skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking in the back of my head: go figure out what you want, and then come back when I can actually be helpful. But what I tell her is this:

Sounds good. I'll let you know if I hear of anything.

And I won't. She won't pop into my head again.

I know you need to let people figure out their lives on their own, but if nobody is blunt with this person what chance does she have of moving past this? Shouldn't he just have said what he was thinking in the back of his head?
> The market that Microsoft directly competes in (using IIS) has never been anywhere near the shared hosting space.

The sample is self-selecting. Since you pretty much can't do shared hosting on it, IIS competes in a segment that doesn't use shared hosting.

If you select enough your sample you'll end up with one that supports the theory IIS is The Greatest Web Server That Ever Was.
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So, I've submitted an issue with this.

https://github.com/josscrowcroft/MotionCAPTCHA/issues/3

Note to any other brave souls: Don't call things captcha unless they're really, really hard to beat.
Would it be reasonable to assume that facial captchas are actually more to do with building a training database than security??
A lack of perfectionism does not mean a lack of quality. There's such a thing as trying to be too perfect and missing out on a market opportunity.
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I'm living in one that wasn't part of the Soviet Union but the damage is done anyway. The thug mentality rules our contry (Romania). Maybe I was generalizing when I said post-communism countries. There are exception, but the rule is that most were influenced by the russian way of doing "business".
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As an original Galaxy S owner, this is kind of a poke in the eye. A good thing in general though.

What filesystem does the Galaxy S II use? That's the biggest problem with the first iteration, after the broken GPS.
That's the same kind of backing tulips had.
Oh, I didn't know that. That alleviates many of my concerns, then, thank you.
That doesn't have the slightest thing to do with Keynesian economics.
I was confused about the "php" == 0, until I found http://php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php. So "php" == 0 is true and "php" == true is true, but 0 == true is false. Yikes! It seems like comparisons in PHP are as bad as they are in JS.

I have a hard time believing this is real. Does WTF do any verification?
>That's bullshit, at least on AMD64. "Because the full 32-bit instruction set remains implemented in hardware without any intervening emulation, existing 32-bit x86 executables run with no compatibility or performance penalties" [0]

Which is true if you're running a 32-bit kernel on top of the 64-bit processor.

If you're running a native 64-bit kernel, then the kernel needs a 32-bit emulated layer that runs between the native kernel and the userland application that handles virtual memory address translations(32-bit executables are still limited to 4 gigs of RAM, but can be physically located anywhere), system call translations, etc. That's a potential performance hit.
That's wonderful.

One of the neat things about where I currently work is we warrant our most of products for ten years and yes, we do have software. Doing the job right, and doing it durably, is so good. (And takes so much work).
I don't really see the comparison here. Germany is a successful country and Germans enjoy a high standard of living. Is there a trade off between welfare and entrepreneurship? I don't know, but I don't see the issue, as Germans are doing pretty good for themselves.
The estimates of 5 billion (or 5 million) years ignores the potential side effects of widespread distribution of the current generation of fissionable fuels and the level of political will required to develop an infrastructure for coping with these potentials.

In other words, if one is inclined to ignore issues of this magnitude, why bother mentioning nuclear at all when no less questionable assumptions about relevant factors would allow a similar projection based on solar energy alone?
I hope this will be better than LLVM Analyzer's warnings about missing retain/release, which in my experience catches most, but not all of missing retains/releases.
If communication that you actually wanted to receive was sent in plain text then you could easily filter HTML email and be rid of it. Spammers aren't going to stop sending HTML mail because it is so useful for what they do, but no one else needs it.
I personally think that BitCoin as a concept is too big to succeed. It will scare governments and they'll ban trading in it.
You mean when 19 out of every 20 people had to work to grow food, and there wasn't enough money for social welfare?

How much of the last 200 years (industrial revolution, mass transport (trains/roads/cars/planes), etc.) have been due to having a fiat currency and modern banking system?
Will supports Anonymous
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THIS

I think the American system is more for me. But I'm happy there is both. Unfortunately there is also a trend in Germany to become more American.
> It's not fair to compare companies that are competing on price with companies that are competing on quality.

For this particular consumer, in the marketplace, it's fair enough :)

And if it's unfair, bad luck.
I see a lot of "Europe is like this, Europe is like that" comments here... I wish people would realize that in terms of culture and legislation the various European countries are wildly different. The difference between Southern and Northern Europe is massive (think USA - Mexico), and even between countries that are near each other geographically there are quite big differences (think USA - Canada).

