skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not absolutely sure what the fine print is, but $70,000 is a bargain for such a huge cOncert venue. invite all your favorite bands to play in towns named after then and streets named after the songs.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think SCt Bilski does anything but muddy the water. But it's simply not the case that there is binding precedent that software is nonstatutory. That's all I was talking about.
I would be cautious about drawing such a conclusion. I think if you were a typical neolithic farmer you would not be looking yearningly at the hunter-gatherers living in the mountains, wishing you could live like them. You'd probably feel that their life was pretty hard.

I suspect there would never be such a comparative perception. I doubt a neolithic farmer is tending a field and thinking "gosh, should I just give this up and head back into the mountains?" As little as they probably even considered hunter-gatherers, they probably considered them something "other".
Was financial melt down even caused by CDO's? It was caused by sub prime mortgages mainly by Fannie and Freddy and everyone knows that however people those who are in power want to look other way because they want to continue with that, finally they have to put the blame on something, and this is something.
How to Evaluate Your Sales Success
It might be a painful transition, but a critical mass of auto-updating web browsers will pressure vendors to build their web apps with forward compatibility in mind.

At this point that basically means they just need to test against multiple browsers and don't rely on bugs.

Browsers also need to be extra careful about maintaining backwards compatibility. The compatibility rule of thumb I've heard (I think the context was ES5) is that if more than two of the major browsers support a feature or bug then future versions must be backwards compatible.

In the end it should be better for everyone (well, except for browsers that try to lock-in users with non-standard features/bugs, but I think those days are mostly behind us)
I have the book here, and it turns out I'm misremembering. It's not an exercise, but an example. It's on pages 643-648 (in my version), in the chapter on relational programming.
What does ghostery get me beyond what I get from the anti-tracking lists in Ad Block Plus?
Click and hold on the back button brings up the list. This works in chrome too.
I'm in Portland and used to work at Yahoo with another employee who was also from Portland pre-Yahoo. We actually worked at the same company together pre-Yahoo.

He is now living back in Portland, doing mostly a telecommute with Yahoo. If I remember right, he has 5 weeks in Portland, then flies down for 1 week in Sunnyvale. I think that's what he told me when we talked about the deal. I didn't ask about $ but I'm guessing he's not making any less. He's top talent and I'm sure Yahoo wants to retain him. I know of another "bigger" dev at Yahoo who now lives in Illinois, I think it is.

If you are really high end, it seems like location is becoming less of an issue.
Dedicated logic can also be more energy-efficient than software, possibly giving the same performance but longer battery life.
I think the best schedule would be a mix of enforced office hours (Monday through Wednesday, for example) combined with letting employees work from home (or coffee shops, etc.) for the rest of the week if they so choose.

The enforced office hours would keep the team close to each other and on the same page. The flex time would allow employees to work wherever and whenever they deem most efficient for themselves. Set goals on Wednesday, recap on Monday.

Results (not office/face time) should always be the final metric in judging employee performance.
Geesh, It's not like I mentioned Hitler. My point, which we are not talking about, because we're currently dealing with your commission of the spurious-fallacy fallacy, is that when one asks questions of someone whose identity depends on an acceptance of the conditions that are the subject of one's questions, you're not likely to get answers that aren't grounded in an acceptance of those conditions.
The problem, however, is not the browser but web service vendors.

If workarounds for buggy web services become more painful, there will be more pressure on those vendors to fix their software.

It's not that the pain isn't real, but the pain already exists and you can either choose a future where more browsers are better leading to more web services being less buggy or a future where browsers stagnate because web services are buggy and their vendors unwilling to fix them.
Interesting Tip from a Symantec Beta Manager on Motivating Beta Testers
I remember I was working on the desktop part of the system, and we were implementing "background copy" - and the hardest part was figuring out what the UI should be for doing a foreground copy vs a background copy. (The Star had tiled windows, not overlapping, so there wasn't a model of just letting a status window overlap.)
Autoupdate is a responsibility that application developers should take seriously. If the latest version is not better than the previous for users, they will leave. That is as it should be.
Has Adobe Flash become irrelevant?
Thanks! Would you mind trying it on your site/blog?
IE10 not being supported by Vista is like how things weren't supported by 2000/ME but were supported by XP. Vista is like 2k, low quality and often skipped over.
What is the stack you're using to generate and serve these?

