skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think MU disclaiming responsibility for file loss automatically means the FBI should be able to come in and pinch them all without consequence."

I don't think this works. The files are gone because MU's business model resulted in law enforcement action. So arguably MU's responsible, though they disclaim liability for damages.

It's like if MU stopped paying their hosting services, and those services shut down MU's servers for non-payment. MU's customers wouldn't have any case against the hosting providers. The FBI case is similar.
Alternatively, you could say this like every other linux distro at some level.

I started back at about Redhat 5.0, used a lot of distros over the years, currently I use ubuntu because it 'mostly worked' from install, although it didn't really. I've ended up doing make/make install a few times for packages I needed configured like I wanted them. I might go back to Slackware when I get around to it, not really a big fan of Ubuntu at this point for what I do (programming).
Also, VP is not an engineering title at Google. And, each engineering title has a list of responsibilities that is expected from someone with that title. So it's easy to find out where acquired engineers belong.

Really, all the problems that the OP lists are nonexistent at Google. The only big problem I can think of is integrating the acquired codebase into Google's.
Jeff closes with the following words IN BOLD:

“The act of programming seems literally unteachable to a sizable subset of incoming computer science students”

There is, of course, an alternate explanation:

“We in Universities seem literally incapable of teaching programming to a sizable subset of incoming computer science students”

Experiments going back to the 1980s with teaching children how to program using Lego blocks and robots with Logo seem to indicate that nearly everyone can learn how to program, but possibly not when they’re 18 or 19 and possibly not with the kind of academic environment represented by the test.
Silicon Valley anti-poaching pact lawsuit goes forward
Not much of a lex fan. Here's a simple way to implement the indentation-to-braces transformation in a hand-written lexer:

def tokenize(stream):
indent = stream.indent
while stream.current() and stream.indent >= indent:
stream.indent = 0
while stream.current() == ' ':
stream.indent += 1
stream.consume()

if stream.current() == '\n':
stream.indent = indent
yield stream.consume()
elif stream.indent == indent:
while stream.current() and stream.current() != '\n':
yield stream.consume()
if stream.current() == '\n':
yield stream.consume()
else:
stream.rewind(stream.indent)
if stream.indent > indent:
yield '{'
for token in tokenize(stream):
yield token
yield '}'

A tokenize() call only returns when it's either reached the end of the stream or after consuming all contiguous lines at its initial indentation level or greater. Empty lines (with or without leading indentation) don't count towards the brace structure. It doesn't specially handle tabs, backslash line continuations or indentation within parentheses, but that would be easy to add.

For a bit of fun, run it on its own source code and you get this:

def tokenize(stream):
{indent = stream.indent
while stream.current() and stream.indent >= indent:
{stream.indent = 0
while stream.current() == ' ':
{stream.indent += 1
stream.consume()

}if stream.current() == '\n':
{stream.indent = indent
yield stream.consume()
}elif stream.indent == indent:
{while stream.current() and stream.current() != '\n':
{yield stream.consume()
}if stream.current() == '\n':
{yield stream.consume()
}}else:
{stream.rewind(stream.indent)
if stream.indent > indent:
{yield '{'
for token in tokenize(stream):
{yield token
}yield '}'
}}}}
Well obviously. You could say the same thing year over year. If we were counting the ones that were started and not yet completed, it would just subtract from the amount of the next year.
Or they could not launch the two rovers at the same time and use the failures of the first rover to make the second work, in which case the errors become anti-correlated.
Of course it is. No legit anitvirus company is blocking all files named rte.exe. That's insanity. I am just saying in some circumstances, the name of a file can be a huge help in indicating that maybe you should take a closer look.
Really? That’s your argument?! What?!
Lost me after defining the worth of an astronaut to be $50 million, and the value of scientific knowledge obtained from a longer-lived Hubble to be incalculable.

