skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to be said for wanting to work in small teams. I know the growth isn't that dramatic, but it's perfectly reasonable to step away and start something new if the new environment isn't ideal for you.
Hey, I'm working on deployment/provisioning automation. It's not menial!

Ok,it's menial.
While I'm not nearly so famous as he is, and the job wasn't either, I know how he feels... I had the same routine as him. Check things all day from the time you wake until you go to sleep, and when you do sleep, fear that you'll be woken up by a problem.

And I know what a relief it was when it was gone. It really does feel like a weight has been lifted from your shoulders.
If you're as confused as I am, "cucumber", in this case, is referring to a testing framework for ruby, not a vegetable.

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/

a side note: am I just totally out of touch with things? "Fructose", "Cucumber", "Coffeescript", "V8"?
IBM didn’t invent the personal computer but they don’t know that
Hardware is the most obvious part of the equation, and it's amazing to see that part nearing solved.

The less obvious, but no less important part, however, is software. What will these things run? Twitter apps, tip calculators, weather widgets, and Angry Birds Rio aren't going to help kids learn to read, build an understanding of the world around them, and ultimately create value in society. I'm sure you can come up with a handful of "educational" apps from the Android Marketplace, but for these to really be valuable in schools, they're going to need professionally-developed, curriculum-integrated software, and teachers are going to need to be trained in using it to its potential.

Having a $50/$35/$10 tablet sets the stage for great things, but that's all it does. It enables real advances in education, but it won't make those advances by itself.
The improved hash function might be a problem; IIRC KSM doesn't use hashing because of VMware's patent.
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Maybe nothing has changed other than the obvious.

People who work for small companies tend to do so because they like it. The same goes for those who work for big companies.

Reddit is not a small company any more. The massive growth would have brought a lot of internal changes. It doesn't surprise me that people are out seeking what they like again.
It's hard to tell how the performance will be. In the video any actual footage of the device in use was sped up.

As others have said, I'll believe it when I see it.
Well, then the case could be made that they were incorrectly being treated as employees and should have in fact been contractors.

The IRS looks at the common law rules between the two entities, based on three categories:

Behavioral: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179111,00....

Financial: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179113,00....

Type of Relationship: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=179116,00....

There is even an IRS form, SS-8, which you can submit to the IRS to 'clarify' how the relationship should be treated...

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fss8.pdf

All of this information is available here:

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.h...
I think it might actually be a different aspect of having (or having had) a small team: that the churn over time is more noticeable when the number of employees is just a handful. Jedberg has been with reddit for over 4 years, as he mentions.
Not only are they making a point about how terrible security is ("Do you think every hacker announces everything they've hacked?"), but they've also called out the internet on its generally abysmal attention span. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd had this written on day zero.

Neither of these are novel concepts: we've heard about abysmal internet security (FireSheep) and low attention spans (Nicholas Carr[0, 1] and Jonah Lehrer[2]) repeatedly over the last couple of years.

This release may seem profound to you, but LulzSec proposes no solutions to the problems they're creating. They're too nihilistic to put on white hats, and they deserve none of your praise as a result.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-googl...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp...

[2] http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/04/attention_and_intelli...
Aren't dolphins notoriously lascivious? They probably have lots of dirty jokes to share.
Here's a question for you. Take two bar magnets. Put one on a table. Hold the other above it. The magnet on the table will be attracted to the one you're holding and will jump up and stick to it. The magnet on the table has just done some work. But magnetic fields do no work. What just happened?
I don't think even the wildest optimist would expect hiding comment scores to tame Zed Shaw.
You're assuming that their rating on that scale actually matches what they like. Many factors will cause them to change their answers, not the least of which is peer pressure.
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Have you ever been in a fight? For example back then in the school ground, I wouldn't kick my enemy into the groin. Because that would escalate the rules of the fight into a fight where kicking into the groin is OK. This would have raised the risk of getting kicked in the groin myself.

I can't explain it better than that. I might be wrong, too, when it comes to dealing with the police.
If we establish two-way communication (a big if, given the over-promising that goes on with technology), they could probably share a lot of useful information on the condition of the marine environment and fish stocks, with considerable mutual benefit. Then again, if the the quality of the oceanic ecosystems has plunged as much as we suspect, they might be pretty pissed off with us.
I might be mistaken but Conde Nast is a privately owned company.
The long tail of Android apps: What does the app install distribution look like?
Oh yeah, bizarre use of the word.
Yeah, scaling past one machine will make your joins slow. But is that really the _only_ thing that makes joins slow? I thought the broader performance problem with joins had more to do with the costs of carrying out the relational algebra to satisfy the query. The nested loops algorithm for joining rows is a case in point.
We must have a different definition of easily avoidable. The truth is that organizations that spend a much larger than average portion of their energy and resources on computer security can and do still fall the victim to intrusions on a regular basis. Outfits that follow generally accepted best practices get successfully spearphished on a weekly or monthly basis. Startups are encouraged by the industry to throw up websites in weeks, yet the tools they're given largely do very little to prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot on a regular basis.

