skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like he wants to do that: there's an update post http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-lashes-out-against-corrup...
Commitment to excellence.
I know a lot of people associate dress codes and rules with boring offices and asshole bosses, and there are certainly a lot of companies that have both. But I think that if proper management is assumed, formality shows a respect for your work, your coworkers, your customers, and yourself. That sounds like a headline from a company memo, but think about it for a second.

If I run a company and I expect my employees to come to work and take what they are doing seriously, would I encourage them to drift in and out of the office as they please, take naps if they don't feel up to the task at hand, and wear tshirts and cargo shorts into the office? It is true that if I enact strict policies, people will flee the culture shock to the comfort zones of startups with laid back young employees where they can have nerf gun fights and drink beer on the job. But the fact is that those people are like a disease that spreads and I don't want them in my company anyway. I want the people who are coming in to kick ass and make us successful. There is a symbiotic relationship involved here- people who embrace that culture are going to come and be immensely successful and contribute. People who do not would not have done a good job because they would always be half-assing their work because they don't take it seriously. I'm not sure if the reverse is true for the laid-back work environments, however.
It's become somewhat of a tradition among electronic musicians to embed graphics into spectrograms, the most widely known example being Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" (1999). A few examples, including that one:

http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

There must be precursors of the practice before the advent of computer music, or even digital/electronic music production altogether, but I can't recall any; I'd love to be pointed to them.
Instagram’s Billion Dollar Idea Wasn’t Photos After All
> If you are lucky enough to get an education, it's another foundation to work from, but it will not make up for experience resulting in a track record.

> Experience and track record of results will always beat education.

I see these as two very separate things. Why do you compare them?
Lucene, and most other indexing solutions (to my knowledge) index based on words, not arbitrary substrings.

So they can efficiently answer questions like "Give me all documents containing the word 'Linus'", but not necessarily "All documents containing the string '#def'".

That said, I am indexing -- I have my own custom backend that stores an in-memory index that lets me do arbitrary substring search (and more complicated queries, such as most character classes) much faster than a full search.

That said, the backend will fall back on a full regex search if necessary.
My response to the "bad guys" argument has always been: if you asked the bad guys if they were bad, what would they say?
I wouldn't be surprised if the "law enforcement types" who lost their jobs because of this mess-up immediately got hired by the MAFIAA. Provided that anyone actually loses jobs in the first place, which I doubt.
Considering they were renting most(all?) of the hardware from third parties I doubt they were able to capitalize and hence realize deprecation on the servers. Its possible if the agreement was some sort of a "lease to buy" arrangement but I doubt it.
This would be great with an opt-in/synchronize step to help find your friends at huge conferences.

Edit: Also, I just realized that this could be fantastic for meeting up with someone (especially in NYC). You just pick some general area to meet up in and when the other (perpetually late) person shows up they'll know right where to find you. You could even mix in the google maps API and get an ETA for their arrival!

This is something I would pay a monthly fee for.
I swear by this model too. Just swap out the drive for a decent ssd!
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Building a preemptible Linux kernel
Great point. Our company is small (full-time=5) and young (maxage=26). I don't think think we'll do group meals in exactly this format forever as we get larger and "older".

We will always be thinking about how to cater to the needs of the company and the team as we grow and evolve.
> Or does the 1% you're looking for also not ever make mistakes, and gets along perfectly all the time, just like a real family?

I don't see the point of your rant; your sarcasm seems to be cutting in two directions at once. Obviously real families do have strife and deal with it. When the 16 year old wrecks the family car, everyone still has to sit down at the same table. When the twins get into a fistfight they're still expected to go to school together. None of that means that they shouldn't be trying to act like a family when things don't suck.

So yeah, when the boss has to cuss someone out it sucks for everyone. That doesn't mean you can't sit down to lunch together.
I disagree that Linux as a supported platform is a significant indicator of excellence.
The latter, ideally — something with an API :)
From the article:

* "Body is cartoonish and feels cheap:
* "$300 less than the comparable model at $1,299" (from me: compared to the "Apple Tax" on the MacBook Pro, 25% seems almost reasonable)
* Bad: "Pre-installed software is abundant, in-your-face"

The article mentions battery life is 6 hours (comparable Air rated at 7 hours), which could be read as "similar" or "not as great".

And the description of the S3 touchpad is more "finally, it's bearable" than "enjoyable to use."

