skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market."

I'm not sure how to read this. They detect an App is malware and leave it in the market? Or they didn't detect it until after it had been downloaded many times? The former is unfathomable while the latter indicates a gaping hole in the system.

"This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise."

Don't believe all the charts showing a malware explosion on Android, they have a conflict of interest. We at the Official Google Android Blog continue our 100% neutrality however.

"While it’s not possible to prevent bad people from building malware, the most important measurement is whether those bad applications are being installed from Android Market"

Not if you're going to advertise side-loading as a feature the competition lacks.
I bet Symantec is a little irritated that they bought the VeriSign^TM CA business in 2010. Are they going to want their money back?

Whatever security problems Verisign has had, Symantec's are far worse.
I'm still struggling to figure out why ESR is relevant, or ever was relevant, for that matter. As far as I can tell, his most significant engineering accomplishment was fetchmail, and I'm not sure many here would call it very significant these days.

(I'm willing to accept the downvotes I'll likely get if only someone will answer me on this point.)
Facebook’s $5 Billion IPO: The Next Google? Or The Next Groupon?
The Rules All Digital Music Services Must Follow
What everyone missed in Facebook's IPO filing
More useful: We'll put our qualifications up using JSON at our own websites and they will crawl them with a bot.
I'm uptown, but wouldn't mind to go down there to pick one up. So, what's the next project?
Investors as a whole doesn't, but insiders like Goldman and the hedges definitely does.
This Year’s Super Bowl Will Be “Super Green”
The NFL is going to great lengths to make this year's Super Bowl as green as possible by purchasing carbon offsets, supporting forestry programs and donating a solar array.
Google to pay €500,000 fine to French cartographer in Google Maps case
The first site I heard of putting fun stuff in the HTTP headers was Slashdot (randomly-selected Futurama quotes).

Back when I was using usenet I'd insert some X-headers of my own.
Basically he's saying: "I think this way of doing things is awesome. Here's how to do it my way. Your way of doing it is crappy compared to mine, but hey it's your choice to continue being a substandard performer."

Even your example is riddled with condescension, with your judgment from on high that your friend's job is "crummy". It's not only disrespectful; it betrays an unsavory vanity on your part.
Live streamed french student party (Password: the_devil_wears_fahrenheit)
Password: the_devil_wears_fahrenheit
The most surprising application I ever saw for MUMPS was the forums for a MUD named MUME I used to play: http://elvenrunes.com/cgi-bin/logs/mumps?rou=stats (the 'Code:' section)
$curl -I moneydesktop.com/hi
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/1.0.11
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:19:34 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 185
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://moneydesktop.com
X-Career-API: http://careerapi.moneydesktop.com/docs
Towards a curated web: why vertical search is a potential Google killer
State of Data This Week - #84
Shouldn't their jobs site return a 204 instead of an empty 200 response?
Hey wait on their fella... they only spend $500million on marketing last year.. its just a small token of marketing spend at this point.

(I am being sarcastic... yes, $500million was spent and no, marketing was non existent... on the upside, most of the marketing team got made redundant yesterday)
Looks pretty cool. I'd use a thicker font or a higher weight for the buttons; they're difficult to read as is: http://cl.ly/0s2P2X1F1x1f0s3e2h2A
I was not aware that enough terrorists had been apprehended to compile a checklist of suspicious activities.

In particular: http://www.osceola.org/sheriff/113-19137-19144/hobby_shop_te...

Can someone post articles about hobby shop terrorists? Did any of the 9/11 Terrorists purchase large R/C airplanes to practice? I can't find any answers in Google. Or Bing.
Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo (YC S09)
We did Y Combinator in the summer of 2009 and have since raised $12M+ and over the last 2 years have become the leading innovator in the online autos space.

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us continue hacking our way to the top of the industry. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers.

Responsibilities:

Work with Michael, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Andrew, and Patrick to create a world-class set of products. We're a small team (just 5 engineers and 2 designers), but we work smart and get a lot done. Some of the cool stuff we're working on right now includes: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, an iOS app, and a stealth web crawler.

We do story-driven development, so you'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.

Qualifications:

- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

Bonus Points:

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

- Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)

- You have no fear of ditching ActiveRecord and dropping down into raw SQL when the time calls for it

- Experience with iOS development (Objective-C)

Perks:

- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- 17 days of PTO (vacation)

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

- A substantial amount of equity in the company

If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to michael@carwoo.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).
Zak from upverter again...

