skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And HDDs have had RAM catches for a while now, further complicating things.

The SATA interface defines an abstraction over the storage system that the hard drive has to live up to. If the OS makes assumptions that aren't part of that contract that the drive doesn't live up to, thats the OS's fault. Separation of concerns is a vital engineering practice, and if some software violates abstraction barriers and things break that's the software's own fault.
Webkit Hardware acceleration bleeding into subsequent elements. How to fix it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

I always try to give the benefit of the doubt. I can think of plenty of times where I only realize after the fact that I was distracted/in a bad mood and unduly acted rude towards someone.
done.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2564829

err

http://groups.google.com/group/weekendhacker
Sure. We could also just go with the godwin and say "do you know who else did not pass any laws restricting access to the internet?"
Steve Jobs was fired ... and look what happened to Apple while he was gone. Good parallel? Probably not, but it isn't a unique situation.
Only if you presuppose that the "poo-pooing" of human social interaction has no value, or perhaps misunderstand the value of social conventions.

Even if you're brilliant and correct, a tactful approach to persuasion/discussion is virtually guaranteed to yield better results than verbal blunt-trauma. Unless the goal of life is simply "To be correct", which honestly strikes me as a fairly depressing end game compared to the other options.
The demand however is based on "expert analysis" that suggests that LinkedIn is worth 4 billion dollars.

I don't have an issue with demand setting the price; I have an issue with that demand being justified by linking it back to the potential performance of the company in such a way that anyone with half a brain can seen is bordering on the ludicrous.

If the problem was limited to investors that were prepared to take risks and pay for their own loses that would be one thing. The issue I have is that when these things do come crashing down, it seems to hurt everyone but wall street.
What LinkedIn used to be worth
Outside of to Editors/publishers agents aren't currently set up for promotion. Their place has, for a good while, been primarily as taking over the slush pile from publishers plus getting better contracts WITH those publishers for the author. Good agents increase the advance and/or royalties such that the contract is for more than the 15% they take as a cut so you get more money.

Editors they MIGHT have connections with, but so do a lot of indie authors these days, so if you join those communities you can get good recommendations from fellow writers.
World Class Violinist Plays Incognito in the DC Metro
Around 10 years ago I started to approach situations that were dicey by making the assumption that the other person was having a bad day. In addition to helping prevent situations from escalating out of control this has had a calming effect on me.

Empathy is much better than judgment especially in a situation with imperfect information.
Life Is A Game
Good point about C. You misunderstand the intent of my post though.

First, as a small point, I was not seriously suggesting using thread pools to implement mlock_eventfd. That's just a way that we could play around with it short of a kernel implementation, which would probably be more efficient.

Second, I don't think I'm dogmatic about mmap. It's just a cool interface that would be nice to see more widely used, and I was suggesting that it might be more usable with a small addition. Commenters here, at my blog and on Reddit have pointed out other problems, and I'm happy to learn about these. If mmap isn't good and we should keep using DIO, then I think there are still possible improvements that we could make to the interface to allow better cooperation with the kernel.
The limiting factor in F1 these days is the driver, there was a great article in Popular Science about it. Without worrying about keeping a driver alive (and conscious), the cars would be substantially faster. They also talked about how physically demanding driving an F1 car is, and how a driver is basically an athlete in prime condition. In keeping their heads upright through turns they develop some ridiculous muscle in their necks. There's a funny video on youtube of an F1 driver crushing a walnut with his neck.
No one's time is worth so much that they can't take an extra five seconds and think about how to say something to avoid looking like a jackass.
Who is fighting to keep software patents as-is? Who are we up against? I have NEVER read anything in their favor. If we live in a society where the laws need to be changed, why are they just not changing? What horrors could actually come from abolishing software patents?

I just don't understand why this is still an argument. Who are we even arguing against? I never see anyone disagreeing with the argument. It's as if everyone hates the same thing yet it continues to exist and all we have to do is change it. So someone just change it.
True, though it may be that some participants are simply willing to buy the stock with the expectation that they can sell it quickly, for more than they bought it for.
I do not tolerate working with assholes or having assholes working for me, but I am more than happy to let them work for someone else or on someone else's project and enjoy the fruits of their labor :)
RSA's implementation (used by BofA, among others) is called SiteKey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey

These never seemed very secure to me for the reason mentioned in that article:

The obvious flaw in the design is that a phishing site can get the correct SiteKey info from the genuine site, then serve it to the user, "proving" its legitimacy[1]. SiteKey is thus susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack.

But at least it requires the attacker to connect to the website, which gives them opportunity to block hosts that are known or suspected to be phishing users.
There wasn't anyone nice to replace him.

