skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese character "的" is being used here as a possessive; it just means that the iPad belongs to the "Administrator", which is the default account name for many Windows XP computers [1]. Because iTunes activates iPods, iPhones, and iPads under the current user account name, and because the default user account names in many XP installations is "Administrator", there are a plethora of devices with the same name: '“Administrator”的 iPad'.

So, the only significance of this name is that there are quite a few Chinese Apple devices in this sample. Perhaps they are over-represented in the whole dataset; it's hard to say without having the breakdown of Apple devices sold by country, as well as the entire dataset.

1. http://www.mydigitallife.info/unhide-the-administrator-accou...
Ask HN: Which Small U.S City Is Best Suited For Bootstrapping A Startup?
Not so sure about him changing his mind. A couple of weeks before the interview you posted, Gaiman was discussing the freedom of information on his blog. Pretty much all he had to say was to compare information to pizzas: "Pizza wants to be free. Concentrate on liberating pizza from evil pizzerias." This is so extremely shallow (or disingenuous) that I lost a lot of respect for the guy.
based on cost of living, and then other factors.
Making Vim ubiquitous
Dig the design

Pricing page needs a sign up button
Thing is, standard knitting machines are expensive and cannot be controlled from standard cheap consoles :-)

A friend of mine has one of these, it's a massive, metallic and heavy version of the one in the article. It makes a big difference. If this was available and it wasn't too expensive I think it would be really cool.
Never say never.

I'm sold on Google Chrome at the moment also, but found Opera to be the best for developers for years previously.

They'll be another awesome browser. Just like they'll be another search engine we all use one day.
Still cant find the podcast, but here is what Marco says the FBI tool, quoted from the Instapaper blog about a year ago:
>>The server was used as a MySQL replication slave, handling read-only queries to speed up the site. Instapaper suffered no downtime as a result of its theft and no data has been lost.<<

Further down:

>>Possibly most importantly, though, the FBI is now presumably in possession of a complete copy of the Instapaper database as it stood on Tuesday morning, including the complete list of users and any non-deleted bookmarks. (“Archived” bookmarks are not deleted. “Deleted” bookmarks are hard-deleted out of the database immediately.)

Instapaper stores only salted SHA-1 hashes of passwords, so those are relatively safe. But email addresses are stored in the clear, as is the saved content of each bookmark saved by the bookmarklet.

The server also contained a complete copy of the Instapaper website codebase, but not the codebase of the iOS app.

Linked Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr accounts only store their respective OAuth keys. Linked Evernote accounts only store the Evernote email-in address. Linked Pinboard accounts, however, store plaintext usernames and encrypted passwords, and the encryption keys are present in the website source code on the server. <<
What kind of organization is Moody's? Who watches them? Who made them qualified to issue ratings? Are they accountable for their ratings? Why would anyone listen what they say?
I still prefer Firefox for firebug and some other extensions but Chrome just blazes in terms of JavaScript rendering
I want the right to root through your mail and remove anything that belongs to me. You can trust me because not trusting me means you're stealing from me, and stealing is wrong.
The book is now on Amazon, available for Kindle and in paperback:

Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Programming-Go-ebook/d...

Paperback: http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Programming-Caleb-Doxs...
What apps do you have installed? This is interesting to know since the data might be from a popular app instead of Apple.
That was not a double blind taste test, that was a single blind test and basically worthless.

I simply do not believe those people that were quoted about pesticides. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute#Criticism

They make some good points, but they are very careful to pick and choose only things that support their story.
So.. we like Vim now?
Does it really matter?

To my mind this argument is the greatest argument against OSS for anything but hobbyist application.

To see the Gurus of the Linux world squabbling like this makes it abundantly clear why this format will never take on the established desktop OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_Recognized_Statistic...

What kind of organization is Moody's? - They are an NRSRO.

Who watches them? Who made them qualified to issue ratings?

"The U.S. Congress passed the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, Pub.L. 109-291, 120 Stat. 1327, enacted September 29, 2006. This law required the SEC to establish clear guidelines for determining which credit rating agencies qualify as NRSROs.

Are they accountable for their ratings?

"In February 2009, the SEC promulgated amended regulations designed to address concerns about the integrity of the process by which NRSROs rate structured finance products,"

Why would anyone listen what they say?

"A Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) is a credit rating agency (CRA) that issues credit ratings that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permits other financial firms to use for certain regulatory purposes....SEC regulations also require that money market funds (mutual funds that mimic the safety and liquidity of a bank savings deposit, but without Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance) comprise only securities with a very high rating from an NRSRO. Likewise, insurance regulators use credit ratings from NRSROs to ascertain the strength of the reserves held by insurance companies."
It's amazing how bad browsers still are for some of the most frequent tasks. This isn't directed against Chrome specifically.

