skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, I've been in a lot of poor countries and I'm sitting in a really poor one right now - Nicaragua. There's loads of internet cafes and the people do use them but that's like an hour here and there for the small % that actually use the internet at all.

I bet that 30% includes them even though they're a long way from our dependency on being connected 24/7 and the deep integration into our lives - we're probably disconnected less than these people are connected.
Turn your iDevice into a motion sensor
Yes, it's like majoring in CS to work in IT.
CDC Flu App Challenge
You might be interested in Lustig's lecture on YouTube then. About 2/3 of the way through he goes into how HFCS is processed in the brain. In short, you get many of the disadvantages of alcohol, without the pleasant side-effects.
"Wait, just being able to ask the question? There isn't even a dependance on the answer?"

You appear to have skipped over the word "meaningfully" in warrenwilkinson's post, or perhaps he edited it in, but either way, it addresses your concern.

(To your later point I'd observe that rights are generally considered symmetrical; in a society where you have "the right to liberty" your example falls through because A's right is being violated for your example, and your argument seems to fundamentally require asymmetry for it to make any sense.)
Wordpress Admins: What's your favorite plugin?
Wordpress Admins,

What's your favorite plugin that people just don't seem to know about? I just discovered the capability manager plugin (http://ka1.us/Qdxn) to manage the capabilities of individual roles in Wordpress. I'm wondering what other awesome plugins are out there that I haven't seen, so, what's your favorite plugin?
Have you tried reading other people's code?

There's Knuth Literate Programming version of the classic Adventure [0] which you can read almost like a novel, and the source code for Spelunky [1] has also been released [2]. (I don't know whether Spelunky has good code, but it's a good game.)

Good luck!

[0] http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
[1] http://www.spelunkyworld.com/
[2] http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Source_code
.htaccess - What In The World Is It?
DownloadSquad Authors Start Their Own Blog: Browser Scene
So I guess my comment was overly subtle. My point was that in a time of economic stress the writer failed to investigate the most likely driver for student actions: "It's the economy stupid."
That sounds fantastic! Is it released anywhere?
I always feel uncomfortable speaking when my talks are being recorded. I have a particular style that's a little unorthodox to speaking. I get all professional when a camera's around, this also means that I feel less comfortable talking freely about issues that may have wider implications.

I guess that's not so important for wordpress, but I'm talking at DC4420[1] next week on evading antimalware defences and that's not something I'd really want to see put up on youtube for obvious reasons.
I haven't verified PF, but it seems that it wasn't even tested. My guess is that PF is not vulnerable because PF has a pretty good understanding of how TCP works. For example, it can do SYN proxying, where PF talks to each side itself rather than just blindly forwarding things through the firewall:

"Normally when a client initiates a TCP connection to a server, PF will pass the handshake packets between the two endpoints as they arrive. PF has the ability, however, to proxy the handshake. With the handshake proxied, PF itself will complete the handshake with the client, initiate a handshake with the server, and then pass packets between the two. The benefit of this process is that no packets are sent to the server before the client completes the handshake. This eliminates the threat of spoofed TCP SYN floods affecting the server because a spoofed client connection will be unable to complete the handshake. "
My theory is that it's more about the judge's blood sugar than about the break. Here's a Science Daily post about one documented case of blood sugar affecting decision-making:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100125173444.ht...
$100K that's utter bs. Anecdotes mean squat. Most CS graduates start at around 45-50k. Suggesting that even a a sizeable minority makes 100k out of college is being ill-informed at best and dishonest at worst. If we are talking in terms of anecdotes, I know several history majors making good money working for the city whereas some new CS majors are still working at bestbuy.
Was this re-posted to say that they were prescient? or that they were dead wrong?

Isn't this the driving force behind everyone trying to innovate in the social space? Providing segmented social groups that down have the implied obligations of "friendship."

Isn't this the impetus for why we spend all of our time on HN and Reddit?
According to 'physics for future presidents', the likelyhood of the average person developing cancer is 20%. He says there are 7.2 million people living within 200km of Fukushima. Using the 20% figure that means 1.56 million of these people will develop cancer. So what is this 400,000 number?? That's 1.56 million people of those 7.2 million would have developed cancer even without the Tsunami destroying the nuclear plant.

I don't deny that there will be people who will get cancer as a result of this tragedy, but I put very little credibility towards this individual report.
Humble Indie Bundle 3 focuses on one dev, offers unreleased games
wine is probably more like cereal. In any case there were about 300 million cases sold in the US in 2008

Here are rankings of the top wine producers by case in 2008

http://www.winebusiness.com/wbm/?go=getArticle&dataId=54...

