skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if Webkit was just as fast or even faster in rendering than your average Linux terminal emulator.

About caring enough, yeah, that depends, maybe the world is ready for this now :) At least it isn't some overengineered XML grotesquery this time.
LinkedIn has two specific purposes for me.

1. Get rid of the need for a rolodex of business cards.

2. Allow me to track people's work history over the long-term when I meet people with whom I think I'd be interested in working some day in the future.
Clever observation, though I'm not sure I intended the subliminal message. I have mixed feelings about Facebook's longterm value and scope, but I cannot deny how powerful this network is. Read more of my thoughts on it here: http://www.craigormiston.com/post/4910698242/will-facebook-r...
Yes that was my understanding. I was using a simple GAE app to serve some of the static content for some sites (GAE is a favourite tool in my toolbox). It was fast and I rarely went over 1gb/day but when I did it would only cost a few cents.

I expect that is exactly the kind of application that they want to dissuade with this change.
All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak
How many ways is Marc Andreessen involved in the Skype Deal?
99.7% Of Android Handsets Are Vulnerable To Hacking, While iPhone Remains Secure
Fair Trade Revealed As Feel-Good Hoax
LinkedIn is amazing. Its such a boring, stupid website but a lot of business gets done through it.

My firm has gotten a ton of work through LinkedIn, usually from clients of ours recommending friends via LinkedIn.

So while I rarely log into the website, it definitely sends me money and so its quite valuable in my eyes.

Disclaimer: I am a consultant. :)
Can someone confirm for me if Apple require developers to use this API for in-app purchases? If that is the case, I really hope that they step up and do something about it soon.
Mike - great work! I looking forward to taking more time with your service and exploring it further.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning :

"the person must be clearly informed that he or she has the right to consult with an attorney and to have that attorney present during questioning, and that, if he or she is indigent, an attorney will be provided at no cost to represent her or him."
The hackers may have the email address, but they presumably can't read the email sent to that address. Hence "email exchange".
Response to Ben Laurie Blathering on Bitcoin
Note, according to the original article (http://sony.nyleveia.com/2011/05/17/warning-all-psn-users-yo...) as well as this forum discussion (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430574), this is in fact a new vulnerability that is independent of the original PSN hack.

The problem seems to be that the email validation required for resetting the password could be circumvented. There is no detailed information in the posts how, but likely either the validation hash was generated in a insecure fashion, or the email address input was not properly sanitized and allowed piggybacking (CCing) a 2nd email address to receive the confirmation email.
I am picking up Ruby, and the Poignant Guide is... uh... lousy. It maunders and meanders and diverges into slightly drunk? stoned? btardy? certainly ridiculous areas.

Problem is, I'm trying to maintain a focus: learning Ruby. Humor is fine. But I want to focus and Get Stuff Done.

So the Poignant Guide is very frustrating.

Dive Into Python IMO is a very good text.
It went viral.
Forget Chromebook; Get an iPad
I bet TermKit would actually work awesome over 300 baud. The two-tier approach -- a backend that executes commands and a frontend that displays stuff -- is going to be pretty efficient (if you are only running the backend remotely). Well... perhaps the chattiness of something like filename completion will be a bit of a problem, but it'll still probably work better that more directly interactive systems because it's working with a more abstracted protocol than a terminal does.
Display efficiency is getting better all the time. If PenTile ever becomes reasonable, that has a 40% reduction in power.

And if you gave me the choice to carry a heavier phone, but get rid of a tablet, I'd do it.

Lastly, I suspect the size of these tablets would be 7" rather than 10".
They did say they would be sending out sample invoices under the new model when they are closer to the changeover.

>We will be providing our customers samples of their new bills before the new pricing model is launched so that they will be able to see what will be changing.
Get some contact details up or your github page I am quite interested in your project.
I agree, a very scary thought indeed.

I'm sure there's website out there where you can write prayers out and publish them into the abyss. But when it comes to speaking to ancestors or the deceased, why not?
Apple: Mac Users Need Antivirus Software
I was not implying the Ferragamos were the wrong choice. Rather, the Boss/Diesel/etc. "designer" stuff that is probably made in the exact same Chinese factory as the $50 equivalents. I was trying to say "get it cheap, or get it right"

No arguments here on appearance.
GPL has no restriction on selling code, RMS earned his living money by selling reel tapes of code when GNU was first founded.
Why would people "lose" numbers given the Number portability act, as well as the fact that long distance charges don't really exist any longer. I realize this is slightly off-topic, but your claims don't ring true to me, and I'm hoping you will add some color.
Here's a quick "complaint" feedback about the signup process, then: don't erase my strong password I took 15s to type in (twice) if you reject my invitation code and I have to find another one. It's a strong incitation to use a weak but easy-to-type password instead.