I just realize how much time I spend looking for windows and tabs. I use three different browsers for no other reason than to get different entries in the Cmd+Tab application list so I can switch back and forth between them.

I have tried every tab switching plugin on the planet without much success. They're all buggy or slow or just don't do the right thing. And it's really a problem of browser/OS integration, nothing a plugin can or should solve.

I also tried OS X Spaces to mitigate these issues. I had to give up because the animation causes nausea and the switching behavior is nonsensical (e.g. switching back and forth between two windows in different spaces is asymmetrical). That's not the browsers' fault of course.

When will browser and OS makers realize that web applications are applications that need their own icon and entry wherever other applications have their own identity?
If expenses are key some place like
Charlotte NC is not a bad choice
15 Startup PR tips from industry experts
15 public relations experts give their top tips for startups.
AMD64 (AKA x86_64) is now the most popular Debian architecture
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The drones in the video look extremely CG to me. Cool idea though.
As far as I know, it does. However, I'm not sure.
Creature Comforts - Assistance Animals Now Come in All Shapes and Size [2008]
I do not remember how but I am almost 100% sure I at one point ran Gnome2+Compiz with focus follows mouse. Maybe you need to install the advanced configuration manager for Compiz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody%27s_Investors_Service#Rol...
There are also people who seem to systematically copy ideas from english-language-only or US-only web services and make a localized copies of them to some EU-countries.

Of course they might just come up with the same idea and find that there isn't a version in their first language, who knows.

Anyway, you can make an almost carbon copy me-too product to a new market and be successful.
Apple Granted Patent To Disable Cameras According To Location
I believe some do offer SQL-like query languages.

But if all you support is lookup by key, or even just lookup by field, then SQL really isn't that useful in my opinion. And if your lookups are based on map-reduces that have to be pre-specified then I can't see any place for an SQL-like language at all.

SQL is ok for specify queries to relational databases, but I don't think it generalises to any type of store apart from maybe the very basics. And at that point what benefit are you getting appart from a slight, and misleading, sense of familiarity?
Not sure why I would use this when other solutions like LABjs are rock solid, fully featured, and small (~2k zipped).

http://labjs.com/
1 million Apple UDIDs released. What it means for you
Can someone tell me how his change in opinion concern anyone else ?

It's not his change of opinion which is newsworthy, it's his useful visualization of recent commits to TextMate.

It's newsworthy because many of us are programmers, and there was rampant speculation that the open-sourcing meant that it was being abandoned.

Every few months, there's another round of grumbles about some poster or another, and how they get upvotes just because they're "popular", but I don't buy it. Why would people vote up their favorite sources? It doesn't make any sense. What's more likely is that there are a bunch of people who are interested in the same stuff as Marco, and they just upvote everything that they like.

Occam's Razor, people.
Arch does not maintain a complete copy of all python scripts, the packages just include a post install step that uses sed to replace python with python2 in the shebang lines. For example see the PKGBUILD for Django:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/tr...

As for 3. adding /usr/share/fonts/local to the xserver's font path in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-fonts.conf does the trick. It's too bad there are no recursive search for font files.

It's kind of explained here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Fonts_with_Xorg

It's too bad you got bitten by The Arch Way(tm) but some people like it.
I use Chrome developer tools as my main testing environment - every time i check out compatibility in other browsers, Firebug ranks in slightly behind IE's built-in support for me.

You still change frame contexts with cd()?
Could this data have been taken from the AT&T "breach" a while back where all the data for iPhone customers wasn't protected and crawled?
That is not how the laws are being enforced, however. MegaUpload also apparently complied with takedown requests, and yet they have been down for 9 months as a result of enforcement action, with directors being held in remand for a period of time. Even if they win in court, this will undoubtedly have seriously damaged the momentum of their business.

It is understandable that businesses will self-censor beyond the requirements of the letter of the law to avoid legal action against them, even if those legal challenges are likely to fail.
Wow, another post with the exact same plugins as all the other posts.

These are all the 13 plugins currently sitting in my bundle directory:

* AutoComplPop

Provides auto completion. I like/need auto completion less and less, these days, so this one is on its way out. I tend to deactivate it and use my old custom mappings for omni completion instead.

The no plugin way:

inoremap ,, <C-x><C-o>

* Commentary

Toggles comments.

The no plugin way:

0i//
:s+^//++

* CtrlP

Super sleek fuzzy file/buffer/tag navigation. I love it.

