skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are remembering something I must have forgotten. I recall Clinton taking a shot at Bin Laden with a missile and being derided as blowing up an aspirin factory (Bush made fun of him for this too, long before letting Bin Laden escape from a being surrounded in a hole in the ground), and I recall their policy position was that terrorism was the most significant threat to the US national defense and trying to get airport security money (among other things) into the budget.

The country at that time, however, was really mad at him for getting hummers at work, so the Republicans took advantage of his political weakness to take money out of the antiterrorism budget and put it into "Star Wars" defense. They claimed that the biggest threat to Us national security were nukes.

They were wrong.

And, of course, nobody missed the Taliban because they were all over the news for smashing Buddhas and the throats of unveiled females.

They were singly responsible for the influx of gaggles of beautiful Afghani women into US cosmopolitan cities, something that I didn't mind a bit.

Perhaps you are referring to something pre-1998 or so, but I honestly don't recall them missing either Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
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Twitter Open-sources the Home of Its Social Graph
Dropbox API is on its way according to their forums.

Keep an eye out here: http://code.google.com/p/dropbox-api/
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That's just how the managing partner described it when BCG came to do a recruiting talk. He called theirs one of the most improbable businesses in the world- companies pay a lot of money to have just-graduated kids work on their problems.
They kept the password properly encrypted but they just keep a copy in a backup_password field for emergencies.
Looks promising. But, then again, the reason why I wouldn't use it is because of remembering to open another app to upload etc. Dropbox helps me stay lazy :-)
WebOS actually is pretty cool, it's too bad that Palm wasn't able to really compete with Apple and Google.
I'm sorry I don't get it. Microsoft isn't a hardware company, so there's no reason to start "diversifying" and "segmenting". Windows Phone 7 seems absolutely awesome. They need to just stick to that. As a 15 year old girl, this still ranks way way below an iPhone, Droid, or even gasp a palm pre. They should have just saved this type hardware (which seems pretty decent) for when they launch the Windows Phone 7 stuff. So now MSFT has:

-winmo 6.5 (which they're keeping) and is horrible
-KinOS (I don't know what this is supposed to do)
-Win Phone Series 7 Series Seventh Windows Phone- Which looks awesome, has developers excited, and will require OEMs to ship quality hardware.

Just concentrate on the last one please.
Incorrect title.

Correct title would have been: workers with a better education tend to works jobs with shorter hours.

But even that is possibly misleading. Best title:

Workers in states with a higher average level of education tend to work jobs with shorter hours.

(which says nothing about the workers themselves. We'd have to look at the data to know)
Thanks for the head up :-) There's a promising weekend project in here for sure.
The best part is that even Adobe can't get their own flash working well... A "TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert mx.collections::ArrayCollection@2377c381 to Array" exception popped up in a modal dialog when it loaded (I'm using the debug version of flash). Awesome.
Interesting. Facebook had a similar exploit earlier but they seem to have solved it easily by attaching a hash to the redirect:

site.com/redirect?l=<url>&h=hash(secret,url)
As an ex developer on VS2010, I have to give my biased opinion that they actually took the thing in the right general direction and I actually rather enjoy using 2010 a good deal more than 2008.

I honestly don't find it to be that bloated either. it loads up very quickly, and it only loads things as they are needed. If you never once use the Entity Framework for example, nothing related to it will ever load. This is different from 2008 which eager loaded most stuff.

There was a huge push to get 2010 up to performance snuff towards the end of development, and I think they mostly succeeded.

The new support for MEF for extending things is dramatically better than VSIP, which was a nightmare no matter how you sliced it. MEF is actually quite pleasant.

I'm an ex MS employee, and so feel no need to promote it blindly. I do think, overall, it's the best VS yet. Take it for what you will.
But XSS already has a different specific meaning. Granted it's a confusing definition for exactly this reason, but it's well established to mean a security vulnerability where an attacker can inject JavaScript into users pages thereby stealing their session cookies, etc. It has nothing to do with cross-domain requests.
It's not about technical exploits, it's about making it eassier to social engineer and phish. For instance, redirecting to a fake youtube login page. Even slightly more savvy users will look at the original link, click it, then click through and follow instructions. Single signon systems that have redirects aren't uncommon, so the user can be used to seeing that sort of behaviour.

