skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look ... 95% could be pure Assembler. OK?

No, its largely irrelevant nowadays. But there's a pile of cruft in there that could go ...

I'm not critiquing ANYTHING about the kernel. BUT. There IS a HUGE pile of crap still in there and everyone knows it. Don't nitpick my innocent and uncritical comment and try to turn it into a major critique of the kernel. Its still WAAAAAAYYYYY superior to the shite that still exists in Windows (because it simply MUST).

NO. Of COURSE it doesn't slow down the Linux experience but it might one day become too large to be realistically distributed without a lot of trimming.

I've been a major user, developer and proponent of Linux for decades. I use nothing else in my day to day life. Don't dare to presume to pull me up because I dare to comment on a seriously discussed and current problem with the current kernel. NAMELY: IT'S BECOMING A FAT BITCH AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT.

It's still and always will be my OS of choice. Whether or not I knew how to exclude certain chunks of irrelevance from my build or not.
Bacon linked to pancreatic cancer
They only do that when they are receiving information off the record, or the person isn't authorized to give their name. They don't do that when getting information second hand that isn't confirmable.
Hi Eddy,

Nice post. I'm curious how many total hours did you put in during the 4 weeks? Thinking about doing the same but I might have some time off and not sure if you did as well.
> We don't need more philosophers.

Disagree. There would be no computer science without philosophy (but not the other way around).

> ...imagine how boring CS would be if people were ignorant of all of those other subjects.

If we eliminate philosophy from our curriculum, et cetera, I poise that kids entering high school this year will be obsolete by the time they have graduated. Because CS without philosophy is really just machine learning, right?
His real constituents are the various companies that make up the banking sector - not the people in his district. Cynical? sure... but his sponsorship of this bill is very much in line with his almost republican-like business views. It's all about the benjamins.
The deadline for filing for the NY Senate Democratic Primary is May 21st. That means there is real time to find an anti-SOPA candidate to primary Schumer.

I also think somebody should think seriously about launching a PAC/SuperPAC around this. Calls help, but in washington money talks louder. Launch an 'internet pac' or 'innovation pac' with promises to put money in to Primarying or defeating pro-SOPA/PIPA politicians, and they'll start to listen. They know that the tech world has a lot of money, and can organize. We just need to do it.
No. The whole point here is that the worth of the photo is not determined by the photographer - it is determined by the market. If an alternative photo exists for free, as is often the case, then the well known media organization is not being insulting when it offers the going rate, even if the going rate is "free".
I had the same problem with MassPay too. I got a customer service rep immediately who told me that you had to call in to enable it due to fraud and incorrectly configured SaaS payment apps. It did take like 2-3 hours to enable it because I guess it was slow that day or something. (The rep was audibly frustrated at the unusual slowness and random errors that day.)
Most I am sure will be opposed when they figure it out

I hope you are correct, but I fear you are not. Most of them think what they are told to think by their favorite news/infotainment provider. So unless great pains are taken to educate them they will support it.
That's not Google's fault. Google made a better product and consumers freely chose this. If Google arrives at a monopoly because of building a better product there is nothing wrong with this, but if Google arrives at a monopoly through manipulation and anti-competitive practices and then further using that monopoly position to sustain the monopoly then that's wrong.
Face recognition: In future can you remain anonymous? No gov. guarantees
The link is dead.

By the way I've heard other slot techs (I'm a slot tech) say IGT asks new employees if they have any ideas and will buy their idea off them.

IGT created SAS (slot accounting system) protocol which a lot of casinos use.
Requests-oauth 3.0 released, now with Header Authentication support
Does this work?

> Give the ticket with your friend’s name to the gate agent who lets you board. It will match the flight information and you’ll be allowed to board.

I fly 4 times a month and each time I have to present a piece of photo ID at the gate to the flight attendant that has to match the name on the ticket, ticketing computer and ofcourse me.

The above advice would seem to fail this test.
False. Yesterday I posted a link to an article from Fortune discussing the SOPA "battle."

I'm (obviously) anti-SOPA, but the level of hysteria is somewhat annoying.
Ilha de Comandatuba - Brasil
I admit, though I found the topic fascinating I only had time to skim. But I did notice something which may be of interest to others: CeroWrt is a branch of OpenWrt geared towards fixing the buffer problem on your home network. So I'm guessing if you get this configured correctly you might see significant improvements in latency. I'm intrigued.

I posted it as a separate topic here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3461790
These types of articles always remind me of "The Science News Cycle": http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
These ideas seem reasonable to me, however when I talk about 'singularity culture' I refer to those who think that the singularity will be the end of the human race, will 'save the world', will be a new species of humans on this planet, will be the rise of machines who enslave us, is the realization of 2012 and so on. These ideas are going around non-technical circles and they believe them.
This is really interesting. This is at least the first half of that: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/
Variables Now and Later
NFL Stats and Data—Teams, Players, Comparisons
Something about the formatting and typography in the "bang" dropdown just bugs the heck out of me. It appears very unpolished and boring compared to the rest of the design.

