skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, but when the rubber hits the road, pricing the IPO is hard line in the sand that crap like EBITDA can't match. As a user, I don't think LinkedIn is ready for IPO, qualitywise, but that's the way the machine works. in other words, only one of your examples is priced for IPO, what other companies fit their equation? :) I was wondering how far they were from Pets.com (as an extreme example), numberswise.
I don't see anything there about the no-fly list.
Given that the whole point of the article was how one person made everybody believe something just by asserting it true, I don't find it surprising that the HN title is trying to do the same.
Reminded me of a short novella called Deus X by Norman Spinrad:

Norman Spinrad explores the depths of what it means to be human; more accurately, he delves into the nature of the soul in our increasingly computerized technological age. Featuring a poignant new Afterword by Spinrad, this reprinting of one of Spinrad's most cherished works is more timely than ever before. Can human consciousness exist within the framework of an electronic "brain" and still maintain its humanity? In DEUS X, a dying priest's consciousness is uploaded into the most advanced computer of the day - and what ensues is a thought-provoking, entertaining and overly intriguing clash between the various characters surrounding the experiment, a female Pope and a computer guru who'd rather be sailing and smoking pot, for example.

http://www.amazon.com/Deus-X-Norman-Spinrad/dp/0979477018/re...
`Also, can you simulate a brain without a body or is say hormones/blood sugar/nervous system not easily separable?`

From my basic understanding of the nervous system, to simulate anything approximating normal function, it would be necessary to emulate the body to some degree. There's just too much interdependence with chemical reactions taking place outside the brain for a model to be of much use in isolation.
Ask HN: Any examples of solid UI/UX design for an admin interface?
We're in the midst of redesigning our backend admin interface for an advertising related startup and would love to see some slick dashboard designs for some inspiration. Got any references, links, sites worth checking out?
So what do you think someone should do when they find a major security hole in a web site?
CDC Prepares Nation for the Zombie Apocalypse
The US Center for Disease Control started a very creative viral campaign about the zombie apocalypse to encourage US citizens to prepare for emergencies.
Is there any reason why they'll end up with a human brain instead of a lizard's? And what about teaching it? A human brain requires a human body to learn.

This is cargo-cult science. They'll be lucky to end up with anything useful, except 20 years' government funding!8-)) This project could be almost as good a gravy train for researchers as Cyc (20 years without significant results and still funded).
Undisclosed vulnerabilities could allow destruction of infrastructure systems
The trouble with OAuth is it presents a broken/oddly decoupled interface at the most delicate moment - when the user has only just chosen to use the application.

For tech people it is not seamless,

For non-tech people it is worse than 'not seamless', it is entirely confusing.
This is great science, and I'm sure we will learn a lot about brains, but there is no way a simulated brain will have any kind of consciousness without a simulated body as well. Without a body and an environment to interact with, the brain is like a computer program with no data to run on.

Experiments have shown that if you yoke a paralyzed cat to another cat and let it experience a complete array of visual inputs, the yoked cat will still be completely blind. Interactive embodied experience is the foundation of cognition and consciousness. A brain in a vat is as empty as a computer without i/o.

It would be interesting to have a full-scale simulation to learn about how activation propagates, how different systems interact, yada yada yada. But until you give it a body there won't be any ethical issues.
I run a mac-heavy shop. About 40 of them at present.

The naysayers who want to downplay this as business as usual are wrong.

I have had three cases of this within two weeks at my company. Prior to that time, I have not had a single piece of Mac malware infect my machines over a period of 8 years.

This is not business as usual. I expect to find a whole lot more of this in the near future, and for the first time since I've managed IT at this company, I'm researching anti-malware solutions for Mac.
One way to stop trolls would be a developer owned organization that would accept patent donations, and raise funds to purchase patents. Once the organization owned enough patents it could protect developers with the "sue me and I'll sue you" defense.

It would take a while but after a few noteworthy donations some protection could be had for members of the organization.
It is a security win (and Im pretty sure gruber sees that).

His point is that the interface is a usability loss, and a big one.
Is it my lack of energy or the piece does not read well. I had to backtrack a few times to see what she's talking about.

Anyway, from the outside, it seems as both Zuck and Hoffman are both the quiet-doer personality that stays out of spotlight and would rather produce "goods". I like that. Their humility is what makes them role models.
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What you're describing is in fact typical of most agencies — they're filled with young kids who become an army to grind out billable hours. I think you need to identify what you're really hating about your situation in order to figure out the correct action:

- Is it the subject matter? Would working on a product be more fun? Would it be fun if you lost your job after a month? Would work at another agency with better clients be more fun?

