skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, a <2kg laptop pc with ~13" screen with a 64-bit Intel CPU with decent linux support for critical devices. This generally means Nvidia GPU and NICs with intel chipsets.

While I like my gear efficient and portable, I don't know why I'm still on Gentoo.
That is an interesting strawman you've constructed, as accepting it requires the reader to conflate the idea of bugs in general and "fatal flaws".

Obviously all non-trivial code working in production not only can have bugs, but will have bugs. Just as obviously, no reasonable person would consider those "fatal flaws" for any reasonable definition of the word fatal.

MRI/YARV's Conservative GC opens up some bedevilling classes of bugs for gem writers, obviously. Calling that a "fatal flaw" when millions of lines of production code continue to function despite its presence is nothing but over-the-top hyperbole.
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you seem to be missing entries for "auto maintainance", "goat herding", "cat herding", "sheep herding" and "sex". however a search for "maintainance of rare watches" turned up a bunch of books. the first hit was one on philosophy.

:-)
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I worry that brussels and the UN are both just as bad as the US government, only a number of years behind them. The UN doesn't throw its weight around violating people's rights in large part because it doesn't have the power to do so.

I think the entire DNS system needs to be out of the hands of government bodies of any type, preferably relying on a cooperative, distributed solution, like the internet itself (theoretically) does/can.

I think it is amazing how divorced from US law the US government has become. Seizing domains without having previously gotten a conviction for a crime is against the law, and the idea that a DNS lookup is the same as "routing all traffic thru the US" is absurd as well. DNS records are cached globally.

I'm afraid that the solutions will have to be technical, and not governmental.
I can crash a JVM or CLR program instantly by calling out to some careless C code. This bug is exactly such an instance: the C code for one of the library functions is flawed. The only way you can stay safe is by (a) having a flawless VM and (b) never calling out of it. The former is extremely unlikely, the latter extremely impractical as it inhibits any kind of I/O.
I've been reading a lot about the Skype debacle. Reading this article was the first time I felt like the argument got beyond the big guys being greedy.
If Reader were integrated heavily into G+, I would not complain one bit (more likely, I would push more and more of my tweeting into G+ shares).
I can't wait to see what the new ones look like. I've been on the fence between going with Macbook Pro w/SSD or going with Macbook Air, and it feels like they're taking forever to get the new ones out.
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E.U. upset by Microsoft warning about U.S. access to E.U. cloud
> given any formal system F that we might want to take as a foundation for mathematics (for example, Peano Arithmetic or Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory), Gödel tells us that there are Turing machines that run forever, but that can’t be proved to run forever in F.

Wow. I've never understood Godel's theorem before. I've never seen it put that way. Thank you! Is Godel's incompleteness theorem effectively the same thing as the halting problem then? Or rather, a result of it?
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> I wish the PHP team had the resources to do this kind of work, because at this point it's the slowest subcomponent in my stack.

That's a business opportunity. PHP is not my bag, but an interested compiler hacker could make a quick trace JIT (a la Dalvik), license it out, and probably get a fair bit of cash.
> the lack of government oversight on behalf of the public or consumers.

Ah, a visitor from a universe without regulatory capture.
I assumed it was sub 10M. If in fact they sold it for north of 30M, I would be really impressed. This is a team of 3, I believe. Nice work, BT.
Yes. I'm also anxiously awaiting a reader Redesign.
Wouldn't the same hold true for Blogger then? "one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world"
I was wondering the same. The question isn't actually answered by either the WSJ article or this blog post. Are high school diplomas and college enrollment up? Or is the same thing happening that is also happening in Spain: massive youth unemployment due to, plain and simply, a lack of jobs?
> people who tell you where you can find drug dealers.

... people who get paid to direct you to the nearest drug dealer, and only to drug dealers, organized by type of drug, quality, and potentially even with a rating system.

These sites are more than just innocent passers-by. They aren't the "drug dealer," but they aren't just a dude on the street who bought drugs that one time and might know a guy. Where the line is drawn between facilitation and not facilitation, I don't know. But where some say "they're identical to Google," I personally see a very large, obvious distinction.
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I hate Microsoft, but there is a lot of truth to what you say. IE 4 was clearly better than Netscape 4. And IE 5 better still. Then they rested on their laurels.
I don't feel entitled at all. I'm just able to.

I was just expressing how I feel about the situation. Even though it's trivially easy for me to get it for free, I'd be willing to pay for it - I personally find that interesting.
Seriously, this is an amazon affiliate site and even other wise has tons of adsense.

