skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like five tendencies of human nature. The author even points out exceptions to some of the "laws" he's righting about.
There would be records of the radar track in the computers of the Aegis cruisers in the task force. There may well be evidence of the launch captured by satellites.

ELINT is very powerful, and the US intelligence agencies have been at this game since before WWII. Their sneakiness boggles the mind! They were using signals bounced off of the moon to spy on Soviet equipment, and disguised the whole thing as radio astronomy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ

If you are going to go up against the US defense establishment, you'd better be damned sure you know what you're doing.

If I were the US, facing such an asymmetric threat, I'd keep most of my carrier groups around for the short term as a boondoggle, then come up with my own novel threat against my opponent's shipping.

(Sub launched cruise missiles, or mines? The advanced 21st century version, of course.)
"developers love paypal"

Do they? Because I've never met one that does.
Cottage Cheese Diet
Why Should You Have a Business BrainTrust?
I'd put more resources into cruise missiles launched from submarines and small missile carrying craft with stealth technology.
What Makes an Entrepreneur (4/11) – Resiliency
FTA:

Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in 1891, W.J. Stillman, a journalist and critic, decried the effects of the telegraph on his profession. "America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical expression of the thought of the time, the opportune record of the questions and answers of contemporary life, into an agency for collecting, condensing and assimilating the trivialities of the entire human existence," he moaned.

"The frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions. We have no time to go below surfaces, and as a general thing no disposition."

...

Competing journalist John Smith later commented, "@wjthrillman Don't be so sensationalist; not everyone tweets about what they had for breakfast. #luddites"
I think it's more that none of the commonly or widely accepted guides to grammar offer advice that is correct.
Mark Suster: What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot
Why did it take 12 years for James Cameron to make Avatar?
Thruth be told, this fantasy applies to all genders.

Consider stock photography sites, Second Life, programming sites(rentacoder etc), iPhone development and dare I say Mahalo and their ilk.

What do these seemingly dissimilar outfits have in common? They present a fantasy on making a living doing something you love or at least don't despise. Good PR/press only encourages this view.

Reality? Few outliers make out exceptionally, while the average participant makes less than minimum wage(sometimes even for China).

Problem is, as soon as you start making a living out of a hobby/game/craft, you inevitably start treating it like a job and with that goes the fun.
I never thought about it that way. I was able to make huge strides in learning. All the time to myself coupled with a desire to prove that "a degree doesn't matter for me" was a great recipe for my self-education. I look back and was not a happy person, but boy was I ever productive when it came to learning stuff. That period of my life is when I discovered Paul Graham's essays, became a much better programmer, stumbled upon the Getting Things Done methodology (way before it went mainstream), and seemed to have made all the right choices when it comes to choosing technologies to study.

My big regret is that there probably was a way for me to accomplish the same thing without being a hermit. I spent a considerable amount of time procrastinating on IRC and forums when I could have been exercising (which would have yielded more energy) and having a better social life. I happen to have a great set of friends, they didn't let me be a complete hermit but I would do social things maybe 2 times a month, 3 if I was lucky.
Does anyone outside the US and China really care about non-ISP DNS servers?

I'm honestly not trolling. This is a legitimate question.
Lessons from Yelp's Ratings Problem (And why they should sell.)
The difference: they figured out how to use this new technology to enhance their business.

They're letting the internet hurt their brands. It has a lot to do with the design, ads, and [citations needed].
https://www.opendns.com/dashboard/settings/xxxxxx/advanced (where xxxxxx is whatever ID they give for your netblock). Uncheck "Enable typo correction (and NX Domain redirection)".

If you're setting up OpenDNS, you should really be setting up an account with them too.
Tool of the Day:  Pagealizer: Actionable Analytics
No wonder why Microsoft sacked him :P
Most desktop applications don't automatically update themselves every time you use them.
And Iraq has chemical weapons, and Iran is a dangerous nuclear power, blah blah blah... Isn't $500 billion a year (50% of the federal budget!) enough for you people?
I do when they're faster than my ISP ones (27ms vs ~60ms). Every millisecond counts.