Our HDL support is non-existant right now. We do have an open file format which can be created from or parsed to HDL. Do you work in HDL right now? I'd love to chat about this with you sometime - we come from the world of very large system design and there is almost no HDL usage at the system design level.

We do have a common library, all community entered and more than half edited by someone different than the creator. The library is free and public. We have a number of users of the library who havent yet adopted the rest of the upverter tool chain.
The point is: these comparisons always try to make vi seem like the always better choice INSTEAD of an IDE and this is were I completely disagree. And you make it look just like that with adjusting the comparison in favor of vi, the screwdriver. This is just wrong. Let's see, you could also say:

Screwdriver: specific to only one type of screw, limited to only a couple of similar sizes and all you can do is drive screws in and out or maybe stab someone.

Assembly line: way more complex and needs some setup time but you can do WAY more things with it, way faster, way more efficient once setup, especially on a larger scale. It can drive screws in and out, solder, cut, fold, package etcetcetcetc. Pretty much anything you set it up to.

So, vi is a horrible replacement or alternative to use in the typical huge Java (or what have you) e.g. web app projects where things like auto completion and easily getting from one class to another, built-in compiling, debugging, refactoring, source control etcetcetcetc really start to make your life easier. vi on its own cannot offer you that, not even remotely... then you need a shell and other programs to do all that. And there are no alternatives to most of the tasks an IDE can offer you help with.

vi is definitely nice for editing files especially on a slow line and as a general purpose editor - but it is no replacement for an IDE and the comparison that it is "better than an IDE" might only apply for exactly one task: editing files. IDEs offer you tons of other things. So it is just wrong to compare to two or present one as a replacement for the other.
What's the possibility for making the site free, and paying for it by providing an integrated manufacturing or procurement service? (I notice your library already has "buy now" buttons next to components).

Various "buy now" buttons could deliver complete BOMs, circuit boards with BOMs, or turnkey products. A future move into mechanical CAD and graphics design could see a boxed product landing on the customer's doorstep.
How has it been working for you? Has it increased the overall quality of your applicants?
Correlation between “Like” and “Pin it”
Does anyone see much difference between the “Pin this” button and the “like” button?

Essentially the end result is the same: User interest in a particular product is being sold to ad companies so that the ad they show you will actually be relevant.
I’m fascinated about the idea that gave birth to Pinterest. Do you think that someone said “Facebook does nothing visually pleasing with the “likes” they gather from all those like buttons out on the web. They just sit, statically on someone’s profile. Let’s make a community based pinboard based around those “likes”, call then “pins” and put “pin it” buttons out all over the internet.

Thoughts?
That being said, its never easy. Emotions never are.

Emotions do seem to have a life of their own. They seem like the results of deep and unknown mechanisms that I unfortunately have no control on. The best I can do is know myself better and manage that. For example, stress is an issue, and the only way I seem to be able to decrease my stress is to avoid stressful situations (for example avoiding too much work/responsibilities), instead of being able to deal with them. This means limitations with work load/pressure or certain social situations, where I get exhausted quickly.

That said, I've never studied buddhism or meditation. Could these help me control those deep inner workings?
You're suggesting these people are paying more because Carrefour was "onerous and damaging to their society". In other words, they're treating competition to Carrefour as a social good. Society is better off if enough people shop at competing stores, but no individual customer has an incentive to shop at competing stores.
I like your zmqrpc idea. I had a very similar RPC/MQ-combination running for a while, using RabbitMQ instead of 0mq, Ruby instead of Python and JSON instead of BSON (switched to bencode later for better binary data support). But other than that it was pretty much the same mechanism.

edit: Your "Join the Team" page has an opening titled "Internships: Fashion Design, Journalism, Software & Statistics" but then in the description it's unfortunately only for "Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Statistics or Journalism".
Agree with you on the pricing, its a hard one. Lets chat sometime! Were totally on the same wavelength.

We are actually working on a transcriber (https://github.com/upverter/schematic-file-converter), dropbox integration. And behind the scenes were doing "print" button style manufacturing for our more enterprise users (ie. click print and we get a one-off manufactured and mailed to you)

Every upverter schematic has an embed code and a ton of our traffic is driven from people importing their schematics and sharing them on their blogs.
Having lambda expressions, closures, and being able to construct higher-order functions makes it pretty "functional" in my book. Having to be careful about recursion is a negative, and TCO would be a welcome addition.