The no plugin way:

:e filename
:sp *na<tab>
:vs **/fi<tab>
:sb *na<tab>
nnoremap <leader>ls :ls<CR>:sb<Space>
etc.

* DelimitMate

Automatically adds the second "')]}.

The no plugin way:

inoremap { {}<left>

* EasyGrep

Handy cross-files/buffers search/replace. More convenient than the default mechanism.

The no plugin way:

:vimgrep <cword> *.js | copen

* InsertImg (customized)

Inserts an <img> tag with the correct width and height.

* SnipMate

I use the old one as it does everything I need without any problem.

The no plugin way:

:help abbreviations

* Sparkup

Uses CSS syntax to quickly create large HTML layouts:

div.aclass*5 > p{lorem ipsum} + img.anotherclass[src=/images/img.png]

* Surround

See the article. This one is almost a good reason in of itself to switch to Vim.

* Syntastic

Syntax checking of many languages on the fly. Super handy.

* Tabular

Because I like my code neatly aligned.

* Visincr

I actually don't use this one much but it helps a lot when I need to write lists of numbers/letters.

* Word-Column

The new kid on the block. Provides a text-object for columns.

and the 14th, currently testing:

* EasyMotion
As ehynds points out, CtrlP won't list files that are already open. You are supposed to access those using the 'quick buffer switch' mode. I've bound that command to my Tab key, so seeing what files are open and switching between them is a snap.
Ask HN: How Stock Options for US Based Company work for Outsiders?
Hello HN, I wanted to know legal intricacies of to own Stock Options in US Based early stage startup for Individual who is not staying in United States?

What paper work it will involve?

Thanks for your answers.

FYI: I am staying in India.
It is another point of failure. I'd hope that this point has a lower frequency of failure than otherwise.

Consider:

Adding one line of code to a page and then adding 5 scripts added from a vendor-approved and tested library.

Adding 5 snippets of code to your own site in various sections on various pages.

Because you would be putting some everywhere, some on specific pages and some only firing on special rules, you actually have a lot that you have to manage. You could just put this in your CMS or in some version control, but then they aren't all in one place anymore, but scattered all over your code. If you want to remove something, do you just remove it in one place or everywhere? If you need to make a change are you sure you have done it in all the right places? If you need to just pause something right away, how do you do that, without changing your live site?

All these things require changes which have a higher likelihood of failing, than doing it through a properly controlled automated system.
Too late to edit but I read you wrong lol. In terms of concurrency the out-of-request stuff is going to happen once per thread.
I doubt it. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot
I don't know much about the US, but in Europe the majority of colleges is now teaching either java or C++ as the first language, and only a minority is teaching scripting languages as PHP. I guess it's easier for students to understand higher-level languages and to transport their knowledge to other languages (or, at least, it was easy for me).
Apple isn't a patent troll
Jason, Fab CEO on the future for ECommerce and competiting against Amazon
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For Help press ALT + F1.

You can see most shortcuts with holding down the Super-Key for a few seconds.
Truths about rockstar developers
I like the card AntiSec is playing:

well we have learnt it seems quite clear nobody pays attention if you just come
and say 'hey, FBI is using your device details and info and who the fuck knows what
the hell are they experimenting with that', well sorry, but nobody will care.

Arms race for attention, while the government races towards quieter actions and laws...
> The Gnome consensus used to be that users don't care which application they're using, they just want to carry out a certain task.

Still just press the Super key type in "doc" and you will see the "Document-Viewer" which is evince.
Ask HN: Idea of building a Pay per Click system
Out of curiousity, how does this pay-per-click works? Any idea on how they built that kind of system?
easy, but not simple
Never thought of using an extension to make bookmarks just show the icon. I have always opened up the properties after saving the toolbar bookmark and deleted the text. That does the trick for me.
Most business owners are not looking online for a website/marketing guy, they typically chose based on recommendations and people they already know. This means there are much easier ways to get clients than seo or adwords.

Focus on people already spending money on marketing. You can find this out by looking at local publications, look at their google adwords spend, look at their website etc.

I'd also add check you are selling the result people want not the service. Selling a wordpress site...so is the offshore freelancer for $5 an hour.

Selling a 10% increase in profits through effective online marketing, bingo (of course you need to be able to actually deliver). When you do this you need a lot less customers and they appreciate you a lot more.

