skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do accept that there is a generational divide in social.

I don't. I think a lot of the issues can be chalked up simply to age. Today's 20-year-olds are not going to change generations. But in 20 years, they will be 40, and I expect that they will act a lot like today's 40-year-olds when it happens.

When you're 20, you don't have a lot invested in the world. You have few assets, no children, etc.; you don't have a lot to lose. If some random person barges into your life, then there is a good chance that person has something to offer you. And if they don't, then there isn't much they can take away from you. But when you're 40, you probably have kids, some assets, some property. And you've learned that the random person who barges into your life, is probably trying to rip you off. And they can seriously damage you if they do. That makes you much more protective of the entrance to your social circle, and much more wary about marketing of any kind.

Furthermore, for older people, life revolves around family much more. Keeping a family going, raising kids, etc., take a lot of time and work. That means you probably don't have so much time -- or desire -- to interact with huge numbers of people in a cloud-ish setting.

But when social stuff meets the needs of older generations, then they're happy to use it. I thought we all knew that Facebook is quite popular among 40-year-old moms.

(By the way, FWIW, I'm 45. Also, I'm not a mom, but I am a dad.)
When I read that, I wondered how long we will keep using DRAM in mobile devices. If Moore's law holds, we will easily be able to put 10GB of DRAM in a phone in ten years. I think having 1 GB of static RAM might be preferable.
Facebook is bigger than the whole Internet was in 2004
Your original post had - "It’s impossible to ignore the effects he has in his role and they are terrible.". You failed to cite a single effect let alone it being terrible. I merely asked you to point out things that you think are hard to miss but that I dont know about at all.

I think that claiming to know what someone else wants falls in the same category as speaking on their behalf - something that should only be done in very limited circumstances.
It's the comedians that always say it best.

Colbert's short little clip here (especially the very powerful ending) and the Onion's article are the two most touching pieces I've read on Steve Jobs.

It reminds me of the Onion's "Holy Fucking Shit" piece after September 11th. That did a lot to snap Americans back to reality and help us mourn.

Has it always been the case that the funny people are the best at helping us (group, nation, community) mourn? Or is just that, these days, the wisest and people (in media) happen to be comedians?

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I upvoted you on purely on the basis of human
decency.

Edit: I'll leave this up, downvote away. I made my comment on the basis of the first part - "If they've got anything to say to Steve they should've said it to HIS FACE when he was alive."

RMS's statement lacked any class or tact, and I will be more than willing to tell RMS what I think of his comments should I ever meet him in person.
That link has 14 benchmarks across 5 platforms. What's your anecdote/evidence theshold?
Mr. Popper’s Penguins 2011 online
Any civil matter can also be regulated (regulations can apply to anything, really). But in a practical sense, regulations pertaining to business and professions like this are handled by the states, while the feds really only get into it when it's a matter of worker safety, taxation, those kinds of things. This is why you can laugh at a noncompete in California, while up in Washington, Microsoft gets to own its employees' dreams for years after they leave the company.

Non-competes are so unbelievably worker-hostile that they should really be outlawed everywhere.

I really like the idea of forcing the employer who's enforcing the non-compete to pay full salary for the duration of the non-compete. It seems only fair that if you're trying to keep me off the market because I'm so potentially devastating to your business that you should pay for the privilege.
Counter example: The Great Courses nee The Teaching Company.

There seems to be a reasonable amount of interest in what used to be called a liberal arts education.
Guess I should've just wrote that it's wrong to kick people while they're down.
I absolutely agree. I also agree with the theory that you should teach, coach and influence your clients with what your team has learned over the course of your career.

The clients I mentioned are organizations with thousands of employees, and (at the very least) dozens of very large departments. Their decisions are always made by committees made up by representatives from these departments, and they all want equal or more attention. You just can't teach clients like that and stay within a tasteful budget. All you can do is creatively mitigate.

It's not all bad, though. It's just another puzzle to solve, only this time the solution isn't in code.

(Sorry for straying so far off topic from the original article)
Even better, go donate blood and sign up for the marrow program there. Whole blood is always in demand.

I donated marrow a few months ago. I had been on the list for fourteen, fifteen years before I came up as a match. Can't say it was a lot of fun. But it was worth it.
Parts of his present are still impressive, perhaps even admirable: http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-Art-Science-Cooking/...

Now if he'd just dissolve IV and concentrate on the cooking...
A smart phone has a camera (possibly two), a microphone, a display, speakers, and WiFi. I'm thinking it would make it quite fun to drive remotely, perhaps on a table top for video conferencing.
"...you'd still be advancing Stallman's agenda to let all computer users use the computer the way they want to."

