skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would that be true even if such information are provided by the users themselves? "Person" info is just an example, though. Users can search for other things as well such as jobs and what have you.
Thanks for the link. It's really touching to see the positive effect of technology and research.
I thoroughly enjoyed this article. There's nothing more raw in terms of entrepreneurship than gold prospecting.
We had a lot of sleep-related problems with our kid. We recently sought professional help and started a program that gives children good sleep habits. We are three weeks in, and the results so far are nothing short of amazing. To put it simply, the kid is sleeping much better, and we got our lives back.

One thing we learned the hard way is that following a method from a book is not enough -- you need a professional to guide you through this. There are many pitfalls you don't know about that will lead to failure, and you wont even realize what it is you're doing wrong. Good luck!
Wait there's two!?
wiki.nginx.org is down as of 10:52PM PST on May 14 2011
Yes! The smoother a pen writes, the less your brain has to be engaged with the physical action of writing (constantly modifying the motion of your hand to accommodate changing friction depending on the part of the paper, direction of the stroke, etc.).

This is one of the many reasons I only write with fountain pens. They write smoother than other pens (rollerballs, ballpoints, gel, etc.), require less pressure, and are less expensive in the long term due to the low cost of bottled ink and the longevity of even mid-range pens.
But jQuery is a library, not a programming language. A web developer should not depend on jQuery precisely because it is not available in every javascript environment.
They'd be interested in hiring him because he's intelligent and has a very good, very low-level understanding of their anti-piracy tech.
Except that Android and Google Voice could snipe them out in nothing flat. In fact, I have full confidence that they could push out their existing code call it beta, and have all of this functionality on millions of phones right now.

The infrastructure is already there. I know it, because I use this fabled phone right now. When I'm on a Wifi network, my 3g is turned off. My texts stream in (and are synced with all my PCs) through Google Voice. My calls are connected to the SIP built into Gingerbread. My outgoing calls are registered with the GVoice web interface (via GVCallback) and are then connected to the SIP on my phone.

(also note, that all of this is done transparently. If you call or text the phone number that I give out to everyone, my phone operates the same regardless of if I'm on Wifi/3g/etc)

Meaning, when I have wifi, I can make and receive texts and calls without incurring data charges. I can do this over 3g if I wanted as well, but honestly, voice performance on 1x is still better than VoIP.
There are a bunch. One of the most configurable is:
http://www.gokeyless.com/product/1333/2/keyless-deadbolt-loc...

They use the iClass, which is the new HID thing.

Once I get a home/office set up with a hardware lab later this month, I'm going to try to see if I can build something user-powered vs. battery which does this kind of thing (similar to how the Mas-Hamilton or Kaba-Mas X09 works) and speaks to iClass.
Actually, for commercial users, what would rock is something which could do LDAP and integrate with real-ldap or Active Directory for access control; taking it away from a weird outsourced system or standalone old windows PC and integrating with the regular IT infrastructure.

This already happened with PBXes; next, it should happen with access control, and then with building management (HVAC; imagine if logging into your workstation allowed you to have programmed lighting/heating controls for your work area happen automatically; especially useful if you work at night or on weekends in a big office)
One way to demonstrate your knowledge in a technical field like engineering or computer science would be to publish some research papers in well known journals or conferences. By no means perfect but much better than nothing.

This is not to say that some new form of certification is not needed as well.
Btw, I'd love to talk to you too (email me at ryan@venona.com if you'd like?) about RFID stuff; I worked for an RFID payment company back in 2003 (ViVoTech, implemented paypass and some loyalty card systems), and I've got some friends who want to set up a hardware lab.
مشاهدة مباراة الزمالك وسموحة بث مباشر اون لاين 15/5/2011 الدوري المصري
Long live melatonin. Gave me a lot more control over my sleep schedule. Plus, the "positive side effects" section on the wikipedia entry is several pages long...
May 12, 2010 - Edmonton, AB - Medical Researchers at the University of Alberta reported today evidence that the orphan generic drug Dichloroacetate (DCA) may hold promise as potential therapy for perhaps the deadliest of all human cancers: a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

http://www.dca.med.ualberta.ca/Home/Updates/2010-05-12_Updat...
I thought the article was useless. The only thing that would have been interesting is how (or if) polyphasic naps can replace hours of one's core sleep.