(not really a problem to me just yet, but it resonates wrong with the password strength warning on the same page)
This is part of why I liked LYAH, it's silly but doesn't ever feel like the weird drags on for an eternity.
I don't think that's a choice VMware needs to make, they're not a cash-strapped startup anymore.

Their customers are both developers and admins, and they seem to be able to focus on both so far IMO.

The developer highly benefits from a good (and not to mention free) admin experience anyhow, it allows for private development systems, scale/attack experiments, more portability, etc.
Facebook Wins Patents For Tagging in Photos, Other Digital Media
You have likely broken the law by accessing that Amazon account which was not yours, and now you blog about it. It might be a good idea to talk to a lawyer.

not a legal advice
The iPad and other recent tablets have HDMI.

I agree they are not there yet, but every little improvement widens the tasks for which they can replace a PC. Even some development tasks can be replaced now (e.g. using ssh). This will only increase with time, as both hardware and software is improved for the tasks people use them for. At the moment, tablets are barely nipping at the heels of the PC, being alternative to a 2nd/3rd PC http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20063776-260.html - but for purposes that the PC is more-than-good-enough for, the tablets are approaching being good enough. As they reach each tier, people will switch, for the other benefits (portable, lighter, slimmer, cheaper, less hassle, cooler).

When PCs became good enough to replace minicomputers, the effect was catastrophic. The long-awaited disrapture.
if you're using an ubuntu image, it's going to be the ubuntu user: ssh -i path/to/key.pem ubuntu@blah.amazonaws.com

Spent too much time figuring that out the hardway...
> Maybe there's room now for a gaming platform that's not a physical console?

What do you mean by this?

A resurgence in PC gaming? I hope not. I have absolutely no desire to return to the PC gaming obsolescence cycle.
Punks with Ph.D's
Why would Apple ever get in the way? Just so they don't lose the 0.002% of their revenues? Wont that also be a PR disaster for them? (Apple the elephant going after the tiny patent holder).

Face it guys, whether it's Apple taking your 30% or Facebook (who also takes 30%) or Google (who also takes 30%) or anyone, indie developers are always left on their own and herded like sheep.
Chris Sacca's College Commencement Address
Yeah, I think a better way is to just pick some software or project you care about and dive right in. The books mentioned in the articles are all fine, but without a goal and lots of experimentation, reading books won't make you great at anything.
That said, picking a Ruby/Python project first and picking up some of the topics mentioned in the article on the way is certainly not a bad thing.
I think you should replace "making a profit" to "making a living" off his own work.
Just because he's a genius does not mean he hasn't every right to monetize his own works as he sees fit.

Monetizing OSS is hard and a lot of the time the possible revenue streams are a time-suck. He may not be interested in spending his own time and prefer just instead to licence his work as-is the norm for software producers.

From all I've read he's more than happy to receive invitations for licensing of his work, whether or not he'd accept a lump sum to Open Source some of his work is not known. Anyway this is all speculation, if you're genuinely curious you should email him (which is active as I received a reply from him today :)

He has remained independent doesn't work for academia or any mega-tech corp and continues to pursue his own interests. I think he has every right to carve out his own path and produce software as he sees fit.
A little off topic, but did anyone else not wait through the 30-second ad to watch the video? I find myself bouncing more and more on videos that do that.
> wouldn't it be nice to have a terminal status bar with your CWD / git branch / etc in, without cluttering up space before $?

You can already do this. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html

> Wouldn't it be nice to show the intended completions in a popup as you're typing (like web browsers do)?

This can probably be written as an extension to bash/tcsh/zsh to use the pop-up completion facilities of vim. If you want nice webapp-looking ones, you might be able to get away with terminal escape codes and use a perl script (this is how rxvt lets you click on http links automatically).

> can the result not be folded into a single line showing the summary, that I could expand if I wished?

An interesting point, and I was going to counter with a small one-liner using 'tee,' but I couldn't think of a good one quickly that does what you really want: 'auto-collapse.' The problem with this is that often with giant lines of output you really only want to look at the last few to see what happened. Otherwise your output is typically some kind of streaming log (you do not want auto-collapse for this) or a poorly written program. "walls of text" suck and are usually an indication of something you expect to have a lot of output (looooong makefile) and can do a less accordingly, or an unexpected error. If it's an error you want to see what it is, so you're going to click on the 'expand' button -- an extra click every time on an all-typing interface kind of sucks.
Run Linqpad In Your Browser
I call the future is: Your world in your phone sized device backed by the cloud, with the option to use anonymous, mindless larger displays when in close proximity.

