skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason people are blase is because the story makes it seem like Apple brought the problem on themselves. The leak was utterly mundane; no one broke into the Apple campus or smuggled anything out, no one bribed or attacked an employee. As far as we can tell from the story, Apple regularly dresses up its research prototypes and takes them for walks outside. This practice is so obviously prone to leaks that people are speculating that Apple leaked the phone on purpose.

Either Apple had calculated the risk and found it to be acceptable, or they never planned against the possibility of losing the phone. If the former, then Apple is merely experiencing an inevitable downside of its chosen (wildly successful) development model. If the latter, then Apple was foolishly optimistic and should never have let a readily identifiable prototype off-campus in the first place.
The whole premise is off base. Neither one has to "win."

Each model has its own strengths and weaknesses, and each will continue to thrive and be used for its own purposes.

Also, the word "mobile" is overused and is pretty much BS. It's inexact and short sighted.
It's a problem definitely, one that always aggravates me. It's about perception of the job too. I struck up a conversation with a guy on the train the other day; he was a journalist - a field I've always been fascinated by.

As soon as I told him what my job he barely spoke about his own - it was just constant banal anecdotes about what I did, how bad he was with computers and how I must be amazing and...

On one level it attests to how important computers have become in our daily lives. Mostly it just makes me sad because, really, I'm just an IT guy!
I think the point is around how coding can give you superior analytical skills that just blow people away because you can generate better insights.

Examples I've seen are people in marketing departments who can write a little python script and suddenly analyze hundreds of thousands of data points. Or someone who combines thousands of geo-targeted data points to better decide where to open chain x's new store.

Traditional companies are structured so that there's a "marketing" team and a "business intelligence" team of dba's-cum-statisticians. 90% of the time, if the marketing person doesn't ask the perfect question, they don't get a useful answer - and the BI person is on to their next task.

The coder can both ask the question, generate the data and then iterate based on the results of the output. Hugely powerful and can't be done by 90-95% of people in most companies.
I have gotten the wizard treatment from SEOs I know, too. (Check this out: you can take one list of keywords from source A, and then another list of keywords from source B, and then figure out what are in A but not in B. It is magic!)

I saw another website once -- e-commerce in a niche y'all are uninterested in -- where, among numerous other problems, someone was about three lines of PHP away from adding six figures of revenue to the business, because the person who set up the website thought that title tags had to be the same sitewide because they didn't have time to rewrite each of the XY,000 pages individually.
Probably healthcare informational services.
It was running before there was court precedent that made it risky to link to movies hosted on sites like YouTube and Dailymotion. The shutdown was part of a strategic business decision.

I made money from it initially using Adwords. I remember my first month running it, only made about $400. They decided not to allow sites that linked to copyright videos, so I had to find alternatives, which turned out to be great.

I mostly used Clickbank and (briefly) Zango. I'm currently part of Clickbank's APEX program which is their super affiliate program for top earners.
(I'm barely resisting the urge to post an OS X screen shot.)

It's like http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ but modified to normally display the window title and only display menus on mouseover (hello discoverability).
What makes a database "in-memory"?
With PhoneGap you can have the best of both worlds: using HTML5 and PhoneGap, you can write web applications running inside of a native shell, including proxies to native hardware functionality including accelerometers, cameras, proximity sensors, etc. You can run these apps on iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Palm, and Blackberry.

http://phonegap.com/

This is what I'll be building my apps on.

(n.b. Confirmed by Apple to be in compliance with 3.3.1.)
+1 for the suggestion.
Just set up your wife/dad/mum as the owner of this startup and run it in that person's name.
In an ideal world I'd like no farm policy as well, but all western countries are democracies today, and all democracies respond to special interests. This is the democrat's (small "d") dilema.

Everywhere else is some flavor of dictatorship, and they have farm policies too.

(This was just a lame attempt to explain reality.)
Steve Jobs to Nike CEO: Get rid of the crappy stuff and focus on the good stuff
I know this assertion about trade secrets not to be true. Things that are more valuable than research prototypes go for walks outside all the time. Maybe it's that context, which I get from my field of work, that's lighting me up so much.

I think you're dead flat-out wrong about this, but I understand where you're coming from.

[update: the San Jose Business Journal is reporting that Apple outside counsel reported the phone stolen. So much for the "it was a publicity stunt" story.]
Cross out respected.
Steve Jobs gives Nike's CEO some cutting advice
Design sketches for Clojure coverage tool
Shouldn't that be "exagerated level of influence"? If their level of influence were retarded, I don't think you would have made this point.
I certainly agree with the statement "1 Company will never and should never control the way people access information" if we're talking about a single company controlling access for all people, such as would be the situation if Apple (or Blackberry or Microsoft, etc) were the only phone provider.

