skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you were really asking for trouble by registering/using a domain name with their company's name in it.
>> "There are obviously underlying issues that haven't been resolved yet."

Like why people are going on and on about it...
I don't carry around a pen in my wallet -- that goes into one of the pockets of my coat, along with a notepad -- but I do have a flashlight in my wallet.
I can already do this with Firefox 2.0 (Firefox 3.0 from the Ubuntu repository crashed for me when I installed a new version of Ubuntu so I had to downgrade Firefox).
And I especially like that it is not tied to the data models, so this means we can build in some business logic.

Can you elaborate? I'm doing my first big django project now and am looking for lessons from others!
This would make sense if he wasn't using their brand name in the domain name. It's not so much that he's got a competing application as it is that he's piggybacking on their branding by using a domain name that's different from their trademarked name by a single letter in front. I'd say he's pretty clearly in wrong on that point and they're being very cool about the whole situation. Plenty of other companies would start things off with a cease and desist. Instead of paying the lawyers to print a nastygram on firm letterhead they've offered him a little money and tried to make things easy.
The best advice to Microsoft: just survive the moment. Apple is in its high time. People love apple period; No matter what Microsoft does at this time he is the bad guy until the wind blows in a different direction.
It seems that Microsoft merely provided the Air Force with standard Windows, pre-configured with a template according to their specifications. If somebody has a pointer to some reference that indicates that Microsoft provided them with a tweaked version of Windows (not just tweaked configuration templates), please give us a pointer to it.

Microsoft already provides similar pre-built configuration templates on its website for everybody to download. For example, when it gets security certifications, it distributes the templates it used for the certifications. Other security-related organizations also provide their own recommended templates along with documents explaining them setting-by-setting. Using (tweaked) versions of those templates has been standard practice for any professional Windows network administrator since at least Windows 2000.

[edit: I am pretty sure that we can get the government's standard templates available too. I know the NSA has made some available for a long time now, for example.]
Sri Lankan army website 'hacked'
You can take a look to Justinmind Prototyper v2.5. it's a new tool to simulate and prototype.
That's great. Now, for the hacker-angle on the piece: How do I use this to do something useful in way that's smarter than how I'd do it in Python or Java?

And no, I don't consider an algorithm to calculate a Fibonacci sequence particularly useful.
See also, http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
I blogged a bit about this:

* http://www.clintonsecurity.com/2009/01/gui-mockup-tools.html

* http://www.clintonsecurity.com/2009/01/more-on-gui-developme...
http://www.justinmind.com/wireframe/how_it_works
Toys that detect brainwaves
there are plenty of additional articles out there that you can find easy enough that talk about the advantages of functional programming and immutable data.
I have a Fossil magnetic money clip that I've had for years. It's slightly larger than the size of a credit card and about half inch thick. Goes in the front pocket and I barely notice it. Shares that pocket with a pen[1] and car key+fob; phone goes in the other front pocket. A Moleskine (of the thin variety) lives in the back pocket.

Been pretty happy with that 'set-up'.

[1] Either a Bic Atlantis, whose clicking action and writing smoothness I adore, or a Zebra which is a fantastic pocket citizen due to its being metal and its size, and leaves clean, thin lines.
The technology is really simple. As we occasionally described it: "Hot rock -> make steam -> make boat go." The complexity really comes in the metalurgical issues, in my opinion.

40 years is a substantial period of time. And yes, you CAN find Google results for reactor accidents, but you can also find results about how NASA faked the moon landings. The government has strict definitions about what constitutes a nuclear accident and required to report them. But there are currently nearly 100 active nuclear reactors, and have been for 40+ years. 4000 reactor-years of experience in arguably the harshest conditions possible DOES mean something.

I understand your point that things could change. But if we need to reduce emissions NOW, with technology available at scale NOW, nuclear is a very good option.
I believe it's the Amazon river.
"How do you know I don't do my research by making provocative statements on public fora?"

There is something to be said for that. I would not have thought to Google for "R-like interactive environment, built with Clojure and Java charting and numerics libraries." But now that I know it exists, I'm pretty excited about the possibilities.
Confessions of a tech blogging grandmother
See Jacob's post here: http://jacobian.org/writing/rest-worst-practices/

Basically, it's a bad idea to couple something like django-piston too tightly to the underlying models because in any even moderately useful API there will be plenty of resources you want to expose that are actually cobbled together from various different models (or even other storage locations such as a search index or external web service).
I would guess the "road" is the Amazon River. Being Earth's biggest river, it makes sense to the slogan too.
45 minutes north, on the other side of the Bay. Phew. Thank goodness for proxies.
Why?

