skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
of course he is a polite, accurate boy enjoying simple quiet pleasures like cutting throat of a goat or taking the head off a chicken.
> The most accurate analog I can think of to the Bloombeg terminal is Emacs. It has everything and the kitchen sink (News, dining suggestions, email, IM, sports updates, etc.) and clients are extremely particular about functionality.

Of course, Emacs is free. Do you think Bloomberg is susceptible to competition from a much lower-priced and much leaner startup?
The ultimate graphical configuration editor, Smalltalk, does all of this. It even puts text fields labelled "comment" where the user is likely to want them. Which is configurable, in case the user wants them elsewhere.
I like that they are unifying the design for all their services, and I think they'll try to integrate them with each other a lot more in the near future, which is exactly what they should do.
He's probably referring to interpreted languages (Python, Ruby etc.)
Great post.

But I still don't think Vagrant is that big of a help. I agree that compiling stuff like PIL on OSX can be a bit of a bother, but on production machines it's no bother at all.

And developers usually have to do it once, as, at least in our company, they do not change the projects they work on that often, but rather do them from start to the finish (we find it more productive this way). PIP requirements file with proper package versions is a must of course (Fabric deployment). As is staging server, but speaking from the experience - it's just a precaution, it works well.

Cheers for a part about Django Admin. I think it's the single most annoying, hack-needing piece of Django (as Django is great itself, we should expect perfection).

We are starting our own series of Django tips, mainly related to deployment, performance and scaling - at least one tip weekly. But thanks to you I decided that first we'll write about things we use to make Django admin work with you not against you - http://www.askthepony.com/blog/.
In case these notifications and their related emails weren't able to distract you often enough.
They launched it on Calendar's 5th anniversary in April.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?fid=02...
Looks interesting. I'm wondering if it supports features like adding a set of sites and ask the application to select featured/interesting articles between them.
Yeah it looks awesome, and it's really helpful. It's already becoming a daily visit for me.
Military GPS operates at a different frequency.
I think product visionary falls under "UX guy". The name "product visionary" by definition means he has an excellent grasp of user-oriented design and focus.
I really hope they will be forward thinking here and will only allow HTML5 and WebGL games. I don't want to see any Flash game in there. Zynga actually bought a nice HTML5 engine about a year ago. So if Zynga is coming to Google+ I hope they'll use that.

http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/09/24/zynga-acquires-d...
i've been using this for a while, stepping into it whenever HN + RSS + twitter fails me. it's p good at pushing stuff I wouldn't normally read onto my lap, but right now there aren't a ton of gamers on it and that's like 80% of my desired reading material :)
Most of us do this everytime we post to HN and let our logic stand for itself. I feel this is the most reasonable way to conduct ourselves, and I have come to hate browsing blog comments after being spoiled by HN.
That 2000BTC the thieves made off with is worth about $32,000 at the moment.
Despite the "no refund for deposits" clause, you are entitled to your full money back. It doesn't matter that they offer no warranties, express or implied, either.

You may have to go to small claims court to get it. Or you may have to get an attorney to get it (Tough to do, I know).

Just know he is feeding you BS and you will have to assert yourself to get it.

What state are you in?
Is this a spam post? I can't tell. The comments all look like spam, dropping weird praise for this half baked reddit/hn clone.
Fun fact: (most) civilian GPS receivers stop working when they're moving faster than 515m/s, are more than 18,000m above sea level, or are accelerating faster than 4g. (39.2m/s^2)

If you're thinking that these operational constraints sound a lot like the performance envelope of a guided missile, then gosh, you're right. IIRC, unlocked GPS recievers are classified as MTCR category II dual-use missile related components, with the usual suite of import restrictions.

EDIT: Looked it up[1] for... some reason, and yep, category II, item 11, section A.3:

b. Designed or modified for airborne applications and having any of the following:
1. Capable of providing navigation information at speeds in excess of 600 m/s;
2. Employing decryption, designed or modified for military or
governmental services, to gain access to GNSS secure signal/data; or
3. Being specially designed to employ anti-jam features (e.g. null steering
antenna or electronically steerable antenna) to function in an
environment of active or passive countermeasures.

So, in fact, it's just the speed restriction. The numbers I have are probably from some American arms-control law, not a MTCR restriction.

1: http://www.mtcr.info/english/MTCR-April2011-Technical-Annex....
The Blackberry is a pure communication device. Actually, it is only about communicating. Teenage girls use it, but also my professors. Lately, the technological gap between all the android generics and iphones is increasing, but easily resolvable. Increase the processor speed, the screen resolution and use a better camera. Also they should make the OS smoother.