If two people request the same URL, do they get the same thumbnail? Is it de-duped on the back-end?

If I request the same thumbnail twice, do I get a fresh one every time?

Do you have protections against DoSing the requested URL?
To be clear I'm not advocating secrecy. The website should say something about the product of course.

People like you, or rather customers like you (and me) are usually the biggest pain in that ass for a company. You not being interested is a much larger problem for you than it is for them. I'm not being insulting, but I am serious.

If you are technical enough to read HackerNews, you are probably technical enough in your chosen domain to write the software yourself, or a least come very close to doing so. That means you're also more than likely to push the envelope, demand excellence and try to make the software do something that 99% of the user don't do. While this can sometimes be beneficial, when you have a targeted market it is often just very loud noise.

People like you and I tend to be early adopters, and while we are critical for determining market fit, we tend to be a giant pain in the ass once that fit has been found, because most often we are not it.

It all comes down to understanding that you are not the target market, even if it's still true that you would have use for the product.
There were few people dumb enough to buy it but plenty who were stuck with it as a default install that didn't want to then shell out $150 for Windows 7 so soon.
Why no company that values their data should ever "Go Google"
The ars post contains the tracking code.

In addition, Ars also once tested out blocking content for those who ran ad-block.

Frankly, I think this is less irony and more solid reporting despite the conflict of interest. (Or rather, conflict of cash-flow.)
Easily install CloudFoundry locally
The Tragic Death of the Flip
According to the CNN Cost of Living calculator which was passed around in other threads (http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm...), $100k in SF is equivalent to $67,887 in Portland. It's a huge difference, and you can't expect companies to be blind to that.
ah good call, I was poking around the js
Well, some of us grew up here, so then there's the issue of "do I trade moving away from everyone I know to earn more money?".

Also, I'm not sure that everyone who makes the salary trade-off knows that they're doing so. Is a developer earning $35k/year thinking "I could earn more at another company, or in the Bay Area, but I like it here" or do they think they're earning a fairly average wage?
Yeah, its a deadlock, but it is a consequence of the economics of these things.

> I now honestly believe that web browser is a bad platform for entererise apps.

Yeah, I am starting to think the same thing. I expect that we might have to go to a traditional application with web services (ala iTunes or maybe TurboTax-like).
In terms of interface, I'm a huge fan of calvetica (http://calvetica.com/) on iOS. It leaves out much of the "simulated paper" crap TFA is complaining about. It's also really fast to add new appointments. I only wish there was a Mac version.
I disagree with #2, now at least.

First rule of emacs: don't quit. Or, more specifically, don't shut it down.

I used to do this, but a few months ago I managed to really screw up a file I was working on, but didn't notice the problem until after I had saved it. And because I hadn't closed that emacs session for over a week, I couldn't even revert to a backup without losing a week's worth of work (emacs normally only creates a backup file when it closes). So for the last few months I close every session every day when I quit for the night.
"A brilliant and insightful analysis."

I asked one of my CL hacker friends about the L1/L2 question, and he waved has hands a lot and said that Richard Gabriel said that L2s were better. I read the essay that he alluded to (but didn't actually read, apparently) and it read as a compelling argument FOR L1s until the end:

[Quoting from the paper, available at http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/Technical-Issues.html]

The bulk of arguments that focus on clean semantics and notational simplicity tend to favor uniting the function and value namespaces. In spite of this, there are those who hold strongly to a belief that a two-namespace system affords useful expressive power that they are unwilling to do without. In the end, practical considerations favor the status quo for Common Lisp. There is a large number of improvements beyond a single namespace that could be made to Common Lisp that would clean it up and simplify it. We feel that the time for such radical changes to Common Lisp passed…

[End quote]

So I have a CL expert, writing for the standard committee, arguing that all things considered, L2s suck, but we're stuck with keeping CL an L2.

