skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Amazon, it's not uncommon for both ycombinator and twitter to be unreachable because of our IPs being blocked.
Yeah, I was reading the article and saw the mentions of Perl and was like -_-.

I think the legal writing analogy is interesting. I think legal writing and programming are closer to each other than either are to math or literature.
IE6 support can be made reasonable for most apps as long the client understands that the IE6 support will be usable, decent looking, but not 100% the same look and experience as with more modern browsers. You just need to explain to the client that they don't want to blow their budget wrestling with nit picky white space inconsistencies.
We closed a huge number of bugs in 1.7, but yes there are about 100 open bugs plus another roughly 100 more that are either feature requests or unverified. For a project the size of jQuery and considering the installed base, I think that is pretty good.

And the way these bugs get fixed is by someone spending a lot of time to track them down. As the 1.7 blog post mentions, we definitely welcome any help we can get. We are all volunteers so we don't have the time to quickly track down and fix every bug.

In the triage process we put priority on fixing the worst bugs that affect the most people. I personally triaged both #9646 and #8205 so we could mark them as verified, but tracking down and solving older-IE problems can be torture given the crude stone debugging tools available in those environments. If you have a high threshold for pain, we could certainly use your help.
The most successful analysts, Naquin said, are something like the heroine of the crime novel "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a quirky, irreverent computer hacker who "knows how to find stuff other people don't know exists."

Who writes this stuff? Sure, Lisbeth Salander is a hacker, but 'quirky'? 'irreverent'? FFS If you'd read the books you'd know that she was a poor woman who'd been hideously abused. Or is that what the AP means by 'quirky'?

Also, give that this is an article about 'open source' intelligence (open source as in public), how is Salander and her ability to find things people don't know exist even relevant? This is the modern equivalent of analysts getting copies of Pravda and reading them, only with a citizen-reporting element added in.

Those with a masters' degree in library science and multiple languages, especially those who grew up speaking another language, "make a powerful open source officer," Naquin said.

Yeah, just like Salander. (And, BTW, AP it's master's degree not masters' degree---you can check in the AP Manual if you like).
I read in the 90s that Microsoft's suppliers appreciated that MS never went the 'net 30' or 'net 90' route like other Fortune 500 corps and just paid as soon as they got the bill.
I think the claim is bogus not because the brain has a much more complex instruction set, but because the phrase 'instruction set of the brain' does not make sense.

If one had to express the complexity of a neuron in the size of its 'instruction set', the best guess may be 'one': "act like a neuron until you break down".

The complexity of the brain most likely is not caused by complexity of the processing units, but of its parallelism.
Everything points that the stock will be trading in the teens in the near future. Their financials are a joke. Their costs to acquire users are astronomical (http://adage.com/article/digital/groupon-marketing-spending-...) and their accounting is shady at best.
I find these two options a must (they're in my .vimrc):

set hidden

set switchbuf=useopen

Beyond that I just use the basic commands to navigate buffers: :ls, :b, :bl, and ctrl-^

Ctrl-^ (switch to the "alternate" (previous) file) is the one a I use the most really. Especially since windows each have their own alternate file.

Generally, I find remembering buffer numbers in a long-running session no more difficult than remembering inventory letters in Angband ;-)
I have some problems about these numbers:

In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an
unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets
— up to 5 million a day.

These sound large until you realize that a relatively small project such as Truthy ( http://truthy.indiana.edu ) who deals only with ~10% of the full stream is already north of 20M tweets per day.

If they got such a basic fact wrong, where else could they have messed up?

Of course that doesn't mean that the government isn't interested in social media, or what they more broadly call OSI "Open Source Information/Indicators". Take a look at: http://www.iarpa.gov/solicitations_osi.html
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This should be a picture of Flink Marko!
Anecdote:
A friend of my runs a consulting business. He does webapps, but generally has to set up the webserver if he doesn't have to provide hosting. He's a fantastic programmer. I came to find out that he hadn't disallowed root SSH yet or implemented SSH keys.

With that said, I would say most probably don't unless they have someone with sysadmin experience or likes infosec.

Perceived value? Certainly, if you can convince them that if the data gets corrupted or stolen or you get haxx0red by script kiddies there's going to be a financial consequence.

Will they pay? I don't know. It's risk management between site/data loss and paying to set it up.
Apple is not Microsoft
Would incorporating a shell company and operating your startup inside a corporate entity be allowable in the UK?
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On what grounds? I'm not sure you've given any reasons at all to ditch google.
It "blisters" them? Presumably that problems is most noticeable with a fresh boot.
I stopped being impressed by supercomputers like 5 years ago. These days it's all about money. You can buy as many CPUs/RAM, and connect them together.

I'm much more impressed by the advances in CPU architecture. SSDs have been amazing so far. Networking has been improving too.
What's wrong with muses?

