skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, for most people, the thing that most needs protecting is the data, not the apps. But the important thing to note is that if the malware can't install itself/access hardware (esp. the network interface), then your platform is not very interesting for malware writers.

Of course, I should point out that the person you were replying to was exactly back-to-front. It's much easier to wrangle a privileges escalation than it is to get onto the system in the first place.
Yes but you have backups of that stuff. The real threat/pain is your machine becoming a spam/etc zombie without your knowledge. This is highly unlikely on any Unix-like OS.
I think, people who write, should perhaps, and want, read just the basics about grammar, and how to use, commas.
I would also add that speaking on the phone or better yet in person does wonders for working with someone.

Going through Craigslist can enable you to find someone local and meet them at a local coffee shop.

It may not seem like much, but actually meeting someone you are going to work with can make a lot of difference later on.
Doesn't it depend on what is behind the bookmarklet? In this case the bookmarklet is launching an application within the web page the user is browsing. Does it matter that the (BigTweet) application is "mobile" rather than at a fixed web site?

Granted, the current functionality is nothing that I would expect anyone to pay for.

As an example, what if the bookmarklet happened to open up a full featured word processor with all the bells and whistles? Not sure that you can say that the product wouldn't be worth anything just because the invocation happened through a bookmarklet ...
I write billing software for a utility provider so.... yep, it's a bug. Usually that sort of thing manifests when data moves between systems with slightly different rounding rules. There's a ton of integration points to third-party systems and they don't always agree about how these things work. Fractional things like taxes, prorating, and earned vs. deferred incomes make precision errors very easy. We've got sanity checks in the code to make sure nothing crazy is going on when we get results from third-parties but so long as any errors are within certain margins the accountants using the software are happy.

Incidentally, accountants are the best users ever for bug reports. Their eye for detail and the multitude of reconciliation processes they use to analyze the results of your processing is fantastic for finding subtle bugs.
I concur. Cherry picking stupid mistakes form ones past does paint an accurate picture of talent. I have made several stupid coding mistakes at 2 am only to fix them in a minute or two when I start back up the next day, refreshed.
I say MacBook. Check out my write-up on my setup - http://www.essien.org/blog/2008/12/02/setting-up-your-develo...
"To negotiate in tough times, you have to be able to create a vision,"

The best way to negotiate is to be in a position to walk away, by getting another job, else lots of companies out there will low-ball you and site the economy as the reason.
I don't understand this objection. I could forward their email to a random gmail user. I could actually be using Google apps for my domain (which I do). There are many many ways for an email to end up in gmail that don't require you to send your email to a something@gmail.com account.

(That and I find the gmail privacy thing confusing. Isn't this a problem for all the other webmail hosts? Most of the things I'm seeing are "they aren't doing it now, but they could", well, so could Yahoo, or any of the people in between. Email is not the world's most secure message medium...)
I hate that too. The solution for me is to install the 'Nuke Anything Enhanced' addon, then remove the offending lines.
Also "The Culture Cult" by Roger Sandall.

Sandall makes the case that private property rights are the "deep ditch" that separate civilization from tribes.

I'd add "contract law" to that, as private property rests on being able to move, trade, buy, and sell that property in a safe manner.
Once again, dodging the genetic evidence for evolution. But I understand why you do it, it's even more irritating that recent fossil evidence if you've got an axe to grind.

I don't. I am particularly skeptical of Macro-Evolution because (1) it is entirely and completely unobservable

Save for all that fossil evidence, genetic evidence, corroborating evidence in short-lived creatures. Completely unobservable.

We have a mechanism that we know works on real, living creatures. We have evidence that such process has taken place all over the earth on a large scale. What we don't have is the exact process happening under glass so that all you can do is avert your gaze.

And even if we had that the ID/biblical literalist movement would just move the goalposts again. They always do.

(2) is the human product of many independent processes that have all been linked together.

No different from physics. We have no unified theory, and many observations remain unexplained.

The Macro-Evolutionary "process" is a creation of man, not something observable and inherent to the universe like gravity, electricity, or the effects of good nutrition.

All "scientific fact" is the creation of man. There is nothing privledged about our physical models. Indeed, it's certain that our current models of electricity, gravity, and nutrition are incomplete and probably deeply flawed models. Science is not about proving absolute truth, it's about removing bias from observation and building models to fit those observations.

Your metric of belief is strongly biased here, and only in the case of biology. From what you've said, it's because your religious beliefs. You're free to hold them, but I'm also free to point out that the scientific consensus is that your religious fundamentalism is completely unsupportable when it comes to how current species came into existence.