Uberman is too extreme to keep up, no one has done it for long periods yet. The Everyman with a core sleep of 3-4.5 hrs a day with 2-3 15 minute naps is much more interesting.
(This comment refers to the original, crappy article this link used to go to.)
You're not addressing the issue of ethics in any way. What he did enabled theft. Theft is unethical. He enabled theft, so he is unethical. Want open hardware? Don't buy closed hardware. Don't want companies to close their hardware? Don't enable theft.

What's hard about this? Do you not understand that companies will lobby very hard and very successfully to enable laws that are so strict that it will not only make what geohotz did illegal, but what the (admirable) kinect hackers did illegal as well?

The Laws that can and will be made as the result of his craven greediness, stupidity, and arrogance will not be favorable to any real hacker, because laws are not a precise enough instrument for enforcing ethical standards. We must enforce the ethical standards. Geohotz should be a pariah, not a hero, for anyone other than the piracy enablers that will make a fortune from his work.
It's hard to know anyone's actual intentions from the outside, but I think Zed has a point.

It's interesting that Ryan works for Joyent, who is doing a major push into Node.js services–including "Commercial Node.js distribution" ... I'm not a license expert but it seems that MIT would be better for that.
Replaced it with that.
Can you explain in a bit more depth?
I make regular Skype video calls from Perth Australia to by brother in Mountain View and the video and audio quality is excellent. We both have decent but not stellar bandwidth (~4Mb/sec at my end) but I think it also comes down to having good hardware.
And the millisecond it is not.

...unless you're talking about computer programming instead of physics, in which case one uses counts of milliseconds, microseconds, or nanoseconds. Also remember that integers are valid floating point numbers, so after(100) is ambiguous in the context of computer programming (as pointed out by the prior poster).
like these: http://www.gokeyless.com/product/599/2/kaba-eplex-5700-elect...

Self powered by the user moving the handle.
I think the device is by Berkeley Bionics [1]; it's called eLEGs. A Wired writeup [2] and a TED talk [3].

[1] http://berkeleybionics.com/
[2] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/berkeley-bionics-eleg...
[3] http://www.ted.com/talks/eythor_bender_demos_human_exoskelet...
Mozilla: Browser Benchmarks Suck
I'd be interested to know if they are running Rails 3 on 1.9.2 or 1.8.7.
Wow! Thank you very much for replying! And you actually explained the science behind it for me! The only impression I have with fountain pens is that they are not so convenient as you can easily get your hands dirty. It is also not a good idea to carry a bottle of ink around in school environment. I think that's why I don't see many people (if there is any) using fountain pens in school anymore.
Everyone with a jailbroken device (~10% of users) is signed up, as well as others who use it just for the ability to downgrade -- useful for testing old firmware revisions for development purposes, for example.

(Seriously, the scale is quite impressive. There are many millions of devices with these "SHSH hashes" saved.)
They said they were using ruby enterprise edition

(aka a 1.8.6 branch)
I assume this is somehow related the joyent's assumption of copyright on the node code (stewardship).

Is there any background on why this was posted in a gist (and why it was submitted to HN)?
He says he's using ree so probably 1.8.x.
I'm not sure what you mean by a WIFI SIM card. A SIM card is designed to run on a GSM network.

Outside of a wifi area you would need to use some sort of network to transmit your data.. there really is no option other than a GSM/CDMA carrier.

Also, we have the problem of distribution now. Microsoft doesn't have the same retail presence that Apple has. Google proved that selling handsets direct to consumers doesn't work that well. Nokia closed down their stores in NYC, Chicago and London. Think of the retail stores that T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint etc have across the country... there is no way to compete with that.

