skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short comment: Only really relevant if you think navigation is an irrelevant skill, and replacing it doesn't matter.

Longer comment ...

Nice, neat, glib, clever, and completely ignoring the research that's starting to come out in response to the plethora of anecdotes.

People used to be able to add columns of figures without difficulty, and now they generally can't add two 2-digit numbers. People used to be able to make change, and now they rely on the till to tell them how much change to give.

Maybe these are skills people don't need, but they are skills that have declined at the same time technology was introduced. Furthermore, places where the technology has not been introduced, the skills remain. I won't argue cause and effect, I'll leave you to speculate.

People now buy gadgets for "brain training" and guess what - they make you do sums! Wow! Calculators that make you do the work!

It's true that fire gave us more and better food, and it's true that better clothes have made it possible to live and work in harsher climates, but the point remains. Research is starting to show that people's abilities to navigate are declining.

Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe it's a good thing, but dismissing it as glibly as you have simply seems to miss the point.

I'm not pining for the old days. I reach for a calculator as easily as the next person. But when someone today said they'd bought 400 Christmas cards for ukp95, then couldn't decide if that meant they'd been 24p each or 2.40 each, that's a concern. I'm equally concerned when someone tried to find my house recently and turned up three hours late. We're not on his SatNav map, and he couldn't read the map.

Maybe it doesn't matter, but it's not in the same class as fire or clothes or glasses or pottery to keep food or sewerage to take waste away or any of the other technological marvels we take for granted.
Up-votes and five star scales are just early experiments in recommendations. "Also bought" is an even earlier one. It clearly works in silos (Reddit, Netflix, Amazon) and, perhaps covertly, on the open web (Page Rank, personalized search), but there is still a lot more research to be done. I'm excited about it :-)
What time would you be able to pick people up from the Ashby stop?
wtf? whenever my mouse happens to be over any of the orange "heading" text, the scroll wheel doesn't work. how could he have possibly broken that?
And the experts have a hard time of it too:
http://rdist.root.org/2009/05/28/timing-attack-in-google-key...
http://groups.google.com/group/keyczar-discuss/browse_thread...

Back on the topic of this thread:
Keyczar authenticates all symmetric ciphertexts by default. However, it HMACs the output, rather than using one of the authenticated cipher modes.
How about just "sparse", relating to the intelligence behind this letter?
Why did he tells us to "Shut Up" in the conclusion. I thought it was well done up until that point.
right? a bit of link-bait isn't it?
You make a good point that I won't find nearly as much in the way of ASP.NET and C# as I would on other platforms, but for now, those are indeed my flavors and will likely continue to be as most of the development jobs in my area are using Microsoft's solutions.

I appreciate the suggestion of Codeplex. I remember hearing and learning about that at a Tech Fest in Indy several years ago and had since forgotten about it, so I'll definitely be checking that out.
Universal phone charger approved
Slavery, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment camps, eminent domain, the Federal Reserve, the Drug War, the military-industrial complex...

I think the better question is: has it ever been?
That's a problem with Twitter. Why do they force you to markup metadata within your data?
btrfs is GPL, which is an automatic no-go for Apple legal.

I'm curious, where does the Apple/Oracle bad blood speculation come from? I don't remember seeing any references to it before, so was Gruber just grasping at things? The NetApp lawsuit seems way more plausible.
Hmm, I certainly didn't intend any confusion - I just grabbed the address from http://startupschool.org

If there is a better address I can list on eventgel, I would certainly be happy to do so.
Because msconfig isn't very good or very comprehensive. I don't think you can even delete things from it, only disable them.

For comprehensive and good, check out SysInternals' Autoruns - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.asp...
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"You ever debug a terse Perl program written by a really "smart" person?"

