skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks as if one of the three versions on this disc would likely be the "Ise a Muggin (Magical Musical Numbers Game)": http://www.amazon.com/Complete-1936-37-Sessions-Stuff-Smith/...

The other Stuff Smith version of "Ise a Muggin" has resulted in a question I ask older Railroad workers (and fans): What exactly did a "Black Cap" or a "Blue Cap" do? (It also speaks of Red Caps, but we still have that profession here in the USA.)
What has science ever done for us?
I always thought the whole brogrammer thing was kind of a nod to everything that the community is not.

That's what I thought at first, but there are actually programmers who do that. There's been a lot of discussion here about it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3168038 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3663244
"And I can't tell you how disappointed I get, as companies that have quite the reputation come to me with salaries that are somewhere between 1000 EUR and 2000 EUR ... which really, is downright insulting."

Ugh! That is /terrible/ for talent anywhere to have to put up with.

We have two developers, one Turkish and one Indian who worked for us here in the States for several years each. Excellent developers. Now they both remote in from their home countries and still make their original salaries. I think that might be a decent model for those that can do it. Move to a host country, develop the trust that only working in the same office can give, then carve out your own situation as you see fit, whether it is travelling the U.S. in an RV, or moving to the deep suburbs or moving back home even if that home is on the other side of the planet. Overall it will accelerate the trend to parity all over the world.
That's the great thing about a free market. You are free to do whatever you want. If working at Apple is such a piss-poor experience, and you are certain that your talents are soooo valuable to the world, then don't work at Apple and take your amazing abilities elsewhere. Certainly their must be hundreds of companies just dyyyiiing to get their hands on your unmatched grey matter. So quit bitching and work somewhere else.
It's not clear, but the sign up only creates a login. The testimonials are from before the site was online. I'm sure they're from friends, but the services were provided.
I imagine that most people would download their entire e-mail history, stick with what they know, and re-download their entire history week after week.
Bridging on your comment, I can't even imagine how they treat their suppliers, vendors, business partners etc.
The other day I read something about this young Chinese lady who works on iPad's assembly line. She was petrified when some guy showed her the final outcome of her assembly line, a finished iPad. She had never seen one until that moment.
If you had studied a little bit about the history of business administration you might know about Elton Mayo's "Hawthorne case". Well, if you analyse the Chinese girl case according to Mayo's theories, the immediate conclusion you can make is that Apple is a very "dehumanized" company.
Cybersecurity Risks in Public Companies: An Infographic
Is it standard/acceptable procedure to make every word in your article link to a subscription page?
On unforced errors - are you self sabotaging yourself?
No. The resulting "art" is essentially masturbation; neophilia is not necessarily a virtue. This is why essentially all artists of the past worked in close proximity with other artists, either in a formal or informal environment.
The opportunity cost is the most frustrating aspect. I've solved several "sample" problems from companies, and been involved in full day interviews writing code on the whiteboard. The worse was spending a day writing some sample code, then doing a panel interview where I was asked to make a change to the code to cover a non-sensical edge case. I was rejected because I "hesitated".
Many businesses are run this way - restaurants make a loss on food to make their margins on drinks... I wouldn't be surprised if casinos make a reduced profit (or even a loss) on alcohol so as to make a profit on the gambling.
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Plausibility bias? You say that as though that were a bad thing
Sure. Quite possibly we'll just see refinements at the edges of what we have access to (because at most scales, physics is already very accurate) rather than outright revolutions.
What can I say? I'm an old codger. ;-)
Dirt Late Model Wrap
I wish I could up vote the part about physical reality a few times more :) What's even worse is with something like usability, it's even more insidious since may never really find out something is "broken", or even think of it as being broken.

I've always thought of the various kinds of testing as adding some physics to constrain a purely abstract idea within some bounds.
Let me tell you an unfortunate truth: Think of everyone you really respect. Really look up to. Every one of them are risk takers. At some point, they jumped in the deep end. Those who play it safe go nowhere. Apple knows that in order to lead, they need those kind of people. If that isn't you, fine. Go work for Sun. Or RIM. Or Nokia. Or Yahoo.
>by 500,000 years from now on the Earth will have likely been impacted by a meteorite of roughly 1 km in diameter

Nah. Let's be optimistic. Within a few decades we will have developed the ability to deflect all dangerous asteroids.

Also, the idea in the article that we will allow the historically priceless Californian coast to disappear 100,000 centuries from now is preposterous. Our ability to alter geography has increased by orders of magnitude in the last century alone thanks to the development of earth moving machinery.

