skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost of learning should be amortised over one's lifetime. It iwill work out to a handful of pennies or dollars on a per-project basis.
Is the 192 the bitrate or the frequency response? I thought 192 in MP3 was the bit rate, not the maximum frequency response...
People who want a stylus can buy one from a third party. Why does Apple have to provide it?
Isn't that pretty close to Tor (ironically developed by the US government)?
Actor paths are a pretty nice feature. Looking up actors by classname or dealing with a group always seemed kludgy.

However, this approach is less flexible and makes Akka more all encompassing in feel.
Hmm I'm running 17.0.963.65 on 10.6 and seems to work fine.
I use KeepassX on Linux. I'm not sure if it's missing features that 1Password has, but it works great for me.

For hardware, the Apple Store sells great laptops, but for desktops, it sucks. You can either get an underpowered mini for the price of a powerful Linux desktop or you can get an overpowered but out of date Mac Pro for the price of a small car. (OK, slight exaggeration).

I highly recommend the Anandtech buyer's guides for figuring out what you want in a desktop. http://www.anandtech.com/show/5184/holiday-midrange-system-b... seems like an excellent starting point.

Also, don't be afraid of overclocking. You can get a LOT of extra performance for little effort on an i5-2500k or i7-2600k. My box has been stable at 4.7GHz for months, and it's speeded up my compile times immensely. It'd probably also be stable at 4.8GHz, but I bumped it down one notch just to give myself some headroom.
Love this. This is the way slide should be displayed. Thanks for making it easy to learn something new.
So i could just be dumb, but there is something about this pricing that doesn't make sense to me. All of this is based on micros in the Virginia region, and having them for 12 months.

On demand for 12 months: $170 = (0.02 24 * 365)

Spot instance for 12 months: $52.56 = (0.006 24 * 365)

Light utilization - reserved for 1 year: $128 = (($0.012 24 * 365) + $23)

Medium utilization - reserved for 1 year: $115.32 = (($0.007 24 * 365) + $54)

Heavy utilization - reserved for 1 year: $105.80 = (($0.005 24 * 365) + $54)

I get that the spot instance price may change, but it would likely always be lower than on demand and given that the others prices change, are they just the best option?

So...maybe the marketing words are getting me confused, but i thought that heavy would be more expensive? Or is this telling me that i'm located with other heavy users, therefore i'm getting less and i pay less?

Today we use a lot of micros, i'm starting to realize how much we could save if we switch...however whats a "better server" a heavy or a light?
What is 'Space' expanding into?
This isn't reddit, but I'll still take a chance!

Hi Jeremy,

My name is Jeff Morse. I'm a Recruiter at a super-charged start-up called Mixbook www.mixbook.com I came across your profile on hacker news and have a full-time Jr. Backbone developer opening working onsite in our Palo Alto, California office that is a great match for your background/experience. Would you be ready to make the move to Silicon Valley, the most innovative place for web start ups which offers superior growth opportunities for talented Backbone developers like yourself? Mixbook will pay for all relocation costs.
Would you be open to taking a phone/Sykpe call from our CTO, Aryk Grosz (see attached LinkedIn profile) to discuss the position further? If interested, email me your Skype ID and I’ll coordinate the call with Aryk.

Cheers,

Jeff Morse

Sr. Recruiter

Mixbook

408.234.2400

jmorse@mixbook.com

We're Hiring http://www.mixbook.com/careers#job-openings

Our Product: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dhKroiAo4

About Us: https://gist.github.com/1960387
Ssshh... they're on to us now!
Congress is angry because usually their approval is needed to ratify a treaty - see the letter below -

http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=12a5b1cb-...
I don't get it. The text has been public for a while now, e.g. on the website of the European Commission:

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/tackling-unfair-trade/acta/index_e...
Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #1
What specifically ties it to Symfony?
What's appalling about it? It's not necessarily true that we won't add new features. This is day one right now. We don't know how things will pan out. It's disingenuous to say we won't do something that we might do.

As stated, the majority of our resources will go towards the new Basecamp. That's honest and as clear we can be without misleading anyone.
The world's new premier tech conference
seizing .com is like a censor. while I do not believe in efficiency of censoring, I agree every society have right to do it. But it should not affect other societies. So correct measure would be direct all US-based ISP block access to bodog.com, not steal IP from canadian company.
I reckon a huge proportion of blackhats in the scene are working for the feds.

Some kid with no record gets thrown in a van by men with guns, and the full force of police psychological manipulation is brought to bear on them. They get told they're irrevocably destined for a lifetime of being brutally raped in the showers.

Is it any surprise that these young men with no experience of foul-play or maliciousness outside of the virtual world fold and turn informer with such regularity?

If I were an active blackhat, I wouldn't talk to anyone, ever. I wouldn't even invent a pseudonym, that's the first step to ending up on fox news.

