skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How was it registered initially if it is prohibited under Verisign rules?
Err, I should have said "someone who is accused of intending..."
Saving time doesn't necessarily mean laziness, especially if one has to meet tight deadlines (which may or may not be the case here).

I don't understand why the grand parent is being down-voted, he just offered an different view.
I don't follow the logic in the article. As I read it the author reasons: "+.com is not legal, therefore it's a mistake to buy it". However, by the very fact that they were able to buy it, they have a good reason to buy it (e.g. someone else could beat them to it). Therefore, buying the domain sounds like an excellent idea to me.

What am I missing?
I/O Completion Ports abstraction is here:
https://github.com/joyent/libuv
Xcode is free for Lion http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12
You'll be able to get a USB stick with it on from next month apparently though at $69 it's fairly steep.
The high-performance computing community calls what you described "data parallelism": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_parallelism
That's why it's beta.
Why wouldn't they buy it? It's not like they're going to USE it. They're just preventing mischief.
Put your email in your profile so people can contact you.
I love the idea that we shouldn't inhibit ourselves or get stuck in ruts. But I felt like many of the items on this lit boiled down to 'Consume. But consume something novel and tell yourself it's somehow virtuous'
I've been using the developer previews, including the GM, and OpenGL performance seems to be better. Haven't run any proper tests, but my 3D stuff does seem zippier in most cases. Still, I'll probably wait until XCode functions okay before overwriting my Snow Leopard install.
I most certainly wasn't trying to make any claims about the technical infrastructure. Sure, MAS and iTunes use the same, no question, I wasn't trying to deny that. But are there activations? That's the question. iTunes has all this UI for managing activations, the MAS has not. You can't activate computers, you can't deactivate computers. Then there's the different license. It wouldn't make any sense if you had a limited number of activations given the license.

I see no reason to believe why there should be activations in the MAS. Using the same infrastructure doesn't mean anything.
If you are a windows user and adore the scrolling functionality:

WheelUp::
Send {WheelDown}
Return

WheelDown::
Send {WheelUp}
Return

Autohotkey is your savior :OD
37signals gives 10.000 fans the finger
It's easy to say "anything that improves on what we have today is a welcome innovation" but the whole point of the article raises the question of whether these videos are, in fact, an improvement. Bear in mind that anything you do in the classroom is connected with a cost (based on the finite resource of time) -- if you spend time doing something, you lose the ability to do something else.
I'm wondering if this isn't a real Fake Apple Store... as in, Apple recognizes the need to develop that market and also recognizes the fact that their products are prohibitively expensive for those customer - to avoid diluting the Apple brand, build "Apple Stoers" selling the merchandise at a deep discount.

These new Apple Stoers would be very functional and serve the company on many levels. Quickly test new markets with low risk, introduce the Mac at a lower price point, and eventually could be replaced with Real Apple Stores in strong markets.

As the Chinese economy develops, the price of the merchandise increases (maybe shifting from store to store?) and in a few decades they have a stronghold on the edgy cool market of top-of-the-line-computers in the new world market, but also have one on the lower-end Apple Stoer brand.

Sounds like a good plan, just seems strange that we're all talking about it though...
It's probably regional. Any place that has a high flux of MBAs; in my case NYC, Miami, London, Paris. Usually its a copy of an already successful model or a mashup of 2 already successful models.

Recently, someone asked me about my thoughts on a location based photosharing service (twitter meets flickr). I was honestly interested in it then a few weeks later Instagram came out. Most of the time I either get the ideas that are completely infeasible or too pedestrian.
Go WePay--get that 1-to-many distribution!
"Maintaining..." I rate this highly

"Giving people..." I do not think this is that important. The constitution, after all, was written behind closed doors because the writers feared what their constituencies might think.

"Fighting rising prices" - Good economics is vitally important, rising prices is a part of that.