Ditto permitting the Sun to destroy the solar system, etc.
I suppose that if all it takes to be a brogrammer is to have hobbies that don't revolve around a computer, then I'm pegged. Which is weird since I spent almost my entire weekend playing video games. So maybe I'm a nerd after all.
...while the incumbent finn is stuck with an alliance with ms skype, this finn complains about operators' dominance for example telesonera's billing of skype. no comments.
OS X can wait a day. The work/life balance of people who create OS X is far more important than fixing a "showstopping bug". You're not curing cancer or doing anything at all that is actually time sensitive. Apple will still make money if OS X ships a day late.
BitTorrent is using uTP just fine, which is only, you know, most of the upload from consumer internet connections, and we're working on getting the same things crammed into TCP with LEDBAT, but that's a slow process.

I wasn't complaining about RED dropping packets, just describing how it works.

As for the tension, my point is that my solution works and the other one doesn't. If you want to know why the person I quoted was being such a dismissive jerk, you'll have to ask him.
Honestly I'm not a CISPA expert. I do see two concerns:

1. It seems to me that inviting government examination and regulation of network traffic, in the name of security, seems unlikely to make the 'net _more_ flexible, and potentially could lead real rigidity that would be bad for development of 'net businesses and degrading the experience possible over the 'nets.

2. Stuff like CISPA is generally validating of 'net control regimes such as in Iran and China. As the malice of those becomes ever more apparent, US policies viewed as precedents and justifications will be suspect, as will supporters of those policies. Supporting this stuff will be like supporting tobacco companies and netting dolphins to catch tuna -- and may cause deep customer suspicion in a field where trust will be crucial.

Now item item 1, more rigidity, could be seen as positive for incumbents like FB. To which I'd would say that technology has already evolved around a lot of rigidity and that any business founded on a particular regulatory environment is dated to the moment when technology obviates those regulations.

Item 2 is more speculative, but I actually think more likely to prove telling. But it's going to take 5 - 10 years.

Someone more knowledable of CISPA could do better. The broader point of my remark is, figure out how those details relate to the Facebook business model and speak to that. Do that and you'll have an audience. And there's no need to rush, the stock will be around for a while.
If it isn't saved, it can't be subpoena-ed.
I'm lumping in CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, etc as the governments march towards controlling the internet. I believe government isn't always perfect and this type of legislation and legislation that follows will result in experiences and situations FB users don't want.
No - only few Ericsson ones are written in Erlang. Most use C++ and few softswitches use Java.
I hadn't thought about that, thanks for the idea.
Specifically: airlines use first class seats to get business travelers to book flights on their airline at higher coach fares when many lower fares are available on other airlines.
Which part troubles you? A project like this encompasses many areas of computer science from compiler design to kernel programming.

If you want to get started with doing bare metal stuff, I quite like this article: http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/hello-world-for-bare...

It uses ARM so you don't have to worry about all the x86 legacy cruft.
Is there data for well elders were respected now and 50 years ago?

I think this is a common cultural misconception. Much like "Americans are getting dumber," is socially manufactured.
What this critique amounts to is saying that the US will always honor its commitments to the market but not to it's tax payers. But why would that be? Are the financial elite more powerful than millions of retiring voters? Social Security taxes were raised in 1983 with the expectation of the baby boomers retiring 30 years later. But in those 30 years the surplus SS money was used to paper over deficits caused mostly by tax cuts on the top income percentiles. In effect the wealthy have raided the fund, but now they are wealthier than ever and we should hold their feet to the fire to pay the money back.
Review of “Technical Blogging” by Antonio Cangiano
I don't know really. I just want a change, plus Linus uses one. I suppose that's reason enough.
> permitting the Sun to destroy the solar system, etc.

Ha, as if it needs our permission.
This may also be media-hype related, but there's the perception that programming, because of the lucrative startup field, is attracting more "bro-ish" type gentlemen than before. It's "cool" to code, just as it's cool to go into investment banking and own a yacht.

Yes, it is the age-old issue of sexism in the workplace, but when I was in computer engineering school, there wasn't much overt sexism...because there was just little awareness of it given the rarity of female programmers/engineers among my fellow students.
> Apple users will continue using the products even if their friends do not.

A lot of the value in Apple's products comes from the ecosystem: iTunes, the App Store, and so on. Don't discount the value of a platform on which a large number of developers are incentivized to build.
How is this news? The article is over one year old.
In depth discussion of Facebook IPO
I think the catchy title was meant to grab attention to an important present day issue.

But TCP actually does not suck, it's been there for longer than I have and served us pretty darned well up until now.

Never forget that when the TCP protocol was designed, the biggest concern we had was that a nuke would land on top of our heads at any minute and the network should keep working. Also, the "Internet" was thought to be a small niche network of networks among the military and academics.

I guess this is all well known, it's just my reaction to the editorialized title.
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Perhaps the best way to look at it is that YC is trying to hire good engineers to help with ideas they have themself (YC) or to join other YC teams which they find promising.
The whole "They used to be nerds and social misfits, but not anymore!" is really old. It seems memories are short in the media.

