skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state-side bases I have been to have been protected by physical layers only. The outer layer which goes around the whole base would have the usual barbed wire top and those big poles to prevent people just ramming their car right through the fence. This layer usually has a dirt road on the inside where the security forces routinely cruise the perimeter looking for evidence of tampering etc. If there are electronic detection mechanisms in use, it isn't apparent. The gates through this layer is guarded by men/women with automatic weapons, trucks, road spikes and a secondary wall they can raise up 100m in base in case someone just tries driving past the guard. Then any sensitive buildings within the base are usually guarded by a second layer of barbed wire fences. The perimeter of this layer is usually well within sight of more armed guards with trucks. Then getting into buildings within this compound involves more cameras, badges, codes, but probably most importantly: the regular people who work there take security pretty seriously and have no problem confronting people that look or act suspicious or don't have a badge, etc. It may not be as technologically advanced as this system described in the article but its probably far cheaper and far more effective.
This is actually a great point. How many of the people behind/in wikileaks are intelligence assets/agents? Certainly some of them are - or at least they will be monitored. Not doing so would pretty much amount to negligence on part of the intelligence services.

Personally I (somewhat naively perhaps) put more trust in cryptome.org than in wikileaks -- either way cryptome.org also have a few points on this whole thing:

http://cryptome.org/0002/assange-abuse.htm

And related to Assange and wikileaks, see eg:
http://cryptome.org/0001/assange-cpunks.htm
http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm

Note, typically for cryptome.org, these are somewhat exhaustive posts, and leave all digestion very much up-front and in-the-readers-face -- to the point were every reasonable person should start to wonder which part is information, and which is misinformation.

This is AFAIK on purpose - and different from traditional reporting where the journalist will just pretend that whatever is written is the one and only gospel truth -- even though most of what is found in newspapers are riddled with (sometimes minor) factual errors and has an obvious slant ("edtiorial line").

Edit: punctuation.
Gary Larson thought it's a good thing:
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SCNR
Someone on reddit asked for it, we'll do it.
To save someone else the time of looking it up, it's about 29 million.
Why Good People Leave Good Jobs
Perhaps I'm overstating Gosling's contributions to NeWS, or perhaps he was in fact an elegance sink, and the reason NeWS lost out to the unutterably execrable X-Windows was because he was on the project.
The Sony Dash was also "chumby powered". It sold a lot better than the Infocast did, though. The Dash was in many ways the best chumby you could get in that it had a capacitive touchscreen, it had the least ugly industrial design of all the chumbys (IMO), it supported netflix, etc. OTOH it had gaping problems like Sony's insistence on using BIVL (which among other things makes the Dash the worst chumby for using Pandora and a few other services), it was locked down (unlike all other chumbies you can't just ssh into it and start hacking away), etc.
Looks like the duplicates have been autokilled, so only you and people with showdead enabled can see them anyway. Don't worry about it.
Well, my understanding is that:

"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

should be weighted more than:

"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

Is that a radical interpretation of the guidelines?
The most absurd thing in my opinion is self-promotion. Let's be honest, some of the most influential people in HN, Github, etc., are accomplished, naked self-promoters.

Many rants posted to HN could simply be entered as text on HN but end up being blog posts one someone's blog. Lots of creative ideas turn into blog post rants that point to code on github with no history, no evidence of the messy process of creation, only the illusion that the author typed it all as if by divine inspiration.

I wish more of the elites among us would let us see their ugly commit history, their discarded design ideas, their untested, uncommented code.

In some circles, this is called keeping it real. Open source should not require such artifice if we have a meritocracy.

On the other hand, maybe all great luminaries started out as aggressive self-promoters (picture accomplished performers busking on the street in their younger days).
Ecuador's Correa is attempting to establish himself as the replacement to Hugo Chavez as the South American counterbalance to American power in the region.

So...mostly, Ecuador is doing this to tweak America.
Thank you for actually dignifying my reply with a reply :)

While it's been years since I mucked about in Linux kernel space, I always remember it as being a very open and egalitarian community. Although I never made the attempt to contribute to any of the BSDs, I got the impression that they were much less open to newer contributors and divergences from "accepted wisdom" (this could be put more politely as being more discriminating (as in taste) and careful). That being said, the majority of decisions I was witness to on LKML appeared to be well-considered, and make no mistake that patches and design ideas were not just accepted willy-nilly. While Linux has stumbled across many missteps, I still personally prefer the wild possibilities and endless choices that eventually shake out a solution, at the same time keeping with a distribution (Debian stable) that filters out the issues for the end users (myself included).

