skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last month in South Korea a surveillance drone lost GPS, possibly due to jamming by North Korea, and as a result crashed into its control truck, killing one engineer and injuring two pilots:

Although North Korea was intermittently jamming GPS in the
border region between 28 April and 15 May it is not known
if the jammer was operating at the time of the fatal crash.
The South has reacted angrily to the jamming, which has
interrupted navigation on more than 600 civilian flights -
and it has been likened to a form of terrorism by regional
media.

"All information recovered to date indicates that after a
loss of GPS signals to the aircraft's receivers incorrect
handling and omissions over a time period of a number of
minutes, resulted in an unfortunate chain of events that
ultimately led to the crash," the statement says.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/gps-los...

On a historical note, if this turns out not to have been caused by GPS jamming and was purely an accident, I think this will be the first case of an accidental death caused by a drone (not counting people erroneously but intentionally targeted by drone weapons).
At this point, the terms grow a bit wonkey though, and I am struggling to communicate this properly in upcoming interviews. The big, underlying question is: How productive is a programmer that enables other programmers to be productive. Especially if the enabling programmer works slower and only outputs things no customer will ever see and especially if the work done with the framework outweighs the time spent creating the framework by magnitudes?
I appreciate the read.
What are they going start with if they don't even know how to write a division algorithm ? real time 3D engines ?
Here it is: http://memegenerator.net/Angry-Linus.
The United States would have the same issues if it was not for the First Amendment.

Businesses that fall into other categories have mind blowing layers of complex regulations. The idea that a company, or individual, would have to spend millions or tens of millions of dollars a year just to ensure that they are operating the business within the law is pretty wild.

We are very fortunate indeed for the Bill of Rights. When you have armies of people whose sole life purpose is to create and enforce rules you end up with something, if it was computer code, would just crash immediately.
Nokia 808 PureView 41 Megapixel Camera SmartPhone 
Nokia has Launch New Smartphone Nokia 808 PureView in India. Nokia 808 PureView Comes with the very Glossy and Simple Style. The Smartphone is also equipped with Nokia Belle operating system & 1.3 Ghz processor. The Camera of this device is 41 megapixel having geo-tagging, face detection , Carl Zeiss Optics and with the facility of Autofocus and Xenon Flash. The Phone has RAM of 512 MB, Internal memory of 16GB and expandable memory upto 32 GB. Nokia 808 PureView also features both Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Headphones Technology, providing cinematic sound experience. The other features include Bluetooth v3.0, FM transmitter, Wi-Fi & USB. The Smartphone weights about 169 grams. Nokia has packed a 1400 mAh Battery.
Doesn't anyone else think it's ironic that the name is in all caps which people seem to associate with spam?
bah, formatting error. 6 times 2TB not 62TB. Everything runs of an atom card, with modded cooling for the bridge and cpu (fan less, really awesome, copper heat sinks). The discs are the WD Caviar Green, low power, and they are attached with rubber to silence them. There are two (90 cm) slow spinning fans in front of the disks, one in the quitet zalman psu (120 cm) and one (90 cm) at the back. I built it in an htpc chassis.
The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012
Performance on fractions and long division predicts math "success" because those tasks embody math education's emphasis on procedural skills over conceptual understanding.

Tokenadult's comprehensive comment includes the 12/13 + 7/8 gem that sums up the problem. Kids see 12/13 + 7/8 and, if they're "good" at math, start turning the procedural crank they've been taught. (If they're "bad" at math, they freeze with a defeated feeling that there are too many procedural steps to remember.)

Get kids to see 12/13 + 7/8 primarily as "almost one plus almost one" (as thaumasiotes describes), and only secondarily as the beginning of a tedious procedure, to make substantive progress in math education.
This type of saccharine feel-good prose irritates to no end. No, chances are you're not the exception to the rule of mediocrity; that's just a matter of statistics. Believing so in absence of hard evidence to the contrary is delusional and won't make things better.

Entrepeneurs fail every day. Hundreds, maybe thousands. Don't fall for the cheap words of encouragement.

[ADDENDUM: I still don't trust the "Most coders can't do FizzBuzz" meme that generally accompanies the flowery you're-a-special-snowflake-talk. Applicants maybe, but that doesn't say much. There's tons of decent programmers out there, and 99% of them won't get famous or found a sustainable business.]
"Class names tell what the stuff is" is not a "real world use case or benefit". In an HTML document, the defined vocabulary is the HTML elements and some attributes. Class names are styling hooks, with the exception of microdata.

'red-12px-right' is a stupid class name (and a strawman). A better example would be 'heading-primary', instead of a "semantic" approach like '.news h2 { }' (which could have the same styles as '.blogs h1' and '.members h3'...)
Marketing for Geeks
ZFS has been in production in Solaris 10 since June 2006 and is quite stable and production tested.

btrfs is still considered experimental, even though it's been in the mainline Linux kernel since 2009.

