skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a severe terminology problem that keeps on coming up every time there's a headline about SSD's. Physical/logical terminology is now overloaded. There are physical/logical blocks from the POV of the OS. However, those "physical" block addresses are actually "logical" blocks from the POV of the SSD device.

(Naturally, pedantic commenters will automatically assume the POV which makes you out to be clueless.)

Is there an augmented terminology for dealing with this?
Linux 2.6.39 released
Warning, NSFW: chaosandpain.blogspot.com. An aggressive, foul-mouthed intellectual's take on power-lifting and nutrition.
Companies have been using acquire to hire for a long time and the fact that there are more companies being acquired doesn't by itself mean there's a bubble. When startups with no product(color) or no revenue model(flipboard) are raising money at 9-figure valuations, that's a much better indicator of a bubble than the fact that a lot of companies are being sold right now.
Which version are you using? I'm on chromium dev channel on WinXP 3 and don't see those effects.
Stock Traders To Be Tracked By RFID
Dump MySQL Database to a file on Windows
Personally I think killing the URL is one of the first steps
to crystallizing Google's goal of replacing desktop apps with web apps. It all fits...
> I have yet to meet a reformed asshole, so I've come to the conclusion that it's an inherent part of one's personality.

I disagree. I've witnessed many people acquire empathy as they grow older and start treating others better. I know (hope) that I'm certainly not as impetuous or quick to judge as I was in my youth.
I am thankful for these links as well given that I am attending my local school district's "Parents Math Night" tonight. It's a presentation about the K-12 math curriculum. Sadly, I suspect that any points of contention will be between alternatives which I will consider to all be lacking in some fundamental way. After seeing what's happening in my ostensibly excellent public school system, I want to compare it with the Montessori school up the street.
Considering Kindle books are probably hosted over s3, those costs are relatively marginal. Amazon charges third party S3 usage for storage/transfer in cents/gigabyte, presumably at some appreciable margin. Their revenue from a single 0.99c purchase can probably cover costs related to a copy of that one book, plus another four or five free ones, for a year or more. Even better if they have a single "canonical" copy that is encrypted for your device on the fly at download time.
There were only 2 No's. One from Daniel Glazman of Mozilla, and one from Julian Reschke, who doesn't appear to be associated with any browser vendors.

Abstains came from Antonio Tapiador a Ph.D student, Danny Ayers of Talis, and Karl Dubost of Opera Software.
Love #246 Hacker News Front Page 12/31/2019

But it's Mark Zuckerberg, not Mark Zuckerman ;-)
I need Mozilla Ubiquity on Chrome
Hey everyone!
I love Chrome, but I can't live without Mozilla ubiquity add on! So I am ready to pay 20 bucks to anyone that provide me with an add on that let me use Ubiquity script on Chrome.

Who is in?

http://www.grople.com/projects/357
I agree with Veyron. It's also a stumbling block in the sales process (my day job). Often the decision makers aren't really technical and are very afraid of bugs and crashes and changing anything. It's not impossible to get around the objection, but you should expect it.
I'm even worse: love and hate at the same time! Love my Apple ][, hate everything Mac, love iPod, hatehatehate iTunes. Would probably love iPhone if I wasn't too cheap to own anything more than a Tracfone.

Also, back before LANs were standardized I worked on a AppleTalk server that ran on PCs. Love AFP and ATP!!
Ask HN: Integrating video games into your site?
I've been googling around and all I've managed to find are mostly awful ad-supported flash based game sites.

I'm basically looking for the Twilio of online video games. Something where I could use RESTful APIs to initiate a multiplayer game between remote clients.

Do such services exist?
The newest tool in fighting corruption: check-ins and likes
Here's one small contribution.

All version of Google Chrome prior to somewhere in Chrome 13 did not send a referer header when a link was opened in a new tab:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1935
Dinahcvipmoedas: Dinahcvipmoedas
I've worked with recruiters enough to know that they get a bare minimum of $20k to hook an average engineer up with a mid-level job. The rates go up with the position and the demand.

With that in mind, I honestly don't see a problem with paying $500k per engineer if they come with a great product that can improve the buyer's position. It isn't what I'd think of as a sign of a bubble, but a different way to spend recruiting money.
That works for you because you know how the web works.

Most people don't. They'll type "facebook" into search instead of going to facebook.com.

If the search is good enough, the url isn't necessary.
On my machine, both images in the first screen shot appear to have anti-aliased text, but the anti-aliasing is different. In fact, the text that says "Not anti-aliased" appears to have softer edges on the 'd' character at the end of the line than the 'd' at the end of the "Anti-Aliased" text.
DoD had a removable device scare a while back (someone intruduced a windows virus into an internal network via one), and for a while there they were going around and filling external USB ports with epoxy. Eventually they "relaxed" their position on that.
Which is precisely what I meant by 'disparate' :) There can be long-winded corners, and then a tight chicane in another area. A different diff setting would allow to maximize stability vs agility by balancing (forward+braking) power on left/right wheels.
I was getting ready to post a rant about how this violates the principles of the web, but I actually can't think of any principle that says you have to show URLs all the time. The earliest browsers probably didn't. I'm sure you will still be able to enter URLs through some popup widget.

