skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that visitors require a guide - someone who will hide the true nature of NK to them and ensuring they only see what they are allowed to see. Even though there has been a good amount of hidden camera footage exposed, or articles such as this one - there are plenty of people who may not really be aware of what is really going on there behind the scenes.
For Google, what a difference a year makes
I laughed. Hard.
Pretty much every internal screw on a mac is torx. The ones they don't want you to open are the pentalobe ones. The ones that they designate you to use are normally phillips, but they're never structural.

Torx is nice. Seriously. I've given up on phillips for woodworking stuff whenever I can, even when the torx screws are 2-3x the price, because I can drive them hard and the don't strip, ever.

Yeah, the hard drive on an imac isn't specified as a user replaceable part. Yes, it's stuck behind the display. But, it's really not that hard to replace, I've done it in about 15 minutes, working slowly, and with an extra pair of hands to hold the display when I actually had to get behind it.

They may not be designed for non-geeks to open them, but they were designed, they're pretty elegant, and they weren't designed to prevent geeks from opening them.

Now this sensor thing, _that's_ designed to keep geeks from opening it.
No one likes to be sold to, no one likes to introduce their friends to someone who will sell to them. Instead, tell your friends that you have this startup and really want some advice from experts in the field. People are much more willing to meet to give advice.
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Wouldn't MSFT would have had to pay a premium on the market value per share? So upwards of 120% of market price?
It seems as though she is more the victim of some asshole that may or may not know her, that is now trying to extract some revenge by making her life a miserable hell while this mess gets sorted out.
I know nothing about Switft so I'll keep my comments strictly related to Luwak.

Luwak preforms really well as a large object store...up to a point. I've personally seen latencies of < 4s when writing/reading a 700+MB CSV across 3 physical nodes (keep in mind, in the case of write, that doesn't mean all the data was strongly consistent yet...it's all async). Luwak has a really cool feature that also acts as a double edged sword -- it's a persistent data structure [1]. When you insert data it's chunked into blocks which are then keyed by their hash, i.e. a Merkle Tree [2]. If 2 (or more) blocks of data are the same only one instance will ever be created which acts as a general form of compression. The flip side of this is that you can't just willy nilly delete a file. You must perform garbage collection (via reference counting). Currently this is not implemented in the main line but I have a branch with a prototype implementation that uses Map-Reduce under the covers [3]. It scaled for me up to about 20+ GB of data and then I started hitting timeouts. I had plans to take this further but went a different direction for my purposes (which wouldn't relate to your problem at all so I'm not going to bother stating them).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree

[3]: https://github.com/rzezeski/luwak/tree/delete2-1.0
It looks like the Jenkins guys are really doing what they can to make the best out of the namechange/backstory, and I'd say it's working. I'm a Perl 5 developer and haven't had anything to do with Java at all for a long, long time, and never had heard of Hudson. But now I know what they provide, and since I see Jenkins' name mentioned regularly in non-Java projects these days, I seem not to be the only one.

So, more power to them. I always like it when open source communities can show their strengths and have it noticed.
I don't know if anyone will see this, but I finally figured out what went wrong. They were killed by a bug that was essentially causing flags to be counted double.
It really felt good clicking the "Like" button ;-)
You mistakenly seem to have equated typing with creating.

Typing is a subset of creating. Tablets are not so great for typing, sure, but PCs and tablets are both cheap. There is no reason to believe that they won't co-exist, both making it easier for everyone to create.
I'll answer for him, it's your last suggestion It's hypocritical for someone in the US to criticize other nations about their prison systems when we're leading the world in locking people up for crazy shit. That's not to say we can't have an opinion, just not a holier-than-thou attitude about it.
The problem with the "$150 million investment saving Apple" argument is that Apple had $1.2 billion cash on hand.

Personally, I think it was Microsoft's commitment to keep Office for Mac (as well as building/bundling IE for Mac - which at the time, was a damn good browser!) that "rescued" Apple to a certain degree (it definitely made it a viable machine for the education market!)

Honestly though, I think after Steve Jobs returned and killed off the clones (and released the new iMac), Apple would have succeeded (or at least, not "died") even without Microsoft's investment --- mostly due to how loyal the users are. No clue how successful they would have been though, without IE/Office (I doubt MS would have killed Office though - considering it was still generating cash for them...)
"Programming in Scala" is a good one, I've been told. The first edition is available online at http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/ .
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Chrome OS not looking so consumer-y
I agree! A major opportunity seems to exist in developing a remote work/telecommuting-specific job board. A good one. Like TheLadders for remote/contract/freelance only.
If you read the article a little more carefully, you'll understand that it's still the same SATA 15-pin connector (I mean if it wasn't, you would have seen articles about how you couldn't swap hard drives at all).

