skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably depends on who the publisher is. I would imagine smaller publishers would probably give better deals as a way to entice talent, whereas larger publishers like Random House would probably have a much bigger paper-publishing business to support and couldn't afford more generous terms.
In my ideal world a library would be a combination of a hackerspace, techshop, cafe, with areas to write/research and generally be inspired.
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I wasn't even aware hardware acceleration in Chrome worked on Linux.
To be honest, I think this is a terrible idea. Let's hope they keep it optional rather than forcing this implementation on every user.
I think your best bet might be to go pro se, where you represent yourself and just file a flurry of extensions, change of venues, discoveries etc. Learn a few rules and then burn the trolls time like crazy. If you have a low income, most states will even waive your court and filing fees.
That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.

I'm unclear how they're related? Windows Mobile is targeted at the enterprise while WP7 isn't. The relative performance doesn't really say much.

WP7's numbers vs Android/iOS are telling of their mobile strategy, but not their numbers vs WM6.x.
I run a 24" monitor running at 1920x1200 off of a USB 2 displaylink adapter. Of course video or games slow my computer if they're running on my secondary monitor. But it's fine for a web browser or a text editor.
I think I understand what you are saying.

It's a competitive sport, so given the current resources and technology, how much performance can you eke out is really what I should have been thinking about. In an adversarial environment like you describe, I'm sure every bit of time you gain is a huge plus. So yes, our speed doubles every 2 years, but so do our competitors'.
I think that means real device sales numbers may even be higher.
Forgot one thing:

Lots of them do similar things and imitate, failing to stand out in the crowd.
You usually need at least two data points to show a decline. AFAIK these are the first numbers we've seen of actual sales to consumers.
Veyron is right. While newer software may be less buggy, it isn't always. New features may break old features, or break other pieces of software.

Older software is usually vetted and proven functional in the particular corporate environment where it's deployed, doesn't conflict with other software, etc. My friends in corporate world have told me how it takes X many months for upgrades to be rolled out because they must be tested in sandboxes first to make sure nothing explodes unexpectedly.

This apparently applies to all software, from OS updates down to individual program updates.
The main difference is you can make a good living playing music.
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This guy (Berkeley professor) does some interesting self-experiments and body hacking
http://blog.sethroberts.net/category/self-experimentation/
Excellent source of lifestyle improving information from bright writers
Unfortunately you're not going to see many companies saying "Yeah! We're being sued by that guy too!" because that quickly reduces to "we're being sued!", which never goes over well with investors, shareholders, employees, etc.
So now you get free market research by watching what happens with their site. What's the problem?
Not to mention that the tech has been out for about 5 minutes. Proclaiming the death of an interconnect that is this new is in and of itself pretty ridiculous.
Flagged because this doesn't seem to be on-topic at all.
As you know, the expression is not mean literally. However, if you bet on the fight and then talk your dog up, you can profit by laying off some of your wager at lower odds or covering by betting on the other dog at higher odds.

There's always some way to profit from a change in sentiment caused by your words. My big point is that I like hearing from people on all sides of an argument (pro, con, neutral), and also that I am disgusted by people who claim to be neutral but in reality profit greatly by abusing the public's trust in their "neutrality."
Some laptops actually come with small shutters you can slide in front of the cam. I have one such shutter on an Eee PC
How is it unfair? Read the post again.

This is to clarify permissions users are giving third parties. With the official client, there is no third party.
What's your point? Nobody's expressing mystification at the price difference. That's not the topic at hand.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better...
not quite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Freedom#Political_iss...
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Are you paying Twitter money to use it? No? Then they are perfectly justified in ignoring you.

Remember this quote: "If you are not the customer, you are the product."?
This is a really cool idea! As someone who does a lot of SEM/social advertising, I think this has a great deal of potential. I think if someone did this for the Facebook Ads API (currently in Beta, but available if you apply) they could make a killing.
Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)
re: your first point -- I looked into the MBP tear-down on iFixit when I wrote this post. They identify a chip that is 'probably the Thunderbolt controller' -- but yes, I don't think they identified if there was a separate DisplayPort controller, or whether it's built into the Thunderbolt controller.
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There are NO BSD's on the list. I suspect this is due to a few things.

1) How many people actually use BSD in a production environment?

2) If you are the sort to actually use BSD in a production internet-facing environment, you are probably using OpenBSD and you are probably already so paranoid about security the NSA has nothing left to teach you
What's Octopart's backup strategy if Google somehow punishes their site in their next algorithm change (ala so many other innocent sites during the Panda Update)? I bet 80% of the traffic comes from search engines. If those 80% leave, it's game over in terms of revenue and partnerships.

