skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can now run automated searches across multiple Dropbox accounts, think what that does for aggregating file storage and sharing.

Imagine how easy it would be to build a multi-user pseudo-P2P file search/share app on top of Dropbox now.

Or imagine when a user can sync/export their settings from a "cloud" service to a SQLite file in their Dropbox automatically.
Google uses "Goobuntu" on its desktops, but I'm not sure if they pay for Ubuntu support or just do it themselves.
No, you want lots of people to enter the workforce and be productive.

The growth happened after the government spending (ie, military) was wound down. It was the retiring servicemen and women wanting to get on with the rest of their lives that caused the productivity boom.
Sad that Ph.D.s get such high offers from industry? Or sad that Post-Docs get such low offers from academia?
Making tough choices
We noticed this problem at Yahoo! (I worked on the web performance analytics). Approximately 2% (note, that's 2% of 200 million daily) of our beacons were "fake". Now there are two reasons for fake beacons.

1. (Most common) many small sites seem to really like the design of various Yahoo! pages, so they copy the code verbatim, and change the content, but they leave the beaconing code in there, so you end up with fake beacons.

2. (Less common) individuals trying to break the system. We would see various patterns including XSS attempts in the beacon variables, and also in the user agent string. We'd see absurd values (eg: load time of 1 week, or 20ms or -3s, or bandwidth of 4Tbps).

It's completely possible to stop all fake requests, provided you have control over the web servers that serve pages as well as the servers that receive beacons. It's costly though. Requiring you to not just sign part of the request, but also add a nonce to ensure that the request came from a server you control (avoid replays). Also throw in rate limiting for added effect (hey, if you're random sampling, then randomly dropping beacons works in your favour ;)).

It doesn't stop there though, post processing and statistical analysis of the data can take you further.

It gets harder when you're a service provider providing an analytics service to customers where you do not have access or control over their web servers.

At my new startup (lognormal.com) we try to mitigate the effect of fake beacons the best that we can.
That's ok, you can still use Google code search...oh wait.
While your intentions are good, I think the requester gave a good reason for wanting a tldr. The post is now deleted, but I'm pretty sure he said he was looking after kids at the same time. I'm all for encouraging people to spend time with kids rather than reading long articles.
What a freaking loser I am, I am a software engineer working in Vancouver ,Canada. I have cs master degree from a good university in Canada, I have 5 years experience, I am making around 65K.
iOS definitely doesn't retain zoom levels between pages and never has.

On zooming in to content (actually it zooms in on page blocks) I disagree, but I'll leave it at personal preference. Android zooms in at a fixed zoom level and reflows the text, IIRC.

(don't test any mobile web browser on this very website as the HTML is awful and makes its job much harder)
Author of the post here. We just made a huge change at our company (effectively killing ~40% of our readership base) and I wanted to get my thoughts out there on making a tough decision and the hard part of "focus"
Bitcoin it ahead of its time. Bitcoin is has a lot of potential uses and these uses haven't gone away because a bubble burst.
That would be amazing!

Where do you find the fnlist + manpage? Is it possible to search for "foo <at most 3 words> bar"? Aka "around(3), but order matters".
It sucks. I think it's as simple as: page views.

Reduce the news to something as simple as possible, give people a side to cheer for. Who would have imagined that tech would turn in to a spectator sport?
Two clicks and a tap. Double click the home button, tap the app you want.
I love this concept: "There's also a slew of other shortcut keys you can use, depending on the page- just hit ? to see them."

Please, let this become a standard for every website, that '?' brings up a list of shortcut keys.

Edit: It works in Gmail!
Guido van Rossum's talk at Dropbox last night on the history of Python
Here's hoping my five minuter doesn't end up silently discarded by their email server...

thx for sharing the fun :)
Exactly. I tried to mention the bad performance of the GC earlier. You can find my post and the very bottom.
There's something wrong with your iPod. Have it looked at. I have an old iPhone 3GS that runs IOS 5 more smoothly than my wife's Nexus S runs Gingerbread. And on my iPhone 4 (not 4S) IOS 5 is buttery-smooth - even a bit faster than IOS 4 was in some respects.
Blekko as a reverse engineered Google and SEOMoz competitor
And the UltraSPARC T1 is totally gonna take them out in the server space! ... right..?
On an related note - another nice diff flag I discovered recently is "git diff --word-diff" - which will as the name suggests, diff by word instead of line.
GNU diff supports -b (--ignore-space-change) and -B (--ignore-blank-lines) plus if you want to go all out -w (--ignore-all-space).

Git diff supports the same.
Double click the home button, select previous app, you are back to where you were.
Still worked on CNN when I tried it just now.
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Just because you can be financially successful being an asshole doesn't make being an asshole ok.