Those differences aren't a bad thing in any way and don't mean that we can't be united in some sense - but please just realize that saying that "Europe is like this and that" is like saying "North America is like this and that".
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HTML emails SUCKS. Use goddamn plaintext.
Remember Ballmer chanting "Developers! Developers! ..."?

Well, here Apple is saying "Screw the developers".

Sure, they have a right to do this, and perhaps an obligations, but the developers put out business without warning probably won't keep developing for Apple. Over time that will work to reduce developer uptake, and thus app selection on iOS, which is why they perhaps should have chosen to somehow lessen the blow to unlucky developers.
position:fixed is the most welcome addition.
Netflix is why I have Silverlight on my Windows partition.
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The Lion Kills the Disc Drive
We knew this was coming, TechCrunch wrote about it, NetBooks and MacBook Air had already decided to cut the fat and do away with disc drives while back and today it’s official, Apple’s new OS code named Lion has arrived and you cannot get it on a disc.
That although both are infinite, there are actually more of one than the other.

That's treating infinite as if it's a limit, when it's not.

If it's uncountable and unmeasurable, than it's non hierarchical.
this guy just gave you the X. its 0.1%
I've heard this argument before and I've never understood it. Would it make sense to suggest that we ignore the recommendations on Netflix because we'd be missing out on movies we know we wouldn't enjoy? Information overload is becoming a huge problem, and personalization is the solution to the problem, although the problem is a hard one to solve.
And how the hell do you expect blind people to be able to submit the form?
XHTML sucks. Transitional does even more. So does HTML mail. Use plaintext for god's sake.
Not exactly the same circumstances, but in the UK BAA has been forced to sell airports for less than they wanted due to a government body ruling to increase competition http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/21/baa-sells-gat...
I have concerns about this. While it is a neat concept and the implementation is impressive, the reality may be problematic. A lot of users may not have the dexterity to accomplish this task with a pointing device, like my Mother. Not to mention anyone with special needs that requires an alternate input device.
Erm... that's just the same as it is now. Pharma companies pay scientists to statistically test there products. My first year stats professor described how difficult it is to say to your employer after a year and a lot of cash that their toothpaste did not perform statistically significantly better than the placebo. How many more consultancy contracts are you going to get?
Cloudy forecast for Google Docs (iCloudy)
For mac users like myself it will be hard not to use iCloud and use less of Google Docs.
To talk briefly about one item here, embedded systems dev kits;

They strike me as a ludicrous 'pay to play' scheme. The old standard is that you have to buy a $2500 dev kit for every developers, and that standard has kept the individuals and enthusiasts out. OEM's ought have full design files for multiple reference board available, and sell implementations for something like cost.

Much of this trenchant multi-level commercialism (developer kit company, silicon company) was natural for the way the software tooling used to work; one off debugging interfaces (also frequently $1000+) talking to each vendor's proprietary compilation/debugging toolchain, booting each vendor's own bootcode and running drivers developed by the vendor.

Thankfully the open source stack is getting better. Another commenter discussed a sustainable bicycle part company ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2629346 ), and I see a similar parallel in that chip companies ought be investing in sustainable openly accessible tooling. SoC and high speed serial radically simplify many aspects of board design, chip companies ought be actively promoting the other side of easy accessibility & be working to produce open source drivers, facilitate tool support from the likes of OpenOCD, uBoot, &c, and doing every thing they can to reduce barriers to entry.
I support bitcoin and think it is a Good Way Forward, but I agree categorically with your critique. It is sufficiently disruptive that I expect the major players in governments will legislate it out of existence.
I am from Pakistan and we face the same issues when it comes to hiring.

But there are always some cream of engineers every year who are passionate and looking forward to learn. We attract them with higher pay. In our culture (I know it's same in India) you can get almost anyone you want if you are willing to pay more (30% higher than the market rate). Add a bit of benefits like relaxing developer-friendly environment etc. and you can get some really great guys in your ranks.
The "kitten CAPTCHA" could then take countermeasures:

1. Apply transforms to the images. This would require spam bots to perform much harder processing.

2. Use a larger pool of images -- after all, this is the Internet, a communication medium used primarily to exchange pictures of kittens.

Of course the spammers would adapt. But CAPTCHAs are not one-shot solutions. A good CAPTCHA works well enough to defeat most bots, and is updated once most bots start defeating it.
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You left out the "Balmer Fails Again:" prefix.
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Yeah, tricks like that are still done for maximum speed for things like fitting as much data into structs/classes.

Like assuming (or enforcing) items are allocated to 4-byte memory boundary addresses, so that you can mask the first two bits of a pointer and use it for storing flags.