EDIT: Eric Corley, publisher of 2600, thinks it's one in four: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-...
Thanks for the down vote because you don't agree?

He broke a trust barrier. He is just as guilty as the peers he just sold out.

Now what? He just sits back and kicks it good while his friends get canned?

Clearly, you would let your friends take a fall for you when you're just as guilty.
They're called events now. You can add them to the calendar or on the Events section of a project page.
Kids born later in the year more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD: Study
if we are talking about P2P DNS only, it is more like "namecoin". Tor do not have anything like DNS. You can have local directory, but it is more like /etc/hosts
The growth of LibreOffice over Microsoft Office
Well, yup, but if I am not wrong, the point here is probably that they have embraced Backbone.

And obviously the difference between other ruby shops and 37signals is that they are the reasons other ruby shops exist.
Oh PLEASE. Do you honestly believe this?

I suggest you do a little reading, start with the Industrial Reorganization Committee and the Wilson government (1964).
Dell Allows SIPCOM to deliver Software to Users Worldwide
The fact he rarely uses a notebook fits my own experience. How many developers actually develop out in cafes, or do so many presentations that you'd need a mobile computer? Probably better to customize a workstation like this then sweat about mobility. (For that, we have phones.)
If the UN were an organization with meaning, the US should be getting slapped for stuff like this. As an American citizen, I am revolted at what my government has become (I still think it is a pretty good country, but that is changing, too).

The constant rhetoric of groups like the Tea Party around "what the founding fathers wanted" is a response to things like the Fourth Amendment being completely ignored. It is unfortunate so much of that anger gets focused in ultimately useless directions with the Democratic witch hunting. The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force was started by the Reagan administration.
What is this all about then? A new kind of recruiter spam?
I'd say it's more like, having a betting shop in Canada, but the only entrance is via an underground tunnel whose entrance is in the US. The US have said "the only use of this tunnel is to disobey US law, and so we're closing down the tunnel."

That analogy leaves me with a few questions: (1) is a "tunnel to Canada" a good analogy for "a .com domain hosted in Canada"? (2) Is it true/ a good thing that .coms come under US jurisdiction? (I think this is the case, but shouldn't be).

The problem arises because, unfortunately, .com domains are based under US jurisdiction. Given that, there's an option for US-local lawmakers to apply for a takedown.
I've run a few Hack days before so here are my first thoughts;

* your asking for my email address for a mailing list instead of letting me get a ticket (I see from the menu I can buy a ticket) but thats not obvious from the main splash above the film

* is this a traditional hack day its a little confusing (24 hours to work one something with prizes?

* if you've only launched this today you've left yourself a big task, < a month before the event, your going to have to push this a lot :)

good luck
I wish; that would have been easy to accommodate.

dangrossman has the right range: they wouldn't even go as late as 4pm, or as early as 9am, which suggests to me they're only looking for people that are out of work or otherwise desperate enough to take what they can get.
Leveraging Social Media for Community Building and Brand Awareness
Refinancing For Veterans Is Great
It's mainly the inertia of not knowing where to begin. It's good to know that the process is easier now though.

At the risk of descending into total newbie-land, when you say "do some research" where do you start with that? Has the state of things really moved to the point where I can find a highly rated ATX motherboard, a power supply that won't catch fire, and start plugging in components? My general approach would be to read reviews to find potential compatibility issues, stick with good performance but not bleeding edge, and to stay away from anything in the bargain basement.

(To everyone else who is replying about the 1Password replacement, +1 to all. Thanks. I'll check out those suggestions.)
From Amazon:

Light Utilization:

"Light Utilization RIs offer the lowest upfront payment of all of the Reserved Instance types. Along with this low upfront payment, you’ll receive a significantly discounted hourly usage fee. Light Utilization RIs allow you to turn off your instance at any point and not pay the hourly fee."

Medium Utilization:

"Medium Utilization RIs are the exact same Reserved Instances that EC2 has offered for the last several years. They have a higher upfront payment than Light Utilization RIs, but a much lower hourly usage fee. Medium Utilization RIs allow you to turn off your instance at any point and not pay the hourly fee."

Heavy Utilization:

"With this RI, you pay a little higher upfront payment than Medium Utilization RIs, a significantly lower hourly usage fee, and you’re charged that lower hourly rate for every hour in the Reserved Instance term you purchase."

