skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it creates a more rules for ISPs. The more regulated a market is, the larger barrier to entry which perpetuates the monopoly.

Eventually, when smaller upstarts come along, the monopoly points at them and says, "Hey, these guys aren't playing by the rules" and then the government makes these upstarts comply with expensive regulations.

For instance, VOIP and 911. When you could get VOIP for nothing (or next to it) the big telecoms pointed to these new providers and said "We have to support 911, why don't they?".

In this case, the government jumped in to help the telecoms keep a foot hold on their monopoly. See: http://www.sandiegobusinesslawfirm.com/net_telephone_service...

This pattern repeats itself in almost all legislation attempting to regulate monopolies. In the end, it only serves to stifle competition and remove consumer choice from the market.
I just called, spoke to a guy named Eric - I left my concern with him, told me to let anyone else know,that they can call to address their concern.
It's a collaboration between Norway and Sweden. Håkon Wium Lie from Norway did the CSS and Andre Laszlos did the coding part.

Great article btw.
Google demands neutrality (just don't apply it to them
It's Admob ad traffic, not "web traffic". Very important distinction.

Still, hooray for Android! This is just the first of many passes Android will do in the future.
Wow. Things that look like expressions, but are most definitely not, through the magic of operator overloading. So you can translate some expressions straightforwardly, but other expressions not, with the cases for what works and doesn't requiring careful thought.

So this works:

for_each(vp.begin(), vp.end(), cout << *_1 << '\n');

This doesn't:

for_each(vp.begin(), vp.end(), cout << '\n' << *_1);

But this does:

for_each(vp.begin(), vp.end(), cout << constant('\n') << *_1);

Considering how complex it is to figure out what works and what doesn't in that lambda slot, I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Of course I'm not a C++ programmer, and this is yet another reason why that might not be such a bad thing.

(Note: this is regarding Boost lambda, if that wasn't clear.)
It's tough to tell what they are really reporting here since I don't see it in the original AdMob report. If it's just web traffic then it is fairly useless to look at AdMob's numbers when there are much better sources out there. AdMob represents a whopping 18k websites of the 100M or so out there.
That post feels like it was ghost-written by someone who can't tap into the voice of the FSJ character. Or maybe Dan's having an off-day.

I love the pic, though.
FWIW, they're discussing this on MacBreak Weekly right now: http://live.twit.tv/

I tuned in late but I believe they have a lawyer giving her opinion.

edit: yeah, it's Denise Howell from http://www.bagandbaggage.com/about/
Invoice early and often.
On that note, how many users does HN have? Is there a page where I can get statistics on how active the users are?
This can also be set by hitting, uh "option command D," I believe.
He keeps saying "no open", yet doesnt explain why he thinks its not open. Most of the data is actually available through API's.
You misspelled my name on your post so I misspelled yours. J/k :). It's fixed now.

On your bigger point, I completely agree and am in the process of creating a forum/wiki for this purpose. That is, it will be a place where people can share tips, tricks, results, etc. on each of the traction verticals.
Linux has support for this. You can either bind a key or set up a "long press" to be right click.
Embracing and enhancing prototype style - and perhaps making it clearer in some way - would be very interesting.
Talker acquired by Teambox
Am I the only that see's this as a trap?

They hire good programmers, who are slightly entrepreneurial & try to turn them into employees by ensuring they have no fallback of any sort?
"Selectively enforcing high-profile offenses is a valid strategy if you want the increased awareness to be used as a dissuader for similar offenses, so, I understand when the prosecution wants to be "overzealous" when it comes to a valuable prototype."

I can respect that. But that also raises a number of questions. Does REACT believe that this incident will create a wave of prototype thefts by journalists? Do they believe that public reaction and civil lawsuits arising from such incidents will be insufficient to deter future individuals contemplating such a crime?

The bigger problem is that we're all doing a post hoc analysis that REACT likely didn't do at all. Maybe it saw a hot story in the news and so dashed off the broadest subpoena it possibly could. Maybe Apple made a few calls. The situation is concerning enough to warrant, at a minimum, an explanation from REACT as to what they thought they were doing. Depending on that explanation, an investigation or sanctions could be warranted.

Frankly, that might happen sooner than we think. I wouldn't be surprised if the EFF or ACLU filed suit on behalf of Chen for the unlawful seizure of his property. Of all places, California is the last state in which you want to start seizing a journalist's computers on a mere hunch that a crime was committed by someone else.
Because stealing someone's iPhone off a restaurant table isn't a felony, it's petty theft. You're trivializing what the new iPhone is. It represented millions of dollars of R&D and contained proprietary information so is therefor potentially protected under trade secret laws. There's no functional difference between publicizing the physical phone or it's blueprints: you're competition knows what you're up to (and can't sell yet) and your customers are going to forgo buying your current product.
This is essentially the justification for arranged marriages. (I definitely got this from my father)
A few months ago I talked to infochimps (I got their contact info thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989180)

I asked for a copy of the social graph so I could build exactly the kind of service provided by trst.me. Joseph Kelly told me I was "on to something", but they never gave me a copy of the data.

