skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NT puts third-party written graphics drivers into Ring 0. That's definitely not a microkernel. As for whether or not hybrid is another word for Macro, whatever. If that's a face-saving way for microkernel advocates to avoid admitting that their original idea was insane, I'm fine with that.

Linus's quote was "drug induced microkernel", however. It wasn't "drug induced microkernel or hybrid architecture" --- although if you run Windows or are forced by a family member to be a Windows support desk, you have my pity....
Not yet. But apparently that's the big 2012 feature Dropbox has been working on.
Researchers Can't Identify Programming Language Used in Duqu, Ask for Help
The article is almost completely devoid of useful content. Basically the only useful argument is: JEE 6 has most of the stuff Spring has, it's "light" (lighter than J2EE) and, unlike Spring, it's a standard with several reference implementations.

While the argument itself is worthy of discussion, there was no need to package it inside an article full of fluff.

The author claims that she hopes to be neutral, but completely fails to do so when it comes to comparison of Spring and JEE: she lists advantages of JEE and then those of Spring, but makes sure that each of the Spring advantages listed is accompanied by a "BUT", which boils down to either "JEE has it too" or "JEE doesn't have it, but you probably won't need it".

Yes, I know she said beforehand that she would explain why differences between Spring and JEE lead her to JEE, but the way she did it robs her of neutrality she claims to have. And it's not just the form I'm talking about, it's the substance, too. If all of your reasons to lean towards JEE boil down to "well, it has all that I need that Spring has and I personally don't care about the stuff it doesn't have", you're not really contributing anything.
As maaku stated, this is the exact same bill that also passed on its own in November. Some Democrats criticized the JOBS Act as gamesmanship as it mostly reintroduced legislation already passed in the House.

Next step is for the Senate to pass an investment crowdfunding bill. It is not clear how quickly this will happen or how similar the bills might be. We had this much momentum behind investment crowdfunding in November only to be disappointed to date. But Senator Schumer's statement Tuesday was encouraging.

http://fundinglaunchpad.com/2012/03/investment-crowdfunding-...
NT and OS X use hybrid kernels (as well as Plan9). Linus believe that hybrid is another term for monolithic, but rest of the world does not.

AFAIR micro- ones are used by QNX and Minix. Monolithic kernels are used by Linux, *BSD (with an exception for Dragonfly, which uses hybrid kernel), Solaris, AIX(?) and more SysV descendants.
A Shimla Honeymoon package offers Everlasting Memories
The fact that people are willing to pirate instead of purchasing $x for product type y is the market speaking.

Given that the fundamental premise is DRM is flawed from a technological point of view, it's at best a polite request.

Governments can pass laws trying to prohibit it, but it's like trying to pass laws prohibiting cars driving faster than 55 MPH. If people fundamentally don't agree with the law, passing the law even if you can buy a few senators isn't going to help. It just promotes a greater disrespect for the law.
Then they would have a case. Also if if jackbooted TSA thugs showed up to burn down the newspaper building. But since no one has even alleged that any of these things have happened, can we skip the wild and crazy speculation?
The Java comments are wrong IMHO. Yes it has some legacy cruft. Yes you can import 10 million libraries and build abstractions on abstractions. Yes you can architect your application to resemble a Rube Goldberg machine.
Guess what? Those same points apply to an language.

Potentially, yeah, but guess what? It does not happen in every language. That's why it's most often brought up for Java. Because it's not just the potentiality that matters, but the actuality too. In other words, it also takes a culture, and Java very much has that kind of culture.

Heck the evolution of a Python programmer https://gist.github.com/289467 currently on the front page which does the same thing for Python which is usually pretty clean

See? Usually, as in, "Usually pretty clean", is the key word here. Whereas Java program design is usually pretty convoluted.

And the "Evolution of a Python programmer" is mostly a joke, meant to show the tendency of some Python types to use some newer/cooler/functionaler (sic) features in place of more simple and readable ones. It's not what commonly happens in Python projects though.
Never knew this existed. Thanks for the link. I live pretty close as well...

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/12058/School-Visits...

Looks like they do some really good stuff with schools etc.
> This isn't the fault of the kernel team though.

It is the result of having no unified platform and library release coordination, no long term plans, nothing, just chaos. Everybody just releases when he is in the mood for it. And since nothing is complete when released, devs further down the chain always go for the latest and greatest to get additional functionality. And to upgrade app1, you have to upgrade lib1 which triggers the updates of app2, app3, app4, lib3, etc. Sometimes you cant update a simple app without updating the whole desktop. The Linux dependency net appears nightmarish to everyone coming from Windows, where you have a reliable, stable base system which doesnt change for a decade and every app targets the same base system.