Even though I think the author makes a point worth considering, I found that a really sloppy justification.
Use Mac Leopard, and don't switch from 32 bit to 64 bit - you're gonna get a massive headache getting all those gems you need to install. Also if you're considering doing anything to do with image processing, consider NOT using Mac. Installing stuff like PIL and ImageMagick can be hell
Gates has had far more wealth than Jobs, more liquidly, for a long time, which I'm sure makes a big difference on outlook.
One cost-effective proposal for a mars mission that was actually discussed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_to_Stay

Btw, -many- people died during early space travel.
Right, their own report says they are only getting around 75% compliance, and there were two serious accidents in 2011.

And this is after five years of these reports...
>"as we involve the U.S. military in more and more missions that look highly political"

From:

"When in the course of human events,"

through:

"and that, government of the people,
by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth,"

and even:

"We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators"

the use of the military for political missions has been more common than for any other purpose.
Petition: Reduce the term of copyrights to a maximum of 56 years
How to get around Twitter restrictions
Mars is key to humanity’s future in space. It is the closest planet that has the resources needed to support life and technological civilization.

... well, except for air, and food. But there's water! Which we can detect with sensitive instruments!

This whole article has no point. As everyone in the military knows full well, if the benefit is great enough humans will happily risk other human lives, even expend lives, by the thousands and even millions.

The "problem" is that there's nothing for humans to do in space that is worth so much as a single human life. This isn't 1937 anymore; the transistor and the IC have been invented and we know how to build robots. These days even the military pilots on Earth spend more and more time in chairs on the ground, steering robots, often from halfway around the world.
This article is high on emotion, but low on thoughtful commentary or substance. Of course nobody likes censorship, but citizens of these countries are already subject to it, and the technical problems here are purely hypothetical. In describing "what could happen," they seem to be taking the worst-case scenario — what would happen if both the programmers at Twitter and the professionals who use it for their business were in fact rabid howler monkeys — and then twisting it to make it look even worse. In the end, the only part of the article that doesn't seem disingenuous is the emotion, and that is not particularly enlightening.
One thing I've found is that scaling rarely means solving difficult problems. Rather, it means putting more time into finding optimal solutions to problems that are trivial at smaller scale. For example, should your startup use Apache, nginx, or HAProxy as a load balancer? If you're just launching, the answer is "Who cares, just ship the fucking thing!". If you reach the point where you start measuring page views in the billions (and yes there are start ups that are at this point), it matters a great deal. Or should you use Postgres, MySQL, or some shiny NoSQL thing? Again, probably doesn't matter for small websites. But for larger services, it matters.

Also, don't underestimate how large log files can grow in a data-driven business (like AirBNB seems to be). I could easily believe that they have many terabytes of data just from logging actions their customers have taken.
Yes & you assume correctly.
Yeah I remember it back in the beginnings, it was quite friendly. Now I see people get yelled at in #archlinux for having an opinion on x vs y which is opposite of what the majority of #archlinuxers think. The forums are like "not my problem fix it noob, here is half a wiki page"
Atodev: A Media showcase Community
See the Beta: http://atodev3.com/

After long months of trial and error and fighting with my programmers to have everything working "the way I want it to work" we have hit the point of getting close to launch.
What do you guys think about the layout and setup?
Are the controls workable for you?
Should we try a different niche maybe?
Also none of the thousands of people involved, who would have had to be in on the secret, have come forward.

It would be much harder for thousands of people to keep such a secret, than it would to just go to the moon.
Designer/Developer/Mobile
Workflow conference
May 16-18, 2012 - Plaza Marriott, Kansas City
http://d2wc.com/

AdobeMAX
Oct 20-24, 2012 - Los Angeles
http://max.adobe.com/

Your head will be swimming after either of these. I had a blast at both last year. :)
This post could be considered rude but its in response to seeing your continual negative attitude about your competition's successes (oink).

real talk:

The continual disdain you show for those previous popular successes (ie your continued oink references) to me implies you should stop focusing on a social product since you clearly don't "get it". "it" being people, your market, society...