E&J gallo - 68 million
constellation - 59M
The wine group 44M
Facebook hasn't sunk really but this is certainly their achille's heel. What FB badly needs is a concept of social circles or a better implemented groups and an intelligent way to restrict shared stuff from being more public than it needs to be.

The author just overestimated the impact of the issue but the issues still exists and is very real.
This is an excellent article that every entrepreneur should keep as a handy reference.

However, there's one significant error regarding international patents I want to correct.

There's no single patent application for the European Union. What there is is a single European patent application through the European Patent Convention, which is independent of the EU and has an overlapping but not identical set of member nations, as well as extension agreement nations (that typically eventually transition to member nations), and that recently also started establishing patent validation agreements without extension agreements (the first being Morocco).

International patent prosecution is very complex, but the one thing to definitely remember is just to talk to your attorneys about international patents at least a few months prior to one year after the initial filing date of any patent applications.
Remember all that chatter about Quora?
You hit the nail on the head. It's a balancing act based on time. While there are some nice bells and whistles with HTML5, it is not yet widely supported enough to completely commit to the advancements that it brings to the table. While, we will be using HTML5 when launching our new site in the next few weeks, we will also be spending a bunch of time testing how the code degrades in the older browsers. For now, we patiently wait. And keep our fingers crossed for the ultimate demise of IE.

In your situation, the benefit of improving the back end certainly outweighs the small payoff that HTML5 would bring to the front end. So yes, store it in the back of your head and revisit it soon.
I loved the "gateway drug to the American right" part. AS has become more and more influential and even those who strongly disagree with and actively fight "Randism" have to watch.

It's, after all, the gateway drug to the gateway drug.
They are as equivalent as an integer value of 0 and a NULL value are.
HTC Unleashed HTC Sensation (Also Specifications)
haha, the picture of the cat should be on icanhascheezburger
More TL:DR for you.

At 1:08:00 (ish)

The effects of long term Fuctose use is virtually identical to long term alcoholism (8 out of 12 effects)

(at 1:09:00 ish)
Intervention:

1) Remove all sugared drinks from your diet. Water & Milk only

2) Eat carbohydrates with fibre.

3) Wait 20 minutes before a second portion.

4) "Buy" your screen time, minute for minute with physical activity. (holy crap! I've got an eight hour work day to buy back!)
Entrepreneurs are not artists.
If the code is good enough to go in production devices, why isn't it good enough to be released to the public?

It's quite easy to create a code base that mostly works well, but whose structure and organization is utterly unsuitable for a public release. This is especially true when you have a marketing-driven deadline (e.g. "ship before the iPad 2") and have to take shortcuts.
18 Million WordPress Blogs Compromised In Attack
Congrats! I have no experience in this, but rather than asking the accelerator that you have already been accepted to to wait, it might be better to ask the one that you are waiting on to decide early.

Just contact the leads and be straightforward about it.
This is the first complaint I've seen about the C7000 systems, seemingly, they are the "blade" solution to beat. Any specifics?
I think the idea is that anyone interested enough in these companies to use this site would also be interested in / see the value in that data.
Facebook needs a way for you to form groups of friends that mimic real life social groupings so that you can share info with the appropriate group(s) with the added complexity of this being done with as less effort from the user as possible. I don't think their current implementation of friend lists is working.
Thanks, I had a lot of fun making this. I think it might work better on an analog scope rather than a digital sampling scope. There are a bunch of other interesting videos on there as well.
http://www.dustingetz.com/password-security-the-free--easy-w...
The boingboing article is just a link and excerpt for the actual article on InformationWeek. You could have linked directly:

http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=...
For Stanford CS grads, it's anything but BS. From what I've heard (being at Stanford), it's usually somewhere around $80 - $120.

Google, for example, pays $8,000 a month - just for interns!
Computer Engineering?
Is Google considering buying MySpace?
Capture an interactive floor plan
“We’ll just block all of EC2” seems not only excessively broad but, well, lazy.

This conclusion bugged me a bit, in part because I'm old enough to remember when programmers considered laziness to be a virtue. But also because it's not evidence-based. If it were a problem faced by a significant portion of SO readers, I suspect they'd find another way to address it. But if it's a problem only experienced by a couple of readers a year, then spending much time on it would be an "industrious" misuse of resources.
I'm not trying to settle the argument once and for all with this single analogy, I'm just saying that compiling standards-compliant code instead of writing it directly does not violate the principle of complying with standards.
This is a generally well respected feature comparison chart: http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Comparison_of_3d_tools

Blender is generally feature rich, but has a fairly different UI than other products. People vary on whether or not they find that a good thing, Blender was originally built in an animation studio, for the most part, the interface prioritized ease of use for the knowledgeable user over ease of use for the new user whenever there was a conflict and sometimes neglected the latter altogether.