But I'm far less ready to say that there should not be any phones on the market that have restrictions on them regarding what code is allowed to execute. It seems to me that this is a legitimate choice for consumers to make and it's OK for them to be allowed to make it as long as there are also non-restricted phones available.

Diversity here is good - it's not clear to me that the best user experience in practice always comes from systems that are unrestricted. I'm happy the experiment gets to compete in the free market and see how it goes as long as other options are available.
Say what you like, but this shoddy cartoon is more satisfying than the multitude of Apple articles that make the front page each day.
Fair enough, I had totally different actions in mind, but for your examples I can see how those are very likely to be divided by gender in straight households.

However, when it comes to gay relationships, you generally can't make any prediction about who does what or how the chores are divided. The notion that all relationships have (or worse: has to have) a "male" and a "female" is completely unfounded.
The title is so incorrect. Knowing maxklein is author of this blog, I thought it's his story when he has "My" in the title. He should say - "Someone's co-founder took his company and his girlfriend."

Why people skew the titles so much, keep it vague, and sometimes even incorrect to just get the eyeballs?
Asking Artists: How Do You Overcome Creative Block?
I find that if I complain and bring up my issues with something right away(or, right after checking all the low-hanging troubleshooting fruit,) I usually get the source of the problem quicker. If I'm at fault, I'll find the real problem quicker, and if others are at fault, I won't spend a month wondering what I did wrong.
Zedonna?
All of these points assume that someone who is "stupid" is someone who disagrees with your point of view. I find that is very rarely an issue in my day to day job. The real question I'd like to know the answer to is how do you deal with people who require more help and guidance than others? How do you help others to think for themselves and come up with great solutions to problems by themselves?
Between this and the system tray changes it seems Ubuntu is moving further away from the stock GNOME desktop environment. They're both good changes in theory but I'm not sure it's a good thing to add more fragmentation.
I think that many of us who don't want DRM in the OS believe in a concept of layers of separation. The core OS should be as widely applicable and as open as possible, while any restrictive technologies or licenses should be in as high a layer as possible, so that they affect only those people who want/need them. The benefit to doing things that way is that all layers become easier to maintain and less prone to failure (DRM being used to blacklist hardware drivers would be considered a failure in this case), because each component in each layer only contains those things necessary for itself and the layers above it.

DRM especially should be in as high a layer as possible, or ideally not present at all, so that its casualties are minimal if the authentication servers disappear or the company holding the keys becomes malevolent.
Lithium-ion battery destructive tests
You are forgetting about storage costs. Frozen ground beef, buns and condiments have a much longer shelf life than the typical salad ingredients.
I really admire Shuttleworth and the rest of the Ubuntu design team for being courageous about making basic changes to the desktop UI. Open source tends to produce a lot of design-by-committee or completely undesigned software, so having somebody making big decisions and experimenting is really valuable. Nobody else big is really doing this.

There are plenty of alternative window managers for Linux or whatever, but few organizations besides Ubuntu have the inclination and resources to actually make the required changes to the relevant applications such that the desktop feels in some way consistent. And I know ubuntu isn't quite there yet, but it feels like it's making really rapid progress, and it's very encouraging.
I've been beta testing this for a few weeks now and it's pure awesome. It's worth every penny.
Whose satellites are they using?
This is probably the only netbook remix feature I want ported to the regular builds. Globalmenu is broken in subtle but dealbreaking ways, and getting a large part of the ubuntu team on it should sort it out so I can finally use it.

I hope there's a reasonable path to including it in the standard desktop.
I thought the A4 was a result of their acquisition of PA Semi a couple of years back.

I doesn't really make sense for them to develop the chip offsite, and then buy the company after it ships. Especially when they've already got the team to do it internally.
I think by now YC is big enough that you will find all sorts of technologies being used by the companies.
A friend of mine just got fired from his bank job for not going through the right channels. He created an iPhone app, but didn't release it, just asked permission to release it. It' a bit more involved, because you might assume that there were security concerns or technology concerns and that had something to do with his firing, but there were none, the security team signed off on it, but because he didn't go through the right channels he hurt someone's pride and got canned.
I get the stolen Mona Lisa and relative value analogy, but Gizmodo offered to return the 'stolen' property to their rightful owner!

Didn't they send Apple something like, "We believe we found a prototype phone which might be yours. If so, let us know and we'll be glad to give it back."

I certainly hope all thieves were like that...
That's because of the New York Times' style guide. The same reason they say "I.B.M.". Ugly.
People like linear status orderings. They exist in every culture and get reinvented when there's no culture present at all.