Linux, the kernel, is only running that great because it has a dictator. But Linus' dictatorship ends at the kernel borders, he has little influence outside. The Linux desktop also needs a dictator to massively slow down the rate of uncoordinated changes and force-stabilize the ecosystem. I hoped that Mark Shuttleworth could be that man, but he then introduced Unity... but even with unity, Ubuntu is the only chance for the Linux desktop for having a single defined set of libs attractive and influential enough for app devs as a primary target so they can safely go with the library versions in Ubuntu, instead of constantly chasing the latest and greatest versions from the upstream.
Google+, Youtube and Facebook recreated with technology and spirit of 1997
TiAMO’s decision to start a backup of the site is probably the most pivotal moment in the site’s history.

I'm surprised to see that a backup might be considered an heroic move. If you don't have any backup you may as well consider your data entirely lost !
All these years later, the flame goes on :p
Is FlySwedenAgency.com real or a scam?
Thanks for showing. Made my day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel No, Windows and OS X use hybrid kernels.
F5 Friday: Addressing the Unintended Consequences of Cloud
Socrates on Self-Confidence – Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness
Once again, there are not many good alternatives to Unity3D for real multiplatform development, and once their flash exporter is ready for prime time this becomes even more true.
I find this theory by a commenter on the original Kaspersky blog post very interesting. I certainly don't really have the knowledge to judge if it has any merits, but I still find it amusing nonetheless.

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duq...
Totally agree. It's the old west trying to keep up with the world, it's only a matter of time before you are run over!

I have a question. Is copyright infringement (in the UK at least) a criminal offence or a matter for the civil courts?
Shitty development language and no iOS support. No thanks.
You can do it in IE since version 5.5 ☺
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532979%28v=vs.85%2...
As usual jshint is not used... So it leaks global variables.
The German law enforcement agencies is said to have been a customer of Vupen.
Law enforcement don't have free hands to decide what laws they enforce. There are a good half dozen layers above them kicking downwards screaming "Shut down TPB", until it ends up in the lap of some poor slob who then has to actually go out and physically perform a pointless raid or lose his job. I'm sure that guy (and even his boss, and probably also his boss's boss) don't want to waste their time and resources with these raids, and would much rather go after real crimes. If you want to fix the problem focus on the political and ministerial layer, not the law enforcement layer.
TechStars NYC Picks 14 Startups Out Of 1,500 Applicants For Its New Class
Articles like this, which paint VCs with perjorative stereotypes (e.g. "Golf games get abbreviated.") are not helpful. As long as you consider the VC an "other" - a different species from you, you won't be able to work constructively with one. Anytime we paint another group of people as an "other" whether because of race or culture or whatever, we do our selves a disservice and encourage conflict and misunderstanding. We're all people, and we're all pretty much the same.

A VC is just an entrepreneur whose line of business is money management instead of software development. If you want to understand the differences between money management and software development and what that means for how VCs try to build a successful business in that industry, go talk to VCs. But approach the conversation as a peer and fellow entrepreneur, not as someone trying to understand an alien.
Would be interesting to try this about 5 years after the first batch of users lead the charge.

If it has any effect then the side effects would be my first major concern.
> It costs them more time to be wasted on the game that that takes for them to simply learn it from the textbook.

Maybe, just maybe playing with physics could actually spark their interest into actually reading the text-book and learn about the real thing.
Simple answer: Google Maps suddenly costs a lot of dough.

More complex answer: Companies that need mapping services don't want to rely on Google if they are a competitor.

Say you're Foursquare. Would you rather rely on Google, a company that's investing heavily in social networking, or someone like Navteq or OpenStreetMap, organizations with a laser sharp focus on mapping services?
Tutors for Math in La Jolla | Tutor Tutor
These math tutors are highly specialized in mathematics. First of all, these tutors had to go through ordeal scrutiny. They have been checked and confirmed about their frequent knowledge and hold on all mathematical subjects like Arithmetic, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus, Statistics.
tl;dr. Directly answering the title, simple: money.

