skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are going in for heart surgery, you probably want a team of surgeons and anaesthesiologists to perform your operation. You wouldn't want a team of lawyers to do it -- you would die.

It boggles the mind that we don't hold the same standards for decision making in our government: environmental policy is decided by a team of lawyers, military spending is decided by lawyers, security policy is decided by lawyers.

Certainly good rhetoric and being able to engender passion in the populace has it's place, but I'm hard pressed to believe that 99% of the elected leadership positions in government should be occupied by people with primarily those skill sets.
CSS-Tricks has been redesigned
Most recent and relevant rumor

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/sources-apple...
Great product. Bad timing.

I think many people are waiting on iPhone 4 purchases until the iPhone 5. And the 5 is rumored to have a different adapter.
Not good enough.

Stanford and MIT have seekrit computer knowledge.

Lol.
BitTorrent Visualization
With regard to your last paragraph:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartthings/smartthings-...

Full Disclosure: I know one the founders. Amazing guys working on some very cool things.
A VPN will help keep you semi-private for surfing the web. However, when it comes to something like Torrents, someone with a decent amount of knowledge and paycheck would probably not be stopped from finding out who you are.

For using bit torrent or other file sharing in a private, anonymous session, I would use I2P. In fact, they welcome it.

I'm not sure why a lot people put VPN's up on a pedestal. VPN's are useful for other things but I wouldn't rely on them for 100% or even 90% privacy against a foe that _really_ wants to know who you are.

I2P, my friends.
http://perspectives-project.org/ - it checks the certificate fingerprint against other users, so a targetted attack is detectable.

(there is also a beta for chrome)
The 90 minute sprint
I'm a bit confused. Is the Google Ventures dig referring to companies that have already raised seed money from GV, and then try to get series A from them? Or is GV just doing this across the board for all startups that have raised seed rounds using convertible notes?
I always liked the story of the "Microsoft Five" who joined Facebook early on. I would pay a little more if I could hire a small team of developers who already had experience working together. I bet a team of 3 or 4 devs who shopped their skills this way could demand a premium.
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/understand/ionize_nonionize.html

Effects of radiation chart showing induced current effect.
One thing to consider is that because of its MVCC architecture (whereby reads can never block writes, and writes can never block reads), and especially with the locking changes coming in 9.2, you can probably get more concurrent activity out of a single, well-tuned Postgres instance than you could a slew of MySQL hosts of comparable size.

That wards off your need to go down the (admittedly sometimes complicated) path of PostgreSQL replication, and I say that as a guy who basically makes his living off setting up replicated/HA Postgres...
Botnet operator gets 2.5 year sentence
you mean that it uses python 3 for the system, i assume? surely python 2 will be installable from the software centre, just like python3 can be installed now?
Galago: Make things better. A hardware prototyping platform.
It's just so they seem exclusive. Also makes launching easier. Two birds with one stone.
You forgot "notable github profiles". Although their standards are probably extremely high, and anyone who measures up is buried under recruiter emails anyway.
Kind of rude of them not to mention this when you create your profile. Am I supposed to spend my time filling it out only to be rejected because I'm not already part of their club? Message received!

Edit: It seems there is no way to delete my profile either.
I think Zenbox is part of a trend of aggregating and consolidating data. It's crazy how much information is duplicated and dispersed between all the services we use, so I think it's great that some companies are starting to bring everything together like this.

I'm curious to see where Zenbox will go, and hope I'll able to help them get there!
They actually mention on the front page their plan for the iPhone 5 in regard to the rumors.
I have a kindle touch with ads, and honestly I sort of prefer them over the ad-less version. Those same 10 screensavers on the ad-less one get old fast, and I even buy an advertised product on rare occasions.

They really need to hook it up to my AMZN recommendations to show me targeted discounts though =P.
By choosing Pg over MySQL or Mongo, you are selecting a high-quality, stable product that is on a very slow and steady development trajectory with very few missteps along the way.

If you don't want to be surprised by the interesting and unexpected ways your database functions, choose Postgres.
imperialWicket's approach would still work fine in that case when john@dk clicks the "Yes, that's really my email adress" button - and I suspect he'd be pleasantly surprised to see it work, I'll bet he's got a very high expectation of that address failing completely on most websites...

I have a cow-orker who's first name is "G" - he's very used to poorly-validating websites claiming that his firstname is "wrong".
This is one reason why enacting this kind of legislation is such a terrible idea for the very people advocating it. Right now most of the web is ridiculously open and unencrypted. If authorities get the appropriate warrants it's almost guaranteed they will be able to spy on almost anybody doing almost anything because the default mode is unencrypted and nobody really thinks about it. But that default mode is only the default because people think their communications are reasonably private anyway, precisely because this kind of logging is pretty expensive and impractical. Laws to enforce it will motivate everyone to move to encrypted connections, greatly increase use of VPNs for all non-trivial communications, and ensure that criminals become educated about how to encrypt their activities.