I think Octopart should somehow develop a strategy for returning visitors that doesn't depend on search engines.
This is key. "Putting all the pieces together" is usually less glamourous than coding something new and hoping it gets picked up on TechCrunch, but it's huge.
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Think about the market price of houses before the crash, each buyer and the seller were willing to make transaction. We all know the result. Fundamentals are important as well as prospect of the company. So we should talk about what is that prospect that can make company's current market valuation rational.
Intel and Apple should market Thunderbolt not as a peripheral interconnect designed to compete with USB but an external PCI format designed to let you connect PCIe style devices (video cards/displays, RAID cards, realtime AV, docking stations, specialty or future ports -- USB3? 6Gbit eSATA? Fibre Channel, 10Gig Ethernet) to laptops, tablets, all-in-ones, etc.

These probably aren't completely mainstream needs (is USB3 even a mainstream need though?) but they represent things that can only be done with traditional form factor PCs now. Why buy a Mac Pro when the only thing holding you back from a compact low power mini or laptop is some port you can only get a on PCI card?
My take on this:

http://popalg.org/schmidt-response
So far, I can tell from my experience that many SSD fail catastrophically and randomly. Many SSD controllers and/or firmware lack reliability, and crash under heavy load (the drive disappears, then comes back after a power-cycle); some corrupt data randomly; and even sticking to well known and reputable brand and model (think Intel X25) isn't completely safe - on a large bunch some inexplicably fail after only a short while.

I think that SSDs are great, but aren't yet as reliable as spinning rust, the standard deviation being really high.

For now I heavily "burn" SSDs before putting them in production, and use them in RAID only.

However of all the pains SSDs give me, I never had an unrecoverable read error so far, even on 3 years old 16GB M-TRON SSDs.
I haven't seen the interview yet, but I think I can still say that this is an extremely smart visibility coup for Jason Cohen (who was a new name for me).

I wish I'd thought of it!
Fung Wah Bus Crashes Again
One critical difference:

"I'm in a startup" doesn't work nearly as well on women as "I'm in a band" does.
How about using "password" as a password if security is so good? Or do you suggest people keep track of 255 UTF-8 characters for a password?

An attacker would still need to go through all 65k ports. I would assume by even false scanning 5 ports, the attacker gets immediately null-routed and still get no response. I would also hope such programs have a paranoid sense of security that they would deny user/password if either are false by not even providing a response as if the program didn't exist.

Due to lack of feedback, users will get inconvenience and confusion why ssh doesn't work. Much like passwords example, there's a trade off between usability vs security with varying obscurity levels.
I dunno. It doesn't sound like a "lifestyle business" to me it sounds like a slightly enlightened 9-5. A "lifestyle business" is when you can support yourself cashing AdSense checks and paying your server bills and you don't have the bother of managing people.

There's something to say for work/life balance, but personally I don't like working for job shops -- and for me specialization around a particular client-side technology is also a red flag.

My experience with places like that is often you have to explain to client B why their project is late, and often the real answer is "I was working on a project for client A." Client B never wants to hear this, and if you tell the truth you might lose the client and you'll certainly get in trouble with your boss. The safest thing to say to the client is nothing, but then they get antsy and they start to wonder if your company hired a dumbass who can't code his way out of a paper bag.

At some point I joined the project management institute and signed on to a code of ethics that explicitly forbids this kind of stupidity.

Job shops have other project management problems too. If you're good you can probably do 4 out of 5 fixed price projects successfully, but in about 1 out of 5 you've got a customer who can't accept that changes in the spec imply changes in the budget. Hypothetically you could negotiate these guys into a win-win situation, but it doesn't work this way in real life because you can burn up endless hours from your most expensive people just communicating with your client. 1 out of 5 projects going this way can eat up the profit you make from the other 4 and then some.

Another issue is that job shops are often an unstable business. One of the more prominent job shops in my town started making web sites in 1994 and fluctuated between 2 and 25 employees before finally going under in 2008. Funny, they didn't get hurt by the .bust, but rather by fluctuations in the local market. They came to an end largely because some other people started a better job shop that took away their high-end work and a whole bunch of people were doing very cheap work they couldn't compete with on the low end.
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I don't think bravura was arguing that it was good for anyone but google.

I agree that's it's bad for the web, but historically walled gardens seem to always fail in the long run but google's attempt to build a UI "wall" around the open internet seems to be working quite well.