I think there's a subtle (but important) distinction. Smart people can get away with having poor people skills: accidentally offending people, putting their foot in their mouth, and forgetting about the human element in technology. That can be forgiven, and may even be an advantage.

At the same time, there's a difference between having poor people skills and being an asshole: intentionally offending people, putting others down so you can get ahead, and willfully ignoring the human element make you an asshole. I think this often (but unfortunately not often enough) hurts people more than it helps.

Bezos sounds like a bit of a grey area. However, I don't think you can make a decision on this based on the performance of amazon. He's certainly successful at what he does, but there are any number of people who have created success at too high a cost: demoralized people, broken laws, and ultimately a bigger burden is placed on society than the gain that made them successful.
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Sage and SymPy are not direct competitors. Sage is a Python interface to other math software. SymPy is closer to one of Sage's dependencies, Maxima. On the "motivation" page you linked, they actually state that they're working toward making SymPy a drop-in replacement for Maxima in Sage.
There's basically no properties option for tables.

Try Zoho, they've got more features.
"All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start counting from then, so they can calculate the date and time in the future. It is unclear whether it was Mr Ritchie or Mr Thompson who set the so-called start Unix time at January 1st, 1970. That moment came to be known as the epoch. Mr Ritchie helped bring it about. And with it, he ushered in a new era."

Well said.
Sage is a large collection of different mathematical python packages. For symbolic math it uses sympy, which is linked by the OP. From your comment, I thought that Sage was a replacement for sympy.
I'm glad someone finds it helpful! I used web.py, by the way.

I'm not sure how to go about the log configuration. If the users prefer it I can just disable logging altogether, although I'd prefer keeping some information (not IPs) at least for a single day so I can get basic usage statistics. I promise not to do anything evil with the little information I may get in any case.
Google is your friend.

Aug 24 2011: Android-targeted malware jumps 76% in Q2, McAfee says
http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/24/android-targeted-malware-jumps...

Aug 01, 2011: Android Trojan records phone calls. CA security team finds more advanced Android malware
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080111-android-trojan....

Aug 15, 2011: A malicious Android app that disguises itself as Google's new social networking platform, Google+, is capable of stealing data, and answering and recording incoming phone calls
http://www.scmagazineus.com/new-android-spyware-answers-inco...

Sep 20, 2011: Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/google_android_vulne...

Aug 4, 2011: 8 Notorious Android Malware Attacks. Nearly a third of Android users will fall prey to mobile security threats this year.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/mobile/23130025...
rofl @pixie they down voted you.
I don't know how much it matters, to be honest. Depends how big a distraction it is for the company. E.g. I'd guess this news story is not the last they'll hear about it. Republicans will presumably use this as a stick to beat the administration with.
Bitcoin is the latest alternate currency to crash
One interesting approach I remember from a previous thread on this topic, was to charge for writing a spec, but discount it from the project total if the client decided to go with you.

That said, if the spec is large enough where you're going to be investing a significant amount of time into it, I don't see why it should be any less billable than the other work you do.
Note to those that carry a phone in their pocket: there does seem to be a link between cell use and sperm quality/count. See, for example, http://www.andrologyjournal.org/cgi/rapidpdf/jandrol.111.014...

Not exactly scientific, but I know a guy who's sperm count increased (enough to knock up his wife anyway) once he stopped carrying his phone in his pocket. Tim Ferriss, of 4-hour body fame, tested this and seems to agree. He mentions in his book that he now carries his phone on an arm-band.
The market in San Francisco (we still have to compete with the Google/Facebook etc) demands that start-ups pay market rate. Everyone on engineering team here at Triggit makes at least six figures. VC funded companies generally build a lot of budget around hiring, and paying, top engineering talent.

Depending the type of job you are looking for, and the size of the company, I'd actually encourage you not to use a recruiter. Although we use them, we don't look at resumes from recruiters nearly as closely as direct applicants - especially if you do a little bit of legwork and see if you can't find an advocate within the company.

Just be direct with a company, tell them what you need to make, and they can pretty quickly tell you yes or no. I'd say target start-ups with funding, or that are profitable, and you'll find a nice salary waiting for you.

Good luck!
Doesn't matter how many times it is studied. Paranoia will always reign.

Whenever someone talks about electro magnetic radiation from wifi or phones, I usually point out the massive ball of radiation in the sky that will burn their skin in 15 minutes of exposure and is known to cause cancers in millions of people. People tend to forget about that one when they are obsessing about low powered mobile devices.
RailwayJS MVC Framework for Node.js
> "Just start typing their name"

You can almost get this on the iPhone by swiping to the left of the first home screen and using spotlight. I use that all the time, for contacts and to launch apps hidden in folders I rarely use.
I hope its the latter :P
I wish you could just rent a generator on a trailer. A single-speed turbine should still win for highway efficiency.
> the backslash is ugly

Not only that, it's very unconfortable to type in some international keyboard layouts.
& chromedude,

thanks, thanks! =) my trusty Dell has been good to me. but i'm curious about the other side! Good luck to both of you in getting a mac =)!
For students of his jurisprudence this should come as no surprise whatsoever. Fortunately, he also feels Chicago not-actually-pizzerias have a first amendment right to lie about the product they sell.
"Funny, but sort of a low blow. Virtually everything in a modern X server installation is autoconfigured based on hardware detection."

