skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frail is the human condition and each of us, no matter what our other strengths, is prone to succumb to temptation. I confess, the editorializing was done with mens rea in order to help capture the flavor of the dispute. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea magna culpa.

On a more serious note, this case does highlight the tremendous dilemma faced by companies that invest large marketing dollars in a distinctive mark and brand only to see it suddenly subjected to ridicule in the public's mind. The real risk for North Face is not so much the direct competitive threat as it is the risk that future customers will no longer be able think of "north face" without immediately associating it with "south butt." Parody is a highly compelling way of grabbing our imagination and, if this type of association sticks, it will very likely do great damage to the mark.

At the same time, when a company files suit over the issue, this clearly exacerbates the risk highlighted above. Lawsuits are no longer a localized matter. When they are filed today, they clearly carry the risk of garnering a lot of publicity if their subject matter is otherwise such as to grab people's fancy, and this one certainly does by dint of its subject matter alone.

This must have been a tough one for North Face, and they probably had no choice but to sue to deal with it, in spite of the risks of enhancing the potentially bad association of its mark with the parody. It is a classic case of "no-win" for them.

On a final, unrelated note, law (whatever its notoriously humorless aspects) does serve as a gathering place for all the foibles of the human condition and whatever humor may derive from it lies largely in the subject matter of the disputes over which people choose to fight. I remember once, while clerking for the federal court, a notorious lawsuit that stretched for years over a guy who claimed that an airline owed him millions because it allegedly lost his rare dime in transit. Along such lines, the "south butt" case is one for the case books.
Alfresco ACL on WCM WebForms, an howto
The Headphones industry is screwing you?

And specifically screwing you worse than the others you list later? I'm very curious to hear more about this...
Who watches the watchers? Checks and balances America, checks and balance.

"Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll rejected the notion that police are abusing the law to block citizen oversight, saying the department trains officers about the wiretap law. “If an individual is inappropriately interfering with an arrest that could cause harm to an officer or another individual, an officer’s primary responsibility is to ensure the safety of the situation,’’ she said."
I have not read that book, but the extensibility features of the CLOS are a world apart from some fixed set of API calls used to make decisions based on object metadata at runtime. CLOS is hugely powerful an entirely extensible down to the core of the Lisp axioms, and nothing at all like some simple set of runtime API calls.
Is there a market for a phone app that records video without audio? Cop-cam? Or maybe phone video recorders need a special "free and open society" button for this.
That seems like a reasonable expectation. I guess I need to look at this article and scanner a little closer before I comment on what this particular tool does (or doesn't).
What does instrument mean?
Will single founders please stand up?  (Musical edition.)
If I understand this, Reflector Pro is just Reflector integrated with VS's debugger, so you can step through decompiled .NET code. Because other than that, the free version of Reflector (which you should definitely get) has done this stuff for years.
"it is striking how many of the top-grossing acts began in the predigital era, and how much of today’s music is a mash-up of the old."

this is what it's all about, the kids and their damn music.
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It would be interesting to know what changed between the last beta release and this one however.
Mainly the rate limiting and errors.

Rate limiting: Twitter rate limits these calls but for direct messaging they don't provide any information as to what the overage state is. So, if you get an "over" response you don't know if you should wait an hour or a minute to try again. When sending messages out in high volume you can't just pound their servers, nor would they appreciate that.

Errors: Twitter's API throws a lot of errors. A lot of them aren't even valuable errors (like 404 or 403 but rather 500s). They will also implement things in an ad-hoc manner to deal with issues on their end, for example introducing 302 redirects without much notice.
Nah. It's actually no biggie. I've only had to use it a few times. It came as advice from my lawyer after having been involved peripherally a few years ago, as a witness, in one IAD case.

I grew up around law enforcement (best friend's father was FBI, and current friends in Secret Service etc.). Also, in Fed-land (e.g. Northern Virginia) where nearly everyone's family is in some form of government/legal service, I suspect the public/police interactions are atypical.

As a result, talking to cops in both personal and professional contexts isn't a novel experience. IMO, Virginia also has professional cop culture.

I always recommend folks view this lecture given by Virginia's Regent Law School ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik ).
I have the feeling that some of mine have been corrected (maybe all where this was happening).
EveryDNS sold to DynDNS
I learned about this from E-mail sent to me from EveryDNS; I have several domains managed there. The mail said that the creators of EveryDNS were familiar with Dyn and thought of well of them, so I'm trying to be optimistic.
In general, very few people have ever been compensated for their research in the past. In an era before the internet, you probably wouldn't have been published; if you had been, you probably wouldn't have sold enough copies to make any significant amount of money.

