skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More Than Two-Thirds of Google+ Activity Is Private: http://allthingsd.com/20110721/more-than-two-thirds-of-googl...

It's designed mainly for private sharing hence the circles.
Agreed. I actually did a Cmd+F "tmux" and "screen" after skimming the article to make sure I didn't miss it somehow.

A terminal multiplexer is an absolute must if your connection is likely to be interrupted. Closing the laptop, moving to a different room and picking up right where you left off is great.
Every hour of TV watching shortens life by 22 minutes
All Your BASH Are Belong To Us
you can elect to be treated like an S-Corp

Right, that's what an 8832 election I referred to in the original comment is.
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, the middle class and the need (as far as history is concerned) the healing of men. (Australia unruly Bracey Luke is forced.) The actresses do their job, and Ms.
Groupchat.tv Brings a Google Hangouts-Like Experience to Facebook
Women's Quest for Romance Conflicts with Scientific Pursuits
So I have yet to find a project to use node on, my case is mostly for Async AJAX requests.

Here's a very simple version (which I admit to still using occasionally)

RequestHandler = {
numberOfRequests: 3
makeRequests: function() {
var __this = this;
a(function() {
// Parse Data
__this.completeRequest();
})
b(function() {
// Parse Data
__this.completeRequest();
})
c(function() {
// Parse Data
__this.completeRequest();
})
},
completeRequest: function() {
this.numberOfRequests--;
if(this.numberOfRequests == 0 ) this.doDone();
}
doDone: function() {
// We now have all data, do what we will.
}
}
RequestHandler.makeRequests();
I suppose Help|Troubleshooting is acceptable (didn't know about that one), but it's still sitting in an omg-everything-broke kind of page that looks like random-user's nightmare come true.
I wish I knew about this kind of thing last time I hacked on node.js... I would have had such better & cleaner code. This clears up a lot. Thanks
It is one thing knowing what is on these lists, but another actually sticking to them.

Although you are correct in saying that most people on HN could write this post, very few will ever manage to live it.
I used to architect solutions used by the social services and those concepts of data integrity, security, guaranteed deliveries etc. are something I came across everyday, and I think those same aspects are valid in public enterprises. The fact some people ignore those points doesn't make them less valid. And it doesn't change the fact that a failure in government IT is 100 million pounds and private startup failure can range between just lost time to a few millions private/VC money: calculated risk (usually, I know there are exceptions like boo.com :)
EU Court Temporarily Suspends Galaxy Tab Injunction
The top 10% of this class would be ideal candidates for Google/MSFT/etc.

Besides students or government paying, there are several other business models that could be considered, including employers sponsoring in exchange for exposure to the best students.

That said, governments already subsidize education in many countries. We should be demanding that the investment get us a better return!
Mercenaries have been associated with some bad things in the past - including the past of the United States - and so they are generally not seen as a good thing.

Private transportation systems are not really equivalent.

Moreover, privatization in and of itself is very often an excuse to throw money to cronies - certainly the case with Blackwater in particular; a mercenary costs hundreds of thousands a year to replace $30K or so in support costs for a regular military person. Just calling something "privatization" is usually enough for knee-jerk libertarians to assume it's saving you money - when it's just another item in the ol' kleptocracy toolkit.

Privatization as a concept also takes a hit from the bone-stupid idea of privatizing Social Security - which is just another way of passing risk on to the little guy while making sure our friends in the financial industry get to buy bigger yachts.

Privatization in the space industry really does save money - but much, much more importantly, it's the logical next step in making sure space technology gets viable. Long past time to get the free market involved there.
thats true; i have yet to see structured financial data for cheap. although depending on the targeted audience, that 'structure' varies. equity analysts might be concerned about operational performance, top line growth, margins, and stock buyback programs. debt/credit analysts might be concerned about cash flows, revolver draws, commercial paper programs, etc. there are many niche markets and existing services out there may have already provided these structures (albeit not cheaply and they may be proprietary if at a firm).

building a retail brokerage firm around structured market information i think is harder than it sounds. unless the transaction costs for each trade reflect the value-add of having a 'free' service structure financial data. currently, transaction costs reflect the quality of investment reports prepared by (usually) CFA investment professionals. i'm not sure if the free structured investment information would yield a transaction fee material enough to warrant a sustainable business model.
Think we're going need a new "who's suing whom" graph, getting hard to keep up...
(http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/whos_suin...)
"how is webOS hard to duplicate? How is it special?"

Couldn't you say that about any OS that's based on open source software? WebOS's big differentiator is things like UI, which are difficult to duplicate well.
Tandem Entrepreneurs: Why this fund is focusing all their efforts on mobile
The drama continues as HTC sues Apple over 3 patents
At the risk of hijacking the comment thread for an article about NodeJS to grandstand about CoffeeScript:

I'm not a big fan of leaky abstractions, and right now that's what CoffeeScript is. It will be somewhat less leaky once this has been resolved:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618650

…for all browsers.