Source: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/
Crashes Safari on my iPhone, somewhat surprisingly.
Next time you gear up for a major upgrade, try less time blogging for HN, more time talking to your users about the features they care about.
But the US population won't stand for that kind of "great firewall", and the Federal police forces must be showns to be doing something, so you end up with this.
I'm surprised to see people complain about the copy. Is "The majority of our design and development efforts moving forward will be focused on the all new Basecamp, but we'll continue to support Classic" really that hard to understand, let alone disingenuous? Is it, despite it being mentioned a zillion times in the FAQ, so tough to understand that they've cut some features and that therefore the upgrade won't make sense for everyone?
On hardware:

The segmentation of platforms makes the search space a bit complicated, but you can start from a list of prebuilt configurations (anandtech was mentioned), pick the one closest to your requirements, and swap/add/remove/adjust components a bit according to current functionality and price.
But if it's online learning you wouldn't have to bake the videos into the app - they'd be online. Otherwise one is basically pitching offline YouTube access.
If it is just a result of the credit card companies being American, JCB is a fairly widespread non-American (Japanese) alternative.
You can use WebSQL if its running on iOS or Android. You can also use Sencha's LocalStorageProxy but you might run into performance issues with that many records. If you run on PhoneGap, you can keep your existing SQLite database.
Yeah i get the pricing of light and heavy etc....but it doesnt actually state if they are different in performance or if its just a pricing thing?

If its just a pricing thing, the difference between $23 - $54 to add an extra $15 / savings over a year seems reasonable to me...but if there was a performance hit i'd think again.
The 2.0-RC3 that's available now is pretty good and well documented on the Github wiki. You should be fine using it. And the community on the mailing list is very helpful.
We're launching with a great set of features we could do in a reasonable amount of time. If we had tried to reimplement every single Basecamp Classic feature in Basecamp Next before we launched, it would have taken a very long time.

Basecamp Classic originally launched without even file uploads!

We'll be busy bees making Basecamp Next fill in gaps all over the place in the coming months. Looking into how we can solve people's time tracking needs with a great workflow in Basecamp Next is high on that list!
So everyone knows, this is a reference to David Hansson receiving a recruiter pitch from someone who didn't bother to research him. https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/statuses/175658131429400576

I'm just explaining it. I don't think that posting it as humor out of context is good posting on Hacker News.
Recover Deleted Files from Pen Drive
Want to recover deleted files from Pen Drive which is not accessible or open for a long time? Use Pen Drive recovery software help users to recover, restore, and repair data from corruption, formatting, data deletion etc.
List of All Countries in All Languages and All Data Formats
Colleges and Employers Demanding Facebook Passwords
You could dedicate your life to improving package management in PHP and still never approach the quality of even RubyGems, let alone CPAN. Inertia is just too much to fight against when you have a massively popular language with an ad-hoc design that has accreted over a decade.

More power to anyone with a vision and a goal, but I'll personally leave PHP to its strength as batteries-included templating language.
> Is it true/ a good thing that .coms come under US jurisdiction?

it may be a historical fact, but it's not a general perception. The internet is global, and I (and probably many people) read ".co.uk" as "A UK-based business", for example. And ".com" reads as "a business on the net". ".com" has prestige as a top-level domain, even for companies that don't do much business in the USA. it says "worldwide" - like the internet.
So the FBI has been waging war against the US government; interesting.
Smartphones Leak Cryptographic Keys Via Electromagnetic Emissions
You might want to look at CouchDB, I'm using it for a jquery mobile project and it's a pretty nice/clean way to handle data.
First - I don't know anything about Wonga, nor do I think that vulnerable people being forced into needing a loan at enormously high interest rates is somehow a good thing for society.

However, as I read the comments here simply condemning payday loans without further explanation, I find myself wondering whether anyone has a better suggestion?

A 4000% interest loan might seem like a terrible deal, but simply being evicted, or not being repair a vehicle essential for work could far more costly. If happens occasionally and it really is paid back at payday, I can see it being a lifeline.

The article suggests that the interest rate is basically directly related to the default rate, and that ML is enabling better credit assessments, and thus lowering the default rate and interest rates correspondingly. The fact that there are now competitors in the market should keep pressure on this.

It sounds to me that the ML experts are contributing to making loans available more cheaply to those who need them and can pay them back, potentially helping people who have a job not to fall into even worse poverty.

Again, I think that the poverty trap is an abhorrent thing for society, but it sounds as though ML experts are making the payday loan industry less harmful. Am I missing something?
"so it could loose value really quickly if it becomes perceived as a risky place to do business"

How in touch are you with everyday users of .com domains?

Do you think the majority of the individuals and businesses in this country or in foreign countries are doing things that will make them fear loosing their domains because the US might seize their domain? (These are people that in many cases support racial profiling.)

They won't. I've been dealing with these people since 1995. They don't care.

They use passwords like "football". Then don't read FAQ's.

"Also, when people access a site, they either type in a domain from a physical source, or more often they search or follow links."

Where are you getting this from?
My US Visa got denied
I love my MBP, as it seems clearly designed to get some work done with minimal hassle.