I dont see an evangalist.. just an opportunist :)
If you walk around any gathering of hackers/tech people in Silicon Valley, a vast majority of people will have Mac notebooks. It's gotta be like 95%+.

Robert Scoble noted this phenomenon recently: http://scobleizer.com/2011/04/12/does-anyone-in-silicon-vall...
> It didn't actually say that. Where does it say streaming sites?

See:

> ICE is not focusing its efforts just on web sites that stream dodgy content
> but those that link to them

I realize that I misread the quote to say that they were just going after
sites that link to them though.

I also don't understand how you are equating this with torrent search engines.
Only some of the domains seized were torrent search engines.
At a larger company paying a contractor/consulting firm makes more sense, because they want to be able to scale down easily.

If a startup wants to scale down it normally means the startup has failed, at which point you might as well have employees.

There's also the issue of funding, if the startup has raised VC money the VC will want the startup to build a team and thus a sustainable business. You don't get that with contractors, the only reason that a startup might favour a contractor is if the contractor is substantially cheaper.
This is the same first search that I made :P
You're making an assertion of a fact of law when you say:
"Assets used in the commission of a crime can be seized regardless of if you are charged or even found guilty of that crime."
This is the perspective of those who agree with the Asset Forfeiture law.

However, the constitution is also the law, and the fourth amendment is pretty clear on the matter. Further, other federal laws make it a crime to violate constitutional rights, due process, etc.

If the constitution is the highest law of the land, then every one of these illegal seizures is a crime. If the constitution is not the highest law of the land, then the Asset Forfieture law, which was enacted by congress that was created by the constitution, is null and void because the congress is null and void.

Further, in Mabury v. Madison the supreme court ruled that any law contrary to the constitution was null and void the moment it was enacted, not the moment it is struck down.

This means everyone participating in these thefts of property without due process are liable for their criminal acts.

Due Process requires that a conviction be obtained before seizing assets.

If you want to amend the constitution, there is a procedure for doing so. It requires more than just the congress passing a law.
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It's a bit older, but the book "Positioning" takes a pretty hard line against "line extension":

> From the prospect’s point of view, line extension works against the generic brand position. It blurs the sharp focus of the brand in the mind. No longer can the prospect say “Bayer” if he or she wants aspirin. Or “Dial” for soap. In a sense, line extension educates the prospect to the fact that Bayer is nothing but a brand name. It destroys the illusion that Bayer is a superior form of aspirin. Or that Dial is deodorant soap rather than just a brand name for a deodorant soap

http://t.co/0mPeBsf

Is this still relevant these days? I think their argument has some merit.
Put a login form on your website! They email the login URL to you but I shouldn’t have to remember it.

i think they do that because every customer's login URL is different, and the pages are generic-looking on purpose for some kind of enterprise branding option.
What if they use it to, you know, email you and by doing that they give it to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo or even some shady mail provider they use?

I don't really see the difference.
To me it seemed the opposite. Working at a minimum wage job to have a few bucks to spend on pizza or clothes seemed childish. Working a minimum wage job has no connection or relevance to adult life unless you're planning on being poor. It's economically meaningless compared to the money a kid expects to earn after college, so what matters for a teenager's adult life is to get a leg up on college admissions by working on academics or extracurriculars.

Now, that attitude may not be accurate. Maybe working at McDonald's or some other typical teenage employment provides valuable experience or some skills that will be relevant to their adult life. However, few if any middle-class parents tell their kids that, because they don't want to encourage them. For kids to get used to working a minimum wage job -- to get a taste of self-sufficiency too early -- to believe that life is possible without college -- these are not things that ambitious middle-class parents and teachers want for their kids. They don't want their kids to see life as a highway with exit ramps and rest stops at various points along the way. They want their kids to see life as a railroad to lucrative professional employment, with any departure from the path resulting in a catastrophic derailment.
Yep, this is great. We signed up!
In March Google announced that all YouTube accounts had to be migrated to Google Accounts: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-connecting-yo...
The difference is that in Germany you have at least one party that is not completely in the pocket of the financial industry. We do not.
You don't have friends using Gmail?
Use homebrew instead of macports for Mac.

I think it took me less time to completely uninstall everything that macports did and reinstall as homebrew packages, than it would have taken to just 'port update' a typical macports package.
All this will ever lead to is Indiana passing a new law that Tau is exactly 6.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bi...
Have you seen http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/mave...? I think it is feasible.
Thank you! The Nagios utils look very cool.
I write all my Nagios checks in Python locally, and the startup/stop through NRPE is getting to be a problem.