I'm surprised youtube has such a basic problem on their site.
Erlang target systems and release handling
Open media player Songbird drops Linux support
Not being able to name a previous tablet computer has more to do with their lack of the iPad's heavy marketing. I'd imagine most of us would have similar trouble naming desktop PCs for the same reason.

Maybe that's partly why Apple is having so much more success with their tablet: they're not trying to sell a virtually unknown type of product as a commodity.
I have to echo this. A team I'm on right now has managed to accomplish quite a bit using a combination of docs for document editing and storage and wave for side-bar communication and project tracking. It's worked really well so far.
>It's almost as if they are trying to prove Jobs was right

If the Flash compiled to crappy HTML+Javascript I'd agree with your analogy.
I haven't read this article, yet, but FWIW, U.S. public radio's "This American Life" has a segment this week on the same topic, done in conjunction with propublica. It was an interesting listen.

TAL podcasts are available free for one week beginning the Monday after each show's weekend debut.

EDIT: Podcast description page: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast
Red Dead Redemption: Gunslingers, the Facebook Game
If the price point is right I think these are going to be smash hits with the younger crowd.

To me they seem quite underwhelming, but if I look at how my younger sisters & cousins use their phones then all those boxes are checked and in a very visually pleasing way.
All are good points, but number 2 is the big one for me. That was my first thought when I heard what Apple was doing, and I think it's important to keep that in consideration. While I don't always agree with DHH, he makes some good, rational points here. It should be noted that most of these arguments have been made elsewhere, but it's a great summation.
"Shaman/Medicine men have been having visions for years and using substances to get closer to nature since humankind started - agree with your point about "rediscovery"."

So have completely insane people. If only we had some way to tell when people were full of shit...oh wait, thanks science!
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No, he doesn't say so. The reverse of A -> B is not B -> A or even (not A) -> (not B), but (not B) -> (not A).
I took this as a follow-up to the Sidekick, which is one of those devices that is way more popular than I'd ever realized.

I think there is a real market here, that's distinct from iPhone-like smartphones. As to whether or not Microsoft should be in this market, I'd have to agree with you that it seems like a distraction.
But the real danger is phising. You won't get a virus when you click, but you might trust the website you're redirected to and type in your password.
I don't live in The Valley (tm), but I do live in a tech center (Boston area).

My impression:

The positives: lots of people doing tech entrepreneurial things, lots of talent, other startups to work with and learn from, entrepreneurial culture.

The negatives: I could fill an auditorium with phonies, con artists, and impostors... I suspect that The Valley is even worse. There are lots of "me-too!" ideas, lots of people with enormous egos who don't really know what they're doing, and lots of people who will BS you to try to get you to follow them or do work for them. Being jaded and skeptical is a requirement.

Edit: come to think of it, I have been to conferences and pitch-fest type things in The Valley, and the smell of fast talkers and such was palpable.

So there's lots of good stuff but also lots of noise.
Maybe I didn't express myself clearly. Apologies.
What I mean is that mobile hardware (and mobile browsers) are getting better and better and so mobile websites are become passe. Decent mobile hardware & browsers can view full websites.

Especially when your screen is 9.7".
Shamans also use things like ayahuasca, which is a MAOI and thus can have lethal interactions with other things. That might be somewhat related to the whole need for "legitimate" study.
Thanks. I've been looking into LaTeX - so far everything is in .txt format (in a mercurial repository :)) so conversion should be fairly easy though I've avoided it so far.

Im very tempted to self host. The technical side of things is easy enough for me to put together and, on reflection, I much prefer to control that side of things. The only downside I can think of is that you don't have an "instant market" compared to publishing on Lulu, Amazon etc.

