skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, when people say AI, I think "Turing Test", not computer vision.
Epoxy the wires you absolutely need into place, fill the rest of the ports with epoxy, and put the computer in a locked metal box, with only the power button revealed. If someone is so committed to getting access that they would try to strip the wires apart to connect a USB drive through them, then search everyone for USB drives before they enter and check the state of the wires (and metal box) before they're allowed to leave.

Or just throw some software at it so that a very, very loud alarm goes off if a new drive is mounted or detected, search people for USB devices before they enter, and keep regular backups (if you make it impossible to get data out undetected, the only thing you could do with software on a USB drive is corrupt or delete data).
I know for a fact that my old employer has one client who's still running 4.0, unless they've decided to pay out the ass to upgrade their spaghetti-coded system.

Considering that a) no out-ass money has been offered me, and b) I'm effectively the only person who could even fix bugs in the system, they're still running 4.0.
ActiveRecord lets you write raw sql any time you need to. AR's design goal was to just reduce the drudgery, not prevent you from using the full power of sql.

No 'serious hindrance' involved.
Hi!

"- I understand good design from bad design. Aesthetics are not lost on me."

If you have a few minutes and are willing to use your sense of aestethics, please have a look at http://www.displayator.com and give me your two cents about what sucks most about it. i.e.:

- is it clear what is it about?

- what's most ugly about it ?

Thank you very much,

Nicolas
Super creative! God speed!
No, you are only rewarded at your favorite merchants. Topguest identifies the merchants you frequent most based on your check-ins, and selects your top 3 most visited local merchants and begins giving you bonus points for that loyalty. Not every merchant, and personalized for each user
Make it so: hands-on with the official Star Trek iPad app
Apple Releases iOS 4.3.4 to Address Latest Jailbreaking Vulnerability
Umm, I was not talking about human behavior. Bird flocks are often a great demonstration of emergent and cooperative behavior in the animal kingdom.

As to your point, while I would not assume people are strictly rational it’s important to understand the transition points where rational behavior becomes destructive for society. Not because everyone acts in a strictly rational fashion but rather because there is a tendency for the average individual to do so. for example corruption often links to both the benefit and the risk of being corrupt and enforcement is far more important than what's in the books. IMO, the most important insight is given a large population there are usually several productive approaches that tend to balance over time.

PS: If you think about it Sociology and Psychology are considered separate disciplines for obvious reasons. But economics is plenty complex to avoid being merged with Sociology because how you exit a burning building is only peripherally related to which brand of soda you buy.
Why doesn't anyone ever think about the users? You know, the ones that just want to grab some binaries and do stuff?

In the "old days", projects would have a webpage with some instructions, screenshots and downloadable binaries. The effort required to do this would pay off in terms of polish and would attract more users.

Today, people find out about this supposedly nice piece of software, and proceed to find only a source file listing, no documentation (not even a half-decent README), no screenshots and, worst of all, the need to build from source. I'm a technical person with a fair amount of curiosity for these things, and I find myself frequently bummed out and give up when I see a link to github.

Even when these "artifacts" exist, just the look of the site is enough to put regular users off.

Sharing code is not only about dumping a source tree online. It's about polishing all that surrounds it and makes it a "product". Without users a source tree has no value.

Frankly, the current situation is making the open-source community more and more closed in on itself. The first step for irrelevance.
Awesome links. At first I thought it would work like Yahoo Answers or Quora- where there is no obvious benefit to answering questions. But I will refocus my efforts to let people learn a language and translate at the same time. Thanks a bunch!
World debt clock
Four days of vacation? Four? I'd walk. They don't value the morale of their employees very well, regardless of compensation.
Sometimes Scott Adams says it better than words alone can:

http://www.dilbert.com/2011-07-14/
Ah. It's kind of scary that private RSS of each process would be 25MB, but it's certainly possible. I assume you've disabled every module you don't need?

