skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better alternative would be to find a way to dump the searchable information in "the cloud", but encode it in such a way to make it very difficult to detect or differentiate from "normal" content. The clients would know how to read and even search this "subliminal channel", and use it for rendezvous, etc.

"Cloud" could really be any public hosted online content, a social bookmarking site like reddit, S3, etc. I wonder how much data you could even stash inside flv video or mp3.

I'm not saying this would be easy, it would need to be redundant enough to withstand constant takedowns, etc. but it would be much more difficult to stop.
Either that or justify paying for their security products.
I disagree. Corporations don't have to have any goal to "destroy the earth" or "cause overpopulation". Pursuit of short-term profits while externalising the risks and wastes is bad enough. If you consider the "the abundance that has been caused" you should also consider the common tactic of trying to ignore and hide the drawbacks (e.g. tobacco industry) and drag feet on any effective action to change thigns (e.g. recent Copenhagen climate conference).
The Game of Life on GPU using F#
Reminds me of the book 'two minute apple programs' from days past...
Have you considered some less indirect and inefficient ways to 'Tell PG'? Perhaps an email?
Quick links on websites are algorithmic.
While you have a point that you need a market, perhaps rather than just "giving up" when you have no audience, you instead try as hard as you can to build one right now, and ask them what they think of your idea.
"Capitalism won when it learnt how to sell anti-capitalism."

I think I read that somewhere...
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I live in the Midwest and always have to fly through at least one hub to get anywhere useful, so I'm getting a kick out of this.

(I once was trying to book a flight from Kansas City to Portland, and -- I kid you not -- one suggested route was through Atlanta)
this was submitted by the author himself only 19 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018100
Working on the UI doesn't stop them from fixing memory leaks. There are different people working on different parts of the browser.
What's the reward of contributing to open source at all? Some personal satisfaction and perhaps a bit of reputation?
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I like the question of semiology here, even though it's not really addressed in the article. I’ve been calling it the début de siècle — French for ‘start of the century’. The French term has so much more connotation than the literal English translation, though.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_siècle
you can also gauge the Whole Foods mark up by comparing it to the organic offerings at a "Normal" grocery store. In my comparisons of organic produce, the prices are fairly consistent which leads me to believe it is just more expensive to cultivate organic crops and the price is increased to account for the difficulty.
there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects

Seriously? What next, are we going to discover that black holes aren't actual literal holes, and that no particular quarks are really any more charming than others?
LÖVE is excellent, especially for prototyping. The fact that you couldn't access pixel data of an image was possibly its biggest shortcoming, but that's fixed with 0.6.
Uh,

You're mistakenly assuming I'm taking a position on this particular topic.

If it's true that someone else has a stake in this or some other debate, then indeed they also have an obligation to reveal it.

The only thing I'm arguing is that anyone who has stake in a debate has an obligation to make that stake clear.

That's it.
Characterizing it as a small problem, and "fixable" seems to minimize the very obvious fact that a few lines of Perl caught problems that should have been caught well before the data was released.
Which is just a reflection of knee-jerk thinking. This "Evil" corporation pays better than companies that require similar levels of education/commitment and also offers employees health insurance. However, these benefits are better than those offered by unionized companies and this is a threat to those unions. So you get a smear campaign even though HF nets out as a far better corporate citizen.

A lot of my liberal friends were among those angered by the WSJ editorial. Strangely none of them wanted to peer deeper into how this company with a low/no-skill workforce was able to offer insurance benefits. This company should be studied and held up as an example, not pulled into the borg.
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Children need to be bored, so I'm smashing the Wii
Looks like chrome to me! I had a double-take.

A home tab and improved awesome bar will put some competitive pressure on Google. Those two features were the most innovative UI features to come out of chrome. They changed my browser use habits. I wonder what this design challenge will add to the mix. What does everyone want to see in the UI of FF4?

EDIT: Added a sentence.
I think you're projecting on the politics.

Though the author lamented Bush's 2004 win, "(In the alternate decade of fantasy, President Gore, forever slim and with hairline intact, not only reads those intelligence memos in the summer of 2001 but acts upon them; he also ratifies the Kyoto Protocol and invents something even better than the Internet.)" sounds like a direct condemnation of that "00 as the decade of Bush and Bush is bad" attitude. Also, I didn't catch the glowing reviews of Obama in there, except that she referred to him as an intellectual.