Oddly enough, when I use Comcast's DNS servers the speed at which Modern Warfare 2 connects to online games is drastically slowed compared to OpenDNS. I'm not quite sure why, but it's the most noticeable effect I've had switching over to OpenDNS.
How else are they going to pay for their free, high performance DNS servers and network? Not a bad tradeoff, really.

Google can justify the expense of their DNS service w/ NXDomain's because it will speed up all of their web properties and generate more search revenue.
That article isn't exactly airtight in the evidence department.
http://gizmodo.com/5256604/iphone-application-sales-are-so-t...
I think that the example you give is actually a very good example of a set of context switches that people regularly deal with poorly, even though they are, as you note, very common.

How many server side web developers do you know who can output standards compliant HTML/XHTML that also works on IE6? (In fact, I suppose this is one major reason why templating is so common---so you can separate the web development experts from the web design experts.) How many web developers will have a database enforce their integrity constraints rather than having the logic in their program? How many know how to write PL/SQL? How many compilers are there now from some source language down to JavaScript in order to reduce the number of languages that a developer needs to know and control interactions between?

The danger of these sorts of context switches seems to be difficult project coordination, code redundancy, performance bugs, and logic errors.

(On a side note, it's not that I think that developers are stupid, it's that writing code well in a given language seems to require not just familiarity with that often idiosyncratic language, but it also requires continued knowledge of standard idioms, libraries, frameworks, and sources of answers to common problems.)
Wait what? Which only proves my point.
What? Python has way too many parentheses. Why should I have to write foo() to call foo? That's what I want to do with it 99% of the time. Ruby has it right.
well, he mentions hating OO languages because it makes it hard for him to program in a style similar to C. That's a bit like saying you hate hate hammers because they don't work with screws very well.
Its a well known that Internet has changed the way people access information. And the best part is that it has empowered people instead of the oligarchs and governments (except cases where human rights are censored).

Its in our hands to make the best out of this opportunity.
According to their latest 10K:

Mac net sales = 13.7B
iTunes store net sales* = 4B

*Consists of iTunes Store sales, iPod services, and Apple-branded and third-party iPod accessories
Although this is not still available for India, Bing maps has had this from about a year now.

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fcommunity%2Fblogs%2Fmaps%2Farchive%2F2008%2F09%2F24%2Fnew-feature-release-of-live-search-maps.aspx&h=bf3c951bafc03cfbc163700de8e8f595
(Sub launched cruise missiles, or mines?)

Nukes.

If I were the US, I'd simply make it an official matter of policy that any attack from a nuclear power would result in an immediate nuclear response, the logic being that once two nuclear powers are at war it's probably going to turn nuclear eventually, so you might as well make the first strike.
Mac fan blogs miss the point about Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile
The best way to fight piracy is to "be ahead". The use of e-readers could be very beneficial to publishers. The price of an e-book should be much lower as there is no printing costs, easier distribution, no secondhand market, always in stock, no out of print. Just like with music, the way we consume books are going to change and we're going to want more for less.
Sex Pistols and Cloud Computing
if they don't understand javascript, they'll see the page as if you would disable javascript.
No, I think the parent's point was that if bright people still go into fields that matter, then the economy won't "suffer."

Also, the parent joined HN 12 days after you.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign out forever
It'd be nice if you turned that off in your account if you don't like it. Most folks (who are not the news.yc crowd) are quite happy with our default experience.

And don't think I'm going to start tracking what you look at if you create an account, stats are off by default.

I really don't care about how much porn you look at online. :-)
When it comes right down to it, Publishers are at the mercy of their authors. For Apple to really hit the industry hard, all they have to to is make it super-attractive to authors 7 content creators.

