skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, exactly what was it you wanted me to say (EDITED out rude comment). I at least used DH3 - Contradiction: they should be shut down. Weak yes, but I also thought I used DH4 - Counterargument: I think they would be breaking federal law by even cracking them.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Even went so far as to agree to other point (EDITED out rude comment). Oh well, hey at least you responded with rational discussion. Oh wait you just voted down because you disagreed.
Application- vs. Storage-centric Services: What's the Right Approach?
And the product of using that electricity, under a theory of unjust enrichment.
This is not about spying on US callers. That was already known.

This is most likely about murdering civilians in a botched air strike by CIA. CIA can and will shut a place down if they believe there is classified information there. I have heard of offices being raided and all hard drives shredded.
Light bends matter
Why I love HN: Instant quality feedback. I hope that doesn't die.
arrg..when will Android support USB Host? We (and many others) are stuck in a WinCE world solely because everyone else is missing this feature.
Groovy Scripts and JVM Security
Only about 7 days left to the April Fools Day.
Didn't they sit on it for a year though?
We'll work to clarify the language, but those were a subset of the questions on the applications. We will be asking about the applicant, but that didn't seem like questions that'd need a lot of prep ;)

As for suggestions for projects, we're working on them, but as with GSoC, the really good ideas will likely come from the student applicants.
" But the female engineers I know make it a higher priority in their job searches because they've been burned this way before, in work and in school -- specifically because they are women."

How do they all know that it was specifically because they are women?
American wins $1 million math prize
Syphilis Soars in U.K., Thanks to Facebook
Groupthink, power and committees, even intelligent and engineering-oriented, can go awry. Look at SOAP and WS standards for a sample of how bad things can go. Engineers aren't always the best managers/authority and there is lots of ego in intelligence.
How Google Buzz is Gaining Many Early Followers
Which policy change?
Great! Exactly what I need to supplement Google App Engine.
I think this might be an example of "good enough" being the enemy of "perfect."

Delta still flies DC-9s built in the 1960s, in large part because they're paid for. Are they as nice as planes built in the past decade? No, but they work fine.

On that note, where are the hover cars that Back to the Future promised? I mean, 2015 is just 5 years away...
OK, since this got voted up 7 times, it seems I'm being dense. Can somebody shed some light on where I'm missing something?

On the one hand, an employee asks if it's OK to take 2 weeks to go to her brother's wedding in India. I say "sure, no problem".

And on the other hand, I'm getting pressure from the CEO for some new features, and obviously losing one of 9 developers for 2 weeks impacts that, so I have to tell the CEO that's she's got to wait a little longer.

Where am I getting things wrong, or being self-righteous or something?
> For the most part, I feel more safe and free in Shanghai than the U.S. For the most part, Chinese people I meet from all walks of life and age groups feel more free than they did 10 years ago.

Did you know why Shanghai is the safer metropolitan city in the world? Because there are two things called 城管 and 暂住证.

If those two were canceled, I guarantee you Shanghai will be hell.

Minority's security is based on majority's misery. That's what China's prosperity really about.
Warner Bros. Signs Deal with - wait for it - Blockbuster?
This pretty much sums up my experience. I really really really want to use and love DDG but the results just aren't nearly as good as google, especially for specific phrase searching. I LOVE the not storing searches, simplicity etc. but I can't love the search yet.

I know running a mail server is probably a pain in the ass, but if the owner of DDG made it so people could have @duckduckgo.com or @cuiler.com or whatever he's using now I think that would help spread the engine immensely (that and making it better).
Not much of an article here. Just a series of links and a variety of open ended questions with little analysis by the author.
http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poverty.jpg

That is poverty. $5 bank fees is not. Get a new bank or make fewer deposits.
CAs must be audited and have a certification to be accepted in the major browsers (something like WebTrust). If anyone did this, they would lose that certification immediately and then they'd be out of business because their root CA would be revoked from Windows/Firefox/Mac OS.

The question is how WebTrust would treat this type of theoretical issue.
Thanks! I was wondering why on earth a font engine needed a full VM, but that makes a lot more sense now.
> So it's understandable that the technocratic Chinese leadership thinks that their own population, without strong central control, is prone to be caught up in giant ideological swings and civil wars.

This is very debatable. In history, China's top two dynasties. Han and Tang, both emphasis a Taoism Wu wei rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

Yet both empires are the most powerful, liberate and culture rich dynasties of China. Han and Tang are technically every Chinese's dream country.
Not to take away all of the credit, but this is very heavily based on a research paper, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1215894

(2 of the 4 authors are at Adobe Research, while the others are at Princeton Univ.)
>A 64-bit instruction set is about more than just the size of a pointer. A 64-bit CPU has 64-bit general-purpose registers, and it has versions of arithmetic and logic instructions operating on these.

