skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you're never interested in a job in commercial software - it's be very hard for many of these firms to stay in business if every disgruntled committer was legally clear to leak your whole source code base to the competition or the world.
ChromeOS is based on linux, so I'd expect something similar to what Android does: userland dhclient with the same performance profile as the tablet he tested.
Security problem or DRM problem? I've never heard the audio tag was a security issue.
Years ago my employer released a new version of their desktop app.

Occasionally, under certain versions of Windows, it would complain and show a dialogue box during the installation process. We needed to hit a release date (yes, it was our own fault - we didn't have time to deal with the error message in the installer) so on the upgrade instructions, on our website, we added "you may see a box like this [screenshot] - just click the OK button, the box will close and installation will continue".

A couple of days later we had a call from an exasperated customer - "I keep clicking OK but the box won't go away".

After an hour of talking we finally figured out that he was clicking the OK button on the screenshot on the webpage and hadn't even started the upgrade process.
Maybe the facebook crowd is not what Google's going after. It seems most of the early adopters are geeks and the twiterrati. Remember that facebook did not grow in geek circles.
The filter is known as the "trigger". The trigger has several levels, so that the data rate is reduced by an order of magnitude or more at each level. The lowest levels are done in hardware for speed. The upper levels are in software for flexibility.

Designing the trigger is extremely complex, since the various detectors within each experiment have greatly varying response time. Only data from fast detectors is available for the low level trigger.

In addition, the speed of light is a real barrier for the lower levels of the trigger; by the time the debris from a collisions reach the outer reaches of the experiment (this is usually where the muon chamber is), there have already been an additional collision at the center.

(The speed of light is about 1 ft/nanosecond, the radius of the muon chamber in CMS is about 25 ft, and the time between bunch crossings is about 25 nanoseconds.)

The design of the trigger is a very important and often contentious process. A bad trigger will throw out important physics events, and trade-offs can favor one physics search (e.g. the Higgs) over another (e.g. supersymmetry).
I had a boss that took the opposite approach. Whenever I started to lose productivity, he'd put me on work he knew I'd hate, telling me I'd get to do more interesting things when I showed him I could be productive. So I started working on side projects at the office just to keep my mind from going and became less and less productive until I quit.

He was a talented engineer himself and a good friend. We ended up working together again at another company. A few months after he arrived, I had a slump and the cycle repeated itself. This time we had long meetings where he accused me of being cynical and questioned my dedication; I defended it ("I'm here making much less than I was before, aren't I?"), which was exhausting in itself. I thought the problem was all on my side, so I didn't put up much of a fight when he told me I'd be writing integration tests full-time--no more "real" coding--until I proved whatever he thought needed proving. I forced myself to ignore any side projects I had going. He called me in again later to complain that the tests weren't coming along quickly enough and that they "read like sketch comedy routines". (They did, actually. I was bored, and the tests were full of things like, e.g., Eve getting unfriended by Alice but not Bob and, wounded, trying to spy on Alice. It did tehnically test our access controls!)

Because I was convinced it was my problem, I stuck around long enough to get fired this time. I'm lucky enough right now to have very interesting work (at a big company, of all places), but this article has given me an opportunity to reconsider what happened at the old job in a different light.
Not to be too self-promotional, but I built a site called HackerBuddy.com that could help you find a mentor (it's all free).

A lot of the advice here is about learning to code by building something for yourself, I completely agree with that approach. Pick a small web app that you'd like to build and try to build it yourself - when you get stuck, StackOverflow can usually help. I know that I learned much more by building something than I did being shown how to build something. And good luck!
If your company uses google calendar, I recommend you take a look at your coworker's schedules to get an idea of how many meetings people are subjected-to.
Ever since I saw the Cultured Code status page[1] a few months ago, I have been wanting this product. I think a lot of companies would benefit from being more open with their customers about progress.

1. http://culturedcode.com/status
Google Plus as a successor to LiveJournal
Was hoping for Austin TX, but there's not usually much love for ATX here on HN :/
"Chrome OS" is Gentoo, not Android. One of my friends has a Cr47 and some hacking exposed dhcpcd inside, with some unspecified patching to bring it down to sub-second DHCP.
I've had my wife's macbook bump mine off the network by stealing the IP my machine is using. Definitely an inconvenience when on skype.
How to Migrate from Facebook to Google+
Netflix introduces new plans and price changes
Amazon files petition for referendum on sales-tax collection rule
If you can improve the MTTF by leveraging this technology to make the entire server highly resistant to dust fouling, then there might be another tremendous benefit for datacenters.
And this is superior to other cost cutting measures how? Jobs will be lost any way you cut the deficit.
Semantics matter. Would you rather argue about syntax?
Managers and leads aren't all-powerful. They answer to their managers and, in some sense, to their peers.
Google Promises to Make Google Docs Available Offline Soon
How do I go about understanding the internals of Fire fox or GNU emacs? Do I need to understand the entire thing to contribute? If not what should I do?
Although I can't watch the video at work - I assume it's one of the many videos where the entire motherboard is submerged in mineral oil. Certainly that's the case, and it's why overclockers have been trying this for over a decade. It's just a problem with moving the heat away from a very concentrated area of the die. As lutorm observed, the viscosity (combined with the inability to transfer heat quickly) ends up preventing an efficient mineral oil based cooling solution.
VMware's Largest Coordinated Software Release Focuses on Cloud Infrastructure
People don't care about privacy.

