skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is one glimmer of proof that Courier is actually a real machine: Over at BeingManan, there's more leaked Microsoft information about a research product dubbed Codex. It's based on Microsoft's tablet-UI-rethink InkSeine technology"

There is nothing leaked about this work. The work has been done and published by Ken Hinckley for many years. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kenh/

That being said, I think that the InkSeine work is great. Hinckley uses it everyday and often uses his technology when presenting his work.
SeL4
Actually, Rakudo, the Perl 6 implementation on the Parrot VM is out and the development team has announced development release #21 for it.

Its probably not the best choice for production work right now, but the development and improvement is going on at a rapid pace. Be sure to check out http://rakudo.org/
Couldn't have suggested a better approach myself.

I've been side developing one of those "for me" projects for some time, there's 4 other competitors out there which leads me to conclude that it could be a "for them" project as well.

and while I've been developing, I've been on a monitoring blitz, using their project, etc. looking for things that they're having issues with that either I can take care of, or make sure to leave out so I don't have the same headaches.

To also add, since you're going through the whole media side of things with their product, you'll be well prepared to defend approaches/features/etc within yours since you had to critique it against them.
i cannot imagine how anyone could do a start up successfully part time.

The same way you raise a family with a job, or have a hobby with a job, or even watch TV with a job. It's difficult, but not impossible. It requires a lot of dedication and commitment, and more hard work than you can imagine. It also takes longer to complete.

our competition moves pretty fast, we would probably not be standing where we are now if we did this as a side project.

This is perhaps the biggest concern. But it's less of a concern if you've identified a pain point in a market and are working towards solving it; especially in a b2b market. The consumer facing "fad" development (not trying to be derogatory) moves much faster and carries less of an attention span, so I wouldn't recommend part-time work if this is where your product is targeted.

That being said, I'm with 37Signals' approach of building a business, not an acquisition target, so in general the whole process is slower.
I pretty much adhere to this -- I buy an older car, somewhere in the 5 to 10 years old range. I pay cash. That way I don't worry about totaling it. I know that no matter what happens to it, I can just replace it with maybe a week's notice without making a significant dent in my cash flow.

I made someone's day once when they rear-ended me and I told them the car was a piece of shit anyway, so have a nice day. It's a load off one's mind.
It's like noone here has ever heard of a part time job. I work 25 hours a week and still have 80-90 hours to do whatever I want.

Considering the average startup founder works about 50/hrs a week.. there's plenty of time.
10, but we can increase it if you ask.
37signals seems to like this topic.. The last time they sounded off on why half-assing it is a good idea, I reacted just as viscerally as this post. Since they did a redux, I will too:

http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/130164127/instead-of-watching-tv...
Italian software house in search of an "office exchange" opportunity
Mind-bendingly bad Windows 7 promo video
Rich or Famous?
Used cars from a decent dealer nowadays have a modest warranty.
I strongly suspect a flaw in your statistics: I'm willing to put money on this site having a spikey workload, not a constant workload. There are probably hours in a row that 6 of those servers sit idle.

Rant: I wish technical sites would stop using req/day as a metric. It leads to the op type of analysis. At the very least, such articles could use a format of "X req/day peaking at Y/s". Maybe if the NYT was writing it would be ok to use req/day but a sight who's tagline is:
"High Scalability Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites." should know better.
What if USB-IF authority is flushed down the tube. I am still rooting for palm. If palm wins this war we might finally see some good apple contenders. :P
That's witty and all, and we get it, axod, but they've never said anything like that, have they?
The article is rather good, but appears to have overloaded the server. (I have been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt.)