It's really a hybrid language. You can do a lot functional stuff with it if you'd like. You can also do a lot of the OO thing with it. Neither is perfect, but if you stick to the "good parts", it's a strong language.
So these will popup online for about $85 to $95. No matter how good the service is I doubt going forward you will get a lot of volume at that type of retail price. Retail cosmetics is really feeling this as people now refuse to pay what is probably a similar markup.
I guess this explains how JCPenny can set their standard price at 40% off list (as mentioned in recent discussions).
Thats true, but we must remember that for folks who _did_ try to time the market many will have actually had negative returns because of failing timing attempts. For example, there was a massive outflow of funds from Equities after the most recent correction (as there usually is when the market performs badly), and those people who pulled out of equities did not get to participate in the record-setting rebound that happened soon after.

Comparing performance over any given time period to some arbitrary standard (in this case, "flat" is assumed to be bad) doesn't tell the whole picture. On the flip side, there are many instances where funds performed admirably but in a time when the markets as a whole did even better. Just as I wouldn't commend a fund for gains in a bull market, docking a fund or portfolio for being "flat" when the market as a whole was flat over the given time period is unfair.

I don't doubt that your company has outperformed (after all, you have the data and I don't). But for what it's worth, was it a slam dunk to assume 40 years ago that your company would have outperformed over the subsequent 40 years? That's the problem: picking winners before they're winners. Will you outperform for another 30 years (my own investment horizon?). Hard to tell.
a typical mashable article... quantity over quality, how sad
That depends on what part of China you're talking about.
Server configuration abstraction
Incredibly - applicants through this vector are about 99% quality.
Its a possibility. We have privacy by user request and were charing money for it, not least of all, because we want to encourage public designs.
Active investors of all kinds definitely try, but again as a whole they've failed. I'll try to dig up the data and put it into an article sometime, but the fallacy that you should just pick a hedge fund and it'll outperform via market timing or securities selection is false.

And of course, as for picking the "right" fund which will subsequently do that - well that's the hard part.
I was actually kind of interested to see how many people are trying to move from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale.
Should have to make a request to get the resources that you can post to.
Developing Software Birth
Developing Software Birth
That's what we thought too - this was the definite first pass, and we always intended to have a challenge/response type question for extra credit.

But we didn't need it - it turns out the kind of people that are intrigued enough to apply, and have enough ability to install a few libraries are likely great people.
Except for homoiconicity.
It's been on Wikipedia for years:

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

And it actually does something useful.
Yea he mentions language features like interface-based polymophism, garbage collection, namespaces, first class functions, closures, etc. But then he goes on to talk about I/O methods, string manipulation, CSV output, etc. By which I think he means standard library features. The post really should have been split into language features + standard library features to make it clearer.

I may be influenced by the fact i'm into Go at the moment, but i think it covers most of the "features" he talks about, as well as many of the "libraries" (some may not be part of the standard library, but will be available through 3rd party packages). If the author is reading this, I encourage him to have a good honest look at http://golang.org/

I don't know if i like his discussion of "math-oriented types" vs. "machine-oriented types". At least as far as I see it (and according to wikipedia[1]), in maths whole integers (Z) are a subset of rational numbers (Q). When in your high-school maths class you say 3 + 2.5 = 5.5, you're really doing an implicit conversion to 3.0 + 2.5 = 5.5 or 3/1 + 5/2 = 11/2. Most languages allow you to also get rid of the bit-size of numbers by just defining "int" or "float" numbers that default to some predetermined bit-width (e.g. 32-bit). Most languages also have libraries or mechanisms (see Go and Python) for large precision numerical calculation so you can have your theoretically infinite size "no-overflow" situation; but that comes at the cost of speed, so we only use these types when it is specifically needed. It's not impossible to use them in all cases, but it is impractical.