No, that's why he can be so happy. He's not bashing X itself, but the config file. Because of autoconfiguration, he hasn't had the need to go into the file for a long time.

That makes me happy too.
Pretty nice. Another excellent charting library is highcharts, they also have released a stock charts library too.

Highcharts.com

The one thing I haven't found is a nice chart library that can do gantt charts properly, so if anyone knows of one let me know.
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Great. I personally know one of the founders. I think it's a great idea, but I definitely think they need competitors. Your design is definitely starting off in the right direction.
BoA To Stick Taxpayers With A $74T Bill By Moving Derivatives Into FDIC Accounts
Its a bit sad but the obituary is often the best article in the economist. In this case it was a very fitting tribute to a tech hero.
Congrats, Anson! You guys deserve it.
So you'll take a liar, as long as he votes for what you consider 'right'...right?

This is how we got here in the first place.
The question is also how this data was "collected". I once was asked to fill out some survey of my school were I had to enter a salary number.

Knowing that this is going to be used most likely for some inter-school benchmark it is making very tempting to polish up the numbers.
One thing I'm curious about is: at a larger software company like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, how much of a raise do you typically get every year?

Also, does Google's 10% across-the-board raise last year not apply to new hires?
he made that story up. he's full of it.
Can anyone explain in more detail how this relates to Arc and Lisp?
I think I also read somewhere that Ubuntu is considering a rolling release model in the future.
It would be pure class if wasn't for the late Mr. Jobs mention. Surely, one can think of hundreds of more concrete examples that C enabled other than iOS, like, i don't know, the Internet?
> "I chose what is probably the nerdiest/least prestigious university in Canada."

Nerdiest for sure, but I'll object to "least prestigious". Sure, old money prefers Queens, or UofT - and you're right that UBC, McGill, etc have more clout within Canada. That's the operative keyword.

Waterloo's main strength is not how well it's regarded within its own country (most people are unaware of its engineering and CS reputation), but rather its reputation abroad. I work in the US now, and practically no one has heard of any of the big Canadian universities. University of Toronto... that's probably in Toronto, right? McGill? shrug Waterloo is one of the few Canadian universities that has a near bulletproof reputation outside of the country, so I'd consider it far from low-prestige.

In any case, I want to raise a second point:

> "the success that people like Zuckerburg and Jobs have had, have shown that success doesn't have to mean wearing suit"

I think the lesson is deeper and more important than just this. I think the more important lesson (and I hope one that catches on) is that success can come from creating and disrupting things. I think one of the most disappointing trends in recent history is the concentration of success on people whose main skill is playing the system. Our society's collective adoration (or more recently, mild hatred) on bankers and investors is proof of this.

When I went through school, I saw many talented engineers heed the siren call of Wall Street. To me, it's a tremendous waste of talent - all of these smart people could be creating things, disrupting staid, complacent industries. But instead they were inventing new and improved derivatives and speeding up trading to squeeze the most out of the existing system as they can.

I for one hope that the very public success of people like Jobs and Zuckerberg drives home to some people the worthwhileness of creation. Hopefully we can stem the flow of talent into finance and bring some people back onto the side of, well, building shit.
Cool. Now do CSS-only QWOP. Challenge accepted?
To the extent that other studies have found such links in the past, I'm curious how much is due to pure correlation: ie, people who own cell phones and also engage in other behavior that increases the risk of cancer. This would also be much more relevant in the days when only a few early adopters owned mobiles, as opposed to now, when practically everybody does.
Y'think?

Most east coast Americans eat salad that comes from the west coast. Now, driving ~2,600 miles in a truck with an efficiency of ~12mpg will cost $736 at $3.40/gal. That's just transportation of SALAD. Add that up for everything we ship around, and you get large expenses that "spread out" over every consumer.

I am convinced that if we ate locally for more and had lower gas prices most this financial crisis, except with the stupid mortgage crisis, would evaporate.
ha, that's a great parallel to draw. miyamoto is behind many of the most iconic videogame characters AND game designs ever seen. so, in fairness to miyamoto, he's got a little steve in him as well.
This is what we been saying for long time now, and with "our" solution there's no need for barcodes - we rely 100% on "the image". No names as that will only lead to bashing, so we'll just simply add on to this chorus: Barcodes are dying.

