skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far, I don't see a lot of people asking the really tough questions of what this non-competition for employees (especially engineers / developers) actually means.

* If some of the top companies are implicitly not competing for you (as an employee), it means your value as an asset is lowered. There is simply less desire for another company to lure you away with more money, better benefits, a more attractive project to work on, etc. Once you work at one of the companies "on the list," none of the others will come knocking. Your value is also lowered in terms of being able to negotiate a better salary, for instance: HR (and perhaps your manager) knows that you do not have an offer from Yahoo or Google just waiting to whisk you away.

* The basic effect on general engineers' salaries is thus: the less it costs Google/MS to hire a Silicon Valley A-lister, the less incentive they will feel to look for bargains by hiring outside the circle of "made men". Thus they will hire fewer such relative-newcomers, at lower salaries. Thus there will be less upward pressure on non-Silicon-Valley-A-list salaries: fewer engineers will leave the broader pool for Silicon Valley and those that do will be receiving less money to do so, so the competitive pressures on the non-SV-A-list employers are weakened too. So less salary for SDEs broadly. This knock-on effect is likely minimal for junior ASP.NET bank programmers etc. but likely significant for hotter engineers at more high-powered dev/research/etc. workplaces throughout the US.

* Because certain kinds of employees' labour mobility is lowered, it means that access to engineers is somewhat more limited. Your company may not be able to get the rockstar/ninja/hip term of the week who already knows the valley, doesn't need to relocate, and just wants to pay off his SF condo more quickly. Inversely, you may not want to compete for top graduates from places like Stanford with the 90k/100k first year salaries that Facebook and some others have been throwing around. This means you can either get second-tier native talent that may need relocating or that hasn't proven itself yet ... or you can play the H1 visa game and get a much cheaper foreign programmer who is contractually tied to your company, often fears for his immigrant status, and is thereby much less likely to leave your company for another one. This is a bad thing for US graduates or relatively inexperienced programmers, as it depresses their salaries, as well. In terms of the free market, I guess it's only a natural expression of international labour mobility.

* The lack of commentary on the above may be due to the current economic conditions and the "thank $DEITY I still have a job" attitude I've seen quite a bit. On the other hand, we got plenty of people on here with the kind of inside knowledge who would be able to tell us more on this subject.
They had no viable business plan to begin with. Google and Yahoo mail are among the top 10 trophy targets on the Internet. I have no idea how you'd convince me some startup had put more resources into securing mail than Google did.
They claim it was to bring more attention to the issue, but you know they did it show off. Well THAT backfired, didn't it?
I just tried this. It has a lot of overlap with YSlow, but there are some interesting extra rules in it, most notably a rule that finds inefficient CSS selectors. That's kind of cool.
Can you explain what the CSRF attack you're thinking of is? Maybe I'm not reading you carefully enough (long day), but that doesn't sound like a CSRF to me.
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Did they have a viable business to begin with? At least personally, I don't spend too much time worrying that hackers are going to raid my gmail.
I hope the rules of the contest allow disclosure. Until then, I only have this tweet to reference from June 3rd: http://twitter.com/XSSExploits/status/2019746890

"alternatively- add a device to the auth list and wala ;)"

[edit: I should note that XSSExploits seems to be the twitter account for the company that won the contest)
That seems to be the direction...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_data_recorder#Future_dev...
Because it's simply not possible to make black boxes redundant.

You can fly into a storm or into a canyon where radio/satellite uplinks won't work. Hence you need to store the data on sturdy local storage aka a black box.

As much as people love to think that technology can completely tame mother nature, it can't. It's still a brutal place, with nasty conditions. While the uplink data is great, you still need backups (Higher resolution is a nice bonus too)
I know nothing about flight recorders, but offhand it would make sense to me for them to have some sort of transponder. Maybe the requirement of having a power source is unrealistic.
So I am wondering what is meant by a model by them--a row in a table listing constraints, a relation, a prolog rule?
Heavy handed, sure... maybe even micromanaging, but not an unreasonable idea.
I think they're getting cut up on both ends of the market.

We do a fair bit of reversing, and my unscientific survey result is that 1/3rd of what we see is Linux/NetBSD, 1/3rd of it is VxWorks, and 1/3rd of it is ThreadX-style custom RTOS. And that's by platform, not by shipped units.
This is wrong. A number of economic studies show that taxpayer-funded stadiums reallocate dollars, they don't help local business on net-- they just increase the value of the sports team.

https://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/302
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv23n2/coates.pdf

Teams and regional pride would still exist without taxpayer-funded stadiums.
High population density leads to greater exchange of ideas and skills and prevents the loss of new innovations.

Loss of life and innovations can still happen with high density population centers, although less often (as long as information is also exchanged/shared between centers).

