skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you bought a new house and the bank you bought it from told you that they would be keeping your house keys and not giving you a copy?

It's not the most accurate analogy, but the point is that UEFI puts a lock on the boot process, which is itself arguably a good thing, but then Microsoft and others are trying to control the keys that rightfully belong to the owner of the hardware. Or more simply, locks are not bad per se, but if you aren't allowed to have the key to a lock that you supposedly own, then that's bad.
Scenes From The Pounding Heart Of A Tech Bubble
Apple made the bet that there's a fundamental difference between the mobile experience and the desktop experience.

They didn't replace OS X with iOS, they each exist as expressions of a different type of computing, for different purposes.

Microsoft are attempting to provide one system as a single expression of both types of paradigm, and this is why the jury is out on Windows 8.
From the article: "If you actually need to defragment a file system, the simplest way is probably the most reliable: Copy all the files off the partition, erase the partition, then copy the files back onto the partition. The file system will intelligently allocate the files as you copy them back onto the disk."
Would you care to elaborate? Surely most of the lines of code are not directly implementing theoretical things, but I would say the meat of the work is without a doubt theoretical.
The body copy font looks bad for me on Chrome 20, Windows 7: http://cl.ly/H1yl
Hahaha. You're funny. That's rich.

I'm not having this discussion with you. Having principles and exerting your own beliefs of morality as censorship on the masses are not the same thing and you're a jackass for acting like it is and then spending half of your post trying to use debate rhetoric to "win". That was just embarrassing.
Someone needs to install it and execute the process described in this article http://techdows.com/2012/03/windows-8-beta-expiry-date.html to figure it out.
Having slow AT&T service in the Bay Area lately?  Here's why.
It died when people stopped writing pages and started writing apps.
from " http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/31/3055620/oracle-java-api-no... "

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Judge William Alsup ended the discussion today, ruling that the SSO of the APIs is not covered under current copyright law — and dismissing Oracle's related claims outright.
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How do you think we get anywhere in computing without taking a few risks and trying new things? The fact that the old operating environment is right there means you can carry on as you are and the rest of the world can give it a shot and move things on.
Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case decimated
Responsive Design – an introduction
Oracle v. Google - Oracle Motion for JMOL on Patent Infringement Denied
Not to mention the allstars behind Meteor itself. http://meteor.com/about/people
Yes, but that would be likely detected, and the CA that had its private key stolen or coerced for government use would be exposed nonrepudiatably. All browser makers would immediately drop the bad certificate. In the case of targeted connections, this may avoid detection though.
Their appeal is that they are community supported, which allows the radio programming to be commercial free and basically allows them to play whatever they think is good. It's a vast departure from mainstream radio programming.

That it seems offensive to you is frankly baffling me, but to each their own I suppose. Regardless, this is exactly the model that's worked for them for the past however many years and assuming this isn't a harbinger of things to come, will hopefully continue to work for them.

They provide a service that they could easily charge for (as evidenced by their success for this long) but choose to allow their service to run as cheap or free as they can get away with. They obviously aren't in it for the money, and knowing that, I should think it would take some of the distastefulness away.
Thanks

TFA borders on completely useless
>> "You get what you pay for."

That really is the key point.

For a one or two person bootstrapped startup, a designer can be cost prohibitive, especially if there's not a lot of money in the bank.

For a sustainable multi-person company that's making money, they should really spend more money on a freelance designer vs going the crowdsourced route.

The companies that could afford to hire a designer but opt for something like 99designs are usually difficult/annoying customers, so in some respects, sites like 99designs are doing the higher end designers a favor.
> most customers want products, not research

"I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already."

So said Alan Perlis, the first recepient of the ACM Turing award. I'll listen to Perlis all day than pay any attention to an Agile blowhard who calls himself a "thought leader" on his own biopage. customers can go fuck themselves. cs is what matters.
So apps can't be hosted on one's own servers?
To employ 10 programmers for 5 years with a competitive salary and benefits in an office of some sort?
Really, it seems like a middle-click should just be a sent as a regular click event to Javascript, but with all document.href edits and window.open calls redirected to act on a new tab.
The UI for this reminds me a lot of Scratch from MIT.
mktg, mktg, mktg
Well, in that case, Windows can't do any better. In order to defrag a filesystem, that requires free space to copy and move files around. If that space isn't there (because the HDD is nearly full), there isn't much you can do.
This shows a stunning lack of a sense of irony.

First world countries are routinely "held hostage" by the US government - and more importantly, by Capital. You might notice the reference here was to copyright laws, and we all know how many first world countries have written copyright laws to US spec. recently.

If you actually doubt it is driven by Capital, ask the next government that attempts to create a viable competitor to Visa / MasterCard (or the big four) what happens. Hint: The State Department starts not-so-nicely suggesting this could be bad for trade relations.