I really hope they had every intention of releasing this service before my correspondence with them. But after seeing this, the tin foil hatter in me can't help but get the nagging sensation that maybe I shouldn't have made public my intention and just gone ahead with my own crawl of twitter. Oh well, there goes my research project.
A bit off topic, but is anyone using BSD jails these days?
Shield law doesn't protect you from committing a crime. The issue here is that Chen is suspected in (or suspected of being complicit in) purchasing stolen goods.

If the phone finder had found the phone and sent photos and info to Gizmodo, they would be protected, but since they purchased the phone they've also committed a crime and have forfeited their journalistic protection.
Yes, I'm being a gruber apologist, but that post was written days ago, before the raid. If anything, I think that there was a raid vindicates gruber's sense that this is serious business, and that the police are treating it as such.
When I did jury duty a couple of years ago, the division of power among police, judge and jury interesting. The legal system is more than laws. I found this post by a lawyer interesting because it addresses an important question related to that division of power. I don't know that it directly informs security of distributed systems or a startup's interaction with the legal system, but I think someone interested in either of those areas might find this story interesting.
Dapper, Google's Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
PepsiCo Reduces Sodium by Restructuring Salt
Very cool and about time! I've been using Transmit 3.x for what seems like ages now. I've mostly switched to using Cyberduck for the last couple years, as it's matured quite a bit since the time I purchased Transmit, and remote editing over SFTP seems to work a whole lot better. From the look of it, that should be fixed now and I might just switch back to Transmit full time.
I still would, and think the same for Blippy. I have nothing against people using Twitter, but I don't have a use for it personally.

God, can you imagine the conversations this will start? "So, I see you bought a new belt at American Eagle yesterday..." Kill me now.
Yet Gruber's been gleefully declaring Gaby Darbershire, who's an attorney with years of experience in corporate law, a hack for the last few days now.
'For journalists, you have to subpoena items, not seize them. That's the important point now.'

Not if it's the journalists you're investigating because you suspect THEY committed a crime (in this case, purchasing stolen property). The police aren't doing this to find his source, they're doing this to determine how much Chen/Gawker knew about the phone being stolen before they bought it, and what they did about it once they found out.
I was hoping that would be more readable, but it's actually even less so (Scribd's fullscreen button doesn't work for me on OS X / Chrome).

Shame, this looks interesting - I would love to see a plain-text version.
> unannounced seizure of a journalist's home and work computers

So, buying stolen merchandise or trafficking in trade secrets is fine as long as you write a story about it?

-- http://twitter.com/TheMacalope/status/12917912411

Quoting Gruber:

Journalist shield laws are about journalists being able to protect sources who may have committed crimes. They’re not a license for journalists to commit crimes themselves. Gawker is making an argument that is beside the point. They’re arguing, “Hey, bloggers are journalists.” The state of California is arguing “Hey, you committed a felony.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-gizmodo-search-...

Btw, quoting Gawker:

"We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention."
causation vs. correlation
There may have been a subtle one, but I think what he was going for was the "let's report EVERY SINGLE THING IN OUR LIVES angle"
The only reason I tried them was because of Techcrunch's seal of approval years back.

Their customer service is awesome in terms of being able to get someone on the phone 24/7 even on the cheapest plans, but yeah I wouldn't need to use it so often if they're stuff was reliable.

Which services like Heroku, I don't even know how MT is still alive.
He called tech support. If he'd called Apple's main switchboard and asked for Grey Powell, or mailed it to him at 1 Infinite Loop, or e-mailed pictures to sjobs@apple.com, or turned it in to the police, then he'd be faultless. As it was, he did the minimum necessary to say 'Yeah, well I tried to call them but they didn't want it back.'
The problem with the food supply is that there is a long funnel that the demand feedback has to go in order to change it.

If your community suddenly realizes it needs more food, there is no way that the food can come to existence in days or even weeks. To some degree, other communities will be more willing to sell more of their food surplus to you if prices go up (after of days or weeks of delay to have the whole thing sorted out), and that would pick up some of the slack. But in the short and middle term, what will happen is that the poor will simply get priced out of the market.

