skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It stands to reason they may have texted, emailed, twittered etc in the course of making the deal(s).

Wouldn't this be true of any crime?
You mean a parser like this:
https://codespeak.net/viewvc/pypy/trunk/pypy/interpreter/pyp...

PyPy is taking precisely this approach, and GvR in an interview or two, has blessed it as the way forward.

So I think OP is a little late to the game.
Okay, that explains why I couldn't understand what you guys were talking about and all I got was a "Warning: Suspected phishing site!"
Agreed, this article isn't worth anyone's time, except to show how not to manage customer email.

Flagged for being misleading.
Not everyone is hiding behind a screen name. In general the most active users also tend to be the ones who say in their profiles who they are.
I've seen him bite his toenails in front of a large audience.

I'm sure he's fun at the dinner table.
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YouTube's movie rentals fly under radar, still expanding
The main application I can see is for API designers who want to give their users the ability to augment core classes without having to edit the source. That way when users upgrade their libraries, they can overwrite the old sources without having to re-add all their customizations.
This is true. If you want your data completely erased from their system, then neither you or 23&me will have access to that data any longer. Your data is presented to you online only. While they have your data, your data might be sent to third parties but not at the individual level unless you give them consent.
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Funny, when Apple had Wireless N hardware in old Macbooks that was not enabled at the time of sale, it required users to pay a small amount for a firmware upgrade under the guise of complying with Sarbox.

Really glad that Google has chosen not to be evil here.
Detailed 23andme review by HN'er PStamatiou who tried it out recently:

http://paulstamatiou.com/review-23andme-dna-testing-for-heal...

Comments thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1170074
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>>I can imagine in 10 years we'll be seeing Perl 5.27.

Hrm, I think it is only even version numbers, maybe 5.28. :-)

(And check the Modern Perl movement and the backports of Perl 6 stuff like Moose. Arguably, Perl 5 should change name, too...)
Have you tried finding a pill that looks like a lactase tablet and having a friend choose randomly between the two before you consume dairy?

I'd say it's more likely that you aren't experiencing a placebo effect, but it never hurts to be sure.
A virtual machine working only on html 5 ?
Jason Calacanis at his finest
Good question. A search for "arm 64 bit" pops out announcements for ARM 64 bit devices from 2001 ;-)
And absolutely don't use distancing language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_language). A single "sorry" is worth a thousand "we apologize"-es.
Its probably going to work different for everyone. I see some saying they concentrate on the feet. I just look at the torso and the arm. To switch directions at will I just have to imagine the arm going behind or in front of the body. Its not instant, it takes a revolution or two.
well, we are exporting technology, the actual phone itself comes from china - where all apple products are manufactured.
You almost wonder if there's messages missing from this middle of this. Incredible.
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So my buddy at facebook told me this is where all the genius programmers hang out. Was trying to get him to come our way but he's in too deep with the book. Apparently a bottle of 1980 Opus One and a healthy chunk of our comp wasn't a match for his position at fb. Anyway, thought the talent on this site would find what we got going on interesting as we put live webcams in bars. I'd love to hear feedback about our site. Oh, and sorry if this isn't the right type of "news" post for the site. I read the site guidelines, and it seemed ok :)
This was posted on Evan Culver's blog and made it to the front page of hn the day after it happened. It was deleted off of HN shortly after being posted.

It was originally on http://evanculver.posterous.com/ but he appears to have since removed it.

Edit: Adding original link bit.
Most other sites have a preview option instead.
I feel like if we knew who he quit to go work for, we'd have a better idea of why Mr. Calacanis was so upset. Must have been a powerful direct competitor - I hope..
To be pedantic, evolution doesn't have to be evolution by natural selection. The word "evolution" is used all the time to describe changes in cultures, technologies, and individuals. These aren't even poetic extensions of Darwinian evolution; the term was in use before Darwin was born.

Your point still stands, of course. The original author obviously has no idea how biological evolution works, and their theory is pseudoscientific nonsense.
From comments I have heard Leo Laport making on his TWIT podcast, he uses the service and has found several products he has happily bought when other users on Blippy brought them to his attention.

I am also keeping in mind that there are many jokes in the podcasts about Mr. Laport's proclivity to purchase tech items, at times in quantity, as an early-early adopter.
I think that's a little over the top. Great as Asimov was in many ways, he had his flaws as a writer.