Sorry, but it's false. And I'm not afraid to say that, and a growing number of people are standing up to the religious status-quo that has gradually been holding America back from scientific progress.
From the comment:

THINGS GIT IS STILL NOT GOOD AT
* windows (all)
* large files (svn)
Terrible. The only thing worse than alienating a female developer by saying she's hot is coming along and criticizing her appearance.
No, the medium is intrinsically wrong. Bookmarklets are easy to copy for free. Perhaps if your bookmarklet led to or interfaced with a fully fledged application, people might be willing to pay for the application - but then the bookmarklet is mostly irrelevant, or at the least is not the central appeal, much like del.icio.us's toolbar is omnipresent and yet not presented as the navel of the application.

I maintain - no one will pay for a bookmarklet, so a website that starts with "we provide a bookmarklet that..." is doomed to remain a hobby.
The Big Three Should Become the Medium Two
I don't remember the exact quote so try not to flame me for getting it wrong- A while back Steve Jobs was courting that guy(forgot his name) from PepsiCo for the CEO position at Apple and he said something like; "Come on Man, stop selling sugar water and help me make a dent in the universe"
Luckily it was posted to a community of hackers, not a community of image processing professionals.
.Tel Them Where to Find You
Confirmed: Oodle To Power Facebook Classifieds
Webmag uses Slinkset (YC O8) to remix another webmag's end-of-year album list
I thought this was well-executed and a nice spin on editorial content.

Disclosure:

1. I know the patrolmag people.
2. I originally suggested the idea to them, as it was something I'd thought about doing on my own site.

Question for the slinkset guys:

How hard is it to set up a subdomain like this? Do I have to have DNS control? One of the side effects of moving to slicehost and getting a sysadmin is that I have to run all that stuff by him. This adds a little extra cost to setting up something like this on the fly.
The new MacBooks have driven down the prices of the old white MacBooks to a very reasonable level. With the upside of developing anywhere, not just your apartment.
10 Interesting MS Research Projects
Offsetting text is for code, not quotations. Italics or quotes in a paragraph of its own should do fine.
10 Ways Digg Could Stay Profitable and Independent
Javascript's Undeclared versus Undefined
Entrepreneurial Learning Talks in Cambridge [UK]
Sorry I am incapable of comparing numerical quantities and figuring out which one is larger.
I agree. It's just not an area that allows for much small business activity. The SEC shut down prosper.com, for example. To innovate one needs huge teams of lawyers and the sympathies of bureaucrats.

The bailouts, designed to prop up failing firms, are explicitly preventing the Schumpeterian destruction and creative reorganization that _should_ allow for entrepreneurs and others with creative ideas to jump in.

If there ever was any room for innovation in finance I'd say it's been dead for about 5 years... and it's no surprise that hedge funds (one of the few small business opportunities in finance) get blamed whenever there are problems, and are being regulated out of existence.
while I agree that the prevailing attitude is "if you're not a hacker/programmer, use Windows, not Linux" I guess I don't really get why.

Your comment on the fact that software needs to come with a nice printed manual highlights why: of my mother, my sister and my wife, I'm the only one that reads the damn things.

edit: this http://contentconsumer.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enou... makes me think we don't give non-hackers/programmers enough credit.
Save for all that fossil evidence, genetic evidence, corroborating evidence in short-lived creatures.

Yet again, what you're saying here is "Trust me that I put all the independent pieces together properly and that's what is shown on the box."

All "scientific fact" is the creation of man. There is nothing privledged about our physical models. Indeed, it's certain that our current models of electricity, gravity, and nutrition are incomplete and probably deeply flawed models.

Of course it is! Except when we observe physical processes, we're not starting with the question "Does this even exist?" but "Ok, we KNOW this exists, but how does this work?". The difference between the two is very distinct, and both are subject to man's interpretation.

Read this carefully: ----

Physics takes existing observable processes and deconstructs them so we can understand them better. Macro-Evolution is the attempt to take processes and make them add up (or construct) into a larger process that we don't even know exists - you would agree that we've never observed Macro-Evolution since there's not enough time. To further my physics example, they just spent several billion on the Large Hadron Collider in an attempt to further deconstruct the nature of our world (notably, finding a Higgs boson).

----.
Thanks your writeup was helpful
I think that if the power of Mathematica image processing would be combined with the usability of Photoshop, it would be totally awesome. Maybe a plug-in to use Mathematica from Photoshop?
Digg: Not for Sale
Forget Microsoft, Miller may make a run at Yahoo himself
Using images to find other images
Wasn't that what the .info was for?

It's not a bad idea. It seems just as likely to end up as another haven for domain name proprietors.
The Law of Unintended Web-Site Use
Okay - I see your point now.

If BigTweet were to ever develop into a more powerful application, I would need to get away from its image as a bookmarklet.

Thanks!
I'm not a scientist, just have a casual interest in science and its history, so please allow for some inaccuracies and feel free to correct me.

