skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I know the recreational drug users of HN don't really want to hear this"

They are of course part of the problem.
FogBugz arrived when the main player on the scene was BugZilla, and capitalized on the fledgling "AJAX" craze. It was definitely a Bugzilla zapper, and it still remains a quality product to this day, gaining features and maintaining simplicity. It's a quality piece of software, but it's still "only a bug tracker". It wasn't the first of its kind, and it's definitely not the only one these days.

When I think of a rock star, I think of someone who not only produces stuff of quality, but actually changes the landscape of the industry. If FogBugs hires 40 rock star developers, I'd expect to see a lot more come out of them than products all in crowded spaces. While they are all quality products, they aren't changing the landscape of the industries involved.
Re 6: Apple has a patent for magnetic charger connections. Whether Apple isn't willing to license the patent or other manufacturers aren't willing to pay to license it I don't know.

Re 1: Absolutely true, and it's something that might make me go back to a mac (from Ubuntu) in the future.
Motorola Droid Razr And Razr Maxx To Receive Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade Soon
Legalizing drugs means that the street price will drop by 90% and that will eventually make drug trafficking obsolete.

This of course doesn't solve the real problem which is consumption.
So pulling the battery becomes a crutch for the RIM software team. No need to do a more elegant watchdog timer or properly trap Java errors. Just pull the battery!
Interesting how every single one of those people uses a Mac, even the guy who works at Microsoft and another who worked on ASP.NET.
Piggybacking off your comment: I am surprised, am I missing something? Given the US' and the West's rather serious vulnerability in this arena, escalating the use of cyber-"weapons" doesn't obviously seem the best idea.

(Stockpiling hacks and crypto nastiness is obviously a good idea, doing something about China's cyber-espionage makes sense, and increasingly sophisticated and well-funded hacking is probably unavoidable; but TTBOMK, the US has been the first to directly attack targets of major military significance, both in Iraq and in Iran.)
Also notable are the stories of what he has done since his escape:

"In 2005 on a Saturday evening, Guzmán reportedly strolled into a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with several of his bodyguards. After he took his seat, his henchmen locked the doors of the restaurant, collected the cell phones of approximately 30 diners and instructed them to not be alarmed.[26] The gangsters then ate their meal and left – paying for everyone else in the restaurant.[27]"

(from the same wikipedia article, of course)
> Yes, networking issue which brought down even multi-az deployments.

You might want to learn more about this before making business decisions on it. RDS was completely unaffected, as were all of my EC2 servers. They didn't receive any traffic from the internet but the systems were running fine throughout the brief outage interval.

A quick Google search will reveal that this is not uncommon for any hosting setup - data centers have lost network connections, routers can fail or be misconfigured, etc. - which is why anyone with serious uptime requirements has multiple widely separated data centers. Using AWS doesn't magically remove the need to avoid single points of failure in your system design.

> Probably, we will migrate to the dedicated servers out of Amazon soon. It will be harder to maintain, but cheaper and, as practice shows, more reliable.

I hope you have a good ops team and extra engineering resources; otherwise you'll learn very quickly that dedicated servers have the same failure modes. So far we're at ~18 minutes of AWS downtime this year - that's not going to be easy to beat.
I would submit you also have the causality backward and are also talking about the results of the current factoring, not the cause. It is definitely not true that you have a choice between response/request and an abstractionless formless mass of a socket. I offer you XMPP as one readily-available counterexample. HTTP itself, if properly and fully implemented, is actually another. It worked itself into a streaming protocol, and many frameworks never noticed. This is part of the reason this cheeses me off so much, because even the putatively-HTTP frameworks can't actually speak the fullness of HTTP. Oh, and good luck supporting the full range of SPDY in your request-response framework.

The idea that streaming can't have abstractions put on it is beyond bizarre.
>that letter was at least 4 pages too long and excessively pedantic for what it is trying to say.