"Protecting freedom of speech" - Important, not as important as economy.
Financial freedom isn't about how big your income is, but how long you could live without that income. If I'm making $1m a year, but I'm a dumbass and spend $995k, I'm just as tied to my paycheck as the guy who only earns $50k and spends $45k. A guy who earns $100k a year and still only spends $45k is much better off than either of those two. Having a larger income impacts your financial freedom only to the extent that you're able to sock more money away and live off of that (or the proceeds if you invest). Otherwise, you're just a wage slave with nicer toys.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy options.
135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0
4chan and /b/: Analysis of Anonymity & Ephemerality in a Large Online Community
It's worse than that. The Manager communicated their BAD IDEA very well, and the employees obeyed. It's more of a bad manager situation, NOBODY is misinterpreting orders. Managers are just not understanding what they want (my only problem is the title).
Go for best CPU, best graphics, everything else can be changed later. AFAIK with CPUs go for the best you can afford and cool, cooling isn't a problem with minis.
It's pretty much the only phone number I can remember.
If you have to update, the newer scansnaps are fantastic for feed scanners. Worth every dollar of the 300-500 price tag.
I would be surprised, actually. Their Android tablet app is absolutely terrible (I think it's the same as the phone app, which is what makes it terrible). I hope they do put out tablet apps, and soon, but given that they could have launched a decent Android tablet app and chose not to makes it seem like they're delaying tablets for a while.

I could be wrong, though. I'd love to be wrong.
I really hope so...
Completely off topic but "Wikipedia, brought to you by Orange"? What is that all about?
How to Use Bulleted Lists to Create Great Copy
sizes the window to best fit the content (in theory). I think it's up to the application to specify that size though.

Works very well in Safari, but always seems to go to full screen for Firefox. Chrome's working sort of as expected here alternating between best fit and some stupid tiny size it seems to have concocted.
This past week a co-worker introduced me to Moom... he said it was the closest he would ever get to xmonad on the Mac:

http://manytricks.com/moom/
When you're dealing with non-third normal form db schemas for performance reasons where materialized views won't provide the gains you need. That said, I've only seen a need for them about 3 times in my career, but I imagine they're much more applicable in data warehousing scenarios.
I love my 13" MBP. It drives a large monitor when I need it to, and the rest of the time it's very portable and comfortable. I forget the screen is small, honestly.

Lion download progress: about 45%
It's very cool. It takes the "don't make me think" principle to the next level by forgoing "options" like "Register a new user" or "Create a new account" and instead makes the action a simple fact. I am a new user!
A show of hands, does anyone use these apps?

I haven't used anything but a web interface for webapps for a while now. iCal and Address Book are always among the first things deleted by me on a new OSX install.
Childhood phone numbers - if your parents still live in your childhood home and haven't changed phone number (not that unusual) then it's just their phone number.

First teacher - actually I can't remember mine (I was only there for a single term) but, again, I know enough people who have contacts they've had since very early school days, so will share that answer.

Honestly, I'm yet to come across a 'security' question of that type that is memorable to the user but couldn't be identified by someone else for at least a significant percentage of users. I'm not at all sure there are 'safe' questions of this sort.
Java SE 7 reference implementation released
I found the big deal was reversing my windows computer as well. (I reversed mac scrolling weeks ago with Scroll Reverser).

It's lovely once you get used to that (as scrolling matches most smart phones then)

Auto hot key script:

WheelUp::
Send {WheelDown}
Return

WheelDown::
Send {WheelUp}
Return
OS X Lion Recovery - Introducing Lion Recovery
A maxed out 11" MBA (which unfortunately comes to a mere $50 less than the comparable 13") with a 27" Cinema Display sounds like my dream rig - complete flexibility between portability and comfort/expandability (when connected to the spacious and port-packed display).
On why Goodstein sequences should terminate
As an active developer with apps in the store etc, I don't like upgrading xcode until it's a final release. I've used GMs and betas too many times and then found out I can't submit code built from it.

It's really annoying, and I'm not about to test out the buggy xcodes or manage multiple installs. The current 4.x retail releases are buggy enough.