Having the company depend on one vital asshole is a worst-case scenario.
Simpler put: the Apple brand has super-strong name recognition.
Well-known political figures who dominate the media elicit similar reactions (Obama, Palin, etc)
This is a sign of success for Apple's marketing.
It's also a sign of a media-oversaturated society that shows no signs of becoming less so.
Assholes, are those people that write a compelling topic, but their webserver cannot handle the traffic?
Today Is Not The First Time LinkedIn Shares Have Doubled
Nicole Kidman, Nicole Kidman Hot Pictures, Photos & Wallpapers
Nicole Kidman is a very hot and beautiful actress of hollywood. She appears in so many hollywood movie. She is very popular as hollywood actress. She has perfect body figure to look very hot, beautiful and attractive.
ZamZuu.Com
Should children have the right to vote?
It's an old sore. And every once in a while someone bitches and moans about it. Big whoop. Pat yourself on the back for calling out anti-social behaviour. You made the world a better place. Now shut up and hack.

Right?

The thing about these arseholes is that they, just like you, are doing this on their own, because they enjoy doing it. They're giving up their time to create something that other people can use, usually without asking anything in return for it. What they can rightfully expect in return, though, is that people read the fucking manual or do a google search before they start their incessant questioning and bitching and nagging.
Thanks. That was sort of my point. That and the ambiguity in the answer I was responding too.
I haven't read anywhere that you have said that, but would you agree that starting a company was the best thing in the world for you to do?

My network of company founders is much smaller than yours but I think if I were to ask them if starting their company was one of the best things they ever did, and I know it to be true for myself, they most certainly wouldn't say no.

I'm guessing that's also probably true of the majority, if not all, of the Y-Combinator backed founders. Whether their company is still alive or not.

To answer the parent, starting and running a company through the fight in the trenches is massively rewarding but also massively frustrating in many ways. I know I can't give it up and do anything else and am sure I'm not alone. I don't think anyone would try to sell you on the dream of diving into the fight. It's something you have to want, it can't be sold.

Regarding the talent pool: HN is just the squeaky wheel and doesn't represent the entire market so I would doubt that hackers starting companies is negatively affecting the available resources.
> The OP also argues that the patent could be defeated by a patent review.

Yes, but the OP ignores the probability of failure. I'm claiming that even a small probability of failure would be sufficient to deter most businesses from pursuing the OP's advice because the costs of a defeat are so much greater than the costs of a settlement.

> The OP goes on to say that the victims of patent trolls band together to finance the review to make it cheaper than settling.

I'm not disputing that. The problem I'm pointing out does not have to do with financing the review, but with the fines that are due if you lose the case. Even if you band together to finance the review, if you lose, you have to pay the fines individually.
A number of factors are at play.

- The Mac is often the best Pwn2own gizmo
- It gives high cred to whoever pwns it.
- Nobody pays as much attention to owning a Windows box
- Windows vulnerabilities may get more than the Pwn2own prize on the market.
Half-serious question: Why isn't being an asshole a clinically recognized disability? 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. No different than OCD, ADHD, sexual addiction, etc.
I would appreciate a copy as well: ixmatus at gmail
Tool of the Day: Surf Socially with Buzzgrowl
Having read the book you mentioned, the chop shop practices of that era have largely been killed off. I'd give more citations if I wasn't responding from my droid,
I thought it would be fun to put an interface on the author's model. Here it is in case someone wants to play with the assumptions:
http://forio.com/simulate/mbean/simulated-bit-ly-traffic/run...
I do not think it a highly serious matter, I assure you.
RubyGems Guides - Just Launched
I did, actually. Before I responded to you. Your comment was, however, thoroughly ambiguous. What "it"? Your response here doesn't exactly convince me to be more concerned than I was last week.
It's not that obscurity is useless, it's that it often inconveniences the legitimate user as much as the attacker. "Often," in this case, scales with the size of the organization. Changing the ssh port on your home server might not be overly inconvenient. Changing the ssh port in a 1.4 million person organization puts you on the wrong side of the cost/benefit curve.
Michael, this is excellent. Congrats!
A combined "infant mortality" and "wear out curve" to make a bathtub curve seems plausible for SSD. "useful life" of 5 years implies that the wear out curve has risen significantly at 5 years.

I suppose if there are few units that will make it into the thousands of years they can balance it out. Perhaps they take 10% of the production, pack them in inert gas shielded inside a meter of lead and bury them deep in salt mines to keep the MTBF up.
"Generally accepted" by whom? In General Aviation (think 4-seat "Cessnas" as opposed to commercial/airlines), you are far less likely to be involved in an accident than if you are driving a car. But GA accidents are likely to be much worse than auto accidents.

Auto drivers take the same kind of weather and maintenance risks when trying to conform to a schedule (when is the last time you went over 55mph on the 101 in the rain to catch a flight?). GxP for pilot training and cockpit management implore a "Safety First" approach, but it all still comes down to pilot decision making (which must be distinguished from "licensing rigor").