- Is it the money and/or job title? If you made more or felt less like a "code money" would you be happier? If so maybe jump to an another agency.

- Are you really perhaps just unhappy with the people there? Or are you maybe feeling like you aren't learning anything new? That might be a good reason to jump ship.

By the way you may want to learn some patience for non-coders and the like: Learning that skill can make you management material instead of being stuck debugging.
If you take out your first sentence and your last phrase, which are both subjective, isn't the rest true for all forms of current censorship?

I'm having a hard time reconciling my thoughts that censorship is bad with the fact that I'm thankful that some stuff is censored. Is the only difference between the two that I want to pirate stuff but I don't want to look at child pornography?

Also, I still think that if you're going to call out all forms of censorship as something bad, that the ends never justify the means, than you better be prepared to answer why you're already censoring stuff.
I went on an interesting journey with this article. I first clicked expecting to see what Paul Buccheit succinctly labelled "Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = Advice".

I found generalised advice, without a word on the author's actual experience. Which I generally dislike, because I like to know who's telling me things. I'd much rather read "Here are some things that worked for me and might work for you" than "this is what you should do".

I also nearly gave up because of poor opening sentence construction, bad jokes ("Drinking Heavily? Not Another Neckbeard?") and outright sexism ("Teh Womens").

Also offputting is the arrogance that comes through the article's tone of "the master" giving omniscient advice. Every great programmer I've personally met was humble about what they could do, and the Dunning–Kruger effect would seem to suggest that's not coincidence.

But then I started thinking about how it's hard to give advice to newbies when you have experience. I mean, my advice on "what worked for me" to start programming is "Have your parents buy you an Apple //e when you're a kid, learn AppleSoft Basic and then try to learn 6502 assember, keep making things and learning from mistakes for 20+ years and you might be on the right path to become me but then again this might be the wrong path to become you.". That clearly doesn't translate on several levels. And I'm relatively young blood who wouldn't dare give advice on this topic. If you're older and more experienced then your story is going to be even more complicated, and harder to translate.

That's when I decided to look at the author's bio. And from right here on HN: "I started learning how to program with Ruby about 10 months ago". Combined with their own bio[1], this suggests they are actually pretty new to this too.

Which would seem to be bad, but it's actually a tremendous advantage when giving advice to newbies. So my advice to the author, if they're reading this, is:

* Rework the advice you clearly want to give around your own experiences. For example, you say "read the Dragon book". Did you actually read the Dragon book? Which parts? What did you learn from it, and how did you apply the knowledge? What did you need to know before you could begin to understand it? Tell us what you did, that you think someone following in your footsteps should do.

* For a second example, you say upfront to learn both Ruby and Python (seemingly concurrently, which I think sounds like an awful idea) but your own experience seems to suggest you learned Ruby first. Why do you now recommend learning both?

* More importantly, please tell us which things you think you wasted your time learning or trying to do or practising that weren't worthwhile.

* Drop the attitude (even if it's intended tongue-in-cheek, it's offputting) and drop the sexism.

[1] http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/1/
The reason airplane maintenance is expensive isn't just that airplanes are generally more complex. It's mainly because you have to pay a certified A&P[1] to do it. You're not just paying for the work, you're paying for the entire apparatus of certifications and inspections that backs it up.

>Also, by law to drive (in California at least) you're only required to have liability insurance covering the party you hit. Covering your own vehicle is optional.

If you go this route, you have an even bigger incentive to keep it off the road: if you get into a fender-bender, you'll have to pay to the exorbitant repair bill on your "car."

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Maintenance_Technician...
How about:

Python first (because it's intuitive and I want to build motivation by completing a project right away), and then C (to learn memory management and other subtleties.) That sound reasonable?
I personally love how android handles the latest activity window by dragging down the top area. Is there something similar on iOS4?. This and the back button are really good features.
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I know a lot of people support learning Python before C, but I bet most of those people are old enough that they learned C first.

I think it's really interesting to hear the experiences of someone who did Python first.
ThemeForest Admin Templates is a good start.

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...
If the security model of Oauth was to actually separate your provider login from the requesting app, then as far as I can tell the model fails in all cases since the app is always expected to be the one that opens the application/browser window and that's never good security.

But what I thought was the case was that the Oauth model was just a cumbersome fig leaf allowing an application to say it never touches the users password. That is a benefit in the sense of protecting an application from itself (a well-intentioned application doesn't have to store its users password).