Publishers don't have to "get it" as long as Authors get it.

iTunes currently gives App creators a 30% cut.
It they were to give authors 30% to publish with them instead of their traditional print publishers, I'm sure most authors would jump at the chance. 30% is SO MUCH higher than most authors ever get from print publishers.
Difference Between Ubuntu and Fedora | tuxmachines.org
Chicago has a huge Yelp user population, and stars aside, the reviews of restaurants are themselves ill-informed and misleading. You have a much more compelling case with the bodega and the Michelin-starred restaurant, but, for example, a prominent and well-rated review of The Publican claimed they had food-service fries, which was funny because I read it while watching Paul Kahan peeling potatoes by hand before they fried them in duck fat.

I don't trust anything I read in Yelp. Google should buy LTHForum.
Investors aren't really interested in doing God's work, either. They are interested in getting paid. They are able to raise funds because investors think that they might be able to buy BofA and Citi stock cheap.
US Gov Requests Feedback on Open Access – ACM Gets it Wrong (Again)
The rise of machine-written journalism
non blog-spam version here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003255
Modern Carriers can't fit through the Panama Canal and I am sure they would be fine going around the tip of South America.
My ISP's DNS server (in the UK) quite frequently goes down or slow - it's useful to have an alternative to switch to. Normally, I change to OpenDNS then change back when the ISP one is back up to avoid the ads.

However, since changing to Google DNS when my ISP DNS was down a couple of weeks ago, I've not actually bothered to change back.

(edit: having seen davidu's comment on this page, I may try OpenDNS again, sans ads.)
Deploying Tornado in production
No, his probelm with OO is that inheritance is problematic as a primary means of abstraction. It sounds nice on paper, but can lead to horribly unmaintainable code and wasting time arguing over specifics of tangled inheritance hierarchies. (This is a bigger issue in statically typed OO languages - being able to just send a message and get an exception if the recipient doesn't support that interface helps quite a bit.)

Also, he says that OO languages (really, only some) have weak support first-class functions and closures, since they place so much emphasis on objects.

His criticisms sound more accurate for Java and C++ than, say, Python or Smalltalk. (He mentions Eiffel specifically, but I have no experience with it.)
On The Static Compilation of Groovy
How are these relevant to each-other? What's the purpose of this article? If we’re just making an arbitrary list, there are hundreds of similar phenomena we could include. These five certainly aren’t exhaustive, and they don’t strike me as representative either.

This article seems more like: “We have x column inches to fill about human behavior. Here are n unrelated phenomena which we noticed some not-so-recent papers about before our deadline rolled around, and we managed to fill that space with them.”
>the coldest craters in the northern polar region can dip as low as minus 249C (26 Kelvin)

Um, do they mean 24K?
It really isn't my concern if they have to retire as I like evangelists less than normal sales representatives when they act in such a way.
Yeah, although the trade off is that as class construction is procedural with prototypes you know longer have a declarative type system. Any type checking will have to come from type inference (when possible).
Please tell me you are joking.

Some of us spent our entire youth afraid of nuclear annihilation 24/7. We've been out of that for some time now, but I don't think anyone wants to send the world back to that point.
A startup on the brink of the abyss pleads for money
NIMBY, a small business providing space and tools for some of the more extreme types of artists (fire sculpture, giant welding, etc) has finally hit the wall.

What do you do when you think you have something viable and unique but you've been drained almost dry taking care of all the paperwork and jumping through regulation hoops?

Perhaps someone here with more experience than I can advise them how to generate more funding?
I don't think Google is buying Yelp for the reviews. I think they'd buy them for the user data.

From what I hear, Google has an internal mandate to ensure that products are globally applicable. This is why Google probably won't attack real estate anytime soon.