If you're not doing the research for the love, and you're not doing it as your job, and no one is paying you to do new research after being impressed by your old research, and it's not engaging enough to draw a consistent audience, you're completely right. It's hard to get compensated for it.

Blaming the web for that seems backwards; for the first time the average person has a shot at even distributing their original research and thought. It's better than before. We just need to figure out the best structure for compensating people. Since that's already happening in the realm of music and TV online, I'm hopeful we'll find some solution for thoughtful writing as well.

PS: Link to your online writings?
this time, we needed to know for damn sure that our shiny new db was as fast or faster than the older one. Not faster in some abstract sense, but verifiably faster * with our query set *

This is presented as a great insight, but I have here a book, Scaling Oracle 8i by James Morle from a decade ago that covers it, and people were doing this sort of thing 20 years before that!

So Linden Labs problem #1 is inexperienced DBAs, no wonder they made such a mess of it.
It's worse than intimidation. In the end it is about bending the law to impede on your rights and justice, not far from "totalitarianism"--where the state, usually under the control of a single political organization, faction, or class domination, recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
Tech support is one thing but the more problematic thing is that they have an incentive to spy on us to increase value for their actual customers, the advertisers.

But I'm torn, because google also has an incentive to make content available for free, which also makes it available anonymously.
This is true. Dolphin Broswer on the Android opperating system supports multi-touch. Gives you the pinch zoom so covetted on the iPhone. It is just going to take time for the applications to catch up to where Android 2.0 is.
"How long does it take to reduce a human body to ashes? How much fuel does it take to do this?"

Humans have a lot of fat. I suppose it is possible to sustain combustion using human fat as fuel alone. The time it takes depend on temperature, amount of fuel and availability of oxygen.

"What chemicals were used to kill"

AFAIK, Carbon Monoxide was the preferred means. It poses no great risk to the operators if properly restricted and it quickly dissipates in the environment. It's also easy to generate from internal combustion engines and it was used in mobile gas chambers mounted in trucks where the exhaust was directed to a compartment where the prisoners were killed while being transported.

As for ash disposal, not all victims were cremated. There were many mass graves identified.

"every critical scientific effort to date to investigate the above has had serious consequences for their investigators"

I know of no critical scientific effort to investigate the Holocaust. Can anyone seriously believe the surviving witnesses are victims of a collective hallucination or part of a conspiracy to hide some "truth"? Can anyone discredit the exhaustive records kept about the "productivity" of the extermination fields?

Quite frankly, when I decided to answer your questions I had no idea this trip to one of the darkest moments of history would have the effect it had on me. It saddens me my species is capable of such a cold, directed, rational and efficient genocide. The possibility it may happen again frightens me deeply.

We should never forget the terrible atrocities we are capable of doing. This memory may be the only thing that prevents us from doing it again.
That seems pretty cool to me. I've never really needed to do this because well what good would it do you really unless you could change your input to not trigger the undesired behavior but it's very interesting nonetheless.

I guess you could let the 3rd party vendor know about what you found though which might be helpful to getting a new dll that's fixed whatever it was you were debugging.
why the downvote?? seems like you are just proving jaron right ;)
I think there are some steps missing in your argument. It seems to go something like this: (1) CR found the issue, spotted a business model, patented all the best solutions, and told the world. (2) Without patents, CR wouldn't have done this. (3) So without patents, no one would have done it. (4) So without patents, we'd all be silently vulnerable to a very general, very clever side-channel attack.

The step from (1) to (2) seems doubtful. If the CR people hadn't been able to patent a bunch of ways to deal with DPAs, they might none the less have published about them. It's not as if no one ever tells the world about a security vulnerability without a patent-based incentive.

The step from (2) to (3) seems doubtful. It seems more likely that without CR, sooner or later someone else would have thought of differential power attacks and published about them. Unless CR are just much much smarter than everyone else -- in which case, the guys in black hats would have been just as much worse off as the guys in white hats.

The step from (3) to (4) is OK, with the proviso I just mentioned: it seems that the obvious way for (3) to be true would tend to make the vulnerability matter much less.
Yes, but since it comes down on the side of the Jews, it is exempt from criticism.
Well, I think you're underplaying the awesomeness of being able to step through library code you're using, even when you don't have the source. That's crucial for understanding overridden method and event dispatching scenarios, where your code gets called from the bowels of third-party code.

