skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually pretty "smart". Reaching out to ordinary Chinese is incredibly hard due to the heavy censorship.

Hacking a bunch of sites and displaying a message is the most effective way of spreading a message to a lot of ordinary middle class Chinese people I can think of. It's not like you can put up big banners everywhere.
Scala Debugger — Scala IDE 2.0.0 documentation
A Naked iPhone
Initial commit of the Scala debugger to Scala IDE
This guy seems to forget that the reason Google won was because they actually presented search in a usable, non-intrusive way. They were the first company to do search _well_, providing good, reliable results, and also the first company not to surround their search box with a border full of ads.

To me this makes his assertion,

> There's no more reason to expect search breakthroughs from Google than there is to expect electric car batteries to be made by Exxon.

fall a bit flat, since in the 90's and 00's, Google was exactly the counter-example to his proposal that there is no profit in enhancing the quality of search: Google was the company that proved that doing search well was exactly what people wanted and needed.

Now, if he was targeting Yahoo or another "search portal" that used to bombard users with ads, maybe he'd have a point. But Google? They're the ones that changed the playing field.
I didn't even realize they didn't include a link. I just assume one links things in this day and age.
I've found the cases you describe to be one of these areas where Firefox seems to behave way superior than Chrome. It's not entirely as advanced as you describe of course, but usually just typing parts of a few key words returns a list of relevant sites you've ever been to, and the ranking is very good. The algorithm seems to even take into account whether you originally typed in the link etc.

In general, if you've visited a site once, it's way easier to find it back with Firefox, and it doesn't require a Google search.

If you think about it, it is very logical that Google doesn't want to move into this direction.
Like state run lotteries
Take care of your new Facebook page. Be creative and be clear.
I guess HN people don't like my sense of humor. Oh well..
Sketchbook Illustration Drawings by Irina Vinnik
This has been going on for a while, actually. During the first dotcom boom a VC guest speaker mentioned that some of the investors in his firm were European nobility. I don't think the people in this article would qualify as "old money" by European standards. :-)
What this article described is very true. The communists party ordered the creation of an organization called "Stability Office" in every level of the government and state-run corporations, responsible for suppressing all kinds of protests and muting or jailing dissidents. The "Stability Office" has the power to mobilize all kinds of resources including police, state security, military to achieve its goals. Its annual budget is never released but is believed to be even bigger than the annual military expense.
Flashback Trojan: Making Sure Your Mac is Safe
So does this work for iPad or universal apps? If so, what needs to be changed?
National security threat: hacking the smart grid
SocialMovie - Facebook Open Graph Ruby on Rails Sample Application
Awesome, that's what I was looking for. Thanks for the info/link.
Kimberley Process Reviews Angola
It was pretty obviously Manhattan. Hip Lower Manhattan, but Manhattan.
Graphic.Ly Gets Out Of The App Business
The link is not working due to the fact that the apostrophe is removed from the URL. Place an apostrophe (') between the r and the s in readers and it works.

Or try this: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/reader%27s-digest.aspx
I don't believe it is extortion since all he is asking them to do is fix their own vulnerability. I believe extortion requires the demand of money or services in exchange for action/inaction.
I think they teach this game at most business schools, and it seems to be a popular and eye-opening experience. If you hit wikipedia, there are a number of links to online versions you can play (some for free, some not).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
FF/Chorme/Safari also give the Line 0 "script errors" when an error occurs in any JS file that isn't on your domain (IE jquery from a CDN, 3-rd party scripts, etc). This is a cross-origin security feature.
Lots of bad things can happen due to people being overly optimistic. In fact a lot of business blunders have been because people were all smiles while the ship sank. How about the housing crisis? "House prices will always go up!", "I will always make enough to pay off the mortgage I took out", "These securities will make your retirement portfolio/investment firm a lot of money!". You could also point to almost any financial scandal out there and find a bunch of overly optimistic sheep burying their head in the sand or being lead to slaughter. Those sheep who went astray were chastised or booted out.

Pessimism can breed anger and resentment which can eventually lead to changes/revolution. This can be a good or bad thing.

It's a balancing act really, but no one should chuck reality out the window so they can feel overly optimistic or overly pessimistic. That can be a struggle sometimes, depending on your life experiences, the current cultural climate and how much control you feel over your future.
This is the one reason I stick with Firefox. In Chrome if you search for the name of a YouTube video, with a string you know was in the title of the page, you're very unlikely to get that page as a result. If you're lucky you'll get another page with a link to the page you want in the suggestions list. In Firefox it'll almost always be an instant result, right at the top of the list. It seems strange, but Firefox's search really blows Chrome's out of the water.
Unfortunately, this only works for people with a US address.
How to build a tiny REST API using Nginx, Memcached and GeoIP.
Worse, as stated in the article, is that the message is in English, which many people won't even be able to read.
Seriously, almost 500 sites hacked and they didn't do it in a language their users would be able to read. Massive waste.
In case anyone's curious why beer was used as the product in the game, it's likely because US law requires that alcohol be distributed in (almost) this way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-tier_(alcohol_distributio...
Legal Issues Facing Start Ups
I Re-Watched Titanic So You Don’t Have To. You’re Welcome.
So I don't need to flinch over the mention of "p hat" again?

