skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is called a database.

Nice. I'm going to spoil the surprise and just tell you: in enterprise environments there are tens or hundreds of databases talking to one another through all kinds of different layers of orchestration, and the One Person In Charge of database #24 is never the One Person In Charge of databas #81.

What you're talking about is a "Single Source of Truth", and for most large companies it's a pipe dream. Very large technology companies try to -- and somewhat do -- solve some permutations of this problem (see: IBM Initiate), but enterprise environments are by and large held together with bubble gum and duct tape.

Don't even get me started on data sets that have to join living in different timezones when timestamp is critical. There are rules for this sort of thing, but chances are nobody who's on the project knows what they are.
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That's a libertarian point of view, from a socialist point of view the problem lies with the corporate lobbyists.

I have sympathy for the representatives as they are elected on a first past the post basis. They need corporate sponsors to fund their expensive campaigns. If they were to attempt to change the way the electoral system works they'd be gone by lunchtime.

Organizations who fund campaigns aren't acting in the interest of the people. By having representatives dependent on these organizations they'll never act for the good of the people. This is the primary reason why the system in America is flawed and will only get worse as time goes on. By slowing grassroots movements it erodes the power of the voters away.

That's why it doesn't matter if SOPA is killed. There will be another one soon. If they can't push a bill through they might amend a similar one or find another backdoor.

It's not and incompetent government at fault. It's a culture of corporate dependency.
It's completely possible that many of them have no nerds in or near their social circle. They've lived and breathed politics for many years, and most geeks don't go anywhere near politics.

I think Jacques' idea of trying to get some technical people elected is a pretty fantastic one. I think it makes sense to have an offline discussion about how that should be done.
I like to rephrase that: "When you are powerless you think, There's a conspiracy. When you are powerful, you realize that people are getting what they want." With these ideas neither group has to accept any personal responsibility.
Add together these three statements the author made:

(1) The vulnerability report exists in the "shadowy ground between the reports that are clearly crackpot and the reports which are clear enough that you can evaluate them with confidence" (from the blog)

(2) "Oh, we recognized it immediately. But it was so obviously wrong that we began to fear that we were missing something." (from the comments)

(3) "this entire investigation took five days to complete, plus another day or two to complete the necessary paperwork." (from the blog)

This blog post paints a picture that Raymond's organization does a bad job triaging reports and prioritizing investigations. It's a waste of five days to analyze an "obviously wrong" vuln report, just on the off chance that there is something deeper. How about spending five minutes emailing the author of the vuln report, explaining why it doesn't appear to be a vulnerability, then asking if there is anything deeper?

It's also crazy to spend a day or two filling out TPS reports on a crank vulnerability alert.

If an organization takes security seriously then it should spend increasing amounts of time on increasingly plausible vulnerability reports.
I was thinking the other day how much I really miss GW-Basic. A relatively simple set of instructions that I used at age 10 or so to start simple programming. How do I teach a 10 year old to program now? Class instantiation? Grab a bunch of libraries off the internet and put them together?

Really sad that people don't want to build things anymore. I recently fenced in my acre yard(no I don't live in SV, couldn't afford an acre over there). Six foot privacy fence. Took me months. Everybody thought I was crazy, including the guy next door who makes a living doing commercial construction. My wife's friends thought she was crazy. They would never let their husbands keep construction materials around that long. But I remember my dad building a fence years ago when I was a kid so it just seemed natural I would do it as well.
Oracle wants people to use Solaris.
Anyone got any pointers to 'Cloudy' versions of this or similar?
1) We acknowledge the outliers like Lotus and YouTube, at least others have been life changing even if it wasn't billion dollar exits

2) Did you read previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358703
Public data that was available to use as 'proxies'/indicators of value: User base, company size, funding, and acquisition amount...of course we'd like to show profit...a couple companies like Blurb submitted profit eg revenue 58M in 2010

3) It's not an us vs them comparison, again it's all about collaboration and multidisciplinary skills

4) Did you read previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358727
-Of course the designers featured here can’t possibly take all the credit for any success, and they shouldn't, it's all about team work and we're celebrating design together no matter what background you come from

-The goal is to raise awareness about the existence of designer founders and their diverse backgrounds with data in a fun way that has never been done before (not draw causal claims)
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No we have couriers on bikes, cars and trucks.
I've missed this feature in other languages.

Now I have a name, the cascades operator.