But what OWC is claiming is that now, instead of using pins 4,5,6 and 12 for ground - that the new iMacs and harddrives inside them are using some of those pins for communication, specifically temperature sensor.

This is outside of the SMART specification, which passes information about the harddrive over the data cable (not the power cable).

So you can swap in any harddrive you like - but if your harddrive doesn't have the functionality / firmware in it to communicate temperature information over the power cable, then the fans kick in.

At this point, I'm offhandedly wondering if this is related more to the Intel Z68 chipset / Smart Response technology somehow.

In addition, OWC is claiming that there's "Mac specific" firmware because they swapped out an identical model harddrive and ran into an issue - but (playing devil's advocate), if these are new temperature sensors involved, a firmware upgrade wouldn't cut it - the harddrive would still be missing said sensors.

I would believe OWC more if they swapped the boards on the harddrives while leaving the platter casing intact.
Thanks for the feedback - very helpful!
It's interesting. Everyone seems to know how screwed up North Korea is, but few people know all the details, and the media doesn't report on these things much. Largely I think because it's so hard to gain access there.
It seems you have been lucky.

My 80286's 20MB HD failed back in 1993, so did my 1998 IBM 3.5" 20GB Hard Disk. Maxtor 80GB in 2003. Samsung 80GB in 2004. Seagate 160GB in 2006. Western Digital 500GB in 2010.

All of these are part of my 20 or so Desktop Disks I've had had until now (pre and custom built PCs running under either some flavor of Windows, Linux or BSD)

That is only for desktop hard disks, I don't even talk about 2.5" notebook hard disks which I've lost 2 both of which were less than 3 years old Seagate Momentus 80GB and 320GB (G-Shock!).

I'm a happy Intel X-25M SSD fan boy now, I hope it will last longer than those consumer grade mechanical hard disks of yesteryears (at least until they wear out the flash memory or until my 07 MBP dies).

After I had to replace good old SCSI disks with cheap SATA disks over the last years at my different work places I've seen how great those SCSI disks were in the first place - still it is cheaper the SATA way (as long as you have at least hot-swappable RAID 6 storage or some super expensive NAS where rebuilding isn't potentially endangering your uptime).

So what I want to say is this: either you've been Gladstone Gander or I've been Donald Duck or we've been both which should be reflected in the median failover rate for mechanical (consumer grade) hard disks.

Don't get nervous about your MBP, just swap the disk for a SSD and set up time machine or a rsync script.

I wish I had made the decision to go for SSD much earlier as "I've wasted my hours."
The scary part about this is that Facebook had to screw up this bad to get caught. If they didn't make this blunder, it probably would have worked and nobody would have knew a thing.

Which is probably what happens 99% of the other times.
The same assumed fate?
1.Correct, a smear campaign is not the same as lobbying. Hence the outrage.

2. How is a smear campaign "business as usual"? Just because Zuckerberg has low ethical standards doesn't mean that you or I have to. As strange as it may seem, it's quite possible to run a successful business without psyops and Zero-sum mentality.
Or, better question, why is it considered piracy to torrent a television show that is sent over the air to anyone with antenna?
Definitely Programming in Scala - http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala. You might find some parts of the book a little boring if you already have experience with functional programming, but it is one of the best books about programming languages I've read (I've only read the second edition, not the one that is available online, but I guess, the first one will be OK as an introduction too).
So I see you've mastered the fine art of hyperbole, or perhaps just ignorance? For example, between 2008 and 2009, PC game sales increased from $11 billion to $13.1 billion. PC retail game sales are shrinking, but digital downloads have more than offset that decline. And yeah, sure, Blizzard makes a ton of money, but there seems to be a lot of companies in the PC gaming space making money, see: Valve, StarDock, PopCap, even little guys like Mojang.
The original piece of C code has undefined behaviour, meaning LLVM can generate anything it wants. It happens to generate ud2 instructions (because it's better to crash hard and fast) but it could just as well print "puppies puppies puppies" a million times.
Ideas are like rabbits
We can tell that you posted this comment within a minute of creating your HN account and would appreciate it if you were up-front about your connections to Lanyrd.
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What does a Chromebook give me that I don't get with a tablet?
Am I missing something here? The tablet requires very little support and can access the web or any other application in the cloud. What does a Chromebook give me extra?
45,000 $CAD, not $USD
Agreed. A conversation about our prison system is irrelevant. We're not locking people up in mass and forcing them to live in death camps.

Our prison system is far from perfect but it doesn't compare to what these people are going through.
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How is it asinine to compare what is happening in North Korea to what is happening to black men in the USA?
I've never been involved in this sort of PR, but basically the big deal isn't that it happens, it's that they got caught.

