skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's something I did recently to make my morning routine go faster and better. I labeled everything I need to do to get ready for work in the bathroom with a number. It helps me remember to do things I kept forgetting to do before: things like apply Rogaine :'( and take Resveratrol -- and it also has shortened the amount of time I take to get ready.

My friends joke that I'm OCD, but I argue that an OCD person wouldn't need the labels to nail down a routine. :)
The "bugs" in Paul Verhoeven's "Starship Troopers" make ample use of this idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7-PQIuWwLo
The JavaScript SDK is a complete mess. You broke BC when you introduced OAuth2 support.

Your code speaks volumes to the choices you've made as an organization, as well as your Engineers technical skills.

I know some Facebook Engineers and all of them are average PHP developers.

Code tells a story, and in this case, it's not a good one.
"As far as I'm concerned, once you step into an airport (especially an american airport) you are no longer a citizen of any particular country and have no rights."

This. As a tourist, I've found the US to be quite nice and I would like to visit more often.

However, all this theater makes me want to avoid flying as much as possible. I have been treated well so far, but I wonder how much of it boils down to sheer luck.
Yeah, class-action may as well be criminal law. Any benefit to society comes from the risk of punishment to wrongdoers, rather than the amends to the wronged.
They have that single, robust API in the form of the Graph API. It does everything the old APIs did and more, but it's all in one place now. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
Unless you are talking about yet to be invented explosives, at relativistic speeds you may as well launch a rock. The explosive power of your warhead will probably be irrelevant when compared to the kinetic energy of the projectile.

But, fairly enough, launching anything at relativistic speeds requires yet to be invented propulsion systems that will require energies much larger than any explosive we know today.

For maximum efficiency, you could launch a lump of antimatter at relativistic speeds. That should take care of the details.
But why UNIX commands? This is a JavaScript library that's going to be used by developers that most likely don't know UNIX. Just spell out the method names. Instead of "cp()" just use "copy()".
They're selfish enough to be fine with merely muddying the waters.
Google will release new version of Android after the next. Film at eleven!
Where Do All The Attacks Go?
Another update: The soon-expiring domains that motivated me to get going on the transfer are apparently expiring too soon to allow the transfer.

Namecheap FAQ says that since a transfer might take up to eight days(!) they will not automatically process transfer requests for domains expiring within that time.

However, they say you can open a ticket to see if they will do a manual transfer that completes sooner.

So, I opened such a ticket, and also asked for help moving the suspiciously named azhackers.com domain.

In the meantime the resubmitted domains are now going through; I've told GoDaddy to approve the transfers (via the control panel).

Keeping two or three domains on GD wouldn't be the end of the world, but it means I would not be able to just completely walk away from them (whihc is what I really want).
The way for them to get out of it was to not help write legislation that their customers would consider completely toxic. In general, this is rarely a wise business move.
"Unmanned" can mean many things, but considering the OP's quote "when we're already flying unmanned vehicles on earth", he clearly meant remote control.
Not to mention turning your own company into the elephant corpse.
All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
I have a fork here: https://github.com/sjuxax/python-sdk

This is the only significant change: https://github.com/sjuxax/python-sdk/commit/9aa42acaef53a7f5... , to fix crashes when handling profile picture downloads. It's hackish but it was all I needed for my project so I rolled with it.

This version of the library installs as sjuxax-facebook. I'm not sure if it still works, I haven't tried to use it since October.
Today, software from two American companies — Microsoft and Apple — run most of the world’s infrastructure, in terms of governments, authorities, social security, et cetera. It has come to be taken for so granted, you can barely buy a piece of hardware without code from at least one of these two American corporations.

Nonsense. Yes, Microsoft has it's tentacles in many corners, but Apple is not even close to running most of the world's infrastructure. Regardless though, I can buy lots of hardware without Microsoft's or Apple's code running on top of it. What is this guy talking about?
I don't understand this reasoning. You have nothing but contempt for Facebook because they sponsor PyCon 2012?
IOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak With Redsn0w 0.9.10b1
That's why you don't charge much. A nickel or dime...hell a penny. Just enough to make someone think, hey maybe I should drink something healthier. The best system would be to make the first and maybe second soda free and then nudge people to water or some other drink.
Can somebody please give the rationale behind banning the brain teasers?
You're right. I thought the unqualified mentions of Jordan were referring to the country, not the river. But the country of Jordan didn't exist (at least not by that name) until 1921.
Do any other hacker news readers check out spacebattles.com? I'm glad to see it on the front page, I've been a member there since '01
RTS games have the player directing an army of autonomous AI-controlled drones. In a game like Supreme Commander they don't even pretend to be people.
Editorializing in the title is frowned upon. There is a gulf of difference between:

"A New Process for Products?"

and

"Is kickstarter the new process for product?"