It appears that gravity is somewhat different than the other forces in fundamental ways. The other three forces are adequately described using quantum mechanics - gravity not so. Gravity is explained using Einsteins general theory of relativity, and describes gravity as a curvature of the time-space continuum. Modern physics rests on two main pillars: quantum mechanics and relativity. Gravity is the only one of the fundamental forces explained by the relativity column, and so it is harder to incorporate into a unified theory encompassing all the forces.

Of course it doesn't help that quantum mechanics and relativity are by many thought to be incompatible theories: The first works well for sub-atom sizes and weights, the latter works well for planet sizes and weights. This is also one of the reasons black holes are so interesting - sub atom size and planet weight. Both quantum mechanics and relativity must be at work.

Really interesting stuff :-)
Windows Live: It's Live. I Think. Partially. Stay Tuned for More.
I have never heard of nuevasync. Just set it up and it works like a charm!
Nokia N75 AT&T Unlocked
Providing a complete multimedia experience in a thin and elegant clamshell design, The Nokia N75 brings all the latest cell phone media and calling capabilities to the table while still incorporating Nokia's renowned ease of use.
Child Labour laws allowed you to work for yourself cutting lawns because you didn't have to work 14 hours a day in a coal mine to help support your family.
Hey, this reminds me of Firefox 3!

Installed. Booted. Crashed to desktop. Reinstalled with no extensions. Wondered why I couldn't import any music. Noticed that the music was imported, it's just that no text was displaying in the library. Played a few songs and started paying attention to something else. Noticed that it suddenly crashed for no apparent reason.

Back to using foobar2000...
Any get multimedia keys to work under linux? Got the addon installed but, of course, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do..
Can you use Wine on a Mac?
Trying to think of domain hacks: hos.tel is the only one that comes to mind. Maybe dontaskdont.tel?
Don't think "image processing", think "signals processing." The ability to perform complex interactive transforms on datasets representable as images is actually pretty neat.
Yes. It's a hard problem. The coolest solutions are solutions to hard problems.

If they've pulled it off, that would be totally bad ass. Knowing Zoho, they're probably pretty close.
I have been using bit.ly and this is cool, but automatically when i hit bigtweet bookmark thing I think it should create the short URL and plop it right into the twitter text box.

Im lazy I want to click bookmarklet toolbar thing..see the short URL in twitter box, type my twitter around it and hit submit.

Overall nice job..something I will use and Im sure others will too.
Photoshop has a pretty powerful scripting environment (JavaScript) but it's rather unwieldy for doing image processing and analysis. I know from experience... http://tlrobinson.net/blog/2008/10/08/recovering-censored-te...
Well maybe bit.ly would like to buy it or betaworks can hire/buy you and your tech. It beats their bookmarklet service!
Attractiveness does correlate with lots of positive things, though. Some chromosomal problems that make someone a bad mate also make them ugly; someone who gets a disfiguring injury is probably clumsier and perhaps dumber than someone who doesn't.
Suddenly Microsoft is in news a lot more than Google, looks like they are coming out with some exciting products and they really want to innovate in online space.

I was just reading about the research projects of Microsoft, I am very much impressed. http://tr.im/1r29
Huh? Isn't the whole point of Apple's ads that Mac OS X is better than Windows?
I think the "broken windows" argument which was recently discussed in this forum also comes into play.

In an environment where bribes are common place, this opens the door for more corrupt behavior.
I remembered that baboon image from my Amiga!

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga-history-4-comm...
It is interesting that you did not address 'corruption', which seems the obvious explanation for the phenomena you observed.
Ugh. I like few things less than posts like this. Inspirational b.s. that has almost no relevance to anything. Information flow here is zero, if not negative for the time to read it.

This makes it seem that once a person gains a certain level of notoriety and a certain amount of eyes, they can just produce content with absolutely zero information to make sure people don't forget them. A few steps later is renting infomercial spots on late night TV and selling self-help books.
Do Chinese Web Users Have More Fun?
BigTweet can already do this!

The short URL is automatically created. If you check the checkbox "Automatically append short URL of current page" then the text area is automatically populated with this short URL. The same can be done for the web page title.

Give it a try and let me know if there is something else you are expecting or would like to see. You can reply to me @scott_carter

Thanks
Some branch of the government? That seems like it would be pretty stable.

But good idea to have something to show when you go for your next job!
Behind the apps: Amazed
Back when I took my intro to CS class, it was taught in Scheme. I hated this at the time -- and bitched about it constantly. "When am I ever going to need this language that isn't used for anything, and that has such a fucked up syntax))))))?"

Looking back on it now (and having had to implement many of the algorithms we learned about in that class in C, Java and other languages that are less suited for it), I wouldn't have been able to grasp many of the sorting, binary tree or hashing algorithms nearly as easily in another language.

