skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came here expecting someone trying to pull a anti-privacy fast one. Nice try.

Just because an IP address alone is not enough to legally beyond doubt identify a person doesn't mean collecting IP addresses in combination with online behavior doesn't violate people's privacy.

These are two fundamentally different things. The only real way to identify someone is through things like DNA or fingerprints. Everything else is just an indication, it may not be enough to serve as evidence in court, but it's definitely personal.

The birthmark on my ass may not be unique, but it doesn't give you the right to collect pictures of it without my permission.
The video mentions that they use a technique to include comments that provides proper SEO (and feels natural to Google). Any information on what they've done? I remember previously, they had a WordPress plugin that brought Disqus comments back to your site for SEO purposes.
I know a lot of people like the Arduino Uno but IMHO the Nano has a better layout. Bread board friendly with the same ATMega328 as the Uno.

Nice job aimatt. Good learning project.
This doesn't really scale. Every SSL-protected vhost then needs its own port on the server. In current practice there are probably plenty of free ports, but it just seems like a poor choice overall.

(Regardless, as I mentioned above, name-based vhosts work just fine with HTTPS, using SNI. Much easier to fill in the gaps in browser support for SNI than to get everyone to adopt SRV records.)
Goodness - what a hateful, stereotyping, and narrow-minded comment. I'm enjoy ruby and spend a lot of time writing it, but would never pass judgement like this on anyone who uses another language. I've never interacted with anyone writing in any language that has an attitude like this - let's hope that you are an edge case...
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That's pretty awesome! And great for developers that have integrated Disqus into their software too.
We'll be talking more about this in the future. For now it's mostly in prototype/draft form, but we have confirmed that it is supported.
It's basically one way of solving the Coasian problem.
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I'd be curious how the MPAA would view a 25% increase in sales coupled with a 50% increase in piracy.
That's a great example, thanks!

I did some looking, and I found a few[1] examples[2] of coroutines in Objective-C, though none of them seemed fully fleshed-out. Even if they were, none were, as you say, nearly as nice as "yield".

[1]: http://cocoadev.com/wiki/CSCoroutineTest

[2]: https://gist.github.com/1033477
I think its important to clarify, do you mean 40 hours, on average, or 40 hours in one week? Meaning, do you want him to average more than 40 hours a week? If so, thats definitely a red flag
God dammit, this is so stupid. Fuck Apple. Fuck closed source know-it-all fascist companies. RAAAAAGH!
Be sure not to miss all the sample code: https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples

In particular, for those looking for a side-by-side comparison of what it means to use Ruby instead of Obj-C, be sure to check out the GestureTable sample: https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples/tree/master/Ges... which was based on the JTGestureBasdeTableView: https://github.com/mystcolor/JTGestureBasedTableViewDemo
Apache Traffic Server, nee Inktomi Traffic Server, is still alive and kicking.
Stop Saying "No" to Your Designers
CISOs morph into soothsayers, money managers
It would have affected their cost base certainly, and probably their entire datacentre strategy. With SPARC kit, you wouldn't build assuming that machines will often fail and simply be swapped out, for example, something that Google is famous for.
It says "about $10m" in the 3rd paragraph.
I think Kickstarter can be either a purchase, or an investment, or both. From their site:

Copies of the thing: the album, the DVD, a print from the show. These items should be priced what they would cost in a retail environment. ...

Kickstarter isn’t charity: we champion exchanges that are a mix of commerce and patronage, and the numbers bear this out. ...

So what works? Offering something of value. Actual value considers more than just sticker price. If it’s a limited edition or a one-of-a-kind experience, there’s a lot of flexibility based on your audience. But if it’s a manufactured good, then it’s a good idea to stay reasonably close to its real-world cost.[1]

So their platform is flexible. It works as a way to take pre-orders for a speculative new product (with no guarantee product development will succeed), or as a way to seek patronage for your art. As far as I can tell they're not too opinionated about which of those you go with, as long as you're creating something.

I think the key when you're running a project is to be clear about how you're using the platform. People think very differently about buying products and patronizing art, so you need to structure your offers and your story differently.

As I said in the last thread, I think the Light Table project got off on the wrong foot because it wasn't clearly positioned as either a product or an artistic endeavor -- it was more like, support my cool project, and then I'll own a nice product I can sell to you later. Offering a license at every contribution level went a long way to clarifying the message. I threw in $50. :)

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/school/creating_rewards
There was a TED talk on that: "How to buy happiness " http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsihkFWDt3Y
Ah, I love when you can tell from someone's portfolio that they didn't design their own website. Sorry this keeps happening to you, it's so silly all these copycats come out of the woodwork after your site(s) are profiled on siteinspire/et al, and act like it was a shear coincidence.
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Every time I hear a story about this, I am reminded of one of my favorite things ever concerning German traffic cops and speed cameras:

http://boingboing.net/2008/10/27/german-traffic-cops.html
I have heard the same story told by Alan Watts, though his telling made it easier for a n00b like myself to understand the point of it.