Use of the article (part of speech) "the" implies exclusivity. As if the question being posed is whether or not Kickstarter will become the exclusive, or at least dominant, "process for product." The original title uses the article "a", asking whether Kickstarter is a real, viable "process for products."

These are two very different questions. One is hyperbole, the other far more sensible.
If you're in the US, that feature will cost you another $240/yr unless you're already on the 4gb data plan.
yes, i think kickstarter, though it came at this from a funding approach, enables a "lean" process a la Steve Blank and others. It feels like a side-effect of kickstarter but it is pretty powerful.
While the "small-claims flash mob" is interesting, I have a problem with the original problem. Buying a car isn't a small purchase (for most people) so you would think they would have done some small amount of research or just read the sticker on the car window. The article makes it out that every civic hybrid every sold counts in the lawsuit. If the car has been out for years pretending you don't know what the mpg that it will be getting is just grabbing for money. Or was there details left out of the article?
UPS, you cant get away that easily
I've never been in that situation, and hope I never will be, but I would certainly hope I would had the presence of mind to keep a path clear so I could be seen and get out of the vehicle.
If you're traveling that part of the country in the winter without planning for being stuck in the snow, then you're being incredibly foolish. Just a bit of common sense goes a long ways.
A web application is a software. How do you think we've been deploying software for the last 20 years, using FedEx?
Having the laundry room be in the second floor.

Hell yes! When I lived in Denver my bedroom was on the second floor and the laundry room was in the basement. I had always lived in coastal areas where basements were rare, so I didn't know what a PITA it would be. After 2 years of dealing with that, never again.
TL;DR: You have a fine point to test a new domain's resolving status using dig +trace to not poison your cache. Existing domains need not apply.

You may need to explain your theory on your own website, to bring it back up under this load elsewhere... I can't get to your article because its down, but I see you have your TTL set to 72 hours:

www.simonluijk.com.	259200	IN	CNAME	simonluijk.com.
simonluijk.com.	259200	IN	A	46.102.244.108

Whatever you wrote in your article... the 'myth' aspect has to do with everyone's TTLs involved... many of which are out of your control: ex: the listing of your domain in the TLD:

simonluijk.com.	172800	IN	NS	a.ns.zerigo.net.
simonluijk.com.	172800	IN	NS	b.ns.zerigo.net.
simonluijk.com.	172800	IN	NS	d.ns.zerigo.net.
simonluijk.com.	172800	IN	NS	c.ns.zerigo.net.
;; Received 261 bytes from 192.12.94.30#53(e.gtld-servers.net) in 114 ms

Which I see is set at 48hours...

So someone could have a combination of 48 hour TTL cache'd response for your domain's DNS servers, and 72 hour cache'd response by your own DNS servers for your record. Thats not even taking in to account resolvers which ignore the TTL values and substitute their own.

Update: Finally got your article to load. Yes, for a brand new domain, manually testing resolution using dig +trace first, until you confirm it works (avoiding poisoning your cache with a negative response) is a fine suggestion.

Surely the registrar warnings exist for the more likely scenarios of any changes to existing domains. Added TL;DR at the top.

Update 2: Removed alternative resolver rants, and updated to emphasize the dig +trace option - as per author's comment below, and original article.
very true - a little careless of me. I'll try to refrain next time!
This just isn't universally true. Some ccTLDs will indeed take anywhere from 12 to 48 hours to update.

If you are launching a service on a new domain and are about to link to that domain to make the launch public, do not assume that just because its working on your computer after 10 minutes that it is working for the rest of the US, or the world.
> Why put humans on warships at all?

The whole idea of the article is to explore what's possible with current technology, and general-purpose AI is not part of that. Guided missiles are routinely defeated by counter-measures even when the flight only takes minutes.
Asking for what you need, being prepared to describe who you need to be introduced to in order to move your business forward, and honoring introductions from others are best practices for business networking whether male or female. If you are getting introduced to a lot of women, it might be because you are sending the message to the world that furthering women in business is your #1 priority -- and people are eager to help others achieve their goals. As Warren Buffet says, "you attract what you are".
Untethered iOS 5 jailbreak is out now, but A5 remains unbroken
Design in the Land of Sharp Pointy Technologies, at Twiliocon
Hackers claim Siri port to iPhone 4 avoids copyright infringement
Before 2004 Verisign only updated the authoritative DNS twice a day.

Then they changed it in January 2004 to every five minutes.

So yes, if you are an "old timer" you may remember it really taking up to 48 hours for everywhere around the world to be able to find a new .com

But also what they mean by 48 hours is for existing DNS, some users around the world may be on ISPs that heavily cache DNS.

Even wifi routers today have some persistent DNS caches and people rarely reboot or turn them off.