No. x86_64 only has sixteen general purpose registers, and 64-bit MIPS still has 32 (one is hardwired to zero, so really 31).

Registers in the instruction set are bit-mapped---with five bits you get 32 registers (25). The size of a register and the number of registers are completely independent.
I liked trying it, but localization is an issue when considering switching default search engine. With localized settings zero-clic data is still in english and links to wikipedia are to the english one for example.
Have you looked at companies like Pacific Biosciences or some of the companies into microfluidics or microarrays?
Letters to the Masses Who Make Chatroulette Such a Freak Show
It's nice to see an older mathematician earn some recognition. The Fields Medal (the most prestigious prize in mathematics) is only given to people younger than 40, a cutoff which always seemed rather silly to me.
First proof that a targeted nanoparticle can traffic into tumors
Amazing. This is a breakthrough. Future cancer treatments might be on the way.

It makes me think of Alan Kay's words: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" :)
GoDaddy to Stop Offering Chinese Domain Names
If Everyone Was Online, Would We Still Need The Postal Service?
Why does it seem more plausible there were 3 distinct branches than 4 distinct branches? There are many more distinct branches of apes right now.
My point wvenable, is that we are absolutely not dealing with two different kinds of screw drivers here.

Yes they both store "data", but there are types of data that one is well suited to deal with, and alternative types of data that the other one is better for. On my team we've already split out data into two sets, one that lives in ACID RDBMS and one that lives in NoSQL.

If you are dead set in using one solution for everything, my pity for you.
So what if we've lost the ability to mess with TVs, and computers, and iPads?

You can mess with TVs, but not many people do because there isn't much point due to the natural evolution of the technology. That's very different from the iPad, where there are lots of interesting things we could do, except that Apple has arbitrarily declared them to be illegal.
Decreasing your price will usually increase quantities sold but often does not increase your profit.
Damn, I got the name wrong.
" Sometimes he puts the interviewee on the spot".

That is what I like about him. He asks hard questions and if you don't answer he asks why not. Great journalist in my opinion.
Agree (and voted up). Down voting should be about the quality of the post/argument, not whether you like the opinion. Having said that, I think you might want to revise your argument a little. Regardless of whether it is legal, is it always wrong to post classified information? If the government is found to use classification inappropriately, to hide something it might find embarrassing, it weakens the value of classification in general and weakens the trust of citizens. In such a case, it might be desirable to post such information, if one could be sure that doing so did not jeopardize people's safety, etc. Maybe there should be a special court where such materials could be examined and a determination made as to whether they had been appropriately classified, with the onus being on the government to prove that the classification was warranted.
What was awesome is -
when i searched for something and it did not yield many results. As the last link, it suggested try this search on google.
that's just gr8
While in Europe recently I met many Chinese tourists who all said that their internet filtering was originally put in place to protect children.
The deal for me as a student was that I couldn't afford to take a whole summer off. Many students don't live at home, and so they have bills, etc. to pay. These projects take a lot of time (most say you can expect a full-time workload), so you can't expect a student to devote a ton of attention to coding while also maintaining a full-time occupation.

Do you also feel the same way about Greg Brown's Ruby Mendicant project? I'd say even though we gave him seemingly antithetical extrinsic motivators the greater good was better served by having him work full-time on it.
This is why you are the second best at what you do Andrew. You swallow criticism and ask "for ways to improve my work". Keep it up at Mixergy.

Edit: And I do not know who the best is. But being second best is always better, you have room to grow.
I enjoy the idea of return oriented programming, piecing together an exploit from your host app's binary.

Worth noting that they didn't break out of the sandbox, an app downloaded from the App Store could get access to the same data they did.
>> A 64-bit CPU has 64-bit general-purpose registers

> No. x86_64 only has sixteen general purpose registers

Right, but they're still 64 bits wide, like he said.
Hopefully this will lead to enhancements in FreeType (or some competition). Anyway users will prefer shiny lolcat fonts to their own security...
What the Average Chinese Guy Thinks About Google
That made my day :-)
Especially as the TV / Computer / whatever electronic hacking crowd still exists, and creating things from scratch has become insanely easier thanks to things like the Arduino.