I do money laundering with muses. I do a comic, God gives me a melody. That sort of thing.

http://www.losethos.com/hymns.html

Angels are VERY clever. They try to be just. I think if you are a good boy and do work, they bless you with ideas. This drill seargent idea probably works, but don't kid yourself -- any good ideas might not be your own.

I'm pretty confused on where myself begins and ends.
This is nice because the Republican Supreme Court justices voted 4-0-1 in favor of the maximum possible patenting of software in the Bilski case last year. Democrats were 4-0 against software patents.

Scalia was the one deciding vote and refused to join either side's opinion on the actual subject of software patents. His decision is tentative and equivocal on the subject of software and business method patents.

This article appears in the National Review, the thinkiest of the Republican news magazines. Perhaps it can help bring a little of the craziness among Republican judges back to reason on a subject central to our industry's future on these shores.
Then agreed.
This is off-topic, but I don't think it's fair to say that it takes 12 years to read and write Japanese fluently. That's just the time that it takes to graduate from high-school in Japan.

In fact, the mandatory education in Japan comprises only elementary and junior high school, which takes 9 years in total. By the time you graduate you're supposed to know all of the 2000ish 常用漢字　(Jouyou Kanji=Common Use Kanji). If you add a couple of hundred of place and people names, you'd get a good approximation of "fluent reading and writing Japanese", as far as kanji is concerned.

If you're learning on your own, there's no reason it should take 9 years. If you learn it at a rate of 10 characters a week, you could learn 2000 in 4 years.

That said, I think the emphasis people put on learning a lot of kanji, without being able to speak the language, is misguided.
They are likely filtering on specific countries/languages that they are interested in, thus reducing the number of tweets they are working with.
I signed up last week, and I am looking forward to seeing it work.

It's kind of what I've been looking for, the ability to directly edit simple web pages in emacs and push them out with very little cognitive overhead.
To be clear: Does the vote arrow disappear after you click it (and stay disappeared on reloading)?
First, I agree that this is an insightful observation, and it certainly applies to conventional suppliers. For example, if demand for yoga classes drops, the demand for professional-grade yoga mats will drop.

But a businesses like an advertising agency or coupon distributor is not a conventional supplier: It exists to create demand for things people don’t think they need. In times of austerity, it’s true that “organic” demand drops. But that can increase demand for businesses that create demand out of thin air.

When the class is full, nobody needs to distribute a coupon. But when the class is half-empty... Perhaps Groupon will get the call. Perhaps.

I am not endorsing Groupon, just trying to point out that since they aren’t a yoga business or a conventional supplier to a yoga business but a business that throws a lifeline to a yoga business, their economics may not exactly track yoga business economics.
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Consistently, quarter of Americans claim not to have read any books in the year preceding the poll. My guess is that a real percentage of people who do not read books is in 35-45% range -- admitting not to read books is kind of shameful in western culture.
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He sounds like a Feynman in formation.
Most of the students who make it to Caltech in a math program didn't depend on the K-12 "system" to teach them math. It's practically a requirement to do a lot of self-teaching outside of school.
In my experience, attitudes to swearing are a remarkably effective heuristic. If someone takes offence at my use of language, they're almost certainly going to take offence at the thoughts and feelings I use that language to communicate.

People fuck and shit and piss. Those words represent the most essential parts of our nature, the most basic acts of a living animal. Use them wisely, use them to enrich communication, but don't deny them, don't try and remove them from the language. Profanity does work, precisely because it offends you, precisely because it's a shock to the system. The world is too vital and visceral for us to constrain the words we use to describe it.

The world might be full of witty, creative people who hate swearing, but I certainly haven't met any. In my experience, people who dislike swearing are prissy, small-minded bigots. They're the sort of people that call modern art ugly, the sort of people who seek to constrain the private lives of adults "for the sake of the children". Frankly, they can fuck off - I've no time for any of them.
When the article says, "We’re losing an alarming proportion of our nation’s science talent once the students get to college", and the reason is they can't hack hard math, it seems to me we are not "losing our nation's science talent", because those students weren't part of the small number that are capable of original research to begin with.

A better question to ask would be to look into why those who ARE capable choose to do other things, like become Quants for Goldman Sachs.

Wringing hands over why those who were never capable to begin with give up isn't worth worrying about any more than we should worry about the clumsy overweight and weakling kids who didn't make it into the state football team when they got to college.
It seems to fail the iPad detection.
I agree with the sentiment, but the quote is misattributed. It was probably first said by Gary Shilling, a writer for Forbes, in 1993: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
I get the feeling advertising is a very "pure" industry, by which I mean its business model is pretty well set, and widely understood: take "creative" people, put them in offices, sell their services.

