skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the "I'm sure I can find SOMETHING to throw at him". Also, isn't he basically engaging in slander by accusing Matthew of orchestrating these attacks? Everything I've seen the only thing he orchestrated was charity.
It would be hard to accomplish, yes.

With regards to effect, though, I'm sure it wouldn't magically fix everything. It would, however, mean that the cartels would face competition without the overhead of smuggling, which would drop the profit available substantially. They might well move on to smuggling the next most profitable thing, but obviously the next most profitable thing is not as profitable. The power and wealth of the cartels would thus not be growing as fast as it is, which is a much better situation long-run.
If you go the 16GB route and pick an SSD appropriate to your needs (I'd never want to trust 768GB of data to one drive in a portable machine, anyways), what's left to upgrade?

That configuration is very expensive, though. I think the complaints about upgrades are really a proxy for complaints about price.
Thanks! I won't be including pixel grids at all, but the width preview tool has some standard breakpoints baked in. I feel strongly that 960, etc are fictions created by web designers and in reality we don't have the luxury of assuming fixed widths on the web.
I'd argue Tor has removed the difficult set-up recently. Now it's as simple as downloading the recommended Browser Bundle, run it and you get a standalone (branded?) Firefox completely set up and ready for Tor surfing.

Admittedly, it is still complicated to set-up your existing web-browser to use it, and latency is still a huge issue - not helped by the limited number of exit nodes.
I think you have to be a pretty shallow person to be motivated by the idea of being called a rock star programmer.

I specifically do not applied for positions that are advertised in this way.
Warnings are compiler version dependent (and even optimization level dependent, surprisingly). It looks like that one was introduced by gcc 4.6, so perhaps the author of the patch was using a different version.

Chrome builds with -Werror on by default but, because of the above reason, recommends any person attempting to build it to turn it off (and provides a flag to do as much).
Cartels wouldn't have a business selling something like marijuana post-legalization. Just about anybody can grow it almost anywhere so its natural market value is extremely low. I doubt there are a lot of gangs financing their criminal activity off of potato sales or whatever.

Extortion and kidnapping must be way less pleasant and much more difficult than dealing drugs. It's very hard to believe that they could scale up to be the same sort of revenue source.

As for the US and its supposed success, sure, it's better off than Honduras, but it still spends a fortune on law enforcement and has a massive prison population. I don't want to think of how many lives have been ruined over needless drug-related convictions. US demand and money are also what's fuelling a lot of the violence in Latin America.
Maybe you should keep reading as you've completely misinterpreted the sentence. The author is stating the Microsoft has spent a long time trying to make a tablet by building software and leaving the hardware to others while Apple builds both the software and the hardware. Then the author states that maybe Microsoft is realizing they should build the hardware too.
The obvious question..For about $15 million R and D the USA can invent a new drug to replace cocaine with none of the die effects and than offer it at far below cocaine prices..

Think of the billions saved on drug wars..
Dammit. Your gugodoc is so close to what I need that the Hacker instinct is taking over and I'm thinking about how I could modify it to give me the rest (e.g. no frames, HTML for the header and footer). However, that's probably just my mind finding another glorious way to procrastinate on my thesis, so I better not.
Wait, so you have seen 10x variations in productivity but assume because 'bob' is say better able to avoid interruptions that does not mean he is a 10x better programmer? Programming is not just a question of time spent in front of a computer soft skills are important. If someone looks at inconsistent requirements and get's clarification rather than jump into a quagmire without end they are being more productive even if there not writing code at the time.

I think the 10-50x observed increase in productivity is task specific. But, people also deal with a finite list of specific problems so what if bob is 2x as productive on random tasks if there is 10 years worth of work where he can be 10x as productive he is worth a lot more than the average programmer.
It would almost certainly be cheaper, so they must stand to profit somehow by making it harder to open the devices.
Nope, you should blame a market that buys computers but doesn't care about computers. What you get is Apple.
It’s the 90′s All Over Again, Except This Time Online...
Is it just me, or does reducing the cost of submitting articles simply increase the noise on the 'new' page, and push off good articles at an even head spinning rate?

I've written about this before, that I feel we should revisit the idea of speeding things up by maybe increasing the cost of posting to forums like HN (articles and comments). I know personally, that the articles I do submit to HN are made after careful consideration of the laziness and annoyance of copy/pasting text in the submit fields. And often times, I stop mid way during copy & paste, and change my mind to post. In that precious minute of mechanical work, my mind is constantly re-evaluating and asking: 'Is this article good enough to submit?'
In his 20 years as a lawyer, he says, he’s written hundreds
of letters like the one he sent Inman, but the response to
this one was unique.