In Watts' telling, the monk was at the monastery for quite some time, expecting that eventually someone would pull him aside and tell hike what to do.

After months, he grew impatient and told the head master "I have been here some time, yet I have not been given instruction".

The headmaster asks if he has had breakfast, and when the monk replies in the affirmative, he is instructed to "go wash your bowl".

For me, what the headmaster was saying was "if your expectation is that I'm going to lay out enlightenment in 5 easy steps for you, then you misunderstand zen. It is a mistake to be in the mindset of waiting for me to tell you what to do."

I'm interested to hear your take-away of that story.
IMHO we need more of this (standing up for ourselves). I think there are some who don't fully realize the extent to which we have been lobbied against by just about everyone involved in this business to allow rates to be suppressed either through sanctioning of unpaid overtime or the facilitation of outsourcing.

If you like to work a lot, fine by me - I myself spend a ton of time outside of work building software. But think about how healthy it would be to be paid fairly for going the extra mile when needed on top of your regular duties - its been so long since that has existed in this field that I think hardly any of us have even considered it. I have a few family members who work in other fields in the private sector where overtime still exists - its the only reason I realize we've been hung out to dry by the government and corporations in some respects.

Some will argue that the free market removal of protections somehow makes us all better paid - I'm doubtful. I think if we had overtime pay it would create more jobs, promote a better working culture in our sector and attract a hell of a lot more people to want to work here.

I wish at least in the mid-size to big businesses, the workaholics would stop looking down at "Joe" for leaving after a solid 8 hours of work and instead would at least start to question why they themselves aren't getting paid extra for staying past 8 hours.
Here's a press release: http://revision3.com/blog/2012/05/03/discovery-communication... And here's why Discovery wants them: http://revision3.com/about

72% 18-34 year olds
99.6% audience recall for 1 or more sponsor
56% of Revision3 viewers have purchased a product or service from a show sponsor
Fantastic.

Too bad they bought my company and shut us down due to mismanagement. Abbott is and will always be dead to me.

Even when I get diabetes, I will refuse to give them a single penny.
Ha ha ha ha, so great.
Keeping my fingers crossed for $300K so that python is there out of the box. With 29 days to go I'd say that's quite a large probability.
I second that. Just-ping.com says the website is running fine (except in vancouver and china).

http://just-ping.com/index.php?vh=http%3A%2F%2Favaaz.org%2Fe...

But wait... maybe just-ping.com is in on the conspiracy!
Even social media solves problems (though admittedly much more minor ones than what you describe).

I had a problem keeping in touch with my extended family, Facebook has made this much easier.

I used to have issues with loosing touch with old friends (even ones you make a moderate effort to keep in touch with can become unreachable if you and they both move frequently), facebook helps.

Getting pictures of the kids distributed frequently without digital technology would have been difficult. Email made it substantially easier. Facebook makes it very easy.

I used to have a hard time finding resources for the game Go. Services like DragonGoServer let me play online and Google+ lets me find and talk to other Go enthusiasts.
Nice, watching it now. Thanks for the link!!
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Most interesting to me is that Inktomi had all the power to beat, acquire or replicate Google but didn't have the right mindset. They were operating under a few bad assumptions:

- search is a commodity for licensing (making them resistant to launching a "cleaner" engine that would alienate their clients)

- what worked for a smaller internet (100 million pages) could scale appropriately with the growing internet (100 billion pages) without rethinking everything

- "Page rank" only helped relevance (it was also about spam)

I think Google is stuck in a rut of their own right now. Here's some faulty assumptions I think Google is making:

- users always want faster, more direct answers (rather than controlling the filtering/categorization of their searches)

- users want Google to predict what they mean rather than clarify what they mean

- algorithms > human decisions
The problem is that the php-cgi script/binary accepts the same command line parameters as the regular php interpreter. This is clearly the wrong behavior and it's even documented as not doing that:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.cgi-bin.attacks.php

"Accessing system files: http://my.host/cgi-bin/php?/etc/passwd The query information in a URL after the question mark (?) is passed as command line arguments to the interpreter by the CGI interface. Usually interpreters open and execute the file specified as the first argument on the command line. When invoked as a CGI binary, PHP refuses to interpret the command line arguments."

Although this was actually in the documentation, Rasmus forgot why it was in there in the first place:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/20745

Here is a legacy feature of CGI that hardly anybody knows about, using a setup of PHP that is already rare, targeting an issue already claimed to be solved! The perfect storm.
Public education: I was talking about schools in good school districts. They are comparable to most European schools.