Google started charging and companies do not want to pay! It helps that OpenMaps now has a decent amount of data!
Clear braces in Glendale
Google two factor authentication for your web app
Hey, no, sorry. No experience of either substance.
Automated Scoring of Written Content
Most funds allow for recycling within defined parameters of total dollars or time frame. VCs and LPs are not ignorant, and the issues raised in the article are not new. In most of the funds whose legal structure I am familiar with, a 2x return in a year would be welcome, and the original invested capital would be recyclable into new investments to create further return.
Pirate Bay Magnet Archive:

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Curiosity looks like empathy - in Doctors & Scientists
Dropbox: Founder Drew Houston Simplifies the Cloud
"I wouldn't feel like all of that effort was worth it, if I were him"

It's a hacker instinct. Not everything has to be justified, and immensely valuable to society. Sometimes doing it cause you can is part of the satisfaction.
CFArrays Are Not Arrays
37Signals is now worth $100 Billion
I think it depends whether it's done commercially or not. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/part/I/chapter/V...
Personally I think the design is absolutely incredible - it's quite rare that I encounter UX so good it makes me smile.

Just look at the rainbow iconography! Perfectly captures the emotional response I've seen non-tech people have when they realize what Dropbox can do for them. Sure they could have gone with something more explicit, but each icon is labeled and it's a perfect way to add life to an interface that could otherwise be utilitarian.

It seems like all the design sense Google used to have has been picked up by Dropbox - and then some!
That sentence is a betrayal of UNIX's history:

There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. (Jeremy S. Anderson)
This article only reinforced my conviction to use Spring and not JEE. It is possible to test on JEE? It is "light"? It have convention over configuration? Well, Spring has it for almost a decade, is trivial do deploy on any server and have much more powerful libraries. Furthermore, JSF is horrible.
While i agree with most of this, including having an online option, the big thing that stands out for me is this paragraph which basically said "Online pricing does not make sense":

B. Get a handle on your pricing for digital media. Look, we understand why a paperback costs $7. You have to buy paper, glue and ink. It has to be written, edited, printed, shipped and stocked. And each of those people wants to cover their costs and make a profit. But when you write an ebook, and all you have to do is hit 'copy' to make another sale, you have no business charging $7 each. Remember before when I said I'm not downloading to try and stick it to you? In a situation like this, I'm downloading because you're trying to stick it to me.
Thanks. Did not knew about this (I should have pointed that I haven't been using Makefiles for a while).

However :

"Conditionals control what make actually "sees" in the makefile, so they cannot be used to control shell commands at the time of execution." (emphasis mine).

So I get that is would not solve the kind of issues I had in mind... Never mind.
That's a good find.

The cynical side of me however thinks that this may have been Google's plan all along - get a big enough user base and then enforce the rule. It's a good way to recoup some money for the cost of developing the Android OS.
Startup idea brainstorming, research, and market testing :).

Small market for that though.
Great example of expressiveness without descending down into some of the more archaic aspects of the language. In fact I don't think I saw one Scala magic symbol in the entire program. In fact aside from the groupBy and sliding calls, which may require a trip to the scaladocs, there is nothing in here that a programmer couldn't read and understand simple from the syntax.
It's kind of like how they started a country to escape taxes and then gave themselves the power to arrest and imprison those that don't pay taxes ... everyone knows how wrong what is happening is and how much it makes them look like morons to normal people ... but they have deeper pockets and patient lawyers/politicians in those pockets that will span generations if necessary until they get their way. They try a big step, and when it doesn't work, they step back and break it up into smaller steps that get them to the eventual goal. It's obvious their lobbying power is something that defies logic because we were taught how things are "supposed" to work in school. I'm curious how heartfelt blasting (totally justified btw) of these larger organizations accomplishes anything. A moment of rage doesn't stop a river. I'm not sure what does.
Puts patients barefoot on Facebook arrested and "banned" from the web
Anonymous leaks Symantec's Norton anti-virus source code
This kind of data would be so cool for body related things

- Calory intake per day

- caffeine

- minutes exercised

- blood pressure

I could imagine in the future this would be quite feasible. The biggest barrier probably isn't technological, rather the resistance to the idea of injecting/carrying a little digital monitor
Free Indie Games not on TIGS or Indiegames: Sewers [Andrew Brophy + Andy Wolff]
Cubes 0.8 (Lightweight Python OLAP) Released
Not all samples have numbers in them, but I was somwhat disturbed that it was not until 2012 that the LISP publishers used a monospace font that clearly distinguished 0 "zero" and O "capital letter o".
Here's the thing. My 3.5 year old is going to understand something about gravity. I think I was probably 8 before it was presented in 'science' class...and that was just 'newton had an apple fall on his head. things fall.'