Higher population density also means more expensive and more deadly natural disasters.

If, today, a devastating earthquake/hurricane/volcano eruption/mack truck sized meteor hits NYC there would be enormous consequences.

The same or worse event occurring 100,000 years ago wouldn't have been such a big deal with no people around.

I think the future is very bright yet any sort of disaster your can think of will be leveraged against us that much more by increased population density.
Interview with haXe creator Nicolas Cannasse
?????????????? That's it?

Sign up for one of the millions of free blog/file hosts. Don't bother with a real domain name. Google pages seems nice.
Wow, this is ridiculous:

http://www2.telesign.com/login.php?loginerror=yes&user=\...

Pathetic. (Telesign is behind StrongWebmail)
Volvo may not be the most popular brand of car, but it may still be the safest, if that's their primary focus.
Like the million-dollar homepage, this is an idea that won't work a second time. Especially for a less popular blogger with cheap-looking stickers on a cheap netbook.
I'll go for HN too, but for another reason: it points me to the good stuff (among them, incidentally, webapps that increase my productivity).

Things I found via HN because it's been mentionned a few times as something great that I now use:

github.com (git repo hosting), slicehost.com (VPS), namecheap.com (registrar), lighthouseapp.com (issue tracking).

Things I'm looking into: aws.amazon.com (cloud stuff), freshbooks.com (invoicing).

And certainly other stuff I'm forgetting...
"Why not just dive into the startup you really want to do?"

Right now being a freelancer is the best way for me to fulfill my current goals. There are a few things I'd love to do as venture backed startups one day, but those projects aren't as good a match for building the assets I'm trying to build right now.
Birthday paradox strikes again?

I saw a meteor on a flight once. Granted it was pretty far away, but I also only fly a few times a year. It's certainly not impossible.
even if it did copy digg, who cares?
Exactly! We've been doing the same thing – releasing only to GitHub because it's so easy and fun (and easier now that they e-mail you when the gem fails to build...)

The idea behind Joe is that if you're already releasing to GitHub, it's really easy to release to RubyForge as well with a single command. No need to wrap your whole project inside something like Hoe. You're already generating a gemspec for GitHub, why not using it for RubyForge?

Plus there's the addition of the ERb template to produce the gemspec (which is completely optional), but that's the best way I've found to maintain my gem specification, especially the files I want to ship.
They do - they've got a pinger that sends out a signal after a crash has been detected to aid in locating the box, similar to an avalanche beacon.

Problem is that it's not all that strong, and is likely under a few tons of airplane and a few kilometers of water.
I'll pay about $1 for that guy to put a FairSoftware sticker on his laptop. That sounds like the most I'd spend.

Multiply that by the space on the laptop and he could make a cool $15.

Somehow, the million-pixel homepage had more potential!
I have to say that I love using Google Maps to visit different cities. I went to London last fall and was able to see some streets I walked down as well as others that I wanted to walk down but didn't. I can only imagine the street view images will slowly be taken down, until rather than having a nearly continuous street we will have photos here and there and blackness in between. Interesting that all the street view photos have to be re-done in Japan with the camera 18 inches lower to preserve peoples privacy behind residential walls. Wonder if that will be done in the rest of the world. Anyway, it's a really great time waster. Thanks Googlites!
Dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction (2006)
Wouldn't it be smarter to target jvm/parrot/clr directly instead of languages on top of them? Afaik it should still get full JIT optimization and portability, which should be major points.
I feel a "[dead]" coming on...
Link is a UK sales page for a book under this title. Admittedly, the book seems interesting.
have you ever seen them abused ? you'd understand why

: (or at least have you thought about it ? you'd understand why

: (or at least you can get the gist from this ? good

: I can't help you))

Sorry, not perfect but with some indentation would do the job quite nice.

Sometimes is not what you write, it is what you don't ;)
Is Free Software Daily dead?
We're all doing this because we want to learn from Seth. I don't understand how you could frame that in any sort of pass/fail context. Seth might print out some sort of diploma at the end, he might not, I don't think anyone really cares.
Looks like we may never know. Disclosure is not permitted per the official rules

http://www.strongwebmail.com/secure/email/contests/hack/tc
go to
http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
look for example at in the last quarter in green tech area, 80% to 90% down. There is a change coming no doubt.
I wonder what Owen's (ojbyrne) thoughts on this are? The new TripAdvisor meta-search looks quite similar too.