I find this kind of thought process philosophically unsound. People might not care about privacy enough today -- that doesn't mean that software developers should follow them off the cliff. At some level, programmers have a moral imperative to guide users into doing things that are better for them. That includes ensuring privacy, even at the cost of a slightly more involved UX.

Also, people who know or care about sync keys also know how to use private browsing.

I don't use private browsing because I'm the only one who uses my devices, so I don't care about the contents of my history. I do care about Google knowing about it though, which is why I use Firefox.
This implementation by the Mac feels wrong. I mean it appears to work, but it seems like a violation of the protocol and can result in problems on the network. Maybe security issues (?). I'm not an expert in any of these things, but I'd love to hear a network protocol/security experts take on this.
Well, if you care about a locked bootloader and similar restrictions (99% don't), but didn't put the effort into googling your phone to find out about them, you can always root your phone and put on the the newest version - If you didn't get a Nexus in the first place, that is. Also, you'd have to live in the US for it to matter, the vast majority of carriers actually deliver Android updates pretty timely.

I agree Android isn't anywhere near a perfect linux dream of open hard- and software, but it isn't as awful as you depict it either imho.
Any thoughts anyone on Australia?
The really bad news: No more Unlimited Streaming + Unlimited DVD combines plan.

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Second, we are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into separate plans to better reflect the costs of each and to give our members a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan or the option to subscribe to both. With this change, we will no longer offer a plan that includes both unlimited streaming and DVDs by mail.

So for instance, our current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be split into 2 distinct plans:

Plan 1: Unlimited Streaming (no DVDs) for $7.99 a month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 out at-a-time (no streaming), for $7.99 a month.

The price for getting both of these plans will be $15.98 a month ($7.99 + $7.99). For new members, these changes are effective immediately; for existing members, the new pricing will start for charges on or after September 1, 2011.
FTA: "Unlike the passwords taken from government contractor IRC Federal, the passwords from the Booz Allen system have been hashed using SHA-1. This will make breaking into further systems using the released account information harder—but it's likely that at least some of the passwords will be crackable, and so further damage could follow."

<insert critique of prevailing orthodoxies re: password hashing, a horse beaten to death on HN already>
Fun read.

I also liked the humor of the page poking fun of the very concepts being sold.
Looks awesome! Is this as fast as nosql datastores?
Three Social Experiments for Growing a Marketplace
The number of freeloaders may not be planned, but the blogging is most definitely planned. Nobody is being forced to write a blog post.

The authors have the option to ignore the freeloaders. Most software publishers do, or there would be little room in industry publications for anything else. This genre of complaint goes all the way back to Bill Gates in 1976:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

Perhaps it's better to focus on something else (as Bill Gates eventually did) rather than tilting at a thirty-five-year-old windmill. Unless, of course, windmill-tilting looks like a useful news hook.
Are there any other languages that do cool things with enums like this?

Is there a similar trick for Go?
Minecraft demo in Chrome/Safari: http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/examples/webgl_geometry_mi...
Assuming you got your stats from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Cur...

Which says, for Commercial energy use:
25% lighting
13% heating
11% cooling
6% refrigeration
6% water heating
6% ventilation
6% electronics

You could find gains in ventilation, electronics, refrigeration, cooling, and probably even heating if this technology was widely used and performs well over all uses, so the 7% isn't out of the question, even if it might be very optimistic.
I worked for a 30 person database consultancy for my first job out of uni. Their Intranet home page contained a large and prominent link to "Internet access by user", which listed the amount of bandwidth being consumed by each person through their HTTP proxy. I have no idea who instituted that policy, but I instantly disliked the company .

You could download large binaries for only so long to cover your tracks, so I just ended up running a constant SSH session to a Lynx browser, so casual passersby would think I was working.

I quit about 6 months later for many other very good reasons, boredom being a huge one. A couple of months earlier I had asked if I could transfer to a new role (from developer to admin), which was flatly denied. When I announced I was leaving, one of the three senior management came up to me and said that in the last management meeting he had said I was bored and that they needed to find something more for me to do. Apparently he was shouted down (metaphorically).