People do not care as long as they do not have the feeling they are missing something.

Make the BB easy for developers that popular apps are also available for the BB, but this will not gain you any new customers, it will only avoid that you are loosing customers.

Blackberry should focus on the productivity of their customers. I want a phone dead simple but 100% perfect for communicating, 100% secure and 100% trust-able. Blackberry should offer cloud services so that people are locked-in. I use my Blackberry as I used my Nokia, most people do that.

They should leverage their BBM into a social network.
They should upgrade their java, so that android developers can easily develop for BB as well.
They should create an opportunity whereby carriers can earn more money, carriers are loosing ground everywhere. They do not earn money on the whole internet thing on phones nowadays.
Create great utilities, some usable office software.
Offer a cloud service in which you can store every message and any file you ever had on your phone. Comparable with my gmail account. So that i ve a BB archive.
Focus on privacy. There's a huge chance there will be a backslash on privacy in the next 5 years. I do not trust android or iphone phones. With the first a feel too much attached too google with the second I'm Apple's prisoner.
Focus on openness. I would like to connect my BB to any system available. I want to install every program I want to use.
Make it a great calculation device. Do you remember the HP 12c calculator. I should have the same kind of feeling with my BB somehow. Not by replicating the calculators functions, but by somehow making it a swiss knive.
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I believe they did address the parts of that letter that they could reasonably address in public, and they did it in standard corpora-turd-ese which is what their investors and clientele all seem to like. I don't think they absolutely had to respond in the first place, but I just don't see how they're any worse off than they were before.
It's funny. Google Profiles actually exposes your email addresses to harvestors: (ie profiles.google.com/GMAIL_USERNAME). Google+ at least fixes that.
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Dear Mt Gox,
Please add margin-right - the 'Support' tab keeps blocking text as I scroll.

Thank you.
I've heard far too many Business Guys call themselves "visionaries" when in fact what they mean is "idea guys."
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Since the merits to making anonymous public arguments are so obvious, that line is one in particular that stands out as defensive. It also confirms one of the points made in the original letter, that people are afraid to speak out. Is there any doubt that the author of the above quotation is someone to be feared?

For a good example of a case where public anonymous argument had far more persuasive power than "engaging fellow executives in a constructive[sic] manner" look at the Federalist Papers, which had a profound effect on the ultimate ratification and subsequent interpretation of the US Constitution.
Thanks for trying it for the last little while :). Glad you're finding some useful content. The gamer demographic hasn't come on to it yet in a big way.

It'll be interesting to see how it can handle having lots of different groups of people on the system (i.e. you should essentially have a sort of HN for each topic you're interested in).

I'm curious - did you connect your twitter account when you signed up?
What bothers me most is the bullshit explanations that were given initially. Claims of a DB dump being stolen from a financial auditor's laptop, assertions that no SQLi vulnerabilities were reported and couldn't have been responsible, etc. If it weren't for the full-disclosure post about various vulnerabilities in the site, would they have ever admitted any of this?

I for one won't be returning to mtgox.

Edit: Full-disclosure post http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/417 and relevant Bitcoin forum discussion http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20437.0
To add to this...just because you have a monopoly does not make what you've done or what you do illegal.
Clickable: http://www.thesharedweb.com
I'm a former RIM employee (probably not relevant because this was pre-iPhone). From what I know I can tell you RIM is not the kind of company that just folds and goes away. The company-wide spirit, which is hard to find at a goliath that size, was insane. The leadership was always speaking to the employees, inspiring them all the time (not like Ballmer screaming developers developers like a crazy man in the voice of a 13 year old girl at a Justin Beiber concert). Every week or two you’d feel an adrenalin rush. I think they can get people behind their idea. I also think the leaders are obsessed with whichever direction they move in, and aren’t stubborn donkeys who don’t change direction for egotistical reasons. This response is very un-RIM - it's defensive and lame. The guy who wrote the letter made some legit points, and the response failed to close the chapter on any one of his arguments at the cost of damage control, PR-style.
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Goto facebook, or SO, or HN or youtube or almost any site...open firebug or whatever, and calculate the amount of inbound traffic to the outbound traffic (keep in mind that this is reverse for you and the host). You should notice that your outbound traffic (their inbound), which is mostly short GET headers, is like 1% of your inbound (their outbound).

Sites where you upload a lot of content, like YouTube, still have much, much more reads (outbound) than writes (inbound). Probably by an order of magnitude.