Tip for you if this happens: if its on a blog with any traction whatsoever, at least one person has signed up to read it with Google Reader, and their spider probably got in before the server burst into flames (it did in this case). If you add the blog's URL to your Google Reader account, Google will serve the RSS content to you out of their cache.
Not getting political, but it always struck me as absurd when: Perino says she "could not rule out" that as many as 5 million emails are missing but stressed the White House does not know the extent of what maybe lost. Twenty-two current White House staffers hold RNC email accounts -- 50 during the course of the two terms. About 1,000 people work for the Executive Office of the President. All White House official records are to be preserved indefinitely under the Presidential Records Act

Regarding Karl Rove -- who is in Portland, OR today doing fundraising -- the White House says that in 2004, his email accounts at the RNC were exempted from the RNC's practice of an automatic 30-day purge that applies to other users. In January 2006, Rove's ability to use a "double delete function" was removed so he could no longer manually delete and then empty his delete file. Officials say this applied only to Rove as far as they know now.

edit: source: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/04/13/e_mails/
HN /best RSS feed with links to original, author, and comments
Above URL is to Yahoo Pipes.

The URL to the RSS itself is http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=d82e648940e416ddb9...

It works fine in FF and Safari but not in my Google Reader - any suggestions why?
"Real artists ship."--Steve Jobs.
I wouldn't base that large an expense on something like the cooking problem. I just try to plan better, improvise, have someone cooking for me or just eat out (not these days tough). The problem exists even if you have a car but live out of town.

As always, you need to look at your life and make the appropriate choices. I spent many years without a car and I look back to it as a good time. The trick is to look at things globally and then not sweat on the small expenses (like the grocery delivery charge and taxi fares) if they were budgeted as a way to afford bigger costs.
I really wish someone would essentially take the Kindle DX, strip out all the wireless network stuff, touch screens and everything else not directly connect to displaying pdf, html and txt files, and sell it for $150-200 less than the Kindle.
Diesel: How Python Does Comet
- async I/O using epoll on Linux
- for Python 2.6
- uses Python's generators
- is not Twisted nor a twister or a Tornado
Rich. Public appreciation is overrated because people are generally overrated.

Being anonymous is a level of bliss that is under-appreciated.
Ah, there we go; the other shoe drops.
The simple and obvious solution to the shopping problem is to never buy or rent a house more than 10 minutes walk from the nearest food store...
From what I understand, that was not a prediction, it was an anecdote.
Creationist Version of Darwin's Origin of Species
Prosecuting individuals would be a step in the right direction. As long as an enterprise is successful, the leaders take full credit and get a shitload of bonuses, justified by the tremendous amount of responsibility.

As soon as everything goes downhill, they return to being employees, cashing out a nice severance on their way to the next gig...

edit: Core problem remains the personalization of success along with the socialization of failure.
Do it Yourself Custom Bikes Gallery
Release R13B02-1 is out. It contains the patch for reltools, given it was pretty dangerous for those who used it unpatched.
Interesting. I visited the wiki and will have a deeper look into it later.
+1 - keeping your job and dreaming the dream is easy.

Quitting your job is harder.

Keeping your job and actually making something profitable is the hardest.
The problem with OO Languages is not the OO
I got my last two full time-gigs precisely because of my part-time project. Both of them were more than happy to add a clause to my contract acknowledging the prior existence and continuing independence of my side-project.
For Nginx:

location ~ /\.(svn|git) {
deny all;
}
Why not publish a Bible 2.0 instead? Stretching the 7 days of creation to some billions of years, adding a few dinosaurs and changing the term God to evolution?

This should work out fine for modern Christians.
Better yet:

newtype Node a = (a, string)

op :: (a -> b -> c) -> string -> node a -> Node b -> Node c
op (<>) str left right = (fst left <> fst right,
"(" ++ snd left ++ " " ++ str ++ " " ++ snd right ++ ")")

plus = op (+) "+"
mult = op (*) "*"
minus = op (-) "-"

constant x = (x, show x)

I don't even need eval: Haskell is non strict!
College graduation numbers is a bad metric to measure anything truly meaningful. The notion that everybody 'has' to go to college isn't doing anyone any favours either. Too many kids end up wasting time doing stuff they have no interest in just so they can graduate, and colleges end up diluting their academic standards so that they have something offer even to those people who really shouldn't be there.