"Geek is the new Chic" - USA Today, October 2003
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-10-22-geek-chic_x.htm

"The new Worker Elite" - Ad Age, November 1997
http://www.qualitydigest.com/nov97/html/qualtech.html
coming soon stereotypes; programmers leading in american high school prom movies, becoming the prom king and getting the prom queen.
Backbone Templates using JST in Rails
"After that Gmvault will automatically authenticate itself using the credentials stored in $HOME/.gmvault (or %HOME%/.gmvault for Windows). " how are the credentials stored offline?
http://paulgraham.com/info.html
Funny, opening this particular page took ~ 17 seconds for me doing the mental one-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand timing.

I have similar slowness hitting main pages and paginating.

Edit: Took ~ 8 seconds to save this and ~ 10 seconds to bring up this edit page.
I always assumed these were the standards:

http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/508767/displayguideline...
The point is - OO was developed for managing complexity of large projects which were using procedural model at the time. Large teams found it easy to work in the OO paradigm as each component could be abstracted down to a facade they need to call. Obviously if you don't do it right - it is not going to work. But Functional Programming exposes exactly the same pitfalls of procedural model (it is just another name) which OO tried to address.
Here's a picture of him with the car:

http://i-marbella.com/News/news/pagani-zonda-fest-at-guarnie...
So, just to be clear: SOPA and PIPA are wildly different bills from CISPA. There's really barely any relation at all. It's much, much easier to make a case for SOPA impacting Facebook's business.
This is what I don't get it...The people who actually own the physical copper/fiber that makes communications work will always have the control. What is this company doing that gets around that?
I certainly think the frequent flyer miles thing was a mistake on the part of American Airlines (AA). But one of the things that bugs me about the article is that the 'marginal' cost of flying these folks is the same as the marginal cost of flying someone in coach, or flying someone in general. Weight * cost of gas to carry that weight + consumables such as food, tissues, Etc.

So when AA argues they 'lose millions' they are really saying that if they could sell this persons First Class seat to someone else on short notice they would make more money. But that assumption glosses over the fact that folks fly First with mileage upgrades, or get 'bumped' from coach on an over sale situation, or book way in advance and pay less. Since there isn't any discussion about what the average seat price is for First Class on the same flight when no AirPass member is flying, it didn't feel like they were being particularly objective with regard to price.

The fact that they could not sell AirPass + Companion for $3M (which according to them would have the owner 'ruining' AA in year 2 at this rate) seems to me to validate my feeling that they are over pricing their 'loss' here.
US scientists who mean business
Bypass the iPhone 4/4S passcode security lock
I’ve watched a video on YouTube where some guy bypassed the security lock on his jailbroken iPhone by viciously pulling and inserting his SIM card; some crazy method to bypass the lock and see the phone contacts :) definitely not worth a try if you found a locked iPhone in some bar ;) By watching that video, a thought came to my mind, actually two of them. Why this guy didn’t tried to tap the “contacts” button while on an emergency call, and why he didn’t try to launch the multitasking by double tapping the home button. I have tried both methods and it worked!

Double tapping the home button while on a Emergency call screen showed all the previously used apps, you could easily switch between them but not go to the home screen; so I tried the other method. Call the iPhone from your other phone if you know the number, answer it, tap the “contacts” button and now hit the home button; that’s it! You’re on a home screen with full control over device. Don’t forget this only works on jailbroken devices, I have tested it on iOS 4.2.1 and iOS 5.01.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHapKLWtF8
the first nobel prize winner graduate of edX will change everything. i sometimes think, should online universities also be strictly selective?
In Alberta, Canada, software developers cannot be have "Engineer" in their title, for this very reason, unless they fit a very specific set of requirements [1]. The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers defends the title, via The EGP Act, in order to preserve the credibility of the profession.

[1] http://www.apega.ca/About/ACT/preface.htm
My customers see the name of my company on their credit card statements, not my name. Use a mail forwarding service or virtual office if you need to add a further layer of abstraction.
There's some detailed writeups of the algorithms in the LEDBAT documentation. As for commentary, that's distinctly lacking, and my post is filling in some of the gap.
Correct, but Bram's argument (as I understand it) was that the users would put pressure on the application developers to opt to be background traffic.
It should be no different from what would happen if you connect a new imap program that does a full sync of your mailbox, which many do.
Perhaps C++ is mostly a superset of C in a technical sense, but in practice, it comes with its own idioms, its own conventions, its own design patterns, and its own culture, all very distinct from those of C. There's far more to consider when selecting a programming language beyond "Does Language X have a superset of the features of Language Y?".

