skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the version linked there, but Ubuntu does have an ARM version in the works:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9527593286.html
I don't believe this is going to be a game changer for two reasons.

The first one is that the processor can't be that much of the total cost of a system. So these aren't going to be that much cheaper than a regular netbook unless they have a radical new form factor. If there is a new form factor, then it isn't really a netbook, is it?

The second is that it's all about software. Until we get to the point where everything is online, backward compatibility is still going to be very important and there are many things that people use that only run on windows. Or at least only on x86.
i think that's true, but in this case i think he knew that he wasn't being honest the whole time... which is partly why he apologizes so profusely.
Do we really need smaller iPods?
And yay though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil because paying customers were at my side.
TiE is pretty legitimate, probably one of the older, more well-known organizations in the Valley. They have serious pull. ie. Tiecon East in 2007 had John Kerry as a speaker.
Try 1Password plus dropbox to sync passwords across multiple machines.
Who watches the watchman?
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I can't be the only person who hates those PearlTree "maps". When people gripe about stupid uses of flash, this is exactly what they're talking about.
Clojure 1.0
from another perspective, i wonder how much time is wasted by the average person choosing, memorizing, and resetting random passwords that no one will ever try to crack.

i wonder if the value saved by well-protecting a user's data is a net gain or loss on the whole... http://qzip.in/nX
John Kerry is on a paid speaking circuit, right? Either way, the best part of conferences are the other people and how easy it is to get to know them. The list of companies isn't bad at all.
I didn't say that a blogger shouldn't link to any of his posts. Of course every blogger has a interesting bend of thought which at time he/she feels the need to have feedback.

The spam is when "every" post comes in.
One more for "comfortable". I'm making in the general ballpark of my dayjob salary. Self-funded (for $60 back in the day, and a whole lot of reinvested earnings and sweat equity).
I don't think he is a loser because of a t-shirt, but working for facebook in the anti porn division seems like an epic fail for someone that likes to hack hw or sw. Yet, the perception of what you do often changes when you dig a little deaper.

I work for the army.
I work for the army anizing violent crime.
I work for the army building tools to help people analize violent crime.
I work for the army building tools to help people analize violent crimes commited by people in the army.

I am a consultant...
The root of the issue is not idea-centricism, but self-centricism.

People think their ideas are unique, but they're not. They think that their implementation of a pre-existing thing is different or better, but it's not. They think their service is worth paying for or acquiring, but it's usually not.

That's why there's so damn much me-tooism in the "startup" world (and everywhere else):

"If it feels special or new or exciting to me, it must be exciting or new or special."

We live out our entire lives looking out of our own skulls, mired in our own viewpoints, so everyone feels like he or she is the center of the universe (for better and for worse).

It's basic human nature, and therefore people who are not like that are a very rare item indeed. Overcoming it can make you an immensely powerful force.
Tjetter: now with time-delayed replay of conversations between random strangers
I had a conversation with one of their representatives just to figure it out. Their list of speakers and panelists is very legit (http://www.tiecon.org/home/program/speakers_and_panelists) and they seem to be sponsored by the right kinds of companies.
"Generally, how is one to tell that an industry conference is good?"

After messing around with the concept for the past month or so, I think actually you can learn a lot about a conference based on its twitter traffic. For example, here are is my compilation of the tweets from Blogwell last week:

http://www.squidoo.com/blogwell-ny-2009

Of course that doesn't help you for this event, but Squidoo is actually coming out with a module to facilitate making pages like this in a week so I'm hoping that more people will start making them about other conferences in the future. I think you can get about 80% of the insights from the conference in ~15 minutes this way, so from the reader perspective its great.
Man that guy pushes a lot of releases. And all these require a restart of FireFox right?
Indeed. Here is the email I got, just to put this all in context:

subject: Your Company is Nominated !

Your company has been nominated. We found it to be a unique niche market.
This is the organization and the nomination for your company.
http://www.tiecon.org/home/tie

We require a ceo's email id to forward the formal nomination form.
I can also be reached by phone at xxx.

Thank you again, please don't hesitate with any further questions as I will be working as your company's lead through the process until the finalist are picked.
We require the info to be processed asap. I can be reached all weekend.

I thought this was silly considering it was sent to our CEO and this is trivially easy http://www.google.com/search?q=tipjoy+ceo
He is so pretentious. He goes on about how great Open ID is and yet talks about how he has all these different passwords and uses a "throwaway" password for admin access to his application. Great. Then he posts something about how "brute for is for dummies" when using bad passwords is really what's for dummies.
Thanks for a detailed response. A couple of quick questions

Is there any plan to support the twitter API for now so there is no need for an separate client?
Is there a timeframe for support for XMPP & federation? They seem a while away.

To us federation is not as important as XMPP.

