skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what's the point of this, for Dell's bottom line? Even with the relatively steep price, a developer-focused laptop is not going to be a best-seller. And in a few years, how many of those driver developers are going to be fully-focused on updating software for a niche laptop?

As much as I wish it were the case, what developers adopt is not always what will be profitable to the masses. And this ends up biting developers in the end. My Macbook Air is good enough that I don't think I need to go back to Linux...and I can be relatively confident that even if Apple continues to screw with the OS, the Apple OS X user base is so massive that niceties like homebrew will be supported as long, if not longer, than the niceties for a developer-focused laptop.
Good catch, thanks. Changing 'action' param is very useful trick. I guess limitation should restrict action to same domain of current page..
Thank you. Inspectlet looks promising. I will give them a try.
In order to "prepare" for a burst in traffic then you should just adopt a simple scaling strategy:

- If you can serve content static, serve it static.
(For example, if you are running a Wordpress site, then there are several Wordpress plugins which make this even easier)

- Use a CDN to offload your static media.
I'd recommend using CloudFlare OR even copying your CSS, Images & Javascript to S3 & changing their respective references to their new location.

- Any dyamic content should rely heavily on caching.
My first thought was, "I'd plant one in my boss's shoe, so I'd always know when he was on his way over," and realize that that's probably just about as weird and distrust-based as the wife example.
They're planning to work on this at AngelHack in Toronto on the weekend. As someone with a lot of content creation responsibility (with Ladies Learning Code and HackerYou), I think this tool would be awesome. Thoughts?
Ok, fair point, but even so - it's still not as much of a concern as other XSS and auto-complete vulnerabilities.
Battery life in hours?
Good. Linux driver support is a war almost won, yet, there are strange cases. So perhaps the emphasis the article does regarding this is... misleading.

Beyond that, seeing manufacturers making specific delivers for Linux is a nice symptom.
Against all odds Windows Phone 8 has been hacked on to the HTC HD2
Steve Jobs? I don't believe his adopted family was particularly wealthy.
IPhone 5 supply stabilizes in the U.S. for first time since launch
And if you're operating a cab, you should have full knowledge that people are going to use it as much for illegitimate uses as much as legitimate uses.

Your point being?
Slightly tangential response: "Why Apple does not do concept products"

http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/
Yea, I agree that making a solution to bridge the gap would be useful. Oooh! Great idea: if you took the data and automatically created a webpage that the person receiving the invoice could go to to pay the person for the amount, etc. and then put the link in the invoice would really help the seller get his money and it would be easier for the buyer to pay! win-win!
I will never understand a person like this and why they do the horrible things they do.

My guess?

Lulz

Seriously, this guy sounds like he's reveling in being the "bad guy", trolling for media attention and clicks.

We have all been trolled.
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I don't think the Surface Pro is going to change anything, nor do I believe "everyone" is waiting for the Pro. Perhaps the niche market of tech geeks who demand an ultra-high performance tablet, but the Pro is a very poor fit for the general mainstream market.

I mean, let's look at it this way - 50% thicker than the iPad and Surface RT. Nearly 40% heavier than the RT and iPad. Substantially poorer battery life (estimates are between 5-6h as opposed to the 9-10h demonstrated on the RT and iPad). Runs so hot that it needs to put a spinning fan in your hands.

The Pro is strictly a niche device. If the RT isn't doing well the Pro sure as hell isn't going to save it.
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The point isn't that it can be fixed. We all know the answer to that.

The point is the issue shouldn't exist. It's not about Gnome 3/Unity/KDE all deciding create the same interface - it's that they shouldn't have that power to begin with.

Once you create behemoths for managing wireless, power, the display, and rendering what do you expect to happen? These are huge artificial systems that prevent any actual innovation.

The Linux desktop needs awesome APIs and to use modern development practices that allow for decoupling between parts.
that's one of the most profound comments I've read in a really long time, an upvote doesn't really seem sufficient

I wish I had thoughts that could further this comment, right now they are failing me though

tangentially related thoughts http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?forum_id=2&thread_id=2...
Blazing Fast analytics using Redis
Eric Lippert is leaving Microsoft
Simple.com Banking service available by invitation USA only
XSS is ok. CSRF is ok. Losing my real password is the worst thing to happen
Possibly some spoilers if you haven't read the books and/or seen the movies.
Related - Does anyone know of a good tutorial out there for setting up PGP?
A greyhat should write a virus that hijacks computers and makes them Tor exit nodes. Anyone can run it voluntarily and claim ignorance. And people that get hijacked would have been hijacked by something anyway, so they will at least be supporting free speech with this one.
I would say this is also highly driven by non-hackers. Many schools are nothing more than Java certification shops and many companies select technologies pushed through salespeople.