You might look into the KVM support in SmartOS if you want to run other OS's on top of Solaris/ZFS.
I don't think Vizio is trying to copy Apple, but it's a bit disappointing that their machines also have a similar aluminum unibody style. There's no other way to express "striking but not cluttered"?
I have to say, my startup has struggled with this. We're a two-man shop, and neither of us buys phone apps, pays for virtual goods, clicks on ads, etc. It tends to make us think that other people don't do those things either, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Part of the article's conclusion is, "Get the product in front of your core audience," and I suspect that's the only way for the inexperienced to accurately gauge the value of their product.
Yes. I agree. Business banking in the UK is screwed. Most banks offer much worse services to small businesses than they offer to consumers.
Or to answer that one you can just think "Hey, can I reuse the same calendar two years in a row?" and if the answer is no, then 365 isn't divisible by 7.
I think "sometimes" is the key word here. I like cookies but eating them all the time might be a bit unhealthy. And preaching the "all cookie lifestyle" would seem a bit odd. From what I've seen of the "pickup scene", that seems to be the rule. I like the PDF here. It's a nice, social science view of flirting, and although it's always odd to view interaction in a statistical way, it's not written as how to best exploit and game things ("flirting" vs. "pickup"). I think this style is way better than your usual "how to get any girl in bed" type of book (or your average Cosmo type of article for the distaff side).
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How 1967's "Summer of Love" Began
"military GPS is far more accurate than civilian GPS" - is this still true? I don't know how my iPhone GPS triangulates me, but it usually has me located to within 3-5' at all times when I'm walking home.
Can this be used to suck in streaming Flash video?

There is this streaming camera of the ocean that I check often, but it's Flash and I'd love to check it from my iPhone. Could Ghost.py be used to get the Flash video? (then turn it into images by other means). Thanks.
He wasn't saying you aren't mediocre. He's just saying that often you don't see value in the things you already know how to do, because you assume others have the same problems and abilities that you do. Essentially he's just saying you need to step into your users' shoes better, it's not a feel good post.
We're not in the current crisis because the people expect 100% accuracy from economists. Its that economists have bad theories.

Most economists fail to offer theories that accurately describe reality. Keynesian is the current disaster.

And politicians can only pick from the available theories and tend to pick the most shortsighted of policies, as they are trying to get re-elected.

Its not that a bunch of unforeseen events have occurred. Its that theories being followed are bad. They ignore many very real things. And the consequences that most economists have been denying all along are happening.

For example, they analyze the multiplier effect government spending but ignore the effects of removing those resources from other parts of the economy. They don't analyze what happens where the resources are being taken away. But those resources are real things that people no longer have and cannot use.
since it is a server--not a desktop, there is less need for the odd linux app. For that reason, I bought a used Ultra 40 for $200, and run Solaris 11. Its fast, rock solid, and free. My current uptime is over 9 months. The only negative with Solaris is the lack of every last odd linux app. The only negative with ZFS in a home environment is inability to grow the number devices in a RAID Z.
My impression was that the pre-change cancellation rate was based on all customers over the lifetime of the product (they did calculate the 61 day average from this), whereas the post-change was only for the new customers in the last two months (the max it could be, and the only thing it makes sense to measure).
One of the payment methods we use is Playspan from VISA - http://playspan.com/ . Their UI is not that bad (they open HTML popup instead of redirects), and if you plan to support alternative payment methods,they have tons of them. They should probably accept your Egyptian company.
I am looking to replace my Acer Windows Home Server box with something else, so this article is very timely. Thanks for posting it.

Is the HP Microserver the best computer in its class, or are there other good competitors?
I'm about to go self-employed soon so I went to my bank (lloyds) a week ago to ask about opening a business account. Apparently there is not much of an issue. The difference is that I had my personal account at their bank for the past 3 years.

Which part of UK are you located in?
The New MacBook Pro and Our Disposable Future
I'm a Linode customer. More than year (14 months) without any problem, super support, good documentation and friendly community - it's MUCH more important than one hack incident.
You should look into a tool that stores meta information on the backup files, such as rdiff-backup. Manually restoring ownership/permissions from a backup is probably tiring.
Worthy of note is the fact that the original Intel iMacs and Mac Minis shipped with Mobile processors (Intel Core/Core 2 TXXX rather than EXXX), for the reasons you mention.
I have the same problem, in that I tend to think that, if I can do it, that it must be trivial, when a lot of things that I can do at this point are not actually trivial for most people.

Still, I don't harbor the delusion that I could drop everything and write a $10k/month iPad app overnight. There's a lot of luck in that, and a lot of skills are required (marketing, presentation) that I wouldn't bet my career on me having.