If Twitter really wanted to separate application authentication from Provider authentication, they could do something like have the app send you a message in twitter from which you could give it permissions OR they could give you a series of "application passwords" which you could then give to the applications (one password per privileged level, each password stays valid till you revoke one application's privilege).

Either of those would be both secure and reasonably simple BUT since it requires the user's mind to think two steps ahead, it would make the apps a harder sell and so you've got the present fake security...
That's the same way the iPhone "application switcher" that was previously mentioned works.
To me, the best argument would be that everything else that we have looked at in the universe appears to be completely materialistic. Do you know some reason why the brain might be different?
This is why I placed my xterm title bar at the bottom and it works like a charm.
Interesting, I'll keep that in mind if/when I get to deeper Honeycomb development.

As for the emulator, Android is notorious for it's terribly slow emulators. I've basically stopped using them and only use actual hardware to test on. The emulator is good for surfacing race conditions that only show up on super slow devices tough :-)
I love the fact that they're located on the University of Phoenix campus http://goo.gl/maps/DGWF
That's exactly what it is. It's the difference between estimating mass based on visible light and estimating mass based on gravitational effects. If both those estimates are accurate, it implies the existence of a lot of non-luminescent matter. So some scientists look for "dark matter", while others try to find flaws with either estimation.
Resisting The Algorithms
He goes out of his way to say it doesn't increase security.
Absolutely. Made a boatload after he sold Rational and could have easily just gone on living a great life, but instead went on to build one of the most influential companies of the 21st century.
On a related note. Did anyone else notice today's removal of the "status" query string variable and the switch solely to "Web Intents"? http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents. I believe many Twitter sharing buttons used the simpler query string approach over the full API with OAuth.
I was just thinking the same thing, so i think that you are not off base at all. The real challenge/opportunity comes in when someone with the knowledge has to grade the assignments.
Very little, I think. Jupiter-mass planets weigh nothing compared to stars, and this only says they only outnumber stars 2:1.
With Bump 2.0 we decided to throw out 1.x. We are only supporting Android 2.0 and up, 1.x is small enough that it doesn't matter for us anymore. This way we can focus on making the app that works better with a smaller number of differences to deal with.

That said, yes, there are definitely rough edges in 1.x to 2.x, hopefully less so to 3.x. I think only time will tell as things surface in communities like Stack Overflow.
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Music with lyrics is distracting; classical instrumental music is usually ok, and techno (at low volume) actually helps me work.

Also important: music that you change often (e.g. youtube videos) is more distracting than music you turn on and leave alone (e.g. radio).
Nice, just installed and I'm loving the JS terminal so far. Thanks for the link.
Unity reminds me a bit of Afterstep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfterStep

However, after using regular E/Gnome/KDE/OS X/Windows for so long I feel handicapped with it; for example I can't right click on Unity bar to customise it and it doesn't seem to behave as I expect it to. I guess part of this is because of learned behaviours over the years and I've gotten used to UI's working in certain ways.

I'm not willing to rule Unity out, yet. But, I'm not going to upgrade my main Ubuntu system to 11.04 unless I can be guaranteed I can move to regular Gnome and back to Unity without problems. At the moment, I believe that, Ubuntu 11.04 only supports Unity and the Gnome 3 packages are in a PPA (Personal Package Archive) that isn't fully supported, yet, and might be quiet buggy.

I've also been thinking about going back to using Debian as I'm finding some of the ease that Ubuntu is bringing to Linux is at odds to a long-time *nix user like myself.
Going from 0-60 quickly in a flying vehicle isn't difficult until you hit the ground.
Hey,

I'm designing a Twitter desktop client from the ground-up with Oauth. It is annoyingly over-complexified but doable. I suppose I can take a grim pleasure that others will have to suffer with me...
The flow of OAuth on mobile is not nearly as bad when the app opens Safari to the OAuth screen, and when the user hits accept/reject they get sent to a URI like myappname://oauth which the iPhone app can register to mean relaunch the app
http://goo.gl/4vRWy

The patent is from 2007. Surely in-app phone purchases existed before.