Similarly, you can pre-allocate tree nodes (left and right children) in a continuous array, and then only store a single pointer to the left node, and the right node will be the address of the left node + 1, so you save 8-bytes in the struct/class.

This allows more items into the processor cache line.
My Identity Crisis: Why can’t I be more than one thing on the web?
In Canada, 27% of the full-time workforce works for the government directly. This doesn't count contractors.
http://rosettacode.org is a wiki with concise algorithms/solutions/snippets in as many languages as you can think of. The algorithms listed range from mundane to clever to anywhere in between. If you haven't already been there it's definitely worth a look.
In the immortal words of Marlo Stanfield: "You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."

Whether you like it or not, most business emails will be sent in HTML. People want it to look nice, people want to be able to put links in their emails so recipients can click through and they make money, they want to put tracking codes, etc.

Regardless of anyone's personal preference, emails will be in HTML for a long, long time.
"...Germany’s traditional engineering-driven approach to business, with its emphasis on perfection, longevity, pride in ingenuity and culture of deep-thinking..."

I fail to see how those things are negative. As a matter of fact, I wish more entrepreneurs would adopt this kind of thinking: Being proud of your craft and your product.

Sure, you need to be able to make decisions, but there is also something to be said for making quality products instead of going for execution speed over quality.

Quality-driven thinking is part of what makes Germany one of the largest economies in the world - despite the fact that it is much less populous than other big economies like the US, Japan, and China.
I'll just pop upstairs to tell my bosses and upper managers that their waterfall charts of PnL for the quarter will be arriving as ascii art.
Very true. However, judging by the chatter about this article on, for instance, Twitter [1], many don’t really seem to get that the ‘confirmed’ part in the title isn’t true. So I simply wanted to emphasize this point for others, not the author as he knows it already :)

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/search/macruby
Arguable. You can move any photo from the 1,000 picture photostream into an album on your iPad or iPhone. Then the albums are all backed up to the iCloud's separate backup service.
I think there's an important nuance separating "personalized" and "tailored". The personalization the article is talking about is mostly geared towards deciding which sources someone should see--do you want to see stuff from Drudge or HuffPo, for example. Imagine if Pandora only played stuff from bands that it knew you liked.

Tailoring a feed to someone's interest, however, is more like what Pandora actually does--learn "what" you like, not "who" you like. So I've discovered a lot of musicians that I would never have otherwise heard from Pandora, which rocks.

I think a tailored feed that keeps my interest and exposes me to new things that I'll actually be interested in is the best of both worlds.
"The vast majority of drugs - more than 90 per cent - only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people," Dr Roses said. "I wouldn't say that most drugs don't work. I would say that most drugs work in 30 to 50 per cent of people. Drugs out there on the market work, but they don't work in everybody."

-- Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline 2003

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glaxo-chief-our-dr...
"If we have nothing to hide,"

Right to privacy. Even people with nothing to hide don't like being monitored.

I don't see how it would help in your situation either. "Lots of stamps" is annoying to passport control regardless of any other factors (just because you're not a listed criminal doesn't mean you aren't up to something), and I don't feel like the detainment time is going away anytimes soon for these kinds of things. Even if the information is easily accessed, you have to wait for the decision-maker to spare some time to consider the info and give you the OK.
your likely to spend most of them before then.

This does not happen that much in human behaviour. Just look at all the people who inherit wealth. If what you said was the most common approach, they would be rare.

even if your savings increase in value over time, investing them in something could increase them even more.

Depends. Over the last year bitcoin has seen a ~20,000% return rate. If bitcoin gets uberpopular (i.e. each coin is worth ~ US$2m) within 20 years, then BitCoin would have a return rate of ~ 85% per year consistantly for the next 20 years. There is practically nothing else with that close an return rate, so the only financially sound course is to hoard your BitCoins, not invest them
If I write a completely stupid bot that just submits a rectangle, I'll have 10% chance of getting it right.

You need a lot more shapes… but there aren't many shape/size/position combinations that are easy for humans.

You need complicated images, as plain shape/background (and in general shapes on background that are separable on histogram) are easy to trace.
And what would be the problem with a business trying to be more profitable giving away something free (like iCloud)?

I'm sure Google is offering all their services because they are very nice people, not to make more money off the ads.
I went to the project home page and found the first paragraph in the intro section to be the most concise statement of the problem Backbone.js is trying to solve, but even that states the case for the project's existence in negative terms: it helps you avoid a problem. But that problem comes up when you're trying to accomplish something, and it would be better to say that Backbone.js is an awesome way to insert MVC stuff here.
It also allows the substitution of internal data structures due to profiling / runtime usage of the data.
> The attitude in communist countries after the Fall resembles so much to the one in "Atlas Shrugged" that it's scary.