I think it's worth it for people to try things that have a sub-50% chance of success if they'll learn something from it, and if they've limited their losses, but I think it's unreasonable to make major bets on not being in the N-1 out of N. The academic career racket is fueled by these sorts of unrealistic expectations (more specifically, by people who haven't figured out that the academic job market up-and-died a generation and a half ago).
Mp3 is on this page: http://www.sliated.com/kubrick.htm
Think about what you spend money on, and the people behind it. They might be making your lunch, bagging your groceries, or mowing your lawn. They are probably mediocre at it, but you pay them anyway.

Others will pay you decent money to do a mediocre job, and good money to do a good job, because you are the exception to the rule of being willing and able to do the thing for them at all. Most people who have problem X would rather pay money for you to solve some problem for them (even if your solution is mediocre) than solve it themselves, because that allows them to focus on solving whatever problem they care about or think they can get paid for.
Although some iMacs and maybe all iMacs now use desktop-class processors, all Mac minis still have mobile processors. (35 W TDP for the processors in the $599 and the $799 2011 models; 45 W TDP for the CPU in the 2011 Mac mini server.) Otherwise they couldn't be so small and light without overheating!
SocialCinema.com. Collaborative video that did not see the light of day.
Customize Windows 7 & 8 Taskbar Thumbnails in Your Way
I've got 12TB in my unRAID box which has been working perfect for me for a couple of years now.

http://lime-technology.com/
Ok, but isn’t increasing the voltage required to keep the transistors stable as you increase the frequency ?
yep. the reason why your iPhone is fast has to do more with AGPS and that it can use wifi access points as references points as well.
Man do I wish I had heard of Graylog2 or logstash before now. That would have eliminated days of hacking together my own two-bit implementation.
There are several orders of magnitude between getting famous and founding a sustainable business.
Change test-client.py to end:

print client.fetch(1000)
print client.fetch(1)

And when you run it, you get the same thing twice (whatever file was specified as the first argument to test-server.py on the commandline). On the other hand, change it to end

print client.fetch(1)
print client.fetch(1000)

and you get "Hello World!" twice.

At one point the server process also gave me this:

Server(s) started. Press enter to stop.
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 552, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/Users/wolfson/src/others/pouring-rain/LT/Server.py", line 84, in run
self.streams[ entry[1] ].discard( entry[0] )
NameError: global name 'entry' is not defined
Conversely, I see zero value in this kind of reactionarily pessimistic you're-average-at-everything-and-even-if-you're-good-you'll-probably-fail-anyway stuff that always turns up on any encouraging article.

You get zero points for being able to say "See, I was right" when someone fails. Completely aside from that, it's factually wrong; people on this site are quite likely to have skills and resources that the average person cannot comprehend. Being a "decent programmer" is a fabulously valuable skill in the modern world. You aren't guaranteed to be able to leverage it into capital right away, but if you work hard and get out of your own head it's fully achievable.
That would be our American leaders, not us. Our democracy functions by having irrelevant arguments about gays or drilling in Alaska every 4 years and then the leaders do whatever they want while nobody pays attention.
OTOH, it's hard to find engineers. So given your choice is between not hiring anyone and hiring someone with slightly different skills from exactly what you want, why do startups prefer the former?
I don't know, but it has happened. News companies post videos that they actually find on youtube because it is part of a story, then the original video gets a copyright claim made against it.
Getting famous is easier than reaching the level of competence that will give a person the ability to reliably found sustainable businesses.

(I'm not kidding.)
Ideas That Made $100 Million
Ah right, got you now. I was referring to the scalability issue.

Of course the great thing about code defects is that updates are just as good at introducing new bugs if the developers don't have proper security processes in the first place.
The last non-server HP products I have purchased have died. A desktop for my mother, a laptop for the inlaws, and a small PC for myself.

I am terrified by the quality of their non high-end server gear.
Thanks, just noticed a small initialization issue there, fixibg that soon :)
You can also get a second one and have it rsync itself offsite.
Sounds like you're describing a byzantine system that, among other things, (i) obligates citizens of a democracy to obey its rules without providing free access to the rules themselves and (ii) allows special interests to capture disproportionately large benefits under the veil of complexity.

Surely this isn't the best we can do.
Compressibility of Code
That is not the official Companies House website, by the way, but an affiliate that resells that service with "additional options." I cannot comment on how good it is.

This is the real deal: http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Fair point: If you want to disrupt an industry which is entrenched by the legal/regulatory system - you have to find ways around it.

Think education, health, law ...

Any more?