Though the average consumer product is definitely less hackable now than it used to be, mostly due to significantly increased complexity, the intentionally-hackable world has if anything improved, and lowered the barrier of entry to the level where almost anyone can jump on within a day or so.
Some startups are more ambitious and tackling larger problems but that doesn't mean anything less is a waste of time.
Yeah. I've heard "clicking the shutter like crazy, trying to get the right shot" referred to as "spray and pray", though. ;)
Ding Mail. OMG It’s Steve Jobs.
The results are relevant, especially for 'sex'. Which is good. .. if you give right results for such an overcrowded space, you have to be good!
Personas are very much supported on OSX. Where did you get your information?
Yes, because:

a) The privacy of anything that comes to me via USPS is legally protected, and there is no such legal protection on the net. No ISP admin will go to jail for opening and reading my mail just because he felt like it.

b) You can't trust anything that comes in email. I get email from my bank all the time, and it's never from my bank, it's always phishing attempts.

If a) and b) can be satisfied, I'll start listening.
What I'm afraid of are the multitudes of copycat buglers who may look up to him as a role model, meanwhile causing more harm than good.
You may be downvoted because you seem to imply, at least to my eyes, that they shouldn't be permitted to break the encryption on any alleged videos.
What bugs me about all this is that when the iron curtain was still in place everybody and their brother here was taking pot-shots at the perceived weakness in the people on 'the other side' for not standing up while their rights were trodden on, and how evil those governments were.

And here we are, our rights are trodden on in ways that the former sovblock regimes could probably only dream of (inspect every letter ? trace every data request citizen makes ? trace the whereabouts of every citizen 24x7 ?) and it just happens.

It's almost as if having a bad example right next door helped us to find our moral compass.
"My understanding is that China's upper leadership is largely intelligent and engineering-oriented."

It's a bit complicated. Over the recent years, there is an increasing divide between two rival factions. One consists of the populists who rose through meritocracy, the others being the princelings, the unofficial aristocratic lineage of the communist upper-management.

The populists are the ones with engineering degrees. The princelings mostly have degrees in law, business, and the humanities.

http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0816_china_li.aspx
Digg couldn't do a rudimentary join. I'm sorry but if you can read their original entry and not picture an almost comical scene, that you are out of your league.

Now the Joe Plump or whatever guy is telling people that you should sort in PHP. That is the level of expertise of Digg.
The credits on the Crockford facts KILL THE JOKE.
Interesting, but I highly doubt Steve Jobs personally approves every application. I find it strange that people keep quoting "wtf, Jobs?" and similar when he's the guy at the top, and isn't doing the job of every employee who makes a decision.

And I'm one of the crowd who is wondering how long it'll last. It seems designed to be denied / ejected.
Each of those times you nearly died by accident. In combat you nearly die on purpose. Repeatedly. Can you will yourself into that fear as part of your job - regularly?

Isn't it a bit different?
Did they ROP the iPhone, or was is a straight-up ret2libc? Ret2libc is an ancient technique.
Its very entertaining that 'enso' hasn't thought to visit your profile to answer his questions about who you are.
The original Digg entry specifically makes the entire point that Digg is willing to sacrifice write performance to improve read performance (which they did to a massive degree with Cassandra), and then demonstrated how absolutely horrendous their read performance was.

Need more be said? Seriously?
seems it has some appropriate "custom" suggestions for a few sites... Facebook and twitter also have appropriate one-liners.
The cutoff is not so silly. Take the Nobel Prize in Physics, for instance. The award usually makes some already-famous professor more famous. It has no further impact on their career. I believe the cutoff is to make it more likely that the Fields Medal will have an tangible impact on the career of the receiver.
I wrote the original article, and since then I've done a ton of interviews on the topic with some big name media outlets.

I'm not a lawyer, but I have looked at the topic in depth.

Basically, there are very few cases when unpaid internships are legal. However, there is almost no enforcement of these laws. I haven't heard of anything recent, and I watch the topic pretty closely.

A lot of companies think that requiring students to get "college credit" for their internships provides a loophole to get around the law, but as far as I can tell that's not the case. This is especially interesting, because more and more graduates are taking unpaid internships, which shows that employers are getting even more brazen.

My philosophy is that you shouldn't pay your interns because you have to legally; you should pay them because they're worth it. If you can't find a way to make more off of the intern than the $10/hour that you need to pay him or her, then maybe your business isn't ready for interns.
For those of you wondering if Apple is going to remove this from the App Store: they almost certainly won't.

Line2 was first submitted to the App Store in August 2009, which was really bad timing because it was in the middle of the Apple/Google Voice storm. A month later it was approved (after the founder pestered Apple a lot). And I'm pretty sure the version Pogue is reviewing was actually released last month (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/line2-google-voice/).