Also Are there any migration tools available? Just in case things don't pan out well.
He's an armchair psychologist. You get what you get.
I've been using 1Password, but I've noticed it's "auto fill" and "auto save" options get confused easily, especially if I have multiple logins for one site (for example I set up a new gmail account for every project I run, and tie in any third party services to that gmail). This means that I could have 10-20 gmail logins saved. 1Password often tries to save passwords that it already has saved. Make sense? Anyone else run into this problem? I've started to migrate over to using Wallet.
Google's Trojan Horse: Did the search giant just sneakily launch a Facebook killer?
The fickle Twitterer
A Note About Hacker Newspaper
I cannot believe anyone listens to a word Rob Enderle says after the SCO debacle. It irks me that he appears to have suffered no professsional consequences for his idiotic, misinformed pronouncements then - maybe we should have some kind of Ethical Pundit's Association for him to be drummed out of. I'd put a monkey throwing darts at a dartboard above his opportunistic nonsense.

However, the monkey does score occasionally, and by pure random chance I agree this time. When we're talking a sub-$500 device, taking off another hundred or so makes a huge difference. Current netbooks are nice toys but still too expensive; they are basically being bought as mini-laptops. A true "netbook" for $250 or so would be disruptive, I agree. That's the kind of price where the cell networks can start subsidizing the price and we enter a cellphone-style market, not a buget laptop market. Could be a big deal.
No one likes to break a website, but... given the options of breaking the website's Javascript features, or letting NoScript perpetually undermine the Easylist2 filter, there wasn't much choice for Easylist2.

Easylist2 has nothing to apologise for. If anything, staunchly defending the integrity of their list was a good thing.
This article makes me think back of my first venture I started with a friend of mine during university. We developed a j2me app which compressed the sms and allowed you to write roughly 400 characters within one sms while still only paying for one. Learned a lot on the way and will always think back of it as being my most exciting "course" at uni (In fact I'm thinking on how to revive it these days, but still very unsure).
And that link sends me to a post from back in 2006 at www.securitywonk.com ...whose Home Page's latest post is also from 2006.

More 'wonk' than security at that site, I'd wager.
That does seem pretty spammy...
What if Apple did this for it's PCs and laptops? It's just making the world a better place right?
"Until we get to the point where everything is online"

They're netbooks. They're supposed to be used for online stuff. If you want to run Word, I would recommend a mini-laptop.

And anyway, you would be surprised at how many people basically use the web for everything these days.

I would say an even smaller device is actually the true "netbook" - what is sold today are, IMO, a variety of sub-notebooks, and are marketed as such. That's fine, but they're not "netbooks"!
I'd like to jump all over Jeff for having a weak password, but somehow that seems like blaming the victim. Sure, he's supposed to be an elite hacker programmer blogger authority something-or-other, but is everyone in the world supposed to become an authority on choosing strong passwords?

Stepping back for a moment, why are we using passwords for authentication and security in 2009?
Also, do you really weep for those poor shop owners that can't refuse service to black people and gays anymore?
5 ways to extend your Firefox tabs
Xichekolas' Greasemonkey script fixes it for me in Firefox. Maybe you could include the cross-browser equivalent of his Javascript snippet? (http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/25039)
All of my impressions are based on my analysis and hence the mistakes! I am happy to hear that the licensing can be changed. A big relief.

Well, most of our clients would like to make the site skinnable. By default the fonts dont look as pleasing as either twitter or jaiku. I have tried it on Camino, firefox & Safari. I guess its a matter of opinion.

I was referring to the XMPP Pub-sub support. I am happy to be corrected.

I would love to go with laconi.ca. Could we take this offline? Is there an email id I can reach you at?

Thanks!
Doesn't Konqueror use webkit?
If we're playing the household card, then there are plenty of women-led kitchen table startups that will never see, nor need, venture funding. There are also plenty of women-led startups that don't focus on female markets, and male-led startups that do, inadvertently or otherwise (time for a quote about how most car purchases are down to the woman in the household).
The author claims that OnLive has to deliver latencies of no more than 150 milliseconds. I'd put it at 50, 20 frames per second, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how you'd hit that, even with something like Akamai's IP Accelerator thingie. Maybe OnLive's vaunted psychophysical research can relax that figure a bit, but I can't imagine what you could do to make a player content with even 12 frames per second, let alone /7/.
The "special extra credit" makes me think this question is fishing to see whether the candidate can step back and look at the big picture. That's part of the job of being in R&D, no matter where you stand on the research to development spectrum. One of the reasons companies keep R&D departments is to have people around who are technically knowledgeable _and_ who have the vision to think ahead about where the company should go next.

