skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"glass pops off with a suction cup"

Doesn't sound like it was meant to be touched by non-nerds.
I work on oDesk as an ASP.NET developer. I never apply to any jobs. The more experienced employers don't usually post their projects publicly; they create private projects, and then send out invitations encouraging selected individuals to apply. That way they avoid receiving low-quality responses.
I don't see any mention of a specific safety problems. Plus, I am given to believe that there are actually numerous papers on the extensions involved in the Haskell type system. Consider http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simonpj/Talk:OutsideIn
There is another variable - the project size. $2000 is not much if asked to recreate facebook.
I'm amused you spend your every waking moment and free time bashing America. You moved two years ago to Melbourne; I'd imagine you would be concentrating more on your new home but no, you bash your old home at every possible moment. Did someone in america send your pony to the glue factory? Fucking grow up already you baby.
Welcome to the Hotel California Restaurant
Yea, if you look up "google facebook contacts" on say TechCrunch you will see several articles on the entire story.
Check your webpage compatibility over 60 browsers with Browsershots.
This is at the end of the day just so silly. Besides the fact that this is an argument from something like 3 years ago, it's also the case that Linus and the kernel development team just don't have to have anything to do with this process. If you want to pursue secret handshake security for Linux code, set up a project to do that. Projects doing exactly that date back to the mid '90s.

Is this really anything more than yet another opportunity for message board geeks to go "RARRR!"?
I agree with this. A monthly fee only makes sense if I have an ongoing and steady need, but the presumption is that this is project work. Your charge needs to be project-based.
As a fellow webOS developer, I understand your frustration. I'm just as frustrated with them over hybrid apps. I was already deep into development with my hybrid when they pulled the rug out from under all of us and announced that so-called legacy devices would not be receiving the 2.1 upgrade, and since hybrids would only be officially allowed in the app catalog for 2.1 devices, that meant most of my target audience would not be allowed to download the app through the catalog. I had hoped that if the "legacy" devices wouldn't get the upgrade, at least they would now allow the same devices to download hybrids off the catalog, since hybrids work on ALL devices (despite what their PDK documentation might say). Turns out, they won't allow hybrids on all devices, since they all but abandoned users of 1.4.5.
Here's code to re-animate the exact dancing Google doodle: http://www.acumenholdings.com/blog/?p=64

However, I've been looking for software to do the same thing, and I haven't seen anything that takes all the pain out of mapping all the image coordinates.
That's an interesting variation of the saying. If you don't mind my asking, is that translated from a different language, and if so, what language?
What should they do? The computer works as shipped, they didn't have to go out and find a SATA controller that doesn't support the newer standard, and they didn't have to ship the extra weight and added cost of extra shielding needed for a standard they weren't using.
The "why" of macros
I work from home, so I usually head to the kitchen and eat with my family.
Those are standard screwdrivers.

This is how I imagine the story playing out: Someone at Apple thought it would be a good idea to have fewer of those cases where someone cracked open his laptop for fun and ruined it and then was bitterly disappointed when Apple wouldn't fix it on warranty. That's a lot less likely to happen when nobody has the correct screwdriver just in the basement and has to order it from somewhere.

Whether that's the right or a useful thing to do I don't know but it's also no big deal.
Don't visit this link. This site breaks the back button; forward and back are changed to navigate between posts.
I figure option 2 there is referring to day-job work. I most often (not always) eat alone (sometimes at my desk, sometimes at home with the cats) and work. But I work on side projects, open source stuff, etc.
I'd like to be able to select more than just one of the "looking for" options. Maybe I'm looking for freelance work in addition to a co-founder with an idea, for example
thanks for the kind words, it's probably a problem with the fulltext extraction. If the fulltext is extracted correctly, the summary extraction should be good. Btw, I use the ruby-readability gem for the fulltext extraction.
1937 photos of the world's first (and last?) automatic grocery store 'Keedoozle'
Willamette Angel Conference — Any HN users attend?
Any Hacker News users attend the Willamette Angel Conference in Corvallis, Oregon?
Where is the link to Facebook in those emails? What am I missing?
The guy that fixes an unexploited critical remote code execution or privilege escalation bug is no less (and no more) a hero than the guy that unearths a file-system bug silently corrupting data.

So in my opinion he's right: both are equally important, as you cannot judge of the importance of each one on purely speculative and gross domain grounds. A potential is just that: a potential, until it gets real. Both cases can be mitigated or prevented by applying similar strategies (redundancy, layered checks, ...).

On the other side of the spectrum, a good bunch of Intel video cards have been crashing randomly (ranging from seconds to hours) since years and it affects a good deal of people which have to revert to vesafb or fbdev, or dismiss Linux entirely, right now. Another one is the issue introduced at some point that makes kworker eats up a chunk of CPU for no apparent reason (from 10% to 100%), resulting in useless wakeups and processing, raising power use by 1 to 10W. Multiply that by the growing number of Linux systems using 2.6.35+ and you get quite a bunch of watts that should have never been produced by power plants nor paid to energy companies by the machine owners. It happens right now with real, tangible effects.