Healthcare: If you have a good health insurance, you are covered better than any other govt sponsored health system in the world. Again i agree you are screwed if you don't have a insurance but that's a whole different argument

Vacation: I am a Indian living in US and many of my friends take a month off (2 weeks paid + 2 weeks unpaid) when they go to india. Its not a big problem

From what i see most of the people arguing that europe is better are Europeans who never worked (for a meaningful time) in US or american leftists who adore everything european :)
I've observed this phenomenon/pattern in both California and Massachusetts. Also by direct experience, I've found that there are certain niche subfields of software engineering that seem to be practiced long-term only by people of this "Guild" sort.
Most employers are fine if you take extra unpaid days off as long as you tell them in advance.

Disclaimer: I work in software in silicon valley.
If you want to play around with this live, I noticed it's been running on AVC for a week or so: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/05/twitter-brings-you-closer.ht...
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Probably part of the question you are asking is "is there a deity in zen?", to which the answer is no.
I'd be a lot more willing to participate if PHP and/or Ruby were on the pipeline somewhere. I don't use Clojure or python, and an IDE for just Javascript isn't very useful to me. I've wanted to learn Clojure, but I have almost no time to learn new languages in.

I may chip in yet, regardless of language support.
Altavista launched in 1995 and Google began as a research project in 1996. At my own startup, in 1996, we used Intel because with Sun servers you paid an extreme markup for unnecessary reliability.

I was VP of Engineering at Altavista in 2000, and I started the project to move to Linux. It wasn't easy because search engineering was populated by Alpha fans who were unswayed by the 10x cost advantage.

As late as 2001, I sat in multiple focus groups where all the enterprise customers said Linux was not yet ready for the datacenter. IBM's penguin campaigns were just beginning at that time.

Google's large scale use of Linux was groundbreaking when they launched in 1998.
Today GIMP made my day because I discovered it reads xwd format so my screen capture is now as simple as I like it (xwd > ~/foo).

Thank you dev team, it's worth it really.

Cheers
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Stand up. Pick a direction. Start walking. Don't stop but to sleep. You'll find the answer soon enough.
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So you mean nothing at all?
Another way to think about this -- when I get my copy of Light Table, will I be allowed to give copies to my friends? If not, then I'm buying a product. I may also be supporting an artist (I think so), but I'm buying a product.
It isn't a war when they are all open source. And the differentiation between linux distros isn't new, and doesn't matter. All decent unix software works on a bunch of linux distros of various ages, plus half a dozen BSDs, solaris and OSX. Ubuntu not using systemd doesn't matter at all.
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You down with BGP?
What's with the price difference between Canada and US orders? It's CAD$152.82 versus US$149.99.

With the Canadian dollar currently worth about 1 cent more than the US, I'm surprised to see that there is a price difference at all.
it's about a court decision. keeping track of what the legal camps think about tech is "gratifying my intellectual curiosity"
Yeah, sorry about that! I can't copy/paste from the blog title because the CSS makes it all lower case.
No interface builder? Depending on what type of apps you make it can be a big issue I think
They probably think the sales would've increased 75% if piracy could not exist, which is of course very flawed logic.
I think the strategy for premium and relevant content is great. I always loved reading posts about the coolest offices out there.

But You know what really attracts talent? Talent attracts Talent....More importantly, talent doesn't waste money. While cool offices definitely have their value in both work ambiance, feeling cool about working somewhere they can brag about, etc...I think there are way too many emotional and nuanced triggers at play that 42floors seems to be overlooking.
I think a startup like this really needs to focus on their core value proposition, which is making finding the right space easier. So far, I think they are very far off base from solving that problem. Until they do, the marketplace for products is basically irrelevant.

It's an interesting situation because most marketplaces have a chicken and egg problem. The solution is usually to subsidize the side of the market that needs an extra push to participate. (When we launched gamestaq we thought we needed sellers for inventory, so we focused on them, but we found out later on that the buyers were a much more competitive market, and we never got the traction we needed because the buyers were loyal to price only, and the sellers had no barrier of entry. we had too much supply not enough demand.)

In this instance, they are taking a chicken and egg problem, and turning it into a chicken and egg, and breakfast omelet problem. They are making a huge assumption that finding the customers looking for office space are the easy guys to find, because they have a real problem.

What they just might discover is that the "customers" are the hard ones to find, and instead of focusing on selling them, they should be focusing more on attracting them with real solutions to real problems they have.