Characters and dialogue are probably at the top of the list. I was reading the Foundation series recently and realised that in some of the longer dialogues the characters sounded exactly the same to the point where it was easy to forget who was speaking at any given time, and more to the point it was easy not to care. With the possible exception of the Mule and maybe a few others, the Foundation series doesn't really have any characters, it just has a bunch of puppets who get shuttled around the universe so they can explain the plot to each other.

Then we have the "creepy old man" vibe which creeps into some of his later works, where every female character (and they crop up at the rate of approximately one per book) is described with a particular emphasis on how her breasts look in whatever outfit she happens to be wearing.

But hey, he's a good writer and wrote a lot of interesting stories, plus a few dull ones. Respect is due to him, but I can't see him as one of the key figures of the twentieth century.
I think a reasonable case could be made that Clojure is a Lisp in the same sense that scheme, arc, qi, et al. are (albeit, not 'common lisp')
I was there in december 09 and saw quite a few while in Sapporo. Even my father-in-law has one, which tells me that it is pretty popular from my small sample set.
PGP co-founder takes OS security job with Apple
We do know: Yahoo

@evanculver Good luck at Yahoo, dude. It's not as dead as some say, as is evidenced by the excellent code they churn out.
-- http://twitter.com/codeshaman/status/12584315658

@codeshaman Thank you sir. I was going to delay the announcement, but you know, people do things that make you jumpy.
-- http://twitter.com/evanculver/status/12585519584
Commenting on stories you're not interested in is a waste of your own time.
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I think it's best if this doesn't get killed for the 20th time. It's clearly not going to go away until it's had the usual rise and fall on HN.
Many sites allow editing, often a post is editable for a couple minutes or until someone has responded. Some forums allow editing even after that.

I see nothing unusual about commenting conventions on Hacker News.
One way to get past this (it worked for 'reddit') is to fake a bunch of accounts and stop sleeping for the first three months or so, until you have enough real 'eggs' and chickens to keep real ones interested.

The way I got past it on ww.com is to launch the site from a mailing list that was already 'on topic' so a large number of people decided to try it out at once and found each other.
Ask HN: Best iPad annotation app/combo?
I spend a lot of time reading/underlining/note taking on printed out PDF files (mostly research articles). I would like to move all of this workflow to the iPad to help preserve these annotations without having to reenter them manually through Acrobat Pro or other such tools.

What do you use?

What are your preferred apps for this task?

Is it worth getting a stylus?
The SEC is comprised of people. These people might lose their job or future promotion opportunities if the SEC is embarrassed under their watch, or if their poor management becomes highly public. This gives them an incentive to time press releases to minimize the embarrassment.

By the way, why do you feel the SEC is not cohesive?
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This wasn't meant to be public, but then, lots of things that aren't meant to be public should be to deter people from being total jerks. I think this falls in this category.

And I say this as someone who used to quite enjoy Calacanis's podcasts a few years ago.
A Blippy analog that monetized and promised you 10% of the take would probably be insanely popular.
To make the switch, visualize what the rotation you will see if you are standing above her looking directly down at her or from below her looking directly up at her.
In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way
That makes me wonder, has Yahoo laid off more or less employees (proportionally) than Mahalo?
Sold. This kind of stuff fascinates me and I personally am willing to take the privacy risk if I can find out a little more about ME :) I was waiting for it to come under $99 so it's good to see it happen earlier than expected :D
No comment on this idea, but I'd love to see more of this (vs Ask HN or Tell HN about my startup).

If you're not going to implement something tell the community. Let us vote it up if we think it's good.
What does he always say? 'Peace and love'?

It's a really insightful and petulant reaction to what I thought was a perfectly nice resignation note from the Evan guy.
I still don't understand why people are so worried about grocery store discount cards. Ok, so they know my address. That's alright by me; my address exists so everyone can know it. So they know my name correlates to my address; that's alright too, they can find this info in public records.

The only possibly sketchy thing is they can correlate my food purchases to me and my address. However, this doesn't bother me personally. I don't care if the world knows I buy one kind of bread instead of another, or that I buy hummus instead of butter. If there are sensitive things you are paranoid about, like personal care products, just don't use the card for those purchases.

Either way, they just wind up with spending patterns on food correlated to one individual. The horror. It's not your SSN or passport or any of that jazz. Besides, if advertising became more accurately targeted, I feel that would generally be a good thing. You'd get in touch with products you were genuinely interested in, advertising costs would plummet (causing prices to drop as well), and there'd be less utterly useless cruft in the ads you receive.
This does not look good for Gizmodo, and I can say this even as someone who does not practice criminal law.

Why?

1. The REACT unit is a dedicated unit established to fight tech-related crimes, and I would not take it lightly to know that they were investigating my conduct.