Lot's of people have said it before and I'll say it again: vocational schools is the way to go. 1-2 year programs set up by and for specific industries training people in the specific skills those industries need. Let those who want learn a profession go to vocational schools and leave universities for those who truly want the full theoretical and academic education with all that that entails. That way everybody wins. Universities get to focus and what they do best, companies get people with the specific skill set they are looking for and people how just want to learn who to do a job won't have to 'waste' their time with taking courses the see no use for.

edit: spelling
But that's if it actually does surface. Do you believe MS, still hobbling along after its Windows Vista disgrace, can really pull off such an apparently revolutionary machine?

Maybe I'm too close to MS (my posting history here indicates that may be so), but these two sentences really struck me as arrogant and dismissive. What has the OS software division in MS, who delivered Vista in November 2006 got to do with a hardware team shipping a new product, probably in 2010? How does Vista's poor reception hobble them? It doesn't even seem to be hobbling the Windows 7 (AKA the Vista do-over) push. How exactly would that "hobbling" work, shortage of funds due to poor sales of Vista? I didn't hear of MS being that short or R&D funds.

Do MS have history of vaporous hardware announcements?

A pre-announcement must serve some purpose. With an OS or hardware launch, it is probably advance warning to get third parties on board to create compatible software. Does this seem to be the case? Either that or there's a leak due to the increasing number of people who know about the product as it gets nearer mass manufacturing and retail.
This is a rehash of lisp's meta programming abilities. We get it, with lisp you build the language.
Peer-to-Peer, Personal web platform Tonido SDK released under Apache 2.0 license
"Keyword tags are missing from this page. You should include meta-keywords to help indicate what your page is about to search engines."

No, it's not 1999 anymore.
I will echo the sentiments of Sujan and masklinn. A production machine should not have a checked out version of a repository on it ever. If you want the ability to rollback, you have the last N exports of your repo in their versioned folders with a symlink from a 'current' folder pointing to the revision you want on live.

Don't blame the tool, blame the individual for using it improperly.
Has there been any point in time at which Perl 6 was not developing "at a rapid pace"?

Promises that Perl 6 will be available Real Soon got worn out in about 2006. Wake me when something's production ready. The entire Python 3 process has gone from idea, to preliminary implementation process, to release, and almost certainly a 3.1 release while Perl 6 has been "rapidly developing" and out at "Christmas" (yes, I know the nature of the "joke", except I consider it a joke in the pejorative sense; the funny sense wore out in 2006 too).

And if I had to place money on which will be out first, Python 3.2 or Perl 6, it's Python in a heartbeat.
The title of the article is barely related to this pro-vegetarian/vegan propaganda.
Free will is not an illusion after all
I couldn't agree more. Quitting your job is by no means easy for most of us. While I do think you can build something on the side, he spread a bunch of crap around to make this point.
If you look at steel under a microscope you see discontinuities, and grains and other things.

Spider silk however is totally uniform and made almost atom by atom, that's why it's so much stronger. I believe it's even stronger than kevlar.
Eyewitness Testimony: how stereotypes exert an influence on memory
They (In my eyes) seem to value being contrarian over being right. Which is a valid strategy - you don't get traffic to a blog by re-stating accepted wisdom.

If the norm was to do a startup on the side whilst remaining in full time employment, then I'd say it's pretty likely 37singles would do a post about how you should have the balls to quit your job and how you're doing yourself a disservice etc etc
And it's bad for google.
Users will learn, don't ever click on an adwords link - in the same way we try and teach them not to click on a 'you are the 1000 visitor' type pop-ups
"Each page collects tweets, blog posts, news stories, images, videos and comments about a brand... If your brand wants to be in charge of developing this page, it will cost you $400 a month."