The fact that it's about code quality is an artifact. Yes, as others have pointed out, a question about code may not be so relevant if your candidate is a theorist or will have a role with no development. Still, because most or all candidates will have experience with bad code, and because fewer will have intimate knowledge of the business at hand, it's a better question than "so, where do you think our company should go in three to five years?"
2008 in Hindsight (from UK indie-dev Introversion)
It's interesting to see how the tech community will continue to nurture young entrepreneurs -- there are more structured seed programs like YC, TechStars, Start@Spark, summer @ highland, and then there's on the ground work that people like Chris are doing. For a number of reasons, a structured seed program does not make a lot of sense for big venture funds. However, developing young entrepreneuers is important and something I think firms like GC need to continue to spend time on.
These lines resonated with me:

"We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It’s the other way around. Effort can trump ability—legs, in Saxe’s formulation, can overpower arms—because relentless effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination."

I would argue that this holds for many endeavors and should be kept in mind when facing daunting situations.
Steve Blank: The Sharp End of the Stick
Is the Tech World Really Sexist?
Sales, business development, and community management are all options.
I have no idea what this is about, but I have never seen so many people overreacting so vigorously.
I think the logic is that these will be even less low-end... Cheaper CPU (plus no Windows license to pay for), smaller battery, less RAM, etc. If you're running Android you don't need as much as if you're running XP. Add that to the fact that prices have been hovering at $300 for a while which means there's probably a bit more padding these days anyway.

Not sure if that gets down to the $200 range, but I wouldn't be surprised to see $250 out the gate.
Since when do you need a background in anthropology to decide whether an image has nipple showing or not?
Twitter as "the CB radio of web 2.0" is a pretty funny quote.
how do you think this person discovered my password?

Well this may be a stab in the dark, but I'm guessing it has something to with the fact that you are NOT a great programmer. Learn some C you average coder!
I first skimmed the headings and thought: "Valid reasons, about the same reasons why I stick with linux and am hesitant to try a Mac or Windows Vista."

People just don't fancy changes. To change you usually need a reason that incites you to overcome the annoyances of re-learning everything. Such as promises of increased performance, promises of belonging to a group, or being really bored.
There are already instructions on how to install the official ARM build on machines like the Nokia N-800/810.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25...
"Otherwise $100k 1oo years ago would purchase a lot more wealth, you just wouldn't have access to modern technology."

Try living on $100K in 1900 (non-inflation-adjusted!), vs. $100K today. By the standards of the time, you'd be filthy rich... only you'd have no Internet, no TV, no radio, no air travel, no air conditioning, no antibiotics, no cellphones, etc., etc., etc.
I'm surprised you didn't write 1/8 = 0.125 to make the point clear, because 1/8 of ANYTHING is 0.125 of the whole thing.

A cut of pizza into eighths can be done visually (and probably usually is done visually) with no knowledge of decimals at all.
I'm especially curious to hear if it was patents (someone claimed to own our process) or copyright (someone caught us making a "social music/video" site).
Sure, he's supposed to be an elite hacker programmer

No, he is not. He is at best average.

A while back Joel published an article in Inc, about his experience of run and gun with stackoverflow. He was surprised how well it went. In fact it merely appeared to have gone smoothly. I'm guessing more subtle long term problems will continue to appear as time goes on.

And yet still, I think stackoverflow is much much better then experts exchange.
Because there are not better alternatives? Unless you'd like to trust some company with biometric details about yourself. But biometrics aren't notably better than passwords anyway.

And in answer to your question, yes. Everyone is supposed to become an authority on choosing strong passwords. I fail to see why this is unreasonable.
Getting Their (Wireless) Lines Crossed
Tthe better question is, why should Konqueror try and compete? Don't we have enough browsers to hunt bugs for?!

I have a better idea - save yourself time and us a headache and ship Linux with Firefox regardless of the window manager. Oh and Microsoft, if you're listening, that applies to you as well. Big time.
Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions
Old news. People aren't using the website itself -- they're hooking up via mobile clients, SMS, dashboard apps or what have you.
As a programmer my design skills are mostly implementable with the graphics class. But when I do work with flash designers, I have them create assets in the Flash IDE and publish a .swc which I import into flex builder. This gives me nice intellisense access to all the graphic elements.

I very rarely open up the IDE, usually it's to rename an asset which the designer had forgot or incorrectly named.
Almost nothing I run is x86-only. There are official builds of Ubuntu for SPARC and PPC and, now, for ARM, that bring me a full rich desktop experience with just about any computer I can lay my hands on.

I am home wherever I can run Gnome, Emacs, Subversion and Django. I see no reason, lack of commercial availability excepted, not to be running on ARM since long ago.