I'd been thinking "Hrmm.. I bet I could use Tornado to fire these off inline.." and Bam, here it is ;)

Seriously awesome.
Ok it seems that more than a few people have had similar misconceptions, so I'm going to try to clear this up. The idea that the internet is a p2p network is a pernicious falsehood. The only real way that the Internet is a p2p network is in inter-AS routing. You are not part of the p2p Internet, your neighbor is not part of the p2p Internet, and your company is probably not part of the p2p Internet--you're just leasing use of the p2p Internet.

By this I mean that the Internet is fundamentally not as distributed as it seems. This is the flaw that most people who argue for wireless mesh networks have. The don't actually understand the technical complexity in how the Internet is run. But anyway, let's admit for the moment that the edge network is not decentralized (it is completely dependent on its ISP). Well, then the Internet is kind of decentralized, right? No. In order to cover the vast areas of land and ocean that connect the Internet we require massive fiber infrastructure development. But if that were somehow provided it would be distributed, right? No. As two Northwestern phd students and I measured in a paper in submission, more than 60% of p2p traffic passes through one of a handful of Tier 1 ISPs.

No matter how you swing it, the Internet is not really decentralized, it is balanced between a few powerful companies and governments (which thus have to operate under the law of their hosting countries). A distributed or unregulated Internet is a pipe dream.
Google Plus Already in TechCrunch's Top 10 Referring Sites.
...what? Moller got sued halfway to China, is bankrupt, and never shipped, and this is not Moller's car, nor does it use anything approaching the same design, nor does it share the same goal.

Moller's car was about making flying as easy as driving; this is about having a car that can turn into a convention aircraft. Or, more specifically:

Moller's car was based on duct fans; this is a traditional propeller aircraft.

Moller's car couldn't drive on roads; this is explicitly designed to (and is the aspect that was just approved, if you read the article).

Moller's car was designed to eschew traditional flight controls in favor of a do-what-I-mean approach; this aircraft has a completely normal yoke/rudder/throttle setup, where the yoke doubles as a steering-wheel in car mode.

Maybe this is the idea of Moller, in some very abstract sense, but I think you could make an equally strong claim that it was Jules Verne's ideas realized--and he never pretended to be trying to ship something.
Well, it would have cost me more than that if I'd bought it 5 years ago. Or 5 years before that.

In 5 more years, it'll be even cheaper.

In 5 more years after that, perhaps it'll come free with breakfast cereal.

If copyright terms hadn't have been extended ridiculously it would have been in the public domain for several years already - but that's a different matter.

My point is I wouldn't have thought twice about spending a little less than that per episode. Perhaps I am cheap.
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So Google+ is not interesting, but the idea that you're interested in expressing your disinterest is itself worth interest?

Should I write a post complaining about how I want an option on the poll to express that I do not care that you do not care? How deep does this rabbit hole go before we all have better things to do?

Hint: depth 0.
MacBook Air, 13.3", maxed out specification. It's usually hooked up to a 20" ACD at work or a 24" Dell at home.

Does quite literally everything I ask of it, and with aplomb. It's an amazing piece of kit.
I think the author is wrong, and for one very specific reason: Google+ is not Google's endgame. It is not their penultimate product. It's certainly an important one, and Google has put an awful lot of effort in to get it right, but remember - Google doesn't live or die by its social network like Facebook does. There is little to no incentive for them to cripple their engineers with some arbitrary requirement for deep Google+ integration. Where it'll make products stronger, I expect it'll be used. Where it won't, it...won't.

Google is competing with Facebook for mindshare and social graph information here, but Google+ could fail spectacularly, and people would just say "lol, Google can't do social" and keep using their other dozen market leader products. If it succeeds brilliantly, on the other hand, then people will have no _reason_ to use Facebook et al, because they're getting that need filled in the course of their other daily tasks which happen to include Google. To assume that Google+ is Google's most important product ever and that all future products will be beholden to it is to view Google as a social network company, which is entirely wrong. If Facebook was trying to launch an integrated search engine or a GMail competitor, then I would absolutely agree with you - those products would be inherently limited by the requirement that they tie into and feed back towards Facebook's core platform, but that isn't the case here.
I'll quote myself from http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/28/data-competition-announ... about the competition:

Reading more, I’m pretty troubled by the selection of data: http://www.kaggle.com/c/wikichallenge/forums/t/674/sampling-...