Thanks for the resource, this looks fantastic.
CEOs Are From Mars, CTOs Are From Venus: Bridging The Startup Communication Gap
That's silly. Most people with a PhD don't get academic jobs. It would be foolish not to plan for that possibility.

I don't know much about EE, but I'll talk about math. It's unlikely you would enjoy research on nonlinear wave equations but hate stochastic PDEs. If one has far better job prospects, it's silly not to focus on that one unless you are dead certain you'll win the academic tournament.
Maybe it's just me but I think that Google has a pretty established culture - tech led, try lots of stuff, beta early, don't be afraid to kill projects that aren't working.

Page has certainly done a good job focusing the company more but I think it's premature to suggest he's in the Steve Jobs mould. He's been in position for 12 months, Google simply isn't as built in his image as Apple was in Jobs. I'm not talking about quality of thinking, leadership, intelligence or anything like that, just the sheer extent to which Jobs had asserted his will over Apple and it's culture.
I agree - this is largely my own curiosity (nosiness).

It's clear that the OP had a very strong objection. This kind of passion doesn't generally emerge from nowhere, so I was curious about what was really driving him. (And I reiterate - if he chooses not to drink, he is of course answerable to no one. His body, his choice.)

At the same time, it's fruitful to fish where the fish are. If a person wants to have conversations with tech people and the tech people are at the pub he can either go to the pub or engage with them at some other time / place. Seems Ryan has chosen the latter.

I also agree that one need not be pretending to drink or ashamed of not drinking. Not at all. I use my fake-drink for convenience, to stave off the Nth person asking me why I don't have a beer in my hand or whatever.
Cash is decentralized in that there are no necessary 3rd parties to a transaction.
Apple could afford to reopen the plants they had in Fremont, they just might not be able to produce 100% of their products there. From the NY Times article he refers to: paying American wages would add up to $65 to each iPhone’s expense.

Fender does this--they offer you the choice of a Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, or American made guitar and just price accordingly. I would pay more for an iPhone that I knew was made in America. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Other examples: Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Annie's Homegrown (BNNY).
Clay Shirky on the future of reading, publishing, social action, and being bored
Will 3d printing and manufacturing advances (Foxconn can hire 3,000 employees overnight, but robotics lower labor needs) make the supply chain effect less important, lowering the costs of moving manufacturing back to the US? Will they come back to be closer to retailers?
Well... Yes. It was helpful for that reason. I waded through many of the errors and traced them back to actual lines of code. It just so happens that many of the errors weren't particularly useful to me. I.e., not actionable.

Our browser tests include IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. None of those errors are present in our tests. As you note, in many of the cases I could wrap the errors with notifications to the user.

But, really, if the google variable isn't loaded for a small set of users and I can't easily configure a test system that can reproduce it, I'm not going to take the time right now. I have too many other pressing things on my list.
I think there is some truth to that. The original customer said he didn't think that was true. He believed it was because he was a good and loyal customer. Who knows really....

Thanks for the input.
I recently did a blog post about a similar issue, the tension between doing software work in academia vs in industry. In a way a kind of prequel to this post. http://elazungu.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/the-researcher-prog...
Agreed. I attack the most pressing errors ASAP. It just that the errors weren't actionable. Check out my reply above.
I want to motivate my 12-year old son to learn programming.

He loves Minecraft.

I'm dangling this game in front of him like a ball of twine in front of a kitten.
Not so much in academia. But yes, this would hamper or delay practical/field deployment. See EC crypto etc.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cluster

It's worth noting that one needn't offset all the advantages of a cluster for production outside of it to make sense: There is no shortage of US auto manufacturing plants that are not in Detroit nor in places with anything remotely like its cluster advantage.

But for rapidly-changing products, the advantages of a cluster are compounded. If you're not changing screens and screws and implementing brand new technologies on an annual basis, being able to get a custom part ASAP is less of an advantage. But if you are changing things every single year ...

I wouldn't be surprised to see US manufacturing return. Particularly as energy (shipping) prices continue to increase, China's wage advantage dissipates and automation matures. But it's going to start with fairly mature, static and/or commodified products.
It has one-way (incoming) dropbox support via the dropbox app already.
A) That applies to all laws and restrictions.