I'm happy for CoffeeScript to exist, to be able to play with it, and to see its syntax inform the work on JS.next. It has a way to go before I'd be happy to use it in a production environment.
Consolidated Communications to put out Cisco ethernet
Hands-On with the Boxee Box (Version 1.2)
You're absolutely right. Gruber is an opinion guy at best (albeit a smart one), and his articles lack the type of technical analysis we ostensibly care about on HN. Then again, the front page is full of Techcrunch articles...

You want to analyze Gruber? Look at his writing style, which is clearly influenced by David Foster Wallace. He's a damn good writer! Otherwise, take him for what he is -- an Apple pundit with one part brilliance, two parts vitriol -- and stop worrying about what he said 6 months ago. Pundits reverse themselves constantly.

EDIT: I forgot to mention his taste for design and art. I'm more interested in his take on Kubrick's films than anything he writes about Apple.
Of course the solution is blindingly obvious. What you don't seem to grasp are any of the multitude of forces (some self-imposed/inflicted, some not) that make proceeding down that blindingly obvious path such a monumental struggle.

These people are not "too stupid" to recover. These people are exhibiting the natural human tenancies when confronted with these set of circumstance. It takes an extraordinary amount of drive and perseverance to overcome this.

If this is lost on you, it might help to compare this to losing weight. (Given your age though this might also be something you don't learn for a few years yet.) It's much easier to stay in shape than it is to adjust your weight downwards... you need to do much more exercise than a normal person would.
JMS can do async call as well is it not?

Is using JMS make programming more clumsy? listener vs pure async.

What about the RPC stuff, do you have to write a custom serialization ?
This is exactly right and the title should really say that.
Concept Meets Code: Tips for Entrepreneurs Dealing with Developers
Show HN: CloudStorage.im - The cloud storage price comparison website
"For security reasons, data: and javascript: URIs no longer inherit the security context of the current page when the user enters them in the location bar; instead, a new, empty, security context is created. This means that script loaded by entering javascript: URIs in the location bar no longer has access to DOM methods and the like, for example. These URIs continue to work as before when used by script, however."

Good bye bookmarklets?
Skillshare Raises $3.1 Million to Turn Everyone Into Teachers
Of the "48%" (since there are some questions about the number), I wonder how many are cross posting to Facebook.
During times that require high concentration (like programming), I listen to drum and bass. I find its repetitive nature combined with high energy resembles something like auditory caffeine without the crash afterwards.

Music with words or highly technical music (like jazz or prog) distracts me too much because of my musical background - I want to listen to every intonation, play the notes over in my head, try to figure out the scales, etc. But technical music is perfect during tasks that require only motor skills, like soldering or writing documents (rock, metal, sometimes jazz)
If HP are to licence webOS there is only one company out there they should think of licensing it to and no other.

answer : HTC

HTC has all the things webOS needs.

1. A strong dev community, just take a look at xda-developers.com. Devs have been hacking HTC devices since the dawn of time, even back when they only made OEM handsets. The community is dedicated and goes along with changes that HTC make. the phone I am using now is a HTC hd2 nearly two years old it came running Windows mobile 6.5, shortly after the HTC community hacked it to run android off the desire, then they got it running ubuntu ( and modified it to work with touchscreens ), then Windows phone 7, then started working on meego. You can get any virtually any version of Android on this phone even none HTC roms, like the dell streak. If HTC take on webOS you can be sure there will be a version cooked up for every current HTC device by the community. If that isn't the Dev community webOS needs then I don't know what is.

2. they build great hardware and have a reputation for quality.

3. they have a higher aspiration for innovation around the brand than samsung and seem more willing to try new things.

4. they like to focus on user experience and do a pretty good job of it. I would not go for any flavour of Android that is not running the sense ui, a lot of effort has been put into it and it beats the stock Android interface every other manufacturer churns out.

I can't see how HP can do it on there own, but I can't see how they could do it with generic licensing either. They need one and only one strong manufacturer in the mobile space to propell webOS, and I'm sorry but I can't see a better fit than HTC.

of course I'm sure HTC would have something to say on the matter.
Actually, I saw this story on the general news. Major companies suing each other counts as somewhat newsworthy, and one of their products getting blocked like this definitely is.
I wrote this piece of code: https://gist.github.com/1149417

It's currently running at 3200000 tries per second on my Xeon machine. I am probably going to get bored before I find the right combination because I calculated it could take up to 52 days. :)

But anyways, it is still a lot less time than trying to bruteforce something like Tr0ub4dor&3 in my opinion.