I'm guessing UI people will praise it for "making things easier" for the imaginary "grandma on the internet", security focused people will rightly be scared by this and phishers will absolutely love the idea.
Thanks for pointing that out, and linking to those notes. As it happens, I'm vegetarian and often sleep deprived, so I still might try the creatine thing.
Yes, but the scale of IP infringement plus labour force in China is unparalleled. From idea to fruition, you could cheaply build the next thing. Why else would Apple risk the 'good' reputation from dealing with such cheap labour?
Pandora's already public.
If the revenue from pirate sites disappeared Google wouldn't even blink. The pain in the ass is regulatory compliance. Hollywood wants IP enforced on Google's dime/technology, and Google doesn't want to be their bitch.
I don't think it's a matter of the cost of self publishing. It's the benefit of having someone whose full-time job is to distribute and promote your book. Having every single author become an expert in that is hugely inefficient, and it's probably not what your average writer wants to be doing.

Just because you can do your own dental work doesn't suddenly make it a good idea, much less an economic one. For work that's somewhat specialized and very intermittent in nature (like promoting a new book) it's often better to aggregate the labor.
Not all Twitter clients send a referrer header. Same goes for mail clients. Either of those could be the cause if a link to your site got retweeted a lot or was mentioned on a large mailing list.
Have you seen any race of this season? There has been more overtaking than MotoGP!
I think you are aiming at the wrong end of the market. Teachers/Professors are much less likely to want a tool to help them skim documents than students are.

My wife is a teacher; she has lots of papers to grade. She sucks it up, and reads each one, carefully. That's what she's paid to do, and she takes it seriously.

Her students, on the other hand....well, some of them, at least, seem to be looking for shortcuts every step of the way. There's your market, I'd think.
Who is Acorn for?
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SpiderNode at NodeConf 2011
This is true, but it has advantages. For example, system log files are much smaller. :) When I adopted this policy on my own systems, it was to help me change my worry profile from "noise from every random bot on the net" to "targeted attack".
FWIW, my most recent Kindle ebook was 1.5 megs. Granted, that translates to about 1000 pages in a trade paperback version.
Is he supposed to publicly comment that he's "disappointed" with the IPO price? I think the Youko CEO did something like that, and just embarrassed himself for being naive...
except for, you know, the part where it has to fit onto the end of the steering column between the drivers' knees, withstand strong forces without malfunctioning or becoming dangerous, and operate in all weather conditions.
Today I asked a salesman in a big high street phone store in the UK if they were selling many Windows Phone 7 phones:

"We sell a few a day," he said. "People don't come in and ask to buy one like they do with the iPhone, of course, but a handful of folks walk out with one anyway."

I asked him why he thought they went for a WP7 phone instead of an Android or iOS device:

"Honestly, a lot of them are just looking for a phone to make phone calls; they don't seem to care about the operating system. I guess you could say that they buy them by accident."
It says "to end users." Do they mean actual buyers in the store forking over cash? It looks to me like Gartner may be estimating this number given their comments about estimating retail inventory a few paragraphs down.

I'd really like to read the original, I am not sure how solid this number is.
I hope CentOS 6 (and 6.1) will also be available very soonish. :-\
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I'm getting the feeling that with all the unique server setups in use, monitoring and metrics systems are going to be just as unique and specific.

There are some interesting process monitoring projects out there like god, monit and bluepill, as well as ec2/cloud specific stuff from ylastic, rightscale and librato silverline. Have you ever used any of those tools?

Fitting all these together for my setup is trial and error, but it really does force me to think hard about my tools and assumptions even before I get hard data.
I think it will be more interesting/telling to see the numbers that Microsoft post after Nokia begins to ship phones with WP7 on them. While WP7 is not a popular choice right now, the Nokia partnership definitely makes it interesting to watch.
I am especially curious to see how Nokia leverages the WP7 platform in countries outside of the US because of Nokia's global market share and marketing.
Also, as the guide mentions, it's possible to mount the partitions with different options. As the following (all mentioned in the HowTo, excerpts from "man mount"):

noexec Do not allow direct execution of any binaries on the mounted filesystem. (Until recently it was possible to run binaries anyway using a command like /lib/ld*.so /mnt/binary. This trick fails since Linux 2.4.25 / 2.6.0.)

nosuid Do not allow set-user-identifier or set-group-identifier bits to take effect. (This seems safe, but is in fact rather unsafe ifyou have suidperl(1) installed.)

nodev Do not interpret character or block special devices on the file system.

Of course this is just one less (perhaps improbable) attack vector. Never the less; many of the mentioned partitions should never have these kind of files unless it's for a malicious purpose.

Edit: fixed pre and clarification
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You're correct, according to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider. The CEO sold some stock last night at $45, which could have been sold for $90 this morning. http://www.businessinsider.com/linked-in-ipo-2011-5-b
True.