If the program is terse beyond readability then the person who wrote it is not smart. Power has actually few things to do with terseness, and more with readability/ expressivity.
Undercurrent of disrespect pervading the job seeking experience
Dead comments have mostly been autokilled because they're from banned accounts. Dead stories are mostly spam.
In the comics, I believe at least one writer has tried to explain this by hinting that Superman is an unknowing telekenetic. I.E. he can move things around with his mind, but for some reason has interpreted this power only in these frankly highly specific ways. When he flies, the theory went, he was moving his body around with his mind.
Its fun to talk about "breaking free" of your OS vendor. As a foundation for software, and about the cheapest software on the machine, I'm not sure I know what the benefit is supposed to be. "Less unhappy"? With a platform that by definition hosts incompatible apps?
Ask HN: Are there any good university-affiliated incubators?
I've been asked by a [very excellent] university to help them start an incubator that will work with faculty & students to build in-lab technologies into fundable start-ups.

[Most everything will be seed/concept stage nearly always with a technology component, largely in biotech, chemicals, materials, life sciences -- not so much electronics, software, web. The area lacks a large investment or start-up community.]

I'd like to know --- which are the most successful university-associated incubators? Any entrepreneurs here that had positive experiences with an incubator? (I did in first start-up, but not with a university-affiliated incubator.)
I don't know why he had to bash hp at the end; of course hp is going to be making bargain PCs they need to compete with other producers, apple is about the only one that does not offer full computers for ~$500 but they are most definitely not their rival the rest of the industry is.
Spent two years in the basement of an old TB hospital, the local university "incubator", hitting my head on ancient steam pipes wrapped in "Danger: Asbestos!" tape. Other than cheap rent and a copier there wasn't anything to recommend the experience.
> I don't know why he had to bash hp at the end; of course hp is going to be making bargain PCs they need to compete with other producers

So, you're saying that HP needs to follow the herd? The entire point of this article is that they don't and shouldn't. That's exactly why he needed to bash HP at the end.
Hey, it sounds like the late 80s or early 90s! Dumb terminals are coming back in style! Nice, turns up the Nirvana
I think it was clear even back then sun was the dot in .com and then after the crash everyone started using Linux instead.
I think the main problem is that the title is misleading, even if another name were used.

What does "Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead" inform that is related to ZFS? Does it somehow attract people who are interested in ZFS for Mac OS X or it hit the front page for some other reason?

Or maybe the word "Zed" is just related to ZFS (or ZFS for Mac OS X) in a way that I'm unaware.
While we're on the single file, lightweight bandwagon, there's also Adminer: http://www.adminer.org/en/ Works pretty well and still looks halfway decent.
There was no mentoring? Just physical resources? [If antiquated and cancer-causing...]
okay it is a picture with windows 7 logo photoshopped on the screen of a macbook pro and the title for the article is: "Windows 7 _launched_ on a macbook pro..."
If Apple had to compete with someone else innovating on the PC, it would force them to break even further away from the herd. Macs are great, but they still resemble PARC's Alto from 36 years ago far too closely. The times have changed quite a bit. The iPhone is a much bigger leap as a personal computer (smaller leap as a phone, really).

The potential for innovation is there. It would be nice to see that happen on the PC. I hope that "someone else" shows up at some point. Better yet, I hope I can be a part of it. ;-)
Let me put it that way - if you're interested in anything Mac and don't read Gruber, you're doing it wrong.

So there's no need to "attract" people interested in OS X, and he doesn't really care for any other readership.
well duh. give it a few years.
I'm quite surprised - I've never even considered building a stateful web app that doesn't talk to a database or caching layer at all for most requests. It's fascinating to me how different the approaches taken in the Java world are from the LAMP world I'm accustomed to.
So what is a Cloud? Its a data center you don't own. Since most users never visited a data center, the analogy isn't vivid. So we'll continue to hear the Mainframe analogy.
Btw it IS much like a Mainframe when you have a static server cluster in the cloud. Thats not Enterprise but its pretty common, maybe more instances of that setup.
"Imagine how much better the industry would be if there were more than one computer maker trying to move the state of the art forward."