Optionally under a license that is free for real.
The Point of Search : Moment of Truth for Online Retail
There are a couple of languages I'd add to the list:

* Mozart/Oz - will (probably) change your thinking about concurrency.
* Clay - really pushes the idea of generic programming.
* Rust - typestate makes assertions part of the type system.
* Cilk - concurrency again.

BitC was looking quite interesting too, but I haven't heard anything about it for some time now; I hope the project hasn't died off.
I do wish them the best but I don't think it's a counter example. They've been around for 20 years, so if they are huge (I have no idea how big they really are) then it because they stuck it out for the long term.

"The Great Courses was founded as The Teaching Company in 1990 by Thomas M. Rollins, former Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources."
wait wait this is my fav part, "At first, they followed removal instructions posted on the website of the Kaspersky security firm. “But the virus kept coming back,”" They have access to the same information my mom does? Don't they have their own people for stuff like that. Seriously Kaspersky isn't exactly the best antivirus program in the world and from their own website "The company’s headquarters are located in Moscow, Russia" US military uses a Russian antivirus company for help with military security.
No mention of http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/ or the Code of Conduct they put together after the Foxconn fiascos.
It is obvious he means both.
Living Within Your Means
The freedom for the government to do what they like through AAPL and the patriot act. Sure Jobs did improve the desktop computing experience in some ways, but apple was not exactally an advocate of privacy or freedom. I didn't drink the kool-aid.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--benjamin franklin
When is an appropriate time? How about 30 years before his death, which is about when RMS started calling Apple/Steve Jobs evil.
I wish I could reach out of my computer and slap you.

Disclaimer: I am employed by MS, in an unrelated area.
You're wrong. I saw this in my Twitter timeline and thought it was interresting post despite its age. I wasn't aware RMS had railed on Jobs. I'm no Jobs fanboy.
Daily Mobile Minute: How did Steve Jobs do it
yeah, but I'm saying this is about par for the course with stallman, and even if people happened to expect tact from him, why the huge fuss? Say "Not the right time for this conversation RMS" and _move on_. By attempting to refute his point about Jobs' absence, they lose whatever higher ground they might have had about timeliness of his statement.
Which is why Stallman explicitly said "I'm not glad he's dead".
You seem to have taken some pains to not tell us who the offending employer was.

May I ask why? Perhaps I am being naive, but if there is any reason to not publicly shame them here and now, then I don't understand it. Indeed, this would be very helpful to college students who got offered an internship here, googled them, and then found your blog post.
Thank you for this essay - I spent a lot of time researching (higher) education and had similar conclusions - although certainly not as substantiated by experience and well put.
I find this list quite striking. Actually I've not seen those particular topics all listed in one place before.

I have to admit I am slightly interested in the psychology of that list. Would this list be immediately on the mind of someone who teaches computer science for a living, or would it be a list made by a self-taught programmer who happens to have studied all of these topics or is it just received wisdom that these are complex programming tasks?

I think if I knew something about each of these, at least enough to say something non-trivial I would explore them together in a blog or article. Somehow I find the list interesting because in some way it represents where computing is headed in the next few decades and it should therefore inform the design of languages of the future (yes I accept that it has informed the design of some of the languages of the past).
The TechCrunch video didn't work here on my iPad, I assume it's flash.

There's one on Gawker which works: http://gawker.com/5847556/watch-stephen-colberts-tribute-to-...

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The ad-to-purchase flow is the killer feature of this device.

(1) These are pre-loaded with your Amazon.com account (the one you bought it with). You don't have to sign in to it, it already knows who you are.

(2) The first ad I saw was a "local deal" for a massage near where I live (for Ballard, in Seattle). This is minutes after first turning on the Kindle. No data entry. I was curious what the user experience was so I opened the ad. There was a Buy button for the massage ($26 for a 20 minute massage). I'm working on an order path / checkout flow for work right now so I was curious to see how they did it on the Kindle. I clicked the Buy button (again, I have yet to do any keyboard data entry on the device) and... I had bought. "Thanks for your purchase" read the screen and my iPhone beeped with the confirmation email.

The Kindle comes pre-loaded with your Amazon account and everything is set up for one-click purchasing.

Genius.

(I debated forward the email to my wife, but just cancelled the order instead).
1. As reported upthread, there was no press release to summarize. This was a story built on leaks from anonymous sources.

2. This is a Wired story republished on Ars, not actual Ars reportage.

I certainly agree that additional commentary from security researchers would be welcome, however.
Literally a guess. I've worked with very few sites that target older consumers, so my data points are limited, but in one of these the bounce rate dropped by more than 20% (home decor industry).

Unlike more recent experimentations, I did not conduct a formal AB/multivariate test, but the font size had been the only internal change at the time. Also, I have no idea whether these lower bounce rates translated into higher revenue.