Agreed, but a great deal of the legal system is pedantry and redefining of common words to mean something else than what the dictionary says. That's how the game is played.
Throwing around $1B also signals that Microsoft is still around and still acquiring companies.
In this case, it's false.
I'm toying with the idea that the problem is due to Apple and Microsoft's decisions to obfuscate the entire metaphor.

With the unix filesystem, "/" is the quintessential representation of the ungraded, unlimited hierarchy. Once I understand what you mean by the word "root," and that root is represented by "/", I can intuitively understand this hierarchy.

With Windows, this "ungraded, unlimited" nature is terribly obscured by the Drive metaphor, as well as the creation of special "My" folders and libraries. In my experience, most users never venture out of these special folders to explore the rest of the filesystem. It's little wonder, now that I think about it, that this is so difficult for users: most never see the filesystem as a real hierarchy, only as the segmented randomness of the "My Computer" window. Mac OS is slightly better, but still retains many of the same metaphors through the styling of the initial Finder window and the home directory.

Perhaps the issue is not one of conception but simply the UX that serves as educator for these basic ideas.
… and magically do it at no extra charge, too. Some learning experiences are in order.
New features in ack 2.0
They aren't interspersed except at the page level. It's not the same thing.
Corruption is a tradeoff. Is the risk to lose your safe job and possibly land in jail worth the money? So you need money to corrupt officials on a large scale, a lot of money.

Obviously that kind of money is no problem if your profit margin is 80%. Legalizing drugs (hence introducing highly industrialized competition) and helping those who are truly addicted tends to quickly kill that margin.

I'm not saying legalization is the golden bullet; obviously you will have to do a lot more to reverse the damage done by millions in prison, impoverished, killed, or corrupted in the government apparatus. But its the starting point to stopping the cancer from expanding.
You can buy Torx screwdrivers in any half-decent hardware store or any number of online merchants.
I use a 15.6" laptop on a stand, with the top of the screen right at eye height. It works great, and has the advantage of not forcing me to recalibrate my eyes and view distance every time I go home.

But yes, staring down at the thing would be awful.
if you're looking for smart books, you want _The Diamond Age_

<rimshot>
There's a big difference between "impossible", and merely "impossible to be productive"! The latter is what the question mentions. And when I deny that this is the case, the sort of thing I'm denying is that people who use (say) Mac OS X for developing their iOS programs would find it impossible to be productive, were they suddenly to find themselves forced into using (say) Windows to write things for the Xbox360.

Oh well - perhaps my reading of the question is wrong, but this is very strongly what it implies to me.
Out of curiosity, what make the Go dependency management so good? I'm not terribly familiar with this aspect of Go. Based on a what I've read, it doesn't seem dramatically different than what you would do for Scala (except it is packaged with the language rather than an external tool like SBT). Is there something I am missing?
Looks nice, but maybe you could be more specific than "Radically changing how you manage money"
For personal machines, I agree. I had a 12" MacBook from 2004 until 2010 until it was stolen, though it was my secondary machine from about 2007 forward.

This is about a 3 year upgrade cycle. Since 2010, it seems to have accelerated, but mainly due to work (I've bought only one MacBook for personal use since 2010 - all others were company computers).
From what I heard the 10x meme came from a study back in the 60's where they timed something like ten programmers programming on punch cards for a couple of hours. Now, I didn't check the facts behind this myself, but if thats the case its hardly scientifically rigorous and hardly relevant at all today.
Tor has its own issues (difficult set up, high latency), as well as VPNs (single point failure / tracking, US-based companies must obey warrants).