It would also be a nightmare of complexity.
This has always struck me as a combination of the worst of both worlds. By definition, if you're just omitting words in your slides that means you're coming close to reading them. And at the same time, you've made certain that your slides are useless after the fact.

In fact, that technique just strikes me as a lazy way for professors to force students to pay attention to presentations that are apparently not otherwise interesting enough.
It looks like that, but the author could have change the wording of the license to fit him.

If he didn't, then he's a complete moron who should never deal with legal issues because it does apply to Apple Inc. only.
So --- now take this theorem and find a solution to http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=26...

"A game is played with three piles of stones and two players.
At her turn, a player removes one or more stones from the piles. However, if she takes stones from more than one pile, she must remove the same number of stones from each of the selected piles."

(Please do not post complete solutions, as this is against the spirit of Project Euler.)
In the form of IETester, yes. Otherwise, I believe no, except through virtual machines.
These seems so obvious, but sometimes what is obvious to me isn't obvious to others:

I think I would look at the history of Silicon Valley. My recollection is they started that way. (I think the university was Stanford.)

I think I would also look at the National Laboratory programs, which develop technology and then do business partnerships....or some such. It's been a while since I read anything about what the National Labs do.

Good luck with this.
No, but I live in Berkeley and if you want to experience mdakin face-to-face over-a-beer drop an email to the obvious username at alum dot mit dot edu. I attended the first Startup School in Cambridge and had fun but I'm not really totally in startup mode right now which is why I didn't apply this time around.
I think they're working on the assumption that everyone likes the same kinds of news items as their Facebook friends. I don't think that's really true.

I think this will change the atmosphere of the site. Currently the news items are mostly about things going on in friends' lives. So when you "like" an item or comment on it, you're expressing an interest in that person. If Facebook gets cluttered up with news articles and videos, the metrics available to Facebook will also become cluttered. I'm afraid Facebook will start showing me technology stories submitted by classmates and stop showing me what's happening in my siblings' lives.
Not necessarily. Web standards could be a great foundation. The web is open and anyone is free to push the state of the art forward. Yet the result has often been more interoperability, not less.
I recommend just staying away from the button element unless you are really careful now and in the future. I started using it a couple years ago almost exclusively and quickly ran into problem #1 below and not until just recently #2 which probably resulted in a lot of bugs that just never got reported or we just got lucky.

1. IE does not honor the value attribute of the button tag, rather it submits the button html content as the value.

2. IE6 passes ALL button elements to the action page of the form, not just the one clicked.

There are javascript onsubmit hacks to work around both of these issues but it is just really annoying to have to do so, and easy to over look. It might work fine at first with one button but then you add a second or rely on the button value a year later and don't test in IE6 and you are screwed.
There are companies that do well by making brilliant things, and there are companies that do well by making commodities cheaply. It's nice when a commodity company, like Acer, makes something that seems brilliant, like a good netbook. And it's nice when a company holds a streak of brilliance for many years, like Apple has.

What makes the HP example sad is that it's a company that has recently been running on the vapors of it brilliant ideas, and is now stuck competing in commoditized markets, where you can really only compete on price. That's not to say HP couldn't survive, or even become more profitable; but for hackers who cherish the creation of brilliant things, it is a painful thing to witness.

On the other hand, this is progress. We have Microsoft's early PC OS monolopy to thank for the wonderful range of cheap, standardized PC hardware that makes linux boxes easy and macs/ipods/iphones mass-marketable.
He's using Flash to embed different fonts into the document (SIFR), and the Flash plugin eats mouse events. Please, let real web fonts be widely supported soon...
He can change matter and energy at will; he can manipulate subatomic energy; he has numerous strange names. Sounds familiar!
The irony of an Apple fanboi discussing conformity like this is deafening. Buying Apple is buying conformity.

I suppose with all the downvotes I'll expand.

The conformity is what makes Apple stuff work. A small range of hardware for the chosen operating system. Running Linux or Windows on Apple hardware is hard.

