skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gnome developers bounce around between companies fairly frequently, and plenty of the Linux-as-primary-platform participants in that thread do not work for Red Hat. I have strong doubts that anyone cares more about Red Hat than they do about making Gnome better.
Answering "is this available on other OSes and how do I fall back?" is a good way to think through your algorithm and ensure that it makes sense.

Didn't know that about cgroups. Has anyone tried to kill a process tree on bsd or solaris and failed?

I don't know a lot about freebsd, most is just hearsay. I have been happier with their libc though, it seemed like it had fewer gotchas and unimplemented features.
> I greatly admire the Chrome team's continued push for greater browser UX.

I am not sure if this is a move for better browser UX, or a subtle move to get people to use google search more (and thus show more ads and generate more revenue).

If people lose touch with direct navigation (enter url in addressbar), and yet want to navigate the web, they are likely going to resort to hitting home or 'search' button (google search is the home page right?) even when they know the website name. My aged parents do this occasionally as it is...

Maybe I have just gotten old, but it makes me think of phone numbers and in-phone address books. If my phone hid phone numbers from me, I don't think I would be pleased, even if I most often use my contact list to call people I know.
someone who was put into a "gifted and talented" program at a public school. Usually the entrance criteria is based on how you do on a G-correlated standardized test. "Giftie" was the traditional derogatory term for those students.
Being at Amazon, I'm seeing more and more inflow of former MS engineers... damn good ones too. We're happy to have 'em :)
Does durability absolutely trump performance, or are you prepared to trade off?

For example, if durability is an absolute must (as it is for current databases), then your main bottlenecks would be a) spinning rust and b) network traffic to distribute copies of the data throughout the network. SSDs will help this a lot, but already you're back where almost everyone has already started.

If you're prepared to accept highly replicated in-memory copies as "durable", you can already make your overall system hundreds or even thousands of times faster.

So how do you define durability?

1 copy on 1 disk?
x copies on y disks in the same computer?
x copies in y disks in different computers?
x copies in RAM of y different computers?
Thanks.

Of these, some seem like they are linux-only features that are used, not linux-only features that are required (but I don't know specifics, maybe I'm wrong):

- get_current_dir_name()
- canonicalize_file_name()
- /dev/urandom
- /dev/char/*, /dev/disk/by-label/*, /dev/disk/by-uuid/*
- openat() and friends
- O_DIRECTORY
Extraordinary homemade dams built around houses in Mississippi River flooding
Hacking Small Town America
By design, the web service will limit what can be read from/written to the database instead of allowing the clients to run all sorts of database queries.
Event driven programming ebook with Python examples
I love the idea for this feature and I can definitely tell you not only thought about fans, but also bands (only allowing listeners to play a song once). Unfortunately, this can easily be circumvented by hopping onto YouTube and listening there (unlimited and free). Better yet, what happens when YouTube adds this very feature to their platform?
These two arguments are separate. A malicious app that steals credentials (wait, in Gruber's world these apps are vetted, right?) is going to steal credentials whether it uses xauth or oauth. A non malicious app that uses xauth could in theory be exploited to reveal credentials whereas if it just used oauth it wouldn't be an issue of the same magnitude. It is a security win. You can argue the magnitude of the win all you want.
Some Unions can demand special rights. A union may poison the relationship.

Mike Rowe nails it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs61lfhqeNg&feature=playe...
The sad thing is you're most likely right :-(
Is Y Combinator still accepting applications?
Just noticed Ycombinator is still accepting applications, Wondering if anyone knows when is the last day.

I am thinking of applying for summer 2011 but my cofounder wont be available to go through the application until monday (May 23rd).

Does anyone know, if Ycombinator will even look at our application if we apply by then.

Please advice.
Ask HN:  How can I improve my site and meditation business?
The short:
I'm offering private meditation instruction. How can I improve my approach, i.e., the site? It's built on Joomla! All ideas are welcome, some suggestions (not limited to): writing style and grammar, presentation and UI, or the business model itself.