Systems like Dropbox would benefit - though they were already getting different pricing I'm sure. But this is really a tiny fraction of how most online systems work.
Calendar does have a custom view, which defaults to showing the next "4 Days" (hint), available in the bar at the top of the calendar view. You can change it to 7 days if you like in the settings (gear -> Calendar settings -> General -> Custom view).
Hey - it's not a spam post.

Curious why you think it's half-baked. Would love some feedback on how you think we could make it better!
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You say that now. Try writing a real world app some time.
It does have some similarities to a chat room, yes. I would imagine it to be more persistent and have more multimedia functionality, though. Maybe threaded commenting.

But you do hit on something important, though: the chat room was very easy to immediately understand because there was the metaphor of the room. It was simple to understand that when you talk, everyone in the room can hear you and no one outside the room can.

I'm not sure what you mean by "sharing of circles," but if it allows a similar immediate understanding of information flow, then I'll be happy.
https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/buzz?tab=mX

looks legit based on the people he's following. Mark doesnt look very happy :-).
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There's probably a grain of truth to both positions. Dealing with RF interference is something of a black art, so given that LightSquared hasn't actually deployed their network yet, it's not surprising that existing GPS devices don't filter out those signals perfectly. At the same time, LightSquared seems to have assumed that they could avoid interfering with the GPS band to a greater degree than they were ultimately able to deliver.

Of course, it's also a question of money - from the GPS manufacturers' perspective, they will have to assume all the costs while LightSquared derives the benefits. From LightSquared's perspective, they paid to acquire their spectrum while the GPS manufacturers get access to government infrastructure for free and are effectively blocking access to a significant chunk of spectrum just to reduce their per-unit costs.
The proposed workaround is to start using the lower 10MHZ (1526-1536) of their allocated range immediately, while cooperating with GPS device manufacturers on strategies that will allow them to use the the remainder (1536-1559Mhz) in the future. The GPS devices operate at 1575Mhz.
By 2026, apparently:
"But because we’re doubling the rate of progress every decade, we’ll see a century of progress–at today’s rate–in only 25 calendar years."

"In line with my earlier predictions, supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by around 2020. By 2030, it will take a village of human brains (around a thousand) to match $1000 of computing."

So, have super computers achieved one human brain's worth of computing? I believe we're only in the petaflop range, which is a factor of 10^10 behind his prediction.

At any rate, I believe AI is logically impossible.
This is a feature that we've been thinking about -> related articles, we haven't implemented it yet. Are you thinking you would post a few sites that you like and get similar articles based on those topics and those articles?
This entire post and thread looks like a coordinated social media campaign.
Seconded. We used the flask-appengine-template (https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template) and it's been great so far.

Flask and Jinja2 make views and templates really easy, and the AppEngine data store fits well for the models.
Hey Derpaderp. It's not spam a few of the comments are from friends of ours and early users that have been using it for a while and enjoy it, that's where the praise is coming from. Would love to know what you think can be improved?
At the end of the day, I wonder if it really matters what Facebook does.

Once Google gets everyone on Plus then that omnipresent black bar will be at the top of every Google site, constantly sucking you back in with alerts of what's happening in your social stream. People will de facto head to Plus whenever they search, check finance, check their Gmail, look at their calendar, etc.

Ultimately, it's going to be hard for Facebook to compete with that level of constant activity.
Clunky? That's the opposite of how I see it. It's much more stripped down; the nav menu is far simpler and less bloated.
Ahh, wikipedia. Then, I raise you one, please make sure you read the NT description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel
Down, and too new for Google cache. Anybody have a mirror?

EDIT: Apparently Google cache works. Linky: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
"The new Mt. Gox site features SHA-512 multi-iteration, triple salted hashing"

Why not use a standard key derivation function such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt to provide some confidence in the system rather than inventing their own?

AFAIK bcrypt is strong because of Blowfish's expensive key setup. How does this compare to SHA-512?
I'm reading the Recommendations portion of the report. It is surprisingly light on technical details. LightSquared's claim seems to be that there is only a conflict on the "edge" of one of their licensed signal bands, primarily because a small subset of GPS devices (mostly survey, mining, etc. use devices) are improperly accepting signal in adjacent bands, either accidentally or intentionally in order to carry a little additional custom data. (?)

So far, after reading most of the Recommendtions report and without being knowledgeable in this specific area, I'm inclined to side with LightSquared. Groups advocating protection of wireless spectrum are frequently hysterical when it comes to anything that might affect their signal. (e.g., the hams' strong and vocal objection to various proposals to carry telecom signals over power lines.)
Well, you don't tell us how it is at all different from other social link sharing sites. (Digg, reddit, postrank, the social bits in google reader, facebook, delicious, etc etc etc)

That and the comments in the post are really bizarrely positive, all from accounts that are either brand new and have exactly one comment to their name... or are old and have exactly one comment to their name. Organic HN comments tend to be either neutral, relating solely to the technical merits of the article; or strongly negative, relating to the technical merits of the article.