Personally I'm all for cribbing the best parts of other people's design.
Perhaps the first test of confidence is seeing if you can reach them at all. I doubt it is just a forum question away.
The site is down for quite some time, anyone knows why?
Namepros, DnForum, Moniker, Greatdomains, Namedrive, Ebay, Sitepoint
ctrl + alt + d

(First hit for "ubuntu minimize all windows" on google.)
Until you said 5th floor, I thought I must have worked with you! Our Tim was on the second floor.
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 88 – Hold Your Breath
Your numbers are essentially right. Most hockey teams share the basketball stadium, though, and almost all soccer stadiums are shared. But stadium costs are rising: both the new Yankee Stadium and the new Cowboys Stadium cost over $1 billion.

However, what makes your numbers very conservative (in terms of overestimating public costs) is that few stadia are fully funded by the public. Most of them are partially funded by the team or the league.

(Amusing notes: Montreal's stadium, built for the Olympics and used by the Expos, cost 1.4 billion dollars, but .9 billion was in interest. The world's most expensive stadium, the new Wembley, cost 1.5 billion.)
There is also added infrastructure cost, police cost and more. But you're right that the football budget is less than the Space budget. But why is ANY public money being spent on personal entertainment when it could be spent on progress? another 4 billion a year could pay for a lot of research and scholarships.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642243
I've dealt with several companies, mostly banks, that use web based "secure e-mail" systems (mostly they're just file storage systems). They won't e-mail important documents to you since most people's e-mail clients use plain text and/or people use weak passwords, etc...

In fact I recently received a four inch thick stack of documentation, APIs, etc... via FedEx from a bank because they didn't trust my e-mail and I wasn't on "the list" for their "secure e-mail" site (pay per account thing).

So yes, reasonable or not, secure or not, there is a business supplying "secure" communications for businesses.
Perhaps, but the taxes are usually focused on tourism (hotel and auto rental taxes), which is the sector that is helped the most by new stadia.

Also consider the loss of business that happens when a team leaves, such as when the Seattle Supersonics left for Oklahoma City. Even if there isn't a net gain for building a new stadium, there may be a local gain at another city's expense, such as between Seattle and Oklahoma City.
You should almost never use implementation inheritance. In fact, until you have mastered designing with composition, the 'extends' keyword should be banned from your vocabulary.
I used to use emacs and XChat, but now I just prefer to use Mibbit.
I think the default is "Control-Alt-D". This is customizable in gnome in Preferences | Personal | Keyboard Shortcuts.

There's also a gnome panel button/icon called "show desktop" that can be toggled on and off.

Alternatively, you can have multiple virtual desktops, and if you need to switch mental contexts to handle the cases like you described, you can switch to a different, empty one. Instant new context, and the old context isn't disturbed at all.

This is actually a good example of something where you don't know the kinds of things Linux offers and it's difficult to know where to start to translate your Windows-desktop-fu to Linux-desktop-fu.
That is why I said I would only do it if he was Leah Culver ;-)

I think for tech celebrities it would work again and again, though. If you know somebody tends to be in the spotlight, and tends to drag a notebook around, it seems like a good way to advertise.

Maybe if the guy created a web site that presents target bloggers, and advertisers could decide who they want to sponsor, it could work? Some of those bloggers might be able to make a convincing case. Then again the ones who go to all the conferences and are popular there can usually afford their own netbooks.
Stored procedures don't seem like a bad approach to me. You can provide versioning support by doing something much like Rails migrations. Providing access to the database through stored procedures basically is publishing business logic as a library. I'll admit pl/pgsql looks a little funky, but it doesn't seem too bad.

I'll note I'm not talking from experience here, I'm just speculating and hoping for somebody with more practical experience in the matter (or better insight) to enlighten me.
Cool interview, some really interesting points. I'd be interested to know what Steve+Alexis think would have happened if Wired hadn't bought Reddit.

Would they have been bought by someone else? Would they have worked out advertising models etc and become a profitable business, or something else?

Did they have a 'plan B'? Get more funding and go after more users?
Skype has screen sharing from now ( download beta)
It's a religious debate but it's always nice to have more horizontal real estate, for file browsers, help, scripts, another source listing, or whatever else.
Writing your WebApp in Lisp or another trendy languages like Scala, Clojure, Erlang, etc. is a nice story for viral marketing, because the communities around those languages are desperatly looking for "killer applications" and "success stories". That's a lesson i learned from reddit.
A better way to explain it would be to point out that the remote telemetry and the black boxes are already examples of redundant design. The black box has fewer failure modes recording data, but requires recovery. The telemetry is more easily disrupted, but can get data out even in the face of a total loss of the aircraft.

Redundancy doesn't always mean the same thing as simple duplication.
I would agree with that also. As a beginner, I found Ubuntu easy to understand. However, I would now consider myself an advanced user, and having tried all the other major distros (Debian, Suse, Fedora, Arch, among others) I still don't think you can beat Ubuntu for every-day purposes.