Gonna have to agree with the grandparent on this one. Though it IS a positive review on the whole, that's partly because previous-generation windows thin & lights have been pretty bad. (Recall that the previous-generation Air had its problems as well...)
Yes it has worked for Google for sure. But in response I would say try counting the number of billion dollar companies with a "Google" culture and the number with a "Siebel" culture and see which list grows faster.
I never understand this argument. How is an Android phone more obsolete than an iPhone after 3 months? Technology progresses just as fast in both cases.
They didn't shut it down.
Working at valve
This whole affair has been pretty terrible. But what makes it so profoundly tragic to me is-- I see no reason to believe that anyone involved will learn a lesson. That anyone will be punished, or that the US government won't continue to escalate along these lines.

IP enforcement needs to be a civil matter, not a criminal matter. Further, the level of incompetence here makes me question how many legitimate criminal matters are being fumbled as well.
"In the US, the police can take anything they want from you without compensation."

This is an outrageous statement.

There are special exceptions to the law, but the 4th Amendment of the Constitution explicitly protects citizens from illegal search and seizure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Why does this sound like a science fiction horror movie plot? I anticipate the Xenomorphs will be invading us in the coming decade - guess I better stock up on supplies and practice barricading my home.
I'm no real fan of MU or kim dot com but the way all this occurred taking down the guys whole business empire and putting him under arrest makes me think it can happen to any dot com company which I am (I trade in Europe, NZ and australia and a .com address seems the most logical to make it country agnostic)

I seriously hope he takes the NZ government for millions for being a bunch of FBI arse kissers.

And maybe he can use the wads of cash he gets to fund a start-up pirate party here.
If they really meant this they would AGPL their stack. It's the only way to provide your customers with the sort of ecosystem that allows them to freely choose their suppliers.
Considering it was only a WINE version that was little-used, I think it makes sense.

(Same with the Mac version...if you're using Picasaweb to host your photos, you're probably already, or would be better off, using Picasa to organize them instead of kludging a plugin into iPhoto.)
"You know some things to be impossible. Most things that were impossible or impractical years ago became possible or will become possible some time later. Your experience might tell you that something you want to do can’t be done. Other people will go on to do them."

As I started to gain experience and learned about what sort of things worked and what didn't, a boss of mine gave me a wonderful piece of advice: even if you're 100% sure that the answer to a question is no, give yourself ten or fifteen minutes to think it over a bit before responding. What you may have seen in the past may not apply anymore, and if you give yourself some time to think about a proposal you may be able to recognize some really novel or useful ideas.
I don't know about that.

Jython vs CPython vs PyPy vs Stackless Python vs IronPython

HotSpot vs OpenJDK vs Dalvik vs GNU Classpath (libraries only) vs Jazelle VM, etc

There is some argument as to which feedback into the language and which are "pure" implementations but I think the point still holds, many languages are pulled in many directions by either their runtime or their compiler.
That’s what I have been thinking about as well. At first I thought that 0x10c will be a game for an extremely small niche, enough to not really be a failure (at least if you don’t compare it to Minecraft) but not enough to be a true success.

That is still very possible (I think it’s also possible that Notch doesn’t really have a well-thought out plan, that all this wasn’t planned and that he just did what he can do best, playing around with a game concept and having fun, all alone. I’m not arguing that’s a bad thing.) but the game has certain properties that could make it a success, even if it seems incredibly nerdy.

Only a handful people had to re-build the Enterprise in Minecraft and make a video of it. Only a handful people had to build ALUs and CPUs in Minecraft and make a video of them. Only a handful people had to design practical redstone and rail contraptions and make video tutorials. Only a handful people had to build tools, make texture packs and code mods. Only a handful people had to make adventure maps.

0x10c could be similar: Only a handful of people have to write software (and judging from the initial response, that handful will be quite the handful). And someone writes really cool software and shows it off in an YouTube video others who have no intention of ever really understanding the DCPU-16 nevertheless have a reason to check out the game and run that software.

There is obviously more to a game than that, but I do think that 0x10c has at least the potential to be quite popular even for those who don’t know how to write assembler.
Not really sure we would both enjoy further nitpicking on this. I guess the only thing I can conclude here is that even based on your claims, I would not arrive at the same conclusion that you arrived at.

I could probably write or find a list of equal length and severity on the shortcomings in Photoshop. I simply fail to see even the sum of your claims support the strong statement that you made in your original post.
Ardent support for HFT on Hacker News
tl;dr: The Rails Tutorial 2nd edition PDF is out; early access to the 2nd edition screencasts is open; use the code "rt2ndEd" through the end of April to get a 20% discount. Go to http://railstutorial.org/ for more information.

By the way, I finally broke down and got an iPad (way overdue, I know), which finally motivated me to fiddle with the Rails Tutorial PDF fonts. The result (14pt for the main text and ~10pt for tables and code samples) was a bit tricky to achieve, but it looks good on a Kindle and great on an iPad. Someday I may go to the trouble of making ePub and mobi formats as well, but for now the PDF is smokin'.
Thanks, I had no idea there were so many outlets!
How are the 2nd edition screencasts going to differ from the first edition ones?
I don't think he meant in terms of bandwith. Creating an s3 bucket and using it is quite easy. If you wanted to take that an replicate it by having some sort of redundant storage built yourself that's going to be expensive.