Lulzsec isn't even calling their shots. They're casting around for security issues widely without rhyme or reason. You're supposed to lock your front door, but if you go through a neighborhood and try everyone's front doors you'll always find one that's left open. Now imagine your neighborhood is the world. It's literally impossible that you'll ever run out of victims.

The truth is that computer security isn't shit because all the noobs out there that don't have a CSO, don't hire matasano, don't have sufficient change review policies, don't have a 24x7 ops team with live instrumentaion and don't have DDOS protection are id1ots. Sure, any one of them can be pointed and laughed at and said they're losers. But taken in aggregate, it's not all their 30,000,000 individual failures, it's a failure of the computer industry that has long pushed speed and ease over safety and continues to sweep the current security environment under the rug. And also a failure of our own security industry for selling ineffective, labor intensive solutions and pricing most of the rest beyond the reach of most potential customers.

And I dare say that Lulzsec isn't going to have much of an impact on any of that.
The MPAA claims that it will only target website owners who
"willfully and knowingly violated a copyright and profited
from it." The organization says it will not look to
prosecute those who "stream videos without intending to
profit".

I'd like this sort of promise to come from my government, not an industry organization.
FINAL YEAR COMPUTER ENGG. PROJECT DEFINATION
hi I am a final year computer Eng. student. and we are having a major project this year as a IDP (Industry Defined Problem). So can you help me by suggesting some recent problem which IT industry face..
Maybe a big cash bonus got triggered if they stayed on for a certain period of time when Reddit was acquired
Sure, but I was speaking of lowercase 's' society, not "society-at-large". Friends, acquaintances, family, etc.

Despite what we all may wish would be the case, it's not socially acceptable to deprive rights holders and content producers of the financial value of their rights/content. The notion of rights to content takes primacy over the notion of streaming UFC 500 or whatever they're up to now.
Those interested should stop by the Long Now's offices in San Francisco's Fort Mason area. They have various pieces and prototypes there, as well as fun things from their other projects. It's first on my list of great places for nerds to visit in San Francisco:

http://www.quora.com/Which-places-should-a-technophile-visit...
SEGA - Hacked.
One more down,SEGA it is.
Ok, so what happened to the simputer? Apparently the project is considered a failure after releasing only thousands of the devices.

Tack onto that the failure of XO/OLPC, and you have all these successive efforts to get cheap computing devices in the hands of children, hoping like magic, the device will herald a transformation of education in rural villages.

Will an android tablet succeed where the others failed? Unless we know why the other projects failed, I don't see why this one would succeed.
From what I hear,the HTML5 <audio> tag implementation quality varies wildly. It hasn't been used much in production for desktop-targeted web apps. It is, however, quite popular on the iPlatforms, because you have no Flash there!

As far as I can tell, jsmad is not going to replace the HTML5 audio tag on mobile devices. However, it does constitute a nice legal workaround for MP3 in desktop browsers such as Firefox.

It gives access to the full decoded audio data, the code doing the playback (player.js) is actually just a tiny little part of jsmad! The HTML5 audio tag seems to also give access to the decoded data, but I haven't messed with it enough to know what's the level of control.

What would be really interesting though, would be something like streaming audio applications - completely flash-free, something that would be (imho) hard to achieve using the HTML5 <audio> tag.

My opinion is that it's wrong to try to add everything as browser built-ins. If the Javascript are powerful enough, why not use it to decode PDF/MP3/whatever? I'm guessing we won't see a video decoder for a few months more, but who knows? Things are moving fast.

So to answer your original question: it goes much deeper. For an audio button it would probably be overkill, but then again, why not?
In the school setting that he's giving the example in, I see it like this (on a personal level):

On a 4.0 scale here in Canada, 90+ is a 4.0. This means regardless of whether you get a 90 or a 100, you still end up with the same GPA.

I make an explicit effort not to get above or under 90. 91 and 92 is unavoidable at times, but when I get a 98 or 100, I feel like I've just wasted a bunch of time. If I didn't study much, I shouldn't have studied at all. If I didn't study at all, I probably should have gone to the exam late, etc.

