creating an account and paying, a big selling point for me, (which is not mentioned in any of the articles presented would be, that as a paying customer, it would be great if no ads are visible, just premium content.
5 article per day limit for people visiting from Google.

Won't this get them dropped from the search results for presenting different content to users versus Googlebot?
You are oversimplifying this whole debate. It's not just a couple of "rude dogs," and if I supplied you with several stories of discrimination against women by VCs, etc would you still say it's just a couple of rude dogs? How many would it take for you to believe there is a systematic problem here and not just random men being jerks?

Your belief that sexism in tech is not really sexism and just isolated incidents strikes me as very odd. You analogy to men in bars is completely unrelated and completely not analogous. I'm an attorney and a your whole argument about rude behavior being illegal, well, I would like to see that hold up in court. Proving any type of discrimination is very difficult.
I'm not sure I follow you. if Alice pays money from her PayPal account into Bob's payPal account, how is Visa a party in that transaction?
EBuddy Debuts Realtime, Cross-Platform Messaging App
Ah yes - you're very right! I'm tempted to try fiddling around with a simple binary search across the string just to see what sort of performance characteristics it generates. I imagine that the result would be comparable to doing a Trie lookup (if a bit slower). Although, as mentioned before, we'll still have the file size overhead of the uncompressed string.
Sorry, I don't follow your reasoning. Could you restate that?
I can't find any mention of whether advertisements will be shown to paying customers. The "no-pay-but-view-ads" vs. "pay-with-no-ads" model has been a mainstay of most freemium websites, but NYTimes looks like it's going to keep ads no matter if you pay or not.

At $3.75 to $8.75 per week, I'd expect ads to be gone. Not that they need to be. It's just what I've come to expect.

The news publication industry is changing (along with the rest of the publication industry). I like the direction NYTimes is going in -- "For quality content, you should expect to pay real money" -- but the model has so much bad baggage attached to it that it seems doomed to failure, with The Times (London) being the most recent NYTimes-scale example.
Good work. The NY Times is, in my opinion, the best online paper by far. Navigating and reading articles is a pleasure.
Swiss Open source portal goes live
> Without checking the implementation, how would you know how the input-data should be formatted?

How does OOP solve this problem? Either way, you need to check the type signature of the function. If your IDE does that for you, that's great, but it's not an inherent difference between OOP and FP.
I'm curious whether your "Yes" is because you yourself deny the holocaust or because you think that it is important to hear the other side of the story.

I will admit myself that while I don't actually believe it to be true, I often take the denial side of the "Americans landed on the moon" argument. It is always fun to challenge people on their long held beliefs and make them rationally defend their position.

I've never personally found the holocaust denying evidence to be at all worth parroting even for the benefit of theoretical discussion.
Don't be so sure. The Times is one of the few outfits where this approach may actually work. Look at the WSJ, another such outlet -- 1 million people pay $100/year for online access (no paper). That's $100M/year, which makes a big difference at a newspaper. That's a lot of extra reporters.
"I find it odd that Sony is allowed to infringe on the privacy rights of thousands of innocent people all to help them prove something that it is their duty to do in the first place."

Eh, yes, that's how discovery works - in (hundreds of?) thousands of court cases every year. Otherwise how can one party prove its claim against someone else? Enforcing your rights would become a magnitude harder if one would have to rely on information from outside sources alone.
Avoid News (including the NY Times)
They just seem to be following their print model for some sort of mental connection in buyers used to paying for weekly newspaper subscriptions. It's confusing to me to figure out as someone who prefers monthly installments (UK rent is figured per week as well, then multiplied by 52, then divided by 12 for the monthly rent… so convoluted), but it's not totally bizarre for NYTimes to bill this way.
I feel that if they are going to charge, charge for the big investigative and in depth pieces that you can't just get elsewhere. Some of the shorter stuff, which is rehashed over many different news sites is a lot harder sell for payment.
The last sentence seems to negate the point.

> Even better: don’t give anybody the opportunity to reject you.

That kind of sounds like saying "Don't even try".
Chinese panic buy salt over nuclear threat fears
> "The web has allowed us to become readers of many perspectives, and this movement (regardless of whether it's right or wrong) will push us back to identity subscribers."