I think this is pretty cool and the game looks fun too.
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Ahh ok, that makes sense. Thanks for the link.
Revealed: How China censors its social networks
will write an how-to when I get time
People on TPB are promoting Tribler as a new decentralized, non-takedownable, open source file sharing network. I haven't tried this myself yet, but here's a link to the main site: http://www.tribler.org/trac. I'm downloading the source now to try it out.
I think this company does it too. But they have more products.
http://www.b-alert.com/products/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702110503.ht...
Yeah, I hear ya, it takes ages to load my data too. If there's a way to cache on the serverside without running into the API throttling, I'd love to do some caching.
It's viral: #Kony2012
Friends don't let friends use either Spring or Java EE.
I believe that format shifting (e.g. ripping a DVD) is still technically illegal in the UK, although I don't think that anyone has actually been charged.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13429217
LinkedOut
It's not new at all!
Sebastian Delmont from StreetEasy posted a great writeup on this issue a few months back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3453095
MongoDB and Node.js on Windows Azure
+1 Can't see any sane reason why either would be used for a new project in 2012.
Which examples don't you see?
No, its Xbox Live on Windows now
You could do it like this with CSS, data URI and SVG:

.blur {
background-image: url('data:image/xml+svg;utf8,
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<defs>
<filter id="f1">
<feComponentTransfer>
<feFuncR type="table" tableValues="0.5 1"/>
<feFuncG type="table" tableValues="0.5 1"/>
<feFuncB type="table" tableValues="0.5 1"/>
</feComponentTransfer>
<feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="5" />
</filter>
</defs>

<image x="0" y="0" width="300" height="80"
xlink:href="http://background.png"
filter="url(#f1)" />
</svg>
');
}

(expanded for clarty, and I didn't test it so it may be buggy/not syntactically correct).

You can off course generate all that in JS and parametrize it.

It should work in Chrome, but won't in IE9. No idea for other browsers.

see http://jsfiddle.net/estelle/SJjJb/
there must be a time when you can walk into a farmer's field, and rip anything and still claim that the product given by god and belong to all human being.

when the farmer complains, you can get away with this: you should grow things in your backyard!

i still have no idea why people want these things so badly. Will they die without these movies and musics?
Something that DB doesn't address, but is important to many companies, is the ability to host the fileshare themselves.

Combine that with DB's ease of use and there's huge space for a competitor to jump in.

Another possible entrance is to improve DB's shared file concept. Right now u/l'ing to a certain folder and sharing the link puts stuff on the internet. But there are many restrictions to how that works. Make it so the stuff just hosts there without any particular limits and you've suddenly provided an ad hoc hosting service for folks to use. Provide some simple templates and now you don't need flickr, soundcloud, most web hosting services, ftp sites, etc. There's a huge space of web hosting that doesn't require dynamic page generation supported by a database.
Apple TV now support for 1080p and iCloud | GadgetMAG
Ask HN: YC European Alumni
Hi we were wondering if there is a list of YC Euro Alumni? Trying to get the Euro perspective about applying to the program, the experience itself, and solutions for work visas. Thanks in Advance.
Gotta agree with the placebo question here. When I'm having a really excellent learning day, it scares me how fast I learn. When I'm not, a 9V battery to the head doesn't sound like the worst idea...
I have been an 'expat freelancer', local employee, student, local entrepreneur, and an expat full time remote worker (present status) in a handful of countries on three continents.

The main points I'd say are: things change, everywhere's different, and have patience. With many passports in many parts of the world you can border-hop as a 'tourist' quite comfortably, essentially living for arbitrary amounts of time wherever you please. This is really great, but can be a bit draining.

The hardest things tend to be social needs, language, food, expectations of folks back home, and the cost of relatively long distance flights. Also, you need motivation: it's easy to get lazy.

Great side effects of long term living abroad: new languages, meeting cool people and sexy potential significant others, great food, lower overheads, cheap medical care (who needs medical insurance when a serious operation is a mere fraction of the price of back home?), less government crap (licenses, insurance, etc.), often less tax.

Some banks have excellent expat-oriented services (eg: HSBC) that are worth looking into if you're going long term.

Not for the risk averse, the timid, or the mortgaged.
There is a binary compatibility for kernel. Typically it's just the user-space dynamic libraries (in Windows speak: dlls not belonging to kernel) that you miss if you have a 5 year old binary and it won't run. Linus doesn't control user-space libs, just kernel.

See how jwz shows you how to run a binary of Nestcape from 1995 (17 years old) on the latest Linuxen:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/happy-run-some-old-web-brows...

Your major problem if you want to make a closed source application is that the user space dynamic libraries are mostly (L)GPL licensed, so you have to avoid (L)GPL libraries to have a legally fully-library-independent closed source application. LGPL license allows closed source linking only if you link dynamically to the LGPL library (meaning: your application must depend on the externally present library which can be replaced at any time). Which is really fair, IMHO.

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