B) What do you mean by "destruction?"
For Rubyists who wants to play with DCPU-16:

https://github.com/judofyr/rcpu

It's a DCPU assembler (written in a Ruby DSL) and an emulator/debugger (which allows you to step/run through the execution).

Next up I'm going to implement library support and write some I/O functions. Much of the code is already in place though (e.g. https://github.com/judofyr/rcpu/blob/master/examples/screen.... which maps 0x8000-0x8400 to the terminal).
People often draw analogies between software development and manufacturing. If you’re going to do that, it’s vital to take the “supply chain” of information into account. The inefficiencies inherent in creating a supply chain consisting of a developer, a tech lead, a product manager, an operations manager, and finally a user resemble the supply chain in the drinking game. Orders go one way, features go the other way.
Good timing for this type of official initiative. Makes me wonder if this could lead to a Consortium of World Mints to share the same vision and cost and arrange a trusted network of Backers and Brokers. Or if this will be the new Space Race with countries competing on the tech and implementation and quality of network participants etc. Could be a mess like many standards based efforts. Then there is the issue of the patents that RCM has and how that plays into the global evolution of this effort. It may end up just being a Canadian solution for Canadian Currency.

Though BitCoin is related, I don't see a a reason to inject it into this particular thread. BitCoin is its own beast with different goals... in fact... opposite goals (while using some similar technologies). BitCoin is happy as the backbone of an edge economy and not a competing system with centralised solutions like MintChip (which has decentralised aspects as well but not the core foundation).
"The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference but in practice, there is" -- numerous possible sources
I might get one as well. The main thing I don't like about the iPad (and other 10" tablets) is that I can't conveniently hold it in one hand.
"It could be worse" as an economic policy?
Yutyrannus, a giant tyrannosaur with feathers
Yeah, there are definitely limitations. I'm going to keep playing around with the data that gets sent to Google Analytics. File/Line/Message doesn't do much (especially w/ minified js files) but there is likely a clever way to capture and log more information (navigator.* etc) or use try/catch to capture/log the stack trace. Javascript not my strongest area so slow going...
That is an interesting theory but I would guess that the real reason is their devalued currency which allows apple to save a huge percentage on production.

Sure cheap labor helps, but is cheap partially due to the currency difference.

Despite anecdotal stories, The US still makes up 20% of world manufacturing and retains its spot as the global leader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States

The colocation theory (the theory which the author is talking about) is a good thoery to explain silicon valley though.

If you want to run a tech company, you want it to be colacated near your supply chain (engineers), and other service providers. This is probably a big reason why Silicon Valley has remained dominant despite so many other cities trying.
I don't know, do all the unemployed people in a America right now want to work on assembly lines in factories? I know, just because I don't want to doesn't mean everyone else thinks that way, but it just doesn't seem like the correct long-term fix for unemployment. Factory work just doesn't seem like a viable long-term career.

I suppose it's the non-hourly-wage assembly-line jobs that come with manufacturing that are desirable, but how many of those jobs would be created by making the huge investment to build factories and supply chains here in the U.S.? A non-zero number, but is there a more efficient way of creating career-for-life support-a-family type jobs in the U.S.?
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And when the drop-down disagrees with the COPYING or LICENSE file...?
A Python "Cast Constructor"
The robot tech might be developed in the US (or where ever) but is still built in China. That makes sense, because it's used in China. And as expertise in building stuff concentrates in China all they need to do is keep quality high, keep costs low, and maybe keep an eye on human rights, and they'll keep the jobs.

The barriers to US companies become higher. You've got to get the machines. You then need people to run those machines. Those people will consider themselves to be skilled or semi-skilled, and require high wages. You need to run the machines 24hours, thus you need 3 shifts per day; two of those shifts will require higher wages than the day shift.

I doubt that huge volume manufacturing is going back to the US anytime soon.
Yes, true, never notice this trend about alcohol in France in conference.

Binge drinking is not particularly popular here.
Show HN: Unscatter.com redesign
Sales vs R&D battle?
Tim O'Reilly on the Future of Location: "The Guy with the Most Data Wins"
I'm sure part of the goofiness of this ISA is just that Notch wants to keep it nerdy and somewhat retro, but I wonder if he also wants to keep compilers from getting out of hand; like, he wants people writing (at least sometimes) in assembly.
KONY 2012: Part II
About page returns
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/unscatter/tornado/web.py", line 983, in _execute
self.prepare()
File "/usr/local/unscatter/tornado/web.py", line 1419, in prepare
raise HTTPError(self._status_code)
HTTPError: HTTP 404: Not Found
Yahoo to lay off 14 percent [2000] of workforce
The DCPU was designed to be easy to emulate. It's a lot of fun to hack on, and simple enough that you can write assemblers for it and still have a life. :)
If you're interesting in learning more about this read the book "The Goal" it's presented as a novel and the main character is rather daft, however it has a lot of insight in it if you can look past that fact they everything is explained as if the main character is really slow.
Then you send a quick note to the owner of the repository to ask him what's up.
> completely unknown security firm

Completely unknown? It's on the market almost for 20 years.
Watch it again. It's hilarious.
Sky News admits email hacking
PhDs make marginal improvements on one's employment prospects vs a Masters degree.