Perhaps there's an opportunity for a company based in Switzerland to run a private TOR network for obfuscation with guaranteed bandwidth. Private TOR network has its own problems though. You need a large number of users to anonymize each other's data, and the block of assigned IPs can be treated as a single entity and blocked / rerouted as a result.
The advantage to not relying on dual monitors is that when I need to work somewhere else (which is routine) I'm prepared for it. Some of this is software -- my experience is that OS X users make pretty poor use of virtual desktop schemes, where as the gnome 3 navigation hotkeys are in my muscle memory.
or in scala:

val snake = Map("name"->"Sammy", "dist"->"5m","move"->" slithers ")
val horse = Map("name"->"Tommy", "dist"->"45m","move"->" gallops ")
def move(m: Map[String,String]) = println( m("name") + m("move" ) + m("dist")

scala> move (snake)
Sammy slithers 5m
scala> move (horse)
Tommy gallops 45m

If FP = OO via dictionaries, then yeah, ok :))
Not really, according to the EBS docs, they can pull missing blocks from EBS from S3. You shouldn't have to perform a restore. The uncertainty should only apply to the delta unless I'm mistaken.
Probably have about 25 domains at a given time, only really renew about 10 or 15 the rest get bought for ideas through time and if I haven't done anything in a year with them they get tossed back into the pond.

So ~$270 a year give or take.
Especially since he worked at Goldman Sachs, this conviction would appear to be the result of not making the right friends.
I really don't see why. If you like the game enough that you very much want to finish it, you probably should be paying†. For those who are money-poor but time-rich, they do offer a free option. But if you have more money than time, they want you to cough a little of the abundant resource up in exchange for the scarce one. (If you have neither money nor time, I would posit that's your real problem, not the pricing structure of Tiny Tower.)

† I don't mean this in a moral sense, but in a "it's a reasonable expectation and quite possibly essential to the business plan" kind of way
Agree, but I guess it depends on the work you're doing. When I'm working on something in my spare time, by 13" macbook air has plenty of real estate. At my day job, however, I have 3 main screens and one off to the side. The three usually have 1) instant messaging w/ team (constant, I'm remote) 2) code editor 3) browser - minimizes having to swap out what's on my screen and love it.
"but wouldn't (or shouldn't) Boeing be careful about who their customers are?"

Forgetting for a second whether we are talking about Boeing or the used market that is what money laundering is all about. Taking ill gotten gains and putting into a legitimate business. It wouldn't be a stretch to form a legitimate air charter company and even get customers as a cover for buying an airplane. If you've got the level of money they have there are many things you can do. Obviously you are hiding the transactions even if some of the parties might know there is something wrong going on.
The BBC has missed the real story, which is that as a result of all the publicity, Martha has raised over £43,000 and climbing[1] in less than 2 4hours for her nominated charity "Mary's Meals" which provides school meals for 600,000 children in 16 countries.

[1] http://www.justgiving.com/neverseconds

[Edit: +£3000 in the last hour...]
Acer to consider shareholder interests in executive pay
Diablo's largest gold sink is the Auction house has a 15% transaction fee. If 1100 DPS 1h becomes worth more because people spend more time farming gold vs items then the auction house will just eat a ever larger share of created gold so eventually people spend more time farming items so there are more 1100DPS weapons and the price drops.
Unlike a standing army, the US could conceivably have a majority of the world's skilled hackers and crackers on their payroll (directly or indirectly.)

It also makes for good record keeping by "interviewing" talent.
Why You Are “The Master of Your Fate”
Sean Ellis acquires KISSinsights
Hi,
I've made a really simple python script to do this. It's far from complete but you can use it as a sample to start something with your students (http://veed.fr/gugodoc/)
Of course, if you need more "power" , your best bet is to choose a more professional solution ;-) I hope you will find something that fits your needs here :

http://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-gene...

Regards
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie...
Thanks for the feedback -- I'm going to do some A/B testing with that title text. It's definitely a difficult thing to get right.
I disagree, the add-on I wrote, noir-async (which is really just sugar for noir + aleph), fully supports mixed streaming and chunked.

However, the reason I wrote that non-streaming endpoints should be separate apps is that their performance profile tends to be radically different, and you probably want those concerns separated.
Will Microsoft try to take on Apple by manufacturing its own tablet?
Well, you have opened up my eyes. Thank you.
I tried to make the switch from dual to single monitors earlier this year. It's really nice to only need a laptop (or one monitor + kb/mouse) on your desk. I also find the border between the two monitors really interferes with my ability to use the space, somehow. During the experiment, the only time I ever found myself wanting a second monitor was when I was testing in the browser, and needed to view a whole web page, plus an inspector. Since I have periods where I do that a lot, I now have a second monitor hooked up to my laptop. The second monitor goes unused abou 90% of the time.