Also, all of the sites mentioned above were female-oriented.
The TRS-80 didn't have color and, unless you went into 32x16 mode, text would be unreadable on a TV (it had a matching TTL monochrome monitor built with a TV-grade CRT). 40x24 text was readable on the Apple II even through an RF modulator. While it didn't come with an RF modulator built-in, you could buy one cheaply.

In 77, there were more or less two computers that didn't look too much like office equipment: the II and the TRS-80 model 1. You mention the IIe and the Sinclair. The ZX-80 wasn't launched until 3 years after the original II. The IIe was introduced in 1983 (that is, after the III). The TRS-80 you remember is, most likely, the model III.
I wonder if there was any relation to this story: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/11133116225/judge-...

I could see him wanting to step down before any sort of formal investigation could occur ...
Yes, but with links. So it's definitely worth billions.

Edit: Now that I've actually looked at the site to ensure I wasn't speaking out of ignorance, I noticed that the external links are not rel="nofollow". This will be a brilliant breeding ground for SEO spam.
So, uh, in recent years, Ken Lay, Strom Thurmond, Jack Valenti, Saddam Hussein, and Ronald Reagan all died. Quite a few people were extremely unkind to them immediately after their death, and with far harsher words than "I'm glad he's gone." People do simply say these things.

Fidel Castro is widely believed to be in declining health, just like Steve Jobs a few months ago. People have been saying that they'll be glad when he's gone for a while; do you think that they'll suddenly go quiet when he passes away?
Biggest identity theft bust of its type in U.S. history
The part where he is trying to "sexually" lick the ipad is hilarious!
Kredit trotz negativer Schufa?
http://www.b3ta.com/board/10564197
Home button on iphone 4 stop working
> Users cannot install programs themselves

It costs $99/year to do so. I have written software and installed it on all three of those devices.

I wish it cost no money whatsoever, but the quoted text itself is simply not true.
This is a huge step forward, can't wait to dive into this for CoderBuddy.

I do agree with others though that there should be more than 30 days notice on pricing. And it would be nice to have some guidance on pricing, given recent history...
There's no virus on the ISS. It was on the laptops the crew carries around. Big difference. The control systems of the ISS aren't windows.
California Business License
From the article you posted from by Svpply blog:
"It’s going to be very difficult for them to grow beyond puppies and photos of Ryan Gosling."

Wow. What a complete disregard for women as a desirable demographic. When companies act like this it's an opportunity for the rest of us.

I've been using pinterest the same way I use twitter; as social media for my business (whose target demographic is women 22-35).
How could it not be? As you said, you own them. We're talking basic property rights here.
Irrational as it might be, appearance matters when someone becomes the public face for a group.

This topic inevitably comes up when RMS is the subject of a thread. It's easy to dismiss that as maliciousness or trolling, but I think it's at least partially a reflection of the image RMS is projecting for the FSF.
Report: Steve Jobs' private funeral held Friday
If they raised $25 million while valued at $200 million, and earlier raised $10 million, presumably at a much lower valuation...

That doesn't leave the company a huge amount of equity and control, does it?
The Great Pacification (review of Steven Pinker's new book)
I thought Obama's words about Steve's death were quite touching. I'll just quote the last paragraph:

"The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him."
I despise it if people try to use somebodies death to exert power over other people. This author just wants to control RMS and uses Steve Jobs to have a go at him.
The other problem is that there is a whole grey area between "let the guy go, he isn't doing anything" and "tackle and arrest him now". The person can be detain, held up, put in a different queue, screened, probed, strip searched, etc.

Given TSA's record so far, it will result in various situations which violate people's rights without ever arresting them.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that this tech, just like the metal detector and the porno scanner, are just ways of giving less-than-expert staff the ability to perform expert-like security screenings. In other words, someone with a two week training course in how to fire up this magic box is now charged with making the determination of whether each person passing through their station needs to get a secondary screening (of various invasiveness). What is this employee to do when the machine tells him, "we've got to strip-search this person now" and the person is a 95 year old woman in a wheel chair? How about if it's a 5 year old?

Maybe we need to give the TSA security more training/hire more professional security staff that would use years of experience rather than magic tools to determine who could be dangerous. Or do what the is done in Mexican airports: you push a button and if it comes out red you get your bags searched; if green, you can proceed. Random number generator FTW!
The detail I found most interesting from the review:

If the average teenager today could go back in time and take an I.Q. test from 1910, he or she would have an I.Q. of 130, which would be better than 98 percent of those taking the test then.
Said kid is already screwed. You now have a choice: either the next time a prospective employee or intern googles the offending company your blog comes up as a warning, or it doesn't. Which do you think will be more effective preventing behavior like this in the future?