Yeah, I hate it when there's pushback to extortion too. But watch yourself, internets: Charles Carreon doesn't afraid of anything
Absolutely! There's still much to be done, I'll be continually improving this app and keeping up with web standards. Can't wait for wider support for CSS filters for example.
We helped a client of ours setup something akin to this, to work around their (essentially unfixable) Internet situation.

We rolled our solution using OpenBSD/pf/carp/pfsync due to client expertise and comfort with BSD. It works well enough that outages on their lines have shown up only as nagios alerts, not actual outages, even through many years of service.
Well that certainly has to do with both business sense as well as the risk taking ability and what he feels comfortable with.

To do something compelling you have to want to take that risk (which could result in spectacular success or failure). Joel might not want to bite off more than he can chew or he simply might not be creative enough to come up with anything "more compelling domain than bug tracking and PM".

That is why a good programmer needs to be around good business people (add: as well as people with ideas and a feel for the marketplace). They are two different skills. Same with medicine. Doctors specialize. You don't find that someone is the best thoracic surgeon and world famous also does urology. Maybe he also dables in photography but he's not going to be as good as Ansel Adams who does it full time. Business is a skill and takes full time attention. So does programming.

Look at PG. Running YC is a full time job. While he can certainly do programming on the side now and maybe write a book you're not going to tell me he can do all three better than a specialist who can devote full attention.
You're unfortunately correct:

http://www.abine.com/

and of course Phil Zimmerman is giving it a go:

https://silentcircle.com/

[ though all of that ex-SEAL presence among the founders sets off some of my paranoid alarms about US government backdoors ]

I certainly hope there's enough demand to sustain privacy protection services…but I'm not optimistic. I've never had much luck convincing "regular" people that privacy concerns are worth abandoning the convenience/entertainment of things like Google and Facebook.
I have a hard time working on my 13" Air's screen. I'm only really productive with it when I'm doing a very particular kind of implementation task. That is, one where I can have code in one column and a terminal in the other. It's difficult to do tasks that involve many varied reference materials (code, web pages, documents), switching back and forth between my terminal, editor, AND browser. Or lots of small code files with lots of navigation and window re-arranging. That said, reading & emailing is pretty easy. Until I need to cross reference an article with two emails and then copy paste between them. Blargh.

Anyway. Why not a Pro? Why would I want a heavier machine? I can easily SSH into a beefy dev box. And most of the code us startup types write for the web or mobile devices don't demand beefy CPUs. The trade off between performance and form factor only makes sense if I'm going to use my laptop for anything other than a dumb terminal. And I do put that 13" air in a backpack.
Django - the undocumented settings
I'm a little skeptical. Generational revisions (Retina, default-SSD) like these usually come with a higher cost.

In two years, the architecture will be through another full cycle (Haswell in 2013, Broadwell 2014).

On top of that, both SSD's and Retina-display will be cheaper. This is compared to recent upgrades where really the only marked difference between lines from a consumer perspective was quad-core vs dual core and the video cards.

And you can theoretically upgrade the current Ivy Bridge MBP and Sandy Bridge early-2011 MBP to 32 GB of RAM using dual 16 GB sticks (not produced now for laptops, but could be in two years time). You can't get that same versatility with the Retina MBP because of the soldered RAM. So assuming that 32 GB becomes the upper-limit and 8 to 16 becomes the standard, one won't be able to customize the Retina in a way that's more beastly or on pace with the current product that will be available in two years. Whereas you could you do aftermarket upgrades to drive up the cost of your laptop, you really can't do much with the Retina version. Cost of replacing the battery is higher than older MBP's, and so is upgrading the hard drive as OWC is I think the only aftermarket manufacturer. Keeping pace spec-wise is thus more costly.

Barring huge innovations that might drive up the cost like the Retina has to this generation, I think the 2014 MBP's would likely come down in price and by doing so drive down the value of 2nd-hand 2012 MBP Retinas. A new MBPR (512 GB, 16 GB RAM, 2.6) costs around $3000. 70% would be $2100. In two years, I figure that Apple would have a new 15-inch Retina laptop with faster processor on new architecture, better video card, 512 SSD (by default), 8GB on a fresh battery around $2300. Obviously that would increase with RAM upgrades.

My point is I'm not sure I'd spend even $2000 on a computer that's already two generations behind and doesn't have much capability to upgrade to higher capacities.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, doesn't this mean I can use x-foo without including its js if x-foo is in the marketplace? That would be amazing.
Ask HN: site that shows what software tools, equipment people use daily?
I remember seeing a site (or blog) where each entry was an interview with a person in the tech industry telling you the software and hardware they use daily. I lost the bookmark- anyone know what I'm talking about?
50 bucks and subsidized via ads? Then Microsoft loses an epic fortune and only has users without money.

play Xbox games remotely over the internet? It's just unfeasible. Control schemes on a tablet do not translate to console games.

great handwriting recognition? Then it's going to require a stylus, and many won't care. Not a good enough feature... The world has largely moved on from this desire.

program on it using any language you want? Lol! We're talking about Microsoft here! It's going to be a WinRT walled garden!
Finally. One of the major reasons I use Apple-products today is that the hardware and software works together out of the box, which creates the feeling that they were made for each other.