The reality is not that your unused inferior product is better than the competition if only people stopped rating burritos and started using your chat app.

The reality is that your app is inferior in an over-served market and has no niche to give it traction. Understanding this will help you succeed in the future.
I suppose there are web service APIs to a lot of this data. It would be fun to build some stuff against the raw data. Anyone know of good documentation?
well yes but i was talking about how it's stored in memory. Like in js all the numeric operations can be performed on strings that are just numbers. Think of it as an intelligent string that behaves according to it's contents. if it's contains an integer, it behaves like one. since there are finite number of types a variable can have, it shouldn't be a huge deal to automate this. But since this has not already been done, i am obviously missing something here.
A more honest headline would have been:

Firefox 3rd Party Plugin TOS: "If we can use your details to legally make a profit, we probably will."

The current headline, even if not deliberately misleading, is poor because it lacks proper context and isn't descriptive. Instead, it lets the user make assumptions about who said it and click the link to validate their assumption. It is most definitely misleading because the headline + domain is a half-truth.

It is /most likely/ link-bait, or at best an inexperienced user who should be taught that these sorts of headlines are not constructive to the community.
Placebo Again
And that's why the ruling is contentious. With out an attempt to deceive it's not a counterfeit. It's an inspired piece of creativity. The judge is effectively defining the boundaries of inspiration.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/counterfeit
I can't speak for everyone, but I feel like something like that would have guaranteed I become either an astronaut or aerospace engineer.
"One thing they could do is buy their way into Hollywood. Think about it for a second."

If only the author did, then maybe he wouldn't have written this post.

Why would anyone want to buy an industry in self-imposed decline when they can sit on their hands, wait for them to wither, then push them around with whatever terms they like.

People need to stop reading TechCrunch.
Because it's fun. Toys are fun. Upgrades are fun. That's all it is. And most of us never get to work with that kind of hardware. It's fun to see it all in one place.
The U.S. Military Cuts for the Cloud
What `corporations are people' means is that corporations are a legal term called `persons', which is different from `humans'.

A person is simply an entity that can sue or be sued.

A natural person is a person who also happens to be a human.
Mozilla is indeed sensitive to performance issues, and is actively addressing them:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/IonMonkey
I wanted to try Arch to see what the fuss was about after I got badly burned by the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade. I'm not a Linux newbie by any stretch and I managed to get it set up in a virtual machine, but when it came time to install the community package installer, I just couldn't do it. I was no doubt doing something stupid. But after fiddling with it for half an hour, I sat back and said to myself, "If I can't even install the installer, what is maintenance going to be like for anything remotely complicated?"

And that's when I realized that while it's fun to tweak and fiddle, I have real work to do and doing things like fighting with a package manager and installing drivers is not very high on my to-do list. I ended up rolling back to 11.04, which I'll probably stick with for some time.
Then why Arch and not Slackware?
NASA on GitHub - open.NASA
" They aimed ridiculously high"

Well, sort of. The goal of putting a computer on every desk and in every home doesn't really carry any requirements about the quality of the product does it? It can be fulfilled with absolute dreck, and arguably, was.
Using MacPorts to install ImageMagick was hell. But when I used HomeBrew, it was like night and day.
TBH I rather they do multi-processing first. That is the #1 reason I keep away from firefox. All else is secondary.

99% of the time, some flash crap holds up my browser and all of FF freezes. Yet with Chrome, never happens.

That is the #1 feature that trumps everything for me, even though I think FF is superior to chrome in many ways including Firebug.
I just read this and thought I'd pass it along:
http://www.infowars.com/obama-signs-global-internet-treaty-w...

Sensationalism of the site reporting this not with standing but why did SOPA get so much attention and this so little?
What is this zero knowledge you mention?

Seems quite a marketing lie, zero knowledge, while you really want _all_ the knowledge about all my sensors, and the way I use your product. While I get no knowledge of how your servers work and what you do with it.
This is a picture of $22 million in cash:
http://www.common-sense-politics.org/wp-content/uploads/2010...