Though overall, this design does look much nicer than the previous one.
Windows XP/7 at work and Ubuntu at home

I use Windows 7 for everything beside programming even at home.
Yup - my take on this is that the guy on the phone is probably personally opposed to the bill, and is tired of having to talk to people angry about it all day, and just doesn't care enough to sugar-coat it and give any sort of official response. He's putting it the way he sees it from his perspective, no more, no less.

Of course, he's probably going to be fired if they figure out who he is, just like any phone-support person would be fired for saying things so far outside what the officially stated company position is. But on the other hand, he probably doesn't care too much - he'll get a few thousand karma on Reddit, "I got fired from Senator Schumer's Office for calling him out on supporting censorship, AMA", and he only took this job anyways because his rich uncle pulled too many strings to set it up for him to say no (even though he'd never asked in the first place, that was his mom). Shit, he doesn't care about politics anyways, he's going to be a musician, his parents just won't accept that because he hasn't gotten a record deal yet...
If dealerships up and down the street are all selling cars for $3,000 then the guys who are trying to get the $10000 sticker price should not be too insulted or even surprised when someone offers them $3,000.
Whether speeding is criminal depends on where you are, and the speed you are travelling. One might make a similar argument that an 'honor box' is a 'suggested donation', and that one is simply choosing not to donate. You could probably even argue that it _must_ be considered a voluntary donation as evidenced by the failure to collect the required sales tax.

I think 'funkah' has a point. There are lots of things happening in this article, and it's fair to look at the situation from a different perspective than the primary. As a California business owner, I didn't notice the speeding, but did wonder about whether or not DC required him to have health and vending permits for each of his locations, and whether the legality of his business should affect our conclusions: is it more or less ethically acceptable to 'steal' a donut from an 'illegal' business?
While I mostly agree with your primary point --- that C and C++ are extremely prone to memory corruption vulnerabilities --- I think there's an important distinction you're glossing over here, between C and C++/ObjC.

Both C++ and ObjC have a string class and containers in the standard library, and support for some automatic memory management in the language. This turns out to make a big difference in practice in reducing those vulnerabilities. There are people in this thread claiming that they do as good a job in reducing those vulnerabilities as using Java or Ruby or Python. I can't really evaluate that claim, but it seems plausible to me. Barely.
Irony: Apple shuts China stores to protect employees, while iPhone makers die
Here's the real question: Does it matter how we teach exceptional people? Does traditional school hinder our ability to "unschool" ourselves?

I think not. Exceptional people will be exceptional no matter what...
Direct links to the image:

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2012/01/e9263...

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8899/e92632090512accd2b46...
A couple of questions about this:

- Why [time, node id, seq] and not [time, seq, node id]? That would improve ordering if you have approximately equal load on each box.

- Isn't a 16 bit seq number overkill? Handing some of those bits to the unique ID would have made unique ID assignment easier. Duplicate MACs can and do exist (especially if you buy a lot of hardware from the same vendors).

- The quality of the ordering is going to be restricted by the quality of time synchronization within the cluster. Relying on NTP for this is OK, but experience suggests that a secondary monitoring system will be needed. Similarly, relying on monotonic time needs some care in system administration - care that could potentially be avoided with a different unique host ID assignment scheme.
The way he said "censor" really made my skin crawl

Maybe, just maybe, the guy on the phone is also against the bill, in fact is sickened by it, and wants you to be angry and take action.

How's that for optimism?
You can automate dialing through the menu so long as the tree is always the same. Twilio provides the ability to send key presses and is quite easy to use.
Why not record a few of the calls and post them online. NY law says you can record your calls as long as one of the parties on the call is aware it's being recorded (i.e. you).

http://www.rcfp.org/can-we-tape/new-york

It'd be interesting to have a politician's office on the record stating they're in favor of censoring the internet.
Six Apps for Enhancing LinkedIn Profiles
Why not use uuid1 then reorder its bits ?
They say they aren't a search company, but without it, they wouldn't be making any money. Most of their other products are released for free and subsidized by search profits.
Me too... pleasepleaseplease @ Stripe, expand to EU!
This wouldn't work for international flights, since they often check your passport before boarding.
Righthaven's lawyers now targets of State Bar investigation
Overall, does anyone have a feel for how close we might be to a congestion collapse on today's internet? I've been reading about this for a few years now and have obvious worries about real solutions not being implemented until after the storm hits.