I agree with you, though, that the article was basically content free.
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Maybe they could come up with a browser that isn't more broken than IE on Windows XP, and say "the UI is good enough until we fix the more important bugs"? I know, that's crazy talk.
The Real Meaning Of Christmas; Seeing Through The Bullshit
When I buy tickets, do you ship them to me or can I print them out immediately? Are they for a specific movie/time/date or are they generic vouchers?
I'm not finding that in the article. They didn't change the TOS to trap Totlol, I'm all but certain. They changed it because of what they felt was best for the product (probably because of all the crappy link farms backed by youtube content).

And totlol just didn't notice. Again, it's a free service. It's not like totlol had a contract that was violated. They bet their for-profit company on Google's good will, and as it turned out Google didn't care so much about totlol's profits.
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UANAL but Grellas is.

If he says it's complex I take his word for it.
I don't use a $1,700 Apple computer so that I can use poorly designed software ;-)
sorry if this sounds overly combative, but is there any proof out there that this cockburn fellow actually can program his way out of a paper bag?
This would be a cinch with Twilio! Great idea and good luck!
yeah what exactly did they do? Change a few lines in their terms of service agreement that nobody reads? The HORROR!

Seriously dude they didn't shut you down overnight like craigslist constantly does, they didn't suddenly start charging you for the API...all they did was write in a few extra clauses into their ToS. Nothing actually changed for you.

These things are always in the terms, they are just put there by lawyers, so that they have some options 20 years from now when they might need it against a real culprit.

And as far as your API provider/user relationship based on respect, that's a load of bull. As far as I can see the only thing Google is "guilty" of is changing a few lines in their ToS, which is entirely in their right. You on the other hand are guilty of attacking them over something that they haven't even done yet. Smearing them with what ifs about events that didn't even happen yet.

If Google shuts you down, then you can bitch and moan. But until they do, what exactly are you complaining about? Hell it's already been 6 months since they changed the ToS, if the ToS specifically targeted you(like you imply), you'd have been banned already.
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On one hand, this guy is a classic example of why sometimes it's best to stay out of the way and let a professional be the public face of a company.

On the other hand, he may be a loose cannon, but at least he's interesting, and you have to give him credit for what he's accomplished, even if he has had some pretty impressive gaffes along the way.
I think the question would be if there's any invoicing app that supports moneybrookers, not which one is the best.

Personally I use blinksale for my invoicing needs. Its well done and simple. A more complete (feature-wise) version is in the works, but who knows when they will launch it.
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I was not trying to defend the current law or any of its possible inconsistencies but only to give a sense of how it applies to this type of situation - as that law is currently interpreted, there is a near-zero risk that Google's search business will be held to create liabilities for contributory infringement.

That doesn't mean the law is correct and people can reasonably differ on what is or isn't fair under copyright (or even whether copyright should exist) - but that argument is a philosophical one and not one for explaining what the current law is.
Yes, of course, but I don't have his email address & even if I did, if it was hosted at the same place it might also be down.
Idea: Better filtering for HN/social news
I think I should be able to view HN/reddit-like sites with a mode that hides all stories from me until the second derivative of the number of comments gets close to 0.

I don't necessarily want to see the newest or the best, I just want to see stories once they've matured/developed a little bit without losing them.

I often find myself checking back on stories after a while to see new comments, but not necessarily on popular stories, and it's not really something I'd want to bookmark.

news.ycombinator.org/best would be cool otherwise.

Noprocrast is good, but I still end up viewing the same thing repeatedly. Maybe I should just check the site once in the evenings or something.

What do you guys think?
The AUGHTS. I see none of the issues the article bring up actually being BAD things about this term for this time period, which it has been used to describe it before.
I love that you call the whole operational transform library of wave "just the ajax parts." I almost fell off my chair laughing.
Not to miss part of the story is where GOOG declines giving Totlol special privileges for the API, despite all they say about how great Totlol is.
Do we know that they're definitely leaks? I thought they just had some crazy caching or something. How did that story turn out?
I understand the need for Google to eek out a profit out of Youtube. What really bothers me (if the post is accurate) is that Google wasn't as transparent as they should have been.
Part of "doesn't get in the way" is a consistent and pleasant user interface.
India's population is growing faster than China's. I wasn't aware of that. According to this article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/world/asia/16census.html), India will overtake China in 2025. Learn something new every day.
What do Austin residents think of Central Market, vs Whole Foods?
He just started yesterday. Someone repost this in a month. From what I've heard, most people don't make it very far.
Algorithm Tutorials from training camp organised by UCT Algorithm Circle
Neat! Rather than having to issue a find, perhaps a background task that primes the cache as soon as you mount?
Logos using negative space
It is just a bit more hyped up than typical open source contributions. Using the "challenge" concept with public polling and "best in class honors" makes it sound more like a contest. I think it is fine how they are doing it. I don't expect a project like Mozilla to be handing out piles of cash for stuff like this.
I don't think that makes a difference. If I am understanding the mechanics of equity indices correctly...