In an ordinary context, I think a lot of us understand the balance between reward and effort. And of course, reward tends to come with diminishing returns as a function of effort. I really think that's the reason we all don't try very hard for everything.

...Unless there's a lot of money involved... then it's different.
I find it sad that this will be the one thing that John Sculley will be remembered for at the end of the day. I'm the biggest Steve Jobs fan in the universe, but it has to be noted that Apple did some great things with Sculley as CEO. For starters he grew the company to billions of dollars in sales and made the Mac a real product that would replace the Apple II (Commodore never pulled this off with the Amiga and the C64). Not only that but Apple did some amazing innovative work: the first PDA, HyperCard, CD-ROMs/Multimedia, built-in sound cards, built-in microphones, standard color displays, etc.
Time to upgrade :) The Audio Data API is brand new.
I wasn't suggesting that you were unwilling to divulge this information. I meant that I felt you did not wish to discuss it in that forum.
How does this work? I didn't think JavaScript could read a file on a byte level.
There's no indication in the original article that they gave Scvngr any money. From all appearances, the OP only qualifies as "Everyone Else".
This sure is one expensive way to figure this stuff out. For those wanting to understand better brains and music check out this book: "This is you brain on music" by Daniel J. Levitin (http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Music-Obsession/dp/045...)
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Not to mention how freaking harder is to startup it from South America.

Observation: the topic of "think mobile and platforms" yes, but they're a plus (not the core of the thing.) Besides, relying too much in platforms are a bad idea (adds to the equation some risks parameters that are out of your control.)

The best is to start with the epicenter and iterate often keeping happy the people that will leverage you to ramen profitable.

Lastly, the epicenter should be human centered.
Spellcheck. :D

IT is a very broad industry. Off the top of my head:

* backups and verification
* spearphishing / targeted trojan attacks
* evaluation and management of cloud providers
* moving from owned software to software as service
So someone records a video of their cat, music happens to be in the background, and the video happens to go viral and become a huge hit.

If they are a Youtube partner, and make money off the videos, they would be subject to this law, even if the music in the video was largely irrelevant.
Chrome Experiments - "Gravitational Particle System Sandbox" by Jarrod Overson
It's not just a pro-nuclear bias. It's techno-utopianism and scientism.

The ideology is that science and technology can cure humanity of all its problems, if only they were not so small-minded and ignorant to reject it.

There's also a strong identification between science and technology and their proponents' core identities, so that fundamental questioning of some of their benefits is seen as personally threatening.
The difference is that LulzSec managed to get their word on every tech blog in the world. They also managed to get their basic message - nothing is safe, and here's proof - onto nearly every single major news site in existence, and they made their message immediately and personally important to millions of people. That's why I'm praising them. They don't need to propose a solution; that's already been done. They don't need to have a new message; extant messages are good enough. What they bring to the party is visibility.
Not so much these days.

http://www.emotiv.com/store/hardware/299/
Ignite: How I Set Out to Kill Email and Ended Up Building an Email Client
Having no moral doesn't make you a sociopath.
>The internet doesn't create people without empathy, it reveals that deep down, a lot of humanity didn't have it to begin with. The way society is starting to structure itself, though, lets that shine through more clearly.

A lot? I doubt LulzSec is more than five people. For every pathological script-kiddie there are ten Free Software hackers. The Internet has revealed new ways for people to be destructive, but it has also revealed more ways that they can be constructive.

Compare:

http://www.quantcast.com/github.com

http://www.quantcast.com/4chan.org
jedberg was officially the sysadmin. but when you have a staff of ~5, everybody kind of fills all the roles no matter what their title is.
Passport vs. Reality
‘We Do It for the Lulz’: What Makes LulzSec Tick? - Techland.com
You can still have a vesting period for shares in a private company. 4 years is a normal amount of time to be fully vested.
It is implied. It is kind of the norm to think of business people as useless around here.

My point is that this is stupid, really stupid. There are tons of problems in the business world and they are tackled with old software from the '90 (Windows, Office, SAP, etc.). Web technologies have not even touched the corporate world.