If you have some free time try deploying your LAMP stack with Buildroot and uClibc. The application size ends up being around an order of magnitude smaller, but i've never bothered checking if private RSS on clunky apps like PHP or Perl is minimized at all.

edit Also for prefork we used to have some scripts that would monitor processes to see if they 'went crazy' and wouldn't ever return, and reap those processes so Apache would fork a new one so we didn't have to restart the whole server. When you're under peak load and you restart a server and it sends all those clients to all your other servers which are already almost at their peak things get very nasty very quickly. I know you only have the one VPS here but for applications with many servers it can be handy.
In Google+ how do i know who i invited already?
I added some people to my circles and I invited only a few of them, how do I know who I invited and who I didn't?
CSS Buttons: Tutorials and examples
Creating buttons with CSS is one of the most experimented-with web design techniques around. Examples and tutorials abound.The biggest recent trend in CSS button design seems to be eliminating images, especially background images, from buttons. But there are plenty of other things designers are doing with buttons, some that do include images.
ファスティングダイエット口コミランキングで比較！！
But surely you actually understand that there is more to the field than emulating humans.
Some good points, but the parts about the British Empire are off. I'd strongly recommend "Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress" by Jan Morris for a piece that looks at all the good and bad that the British Empire did under Victoria.

To make a long story really short, the British did ridiculous amounts of good in their colonies.

For instance, eliminating the Thugee strangling cult:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee#The_practice

They also ended a lot of cannibalism, human sacrifices, completely ended the worldwide slave trade, eliminated piracy, brought rule of law, built infrastructure, brought science and the scientific method, eliminated cults, ended rituals of widows burning themselves on their husband's funeral pyre, eliminated kidnap/rape/murder cycles in many of their possessions, brought sanitation and education, and... just tons of good. Overwhelming amounts of good.

The Empire was lost largely out of a sense of guilt and an unwillingness to take the actions that would have preserved it - pretty much any individual uprising could have been crushed if they'd decided to (including the American Revolution - see Ron Chernow's "Washington - A Life" for just how easy it would been for the British to end the whole thing at Boston, New York, or Valley Forge at various times).
No, the article reduces to Google+ will not overtake Facebook if it ignores adoption strategies mentioned by Reed's Law.

I highly doubt that 'shared circles' is the solution, I believe there is a huge strategy needed which not only include the space needed to interact (shared circles, fan pages, games), but the median in which that interaction takes place (mobile, pc, camera, video game, tablet).
I enjoy the Economist because they cover topics well and will tell you their sources as well. (which both validates that they have sources and you can evaluate the base information they are using for their article). That being said, this particular event, or series of events, will change the European Union profoundly.

As with most political enterprises, the EU is a compromise. Much like the original Articles of Confederation [1] it took a very touchy situation (pretty much independent political nation-state entities) and attempted to craft a framework around how they might co-operate politically, financially, and militarily.

Early criticism of what was produced was once called 'a bus where every passenger has their own steering wheel' by a Swiss delegate. We can see the literal effects of that as participating countries, have their wheels apparently turned 45 degrees to the direction of travel. If enough countries do that the bus can, and will drive off the road. (ok that's enough torturing of that analogy!)

Europe remembers what it was like to be dominated by Germany involuntarily. One of the sub-themes of the original EU discussions had very real tension about effectively handing over the soverignty to the 'big' economic powers (France, Britain, and Germany). So there were a number of checks and balances in the final treaties that provide very real limits on what the EU can do (mostly they left in the ways to 'help' and took out most of the ways to 'discipline'). That compromise may ulitmately be untenable and the events of the next few years will test those compromises to the breaking point.

I predict several things will be true after this crisis that are not true now. One, I think there will either be a way for the EU to expell a member or to put it under 'federal' control. Second there will be a trans-EU judiciary system which allows for injecting change (either through impeachment, imprisonment, or both) into member states leadership. If such a system existed it would have allowed the joint-EU leadership to demand (and get) corrective action on destructive behavior.

Those changes will effectively mean handing national soverignty over to a central authority. And either the Europeans will be able to swallow that change, or the EU will disintegrate back into independent nations.

It may be that they reach a compromise somehow, but my expectations that the EU will survive unchanged are low.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Articles_of_C...
The problem with this essay is that is paints us as slaves to our genes.

Why would you say this essay "paints us as slaves to our genes?" I didn't read it that way at all. In fact there's so much content there to discuss that I think it's really unfair to make such an unrelated generalization about the whole thing.

There is much discussion about evolutionary traits, for sure, but just because it's there as an explanation doesn't mean it's "painting us as slaves" any more than is really the case. To some extent, you must admit that people are slaves to their biological disposition. We can't, for example, stop and start our own heart at will. Admitting that for the purposes of discussion is not "painting us as slaves."
I prefer:

$stmt = $somePDOObject->prepare("INSERT INTO folks " .
"(name, addr, city) values (:name, :addr, :city);");
$stmt->execute(
array(
":name" => $name,
":addr" => $addr,
":city" => $city));

since it treats the statement as a function call, rather than some chunk of state that you manipulate.
It's understandable on its own.