2. California's stolen property laws would appear to apply here and may well have been violated.

3. The much more serious federal Espionage Act of 1996 appears on its face potentially to apply as well - "Whoever, with intent to convert a trade secret, that is related to or included in a product that is produced for . . . interstate . . . commerce, to the economic benefit of anyone other than the owner thereof, and intending or knowing that the offense will, injure any owner of that trade secret, knowingly . . . steals, or without authorization appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information . . . shall . . . be fined under this title [i.e., up to $5 million] or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both."

4. The "intent" element, normally hard to prove for criminal purposes, is strongly bolstered by facts admitted by Gizmodo (payment for the item, intent to get hands on Apple trade secrets, holding the property for an extended period) and is countered only by what appears to be the merest pretext of an excuse (supposed doubt about the genuineness of the item).

Maybe the first amendment will shield Gizmodo, or maybe the D.A., after investigation, will drop the matter, or maybe it is a stunt and Apple ultimately will not press charges, but if I were Gizmodo I would be concerned where this might lead.
It's fun because it's circular. His purpose becomes the same as the entity- to think up how to learn beyond discovered knowledge.
I'm pretty sure there are much easier ways to get credit cards online than randomly looking at webpages. Can't you buy them in bushels from Romanian hackers? I hear the going rate is much less than a dollar a number.*

*I hear this from a person who used to work in e-commerce stopping illegitimate transactions, not from illegal activity, btw.
I actually found the switch to be most apparent when focusing on the left/right sides of the figure. The left rotates counter-clockwise, while the right rotates clockwise.
Small Startup launches Android developer challenge, gets prize sponsored by TED
Seriously, Jason Calacanis has not done anything considered smart since he sold Weblogs, Inc. to AOL.

Other than that he's not a graceful entrepreneur and an attention seeker (I refrain myself from using a harsher term).
A defendant in a major lawsuit, on the other hand, absolutely has an incentive to try and turn the tables by virtue of something like this. The two are not equivalent.

Are you somehow suggesting that back in 2008, Goldman persuaded Sen. Chuck Grassley to demand an investigation into porn watching at the SEC? Somehow, back then, they knew that the SEC would make a press release about a weak case they were planning to file against Goldman? And they somehow managed to ensure that the porn report would come out only a week after the investigation into Goldman was released? And somehow, they also happened to know that the SEC was full of porn watchers who can't wait until they get home?

That's quite the conspiracy.
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GoodReader reaches 100,000 downloads in 20 days
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This sounds too much like GiveawayOfTheDay.com. They don't charge, so all they can give away is pure crap software.
>Moving on wasn't completely your choice.

I'd think that a personality "flaw" isn't completely someone's choice, either.

Of course, digging hard also reveals a potential "personality" flaw on the part of the hiring company. As mrkurt suggests, if you're having trouble with retention, examine and improve yourself first.
Horrible typography on that site.

Great article though.
To start with, it's governed by a board of political appointees from both parties who fight with each other regularly and don't have a huge amount of shared agenda. They're typically going to have much more loyalty to their party than the SEC. Beyond that, the actual staffers don't "own stock" in the SEC. These things add up to something much less "cohesive" (for lack of a better word) than the effect you get when you put a dozen people who have 80%+ of their net worth in the same company in a room together.

Regarding your first point, about people -- yeah. But none of them has a particularly strong incentive to protect the SEC as opposed to themselves -- the SEC isn't a cohesive group in the sense of ideology or in the sense of a corporation. And even if they were, the porn story isn't worth launching a risky investigation over. Like I said, the Obama administration has a definite interest in pushing cases being filed in this particular 3-week window -- the SEC as an institution? Meh.

You'd be surprised how many government agencies and employees just plain don't have the hard-edged desire for nefarious political influence. Office politics, sure, that's their livelihood. Advocating their superiors to do things "the right way" as they see it? Sure, who wouldn't. But political influence to the tune of playing the media? They'd be in a political role if that was really what drove them.
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Funny how he is preaching one thing but does another...
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I've never worked at a company where I tried to be professional and gave 2 weeks notice and was NOT immediately shown the door (hence I learned to prepare and not be surprised).

Does it really happen in this day and age? Don't companies lockout high value employees immediately as a matter of security and anti-sabotage?
I wonder if this has anything to do with it: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1262254...

NPR ran a story on YouTube pulling the Downfall parodies and stated the videos were fair use.
Thank you! I have been searching (intermittently) for this for years, but did not remember the author, nor was I sure of the title.