However he reportedly learned left foot braking, and at least in 2011 he should have an updated technique.
Visual Basic 6 to go OpenSource in June
Intel makes most of the money by selling server processors, ARM will not takeover the cloud (google servers, facebook servers, Amazon, Racespace....are all powered by Intel)
The idea of using social signals in search is strong and I've been looking with increasing interest at Blekko recently. Yet it seems pathological that your search quality can be dependent on the quality of your social graph.

I know there are a lot of fake accounts on Facebook in our current FarmVille era (many actually named "Farm Ville") so that people can maintain a separate identity to play games. Is it going to come to this? That we're going to have to join interest groups or even create a new identity to make our searches not be full of worthless stuff?
Any time you're using your new business to "support" the old business, you're doing it wrong. It should be the other way around - your old cash cow business should be used to support the new business that will take you forward.
I asked him why he thought they went for a WP7 phone instead of an Android or iOS device:

"Honestly, a lot of them are just looking for a phone to make phone calls; they don't seem to care about the operating system. I guess you could say that they buy them by accident."

That may be the case in the UK, but in the US it's not very likely. Most are tied to dataplans (at least to get the subsidized cost). They'd be steered to feature phones if they just wanted phone calls, except by possibly the least ethical salespeople.

I suspect its probably more that they don't keep up with this stuff on daily basis like us. Android, iPhone, Windows -- to them Windows is as popular as those other two brands. And then after playing with the phone some of these people walk out with it. Others Android, others iPhone.
Sounds like Zabbix, Pandora FMS, Osmius, NetXMS, AccelOps and those are the ones that match your requirements.

Within each, if you search for templates or cookbooks or config scripts, you'll find ways of configuring it easily enough.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of...
This is a common problem, people who are unable or unwilling to sign up to iTunes with a credit card.

Potential service idea: hook these people up with gifted apps that they can pay for some other way? Maybe payment in kind?
Pleasantly surprising. I wouldn't naturally associate a smooth pen and lingual beauty with a chess champion
This is the opposite of my experience: when I got my kindle, I bought one book, started reading it, and when I finished I bought the next. Over time, as I've become more confident that I'm going to use the Kindle long-term, I'm more willing to buy a book when I see it and "add it to the queue" rather than only buying when I need a new one.

The nice thing is that there's really no penalty to waiting until the very last second to buy the next book, even if you're traveling (unless you're actually on the plane.)
There's a big pharma lobby who love patents and lobby for more of the same.

This is in itself a problem: there is no separation between types of patents, so we can't (easily) get separate policy on software, business methods, pharma etc. I imagine, for example, no one would particularly complain about software patents if they only lasted for 2 years. But the way it is now, that would mean all patents would expire after 2 years, and the pharma lobby would hate that.

Having said all that, best thing is to get rid of all patents, and we'll start again when someone proves that narrow patents in a particular field have a benefit to the economy.
Not anymore. My fonts in Ubuntu are gorgeous and consistent everywhere except some Java applications, and even then Eclipse hasn't given me trouble for several releases of Ubuntu.

I know Mac users drool over their fonts, and as an owner and heavy user of my MBP, I much, much prefer Ubuntu's font rendering to OS X's and ClearType.

This is something very, very different. It's only on specific sites and it's only in Chrome when I have the hardware acceleration turned on.
Exactly.

People forget that the tablet market will HELP intel as it will drive a shit-ton of processing to the cloud.

However - Intel would do well to buy NVIDIA.
That would definitely help -- could also be that the header looks like a generic "news" or "publishing" template. Maybe you don't need both a logo and the background photo.

Also you might consider condensing to one column if possible, or at least using a layout that would collapse to a single column. I could see using this a lot on my phone, but I only get about 2/3 of the screen for content. Maybe there's a good wordpress mobile layout out there?
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buffer overflow!

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/miss051911/s_m31_1...
I wonder, it must be a frequently flooded area, or else he would never have the time to build such a wall fast enough...
Then it means he has to leave with a huge wall around his house all the time. Quite insane.

But still, awesome.

Reminds me of playing on the beach as a kid. Just much bigger.
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I would love a copy as well. Email: prakhar1989 [at] gmail

Thank you so much
The true narcissists I have had the misfortune of knowing have been extremely charming. If they hadn't been, their "handicap" would have crippled their social lives. True narcissism and well above average ability to charm people, go hand in hand.

The same can be said about all sociopaths, they are all a very charming bunch.
And still no CentOS 6. With dag weers leaving too, it's time to make the change to Scientific Linux for me
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