Chrome = default;
FF = develop;
IE = check;
Opera/Safari = quick fix of masochism
I thought they were talking about my Halloween costume a couple years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattmichielsen/285081298/in/set...
(yes, it actually worked)
Taiwan's big five DRAM makers post massive losses
For the same reasons it would be nicer to ssh into a real, not virtual, unix server machine from Mac OS X. It's a real unix underneath with a proper terminal built in. I'm temporarily doing similar at work on a Windows machine and Putty just doesn't cut it. I could look into cygwin or whatever but sod that, Ubuntu will be replacing it shortly.
I'm used to the mousewheel button, all links I click with it, even if I don't need that page, I go back and close it.

Simply, get addicted to that button :D
So how long until Disney decides that Hulu should use the Move Media Player and not support any browser other than IE just like abc.com. I like Hulu because it's simple and works well, something that Disney seems to not understand.
forgive me for asking. What is there to learn here?
Is it me or it doesn't work on chrome?
"Clojure looks like a perfectly competent Lisp-on-JVM (with immutability!), but I don't see it changing how I think about anything."

The immutability is a non-trivial change in thinking about how to write a program. You can write a program without mutation in Common Lisp, and you can mutate things in Clojure, but the greater cost of implementing mutation in Clojure means you are less likely to do so. This leads to different programs.

No, that is not as big of a change in thinking as Lisp was compared to the languages of the day when McCarthy created it. But I find it a fine addition to the family of Lisps, nonetheless.
Adobe Catalyst will be the next big thing in prototyping.
It would be great if both companies cross-licensed their font smoothing technology to each other, and allowed users to choose which method they want on either OS.
Apple has always been a secretive company. That was true in the mid nineties when they were near death, and it's true now that they are an industry leader. So I don't think you can say they're "getting away" with anything because of their position, they've always been that way. Heh!

Secrecy means poor practices can fester in dark corners where no one is watching. Developers squawking about this will likely bring the needed attention to the subject to get it solved.
how does this link works?
I don't know, man. All those flashing "I QUIT!!"s seem kind of disrespectful. I guess it would be understandable if he were leaving because the place sucked, but according to the last screen, it doesn't, so what gives?
I have wathced Lost from abc.com using Safari on my Mac. It did require me to download and install the SilverLight plug-in. I do not know the situation for other OS and browsers.
A lot of times, I'll get an album because I like one song I've heard from it, or because I like other albums from the same artist, and then even if I don't, right now, like most of what I got, there's no reason to actually throw away the ones I don't. Even if I never end up liking those other songs, at least having them will keep me from wasting time getting them again in the future when I notice the hole in my collection or album and wonder if, just maybe, I'd like those other songs...

Disk space is cheap enough, in other words, that it's easier to just keep songs than keep an updated list of songs that you don't want.
http://clojure.org/macros
Free php library for the google analytics API
the feature I liked is to filter by category, so I find the cat I want
The trouble is most of the revenue seems to come from professional media videos.
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Just like HN applies the term "hacking" or "hack" to pretty much anything, a programming blog can do the same for "optimizing".
Wow, even Amazon had a flaming logo in the 90's! I don't feel so bad now!
But the point is that you never sure what is the next thing the management will decide to use . Sure if you young you can spend your lonely nights and weekend hacking Clojure or Scala but in the end of day your boss will decide on retarded Java framework bla bla technology and all you hours were just for nothing. And anyways when you have friends,girlfriend/wife and kids it becomes very difficult to spend enough time jumping from one cool tech to another.

Some of my non-comp-sci friends and some programmer friends say that software development is like prostitution the older you get the less money you make until you are discarded , unlike for example accountant who starts low but steadily reaches some status .
All of these "rockstars" and start-up founders can be imagined as elite prostitutes who just look better and do it better for more money of course, can retire early and may be score a picture on tabloid with some politician and then make a million bucks (EXPOSURE).
In the end we are just slaves of capitalist system whatever we admit it or not ( most of the time our brainwashing won't allow us to do it)
A UDRP or ACPA dispute costs nothing, or next to nothing. These are administrative provisions used to protect against domain squatting.

The so-called purchaser files a motion with the registrar, registrar reviews, and takes your domain. This is all before the courts get involved. No attorney fees or court costs required.
Thanks, but jeez people it's just internet karma, it ain't that important.
I wonder what this portends for the cable networks?

Once every show is offered by the producers directly from their web site, for free, be it Hulu or something else, what is the point in "TV channels?" What is the benefit that studios derive from their relationship with the cable companies? Does this reduce the cable companies role to just supplying bandwidth?

Yes, the cable companies have a lot of lobbyists, which is how they have been sustaining their economic position. But I think Disney has a couple lobbyists, too.
I did think twice before submitting this article. Honestly, even i am tired of all the repeated talk on the issue, but this probably had the most balanced and sensible view on the issue, that i have come across so far. I specifically found the section "Some thoughts on common statements" quite good.