The project has since put in a lot of work to try and make the interface a bit easier to pick up without compromising on the speed with which current artists who use Blender heavily rely on. The 2.5 series of releases is the latest attempt at making this better.
dumb question:

Is Google violating the GPL by not releasing code that is shipping on devices (eg. Xoom). Didn't Tivo end up having to give up some of there code because it was based on linux? Is this a similar situation?
Android is not an open collaborative project like the Linux kernel or many distributions. Android, is still, however open source in so much as that Google has released the source under a license that permits derivative works. It is however, not Free Software, as it is Apache licensed.

One needs to be careful not to mix terms. Android is "open source" but that's as far as they go. It's not Free Software and the development process is not collaborative.
Mike's point was there are no security issues with the Blackberry. The issue is that there's too much security than what some governments can tolerate. The question puts the CEO right into a paradox that nobody can possibly answer, so it was fair for him to end the interview (or maybe he could say, a lot of this is under negotiation so he can discuss it).

He can't be critical of the governments demands because they are in negotiations with them. He can't say they will weaken security, because that's not what enterprises want.

Either way, you have to be proud of a company for taking a stand and developing secure products that could help protect civilians from terrible governments.
I guess I'm just amazed that they (rails core) haven't learned from the RJS mistake. These 'fads' to get around JS syntax are terrible as standards.

What is so wrong with writing idiomatic, unobtrusive JS? I personally don't care for JS syntax (compared to the beauty of ruby and haml), but that's life... JS syntax my be ugly, but it can be written elegantly.
I kind of wish for that to happen, but for children of friends / relatives that do sit in front of the computer all day I do not see it.

The problem is that many things are taken for granted (normally) and there are lots of distractions available -- when my parents bought me my first computer (in 95) I only had games like Doom to play and no net available, and I got bored easily. Loved sitting in front of the computer, and there was nothing more interesting than learning to program it.

Kids nowadays only stay on chat/facebook/myspace all day and/or play games, which is understandable to a certain point since there's lots of stuff to do with a PC that's attractive even to non-technical people. You don't need to program it to feel good about yourself, to show off, to have some fun or to get some work done ... that's the difference between now and the nineties.
I decided to do the blog instead of the gartner press release because of all the gartner advertising at the bottom of the release.
For anyone still saying "there is no bubble"...
On a tangential note, I am baffled that it is still next to impossible to find any semblance of an official blog. They seem to use their own blog system, which is a mess - and they don't even have a link for it in the footer!

When Quora shuts down, we'll probably have to post a question on the site to verify that the rumours are true.
Here's my (somewhat childish and Bioshock-ish) response along the lines of Shaw's "The reasonable man adapts ..." idea: Why are we still bound by our body mechanisms that were determined by our cavemen ancestors millions of years ago? Rather than cutting back sugar, maybe we should find a way to re-engineer our cellular structure to avoid the metabolic syndrome, mentioned in the article. Why work towards healthy, rather than bend "healthy" towards our will?
Your reference is 9 months old. This is part of why it is unfair. If it was a current issue, that would make sense to bring up in the discussion. But the problem was resolved to the satisfaction of those governments, meaning that the average customer should not be concerned.
I would say tell more about employee moral and the work atmosphere. It's easy to know if the company does stuff that I might find interesting, but more difficult to know whether or not I might be happy there. If employees feel respected and valued, the moral will be high and the atmosphere will be positive. I think knowing that is important, but it has to be genuine, not made-up.
For an open source project the code is the product. If you claim to be open yet release your bits before the code, you are deluding yourself.

The quote from Savoia and Copeland in the article seems to be saying that Google won't release the code until the product sees market in order to maintain their competitive advantage. That's one thing. But when they continue to sit on the code when the product is out, that's another thing entirely.
>At this level, i.e. CEO, this is pure idiocy, you should have a canned response for such questions, in fact deflating such questions is part of your job, for heaven's sake!

Not in this day and age. IMO candor and honesty is much better nowadays.
Ahem, we prefer vector monitor thankyouverymuch. =)

Actually the architecture of those old Atari vector games is pretty remarkable given the technology at the time. You had a 6502 with the game logic, generating a list of items to be drawn by a second CPU, implemented entirely in TTL with a custom opcode set of it's own. All in under 16K of object code.

http://www.philpem.me.uk/elec/vecgen.pdf
Poll: What type of bladeservers do you run?
Interested in finding out how popular/common different blade architectures are out there... so please let us know your specifics via poll choice, then specific models in comments. Thanks.
HP C3000
HP C7000
Dell Poweredge 1955/1855/710/M600
Dell M1000e
IBM BladeCenter HS21/HS22
Sun Blade
Other - Specify
Supermicro
If you're thinking of limiting to the PHP worker process then all I have to do is wrap my SQL in PHP statements. I can still use SQL queries using the PHP worker which is a bit long winded but scriptable.