What’s the point of predicting only about recent editors, whose ranks have already been thoroughly harrowed by the endless tightening of policy and rise of deletionists? Wikipedia already has a horrendous reputation for screwing over contributors, so anyone who does much editing (and whose departure would be noticed by the criterion) is self-selecting now.

just the other day cryonics researcher Mike Darwin told me he had no interest in contributing because he was sure all his contributions would be reverted under an extremely narrow reading of WP:RS, and wondered whether his BLP article could just be deleted since he certainly wasn’t going to edit it into an article worth a damn
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It will probably also get renamed to Google Photos but there is always a chance it will get discontinued.
Ah... but would it be better than Hipmunk?
How would moving everyone to Colorado help?
The most popular Google+ user? It's Facebook's Zuckerberg
Surely 'teens' is the subject of the sentence?
I have literally never heard anybody construct a sentence like that and use 'is'.
Marked down?! For what?
Actually, this isn't really related. This is an exemption for the Terrafugia vehicles to use different materials than those required for standard cars and still remain "street legal." The Moller Skycar has never been planned to be a street vehicle, it is strictly an air vehicle.
They are replacing the 'ger' with 's' so its only saving 2 characters!
Id and super-ego are alright though right?

In all seriousness, and as some other have indicated, there are some good and bad points to this. Those who are most capable can often be the worst offenders in terms of ego. In many cases, realizing how good you are at something allows you to actually excel at that thing, others who may question their abilities may not perform as well due to fear.

On the other hand, it is truly important for people to understand that they aren't good at certain things. When I'm not good at something I like to ask someone for help whose abilities in said area I respect. This is what I believe what the founders mean by they're "guiding principle". It should be OK to say "I know how to get shit done" and two minutes later say "except for this shit, can you help me".

Want practice at this? When the time comes, make sure you tell everyone unequivocally - "I'm wrong"
I think this goes to a pretty simple point: anything you have to do by hand you will eventually get wrong. Thus, to a first approximation anything that can be automated, probably ought to. To show off this principle I'm going to show off some of the PyPy source code: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/default/pypy/module/sele...

This is the implementation of `select.epoll`. Somethings you'll notice there's no GC details (allocations outside the GC of C level structs are handled nicely with a context manager), and we have a declarative (rather than imperative) mechanism for specifying argument parsing to Python level methods, this ensures consistency in readability as well error handling, etc.
Already discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854783 with the same consensus, it's a terrible guide. Read Crockford, Stoyanov, Bolin instead.
Very, very few people of any age have a sufficient understanding of the Internet.
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2826 (informational), IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root, Internet Architecture Board, The Internet Society (May 2000), Quote: "There is no getting away from the unique root of the public DNS." (page 5)
I think the author's definition of "fatally flawed" in this article is more along the lines of "this is an evolutionary dead end and I won't have anything to do with it in the long run" rather than "cannot work under any circumstance."
No. Blogger has a generic stigma. You say the word blogger all the time, but rarely do you actually think of blogger.com. Actually, I never think of blogger.com. And we're talking about brand power/brand recognition, not how popular the sites are.
Curious to see the customer service aspect of the airline booking business.
Check out LoseThos[1] which has images and things as part of the source code, a variant of the C spec which powers the whole OS to run JIT code. 64 bit interesting operating system, all by one guy[2] over several years. LoseThos himself was hellbanned by pg awhile ago and comments a lot still, but you only see his comments if you put showdead to on. He posts lots of strange comments about God's words to him and sometimes relevant comments.

[1] http://www.losethos.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=losethos
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If you aren't Mozart, though, randomness can be a shortcut past writer's block. Sometimes it's a lot easier to rein-in and organize pseudo-randomly generated ideas to make them your own than to allow instincts lead you to the same place over and over and over again.

(Incidentally that Bernstein lecture is great, thanks for linking it)
Possibly its a historical accident: UNIX was released before the first leap second, and before anyone could have known they were needed (back when seconds were defined in terms of Earth's movement). Around its release time, the definition of the second was switched (making leap seconds potentially needed). Maybe by the time anyone realized, switching from UTC to TAI would have been too painful?

Not to mention that you can't know the UTC-TAI offset more than a few months into the future. We can not predict which years will have leap seconds inserted.

Unix timestamps do not handle leap seconds well at all. Obvious things like t₂-t₁ fail to provide the number of seconds between t₂ and t₁.