I'm not dismissing security bugs, but put things into perspective as things are not black or white, and every single bug matters.
Hm... As an early Scala/Akka developer, and contributor I would like to see these issues addressed by the team because I'm seeing a lot of trac jacking going on. This usually only happens when there isn't a response to issues.
Hmm. Back button works for me in safari and chrome. What browser are you using? I'll disable the keyboard arrow key navigation for now until I figure out what you mean.
If the compiler can optimize that away, what's the proper method for checking p?
I think your sarcasm meter may need some tuning. ;)
How to animate the Martha Graham dancing Google logo yourself
Someone asked if there was a way of seeing the dancing Google logo animation again. I couldn't resist.
"I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them." - Linus Torvalds

http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html - OpenBSD goals (security is #3).

I still think it was a cheap shot and not representative of the project. Goal #2 seems to get a lot more play in heat from the OpenBSD project.
It won't be popular for a variety of reasons, the foremost two being:

1. It's a very dumb metric, for reasons stated well downthread and for many others (the bewildering number of off-by-default hardware and kernel features many of those vulns appear in being another).

2. The fairly obvious rebuttal that things Linus says on message boards actually have little to do with the security of Linux, and that the particular thing Linus said this time has practically nothing to do with the security of Linux.

With the possible exception of OpenBSD†, nobody clueful picks server platforms other than Linux with the expectation that it is going to be easier to keep them secure on the Internet.

† Reasonable people can disagree about the extent to which OBSD is a win; in 2011, I'd rather have Spengler on my side than Theo.
pls disable the django debug , if you are going for public launch
The announcement that they were going to strengthen the requirements on vendors to get the Google apps received enthusiastic applause at Google IO. Manufacturers and carriers have shown a desire to "differentiate" their offers even if it means installing crapware that slows down their ability to keep up with platform updates.

I think Google is taking the right steps to keep Android a high quality platform to the benefit of developers and end users.
When you want to start another startup. You could do that either because the old startup didn't succeed, or because you got acquired and are now finished working for the acquirer, or because although the old startup is doing fine, you decided to leave to do something new. We've had all 3 cases.
kind of amazing to see they had "high server load" problems with the systems already back then :)

and hat-tip to the guys who had the idea and balls to try it in that time!
My fiancee :)
I started a new job recently; at my previous location, I ate with the other developers (some of whom I worked closely with, or had done so in the past). I've been at the new place for less than two weeks; it's a much smaller company, and I find myself inspired to go eat with everyone but the other developers, just to see what happens. However I have been surprised by my own hesitation to broach the perceived social barrier--the other devs invited me to lunch of their own accord, so it seemed natural; on the other hand, approaching someone else feels like a different situation altogether!
The value of the anonymous stranger
Very interesting concept. I think it's necessary to find a way to gauge the most popular articles rather than trying to tl;dr the entire internet.

For instance, you could look into some APIs for the most popular submissions on Hacker News and reddit and present them as articles that need summaries.

You could also create a bookmarklet that users or authors can use to recommend an article to be summarized, which will then appear in some kind of summary queue on the main page. (Predefined) tags could also be included, so people who are only interested in summarizing certain articles, can cherry-pick these.

Another thing is to suggestion is to reward productive users and upvoted summaries with a link to the writer's flattr profile. People can do this, even though the person has a flattr profile now[1][2], and I think this might increase the incentive even more.

If this takes off, you could create some browser extensions similar to the Hacker News Sidebar[3], which displays a sidepanel on websites that have been submitted to Hacker News.

[1]: http://blog.flattr.net/2011/04/opening-the-floodgates

[2]: http://blog.flattr.net/2011/05/flattr-almost-anyone

[3]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhedbplnihmkekhgma....
Spent much time crawling through BSD driver code, have you?
Brendan: Still picking your teeth with freshmen?

Kara: Well, you were a freshman once.

Brendan: Way once, sister. You and Em were tight for a bit. Who's she eating with now?

Kara: Eating with?

Brendan: Eating with. Lunch. Who.
How many people have to be tased to death by police?
tased 8 times?!!? These stories are popping up everywhere and the cops just keep on killing people with tasers.
I really really love having time alone with my thoughts ... and I'll usually go somewhere far enough to get a good walk in ... every now and then I'll go with a coworker or my team
Shame it doesn't work on Linux.
Not sure about the Graph API, but your name, your profile picture, and your contact list are all fully public information and you can't control their visibility.
I don't much about Scala, but looking at the examples on http://www.simplyscala.com/, it looks like the language has a lot of syntactic sugar. Scala users, is that an accurate assessment or I am misjudging it?
MacRumors.com has a new design
But it's enough of a barrier to keep out the really low projects.