Yelp is rich in certain locales (hadn't heard about Chicago, but your pop-size ensures that pretty much most things are a hit) but it's reviews aren't going global anytime soon. The data and patterns Google could glean, in addition to the local business data (openings, closings, good for kids, etc) is invaluable to them as they work towards their local business goal. They could kick off several cities with a flick, and have learnings to scale up.
The IPhone is the first decent, easy-to-use, handheld computer. I've found prior interfaces to be really annoying by comparison, e.g. Blackberry. Unlike in the desktop arena, Apple are poised to be the dominant player in the next platform. It's theirs to lose.
That site is incredibly well put together. Makes me jealous that someone else's joke is better looking than my own real sites.
Pretty incredible stuff. I'm glad they didn't have the treasure hunt clues up yet or I probably wouldn't have lost the better part of my morning looking at this.
This isn’t a blog post. It’s the preface to a longer work – contents at the left.
You can't expect an objective experience when the service offers a higher service to businesses for money. And the paid search results aren't even relevant.

So yeah, take it with a grain of salt.
Out of every $100 spent on national defense worldwide, $40–$50 are spent by the United States. About 30% of the US Federal budget is military spending, and about 13% is paying interest on money we borrowed for previous military spending.¹ Any hypothetical war that the US couldn’t win unless it spends even more coin on military hardware is not a hypothetical war that the US should be hypothetically fighting in the first place.

¹ http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spendi...
The federal budget is significantly more than 1 Trillion USD
very impressive! zero obfuscation though...

How long until technology gets to the point where this can all be done in real time, giving powers that be absolutely insane CCTV monitoring abilities?
Twitter hack DNS change
I configured the http://sucuri.net network monitoring to look at twitter, facebook and lots of other big sites.

That's the alert I got yesterday:

"
Modifications:
3a4

< twitter.com has address 128.121.146.100

< twitter.com has address 168.143.162.52

> twitter.com has address 66.147.242.88

---
This alert was generated by the Sucuri Network Integrity Monitor. Log in to your dashboard at http://sucuri.net.
"

So yes, it shows the DNS change, but doesn't tell where/how they got access. Btw, it also shows how important it is to monitor your DNS/whois for changes.
Such tone is pretty counter-intuitive, IMO.
Ask HN:  DropZap for iPhone updated to v1.2 yesterday.  What do you think of it?
What should I improve in a future update?

DropZap Lite: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap-lite/id338896034?mt=8

DropZap: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap/id338490375?mt=8
Oh The Beauty and Joy of Computing (Berkeley CS Class)
That's cool and all, but it doesn't really tell us anything that we didn't already know.
Actually. Apple takes a 30% cut (leaving the creators with 70%).
Seems like an arbitrary distinction to me. So I don't click a link to an external site, how's this a problem?
It tells what the IP was during the hack ( I didn't see anywhere mentioning it).

Plus, it is a good wake up call for everyone to look at your DNS more closely...

And, it shows that my little startup project ( http://sucuri.net ) is indeed useful :)
I've heard those stories too. That's why we have fire alarms.

When does the plural of anecdote become data? At least, there will be a point where we've got enough data points to start taking precautions.
I'm glad to hear that as I'm lobbying the Mrs for a Kindle for Christmas.
hdparm tells me "Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes" but this article tells me:

Unfortunately, at this point the utility also serves as the only way to identify an Advance Format drive without physically looking at it. Looking at the ATA spec, it looks like there’s a provision for asking a drive its native sector size (regardless of 512B emulation) but at this point there’s no such tool beyond the WD Align utility itself.

So did hdparm just guess ....
Every embedded device I've used that was an X (and also a Y!!) has been a really weak, nearly unusable Y... and worse, an inconvenient and buggy X.
This is a startup in what sense?
VRM - controlling your own data
Another thing to consider is the "illegal" market for books. Apple (and other music players) did luck out with the plethora of freely available music. How many of you would have your current portable music player if you had to pay for every song on it?

I have plenty of my own content, which would fit best on a device that goes beyond the capabilities and goals of current e-readers.