I also find very interesting the parallels between this discussion and the "worse is better" essay, where UNIX was supposed to be in the "worse" camp, and now it's Linux.
OK, but why? I mean, who here hasn't seen this or know about it?
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Especially since SVG is not hintable, so this won't be fixable until either SVG is fixed or SVG is replaced.
The Startup: a feature-length film about working for a startup [KS]
Buy voostapp.com, point it at your servers, and tweet about it (or use some other form of out-of-band communication) while you let people know you're working on it.
I like this attitude. It is better to lurk than to reply with low-quality posts :)
I'm going to buy when it gets closer to $10 per share. Half the world uses Facebook every day so let's not pretend it isn't an awesome business with utterly massive potential.
I was sad to discover there was no way to create a female superhero. The editorial in the newspaper page (homepage) mentions a female but she is only the ex-girlfriend and a fashion blogger. Disappointing.
As someone who's been on OSX since Panther, I think you may have a slightly rose-tinted view of the past - lots of stuff in OSX has been improved - I remember pretty horrible kernel panics in 10.4 and userland issues in 10.5 that no longer exist since 10.6/10.7 (or have yet to show themselves). Driver support from vendors is vastly improved, and overall, though I agree that quality has been a bit hit-or-miss, the overall usability is improved, IMHO.
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upda...

This has links on how to do this on a Mac as well.

Ofcourse, Linux is more easily controlled especially if you aren't running a package-manager installed version of Chrome.
Interpol gets involved in rape cases all the time. Most of them do not make the U.S. papers or otherwise become international news.
Call them
In the Bay area we are finally starting to see a bit of competition at the $70/month level. Comcast will either deliver you 30mbits/second or AT&T (if they've hooked up your neighborhood yet) - will send you 24mbits/second.

I was paying $150/month for 2x64 ISDN in 1998/1999. So, my price went from .85 kilobits/1$ to 434 kilobits/1$. 500x increase in price performance in 13 years, which is a bit better than the expected 256x increase over 13 years.

Things have plateaued recently - but I expect to see 1 Gigabit to the home to be pretty standard in the bay area by 2020 for $70 - which is completely in line with 18 month price performance doubling. (33x improvement) - it's just a little bursty.
arcueid ~ $ du -hs /usr/src
728M /usr/src
arcueid ~ $ du -hs /usr/src/contrib/
307M /usr/src/contrib/

So actually almost half of the FreeBSD OS is "random tools by various people thrown together".

Compared to that, in something like Debian the GNU tools, designed and built by the GNU with the intention to form a complete OS, probably constitute a greater proportion of the core OS.
To be completely sincere, I've hidden a bazaar inside a cathedral a couple times myself.
Also see this comment for some links to cryptome.org:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4410068

(as well as that entire thread).
How long will the “seed stage bubble” last?
"awesome business" and "massive potential" aren't mutually exclusive events. It can have massive potential, but never deliver and still be a terrible business.

Sure, it's got a lot of upside if you can buy it at the right price, but up till now, it hasn't shown advertisers (who make up the majority of their revenue) that it can deliver customers as acceptable CPAs. Until that happens, we'll still be waiting for facebook to be an "awesome business."
It is frequently true that the views held by those older are also more likely to be correct, but it is not guaranteed.

I think that one of the best lessons to take away from this whole flame fest is that history is something to learn from, and not just blindly revere. But first, that requires knowing about history, which far too many people don't. The whole issue of whether cathedrals or bazaars produce better software is orthogonal, and needs to be addressed to different situations.

First, are there still places where cathedral style development is a very good idea, hinging on being necessary? Yes, but it has to be done right, and unfortunately, cathedrals aren't (usually) very flexible. The Mars rovers were all cathedral programmed and work pretty darn well; on the other end of the spectrum you can find all sorts of big projects that went awry, even with "coherent design".

Second, is cathedral design necessary for all software today? No. I'm fortunate enough to have the perspective of a second generation programmer; my father started in middle school by sending punch cards to the university and would get his results a week later. Careful planning was not just a good idea then; it was absolutely necessary. These days he has a computer with more power and connectivity in his pocket than was available when he was born. His turnaround time for seeing results on software changes these days is well under five minutes.

So the computing industry has come so far so fast that it's not just unnecessary to make grandiose plans in advance, it may actually be a bad idea in a number of cases (what was it Paul Graham said? "If you want a recipe for a startup that's going to die, here it is: a couple of founders who have some great idea they know everyone is going to love, and that's what they're going to build, no matter what.").

It's kind of nice that anyone can just pick up a computer and start writing software these days. Sure, sometimes it's scary too, to think of all the inefficiencies, and wrong results and security holes that plague software. But it's so nice and liberating to think: "you know what? I can do it better, I have the freedom to try to make something better." And you can develop all cathedral style if you want!