To put it another way, I think you're missing the forest for the trees, i.e. the benefits for the features, in a way that so many engineers do. The crucial feature isn't new. The benefit of this application is huge, and improves the usefulness of plain decompilation (+ analysis etc.) by about 3x IMO.
Barbie mindstorms.
All the bugs that were fixed after 1.4a2:
http://dev.jquery.com/query?status=closed&version=1.4a2&...
Also consider that the speaker was talking to a computer layperson. Depending on what "level" you are speaking at, it may behoove you to simplify things and remove terminology like "server" or "client" from what you're saying. She may just have been toning things down a little.
You should never downvote a comment you can demolish with an argument. It's not as educational.
Maybe my comment could have been written more clear. What I was portraying was the quote from the Boston police spokeswoman's ridiculous comment in regards to this situation--it was not relevant.

So my reply to her and the situation is "Who watches the watchers?" Meaning if the police are there to watch over us, who watches over the police i.e. "checks and balances"--a big ideal when our government was put together.

It is everyone's duty to perform and engage in checks and balance and I believe it is especially your right to record both audio and visual when in public domain.

Furthermore, they are bending this law... it was implemented as a "wiretap law".
Time for Apple to flex its muscles on global roaming costs?
Source introspection, AST manipulation and macro expansion very well may deserve their own term to distinguish them from other forms of dynamic programming. (by that, i don't mean vtables, i mean the other forms of programming your control flow.) However, the term metaprogramming is already defined to mean something more expansive than those two things. I can see how you might want to distinguish the particular forms of manipulation enabled through source modification from the obvious uses of first-class functions, especially if you've gone deep down the rabbit hole, but you're going to have to use a different term.
There is typically distinctions made between mere citizens and Official Journalists, something I don't get. Look at discussions about bloggers and their rights to withhold information, or express political views, or failing to disclose financial incentives regarding matters they blog about. There seems to be a desire to neatly and authoritatively define what a "blogger" is[0], and to figure out what special rules apply. I rarely see anyone insist that US citizens have these basic rights, no matter whether you call what they do journalism, blogging, or whatever.

I'd like to think that would be true in this case as well, but I bet the same duality applies; some people get to be in a special class called "journalists" or "reporters", and so get more rights and privileges than Joe Smoe doing basically the same thing.

([0] The best is when the MSM talk about "bloggers" as if this was some well-defined group, with official leaders and common interests.)
>> If, for example, a couple is kissing in public then recording them against their will seems wrong to me (although whether it ought to be illegal -- dunno)

(keep in mind, I'm mostly talking in the context of still photographs, not a/v)

I'm sure some parents feel the same about their children and celebrities feel the same about themselves. Unfortunately, once you step foot in a public place, you no longer have a * reasonable expectation of privacy*–regardless of who you are or what intimate act you may be participating in.

>> Yes, although the person being photographed doesn't know what the picture will be used for and so he may feel constrained nonetheless.

All the more reason for people to be educated and willing to educate others.

I've been accosted on more than one occasion simply for taking pictures in our downtown park–usually it's some hipster attempting to be impress his friends. If I'm in a good mood, I'll kindly explain my rights to him. If not, I'll just keep taking his picture while he talks to me.
But MS had exactly the weakness I was talking about. If someone gives away their OS for free what will you do? Giving away advertising for free wont affect anything.
What about things like the Oscar Grant case though?
Nay. I agree that recording private individuals in public places is dodgy (forbidden where I live, even -- and I am thankful for that), but police officers on duty do not fall in this category, especially when they are actively using force.

If you represent the public, expect to be watched when you act out your office in public.

If the video is put on YouTube and makes false accusations that don't hold up in court, you've got yourself a case of libel. It's simple as that.

It's all checks and balances. The state has to be checked on and balanced by the people. It's not that you shouldn't trust your police to regulate itself, it's just that it would be careless.
The Russians had this right, you could call anyone Comrade in almost any context and it was fine.
As a cub scout I did the same thing, with similar results, just on a smaller scale. A couple doors down from our house, the road made a 90° turn north. You couldn't see 'through' the corner, and plenty of kids (myself included) played on the street. I hand-painted a Slow: Children at Play sign, and asked permission from a neighbor to put it in the parking strip in front of their house (they were on the corner). Before too long, the city installed an offical one.
> I've never really needed to do this because well what good would it do you really

