skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I mean, it's BS. "Software is king - hur hur".

Hardware is king - try executing your code manually if you disagree. Try wiring the world with a particularly clever algorithm or executing that massively parallel algorithm on a single-core CPU.

When he says software is king he means that it's profitable to dominate because its incremental costs are minimal. And with the DMCA preventing reverse engineering, software patents preventing use of trivial algorithms, etc, they're assuring the monarchy will last forever.

> If Apple/Amiga had won that round we [...]

... could still have a free market where competitors weren't locked out before they started.

Microsoft delivered crippled products to its customers specifically to preserve its marketshare. If I did that as a consultant it'd be criminal.

> poorer economies wouldn't have been able to afford computers as freely as they do now.

Hardware is ultimately fungible so the same boom would have occurred regardless. The boom was happening before MS and the PC, and before Apple too.

Just as an example, it'd be as reasonable to credit RMS for the hardware commoditization as Gates. Stallman was largely personally responsible for reinventing proprietary lisp-machine functionality. By killing off one of the most potentially profitable specialized hardware companies Stallman started the commodity hardware trend.

If anyone really influenced it though it was one of the computing pioneers like Turing simply by proving computational equivalence. After that it's a given.
It's less harmless than it than it looks.

No is the only sensible answer to both of those questions, purely for liability reasons.

If the camera gets damaged while you're out doing a personal project, is it still covered by the station's insurance? Quite possibly not if it's not being used for work purposes.

If you download a game it turns out to have a virus in it, where does the liability for that fall?

If he'd said no to things like "Would the company pay for a Wii for the team to use in it's off hours", or something like that and he said no, then it might seem more churlish - but your request just don't seem like ones he can easily say yes to to begin with.
The Costs of Bookmarking
It is completely voluntary and unenforceable, but works very well.

Ha! It works very well: for Google, and Yahoo. They use informative user-agents, and respect robots.txt directives. They have to, they're large corporations, with shareholders.

Everybody else ignores it. Why would they listen?

Live example:

216.55.185.45 - - [11/Sep/2011:06:50:56 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4835 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"
216.55.185.45 - - [11/Sep/2011:06:50:57 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4835 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"
216.55.185.45 - - [11/Sep/2011:06:50:57 -0400] "GET /blog/ HTTP/1.0" 200 114535 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"
216.55.185.45 - - [11/Sep/2011:06:51:01 -0400] "GET /blog/archives/2010/01/12/creating_an_account_on_the_scp_wiki_is_like_pissing_glass/ HTTP/1.0" 200 10490 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0"

This is all the traffic from this IP, with no lines skipped. You might notice that it doesn't request CSS, or any of the linked images, or favicon.ico. Nor does it populate the referral header fields, which of course it would be doing if it was actually Firefox, and there was actually a human clicking on these links. It doesn't even bother requesting a robots.txt, which I don't have anyway.[1] Do a whois check on the IP, and we get:

Codero CODERO1999A (NET-216-55-176-0-1) 216.55.176.0 - 216.55.187.255

Codero's a dedicated server host. This is a spambot, looking for email addresses. Visit the IP in a browser, and you see a site selling fake Tiffany jewelry.

1: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Robots.txt
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The Bill Gates quote at the bottom is quite significant. I get more out of Yale's recorded Physics II lectures on iTunes U than I do out of the lectures at my current college, even with the added interaction with the instructor. It's amazing how much you can learn or aid your learning using just free resources on the Internet.
The best perk is to manage development in a way that doesn't require overtime from the programmers.
Hackers Acquire Google Certificate, Could Hijack Gmail Accounts
Hackers have obtained a digital certificate good for any Google website from a Dutch certificate provider.Criminals could use the certificate to conduct “man-in-the-middle” attacks targeting users of Gmail, Google’s search engine or any other service.
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This has been a common fear in the face of pretty much every new technology. All past holders of this view have been proven incorrect. Do you want to bet that today (or tomorrow, or next month) is the first time in all of history that it will be correct?
Backup & restore Drivers in Windows 7 & Vista Using Double Driver
I'm also a big zsh user, one of the biggest timesavers for me was to get autocompletion of the arguments from the last command working. I use meta-. for the last argument, but !:# syntax is awkward and I don't often remember exactly what number parameter something was. Took a bit of screwing around, but I eventually figured it out and the details are on the unix/linux stack exchange site: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5229/add-arguments-f...
Forced vacation isn't freedom. If August isn't a convenient time to take a vacation, and the employee would rather work, let them work and take that chunk of time off at some other point. If taking that time off another time during the year is unacceptable, then your policy simply isn't fair to all your employees.