I've seen the future, and that's not it. :-)

Too expensive, and just can't be ubiquitous. How many large displays can you put in a bus or in the stands of a football game or at McDonalds?

With that said, such devices will exist, but they'll be your TVs in the house.

And on battery life. Even today people can get some decent efficiencies, and it will get better. Here's what Engadget had to say about the Kyocera Echo (a dual screen phone, with a 1370mAh battery, which is smaller than the iPhone 4s):

"We took a different approach. We charged the phone fully and then went about using it as we normally would for an entire day -- checking emails, browsing through TweetDeck, zoning out on a conference call for an hour or so, watching a bit of Sprint TV and playing entirely too much full-screen Pac-Man. We'd say 70 percent of our usage had both panels open, which is likely far greater than what you'd see after the novelty wears off. That said, we managed around 15 hours of use before it petered out, and on a second try -- one that involved far less dual-screen action -- we squeezed out 22 total hours. "

15 hours isn't ideal, but with some work that we're seeing out of Samsung, I don't think 24 hours is out of the question in a year or two at all. And that's with a relatively small battery.

EDIT: You have to love cowards that downvote, but don't dare say a peep.
> (especially when the worst of them happened a while ago).

The whole https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Standardizati... thing is quite recent.
I agree, the internet is not the right medium for every aspect. But I do think it has a certain level of accessibility and mobility real life cannot offer.

My grandfather's gravestone is in Pueblo, Colorado a thousand miles away in a town I have few reasons to visit. If I had a digital library of memories, I could connect with him more regularly than every 15 years. But he was pre-internet and I have no access to these things. I am stuck with memories in my head, which fade in time (one of the tribulations of being human).
The effect is much higher for lethal prostate cancer than the usual version almost any male would get if they lived long enough. I haven't seen what they consider the cutoff in any of the news briefs.

I had Gleason 3+3 prostate cancer, which is low on the lethality scale but if you have 4+4 or more the outlook isn't so good. And yes, I used to drink tons of coffee, maybe that bumped my Gleason score down, who knows.
Nah, but games consoles can.
Thank you. Can I ask what browser you are using?
we have some users but not at the rate we would like. We tell people about the service but it seems they forget the name in 2 minutes. Of course online conversion is much more important than word of mouth
Open source WCM needs more than geek appeal to succeed in the enterprise
> especially in something like Vim. give me some help to learn the shortcuts as i work, FFS. on a GUI you look at the keyboard shortcuts beside the menu items, and get to know them naturally.

This. I hate both vi and emacs for not having a usable menu system that lets me browse through and learn the commands as I go.

I also think bash-completion, while a huge step forward in usability, really should have focused on integrating command option help from the beginning. So, in addition to a man page, each command line utility would need to bundle a machine readable key-value list of (option, help string). Then when I type <command> -<TAB>, it would show me that help.
But you can certainly care about it BEFORE you are dead :)
I was just thinking about this today. I check it once a week and all I ever see are connections being made. Guess this is good for sales people or recruiters looking for intro's.

If I am Product Manager or CEO at LinkedIn, I would buy or create ODesk on top of LinkedIn's data. They have all the professionals and work history.
How to fund research so it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones.
10 years later, Apple's 'crazy' retail gamble is a hit
I don't know that we have to make the commands themselves data-aware. The UNIX philosophy is that everything is a stream of bytes and you build on from there. After all, we have plenty of command-line tools for audio, video, structured text, archives, etc.

This tool could simplify cognitive load in two ways. One is by helping you visualize a given stream - untangling the mess of text, data, and what-have-you, perhaps scanning for known headers and letting you drill down on individual components.

Another is by helping you composite functions to operate on data. Say I have a video stream, and I want to extract every third frame, scale and quantize them, and convert to an animated gif. Quick, what's the syntax? Yargh, man page hell. 20 minutes later, I've got it, but it wasn't any fun, and some of the commands weren't stdout-friendly so I couldn't apply pipes that way I wanted.

I'd love a better way to explore functions available to me perhaps based on data type (e.g. Image* -> Image) and even browse and preview user-contributed transformations. There was a Haskell shell that went in this direction, although Haskell is sort of the opposite of UNIX so not sure this is part of the plan ;)
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Check out the video demo of image rectification here.

http://bit.ly/jnFGVw
I am not aware of this feature. Do you have a link or any info to share on it?
Linear algebra alone isn't enough, you also need complex geometry for Euler's formula - I can't just look at exp(0+xi) and go "hey, that's cos x+sin x i". And even then, you need to go a little way into linear algebra to encounter basis functions. Finally, you pretty much need someone to assert orthogonality to even consider it.