If governments around the world seriously pursue this, far from reaping the windfall they are hoping for they will actually kill the golden goose that could be helping them solve more crimes than ever.
How about us ghetto developers who taught ourselves everything and know just as much, perhaps sometimes even more than those who endured years of study? I hate the way society works. Just because someone went to a good university doesn't make them a great engineer/developer. I've encountered numerous developers who went to good universities and knew half as much as I did.
I was about to say "What the hell? Beta already?" and then I realized it was almost October. Summer flew past, wow...
This is precisely the reason why you let the user bypass your check with a confirmation. It's likely that most of your users who enter something without a period made a mistake. If someone is using an address like 'john@dk', I think they'd expect a message saying 'your email is invalid'; and seeing a message that just says, 'are you sure?' with a 'yes' option would be perfectly acceptable.

Edit: sorry for the echo, bigiain - I saw your post right after adding the comment.
The reason I asked here is mainly because for my usage, the RaspberryPI is unbalanced towards graphical usage, where as I want to see less graphical power and more cpu power and more memory instead of flash.

All these projects seem to want to either move your desktop to it or make it a media center.

I just want it to be a SSH and webserver that can handle occasional spikes of usage, like for instance private music streaming.
For that I now have a Dell with duo xeon processor, each with 2 cores, which is pure overkill, and it makes noise too.
There is no longer a traditional CD-sized image, DVD or alternate image, but rather a single 800MB Ubuntu image that can be used from USB or DVD

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
I really think it's time Ubuntu ditches the bizarre animal names. This one is going to be barely pronounceable for most of the world. 12.10 would suffice
I don't know if this is true or isn't true, but Google Ventures' counter arguments are red herrings:

"I don't know what Paul's thinking," Maris said.
"It's just not true. Our portfolio speaks for itself."

and

"We've already closed investments on companies from this class,
so they don't seem to feel that way," Maris said.

Neither of those things mean that what PG is saying is false. Google Ventures is a desirable investor and entrepreneurs would be willing to trade lower caps for a Google stamp of approval on their round. The question is whether it's a matter of their policy to quote a cap at half of a company's existing one, and whether that is an ethical policy. Because they are skirting the question, it certainly makes them look guilty to me.
> UPEK stores Windows account passwords in the registry

OK, let's say that's true. If you're also using Bitlocker ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker_Drive_Encryption ), which you should be if you're that concerned about somebody breaching your system ...

Then the only way somebody could access the registry is if they had malware installed on your computer or had an account on your system with administrator privileges. If either is true, you're already screwed anyway.

I would be more concerned with the fact that fingerprint readers are really easy to foil without any wacky software doing funny things.
On the (provable) security of TLS: Part 1
> “notable GitHub profiles,” CS degrees from Stanford or MIT or currently employed at Google, Zynga, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Yelp and Square for upcoming auctions.

That is a narrow field, artificially scarce, driving up prices.
They are going to use Python 3 for the system, yes. Python 2 will be available, as expected, in the repo's.

They are encouraging developers to transition their code to Python 3.
Kickstarter isn't prepayment, it's patronage, the providers are under no obligation to deliver the product.
'VPN' is becoming synonymous with 'anonymous online' but it is far from the truth. for eg. if you use the same web browser in non-VPN sessions as with VPN sessions the cookies being sent are the same and each website just linked your real session with your anon session.

It really needs to be VPN, plus separate browser, plus separate browser fingerprint, plus proper failover.

But that is much harder to sell/explain to users than something you just pay $6 a month for and forget about
Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival
Thanks, some examples definitely make sense.

The questions will always be based on 4 key topics
- Promptness
- Accuracy
- Partnership
- Helpfulness

We are currently providing industry specific wording of the questions and will be letting users taylor the wording if they wish.
You might take a look at Postgres-XC (http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/), and see if it meets your needs.
Yes, just like tomcat6.
Agreed. I hate how because I don't have a degree, I somehow don't know programming as someone who took english classes for 3 years.
You will bow down to the Ivy-League appointed nobility and accept society's <del>educational</del> caste system without complaint.
Meh, Vancouver is significantly more expensive than seattle, and only a bit cheaper than the Bay Area. You can have similar wages in seattle as you would in the bay and pay half for your rent, less in taxes, less in car costs, food & shopping. And you'll still be close to family if you grew up in BC. If you want to live cheap, go live in the east bay. In vancouver, not so much.
> Just make sure your server are on the same network.

Using a VPN? Or are you hosting your own stuff?

If your public facing server gets breached and it is sitting on your actual internal network or is connected through a VPN ... well, that means the attacker just got a free pass right through your firewall.