The last I heard of the company was that as a result of my departure, they would no longer hire graduates with A grades. They would look for B or C grades from now on. I can't imagine a worse lesson to learn, but there you go.
A couple of years ago I was moving and decided to do something with the shoeboxes full of 5.25" and 3.5" disks I had sitting in my attic.

I couldn't bear just to pitch them so feeling nostalgic I resurrected an old PC (also in the attic) with a 3.5" drive and I was able to read about 50% of them including one that had my Programming Languages class assignments from 1990 (a Lisp REPL with macros written in Pascal and a pretty printer for Modula-2 code). The other disks I cared about where unreadable even after using the freezer trick on them.

Where are they now? The working ones are in a shoebox in my attic in my new house. I'll probably check on them again in 10 years.

btw, if you need a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0 just let me know...
This potential problem is partly addressed in the latest version. Thanks for pointing it out.
This is a great example of Apple's detail-oriented focus on real-world user experience, and helps explain why people prefer Macs even if they can't always explain why. Lots of little things just work better. You (where "you" == myself and many others, even if not /you/ personally) are left overall with an experience of less frustration.
Interesting on the perspectives here. My macbook is faster at reconnecting than my linux laptop was, but it's still a few seconds. When I'm opening the lid, I typically still need to wait 2-4 seconds before the network is usable, sometimes it's a bit more. In comparison, it's still faster, but not 'instantaneous' as some people seem to suggest. Neither of my macbooks have been "instant" (but again, certainly faster than other hardware I've owned).
Hacked Hardware Has Been Sold in the U.S.
I don't think we've yet exhausted all of the opportunities that collective action has brought. Obviously, we believe in crowdfunding at CivicSponsor, but I think it's a demonstration of the potential for (as the previous commenter discussed) integrating online interactions with the real world.

Check-ins sort of got us there, crowdfunding is a step closer. Anything that draws real connections that have value from the easy-to-create online connections that social networks offer has the potential to be huge. I'd say Groupon and AirBnB are really part of that trend, and I don't think it's over just yet.
Skype protocol cracked
Out-Of-State Online Retailers Flee California’s New Tax Law
Ask HN: Value of our 4 year old startup?
We've received an offer to directly buy 51% of our shares, resulting in an early stage partial exit (not funding for company). I have a feeling that it's a fairly low offer, and I am hoping to get some insight from people who are familiar with these sorts of deals.

EDIT: Sorry for following formatting, it was submitted as a hierarchical bullet list

The facts as I see them:
- We founded our company 4 years ago (5 founders)
- Still 100% owned by founders
- Pivoted twice, each time reusing most of our previous work
- Saw some revenue after our first pivot, but found a better idea
- Currently based in Australia (would move to US though)
- First sale of current product this year
- 3 year contract with a total of over US$650K (in british pounds)
- To small/medium sized company in a very large worldwide industry
- we see this as a small deal, and discounted at that for our first client
- 50% of the revenue goes to a partner company that made the sale
- Many more sales in the pipeline, and bigger ones
- They've recently loaned us some money to support feature development
- In exchange for 3 year worldwide exclusivity on sales
- (Early stage venture funding very hard to get in Australia, and 4 years is a long time!)
- Loan payback conditional on them making sales
- We have Windows, OS X, iOS and Android clients for our product

Our product is first to market and significantly more advanced than those of our competitors - we have the benefit of having worked on a related system for years before pivoting to this, whereas our competitors are coming from different backgrounds. Every company we've demonstrated to has been hugely excited about it - we save them time and money in a few ways. The standard software contracts in this industry are 3-5 years and for large sums of money.

If you can accept all this at face value - what sort of back of the napkin calculations would you come up with for a valuation? I will answer any requests for more detail if I can do so without revealing who we are or too much about what we do. We're in stealth mode.

Giving up control of our company isn't ideal, but the offer IS directly for the shares, rather than for being able to grow the team. You accumulate a few bills when you self-fund a startup for 4 years.

Coincidently (really), I'm visiting friends in L.A. for the next two weeks. If any serious investor out there is interested in a demo and potentially working towards making an investment in our company I could meet. I would love to add a couple of engineers to the team and investors with the right connections could help us go after the relevant deals in the enormous US market for our product.

Perhaps it's naive to ask this way in a forum such as this but I am our startup's core hacker - not the guy usually dealing with the business end. This post is not an indication of a rift in the founding team - I am simply a substantial shareholder in this and I have decided to collect data from a community that I respect. Either way, I am primarily concerned with finding out if the partial exit offer is reasonable or not.
Why is there no analogous law which requires every property owner to check the ID of and keep logs of anyone visiting their property?
Apart from presenting an interesting problem, I'd say presenting an opportunity to learn something new and valuable is as important.