That's how I took it anyhow.
Of course exploration should be done on behalf of all humankind.

My remark was a reflection about, but not agreement with, the notion that the resource motivated wars of exploitation a couple of centuries ago are possibly about to begin anew in Space.

It should be entirely possible to craft international treaties to preclude extraterrestrial resource conflict while maximizing the commercial opportunities that will benefit us - either as owners or as customers.
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IIRC it ran through Wine, it wasn't really supported or excellent to begin with.
I've never yawned harder this week. I mean seriously, you've been on HN for three years and you found this article interesting? As in "idea = 0, execution = profit"? As in "HN 101"? This is the thing that you have been most excited about to upvote, ever? I can't really grep that. Seeing platitudes like this upvoted so much make me conclude HN has a lot of new users upvoting this stuff, but what you're excited about is beyond me.
ZDefender - Enterprise smartphone IDS/IPS released by Zimperium
I'm matching $1k in bounties on community-improvement tasks at my new site (LA)
Wouldn't that count as destruction of evidence? Even being the 'authorities', surely that would count as a strike against them.
Looks nice. Happy to see more optimization in the world. Have not dug into the math of it enough to appreciate that aspect yea or nay. Think claims of superiority over A/B testing are moot unless it successfully fixes the biggest problem with A/B testing, which is that people don't A/B test. Don't feel burning need to implement for myself.

How's that?
No. Apparently the company hosting MU's servers is keeping them up at their own expense
From http://ruby.railstutorial.org/#new:

Fully updated for Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9
All-new design using Twitter's Bootstrap
Coverage of the new asset pipeline, including Sprockets & Sass
Behavior-driven development (BDD) with Capybara & RSpec
Better automated testing with Guard & Spork
Roll your own authentication with has_secure_password
An introduction to Gherkin & Cucumber

I've also converted to a two-pane editor setup using Sublime Text 2, which is especially nice for TDD. See http://youtu.be/REuxSzMtcJA for a sample video.
>In the US, the police can take anything they want from you without compensation.

I think you are mostly wrong here, and WALoeIII 2 is mostly right, but I wanted to add some detail.

Certainly, if the police destroy your property inadvertently while pursuing a criminal, they are under no obligation to compensate you. It's considered tantamount to the criminal having destroyed it (and so you might be able to seek redress from him). But, it looks like if the police commandeer your property, they do in fact have a responsibility to compensate you, a la eminent domain. The Straight Dope article has good details. Choice quote:

> In United States v. Russell the Supreme Court was faced with a claim for three steamers commandeered by military authorities during the Civil War. The Russell court found it obvious that "the taking of such property under such circumstances creates an obligation on the part of the government to reimburse the owner to the full value of the service." The court continued, "private rights, under such extreme and imperious circumstances, must give way for the time to the public good, but the government must make full restitution for the sacrifice." The court concluded that the obligation to make full restitution was based on an implied promise "on the part of the United States to reimburse the owner for the use of the steamboats and for his own services and expenses, and for the services of the crews during the period the steamboats were employed in transporting government freight pursuant to those orders."

That said, things aren't always so clear:

>The Supreme Court hasn't said what happens if equipment is borrowed and returned damaged, but lower courts have been reluctant to award compensation in such cases. In Blackman v. City of Cincinnati, for instance, the Ohio Supreme Court refused to compensate a vehicle owner for a crash that occurred when police ordered him to chase a fleeing suspect. Other courts have followed suit.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2247/can-cops-reall...
We run exclusively Ubuntu over at Twitpic
Clearly Groupon is going to fail, that seems fairly certain now (right?).

But the real question is what the long term fall out from that will be?
http://snapclass.com is very close to this.
I had a fanless 12'' notebook that weighs less than 2 pounds long before the Air: a Dell Latitude X1 (which is really some Samsung notebook whose name I can't remember).
It's not quite on the level of embedding images in a spectrogram, but buried deep in Amarok by Mike Oldfield is morse code for "FUCK OFF RB", a reference to Richard Branson, owner of his label, Virgin Records.
>I'll go for super portable when they put 1920x1200 into a 12" inch screen. (I won't have issues with reading at that density.)

Are you serious?
Do you remember the internet at this speed?

Up all night and you 'd see eight women.

http://tviv.org/The_IT_Crowd_(UK)/50/50
From Kim's response [1]:

“This Mega takedown was possible because of corruption on the highest political level, serving the interests of the copyright extremists in Hollywood,” he says. “Mega has become a re-election pawn.”

