skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here is someone's blog post with a few more pictures, and her contacts list.

http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-email-accoun...
This reminds me a little of Steve Jobs, his endeavour and strategy for NeXT, with their own factory in California.

Perhaps Testla will have the same fate as NeXT, bought by an auto giant if they fail to go mainstream with their expensive, though great, cars.
This is probably the best advice for linux/unix nubs; you will never learn what a computer is really for until you meet the machine face-to-face via a terminal. I don't know how many times it took me to corrupt my package-manager or butcher some config file until I realized the advantages of running a VM, but, yes, the article is spot-on because all learning, or understanding for that matter, is iterating failure.
How about limiting the size of companies that are not allowed to die for damage control? Or limiting their ability to become companies not allowed to die?

This article sums up the dilemma Treasury faces, including the whole "too big to fail" problem: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/henry-paulsons-...
Apple's picking up notebook market share faster than any of its competitors
I disagree ... once the user-base reaches a certain level, people will stay simply because everyone else is there.

Nobody moved to an ad-free social network once Facebook started placing ads.
It has nothing to do with me being an American; that just so happened to be where I was randomly spawned.

It has everything to do with government's indisputable inefficiency due to a lack of competition.
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I don't know about other people, but when I click on this link I see the article for about three seconds, then the page fades to an advertisement that has no apparent way to get back to the article.

I assume they didn't test it against Firefox 3 with popular extensions, because it's otherwise the worst thought-out advertising service I've seen online.
Very interesting. I ( http://jrock.us ) seem to have an X-XRDS-Location http-equiv header, whereas you don't. I'm not sure why extra information would prevent it from working with some sites (and not others).

I will investigate... thanks for the info.
Isn't Vizio a Sony Wing?
I think it's starting to happen.

I was watching CNN this morning and they did a brief spot promoting one of their twitter feeds. Newspapers are using them too.

When the media and entertainment people start using it, I think more mainstreamers will follow.
It has everything to do with government's indisputable inefficiency due to a lack of competition.

Your views on the world and government are inherent to where you were "randomly spawned", since they are inherent to the environment and culture you've been exposed to.

My comment was by no means an insult, just an observation.
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MS has done pretty damn well in gaming. They've been 2nd now in 2 straight generations, and their XBox Live Arcade (which has near 100% markup) is supposedly raking in millions each day. Everyone was expecting another 3DO, and instead they dethroned PlayStation.

Their performance might not seem as impressive as it is because they have other multi-billion dollar products, but the Xbox has been a gangbuster success for Microsoft.

Look at it this way. If you think Microsoft knew, when they started their foray into the video gaming world, that they'd be exactly where they are today that they still would have done it?

My guess it they're REALLY happy with the way it worked out.
The key to making a craigslist competitor is to take away the painful parts and the embarassing parts:

1. Carrying your old school monitor to the post office to send it

2. Meeting people face-to-face and that uncomfortable stilted conversation.

Solve those two problems.
It wouldn't be the first article from this source that was made up out of thin air. It was my first time being on the opposite side of a fabrication recently, and everyone at our company kind of chuckled and said "how did they come up with this stuff?".
That's exactly why.

"... So 1-800-GOOG-411 is about that: Getting a bunch of different speech samples so that when you call up or we're trying to get the voice out of video, we can do it with high accuracy."

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis...
Err, Firefox3 running fine here.
There is no "right path" to your own success, there is only "your path" to your own success. I suggest you dive into whatever you are most comfortable first. Go where your curiosity takes you and learn to cultivate your curiosity as you progress.

You are on the right track if you are comfortable with it. When you are learning something new, there is very little you can do wrong in terms of choosing a path. Many of us are constantly learning on a regular basis...

Good luck!
I hadn't used my twitter account in months and just this morning got notification that lucille166 was following me. Is lucille166 just another of my enamored female fans, you ask. Nope, a porn bot. I wonder how much of the increase can be attributed to the influx of spam/porn bots to this previously (I'm assuming) pristine online landscape.
I guess that depends on how open it actually ends up being. If the software is largely open, problems should (hopefully) be fixed relatively quickly. I could imagine that that's not too popular with operators, but hopefully the unlocked version will be nice and open.
Thanks for the advice mate...
Of course i'm prepared for failure.. I obviously don't expect to learn a few languages and make something overnight to get rich. As you rightly pointed out, it's curiosty that brought me here in the first place.
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Perfect. The system won't get fixed until someone uses it to the full extent.

Lets remember that it is big corporations that lobby for the kind of patent and IP law that makes this possible.

On top of that, you have the over loaded patent office assuming bad patents will get sorted out in court.
While at the same time judges assume that if a patent was granted it was legit.