The return of the index can be replicated even when stocks get delisted (an investor sells the stock that gets delisted.) When a new stock is added to the index, an investor buys this new stock.
I suspect s/he thinks Git is better because it is open source.

I've used both a lot and Git is faster at some things but BitKeeper gets some things right that Git does not, such as renames, per file comments, digging around in the history.

I think the right answer is that we're all better off because of both. BitKeeper was the original DSCM and paved the way, Git is open source, they are both actively moving forward, hard not to like that.
i don't want to be 'that guy', but Playboy does publish legitimate articles (in the style of, say, Rolling Stone or Vanity Fair or GQ). at least in its early years, it was well-known (in part) for its left-leaning editorials and investigative articles

wasn't it around 2004 that Playboy published a pretty high-profile interview with the Google founders right before their IPO, and there was some legal hiccups with the SEC due to what they disclosed in that interview?
"I didn't take this movie as either anti-corporate or anti-technology."

Agreed. I think many people are reading way too much into this plot. Sometimes a story is just a story.
Here is a December 8, 2009 article from the University of Rochester website that describes some additional uses: http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3514
You should try the Vimperator extension. It trades almost the entire UI/chrome for modal, vim-style, keyboard browsing.
Um, the distributed development model was pioneered by BitKeeper, not Linux.

MySQL ought to get more credit, they were in BitKeeper long before Linux was.
DirecTV 3D broadcasts coming in early 2010?
I wonder what is the actual "rationale" for investors receiving profits for holding equities -- why should an equity holder, on average, be compensated (in the form of higher returns) for holding a stock?
> When a party's technology is being primarily used for infringing purposes

I guess that means google image search should be forbidden too as most images are copyrighted.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Compare Trader Joe's. They have a large selection of organic foods, at noticeably discounted prices compared to Whole Foods. The drawback is that they're a bit smaller than Whole Foods, so you might not necessarily have one near you.
Nina Paley's Copyright Song - Copying is not theft
Can virus scanners prevent computers from being infected from this stuff? If so, the government should provide free virus scan for all computers. Increase taxes if necessary, but this will secure the capitalistic infrastructure that make jobs, specifically in the tech industry, better by saving money for those companies that would otherwise be spent on futile individually divided attempts at securing the internet.

We spend money on local law enforcement and the military to secure us from physical threats, but digital attacks can probably have the potential to damage our infrastructure (especially as we move more towards a digital dependency) just as much as a physical attack. So I think it makes sense that computer security should become a right for the country as a whole.

At the very least a distributed "virus scan" that's present on all US computers, and controlled by the good guys can be used to undermine the bad guys who have illegitimately infected people's computers.
Reading Devices: Scrolling vs. Pagination
I've known 3 people who gave this a serious shot. All tried different variations, and all are very bright individuals who recorded their sleep to the hour. One has a family and a business, the other two are extremely bright engineers.

2 eventually gave up on their own, as it was too intense.

1 almost killed themselves when they blacked out driving, then gave up immediately.
When I was younger (college), I really wanted to sleep less. I thought that if I could get by on 6 hours, 4 hours, or 3 hours of sleep, I'd live a better life, and would have more time to get things done.

No more. First, there is a lot of research that most people need 8+ hours of sleep, and that this is determined genetically. As in, not everyone can move to a 4 hour sleep night without side effects.[1]

Second, I'm happier and more productive when I'm well rested. Better 16 good hours a day than 20 bad hours.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/health/research/14sleep.ht... (registration req'd)
I disagree. The author picked exactly the right time to draw attention to this dickish move by Google. Investing time and money into building a startup based on another company's API is risky, but building said startup in direct violation of their ToS is downright irresponsible.

> If Google shuts you down, then you can bitch and moan.

No. If he continues and Google shuts him down, he can no longer bitch and moan, because he will have knowingly broken the API agreement.

> if the ToS specifically targeted you(like you imply), you'd have been banned already.

Doubtful. A ban would probably only be enforced if he actually started gaining business, users & notoriety.
Building a Sales and Marketing Machine
I wonder if Mr Eschenbach realizes that the effectiveness of America's entire nuclear arsenal relies on the computer models he so casually dismisses. Nuclear weapons testing is virtual, and has been since 1992.

Contrary to the article, climate models don't assume a relationship between CO2 and global warming; rather, they reflect what we know about the physical properties of CO2 in the atmosphere, as born out in laboratory experiments and field measurements. The relationship with global warming emerges from the models, not the other way around.
Creative Solutions to iPhone Service Woes
HN is not here for you to post your blogspam. Please stop.