Most people have not used the web to become readers of many perspectives; rather, they've used it to find media outlets that conform to their preconceived biases. The web has allowed niche voices, who previously couldn't find a large enough audience to be economically viable when media distribution was geographically limited, to thrive. While paywalls might exacerbate this a bit most people are already de facto "identity subscribers."
Is That It for Quora? Tech
In modern Languages you have namespaces and namespaces let solve the problem your discribing.
I love the idea of sharing the common suffixes.
Which part was the abusive part?
Designing a search engine for reality
ComScore: 170 Million U.S. Internet Users Watched Online Video Last Month
Thank you MWRC and ConFreaks for streaming these sessions. Next year I will register in a timely manner!
A curious question: where are you from and which college did you attend? I have a vague hunch.
http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
This is what you get when lawyers try to understand developer stuff. Plus, it sounds like more FUD to me.
Quit and see if they still let you come in and drink the beer.
Explosions and Boobs and Bacon
"Other people do not think about you nearly as much as you think they do"
I thought for a moment that Nick is back writing blog posts, but this is from the archives.

If you are a developer, esp Python and AppEngine, you really should read all the archives - it is one of the best general online sources for python, appengine (and the datastore) and dev.
How not to get snookered by claims of "proof" of copyright infringement: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107
Being "on the ground" I can attest to the accuracy of this story. I saw some real squabbling going on today over dwindling salt supplies. Motivations seem mixed; some rumours say salt guards against radiation others that due to radiation poisoning seawater, salt will soon be scarce. Both equalling hilarious.
GPU Detection in the Browser with Silverlight 4
Even Dictionary Writers Have Souls
Specialised startup accelerators seem to be the next logical step in startup evolution: mentors specialised in your field, sense of direction, capitalisation on specific related areas. I think we'll see more of those.
If you link to GPL libraries you must abide by the terms of the GPL. The same applies to using the kernel header files. Or at least Torvalds believes this to be the case, as do the IP lawyers quoted[1]. Quote from Linus:

"In short: you do _NOT_ have the right to use a kernel header file (or any other part of the kernel sources), unless that use results in a GPL'd program."

"So you can run the kernel and create non-GPL'd programs […] BUT YOU CAN NOT USE THE KERNEL HEADER FILES TO CREATE NON-GPL'D BINARIES. Comprende?"

The solution seems to be to re-licence Bionic under the LGPL, which is what the C libraries of every other linux based OS do. Although that does seem to suggest that one can always work around the GPL linking restriction by creating an intermediate LGPL library, but I'm no lawyer so maybe there is some reason that is not allowed.

[1] http://www.brownrudnick.com/nr/pdf/alerts/Brown%20Rudnick%20...
Someone will create Firefox and Chrome extensions to get around the pay wall.
Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0
Just a curious question that has nothing to do with the Chrome logo.

Your link has the rlz string that is presumably for your Chrome/Chromium browser. Can that be personally identifiable information for anyone other than Google?
Sigh. It only sounds like that if you are suffering from ultra short-term memory loss and forgot all the lines you read before that last line.
How, pray tell, is it abuse to use services funded by the taxes that you pay?
Nice. For only $15 dollars a month I can get the latest updates on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and the virtues of warrantless wiretapping. What a bargain.
2000-2010 was all about "lean"? Huh? What about the "Web 2.0" bubble that started with the coining of the word "AJAX" programming in early 2005, and ended with the "R.I.P. Good Times" Sequoia presentation in late 2008? Lots of people built no-revenue companies during that time designed to be sold to Google.

http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/e000385
http://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups-...
But, there's always been a fee for using the ATM of a bank you're not a member of.

Feels like FUD to me.
Believe in yourself, because no one else will.

That may be the single most important point of all... well said, sir.

I don't think that's true at all. While I'm not going to diminish the importance of believing in oneself, one of the greatest loves you can show toward someone else is demonstrating that you believe in them, too. Everyone should surround themselves with people like that.
That Groklaw article failed to explain that the code in question is indeed distributed online by major Android device makers such as Motorola, Samsung and LG:
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/01/android-device-maker...
The patent was in an unrelated field.
The NYtimes is a great publication but it can't simply be "now we are going to charge for this". There has to be some tradeoff. For example, lately they have been running a huge expandable ad at the top of their homepage and, quite frankly that looks unprofessional and is annoying. So if as a subscriber they can get rid of some of that and several other undesirable ad locations ( I realize advertising will still be a part of their business model) then it may be an ok proposition.
The tradeoff though is that their articles will be reaching a smaller group of readers, even with the 20 free a month.
"Does Facebook ever miss out on a new hire due to its low titles? Yes, definitely"