I'm fairly sure languages such as Lisp and SmallTalk would be much more widespread today if the industry wasn't told what to use by clueless people driven by profits.
Sorry, but this reads like a paid review (which you disclosed in the last sentence).

One of the most important things for a developer is a screen with as much vertical resolution as possible. Why didn't they put the 1440x900 in it? The Macbook Air still seems to be the best (developer) Ultrabook when I consider all specs. And it is by far not the most expensive.
- On the backend, for the realtime Twitter data analysis, Tweitgeist uses Redstorm which is a JRuby DSL & integration to the Storm engine.
https://github.com/colinsurprenant/redstorm
https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

- Redis is used as a queue server.

- On the frontend side: Node.js, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, D3.js

Basically, Node serves a very simple API, everything else is in the browser.

... and please don't be too hard on the UI design, I basically suck with UI :P
So what can we do about this?
Since it includes what seems to be a full Emacs distribution, Mac OS X also contains a few "easter eggs" in /usr/share/emacs/22.1/etc:[1]

- What is claimed to be the Mrs. Fields cookie recipe

- How to say hello in many languages

- An interview with Richard Stallman from 1986

- Several adult-themed man pages

[1] 22.1 is the appropriate directory on 10.8.2, it may be different on older versions of OS X.
I got:

Graphdat is a very intense graphing experience and to pull it off,
we need a browser that meets some minimum requirements.

To use Graphdat, you need to upgrade your browser

I'm running Firefox nightly. (User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20.0 Firefox/20.0)
thanks for looking and commenting! good point on the "filmmakers only." The Learn More link should take you to the help page. /help.html
By talking to them once a year, same as I did before Facebook was invented. I'm not sure why you think there's any awkwardness involved? If you're in New York once a year, you make contact with the people you know in New York once a year. This is perfectly normal behavior, always has been.
Even a hit rate of half that is pretty solid. 30% close rate on pitches is ridiculously high. Keep rocking.
LOL, I simply do not understand why they keep producing that low resolution... a bad joke perhaps... :P
I have a feeling this is going to end as an ironic morality tale, where his address will end up published online by Anonymous or /b/ or the like.
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The 55,000 STEM visas discussed in the original article are all work visas. They require a job offer and proof that no American is available to take the position.

You are right that the diversity visa holders are eligible for benefits. In practice, however, immigration doesn't happen if people can't find jobs. During the 2007-2009 period, all immigration, including illegal immigration, dropped to zero, and may even have gone into reverse:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125356996157829123.html

The idea that people move to the united states in order to rely on the USA's incredibly shitty welfare system is just laughable.

Finally, this is 55,000 people a year. Do you think an increase in 0.01% of the US population is going to make any appreciable difference to any federal program's budget, even if all of them immediately applied for welfare? You could let in 10 times as many people and it would still be a rounding error.
> Have you tried thinking up new mathematical objects?

Yes, I have. Off the top of my head, the objects I'm interested in are often monoidal, but usually lack inverses.

Strings don't have any natural group structure (though as free monoids there is an obvious way to extend them into free groups), nor metric spaces or context-free grammars or finite state machines.

Of course groups are ubiquitous, but I think your claims of universality are vastly exaggerated.
As a developer who has good business sense I immediately look at their pricing. I am very impressed, this pretty much blows the other services out of the water. Switching to mailjet would save me thousands of $ a year, I was already in the proccess of doing so before this came up on hackernews (no idea it was a new start-up I found it via google).
> So you think it's fine to allow someone to use your computer to transfer child porn and other illegal stuff with no consequences?

You mean you'd like to shutdown all of core routers on the internet?
It seems like a lot of people are objecting to the raid/seizure itself in addition to the possibility of conviction, so I have a question. Is it reasonable for the police to investigate an exit node operator for traffic coming from his node, even if they know he's an exit node operator?

The way I see it, it's their job* to determine whether the traffic in question was relayed, or whether it was the exit node operator himself generating that traffic. In an ideal world, they could just call him up and ask nicely - but if he was actually guilty, he'd say "No, no way it was me!" and immediately start destroying any evidence. On the other hand, raiding someone's home or server rack and confiscating all of their computers isn't a great solution if most exit node operators are not guilty themselves.

I'm not aware of a good solution that avoids inconveniencing exit node operators without giving them some kind of blanket immunity to investigation that goes beyond just relayed traffic.

* - I'm aware that this might be impossible, but you can't know whether it will be ahead of time. It's possible that they could raid him and find no proof, even if he's guilty. It's also possible that they could raid him and find exactly what they were looking for. Like many investigation tactics, there's no guaranteed payoff.
Purchase Order number.
Lots of people want to have an effect on the world.

It would be nice to have a positive effect, but that often involves a lot of work.