If one has a few minutes, reading this might not be a waste of time (as it initially appears from the name and the topic referenced in it), and could give some good food for thought on the social aspect of collaborating with people who are different from oneself.
Unwritten hacker news law that every coding horror post has to at least get a mention.
Erlang demand skyrocketing
Accepting a purchase offer also shows bad faith. Basically it shows that the domain owner just wants to make money selling the domain to an entity that owns the trademark.

[Edited: Best Course of Action? Talk to a Lawyer.]
You got your Erlang in my Ruby
Have you folks learned nothing from previous examples?

Just a few weeks ago, the 'hacker community' was raising torches and pitchforks to defend a logo creator accused of "stealing his own work". We later learned he was likely guilty as charged: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552160

Have any of you spoken with Zillow? Before picking up your e-torches and e-pitchforks and twittering yourselves into apoplexy again, you might want to pause and ask "why would a company who depends upon developers do something so obviously hostile to third-party developers?"

Something doesn't smell right here, and public airing blind conclusions in a "too smart to be wrong yet again" echo chamber doesn't help matters for either party.
The people isn't exactly like your average or typical Catholic.

And if I recall correctly, the last pope moved to the right under the influence of the current pope.

The current pope, with his apparent pseudo embrace of the nouveau anti-evolutionists, is significantly further to the right then most of the Vatican establishment, which has considered the creation stories to be an allegory for many, many years now.

When we get a new pope who knows what he'll be like.
Only you can make this decision. Using LegalZoom trades money for risk. Using a lawyer does the opposite. The amount of risk is directly proportional to your starting point within the spectrum of complication. For example, if it were only you then LegalZoom carries with it less risk than if you have three co-founders with whom you will be splitting both equity and responsibility.

As an aside, I see a question like this once a week on HN. What's this fascination with "incorporation" that people think it is somehow a milestone in their business? Folks, this is administrative crap: make a decision and move the heck on. You are already smart enough to know, deep down inside, that using a lawyer costs more money but should protect you from more eventualities. Only you can place a price on the risk you're willing to take on.
An Affordable Salvation
Enterprise world is so full of insanity that this is just a non-issue. The company is going to waste a lot of money but who cares? You, as a developer, are lucky enough to work with Oracle, which is an excellent db.
Here, I am forced to fill excel sheets for deployments (I have to write "compile this package here" or "copy/paste the executable here" -- no kidding), which are checked by a committee on tuesday and executed on the next thursday. No deployments are allowed in other days of week, except for very critical stuff.
So, the insanity is everywhere, and choosing the wrong database vendor is just the top of the iceberg.
Download link to Firefox 3.5 beta 4 (in case you were like me and it wasn't blindingly obvious): http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
The difference being that Oracle getting itself into an unrecoverable state is really really rare whereas MySQL corrupts data at the drop of a hat. Seriously, even Monty himself has blogged about it.

Supporting your own database effectively means writing your own database. Once you start hacking at it to fix a problem it's a fork and you're on your own. Any organization that puts its eggs in one person like this is bonkers.
I just steal those tiny biros from betting shops.
Fixing BackColor/BackgroundImage for TabControls in .NET
The Best Programming Fonts
Hey, Don't Dump. Debug
these decisions are not technical, they are political.

Wrong, they're financial. The only factor is what the auditors will sign off on.
There used to be a time here, we almost never saw links to coding horror, that was a good time.
You can't do any of that without tariffs on imports from countries which don't do it. So you get to choose, depression or bankruptcy (and then depression).
Sounds like they are trying the cheapest way to get something they really need. Don't even think about just handing it over to them without a fight.
And yes, selling it for "a couple hundred bucks" is worse than just handing it over to them :P
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Searching For The Next Google
The ABC site (the "abc full episode player") isn't even silver light, it's some kind of half-assed, totally custom plugin. From the site (when browsing on linux):

Oops

Our new video player is only available for:

* Windows XP/Vista - Internet Explorer, Firefox
* Mac - Firefox, Safari.

To watch, please download the appropriate browser.
Zen is wonderful. In my opinion, a mindfulness or meditation program shouldn't just have a profound impact on your life - it should make your life start to have a profound impact on you!

I highly recommend the following books, which really help you chew through the layers of expectations, belief and doubt when it comes to Buddhism (and in particular, Zen):

http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Pursuit-Happiness-Zen-Guide/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/Buddhism-without-Beliefs-Stephen-Batch...
Cartel! And yet I still think that's an improvement. At least this way they can disintermediate the local telco monopoly.
More horror, less coding in this post.
Study: Web Users Prefer Speed Over Customization
That's good to know, when my 160GB eventually dies I don't want to start leaving stuff off my iPod. Only have about 15k tracks on it, but that still uses 130GB.