Could software be improved? Definitely! Should people learn from history? Yes, including the mistakes. Would more design and coherent vision help make better software? Maybe; go ahead and prove it (a quick note: unfortunately, the market doesn't select the best software or designs, so you will have to prove it some other way, but being successful market wise is a good start).
To be fair, the huge values of the oil companies are largely the result of tremendous state-owned assets that were "privatized" through backroom deals. Every upstream oil company is effectively a set of operations and a dubiously acquired asset trove joined in one entity.

If you strip out assets and talk about what the most valuable "company operation" is it's certainly Apple by a long margin.
Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you.

And, a portion of your users will always try to go to whatever.com instead of whatev.er, the worst part is you have no idea how many, but the guy that's parked the domain probably does. As you grow your business, traffic to the .com domain will only increase, you'll eventually want to buy it but whoever owns it will know they've got your balls in a vice, and you'll have no idea if it's even worth it (except by their word).

It's fine for certain types of businesses (especially those consumed by machines or the people who love them). Sites with eyes for mass appeal should probably try to come up with a memorable-yet-unique .com.
Steve Kleiman, another Sun alum, had some international 'no bozo' stickers. I still have one stuck to a filing cabinet.

Its possible for someone who was once quite good to become more of a bozo, sometimes its an ill advised step outside their comfort zone, sometimes they get pushed there by well meaning management. Like many things, and perhaps related to the nostalgia effect, it is 'obvious' in hindsight when the bozos came, but often times their initial arrival is silent and unheralded.

I saw some of that going on at Google just before I left, I mentioned it to Eric (who had seen it at Sun when we were there and was well familiar with the effect). It isn't at all clear to me that its something you can stop.
Depends which. My site's at .me, which, being well hyped and having over 100,000 domains, is probably not going to go down soon.
Xml-motor v0.1.6 released ~ updated to fetch attribute values from XML nodes
NPR: LikeBright's "achieving the impossible" - gender balance in dating.
Yeah chumby (disclaimer: I worked @chumby) was involved with 3 Infocast branded products.

The Infocast 3.5" (basically the chumby One in a different box)

The Infocast 8" (basically the chumby 8 in a different box, though the Infocast 8" preceded the release of the chumby 8)

An Insignia/TIVO co-branded television set (TIVO did the main UI for that device, but it didn't have DVR capability) and chumby did a bunch of apps for it.

So, yeah, Best Buy actually outsources development of a lot of products under the Insignia, Rocketfish, Dynex, etc brands, so this business being suggested isn't new to them... they are already in it. But they generally just make "me too" products with this model, I don't think they have the will nor the vision to fund truly groundbreaking CE work.
E.g.: bit.ly became bitly.com, although that seems like a branding decision (with the whole "social link discovery site" thing)
I'm feeling nice so MIT - will update the README tomorrow
But pretty much everyone is the same boat. NOBODY likes autotools, but until something comes along which is better and does the same job, we'll switch.

Don't underestimate the size and demands of the job though.
There's a complicated trade-off between cultivating or supporting interest in what you've done and creating new things. For an academic like me, it's the trade-off between updating the CV and promoting your academic papers versus the necessary time needed to just do good new work
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I'll add another reason: People will mistakenly go to <yourname>.com in droves, regardless of how easy it is to remember or how clever the domain/TLD split is. Having a cute short url is trendy, but it doesn't mean you can avoid the .com if you actually want people to find your site reliably.

I'll also add that visiting http://voo.st/ is giving a "Domain Available" page for me. Completely inexcusable that their error state is advertising for someone to buy your domain.
The problem was I initially hinted at the context in my first example, with a call to Rails' `before_create` callback method. I then omitted it from every other example, thinking it'd be inferred. Evidently that wasn't very clear.

But the way in which people read code is an interesting point, which I actually think might be worthy of its own discussion. Looking at the psychology behind this would be good, I think.
viz, "evaporative cooling"

http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
App.net is only going to be a "problem" if the alternatives, for some reason, cease to exist, and no-one decides to enter the vacuum (private or public).

But why stop there. Why not ask Twitter (and anyone else) to make everyone everyone else's followers. Is it fair to have to build your own followers? Isn't it unfair that only some people get to be trendsetters and leaders within those communities? What good is an open (or closed) platform if your voice is miniscule/diluted?

Is exclusivity a problem, if you can build your own (exclusive/inclusive) clubs?

Sure, the internet is nominally open, such that people are pretty much free to join G+, FB, Twitter, Blogger, etc. But in practice, most people self select and gravitate to their own places/groups/friends, etc.