We moved a site a few weeks ago and the old IP still got some hits until last week. I gave up trying to trick all the caches and just used iptables to forward the packets from the old server to the new until everything finally caught up.
Again, more hyperbole. If your car does not respond to inputs, you crash, resulting in property damage, injury, and possibly death. When your tablet does not respond to a tap, you tap it again and it works. At worst, you've suffered some minor frustration.

Never mind that for about a half a day's work you have a handheld computer that 15 years ago was only available to the characters of Star Trek.
We could, 40 years ago
And, to be clear, did not mean to imply exclusivity or dominance - just whether it is a real, viable process, enabling perhaps more creatives to bring product to market (where previously you just can't get the funding to move forward, without risking too much personal wealth, which you may or may not possess).
Well according to the copy posted in the email "As a token of our appreciation we are offering all our pre-order customers and new customers 10$ off your next order with us just enter Avenger1001 at Checkout".

So the company was even offering that measly $10 coupon that the pre-order customer wanted!
sounds cool. what's the current status of this project?
> This is a very interesting experiment she decided to conduct on what seems to be little to no research.

How do you come to such conclusion?

> But it was dangerous.

In what way? Dangerous as in her constitutional rights might be violated?

> As far as I'm concerned, once you step into an airport (especially an american airport) you are no longer a citizen of any particular country and have no rights.

That is just sad. What's the next step? You don't have any rights in a railway station? Subways?

> ...I imagine all security processing had come to a halt at that point.

On a single line perhaps, not all.

> Also, if somebody nearby was planning on doing something, she would have created the perfect time to do it.

How so? If a simple delay on a check point creates a "perfect time" and it is an actual big risk, then there are bigger problems on that airport.
First world problems. (Is it so important that you may have to reach over to grab your toothpaste or do you keep two of them near both sinks?)

Reduce the clutter and spend some calories reaching for things man.

What you really need is a body slave so that you can be free to be maximally efficient.
The Journey Of A Memphis Real Estate Investor
Your subconscious mind power is like a magnet. It attracts things that resonate with its beliefs. To put it bluntly, if you have a certain belief in your subconscious mind, your subconscious mind will vibrate based on this belief and attract events and people that resonate with or correspond to this belief.
This is still the spirit of collusion, and is prone to defectors. There should be large incentives for one company to leave the cartel, make a simple service, and sell it at the same price of their competitors. They would save money by reducing their own internal complexity, and would gain money by winning over customers.
On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
Inflammatory headline, baseless assertions, and generally uninteresting. Flagged.
Domestically too, I know sales people who sell to US financial institutions who remind prospective clients that competitors store their data in US data centres; thus the institutions' data would be exposed under the Patriot act.

It's not just international businesses that have these concerns, any business that serves customers who want their data protected against unreasonable search and seizure have these issues as well.
This might help:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I think it's sad that you have to root/jailbreak to get this feature OR you have to pay the carriers extra.

My Nokia N9 for instance comes with a wi-fi hotspot preinstalled and I can use it to share internet with other devices without having to pay anything extra. Better yet, I've had feature phones that you could connect with USB to share their internet connection.

This is simply Apple and Google bending over for the carriers. Nokia will do it with WP7 also, I'm sure.
A web application is not systems software. Back when web sites were pure HTML pages, were you deploying them as packages? How about PHP sites, do you deploy them as packages?

There is a chasm dividing OS management and app management. The OS is the province of sysadmins, but apps are the province of developers. Ideally you want to bridge the two by having the environment "contain" the app, in a way that lets an application be automatically deployed from the newest code (eg., from Git), coordinated by an external system (eg., Jenkins), running inside an environment controlled by the configuration management system (eg., Puppet).
One other option to look at, if you aren't already, is to freeze new feature development and allocate most resources to making the platform solid. You didn't state that in your list above.

You may be correct that you've done a lot to stabilize it during the last year, but how does that compare with the amount of new features you've added over the last year? Maybe Facebook just isn't good at producing bug-free code, and it's time to improve things you do before actually shipping a feature? Continuing to "ship fast, break fast" clearly hasn't worked when it comes to Platform - are you doing anything to fix that?

As an anecdote, Microsoft had a similar problems with Security of their OS - it was a much more severe problem. They took a similar approach to the one you've outlined, for many years - furiously developing new features while scrambling to patch security. However, in the early 2000s (2002?), after a particular severe worm hit computers all over the world, they completely froze all new development on the OS. They did their famous 'security push' where almost every engineer focused on security for many months. They revamped tools and invented technologies to make sure products are more secure out the gate, and the result was a resounding success.