The GSM protocol is design to handle voice data and is well optimized and uses surprisingly little bandwidth. Skype is much heavier on bandwidth in comparison. The skype protocol wasn't designed to be used as you walk through areas of low signal or for 1,000 users going through one cell phone tower at once. For simple voice data... the GSM protocol wins hands down.

If you want to imagine any Microsoft/Skype/Nokia/Windows 7 mash up.. what if they adapted the Skype p2p technology for use on handsets to allow you to connect through other handsets to get to a base station? This will allow you to route around network congestion, prevent dropped calls, reduce network infrastructure and increase network coverage.

Nokia makes the cell tower infrastructure through Nokia Siemens... If anyone could do this, it is Nokia. Imagine how hard carriers would push a p2p handset. </dream>
Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Free
Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Free
In Microsoft's case, their main concern is OEM piracy, and the activation system diminishes the quality of the pirated product sold to the unwitting consumer.

And anecdotally, the activation has pretty much stopped casual sneakerware piracy. People don't loan out their Windows CDs like they used to.
Why I chose to do the International Baccalaureate
You're right that it doesn't mean the research won't go forwards since it's currently being funded by "philanthropic groups and individuals" according to wikipedia's article on Dichloroacetic acid which is a much better summary for lay people than the original article or this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid#Results_of_...
>> Is there any background on why this was posted in a gist

http://bettween.com/ryah/zedshaw/May-07-2011/May-15-2011/asc
Reddit vs Digg : Reddit now leads the way [Stats]
A year ago Digg and Reddit weren’t worth a competition as Digg was many times bigger than Reddit back then, but within a year things have changed drastically altering the entire competition.
Sorry, I misread your comment. Good one :)
Interesting, IIRC Rails 3 works best with 1.9.2 I'm going to run the benchmarks on 1.9.2 vs. 1.8.7 and see how they fare.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=5166

This is a great article from the sciencebasedmedicine guys about the state of dichloroacetate as a cancer treatment. A bit long-winded, but totally realistic about the current prospects. The links at the bottom are all great too.
Science: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/2/31/31ra34.abstract

Full text: https://www.burtongoldberg.com/home/burtongoldberg/DCA%20and...
It's interesting that you mention Friedman, in his series Free to Choose he outlines the AMA position against paramedics. It seems quite funny now but if you think about it it really outlines a larger issue with the AMA and the Hippocratic Oath. If you read most of the oath it's really about dividing up healthcare into monopolies.
The media is largely conflating two very different definitions of "hacker" here. There's a big difference between the people who jailbreak hardware and the people who steal credit card data. The former is arguably legal and moral, the latter is neither.

The type of hacker that brought down PSN and stole credit card data needs no motive other than the millions of dollars of credit fraud that will follow. They need only opportunity.
Hire based on interest, not credentials
People tend to avoid costly errors rather than aim for finding the truth when making decisions. Applied to recruiting, employers might tend to avoid hiring someone based on their lack of credentials or previous experience, rather than aiming to find if the employee really wants to solve the problem the business is attacking.

I have known employees who exhibited both a disinterest in their company’s aim to solve a problem and a preference for developing their own skill. I have started to think broadly about the following alternative method to avoid ever hiring this sort of person.

The starting question was: how could you flip the current, common recruiting process to test for interest over credentials?
It'd be interesting if anyone could figure out what about AR 3.0.5 vs. AR 2.3.2 is causing this performance decline.
To delete your account, send an email to support@honestly.com requesting deletion (presumably from the email address they have for you). Info from http://www.honestly.com/static/privacy

I signed up when it was Unvarnished and just starting out, and have never gotten one bit of value from it.
The article mentions, "REE 2011.03, which is Ruby 1.8.7 patchlevel 334". Not sure if this was a recent edit or not.
Mandatory schooling has nothing to do with ensuring education and everything to do with ensuring dogma and a uniform and compliant citizenry. You need only look at the flag salute and the various rituals that have nothing to do with education to see it. Education is not mandatory, only schooling.