I think my ideal setup would be to have a very high-resolution display like an Apple Cinema display.
what about something like _Kill Bill_ that's basically an animated movie that just happens to be live action? (i'm pretty sure it actually had both "a guy in a three piece suit run around with a katana" and "a cyborg girl in a fishnet bodysuit shoot a machinegun at a group of robot assassins".)
Not to mention that 22-24" is perfectly fine, especially in a hackerspace that would otherwise cheap out by supplying only bad chairs and card tables.
could you expand on the point that refurb units could be better?

Also, remember that most companies get valuable manufacturing feedback by analyzing failed machines which have been "in the wild."
Why did MiniMagick not work for you? It does exactly this type of manipulation using the command line, and is working great for a large number of existing web sites
I think it's naive for Dwolla to think that they have a secure system when it's been untested and will start by being used on a small scale.

While the delay in the current ACH system may not have been a QWERTY type thing in place to prevent some fraud (in other words it existed because of real reasons not to prevent "jammed" keys) a system that operates faster is going to certainly be more of a challenge to get right.

Edit: Specifically I'm not seeing anything on the Dwolla site to back up this statement: "A system that inherently better protects you than before is live"
Work less, if feasible, and stop going to trade-shows if they're not helping you get your job done (unless it is that integral to your job) especially if they are merely adding stress.

The idea of a start-up fixing the burnt out feeling is probably a pipe dream at most. //quasi-burnt-out-CEO
My own experience with it is largely gleaned from personally exploring and optimizing algorithms. At some point I'll write a blog post about it.

In short, though, there are two main properties that are difficult to calculate in parametric form, but relatively easy in rotated parabola segment form. The first is arc length, which is needed for dividing a curve into uniform line segments, and the second is point-to-curve distance.

One other thing that is sometimes needed is to be able to ensure that a curve does not change direction, and split it into two segments if it does. This is trivial with the parabolic representation, as a change in direction can only happen at the parabola's vertex.

(Note: it's actually been quite a while since I worked with all of this, so I may have misremembered some details here)
But that isn't good enough. I show people screenshots by tossing the public URL into an IM or IRC chat all the time. It's good for that because it requires no effort from me to upload the file, and viewing the image is seamless for the recipient (click the link, see the picture). Under the new system, clicking the link would (at best) initiate a file download, which is far more annoying.
Shipping less mean more profits for HDD makers
I said it's only required for iOS/Mac development. I was obviously not speaking to your set of personal hobbies but only answering the question that was asked and providing my viewpoint.

Yes, Mac can be convenient for multimedia work but again not required by any means and for some projects the Mac does get in the way. (And yes embedded systems stuff is a lot easer on Linux than mac for the most part)
Ask HN: RoR- Custom error/flash tutorials/examples?
I'm a RoR newbie and looking for a good tutorial/examples on customizing the errors/alerts (via flash, etc) that are returned with Rails. I'm especially interested in those using Rails 3.2. Can anyone point me to some good ones? Thanks.
Integrated Solution vs One Trick Pony
It can be sum­ma­rized as a bat­tle between those who believe it is bet­ter to pro­vide a sin­gle prod­uct that solves mul­ti­ple, related prob­lems (the “inte­grated” approach) and those who believe it is bet­ter to leave it to the user to pick and choose stand­alone prod­ucts to solve every prob­lem they have.
There's some bug with the video. When I try to skip through it, it shows me the original Play image, and I have to press on it again.
Everybody is doing all their work on 11" MacBook Air these days. I feel like people just wanna look cool.