Ultimately, if people can't read URLs then there's no great value in shoving it in their face. We might as well use that space for something they do understand. If it showed just the domain or SSL creds, users might pay more attention to them since they wouldn't be buried in noise from the rest of the URL.

I'm not happy that Google search is effectively replacing the DNS as the web's canonical index, but that has been happening for a while and it's driven by a very real user need. I would consider hiding the address bar an effect rather than a cause.
Prolific "spokesman" for Anonymous leaves the hacker group
Ah cool. Good to hear. Hoping you guys continue to do well.
Maybe a silly question, but where can I buy it?
Typically, I've managed to maintain a decent working relationship even with people others found virtually intolerable. My natural inclination is to let the more abrasive aspects of their personalities slide, but sometimes I doubt this approach, because occasionally what it means is taking them less seriously as human beings. Their idiosyncrasies can be predictable, so I'm tempted to think of them as machines. In one sense, it's convenient: I rarely get angry at machines, so why would I get angry at machine-like people? On the other hand, it's dismissive and lazy.

What you're talking about is rejecting cynicism, assuming things can change, believing things are worth changing, and being willing to put in the effort to call out the jerks. As long as you do it constructively, you end up humanizing people who probably need it--and you might even make a difference! So, for all our sakes, please keep it up.
F11 (aka fullscreen)?
Wufoo is the role model for how to write awesome automated emails
I disagree with your lumping "drunken violent chair throwing" into a the exact same catagory as "guy who sarcastically responds to a person not reading the documentation". Really, extreme reactions like 0-tolerance are no better than tolerance for the extreme misbehavior you describe.

I propose that a large portion of the reaction against your statements is that until this comment, many or most of the people assumed you meant a more common form of asshole: e.g. the guy who defends his code too hard, or the guy who isn't good at criticizing others' work. The term asshole, at least as used by large numbers of people, applies to both cases. Getting someone fired because they are a bit caustic is not at all an appropriate reaction, whereas as a response to violence it is (probably) an appropriate reaction.
But the DRS does have a lot of rules which may deem it unfair. For example, if one car is leading and another following, the following car is allowed to use DRS, but the leading car isn't.
Olá, tenho um multiplicado de moedas e de habbobr, estou aqui para ajudar quem precisa ou quem quer ter um pouco mais para complementar seus habbos
t n↵

Those are my first 3½ keystrokes in the morning.
Twitter is retroactively changing the xAuth rules in a way that will break every existing install of a native client (except the official one), and make every native client (except the official one) going forward harder to use.

Stupidity would be breaking their own clients, too. Stupidity doesn't seem to adequately explain their commitment to going forward with this change, so we turn to Occam's Razor. The simplest apparent explanation for the observed behavior is that they want to discourage the use of third-party clients.
If it's what I think it is, they used to have this feature for app tabs last year, then removed it. I couldn't find much writeup, here's http://lifehacker.com/5608189/restore-chromes-toolbar-when-w... a mention. I'm happy it's back.
Do some deals first outside of AngelList, then get endorsements from your co-investors.
I've found keyword bookmarks save even more typing. "gr" for Google Reader, "y" for Hacker News, etc. They're easy enough to set up, and I was already in the habit of using them from setting up keyword searches similarly.

In Firefox, go to "Properties" on a bookmark, and change the "keyword" field. For searches, just right click a search text box, and choose "Add a keyword for this search".

Does it save a lot of time? No, not really, especially if you already use the AwesomeBar/Chrome's equivalent to get to sites. But a little.
I don't really think there's anything you can do in Ruby or Python, that you fundamentally can't do in Groovy, although certain things might be easier. But I do encourage everyone to broaden their horizons, so learning Python and/or Ruby is definitely not a bad idea. Of the two, I've used Python more than Ruby, and am fairly fond of it, as non-JVM languages go. Python and Pylons (well, it used to be called Pylons, I think it's something else now) is certainly a fine stack for web apps.
I followed till I came to "Twitter isn't ours".

I don't know if Twitter's particular changes here are desirable or not. But if company is also providing a messaging utility that millions of people contribute content to and that other provide enhancements to, then "we" sure as heck should criticizing what it is does, deciding whether it is worth "our" while and so forth. If "we" don't, "we" will become serfs to those convenient information providers.