While it's behind the scenes it's hard to say how much it happens, but it doesn't really matter. I mean, the PR firm were trying to spoon feed a writer with information he could use to write a story, if he decides that information is worth writing, and readers decide it's worth reading, then fair enough.

But it's an important story because Facebook have failed to keep secret the fact that they are trying to attack Google, and that will have implications on politics between those two companies. Even if Google already knew that Facebook were doing this kind of stuff (more than likely), Facebook being outed changes how Google can act towards them with a different public reaction.
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With my family.
Nilay Patel always writes interesting stuff, glad he's in technology.

Looks anticompetitive to me folks. They're using their dominant position in mobile to support their dominant position in location. Someone's head needs to roll over this.
I feel like GitHub is the Dribbble for developers (except for the exclusivity).

You'll probably gather more out of their code than screenshots of what they've been a part of.
As I understand it, it's up to each app to decide what exactly it will back up. After a quick glance at the code, it seems to me that it backs up preferences, host keys, and public/private keys.
I made it up :)

Kettle calling the pot black did not have enough impact for this context for me.
How are you going to make custom RFID devices/objects available to a developer? (Assume a unique use case which requires custom RFID + Object development.)
can you point to somewhere talking about facebook accounts getting added, especially without any kind of notification?

I've never heard of that, just easy ones like twitter accounts (which, by the way, required both notification and permission when google asked if it was me and if I wanted my twitter account to be associated with my google profile).
Javascript can be injected into the page via nick changes.
Videos just make people who speak English as a second language feel uncertain. And an unattractive or sloppy-looking person may lose a job... even if they're uber-qualified.

I'd say skip the video-thing altogether (unless you want to make it an optional addition to a profile) and jump straight to portfolios.

Portfolios are all that matter. Anyone worth hiring will have a good portfolio.
I'm actually looking forward to a physical keyboard. I had an iPad for a while and found typing quite annoying.
Broken, I got a Django debug page on appspot, contact me and I can give you details
This article made me Google Graham, and I found that her namesake dance center has written about the moves that were used in the animation: http://marthagraham.org/center/

It's very cool that Google put enough thought into this to use actual dances from Graham's work.
MultiValueDictKeyError at /submit/programmer, then:

global name 'phone' is not defined

(I think you're trying to fix this right now.. right?)
Long-term, it seems wise to just go AWS. The difference of learning AWS versus deploying right now in Linode (if you have experienced web server engineers) is negligible. I'd say even 30-40 hours worth of learning/testing can get you up and running in AWS.

Also, you have to think about possible downtime migrating from Linode to AWS (or increasing your Linode resources) or setting up a mechanism for no-downtime.

I agree with what you say here: "go directly to AWS, take the extra time to set it up and be done with it." To me, if the initial time/resource cost is negligible (which in this case, IMHO, it is), I'm going for the permanent solution instead of what seems to be a stop-gap solution. Less headaches, more time to devote to other parts of your start-up at a time of growth where your time and resources will be scarce, and fewer things to worry about. I'd rather pay the time up front when I'm still starting out, rather than later where it will be more difficult and most probably more costly.

This applies only because you already know AWS is the end-game. Otherwise, I'd just launch in Linode first since it's quick and I (and you) know how it works already, then deal with scaling later when you actually know you need to scale.

And don't knock Linode; it can take a beating.
Not arguing whether people should be locked up or not for certain crimes - there is obviously an issue with that - but when it comes down to numbers - are we really leading the world in that area:

North Koran Population: 23,906,070
Estimated "Prisoners": 200,000
Percentage in Custody: 0.83%

United States Population: 307,006,550
Estimated Prisoners: 2,292,133
Percentage in Custody: 0.74%

(Both numbers for US population and incarcerated people are from 2009)
No problem, I hope it does well. Keep in mind design is part of marketing so take heed to the comments about improving the designs.
NameError at /submit/programmer
global name 'phone' is not defined
Request Method:	POST
Request URL:	http://ecl-data-collection.appspot.com/submit/programmer
Django Version:	1.2.5
Exception Type:	NameError
Exception Value:
global name 'phone' is not defined
Exception Location:	/base/data/home/apps/ecl-data-collection/1.350367717383270314/views.py in submit_programmer, line 28
Python Executable:	/base/
Python Version:	2.5.2
Python Path:	['/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python25.zip', '/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/third_party/django-1.2', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1', '/base/data/home/apps/ecl-data-collection/1.350367717383270314/']
Server time:	Thu, 12 May 2011 17:32:17 +0000
I'm a little confused at the pricing.

Why would I require access to a constant stream of developers to code my projects? Is the supply that bad? Am I running developers out of town?