An intelligent policy would be to provide a food buffer, a margin of safety, that gives the price signal enough time to travel through the markets. In this case, you get the benefits of a free market, but prevent the worst side effects of it.
> So you're saying my gay partner should not be allowed to adopt my biological kid to provide a stable legal environment?

The situation I had in mind was two gay people without children adopting a child.

> In another scenario, isn't it better for a gay child in foster care to be adopted by gay parents than by straight parents?

That would probably be a good thing.
Seth Godin on the Economics of Blogging
If you already use Vim or Emacs, I don't think you'll be blown away by TextMate. If you're coming from a lesser editor, definitely jump on it.

If you're missing a package manager, there's MacPorts. I've heard that HomeBrew is a good alternative, but have no personal experience with it.

If you're missing GNOME Do, or any of those command launcher programs, I recommend Quicksilver.

For a better terminal emulator than Terminal.app, there are a few options out there. I use iTerm. It supports 256-color and a bunch of other goodies.

Also, DTerm lets you open a terminal in the current working directory, based on the context of the currently active program.
Very keen, but the line about Amundsen-Scott Station's supply chain points out the obvious: as efficient as they must be, they fail to be "self-sustaining" in the most glaring ways.
a search on slashdot for "startup" yields a lot of results =)
keep doing what you're doing and know that some people won't like it. your audience is not them.
All it means is that women are usually passive when it comes to relationship-seeking behavior. This is a fine strategy and it doesn't make their choices any less valid, rational, value-seeking, or adult.
A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders).

Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.
If we use this logic, we must conclude that it is more acceptable in the state's eyes (or at least the state wants everybody to think it is more acceptable) to murder children than to take photos of a prototype phone. This is an extremely disturbing case if your suggested reasoning is correct.
Agreed. Hand over everything to a family/relative you trust who is also a developer and have them say they are doing/taking over the dev work on it. Just make sure they can't ever prove you are the one doing the work.
As I put in the post, "A trade-secret claim based on readily observable material is a bust." IDX Systems Corp. v. Epic Systems Corp., 285 F. 3d 581, 584 (7th Cir. 2002).

The most Gawker revealed was (1) features readily observable on the outside and (2) information printed on the components when the device was opened. Obviously, none that would be considered a "trade secret" once the iPhone was up for sale on the market.

Can a feature list be considered a trade secretly few months before the items released? That's a tough one, particularly because Apple itself released this iPhone into the wild, where it was found by a third party. It's not like Gawker snuck into Apple's campus and found some research for products contemplated way in the future, product so far off that Apple had not yet filed a patent on the technology. (By way of background, the whole purpose of trade secret law is to protect things that a person doesn't want to disclose publicly by patenting. Almost by definition, a trade secret has to be something that was patentable, and so far nothing on the prototype iPhone looks like it was patentable.)

All of which brings us back to the central point: it's debatable if Apple even suffered a legally-cognizable injury by virtue of someone bringing publicity to a device Apple, through its employee, left out in the wild. In light of that, and in light of the serious concerns about journalistic shield, REACT should have shown caution. Instead, they took the most aggressive approach they could have.
Accessible version of Twitter
Punishing Legitimate Customers with DRM
My take on man pages is "If you want people to RTFM, make a better FM".

(not mine originally)
When was the last time a startup 'trying to reinvent' something actually succeeded? Most of the successes were accidental, by companies who tried to do something neat and stumbled onto something powerful. Most of the failures were companies that set out to 'reinvent' the way things work.

Maybe these guys will succeed, but it seems like hubris to me.
Really sloppy article, about the only thing useful, and it is pretty obvious, is that your database schema shouldn't be strongly tied to an implementation language.
I don't think that fully explains it. Government paying for your health care is not the same as if government were to pay for your car repair. The former will always carry repercussions for you--diabetes is a very difficult condition to have, even if the bills are paid by Medicare--whereas there is no real other pain caused by a car repair, other than financial.

Many of those without health care insurance still eat food that is linked to detrimental health.
Easy RMI services in Grails with JSON controller
Still very incomplete. Goes from exercise 10 (by which point they've not done if statements) to exercise 27 (where they start learning about AND OR etc.

Tone/diction/sentence structure is a bit patronizing. I think Shaw was going for more basic than is required for most intelligent adults.
The issue is that there are already huge barriers to entry if one wants to become an ISP.
Read your econ. Regulation is hardly the only barrier to entry in a market.

The huge barrier to entry for cable, water, electricity, and telecommunications (for now excluding cellular) is building the infrastructure. There are good reasons why most of these are heavily regulated.

It's funny you say ISPs because in the dial-up age there were a ton of them. They were working on top of the highly regulated phone system. Fast forward to the broadband age, which sadly was give a lot of free reign under the regulation-averse Bush administration, and there are very few 'ISPs'. Instead most markets are given a bad choice between oligopolistic cable companies and a baby bell or AT&T itself.