Certainly, "twitter isn't ours" so we can't sue them or immediately fire whoever made this decision. Our options include accept-whatever-without-a-beep(or-a-tweet), criticize and suck-it-up as well as criticize-and-abandon. And latter options seem reasonable.
Why Thunderbolt is dead in the water, aka how Apple killed Light Peak
Maybe, but if I were twitter and wanted to discourage 3rd-party clients, changing authentication methods to one that is harder to use is a really roundabout way of accomplishing that goal.
I am surprised they would use something like this. Formula one has experimented with variable geometry before, and the conclusion was that it is very dangerous, because a fault with the variable geometry can cause nasty crashes. If this thing gets stuck in drag reduction mode and the driver does not realize that it is stuck, the car will not have enough down force to take the turns at the speed the driver is used to, so it will slam into the wall in the first turn.

So we will see how it works, but it is very dangerous.
Uncover the Source of Your Information Overload
Zoned recording, and more recently adaptive formatting.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52729281/The-Best-Of-edw519
You can grab it from the Scribd link on the blog post: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52729281/The-Best-Of-edw519
For those at work, his advice boils down to this...

DO'S:

-Low repition, heavy weight, full-body lifts

-Boost your testosterone levels through things like a high
protein diet

-Read more and be intellectually curious

DO NOT'S:

-Avoid soy or other foods/activities that lower your testosterone levels

-Avoid endurance exercises (modern marathoning, etc.) that wear-out your joints and cause cardiac disease

-Avoid blindly accepting the conventional wisdom on health and fitness
Learn to spell, learn Node.js with jBoggle
There's a difference between people who simply have poor social skills, where they'll say things like "You're obviously an idiot because that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" and those who are assholes who say things like "All <people of race X> are stupid, just like you".

It's all degrees of asshole-ism, perhaps.
Interesting, unless I missed it the release doesn't specify how much of this is due to an overall decline in print sales, as opposed to a surge of Kindle ones.

For instance, I've bought no books from Amazon in the past year (very a-typical for me, historically).. but I don't own a Kindle. I've bought some e-books from other outlets for my iPad. So I'm "contributing" to the success Amazon is touting in the release based on the way they're laying it out.
Loop of what, some kind of numerical iteration? Sounds like fun, what kind of platform is this on. I assume any kind of OS or HLL is out of the question.
Sadly the revered secret is usually stored as safely as the password in plain text on the compromised server. I would any day recommend someone to use 40 character random passwords locked down on the client, available through pasting, than have them fumble around with improper key exchanging.
I was hoping for a dead tree version... Well maybe later, on lulu.com ?
/ban works better in my opinion. We're not so starved for talent we need to allow every asshole who can commit into a project.
Winner's Curse.
It's not too modal, either.
From the S1 filling (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/0001193125110...):

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated may, in its sole discretion, release all or some portion of the shares subject to lock-up agreements prior to expiration of the lock-up period.

Related poll: http://www.wepolls.com/r/462580/Is-it-right-for-Wall-Street-...
Nettle Hiring (San Diego)
The problem with F1: It's boring.
He's a dick, not an asshole. South Park explains the distinction in their epic musical.
A potential issue here is agreeing on value. Coding tasks can look really easy when in fact they can be incredibly complex. I'm not sure a design for a landing page is the market equivalent of an entire iPhone app.

Edit: typo
Though lots of HNers might disagree (or be reluctant to admit it), I find striking similarities between rappers and entrepreneurs. Behind the flashy front of a rapper is a guy who has a dream. With enough drive, dedication and passion, there's nothing stopping that rapper from achieving his dream, regardless of the naysayers and the obstacles along the way. Entrepreneurs are no different.
Except that this specific document comes with good advice and rationale. There is nothing here that indicates a secret agenda. It's not as if the document is telling you to install a backdoor for them.
Consider that Netflix is making a profit providing hour(s) long HD videos for $8 per month.

Let's assume that Amazon isn't less competent in that area, with their AWS expertise and operating large-scale websites since 1995.

Given than I watch much more than 8 hours of video, it's safe to say that the cost of delivering an hour worth of video is less than $1. In fact, I remember reading (can't find a reference) than it's around 5 cents.

Let's assume that hour of video is 1GB and an eBook is 100kB.

Delivering more than 10 thousand ebooks (which is way more than most everyone will ever buy in their lifetime) probably costs Amazon about 5 cents and certainly well below $1 (even if you choose to nitpick and adjust my numbers).

That means that they need to sell three 99 cent books (at 30% profit) to cover their lifetime costs per customer.

Let's stop this talk about costs of delivering digital goods, and especially ebooks. Ebooks are a fraction of the size of music or video files and people download few ebooks once while they stream audio and video for hours and in case of music repeatedly and radio and video streaming services still manage to make a profit after paying huge royalties.