So if that's the way it's going to be I will also wait for everything to be released fully.
But gcc does work right?
...but Intel released the Pentium and it couldn't divide by 10.

Sometimes testers use the shotgun approach, and things get missed. It can help to write exhaustive tests (you have a computer, right?) and try everything. But the problem space has to be orderly, orthogonal, something that can be spanned. This bug is in a pretty small problem space - an API with many dimensions (arguments), external dependencies. I'm not at all surprised something got thru.
Vuescan supports a lot of scanners:

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported
The Types of People I Wanna Work With At My Startup
XCode was in fact always included with the OS X images.
With OS X Lion, Apple Touches Upon The Next Decade Of The OS
All my /usr/local remained intact on upgrade.

I believe this was the standard behavior with an upgrade install on previous OS X releases, and it got moved out of the way when you did an "archive and install."

I couldn't even find an option to archive and install on Lion, does it even exist? I would rather have done that and gotten rid of all the cruft I've accumulated.
I thought Eliezer's Lesswrong sequences might give different results. Applying your tests to those (from http://jb55.com/lesswrong/), I get 257,646 total words, 11,666 unique dictionary words, and 12,721 unique words (I'm surprised there aren't more unique words, given that the quantum physics sequence is in there).
168*257,646^.3357 = 11,010, so the sequences seem to be at about HP level.

Excellent work, by the way; thanks for the analysis.
Not sure which prior comment to respond to.

MN links end up with a query string appended. If you're going to share them, you need to shave it off before sharing / following:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18508492
Pretty cool little idea. Just out of interest what stack is this on?
I ironically used to work for McKinsey and was among their top performers, then I dropped out of the rat race and have been doing just enough freelance work to stay afloat. I didn't know there was a term for my type, but "threshold earner" gives me a sense of legitimacy. I like it.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not? Or are you seriously saying that a government has control over how many jobs are created?
Problem:

1. Do fewer structured activities.

vs.

19. You’re really pissed off at what’s going on in your kid’s school. So run for the school board.
It's interesting in that in the supercomputing world the message passing model has been popular for decades, but not by choice. It was the only way to get good performance. But the holy grail has always been shared memory, not message passing. But perf for shared memory applications has continued to be horrible. But anyone who has experience writing a message passing and a shared memory version almost always concedes the shared memory version is easier.

Large scale parallel message passing apps are extremely difficult to get right. Most people just haven't done it. With that said, some of the difficulties in the past where tied to the fact that message passing was done with a weak type system, no contracts (I sent you message, but how do I know you're ever going to respond to it?), and weak support for gather/scatter.

AFAICT, not having done much at all with Erlang, it deals nicely with the type system issue, but contracts are still a problem. Gather/scatter is partially assisted in the same way that PM/FM handled it in the past (you get to write code to pull messages out of your mailbox).

My prediction is that if message passing does take off in a big way, we'll see a pretty strong backlash to shared memory with functionality, such as type ownership and data representation synthesis. Unfortunatley, most of this research is ignored in favor of the more popular functional work (which in itself is good, just not currently balanced in the language community by other types of thinking).
But can one say that following the kinds of tips given in the article is already a kind of self discipline?

I know that I myself have a very hard time to work (like, I almost _can't_) if I'm not interested by (or having fun with) what I'm supposed to do. But sometimes there's no choice and then I'm really, really not productive. In this case, disconnecting myself from internet is kind of mandatory if I don't want to find myself "procrastinating" on IRC, HN or reddit (I often go there unconsciously, by reflex!).
A barely working proof of concept is just as much vapor as a PowerPoint deck. The difference is that investors will have a lot more confidence that you are serious if it's an app, even if that app has no more functionality than a slide deck.