That's why we're prepared to believe things about IQ that we'd never believe about processor or compiler benchmarks.
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How about more concrete? It could be applied to a pattern recognition problem. For example, classifying email messages as spam and not-spam. The dots in 2-D space represent some characteristics of the message (a poor example would be number of words, average number of letters in each word).
Protons not as “strange” as expected
One more question - so if we agree to keep the documentation within the code, are there any rules outside of using MVC / choosing good naming conventions that would help to undestand what's going on for somebody who is knew to the project?

I.e. right now the only way a new developer can find out that we create invoices upon campaign deactivation would be by doing search in project files for instances where invoicing module is called. Is it possible to have some auto documenting system which could list all files w/ line numbers where specific function is called?
Fabrice Tourre Testifies
Crazy...
I'd go a bit further and say that the web has already won. At the moment, mobile hardware is still too slow to provide decent web browser experience (which is why we use native apps).
Awesome detailed answer, thanks! My questions come from a basic concern for the suspect, and presumption of innocence before proven guilty. A confiscated computer not only may require extra care in "plain sight" restrictions as outlined in the article, but also extra care in "undue hardship". If I keep all my records on a computer, and that computer is confiscated, I am now without any way of doing basic stuff like paying bills. It would seem that being able to retain a copy of the data is relatively trivial, so such an option should be made available. Given that current practices seem to be "never see your stuff again", is there any reason not to allow it? (Perhaps not as its taken, but shortly thereafter).
Investigators have found the [leaked iPhone] finder
Lets see, stop and smell the roses, I think I've got a user story for that somewhere...I'll move it up in priority, but it'll still be sometime in late May before it gets into a sprint.
There is no difference between "normal type chemicals" and "make-it-taste-nice" chemicals. Salt is NaCl, whether it's found naturally or added to your food. Same with sugar (although it's true that fructose doesn't occur naturally in the same proportion as processed foods), and fats.
If the goods were stolen a warrant should be issued for arrest for possession of stolen property. The fact that a warrant for search and seizure was issued makes it clear that not even the police are sure that the goods were stolen given the evidence publicly available.

When you leave your property sitting around and refuse people trying to return it, it creates a lot of ambiguity as to whether the property was stolen or abandoned.
One wonders what percentage of the time that gets manually edited out right after pasting. 95%+?
For those who are wondering, PEI is Prince Edward Island, a small province in Eastern Canada.
So much for the "Apple doesn't really care about this, and it may even be a planted phone" story.
Classification. The goal is to find the simplest description that will separate two sets of data (here: the points inside the circle from the ones outside).

Linear classifiers - in 2D, a straight line that separates the two groups - are preferred when possible since linear is as simple as it gets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_classifier

The video shows how a classification task that cannot be handled by a linear classifier in 2D can still be described by a linear equation (a flat plane) by transforming the data to 3D.
Legal solutions for crowd payments in Europe?
I would like to launch a startup based on crowdsourcing: many people, potentially ten thousands, would provide some information through a website; in exchange, they will be paid once they accumulate enough credit (e.g., 20-50 euros). In my own country (in Eastern Europe), this is legal only if there is a paper, signed contract between the company and the payee, which is not feasible for large number of payees. What are the startup-friendly countries in Europe where it is legal to make such payments exclusively through online interactions, and what are the legal constraints for such a process in these countries? Google does it from Ireland for its Adsense program, so Ireland must be one of the solutions. What about UK or Cyprus? Are there any existing payment solution providers that are specialized in crowd payment (i.e., one to many payments instead of the more common many to one or one to one payment providers)?
Eye-Fi to release Apple Store exclusive Wi-Fi SD card
Isn't that what Apple wanted in the first place?

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iphone.html
I'm pretty sure I will be down voted, but still:

1) Everyone is too keen on saying that the iPhone was "stolen" based on the definition in the CA law. However, let's put the legal definition aside for a second and consider was the iPhone really "stolen". The Apple employee lost it in a bar, someone picked it up and "misused" it. Dictionary definition of "stolen" (from Apple's dashboard dictionary) is "take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it " and I don't think that happened here and if it did, it remains to be proven.

2) I do agree that Gizmodo should not have paid for it, however, informants are almost always paid and IMNAL but it can be tricky to prove if Gizmodo knew how the iPhone was acquired before hand, and moreover if they knew if was an unreleased version if iPhone before they paid for it. Yes yes, common sense aside, where is the proof. People on eBay have paid a lot more then they're worth for a lot of things.

3) And regardless of whether Gizmodo is guilty or not, let's wait for the judge-jury to decide, it is unclear what the charges against Jason Chen are and why were those not disclosed before his house was raided.

