skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience that took place over the course of a single day in which I tracked down that thieves in real-time and confronted them in a parking lot. Instead of calling the cops, and since they had taken money and not an actual laptop, I had them give me collateral and gave them 2 weeks to give me money back in exchange, which they did after.

I actually did write up and submit a police report, but it was about 3 months before I heard anything from the police.

Lessons learned: (1) sometimes it's better to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself and (2) some (most?) people legitimately want to come clean.
>Is there a Boot Loader or Bios password type option to beven prevent the user from holding down 'Option' and selecting a boot device..

If they know to hold down "Option," chances are they also know how to open up the case and swap out the HDD.

Backup, encrypt, insure. It's the only way.
Hey, you brought up another one: not a black-and-white thinker!

Things are not only their extremes and the opposite. Hence why "balance" is actually an extremely undervalued quality in a person, and it was very apt of the author to call it out.
I've had some experience with perl. While it has a lot of advantages (most of them are described in your post) it clumsily support OOP and is very hard to maintain. It's true that perl gets you going pretty fast, But once your code base reaches several hundred classes, you'll really regret ever considering it for production.

As a grad student I found myself using it quite a lot for writing quick and dirty scripts for data manipulation until I finally decided to move to python. Since then, I never look back :-)
I just wonder how much unambiguous but longer it would be if the EULA/TOS was translated into pseudocode or any programming language. One thing that's certain is that it will be very precise...
I'm amazed that the press are allowed to approach jurors (or vice versa) after a trial. I think that's strictly forbidden in the UK.

Makes quite interesting reading in this case though.
There is detail about multi-site redundancy which we're saving for a future post :-)

You're right that a single switch failure would be impactful, but the impact of one switch going down would actually be very minimal.
For example our web servers are spread out between many switches. The switches and network equipment have greater redundancy between them.
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Yeah, that impresses me as a bit odd too.

I've seen situations where folks have done this because they believed they would need VSS/VPC or similar on the switch side, but ALB on the server should avoid that.

Perhaps they have a n array of access switches, each serving some subset to lessen the impact?
That could easily be true without people lying (though probably not). If you take a test and score a 99, you aren't exactly about to run around saying "Hey everyone, I'm very slightly below average according to an IQ test!"
Taking that approach to its logical confusion even firebug would have never been developed.
(After a few people solved it, there was a community of people on #level8 helping others solve it: that's how I finally got helped to the answer by a very kind and patient user I finally found; the result being that the dropped will correlate more with continued interest than difficulty. So, you can't look at the final distribution: you have to look at the time taken before each level was first solved, which allows you to slightly control for interest by staring at the few most-excited people; and level8 stood for 14 hours while all the other levels were beaten by some of the faster hackers, like vos, in a couple hours.)
I went in expecting something about dedication and ability to go the extra mile and be a "rockstar"—but instead it was a refreshingly short and focused list of often undervalued traits. Nice article.
Steven, thanks for responding - I'm glad to hear that you guys are open to listening to customer feedback. I may take you up on your offer and shoot you an email with some thoughts later this weekend. I think though, if I could point to one standout example of what's gone wrong with AppSumo in the past year its this: http://www.appsumo.com/course-about-building-a-course/

I'm horrified to see AppSumo selling a course on how to sell courses on AppSumo - to me this wreaks of the ebook marketing scams selling ebooks that teach you how to sell ebooks that teach people how to sell ebooks. I've always thought of you guys as a strong and respected brand, but that's pretty low.

Thanks!
As a sidenote, I copied the text into the http://www.BlaBlaMeter.com bullshit detector and the first 15000 characters returned a value of [0.82, "This reeks"]
Certainly true. Speaking as a current Googler, I don't understand the motivation of all the current Googlers who are speaking anonymously here to defend Google.

Google's a good place to work. Like any, it has its faults and is not the right place for everyone.

Hopefully you'll make these important career decisions by, I don't know, talking to people you know and trust who do or have worked here, and not by taking the Internet ramblings of anonymous dorks at face value.
The reason copyright exists is because the person who created X (a book, a play, etc) wanted to be paid. The US Constitution describes the reason for copyright as "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The question then is, if you allow people to copy "information", then do you reduce progress, because people don't get paid for their work? The answer to that may be 'no', but it isn't as simple as comparing information to bread.