Anyone else find this to be terribly pathetic?
Using Stor.IO to sync HTML5 local storage
I'd say many of the best programmers never had a customer, and therefore only had their own problems to worry about in the first place. The person you're describing is a great businessperson, but that's neither necessary nor sufficient for being a great programmer.
New Twist To Local Deals Concept, 'craigslist for local deals'
And it's $180/year for an experience that is going to be diluted by their continuing need to please advertisers. It would be a stronger strategy if they said that serving the needs of their $180/year customers is going to be the sole driver of the design and direction of their site.

EDIT: It actually appears to be $15 "every four weeks" so $195/year
http://nytimes.com/access
Chase can kiss my credit cards good by if that's the case. I don't hold checking/savings accounts with Chase, but that doesn't mean I need to support this behavior via their credit cards. Citibank is on the edge of being booted as well for similar reasons. Hey banks, you are here to hold my money under FDIC protection, not find ways to chip away at it.
I can't tell if the article is talking about ATM fees for using an unaffiliated ATM or if Wells Fargo is going to start charging people for using Wells Fargo ATMs. The wsj links to another article that has one of those obnoxious "click to continue reading" banners, which is where I stopped. Does anyone know what this is actually talking about?
I'm a programmer and I have no idea what SXSW is. My research indicates it has very little to do with programming.
In the UK, 97% of ATM transactions are done using free-to-use LINK-network ATMs (http://www.link.co.uk/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_usage_fees#United_Kingdom). I feel that there are situations where pay-to-use ATMs are acceptable as a matter of convenience (convenience stores, subways, airports, etc.), but it boggles my mind that I can go to RiteAid to buy a $1 juice bottle and withdraw $40 without penalty, but to use the Chase ATM across the street (I'm a Bank of America customer) I have to pay Chase $2.75 AND Bank of America a $2.00 out-of-network-ATM fee.
Spamming Your Social Networks
In an OOP solution this would at least
be exposed by type signatures

I think you're mixing OOP and FP with language implementations.
I agree that linking to GPL libraries has GPL implications. Concerning a relicensing of Bionic under the LGPL, it's important to consider that only the original copyright holders can simply relicense (like MySQL, which granted non-GPL licenses to its database). The safe way would be for Google to use glibc, like MeeGo and webOS do.
Why Serial Entrepreneurs Don't Learn from Failure
Maybe that'll be enough pricing pressure for someone to fix that stupid system. Routine transactions shouldn't cost 2 bucks a pop.

Not sure how that works when the banks control too many of the pieces, though.
Sure, but $5 is more than double the standard fee in my experience.

I think the significance lies not in "oh no, it costs more now!" but in the fact that banks are beginning to add more and more fees to make a profit - doesn't this suggest they're hurting elsewhere, and are turning to what could be considered some pretty desperate measures to come up with money?
Blog Posts to Read for March 17, 2011
After talking with these guys, they are really serious and passionate about creating a positive change in education.
I think the Navbox is a pretty interesting option for navigation across the site. However, it might be helpful to have a login on the front page without a click-through.

For some reason the font you used doesn't seem to mesh well and overrides itself. Further, you may want to look over your text (especially on the front page) for typos and grammatical errors.

I'd also make the "create account" button look less like a link and more like a button (rounded corners? no underline?).

Why don't you use your description above as your slogan instead of the two you have on the site?

My .02
What exactly do you mean? Do you have an example?
Google Chrome's HTTP Inspector is still a bit, erm, immature.
It's difficult to talk about this subject without mentioning the Faurisson affair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faurisson_affair
I find that the "You can't do that" is often said by people who just don't want to bother.

I was recently working in a company where the task tracking system wasn't linked in any way to source control. I thought linking the two would be a great gain: being able to see the modified files from the task management system, and resolving the task directly in the commit message would allow managers and developers to easily increase productivity, if only by a little bit.

I had to have 3 different meetings with the sysadmin to get him to do that, each one escalating further up in the company hierarchy. Eventually, we had to tell him exactly how to do it, and my boss said it had to be done. The main reason the sysadmin said he did not want to do it was that he felt there would be no gain.