As for "second and third world" countries [not the current lingo, my dear], they simply have their governments changed for them by the US if they disagree.

~ Dumber & Dumber here.
Hey, if people can get something for free, they'll take it. I think you're talking to the wrong people here.
Comic sans was never trendy, as such. Instead, its ubiquity was due to the fact that:

a) It was included in the default font set of just about every computer sold from nineteen-ninety-something to today, and

b) It was the only default font that was "fun" and "not boring" to the great unwashed masses of typographically unsophisticated people (a category in which I include even myself)

So everybody from teenagers to grandmothers would look through their font list and go "boring, boring, boring, ooh this one looks like handwriting, that's fun, I'll go with that". The other reason it's derided is therefore that it's used by design-naive people and hence associated with bad design; Comic Sans is very likely to be accompanied by flashing pink text and ugly clip art.

While writing this, I suddenly noticed that the expenses reimbursement form sitting on the desk in front of me is in Comic Sans. So add "HR reps" to the list.
Roundtable Recap: May 31 – Go, Kolkata
And? No one is saying you should develop in Metro. No one is saying "Avoid desktop mode". It's there for a reason. It is there for people who need desktop mode, who need true, all-the-time window-ized multi-tasking.

Then there are the people who buy iPads, iPhones, Androids, WP7 and others by the millions. The majority of users do not produce content. Windows 8 is an effort to bring them an easy to use tablet experience while still allowing them to be highly productive in a traditional Windows desktop if necessary.

Everyone acts like Windows 8 "breaks Windows". I do not understand this mentality. It's an additional set of apps, UX/UI and APIs. You're not forced to use them or even develop for them. But it's very likely that users are going to embrace Metro Apps for a huge number of reasons (performance [async apis, etc], battery life, notifications, live tiles, ARM tablets, etc)

Very little incentive to upgrade is understandable, but I can still list reasons that I will be interested in upping to Win8:
(1) upgrading is cheap ($15); (2) Win8 includes the ability to wipe the machine back to "just installed" clean built in (or can wipe Desktop mode (registry, desktop apps) and leave data + Metro apps); (3) hackers will want Visual Studio (or else why is a "hacker" using Windows) and will likely want/need to target Metro apps; (4) even I like to kick back and mindlessly surf Twitter for an hour in the evening.
What you say appears to be true, yet quite misleading since there's a simple process, provided by Google and built into the device, for flashing the BIOS (or at least there was on the Series 5 Chromebooks):

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...
The great firewall is much more advanced than that.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop...

Methods

* IP Blocking

* DNS Filtering

* URL Filtering

* Packet Filtering ( TCP, FTP, POP, SMTP, ETC)

* Connection resets of up to 30 minutes

Try this: http://search.china.alibaba.com -> Search for "Falun Dafa", you'll be cutoff for about 5 minutes or so completely. That includes not just GET, POST, BUT ALL TCP/UDP connections will be rest.
Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright
I have to say, they've made a ton of improvements since the last release. I'm still not super happy with it (and it still feels like Vista) but it's definitely taken many steps ahead.

I still don't think anyone is going to be using the metro menu. It's just not what people want from Windows.

Edit: Wait, nevermind, I got it to crash within fifteen minutes. Apparently if you remove a tile from metro while moving it to a new column it will hang the metro menu and break the windows key (at least for me).
Bilderberg Releases Official Attendee List And Press Release
Wow, pretty awesome that YC is getting great companies like this.
thanks a lot! what are the cons of corporate culture when you consider your experience?
Get in contact with a recruiter and be willing to move anywhere in the country. If he finds a good recruiter he'll have a job in two weeks.
Erik Wachtmeister starting a new social network
For the next 10 years or so...

My mind is not finite - don't want to waste my grey matter on crap.

The release preview is good enough to make a decision and avoid the massive job shift fallout when it hits RTM.

I've been in the industry for 22 years. I can spot a turd coming miles away.
It's seems to be mentioned no where but what is the difference b/w consumer preview and this? Should i upgrade or will it automatically be updated to RP?
I'm curious, if they don't hit the 300k needed, will they go back on their word and support python anyway?
IMO CS is necessary to advance the state of the art. And while I completely agree that many computing/programming tasks currently do not necessarily require a CS degree, there is no guarentee that will always be the case.