I could probably personally fund the cost of bandwidth to deliver ebooks for the entire population of the US and still afford a latte.
Ditto for when I worked on improving the speed of Google web search. Shaving 100ms off of page load time was (and is) a major accomplishment.
I can't imagine how many drivers would be killed each year if there were no restrictions. Safety measures can only do so much good with the amount of energy that would be thrown around.
I like being able to see the address bar. It lets me know that I'm viewing the page that I think I am.
Thanks, that is very likely the cause, about 60% of my traffic is Chrome <13.
I like how the Android browser handles the issue[1]: Show url while loading, then hide. Address bar becomes exposed when you scroll up past the top of the page.

[1]: Not that Android browser is unique or first to implement it this way; it's just the one I have most experience with.
I'd love to get feedback as to why you prefer findchips. You can email me at sam@octopart.com.
Even in its non-optical, crippled copper state, Thunderbolt is prohibitively expensive. USB 3.0 controllers cost just a few dollars, while Thunderbolt hardware, we've been told, cost no less than $90.

This is the key claim in the article, and "we've been told" is not exactly authoritative.
Calling someone stupid is another form of social poo-poo. There's no utility to it. Calling someone's action or behavior stupid, on the other hand, is direct and constructive. You are demanding that someone do something specifically different in order to improve. Calling the person an idiot is not constructive - it is only an insult. On the other hand, if the person said, "You're obviously an idiot because you consistently say stupid things, and you're dragging this project down, therefore I want you off the team," that may be hurtful, but it is constructive. It's a demand for change for the better.
Reading this, it appears that they sold more Windows Mobile (6.x) devices than Windows Phone 7 devices.

3.6M total sold in Q1, 1.6M of which was WP7.
That figure is from an OEM. I was just shying away from the (magnificently over-used) phrase 'according to unnamed sources familiar with the situation...'

Also, look at the Matrox pricing! (Or the prices of any other Thunderbolt-enabled devices that are coming to market -- if you can find them; there are not many yet...)
So, does that mean more Android phones are sold in just 5 days? (Edited grammar.)
Back in the day, I was also in my school's gifted programs and I had a fear of failure. But, it was because my family was poor. I knew that I was solely responsible for my attendance at college and that academic scholarships were my "golden ticket" for that. Similarly, some of my friends feared sports injuries because athletic prowess was their ticket to college.
This guide is written by the NSA so it is reasonable for them to be paranoid by default.

> 1.1.2 Minimize Software to Minimize Vulnerability

I agree on yum. If the attacker has root and can run yum. It is too late.

In regards to user mode applications: If you have wget, python, gcc on a php-only shared hosting server and your security depends of open_basedir (bad idea, don't do this) these usermode applications give you access to all data on the server.

> 2.1.1.1 Disk Partitioning

> nobody has ever been saved from having a 4GB /var/log partition

This is just plain wrong. If there is no disc-space left all kinds of strange error beginn to appear - e.g. your emails are not beeing delivered, apache fails with strange errors, users can't login. Imagine an attacker that wants to DoS you and he managed to fill your logs with excessive data.

> 2.1.1.2 Boot Loader Configuration

> Oh my god, HOW could we possibly be secure without a password to BOOT OUR MACHINE. The damn disks and boot partition aren't even encrypted, guys! This is useless!

It is not. I can boot from my USB thumbdrive and my private toolbox is now part of of the network (I can hijack the MAC and IP-Adress of the computer in question, can do arp-spoofing. If they use an old version of nfs I can even gain access to all files on the nfs server, because older nfs versions trust the client. And I can doing this likely without beeing noticed.

2.3.5 Protect Physical Console Access

Again. I'm into GRUB and and I can edit the linux-boot entry and add init=/bin/bash and voila I'm root on the machine. Without having to open the computer.

> 2.5.3.1 Disable Support for IPv6 unless Needed

IPv6 is still not largely deployed and it is a possible attack vector you can easily avoid unless you need it. I don't see a problem with this approach.

2.5.4.1 How TCP Wrapper Protects Services

It is another onion-ring in your security scheme. You should only permit hosts that require connections with your system. It is part of a bigger picture not the whole strategy.

3.5.1 Disable OpenSSH Server if Possible

Why not? E.g. I managed to sniff/can have a look at your E-Mail and you are so stupid to send plaintext account data around (happens all the time). Without access to OpenSSH I can't easily login into your server.

They just show a lot of possible attack vectors you can focus on. Taken alone every point mentioned here sounds kind of useless to implement. But if you combine all these ideas and implement them across your network/your server you have better security.

I can't understand why you ridicule this suggestions, they all are important depending on the context.
What if I don't trust my friends, can I turn this off? I mean not that I don't like them or anything but I trust google's algorithms more than most people I know :p
Fair enough, still seems really high considering you can get entire motherboards for around that price.

Also, look at the Matrox pricing!

Sure they'll soak the early adopters, but that's not necessarily representative of the marginal cost.