If you're doing it for the cash don't even undertake a PhD. Go get an MSc, go get a job, save four years of your life.

If you're gambling on getting into academia, you won't get the publication record you need if aren't motivated to do the work, and you won't be motivated to do the work if you don't enjoy what you're doing. If you don't get into academia but do have a quantitative PhD you will get a job quite easily, so why worry about your particular field.

My conclusion is that there is simply no point doing a PhD unless you really enjoy the work you're doing.
This is all incredibly ridiculous. How such a practice would become company policy is beyond me. Facebook has said they'd terminate a company's facebook page if it was found to be doing this. An interesting question though, would they fire an employee for not friending or liking the company page?.. Just ridiculous
Well, the question was asked why Ruby, Python, and PHP apps don't have an existing SSO standard. I guarantee you WS-foo is never going to be that standard.
Wisdom I picked up from Eloquent Ruby, Chapters 1-9
I'm guessing you didn't read the piece. Wages are not the primary issue.
>I envision a 'browser' that can track my behaviour, watch what I do, show me more detailed history info, make 'history' part of my 'search' results, adapt my search to my behaviour and more. Perhaps Google will be the ones to do this, but they'll only do it if they can show us more ads (or "more relevant" ads).

Doesn't google do this "in the cloud" (ugh) already?

They use your past history to tailor results to you (as DuckDuckGo calls it, "in your bubble"). It's done on their servers because they want the information, and quite frankly, have better resources to compute it on (not to mention they benefit from comparing you to others like you and so on and so forth).
For "GPL type" licenses, it would probably be better to use the term "copyleft" rather than "restrictive" since their copyleft nature is really what's particular about them.

That said, I'd almost prefer a setting that lets you specify the exact license. The problem is, what do you do about dual/multi licensed projects, or projects which contain code that's under a mixture of licenses? I suppose you could argue that it refers to the "dominant" or "main" license, but - to be pedantic - you can't always describe a project as being under one single license.
I've recently pushed out the first round of the redesign for the site. I used Twitter Bootstrap 2 and made a focus on trying to simplify the user interface, hopefully making it a bit more intuitive.

I also moved away from using YUI and am learning backbone.js and jqeury now. As such some pieces are still missing, for example there's no attempt at autocomplete for search queries or a spell check yet.

I also recently added support for a few more api's, most notably Bing powering video and image search. I'm currently planning /youtube, /bingnews and /netflix as the next api's to add. Later, once I form a LLC this fall I may add a shopping tab and start using affiliate apis like Amazon and Best Buy.

It's still just a personal side project, but it's the search engine I use on a daily basis now and I find it useful. Have to say that using Twitter Bootstrap this is the best it's ever looked.
I think having a hard-coded drop down for actual licenses is a good idea, because then we can do the searching and filtering you suggest.

I don't like grouping them into 'types'. I think that's too much of a value judgement. Any enterprise's legal department is going to approve or disapprove of specific licenses, so that's what developers like me will be looking for.

Potential issues:
* Modified licenses (eg: JSLint's MIT + "do no evil" clause)
Why do you care when the result is available if the next instruction will run after the wait is complete?

I guess it matters if another CPU can read your memory and depends on the cycle count to synchronize...
ah, failed QA on my part. Thanks!
This post would be acceptable on Sunday. Today it's plain wrong.
106,500 .XXX Domain Names Were Registered
Building a reputation can still be valuable. (E.g. Colin's work on hyper-threading and side channels did help me decide to sign up for tarsnap.)
The world does not divide into those two kinds of people.
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VX Heavens Collection
4 Problems Google Glasses Have To Solve Before Becoming A Hit
Nobody is going to buy a rate limiting bug in some random mobile application. Actually: nobody is going to buy a rate limiting bug at all.
Thanks you took up on my comment and expanded this to a blog post! Where I work, we use try/catch block but they do have their drawbacks (one of them is less optimization in Chrome).
Demo? Screenshots?
Riding the data wave
How is it that you accept that 'colocation theory' explains Silicon Valley, but you dismiss it as explaining Shenzhen without explaining why one is different from the other?
How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber
> Don’t you just hate it when you find some great piece of code on GitHub and then you realize that somewhere at the end of the README the frightful acronym GPL is ruining your good mood?

Yes. But what I ‘hate’ even more is not finding any license info. Adding this would probably help in that area as well.