Or is this being overstated? Are there mechanisms in place that would mitigate or prevent large-scale congestion collapses of this kind?
Oh yes, the people that have ideas about what will happen afterwards, or who believe that it will save us all seem very odd to me.
CareWire Hopes To String Together Patients And Providers
PayPal is run by imbeciles. I was once scammed on eBay by a buyer who received my item, then returned a broken identical one, notifying PayPal that I scammed him. Without even looking at my sales record or waiting for my response, they took the money out of my account and closed the issue.

After a month and a half of fighting on the phone with people who can't comprehend basic logic, getting an affidavit notarized, AND submitting photo evidence of the switch: I was only awarded 80% of the original amount.

The buyer was allowed to continue using eBay and PayPal to scam people, and I got negative feedback.

From this experience and the countless others posted to blogs every day, it's astonishing people still use the service.

Boycott PayPal!
Of course, beware of the correlation therefore causation fallacy. It could be that people that chow on "processed meats" eating a lot of ... lets say ... sweets and it's sugar that's really causing pancreas problems. Maybe Steve Jobs' "fruitarian" style did him in. Fructose is Murder? Doesn't quite have a ring to it.
Google Accused of Fraud Against African Competitor
We have bendy buses in Birmingham UK (route 66). They seem no less popular than other buses. People enter via front and leave via back so passes must be shown to driver and (exact) fare paid. I shall ride them with pride if Boris does not like them...
Camera+ reaches 6 million sales milestone (sales figures charts ’n’ graphs)
That sounds very plausible.
This is the way to get things done. Calls are all well and good but Schumer likely dismisses them as a small but vocal minority. When there is serious money being spent against him, he'll pay attention.
This is a neat project (with good documentation!). I really like PhantomJS, and it's great for pulling data off of a single page but sometimes it can be a pain to use it to run a series of steps in sequence. I was thinking about trying to hook into the PhantomJS, but this looks like a very clean way to do this. A similar project that is also very useful is pjscrape: http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/ .
I think the crux of this whole issue is whether or not "free for credit" is really a lowball bid. Let's say I've narrowed my search for sunset pictures down to 3 choices. One is CC licensed. One is public domain. One is priced at $6,000. When 2 out of my 3 options cost $0, then $0 should not be considered a lowball bid. It is a realistic bid based on market conditions.
Will they record/share the videos/lectures/notes?

It seems like it could also be a boon to many others if they can take the efforts of this school and share them out, similar to OCW at MIT, or Stanford, or even Khan Academy.

I think it would be particularly interesting because the other material out there tends to target either too high (the university material is at a university level, of course) or it doesn't have the same kind of feedback as what the students will be able to give here.

While Joel doesn't want it to just be superstars, it seems fairly likely that a good number of the kids would be the kind that already wrote their first OS and compiler before they attend, so I'm wondering if there will be a similar 'level divide' as what's seen in industry, and if so, what that ends up doing to the ones below that Mendoza line...
You've just been lucky. I've called Paypal a few times, and had almost identical responses. The most reminiscent part: the rep says something ridiculous, so you try to appeal to their sense of absurdity by saying things like "so no one at the company at all knows about this?" and then they give you a dumb response like "that's right".
Google's statement via: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-investigating-keny...

We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites.

We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved.
So an electrical engineer who designs circuits is blue collar now too?
as mjb said, mac addresss can be cloned so not sure whats that buying
we are using uuid1 which does more or like does what these guys are doing...
To be clear, I wouldn't consider the scraping of their data as a ripoff. Border-line unethical? May be. But far, far from a ripoff.

The ripoff can be if google was trying to use their name which would effectively be phishing. I don't see them really pushing hard on that accusation.
I had the chance to work with some amazing illustrators before. It's actually not very hard to find them, just go to the places where they usually hang out. For the kind of designers I'm looking for, that would be deviantart and to a lesser extend dribbble.

Finding designers and working with them are two separate problems though. They speak in a different language so communication can be an issue. Also I found the design crowd to be very opinionated (just like us developers).

Textual requirement specifications don't work so well, instead replace them with sketches and concept ideas, color palettes, mood boards and a lot of IM communication. Also try to keep the iterations short, ask them to show you the work in progress at least a few times a week. You may also try synchronous design sessions, as described here: http://taptaptap.com/blog/the-design-session
Morphia: a type-safe java library for MongoDB
Yup! That hasn't changed (it is just a native select box right now), but will so soon.
Agreed on the list quality. About the second part of your comment - these works were probably all in the public domain before the great copyright lockdown of 1976 (and subsequent copyright extensions). Unfortunately "content owners" are going to find a way to extend copyright into perpetuity.