I use it as a portable HDD sometimes so it's always nice to have more space for that too.
It depends on your anatomy. I have a pronounced negative camber to my shins, so kneeling like that puts almost all my weight on my metatarals. Unfortunately, my hips aren't flexible enough to allow sitting crosslegged, either, so standing, laying, and walking meditation are about it for me.

Some systems of meditation I've encountered encourage experimentation to find a posture that works for you.
Smells like FUD, let me guess the source...

Oh! Techcrunch! No wonder!

Just because a guy in Tonga (where there are no banks) couldn't get paid in time can't spin the fact that a billion apps were already sold and paid, flawlessly.

But that guy in Tonga, poor guy...
Better: http://dickensurl.com/
Adobe Catalyst is promising in that it aims to allow designers working on Illustrator/Photoshop templates to convert them into Adobe Flex UI screens (mxml). It is "promising" because from what I've seen so far the MXML output isn't very developer friendly.

The aim, of course, is for the designer to generate the exact look and feel for the wireframes and render them (using Catalyst) to MXML for the Adobe Flash/Flex developer to code in the behavior/functionality. Catalyst will require Flex Builder 4 (which will not be out until 2nd half of 2009).

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/

FXG (the interchange format spec - from Adobe CS to Flex):

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/FXG+1.0+Spe...
FEMA Removes 9/11 Coloring Book For Children From Website
Swine flu on may 1,2009
I've used Fireworks and it works like a charm. CS4 especially has some new features that make prototyping a cinch.
If the domain is infringing on a trademark and the app is thus violating the API's TOS, being able to walk away in a new pair of shoes might be a good deal.

They aren't being heavy-handed, you just have no leverage.
"This has happened before and will happen again"

It's been a few weeks now, I think it's OK to quote Battlestar as classic SciFi canon now.
Hopefully it means just the opposite: ABC shows will show up on Hulu along with Fox/NBC ones. Then we could all watch Lost on Hulu.
The problem is the more experienced you become at some point the "worse" professionally you will be perceived, unlike 90% of all the professions out there that the older guys will ALWAYS be better.
I read an assertion in an article a few days ago that within a decade we would have personal music players capable of holding every music recording ever made -- which struck me as unlikely, but I was curious how close it was. After all, as the article points out, we currently have 2.5 inch drives that hold 0.3 terabytes...

One (conservative) estimate of the amount of commercially available music is six million songs (http://boingboing.net/2008/02/18/worlds-most-complete.html). At about three minutes each, that's 18 million minutes, or 34 years of songs. Encoded at approximately a megabyte a minute, that's 18 terabytes. If storage space on a hard drive continues to double every two years, we should have 20 terabyte 2.5 inch drives in about 12 years. So "music players with every song within a decade" are at least within the bounds of possibility.

Of course, no electronics company has an incentive to sell music players that big, so you'd need a service like the one in the article to build it. :)
People suffer from severe anxiety
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Demigod: So much for piracy
The money quote: "When the focus of energy is put on customers rather than fighting pirates, you end up with more sales."
Apple Profiles Twitter
It's not mentioned, but I love Pragmata[1]. It's expensive, but gorgeous and very usable. And I stand by what I said about it earlier: http://twitter.com/yan_i/status/1442859670

[1] http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragma.htm
Launching a Zillow competitor named "iZillow" and using a different data source is a violation of the trademark.
I used to like Monaco, but its parentheses are kind of annoying if you program in a lisp like language, or if you need to nest a lot of parentheses. Now im using dejavu sans mono.
Really excited to try out things with TraceMonkey and the DOM workers. Also:

"The String object now has trim(), trimLeft(), and trimRight() methods."

You know, it's a little thing, and easy to implement yourself, but I'm still glad this finally got added.
my favorite programming font (and I think it is a pity that the article doesn't mention it): Envy Code R (http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...)

I just love this font! it's such a beautiful piece of font-design and I only can recommend you to try it out!
Not sure where he dug up that price chart. We run Small Business Server and it gets us the whole OS, along with Enterprise Edition on 4 processors for like $2,000 all in. That's what, 10 billable hours to pay for it? Cheaper than the box it's running on.

SQL Server is cheap, and like he said, it's miles better than the free options.
Balsamiq Mockups (http://www.balsamiq.com) is an awesome way to make mockups. They also recently introduced a way so one mockup can "link" to another mockup (http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=1181).

You can use this for usability testing on Macs or PCs (it uses Adobe AIR). I bought the license for the desktop version ($79) after downloading it for free. The license lets you load/save multiple mockups.

There's also a web version, although I haven't tried it.