Conformity also happens with the iPhone. Unless I bother to jailbreak my iPhone, I'm forced to use the functionality on my iPhone agreed by my carrier and Apple through the carrier updates.
Oh... I see.

It confused me for a second whya 22 hour old post was top of my home page with other randomly ordered stuff below it.

I dont think they have their algorithms right to be perfeclty honest; currently top of my list is a popular status update (4 likes, 9 replies) from a person I barely know and with whom I have no (Facebook) friends in common.

Hmmm.

Anyone figured out a way to set it to Live Feed by default again?
The UCF/Disney incubator was pretty good when I went through it. They require you to take a (8 or 12 week, I don't remember) course that goes through every aspect of starting a business. One thing to note about this is that it's not specifically tech oriented. Each class is taught by a different (and usually quite successful) entrepreneur except for the part about raising money (which was taught by a local banker). At the end you have to pitch the class and make your presentation.

http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/
"Cosmetics Queen" Bobbi Brown on the a startup life
Have a look at the ATI - http://www.ati.utexas.edu
HMAC is definitely slower and might be less secure than the MAC functions used by the AE modes, which (especially with CCM and EAX) are based on AES instead of hash functions.

On the other hand, there is more public code implementing HMAC than there is for EAX.
These are terribly unstable on OS X... and I don't know why.
AlphaLab in Pittsburgh has strong ties to Pitt and CMU by virtue of its parent organization, InnovationWorks. That's not to say that the relationship guides decisions though. Steve Klabnik (username steveklabnik) could sound off on the incubator's success as he took part in its most recent investing cycle.
The search engine looks great and works well but, the first thing I thought when I saw the domain name was "this MUST be link spam."
I'm not sure if languages can be classified so easily. For example, is C++ a LFM or a LFSP? What about Javascript?
An historical event Discovery of Cape Town
I'm able to try and imagine the thoughts of Portuguese explorer Bartholemew Diaz, when he first discovered the Cape in 1488. Coming in from the sea to this wonderful and mountainous landscape must've been really wondrous
"Operating systems aren’t mere components like RAM or CPUs; they’re the single most important part of the computing experience"

I think this is rapidly becoming less true with the increasing utility of the browser + web. These days, what I value most in an OS is speed, stability, and staying out of my way.
Georgia Tech's:
Technology Incubator (ATDC): http://atdc.org/

Venture Lab: http://innovate.gatech.edu/venturelab

More generally, both of these entities fall under the Enterprise Innovation Institute: http://innovate.gatech.edu/
Smatcher: startupmatcher reborn for startupschool
You are arguing that this approach is better, therefor it isn't more complicated. You realize that isn't valid logic, right?
cancer-causing

Asbestos insulation is not cancer-causing. Asbestos dust is cancer-causing.
1. You can do crowdscanning, that's what Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders were doing for the twenty years before google came along.

2. An individual line from a book is copyright, unless you have a fair use exclusion, which would not be the case in these circumstances.
>>We could, for instance, determine whether Superman could accelerate if He were surrounded by a nearly perfect vacuum.

Hasn't Superman already been observed flying in outer space? One would think a better vacuum would be hard to come by.
Much of the lower levels of Mac OS X (including the compiler, which at the moment is gcc, although Apple is moving toward LLVM/clang...) is GPL. CUPS, which is now managed and primarily maintained by Apple, is GPL.
Just rename your company OrACoolFunk.
He is super engaging when it comes to serious stuff. Good video.
"Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now)" is the original title of the video. Unless you are a big fan of Merlin Mann, in which case you'll be watching the video regardless of what I say, I'd say that this is something you can skip. The 40 min video is about... well, the topics Merlin Mann tends to speak about. The content-to-time-it-takes-to-watch-the-video ratio is pretty low, so if you're a 'casual' Mann fan, just (re-)read these posts:

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/48588149/better

http://www.43folders.com/2008/12/03/real-advice-hurts
I've heard GT's incubation system was successful. Is there a secret sauce there?
In my opinion, that's essentially a ranking problem, not a conceptual block. There's no doubt a wide-open field of "how to get recommendations right" once things have moved over in that direction. One of the key ways of doing that will be figuring out how to weigh different sorts of interactions -- it won't just be so-and-so-likes-this, but also taking into account profile views, messages sent and so on.
Why does this happen in this day and age?

