skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything in the article is based on a single data source: Page hits at DistroWatch.

And that's a completely useless data source. We don't have the slightest idea how many people are using Ubuntu, or how many people are installing Ubuntu, or how many people are using Mint, or how many people are installing Mint, or how many people are using or installing any other distro.

What we have is page hits on a single website. Do a search for "linux mint" and DistroWatch is the third result. Do a search for "linux ubuntu" and DistroWatch is the fifth result (below the fold for anyone with a small monitor). Anyone who actually wanted to INSTALL either distro would probably click the first result (the actual distro's website). Anyone who was actually USING either distro would probably not be searching at all. (Personal anecdote: I've used Ubuntu and considered using Mint; I've never visited DistroWatch. Why would I?)

There's nothing to see here other than a desperate attempt by an irrelevant website (DistroWatch) to drive traffic and attention. I would be interested in how Ubuntu is doing relative to Mint, but that data is simply not publicly available.
Thanks - very good read.
Samsung preps 8-Gbit phase-change memory
I seem to remember reading that saliva is slightly basic (pH > 7.0) A quick Googling reinforces this. Not that it means anything. I am not a doctor or a medical professional.
Mono implements the 2 ECMA standards related to the C# language, the CLR and the core of the .NET library, plus Microsoft-specific APIs which are not covered by the ECMA standard.

The ECMA standards are distributed under RAND terms. This is not enough to guarantee a free implementation, however Microsoft issued a statement under the Community Promise that these standards are worry-free of patents as long as the implementation implements the whole standard (which is quite light and contrary to Java, supersets are allowed).

What can be attacked are implementations of components, like ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms and maybe Silverlight. However, this would be a hard thing to do, simply because Microsoft ended up cooperating with the Mono team on at least the implementation of Silverlight. And also they actively encouraged Mono by other things, like referring to Mono in their official docs, which means Estoppel applies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel

So quite the contrary, I think Mono is even safer than Java, as Java is not governed by a real standards body and you can't implement Java unless Oracle allows you to (hence Harmony is dead). Even forking OpenJDK may be problematic, as the implicit patents grant may not apply to derivate works (at least in Europe).
Hiring Challenges for Early Stage Companies
Odd that I've never heard this before, this is pretty ingenious. Alternately instead of sponsoring, could display ads, etc, but how ever it's done, the user is currently being punished, with no option to make corrections.
PagerDuty (YC S10) looking for great systems programmers
FWIW, HP has issued an official response now: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111129b.html
If he likes windows and wants to just do stuff, then try Mint (might be heavy for an Atom based netbook).

If he wants to try something a bit new, then have a bash at Ubuntu 11.10, but then try installing the XFCE desktop package from within Ubuntu if Unity does not 'take'.
Indie Game and their Success
Why do you think they are so successful?
Awfully hard to feel much sympathy for a team that builds and submits to the app store an application which overtly contravenes one of the very first terms of the AT&T wireless terms of service.

Intuitively, I believe AT&T's tether pricing to be a travesty, but rationally I also know that it's their network and their terms are going to be their terms, even if I find them odious. Both intuitively and rationally, an application that exists solely to bypass their most basic terms of service seems more like an elaborate troll than a real offering.
No, your point doesn't stand when it's predicated on imjk's skills at predicting the future and a rhetorical interpretation of Craigslist's life so far.

Both history and reality confirm for us that ugly sites other than CL do just fine.
Did the baking soda ever affect the taste of the gum?
It sounds to me like they're just reiterating the law that's already in place, highlighting that Facebook has been violating it.
Ha ha ha. Good one, reso.

What? You're serious? We should all design massive scaling and redundancy features into our hobby projects? That's absurd.

It's not like Google can't handle the extra bandwidth, it'd be much better if they left the page up and reached out to the developer to upgrade their account.
Ah yes, it's on the blog post: http://bergcloud.com/blog/

I still think it's odd to use your own wifi protocol just to support future products.
Huh? As a field matures, the bar for groundbreaking increases. Most research is iterative, including everything I've done, and almost everything my peers have done.
Does this mean that HP will be having another fire sale?

Yeah, this is bad form on HN but I couldn't resist ;-)
The Atari STF
I think what it means is that, in this case, the FTC gets to watch and make sure Facebook complies. If they don't, they get penalized for it. FTA:

The proposed order also contains standard record-keeping provisions to allow the FTC to monitor compliance with its order.

and then further down:

Each violation of such an order may result in a civil penalty of up to $16,000.

I really hope that's up to $16,000 per person for each violation.
Sorry about my ignorance, but you guys seem much more informed about how this all works.

So, what is the schedule for this (and other, similar) course(s)? Is this a full term commitment or a smaller, 5 week, class?
This just means that Facebook privacy changes will have the imprimatur of the FTC from now on, which FB paid for with the airing of a little bit of dirty laundry.