Compared to people that ask you to program a Facebook clone in 5 days for $200, it's a lot better.
Why Persistence is Necessary for Startup Success
I agree. At some point, openness for vendors/carriers is in tension with openness for users. As a user, I'm happy to see Google clamp down on the vendors/carriers, if it means they're finally taking my side. Hopefully that's what it means. (I'm encouraged to see that ChromeOS hardware will be mandated to be jailbreakable.)
Apple's not the only company that uses "non-standard" screwheads to discourage opening hardware. Fewer people opening cases -> fewer warranty repairs for user error. That allows Apple to continue to be liberal with good warranty service. I'm not the only one with the experience of walking into an Apple store and getting a replacement iMac for a failing one with few questions and little hassle.

As for applecare, they seem to be pretty lenient with those policies as well. My iMac was replaced in under a year but I've also replaced an iPod after the standard 1 year by paying just for the price of applecare (after the year had already passed). In any case, I feel pretty good about not having to worry about my Apple products. I'm ok with paying for an $8 driver once in a while if I really need it to swap parts.
A combination of (1) Carbonmade folks; (2) folks from the other companies in our office (Skillshare, Crush+Lovely, and Family Records); (3) other entrepreneurs in the area not necessarily in our office; and (4) visiting friends.
I somewhat agree with you, but you have to admit when you see 'M$' you instantly gleam an assumption of what the person thinks. In that respect its high context, and like I said you have to admit that. Especially so if it illicits a strong emotional reaction to rebut it's use in you no?
Earlier today someone questioned a submission and its relevance to HN, saying submissions are becomming more and more like reddit, and "what's next, imgur links?".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539824

In my reply I explained why he was wrong about that submission. And now, coincidentally, this is the first time I've seen an ingur link on HN. If only he hadn't deleted his comments, I'd know who he was and go apologise to him for downplaying his prediction.
Comment on the website: The main text goes off the bottom of the visible window and is obscured by the footer. This is on Chrome on Linux with the DPI settings increased a bit.
often don't eat lunch, just snacks and coffee throughout the day
I would eat with co-workers from time to time, if that were an option. But I eat so early that nobody else wants to eat yet. So I end up alone with my thoughts, which are rarely about work. (I actually do a good job of separating work from not-work without thinking about it.)
EDIT: I know you are all downvoting me because I open with "I was an intern", expecting some fuzzy comment in Facebook's defense. No, someone asked what Facebook thinks about this, and I offered my views: I am as confused as the rest of you. I hope the PR firm gets fired, and whoever instructed the PR firm to try this. Give me a break, guys. Stop with the Facebook hate.

I was an intern at Facebook last summer, so I had a great time there. Color me naive, but I don't feel the executives' personalities were "sneaky," probably because I interacted with them in person. I didn't see anything that suggested they would endorse this type of tactic.

With that said, I'd like to believe that it was all a misunderstanding, that perhaps this John guy isn't really affiliated with Facebook (his email is @bm.com), or that this was the mistake of an individual. I sincerely hope that it wasn't an organizational effort to smear Google, because I don't see why they'd need to.

When I was at Facebook, they were supremely confident about being able to snip Google's entry, that they would demoralize Google and make them cry. After all, I was in a sea of brilliant engineers, many of whom understand Google intimately through years of service, and we just needed sheer engineering and better products to win.

Perhaps Facebook just thought it was unfair that it was getting all of the negative light on privacy and wanted to share the blame with someone. But I really don't know, and I'm waiting for an official answer.

I really hope it's good, because I am surprised by this maneuver, to say the least. Maybe the answer is "Google does this too!" But then I would just be doubly disappointed.
Agreed - but in that case TL;DR is a misnomer. "Too long, didn't read", means that the user DIDN'T read it! Or, at least is summarizing it in a way that the user should not have to read it.

It would be better to call these "abstracts" if they are used as you imply above -- a synopsis of the article for those interested in learning more.

I think TL;DR is a symptom of intellectual laziness, whereas abstracts have long been used for research papers and the like.
By introducing the hardware test failure for any non-Apple drive, Apple owns more of the life-cycle of the consumer's computer.

Now independent repair shops have to order Apple drives rather than something off of NewEgg, and this reduces their potential margins and makes Genius Bar service more profitable and cost competitive - particularly given that upgrade and replacement drives from the Genius Bar are only marked up once and that getting consumers to visit the Apple store has significant value in and of itself..