As for my myself, I studied roughly 3 years of computer science before I dropped out to work full-time, so I only have a half-finished bachelors degree. I wont say I regret it, because the last 5-6 years of being partner in a startup and earning a good pay-check have been fun. But I very much do regret not being able to completely grasp all the new interesting research papers that are coming out. Nothing is more frustrating than reading a research paper, and knowing enough to be able to grasp that this algorithm could improve some part of your system, but then being unable to decipher/implement it, because one have forgotten(or not learned) parts of the mathematical notation/background. In other words being able to see the solution, but the solution being juuust out of your grasp. I hope down the road to be able to compensate for this problem by hiring smarter guys than myself that DID finish their CS degree :)

Also another benefit of studying CS is that around year 2-3 you will be introduced to some subject matter that I at least personally am pretty sure I would never have heard of otherwise. I found stuff like operations research and integer programming very interesting. I havent yet have had opportunity to use any of it in the "real world", but its nice knowing whats out there, who knows it might come in handy a few years down the road in some other venture.
Wonderful, bid it up so I can short it!
Users can defragment files (copying files to a new location) automatically by running something like pyfragtools:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169551

Other filesystems like ZFS and btrfs utilize copy-on-write to virtually eliminate file fragmentation -- files are copied whenever edits are made to the file.
Blue Collar Creative Wisdom from the Dude, Aaron Draplin
Its not that people hate receiving mail, they just hate mail that tries to make a quick buck out of them.

You should really email your customers and prospects. But don't just send them a boring borchure. Approach them in a personal way. Ask them what is bugging them at the moment? Offer to help. Give them some love in the form of an email.

I've been emailing people from HN for about a month. Everyone responds. They all just keep the conversation going as if we were old friends. Some even go out of their way to help me build my startup.

How do I do it? I really care about them. Every time I contact somebody, it is because I think they are someone worth knowing. Not for networking connections, but as a person.

Treat your customers in the same way. Talk to them. Be friendly. I know this is hard for some people to do. It used to be so hard for me to do it. But I realized that people want to deal with those who relate to them. In fact, thats my biggest marketing weapon: I focus on making a connection with people. To really interest myself in their dealings. The sales just happen by themselves after that.

Note: This does sound like a lot of self-help books. I know. And it doesn't work with everybody, because not everybody likes you. But it works with a lot of people. I'd rather be mistaken for a friendly fool, than for an arrogant know-it-all.

Do a quick exercise. Click on the usernames in this thread. Find someone who posts their email on their profile. Send them a message with the title: "Just saying hello from HN". Inside, say hello, and ask them what they have been up to. Everyone will answer. Everyone.
I'm the GP. I live in London, UK. I know literally noone who wouldn't think it's funny round here.

People have a right to free speech, which neatly supports people having a right to be offended too but cannot do diddly to prevent saying it :)

As for being deauth attacked, I'll unwind the ethernet cable from the back of my router and wham it in my laptop and sip pure unpolluted internets.
To be clear, then we agree that haberman was correct, and the value can be changed in cache.
You're making quite an assumption here... that you're consciously aware of all the decisions you make in a day -- purchase decisions or otherwise. You're saying everything you own or have ever owned was the result of you proactively seeking out each item. This comes across as very naive.
They're used to divide up authority. .it domain are controlled by Italy, .de domains are administered by German authorities, etc.
Mind elaborating about your image upload solution?
What uploader did you use in the front end?
transloadit vs cloudinary vs blitline vs hosting your own ?
Fedora 18 To Be Signed By Microsoft For UEFI Compatibility
Curious what impact (if any) this would have on open source licenses.

Given that Google effectively (and now legally) lifted Apache Harmony for their own use does that mean I could do the same with any open source project including those under GPL ?
He can probably extend the runway a bit by swallowing his pride and looking into getting some free or cheap food from programs in the area, having a yard sale, etc. One food program found in a lot of areas requires a few bucks and 2 hours per month of volunteer work. I don't think they ask any info about your finances. (Maybe someone other than me can remember the name.)

If he happens to be in San Diego, I am familiar with some of the services here.

Best of luck.
Why Apple’s prepaid iPhone on Cricket is such a big deal
There are tools like Shake [1] that can semi-intelligently copy fragmented files around to defragment them, which typically results in less fragments if there is enough free space on the volume.

1. http://www.vleu.net/shake/
On that vein, this may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Culture_se...

(Iain Banks started with Nervous Energy and went downhill from there.)
Groklaw version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490 / http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531172522459

I flagged this version in favor of groklaw's because TFA is very unclear and misleading.
Isn't that a form of defragmenting? It also contradicts the point that it is unecessary to defragment the volume.
anyone else notice the job was in sacramento not cupertino? what type of office do they have in sacramento?
I can't seem to find the end condition for the Maze demo. There is no 'goal_reached?'
Can this program be made any shorter? http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1K/vW/2gLz63rl/blockly.png
Firstly, you need/want to have a supply of food to give the people who have their stuff stolen. That will add to the family feel, and let people know you're looking after them. Ask them not to tell anyone, and let them know you're dealing with the situation diplomatically.