[ http://www.SpiritOfClarity.com ]

The long:
I've been meditating personally since I took Aikido in my early teens. By now, I have studied meditation from literally every angle I have found. This, for example, includea all major (and a few minor) religions and psychology.

In my experience, meditation is a truly transformative practice that facillitates personal growth better than any other approach that I know about. I consider it so important that I feel that everyone should have access to a group where they can practice, similar to the ubiquity of churches, but without rules or forced dogmna. To this end, I have been leading an interfaith meditation group that focuses on the practice and experience. Individuals are welcome to discuss their personal motivation or technique as it relates to their truest expression of self so long as they understand that other people may have different motives and experiences.

My long-term goal is to be able to teach meditation in prisons. In order to achieve that goal, I've hatched the plan we're discussing here. I want to offer private meditation instruction, as a business, to provide the income for the prison outreach piece.

I could really use some other opinions on this last part because it has gotten very mixed reviews. I'm considering only suggesting prices for the lessons and having no fixed charges. In that way, I can be certain that the clients are getting a satisfying experience. If it doesn't work then either I need to figure out how to improve or no-fixed-prices is not a viable business model for me. It seems (in my mind) like a very logical starting point, expressing goodwill. It could virtually guantee some initial business (perhaps some testimonials) and help me gauge what people feel is the value of this service.

Any thoughts, friends?

Thank you!
George
Privacy Please: Mobile Privacy Is A Top Concern For Users
I don't care if I'm their customer. My point is that if they displease me, I'm leaving, and that does have an effect, same as if I was a customer.

If you want to look at it as they're losing inventory, fine. There's no difference.
Sorry. I misread your intent. What type of "direct db connection" were you considering then?
I saw this at Google IO (vaadin.com). I know it's in Java but it's a solid set of templates/controls/widgets that seems great for admin interfaces.
Sure, I manage servers in the US, Japan and Australia so I'm well acquainted with how latency sucks. I was questioning the idea that there was a possibility of "an extra 100-1000 millisecond trip each way" - Taken literally, this would mean up to a 2000ms RTT (1000 ms each way). I get ~230ms RTT between Sydney and NYC, and 320 from Sydney to Hamburg going around the wrong way. for reference, 2000 ms is 74% of the RTT to the moon.
You don't watch it for the racing, you watch it for the strategy. That's why Murray Walker was the best all-time F1 commentator - it was the way he explained the strategies.
It would be even better if we could convince the MPAA and RIAA of this.

They're the same people, after all -- look at the composition of the Obama DOJ if you don't believe me.
The price would be $0.01 for the lifetime of the image; not every time your application ask for the image.

This idea would just be the starting point for integration; we could offer a callback to integrate with your backend after an image has been moderated, so you could handle it as you wish. (For example, remove an offensive image entirely from your site)
Lack of venture capital funding
I will sign up, but here's a problem I forsee: How many here are hoping for help with your project? (I raise my hand here) Now, how many of us have free time to spend on other people's ideas? Maybe I'm projecting, and I hope I'm wrong, but I fear that things will be stacked in the first category.
Depends on the locale, probably. When I went to the Apple store in Philly to get an iphone4 a couple of months ago, it was quiet and the staff were too bust hanging out with each other to help me out - even after I asked to buy an iPhone. I was told someone would be right with me, and after watching the staff dawdle for 10 minutes, I interrupted a conversation and finally started the process.