The fix is in.
apt-get gnome-shell

Linux is built around choice. You have the choice to get rid of Unity.
I would bet there is a new gum company formed at least once a month.
What you might not care to know: Next to gmail, pulse is probably my most used app on my android phone. This is largely because much of my infotainment reading is done on the subway with no connectivity. Pulse caches news stories from various sources to your device so you can read offline.
Exactly what I came here to say. Please, startups, don't do design contests.
Do we need another story about a Groupon half-price special?
It's early days yet, but you /can/ do Clojure on android. Check out https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sattvik.clojure_re..., and google Daniel Solano Gomez; the guy behind the vast majority of that effort.
I think the "hate" is that this blogger still gets his affiliate code to work, while those in many other states (such as mine) were disabled because Amazon got into a disagreement with states over sales taxes.
How to Negotiate Terms with a Daily Deals Site (Groupon, Living Social etc...)
Well, it's just an opinion of an adviser, for now. The actual court decision hasn't been announced.
Agreed. Admittedly I do spend a hell of a lot of time in the Chicken position. Even at play...
One of my brother's Creative Writing lecturers was fond of the following fact

There are more professional concert pianists in the UK than full-time authors of fiction.
It still uses S-expressions, albeit with different kind of parentheses and separators. The whole point of S-expressions is that syntax is irrelevant.
So the penalty for ongoing repeated lies and fraud is....

nothing. Zero. The FTC has investigated, and the settlement is zero money and zero penalties. Not one dollar. Whew! I'm glad they were punished! They won't do THAT again!

The U.S. is really in late-stage empire breakdown. I don't think there is any significant enforcement of any laws whatsoever against companies and people that are reasonably well connected. The only thing keeping the society from total breakdown is inertia.
"It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions"
Because there aren't enough females in the field?
He gets paid if you buy anything after clicking the affiliate link, not just the books he linked to. A lot of people just happened to be buying stuff on Amazon over the weekend with his affiliate cookie set.

Edit: I'm not saying I agree with the negativity. It's just an answer to the parent's question.
It is: https://github.com/Knewton/Gatling/wiki/Gatling-Overview
Curso de Marketing Multinivel
Unfortunately it is incredibly rare to find a match for your hypothetical $OPPONENT that is both electable enough that your letter won't be laughed off and who actually fits the description of being a great man (or woman).
Mark Zuckerberg: 'We've Made A Bunch Of Mistakes'
Great post. There's a diminishing return on productivity once you start living your work... and a cost someone pays. Don't let it be your health or your family.
Asians aren't praised for hard work, they are praised for getting the top score (whether it required hard work or not is usually irrelevant)
I was once the registered DMCA agent for a large organization. All of the registered agents are listed on the US Copyright's Office website so that rights holders can look-up the names and addresses to send notices when an IP address within that organization is found to have content that is thought to be infringing (P2P, music, movies, etc).

Fewer than 1 in 10 came to me (the person registered to receive the notices). Subcontractors working on behalf of rights holders would send notices to any email address that they could find. Some went to retired employees, transferred employees, etc. It got so bad that we put a comment in ARIN that specified the agent's contact address to try and stop it. Didn't work.

The DMCA requires a proper notice be sent to the registered agent and grants the organization safe-harbor. It is very well defined. Here is the official list of registered agents (the one and only list... but DMCA subcontractors don't read it):

http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html
Very cool.
Small suggestion: Make the cursor turn into a hand (button:hover{cursor:pointer;}) when hovering over the buttons on the pricing page.
It's ridiculous, but I bet most of us associate construction with that summer job we had back in the day, holding the "slow" sign, sweeping dust off the street, making the trip to Tim's / Dunkin Donuts for the guys doing the real work, etc.
Same for the PCI compliance process. Auditors are on your side and want you to pass, so they'll bend in all sorts of ways to accept bad practice as "acceptable at this company"
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
Car Insurance Tennessee
But there are hundreds (?) of carriers worldwide, all of which support the iPhone. AT&T is just one of many.

So I don't see what the AT&T TOS has to do with Apple's App Store. Five years ago, sure, but not now.
Europe's largest IT firm to scrap internal e-mail
Police procedures leaked for getting into Facebook, other accounts
Lame title. That's why you didn't get many votes. Just saying.
You didn't offend me, and I could tell you weren't meaning to demean physical labour.

> I'm not sure if there's a corresponding mental equivalent to muscle memory.

Have you ever driven to walmart, or work, or your girlfriends (someones) house when you was slightly distracted when driving. You don't drive dangerously, you're not swerving of being stupid like if you was drunk or distracted, you're just not thinking and you end up going the wrong way or doing the wrong thing. There's been a couple of times in the morning when I've accidentally changed the time on the microwave, because I always used to have to hit the timer button before putting in the time. Now I don't, but on autopilot I can somehow manage to find 'time' on a different keypad layout and change the time to 1:30.