[Aside] IANL - but it is my understanding that in the US a manufacturer cannot void a warranty for using non-manufacturer produced parts for repairs or upgrades. The introduction of a hardware error appears to be a legal strategy to get around this.
same reaction here. I think we're too accustomed to news about criminals...
I'd suggest concentrating on the quality of work you will (hopefully) be offering, not the min project price. If I'm a potential employer I'm not thinking "Oh, God, I'm so desperate to find someone that will charge me at least $2K!". Yet, the price is the first thing you throw at my face.
Organising the web: The science of science
I don't think what Facebook did was unethical. It's certainly legal. They catch a lot of flack over privacy issues and they want to remind the media about their competitors' privacy issues and influence them to cover those more, so that they don't look as bad in comparison. That sort of work is done by PR firms, so they hired one to do it. In fact, they may not have even asked the PR firm to do it; the PR firm may have acted independently as part of their service.

As for the PR firm's offering to help write an article... Well, I would call it bad/unethical journalism if such an article were published as reporting. If it were published on some opinion page or like a tech blog, that would be fine.
Microsoft antitrust decree ends, Google eyed
Agreed, another example of a larger tech blog picking up on reporting done by somebody else and garnering most of the attention/upvotes. The TC article had no real value-add on top of the reporting that Dan Lyons did, but it has more name-recognition on HN so apparently gets to lead the story. Frustrating!
Eat with friends that i can talk to about my insane business ideas. and then they laugh, and then i realize how ridiculous it is saving me a whoolleee lot of time on effort on it
I'd rename the github field to something more flexible -- at least let it sound like a BitBucket address would be just as relevant.

Also, how about a field for a LinkedIn profile?
Facebook's Plan To Plant Anti-Google Stories in the Press
This article is ridiculous. Ronco is among the most benevolent of all the angels in the Valley. He's very protective of his portfolio companies. That has made him a few enemies among other investors. But if you ask founders, their opinion of him is as close to universally positive as anyone could hope for. He's invested in many tens of YC-funded companies, for example, and I have never heard any of the founders say anything bad about him.
Yes, but this article unmasked Facebook as the 'undisclosed client'
I think you are misinformed about the health of PC gaming. Many major titles are released for the PC every year, and it is fairly rare for there to be a major release for the XBox that does not also come out for the PC.
I like the idea. I am looking for a tech cofounder and hopefully this helps me find one. Thanks.
John McCain: Abusive interrogation didn't yield trail to OBL
Looks like we've just seen the first act of imperialism, the first shots across Google's bow everybody!
Design is really important to me when deciding where to take my business. I love the idea, but the web site could use some serious design love.

For instance: That block of text might be good for SEO, but no one will ever read it.
You know, having coders or designers submit 30 second videos describing their skills and previous projects is an easy way to differentiate from other freelancing sites. Let non-paying visiters to the site see that as well. I would feel like I was getting a much higher quality batch of bid responses if I was able to see 30 sec videos of developers communicating their skills and previous projects competently in a not reading-off-the-screen way.

Maybe you could get the people asking for bids to submit 30 second videos of themselves too?
The article has been updated to say this is a general problem, not a Comcast problem.
To take this to the extreme, bestiality was legal in Florida up until this week.
Excellent article and a Lanyrd is a great site. So totally agree with everything Wade says !
I walk downstairs from my office and eat at home with my wife and daughter. Love it! :-)
Agreed. A monthly fee doesn't really make sense. If it takes any more than a month to find a dev, there's something wrong with your system. That means the most you'll ever make is 1 month worth of fees. Charge a flat fee...but wait until I find my tech cofounder:)
Honestly, I'm shocked my the downvotes being levied against all of these "who cares" type posts.

How much face is really being lost by Facebook? The audience of Facebook users that will read about the "negative PR campaign" will be infantesimally small (compared to their near 500 million accounts).

Then compare that infantesimally small number of users to the percentage who didn't already know that Facebook was dodgy as hell.

The relative impact of this discovery, while interesting, makes no difference in anything (save as being direct proof of Facebook's "Be Evil" corporate policy).

Anyways.

I'm happy to take it on the chin in terms of downvotes here too, but the way I see it there's nothing here that will impact anything.
Tony? This has got to be Tony....
Say you decide to code up a bunch of risk analytics in Scala. Say Scala doesn't do it for you 2 years from now. You really haven't lost anything - just hire a bunch of VBA jockeys & they'll migrate you back to Excelland in a reasonable span. This isn't complicated device driver code where module A invokes module B with assembly address C...More like convexity on the 10 year swap is different from 2 5 year swaps & that difference can be exploited with a bigsize bet on payoff X and a ratio hedge in case bad things happen. Whether you do all of the linalg/stat/regression scenario analysis in Excel or call a Mathematica routine from Scala should be irrelevant, you get the same answers. So I simply think the risk-reward ratio is out of whack. You're willing to take huge risks on stochastic variables 10 years out into ther future but unwilling to touch a programming language/platform because its too new, even when there's a clear-cut migration path. Seems silly. Don't see how that attitude translates to being cynical about finance.