It feels like copyright law today is going where Real Property Law was circa 1600. "To content owners and the heirs of thy body in fee simple absolute... "

Edit: Don't expect to see any new works anytime soon.
I would be curious to see an example of such dangers. It would certainly take a lot of effort to do something stupid in such a way that your program won't necessarily crash with an exception (I'm thinking things like segfaults, heap corruption, etc). I don't doubt such a thing exists, nor do I doubt there's an idiot out there who can exploit it, but I think the vast majority of newbies out there are going to be more fascinated by other parts of the standard library. Did you know you can make HTTP requests using urllib2? Or that you can open a web browser using webbrowser? Or have you seen Django's automatic admin interface? How cool is that?!
For those interested, there is also Snowflake by Twitter on GitHub https://github.com/twitter/snowflake
We're going to need a new DNS system, plain and simple. A complete replacement for ICANN and one that bypasses the United States. The walls are going up around this regime and like the other authoritarian bills passed (Patriot Act, DHS etc) these bills will eventually pass. So planning needs to start now.
My problem is that you seem to have implied that Google being a for-profit company automatically means that they must "do evil". I don't think anyone think Google is a saint, but you seem to have a vendetta against them and are looking for things to make them appear bad.
Also, the other users of Ruby are the ones who wrote the libraries you get to use in a Ruby program. Which is pretty relevant to the person in a nearby thread who implicitly equates using the Linux virtual memory system to using Rubyful Soup.
I've observed behavior similar to this from my cable ISP and chalked it up to malice. It's interesting that the problem is so widespread, but apparently not very well understood by so many providers.
Tell PG: Kenyan domains are registered at the third level, not the second
(Because burying this in a comment elsewhere isn't as useful as reporting it as a bug.)

Kenya works like .uk, not like .us - so keeping spam flags or even showing 'co.ke' is a bug.

It made a bit of a mess this morning, is all :)
> Why [time, node id, seq] and not [time, seq, node id]

Would you rely on sub-millisecond synchronization between nodes _and_ an almost exact load amount?

In other words for a particular millisecond seq order is only relevant on that particular node, so node should come first.
It seems that New York is a "one party consent" state, so it is legal to record phone calls without informing the other party. Someone should do this!

http://www.aapsonline.org/judicial/telephone.htm etc.
"I had to work on programming more carefully and think things through before diving in, or I’d have a hard time working in a large group." This pretty accurately describes what I went through before joining a larger organization. However sometimes larger companies train you into a mentality of working fast and letting QA sort it out, which isn't always the best thing.
Mozilla to Offer New User-Centric Services in 2012
Kinda sorta, yes. You can commit to using that instance for 1 or 3 years and prepay for a discount... $164 per month if you reserve for a year, $126 per month if you reserve for 3 years. Really you also need to factor in the data transfer fees, and the storage and IO fees of a RAID array of EBS disks.

Last time I used EC2 to run a large database, the IO fees for EBS were almost as much as the EC2 fees... so take your estimate for the instance and double it. The real cost of running an active Mongo instance on one EC2 instance with a 2-disk EBS RAID might be closer to $400 per month than $245.

EC2 is not price-competitive if you don't need to be able to launch and terminate instances on the fly on a regular basis. For small deployments, get a VPS, for larger ones, dedicated servers. I used to run most of my sites on Amazon services. I later moved (back) to renting servers from Softlayer. I was maxing out most of my servers at both providers -- I don't have extra money to blow on capacity before I need it. For every ~$350 EC2+EBS+Transfer instance at Amazon, I only need a ~$160 physical server now.
Standardizing Android
A European Google VP just confirmed that it was not scammers or someone posing as Google, it was Google employees.
I didn't quite get form the article, she was a non-technical partner, then what was her role? just a designer?

wasn't it her job to make a business from the technology her partner was making?
Why I Did Not Join Bain Capital
Rep. Lamar Smith is amazed SOPA opponents “don’t want to protect American..."
But if you consider the honor box a suggested donation box, is that a business, still?

The sales tax is likely included in the dollar amount. Like when you are quoted 3.99/gallon of fuel. That price includes a number of taxes built in.

We (well, specifically, I) don't know if DC requires permits for re-selling food-stuff. We do not know if he is on the level, were they to require such. It probably depends on how much revenue is produced by each location. Just as sidewalk Lemonade stands don't require permits, in most locales. Anyhow, all that is speculative, unless you have facts.

Ethics. I think you are getting into relative ethics. If someone else goes against ethics, does it grant me a waiver to act unethically?
User Sovereignty for our data by Mitchell Baker
Ok, I'll ask: Is a whole IDE needed for each language? Or was this an IDE in search of a language to support?
How Geeks Beat Non-Geeks
After watching notch code a bit, I'd say that the way he dives in and works has been very successful for him. It's a different style but I don't think it's bad in of itself. I might definitely be bad when working in large groups, but that is not the only way to work.

I personally don't think working in a large group is particularly rewarding for a programmer.
"Point is, SOPA sucks." haha, nice