So tailor the level of effort to the investors you are talking to. In my experience, less experienced investors are more easily impressed by a simple app, where more experienced investors will see it for what it is - glorified PowerPoint.
My Weekend Project: The Pauper's Book Club - Find Inexpensive Kindle Books
Embattled Harvard professor resigns
I think about it as using my finger to drag the screen up or down on the mousewheel (like I'm scratching the page down or up with my fingernail). After about a week it is very disconcerting to do the opposite.

I did also need to setup my windows computer to do the opposite direction on scroll though to make the transition work (autohotkey script is on this page).
Please change the headline. Lion Recovery is awesome, but in August, you'll be able to buy Lion on a USB stick for $69. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/20Mac-OS-X-Lion-Avai...

edit: thank you
Thanks. Google Appengine/Python.
Anyone that has it, will it fit on a 4g usb stick or should I buy an 8 before I get home?
Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
It's available now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090
Mainstream media coverage has also turned in Swartz’s favor.

Not really. The quotes they provide are either neutral at best, from decidedly not "mainstream" media, or are just the news outlets quoting DemandProgress.

I can kind of sympathize with Aaron's goal, but I can't really get behind the methods. If the charges in the indictment are anywhere near true, they're pretty damning.
The UK HMRC charges no customs duty or import duty on imports of computers, but does levy 20% VAT (sales tax).

Using today's exchange rate of 1.6149, here are the UK like-for-like premiums for several Apple products in the UK:

7.6% - ipad 2
13.4% - ipod touch
14.4% - mac air 11 64gb
12.1% - mac air 11 128gb
13.9% - mac air 13 128gb
13.5% - mac air 13 256gb
12.1% - mbp 13
21.1% - thunderbolt display

Note: these premiums compare the US price excluding sales tax to the UK price excluding the UK 20% VAT sales tax.

Therefore, the UK premium is much larger when you consider that in some US states there is no sales tax, but the entire UK is subject to 20% sales tax.

Also note that VAT is only a sales tax on items for personal use. Business users do not have to pay the VAT (they reclaim it).

Here therefore are the premiums comparing US states with zero sales tax to the UK:

29.1% - ipad 2
36.1% - ipod touch
37.2% - mac air 11 64gb
34.6% - mac air 11 128gb
36.6% - mac air 13 128gb
36.2% - mac air 13 256gb
34.6% - mbp 13
45.3% - thunderbolt display

Lesson: go on holiday to the US, buy your Mac in a state without sales tax, and you're still ahead when you pay 20% tax on the import when you arrive back in the UK.
Yes, a good manager takes responsibility when something like this happens (as the author does). But how many good managers are there? It should be more clear on who's at fault, maybe the bad managers will turn around about that.

I saw an old work training film about management with Jon Cleese as some sort of angel (god?). He keeps explaining over and over again to the manager that it's his responsibility for everything. It's at least the starting point for a manager to figure out what went wrong.
XCode 4.1 is now on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090
As a power user I never maximized windows (also not convinced about the new full screen mode) but just stacked a gazillion open programs/windows, that I can bring them with a click to the foreground. I also have always Skype/Adium or a terminal/twitter/netnewswire window at the side of the screen open.
It was created in December 2006, wouldn't that predate something written in 2008 that prohibits it?
Yep, the battery was bumped from 40-watt-hour to 50-watt-hour.
That tweet frustrates the hell out of me. Am I wrong to read "tech geniuses" as kind of condescending?
Facebook photo batch upload uses Applet if I'm not mistaken.
You can install this on all your machines. Just log into the mac appstore. It's like iOS not like iTunes: They don't limit the number of machines.
A many-to-many table as IgorPartola mentioned, other examples include versioned or temporal storage, i.e. a "history" table where the primary key is the PK of the parent table + a version id.

SQLAlchemy can also map to views or selects - if a view or select is against multiple tables, now you have a composite primary key by nature. A core piece of SQLAlchemy is that we select rows from many things besides physical tables.
How long do the surveys last for?
Short version: gambling could make more money than Zynga's virtual good sales model.
No one's saying that simple comments aren't allowed, but I'm not sure that your simple comment contributes much to the conversation. Maybe if you explained why you thought that you think that Facebook is beginning to worry about serious competition, you wouldn't get a reply asking what you meant by your otherwise simple comment.