To fix the system, you have to break it first.

Perfect.
your choices certainly aren't bad. as fiaz mentioned, there's no "right path". if you're interested in web development, you're doing just fine.
I met Nathan Myhrvold while giving his son a tour of my school. He struck me as a much nicer guy than what all of these articles play him up as. Extortion is almost certainly too bold of a term for what his company does.

The patent system was set up to be taken advantage of in this exact way. If someone comes up with/legally documents an idea before you do, you have to get them to let you use it (via licensing fees). I don't see how that's tantamount to protection money. If you're one of the companies involved, there's pretty clear net gain for you since you're essentially outsourcing R&D to some smart people and virtually extending your patent portfolio at the same time, which is an asset on its own.
Several CNN anchors now have Twitter accounts and encourage users to ping them with questions or info. Once the big guys like Larry King or Wolf Blitzer start promoting their Twitter streams, Twitter growth will be explosive.
Same in Germany. Except the intertwining with the political parties may be even higher.
They only lost out to fraud. Any company dealing with users and money experience this - look at PayPal.

AllAdvantage is a perfect example of why you can't allow client side services to be calculating things that really should be done server side. You could send a magical packet that would log all your hours for a month instantly.

Sorry about the offtopic rant :)
Dropbox should have used a Jumpbox
I think the other two responses to this comment are spot-on. Lots of corporate intranets and internal applications are IE-only by default. It's certainly not justifiable from a cost standpoint to rewrite those.

Aside from corporate users, individual consumers who aren't necessarily computer-savvy (like my parents) don't have the knowledge (or desire) to download additional software and install extensions, plug-ins, etc. They go with the default browser of their O/S.
MobClix: offers stats on iPhone apps
I'm no fan of Palin, but I think it's pretty low of Gawker to gain page views by posting the contents of her personal emails, as well as the personal photos. Apparently privacy rights don't matter anymore.
Centralizing distributed version control
Why Jinja is not Django and why Django should have a look at it
Perfect. Another "visionary" who makes paper that prevents people from making things.

Just when I think its as broken as it can get...
Cray, Microsoft announce $25k supercomputer
"Sell it when it's on sale" isn't a way to produce capital gains.
I'm still enjoying this book. I put a tick in pencil, on the contents page, next to the chapters I've read. Bookmark old style!
Booz Allen Hamilton > help.bah.com it's an internal site who's basic navigation only works on IE. They even put out a memo to avoid upgrading to the newest IE because of compatibility issues.
I love how the spirit of MS lives on strong in their alumni...
Who’ll Bail Out Uncle Sam?
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I hope your logic does not also apply to representative government :-/
A) Ewwww, politics

B) The problem with this idea is that advertisements are rarely factually incorrect. Far more often the attack ads are merely insinuations, or far out interpretations of actual fact. These are arguably more dangerous than outright fallacy, because there is something to back them up.

C) Even if this sort of legislation were to come to pass, nothing would change. Just because you can't lie doesn't mean you'll start talking about things that the average Joe Schmoe voter doesn't care about, like economic policy, national defense, trade relations, etc... The average voter takes the position of the party he affiliates with. If you don't believe me, look at how well McCain did when he was actually running a clean campaign and did things like just talk about the issues.
Scientists find black hole 'missing link'
Korea's social search engine: Naver
They could engineer private versions of the Fannie/Freddie/AIG graceful-liquidation thing: merge now to shore up capital, but sell off 10% of your assets every year for the next five years in return.
And he bench pressed 325 lbs at the age of 50? Awesome.
"100 per cent rumour"

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/valve-crushes-google-a...
I have to give him credit for being clever. Broken system? yes. Clever? yes.

It seems as if these big companies simply invest in his fund as a hedge to the licensing fees they are going to have to pay.
how is this outsourcing r&d?
The two videos are also on YouTube (where they download faster):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En6nWUsiy-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flr3cPL3dOo

BTW, that blue Tango is production number 2, owned by Google's Jorg Brown [pronounced "Yorg"]. He posts about it here and there on the web:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jorg+Brown%22+tango
What is meant by this:

"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t been invented"
Bill Gates Invests in Algae-Based Biofuels
I really like that take on it, hadn't considered that...
Intellectual Ventures is basically all R. These guys are indeed buying up patents, but they're doing a lot of thought themselves about how to solve problems and then going out and doing the due diligence to acquire all of the assets (patents, theirs or others') they need to present a full solution to a company.
He struck me as a much nicer guy than what all of these articles play him up as.