Where I work even the national holidays are floating holidays, so if I want to work on Christmas that isn't a day off for me, and I can trade that for a day off for any other day of the year.

Especially for travel, it's way cheaper to do so for off-peak seasons, so forcing August or the last week of December etc. when just makes for more expensive vacations. This is one reason why I think the "French model" kind of sucks.
Linux Source Code Repository Compromised
The Kernel.org website – home to the Linux project and the primary repository for the Linux kernel source code – sports a warning notifying its users of a security breach that resulted in the compromise of several servers in its infrastructure.
It is possible that you either secretly don't like the work that you are doing, or that you secretly don't believe you are capable of completing the work.
I'm not.

My suggestion to you would be to consider whether you can put in more effort into your next startup.

We each have our own beliefs on what works and then there's reality. So there's probably a chance that there is something that works very well but both of us would have to look at things from a different perspective.

For me I tend to believe that you can't really succeed unless you're 100% in it. That having a family pretty much rules out having a successful start-up. That's obviously not true as there are exceptions. Perhaps lots of them.

I think in the end it comes down to not giving up. However, again, that's just a belief and who knows what the reality is.

Thanks for offering to connect me to your friend. Not interested at the moment as I'm quite overwhelmed and already places like Hacker News are putting too much of the possibility of failure into my head.

My attitude is that failure isn't really possible and it's working amazingly well so perhaps I should only read posts that are very positive like the Yoghurt business one.
$ sudo apt-get remove firefox chromium pidgin telepathy ekiga skype ^_^

update: the situation you describe indicates that you just don't like your job. You have no joy in doing what you're supposed to do. So, consider the possibility of changing your job to something you're really like and enjoy.
Did you even read the last sentence?

"Don’t get me wrong, ifttt sounds like an excellent service for those who require it. For what it’s worth, I am not one of those people. At least not at the moment."
I would call this objectively awesome. :)
If you work at Google, and on the Search Quality Team, no less, then shouldn't your personal page be simply a search box, with maybe a tag cloud underneath, and potentially hosted by Google App Engine or Google Sites? I'm not being sarcastic. That's what I would do, if I worked there, and had lots of content which I didn't want to continuously re-prioritize (based on who my visitors were, or what I expected they would want to see at any given moment).
Quote: "...you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately"

Did they really store clear text passwords? Or perhaps I'm misinterpreting the announcement?
Perhaps the reason you have trouble thinking of monopolies that aren't government sanctioned is because anti-trust law already prohibits monopolies from forming unless government sanctioned.

The exceptions that are sanctioned are examples in economic theory of "natural monopolies", typically utilities, where competition would be highly impractical. For example, it would be impractical to have many different competing networks of privately owned telephone poles, sewer lines, water lines, etc. serving the same municipality. So a natural monopoly is allowed to exist but is heavily regulated and may face price controls.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
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Race and IQ are not scientifically precise tools.

Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies

We have analyzed genetic data for 326 microsatellite markers that were typed uniformly in a large multiethnic population-based sample of individuals as part of a study of the genetics of hypertension (Family Blood Pressure Program). Subjects identified themselves as belonging to one of four major racial/ethnic groups (white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic) and were recruited from 15 different geographic locales within the United States and Taiwan. Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1196372/
Yeah, and of course this does mean you have to be a little careful with M-backspace (backward-kill-word in Emacs), since it will change your kill ring.

But on other hand M-backspace can be useful too if you want to get just part of a line, you can move the cursor to where you want, then M-backspace through words to grab it - if you do M-backspace repeatedly the entire string is pulled into the kill ring until you stop pressing M-BS.
Both stunk and wouldn't have survived on their merits alone. They may be better than the alternatives NOW because they killed most of them. Having thirty unmolested years to perfect a product helps.
Be cool, learn and improve yourself
I think internships/coop are more important; if you were e.g. a Waterloo student who spent 2y of 5y working for Facebook, Amazon, Google, or small great startups, you'd be in a good position to start a startup (or work for an early stage one) locally.
Genetic cluster analysis of the microsatellite markers produced four major clusters, which showed near-perfect correspondence with the four self-reported race/ethnicity categories. Of 3,636 subjects of varying race/ethnicity, only 5 (0.14%) showed genetic cluster membership different from their self-identified race/ethnicity.
Consider an indeterminate array holding all the input data or events your program will receive in the future.
How much of this doom and gloom is it reasonable to worry about? How much of it is marketing for the kinds of books this guy writes, which seem of the same theme?
While this article seems solid, I think it might push the gee whiz engineering aspects of the project (of which there are many very impressive ones) too much.