Imagine this post title: "X screwed an intern out of an awesome internship at fog creek" rather than a vague warning to interns not to sign noncompetes.
I am not sure if you can start a country just by buying land.

The Palestinians tried this recently. Heck, they didn't even need to buy the land; they already owned it. Hasn't gone too well for them yet.
I believe it's actually unenforceable, rather than illegal. The difference being that California courts will refuse to enforce the contract, while if the contracts were actually illegal, they'd punish companies for asking people to sign them.

I've heard that some companies still offer them anyhow, hoping that you won't know they're unenforceable and will obey it anyhow. I also seem to remember a case where a company sued to enforce the non-compete in a non-California court. I don't know how that played out, exactly, and that case might still be pending, but the plaintiff seemed to think that another court might enforce the non-compete even if California's courts wouldn't.
More than 100 arrested in massive NYC theft ring
Hang on a minute... (a) You have malware on a computer on a secret network and you try to remove it? Shouldn't that be an automatic "shred the entire machine and start over" situation? (b) Flight suits? Really?
Honestly I love the comment on reproduction. TBH single cells can reproduce, but having a child who is happy, healthy, and well educated is harder than any computer programming I have or ever will do. So in the end that person should take time to spend with his child.

However:

"It's like demanding that an atheist pray, lest he not "respect" the religious people he is surrounded by." in response to the outrage at Stallman's lack of caring for people announcing birthings. I think this is a great response. It also is true for Stalman's response to Jobs' death, he may shit on him all he wants, it is his rights, appearing to be a nut-case is a side-effect but that does not change a lot of his actually legitimately good beliefs. And Jobs definitely was in major conflict with OSS (see VLC trying to get on the iPhone, which concluded that Apple's app store is not compatible with OSS license requirements)
That's a great find, I missed all those articles. This one was touching, especially at the end: http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-...
The vast majority of GNU is running on every Linux machine out there. That's why RMS insists on calling such machines "GNU/Linux machines", because they're running GNU with Linux as the kernel.
They're killing it. Glad to have helped found it.
CyanogenMod 7.0.3 t-mobile Slide 3G (aka HTC Espresso).

* Work: All the Gmail usual suspects (most recently G+). Rom Manager, DroidWall

* Play: SqueezeControl (for squeezebox). Google Navigation rocks. RoboDefense, Solitaire. Wordfeud (better WordsWithFriends)
See my previous comment to you.... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084650
According to Forbes, the Teaching Company's sales exceeded $100M/yr as of 2010.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0117/entrepreneurs-brandon...

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An unauthorized leak out of a secretive program disclosing a major vulnerability? That sounds very court-martialable. Especially considering the presumably small number of people who would know about it, and hence the high probability of the leaker getting caught, I find it hard to imagine anyone would risk it, let alone what their motivation for doing so would be. And especially not three different people.

Nope, I don't think the USAF leaks anything like this unless it means to.
They obviously fly satellites into low-orbit on contract for the govt. My point was control of expensive/dangerous things - by (or for) the govt with potentially dangerous sw.
Just as most users don't know about Ctrl+, most users wouldn't know what "adjust text size up / down" meant either. My 60 year old father uses the Internet a lot, but he wouldn't be able to identify your use of the word 'text' with the words he reads on a website. Up or down to him would mean scrolling.
I'm not sure how that refutes the point. OSL is a shading language, that's an environment dominated by runtime execution time, not startup latency. So it might be a "JIT" in that there's no stored binary, but it's performance criteria are much (much!) closer to those of gcc or clang than to, say, a JVM or script interpreter.

And, like the post said: LLVM IR is a compiler IR. It's a great fit here.
unless, of course, it's designed to leak data out of the airgapped network when the next USB stick is connected...
Not to mention that even if it is unenforceable, I would imagine that most employers would rather just hire someone else than deal with the legal issues involved in hiring that employee.
I guess that 0.1 ns must be 0.1 us. As stated (also in eetimes), writing and erasing will be at least an order of magnitude faster than reading. That seems weird as writing typically takes more energy then reading.

The only reason I can think of for this to be reversed would be that reading will be destructive. That, however, would make me wonder whether this can be a good replacement for Flash. Think about it: reading the memory would run the risk of erasing it.
No it's not. It has its own set of problems. And bugs too! KVM has its pluses too, I agree, it's a VMM in kernel mode which apparently makes it faster, it is very non-intrusive to the rest of the kernel and hence got readily accepted upstream and so some might argue in that sense that it's better. But even though I have been hacking into KVM recently, for running a VM at home on my laptop/PC, I will always opt for VirtualBox for its simple ease of usage.
I take it Westboro didn't show up?