These companies have way too much market power, people routinely get cable tv in order to get a decent internet monthly rate, and regulation could have huge benefits for consumers as well innovative businesses like Google.
i'll be interesting to see how regulators come down on FB b/c of their willingness to put user needs behind their own.

it's already starting to happen (not soon enough):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04...
I disagree.

Carlin's philosophy, particularly toward the end, was that humanity as a whole is doomed. The thesis is "The planet isn't going anywhere; we are" Note that he didn't say "will" or "may"; he said are.

To him, trying to save even ourselves was only slightly less arrogant and ill-founded than trying to save any other endangered specie and just as doomed an effort.

His certainly wasn't a hopeful philosophy, but he was consistent within it.
The color data is very interesting. My Twitter app uses the color from users profiles to stylize their individual tweets to their followers. It adds a lot of personality and breaks up the black/white monotony.

Feel free to give it a try - http://loritweet.com
As a self-funded startup looking to raise a small angel round without much traction yet, I am fairly sympathetic to this article. However, I still wouldn't go as far as calling investments in startups with traction, cash-flow, and coming from a good personal recommendation "low risk". Most of these startups will still fail.

I also don't think it's unreasonable for VCs and Angels to use these markers in determining whether or not to invest. There are still lots of deals available to VCs and Angels and these are some of the better filters to find the best ones. If there weren't enough deals available where startups could provide these metrics, the market would correct itself.

Lastly, while I do agree that the "pay" industry around how to run a startup doesn't provide much value, I don't see it as too much of a problem. There is a plethora of really valuable information available for free from successful entrepreneurs who give back to the community through their blog posts and talks. You'd have to be a fool to pay to learn how to run a startup when you can learn all the best advice (from people who have succeeded at it) for free.
Have an upvote - arranged marriages are extremely poorly understood by the West. There's the impression that they are anti-woman and coercive, which is far from the truth for the majority of cultures that practice it.

For the uninformed: for most cultures (that I've seen) that do arranged marriages (in modern times, anyhow), the woman and the man both have the right to veto. Think of it as an extremely pre-vetted, parent-driven dating service and you'll have a better idea than the "ohnoes! people pressed into marriage against their will!" swill that the media likes to spin up.

Instead of you going out to find your mate, your parents/family do it, they do all the groundwork, and you simply meet the girl/guy a number of times, then both of you get to decide if that's it.
Jason, what makes this site nice is that we generally don't accuse each other of having ulterior motives. Everything I said should be taken at face value. I'm not trolling. I'm just calling it like I see it, and I certainly admit I could be calling it wrong!

What I see is you perfectly okay with your CTO resigning his job after 3 years, but coming down harshly on a programmer for resigning after 1 year. That seems unfair and hypocritical, and that's why I pointed it out. You can safely ignore me, or point out why I'm wrong. You don't need to resort to name calling or get upset.
Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force
Actually I believe that is exactly the case. The point is to protect all the sources of all the other stories. It's not to protect Chen.
+1. Yeah, I was only thinking of his work on computation (not even AI!). I should have been more clear.
One argument is that atheists are more moral because they are making moral choices based on what is good and right for other people, instead of saving up their virtue in a bank account in the sky to be cashed in on when they get to Heaven. That is, they aren't being good just because they think God is watching and writing everything down in a little book, they are really just being good.

It's essentially the same argument that Karma is a moral cop-out: you should be good for its own sake, not because the universe is keeping score will reward you in this life or the next.
Ask HN: Software slave interface?
In Being Popular, PG says:

One solution here might be to design systems so that interfaces are
horizontal instead of vertical-- so that modules are always vertically
stacked strata of abstraction. Then the interface will tend to be owned by
one of them. The lower of two levels will either be a language in which
the upper is written, in which case the lower level will own the interface,
or it will be a slave, in which case the interface can be dictated by the
upper level.

I think I understand what a language interface looks like, but I do not understand what a slave interface looks like. Can anyone here provide any good examples?
Given the size of the HN population you could expect 100's to 1000's of people to be gay. It's true that the distribution is such that the chance that someone is gay is low but if you approach 10 people your chances are better than even that at least one of them is gay.

Quite a few of them are 'out' in public, google can help you out there.
Writing correct code, part 2: bound functions
Yes, what a demo! All pure web technologies, too.
I like the article.

I think a dominant pattern is to try and put forth gospels from the experiences of successful startups. All worthwhile to explore, however, sometimes it starts to feel a bit mechanical. Each context is so unique. I tend to think that there are so many potential paths, and agility is in part being creative with carving your own.