So just have a negative effect. It's like griefers in online games.
80 as well. Keeps stuff tidy across many monitors, and as a lucky bonus at work a NERDTree window and two 80 column windows fit perfectly on one monitor.

Edit: guess I should add I primarily work in Python, C, and Javascript.
Cell phones shouldn't have better resolution then a 1500$ laptop. Period.
Microsoft sold 40,000,000 windows 8 licenses in 30 days. Those licenses carry very low manufacturing and delivery costs. Their tablets carry high logistical costs and the article suggests a change of about 2,000,000 units over 90 days.

Microsoft is not a hardware company. They haven't made a significant bet on becoming one.
Long enough for me to use at an all-day conference without worrying about recharging.

I'd estimate somewhere between 6 and 8 hours. It's hard to say because I've never actually run it down fully, but it still estimates another couple hours' worth after I've been using it for 5 hours or so. Estimates should be taken with a grain of salt, but for comparison, that's more than I get on my larger laptop, and comparable to what I get on my Macbook Air.
1. Reduce keepalive, even with nginx 60 is too much (unless it's an "expensive" ssl connection).

2. set vm.swappiness = 0 to make sure crippling hard drive swap doesn't start until it absolutely has to

3. Use IPTABLES xt_connlimit to make sure people aren't abusing connections, even by accident - no client should have more than 20 connections to port 80, maybe even as low as 5 if your server is under a "friendly" ddos. If you are reverse proxying to apache, connlimit is a MUST.
Did anyone else note the similarity with Vernor Vinge's excellent fiction 'A Fire Upon the Deep' and that headline? I guess it is going to be one of the metrics of civil war state if the country's Internet connectivity begins to fluctuate.
Cable companies aren’t “forcing” people into piracy
Couldn't agree more on that one. When given a task, people who take programming just as a job will look for a open source project to hack around and taylor it to do a job, instead of doing the hard implementation by themselves.
An even better reason for us ("us" being an extremely general term for Internet users that I use without asking anyone's permission) to figure out someway to stop him before the legislators make things even worse.
Pretty much, eventually he'll piss off the wrong person, and they'll either have lots of money and make sure he gets done for something, or they'll be incredibly nasty and find out where he lives and either post it online for some just desserts, or go give him a slap. Or both.
While I see your point, that would basically make the statistic useless.
Please - the landing page does a great job.

The real time graphs look great.....D3 + cube/node?

If they're cube related, definitely the best i've seen for it.
Don't bother dude, you can't argue with haters. They're gonna hate no matter what.
Getting someone to commit cash is better than someone only saying they like a product.
Yeah and especially tablets (with smaller form factors), so it's weird to hang on to this pitiful resolution.
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I sure wish I got more than one downvote sometimes.
Some further back story to Hunter Moore, bodhisattva and humanitarian:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/22/how-hunte...

http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/3430751/
Totally offtopic, but please don't set the navigation on your website up like this. Scrolling to the top of the story begins loading other stories, and the navigation really seems to have a mind of its own.

I'm sure it's great for mobile, but on a desktop this site is nearly unusable.
If he owns the equipment and runs the service, he could put his business at risk, yeah.

If he leases the hardware to a third individual and that third person/organization runs an exit node, then he is at a safe harbor.

I have experience running Tor nodes and can help if he is interested.
I saw a geo-targeted Facebook post yesterday telling me (and everyone in Florida) to come to the Microsoft Store to check out the Surface RT. Problem is, the nearest store is a 4 hour round trip. They have exactly one store in Florida, in Orlando. (There are two temporary "holiday" stores in Miami.) It's hard to take a company seriously when they're so uncertain of their retail business that they won't even cover the top 30 U.S. markets with stores.

I thought their partnership with Barnes and Noble was in part to address this. It wouldn't take much to expand the Nook store-within-a-store to include Surface tablets. I've been moderately impressed with the Nook sales reps in their stores. Sure, it would create some conflicts with the Nook Android tablets, but money can solve that problem.
I mean, what value does adding addresses serve to the bottom line?

Because a competitor site did it. Check out this blog[1] for some details.

Granted, that site did it because they wanted to profit from people paying to get their stuff taken down while pretending to be a lawyer. Which may have crossed a line which will land those sociopaths in jail.

[1] http://www.popehat.com/tag/is-anybody-down/
No, certainly not. However, in Germany "child porn" was extended to encompass any (fictional) written narrative [1] as well as paintings or renderings - including manga - or any video involving adult actors that look like minors. So there's a case to be made that not all material that might seem interesting to a child porn consumer produces victims. I'm not an expert in that field, but constantly extending the covered topics is certainly not helpful.