Demo coming soon.
From Sebastian's account, he made it very easy for Patrick to have it taken down. Since it was Patrick who he hurt, he wanted Patrick to have the choice whether it stayed up or down. That seems fair and right to me.
When I see these surveys from the top-tier universities, I often wonder what the ceiling is for those of us who are self-educated.
I wonder how many times I will need to see PHP 5.3's backslashes before they look 'correct' :)
I am slightly bothered by the lack of a '\n'.
TinEye has an API, Google Goggles does not.
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> Babbage used his first Sun Unix workstation at university in the 1980s

It says so in the article. Which Babbage are they talking about?
Its clearly passive-agressive bashing. Not very effective one at that since if his only real evidence is (http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=subtle+feed...) thats not a lot to go on. In his defence, he did say he wasn't going to bash the troll, and that was such a poor bash its not a real attempt.

I think its more interesting the personality type he describes and whether such "conflict invigoration" is healthy in a leader. Just coming from (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3138826) it sounds similar to Bezos
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Can be handy, thanks for this, but some chrome extension/firefox add-on/etc. would be possibly better (haven't searched for such actually, strange, I should or even write such!).

Also: don't only promise! Put privacy page right there and explain what you explained here (maybe even in greater details, people love transparency), so every user we'll be able to obtain same information.
What Exactly is Complex Event Processing Today?
Pocket Square Fold
It's extremely creepy -- I watched a video on YouTube rather than sharing my own data, but I can imagine it.

They should consider adding a "trigger" warning, though, so rape survivors and so on can realize they're signing up for something that may be extremely upsetting and has nothing to do with lollipops.

Dunno if they thought about it and don't want to ruin the surprise for people who'll have more expected responses; but it's unfortunately one of those things that's going to be passed around with no more description than "hey check this out it's very educational".
Cool, I can agree with that.

New input methods will take on a greater role. E.g. Kinect (time of flight sensors), Multi-touch, Voice, Light fields.
Does Apple finally have a tablet battle on it hands?
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I would wager that the behavioral/psychological side effects of owning a mobile or smartphone far outweigh any physiological effects of the radiation. Either way, I'm curious as well.
This sounds like after-the-fact rationalization of do-nothing-ism.

Conventional, classic macroeconomics has been spot on in predicting this crisis as it unfolds. Why do we need this extra hypothesis?
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Android app anytime soon?
Promoting someone to a job they're less good at because they're really good at their current job is also a mistake bad companies make.

Keeping high performers in a role where they can perform highly, but giving them status, titles, and compensation in line with their importance to the company is the solution to both problems. This is why great engineering companies have career paths for engineers that don't necessarily extend into management. Hell, that's why Ive has a "Senior Vice President" title in the first place.
"The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician and engineer who designed a mechanical computer."
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Except the difference in speed is really noticeable.
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There is no ceiling.
You made me search for it. Apparently it was a rumor: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/ubuntu-is-not-changing-to...
Babbage is the name of the Economist's Science & Tech blog, which this story was posted under. The blog name is being used to stand-in for the author's in that sentence.
Babbage is the name of the blog: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage

From the description: "The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage"

So I presume it refers to the author.
Here's a Greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/116080

It doesn't work with Google Instant enabled.

May need improvements!
The blogger. It is customary at The Economist to assign to a columnist as a pseudonym the name of a foundational figure in whatever the column purports to be about ("Lexington" for their USA coverage, "Schumpeter" for the coverage of business, &c.). One person will write the column for a period, and then move on.
I disagree, but that doesn't mean that I don't turn to the obituary page immediately on receipt of each week's issue.

jfb: bringing down the median subscriber income of The Economist for 20 years.
"6. Familiarity with popular JS libraries" - It seems now more than ever this is an integral part.

JQuery walked on in and 'shook up' the world of JS - but now there are so many strong libraries (& micro-libraries) that its more of a matter of filtering out the junk
Probably the author - though why they stated it like that I haven't a clue.

"About Babbage
In this blog, our correspondents report on the intersections between science, technology, culture and policy. The blog takes its name from Charles Babbage, a Victorian mathematician and engineer who designed a mechanical computer"
Title is slightly misleading because the study didn't go on for 15 years, they used an existing database with 15 years of information.

I also hate the use of the word 'link' because it seems to imply causality in many people's minds. This is a correlational study - a finding either way is good for suggesting a hypothesis, but we cannot infer (in this case a lack of) cause and effect. There could easily be gigantic unknown confounding variables.

There could also be a very small minority of people very sensitive to radiation that can easily be brushed aside as outliers in these kinds of studies.

I am even more interested in any wifi studies now that I am constantly near wifi. But my guess is that wifi radiation is orders of magnitude less powerful than cellphone radiation so it won't be as great of a concern.