Bruce Sterling has a wonderful critique of the clock project and suggestions on how to impart it with some sort of higher level cultural permanency.

http://blog.longnow.org/2008/08/03/bruce-sterlings-sharp-war...

What is really heartening to me is that much of the clock design seems to have taken this into account: the constantly change chime sequence, the difficult to access location, etc.
Now explain to me how the Community Reinvestment Act created co-occurring housing crises in Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, et al.
You are indeed wrong

> High and Ellig sum up the experience of the 18th and 19th centuries by noting that "the available evidence strongly indicates that Americans of the period took an active interest in education. ... The private supply was extensive, not only in the number of children served but in the spectrum of social classes involved."

http://www.sntp.net/education/school_state_3.htm
Also, given your attitude toward pointlessly knocking something for the heck of it, where does that put your comment?
>One advantage of more expensive cables is that they look nicer and feel a bit more solid.

How often do you actually feel or see your HDMI cable? If you're setting things up correctly, you shouldn't be doing either very often.
I don't know if there will "always" be up-and-coming competitors. There are only so many third world countries left to come up and "always" is a very long time. Hopefully, there are many models for "coming up", since making cooler gadgets probably won't work for everyone.

Of course, one could make the argument that current first world countries will decline to the point where they can begin to compete on price just as the up-and-comers begin to charge more. It's already happening, to a limited degree, in autos. Some manufacturing has come back to the US in places where wages and taxes are low. The recent economic downturn has caused quite a few kinds of work to return to the US, including manufacturing that was taking place in China.
You could even ban being rich from exploitation of limited resources or when destroying the commons. I didn't agree to let my government lease oil-bearing land to the largest industrial polluters and allow them to horde the results.

Makers versus takers...
I do this all the time. Unintentionally - I start working and forget to hit "play" :)
bot-posted old story is old.
Seems like they (whoever they is) should add this to Javascript by default.
Samsung is a pretty strange company overall, perhaps more comparable to one of the sprawling late-19th-century industrial conglomerates than anything in the current U.S. business landscape. It not only has a huge array of businesses it officially owns (from computers to shipbuilding), but is part of an unofficial, even larger conglomerate, the "Samsung family group", consisting of the other companies the family controls.

It's also been pretty deeply intertwined with the Korean government at various times, along with the other two big family groups (LG and Hyundai), who it sort-of competes with and sort-of has a cozy relationship with. All that actually makes it somewhat remarkable that it's coming up with interesting tech; that kind of company is not usually nimble.
cooper@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search drupal
dh-make-drupal - Create Debian packages from Drupal modules and themes
drivel - Blogging client for the GNOME desktop
drupal6 - fully-featured content management framework
drupal6-mod-addtoany - addtoany module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-cck - cck module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-commentrss - commentrss modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-contemplate - contemplate module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-filefield - filefield module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-i18n - i18n module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-imageapi - imageapi module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-imagecache - imagecache module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-imagecache-actions - imagecache_actions module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-imagefield - imagefield module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-imagefield-assist - imagefield_assist module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-inline - inline module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-ldap-integration - ldap_integration module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-lightbox2 - lightbox2 module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-masquerade - masquerade module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-openid-provider - openid_provider modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-pingback - pingback modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-site-verify - site_verify module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-tagadelic - tagadelic module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-trackback - trackback module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-views - views modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-views-charts - views_charts modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-views-groupby - views_groupby modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-xmlsitemap - xmlsitemap module for Drupal 6
drupal6-mod-xrds-simple - xrds_simple modules for Drupal 6
drupal6-thm-arthemia - arthemia theme for Drupal 6
drupal6-trans-ru - Russian translation for Drupal 6
drush - command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal

This is from Ubuntu 11.10. In Fedora 16 they have a drupal7 package, but most of the pre-packaged modules are for drupal6.
Do you take the same attitude with people with cultural dietary restrictions, like Kosher or Halal? What about physical dietary restrictions like allergies, or Diabetes?
Yes, but subjecting other people (especially paying ones) to your novice code is kinda iffy.
For a documentary film you're going to need copyright clearances, so you should start at the licensing office of CNN.
I would take this seriously. The causes of crisis of 2008 were never resolved just addressed with more debt and more money-creation. A financial system collapse like 2008 but without a rescue could happen this fall.