I don't think the syntax is especially elegant/readable, though.
There was also the short lived Rubix distro, which used Pacman but was based on a hardened Slackware if I remember.
doesn't look like you can turn it off once you visit that page... great
Yes, that is the point that MG was making an analogy about, which Josh found offensive. This horse-shit-storm is not about the "general angle" of MG and Gruber but about that analogy and the point it was making.

And it's not just the "nicer bounce after a scroll", its the whole UI interaction. The thing that iPhone fans like about their products is how the interface disappears and you don't need to think about it. The touch interaction model makes the user think that they are directly interacting with the content itself, rather than through the intermediate of a controller, and that this content is actually physical, rather than a representation on the screen. It's an illusion, but it is a compelling one. Examples:
* The right bounce after a scroll, and the right inertia when you flick to scroll through a list;
* Dragging your finger to pan around a map or large web page;
* Icons and buttons changing their appearance instantly to show that they've been pressed.

It's little things that give immediate feedback to the user that create this illusion, and it doesn't take much to break it and remind you that you're using a device. What MG and Gruber keep pointing out is that Android keeps breaking this illusion, for example with stuttery scrolling or laggy/inappropriate feedback when you push buttons.
The Local-Global Flip, or, "The Lanier Effect"
Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Yeah, but then you gotta hand over your little bro. You could also blame the malware from your little bro's Internet browsing habits.
Is commerce taken to mean any action that crosses state boundaries, then? Could you point me to a source that backs that up?
Most of the machines in the office here (about forty or so) are XP. We're not a large government bureaucracy, just a small-medium business.

I'd be surprised if a great deal of other businesses are in the same situation. Outside of technology companies I haven't seen many running Windows 7; there isn't a strong enough business case for most people yet.
Calling Gruber and MG Apple evangelists does not refute their central point.

What's Gruber's central point? To quote Gruber: "You either see it or you don't."

How do you refute that? His central point is that you can't attack my central point, because you can't see it. His central point is that you can't see god, because you don't have enough faith. It's not falsifiable.

Give me falsifiable metrics that could, at least in theory, be refuted and I'd be happy to look at them. But you can't trot out the pyramid of refutation when they've made your central point vacuous.
You must hate deploying to ec2.

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/ec2-userdata
That response repeats the party line about Android being "open", but part of the narrative that MG and Gruber keep pointing out is that it's just not true. The carriers lock things down and fill your phone up with unwanted junk far more than Apple does.

"Open" means open for the carriers to do what they want, not for you to do what you want.
Agreed, but the creator claims "This is a simplified diagram of unix history. There are numerous derivative systems not listed in this chart, maybe 10 times more!"
#1 "designer founders have unique skills (not just visual) to understand human needs" I disagree; I think the general case of all founders (technical, business, design) need this insight.

#2 "The critical mass of combined design, technical, and business skills enables product iteration to happen faster and at a higher resolution" i guess this is the crux -- nothing that I've seen stands out as supporting this argument, especially since I can't yet grant #1.

the remainder of your argument doesn't really make much sense to me.
I've been waiting for something like this. Thanks a lot Zed!
A little meatier than most articles, but definitely worth the read.
Yeah I'm pushing this route as well, but unfortunately the "hard to reproduce" part is all of the chip specific optimization. You could imagine that if their optimization phase(s) look nothing like llvm it would be really hard to get them to buy into that. I've had more success getting vendors to contribute gdb support (IBM has). I'll keep trying, though.
Probably the most recent authority outlining the limits of the commerce clause would be the case of United States v. Lopez (1995).
Every security system relies on some secrecy to function. For example, we keep passwords and private keys secret for a reason. The question is what pieces should be kept secret. Biometrics has a pretty impressive false positive rate, so are generally considered the weakest form of strong security.

But this then brings one to the heart of the problem.
Imagine how many geniuses of Galois' caliber have come and gone in the last 2 centuries but never had a chance to make a significant contribution to the world due to being discouraged or oppressed by a suffocating school system or a dysfunctional family life that drove them onto a different track.
when i say better, i mean better with regard to the subjects being discussed here. We're talking about UI and 'polish'. in this regard, i don't believe there is a significant difference between the quality of iOS and android.

I read Daring Fireball fairly regularly, his criticisms are in different areas to the topic of this discussion. I don't read MG Seigler, i can't comment there.
wow, who cares.
I think the issue around this is in big companies you rarely see the reasons for the shift in priorities. At least this has been true in my experience. When priorities shifted in my last job all we got in explanation was some buzzwords and a 'trust me'. At my current startup job, when priorities change I get all the information that lead to the decision, and can also participate in making the decision.
Android devices are kicking ass against dumbphones, RIM, Nokia, old Windows Mobile and new WP 7. It's winning battles Apple isn't even in for the most part.