I wouldn't go with a sign. People already know that stuff in fridges belongs to other people, a sign simply poisons the atmosphere. You can put in a secret camera, and from that you should be able to identify who it is. However, from what you say it seems that you'd prefer not to do that.

So instigate a pattern of people working from home one or two days a week. Shift the patterns around - with people's agreement - and keep a track of who is on when lunches go missing. Over time you will find that there are fewer and fewer people who are always present when things go missing.

Beware that there may be more than one thief! However, on the assumption that there is only one, you can probably narrow down the possibilities quite quickly with very careful planning.

Is there a chance that the thief reads HN? If so, you're in trouble already ...
//Italy however, can get started on that tomorrow morning//

It can't, and it won't, for three obvious reasons:

Large sections of the connected people in Italy are well aligned with CIA / US goals [you might want to know about Operatio Galdio]; and in a broader extension, Italy's power-elite are the same as the power-elite in Russia, the USA and everywhere else.

Their economy is firmly under the wrack, and the IMF (and by extension, Wall st / the State Department) have very real hooks to prevent Italy 'devolving' towards anything but Disaster Capitalism.

Power doesn't work like that. You can kick out the CIA, but policy & actual control isn't made by the CIA. The CIA is merely a tool used by the US government - and is probably doing exactly the same thing as the Italian police, which is targeting any counter-culture / anti-Capitalist elements in Italy at the moment.

Ask your local Central American government about kicking out the CIA btw ~ these odd, right-wing, military driven coups tend to crop up.
When I solved it, the program just stopped running.
I believe I saw a link in the comment of another light table submission that had Chris Granger saying they'd "probably" be implementing python one way or another.

I could have also imagined the whole thing, so while that may serve to answer your question, you shouldn't take only my word on it.
Maybe you missed this comment of mine explaining my view (which posted about 15 minutes before yours):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050388
I am a technical person and love the app stores.

They provide the convenience of everything in one place, ratings/reviews, one click, quick download, auto update etc. And yes they have DRM but exactly how is that different from me having to enter a license code for apps bought elsewhere ?
Adobe memo reveals reasons behind Win 8 Flash,upgrades delivered through Win Upd
The fact they didn't include Flash was a great feature IMHO. It's sad they've restored it.
Congrats! Meteor this is awesome, glad this will help them move along faster. Right alongside the mongo funding this week.
That's the same thing. "Twice as fast" = "Two times as fast" = "200% as fast" = "100% faster"
"A successful candidate will have 3 years experience using Test-Driven Cooking."
Gamasutra: The Games Programmers Play
Although not really "nearby", you can also try to view a launch yourself: http://www.marsspaceport.com/

I saw a satellite launch from this site a few years ago. It's one of my favorite memories.
It does seem a little silly that they're requiring so much more money for a language that obviously has such significant support.

Also, I'm not sure how it would work for people who donated solely in hopes that Python would be supported. Since they've long passed their actual kickstarter funding amount, does that leave ~$100k worth of donors that won't get what they tried to buy, but can't get their money refunded?

They'll probably get the money and we'll never know, but I would be interested to find out how they're planning to handle these issues.
"Hey, look, there's a Windows iPad too. I liked my Windows computer before it just wouldn't turn on anymore, I should try one of those."
This isn't music analysis, it's musicological analysis
Cleanly Retrying Blocks of Code After an Exception in Ruby
Based on the implementation it's pretty clear that Flash is just going to be used until HTML5 video is widespread.
It's pretty negligible. I genuinely can't tell the difference between NTFS and ext3 at least performance-wise.

However, the locking semantics on NTFS are shitty unless you know what you are doing (i.e. use KTM/Transactional NTFS) which sometimes skews the statistics a lot.
I use Proxtube (https://proxtube.com/) to circumvent those blocks. Works quite reliably. Youtube is so much better when I can see all of it.
>I can spot a turd coming miles away.

You seem to have your mind made up. Good luck.

The middle sentence is the only part that makes any sense to me, and even then, not really. You're implying that you're choosing the platform you're going to support? Good luck choosing a single one to support and being successful. Further, if you think that Windows desktop mode is going anywhere, see my other post, and you might want to check the stats for how many apps are already in the just-released Windows 8 RC Store.

I don't understand what you're saying, at all. For the next 10 years? Are you honestly telling me that you're using Windows XP currently? Or a Palm Pilot?
And I agree, as long as we also agree that:

hackers ∩ developers ≠ ∅

(The set of all hackers are not a strict subset of the set of all developers, but it's also true that some hackers - yes, in the breaking-in-to-something sense - are developers.)
My browser crashes presumably because I use 'while true'. Chrome Version 19.0.1084.52