It seems you like challenges, if I gave you a SHA1 hash of something similar to "Tr0ub4dor&3", would you be able to crack it (without rainbow table) under 52 days ? I don't think so.
This is my latest weekend project to try out development in node.js.

If it falls over for you, please let me know :)
Judges get really annoyed when lawyers try and play tricks like that. Get caught trying to fool a judge and you'll be on the losing side every time.
Are we looking at cumulative Xbox profits from day one? Generally one is interested in a division's ability to generate positive cash flow, no matter the initial cost, because it's assumed that division will generate said cash flow in perpetuity.
MySQL and R | (R news & tutorials)
Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual
The editorialised title of this post shows just how bad the world is at understanding scientific papers. Tabloid style headline at best.
I believe bookmarklets still work -- the restriction only applies if the javascript: URIs were typed in by the user.
Instrumental music, like Pelican, God Is An Astronaut, Japanese Telecom and some Classical music for coding.
False Market Signals
> this is beginning to sound like you are deliberately trying to place doubt over the legality of our work

Oh come on. Again: if anyone has placed doubt on it, it's whoever chose CDDL because it was GPL-incompatible. All I'm saying is the question is not idle. If it was so clear-cut, it would not have popped out in 3 out of 3 places where I read about KVM/Illumos (your blog, LWN, HN).
Git setup niceties
I agree with you, but you have to admit Samsung is pretty clearly copying Apple's trade dress. It's the only tablet that could be confused with the iPad at a glance. Especially for non-geeks.

If Apple weren't suing everyone else too they would have a lot more general credibility in my eyes. By suing everyone they just look scared of competition.
Deolalikar’s Claim[ed P!=NP Proof]: One Year Later
And yet somehow they're wildly more successful than tablets were a decade ago. Perhaps there actually is something more to them than a touch screen, an internet connection, and the ability to run software...
This feels awkward. Why is Google marketing the iPad?
What if more founders had MBAs?
Sigh. Nobody knows what "obtuse" means anymore.
I got rejected from Kickstarter because they said they "didn't fund startups" (the idea was purely non-for-profit and was aimed as a social benefit).

And lo and behold... a startup?
SIGCOMM 2011 Toronto: Webcast
Start a Profitable Import Export Business
Lately I've been listening to a lot of Turntable.fm's "Coding Soundtrack" station: http://turntable.fm/coding_soundtrack3

Otherwise, I enjoy things like Trent Reznor/NIN's instrumental stuff (like The Social Network soundtrack), TRON soundtrack by Daft Punk, or anything by Ratatat.
I have thought about the targeted audience portion of your comment. That is fully addressable through the use of templates. My daily work is in the interest rate risk space for a bank. As part of keeping up on the space, I read the financials of other banks. There are certain things I look for in these financials. If there was a way to create a template that was automatically populated with the information I am looking for, then that would be an improvement over the method I currently use. With that said, I'm not a computer scientist. My programming skills are limited to the more mathematical side of finance. I don't know how difficult it would be to provide such a thing given the challenges of parsing natural language.

As for the pay wrapper, I will admit that operating a brokerage firm at a large enough scale and a low enough price to attract a significant portion of the market share while somehow turning a profit would certainly be a challenge; however, I am not ready to abandon this line of thinking yet.
It turns GSSAPI [1] off, which is typically used with Kerberos. Unless you know you're using it (and in most cases you will know if you are), it's safe to turn it off.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Security_Services_Appli...
It would be nice to leave a comment for humans in there. I understand why they don't, but yeah.
Researchers use accelerometers to keylog an Android smartphone
I've seen the same but when those stories are next to the debt crisis, high unemployment and the London riots, they will most likely concentrate on those stories first.

To this day it surprises me how little the average person knows about technology. They know much more than a decade ago but it is still minute.

EDIT: As a personal example, I have a kid sister, 13 years younger, who is in her third year at Cornell studying law and just had intern job at Google this summer in which she wrote a Google student blog post (Yes, I am very proud). She didn't know how to right-click using her Macbook. She can type like the wind and knows the features of every phone but she wan't aware of tapping two fingers on her trackpad.

To me this is very representative of the average user today. They know enough to get by but don't have the depth of knowledge when it comes to the details. If they read a patent story I don't believe they would understand what they were reading unless there was a perceived gain to it.
Could someone explain the following: "Connections are all stored locally, also for speed and so if you’re offline, you can still access them."? I'm confused as to how a connection to a remote resource can be accessed offline. Is all of the data cached locally? Further down they mention "We don’t use the browser’s caching system" so I'm assuming they have custom built the cache.
Daft Punk is great.
"Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
"Connection" is linked-in-speak for "Friend."
Non-profit Releases Open Source Mesh WiFi Network Software
Project Management Software for Agile Developers- Review of Pivotal Tracker
It seems like there might be an exciting "Moore's Law" like rubicon that will be crossed in space exploration. Eventually spacecraft launched later, for cheaper, start arriving before their predecessors.
Facebook Offers Court 'Smoking Gun' Against Paul Ceglia
This is interesting, and might be possible. The worry is that even if you have bullet-proof skin, your bones would break and internal organs be turned to mush. but would it?