Bottom line, a broker making a 4% of the life of the lease commission is much more likely to be helpful to me as an office space searcher than a website pushing unnecessary product and social pressure to compete on me. Especially when they exacerbate a problem like finding good talent, and push it even further with hogwash that wasting money attracts talent.
You know what really attracts talent? Talent attracts Talent.
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Read http://www.mrmoneymustache.com. An inspiring blog by a couple of ex-engineers.
While this article makes a good point (don't say no just because you're lazy) I think it misses a more important one.

Time is incredibly important for projects operating with a schedule, especially if there's a fixed amount of development time (maybe the company runs out of money in six months).

As the implementor, it's up to you to judge how long something is going to take. Any time spent doing feature X, takes time away from tasks Y and Z. If the schedule is full(ish) then you need to have a discussion about tradeoffs. And quite often, even though X would be awesome, Y and Z are vital.
I wish it were possible to have some sort of multi-channel funnel view of people who pirate content. Did they pirate a song and then proceed to buy the album? Did they pirate a the first movie of a series and then later legally purchase the rest of the series? Do they just pirate content and never purchase anything?

I think these are interesting questions. Who wants to build something to answer them?
"I absorb uncertainty."
by looking at their roadmap:

http://dev.haiku-os.org/roadmap

Its either tomorrow or never. I don't think its a fast moving project.
The on-again, off-again, on-again saga of EA's iOS Rock Band
UX Designer, here. I think the key point in this post is to discuss the merits of any design suggestion. Designers aren't often aware of the effort it would take to implement a seemingly "tiny" enhancement. A lot of little tweaks add up to a lot of time, and designers need to be cognizant of that fact.

I always ask developers to tell me how much effort a change will take, and use those figures to temper my recommendations. If a tweak is really important, I'll push for it. If it's a "nice to have" we'll put it into the backlog, or push to the next version roadmap.
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Don't be scurrrreed
Kind of useless advice. What about when it doesn't take four minutes to code, and the designer is super-sure it is a good idea but then doesn't like the result, or wants you to endlessly tweak it? Should you just say "yes" then? That would be a good blog post.
One suggestion - I'd have a native English speaker polish up the content for you to make it seem a little less halting.
Wild to think they might have a bigger exit than Digg.
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If your distro can't (or won't) keep up with a mainstream package like php, and you need it to, maybe it's time to switch? Which is easy, because all of your software will run on whatever flavor you switch to. The ability to easily jump ship like that is what makes it
"not fragmented."
I use and I like it, it does make sense to me. It is just really subjective I suppose. My mother (who is in her 60s) uses it, so do other members of my family.

Maybe instead of just saying you got unbelievably angry at the software you could file bug report or find a list of things you didn't like or would like to be improved.

On the other hand it is great that XFCE (or KDE or Gnome) are there to choose from and it is great that you found something you like. At some point is subjective, everyone has different tastes and preferences, so it is good to have choices.
Historians will look back at this time as a fundamental shift away from America as the leader of scientific exploration. It's a shame Europe is leading the search at the microscopic (LHC) and macroscopic scales (this), and we're considering reducing funding for NASA when their budget is already puny. Not to make this political, it just sucks.
In Germany they have to get a picture of the driver and the license plate. There was a famous case where a UK driver was speeding and putting a dummy in the passenger seat [1]. He couldn't be ticketed for speeding because a dummy appeared to be driving his car.

[1] Germany has Napoleon compliant highways while the UK was much more interested in resisting anything from Napoleon.
When someone claims that their subjective, unsubstantiated opinion is fact, asking for a citation that backs up their claim is about the nicest way I can think of to say, "You are utterly full of shit, and I'm calling you out on your bullshit."
(25% increase in sales) - (50% increase in piracy) = (-25% net loss!)

Good meeting, guys, send out the lawyers and let's go hit the strip club.
Ars Technica had a similar article last week. They're probably worried that Google isn't a party to the "six strikes" copyright plan that's supposed to start up this summer, which is a private agreement among the large content owner/ISPs which control internet access for most Americans.

There are also rumors of some kind of video service being offered by Google, so they might worry about that, too.

EDIT: Link = http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/big-content-eye...
My intention was not to "pull a fast one." If you read my blog[1], which of late is mostly about privacy, I think you'll find I'm fairly neutral on the subject. Having said that there is all sorts of pseudo-anonymous or anonymous data that when combined with other data points become PII. I find this particular case interesting and am curious to hear what others think about it's implications beyond the piracy case.

An opposing example to this would be the recent ruling in Massachusetts, and why I found this one so interesting. The court there found that zip codes are PII[2].

[1] http://www.jnorthrop.me

[2] http://blog.martindale.com/massachusetts-federal-district-co...
> Upon learning it was the MacRuby dude: "Holy shit fuck yes".

Couldn't have said it better myself.
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