Nice enough people, and I understand (and appreciate) they do not use high pressure sales tactics, but it took way too long for me to buy a phone in a nearly empty store. If in 2+ years my next phone is by Apple, I'm definitely ordering online.
It would have been cool to see someone create a VB6 web framework
Google code[g]
Not to mention the WildBlue etc satellite Internet often used in rural areas.
How Stuff Works: Blasters ~ Star Wars The Old Republic
I'm not sure if this is "the real reason" but here's an explanation from a former Microsoft GM: http://hal2020.com/2011/03/07/why-microsoft-shouldnt-do-a-ki...
There is nothing anti laissez-faire about unions. In a free society people should be allowed to organize however they want. As long as the government stays out of such situations a union is as capitalist an idea as a corporation.
Interview: Michael Nusimow and Daniel Kivatinos of Drchrono
itd be more like 5.60 (after apple takes its cut)
Mini 16x40 Monocular Adjustable Focus Telescopes For Hunting/Camping 
Wanna see the world more clearly and closely? This item is designed to give you a more beautiful and closer world: delicate design, high transmittance, high resolution ratio, simple operation....
This has been bugging me since I read the book:
Does anyone know what could be the secret name, three syllables that 3Jane speaks as a password?
Amazon CloudFront maximum bill?
What might the maximum bill be for using Amazon CloudFront if your site was hit by a DDOS attack?
ASk HN: Best schools for Human-Computer Interaction degrees?
I have no technical background, but I do have a design background as an Industrial Designer. I have a start up of my own that I work on during nights and weekends, but I've been considering going back to school.

I'm very interested with Human-Computer Interaction and was wondering what some of the best programs were out there? Also are technical skills required to enter these programs?

Thanks!
I just sleep on the floor. It's cheap and works just fine. I find that exercise helps the quality of my sleep more than anything else.
Weihenstephaner is very good and well known (outside of Germany).
For example "Hefe" is one of the best Weissbiers in the world (http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/weihenstephaner-hefe-weissbier/...) and certainly the best of widely available ones. Absolutely no reason to complain. Stella is only average (gets 18/100 vs Hefe's 99/100 at Ratebeer), but it is also different type of beer - lager.

Do yourself a favor: try different types of beer, not just brands.
Teaching meditation to prison inmates is a fantastic idea that will do amazing good in their lives.

What you might want to focus on is the story of these inmates, and the transformation in their lives as you teach them the principles of present, insightful living.

It would be compelling content I believe would draw many new people to your site and services.

I wish you the best.
Yeah an unassuming brew, goes well with curry in that manner.
Totally agree that SLAs are not a guarantee of service - I don't believe I said they were, and I was trying to make the exact same point: too many people treat them as if they were a guarantee, even when they carry only token penalty clauses.

Separately from the SLA, technical promises/guarantees that AWS did make e.g. isolated AZs were broken in the April outage.

I think that your proposed model ("machine is online or not") may be sufficiently simple that the AWS cloud can satisfy it; however I think it is very difficult to build anything interesting if that is the only axiom you have. In particular, I would want something related to persistent storage in the model, or else storing state becomes very difficult.
This is not be the Richard Feynman you are looking for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Feinman
A $24M project, over 4 years, at six universities is exactly supposed to encourage creative innovation among the next generation and surrounded by domain experts. That initiative was designed to produce projects like Backrub.

Was Woz's job description at HP written to specify novel hardware? Was he surrounded by mentors and other employees hired to support that initiative? Across six departments?
I actually like G.
Also, in Tel Aviv/Herzliya you have good choices (Guinness, Kilkenny, La Chouffe and Mc Chouffe, Bischoff Dopplebock, ...[1]). Pubs that have many kinds of beer in Tel Aviv:

* Norma Jeane - you can find anything there

* Beit Ha'bira ("house of beer")

* James' Beer Factory - this one in Petach Tikva, kosher (opening times wise as well, so no drinking on Friday night) and actually doesn't have much choice. But they serve self brewed beer which is decent.

There are others I can't recall now, but I can ask friends.

If you want to go out for a spree with me and other hackers, make sure to drop me a line here or at maayan@maayank.com! :)

EDIT: Googling for it, Beit Ha'Bira might have closed shop. I suggest as an alternative Norman. I don't recall visiting it, but I've heard (and after googling, read) only good things. For exact addresses google for the names of the pubs with "Tel Aviv".