I was first introduced to it in junior high school as a short film, and it left a lasting impression on me.

And being heavily shortened, the film left much to my imagination. I like my version better than Chekov's, but that seems to be the same as liking the book better than the movie (although, technically a reversal, in this case).

Ah, imagination.
It's definitely not your imagination. I see articles here daily that if posted a year ago would have been criticized for not being worthy of Hacker News. Fortunately the discussion here is still mostly civil and intelligent. I've been reading a few haskell papers recently that I'll submit soon, but I think papers are more suitable submissions for weekends so people have time to digest them.
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Suggested rewrite:

Hey Evan,

We're mighty sorry, but we understand. If things don't work out
at yahoo! as planned we want you to know the door is always
open to return, after all we hate to see you go.

Please tell the rest of your team that you go with our blessing
and that we look forward to seeing you do great things
in the future. We all know if there is one thing they
need over there it is quality people.

Since we still owe you more vacation days than your
severance we can of course not hold you to stay longer
but we'd really appreciate it if you could somehow
squeeze out an extra few days to transfer your duties
to John, of course we'll compensate you for that.

All the best!

j
No need to wonder, considerably more, but they've also hired considerably more.
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I particularly enjoyed Jawed Karim's speech about the concept of killer app starting at 8:56.
1. Mahalo is a top 200 site, over 10M uniques and operationally profitable.

2. Open Angel Forum has been hosting in five cities in the first four months of 2010.

3. I've done seven angel investments including gdgt.com, gowalla.com and blippy.com.

4. TechCrunch50 has made millions of dollars, but more importantly launched amazing startups like Mint.com, Powerset and yammer.

5. This Week in Startups about to have it's one-year anniversary and advertising has been sold out for two years. Also, ThisWeekIn.com is closing a small angel round and have almost 10 shows.

6. ON the board of Savings.com, GDGT and another company not yet announced.

I'd list ten more things... but it would start to get a little silly.

I'm getting a lot done these days, but you are correct I'm far from graceful. I'm blunt and to the point... sometimes I say things in private, or public, that I shouldn't.

A private thing that should have stayed private is now public. Yawn. There is more to the story, but I'm not going to comment HR issues publicly--that would not be professional. Part of me would love to unload however.

best j
32 vs. 64 bits is the biggest relevant one for the desktop market. 32 bits (with a special extra low power 16 bit mode) is great for the mobile market, but wouldn't be worth it for a Mac CPU change over.

I suppose Apple might do this to fund a 64 bit ARM, but that strikes me as unlikely. Especially since ARM would stand to lose a lot of business from Apple's competitors, if other companies could come up with compelling CPU/watt stories.

On the order of 10 billion (thousand million) ARM CPUs are shipping per year....
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I liked it. This is something of Chekhov that I had not read before.
You already have been commenting on HR issues publicly. Why stop now?
Maybe they don't have enough genome research result data for Indian or chinese people, so it wouldn't make much sense to sell a product without being able to show results.
Sorry I probably didn't explain my point very well.

I doubt the Skyhook database is any more accurate than Google's. To get really good triangulation you need an hour or so of driving round the target area (360 degrees for best results). Bearing in mind they dont drive around all that much - in a town, for example, the accuracy for individual AP's will be measured in 10's of meters or possibly more. Quite often when wardriving I will triangulate AP's to 500m or more distance from previous runs.

In terms of the Skyhook service they can get much greater accuracy by using multiple access points to aggregate out the error.

(Im sure their accuracy improves a little every time you get your location from the service - but I bet it's not perfect)
I've have a lot of success with NextDayFlyers and so have my friends. They have great customer service as well.
I've seen several people leave at places I've worked, but never seen one of them locked out. When people are asked to "resign" I've seen them told to finish out their paid term at home, but that's obviously a lot more confrontational than someone who chooses to leave.
That's why you try to minimize your dependencies on third party services for your own business critical sites.

If you don't really need that .js widget it is better to do without it, if you do really need it make sure it fails gracefully if it isn't available.

Sometimes that means that you have to verify if the service is up periodically, and serve up modified pages during downtime for the widgets.
Of course they've hired considerably more, I think that's why the parent to your comment said "(proportionally)".
"A private thing that should have stayed private is now public."

Funny... Sam Odio thought the same thing.

http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2010/03/confession-i-was-one-who...
Yeah, this is the feature that'll make the web finally break mainstream.
Takeaway: if it's email, it's on a server somewhere; if it's on a server somewhere, it's best to assume it'll be public record someday. If it's an outburst, maybe you should do it by phone.