Where Apple competes, this is what you find:

(1) Almost everywhere the iPhone is on sale it's #1 (and where available probably #2... and when the new numbers come out will it surprise you if it's also #3 where available?).

(2) the iPad is #1 (in a smaller category) by a mile.

(3) the iPod Touch is #1 (in a much smaller category) by a mile.
Same, here. It's really just the consistency I like about it. Or we could switch to Xtmas.
Well, almost all of the hassle, anyway. They probably don't need to maintain and distribute an installer for this particular enterprise app.
The Canadian Senate is appointed, and as a result it's mostly become a rubberstamping organization. Almost every time the senate approves whatever comes out of parliament to the point where many Canadians don't even know of it's existence.

I don't know how the jury mechanism will prevent people selected abusing their position much when they have it. Or even worse being quickly manipulated, since the house is a law creating body.
You seem to think the constitution is a legislative document. This is not the case, at all. That's why it provides for courts and a legislature.
Jobs biography could expand (the book is not the final draft)
As with everything, there's not just one cause. Yes, corporate dependency is undoubtedly part of it. Public-only funding of campaigns is something I think needs to have come about a long time ago. But another problem is that these people have always been lawmakers, and their form of productivity is adding stuff to the corpus of laws. They're like the framework designers making a framework that's completely out of touch with the real needs of coders using their stuff, because they've only ever been framework designers. They are functionally not very competent, and that is a problem.

There's no single silver bullet here - there need to be reforms in more than a few directions.
CSS3 Patterns, Explained
Relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlTuerGvOs

Fast forward to 2:45.
You can go to school or be self taught... definitely, 'designer' is more like a mindset and skillset that you have to have the confidence/respect to own(you can be a developer, designer, business person all in one but very rare you can be great at all of them)... intentional behavior changed and impact definitely help qualify like real artists ship...not all are equal and we're talking about a very rare breed... if you read below the infographic we layout some unique characteristics:

-Clearly every designer isn’t meant to be a founder and probably shouldn’t be, (especially as some believe we’re spreading talent thin across too many little “me too” startups but that’s a whole other discussion). To be clear, we don’t mean “designer as the prima donna pixel-pusher” that you might be picturing. We also don’t mean “designer as the I Took One Class Called UX Fundamentals In Business School.” We mean an honest-to-goodness, experienced, craft-driven, product-focused, reflective practitioner who has learned to design by designing, who views design as a way of thinking about solving hard problems and is capable of building usable products with more than just beautiful aesthetics.[3] The word ‘design’ is so loaded nowadays and hope that our Designer Founders info cards will begin to clarify the impact of designers with various backgrounds in the context of early stage tech startups.

-Designer founders we’ve observed are consistently multidisciplinary and have cross functional skills necessary to make product decisions. They are fluent in the full design stack ranging from user research, product design, interaction design, information architecture, graphic design, to communication design. They may not be experts in all sub-disciplines of design but can get by on their own in the early days of their startup and attract specialists when needed. In addition, they have a thorough enough working understanding of technology and business stacks including agile programing and data-based marketing methods. Designer founders can move up and down the design stack and horizontally to technology and business stacks to do what it takes to ship and use data to justify their decisions when needed. Thus they are capable of leading both their product and organization through the design cycles needed to innovate. There’s a difference between a designer who can design a dashboard in a car and a designer who can design a whole car and how to drive it. Designer founders need to be able to do both.
The end of men
I'm still reeling from finding out that zero is true.
Neither is a navigable river, but the federal government regulates then under the commerce power and has virtually since inception.
Looks like a big joke to some people in the room!

https://twitter.com/#!/SteveKingIA/status/147371129177255936
I believe those rules were made illegal last year.

http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-500.html#fdi...
Has anyone seen the TV ad? "Illegal downloads on foreign websites, stealing AMERICAN jobs......"

It was frighteningly manipulative.
I tried the Galaxy Nexus today and the really poor quality back plate (to gain battery/SIM access) threw me off. I was about to pay close to 700 dollars for a unlocked version and the quality seemed to be fairly humdrum. I can now categorically say that HTC phones seem to have better build quality.

Do pay attention to the finish of the backplate, in fact, try removing it in store. I saw that the fit and finish was slightly different between phones.
> You just don't do that if you still want people to trust you.