This is extortion.

Hello, I made this page collecting negative reviews of your company, would you kindly pay $400 a month for a chance to reply? (Sorry Seth, you can say all day that feeds will be "algorithmic" and include positive reviews as well, but you have no business incentive for keeping it that way. And anyway people will always complain about a brand more than they praise it in public.)
People mis-configure Apache all the time. They leave their site wide open for attack. They're vulnerable.

Saying it's not a vulnerability when 3,000 sites all have their source code visible to the world is like having your arm chopped off and saying "no it isn't, it's just a flesh wound."

I know it's not a cool remote root buffer overflow exploit hat trick 540 front side flip, but it's a security hole which people need to be educated about.
Actually, neither.

I don't want money, but I want immunity from the tyranny of money. Being rich means having to deal with the hassle of looking after the money, and avoiding getting ripped off completely. People who are rich end up attracting all sorts of leeches and scumbags.

And I certainly don't want fame. I've already been recognised on the street by strangers who then want to engage me in conversation. It's freaky, spooky, and I really, really don't want it.

I want to be constructive, and free to do what I like best. If being rich is the only way, I'd rather be rich in installments.
I say ship it.  Ship it good.
Why submissions titled "why x sucks" suck?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838969
Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer (video)
Doctor Vinnie told me I was crazy. I said "I want a second opinion" and he said "ok, you're ugly too."
> You're wrong in the "not shared by many" part.

At least the first dozen comments on that link support my position that programming, logic and semantics are all "theoretical computer science". You appear to have produced an example of one person questioning whether his definition of TCS is too narrow, and then pages of comments from people telling him that it is.

What was your point, again?
Rack::ChromeFrame, easy Google Chrome Frame integration for Ruby apps
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it's usually a lot more involved than that, very often even after the site goes live, they still have the redirect in place, only it's limited to the ip range for Mountain View California.
Ask HN: How can I find all domains that contain XYZ?
Hi all,

I'm looking into an SEO strategy and want to check out competing domain names (and their search rank). Is there a way to search for all domains that contain a phrase or keyword?

For example, can I search for all domains that contain "bananasforsale"?
Thanks for the tip. I probably should have subscribed a while ago anyway...
Heheh, yes, definitely. That's why I've tried to indicate that it's only moderately important at best. Perhaps its best to remove that analysis entirely, but I think beginner's would be looking for that kind of analysis (just to see what keywords are being used - if anything, to check/avoid keyword stuffing there).
...IBM, which he views as the most successful enterprise company of all time...

Hmmm, sounds a little like closing the barn door after the cows left.

Just like IBM missed the microcomputer in their rear view mirror, many enterprises are doing the same thing today.

The days of enterprise practices like best of breed, best practices, six sigma, work flow optimization, economies of scale, and consolodation are numbered. To be surpassed by nimble competitiors with great software, deployed and leveraged quickly.

These days you can launch a profitable startup faster than many enterprises can approve a capital expenditure request for toilet paper. Which way would you want to steer your ocean liner?
Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki
Why 40% of Tech Startups leave Atlanta in Three Years
Found via PEHub: http://www.pehub.com/50745/atlanta-georgia-startup-killer/ The paper itself isn't quite as strong as the PEHub headline, but I'm pretty sure that's how the authors are selling it to the press.
Well, don't forget about "security-in-depth". Combine "DB password on your website" with "remote unprivileged shell" on any server that can reach the DB, and now you've got a "shell into the DB".

Security exploits aren't just bad for what they directly allow, they are bad for how they often combine well.