With clunky PCs, I've never experienced that feeling. Hopefully Microsoft can get it right this time, and make it feel like a quality product. While I enjoy using my Apple devices a lot, they do need some competition to fuel innovation.

If Microsoft manages to pull this off the right way, with a feeling of great quality to it, I could even see myself buying one to try out Windows 8 properly.
> I’ve got the energy, and I’ve got the time.

I'm reading this as "I've lost all of my other clients because I'm clearly not very bright, so I have plenty of time to focus on this fight that I can't possibly win."
FF has lazy loading. Options->General->Don't load tabs until selected.
THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design
I've got 8GB of RAM in my Late 2008 MBP (MacBookPro5,1)

http://blog.macsales.com/9102-secret-firmware-lets-late-08-m...

Looks like this won't fly in the Early 2008 MBP, but you might be able to get 6GB in there (note "Standard RAM"):

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macb...
Then it is "can be answered negatively" instead. Simple as that.
It's not just about having alternative options, or "hating that people enjoy Apple" about doing things an effective and efficient way. Being efficient is something we all care about because we're all on the same planet. Being locked into a certain vendor's way of doing things is a Bad Thing™, and definitely not efficient. We already learned this with Microsoft... I guess everyone has to learn the hard way that not caring about your tools, paying someone else to care, and then expecting them to "just work" is not a effective way to do anything.
Let me quote [1]
"An estimated 90% of cocaine entering the United States transits Mexico."

The key word here is "transits". Every other country in Central America, and some in northern South America are part of that "transit" too. Mexican just happens, to its bad luck, to be next to the biggest consumer.

Nobody is arguing to have cocaine accesible by kids at the grocery store. The argument is to legalize it to regulate it and, as someone below commented, to bring the prices down so is no longer such a profitable business.
Everyone was up all night dealing with EC2.
Vakantie: op wat letten bij huren auto
Why doesn't OSX Finder have a proper tree view?
This is not about Mac vs. PC. In fact, tree views as a means for graphically navigating and exploring the file system have been around a long time and on a number of platforms (Windows, Linux, Irix, Solaris, Amiga, etc.).

Is there a fundamental philosophical reason for Finder not offering a tree view?

Yes, the definitions of "proper" is variable. That's not the point. I find that tree views are far more useful and easier to navigate than what Finder offers. I understand that if all you've known is Finder none of this will make sense. Please refrain from down-voting based on tribalism as you would be down-voting a dedicated iOS developer who's been using Mac and other platforms for a long time.
I'm reasonably sure that suitable mechanism design could be performed to make full legalization not only possible but much more desirable than the current scenario. It would require extensive reworking of legal and economic regulations and public policy. The first hurdle is legitimizing this type of research. From casual reading on the subject, I haven't seen any serious research like this in regards to the US, though admittedly I haven't looked very hard, but for obvious reasons the public coffers are not exactly overflowing to fund serious investigation into the matter.
Designed by Microsoft and made by Nokia? This could be the very reason Nokia opted for Windows phone than choosing Android.
The biggest problem I see is that the system does not seem to have any form of two-factor authentication at all.

Here in Europe, where online electronic bank transfers have been commonplace for years, two-factor authentication has been shown to be a must because otherwise levels of fraud become too high.
An EE, ME and SW Engineer walk into a podcast (and talk about product longevity)
Based on very little information and lots of intuition reaching conclusions shared by others...

Most "refurb" units are just bought-and-returned products. There's nothing wrong with them. If there is something wrong, it was a problem with a new unit (either broken at purchase or soon thereafter), someone bought it assuming "new" better than "refurb" and got a lemon; the problem is easily identified and replaced with a working part. If something's gonna break, it's gonna break very near the time of acquisition (or near predicted end-of-life); few breakages happen during the middle 80-90% of product life.

New machines are cranked out in a factory en mass.
Refurbs, most of which are either undamaged/new or lightly/obviously broken, are individually inspected with the keen awareness that this particular unit may very well have a particular problem. They receive more attention from better trained inspectors, and with more...domestic sensibilities. Then they're put thru the same, if not greater, QA testing as the factory provides.

So, at the risk of the occasional abused machine with deeper chronic problems, most refurbs are in effect (if not actuality) new units with an added layer of real-world testing, individualized attention/correction, comprehensive re-testing, all done within local cultural norms. And you get all of that not at added cost, but at a discount off the original price.

So the theory concludes (again, just hypothesizing with little knowledge of what really happens) that the refurbs are the most reliable and/or best value.
I can think of one real, actual, verifiable superstar: Steve Yegge. There are more, but I don't know who they are.