Something that can compete with the display qualities of paper, but bring with it the ability to run scripts, play sound and video media, create my own media, sketch, and interface with the global network through 3G or better -- this device would bring about a revolution in personal computing as big as the advent of the iPhone.

And the funny thing is, Alan Kay thought of this back in the late 60s!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
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Thank you, I'll be emailing you later today
Near the advent of the Dynabook
Changing the behavior of an existing class or method isn't really what people mean by metaprogramming, is it?
Google vs Microsoft on the browser, cloud, and mobile platforms
Apple's iPhone commands 46% of Japanese smartphone market
I was hoping for better reporting when I saw this post. The article didn't show a causal link between regulating bonuses and the payback, it showed correlation:

"The investment banks that were capable of paying back did so in June, the month when lawyer Kenneth Feinberg was appointed as TARP's special master for executive compensation. Coincidence?

In October, Feinberg issued compensation guidelines for the companies receiving special assistance, including Citi and Bank of America. That, and the approach of the bonus season, lit a fire under executives at the largest remaining TARP recipients."
Something that can compete with the display qualities of paper, but bring with it the ability to run scripts, play sound and video media, create my own media by sketching, composing music, writing, creating new hyperlinked content, and do all this while interfaced with the global network through 3G or better -- this device would bring about a revolution in personal computing at least as big as the advent of the iPhone.

The article describes the Dynabook as being like a laptop. If you've heard Alan Kay speak about the idea, you know that it goes beyond the notion of a portable workstation, which is what the laptop/notebook is.
Wanna meet your real neighbours again?

God no. That's why the Internet is so awesome - we're not limited to the people we unfortunately find ourselves surrounded by in "real life." Still, good joke ;-)
And probably blow up its own electronics. Epic Fail.
Normal Internet users know shit about SSL and stuff. Perhaps they would call the broadband company when saw that.

I always think browsers should be developed in two versions and can be switched by one key, one like MSN Explorer, one for advanced geeks with a console.
Yay! Now we can do remote pair-programming totally within our internal network (the IT Policy goons are quite unhappy when it comes to using cloud-based services).
How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus
Good concept but, personally, I find the overdone suicide logos and graphics unsettling.
Ask HN: Which should I pay for: Dropbox or ZumoDrive? What do you think?
Hi all,

I am looking to buy a pro account with either Dropbox or ZumoDrive but I don't know which to pick.

I trust the HN community to help me out :)

Which one are you using and why... which do you feel is better??

Thanks,

Kent
The additional details are pretty interesting also:

About: http://blog.360cities.net/the-largest-panorama-in-the-world/

How it was made: http://blog.360cities.net/prague-18-gigapixels-how-it-was-ma...
We do that at my company and call it SOA. The most common image of SOA is the architecture astronaut version of SOA, but you can do SOA without having a service bus, without a UDDI registry of services, without formal life cycle management, etc. Those elements may help in some circumstances to improve scalability and manageability, but they aren't necessary for SOA. Anyone saying that an ESB and UDDI are necessary for SOA is trying to make SOA more complicated than necessary so their expertise will be marketable. At my company, we just started writing services and hooking them together. We introduce other elements of SOA as necessary to address real or predictable problems, not imaginary ones.
Here's the quickest way to delete your account in China (only if your account has absolutely no link with your real identity):

Use a proxy, and post anti-government stuff.
I know you're speaking with tongue-in-cheek but there's some unsettling truth to what you say.

People can be less involved in their community if they can just escape to like-minded havens on the internet rather than fixing the real issues going on around them (see al3x's post about fleeing to Portland for reference: http://al3x.net/).
Facebook readies its Game Dashboard to organize your social gaming life
How could they tell if I am carrying my notebook everywhere and logged on with a different IP address?

I mean, they have to hijack something to identify my cookies, right?
We do, only as secondary server.
Anthrax in heroin leads to deaths in Scotland.