4) I think the outcome of this this whole episode could have some really big ramifications, such as defining if professional Bloggers are journalists, or not.
Because the standard reporter's assumption is that a "PC" is a computer running Windows. Otherwise, it's a Mac.
Jason Calacanis on how to resign.
Step number 6 is the most important. Don't plaster your email correspondence all over the web, even if your boss is a bit of a mini celebrity.
Yeh. You've touched on the inherent trade off of my job. If you have critical stuff on your computer then we will do our best to get a copy back to you asap (of course I can only talk for us).

The problem is not retaining the data. We work from images anyway. The issue is that if the drive contains evidence returning the original would probably kill the case in court. If a defence analyst questions the data - say accuses us of faking it - how do you prove that if it goes back to the suspect.
RHEL contract made transferable to EC2
I think we have as much a knowledge problem as a food problem. If cheaper food has more calories, then for heaven's sake eat less of it! Split a supersized big mac meal into breakfast/lunch/dinner and you'll hit your daily caloric target right on the button.

Not saying this is healthy, but there's no reason it should cause obesity if you're smart about it.
The timestamps are before the epoch because you live in the western hemisphere, so your timezone is GMT-N.
Just because you invite someone to your party doesn't mean they are your friend.

Handing you a press pass is simply the easiest way to tell my security that you are allowed in. It doesn't mean that it makes you a member of the press.
Account Manager coming to Firefox
Your pedantry is not contributing to the conversation.
Here you go: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06...
RIP Floppy Disk
Ok, (1) Problems with the prison system and (2) underfunded child services compared to: (1) ending slavery, (2) desegregation, (3) women's suffrage, (4) free speech for extreme minorities, (5) freedom of religion for extreme minorities, (6) strong hate crime legislation, (7) landing at Normandy, (8) affirmative action, (9) free public defenders, (10) a right to a trial by your peers, (11) ...

The fact that American protection of the defenseless isn't completely perfect doesn't mean we don't care about it as a society. You gave two examples and then extrapolated from your small sample to claim American society doesn't actually care about the disenfranchised. I think you might need some perspective.
I can't say enough how much I love your design. Super simple, super sleek, just awesome.
Apple asked for probe, Police already know ID of person who took 4G phone
Yes, Microsoft spent a lot of money on security, and this has paid off to some extent (Win7 is much better than, say, 98); but don't you think they still, well, suck? In at least an absolute sense, if not a relative sense?
It's about time: Xilinx FPGA with embedded ARM cpu
How is this better than python docs again? Seriously. It's not for beginners, it's not for intermediate, it's not for advanced users in its current form.

I remember when I was a kid (cue during the war...) we had to type in sheets of paper in order to play games, learned through modifying them, experimenting like in a sandbox. I don't remember if I saw something similar in the past 15 years or so. It doesn't even have to be a book, it would work as a sandbox type of environment. I think I saw one based on scheme, but I can't remember the name right now.
Not just reporters, everybody except a small group of techies. Just look at the Mac vs. PC ads, which were really Mac vs. Windows.
When you leave your property sitting around and refuse people trying to return it

So far there is no evidence that proves that one way or the other.
I had a one hour disagreement with someone at my college who was a creationist. Not only did he believe the world was only a few thousand years old, but he also believed that at some point there were floating layers of ice in orbit around the earth.

I completely disagreed with him on all fronts. However, I'm not sure that he was stupid. The impression I got was that he was working with a completely different set of axioms than I was.

At some level, you can't ask why any more. There has to be some sort of core base to your beliefs. My core belief is in things like science and math. His core belief was in the concrete word for word truth in the bible. Intelligence didn't really play into it.

When you think something is stupid, a lot of times it has to be with the core assumptions that underly their beliefs. Unearthing and understanding these beliefs and agreeing to disagree is very important.
a) maybe they are, or intend to, or indeed intend to move against their parent company, Gawker media.

b) Chen was the last person who had possession of the device; when Apple's general counsel demanded its return, the Gizmodo editor directed him to contact Chen directly.

It might be more appropriate to wonder why Chen was left to handle the situation on his own, rather than the return to Apple being handled by Giz/Gawker's legal counsel or legal representative.
Obvious as all this seems, I've found in managing people that it's generally something they have to learn for themselves from scratch. And it was something I had to learn for myself. It's so much easier to wrap yourself in the comfortable delusion that you're right and everyone else is a moron - those idiots in Department X have no idea how anything works and have no sense of the strategy etc etc. Engaging with the full complexity of a situation and still finding a path forward is something that comes with maturity.