To me, it seems that you would use a service like this to establish working relationships and then continue to use those same working relationships in the future. In this model, it seems rather silly to pay you a monthly fee, and if I find a coder quickly you're not making much off of me.

The interesting issue is that websites like this are doing the exact same thing that professional recruiters do - playing matchmaker. The problem I have is that if you look at the recruiters that are really good, one of the first things that comes to light is that they our outstanding at building relationships. It's not so much about being selective as it is about understanding need and fit.

My concern is that the very thing that makes the process work well is completely absent on the web. It's hard to assess personality and fit without meeting a person and/or working with them in person.

I wish you the best of luck but I'm not sure if this is a technical problem at all.
I'm curious how you'd lower the friction in the process... meaning, what's the best way to get a consumer to opt-in to receiving an email (per example #1) with this tech. Do you have an app that serves as an explicit opt-in a la ShopKick?
ergo $46,000 USD
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T-shirt and QR codes? What do you think about our project?
Send him an email dude.
We need to wait for large mineral or oil deposits to be found in North Korea, and then the US can implement democracy.
I'd suggest using DEBUG = False in the production environment. (Django debug view gives a lot of private informations..)

Exception Location:	/base/data/home/apps/ecl-data-collection/1.350367717383270314/views.py in submit_programmer, line 28
Python Executable:	/base/
Python Version:	2.5.2
Python Path:	['/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python25.zip', '/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/third_party/django-1.2', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1', '/base/data/home/apps/ecl-data-collection/1.350367717383270314/']
I have no psychology experience but after reading the wikipedia page of Impostor Syndrome, Dunning-Kruger effect, and skimming through Dunning and Kruger's Nobel Prize paper[1] there is a third effect/syndrome that seems to be involved: False consensus effect [2]. They state: "Simply, put, these participants assumed that because they performed so well, their peers must have performed well likewise."[1]. If you are interested as how they reached that conclusion refer to section "Burden of Expertise" on page 1131 (pdf page 11) in [1].

As an extra note: The Impostor syndrome is not an officially recognized psychological disorder[3]. I've seen the Impostor syndrome mentioned many times but had never taken time to read the complete wikipedia page.

[1]http://people.psych.cornell.edu/~dunning/publications/pdf/un...
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
That reminds me of Nazi Germany when they went so far as to create a fake concentration camp for the Red Cross to visit.
don't buy the wampler book as a 1st book. too many forward references, you are constantly flipping pages.

also, portions of the scala api are a work in progress. constructs for multidimensional arrays have changed several times.

i may recommend the wampler book when they come out with a rewrite, say in a few months time. Now it seems too rushed. Some of it reads like a collection of blogposts.

Also wampler's idea of functional programming is very basic. No details on commonly used functional data structures or functional pgmming algorithms. More like "functional pgmming is X as opposed to OO pgmming is Y".

Okasaki's book ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138979 ) needs to be written in Scala. That'll sell a boatload of copies. Even a modest attempt at that would work for a start. That's an awesome book.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2541317
That does seem to be the business model they are applying here. Will be interesting to see how long they go before they are acquired, just as SpringSource was by VMWare.

Red Hat & VMWare would seem to be the most obvious bidders for Typesafe as they both offer Java-based stacks with enterprise support that Scala & Akka would fit in very well with.
I don't think that, even in US prisons (which are rather inhumane compared to European standards, I think), prisoners are delighted when a companion dies because the extra food ration they get for burying the body allows them to keep starvation at bay.

When "Thou" is plain fucking evil, it's perfectly acceptable to be holier-than-thou.
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Bin Laden was a micro-manager
Yes and those people are buying iPads right now. That's even worse for Google.
I was under the impression that NFC is for very small ranges. Wikipedia[1] says less than 0.2 meters. Is this correct or are there different kinds of NFC?

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Near_Field_Co...

Edit: Forgot footnote.
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Are you arguing that prisons in the US are akin to what is described as concentration camps in the article, or that what is described in the article is comparable to what you find in US prisons?
Skymall is just gadgets, no?

Sears catalog was full of every day practical stuff from clothing to household needs, tools, etc.

The US government should have bought millions of leftover catalogs as propaganda to drop on countries like this. No bombs needed.

Sadly it seems they stopped making it in 1993 (strangely well before internet shopping got started)

http://www.searsarchives.com/catalogs/index.htm

http://images.google.com/search?q=sears+catalog&tbm=isch
NFC is designed for short range (few centimeters).
Other RFID technologies can extend much further, meters, depending on form factor and cost.
While I agree that such a conversation is irrelevant to this post, I would say that in certain cases we are pretty close to locking people up en masse and forcing them to live in fairly abominable circumstances albeit not death camps.