The name of the project is 2.6g 329m/s, after the mass and velocity of the bullet.

Using 1/2MV^2 to calculate the force, in Newtons (1):
=(1.2)(0.0026kg)(329m/s)^2
= 140.7 kgm/s^2
= 140.7 N

Convert to footpounds (lbf): (2)
1 N = 0.22481 lbf
140.7N (0.22481) = 31.6 lbf

So you body would have to dissipate 31.6 foot-pounds of force. Yes, it would loose some from friction mid-air, and your skin would dissipate some, but for the sake of argument, let's assume this is in a vacuum or some magical container, ceteris paribus. There's always the "it only takes 8 pounds of force to break a bone" but that's why you have soft tissue surrounding your bones. If it hit you in the head, you'd probably be screwed no matter what. I think this is more to be a replacement for body kevlar, not to wear as a batman cowl.

I once heard that a pro boxer can his with over 900 PSI, which would be about 30 lbf, but that's dissipated across a whole fist. Here's an article discussing that, it ranges widely (3). We need a better correlary.

So I continued to look and found a paper on bite force (4). It shows that a human can have a bite force of an average of 162 lbf. And specifically the incisors had a range of 22.5-33.7 lbf. That is roughly equivalent to the 31.6 lbf of a bullet. But what does this mean? A strong bite can ravage tissue, and a hollowpoint bullet would be a pretty sharp point and would likely slice right through the underlying tissue if it broke the skin (as it was designed to do).

I think it's important to look at other properties of the "pseudoskin" layer. They used a small little patch on ballistics gel, and at the end of the video the patch was pushed into the gel and folded in on itself. So if you'd been wearing the patch and got shot it would be embedded 2 inches into your epidermis and underlying tissue (but at least it would be easy to pull the slug out!).

I would think we'd need to see more info on the shear-thickening properties of the gel, see what more than just a "patch" would do; say, ballistics gel with a complete outer layer of the pseudo-skin, and other properties. The little patch has no way to grab onto the surrounding skin and provide tension to dissipate the force across the surface of the tissue (think like springs on a trampoline). And significant shear thickening would cause the pseudoskin to instantaneously harden with the force of the bullet, protecting the underlying real skin and tissue.

Need more info, but this could actually be promising.

(Note: Can someone check my calculations? I did them REALLY quickly. I can't confirm their reliability.)

Sources:
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_of_firearms#Force
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(unit)
3: http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/article/102548/
4: http://www.glapbta.com/BFBP.pdf
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I have no music background, but I totally agree with you. In fact, I've been looping Stereophonics' Stone for about 500 times in the past 2 weeks.
How to get better email content previews in Gmail
Had the feeling a bunch of years ago that Google wanted the web to be a vibrant, creative, interesting place.

But, I guess online shopping and Angry Birds is the real objective.
Ironically, he's a huge fan of the comments here:

"I’m continually impressed by the quality of the comment threads on Hacker News, for example."

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/16/powazek-comments
Why use keywords as symbols?
Can watching TV make you die younger?
Interesting. Copying the TinEye bookmarklet,

javascript:void(window.open('http://tineye.com/search?pluginver=bookmark_1.0&url='%20+%20encodeURIComponent(document.URL)));

into the address bar did nothing; an "Error: uncaught exception: ReferenceError: window is not defined" was logged in the error console.

Clicking it as normal worked as expected, though.
As universities offer more and more curriculum online, would you hire someone who had self taught himself through a CS degree? Or would you want to see the diploma?
I doubt it. These changes have been on the roadmap for a long time.
I'd say that is too early to say. Though the departure of Nokia was disappointing.
Barack Obama gets asked a Computer Science question
In the comments on the original blog post, Jason Fried says:

"Because we’re making the point that this payout should not be expected. You should not be banking on this. It’s not an incentive to work at 37signals. It’s purely a bonus."
Few different options.. At the start, COBRA will last you around 18+ months, which gives you some time to make a decision.

Depending on the state, "small group" plans will cover corporations that have at least 1 (or in some cases 2) employees. You might get better quotes as a small group than as a self-employed individual, but it will depend... Some states have programs that are tailored for individuals.

FWIW, some people have reported decent rates with UHC, ehealthinsurance.com, tonik.com, etc. But I would get quotes from your preferred carrier.