In other words, none of this is news to Apple, though it's clearly hypocritical on their part. Also, no way Apple would pull this after a Pogue review — he'd probably write about it, and he's proven before with his 'Take Back The Beep' campaign that he can incite quite an uproar.
VoIP on your phone pretty much is.
I don't think there was. And Line2 was approved quite a while ago.
Have you not answered you question??!!
Genlighten is looking for a Front-end UI/UX Designer / Rails Developer. Details are at http://bit.ly/dshmNY. Preferred location would be Chicago or Logan, Utah, but remote may also work. Thanks!
Ask HN: I've run out of webapp ideas. What to do?
I feel as if my brain can't produce more ideas. I'm all about pumping out as many small apps as possible to learn as much as possible - from practice.

What do you suggest? (and if you have a few ideas, feel free to run them by me :p)

Thanks!
>Digg did not release a benchmark, and trying to treat their findings as a repeatable benchmark is wrong.

Yet they released record counts, schema, and then performance numbers, and then used their results to demonstrate the failure of the RDBMS (which they led into by saying that it, as some given philosophy, optimizes writes at the cost of reads, hence their poor read performance).

Many of the comments in here are baffling. Digg specifically used the hammer of NoSQL to pound the nail of their database needs, replacing MySQL. They've made a big deal about this. So why the noise about "they're different, man?" And now the petty whines about benchmark methodology when Digg made concrete claims about RDBMS systems?
My favorite: "When Douglas Crockford adds 0.1 and 0.2, he gets 0.3."
One Party, Two Coalitions in China’s Politics
Do you also feel the same way about Greg Brown's Ruby Mendicant project? I'd say even though we gave him seemingly antithetical extrinsic motivators the greater good was better served by having him work full-time on it.

The second paragraph of my comment explicitly referenced that very project :-) He had a great idea and put his neck on the line to appeal for money for it. I think of GSOC as more like a lottery grant. People know the money's there so they invent reasons to apply for it.

That said, students are not the only demographic group who can not put "full time" into open source. I'd say the majority of open source contributors are doing it in their spare time (of which they have no more than the average student).
WordPress is one of the best out there...
Airbnb hiring analytics specialist
Hmm, I think we've been here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357
Airbnb hiring front-end engineer
Right ... "reasonably atomic" I say.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure what I'd use in a script for this.
So while SO runs on a minimal amount of closet-room hardware efficiently and without incident, Digg has heroics and clusters and scale-outs and all sorts of drama to handle just 10x the load? I'm not sure what angle you were coming from, but that makes Digg look like clowns.
On the other hand, the absolute glut of really shitty iPad knock-offs flooding the market could cause a flight to quality.

I was playing with a co-worker's Nexus one today who is very Apple-skeptical and the thing was just... bleh. They can't even get scrolling to work right on their premiere phone?
More details here http://blog.zynamics.com/ tomorrow - doesn't sound like it is straight up, depends what they mean by "chained".
libpng was also vulnerable to arbitrary code injection, but NoScript doesn't block images by default...

If you write your software in C, it's not really safe to expose to the Internet.
> Now things are vastly improved

Depends on the metric. If you have to pay 10 times the price for spare parts because the whole module has to be changed and the garage can't even repair anymore, that's hardly an improvement. I'm persuaded that ecologically the times of black boxes, when you change instead of repairing won't last that long. Perhaps I'm still too optimistic.
Again, to an extent. If the site is simple enough to do it in Sinatra without too many dependencies, etc., then yes, it would _at least_ postpone performance optimizations.

My understanding is, however, that if the site is already simple, you may wind up not needing to do these improvements in Sinatra.
My favorite line in the history of totalitarian repression was from one of the Eastern European states. I can't remember the specifics, but it goes something like this: $DISSIDENT committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head eight times, pausing to reload, and then finishing the job.
A gentle introduction to return-oriented programming
Half Life in particular strikes me as a surprising gap in the hall of fame list. And if you look carefully at what little is exposed, there's a lot of information that's implied, and a lot of mysteries that will (hopefully) be revealed in later games. You can practically play the game on instinct alone, and it's intriguing if you look at it carefully, it's brilliant. Heck, the whole series is like this, though HL2:E1 is a bit gimmicky gameplay-wise.

Portal oozes design-awesome, it probably belongs in the list too. The biggest detractors I can see is that the world is pretty small, and thus the story and characters are pretty narrow (though done very well), and the puzzles take away from that world somewhat (they're just sort of "there", they're only part of the story because you have to go through them).
I upgraded today too and played around with the personas. Most of them wanted me to puke profusely, but I quickly found this one: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/1498

It's a simple gray gradient that adds some subtle shadows to some of the text. It's a welcome change. This brushed metal one is cool too: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/10897
Ok, it sounds like Halvar is just rejecting the term ROP, and you're right, that's what it is.