I agree with the second, having a tactile object to work with seems to free up a lot of the cognitive ability for the task at hand. Although, when I was doing electrical work you often needed that mental model to know where wires were running, so stepping into someone elses job (especially when it was done wrong or poorly) was a major head-job.

> I can go back in and redo it at basically zero cost

That's why I write fiction, because as a professional career it's only loss of time that matters. Thankfully in my job (vinyl siding) my materials are fairly cheap, so waste isn't a huge concern for us (but a good worker always minimizes it, like unless you're confident you use a piece that's already garbage to make a template rather than wing it on a new sheet) because our company gets paid for our reputation and how presentable our jobs are (there's a big aesthetic difference between done and done properly).

> Like I said, I've seen enough experts in action to know the difference isn't in the hands.

That's in all jobs, I've seen my fair share of talentless doctors, etc. (At 15 I called a doctor out wrong when I self diagnosed psoriasis, the hallmark is scaly skin that pin-prick bleeds when scraped and I had it and I had psoriasis, but that doctor couldn't admit he was wrong to a 15 year old)
Fuck FBI Friday V: IACIS Cybercrime Investigators Owned
Txt pro Sony Ericsson 
txt pro Sony Ericsson
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liked the post a lot

on an interview for a position in a startup I openly said that I have a family and if they expect me to work 10+ hours every day and also weekends that I'm not their guy

and i'm not 9-5 dev by any means

tech come and go, but if I miss how my kids are growing.....
Thank you for not calling it "Printr"
How is the EFF a liberal organization? Their primary agenda seems to be pro individual privacy, pro encryption, and anti-copyright.

Until 2001, some of those (encryption and privacy) were conservative issues. Now both parties tend to be in agreement and oppose the EFF on all of these issues.
If this practice is generally true, it suggests an obvious gender arbitrage strategy:

1. Hire women instead of men.
2. ???
3. Profit.

Unlike the usual case, here ??? actually has a value:

??? = Save massively on labor costs vs. your competitors.

As other companies discover the same strategy, demand increases for a fixed supply, thereby bidding up the equilibrium wage and hence dramatically improving the negotiating position of women. (Nothing improves the results of your negotiation faster than a better negotiating position.) In a competitive market for labor, the equilibrium is for everyone to be paid based on their productivity and their risk profile. Whether the latter factor favors women or men isn't a priori obvious; for example, men are more likely to die in a fight or a car accident, whereas women are more likely to take time off to have kids (and so on).

Unfortunately, market interventions typically have the opposite of their intended effect. Rules that punish companies for paying women less than men increase the risk of hiring women; rules that punish companies for not hiring enough women increase the risk of interviewing women; rules that punish not interviewing enough women increase the risk of recruiting women. All of these factors, ceteris paribus, lower the wages of women. (Those who depend on the gender rage industry, on the other hand, make off like bandits.)
Post all three pieces somewhere (your letter, his non-response, and your severe response), then call it to the attention of everyone who has the slightest interest in his embarrassment, including news outlets whose only interest is selling ads via controversy.
awesome, I saw this original article the other day, and thought it'd be awesome if it was on github (didn't think to, as it wasn't my work..) I was curious about how often it was updated, seems i've got an answer.

Just out of curiosity, how does one go about figuring out what sites to block and keeping this up to date and relevant? That would seem like a lot of effort?
No; a 50% increase followed by a 47% decrease represents a net 20.5% decrease, since (1 + 0.50)(1 - 0.47) = 0.795. (This assumes that Ubuntu visitors were represented in the same proportion pre- and post-decrease.)
Your feedback is highly appreciated
We can talk about that how wastefull or how anachronistic it is. I totally agree, but what I find more interesting is, why so many people (including me) like this useless thing?
Did we somehow, reached a point where we get too much of our experiences through a computer or a mobile display? More and more information through a narrowing medium. Or just because to have more kind of medias? Does somebody have a better hipotesis?
But, how is the "hate" going to help anyone? He is not responsible for Amazon's tax issues?
It directly violates Verizon's terms of services too.

We could (unproductively) relitigate whether Apple should police submissions to the app store at all, but as long as they do, they're obviously going to reject applications that violate the terms of the vast overwhelming majority of their US users carrier contracts.
Oops! This is related to the Pricing page issue we had this morning. The buttons aren't enabled for non-logged-in users. Working on a fix now, thanks!
Well, you could criticize that the App made its way onto the AppStore in the first place as an example of how arbitrary (and possibly ineffective) the approval process is.
Roger Dickey's Tactics for Game Monetization
Many have posted to this thread with complaints that boil down to "this is a slap on the wrist because they are well connected". If you were the FTC, what would you do to Facebook in this case, how would it be supported in law and what long term change for the better would your action create?