At least as far as Russia is concerned. (but you'll probably get a lot of downvotes from Rand fans, regardless if they are familiar with the situation there or not).

It was interesting how right after the collapse, it was many KGB officials who jumped into the power and land-grab and became the most staunch and cutthroat capitalists practically overnight. (And, mind you, those were supposedly the most loyal communists!).

They operated (and still do) outside the law in a sort of Randian dystopia. Slowly they absorbed the government as that was one way to crush the competitors -- the ones that own the police force, for example, always had a good advantages over the ones that didn't. The ones that owned the mayor and the legislature, had a better advantage over those that just owned the police and so on, all the way to the top.

Also, can anyone say, "contract killings"? That is just a matter of daily business there. From a pure utilitarian perspective, when millions of dollars are at stake (well in Russia it could just be hundreds of thousands), and there are no legal repercussions, why not pay someone $80K to gun down your competitor? Sounds like a sound and profitable business plan. I still am kind of surprised those things are not more common in the West were large sums of money are at stake...
I think once you become an independent entrepreneur, you have no choice but to at least go libertarian. By independent, I mean your income is not derived from connections to the state.
HTML5ify your codebase with sed
no George Orwell fans on HN then? I personally see too many parallels between Russia's versions of Communism and Capitalism. It doesn't matter how they dress it up, the ruling class are still abusing their positions and calling it progress.
What are the best filters you're referring to?
Btw, do you know http://zite.com? Besides filtering, it has topics. You might like that.
Prisoners Dilemma. BitCoin as a whole would get more popular if people spent it. However if lots of people spend/use it (and the price goes up), then it's better for you to hoard it. However everyone/lots of people will think this way and hoard it. This means it can't take off and get popular.
Metasploit Project - 700k lines of Ruby
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[The ghurlman response must be a response to the OP, not this comment. This approach is perfectly accessible -- better than any captcha!]

I use the "honeypot" field trick as well, and really like it, but this approach has some problems worth mentioning.

For one, make sure you give real users a way to contact you if they somehow get trapped -- you'd think it won't happen, but have you tested every available form-filler plugin out there? A few months ago Google released a new version of Chrome that started putting email addresses into my hidden field. Maybe Chrome thought it was a "confirm your email" field? No idea; I fixed the problem by adding an HTML label for it. But it's a damned good thing I wasn't just secretly discarding the input, or I'd have lost a lot of purchases.

Next, as you mentioned, if anyone targets you specifically, it's trivial to circumvent this with a single line of code in a bot.

There are ways to make it harder to circumvent, though -- use all random field names, insert the hidden field at random locations in the sequence of fields, etc.. I'm still using the simple approach, though, since it's still working. :)
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We use petroleum to fuel our cars not because it's a good source of energy, but because it's a good means to store energy (it has high specific energy, by volume and by mass), which is very important for cars. It will still be important even when producing a gallon of petroleum takes more energy than the said gallon contains.

EROEI of less than 1 doesn't mean that oil extraction is unfeasible, not at all. For example, every accumulator currently produced has EROEI of 0 (it has 0 energy before charging and it takes non-zero energy to produce it), and each charging of it has EROEI of less than 1. And it's still economically feasible.
thanks for specifying that the scripts are idempotent ;)
sexy and useful, thanks mr coles (would be much more exciting if your username was: "right sed fred")
I'm not sure having a web page be 1300px wide is a good idea either.

Seems like the designers of both must be using widescreens...
Which is the point of modular code, to be able to fiddle with the internals for whatever reason you like without affecting clients.
Compared to native apps it's a poor experience. Awkward, clunky and unresponsive. If anything I think this strengthens Apple's hand rather than weakening it.
Apple converts pirated music files to legal copies for $24.99
http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/hosting-django-under-nginx-s...

Doesn't look bad at all. ~10 required lines, all of which are just telling nginx how to call wsgi and what params to pass.

Very similar to the apache config to do the exact same thing.
Closing the action gap on the social web
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Your Product is Not "The Product"
I'm not sure that I see why there should be a correlation between the two ideas - it is perfectly possible to believe that you can provide decent social services (education, healthcare etc.) without discouraging private enterprise.

[NB I'm in the UK and I fully support the current governments attempts to thin down the public sector here - with up to 25% cuts in some areas (not the NHS though)].
Yeah sorry for the confusion, I'll update the post title. I thought the "confirmed" meme was fairly well-known in the Mac community (e.g. http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=114278...), but I think notsomuch
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