Compare that to the software industry: Who is the software for? Will we charge for it, and if so, how much? What is possible and what is impossible? How long will it take? What's the most important part? In software, the answers to these questions either change quickly or are opaque to the layman. In advertising, it's easy: The account execs sell to companies, the "creatives" to consumers. We've done something similar a million times, so it will cost $x.

Richard's strategy could probably work with a large development shop that made (not technically ground-breaking) "the official" apps for companies.
That sounds more like your work added some new rules to their filter that bans some of the the content here. Using https would encrypt that content and keep the filter from scanning it. Now you just have to hope that they don't ban it by url.
On solving the wrong problem: why digital business cards don't work
I don't know if this is clever or not, but it was practical for me: I wanted to have some basic sanity checks on all public (i.e. non-log-in) pages of a site, so I used wget to mirror it. What I was really after was the wget progress output so I could get a list of all the page URLs. I then used that to drive Watir to hit every page and a) check for any 404 or such errors and b) take a screen shot and save it off.

I could then fire up an image browser and quickly see if any pages looked wonky ( missing or misaligned images images, crappy text layout, etc.).

wget is very cool. :)
Love it. Maybe work on making it dynamic width?
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I've never understood this about the Hubble: a level of precision equivalent to spotting individual grains of sand on the surface of the Moon. But why can't we actually see the moon landing sites from the Hubble?
Come on people, at least explain your rationale
Google considers offering paid TV on its ambitious fiber network
My biggest issue with Groupon's IPO is not the stupid gambling that's going on, but the consequence that will have in other tech stocks and investment in tech companies in general.
Thank you for this. I had always (only slightly, though, in a grammar nazi way) looked down on people who used "they" for a singular pronoun because I thought that many do so just out of carelessness. But glad there is a formalized reasoning for it.

I've always used "he/she". But that's not quite accurate (or elegant) either.
If you read the article, it doesn't actually ever mention how creativity benefits from having tight time constraints (the drill sergeant metaphor). The closest I saw was a theory that Richards' agency didn't go bankrupt when Hyundai ended their contract, taking 10% of revenues with it, because of his tight time-tracking and budgeting.
I am glad I am not alone in thinking I don't want to deal with java
another reason for startups to be ramen profitable!
No, I can assure you that's not the case, unless Comcast decided to do it. It appears to be fine now, but for this week we were getting 0 byte responses from port 80, but everything working fine over HTTPS.
I think theft can be simply defined as: "Taking something that isn't yours without permission."

On the plus side, the various rationalizations people come up with to justify theft of creative works shows that they have at least some bit of conscience left.

Teacher: "Billy I gave you an 'F' on your paper because Bobby already passed in that exact same paper."

Billy: "But I wrote the paper! Bobby must have stolen/copied it and passed it in first!"

Teacher: "But Billy, you still have your original paper so how is that theft?"
Not Google, but Google Analytics.

They are hiding the 'organic keywords' from viewing, from users who are logged in.

This amount can be from 10 to 25% from all search traffic.

They do this for "privacy" reasons, but somehow, if you PAY them (Google Adowrds), you seem to see all the keywords?

It's like forcing people to use their service.
For CS, at least, the problem is that people arrive at college knowing nothing, and the solution is to make CS/programming part of the core curriculum in high school, alongside math and science (replace home economics or something).

How many English majors would there be if everyone matriculated into college illiterate?
You can test even with low traffic...it just takes longer. :)

Try testing incrementally. Run some tests where your conversion is going from Home Page -> Pricing page. This is pretty easy to do since clicking through to a pricing page is a lot less friction than buying a product, so you'll have more data to work with.

Once you get a good conversion there, move on to the next step in your funnel (probably Pricing -> Buy)
I'm curious to hear more about your experience using that kind of system with programming knowledge. When you say "Haskell deck" are you talking about a literal "deck" of flash card type things? (whether physical cards or part of some Anki-like software)
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Thanks, what do you exactly mean with dynamic width? Do you mean for each box other widths?
Ah, perhaps "Apply for membership" is a misnomer. It's just a way for people who want to host their own to reach out to us. Anyone can comment on the Roundtable itself. We'd love to see your comments up there.
Why?

I too think the charges are trumped up, but Stockholm is a possibility until one or both of these women come out with the truth of what actually happened.
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See this also:
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/what-does-not-provided-keywords...

And
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/tracked-google-users-will-resul...
I think it's because IE6 is the default browser for Windows XP Installs. I think even with the later Windows XP Service Packs, they still baselined to IE6.