I developed and maintained an ASP.NET application for a long time and eventually became bored. My boss tried to make things interesting by giving me small new application / feature to solve a problem but having to continue using ASP.NET made my gnash my teeth.

I would have preferring having to figure out some new language/platform where the discovery process would have been rewarding and satisfying.

So give them not only new ends to pursue, but also new means.
Pretty easy to make a living on 4% when you're dealing with multimillion dollar (and multiyear) contracts, not so much so when dealing with $80k developers :)
Your just using ad populum here. That's not an argument. There is no benefit for anyone to be gained through domain seizures. It's just another gateway to censorship.

Besides, you got the part about rights of individuals wrong. The right to do what you want doesn't stop where the government thinks it should. It's where you start infringing on another individuals right to what he or she wants.
Will the Xbox 720 run Windows 8?
I can vouch for this, as boredom at my job has gone up, so has my HN usage, I'm probably over an hour a day right now.

I'll be handing in my notice as soon as possible.
Since a function is just an object with a single 'apply' method, I agree with the spirit of your code.

However, the concept is more naturally/idiomatically expressed in C# using an abstract class and variants (i.e. derived classes) for the various states.

This also gives you the advantage that you can encode valid state transitions in the type system itself.
Geological Survey of Japan - Catalogue of Geologic Maps
Yeah, it does seem like slightly anti-social behaviour (basically, it's asking for forgiveness rather than permission). At least on your home-network, this seems like it could be fixed by assigning your machines permanent addresses or making the router give out much more long lived DHCP leases.
Note that this is not the full AOSP release. You can't build a 3.2 image off of this. This is just the LGPL/GPL portions they're required to release under the license terms.
It all comes down to how much risk you want to take.

(In general:) Consumer orientated startups have the potential to become ridiculously valuable companies - lets just define that as a valuation of $1bn+. Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare (soon), etc. But your chances of getting there are 0.001%.

Business orientated apps that real solve a genuine problem are more likely to be 'successful' (say, valued at $100m+) but unlikely to become $1Bn businesses (on it's own - you might get acquired, or you could become a software behemoth like Atlassian with 100's of products - but these are not really 'startups' anymore) .

As someone about to turn 30 and been in this business a few years, I see this as simply an example of someone with a matured aspiration for what they want to achieve.

If you are in your 20's, it fits your profile to probably work on something consumer oriented, taking a risk and also have a lot of run (consumer apps tend to be more fun that business apps, just saying).

If you are 30+ and not had that big win yet, it might be worth changing your expectation and working on something that has a higher chance of being moderately successful so that you are more likely to walk away from your career with something.

This may or may not be what is going on with the founders of MeetingBurner, but it's precisely where my head is at as I turn 30.
I think you took it too far, perhaps in completely other directions.

Apple's products are brilliant, innovative and fun to use. iOS is a great ecosystem for developers and users alike. Apple continues to make incredible gains in profits and pleasing it's customers.

(That was me agreeing with you, despite the fact that these points have nothing to do with what we're discussing, in case it wasn't clear.)

Dissension of Apple is valid in this case. Apple has a history of doing things different. Innovative. Progressive, even. The approach they are taking is none of those. We expect better.
As long as you don't pull a DimDim, axing the early users in favor of the enterprise.
Hey ttsiodras, "ghc -O2 Main.hs" should be enough. I've updated the code a bit. It's now half F#'s execution time on my computer :)
I have an old 8" floppy disk with some of my old IBM Series/1 code on it. Needless to say it is staying on it.
I believe that Android also uses dhcpcd, if I recall correctly from recently browsing the source code. I do not know whether or how Android's dhcpcd may be modified.
Good idea. Some criticisms about the execution:

1. I'd like to see an example of the email.

2. Reduce the amount of writing on the landing page. We all know why we should do exercises at work, you really don't need to sell that concept, use that space instead to sell your service- why should I give out my email? What makes you different from other similar products?

A good start.
Have you tried Slacker? I find their 'stations' and discovery to be better than Pandora, and they have a larger selection of music.
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but this is entirely true. I'm sat here watching a data mining job. It's wasted time, largely brought on because the job doesn't have unit tests, so I have no confidence it'll actually complete correctly, so I need to watch the log and see what its doing.

This not a good use of my time, and I hate seeing that console, and I feel bad for being on HN when I could be productive.
If anybody did that with me, my respect for them would go up 10-fold.. instantly.
Ah, the formatted hierarchy of the 'facts' paragraph was lost during submission, sorry for that. Also i'm not sure why this hasn't appeared in the 'Ask' section, perhaps I submitted this in the wrong way.