I used to put my production boxes on a VPN, but now I don't have to because I can deploy from GitHub. That was the main reason I signed up with GitHub.
Looking at the pictures, the only practical use for this would be a laptop. Charging via a desktop or a radio (which I have done many times) would make such a short cord impractical if not impossible as the cord would just fall out of the usb port. Even if it didn't fall out, a weighted object hanging at a right angle just seems like a bad idea.

I could see this being practical if this had a longer cord that could be built into the case.
paywall workaround, first link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+Seeks+to+Create+Pandor...
Someone watched The Social Network a few too many times.
OK, thanks, I appreciate it!
In other words, it is what you find yourself sorely wanting when you use MySQL for a non-trivial length of time.
Every physical scientist has learned very early in their career that nature does not care about what it ought to be like or what ought to work out. Hell, every experiment one designs ought to work fine the first time every time, and your pet theory ought to work out. But it isn't like that, in that line of work you have pragmatism beaten into you, and that is what is missing from contemporary American politics.

Maybe it's different with computer scientists, who live up there in the realm of pure thought and can bend reality to their will.
I do use scripts for that. I was just providing a counter point to the parent's "No one wants". "Most people don't want" would be more accurate.
Which states tax SaaS? Which don't?
I know each state has different rules. If you have a company that IS taxed...

1- Which state are you in?

2- Do you only pay sales tax for your state?

3- Or do you have to pay sales tax for each state your customers are in?

Thanks in advance.
> I'd say the bigger issue with Postgres now is that middleware like http://code.google.com/p/vitess/ for it hasn't been deployed in the large yet.

That simply isn't true. Take a look at PgPool (http://www.pgpool.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page) - it provides many of the same core features as Vitess, goes beyond to provide replication and flexible sharding/partitioning and is a good number of years more mature than Vitess.

PL/Proxy is similar middleware (though implemented as stored procedures) developed by and used at Skype for massive Pg partitioning.

There are dozens more packages like this at Pgfoundry (http://pgfoundry.org/). What specifically do you feel is missing?
Internet Explorer 10's bundled Flash leaves users exploitable
You're wrong. A common type of fraud on ebay is for an account to build up a reputation buying/selling low cost items (or high cost items between a group of criminal partners) before using the account to scam on high price items.

Criminals are perfectly willing to put time and effort to create fake accounts or just buy stolen accounts.
Is Wayland ready for basic use yet?
I'd like to have it run a single local firefox window for instance.
I'm not familiar with that story but I know teams of copywriters & art directors that do this currently in the ad industry to great success. I'm not sure how well that would work for a startup though, seems like an easy way to mess up the culture.
It's on the front page of amazon.com now (8pm US EST)
Well, what is the marginal cost of software distribution?

Just bandwidth cost. Literally a fraction of a cent.

There are a lot of costs to software distribution, but the vast majority are sunk costs, not marginal. By contrast manufacturing has significant marginal costs.

This economic fact may be relevant to any decent analysis.
This is just the starting point, because these organizations already have rigorous hiring practices. I know - this sucks. But it's just a starting point.

We're trying to come up with ideas for how to open it up to a wider audience while still keeping up quality. Any ideas?
> Most scientists just aren't going to be successful in that environment.

That's why university presidents are paid small fortunes.
First Month on app.net - Charts and Stats
Professor from ITU uploads videos of all classes to youtube.
We elect lawyers because they're good at talking us into it. They're advocates.
did they make 15% of the $30M?
They're almost at the end of the alphabet. What are they going to do next? They won't stop until "Zebra" though.
Wikitravel Drama: Wikimedia and Internet Brands let the lawsuits fly
Yeah, I get why the manufacturers spin it that way, but it irritates me no end that tech sites and bloggers repeat it.
If a scientist made decisions based on real data, wouldn't they conclude that the approach used by the current politicians is superior for the purposes of politics?

The data says it works, after all.
I'd prefer a multi-column layout, 'cause you're right that long lines are hard to read.

I don't use that many special queries, except sometimes "site:", and frankly if I have to type (or paste) the entire domain anyway, "site:" is way less effort than switching to a different text field, even if it were one of the defaults.

I'd be OK having a "More Options" link or something for the rare case when I want to search for images by color or whatever.

Having said that, I'm aware this is very much a personal opinion. Google can design their site for the majority. I don't mind.
Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources their API Management Platform
As a fellow self-taught "ghetto" developer, and one of the cofounders of Developer Auction -- believe me, this is a problem we plan to solve. :)

Limiting it to developers from places that already have rigorous selection practices is just a starting point. Any suggestions for how to evaluate talent otherwise? We have a few ideas, but would love to hear yours.
I agree totally with you, finding the first users is the critical point on every startup when you finally find out if your idea is worthwhile or not
A look into Ground Truth, what Google uses to build its maps
> How do I know the offers I’m receiving are legitimate? Only pre-screened employers, who have raised outside funding, are allowed to bid.

huh, so a company has to have venture capital to be eligible?
People from Singapore are so ethnically diverse that Singapore has four official languages

#1 Language and ethnicity are not the same. #2 Singapore is 74 percent Chinese. Do a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of research before copy-pasting nonsense. Leterally, 10 seconds of research would be plenty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Singapore
> So I have no clue why on earth Apple created such a neutered mapping app for a mobile device.