This is a picture of more than a ton of dried marijuana:
http://calpotnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/090410-Corn...

A large amount of one thing in the same place makes for a pretty cool picture. Don't take it so serious.

Now, with that said: 864GB? Pssh. Let's see some terabytes.
I'm confused. Isn't creating a REPL for Clojure a bit like adding an OO layer to Ruby?
Children don't need to watch a shuttle burst into flames in order for science to progress.

Yes, they do. Progress with zero risk of failure is no progress at all. To even attempt progress with zero risk of failure is to ensure that:

1.) You will minimize your progress

2.) You will fail anyway

...As the Shuttle all too ably demonstrated.
I always end up googling what i need and i find it rather easily. I find it more easy to fill in my query with keywords ans answer is usually in top5 results :)
Lobbying 2.0
Working with CodeAcademy to bring an abbreviated Codeyear program into the new summer jobs program was forward thinking.
On Living the Dream
Title is a bit misleading. The actual quote is "Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us".
I suspect that, in retailing, it's one of these things where 95% of the customers are fine, but that last 5% take up a disproportionate amount of your time and mental energy, whether because they're clueless or morons or whatever. That's how I think jaded teachers / professors develop: most of their students are okay, but that small percentage of "story" students create all kinds of artificial barriers and special exceptions and so on that make the teacher / professor not real pleasant.
I don't disagree with anything you've stated. Explosive growth and requiring massive amounts of data storage are surely the exception not the rule.

That said, the blog post talks about enormous growth and it still fits inside Moore's Law's growth. I guess my gut is just saying it's not really that enormous in terms of startup scaling if it's still within those limits. Not to take anything away from 37Signal's success, but it feels like nothing of value was really added by this post. I present the post of a picture of 864GB of ram as supplementary evidence that is near the top of HN right now.
Help me get those 1000 subscribers in the first place. That's my real pain point. Curating deals to each one is actually fun, and something I rather do myself.
Just curious, are you concerned with distributing to non-startup fans?
Perhaps for the applications of yesterday (like Basecamp) this is the case, but the real innovation taking place is around collecting massive amounts of data and processing it in interesting ways. These systems are used every day to make quantified business decisions rather than best guessing based on someone's hunch. 37signals builds questionably good UIs on-top of a database, something people have been doing for decades now. The future is in augmenting intelligence by gathering massive amounts of data and reducing it for human consumption.
Basecamp, Bitbucket, Xero
Ask HN: "Should:" vs "My expectation is that" / "Expected behavior:"
Hi HN

I just stumbled into an interesting Twitter discussion.

When reporting bugs for an piece of code that you didn't code yourself, should you use

* "Should:"
* "My expectation is that"
* "Expected behavior:"

?

My argument is quite simple http://www.hastebin.com/jiquvigori.1c but are there factors if didn't ... well ... factor in?
Want to learn RoR- will move anywhere to learn
I NEED TO WORK FOR THE BEST, that's what is most important to me.

I'm a good project manager for a mining company. I'm full of energy and desperate for a game change...set on ROR. I have no real experience in RoR, but excited about changing that ASAP!

I applied to Hungry Academy (but after reading this http://twitter.com/#!/abatalion/statuses/157089098635558912 ...thought I should explore another plan)

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW OF ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS like that or a company that wants to grow the community and take a chance on a newbie now!!

(i've heard of CodeAcademy in Chicago)

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
In this world, in this moment, if you want companies to "require" all their suppliers, and their supplier's suppliers, and so on, to have safe working conditions, then computers won't be manufactured. Not a single one, from any brand.