And if you aren't working with wavefunctions regularly, like physicists and engineers might be, that gets obtuse fast (I'm referring to the use of the FT in econometrics and image processing). Then it's not at all clear that you should even want a sinusoidal basis with integer frequencies.
We're interviewing right now and it's useful to get a little more background. I can look at a one-page resume and then look at the LinkedIn page for more detail.
This is amazing, it's like quicksilver and terminal and coda mashed together.
Earthquakes are really hard (if not possible) to predict. At least so it was until now. I would never have thought that we will be able to predict earthquakes once, even if only a few hours before the hazardous event.

Unfortunately, I don't think this data is cheap enough to produce for most countries. It is expensive and as you said, it may produce some false alerts. However I would love to see in the coming months and years that this data is made publicly available in real time. I am pretty sure that making it available to the public would also permit more discoveries and correlations to be made.
Tablet cannibalization only minor contributor to soft PC sales
No. It's also for nosy people.
It's useful if you're trying to raise seed/series A. Part of due diligence is looking at not just the size of your professional network and what you've accomplished but looking at the type of people you've worked on teams with and how your work was received.

A players have a positive network effect: You'll probably be more likely to have A player associations and recommendations.
Safari on OSX. (1024x768, maybe that's it?)
I played around with what I think is a very similar idea a while back: https://github.com/ianb/jsshell -- I think the basic architecture is the same, but this is much more advanced; I never really got past the point of displaying all output as literals.

In both cases I think this is really as much a replacement for the shell (e.g., bash) as for the terminal. The truly fundamental verb in a Unix system is executing something with a set of string parameters, an environment, and a cwd, and passing stdin in, with stderr and stdout coming out. That's pretty much everything, so there's a lot of flexibility about how you can present that to a person -- all the stuff like &, if statements, file redirection, shell quoting, etc., is part of the shell UI, it isn't really core to the OS or any of the commands.

There's a lot of graphics and icons in this particular implementation, but IMHO that's not really the important part. Taking out the statefulness of the shell is the more interesting part to me. "cd" seems magic, but it's just setting an internal variable in the shell. Foreground and background processes seem core, but they are just a way of handling the inability for a terminal to handle more than one thing at once. Variable substitution, redirection, backticks... these are all abstractions; and they are useful abstractions, but they might deserve a bit of rethinking.
Apple, Google and MS licensed the same patent when it was with IV its now with asshole patent troll..asshole patent troll is claiming that license does not cover 3rd party developers who make use of an api from Apple, Google, or MS.
That is absolutely what's happening and where things are going for musicians. The equivalent for writers and reporters is to go teach at a local college on the side to earn more. But time spent teaching is time spent not writing. So yes, there are other opportunities, but I don't think they're going to lead us toward more great longform pieces like this one.

To be fair, as it gets harder and harder for publishers to support longform content like this, the stuff that does get funded will be better and better.
Wikipedia says "Since paper was very expensive, Ramanujan would do most of his work and perhaps his proofs on slate, and then transfer just the results to paper".
> Sounds like you're a "frugal" person who got offended at this (correct) message.

Sweet ad hominem attack, bro.

> The difference is; you'll have to replace the cheapy about 10 times in the lifetime of my MBP.

And when that sweet MBP gets stolen or you spill tea all over it rendering it useless, you have to spend a ton more to get it back/working again.

People keep saying "I never have to think about it again!!!" but the opposite happens: you turn into a little gollum thinking about and protecting your stuff whenever it's in danger. Again, I'm not advocating one or the other, just be aware that expensive stuff has downsides and making fun of people who choose not to have that is a shitty move.
> Tablet owners are actually more likely than US online consumers in general to have recently bought a PC

http://blogs.forrester.com/sarah_rotman_epps/11-05-17-hps_ea...
it sure sounds like legal advice. does saying it isn't legal advice make it true?
European Top Girls, You Don't Want to Miss
A Mifi is a mobile router (EV-DO>>> wifi), I simply sold my usb modem, and then bought a brand new Mifi for full price.

I never gave Gizmo5 a dime, but it was the same performance with my Flowroute[1] setup, and even my own Milkfish[2] setup. This gets a bit complicated (why nobody else bothers) rather quickly, but I'd be happy to share more info if you have interest.

[1]http://flowroute.com/
[2]http://www2.milkfish.org.sipwerk.com/
Almost everyone is unemployed at some point.
for serious gaming they can go with consoles...better than going with PC anyways, since with gaming those gets obsolete a lot faster.

If you don't need to do gaming on PC, you can change the PC once every 5 years. But if you do, you'd have to do that twice as often.
Very cool. One question: how does google index the content that hasn't loaded yet? (the infinite-scrolling thing)