The terms of the license agreement with Google for maps data likely didn't include the ability to perform turn-by-turn navigation. Another reason why they moved to their own maps backend for iOS 6.
"Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937
So You Want to Be a Hivernaut?
Google is building a new Data Center in Quilicura, Chile
It's nothing social. It's piggybacking on the authenticity of AngelList and their focus on startups. Who else has as good and reliable of a database? If they opened up signups without some sort of verification, it would dilute the usefulness of the product completely.
Looks interesting, but who is to say they don't keep logs?

A VPN on VPS provider, whom accepts similar payment options is an alternative option.
I wasn't familiar with the story either [1]. Cool idea.

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-behind-the-Microsoft-...
Those were the developers represented in our first auction, but we're definitely not going to be turning away senior talent in the future just because they work at Amazon, LinkedIn, Etsy or Gilt Groupe.
> This 'all for money' thing is just shortsighted and naive.

Money matters and Money is everything are two very different mindsets, and I doubt the GP is advocating the latter.
I'm certainly not in the elite ranks that they are targeting and I don't feel too bad about it, but this makes me wonder about the general purported software developer shortage.

How much of it is genuine (some of it certainly is), and how much of it is chasing this same small pool of people (ivy league CS education, worked at Google or Microsoft, or significantly contributions to a major open source project)?
Ninja rockstars are notoriously protective.
Many newsletters would benefit similarly if they had a "View our last newsletter!" link.

I know this is somewhat offtopic, but I've split tested this on one of my newsletters - http://javascriptweekly.com/ - and saw a very minor drop (like a cpl %) in conversion when I removed the link to the preview issues and archives. Will vary though and I think the screenshot helps.
Elsewhere it says that employers need to have raised money OR be profitable.

edit: elsewhere= TC article. "The company manually verifies employers via AngelList and only lets approved startups, defined as having raised capital or being profitable, browse engineer profiles."
Mac App Store Hidden Gems: Smart Converter & Music Converter
"...just because they work at Amazon, LinkedIn, Etsy or Gilt Groupe."

What are you trying to say about the engineers at those companies?
Publishers Back African Literacy Effort With E-Books
3 videos to get started with ember.js
Google Checkout (now Google Wallet) is still a mess both technically and with customer support.
“We are extremely dangerous people”
What the heck is that? A pig looking at the golden gate bridge? What does it mean?

I wonder how many people were still using the CD sized image. I'm guessing not very many, and with the size constraints, Canonical were probably itching to get rid of it.
Personally it's not so much syntax as the confusing data model that gets me in R. So many different but very similar data types - lists, data frames, matrices, tables, vectors - all very similar but slightly different syntax, very frequently converted silently from one to the other when you call functions but resulting in strange quirks that are extremely hard to debug at the other end. The combination of loose data typing and this plethora of similar data types makes it a nightmare to work with at times. On the other hand when you grok it and it works for you ... it's amazing.
The goal is to have only credible, vetted, companies browsing profiles who are able to honour the offers they are making.
> But found that I had no reason to stay in it, or to fight for my grade the way I did when a set of consequences were on my back.

So? I failed to ascertain from the article why this is supposed to be some kind of problem.

Also, as far as I can see, quite a few people do find some reason to stay in, and fight for their grade. I've taken several online courses:

• The Norvig/Thrun AI class at Stanford

• Thrun's robot car class at Udacity

• Evans' applied cryptography class at Udacity

• Jackson and Shoham's game theory class at Coursera

• Ng's machine learning class at Coursera

• Abu-Mostafa's learning from data class at Caltech

At most of these, the forums were full of people who evidently found a reason to stay in. Whenever there was any ambiguity in a question, there would be spirited discussion and vigorous arguments from those who thought that the ambiguity had cost them a point.

There did tend to be more of this on Udacity courses than on Coursera courses. I think it because the Udacity forums are based on a Stack Exchange clone, whereas the Coursera forums are more like traditional forums.

On the other hand, the Caltech learning from data course had some good forum action, and its forums are quite plain and simple, so I don't think forum software explains the difference between Udacity and Coursera. Part of it might be that Abu-Mostafa frequently answers questions on the forum, whereas at Coursera I didn't see the professors on the forums much--only TAs.

If you need some kind of threat looming over you in order to motivate you to stick with a course and no such threat is available, why take that course? Go take some course in a subject that actually interests you enough that learning more about it is sufficient motivation.