[1] it's very late here so I'll leave it at that.
Herve Leger Bandage Dresses for Sale
The standard tactic employed by McDonald's is that if employees ever manage to actually get past the hurdles and get the official vote to unionize, the location of the unionized McDonald's is instantly and permanently shut down.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/fukushima-engineer-... you're talking about this one?
I'd prefer if they did Snow Crash. That book was fantastic!
What an awesome looking office. Sad to see it not filled with great people. I dont' see how MS can't afford not to fill that space...
This doesn't help adoption like the article suggests; what it does do is shave a few milliseconds and overhead off the initial connection which is great for thin or long pipes (low bandwidth or high latency). Otherwise, in contrast to the article's statement about SSL not being implemented because of the encryption overhead, false start doesn't change much.

The bigger picture is that false-start will make google's upcoming SPDY handshake faster too; then, because SPDY is a more aggressive with the initial connection (CWND, push support), the packets saved by false start are used to push content. Without false-start, an initial SPDY connection would be encumbered.
I believe gibson has likened it to a bird call -- just 3 syllables of noise, not words.
Some experiences working with GUI's
I'd take recent talk of a 'decline in paper book sales' with a very big pinch of salt. Book sales spiked, coincidentally, around 2007-08, however year-on-year sales are still going up. Why the coincidental 2007-08 date for one of the biggest spikes in print publishing? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it had 500% pre-sale figures of Half-Blood Prince.

Despite being a supporter of ebooks, owning a Kindle and reading a lot, I still take Amazon's announcement with a whole bag of salt, because even a fistfull isn't enough for the inaccuracy allowed in their statement.

Firstly to all those not-in-the-know, ebooks have solely been cannibalizing the sales of mass market paperbacks, which is why most major publishers are pricing them around the same price point. Why? Because mass market books are no longer paying off the editorial costs, which is the biggest Publisher cost in producing a book as your typical book passes through the hands of 3 editors and often multiple proof readers and the hands of an actual copy editor.

By January 2011 figures from the AAP, total book (hardcover, paperback, ebook, audio-books and audio-ebooks) were down 1.9% over January 2010. Adult Hardbacks fell 11.3%, paperback (note these are generally the paperback versions of books by known authors) fell by 19.7% and mass market paperbacks (IE new authors) fell 30.9%. Children's Hardbacks stayed the status quo at a fall of 1.9%. Children's paperbacks sell 17.7%.

However, given eBook's 116% growth it likely helped skew the total book sale decline. Yet this isn't impressive yet as it attributes only 8.6% of total book sales. I'll be impressed when eBook sales hit what MP3 sales hit this year, which received little publicity - in that MP3 sales this year hit $5.7 billion. Physical sales hit $5.7 billion. IE MP3 has 50% sale share.

It may be a sign of what's to come, but I expect another 5 years before eBook sales even hit the same as mass market paper backs, and that will only be through massive declines in MMPB sale figures. I'd say about 8 years for trade paperbacks (Stephen King and all your lovely crime novelists) to be matched. However, this isn't really going to be a huge game changer as the bigger the market gets the more important marketing becomes. This will mean, the same as it does today, that the vast majority of eBook sales will be coming from the same authors it is today, just in a bigger proportion.
This will never happen. Apple retail has one of the most selective hiring processes of any company on the planet. Would you endure 4 interviews across 6 months to sell shirts? Neither would most people but thats SOP at Apple. Yes, they probably aren't paid as well as others in their industry(especially given the $7,000/ft^2 the stores average) but it would take a lot more abuse than they put up with now before the Apple store is unionized.
The integrity of the TLS handshake is one of the fundamental and most important promises the TLS protocol makes. This proposal overtly changes the security boundaries of that handshake. It is only because the shout-outs on this I-D are a who's-who of SSL/TLS design that this stands a decent chance at adoption.