Cold email to a niche with your offer and educational content works a treat. Also networking events, partner up with non competing services etc.
A joint a day keeps the doctor away
FBI: "Can we have this data? we can pay something" Apple: "Sure! In which format do you prefer to have it?"
I thought it was quite well written, also noticed the "Life as a Service" part. Maybe it only works on me because I thought about those things before, but it wouldn't be an effective propaganda piece.
"but unless it is a natural thread I'm sure zip ties can be made from that material"

A zip tie requires a different combination of compression strength, tensile strength, and elongation stability compared with lacing. So the materials are not interchangeable.

Also, individual fibers bundled into a cable is MUCH MUCH stronger than the exact same amount of material as a single homogeneous cable.

And individual fibers can handle flexing and vibration far far better than a single large strand.
The "Choose another stance" option is important.

The default answers are simple so that people who have little investment in the quiz can quickly get through it and maybe compare results with the candidates. If you actually care about your response, you can see the alternates, which are usually the "No, but" and "Yes, and" sorts of answers that the candidates provided or otherwise stated. Choosing them can lean your score towards certain candidates more than others.
Yeah Cassandra has CQL and it works pretty well, it's comfortable to use where the cassandra-cli is quite painful for anything other than the very beginning of a project.

I believe in earlier releases CQL was slower but now it seems fine. Also the most popular Cassandra client, hector, supports CQL, adopting CQL should be possible for a lot of Cassandra use cases.
Without TreeStyleTabs à la Firefox [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...] I can't switch, it's indispensable when dealing with 100+ tabs (which I find myself doing a lot as crazy as it seems). Besides that the "AwesomeBar" in FF seems to work more effectively than Chrome's when digging up old pages I've visited. There're also a few extensions I'm probably forgetting, SessionManager comes to mind. I've given Chrome a more than fair shake, and still use it on a near daily basis, but I'll stick to FF on my own box.
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Didn't Moody also give AAA ratings to those junk bonds that triggered the housing crisis? I think all the rating agencies did?

So why are we listening to them again?
tbth I was thinking more like a computer-controlled 'home loom' that people can use to 'print' patterned fabric. Wouldn't have to be Nintendo...
>> Facebook dropped Cassandra for it

I guess there's a bit more to it than that. I understand the fb employees that took over were Hadoop guys so it made complete sense for fb to go in that direction.

The bit I don't get is why is hbase still a bit of a turtle. For example a recent paper linked to from here had random read and write workload running at 180k ops / sec on a 6 node Cassandra cluster but only 20k ops / sec for the same workload on hbase.
I use Chrome for sites that require flash. What I still don't get: how do you get by without tags on bookmarks and the awesome bar? Is there some equivalent for Chrome?
XKCD What If - Earth's landmass was rotated 90 degrees?
We need a ratings agency for rating agencies.
The One Thing That Made Me Switch To Vim
What is this, a big jpeg of some text ?
"Smartphones wouldn’t look anything like they do today if Apple hadn’t created the iPhone back in 2007, and for that we can be grateful."

We don't have to be 'grateful'. They already earned billions from their idea, becoming the most valuable company on the planet.

I just don't see why apple needs protection considering how hugely profitable they are.
So if I read correctly it's a US organisation, controlled by the SEC, giving european countries, UE and other structured financed products (is that novlangue for "country" ?) a note to estimate the financial credit reserve of said products.

Are there such european credit rating agencies giving notes to California or Kentucky ? We never hear about those on this side of the ocean :(
I think they're right. The EU as it stands today will certainly add to a deeper new recession. However: They are highly selective in their ratings. They focus on the EU and seem to 'forget' the US (and Great Britain). Both are also deeply in debt and both have no plans to even reign in their spending.
Have we bought enough yet?
While building a David against Goliath image, interesting to note how fab.com competes against less funded startups:
http://blog.garrytan.com/infanticide-how-anti-competitive-la... (tl:dr - nasty patent law suits)
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For how meticulously the App Store is curated, it's amazing so many developers misuse the UDID's to the point that a good amount of information can be found on any one person by using their UDID and comparing to UDID's stored by developers.

And I have to join The Mactivist in asking, just what was the FBI doing with all those UDID's?
"Yes, Apple didn’t invent any of the new features found on the iPhone"

Right, so why are they protecting of their own? A design which also existed before the iPhone?

Apple didn't invent any of the features; they just put it together in a unique way. They didn't patent putting it together in that way.
My naive answer is: we need to stop tying our national and publicly-funded entities to ratings. Something's wrong when social security is forced to bind itself to external rating agencies that in turn make it a good idea to bet against social security (happening in France, right now).
Even for something simple like plugging or patching a tire you need knowledge and expertise to really do it WELL and to know when NOT to do it - and most DIY kind of guys just got some "lore" (often wrong) passed down and follow it blindly... and then you blow a front tire on the highway and go off the deep end. No thankyou very much.