In contrast, this post has a cheering section. Suspicious...
I dont think (and hope) it's that simple to disarm the GPS on guidance missles. Else what's stopping our "enemies" from just building these transmition towers near their bases?
You know, if all these different social networks just worked towards an open, federated protocol, we wouldn't have to play this game every few years.
You must be a real hit with the ladies.
topics on ycombinator?
that BGR site slows chrome down to a crawl for me :S
The part that bothers me about that is "triple salted hashing". This could mean any number of things, all of which point to a misunderstanding of what a salt is for.
Then why I can't easily export my friends list from Facebook to Google+?
why is that considered higher level?
Other than quick accessibility, using GitHub or other DVCS would address all the other points and probably offers a better solution in terms of multiple developers working off of their own independent copies without one developer's changes impacting everyone else. Unless, of course, CoderBuddy already offers multiple independent working sets with branching and merging of code as part of its feature set.
I know 1 or 2 of the people in his circle's who work at Facebook which adds to the legitimacy.
For the same reason that people should have sex outside their own families: other groups often come up with innovative solutions to various problems, and by trading with them, you can benefit from their knowledge and experience and approaches.

Of course, trading too openly can also be detrimental to one or more groups sometimes, too.
I was wondering about this myself
We're getting one step closer to tables again. One day people will realize that all the extra effort in doing this in CSS is worthless and just use tables. Who cares that your layout is made with tables instead of divs? Mixing presentation with content? We already have a much better solution for that, it's called server side templates. Just use what requires the least amount of work, for some things that will be CSS for other things that will be tables. Don't get hung up in cargo cult design.
If I were the guy MagicalTux outright accused of being the hacker and threatened with FBI action, I'd be demanding a public apology right about now. He'll probably never get one.
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> especially ones who aren't snitches

The brazenness...only in NYC.

Also, if you ever get in the position of saying "X is extremely complicated and I can't explain it to you" it is because you stand to benefit by designing a system poorly, or you aren't bright enough or don't have the experience to realize that you can reframe the problem. Algebraic geometry is also complicated, but these days there are plenty of books that will explain it to you, and the tools (like sheaves) are well-established and standard.

Obfuscation is the MO of installed, configured enterprise software. If there were an incentive to create a simple, effective solution, then, lo and behold, one would be created. The incentive is almost never there.

Take Unix for example. It is simple and effective (and flimsy as all heck) but before it came along, obtuse operating systems were the norm. It is worth pointing out that A) Thompson and Ritchie are geniuses and B) there was no financial incentive.
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The design and navigation of a Website appeals to the users more as compared to other things, suppose you visited a famous Retail Showroom in your locality. You observe that the materials of store are not organized at all.
The search bar is ridiculously large, especially given how rarely I suspect most folks actually run searches against their calendar. I'm sure some people are doing it constantly but if I've even done it once I'd be surprised.

There's an awful lot of unused horizontal space in that black bar. Seems like a good location for a search box.
I think the obvious tactic, would be to say "The open letter identifies issues that we too have identified and take very seriously at RIM, our current restructuring is specifically designed to address them and other issues that we believe will propel into a new era of growth. In terms of user experience we are doing X. We are strengthening our software management by doing Y."

You take the criticism, acknowledge it and parlay it into a skillful advertisement for your forthcoming strengths.

If you;re really smart you circulate the open letter yourself anonymously in the first place.

It would appear that the people in RIM's PR department are not really smart.
>You can even transparently route over WiFi, etc.

Um...that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the platform; on any OS with a modern network stack (Android, iOS, Windows 3.x...), the stack hides the details of what hardware you're connecting over.
while not the same project, Google 'sdss casjobs', register, and start doing some cosmic sql queries!
G+ posts have a link in the top right corner that says: "Limited" or "Public." If you click on limited, you can see everyone who can see that post.
awesome, extension already for chrome!
Triple salted hashing sounds like either there's three salts in a hash or it's hashed with a salt three times.
And unless the government gets involved, the thieves will have taken it scot-free.
I'm surprised they weren't able to raise the amount they could withdraw at once; I would imagine the limit is database-backed.
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If your profile included some contact information, you might find an invitation appearing in your inbox.
HTC Salsa vs HTC ChaCha
Now I am comparing two phones, which are belonging to the same vendors, one is HTC Salsa and other one is HTC ChaCha.