"Smiling faces sometime pretend to be your friend..."
#1 resonates most strongly with me right now. The feeling of accomplishment when you complete a project creates that sense of momentum and excitement going into the next one.

Like Jason, I've noticed that quality of work seemingly diminishes toward the end of a long project when people are motivated mostly to simply complete the project.
It's broken in the same sense that the domain name registration system is broken. Spend a little money and you can roadblock a lot of ideas.
You mean, "If you don't feel like providing value, then find a work-around."
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Sorry, this is silly. You're (almost) always better off running as a regular user and using sudo. In the worst case you can sudo su. Suggesting that linux newbies run as root is poor advice.
The patent system was set up to be taken advantage of in this exact way.

Well, maybe not this exact way. It was certainly never intended to have the consequences Bill Gates foresaw in his leaked 1991 memo:

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. [...] The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070313-analysis-micro...
Twitter Japan has ads, although I would guess JP userbase would be too small to matter
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Michael Scherer at Time just wrote that his sources confirmed that this isn't a hoax. Epic fuckup.
Fair enough, but views and opinions are a product of many things, not just environment and culture. Additionally, my view on big government has been proven many times empirically; it's more fact than view. Most of them just don't have any incentive to improve, which I understand.

This: "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." is one of my favorite quotes :). I'd argue it isn't a very "American" thing to say, but who knows. Ironically, Shaw was a socialist.
You sound like Myrhvold's mom.

How is this outsourcing R&D if you've already done the R&D, since you're clearly using the techniques, and then Nathan comes along and takes you to court for millions?

You're buying into the spin. Intellectual Ventures is not a think-tank for nuclear geniuses and never was. Do you really believe the marketing story Intellectual Ventures puts out? Do you think that Trident makes your teeth whiter, and that Snapple is made from the best stuff on earth?
Do you know what some of these patents are? It would be interesting to see how innovative they really are.
Actually, that should be "an outright fabrication".
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A great article. I have seen a lot about what Steve is talking about at corporations I've worked at. Plainly stated it is true that marketing makes money! - But incentive reveals motive. There are a lot of words we use instead of 'greed' like 'good business sense' - but if a companies primary motivation is greed it will fail, and if its secondary motivation is survival, it will just resemble the stages of grief. I have worked in technology a lot - and people in management will always say to me "I don't care how you get it done ... just get it done." That is ok for other industries, for the automotive, and carpentry industries a manager can get by with that attitude, but what if your 8th grade math teacher told you the same thing? - Would you really learn anything about math? And that's what we need to take from this story, it takes SOMEONE with intellectual fortitude to 'bring it all together' like Steve so pointedly stated.
Hmm I've thought about this a bit, and it strikes me that while yes, it does seem to make sense that we should have medicine for everyone, we should also have an area where there is pressure to perform. Essentially what I am positing is that the US should remain a nonsocialist area so that we innovate and provide the necessary advances because eventually they will filter down and become affordable by the average person. In the meantime we could make it easier for people to leave the country if they prefer to live under a socialist system.
This would be counterbalanced by most of the rest of the world having that flat system you referred to. It's a compromise. On the other hand, let's assume that my dear reader has no soul and will thus not vituperate me for the following idea:
Modern medicine has been around for like 60-80 years which is essentially no time at all. In the space of that time, major advances have been made that have not yet filtered down to the bottom. If you take the long view, in 100 years the stuff we thought was a $10M miracle today might be a trip to the doctor's office with a 20 dollar
copay then (think robots). So what's really important is not curing every poor person today, but advancing the field to cure the poor people of the future. The trick to surviving is to try not to be poor and/or get insurance.

Essentially, this is a highly tangled problem and a simple solution won't do.
The realities of software book publishing
Yeah. You think she'd have more security experience being so near Russia. :-)
Why not in France?
I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a joke article.
But if we don't give children access to nukes how will they learn to be wise.

-C
". Today, Mr. Market cut his asking price by another 3% -- when he's offering his share of the business for less, why does that make you want to sell?"

You only want to sell if your business is buying and selling stocks, and not owning a business.

Most people get confused by the difference between owning part of a business (and making money on the long run), and making money by buying and selling stocks. These are two distinct ways of making money, although they use the same instrument. It is in a sense similar to investing in real estate and flipping houses.

On the other hand, the Wall Street model favors the short-term traders. For example, in the case of bankruptcy the stock owner loses everything, while the short seller makes big bucks...
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VP Candidate Sarah Palin's Personal Email Account Hacked by Anonymous
they are expensive if you compare to a civic....but the exotic look pretty much makes you compare it to the high end exotic looking cars like the Audi R8
Wow, thanks for this demonstration. There are still a lot of surprises in sensation, it seems.
It's surprising how many people (in the comments) are outraged over what is basically a way for someone who is not a big company to outsource the inevitable legal wrangling of commercializing their invention.