If you want to ensure an alternative open platform, then go ahead and build your own, if you can't, then as in any case where one is underrepresented, clamor, get attention and get served. If people in third world countries can build apps and sites to support their needs, there is no reason people in first world economies cannot.
Suggestion - theme for Jelly Bean, then have option to automatically select theme for detected device (Android/iPhone)
I did some analysis of numbers in the (10K, 500K] range:

1st Q: 62K
2nd Q: 92K
3rd Q: 120K

Mean: 99.8K.

I'm making the assumption that numbers outside my specified range are outliers, unemployed, or a joke.
Doesn't Wufoo offer this already?
How about posts describing times when the author has screwed up? I try to learn something from my mistakes and then share that knowledge in the hopes it will reduce incidences of that same mistake in the wider world. I don't care that it means admitting that I did something stupid or was ignorant of some particular technique at the time.

It's going to happen to everyone, so I just figure, why not turn it around and use it as a learning experience (for me) and then a teaching opportunity for others?

Case in point: I did something really stupid with MySQL's client library without realizing it when I designed my own interface to it, and it bit me hard enough to bring down a bunch of database-backed stuff on my systems. In fixing it, I discovered both a thing to make sure I never do again in my own code, and also uncovered a possible way to launch a denial-of-service attack on a MySQL daemon

Then I turned it into a post. So I screwed up. It happens. What I found out as a result more than makes up for it.
Can anyone explain how these speeds, if possible, are even useful? For example, the bandwidth of L2 cache on a core i7 is about 70GB/s, which doesn't come close to Tbit's theoretical 125GB/s.
Corollary: the future is about sophisticated data tools for individuals.
It's convenient because he raped and/or sexually assaulted two women around the same time the Wikileaks leak happened.

The prosecutor also did not drop the case--he merely recommended that the charges than being considered not be made. His superior chose to disregard that recommendation and proceeded to charge Assange for the charges then being considered and additional charges.
Translated to the start-up terms it reads:

Support email is my enemy.

Especially in application to a single-founder situations. You can't ignore support emails, you can't even lag answering them, because they are essential to establishing and growing the evangelist core, but they can easily eat ALL of your time.
In 2005, Jeff Atwood reported that 100M ethernet is 10x as fast as 10M ethernet, but 1G ethernet is only about 30% faster than 100M, even for a simple loopback test.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/gigabit-ethernet-an...

Is this still true? What's the bottleneck?
I don't think CPAs are the right metric. Facebook is massively engaging. I think TV is the most natural synergy b/c people socialize around it today but only in one household.

Facebook should also launch a web search similar to Google just go capture some market share in search-driven advertising.

Around the world, Facebook is the fastest loading website (it often beats Google). Its infrastructure is ready to make a truly global play of some kind.

Expect something huge after the stock price stabilizes a bit.
My hypothesis is that older founders will not be as likely to get involved in a startup that would have them doing everything themselves and working the kind of hours thus entailed.

I predict that marital / family status would have more to do with it than just raw age (allowing that age may somewhat correlate with being married / having children). That is, a single founder who is 39 is, as far as I can tell, not much different than a 25 year old founder. Being in that position myself, I can at least tell you that the "now or never" effect mentioned below is very motivational for us old farts. I know I work harder on Fogbeam Labs now than I would have when I was 25, and I'd be comfortable saying I work approximately as hard as most 19, 23, 27, 32 or whatever year old founders.

Now, if I were married with children at home, I probably would not be willing to put in those hours... in that regard, I kinda agree with your hypotheses.
Yeah Microsoft is dying to get Visual Basic's name in front of all those mainstream primetime television viewers so that when they reach for a programming language to implement criminal tracking software, they'll reach for VB.

Sounds legit.
> See also: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL.

This comparison doesn't hold true: while we might debate the technical superiority of the BSD kernel (and I have some NFS deadlocks to trade against ZFS), running many BSD systems is so much more work that it's more like comparing Postgres to Berkeley DB, where you have to take on responsibility for everything outside of the innermost core.

I ran FreeBSD and OpenBSD on a number of systems for years but was increasingly unable to justify the sysadmin overhead. There were only a couple of times where kernel issues were significant (NFS stability and SMP scalability, esp. when amd64 came out) and since Linux actually came in ahead of FreeBSD for our applications it was really unrealistic to locally duplicated all of the Debian infrastructure.
These networks are the ones sitting inside massive datacenters connecting thousands of machines hosting dozens (hundreds by then) of cores. Of course, a single machine isn't going to saturate it, but 5000 running a massive map/reduce will.