The sad thing is, as flamboyant a character as he is, he's probably right.

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-lashes-out-against-corrup...
I think I'm not being explicit enough. What would you use a Python version for, for which the Ruby Fake S3 implementation isn't suitable? I'm purely looking for a sample use case here. What problem does a Python Fake S3 solve?
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In the US, the state is almost never liable for damages if the officers are performing their duties in good faith. This is true even if the officers (mistakenly) execute a completely illegal warrant leading to substantial financial damages to an innocent citizen. Obviously, this sets up terrible incentives for the state (why bother to double check your facts and procedures if there are no repercussions for getting things wrong?), but that's how the law is.
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"Catastrophe" is a word describing a grave disaster. I suppose you would characterize the IBM PC explosion as a catastrophe as well?
"It took Picplz six months and two platforms to reach 100,000 users. Instagram acquired that many users within the first week of its launch."

It's a weird, twisted reality we live where 6 months is considered too long to reach 100,000 users.

When I read articles such as these written by the media, I always keep in mind that we entrepreneurs are the men in the arena. It's easy to second guess, and criticize when you're sitting comfortably with zero financial, and emotional risk.
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I think the second quote was what was stuck in my mind when I wrote that comment. I knew I read about this somewhere; probably on The Straight Dope. Thanks for sharing the correction and context.
But isn't Jython years behind the CPython version, PyPy still experimental and on Python 2.x, and IronPython mostly a novelty? Stackless seems in better shape, though, and couldn't say anything in respect to usage.

The argument for Java is clearer and it's a well known case of the interaction of multiple implementors, and thus it has an standardization process.
Anki to learn emacs. Should have been more clear.

One thing I've noticed about Anki is that the pain of memorizing and retaining stuff has been significantly reduced. As such, I tend to be much more willing to "just memorize the whole thing" in a lot of cases. I guess a good analogy is the impact faster CPU's/more memory has had on programming---when they stop being the limiting factor, we start using languages adapted to us, rather than them. Similarly, as memorization has become "cheaper" to me, I find myself making choices that involve more memorization. A few days ago I made a deck specifically for all the gmail keyboard shortcuts. It would not normally be worth my time to commit those to memory, but because the cost has fallen so much, it didn't seem like a bad idea.
haha, that is awesome. :D I expected just an image or video but it actually works, that's pretty cool. I love how they did the google logo too. Though for the average image results, that 'text art' is a bit of a poor representation... and understandably so.
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Unix is great because everything is a file. Except when it's not so great. By far the best part of the article:

"The one really memorable “Oh sh-t” moment was literally very early on in Linux development, when I realized that I had auto-dialed my main harddisk when I meant to auto-dial the university dial-in lines over the modem. And in the process wiped out my then Minix setup by writing AT-commands to the disk that understandably didn’t respond the way the autodialling script expected (“AT commands” is just the traditional Hayes modem control instruction set).

That’s the point where I ended up switching over to Linux entirely, so it was actually a big deal for Linux development. But that was back in 1991."
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Now that I have experience... nope, it's still not worth anything. I honestly feel I'm writing less good code than I did in my late teens - I'm less ambitious, and I take longer to get things done. I know a bit more about certain technologies, but honestly I can pick the important bits of anything up in a couple of days. My experience has got me better-paying jobs, but that seems to be all it's good for.

(And yes, I am in a best-coder-in-the-room situation. Straying from the topic a bit, where does one go not to be that? I don't have the skills (or the appetite for risk) to found a startup. I've wondered about the big-name tech companies (google, twitter), but my limited experience so far has been that the bigger a company, the worse. It seems like by the time I've heard of a potential employer they're already past the point where they'd be fun to work for)
Don't get me wrong. I love cheap, fast internet as much as the next guy. But fair is fair... Why should the government be allowed to offer a service below its actual cost to market? No competitor can possibly hope to match, let alone beat their prices, at least without losing money. I am not a republican, but this is model is extremely unfair to the free market.
That is the coolest thing I've ever come across.
fun stuff - http://livegrep.com/search?q=%5Cb(fuck(ing%7Ced)%3F%7Cshit%7...
The musician, @disasterpeace, is a bit of a mad genius. Just play his game if you require proof: http://colorcave.com/
I have the first edition and it's great. You can either poke around on Stack Overflow for hours to see what the "best" approaches are - OR just get this book and bookmark heavily :)
The French startup I referred to as a forerunner to Kickstarter is Crowdspirit - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/crowdspirit
I typically donate to some of these charities anyway, so I like being able to use those donations to help change things I care about. Definitely going to take advantage of the donation matching.