What _is_ broken is that the patent office and courts have completely ignored that whole "obvious to a practitioner of the art" thing. Patents are supposed to protect novel inventions. Instead people get patents for deciding to enter a market first.

Invalidating Amazon's "1-click shopping" patent shouldn't require prior art, but just a simple poll of the tech community saying "duh, that's what cookies were designed for".
well by that logic she is a security expert because she filled out a "Lost Password" questionnaire that yahoo does.
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Jonathan Swift:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080.txt
I've got karma to burn.

They suck?

They run into walls repeatedly?

They scare small animals?
But MSM seldom get it right. Remember the LA Times wikitorial? Or Wired's Second Life bureau? When's the last time you listened to a podcast produced by your local newspaper, or used the NYT's Blogrunner service? The media is desperate to "get" the Internet, but many times they simply end up jumping on the latest bandwagon, which fades after a year or two.
The easiest thing browsers can fix is to tie into Windows Authentication so that when I go to my intranet, they just log in for me with my OS credentials.
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Reminds me of a quote by Thomas Jefferson...something about the tree of liberty :-)
I think that if they really wanted to end the series, Colfer is the best man for the job. He's no Adams by any means, but he's certainly good, and hopefully he'll at least give us a feel for what Adams wanted.

Gaiman would have been an excellent pick, too: Good Omens, with Terry Pratchett, is as close to Adams' humor as I've found. But Colfer has a much finer sense of whimsy.
There goes the need for my software to read subtitles on videos!
Very few good ideas are dependent on getting a certain domain name.
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"13. Give up on hard problems - there is nothing wrong with being lazy. There is an abundance of easy problems that need to be solved. The really hard problems are probably better left to your competitors. Solve a bunch of simple things. Most people’s problems are simple and you can probably solve 10 in a month over 1 in 10 months."

Hard problems are a lot more fun to solve. How do you attract top talent if you are only solving easy things?
Yeah, I had similar problems. It messes with the URL.
This is great humor - I ran as root while I was learning how to use slackware waaay back. Now I use Fedora because I'm lazy but don't worry behind the PECL and LIVNA libraries I still do a make && make install from time to time.

I think for a noob, running as root is probably wise, understanding chmod, and chown right off the bat is a tough one - and often people get so frustrated from the inability to change settings they give up.

Either way - Batman runs as root... thats good enough for me.
How can we stop it?
Hi, I've found your [wallet/cell phone/child]. Please send me $$$$$ to PO Box 123456 in order to ensure successful delivery.

Thx, BTW your wife is cute.

I see a lot of abuse with this service.
"Sell when your overexposed to a particular asset class" is a much nicer approach.

That's a fancy way of saying take profits.
I actually am his mom.

Just curious, though, do you actually have any evidence that Intellectual Ventures is charging people for stuff they were already doing? Have they taken anyone to court over these patents? I'm not buying their spin, I'm assuming their innocence until guilt is proven.
I get that he does practice, but, at the same time...

He isn't a good singer. That's not to say I don't love his singing. He isn't a dazzling guitarist, or more than a decent harmonica player. What makes him good isn't that he's competent - though I don't doubt that he is. It's his ability to innovate musically and lyrically that makes his music so acclaimed and adored.

I've worked with and been friends with all sorts of artists, writers, programmers. I find that the ones I feel have the most potential aren't the ones who are necessarily the most competent. In fact, a lot of people who AREN'T competent have an edge because if they're there, it's because they're really passionate about what they're doing, not just because they CAN do it. A competent programmer can do what he's told and churn out okay ideas. It's the incompetent ones, though, that want to program because they've got IDEAS. And while they can't be trusted in the same way, they've got a much better chance of turning out something worth keeping.

Not saying the article doesn't do a terrible job of explaining itself, but I think that Seth is TRYING to get at a good idea.
I can appreciate the advantage of having my server environment on a USB drive, particularly if I don't want to lug my laptop to a demo, or my laptop is AWOL, or the situation calls for using someone else's computer. That seems very useful, and I can see the value of Jumpbox for those reasons alone. I know that it's also a breeze to fire up for ad-hoc development environments.

But when the only technical challenge is internet connectivity, such as in this case, what is the advantage of Jumpbox over VMWare or Parallels?
But we all have different concepts of what perfection is. Mine focuses only on aspects of these people, I'm aware. Like the saying goes, "Never meet your heroes."

I see perfection as less of an absolute. It's a difference of definition on our parts.