You might be interested to know of Thomas Jefferson's writings on the topic (to have "Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature and their own inventions in the arts for a term not exceeding ___ years but for no longer term and no other purpose." in the Bill of Rights) and Benjamin Franklin's on patents ("that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously"). TJ was initially opposed to monopolies of any sort, but that changed over time.

I point this out to suggest that these utopian ideas you see have echos even back into the centuries.
It was pushed back from by end of 2012 to "sometime in 2013". And with Intel and Co's record I would not remain hopeful.
As one of those 75,000 subscribers, I'm happy to say that's not correct. To state the obvious, if the product or service weren't enriching people's lives, why do you think they would choose to subscribe to it?
I have the best of both worlds. Turn my laptop on and it will automatically boot into Windows without even so much as a password prompt. From there I have Prey installed so I can track it.

I never use this Windows installation though and it contains no valuable/personal data. It's effectively a honey-pot operation system. I have a Linux installation on there too (my "real" os) which takes up the vast majority of the drive and uses full disk encryption. I insert a USB stick at startup which contains the boot partition+loader and boot from that.

I wrote it up here: https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...
You're missing the point. Individual workers or developers are replaceable, and at a serious power disadvantage. A union works by blocking all access to labor, and requiring the company to negotiate with the union alone. Unions used to do this by physically blocking non-union workers from going to job sites, today there are formal legal processes. There is no alternative to either method available to developers for closed platforms. If you opt out of developing for the more lucrative platforms, there are plenty of people willing to replace you.

I know it's more complicated than that and that there are exceptions, and that over time some places become hybridized. I'm still right.
That's how our justice system works. I'm glad that any citizen gets to be on a jury rather than some elite set of experts. We can't have it both ways. If given the choice between "experts" and average citizens on a jury I'd go with average citizens every time. I don't care how dumb or smart they are. What I care about is if we decide that a certain kind of person should be on certain juries then that creates a new kind of class system and would hurt us more than help.

You could apply the same argument to any other kind of task. "If we decide that a certain kind of person should perform certain surgeries then that creates a new kind of class system and would hurt us more than help." So, if jury trials are a good thing, that's not for the reason you gave, since you obviously wouldn't want random people to perform heart surgeries or design bridges.

I don't know that the current system does much for equality either. For example, back when I used to read reddit there were a lot of stories about how black people are disproportionately likely to be convicted of crimes in the U.S. So if that's true, you can't help but wonder, maybe trained experts could be trained to be more color-blind than an average citizen.

Have you seen the movie "Twelve angry men"? It becomes much less uplifting once you realize that in the real life it will be just like that except there may be no Henry Fonda in the room.
Isn't the maintainability of the code a function of who wrote it?
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I doubt it, unless you could find a cheat sheet for the test you are taking. It's not like the test is asking about information, facts or calculations; what would you type in to Google to answer a question like this? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Rav...
Additionally: I don't see what the anecdote has to do with the linked article, which was about marketing and customer relations. No one sane is saying that the world would be better off with no clever people, or that it's somehow a choice. The point was simply that for a business with customers, merely "executing well" doesn't work as well as being genuinely nice to your customers.

Then jdietrich turned the whole thing into a giant strawman about an obscure doctor using a different interpretation of "kind".
What's a free program that runs on XP but not 7?
For testing purposes.
So this is basically a fee on technical incompetence.
The IP system is pretty broken in a number of ways but this case is not the example to pick. Samsung clearly copied to a certain extent even if the patented items were arrived at independently the overall copying created a perception that they copied.

And Googorola and Samsung are the real rogues with their FRAND abuse.

Part of where this juries judgement seems to have come from is the sense that Samsung was copying more than they felt appropriate. I know that this might not be quite legally the correct approach but maybe it is the strength of using a jury that they can balance a total judgement rather than just summing individual damages.

The file sharing copyright judgements may be more sensible if a jury decided the damages.
That's funny, because most of the "hot" startups are choosing/using languages that they can actually find developers for. If great Perl hackers were easy to find, more startups would use Perl.
humans are the most intelligent species (excluding dolphins and mice)

When I read this for a split second I was thinking "man, how can this guy think dolphins are smarter than humans? And mice? What is he think... oohh, Heheh! Nice.
Sorry? I've been praising the iphone since it launched and continue to do so. This is a different matter.
I personally don't believe there to be real genetic differences in this context, but that conclusion doesn't seem to preclude there being differences in social and cultural predispositions for different races, then there would still be a direct causal relationship between race and intelligence.
So, this is somewhat untrue for us.