"Motorcycle with a parachute" is a pretty good way to describe this (although really it's a dune-buggy with a parachute--it has a roll cage and seatbelts). Looks less dangerous than a fixed-wing aircraft for the pilot and passengers (parachute landing at very slow speeds). Certainly less dangerous for the human and other "obstacles." So, low risk to you (less than your neighbor's SUV, for sure).
Landing Pages vs Microsites
Amazon UK E-mail addresses seem to be leaked to job recruitment scammers
Apple Patents A Streaming Music Service That Has A Key Advantage
I think there probably is a principle at work to suggest that one of the properties of an expert-friendly 'powerful' interface is that it will be perceived as 'complex' by newbies.

Experts will need to have access to a large set of features (e.g. 10 different types of tire/track conditions) that newbies don't. Experts will also need ways to override interface logic which is in place to guide users automatically to the right settings (e.g. wizards, DWIMminess).
You mean as more than a way of making money? It depends on the type of person you are, and what your ambitions are. If you're (a) the right sort of person to start your own company, and (b) your ambitions in life would be best realized in the form of a company, then yes. So e.g. Steve Jobs clearly has (a) and as far as I can tell has (b), so for him starting a company was in itself a good thing to do.
Personally, I don't think the 'Net' in NetFlix is about streaming. It's about the InterNET. Yes, the delivery mechanism was based on physical mail, but everything else was done on Internet [Browsing/Selection/Recommendations]. This is in contrast to B&M stores like Blockbuster.

[I don't want to take anything away from Netflix, I have completely stopped using DVDs since they started streaming movies. They completely rule the online streaming market.]
I think the issue in that case was that he made a bunch of shill identities that agreed with him.

In any case, it's not certain he did anything wrong. When you settle, it just means you want the case to go away: nothing else.
You may say it's not their fault, but if you log in to LinkedIn today you'll notice that all of the "news" articles - now placed in an even more prominent position than normal - are about how underpriced their stock is. Entirely coincidentally, I'm sure.
Yeah but they sank all their money into tripling the number of employees at the company and investing in R&D. That's exactly what you want to see if you expect large growth.

LinkedIn is clearly focused on long term gains over short term profits.
LinkedIn listed 7.8M shares. So far today, and we are only half way through the day, there have been 29.5M transactions - which means each LNKD stock has been bought or sold on average 4 times

edit: wrong multiple
Looks like you can see random examples:
http://coderwall.com/roll-the-dice
UC tuition might jump 32% if tax proposal fails
At LinkedIn’s Price/Revenue, Apple Would Be Worth $3 Trillion
It's unfortunate that the toolkit that this is based on, NaCl (http://nacl.cace-project.eu/) shares an acronym with another prominent Chrome feature, Native Client (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client)
Ask HN: Hacking your body?
Most HN readers are probably hackers. Hacking on and improving soft/hardware is what drives us daily, and I've read that many of you have taken your hacking skills beyond tech. I enjoy hacking outside of my computer too (using tricks to improve cooking, wardrobe, daily life, etc.), but I've yet to find a good way to get into shape and stay that way.

Do any of you have hacks you've used on yourself or others to improve fitness/health?
Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch. ( Every opensource project required three people. Linus. Jacob. Asshole. ( kidding... ( before you stop tolerating me ) ) yes. lisp. )
They are supposed to be selling the stock in order to create the market. If you look at the S1 filing it outlines who sold what today.

Everything outside of that is subject to lockout periods (and in the case of executives they are also vesting on new stock)
That really doesn't make any sense. As anyone who knows the stock market will tell you, if you can guess the price of a stock before the market opens, you'd be a wealthy man. But underwriters are conservative with initial IPO pricings because 1) they have no real idea where a stock will go once it's public and 2) they want the stock to go up after it opens (IPOs that don't do this are said to be "broken" and sometimes never recover).

If LinkedIn wants to capture some of the value from the multiple they're seeing today, they can simply sell (or issue) more stock. Doubling or tripling your IPO price is not a tragedy by anyone's standards.
I agree that version control is nearly essential. But Ken's phrasing was not "Well of course I use SCM for everything." it's "Google is making me." The way he said it, even in jest, suggests a bit of resentment and a feeling that it's not something he feels is best for this project for some reason.
PlayStation Store to be back online May 24
On the flip side (as a casual investor who reads Seeking Alpha a bit in my spare time), I prefer reading financial analysis from people who have positions in the companies they are talking about. Sure they may be biased, but assuming they disclose that properly, I at least know they have their money with their mouth is. If someone writes an article about how great stocks x, y, and z are hasn't bought them, I'm immediately skeptical.
Whenever I want to login to my wordpress blog, an error comes?
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes)
in /home/newtechi/public_html/ ennovates.com/wp-admin/includes/menu.php on line 176
The NSA's STIGs are a useful resource. If you want the higher-level policies they come from, NIST[0] is one candidate.