In the end, a language can't do everything. Most languages focus on providing a good core, along with mechanism for users to extend functionality in any way they see fit. In this case I think the author wants the language to just do everything for him out of the box, without any pesky libraries, and without being bloated or slow. _That_ most certainly _is_ impossible. There is a good reason why no language implements _all_ of these "features".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(mathematics)

Ed: Z is a subset of Q.
Hm, I think it is actually interesting to see how much either suburban or outer cities are looking to move to the "major city" and vice versa.
> Links to the various CSS files

I'm glad you asked that because I had a momentary panic attack over whether I've been doing this correctly...
Apart from his being a great public advocate for open source software, he wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" and "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" -- both very influential.
Actually, I specced this out for Delicious around 2007. I wanted to have the API be able to reply with "break this CAPTCHA/challenge/etc to continue" before actually applying the write/read/etc. (Delicious was very aggressively spammed.)
StumbleUpon Kills Direct Links, iFrames Everything
Ignoring the issue of whether or not Google has or has not ever asked the blender question, is there a reasonable answer to it?

All I can come up with are:

A. Get down as flat as possible, so that the blades will be above you. Probably near the shaft. Exact orientation and positioning depends on the blender.

B. Sit down and wait. It's not really going to kill you. It's just a version of the Kobayashi Maru test, to see what you do in an un-winnable situation.
Is it just me or did anyone else feel he was talking about Racket? I have never understood why Racket doesnt get the love that it deserves.
I would argue that 202 is the most appropriate response. They might get to it, they might not.

"Don't call us..."
Looking for feedback from iPad users on our app
We are looking for some users to beta test our ipad app that gives one touch access and sync to desktop documents. Any idea on best way to find users interested in giving feedback
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A couple of years ago I was recommended to read this article as I was doubting if vim was anything for me.
It convinced me to give it a try and after two weeks of learning it felt I could never go back. Since then I have vimified everything I can.

Later I have recommended this article to others of whom some have had similar experiences...

The author does a fine job describing the vim-philosophy instead of just a bag of tricks.
For the lazy:

javascript:$('div.code.plain').last().html('<form action=#>name:<input name="name"><br />email:<input name="email"><br />about:<input name="about"><br />urls:<input name="urls"><br /><p id="status"></p><button>submit</button></form>').find('button').click(function(){var f,o={};for (var k in f=$('form').serializeArray()) {o[f[k].name] = f[k].value};o.urls = o.urls.split(',');$.ajax({url:'/jobs/apply',type:"POST",data:JSON.stringify(o),contentType:"application/json; charset=utf-8",dataType:"json",error: function(d,s){$('#status').text(d.status)}});return false;})

Or is that unsporting somehow? Downvotes suggest yes, but on the other hand it'd be pretty silly for someone to expose an API intending people not to write tools that use it.
If they want to improve security, they should switch from the current offer-you-can't-refuse approach to a capability/interface system. An application should always be able to successfully "list my contacts". Whether it gets the complete list, an empty list, or a less-sensitive subset should be up to me (and unknown to the app).
Wait, I thought Google charging for Maps was a direct result of being sued by a French company?

http://www.techspot.com/news/35632-google-sued-in-france-ove...
Seven Secrets of Self-Made MulitMillionaires
I think it's OK because he said

>(plus libraries)

So some of this would belong as a language feature and other stuff would be in the standard library (is what I'm imagining at least).

I'm a Cocoa guy, and when a lot of people rave about Objective-C, they usually are referring to niceties Cocoa provides. This is sort of what I was imagining as I read along.
Some charge very little and then make it up by billing a large amount of hours. Whether this is due to malice or simply incompetence, it is difficult to say sometimes.
It's been announced (was some days ago on engadget), that native C++ support will come with the next update. Not sure when that will be as I did not dig deeper into it, but I assume it's rather soon.
Also ncurses (which is still widely used) and a large amount of GNU Emacs code. I cannot comment on how much of the code that is in use in those tools now is still his, but I don't think that matters. But probably his writing and advocacy for Open Source is more influential than his code.
I believe this is absolutely true. I've heard from a real admissions officer at an elite school that too many asian applicants just look exactly the same on paper. Schools are looking for diversity, not just ethnically, but in interests and talents as well.
Well, Open Graph Protocol is actually kind of distributed.
Interesting, this article helped me with some VIM issues.

Does anyone know if you can open multiple docs in macVIM, in the same window and switch back and forth between?
Graffiti artist took shares instead of cash for painting Facebook's first HQ
How far is Python from this list? Macros are missing but the remaining list seem close to me.