So that, in addition to my own experience with CL, Scheme, and other languages, is the basis of my informed opinion.
What is the solution when a version of the browser gets updated that doesn't work with the web service? Do you expect no bugs in the actual browser to be introduced? Will Google rollback a version if it only affects less than a % of users?
Fundry.com - Kickstarter-like Crowdfunding for Developers
iTunes should be a platform, not a bloated app
Perhaps it's not that it's hard to be good but rather it's far more lucrative to be bad?

I recently moved all my domains from GoDaddy to http://internet.bs because they don't do any funny stuff, they're very inexpensive, and they're outside the jurisdiction of belligerent and unfriendly Western governments.
iSSH is great in my opinion. The UI works well and it even has X and VNC support.
Numbers are only important if you're not looking to stand out. There are plenty of doctors, lawyers, writers and economists coming out of Universities at any given time. You don't hear about most, because they don't do anything worth hearing about. Many went down a path dictated by economic incentives or family obligations.

If you are doing this because you want it, you're sure to succeed.
Cost of living in Portland is indeed way lower than the valley, and thus the salaries that your competition (as a developer looking for a job) will take is less than in the valley. This is why salaries are sometimes offered for less here in Portland than other West coast cities.

It is unfair to blame Portland (as a city) or the companies (who exist to make profit and thus get the best talent for the least amount reasonable). Instead, blame your talent competition who has your same skill set but will accept $10k less than you.

Or, better yet, make yourself worth that extra $10k by proving you are worth it.
In other words - Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Everyone is jumping to explain/rationalize why "Flip failed" but I haven't seen any evidence that it failed at all - it was #1 in 2009 with huge sales and profits, and for some reason Cisco decided to discontinue it. What were its sales in 2010?
I think I want a future where we get to choose when to upgrade so as not to disrupt the lives and education of people. I don't want to tell a classroom of people (who pay for our service) that they cannot have class today because of an upgrade.
This (or more) is standard everywhere in the world except the US.
I think gamification has reached its pinnacle, there is only so much intangible 'free shit' people can obtain before they lose interest.
There is a Chrome extension "Keep My Opt-Outs" by Google. Is it different from the DNT and how?
I use Tucows OpenSRS (I'm a reseller, but otherwise, just find someone reasonable who is a reseller -- it used to be free to join, then $100, now I think $250).

Basically direct access to both a website and an API for registry functions. If you register enough domain names internally, it's totally worth it. I've never had a problem with them.

They started out as a linux-friendly ISP in Canada, I believe, and have become basically a reasonable registrar -- one of the first group of 34 independent registrars approved by ICANN, and I think the first to really work with resellers.

Hover, which Marco suggests, seems to be a retail part of Tucows.
What type of SLA's did you agree to when you signed up for Google Apps?
I want to know who just down-voted this comment and what the basis for doing so was.
"The Panel also believes that in using the disputed domain names to redirect Internet users to websites that host links to external websites, including websites of Complainant’s competitors, the Respondent has registered and used the domain names in bad faith"

http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2003/d2003...

There is a starting point.
If I'm banned from the lobby of the movie theater after sneaking in and watching the movie without paying, how do I discuss it with others after I purchase a ticket?
Forgive me, but I think you meant that to say that salary doesn't matter is mishuggeneh. Bupkis is what you'll have in your bank account if you go on thinking this way.

I'm not even Jewish. This is just from years in New York.
Grub with YC alumni during interview week
David Hearnden didn't left Google. However, it seems like Lennard de Rijk which also was on the wave team left Google a few months ago.
Languages Grew From a Seed in Africa, Study Says
It would be good if the data/information were at least available somewhere, such as through an API.