For example, let's look at some common web stack infrastructure:
* Web servers
* Database servers
* Monitoring servers
* Asynchronous task processors
* Scheduled task servers (eg, cron jobs)

In all of these cases, we want the service on that hardware to be able to use 100% CPU.
For example, it doesn't make sense to get N web servers, and then run M virtual instances with apache on them, when each instance will max out its available resources. Just run N dedicated web servers :-)

The same is true for pretty much everything else too, sometimes for different reasons.
Eg, you don't want your database servers or monitoring system to be impacted by multi-tenancy issues.

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Ha, I know, I wrote the article. I think I didn't correctly articulate my first comment. What I meant to say was something like "I don't think there's any way to overlook this, and that's a problem" because many of media outlets covering the trial have not even mentioned it.

I just imagine a bunch of Apple legal team members watching the foreman's interviews and all of them simultaneously face-palming. It probably won't cost Apple the verdict, but it will cost them more time and money on appeal.
From what I have been told, Google is willing to accept false negatives instead of admitting false positives.
This approach is not unique to Apple, excepting in how well executed it is (or appears to be), nor is it in any way surprising given their "precision" (zero-tolerance) centralized command-and-control culture.
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Also look at GIN. Although the documentation claims it is typically larger than GIST, in certain cases (a small lexeme set, which is not true in the general case full-text) it can seem to be smaller and faster. Mostly this can be true over constrained symbolic domains (which is a lot of computing also).

We've recently replaced a GIST index with a GIN one and got a lot more than the 'rule of thumb' speedup. More like an order of magnitude. Or two. So much, that Tom Lane suggested we might have stumbled onto a bug in GIST, so we'll see.
Android has slowly been lifting ideas from WebOS since Matias Duarte took over as head of UX design.

I don't know that we'll ever see card stacks and the like in Android, but many of the best UI changes in Android 4.0+ have been ideas that Duarte brought with him. The way Android handles notifications now would be a pretty good example.
This is a new fad and it undoubtedly leads to more maintainable code, but it still feels like a bad tradeoff to me: you get the verbosity of stricter languages without the benefit (compile-time errors) at worse performance than plain Perl. I'd rather write something new in Scala or Go nowdays than in strict "modern Perl" style / Moose (and I've used Perl almost exclusively for the past 13 years).
Can you shed some light on how you are using HireFireApp with node.js? I thought this was only good for Rails/rack frameworks.

Maybe I misunderstood and your main app is rails with some of the other functionality in node.
We don't filter anything out, as that's against Twitter's ToS. We do however facilitate sending all tweets from a user into a folder you define. You can of course decide not to read that folder :)

The UX on creating filters needs work, I agree. You can make filters as complicated as you like! e.g. "Any links tweeted by @tweetdigapp with the hashtag #opensource".

We have metric tracking for most user actions. Home rolled though, and I've not heard of Mixtab. Will take a look at them, thanks.
sudo koan --replace-self
sudo reboot -f
Apache has built-in icons - that you probably don't know your site exposes
Yup, just set a firmware password.

http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/02/how-to-set-the-firmware-p...
Tons of stuff!
Stay tuned for that in a future post :-)
We posted about this in 2010:
http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/02/24/analyzing-etsys-data-...

Probably time for a refresh!

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Given the overwhelming sample size of 37, I think we can all agree that this is statistically significant information which one should base big platform decisions on.
Doctors don't create.
There are things I really like about WebOS. One of my favorite features is cards and card stacking. It's so awesome to press the home button, then swipe left or right back to the last app you were in, showing a card that looks like the state of the app as it's running right now.

I know you can do app switching in Android 4.x (I have it on my Touchpad), but the items are small and in a vertical list, and shows all last opened apps, not just 'running' apps.

Still, due to the absolute lack of anything resembling a decent WebOS app, I run Android 4.0 on my Touchpad.
Link to actual API docs: http://localwiki.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html
Converting a Bicimal to a Fraction (Series Method)
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When you divide the world into "selling side" and "buying side" in that way, you end up defining most of the world as passive consumers. Part of what people like us value about the Internet is the way it disintermediates people, (very) gradually leveling the playing field between institutional sellers and individuals.