Apple's desktop choices are very frustrating. I only buy Mini's as a computer to attach to the TV. It's great for a little, quiet computer that I don't have to pay any attention to. I couldn't do much work on it though. The Mac Pro's always seem way overpriced for what you get.

Thanks for the heads-up on the buyer's guide.
This is Rob Pike's take on FUD toward new programming languages:

http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagina...
> The fact is though, if you don't want to piss away your money you will not get an iPad 3 if you own an iPad 2.

Or you could wait until it's unveiled before deciding whether it is worth buying.
Treaties are ratified by the Senate. Not the House. Congress refers to both houses, or sometimes just the House of Representatives, but never to the Senate alone. Anyway Issa is a Congressman, not a Senator.
EBS is like the Matrix part III and Star Wars Episode I... It is best if you ignore the rumors that it exists.
The library has nothing to do with IPv6 - SSL is not in that layer
If you just want to hook-up an API to a view it will do the job. You can check this, its supposed to be the best apps done w/ SenchaTouch so far > http://www.sencha.com/apps/
Did you manage to get KeepassX to integrate with your browser to auto-fill forms?

I've switched to LasPass recently, but I'm still getting used to its browser-based management of passwords.
I think it depends when and where you discuss a negative experience. Sure, not a good idea in an interview.

But what about doing a personal reflection, say a blog post or something on your own time about the observations and lessons learned with regards to things like culture or development philosophy directly related to that company? As long as you do it in a way that doesn't break any non-disclosure agreements why should you be punished for it and do you really want to work for someone who would look negatively on you for expressing what you have learned from a bad experience? Even more important - perhaps the employer doen't know how bad the culture is inside or worse they do know and rely on you not ever saying anything to continue recruiting others similar to you?

Then, during the interview you can find a way to bring a summary of the negative experience into the conversation without it looking like you want to trash or burn your former employer or manager. There are many opportunities for this, a common question one gets asked is to describe what you have learned from mistakes on the job. This is open and general and one could easily work programming specific or soft skill lessons learned into the discussion that do not paint your former employer in a positive light. And if your former employer has not earned the right to a positive reference you should not be required to give it to them just because you want to continue working.
And that makes perfect sense: If something is essentially guaranteed to sell well, competitors would produce it as well. If something is not selling well enough to produce compatible replacement, then it is likely marginally profitable to produce or not at all.
Is there any way to read this without signing into a Google account. On my mobile device I am getting a prompt to sign into Google.
On the keyboard front - wasn't realy aware of the differences between mechanical and non-mechanical, although I've been using a Kinesis Advantage Pro for several years now and love it. It appears to use the Cherry MX brown switches (http://www.elitekeyboards.com/support.php) also used by the Filco keyboard mentioned in the article. Does anybody else have experience w/ Filco keyboards? I switched to the Kinesis primarily for the form factor.
Financial Software Projects (C++) - NYU Fall 2011
The US constitution also grants a right to a jury trial in "all suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars".

All US judicial authority derives from the constitution. Given a controversy under the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, a trial cannot be denied the agreeved party unless:

1. There is no controversy

2. There is a stipulation in the constitution, or the jurisdictional laws passed by congress, that says federal jurisdiction doesn't exist.

3. There is a valid treaty which specifies a different process

4. The case was already tried.

5. Neither party is subject to the laws of the US.

Absent those conditions the US courts would have to take the case.

Forum selection conventions must still conform to the constitution.

If you wanted to change this you would need to convince Congress to pass a law changing enforcement of copyright.
the v2 docs look better: http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-0/
Nice info .....
I don't want to ding a politician for doing the right thing, but Issa is also a sponsor of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act, (co-sponsored with a Democrat, btw) so this looks more like an act of political grand-standing than political idealism.
EC2 pricing was so absurd that everyone was using spot pricing for 50-80% off. This adjustment just gets more people back on the standard pricing scheme and makes tracking financial easier for Amazon.
But why US population stands censoring in form of seizing domain then? I think you overestimate "US population". It is not a walmart censored, it is some gambling website.
I would love to organise something like this in the Cologne/Dusseldorf area (where I live :-). Would be great to hear how the event went after the post-mortem. You could do a blog post or something similar about the experience.
You're welcome to take your news from whatever source you like. But on what basis do you decide that Fox News is less reliable than other MSM, e.g., ABC or NY Times?

As far as I can see, they've all got their biases. If you've convinced yourself that one is propaganda while the others are shooting straight (you didn't say that explicitly, but it seems to be implied), then I'm afraid that you're swallowing some serious propaganda as a result.

(I don't mean to defend Fox, but to indict all the MSM)
Yeah, text that is white (like the big links on bottom of many of the slides), just don't show up unless I fiddle around with the css. Nevermind, I don't want to sidetrack the conversation here if its working fine for others.