If mandatory schooling was about education then why can't parents take their education dollar to any certified provider?
This already exists! An iPod Touch with Skype on wifi is the best home phone I've ever owned. But would I really call it a mobile phone, or consider a wifi only phone? I spend a lot of time in my car, and of course don't have stable wifi in there. I tried to pretend my iPod was a wifi-only phone for a few months, but it didn't work out for me. Perhaps wifi availability is good enough in densely populated urban areas, but is using random wifi across the city secure?

It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does with Skype and the carriers, though. MS is not in a very strong position in the mobile phone market, and I can't imagine the carriers like Skype at all, as charging per minute and per text rather than by the MB for data is much more profitable. The neutered, 3G only version of Skype that came with ym Verizon phone, which counts US domestic calls against your normal calling plan, shows what Verizon thinks of Skype. That's "Skype Mobile", there's another Skype which works only on wifi. When you call Skype-to-Skype on "Skype Mobile", it dials a 1800 number in Atlanta, and the sound quality is terrible. On the same phone, the wifi Skype has markedly better sound quality. It seems to me that since I'm paying $25 a mo. for unlimited 3G data, I should be able to use the data to make Skype calls if I please. If Microsoft can make that happen, more power to them.
Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform
If you enjoyed this, you would enjoy reading the extended article by John McPhee about the control structure, linked to in the article above:

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_T...

This and 2 other essays by McPhee were collected into a book, "The Control of Nature". The other essays, also quite long, were about debris flows in the LA basin, and about stopping an Icelandic volcanic flow which threatened a town and a port by spraying it with sea water. It's a fantastic book.

http://www.johnmcphee.com/controlofnature.htm
Note that VB was an outside acquisition.
They're going to have a really hard time getting anyone to trust them now.

I wonder if Sony will change their name or otherwise reorganize their corporate structure for a similar effect like Phillip Morris & Altria, or Blackwater & Xe, or Diebold & Premier Election Solutions?
The benchmark was done using REE. Out of curiousity, I tried it with MRI 1.8.7, MRI 1.9.2, and REE 1.8.7. Results are best out of three:

user system total real
rails3-1.9.2 2.240000 0.200000 2.440000 ( 3.127072)
rails2-ree 2.530000 0.290000 2.820000 ( 3.578471)
rails2-1.8.7 2.920000 0.210000 3.130000 ( 3.876215)
rails3-ree 3.140000 0.250000 3.390000 ( 4.111465)
rails3-1.8.7 3.560000 0.220000 3.780000 ( 4.505166)

Of course, the author was looking into a specific problem — this doesn't mean that Rails 3 on MRI 1.9.2 is faster than Rails 3 on REE.

Run on an iMac9,1 with a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo. uname -a:

Darwin Roy.local 10.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

I disabled spotlight, but who knows what other processes might have spawned in the middle of the benchmark. Your mileage may vary.
I think rgarcia was talking about defaultdict and friends, see http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections....

Classes that implement __getitem__ can behave however they want when you use brackets on them. See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__get...
The article is pretty good, but it is overshadowed by the awesome conspiracy theory in the comments, starting here:

http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=2011...
I wonder if f.lux should have a P.V.T. test built in!
While modern clippers are less likely to draw blood, that only means they're less likely to transmit bloodborne illnesses. But there are plenty of other diseases that they can transmit.
Console hacking in the past has contributed to new industry growth. When the original Xbox was hacked, one of the outcomes was Xbox Media Center (XBMC).

XBMC led to incentives to accelerate the development of home media center components like audio/video decoders. This obviously helps everyone in the growing media center industry.

XBMC also is directly responsible for the birth of at least two startups in the media center space, Boxee and Plex.