I can then use LOAD_FILE and SELECT INTO to read and write to files, but I won't be able to execute arbitrary code.

If the application user has access to mysql.user though I can then SELECT host, user, password FROM mysql.user; to get the credential details and password hashes, which can then be fed through a password cracker of my choice. Once I've done that I can reconfigure the worker to use the root mysql account, restart the PHP worker process and start sucking the database down or modifying it.

Of course, in theory you'd have some access to the database server beyond port 3306 such as SSH, in which case I'd look at grabbing mysql account info from /etc/passwd, then dropping ssh keys into that user's home directory so I can use key-based auth to get onto the box. This may or may not work (there's many variables) but I'm just writing that here to illustrate that breaking in as is with perl, there's more than one way to do it.
It's Stanford.

You can have a look at stats of Cornell CS grads:
http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/resources/career_services...

The median was ~ 75K in 2009
Perhaps make a public version that asks for more information and automatically generate pools when enough have submitted data for a particular segment (company, location, title, years experience, degree, etc)
It is definitely not just a London thing. I was on a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles and the guy next (mid-20s) to me was using an old iPhone to play games. His phone was a blackberry. I found it really strange, but he told me that all of his friends were using BBM and he felt like he was left out, so he went back to BlackBerry.

In Canada the Blackberry outsells Android in the teen crowd according to a report in the Globe and Mail a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, I can't find the article now.
Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser
Whoah, that's quick! The result looks nice. Is the code open source? I'm curious how you did it.
Just out of curiosity, do you use CoffeeScript for all your underscore.js and bakckbone.js development?
Important Postgres 9.1 Features (upcoming release)
Education Apps for iPad
Know Your Audience or Why I Never “Showed HN” EasyUnsubscriber.com
If you didn't like the judge assigned to your case, and could pull together this kind data on their past decisions, would that be enough to argue for a different judge?

Or perhaps mandate that they eat a snack bar every so often.
The Ergodic Hierarchy
I think all addictive drugs that decrease lifespan seem worth it to the person doing it. Ask a crackhead if crack is worth dying for and he'll say "hell yes" -- then rob you.
It hasn't been widely released yet. As far as I know the Xoom is it. Others are in development or being prepared for release.
Personal Memex
Little hard to be open source when your source is closed and you don't let anyone look at. Android source is released sometime after the product has been out to market. Android is only open to the extent that it benefits Google, not the extent that it benefits the community.

I'm not saying that this is the wrong way to go about it...were I a Google exec and responsible to shareholders, I would have difficulty justifying a truly open process. But at this point, "open" has become a bullet point on a product box to attract a certain demographic.
This is an issue effecting WordPress.com, where users have no access to the source code.

Given you go on to mention WordPress.org and even mention a discount for HN users, it feels as though this is a pitch for a specific vendor..? :(
I'm more of a data science wanna be than a developer, so I tend to analyze data. It's a lot of screen scraping, data munging, statistical modeling, and data visualization.

I'm always looking for data to analyze, to shoot me an email if you need something.

I'd like to get into GUI development and am working on learning that at the moment.
Couldn't you just use the multi-quote search option on Yahoo! Finance? Streaming quotes, charts, multiple views and de-duping of news articles.

http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1
http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv

Want to add more quotes? Just add it to the URL (or use the Add Symbol option on the page)
http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1
25 more good reasons to f'get about the NYT
In animals, or at least in laboratory rats and mice, it’s clear that if the fructose hits the liver in sufficient quantity and with sufficient speed, the liver will convert much of it to fat. This apparently induces a condition known as insulin resistance, which is now considered the fundamental problem in obesity, and the underlying defect in heart disease and in the type of diabetes, type 2, that is common to obese and overweight individuals. It might also be the underlying defect in many cancers.

I've seen this liver-cancer connection in other places, such as Chinese Traditional Medicine and Italian folk medicine. Interesting to see it cropping up here.
This guy is rehashing a concept that universities have been teaching since the 90s. The era of mass customization is actually behind us, replaced with purpose built hardware and software (i.e. iPad, iPhone, Xbox, etc.)
For explicit linking articles to stock data you might want to use something like this http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html

Disclaimer: I'm founder of Explainum. The service is still in development phase but we're looking for early users.
I recently created a list of friends that is a subset of my friends and changed the default level of sharing on everything I post to only be accessible by this list.

This basically creates a sub-Facebook in which my close friends and I operate. I still see stuff come in from other people in my main friends list, but they don't see anything I do (unless I explicitly post on someone else's public item).

It's working out very nicely.
No. The code in question is not under the GPL, it is under the Apache license, which is a very liberal license that does not require distribution of source.