(this and also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1019785 which has even less relevance to HN readers).

edit: I'm not objecting to self-linking at all, or indeed to the meaninglessness of the article being based on intentions rather than results.

I'm objecting to the simultaneous posting of this with 'The real meaning of Christmas: seeing through the bullshit' (at the link mentioned above) from the same author, who has 0 comments to their credit. Posting multiple stories at once is spammy, and happens a lot on the new page.
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Man dont give attention to the bad comments and even for Google. That´s all about YOU and YOUR GUTS. You did an amazing job, just keep it up, keep on going, keep working and dont stop no matter what ! There´s tons of job to do and only you can get it done. Go rock the world !
Receiving a Cease and Desist letter is another likely outcome that effectively cuts off access. And while your analogy of Google deciding they won't offer free gmail is ridiculous, it's also worth pointing out that they have shutdown gmail accounts for violating the gmail TOS.
As a hiring manager, who has managed and fired lisp people, I sort of see both sides of this.

If the problem domain fits lisp, yup, no argument, lisp rocks. I used the Xerox lisp machines and it was really cool in the sense that there was no user land or kernel, it was all one thing. Cool for debugging, cool for performance, very cool when it is a fit.

On the other hand, many problem domains are not a good lisp fit. In fact, most fall into that category, in my not so humble opinion.

As a manager, I look at the technology used to produce a product, I think about development costs (a little) and support costs (a lot). One hot shot lisp hacker that can do whatever is cool, but that's in the "little" category. The "lot" is about support and the hotshots aren't that excited about support, it's boring.

There are other threads all over the intertubes about reading and supporting code and the funny thing is that very few, if any, talk about lisp. All the lisp ones are about "how I can do this cool shit really fast and it makes me feel oh so powerful". Yeah, whatever. I'm happy you are happy. But what I, as a manager, need is the ability to take your cool shit and ship it and debug it and support it for the next decade or two and do all that when you, the studly lisp hacker, have moved on.

Not really liking the prospect of doing that with a big steaming pile of lisp.
I'm sure totlol.com is a nice site and all but ...

The guy's making money showing clips that are hosted somewhere else without reimbursing the people that actually pay for the streaming bandwidth.

The people that do pay for the bandwidth, ie YouTube/Google, notice what he's doing and change their terms and conditions to reflect what has been their intent all along, namely that ordinary consumers can use their API and what have you to build mini sites on which they can show a selection of clips to a small group of friends, but that rules out the egregious freeloading this guy was planning to do.

So the story here isn't that this guy was cheated, it's that Google/YouTube were naive enough to think that if they provided all their bandwidth for free no one would take advantage of that and that now, possibly thanks to totlol.com, they've learned.
It's up now.
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Turning Emissions Disclosure Into Business Virtue
Not really, if Google/YouTube wanted to, they would put ads on embedded videos, just as they do on YouTube (I don't think I've seen ads on embedded videos).
No America-Centric implication was intended and I apologize if I came across that way. Just seemed important to bring up since the lead comment as of this writing is about using high-speed trains as an alternative. And unless there's something happening that I don't know about, there isn't a high-speed transatlantic train in the worls.
Well, I still like having a user interface. I don't like having to remember commands and keyboard shortcuts for vim, so I don't know if I would like an extension like that. I will look into extensions/themes for Firefox however.
I think people are reading too much in this movie. The only message from Cameron I got out of it was; wow look at all the cool things I can do with computers, I can make glowing plants and dinosaurs fight fighter jets. How awesome is that!!!

The story was entirely incidental to showing off cool tech and exciting action scenes. We might as well discuss his anti-technology stance in Terminator 2.
I wonder if something like WakeMate would be beneficial in polyphasic sleep, or are you not asleep long enough?
Frustrations of ISP Abuse Handling
I heard Buckminister Fuller tried something similar. He recounted he had gained more energy out of his reduced sleep cycles. But I wondered why he didn't keep the practice to his death, if that was indeed the case.
While several e-mails were sent back and forth, I have a hard time calling the conversation effective communication on Google's part. Saying one thing and doing another is not communication.
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You know, they make cameras that actually are meant to attach to those lenses... ;-)

I appreciate the experiment, though. But one thing about the image quality: those lenses are specified assuming a 35mm (or 35mm/1.6) sensor. The sensor on an iphone must be 3.5mm at most, so the point spread function of the lenses aren't really matched to the sensor. I suspect that's part of why the quality is bad.
Not a timid update. Angles were changed from degrees to radians and the origin of images was moved from the center to the upper left corner.

The courage to make dramatic changes bodes well for LÖVE.