I haven't seen any other distro that is as likely to work on most hardware (specifically, I'm thinking of laptop wireless devices - those have been huge nuisance to me), have as much software ready to go, as much documentation, and feel as "finished". With very little work, I've customized the hell out of my ubuntu installation and it uses very little disk space, runs extremely fast, is very stable.

I see Ubuntu as an ideal balance of usability and raw power. Out of curiosity, what would you say is the best follow-up after XP? I saw XP as the best Windows version, because it was more robust, popular and usable than any of the others.
> "However people were afraid of opposing the head of QA because A) she was a lifelong friend of the founder's life"

You had a biographer leading QA?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Protip: for those who have only read about him, his name is pronounced "ca-nuth." The K is not silent. I learned this the embarrassing way.
Also: not allowed to use Oracle's native date data type, and no foreign key constraints allowed!
The Sarcasm of Google Squared
I recommend adding a screencast to explain the product.
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This reminds me of a question...how do squatters like this automate these sites? I mean, I'm assuming a site like baselineventures.com makes so little money that it's worth virtually no time in setting it up, so how do they know what it's about? Are they scraping google results for baseline ventures and looking for common keywords?
BTW, your profile lacks contact information despite you asking to be contacted. :-)
If it is "basically...publishing business logic as a library" then why incur the expense of using such a scheme? Just publish the darn library and put it on a read-only shared directory. Why give up the use of purpose built version control and programming tools? Why give up the modularity and increased productivity that a high level language can give you?

Most of the time, it's because the organization thinks in terms of SQL and relational tables. There are better ways to do business logic.
You may also want to try this: http://www.webpagetest.org/test

Pretty charts, and pretty good diagnostic.

(Health warning: knowing how much junk is spewing down the wire from some sites may turn your stomach ...)
Well my thoughts were something like:

Victim logs in using two-factor auth, gets a cookie which lets them back in without phone in future.

Attacker sends email to victim with some kind of script embedded.

Victim views email, javascript runs and sends cookie info to attacker.

Attacker uses cookie to impersonate victim.

Of course, it's been a long day here too, and I'm so far from an expert on this stuff it's entirely probable that what I just described doesn't make sense/isn't possible.

Edit: Yeah, guess what I described is more XSS than CSRF
This is mostly settled law in the US. "Look and Feel" of an interface is not itself subject to copyright. Apple v. Microsoft and Lotus v. Borland were both decided back in the 80's, with the now-standard interpretation that only the implementation of a software work is copyrightable, not its interface.

So unless Bing is copying javascript, logos, or graphics from Kayak, I can't see what the issue here would be. Mere page layout and behavior should be a problem.
I've used source safe, which is pretty much the most brain damaged way to do source control ever invented. "Could you unlock that file please?"... Thank god for svn and git.
I thought I had the worst version control story but you won by a large margin. None the less, here's how version control worked at a place where I was contracting:

They used VSS for version control and in team of around 30 people only two folks had check in access. So how do I check in my changes? When you are ready to check in your files, you fill in a 'blue sheet' (a blue paper with form printed on it) by hand. You are supposed to write name, location on your computer for that file, VSS location of the file and comment for each file which you want to check in (by hand on blue sheet). I used to take one day to implement a change request but would take as much as two weeks just to check in the damn files as those gate keepers were always busy. And god forbid if someone else checked in the file which you intended to check in. The gatekeeper will send you back to reconcile the changes and you will be again at the end of the queue. Trust me, I used to get 'blue sheet' nightmares!

When I asked them why they have this weird policy, I was told that it was to prevent people from checking in the code with breaking changes and enforce code review. Mind you, while I was there, gatekeeper didn't review my code even once. Reminds me of the monkeys and banana story.
Ask HN: Please review my Minimum Viable Product - Yuffizi
For the past month or so I have been working on a new startup dubbed Yuffizi. This site will be an online marketplace for artists to sell art, and for anyone else to buy it. As with any business, this is at its heart an experiment. I am testing concepts such as Eric Ries's MVP and Steve Blank's customer development model. Additionally, I will be testing my own theory about total openness in business development. My designs, business plans, and more will all be published on the Yuffizi blog.

(Note: I am a "business guy". Not a programmer, nor a designer. I can, however, take constructive criticism. Bring it on.)
A Collection of Interesting Systems Papers with Great Ideas
Ask HN: Does anyone compile/install Apache 1.3.x still?
I'm wondering for new apps, if people are still using the Apache 1.3.x branch or opting to use Apache 2, finally?
"Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?"

-steven wright
Paul Graham, with all his knowledge of the industry, didn’t know that Digg was out there either?

It sounds kind of weird to me that he wouldn't... and yet, for my startup, I also wasn't aware of some very similar projects (and a good thing too, or maybe I wouldn't have started)