I must admit that as somebody studying social science of the internet, and interested in data in general, I might not be your typical user, but still...
This shot - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8... - third row down, second across - is actually a screenshot of XDE, the Xerox Development Environment. The window is Hardy, the XDE mail tool.

Note the use '!' to mark commands that you can click on.
If you want to be out of the jurisdiction of western governments make sure you are also buying domain names that are out of that jurisdiction (.com et al.).
Predator better than Kinect? Open Source object tracking
I just recently transferred all of my domains over from GoDaddy to Moniker, which was relatively painless with their site heavily oriented around bulk transfers. Although the control panel could be better, it is sooo much better than GoDaddy's. When I logged in to GoDaddy to transfer these domains, not having logged in for quite some time, and with their ever changing, incredibly busy design, it took me a good 60 seconds or so to even find the link to the 'domain manager'.

The whole elephant incident alone wouldn't have made me switch, but after wanting to try something new for some time, that was all I needed to put the effort in to finding someone else.
"I don't think most hunger-gatherers farmed until they had to..."

Is there a term that describes a typo like this, wherein a word relevant to the context is used instead of the "correct" word for the sentence?
Not to turn this into a recommendation fest, but I've used DynDNS (http://www.dyndns.com/) for DNS hosting, and it appears they offer registrar services? http://www.dyndns.com/services/domains/

It's a great, reliable DNS service in my experience, more geared toward hackers than the GoDaddy crowd (e.g. you can edit your DNS records directly with fine-grained control over TTL).
DNT seems like a pretty crappy solution.

I think a lot of people will enable DNT not realizing they'll get exactly the same number of ads, just less relevant. And the web marketing companies who are doing evil things will just ignore the header.
Warning: Minimum stay: 2 nights.

And no indoor fireplace? Pfft. I'll pass.
Is it possible to learn JS from The Good Parts? From what I've heard, it seems to be more for reinforcing good practices for those already familiar with the language.
The jailbreak ruling wasn't from the Supreme Court, it was from the US copyright office, which found that jailbreaking a smartphone was a legitimate exception to DMCA prohibitions on using technical means to beat copy protection.

The ruling means you can't be sued for jailbreaking. It doesn't give you a constitutional right to an unlocked phone, and it doesn't oblige Apple or AT&T or Google or HTC or whomever to support a jailbroken device. It certainly doesn't impair their ability to use technical measures (aka, fixing bugs) to impair your ability to jailbreak.

Since no one had ever been sued for jailbreaking (and similar policy was not applied to, for instance, the PS3), the practical effect of the copyright ruling was close to nil.
Can someone correct me on this: was hover originally called mail bank or name bank? And had a practice of registering peoples last names as domains? I recall this because I tried to register my last name through mail bank in 1998 and they registered it for themselves...
That's sort of the point.

It's a big deal to us, not a big deal to them. We'd pay extra for a tighter SLA if that option were available, but as it is, on outage hurts us a LOT, and them not very much.

That would seem to be prescription for bringing it in-house, despite how little I want to do that.
They're still following the policy of "embrace, extend, extinguish"; the browser market just got away from them for a bit. Once they ship a browser good enough to shove out the other players with a bit of extra leverage from their desktop near-monopoly, it will become more obvious.

It's already beginning to happen. For example: http://www.winrumors.com/bing-powered-u-s-searches-rise-to-o...
I've tried NearlyFreeSpeech, Gandi, Joker and InterNetworX. Gandi and Joker are expensive, inwx is so-so and NFS is cheap but has an extremely limited selection of TLDs. NFS and Joker have terrible interfaces, Gandi's is somewhat nice, however it's just way too big, inwx's is nice (somewhat unintuitive, but fast and compact). Joker makes accidentally deleting something hard, inwx makes it way too easy. Gandi pollutes your default zone file, NFS puts a SPF record there (which I like).