That and there was a big gap in time between IE6 and IE7. Didn't Microsoft once announce that IE6 would be their last browser, as that's all the world needs?
Anyone know if this what the WP7 HN App uses? I've noticed that the app no longer works which is a shame, I used it all the time.
I haven't had a request for IE6 support in years, but if I got one I would say something like:

"No, I will not do IE6 support for you. You've trusted me to solve your problem in the best and most efficient way, and supporting IE6 would be a waste of your money (and my time)."
CIA following Twitter and FB to provide Obama with analysis is like asking an average person in China what love is..answer is never dependable..my apologies to our Chineese readers
I would have gotten a robotic pick and place machine and sped that up a bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5eR0eHknZk&t=0m18s
It's because IE6 was the last IE release before the end of the first browser war. Previously, Microsoft had been releasing browsers every year, but they stopped after Netscape died. It wasn't until Firefox started to gain market share, almost 5 years later, that IE7 came out. In the intervening years, IE6 had the chance to gain about 99% of the market.

(Not sure if all my figures are accurate, but that's the gist of things).
That's not just an IE6 problem. IE8 has full CSS 2.1 support but can't do css3 rounded corners, opacity, or shadows. You can sometimes fake it with -ms-filter and CSS expressions (htc files) but those work just as well on 6 and 7.

That said, I'm happy to drop IE 6 where not required by the client - 8 may not have html5 or CSS 3 features, but at least it's relatively bug free.
Seconded. First time I visit and I already love the concept.
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Expanding on point 1:
The question isn't even "Does Google make money from Android."
The question is: "What does Google make in a world with Android vs what does Google make in a world without Android?"

The play with Android is not unlike Chrome: they're making $0 directly from Chrome, but having Chrome has pushed their interests in the browser space in a way that has helped their bottom line. (faster javascript processing leading to more use/more ads within their core products).

Without Android, mobile was hurtling toward a paid-app space with not a lot of arbitrary web usage and thus not a lot of ads, and of those ads that remained, the phone makers and/or networks could force terms or lock Google out on a whim.

In short, Google as an advertiser has no choice but to spend big to ensure that not only does Apple not win, but that the architecture of authoritative apps does not win.

(In Android's lackluster paid-app market I see the same self-sabotage-in-deference-to-the-cash-cow that we see in Microsoft projects that threaten Office/Windows.)
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Because under GAAP accounts payable (the money Apple owes its suppliers) is debt. Plain and simple.
Sorry, but a true geek never "pretends to know".
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KIF+Zapp is awesome, it lets our iOS engineers and Rails engineers keep up our testing culture. Recommended.
Apple CEO Tim Cook makes some changes
Maybe I missed part of the story, but didn't it say that banks implemented their own internal systems? If so, how does that violate a patent?

If you build a better mousetrap and try to sell it, but I decide to build my own copy of the mousetrap for my own use, wouldn't that be non-infringing?
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Yes! Whenever someone on the jQuery team wonders, "But who does that anyway?" we turn to Google Codesearch. Often, we don't like the answers we find. But at least we find the answers. For example, the 600 occurrences of `$("document")` that should be `$(document)`.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=\$\%28\%22doc...
Depends on what I'm doing. I tend to think of debugging as roughly split into algorithmic and systemsy debugging: do I think I've messed up an algorithm, or do I have some messed-up software-engineering stuff like component interaction or memory management?

For algorithmic debugging I tend to do mainly printf debugging. In fact usually more like: read and mentally trace the code, and then printf a few things just to make sure they're what I expect them to be.

I use "real" debuggers if it's a more systemsy thing, like a bunch of interacting components, or inexplicable weird crashes.
I think this is a great discussion; much more productive than the normal religious arguments.

The first is reasonably sound. A potentially very interesting idea is to allow anything filed within 3 months of filing to be considered "prior art", although I'm not sure this would make a huge difference in practice.

The second would be very labor intensive if done in practice. Doing this as a thought-experiment is actually how non-obviousness is determined by patent examiners. If an engineer of "ordinary skill in the art" would think the approach obvious given the prior art, then the patent is deemed obvious. I don't know if it's ever been tried to locate 'virgin engineers' to demonstrate that a patent is obvious.

So the second idea is how the system works, although the examiner is supposed to be the group of engineers.
Minus hit frontpage of Reddit recently but the typical front page content isn't very much startup focused on Reddit
Is the Personal MBA's Crash Course an actual product or marketing teaser?
The Personal MBA's Crash Course[1] is a series of online videos and training about business that seems pretty cool. I got corporate approval to spend my training budget on it. But, when I tried to signup, the corporate credit card was rejected w/o a reason given. And, I haven't been able to reach Josh Kaufmann for customer support on the matter via phone or email in the couple of weeks since then. So, does anyone on HN know if this is a real product or just a marketing teaser?

[1]http://crashcourse.personalmba.com/
OT:mukt is a hindi word which means free.
There's more like that elsewhere in the PHP docs (at least, last time I went looking).

PHP used to be minutely documented, with copious examples, which was why it was so easy to learn. Now, not so much, it seems.