If you want software you can trust, you shouldn't be using Sun's JDK in the first place.
No, he didn't compare the iPhone to a Mercedes and the Nexus to a Honda, at least not as flat comparisons. Read it again. He was explaining that to an iphone fan, ICS still does not have the same level of "polish", even though its features may be great. He gives examples, such as: how you have to click again to type in text fields, even after you've selected them; pages not rendering correctly on the browser; tap to zoom not working quite right; occasional stutters in the UI; crashing apps.
I think the exact opposite advice would actually be more proper. Newbies probably don't often even know about IRC, but it can be a great way to get exposed to some really cool stuff.
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To sum it up:

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/08/21/the-illusion-of-asymm...
> Are you saying that we can build an air lock, a solar panel, an air filtration system, or a robotic arm with a 3D printer?

Sure, why not?

Some of them might have to be designed differently, but I don't recall anybody from NASA ever saying "it's impossible to design X in any other way".
pushd / popd where have you been all my life?! How did I not know this? Thanks Zed!
One problem is that as a vendor, we have to work to the lowest common denominator. It's still generally a requirement that you support IE6, despite the department of health encouraging hospitals to upgrade, because they have legacy apps where the vendor has disappeared or the upgrade is too expensive / painful for the hospital to bear.

We actually ship customers a custom build of Chromium which can only access our application (hospital policy generally dictates they must use IE to access the internet for "security" reasons) - we would love them to just use modern browsers so we can ditch our custom client but it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon :-(
This all seems really fishy. You'd think if this was really top-secret level equipment, there would be several failsafes and an inevitable self-destruct mechanism in the event it was out of contact enough to reasonably assume capture. The fact it's wholly intact makes me wonder if it's some sort of honeypot.
Looks like they are a "domain investment firm" and will probably ask for a inflated price. It can't do any harm to put in an offer and see how much they want.

I'd also look around at domain markets such as Buydomains and Sedo to get ideas for alternatives and unregistered domains that might work as well. I've bought a couple of domains from Buydomains in the past and they are always up for an offer.
What is law in the USA, becomes law all over the world through the state department stick and carrot, especially when the organizations pushing the law in the USA have an international interest for it to become law in the rest of the world.
Serious question: are those points conventional wisdom? Aside from Engadget reviews or whatever. I'm biased, as I actually get a decent amount of my tech news from DF.
Commandlinefu.com - record command-line gems that you return to again and again
It'd be interesting to push a version of this up to Heroku and see what the Hacker News community can generate.
The author touches on a very important point here by distinguishing determination and grit. I think most of us, myself included, will use sheer willpower and determination to perform tasks on a super-human level, e.g., work 20 hrs/day, stop reading unnecessary emails, stop twittering, exercising, etc.

However, performing these tasks could be overlooking the big picture. Sure we can push ourselves to work 20/hrs a day and be productive, but to what end? I think true success yields from constant introspection of the "big picture", where you want to be, and how you are going to get there. It requires the discipline to assert the practices that will keep you on the path to your long-term goals without succumbing to practices that although productive in the short-run will eventually burn you out.

At times, it requires a lot more mental toughness to keep the "goal" in your sights than it does to charge ahead full-steam with everything you've got; especially when the startup landscape is so fickle.
That sounds pretty cut and dry. Of course in reality it is absolutely nothing like that.

I've experienced plenty of lag on iOS devices. I've had buttons not respond, apps crash, and behaviours that left you wondering what you're supposed to do. As has everyone else who lacks the delusion spell. iOS is just an imperfect OS like every other, and adding hysterical narrative gushing about its profound perfection is, honestly, embarrassing for everyone.
I read through this article the other day and it does a great job of showing the position Lego has worked themselves into and how they're trying to right the ship.

I think it is commendable that they are trying to go after the girl market with something other than princesses. I didn't like the new 'ladyfigs' at all at first either but then again, I was a little boy and I loved the minifigs. The part about boys playing with minifies in the third person but girls wanting to play in the first person really resonated with me. I never pretended that I was a minifig. If that's what I wanted to do, they should have had more individual personality. Like what they came up with.

I think the fact that they are willing to break from tradition to capture this market is a good thing. The fact that it doesn't appeal to me is probably also a sign they're doing it right.
International users need not to apply.
The Chinese gov is a bit more hands on regulating the morality and frivolity of TV. Even totally apolitical TV shows like match-making shows, which they feel degrade the moral character of the citizenry, are taken off the air by fiat.

For example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3296691 offers an easy example of misleading information that is wholly true. It's not quite the same situation, of course, but it's a similarly difficult point of view to dissect. ("He's only telling you things that will make you want to support (the Cold War|Apple).")