ISTM it's not about avoiding triggering undesired behaviour, or "debugging" third-party code (as in finding bugs you don't own). It's about debugging your own code as invoked by third-party code - that's usually an underdocumented black box in application frameworks everywhere, where control pops in and out of your code from mysterious locations beneath the water. Figuring out the exact ordering constraints and implicit assumptions is tricky at the best of times when using trial and error; good luck trying to do that with documentation. Using the source (any readable representation of the source) is leaps and bounds ahead.
Article text is almost identical to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8452493.stm which I am fairly sure is the BBC's own content rather than some press agency's. Submitter has posted nothing but links to edesktopworld.com, all of which that I've checked seem to be scraped from other sites. Spammity spam spam; can we get rid of this stuff, please?
"Except for Muslims in the Balkans, most Muslims in Europe are guests"

Huh? The Muslims in European countries are not citizens? At what point do they stop being guests? Are they all just there for a short stay and plan to be leaving soon?
What you're describing is a compiler, which is also not metaprogramming.
Cool Patrick, and nice that my vi gang sign got in the song too!
New Boston venture firm, Volition Capital, seeks founder-led enterprises
You need the raw data in order to be able to calculate statistics in the future about relations you don't anticipate now. Also keeping only aggregated numbers would mean you give up on data mining.

I don't know if this use of data is "insane", but companies doing it get a clear competitive advantage over the rest. If governments decide to restrict it with some kind of regulation, there would be a clear cost in a less efficient economy. People are willing to give up privacy in order to gain convenience, otherwise they wouldn't be using these services. All these factors say we are going to see more data gathering in the future.
The diction struck me as quite masculine, as well.
Yep, changelogs like this:

http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/ChangeLog

are neat.
From the perspective of a CS student I can understand abstrating the computational theroy from the applied science of programming for a particluar ISA and agree with your point. A similar arguement can potentially be made for Software Engineering.

However, if your discipline is EE or CE I'd have to disagree. Perhaps my educational experience and focus on embedded system design has distroted my view, but without starting with a basic understanding of computer and instruction set architectures I don't think I would have or could have been successful.

Yes, assembly is tedious and modern compilers do a much better job optimizing for 99% of all cases. But knolwedge of computer architecture as well as an understanding of how to represent common high level program structures (if, for, while...) coupled with a basic understanding of stacks and how C utilizes them at runtime is nothing short of foundational. It is the kind of information that has allowed me to transition to from different platforms and high level languages with very little effort because they are all built upon the same principles.

To be cliche about it, its simply learning to crawl before you can walk.
Hm++, a new Professional Standard
Because pimping it on social news sites was the obvious next step after scraping it from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8451848.stm. Same principle as all the submitter's other submissions (all from edesktopworld.com, all scraped from other sites, all marginal at best for HN).
I guess I agree. I have had to debug .NET code through plugins like the Deblector before, and it's not fun. Thankfully, I don't have a job that often requires me to single-step .NET.

All I want to point out is, the capability of turning bytecode into high-level source code isn't new. It's something the free version of Reflector has done beautifully for years. If you work in higher-level languages (like Java, C#, PHP or Python), you should probably be aware that your source code is out there, even if you publish only bytecode.
Laziness. When your web app is class-driven and you generally have need of many different classes, it's annoying to have to include them every time you want them. (And a sin to include all of them when you won't need them.)
For the record I totally agree with you. Being a minority with a relatively short history in the West, Muslims should certainly carry themselves with fitting humility. Indeed, there is extensive basis in Islam for this.

Many understand that. Then again, many are malcontents, uneducated, unemployed and so on. This does not excuse wrongdoings, but it goes some way to explain it. And the solution, from society's point of view, and assuming we actually want a solution, is not to tease the wounded animal just to prove a point.
But consider this:

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2009/06/07/200906...

http://www2.taser.com/products/law/Pages/TASERCAM.aspx

It includes audio, and is meant to be worn by cops.

I am unfamiliar with Boston and MA law, so perhaps in it's different in those areas, but prsumably it's OK to run around recording audio during an arrest if Taser is selling these things.

Is a judge going to say that it's only OK when a cop does it?
My experience is, in the US they say "s-q-l" in academia and "sequel" in industry. YMMV.
Holy shit, I was going to comment that every time I visited hn yesterday I started singing in my head: alllll the single founderssss, allllll the single founders. This is awesome.
An Android Developer's Top Gripes (plusses and minuses)
Not related to your particular offer but I like the way you are approaching the issue of selling your startup so openly. Could trigger a meme: 'Sell HN'