Hate to sound like a fanboy, but the very fact that Apple has addressed this issue has put them above and beyond the entire industry.
Modifying a Layer 7 OAuth 1.0a Implementation to Support Custom Requirements
mine are worse than his - https://plus.google.com/100044368488235152825/posts/DrCFKzgo...
CSS and HTML and compatibility has nothing to do with UI design. Someone who does CSS and HTML would be a "frontend developer", a "ui designer" is someone who designs. The roles can be combined, but if you were to say "I am a UI Designer" that wouldn't mean you deal with CSS and HTML.
Actually, we don't have this 'corporation are people' bulls* in the UK (Sky News is basically Murdoch's Fox News UK).
It amazes me that on a tech site you are getting downvotes for this.

Human space travel is a waste of money from a scientific standpoint. Why a libertarian magazine like reason.com supports human space travel at all is a mystery to me.
It's really all about how you teach programming. My first exposure to programming was in high school where a math teacher who had never coded a day in her life was thrown into the position for some extra cash. I witnessed the dichotomy first hand here--and I was clearly in the wrong bell-curve. But that summer, I attended a summer program where it was taught properly. First explaining the context and history of programming, and then exposing us to real world applications. This had a huge rate of success for everyone in that program.

I don't think that the goats will ever go away, but I do think that if taught properly, that the ratio of people who understand to those who don't can be on the order of someone who understands an art history class to someone who doesn't-- or any other area of specialization for that matter.
That picture reminded me of the first time I saw a fully populated 8meg board - for about the same price.
I've paid $35 for a shirt at a concert. I'd pay $25 for this. At $15 + shipping that's the cost of an American Apparel tshirt with nothing on it. It's pretty reasonable imho.
Mine was on by default, I had to opt out. But I also used it as an opportunity to cancel my LinkedIn account.

I'm upset that they don't allow you to turn off all emails, only some of them. I get spammed daily by them with no way to stop it.

LinkedIn is built off of spam from your friends and LinkedIn itself.

No more for me.
A quibble: Even a non-unionized laborer in the US can't live on $10 a day. Unions didn't destroy American manufacturing, the economy did.
Handle enough DIMMs and the benefits of ESD protection start to become obvious. I've seen a very high correlation between DIMM errors and whether or not I was using a wrist strap while I was fiddling with the computer.
You don't need a noticeable spark or shock to make the DIMMs unhappy.
Hypothetically, if I ever ran a business that accidentally infringed a copyright, I'd be happy to settle for £1500 (roughly $2350 as of today). Suppose my attorneys cost a meager $250/hour. In less than ten billable attorney hours, I've burned through the cost of the proposed settlement. In those ten hours, my attorneys probably haven't been able to make the problem go away. So now I'm out the amount of the settlement, and I still have to somehow resolve the original claim. I'd think it much better just to cut the check (after a 15-minute conversation with counsel, of course).
everyone could have recorded it and might be watching it back repeatedly at their leisure, removing any chance of Mr Eden ever monetizing it

Technically those some members of the public could have done that from the original video on YouTube too. The overall point is valid, but that's not the issue to assert.

And no, it would only be a single copyright breach because (to use your terminology) each person who 'illegally received' the video didn't steal it individually.
The description of a thing is not the thing itself.
And NeXT's software is pretty much driving Apple's product lines now.

Which is a pretty good result for a 'failed company': Get paid $429 million to take over a larger company, and watch the technology you developed blossom to its full potential that was never possible as a tiny fringe player in the market, contributing to massive, overwhelming, record-smashing success.
1) PKGBUILDs are dead simple to write

2) AUR (see #1)
Almost anything is a step up from "hi there, I'm AJ3F532FDSAD. In this game. What's your name?"*

* you can't actually ask them that, since you can't talk.
3 servers, 18 sticks (288GB) each according to the comments.
The guys who run GetSatisfaction used to run ValleySwag (an identical service). It's cool to see ideas coming around again and finding (hopefully) new feasibility.
May I know where these folks teach, so I may never send my children there. I expect teachers to teach new concepts. I expect them to gradually train an untrained mind.

This test merely indicates that teachers, by tossing out untrained minds and using a subset of already trained minds, can skip the challenging part of their job and take credit where none is really due.

Grrr.