Devs will never get the potential behind business problems because they hardly know about them. They need business people, they really do. And the business world needs them, because things are getting crazy, mining data with Excel...
Doesn't fall under the purview of the law as written.
US Senators ignore unintended consequences of criminalizing embedding videos
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Thinking on such a long term scale is so weird that it seems hokey or even wildly eccentric at first glance. But crafting a message for generations beyond ourselves is too beautiful an undertaking to ignore.
Magnets heh. In JavaScript you have basically two options:

The legacy way is dealing with binary data as an ASCII String - effectively a string of bytes. This works but it's hella slow - probably because browsers didn't think we'd be using 67MB strings :)

The new way is with Typed Arrays: using an Uint8Array is pretty awesome, see the [Mozilla Developer Docs](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays).

Mozilla Firefox since version 4.0 allows to do XMLHttpRequests (xhr) to be retrieved directly as an ArrayBuffer, which you can then create an Uint8Array view on. Since Gecko 6.0 (Firefox 6.0), mozResponseByteArray is deprecated and they've implemented the new standard way: see https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHtt... for more details.

As for reading local files, the [W3C File API Draft](http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/) is implemented in Firefox 4.0 and Chrome 11+ as far as I can tell, and it also allows us to retrieve a binary string.
How do you reverse engineer cool?
No, but it can read a string by codepoint. Which is almost the same.
Not me, my company has budgets and I just wanna be back home ASAP when I travel for work, and for leisure I go for "experiences" like staying on a boat, or momsy popsy spot. If you're coming from a major world city, you don't (I don't) want to stay at Omni, Mondrian, W etc because they are a few miles from my home (LA).

I have a feeling I am not getting it.
Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger
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The implications of this are interesting. I'm looking forward to the day there is an API for my memory.
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do you code for fun? as long as you do, it doesn't matter whether you do it at work or at home. if you can experiment with new technologies and learn new things at work, your skills are going to improve and it's probably healthier to spend your free time doing something other than coding.

if your work is drudgery where you are maintaining old stuff and it isn't helping you keep your skill set current, then you should be programming in your free time as well.
A major problem with education in rural India is the lack of (qualified) regular teachers. So, _if_ we could provide decent internet access, it will open them up to good resources on the internet, like Khan Academy.

Though, it is only natural for us to be skeptic, it may well be worth a try.
What they bring to the party is visibility.

Do published books and articles in The Atlantic, Wired, and NYT not work for you? Those are a few of the news sites that have covered declining attention spans.

As for internet security--anyone who can do something about it already knew there was a problem. On the consumer end, what are users supposed to do? Add symbols to their passwords? That would delay GPU- or SSD-based brute force techniques by, what, 10 seconds?
.. but Arabic isn't terribly huge in India. Hindi is.

Edit: Ah, thanks for the clarification.
What they did say was more like this: http://www.koko.org/world/talk_aol.html
Disappearing Firefox[Linux/Mac] Doesn't work with nightlies 5
Nothing? This would be work for equity only. Just added a line to 2nd pgh stating this, in case it wasn't clear.
Only with the utmost studied concern for spontaneous authenticity.
I was reluctant to ask because all of these are potentially questions that I could answer myself with sufficient effort.

What's the relevance of the "GC cost" slide to the two code-change slides that follow it? Does manually converting tail-recursion have a significant impact on the number of long-lived objects?

Are you using cons-strings somewhere? (I was thinking of something like Erlang IO lists. But maybe you just mean the for (...) { x.push(s); } return x.join('') trick?)

Why is "indexing" relevant in "don't mix indexing and concatenation"? It looks to me like the problem is building up a big string by repeated concatenation, no? Not indexing.

What's ~ToNumber? Is that a destructor? Or is it just the conversion applied by Number()?

What did you use the typed arrays for?

Where do you get HiddenClass from? It's not in the global namespace of my copy of node.js by default.

Did you have an example where you were able to convert a polymorphic call site to monomorphic? Also, does V8 use PICs at all, or does it just have a monomorphic inline cache like in Deutsch & Schiffman?

What's the connection between dictionary mode and the code on the dictionary-mode slide?

What causes the arguments object to materialize?

On "Two types of variables", it appears that retaining g will result in v3 not being garbage collected, potentially resulting in retaining an arbitrarily large amount of garbage. Does that really happen?
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Android 2.3 did bring in support for Hindi and Arabic. <http://www.talkandroid.com/22956-android-2-3-gingerbread-dou...;

Though, I doubt if the tablet would be able to run Gingerbread.
GiftRocket (YC W11) is changing the way we think about gift cards
Can you provide me with one or two examples that are 50x slower on pg than my? We're a postgres-heavy shop, and would be interested in finding solutions to any such problems that you can identify.
I think Jedberg is leaving because he values his marriage over reddit. He kinda hints at that in his blog post.
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