To say that new ideas on connecting buyers and sellers are unimportant is to surrender commerce and thus much of modern life to Walmart. Good if you want to pay a lot less for mustard, ketchup, and low-quality lawnmowers. Bad if you ever thought of starting a business or selling something via Kickstarter.
here's the shortest one i've found: http://wikiloopr.com/home
The loss of Craigslist and eBay would be deeply felt by normal people. But it sure would be good for huge companies that profit by locking up the retail channel and ensuring that most durable goods are seen as disposable.
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That is one aspect, but not the only one. When you start to write complex software you realize that the language, frameworks, libraries, design patterns, etc impact the maintainability of your code.
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Checkout Moose -- it is one of the thing the author points to about Perl. Tools like Moose do an amazing job of fixing the warts but keeping the power.

Moose's support and flexibility as an OOP layer is second to very few.

http://moose.iinteractive.com/
Nice. Has all this effort ever come in handy?
Source filters? Hahahahaha. The only acceptable source filter to use is Smart::Comments - https://metacpan.org/module/Smart::Comments - and even then, if you fire up code using Smart::Comments in the interactive debugger it's going to be a pain in the arse.

Moo/Moose (and Mo and Mouse if you must) are on the other hand game changers.
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By that token, isn't Samsung non-infringing? This rationale isn't even internally consistent.
I also refuse. I worry that if I had a high score I'd be a douche about or if I had a low score I'd resign myself to lower goals.
There is a legal delta between debt and equity as contract classes. What this post is describing is a 'bastardization' of these classes. The net result, is ultimately, an equity contract. It is a "weakened" or "attenuated" option to a convertible note (already, an attenuated alternative to convertible preferred stock). Maybe the OP or PG will chime in with more color.

here is the relevant bits, at least in part

3. Convertible equity is “equity” and probably can be characterized as qualified small business stock, which may have a tax benefit for investors.

4. Convertible debt with a maturity date longer than one year creates problems for California-based investors due to licensing requirements under the California Finance Lenders Law. Making it equity removes this issue.
You might fight about what name it's given, but someone's ancestry is definitely measurable and quite usable by whatever normal scientific tests you would normally come up with.

Just off the top of my head, there are over 93000 references in PubMed to "ancestry." They vary whether they call it "race" or "ethnicity" or "region of ancestral origin" but plenty of adults are quite happy talking about it.
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Nope. But then neither has my car insurance. ;) I've only been running this configuration for a little over a year anyway.
Maybe I should have said "genetic clustering" instead of "race".

Out of curiosity, when you say "people have been interbreeding like rabbits", does that mean that you believe that rabbit "breeds" are also a cultural distinction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rabbit_breeds
I guess I'm old fashioned in that I pause my inbox by closing gmail.
I'll definitely reach out. Looking forward to talking.
For those who are looking forward to having a laptop display with a high raw pixel count (the MBPr can only be run at 1920x1200 IIRC without hacks) - I guess this is it, and it looks like it'll run Win8 too.

Props to Samsung. Hope they don't call it a "cornea display" or something mocking.
Very true! It seems fashionable to make fun of Perl and C++, but in the real world, they are everywhere, doing everything and they work extremely well.
Probably Wine. Virtualization almost always prevents the guest OS from accessing the graphics card, which is very unsuitable for gaming.
Those are both excellent examples. One modifies the core language syntax to allow for writing tests in a cleaner and easier way. The other one modifies the language to make writing OO code in a new way, one that will be familiar to Java developers. I don't know of very many languages that allow developers to modify the core language via 3rd party modules. That's why Perl will never die - it will simply evolve as the needs of programmers change. Hey, Smalltalk
Roles are a nice idea ... ok we'll add those (Moose::Role). Hmmm, lets allow method signatures to declare types for their params ... sure no problem (MooseX::Method::Signatures). Wouldn't it be cool if we could treat arrays as objects and invoke methods on them? Sure, here you go (autobox::Core).
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What is good API design?
I've been playing around with perl over the last 10 years, and over the last 4 years or so doing perl professionally.

Because I'm in the job market at the moment I figured I'd take a closer look at Python and Ruby, so I'm concurrently reading two python/ruby books. To be honest, I don't see much in it. If I were to chose one I think I'd have to go with python, because Ruby looks to me, just like perl but with a different set of weird symbols to remember, and a slightly different set of downsides.

Python on the other hand looks like a sufficiently different take on the dynamic language problem, so as to be more interesting.

PHP I'm not bothering with right now. It's just like perl only with most, if not all of the design intelligence removed.