When someone nitpicks at a tiny element of a larger post, that's pedantic. When all you posted was something tiny, however, you're inviting further inquiry by being unspecific and vague.
Steve Jobs on reports of CEO succession - "I think it's hogwash"
Quote:
"""
OTR makes the same error. It takes a very interesting mathematical
property, and extend it into the hard human world, as if the words carry
the same meaning. Perhaps, once upon a time, in some TV court room
drama, someone got away with lying about a document? From this, OTR
suggests that mathematics can help you deny a transcript? It can't. It
can certainly muddy the waters, it can certainly give you enough rope to
hang yourself, but what it can't do is give some veneer of "it didn't
happen." Not in court, not in the hard world of humans.
"""

I don't see any 'why' here. Maybe the context of this particular discussion would clarify it. Maybe it's well-known in places I have not read.

I think that perhaps a steganography implementation combined with OTR might provide a very interesting approach to hiding crypto communication and providing reasonable doubt on the transmission's existence.
"Internet Recovery.
Help is everywhere.

If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically. It downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air."

Anyone wanna guess how that mechanism works? Micro kernel on some internal flash memory?
Xcode 4.1 now available free from the Mac App Store
They're looking for "tech geniuses":

https://twitter.com/#!/PlaneRed/status/93572991077715968
> Because Flask is decoupled, it let's you use whatever tool is right for the job.

(Derail alert)

How is it any more difficult to use a graph database in Django? (Hint: if you say "but then you can't use X" my next question is "are you implying Flask includes X and you can automagically use X with a graph database?")
The Dell Adamo (their answer to the MBA, which was nicer than the original, just way too expensive) did a couple years back, but that's now dead. Not sure what else is out there in the space, but just about any newer laptop with upgradable RAM can do 8GB -- almost all will support 4GB in each of the (standard) two banks.
There's a big difference between the MBA glossy display and the macbook pro glass display. I use the MBA daily but when I got a chance to play around with a friend's 17" MBP glossy... it was terribly unusable.
Done.

Interesting that the USB stick version is so much more, I assume it's really only for those upgrading from pre 10.6, so it's similar to the cost of Snow Leopard + Lion + cost of media
Minus (min.us) is hiring in NYC
OS X Lion: Internet Recovery
For once we didn't get shafted in Canada. Our prices start at $999 too instead of $1099.
Parenscript isn't quite the same thing.
The Future of Book Stores
Tech-savvy Taliban fights war in cyberspace
Really pretty cool. I'd assume this is just an MVP but it has potential, with some obvious things:

- Private results
- Better formatting
- Branding
- Demo would help

Probably more, but for a first version it looks great.
I'd wait a year till you graduate, if you still need to buy a computer, buy the 17in and add an SSD if you are going to be doing programming, otherwise either the 13in air or 15in MBP will work fine if you need one NOW.

The 13in MBP is pretty low end without upgrading many of the components.

MBPs have tremendous resale value (especially the higher size models), so don't feel so bad about spending a few extra bucks on them.
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Absolutely. My typical workflow is a mixture of full-screen windows and windows that are tiled left-right or top-bottom. For what feels like forever, I have managed this manually (and tediously), but then I found Moom - http://manytricks.com/moom/ - and it made my life easy.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
None of the words were domain-specific; they were all general vocabulary. You're a polymath, but a lot of your knowledge is focused into technical areas that weren't represented on the test.
SciPy 2011 Conference Highlights
"However, Myhrvold has turned that trickle of ideas into a torrent by acquiring patents. The concept is simple: Intellectual Ventures buys technology patents (30,000 and counting), gathers them into a critical mass then sells or licenses the intellectual property."

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article7127608.ece

(via the Wikipedia article on Intellectual Ventures, Myhrvold's company)