TLS clients can do a bunch of different things, but, unlike in SMTP, where it's mostly reasonable to do whatever servers will let you get away with, both sides need to follow the protocol to the letter to make TLS do what it's supposed to do.
LinkedIn Road to IPO
Source? This sounds like a potential exploit for other businesses.
From the TLS 1.2 RFC:

The Finished message is the first one protected with the just
negotiated algorithms, keys, and secrets. Recipients of Finished
messages MUST verify that the contents are correct. Once a side
has sent its Finished message and received and validated the
Finished message from its peer, it may begin to send and receive
application data over the connection.

Hard to blame the servers for this.
Dead on. I went back and re-read the article, and yes – we are in agreement. It's about doing whatever it takes to keep the relationship with your customers on an even keel. I couldn't agree more that SLAs are generally bad for customers, even though the perception is the opposite. I can't tell you how many times I've had a client demand an SLA from their vendor, and when that SLA arrives, it reads like a commitment, but actually it's impossible to fail. And these almost always are wrapped in "exclusive remedy" language, which quite literally means the customer would be better off without it. The devil is in the details.

Cheers!
Probably too complex to make it to the screen even remotely intact.

When I read it (in one evening, quite a rush) I remember thinking that Molly was kind of cool, as I imagined her. A few years later I saw a Neuromancer comic book, and her glasses made her look freaky and insectoid. Maybe a different artist would have done a better job . . . but some things just don't translate to the screen.
Your points made sense, only that I was clarifying that the web service does indeed restrict what the client can/cannot do to the database i.e I'm considering having the clients just make calls to the web service which in turn does the SQL queries vs the clients having credentials for logging into the SQL server and actually running SQL queries.
Do you have a source on the interviewing process for the retail store? Sounds interesting.
New market segments.

LinkedIn is incredibly successful in IT related markets, mostly in the US.

It's like when Amazon started, it was very successful selling to people involved with the internet in some professional capacity.
The End Of Blippy As We Know It
This seems like a cool service, but only until FaceBook Music comes out (which seems inevitable).
A good team with an idea that can make money! More than anything though, I want to learn. My e-mail is Rob [at] BetterYoo [dot] com. Please feel free to get in touch.
I had the same problem in Chrome (osx, 1440x900)
Artyii
An International Asian Art where the best of Asian artists meet.
> I would assume by even false scanning 5 ports, the attacker gets immediately null-routed and still get no response.

So run the scan using a botnet. Each machine makes one attempt (there are some really big botnets out there). There's no way for the machine to prevent the attacker from finding the port being used, unless the machine notices that lots of requests are coming in from unknown machines and starts refusing all requests - of course, refusing requests from unknown machines is a good thing to do if you're being paranoid. Use a whitelist of allowed machines, not a blacklist of disallowed machines.
Looking forward to seeing what he accomplishes. What are some of the better "hack gov data" orgs or apps?

I know of the Sunlight Foundation and OpenSecrets -- what else?
Show HN: Custab.com - Leverage Facebook for customer support service.
- Since lot of users are on facebook, Wouldn't facebook be prefered place for geting support service?

- In CUSTAB, support service provider will segmentize his customers.
- Each support segment, multiple support channels (Email, SMS, Phone, Ticketing etc) can be associated.

* By doing this provider have control over how each service request is routed. Important customer requests could be routed to different email address & phone numbers

- When customer logins to CUSTAB via facebook app, he will see only channels available for his segment.

- CUSTAB comes with out-of-the-box add-ons to help providers, deliver quality support on time.

* Tone analyzer - When customer message contains abnormal tone, we alert service provider by changing email subject line. They can prioritize their attention, just by looking at message subjects.

* Analytics

* Workflow - Automate complex service logic with workflow rules.

We'd love your thoughts/feedback.

Its free & beta signup : http://www.custab.com
It's a very odd point for the author to be making in the first place - the Apple Store employees would have been better off attempting to unionize 30 years ago?