To my own surprise, one of the things that I now consider most valuable about my undergrad degree was that it forced me to at least grasp Scheme and Smalltalk.
Yet again, what you're saying here is "Trust me that I put all the independent pieces together properly and that's what is shown on the box."

"Like all of the rest of science, where this process is good enough!"

Why isn't it good enough here?

Of course it is! Except when we observe physical processes, we're not starting with the question "Does this even exist?" but "Ok, we KNOW this exists, but how the heck does this work?". The difference between the two is very distinct.

There is no difference between observations of these kinds. Our senses are so incredibly flawed and unreliable, as are our minds, that there is basically no difference when it comes to science.

The attempt to prove Macro-Evolution is the attempt to prove that it even exists (or Does man's linkage of these independent processes indeed = MacroEvolution?).

It's funny that you say this. 8-10 years ago, the micro-vs-macro-evolution argument was called "irreducible complexity", and the scale was much smaller than what you're holding to now. "How could complex things like flagellum" evolve? Well science has gone and shown that not only is it possible, it's not hard at all.

So, your camp was forced to _move the goalposts_ and say, "Well that level of complexity is okay, but now this level of complexity up here is totally unproven!" And when we show you macro-evolution you'll just move the goalposts again. Because it keeps happening over and over.

When we attempt to understand physics and other inherent universal processes, we already know they exist...

Except that even a casual understanding of science in history would tell you this statement is grossly false. Heliocentricity comes to mind.

And while we're busy debating all this proof and you're picking tiny holes in a remarkably well-researched theory that has risen to prominence as the "unifying theory of biology", where does ID start offering complex studies? Your life-origin of choice has basically nothing behind it save, "My bible tells me so, it's certainly possible, and I don't really believe your evidence to the contrary." You cannot base a theory on negative statements and the Bible.

Your position is intellectually bankrupt, your arguments presented thus far are literally over 5 years old and well-debunked, the scientific community rejects your hypothesis, and your pathological avoidance of the fundamental inconsistencies you're proposing in being an anti-evolutionist are plain as day to anyone without a religious axe to grind.
Although the bug fix was only one line, it apparently necessitated a blog post that was hundreds of lines long. Perhaps the author should ask Gavin Newsom to produce a 7-hour series of videos about the bug fix?
Steve Jobs to John Sculley: "Would you rather sell sugar water to kids for the rest of your life, or would you like a chance to change the world?"

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Safari tops 7% market share for browsers? Not quite
Eye-Cam Wanted
I THINK you can, but I've always avoided it. I'm not a fan of non-native ports of software.

Not to mention: I really do like iTunes day-to-day. I hate adding album art to it (you can't drag images onto albums in album mode), but on the Mac it's quick and very responsive, and it's got excellent search.
"... What do you want to know? ..."

Is the book being pitched as a 'business' book, an alternative way to tackle business? Or is this another tech-related book? I suspect the former as the article makes numerous hints to a popular rather than technical audience.
I've used the Clover CMS and it's a solid system. Also, it takes care of a lot of the SEO problems that hosted content management systems often have. Search engines will pick up your content.
Translation: nobody wanted to buy it, so we took it off the market.

Granted, it's been about a year since I last used Digg, but it had really turned into a cesspool of stupid/useless/gamed links. Digg, Reddit, etc. all seem to have passed the apex of their value curves.
I wrote this article to explain why I created a new CMS system and why I think content management should be something offered as a service instead of an installed system. Oh yeah, and I'm really excited that I launched this product yesterday.
Revision control & dev methods for 1 person project?
I'm working on a social network service that is currently just a 1 person effort (me), and I also do some consulting and programming for others on small web app projects.

I'd like to start using a revision control system to manage these projects, so in addition to rollbacks I also have a better backup of my work, and can at some point add an additional developer (which currently would require hacking my own home-brew workflow).

I'm interested in people's thoughts on RCS systems best suited for projects like these with only one or a few developers.

In the same vein, I'm curious as to people's thoughts on development methodologies for these kind of projects as well- my own workflow comes out kind of cowboy meets agile, but I'd like to start disciplining myself a bit more and have the ability to integrate an additional person when I'm ready.

Tech wise the RCS server needs to run on Linux (Debian), as I will host it on my offsite server which is backed up daily. On the client end I am fully Mac, and currently using a combo of Eclipse, BBEdit and XCode as IDEs, depending on the project, so I need at least command line capability plus Eclipse integration.

thanx!
I don't agree at all.

Sure, I can find out what the cheapest possible mac is easily, but how is it as a development machine? Is it powerful enough to deal with all the involved apps? How is the overall user experience from the dev side? Do you wish you had paid more and gotten a MacBook?

For that matter, maybe I should go on ebay and buy a used, older generation Mac instead?

Being satisfied with your development environment is about more than quantitative considerations. Asking this sort of question in a place where a lot of Mac-using developers congregate is lazy? I don't think so.
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