Another case of trademark trolling: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8810200
+1. I wouldn't click it in a normal situation.
Well neither you or he offered any useful alternatives for what hp should do and I offered reasoning on why they need to sell cheaper PCs
New iPhone app piracy over week one.
The answer is no, sadly. There are no good university affiliated incubators. They are all inevitably run by professors and academic administrators who have no understanding of startups (financial and time crises, for example). I have a lot of experience here, and I don't mean to sound cynical but I'm 100% certain here. There is not 1 single successful university incubator if you take percentage of going concern businesses (successful launches) over business initiations as a metric. Every professor wants to "start a business" but none of them are willing to take the risk of leaving tenured jobs, so they all end in resentful exploited students walking away. I advise you to steer clear of this.
No F-16 needed to start the process. Thus no reproduction.
The next generation enterprise system
(the next JBoss if you want to go for it)
- JVM based
- distributed multicore 2-3 nodes => 32 - 96 or more cores
- pluggable/dynamic/module substrate OSGI - Felix, Karaf
- Components written in Scala
-- w liberal use of Actors, some STM as well
- Paxos based node coordination and eventual data consistency
- The majority if not all data in memory, check pointed on SSD.
- Cluster of N nodes survives failures and keeps on chugging. 2F + 1 = N

Akka starts down this path

RRacine
Not sure if you'll read this now (11 days after you posted it), but shoot me an email if you do. I was working on something similar for the UK market so have some ideas about how to bootstrap, I'd be happy to discuss them with you.
Learning C and ASM, what's the way to go?
I'd like to learn C and ASM (on x86-64) The documentation I have varies between old books from the 70's, and tutorials from websites with the grammar of 16 year olds, from miserable sites. I'm not sure how best to attack this problem. I'd like to learn how to program in C and in ASM, I've read basic things, and understand their usefulness, but I don't know what to read! I have a number of people tell me that they've read near to nothing, but I don't think I have this sort of mindset.

Kind elders of Y, give me guidance.

Thanks
You're wrong. The claim over the islands was laid out in Argentina's constitution in 1985, which you can read here (on page 22):

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:RZIivRFbg_8J:ww...

Additionally, the president of Argentina raised the issue with the UK Prime Minister in their meeting in Chile earlier this year.

So anyway, Argentina claims the Falklands/Malvinas as their territory, but your or my opinion on the claim is irrelevant to the discussion. My point is, that maps.google.com.ar, the Argentine version of Google maps, shows a map supporting the British side of the claim, which is inconsistent with the policy described by the article.
Part of the problem is that Zed (Shaw) is associated with a conversational, bombastic, informal, pop-culture inflected style of writing and argumentation. Do you see the problem now with 'Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead'?

Not only does it use the ambiguous name, it basically forces anyone who has read anything written by Zed in his rockstar persona to expect something about Zed, say, retiring his rock star blogging, because it sounds so much like him or an imitation of him.

It'd be much like if you read a headline about 'Will' or maybe 'Bill', which uses several words like 'thou' or' thine'; yes, logically, nothing compels you to instantly think that it's about William Shakespeare since it never actually says which 'Will'. But nevertheless, it will lead to confusion and reflects badly on the headline writer that they didn't understand that their words were conveying something entirely different than what they meant.
I think incubators have fallen out of favor.

What most universities do have are business plan competitions. These usually offer significant prizes and great feedback.

Also, any reason for the secrecy as to what university it is?
I think it's just a wonderful site on Google Ajax Search Engine. Nothing more...
phpMiniAdmin is pretty good too: http://code.google.com/p/phpminiadmin
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