In fact from the list of the oldest professions only the "oldest" is free from regulation (only, for the most part, suffering from prohibition).
What gets me is the number of times I look at the local newspaper and the article about a local issue is written by a reporter from somewhere else. The only reason to go to a news website is that you feel they are an authority on a subject. The local paper needs to realize that their website and the local TV station's website and the local news radio's websites are all the same medium. They need to excel at putting down stories that go in-depth locally. I will read national networks for national news.

You would think with how word heavy the internet has been, newspaper writers would have thrived.
Of course you have to supply an address for the director. Give them your Polish address. It's there for anti-money laundering and such.
If you want to open a business bank account in California, you need paperwork from the California Secretary of State. HSBC, Chase, Wells Fargo all asked for it. If someone managed to get an account without the paperwork, I'd like to know where.
I get a excellent service from Cater Allen, whom I business bank with (but no other affiliation than that.) Instant, direct access to a human in the UK with no phone queues or phone menus. Nice and simple. The only downside is the slightly rubbish internet banking, but I can live with that.

I get free postage paid envelopes so I can mail stuff to them as well. It's good.
Competence? Yes. Actually getting famous vs Founding a company? I'd say founding a sustainble company is more much more likely.

There tons of sustainble small businesses around. Probably won't start the next apple, but tons of fogcreek style companies are around.
It's a mistake to view this as paranoia. I look for oncoming cars before I cross the street, and it's not because I think there's a driver out to get me specifically.
I'm biased (I started Amahi), but try the Amahi server http://www.amahi.org

We looked into using ZFS, as there has been some demand for it, but all the licensing and the people around it were hard to deal with (non-responsive, to be precise). I would be cool, though.
Please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2564605&p... ; as of June 16, 302.17 is classified as a "new official release" in the "Current NVIDIA Linux graphics driver releases" thread. 295.xx is now classified the "long-lived branch release".

ArchLinux has already sent out packages for this release in its stable update channel: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/...
Only some people work solely in the command line, therefore that advice is worthless? I don't follow your logic here.
Neo-Victorian computing (2007)
Open sourcing Ellington might help grow the userbase which could lead to maintenance contracts, contracts for adding features, etc.
> I still don't trust the "Most coders can't do FizzBuzz" meme that generally accompanies the flowery you're-a-special-snowflake-talk.

Well of course, such talk misses the point. A "Coder" who can't do Fizzbuzz isn't a coder, or a programmer, or a hacker, or a computer scientist. It's a negative test, if you can't do it, then your not ready for a real programming gig yet.

From http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... (Which appears to be the source of the infamous fizzbuzz question.)

"This sort of question won’t identify great programmers, but it will identify the weak ones. And that’s definitely a step in the right direction."
Getting famous is actually pretty easy if that's what you focus on. It is, however, also pretty pointless.
Users will look at all of their options before they choose which action to take.

Nope.
So, just how stable is ZFS on Linux these days? Anyone else with experience care to share?
I'm a bit confused by this article as it claims:

Koreans are familiar with the colors yeondu and chorok. An English speaker would call them both green (yeondu perhaps being a more yellowish green). But in Korean it’s not a matter of shade, they are both basic colors. There is no word for green that includes both yeondu and chorok.

Wouldn't that be chartreuse?
Reminds me of some thieves who had stolen a great load of valuable electronics and other items here in Sweden, and put strong jammers in the house where they stored it.

Instead of hiding their location, this actually gave them away as it had been disturbing the GPS-coverage in this area. When the source of the jamming was found, the police was alerted and the thieves arrested.
I grabbed a HP Microserver a few months ago after my old slow NAS died. One of the best purchases i've made this year.

Initially i tried using Ubuntu Server on it, but there were a few problems with it. I also tried Freenas but beyond the basic "share files and use ZFS" it didn't really offer much in the way of customisation.

So Instead i decided to just put Windows Home Server on it, since all i wanted to do was share files, use basic RAID, and run virtual machines for testing with the minimum of fuss. Windows RDC works fantastically out of the box. For VMs i just used Virtualbox. I stuck Freenas in a VM and left it running for Time Machine - perfect.

I also stuck an SSD i had lying around in the optical bay, so i have 4 drives available in the bays dedicated to storing data.

Despite not using Linux or ZFS, i'm quite happy with this current setup.
Your Choices Matter (Alumni Reflection for the The Exonian)
When code can kill or cure
"I hate opening a PC and seeing stickers and flashing LEDs all over the place." === A-MEN!!!!
Wow. This looks like an incredible deal. After planning to buy a new ultrabook soon, I'm thinking of ditching my monsterous desktop and going back to a laptop + server setup. This looks perfect!

... No international shipping? I'm gonna cry.
Most likely it wasn't that way on the test. They just saved it for last in the report.
Unrelated to OS X
I backup (and chown) archives, not directly the files, so restoring the permissions isn't much of an issue. Sorry, was unclear :s