Plus, sometimes having fewer features is itself a feature. I would say that this is especially true when comparing the slim, minimal design of C with the "everything and the kitchen sink" approach of C++. Not that C++ is never useful in its own right, but that doesn't mean its appropriateness for a given task is always greater than or equal to that of C.
MobileNation Launches Native Publishing support
What a Prisoner's Dilemma experiment teaches us about startups
Interesting, thanks!

I knew Martha Sanchez a bit (she's not the person in the picture) because her husband had a reptile store called Ross's Reptiles that was situated under our apartment a block away. My kids used to go down there to play with the bearded dragons. Needless to say to anyone who knows the neighborhood, it was not the greatest location for a reptile store. It's a beauty salon now.
AFAIK there's no DB, everything stays on memory. In addition to that the HTML served is pretty minimal.
This reminds me of the EVE Online player revolt. Those details your customers care about are the most important parts of your product.
Procter & Gamble Bans Streaming Services
What will prevent us from removing sufficient matter from the sun to make it safe?

Remember that we have 100s of millions of years in which to develop the required technology.
You might want to start here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/rYKceEmOr/

You can make almost any page load quickly if you have only five requests and about 3kb of Images and CSS together.

Google's homepage is considered pretty minimal and yet it's images are 25 times the size of HN's and it has 14 requests.
That's what you would do IF you were going to be serious about making the router drop packets in a way which actually helps. I don't expect it to happen any time soon.
This all just means that countable instances are bad ways to talk about the uni(lol)verse.
I agree. But we have seen from experience, that people that have trouble finding something to undertake are better off working on other people's ideas. If they have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, they will find their idea while working on another.

This is why people working for Google, Facebook, and startups become really great entrepreneurs. They live the life, they learn the trade and then when they get an idea they have everything in the world to succeed.

But in turn, if you just came out of college, being an Entrepreneur sounds good, let's try it without any clue on what you are doing, then it is going to be a waste of your time.

But I have to agree. YC trying it does not mean is wrong or bad. It might work, but they have to understand these engineers will not be entrepreneurs, at least not in their first instance.
CISPA doesn't add any regulation to network traffic. It doesn't impose government controls. It's an opt-in mechanism that purports to allow private companies to share information incident to security attacks on their services; what it does, essentially, is clarify the (already very weak) privacy controls of the ECPA to make it clear that companies who are being attacked can share traffic captures without being sued the way Google is now for the Street View fiasco.† It doesn't authorize countermeasures; it doesn't enable services to be shut off; it doesn't alter due process controls for the government to seize information from non-cooperative services.

With that in mind, I'm curious as to how your reasoning might change. Do you think an opt-in information sharing mechanism for corporations really validates the state-sponsored network access control used in Iran and China? I'm interested in how.

† They already probably can't be sued for that, but I believe the thinking here is that by spelling it out in black-letter law, companies will be encouraged to share information more than they already do; note that ISPs already do have programs to share attack information among themselves, but application service providers tend not to.
tl;dr

publisher outsourced development and got garbage, puts the blame on "Apps"

lesson learned:
Don't outsource your core business.
What do you typically use in C99 that you don't get in C89?
That is a great idea, but I think YC is not going for that. Because everybody that is accepted at YC calls itself an entrepreneur. It is extremely misleading for people applying without an idea.
The Anxiety Economy: Why the Future of Work Will Be All About Stress
I feel the opposite.. sometimes HN takes so long to load than other pages.
I don't see anything wrong with Apple doing this. I mean, you have to make new folks feel welcome and like they've made a good decision. Keep in mind though, Apple is a corporation and as one the only thing they care about is profits and the only people they care about is the executive committee. It's just like any other big corp.
A Private Cloud . . . On Wheels?
Silicon Mechanics and Provate Cloud Leasing got CloudStack running on a wheely datacenter; here are the specs.
As I understand it, and from very limited experience: it is extremely difficult to speak that naturally and coherently on television. It seems plausible that having spoken compellingly once on CNN (when Reddit was at the center of the SOPA debate), CNN has now locked onto him as a viable tech commentator.

(I'm glad of that, in case that comment sounded dismissive.)
No [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
But in software, the people smart enough to say "this is all gonna have to be ripped out and re-done the right way", are rarely in a position to not get their asses booted out the door.
To go against the tide in these comments, this is actually exactly what they should be doing. They've properly identified the problem (finally), and do have enormous resources in attacking it. As long as the daily deal product can hold its own and not bleed money, they're well-suited to build the 'operating system for local,' an analogy I've been waiting for. They could do some interesting work in B2B products, vertically targeted/non-discounted/package offering, and generally use their existing resource base to get people offline together in new and creative ways.
Probably as clear text. You can delete the file if you want to.
Steve Jobs: http://vault.fbi.gov/steve-jobs
Sorry if this is not new. I found two methods for bypassing the passcode lock, here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHapKLWtF8