skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shows up for "Instagram" and "camera" but not "Instagram camera". That's a fundamentally broken search feature.
>Nobody really likes iTunes as a player, it's only notable because of the store and the device lock-in.

I very much like it as a player. Used to use WinAmp back in the 2.0 days, and jumped to iTunes (on Windows) even before I had an iPod.

The organization is great, and that's what I want from a player. It's not like another player will sound better or anything.
I recently moved out of Flickr, and into Dropbox. The only feature I miss from Flickr is tagging, but Dropbox does give me the following:

* Control of Folder/Sub-Folder organisational structure
* Automatic web galleries, which don't look that bad, for a secondary feature
* Easy sharing of the files/galleries with family and friends
* Full control of my data - i.e. I can take it where I want, when I want
* I can use Picassa (or a choice of tools) on my Mac to do any of the fancy edits/face recognition/etc Flickr built into their UI, or as an alternative GUI. For anything more substantive I can use Pixelmator
* It works well on my mobile devices, including simple and automatic uploading

Sure, it's not free, and space isn't "unlimited"; I pay for a 50GB Dropbox account, but between referrals and other bonus space accrued over the years I'm approaching 90GB on my account. Of that I use ~15-20% for my photo library (including HD videos).

For me, the hard part was getting everything out of Flickr/iPhoto, and "de-duping" my data to make sure I wasn't uploading a bunch of duplicate files.
It is natural for bloggers who start to gather a following to consider revenue opportunities to reward their time and effort.

Incidental ads from a third party are one thing, and it's hard to imagine that they coerce the opinions and perspectives of some mid-level blogger. Outright Amazon Affiliate links, on the other hand, are a direct and obvious conflict of interest. Suddenly the author's opinion is rendered self-serving and questionable.

I stopped reading or having any faith in the statements by Atwood after he started peppering his entries with Affiliate links. Oh look, he's decided that routers are suddenly a super important topic, and wouldn't you know it the one he likes super best is available via his affiliate link. Who doesn't think he needed to make bank, searched Amazon and then spun an entry around that monetization? It is a tax on the gullible.
To each their own. Like many other treatments of the mind/body, the effects of this kind of behavior may be seen down the road.
Brain and Language
ScienceDirect.com, the world's leading platform for high-quality magazine in the brain and language, full text peer - reviewed.
Did I say 'year', I meant week.
Sanskrit is quite a unique language and is far from being dead.

Modern linguistics owes quite a lot to Sanskrit, e.g. Chomsky's famous notation, thematic roles in semantics, controlled grammar, compositional semantics etc.

I suggest the following article in the AI magazine which merely touches the surface of what makes Sanskrit stand out.

http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/46...
Mac Apps that Really Rock
Sorry you didn't find a point to the post.

I think if there was a summary, it was simply that once you're a founder you will always find it hard to take your eyes off the prize.

Finding the balance between your life and work is one of the biggest challenges most of us have to deal with.

I don't think it is purely a circumstance of finances, however. No matter how much you're making, you will likely be highly engaged. When you're totally broke, working more and more can seem like the best way through it. When you're profitable, you can become addicted to how to make that grow bigger.
>Well, few do then.

Few? It was the prevalent player on Mac even before the iPod and the store. And with hundreds of millions of people using it, I don't hear many complaints.

Mainly stuff about how it "does too many things", as if I would want to juggle 4-5 different programs for my digital media library, store, etc...
An interface where an admin can incrementally add redirect URLs directly in the 404 logs, to the top most frequent misses, would go a long way.

It's the UX inertia of having to write mod_rewrite rules that ensure its never a priority and thus never happens.
Is this article trolling? Sure seems like it.

This business week article has some more supporting information about the Google folks asking permission to do family events...
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-12/how-to-avoid...
If we are talking about open-source versus proprietary software you shouldn't offer Gmail as an option to Exchange, since both are proprietary. In fact, I believe your perception of security is wrong - if someone wanted to steal your e-mails from your Exchange server, all they have to do is to compromise a sysadmin inside your organization (or your co-lo provider). When you need to get someone's email from Gmail, you'll have to compromise a sysadmin within Google with access to the information you want. Even pinpointing one is, most likely, hard.
Because it's a petition, not an online poll. Because petitioner signatures are given to the petitionee, and should represent real people, not faceless internet folk.

If you're not willing to publicly support the cause, you clearly should not sign it. (Although you can choose not to have your name listed on the front-facing site.)
If there is nothing wrong with their “Frankenfoods”, then there is nothing wrong with labeling it. I for one, stay as far away from GE/GMO foods as I can.
I'm pretty sure it's a crime in both the US and the UK.
DMCA is a piece of US law. Why is DMCA relevant to a kid setting up a website in the UK?
Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too.
This really bothered me too. Maybe they just didn't phrase it well, but the sentence "Grant your employees one must-have freedom" is horrible. If you're considering freedoms something that have to be granted to you by your employer, or worse, if you're an employer who thinks that way, there's already something terribly, terribly wrong.
Everything is a mashup; Perspective was taken from Percepto:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/percepto/id419502225?mt=8

It's a fun little puzzle game that operates on rotating the perspective 90° (my kids have been playing it for over a year and seem to keep enjoying it, though I got tired of it after a few levels).
Of course that's fine until the other country starts repackaging all crimes as "serious", which is arguably what's happening here - copyright after all, is usually civil and not criminal until huge scale is reached (and actually involves handling copyrighted material).
There are a very few people who can, or can come close. They can make life miserable for people who work for them, merely by being an example.

In an NPR interview with the woman who wrote Why Women Can't Have It All, the woman said that Hilary Clinton limits her time in the office for precisely that reason, so that people don't stay in the office merely because Clinton is there.

Edit: The quote is in the audio linked from here: The Impossible Juggling Act: Motherhood And Work, http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155498926/the-impossible-juggl...
Why are you so opposed to this idea? I think it would work well if implemented properly. It's similar to how games like GTA IV work. They don't load a level, they load the immediate area you're looking at. As you drive around, the new maps are streamed from the DVD. Other games have played with loading a small first level, and as you're working through the first level the rest of the game streams into cache behind the scenes.

It would be nice to get a game on a 4GB DVD and have the rest of the data get pulled down as you're playing. Guild Wars did this. While you're in one zone, the next zone is being downloaded in the background. It would only work for geographical regions which don't have caps on Internet traffic (for example, Americans on Comcast, but not Canadians on Rogers), but it'd be a nice option.
This is what Google should have done a year and a half ago.
Totally different from the iPad (size/price) and well differentiated in the consumer's mind.
Instead they went with a lot of "mee-too" expensive 10.1" tablets that have been utter failures. For avg. consumers the thought process was "Its not an iPad, has less Apps, and is COSTLIER????"

At this price point and not having the "cheap crap" label is going to drive a LOT of sales (in my opinion). Unfortunately "Android Tablet" has gotten a slightly bad rap by now...
>"Safeguard your data. By doing nothing."

For a brief moment after reading that I had to consider if the article was satire.
Wow - I feel heroic when I work late one day a week and my kid's events are automatically non-negotiable. Guess I shoudl be glad I'm not working at Google and still making a good living - can it last?
Interview: Angel investor Marco Giberti on the Latin American startup scene
2) Legitimize unpaid overtime/ worker exploitation

I'm pretty sure most people understand that the only people who are going to even come close to what she's talking about here are A. founders, and B. early employees with significant equity stakes. IOW, people who stand to benefit to an extreme degree, if the company succeeds. In that case, it might actually make sense to work those kind of crazy hours, since the possible payoff means financial independence and the chance to live out some of one's dreams.

Now a company that's routinely asking non-founder employees with no equity to work more than ~40 hours a week on a regular basis... yeah, that's just not necessary.
Microsoft and Apple have been perpetuating the PC vs Mac faction war for some time now.
That depends.

To lots of people (myself included), "PC" means "personal computer" and include desktop and laptops from Apple.

However in the 1980s/1990s, there were "PCs" and "Macs". PC was anything running Windows (etc.) and a "Mac" was from Apple (i.e. a Macintosh). Apple (and many Apple fans) continue to use "Mac" instead of "PC". I've had Apple fans ask me if I use "a Mac or a PC?" (Since I use Linux, I don't know what to say :P)
Funny enough, we're a small company here (8 employees at this location), and I simply told them we couldn't afford a cleaning crew [a], that if they wanted to live nearly a third of their life in a dirty, disorganized environment, that was their choice. The bathrooms stay clean, the kitchen has the dishes washed every day, and every Friday they spend an hour scrubbing the place. No one is forced to do it, yet everyone takes pride in their workplace and wouldn't stand for a customer or someone else to judge them.

(Mind you, the engineers who are used to having someone clean up after them have taken longer to pitch in - but they all eventually join the party. =)

It's worth noting, that we're not "flat" as far as structure goes, there's an operations manager as a foreman, and there are two of us partners at the top who set clear directives. However, we let anyone do anything they find interesting - the key is that they must -do- and not -talk-. If someone has an idea, they can get it done as long as they meaningfully contribute to it and shepherd the process - produce mechanical designs, circuit design, software, or simply make new jigs to make an assembly process more efficient. If they can show me they tried to make something and failed because tooling was inadequate, I buy a new machine for them.

But, yes, I agree it does only work under certain specialized circumstances: it works best at small companies that don't have a lot of interaction with enterprises. =) Trying to sell or work for an enterprise largely requires you to behave like an enterprise as well.

Smoke and mirrors? At the end of the day, even in the most lauded cases, someone has to write the check or pay the consequences. They always have a veto.

[a] - Originally, I had offered anyone the same rate as a cleaning crew to take on the responsibility. No one bit.
I'd be very interested in your threaded-discussion sample. Couldn't find it on your site, do you have it online somewhere?
Possibly. After all there was a lot of popular support for Gary McKinnon and he actually has an autism-spectrum disorder and clinical depression.
Unkempt and maladjusted hacker types are still social pariahs.

Yes, often they (we? ¹) are.

But that doesn't mean it's OK to accuse Wales personally of something that is not only unfounded, but completely impossible to defend oneself against.

Do you want to make that argument? Sure - write a blog post making your case, show examples of people being discriminated against and submit it to HN.

But using people like that to promote your own arguments is not only detestable, as it makes you lose the respect of people who may agree with you otherwise. You certainly lost mine.

¹ I'm certainly a bearded, introvert and definitively unphotogenic geek, although I can't complain about being a pariah, except for the fact that my interests rarely aligned with others'.
Need to buy more than one first ... im still waiting in the queue in the UK. Even then it is one-per-person.
"It doesn't get PC viruses" will, by definition, always be true. It's just not as relevant as it used to be, as Windows is much better in this regard today. If anything, this change is a nod to how the computing industry has moved on - using a Mac is no longer PC virus avoidance, but more "use this because it's great".

That said, most of the "virus" writers have turned to spyware and adware, and other scummy malware that demands money, and there is nearly none of this on OS X.
+1, this reads more like corporate branding on how cool can early googlers be more than anything else. I'm pretty happy for her if she manages 130 hours a week, but this doesn't work for everyone... if any.

I don't really care in the debate of working your ass off or staying sane and mentally fresh to be productive, but Google pushing this fact is just plain sad.

What are we supposed to react? Just awe in admiration at the necessary self-destruction we're supposed to imitate?

Plus I was at the talk and it was sadly sadly corporate. If there is one thing I remember about Marissa Mayer is that she does the whole corporate PR / tough questions avoiding thing very well. In my mind this is what makes her so successful..

sad sad sad
According to Sophos U.S. senior technology consultant Graham Cluley, this is a sign that Apple is starting to take security seriously. "I view the changes in the messages pushed out by their marketing department as some important baby-steps," he wrote in a blog entry.

The idea that the removal of technical falsehoods from Apple marketing copy represents a watershed moment in their attitude toward the security of their customers' computers is based upon a bar set remarkably low.
How to become an astronaut - ESA
I just switched from a horrible boss/manager to a not that small private software company where the developers are very respected and don't have any managers.

And... while it is a lot better than a bad boss, no management is not ideal in my experience. Ideally what you want is a good manager.
No. Macs are friends and family ;-)

"PC" is more or less synonym of a generic machine that runs Windows (much like it once stood for a generic machine that ran MS-DOS). It comes from "personal computer" but I think the IBM brand overshadowed the original meaning.

BTW, the PC I'm writing this on, while perfectly capable of booting Windows, never did it. It is, nevertheless, a PC and not a Unix workstation (despite its dual 64-bit processors, gigabytes of RAM, specialized graphics hardware and fast network).
Clearly exaggeration on her part about her hours. No one works 130 hours a week consistently, it is just physically not possible. This article is about everything wrong with corporate work environments.

1) Productivity is equivalent to time spent in the office.
2) Pressure your employees to work more than they should - No one should ever have to "ask" to get a weekday night off to have dinner with their family.
3) Managing resentment? If you are spending your time trying to manage your resentment to your job, you probably aren't being productive because you dislike the job. Nothing spells out bad productivity like disliking what you are doing.
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It has to be a crime in both countries to be extradited.
funny, I was just checking because I have never noticed my eyes doing that and afaics my eyes still scan horizontally. I don't need to look down to see the underscore. I guess YMMV?
Nice little W3 toolbox
A nice little toolbox thats helpful for all webmasters. Also if you have a suggestion on a tool don't hesitate to tell me about your ideas. Either here or at the sites forum. There are already a couple of tools in development so stay tuned and query away!
That may be so, but people might dismiss everything as bs and before getting to the paper.
Would need to test it to verify but most companies based upon user-generated content will swap out your affiliate ID for their own.

If not, they should be starting to do so :)
Wireshark: Listening to VoIP Conversations from Packet Captures
So, if you selling Magazines then it's pretty awesome, everyone else loses out.

Huh? I got the same e-mail too, all I got from it is that they're increasing incentives for new things they're focusing on (magazines, MyHabit, AmazonSupply) to get people to use the services. Where are you getting the "everyone else loses out" from?
Here's my submission:

HumanTask is a personal task manager for humans - http://srirangan.net/2012-06-humantask-is-a-personal-task-ma...
For me, "replenishing" activities come in larger hour chunks, but less often than daily. I point this out to reinforce the pp and tfa, knowing your limits and what you need is vital.

So is a regular or even constant monitor of it. Lives and people change, so what worked for me last year, is not really the same as what is working for me now. If you are in a high time demand situation, it is prudent to keep up with yourself on this, so you can change when needed, and work with your employer to help ensure the best satisfaction for all.
Yes, but Konrad Zuse was driven to do his early computers by the tedium of doing arithmetic by hand in his engineering bureau. So we would have gotten computers anyway.
The real question to ask is not "Has there been?" but "Will there be?"

Given that Mac OSX is on the rise on the popularity scale I am almost dead positive we will see a lot of increase in malware for OSX, even remote attacks where the user will be infected even if he acts sensibly.

The risk of that happening to you though is fairly low. The risk of clicking something and then getting malware through that is way higher, from a risk point of view.
Firm Gets Darpa Contract to Build Battlefield-ready Android Devices
I misread your comment several times before I consulted Wikipedia to find some clarifications. It might be the case that others need the same clarifications as me, so I might as well post them here:

* Quake was released June 1996

* Quake II was released November 1997

* Unreal was released May 1998

So, the Quake "at that time" is Quake II. Just to clarify :)

"Make something fun" needs no clarification, though. That one needs agreement ;)
They could be "encouraged" to only use public APIs and not change the base OS, which would make porting much much easier.

This is of course assuming the problem is really a technical one and the carriers/manufacturers care at all about supporting last year's devices.
The rates on the others are dropping. MYHABIT and Industrial Products go from 15% to 8%, which is quite a drop.
Politicians sometimes respond to petitions. Starving children never do.
Well, I think that's the problem with the article--is the advice geared toward start-up employees, or current Googlers? I agree that in a start-up, you should likely expect longer weeks (even all-nighters), and maybe you do need to ask to have dinner with your family[1]. But at an established company? Seems like a cultural issue.

[1] FWIW, I still think this is insane, and would never want to do it.
Here it is http://gibbr.org/. An undergrad implemented this on HyperDex in about half a semester.
We have a demo of an earlier version deployed on http://gibbr.org/. We currently are not releasing the source, but we may make an example application using the same design we use in the real app.
Didn't pinterest use to do that and then people got pissed so they removed it?

Edit: Yes they did. Source: http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/07/pinterest-affiliate-links/
This is the only true way a boss-less organization can work. And I assume you mean voting equity. Vesting requirements would be OK, but stuff like options or Google's non-voting shares wouldn't be.
Logging Tips, Part 1 to N
It does, but it was originally short hand for "IBM-PC compatible" back in the days of DOS.
> Given that Mac OSX is on the rise on the popularity scale
> I am almost dead positive we will see a lot of increase
> in malware for OSX

This was repeated so many times, over so many years. Yet OS8-9 had more viruses in the wild despite much smaller market share.
Originally yes. With the release of the IBM PC the term was used to refere to the IBM PC or compatibles. Since IBM is no longer making PCs the descendants of the PC are referred to as Wintel or Windows machines. The term PC is slowly reverting to it's original meaning.

In the 90s I remember Apple calling HD space 'memory'. Does anybody remember when the stopped doing this?
The recent major issue was a trojan that I didn't have.

>In other words, if I always follow responsible practices (never opening files from untrusted sources), has there been any threat up through now that could compromise my OSX installation?

I don't think so but I think you know that otherwise you would not be here. While this story has been posted recently, Apple has removed such articles on their site a few months ago.

The ID10T's, as some put it, should be on iOS. This is yet another reason why PCs should only be for professionals.
While some high-profile Windows malware has spread using genuine exploits, it's been a long time since this was a serious problem. The vast majority of Windows malware/crapware have been and still are just trojans (sometimes through very obvious pop-up ads and such).
Why You Don't Finish Your Projects
>His website was accessible in the US by design (one could forbid US visitors in the ToS, and by geoip), and the "harm" from his supposed crime occurred, for those US users, in the US, not inside his server.

No one should have to concern themselves with the laws of every nation on Earth when building a website. There is usually not enough time in your life to consider the laws from only your home country.
They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic.

Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double click the button in the designer, it takes you to the code for that button. You select "onClick" and type "textbox1 = "Hello world!". Save and run, click the button, and the textbox says "Hello world!".

VB made UI easy. Glade is nice, but it still doesn't come close to the ease of use that VB brought to the market. I don't know of anything else that has since. VB was a ecosystem that let accountants build software. With all the bad that comes with the good, this is still unmatched as far as my research has shown me.
It's the survivor effect: you don't interview the people who worked 130 hours/week and never got to a viable product, or burnt out before they ever did a press release.