I learned a lot about office politics then...
There is a demonstrated market that will pay for financial news. Perhaps not so much for general news.
(Saw that you also replied on my blog post, dumping my reply to you here, as well.)

IndexedDB may help a bit in this case. It'll cut down on memory usage (at the cost of additional reads on the disk - which will likely increase battery usage on mobile devices) and <em>may</em> decrease search time. Although easily the biggest benefit of my current technique is that it's capable of easily using <code>localStorage</code> - and that has fantastic cross-browsers support (in contrast with IndexedDB, which doesn't).
It looks a lot like the GladOS balls from the game Portal, too.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2008/005/e/3/Blue_GLaDOS_B...

These have eyes.
Google Global Science Fair 2011
lol whoops, forgot my sarcasm tags. i was not advocating calling anything RESTish.
I'm not claiming it as truth - just letting people know that there's a history here and opinions on both sides.
Note that for small images under 1k, sometimes gif will be smaller than png because of the header size if you only need 1bit transparency. But you should be using sprites anyway.

I wish that ImageAlpha GUI was available for windows.
Another favorite of mine: "It's not that simple".

More in a social context than a technical one, it usually implies "This is my excuse for not doing it"
If I were to pay I would expect to receive only content, not ads, but I really doubt that would be the case, so other sources await.

Edit: Although there is a pretty big loophole..

From the article:
Not all visits to NYTimes.com will count toward the 20-article limit. In an effort to ensure that as many as possible of the Web site’s more than 30 million monthly readers are not deterred from visiting, The Times will allow access to people who visit through search engines like Google and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. There will, however, be a five-article limit a day for people who visit the site from Google.
you will face the same obstacle in all marketing
If you have any home delivery, then you get all the digital stuff for free. Here's how the prices compare
for delivery in my zipcode (Boston):

Daily Delivery (7 Days), $29.60 per four weeks

The Weekender (Friday–Sunday), $20.80 per four weeks

Sunday Only, $15 per four weeks

Weekday (Monday–Friday), $14.80 per four weeks

All Digital Access, $35 every four weeks

NYtimes.com + Tablet App, $20 every four weeks

NYtimes.com + Smartphone App, $15 every four weeks

So getting a weekday subscription at $14.80 gets you the $35 digital deal. I'm sure they won't mind if this drives some extra dead tree subscriptions.
I think the issue is whether or not header files are copyrightable. In verbatim form, they are, but it's easy to recreate identical header files without copying the source code: have someone read the header file, write a list of functions and signatures, use this spec to write an identical header. Google wrote a program to do this.

I am fine with the outcome either way. If everything on Linux has to be GPL'd, excellent: more freedom for everyone. If Google's stuff is OK: that makes sense too, because the OS's copyright shouldn't infect its apps'... apps have to use an OS.

I love not having a pony in the race.
I can't see how you could come to this conclusion, but I'll play along...

What do you envision the "newspaper" of 2020 will look like? HuffPo? Please. That rag is 75% unadulterated opinion pieces and biased claptrap.

To me, you sound like someone who is complaining that you're now going to be expecte do pay for a high-quality product that up until now you've been receiving for free.

I /pay/ for the WSJ, The Economist, and Forbes on Kindle. Before that option was available to me, I paid for those subscriptions to be mailed/delivered to my home. I'm /exactly/ the kind of customer that they want, because I have money to spend and I will hand it over if I find value. I think their advertisers appreciate the difference. Compare the quality of reporting between your average local "free" newspaper and the NYTimes (or almost any other major newspaper).

Personally, I applaud the folks at NYTimes. They've been dealt a tough hand and they are doing their best to stay relevant.
I often take the denial side of the "Americans landed on the moon" argument. It is always fun to challenge people on their long held beliefs and make them rationally defend their position.

Do people actually try to defend it, or just write you off?

If someone tells me they're a holocaust denier I'm not likely to try to prove it happened. The evidence exists if they cared to spend 5s looking. I'm much more likely to just say, "OK", and then avoid at all costs, since frankly I'm a little afraid to be around people with such beliefs -- since the belief that it didn't happen is also strongly associated with "and if it did, it would have been justified".
audio seems to work only on the left channel
Pure class from Steve. And wisely in keeping with Japan's established culture of corporations helping out their employees during times like this.