If you've just a few .com domains and don't need a registrar outside the US, use NFS. Otherwise, for the time being, I'd recommend inwx.
More than that - you shouldn't even need a full blown PC or Mac to use an iDevice [1]. Syncing should largely be over-the-air, with a Time Capsule/Airport Extreme style device. OS updates could be done from such a device, too - they have USB ports after all.

Although it's risky as Apple might shut you down, I think it could be done by a third party with some effort. If our startup ends up going nowhere and nobody has done it by then, we will.[2] The potential is insane, IMO. It's crazy how many people we know who either have an iPad as their main computing device, or who would be served well by it if they didn't have to maintain a classic personal computer to back up/update the iPad.

[1] Syncing should still be better than the current iTunes situation if you do.

[2] Maybe, maybe we can eventually do it as a side project without losing too much focus. I think the market is bigger than for our current product, but it's also much riskier, and would realistically require investment, whereas we can in theory bootstrap indefinitely right now.
Better be for a full 24 hours - none of this 11AM checkout crap.
Here in the UK top-shelf content means adult-only. Perhaps you meant top-drawer?
It's just a small part of a much more widespread problem - a hell of a lot of people just don't give a great deal of thought to their outgoings and don't check their bank and credit card statements. Recurring billing is clearly necessary and legitimate, but it's easy to abuse when there are lots of people who just aren't paying attention. The complete absence of financial education doesn't help.

Although I do feel sorry for people who get stuck by this, it really is a first world problem - you have to be very lucky in this world to have enough money to not notice when some of it goes missing.
I've only heard good things about DNSimple https://dnsimple.com/

Customer comment on the front page "Thanks for the escape ladder from GoDaddy!"
.is is good. Very safe, and still has two-letter domains available.
Google Announces First Quarter 2011 Results
It is built on AWS, and we are using PHP and a custom framework for the actual site, and on the backend we're using CutyCapt[1] to generate the thumbnails, which is based on Qt and Webkit.

Yes, we automatically de-dup on the back-end. If the thumbnail you requested exists in the size you want, the information is just returned and you are not charged for the generation. You can tell this happens by looking at the 'created' timestamp in the returned object.

If you request the same thumbnail twice, you will get the same one back twice; however, there is a force_new parameter that can be passed to the generate method that will force it to fetch a new version each time.

We do not have explicit protection right now for DoS attacks, and I thank you for raising that point. In all honesty, the system right now is limited by our ability to handle traffic; you couldn't likely surpass a couple requests a second if you were trying, but it is something we will be thinking about moving forward.

I hope that answers everything for you; if you have any other questions, please let me know.

[1] http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/
He literally says:

As we all know this comes down to money, who wants to pay $50 for a good calendar app? I know I would...
Hypothetically speaking, they couldn't ship windows OS with firefox preloaded with these same defaults?
It depends on who you work for. If you work with us at BankSimple, you'd make the same as if you worked in our Brooklyn or SF offices. Normalizing salaries across our three locations is the only fair thing to do, regardless of the fact that we think talented developers are worth a premium.
I love the idea to show today + x days in the future and not the past.

Can somebody please build a better calendar for OS X?
I've used SRSPlus for years and my only complaints are with their DNS hosting. It sometimes fails for a few minutes at a time, returning no results for a simple dig. I've personally noticed it 2-3 times in the last year so I can only imagine how much it actually happens. There's also no support for TXT records or anything else aside from A, CNAME, and MX.

I've been considering a switch to Hover, but haven't done a trial run yet.
It makes me wonder why Google doesn't create a registrar service. Not to make money - perhaps they'd even run at a loss - but to offer a service that doesn't make you hate yourself every time you have to interact with them.

Considering the fact that Google depends on a rich, diverse internet (rather than a clumped, Facebook-y internet), this seems like a natural move for them.
Thanks for the advertisement. Would be nice to have a free ssh client for ipad.