So while some companies in an established and profitable industry lost some revenue from piracy, a new industry got a big boost from people being able to experiment with and innovate on top of a console.
There clearly still are performance problems in Rails 3.0.x that aren't fixed. I am just now in the process of switching an application to Rails 3 and I have recently spent 5 days of hard work trying to investigate a big performance drop after the migration (under a different environment: Ruby 1.9.2 and PostgreSQL). I ended up finding two big performance issues in Rails PostgreSQLAdapter:

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/398
https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/485

What they and everyone else experiencing performance problems should do, is to find one action that has the biggest performance difference between running under Rails 2 and Rails 3 and then profile it - easiest way is by wrapping the action in an around filter and using RubyProf. If there is a obvious performance problem somewhere, you will most often see a method that has a really huge number of calls and %self% time in comparison to all the others. Then you have to figure out what in detail happens - I ended up doing this by putting "begin; raise StandardException.new; rescue => e; puts e.backtrace; end;" into the "hot" methods to get call stacks and then went on to read the code involved.
Then maybe add a binary file format for storage efficiency. Give it a standard file extension so we can recognize the files, maybe '.mod'?

Can't wait! We live in exciting times of limitless opportunity! The future is now!
I'm repeatedly impressed by Andreessen Horowitz. Every person I've met on their team rocks, and now we're starting to see how their investment thesis is panning out.

re: Microsoft + Skype:

Microsoft knows how to make a ton of money.

Microsoft is looking at an explosion of CPU cores on desktop computers. What are we going to be using those cores for? Embarrassingly parallel problems like 3D rendering, OS eye candy and video processing and compression. Multi user HD video chat is going to be happening really soon for really cheap. That's quite disruptive. (See Telepresence systems) [1]

The more peer to peer nodes that are added to the Skype network, the better the product. If Windows ships a Skype client turned on by default with every OS and copy of Office it sells... that peer to peer network starts to look like BitTorrent in size.

Cisco currently charges $300k for a telepresence room. Their 37" telepresence system runs about $50k last I checked. Skype chats just got blessed as an enterprise system. There's a _lot_ of money to be made here.

My nieces and nephews are in 3 different countries and about 6 different states. Every night, they live on Skype, and video chat for free. When I grew up in Central America in the 70's, a phone call to the US was $3/min.

Microsoft no longer has government oversight from the anti-trust settlement... Things might just get interesting.

ref:
[1] http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7060/index.html
The site uses a lot of CPU when loading, then settles down for me. Safari's CPU usage spikes up to 30% or so with Flash enabled, but I notice when I have Flash disabled, it spikes up to 105%. That's pretty backwards, hmm? But no, I see no sustained CPU usage with Safari on my Mac.
I can't believe that in a modern web app, most of the time wouldn't be spent in the database, those graphs floored me. Other than expanding templates, what in the world is Rails doing with that time??
not just life expectancy in toto which you would rightly expect to have a huge number of variables that interact in unknown ways. many medical procedures have proven to be directly detrimental to health in double blind studies yet remain standard procedure.

read this to become completely disillusioned with medicine.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/07/catheter-infection-law...
Unifying viewing and editing/creating files in Total Commander
(AFAIK, what Xuzz just described works 100%: you should send me a message on IRC if you believe otherwise.)
The email trick is bad enough... What I'm starting to really dislike is companies asking for email contacts, facebook access, and so on.
Machine code monkey patching
Kaiten - New Navigation Model For Web Application
How many people go through the time and effort to mod their console just to 'try before they buy?' There may be a handful, but this isn't PC gaming we're talking about here.
Free mobile, subsidized by ads is an attractive vision - but you need a network to do it.

And, maybe advertising revenue is not sufficient... yet. However, because ad revenue increases over time, and network cost decreases, it seems inevitable.

e.g. Google tried to do this with wifi in san fran (but IIRC had council problems). Google already has huge market share, so it's probably not crucial for them. But an up-and-coming search/advertiser with lots of money (like MS) is motivated and able.
If Google were interested in providing outgoing access to the the telephone system over data networks with Google Talk and Google Voice on Android like they do on the GMail website, they would have done so already.