Developer frustration with the Facebook Platform is very real - a competitor with a stable API might actually receive a lot of support from the community. Maybe Facebook needs its own version of Microsoft's 'security push'.
Anyone know of where there is some actual data? What has the price per sq inch of LCD been for the last decade or something? (on the same note it would be interesting to extrapolate it to see when lcd's will suddenly be _really_ cheap like arm computers are now)
That's true, but "48 hours to propagate" is misleading because it sounds as though that's business as usual for DNS -- instead of the reality, in which rogue DNS servers cache beyond domains's declared TTL.
How would having humans a few light-seconds away from the missiles be able to help with that?
In the minds of the educated middle class.
Analysis of Data Exposed in STRATFOR Cyber Attack
Information and stealth are the biggest assets in space war so maybe that is why we dont see aliens chit chatting all over. A species wins a war by making the enemy think it has won, while hiding out at a new home base to build up weapons.I see earth as an extension and continuation of that war. We don't know where our allies are, So that when they discover our position and interrogate us they won't find the rest of the hive. the winners of war will be the species that hides the best.
I think this article would be stronger if it didn't open with its weakest example: The problem with whiteboard pens is that (a) they wear out over time as the ink dries, so you can't solve your problem by buying and distributing them in one large batch; you need to constantly and continuously resupply them over time; and (b) they can be instantly ruined by misusing them, e.g. by not capping one tightly when you put it down.

So I'd argue that whiteboard pens are frustratingly close to the category boundary between "things that are so cheap that you should just buy them in bulk and spread them all over the environment" and "precious personal tools, where the optimal strategy is to buy the best that you can afford, carry them around with you in a special holster, and never let anyone else touch them on pain of death". The latter category includes things like a chef's knife, a mechanic's micrometer, a microsurgeon's favorite tweezers, and your cellphone.

Whiteboard pens are legendarily annoying because they're not clearly in one category or the other, so no matter whether you fanatically carry around a personal set or choose to rely on their ubiquity you're inevitably going to end up kicking yourself at one time or another.
Why, exactly, would people dwell in the Oort cloud? The idea of having an isolated, self-sufficient colony in the Oort cloud seems like an even poorer version of North Korea, except you'd have to ship all the people out there.

There's no good analogy with colonialism on Earth, because most of that involved getting very very rich by trading with the mother country, and if there's anything to be won, economically, from the moon or the astroid belt or even the Oort cloud, it'll be from Earth trade. As far out as the Oort cloud, you'd be better off sending robots than human colonists for the very same reasons you point out.
"Yeah, he was quite the cost center at $90k a year."

This is one of the keys to getting paid well and being valued appropriately by a company: position yourself as a profit center, not as a cost center. People who're viewed as cost centers are always facing the question "How can I get your job done with the least cost?", whereas people who're viewed as profit centers have obvious apparent value.

It's a broken system, and broken systems are opportunities for those who figure out how to benefit from them.
or even a full x.400 mail system linking to a real x.500 directory
All That Glitters: An Interview With Bungie's Senior Graphics Engineer
A similar initiative: fightsopa.org will donate 5$ to EFF for each developer solving one coding puzzle
It seems you and Heinlein are of like mind; remember Mycroft's conclusion in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that the best way to fight the Earthen forces was to "throw rocks at them"?
Eh? My point was that humans on board can improvise (remember Apollo 13) and carry out their objectives even in the presence of a forewarned and intelligent opponent.
ZeroCater is hiring foodies
Game Theory At work by James Miller is a great non-mathematical description of key game theory and how to apply it in real life. I consider it to be a must-read for any entrepreneur.
Chris' talk is available as a video http://lanyrd.com/2011/cingleton-symposium/smfww/
Court Order Blocks BitTorrent, Megaupload and More
I never understood this. I believe even Visual Studio defaults to having the line numbers off.

So even though errors are reported as to which line number they are on the line number is not displayed on screen by default!?

Is there reasoning behind this?
It doesn't matter. As long as each "blob" is heavy enough to resist deflection by the wind, the same total mass will impact at about the same speed. The only downside I can see is that the blobs might hit at slightly different times, which would reduce the instantaneous force on the target. But I think it would transfer the same total energy.
Are mobile devices destroying your body?
People who know how DNS really works don't need to know that it doesn't really "propagate" in the conventional sense.

People who don't know how DNS works (and don't care) can be given it as a useful abstraction. If you have worked in tech support with people who want things to work and quite rightly don't want to know how the sausage is made, this might be ideal.

With anything, it depends on the audience.
That's quite a while, but actually I think it represents a trend we're seeing in HTML5/webdev, which is increased attention to developer experience.

While fancy components and CSS eye candy will continue to roll out, we're seeing even more work on development/debugging tools, the JavaScript language, and with web intents and web components, the seeds of a more robust reuse model. [http://webintents.org,
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/i...]
One additional point not mentioned in the post (written by me). If you buy a used Aeron chair, it's very likely you can sell it for the same price a couple of years later. Essentially you can lease the chair for free.