Byt he way- the license prices in the article seems to be pointing to in app upgrades. Like from a free app to the pro version. From Lodsys' website:

"In the case of an Application doing an in-application upgrade (and only this scenario), Lodsys is seeking 0.575% of US revenue over for the period of the notice letter to the expiration of the patent, plus applicable past usage."
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I wonder when a pilgrimage to Mecca will just be a click away. There are some things that shouldn't be digital, death should be one of those things.
Sexism, a term coined in the mid-20th century,[1] is the
belief or attitude that one sex is inherently superior
to, more competent than, or more valuable than the other.
It can also include this type of discrimination in
regards to gender. Sexism primarily involves hatred of,
or prejudice towards, either sex as a whole (see misogyny
and misandry), or the application of stereotypes of
masculinity in relation to men, or of femininity in
relation to women.[2]

It's not fucking sexism, for the 56th time today. It's light internet humor. It's an incomplete sentence.

post script: The dates on how long ago I started learning ruby are outdated.
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If your logged into Flickr the new homepage look isn't apparent unless one logs out.
None of the women I've showed this to, up to and including my significant other (whom is learning to program).
> I'm OK with requiring OAuth. It's hard to trust third parties with data they collect themselves: see Sony and Gawker. It's even harder to trust them with data that belongs to someone else: they might one-way-hash their own passwords, of course, but they can't do that to your Twitter password. It's probably sitting in a database, cleartext, for every rogue employee or cracker to see.

That's a load of FUD crap the OAuth and OpenID projects perpetuate. If you can't trust the 3rd party then why the hell are you logging in? If it's a matter of "they might get hacked" then why is Twitter suddenly special and is somehow magically more safe? Trust me, based on what I hear Twitter is not more safe than Gawker. How is a more complicated login system safer? More complicated things like OAuth are not safer, they're just more complicated.

The entire security premise of OAuth is junk. It's only advantage is that Twitter/Facebook/Google become the owners of your users and can leverage that against you or the other site. It's just idiotic to say that the only way to secure your access to SuperHackable.com is to go through Twitter.com as if that makes SuperHackable.com better or that Twitter.com has some sort of magic super powers.
Good on Sarah Lacy for highlighting one of the anonymous Silicon Valley soldiers like Reid Hoffman. He's been toiling away in obscurity for years now...
> I'd like to use this like an enhanced standard terminal

Same here. Just adding a tiny little bit of enhancement without changing anything in the standard behavior could be a bettter idea. Examples:

- ls output is pure text but hoverable (parent's idea)
- add a way to see thumbnails of pics in ls
- drag and drop files in the pwd

In the article the author says "The interaction is strictly limited to a linear flow of keystrokes, always directed at only one process" and take it as a limitation. From my point of view, when doing geek work on big machines, I need to drive a "linear flow of keystroke" in the machine. It is the way to have a deterministic behavior. It is the way to be able to script my work. I feel empowered by the control I have on what the machine does. Everything else (ie Windows, Mac UI) feel like a console game to me, in the sense that I give away my full control on the machine in exchange of impressive graphics, ease of interaction and safety-for-kids.
I do not understand on what grounds the Chinese company that serves Chinese users is being sued in New York.
The search results are censored because Chinese law requires doing so. What does it have to do with the US?
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It will merge with the gov't - your ID/DL and FB will be closely related, it will enter many verticals (e.g. compete with LinkedIn in the professional networking space), it will seek to impact more deeply by blurring the line between virtual and real life, it will start selling discount stuff (like Groupon) to kids. It will basically become the MS of web 2.0

But then again, I have no idea! :)
"Fire at will, commander."
Here's the upstream WebKit bug which has some more analysis:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61006
That’s totally awesome! But not sure if I want to be on the receiving end of that.
1 is infinitely larger than zero...

Until last week, Mac malware was as common as unicorns. Now there is one. And, as pointed out, Safari's default behaviour of running stuff it deems safe automatically is very dangerous.
There are things that overwhelmingly tip the right and wrong scale, things that are morally reprehensible and harmful, copyright infringement isn't one of those things.
Google chairman Schmidt promises privacy controls
You've only been at it for less than a year here. Try at least a few more environments before you decide you hate the industry.
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That's the rational thing to do if you expect the value of bitcoins to keep skyrocketing.

Ultimately, people will want to cash out. If they cash out by trading for dollars, bitcoin will fail. If they cash out by buying stuff, we'll have a new currency on our hands.
Keep in mind that if your browser tells you to install something, it's advisable to say "no".

And, most of the time, Linux uses an app store. We just call it Synaptic.
> highlighting text in a split view vim selected only text in that window

Try to control-select in the terminal. Works with my Gnome term 2.

> vim/emacs through SSH

We work like that too, and I see only advantages to this set-up, the least being forcing everyone to learn find, grep, vim. These powerful tools increase productivity but have a high barrier of entry, so best is to have no other choice.
Looks like the lawyer Stephen Preziosi will make some money out of this.

The only reason a case like this would exist would be to make negative headlines in China.