Privacy is a civil good but it is a fine line to walk indeed to punish an innovator during a recession. Where's the happy medium?
Probability is much less meaningful when you're not talking about large groups of repeated trials.

In the context of the article, imagine that you didn't do this just one time, but that you asked 100 fathers about the compostion of their children.

The question posed in the article is essentially, "Of those fathers who responded 'I have one son,' (which is likely 75 of the 100), how likely is it that they have another son, (which is likely 25 of that group of 75, or 1/3).

When the article talks about the father standing next to one of his children at random and the probability of another son being 1/2 at that point, it helps to imagine those same 100 fathers all standing next to their children. Of that group, you're not eliminating the fathers standing next to girls based on the way the situation is posed.

The English words used to describe each case make it much less clear which group of 100 people we're talking about.

Also, when we talk about one father and not a group of fathers, the 1/3 or 1/2 number is much less meaningful. This is where insurance companies make their money (ideally). It's impossible to predict whether a single person will die in a car accident over their lifetime, and any number is essentially a guess. But it's very easy to predict that, say, 1 in 50,000 people will.
Website Best Practices – Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Utterly inexcusable. Someone (several someones really) at the FTC should lose their jobs over that.

When O when will we get regulators with some distance from those they are regulating? (I'm looking at you SEC.)
LEED Construction
Clean Edison offers training in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), which is the most well-known and widely accepted green building certification.
You know... people could just take responsibility for sharing their private information. If they don't think a website "privacy policy" is enough of an assurance, it is their fault for accepting that risk.

FB should not be blamed for sharing information that others freely share with FB. It's ridiculous. It's even more ridiculous to think that government regulation is somehow needed to protect privacy. How absurd.

"I keep using this service and they don't do what I want! But I keep sharing my information with them."

Come on. At a certain point, individuals need to accept that THEY maintain a relationship with FB as well.
This is insightful, but I think you've pointed out the solution (for ARM) at the same time as the problem. Is there any reason that Microsoft couldn't repeat their earlier work and define an ARMPC-2013 standard? It seems like this will be necessary if they want Windows8-on-ARM to be a useable proposition.
But it is nefarious. Long hours do not equate to more money. Arrington is pushing a work philosophy that help him, not the people he's directing it at and he's using a big name to do it.
I tweeted to Craig Newmark and he answered positively - here's hoping: http://twitter.com/#!/craignewmark/status/141604875581657088
That's the one. Thanks. I shall look into it.
Houses were cheap in your Dads day/country!
Here in New Zealand average house costs are about 9.5x average wage. I think the average New Zealanders wage would make a US woman feel good.
Sources: http://stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-and-work/Income...

http://www.qv.co.nz/onlinereports/propertyvaluemap.htm
If you really want to program in Java, you could just use Netty. http://www.jboss.org/netty
That's a valid point. However, gadgets are used in the open or uncontrolled environment. Pollution and humidity might induce the gadgets with harmful germs.
I was loving this until I saw the pricing and noticed that it's priced on number of bug video creators. Boo. I was hoping that this would be used by our customers (for customer support) so that they can report an error simply in video without having to write it out.

When the folks from TimZon, then Snap-a-Bug, and now SnapEngage had a browser-based video for snapping bugs, I was thrilled, but they exited that space and pivoted. I'm still looking for something that our customers can use to report bugs more intuitively with video. Any ideas? I don't think BugCam fits the bill given the need to download and the per-creator pricing.
> But it was up to the task of running Twitter for a few thousand users, […]

(Tens of thousands, actually, perhaps hundreds?)
Unity isn't hard to customize. It's generally customized the same way that window managers in Ubuntu have been customized for the last few years, through CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm). For alt-tab just choose another switcher under "Window Management" -- there are 4 to choose from. To remove the menu-on-top silliness, `sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk indicator-applet-appmenu indicator-appmenu` And I don't understand your comment about virtual desktops. They work fine in Unity.
> Obtain periodic assessments of its privacy practices by independent, third-party auditors for the next 20 years.

This is assuming Facebook will be around in 20 years.
Gigabit Terahertz transmitter in the works
Angus Davis talking entrepreneurship [video]
So for those who think this is a societal problem or a symptom of structural sexism in the tech field or etc., a genuine question. The OP seems to state that he negotiates with all people in the same manner, but the women are less likely to fight for themselves. What kind of solution do you suggest to combat this symptom of structural sexism? Should HR managers negotiate easier with women? Offer a higher starting point for negotiation?

It's a genuine question and interested in what people would see as a fair way to combat these kind of systematic biases toward women. I think there should be a way to combat these effects of society, but I certainly can't come up with a solution to this problem that seems fair to all parties involved.