Taking his blogs at face value, and assuming that my sample size of 1 is enough, here's what I've got:

"Superstars" get things done because they get things done. They may be ADD in their multitude of projects or in their personal lives, but while they're producing, they produce. They don't fuck around on reddit while they're coding. They might screw around interminably at other times - they might work only a few hours a day - but while they work, they're working, and that's it.

They also get things done because they understand what the hell's going on, at least one or two layers of abstraction below the one they're officially working on. Stevey claims that his understanding stops at transistors - transistors are black boxes, but he gets what has to happen at the layers of abstraction above that, from the machine code to the guts of the interpreter.

Particularly delicious? Steve Yegge worked at Geoworks (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-st...), and he attributes their defeat by the likes of Microsoft not to superior marketing, but to the value of abstractions.
Awesome news :)
For the mp3 demo, what is the song encoded at? Also, is there a way to listen to the same tracks encoded with the various encoders to compare? I come up with my own encoder / decoder a few years ago and ran a MUSHRA test against various other popular codecs; I wish I had this tool back then!
I don't consider it my right to have Microsoft produce anything else for me.
Paying 10% more for "better done right without further hassle on my part" is worth a lot to many customers.
I don't think that's out of context at all, so I guess I'm reading it differently than you are. Seems clear to me that they are saying it happened there so therefore it could happen here.
> he didn’t seem the least bit fazed by all the negative attention he’s been getting throughout the internets

What is he gonna say? "OMG I'm crapping in my pants over this" Of course he's gonna say he isn't fazed. Lawyers need to have a good poker face or they stand to lose what ever ground they may think they have.
Why is consumption the real problem?

Even if so, moving to a harm reduction / medical model is more likely to fix the addiction problem than criminalizing (or worse, militarizing) the consumption side of the equation.
The pixels are a discrete series. You never convert a discrete list to a floating-point-indexed list.
You're missing the point that there isn't a single point that will cause a tablet to fail in the market. If it doesn't have a great screen, most people won't care (AT ALL). Those who do care won't buy it.

If it doesn't have a great screen, costs a fortune, has no features and no apps, then it's DOA. Pointing to a single feature and saying "this is the only thing the market cares about" is silly and rarely a useful metric to look at.
@MatthewPhillips - That's not what I meant. Mozilla will offer a bootstrap builder with which you can add as many of the stock tags/components as you want to your app's pages. It will output a skeleton of an app that is development-ready. We will be actively working on getting the stock set of components prominently offered in other app bootstraps and store dev areas.
Dropbox support offered up the ?dl=1 querystring as the solution to permanent, public URLs when I emailed them, but I have the same issue with the fact that the files are forced to download. If they're going to stick with Dropbox branded preview for public URLs, I'd like to at least see a similar ?view=1 querystring to keep images/pdfs/etc.. displaying directly in the browser.
I bet this is the mysterious project Dave Cutler has been working on lately!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-dave-...
http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/Downloads/KamensPaper.pdf

To quote The Spolsk himself:
"This paper is the ultimate rebuttal to those grumpy people who email me, barely able to conceal their disgust, saying, 'why do you need to hire such smart people to work on bug tracking software?'"
I use email just fine for this...
I don't know about most people, but I use CS a lot and never use classes... :)
> a kind of literary mountaintop-removal exercise

This metaphor is brilliant... hyperbolic with a sense of literary culture and heavy engineering at the same time. A little bit like something Neal Stephenson would write!
Should any substance be illegal?

If we start banning substances rationally, wouldn't cigarettes top the list.
Library author here. Which part do you find ugly?
The Marketplace is just the "app store" -- it's where you buy apps. You can run the apps on any supported HTML5 device after buying them. So the supported device would not provide anything more than a browser rendering engine (and some navigator.* JS methods). It won't include x-tags.
It won't replace HTTP 1.1, since billions of small sites without SSL certificates can't use it.

It might replace HTTP 1.1 if SSL certificates becomes free, automaticly generated, installed and renewed.

Otherwise most small websites (the majority of web sites on the net) without any real need for the security provided by encrypted communications (SSL) won't bother dealing with a ton of hassle (or costs) of SSL just for a minor speed improvement.
It is very much more optional. Government and politics have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

Note that I'm not referring to consumer technology as a whole; I'm saying no specific consumer technology is forced upon you. While it's hard to avoid the idea of it, I don't have to buy an iPad if I don't like it. I do have to pay property tax.
- The feature is not going away for existing users.

- I love Cloudapp for sharing files on Mac. Take a screenshot using Skitch, and drag it to the cloud icon -> URL goes to clipboard, very simple.
Does anyone know the link to the Kickstarter project "that involves taking an oak tree and splicing firefly genes into it"?