That said, all the volumes are pretty wonderful. Braudel is my favorite historian--materialism without nutty Marxism.
We want to tell stories that we don't feel like are being told. The conflicts of building businesses to last versus sitting with all the risk.

This actually started as an email conversation with the Slicehost guys about some of these dilemmas. About living mojito island and so forth. And I really like the debate and thought that others would too.
Just write well. You'll stand out on any dating site.
Of cause, most Google+ tools will become obsolete by the time Google releases the official API. On the other hand, getting into it is a typical nerdy approach, that I love: Play around with the newest toys, see what can be done with them.

Personally, that's what drives me in this case: Learn something new, do some creative coding (without having to invest too much time like working on a 'real' project), provide something useful for those, who also already tamper with it, have fun. And maybe we stumble upon a useful idea, which can be extended, once the official API is out.

In my view, that makes it worth the effort.
What was this narrative you speak of? Got a link or an example to back up your insinuation?
Totally forgot you could do that. Way cool.
This is the problem with only having one source of apps on the android market. Sure there is amazon, but google won't allow users to install this without jumping through hoops. Even though Apple isn't much better, at least their app store treats developers fair (that is if you can get your app through the censorship board)

Google needs to step up their game, or it will stop attracting quality developers. There is so much crap on the market in the form of malicious apps and low quality 1 day development duplicates. Without the quality teams/companies contributing to the app market, Google will dig the android grave.
Wrong. In Facebook most 'groups' are formed only from the people you know. The 750 million people has zero relationship to how many groups I'll be involved in, so there's a strong upper limit to potential group formation that is nowhere near what Reed's law predicts.

I've largely filled up my FB friends and rarely add new members anymore. I'm pretty sure that I'll be adding links (and being added) indefinitely with G+. On G+ I've already had more interesting discussions with people who relate to me in different ways from my real-life friends. These are spontaneous 'groups' that have formed briefly around a post, and from which links have been made that would normally not have been made. I wouldn't friend someone on Facebook just because they said something interesting, but on G+ I might follow them much more easily. There's less of a big deal with having to be 'friends' - you can just subscribe to their posts and might end up in many more discussions with them in future.

Think about HN. It's created friendships and careers and companies. If we were all doing this only via our Facebook friends, how much of this would have happened?

G+ has more people you'd interact with, more posts to interact with them, more dimensions to add links by. Not just friends, but interest groups, industry leaders, etc etc.
Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms
Fail: This web site only supports Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7
Meh. The term 'Project' embodies much much more than just 'code'. A Project is made of its many components: team, community, bug trackers, documentation, resources, news feed and code (I've certainly omitted several other things).

Only after looking at these elements can you get a picture of the project which will tell you a lot about it. How is the support? Do developers even care? Are they serious at issues handling? Etc.

OSS suffers a lot from people who think they can just paste the code, change the implementation when they feel like it, etc.
While I agree with the sentiment in this thread that developers aren't going to be flocking over from GitHub anytime soon, at the very least this should help keep GitHub motivated (not that they've given us any reason for concern thus far). Competition is a good thing.
Measles Outbreak Triggered by Unvaccinated Child
Let's see if Rapportive can get all this type of info into Contacts. That's the next place where this would make the most sense.
Look who has the biggest armies in Europe. (Hint: it isn't the countries who look likely to default).
>If the [emergency] paediatrician gives a clear diagnosis in person would you really say "hang on a minute Google's SERPs say I should call 911". You're standing there with the doctor, you don't need to call for one.

Bringing up such seemingly applicable to your case search results while talking with doctor is necessary even if only to make sure that the professional would rule the results out as not really applicable to your situation.

Anyway, if you replace "Google SERP's" with "FB social search", then your gave a pretty accurate description of what happened in the article. It is just that "FB social search" took days, though it happened to bring more specific results.
I'm not sure where you disagree with the posted article:

"Evolution is not teleological and genes do not "want". Genes just happen; they're chemicals. Working to ensure the continuation of your genes is not mandated or valuable -- it is likely.