If you want documents around the same level of specificity as the STIGs, you'll probably need a non-governmental source. Arch Linux and Nginx are not EAL certified[1] at any level, so the US Government isn't even going to try to secure them.

[0] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsITLSB.html

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Criteria
No problem. I'm kinda curious what it would look like, too.

Thanks for the interest and the well wishes, chanux.
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
حظك اليوم 20-5-2011
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20358
http://www.almstba.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20358
Names: Decentralized, Secure, Human-Meaningful; Choose Two
You know what is ludicrous? That LinkedIn is on for $400M this year and has doubled its revenue each of the past 3 years

That is ludicrous
I am, actually, all for abolishing copyrights, at least for a few years (long enoughg for better models to emerge). Taking the ##AA out of the picture would give room for some real innovation. When the dust settles, a few years later, it should be clearer how to implement copyrights in a just and balanced way.
can anyone help with correcting this? I can't login to my own blog!
I love this CLI stuff; actually quite nice and more comfortable than REPL / language consoles for most I would imagine.
I recently joined the ITEC team that makes the Maverick car. They desire to have a car that meets people's needs in remote areas. Often as you work in remote or even disaster areas, roads stop or are blocked. With the Maverick you pop up the sail and fly over the problem or take the shorter straight route. It does take about 10 minutes or less to get ready to fly. Can take off in 150 feet but 300 is advised for takeoff and landing, which is significantly less normal small planes.

It is designed so that "everyday" people can fly it, because the sail it is inherently more stable than a fixed wing aircraft. It has a steering wheel that you turn right it goes right. To go higher give it more gas to go lower give it less gas. No ailerons, flaps, rudder or elevator, it uses warping of the sail to turn.

If you guys have questions about ITEC or the Maverick I would be happy to answer them. BTW I have not flown in it yet, they only have the one proto-type and three more are in production. But I have gone 92mph on the ground and it can easily take my Corvette.

Doug at itecusa.org
I want a version of this article based on the share price as I write this: not $45, but $108.
Best of luck then. Give me a shout if you want some feedback in the future.
This was a hot-button issue all through my childhood, then somehow I lost interest once I actually gained the right to vote. ;-) I think that's the main reason why there's less pressure to fix this. Unlike with other oppressed groups, children eventually grow out of it, with no effort required on their own part. There isn't time for hopelessness and resentment to bubble over into an actual movement for change, because the people mostly likely to lead such a movement (teenagers aged 14-18) will be able to vote in 4 years anyway.

But it's worth remembering that this is not fair, it's not just, and it's ultimately bad for American democracy. Do you think our public school system would be in such a shitty state if children could vote? How about the national debt, which is a transfer of wealth from current generations to future generations? Maybe we would've fixed social security had the generation most likely to get screwed by it actually had voting power?

Seniors often have mental capacities that are not much better than children (Florida 2000, anyone?), yet the AARP is a massive political force, and seniors turn out to vote in disproportionate numbers. It's pretty lopsided that children do not and cannot have such representation.
4500 corporate customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100, are currently paying LinkedIn an average of $24k for recruitment services (ie. access to profiles for headhunting)

That is one of three revenue streams. All three have been growing 100% YoY, and ~60% of it is USA (ie. they haven't grown out internationally yet)
Google Wants to Kill the URL: Chrome 13 Lets Users Hide the Address Bar
The actual URL the above shortener points to:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-232534.html
I'm also a big fan of reading about dog fights from people that have a dog in the fight:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/bias

The big issue I have with the finance industry is that they're incredibly biased with tremendous incentives to talk certain stocks up or sell certain issues to their clients, yet they pretend to be unbiased.
Actually, ideas don't matter, execution matter. If you're not executing, but only giving ideas away, be aware, someone will put the idea on execution and you'll never get cited on the app.
Have you checked out SimpleGeo? I believe their places have Neighborhood info available but not sure if you can filter on it.
Those are good points, and I'm not arguing that they left a lot of money on the table or didn't, but what I am disputing is where you said "We won't know whether the $45 price was optimal or not for a while --it may seem expensive in 90 days when the price settles down."

Why does the price 90 days from now matter to the judgement of whether or not the initial sale - today's sale only - was a success? If the price drops below the initial sale value, then $45 today will definitely seem expensive to people buying it 90 days from now. But I don't see where it would mean that the company made a mistake in the initial offer of $45/share - in fact, wouldn't it look like the company got a good deal, in selling the initial shares at above-market-values (in 90 days from now)?
I'm assuming this like a definition style description -- took me a few minutes to figure that out in this post.

You need to be more concise, especially with a tag line.

SmugOwl: Curated audio content for the busy urban commuter.

or

SmugOwl: Music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations you're going to love!
Please increase your server space.