Steps to prepare: think of the power outages of a hurricane, with the rioters of London, with the austerity of the 30's depression. What would you want in advance to prepare for some combination of either or all of those happening in the near future?
it does feel like we are at the frontend of a disaster - its clear the US can't keep spending like this but yet we propose more stimulus.

its the same in Europe. nobody believes that Greece is getting out of this without defaulting. yet they keep sending money. it's crazy.

i suspect its going to end badly - either a major currency devaluation or a major recession as we are forced to balance our budget (and hence pull a lot of government spending out).
While I mostly agree with you there are plenty of times where it's worth it to be in the top 10% (or upper quadrant) but not the top 1%. These are things that are important to be good at but not worth the time to be excellent at. To say it's a waste of time to be in the top 10% is nonsense.

Take driving for example. When I started driving I enrolled in a driving course for several months. Now it's debatable that this course put me in the top 10% but it probably helped to put me above average. I have no ambition to be a race-car or stunt car driver so this is a great trade-off. I believe I'm a safer driver because of it.

Negotiating would be another example. It would make a lot of sense for a lot of people to take a negotiating course or read and practice it for a few months to get good at it in order to be able to negotiate their salary. The payoff of just a few months work could result in tens of thousands of dollars over your whole career. It wouldn't really be beneficial to spend 5-10 years getting your negotiating skills to the top 1% unless you wanted to actually do that for work.

Also the 10,000 hours really depends on if you are actually progressing or not. I think it's pretty debatable whether merely 10,000 hours of driving would put you in the top 1%. It's like the old joke that some people with 20 years of experience actually have one year of experience repeated 20 times.

Yes, you can't be great at everything but I think it's more valuable to great at one thing and good at a lot of things rather than just great at one or two things and mediocre at everything else.

Basically my point is, strive to be in the top 1% for what you want to earn money at or do with your life and then be in the top 10% for other things that either help you with that or benefit you in some way.
While they're at it, they should really remove the Kindle ad from the homepage already. They know I own one, why keep trying to sell me it?
Thanks for the suggestions! Are there any places I could look for open source projects that might need a hand? I'm a regular lurker on HN and I thought about volunteering my (limited) services for a startup I found interesting, but I know startups need real, dedicated employees, not erstwhile volunteers.

I've also got a few ideas for some basic software to scratch the itch, as it were, but I'd really like to be able to interact with people that are smarter than I am.
I agree with what you are saying in the beginning - We definitely need a proper standard and not a single company having design control. I am not so much defending the way Google is going about it, but rather the value of something which plays the essentially same role.

Ideally, I would like the web developer to have as much freedom as a developer for a native application - the freedom to choose a programming language and the ability to compile to a reasonably low level target for performance while still being cross-platform. Now, this somehow needs to be done without the security nightmares of ActiveX plugins. (Though, I dont see the non-security problems with a bunch of shared libraries stored on the browser. This is essentially what the OS does, and my goal is to replace the OS with the browser. Bandwidth will probably improve so that downloading libraries shouldn't be a problem and if not, the web site maintainer can still choose not to develop in a large library environment The popular ones will be cached in any case.)

You seem to be saying that the technical difficulties of doing this in a well-specified (memory and control-flow), secure and cross-platform way are intractable. Maybe this can be solved by moving the VM to a more abstract level.
You misunderstand me. What I mean is, I can't help but get the impression many of the 'activists' under the name Anonymous are no different from vandals who go around smashing windows and leaving graffiti- they have just found a new venue.
Here are some key aspects of Streams:

- Streams are an alternative to generators (yield)

- Streams can be used to traverse recursive structures

- Streams implementation only require lambda functions with proper closure

- Node.js continuation passing style is a form of Stream

I've implemented streams using continuations. You can also see a bunch of related functions such as: print, map, filter, reduce, range, enumerate, comprehension, traverse, empty, cons, zip, xrange, generator2stream.

http://blog.vjeux.com/2011/javascript/stream-lazy-iteration-...

Tell me if you have any remark :)
It's clear actually, that the US must increase spending, increase taxes. You spend to get out of recession, or you cut and make it worse, as has been demonstrated in every recession since records began. The failure to spend has brought us to a double-dip. For some grounding in economics, try the following: http://www.amazon.com/Macroeconomics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/dp/071....

Update: For a more specific analysis of an analogous situation - the Japanese "lost decade", try: http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Grail-Macroeconomics-Revised-Rece...
Consider it my response to people who say "How are you not using ifttt? It's so good!" Well, here's why. It's not completely pointless -- I wanted to figure out how I felt about the service, and now I know. If my comments are useful to others, then great. If it's pointless to you, then that's fine as well.
BitCoin trading platforms have an abysmal record fuor security. MtGox was hacked hard. You have just told the world that you view yourself as as (in)secure as them. "we're just as good as the others" is not encouraging.
Discontent is not automatically the government's doing.