(You, AndrewDucker, may already know this; I'm not trying to imply otherwise. I'm saying this because this is a point that needs to be made more often, too many people ignore it. Any unauthorized access into your system needs to be taken very seriously, because of this risk.)
Well duh. You shouldn't be publishing your repository. Use svn export instead.
Looking at the conceptual video one would think they were seeing a new Apple product. Who would think that Microsoft could produce something that impressive? I don't want to sound pessimistic but I don't know if I can trust Microsoft to design something that good. ;)

But I guess I'll wait and see. If Microsoft can pull it off then more power to them. Apple is either going to see this movie and laugh, then design the device themselves and release it before Microsoft does, or they are going to get pretty scared.
Looking for usability data.
Hi,

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We're trying to get more data on potential customers - how much usability testing they do, how much is spent on an average project etc. We're going to publish the results form the survey on our blog (when it's up) so we'll let everyone see some of the data we've collected.

We value your time so in return for filling out our short (7 question) survey, you’ll be entered into a draw to win a $300 Amazon gift certificate. We'll announce the results on October 16th.

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Please share it with anyone you think might be interested in testled.com.

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Zeus Trojan gets real-time chat enhancement
Who would we contact about an increase?
Or you can do a google search on the title, with the site: qualifier, and get to the cached copy that way.
It makes me physically sick that they have to rebut the accusation that archiving blog comments and other UGC is "a secret, sinister plan to catalog the activity of individuals on all social networks and capture personal or private information about individuals without their consent."
The idea is more you have the application "naked" without styling and the designer builds the css to style the application. If changes are needed to the html, the designer can ask the developer.
I kinda switched off before the flame-bait portion even started.

The first few paragraphs of text appear to be confusing Lisp/Scheme with 'functional programming' as a paradigm, and making an argument about one using the other. There would be nothing easier about "modifying the way the compiler generates code" in OCaml than in C or anything else (assuming a well-written compiler in each case).
Extreme prejudice doubtlessly means that after Google AdWords finished terminating the scammers AdWords account they will probably also manually adjust their search engine rankings to make sure that they never appear again in any Google search. ;0

Messing with Google will get you totally banned.
Whatever happened to that company that was going to create spider silk in bulk using the milk from genetically engineered goats? That was a big story about five or six years ago but I haven't heard anything since. Sure sounds easier than putting spiders in tiny harnesses.
Depends, actually. If you're familiar with Dave's AARRR, referencing "pirate metrics" is enough to have a conversation with many, many people. It doesn't describe the content in a literal fashion, but as a name for something to be discussed, it's fantastic.
Acne, Pregnancy Among Disqualifying Conditions
Dallas home builders
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try googling inurl:bananasforsale
I had forgotten about those goats. Would be a hell of a lot friendlier than handing giant spiders. Creeps me out
Inspector gadget much?
CouchDB-Lucene, CouchDBX, and CouchRest
If it were easy to measure and equally applicable to all situations, then we wouldn't get conflicting advice.
As many others have already done, I'd argue exactly the opposite of what's said in this article. Quitting your job to pursue your dreams full-time is much more worthy of applause than relegating your dreams to a mere "side project."

Too bad. Doing what you love on the side means you don’t have to risk everything immediately. You have a steady income so you’re less desperate. You can build it slowly until whatever it is is such a success that it justifies quitting your regular job. It’s a measured approach instead of a toss of the dice. Plus, you can easily turn around if you go down the wrong path (or lose motivation).

Maybe these “keep the day job and build it on the side” folks are the ones who really deserve the applause.
Goby -- 'deep web' travel search from Mike Stonebraker of Postgres fame
Flaunt Your Data (PR 2.0)
Last I heard they were having problems with the stability of the silk produced. Apparently it would start to break down within a month or two, losing all of it's unique tensile properties in the process...

I had a quick look around but couldn't find anything to back that up. The applications they mention on this page http://www.nexiabiotech.com/en/01_tech/01.php talk a few times about how 'biodegradable' the silk is though...
Tear down the walled gardens in mobile software, says Vlingo's Dave Grannan
I wonder how effective this will be after it gets published in mass media. I, for one, will now surely remember to use a "shoulder-surfing" perspective if I ever get into such a situation...