[1] Kubricks Lolita could be illegal in germany now http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056193/
Iran is asking to be trolled.
How well does it support multiple monitors? I like to be able to plug in two monitors and use the laptop screen to have three total displays.
How is it any different than a coed distributing a powerpoint presentation about her sexual history as a "thesis" complete with photos, rankings and commentary about their partners performance? I don't believe that woman or the social and email networks the document traversed faced any criminal mischief charges? People have always took console during breakups with their friends with whom they share (largely untrue) stories and get positive feedback as therapy. The concept of "friends" has clearly changed now encompassing a huge population so why not exploit that as a startup?

As long as the information presented is not fraudulently obtained, I fail to see how at first glance how the company is going to be held legally culpable. The only difficult area will be as it was before: restricting information about minors (especially images) and ensuring that the site is not used to harass victims of a crime.

However, what has changed since his last website went offline is the implementation of many new "cyber-bullying" laws. I think the case could be made that posting information like this now would amount to "bullying" in many jurisdictions. But in my opinion, these new statutes really need to be tested and bounds set as they are poorly conceived laws.

As for decaying moral standards, any ethical debate about sexual morality in the US lost its legitimacy a long time ago. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. Not judging women as "sluts" or men as "dbags" for their behavior has the necessary consequence of accepting just exactly this sort of thing on the flip side of that coin.

This guy will face a lot of negative publicity that's to be sure, but it's the kind of attention he apparently craves. And from the success of his previous endeavor (his alexa ranking was not insignificant), it seems more likely than not he will succeed in achieving some SEO success with this one as well. What is missing from the article and what intrigues me from an entrepreneurial perspective is any sense of how he intends to make money. And I kind of wonder how he is getting good legal advice as, if I recall correctly, he skipped out on paying his last attorneys [0]. Also if memory serves, he sold the trademark and concept for isanyoneup to someone whom expressly wanted to shut it down. I wonder what the fine print of that contract has to say about future endeavors.

[0] http://bv.1110.cds.contentcolo.net/uploads/files/HunterMoore...
cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music also gives some notable dates in music-history.
I read it as Purchase Order number.
I am reasonably sure you meant "bad move", and yet I doubt.
> Sorry, but this reads like a paid review (which you disclosed in the last sentence).

If that's what stands out the most to you, there's probably nothing I can say to change your mind.

> Why didn't they put the 1440x900 in it?

No idea. I have no connection to Dell; I just filled out the form when they had public signups for the beta over the summer.

> One of the most important things for a developer is a screen with as much vertical resolution as possible.

Maybe if you do front-end/design work - I don't. I actually prefer the resolution on this compared to the Macbook Air - less eye strain when staring at a terminal all day.
"The worst part of "work hard and you may become a millionaire" is for the majority it is a lie"

What else is there to believe in? I find the supposedly realistic belief that "life is hard and then you die" very depressing. From personal experience, the only thing keeping me going in my worst times is the thought that I can still turn things around and succeed (again) - otherwise I would just give up because what the f am I living for?

And I don't see success as being a millionaire - people define success in different ways, to each his own. You gotta have something to keep you going and it does feel better to believe that you're just temporarily down rather than being a born loser who will die a loser.
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"And so what does adding addresses do? OK, it gives the submitter more of a feeling of power. For the average gawker...how many of them are going to get significant value from knowing the address? And OK, inevitably, there will be a few users who get "value" from the address, and these users will cause significant blowback towards your already over-the-top site. The only logical reason I can think of going this legally questionable (nevermind unethical) route is that he's afraid he's not getting enough attention as it is."

The only thing I can think of is that it separates his site from other voyeur/peeping tom fetish sites and takes it a step further. For somebody with that kind of fetish, I'm sure this site would be their number one choice. Now, is that his mentality? Surely doesn't seem that way based on his comments, but that is all I could think of as a reasonable explanation.
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From the linked article:

Three things fangirls have tweeted at him in the past week:

"If you had aids, id still f--k you just to say i have aids and that i got aids from you";

"One day I'm going to have Hunter Moore tattooed on my stomach with an arrow pointing down that says 'God Was Here'"

"I wonder how many girls have tried to steal @Huntermoore used condoms."
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Some good points in here, but one thing to keep in mind:

The American right hates higher education for reasons that have nothing to do with meritocracy. Higher education takes young people away from their small often rural and suburban cultural bubbles and exposes them to a larger world. This exposure undermines the parochial teachings of fundamentalism, and tends to corrode prejudices through contact. (E.g. seeing that gay people are not monsters or twisted freaks that only want to get in your pants.) The cosmopolitan influence of universities is deeply hated and resented by social conservatives.
This is excellent advice! Thank you.
I think Steinbeck's original phrasing is better:

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Yes, I'd like to hear about what other people are doing for private email too. Anonymous is pretty special case. How is everyone protecting day-to-day communications?