This doesn't conflict with the article at all. The article never claims that humans have an ethical mandate to ensure the continuation of your genes. Furthermore your statement that this behavior is _likely_ actually agrees with the article.

"The other obvious problem is that societies which played into the competitive heirarchy were only successful for some weird definitions of successful.

I don't see where the article claims competitive heirarchies are more successful. About the closest I could find is that cultures who disproportionately use their men for high-risk roles are more successful than those who do not; but I don't see how this differentiated the British from the Mongols.
I disagree with your #1 reason. When I visit a project page, I most often only want to know what the hell the project is about.
It was much more fun to send them their own /etc/motd!
The most successful retailers in the world are able to fund deep discounting on a regular basis by applying pricing pressure on their suppliers. Wal-Mart demands price cuts from suppliers (and gets them) to fund their High-Low pricing strategy. Joes Hardware cannot. Topguest Apex is aimed at creating value for small-medium local merchants, not the "most successful retailers in the world."
Can it do something about the "Unknown or Expired Link" message?
> Fast Ethernet uses the same CDMA/CD as Ethernet

> That should be CSMA/CD. They had it right earlier and later on, not sure how this reference got by them

It's a one letter typo. The keys are adjacent on the keyboard. Enhance your calm.
503 error - "Please try again later"

Oh the irony
How can you use Metasploit to exploit an "undocumented vulnerability"?

Also, if you'd like to make your own, Hak5 forums have a parts list http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=16236 and lots of project ideas for it http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showforum=56

edit: removed useless video link
A challenge to Seattle VCs: Back 100 seed-stage startups in 24 months
Why doesn't anyone ever show the other side of the balance sheet? Who is holding all that debt?
They were also better than themselves in previous quarters.
It doesn't matter one whit whether Lamo offered protection or not, except insofar as what you think of Lamo.

The shield law doesn't require journalists to keep info private -- it simply allows a reporter to quash a subpoena from law enforcement coming knocking for the info.

If indeed Manning had taken Lamo up on the offer, at best, Manning has a civil case against Lamo.

And as for Lamo being a minister, that's a joke. Knowing Lamo he's got a minister certificate he bought for $25 just to say he has it. Furthermore, Manning didn't take him up on the offer and the chats certainly don't look like a minister and a worshipper talking.

While it's clear Lamo is double-crossing Manning and trying to suck info out of him, this bit of the chat logs don't mean anything substantively.

But folks like Greenwald need a nemesis, so any point to beat on Wired.com for reporting the story will work.

Full disclosure: I work for Wired.com and Kevin Poulsen used to be my editor, and still occasionally is. I never saw the logs till they were pubbed and had no hand in the decision.
As someone in the field, I can totally relate to this story. After a while, web design starts to feel like a treadmill. You really have no control of your own destiny and have to constantly rely on a consistent flow of new clients. The better you get, the more expensive are your services. Unfortunately, web design is a commodity so you're constantly being nipped away by cheaper competitors. It feels like a bubble waiting to burst.

The only way out is to create a product that can be packaged and resold to many different clients. This allows you to focus and develop one product, instead of spreading your talent across multiple projects. More importantly, it allows you to control your destiny because you schedule when and how releases happen.

It's farming, versus hunting and gathering.
Same thing with my wife. The registration process was a big turn-off, especially being faced with lists of random people, lack of explanation of what's going on, and confusing interaction on the circles page.

That's the stuff Facebook has perfected over the years through relentless optimization.
Much better formatting on that one. Thanks!
An "open" alternative could be the CouchDB integration that elasticsearch provides:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/river/couchdb.h...
Thanks for the response! I'm looking for a solution such that Python will go and load system's time zone and use that---it's a nightmare to deploy an app to multiple severs located in different timezone and I have to change the timezone in Python manually.
Conversely, sometimes you decide it isn't worth it. My senior year of high school, I was being pushed to take 3 AP courses. I thought about what I wanted out of my senior year, and decided I already had what I needed to get into college and wanted to enjoy it. I took 1 AP course instead - and procrastinated in it horribly, but at least my GPA didn't suffer horribly from 1 course.

Sometimes you don't need to convince yourself of anything, you need to change course.
Cocos2d for iPhone v1.0.0 released
Automated shoulder surfing makes it easier to steal passwords (video)
so is bitbucket and bitbucket has unlimited space if you are under 5 users per project
People do cooperate when both sides have stake in each other - when there's a common goal. It's why people start companies together.