Why? Is it the weight? Do you find Pro too heavy to carry around? Have you tried a backpack?
The steps seem pretty dishonest to me. Correct me if i'm wrong, but these are the real X-Tag steps:

1. Scour the web for a plugin
2. Add the plugin script include to your page
3. Copy/Type the new HTML tag
4. Customise the plugin with your own behavior
5. Wash, Rinse, & Repeat
Last week, I tried to make producing something instead of consuming something the first thing I did in the morning. Practically, this meant working on a bunch of blog posts that I've had queued up for ages, plus actually writing about those "a ha" moments you have at work. It was really great and I felt good all day.

I was inspired by a Reddit comment I stuck in my Evernote a long time ago, but unearthed somewhat randomly: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/pbjk1/what_are_the_...
I did do the process you described. It has been a great learning experience, and has made me a better person overall.
I stopped reading newspapers years ago when I realized they used a full page article to verbosely repeat the article title. Sadly, 140 characters seems to be the correct length for headline news in a society with no attention span.
> These days, the stock specs of the Macbook Retina will be fine for even power users for years; almost certainly the life of a laptop

A challenge which is much more easily met when the life of the laptop is limited by design.
What does this have to do with Mint? This is yet another coupon site that limits you to only the stores you already shop at.
They make most of their money from cocaine and methamphetamine (which can be legally acquired, but that didn't stop traffic). 90% of all cocaine in the US come from mexico. [1] Do you mean cocaine should be legalized? Alcohol is a bad analogy to legalizing cocaine, you should probably be comparing to the Opium Wars instead, which didn't really end well. [2]

[1] http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
*nix in a nutshell
Some bash basic tutorials about task automatization. Thanks you Bert Desmet for your contribution
Only if you count small outages which affected a fraction of the customers as affecting the entire service. I had 100% uptime during that period using only the multi-AZ redundancy.
I'm in favor of drug legalization, but it's not going to happen any time soon, and I don't think it would reduce crime even if it did

It's hard enough to get pot legalized in most states - the "harder" drugs don't stand a chance.

And even if they were legalized, it's not even possible for a big illegal drug operation to "go legit". All of the drug cartels will still have long histories of violence, piles of cash, boatloads of weapons, and a ton of smuggling expertise. They'll probably just "pivot" to smuggling the next most profitable thing. Or smuggle untaxed and unregulated drugs.
I often use the feature the same way. It's only "up for everyone in the world to see" if everyone has the URL, and nothing I ever share is so sensitive that the risk of someone bruteforcing all of the possible file/folder names in my Public folder poses a threat. (I imagine Dropbox would catch on to such attempts at the network level, anyway.)
Gupta retired from McKinsey in 2007 and then leaked secrets from Goldman's board in 2008... and that's what he was prosecuted for. So it does make sense that his association with Goldman would get primary billing. As the NYT article states, "Mr. Gupta’s illegal conduct started after he retired from McKinsey."

At the same time, it's definitely of note that Gupta not only headed up McKinsey but that he violated its core principle of client confidentiality:

<< “McKinsey’s core business principle is to guard the confidential and private information of its clients,” said a former McKinsey executive who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. “It is mind-blowing that the guy who ran the firm for so many years could be going to jail for violating that principle.” >>

So I can see why both associations would be worth noting. I don't think there's a major bias or vested interest here.
Same here, one at work and one at home. Crummy (cheap) construction, but a truly stunning panel.

Couldn't live without the extra real estate or an IPS panel anymore.
> The app is only in the Mac app store for now (no trial yet)

Why not push a "Free" version to the Mac App Store? Just as good as a trial but gets around Apple's rules.

For example:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-hand-keyboard-free-one/id...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-hand-keyboard-one-hand/id...
Where is this 1% figure coming from? Having worked for a competitor, I would not have been surprised at a 3-5% figure (closer to 5% when considering the margin gain on shipping charges).
I do not understand professional hackers working just off a laptop.

Ability to take my work wherever I want with absolutely zero context switch.
There is also UWIN which emulates a full Unix environment for windows. It includes KSH. Its cc comand can work with a number of compilers including MinGW, and Visual C++.

http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/uwin/uwin.html