In fact, back in the late 90s, I had a MIPS-based IBM z-50 that ran NetBSD off a compact-flash card remarkably well. Due to its limited memory, I had do screen and ssh my way to other computers where I actually worked, but, anyway, having a completely silent portable Unix RISC workstation that ran for up to 10 hours on a single battery charge was a remarkable experience.
Konqueror is an important component in the web ecosystem. WebKit is a fork of its KHTML rendering engine and KJS JavaScript machine, and Konqueror is a cool and good thing. The changes between WebKit and KHTML are still sometimes laterally applicable.

Homogeny is bad -- if there are people interested in developing alternatives to Gecko, more power to them; competition is what drives and refines products toward perfection.
I'm surprised how high the angel number is. I wonder where people find these angels, and how they new them or were introduced?
We need smaller electronics. Not just for consumer entertainment devices, but for medical tech also.
Hackintosh that fits in my murse. Sweet!
A remarkable finding of studies of teacher competency

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSD/is_5_52/ai_77196...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_32_17/ai_7781...

is that incompetent teachers are the least likely to resign from their teaching jobs over time. They may or may not know they are incompetent teachers, but they can sense that they wouldn't be able to find any better job at their level of ability elsewhere in the job market. So schools tend to accumulate a larger percentage of incompetent teachers over time, as competent teachers seek work in other occupations while incompetent teachers hang on for dear life. I was fortunate to have some very experienced and very competent veteran teachers when I was young (in an era when women had fewer employment opportunities outside schoolteaching, which seems to be an important issue)

http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/pdf/Teacher%20Quality.pdf

but these days it seems harder than ever to find a teacher who has both high competence and long experience.
If you can't help with something technical, early-stage bootstrap projects are not the place for you. I know a guy who knows a guy who is full of ideas for websites or iPhone apps or whatever the hot technology of the day is, and can't program a single line, and doesn't _want_ to learn to program. Instead, he seems to hope that his programmer friends will be overwhelmed with the beauty of his ideas, and launch into a frenzy of all-nighters while he rallies a user base through Twitter.

Ain't. Gonna. Happen. Sad thing is, if he could help even on an apprentice level, maybe people would collaborate with him.
Flash Websites With HTML Benefits Framework
Preloading Flash Assets, Elegantly
Funny thing about the ratio, it holds true for developers at my job as well... :)
Huh? Are you serious? The cellphone is the new PC. Let me run whatever applications I want on my computer. Can you imagine in Microsoft said you can only buy software for your computer via our App Store and oh we are going to take a cut of all Windows software.
Homogeny is bad but what would be good is complete standardization. Then users would be free to pick a browser they like and we wouldn't have to worry too much about cross-browser compatibility. It's becoming less of an issue and most complaints are still targeted at IE primarily, but you know what I mean.
Funny, I had a similar incident on Friday. I had an error on my web server from a bug (fixed now of course). I was curious about the IP that generated the error because I had just attended a networking event and wanted to know which contact I talked to now had a bad impression of my site.

I put the source IP in my browser and came up with a XAMPP administration page which had a link to phpMyAdmin, which gave me admin access to all the databases on that server.

I poked around long enough to get a contact email for the server admin and sent him a polite email explaining everything. He was grateful for the email and explained that he never thought anyone would try to access his raw IP. I don't think he checks his logs much. ;)
> Everyone is supposed to become an authority on choosing strong passwords. I fail to see why this is unreasonable.

peopel have been saying this for decades, that users should get with it and learn how to create passwords like "as723HASD-23", to change it every month, to use a different one for each system, to never write it down, and so on and so on.

And for decades users haven't been doing this.

So. Are we to blame the rest of the universe for not doing what we tell it? Or decide for ourselves that This doesn't work and we as programmers must think of something else?

If none of the alternatives appeal to you, think up a new one and get some YC funding going :-)
Hopefully, but I'm kinda doubtful
Larger Kindle for newsapers and magazines coming as early as this week
No, it uses KHTML.
The search for shadow life
FWIW, I've used DD-WRT on a variety of wrt54g series routers (including three wrt54gl routers) and have never had connection problems attributable to the firmware.
With iTunes, Apple is a distributor. With the app store, it's a publisher. It's reasonable to assume that most people who are likely to get angry about content in a song/app recognise and understand the difference. And perhaps many of them don't understand that Apple is merely a publisher, and don't actually create most of the apps.

Creators and publishers are (usually) considered to have more responsibility than distributors when it comes to objectionable content. I think that's an important difference for Apple's image.
Screen real-estate is an issue, though Windows XP has been wildly popular on netbooks with small screens.

Has Apple's iPod franchise suffered in the last year? Or are you being sarcastic? Well, your "good luck" is sarcastic, and you've included a ":)", so I think it is. But I'm really not sure.

It seems that the rate of growth has been slowing for a while, but the sales are still growing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales

I'm sorry, I'm sure you usually do write clearly, but your poor communication in this particular post requires too much needless work to decipher. I've never seen such a comment on hackernews before.