> people pay, download the PDF, and then reverse the charge under your money back policy

I've decided not to let it worry me much because the book is hardly going to be a massive revenue stream (it's as much about getting my name out there as a serious author! :D)

(thanks for the tips)
Kinda cool, but I didn't realize that 3-wheel motorcycles like this were 'completely' unique.

My wonder is if the lack of success of these designs in the past has been more due to the lack of market need, rather than challenges in design.

The motorcyclists I know don't seem very concerned with safety. If you wanted to be safe, you wouldn't drive a motorcycle.

If you can't balance your bike at a stoplight, maybe you shouldn't be riding?

Best of luck to Tilting Motors. I could be completely wrong in my opinions on the market.
Or maybe he'll find a completely unique market opportunity as they progress forward.
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The When to Incorporate Decision-Matrix
A better way to edit the CSS would be helpful (right now it opens in a tiny little box) since Google Docs screws up the formatting so often. As it stands now, it is nearly impossible to make heavy changes to any document with tables and nested bullets without going in and fixing the autogenerated CSS.
Great catalyst for increased angel activity in Boston!
There's More to Science Than Evolution
How one entrepreneur uses Google Wave
Implementing an External DSL
Apple's Python is Tightening it's Grip--Not Gonna End in Gentle Snuggle
Can virtual worlds get people to spend money on music?
Pandora's success means more bucks for artists
I do the same on my own website. I built a redirector using Apache mod_rewrite, and then secured it using a token and some mod_security configuration. See here:

https://secure.grepular.com/Secure_URL_Redirects_using_Apach...
Wouldn't it have been better that, instead of just reading you could copy/paste a piece of code and run it to see what it does?
There are a whole list of gotchas and problems that immediately spring to mind but it would be fun to see it hacked up.
It's His Platform, Not Yours
"Edit" in regular document still doesn't work on iPad or iPhone dang it. Spreadsheets does work.
"could even be argued that alcohol is more dangerous than psilocybin"

That anyone even entertains the notion that alcohol isn't significantly more dangerous than psilocybin demonstrates how extremely misguided the public is about the subject.

"but have also wrecked a lot of people ... becoming an acid-head is a terrible idea ... are exhaustingly boring people."

It's also interesting that many people can't help but view this issue through the prism of their own cultural biases, stereotypes and anecdotes.
Unfortunately it uses GTK.
If you're on Windows try SharpDevelop.
Openoffice.org Draw has been providing this as long as I have been using it. However, Google making available online is very handy indeed.
It's interesting to see tablets being knighted as the Future of Computing by MSM and the tech industry when it's not at all clear that people actually want them. After controlling for the fanboy & factor, reviews for the iPad seem to be mixed. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that the form factor just might not be a good match for a lot of people.
Note that a simple edit of the bookmarklet code can provide tinting of the background. And it all runs local.

He also has one that kills (most) CSS styling.
There's always been something wrong, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it, with the idea of getting a degree solely in "business"... I think I get it now.

Reminds me of a shirt I saw somewhere from a cartoon I've never seen: "What's this? I'm going to go do some Science on it!" Seems very similar to: "I'm a business man"
Comcast Win May Force FCC's Hand
You are forgetting Visio.
It seems to me that part of number 3 (about private APIs) is bogus -- it's pretty easy to compare an executable against private API addresses to make sure it isn't linked to any of them. They likely have a tool and it likely results in an instant fail and I doubt there are any approved apps that use private APIs.
Google, Amazon topping Microsoft in pay for engineers
FYI. Their registration form which takes credit cards isn't served over https.
While that is certainly true I think it is also a little unfair to Page/Brin et al to shine it in only that light.

I think they've demonstrated that they believe it is the moral thing to do as well.
It's a very funny bubble to watch. I just can't see it going mainstream.
The problem is Apple has no real competition. They can do almost anything they want without fear of retribution because your average consumer has no idea what any of this means.

That's bad news for all us pissed off developers since Apple's new platform will continue to be extremely popular in which case devs are forced to develop for it.

Google seems to be inching towards being a real threat but they also seem extremely unfocused. Does anyone really need a toaster running the latest version of Android?

Apple needs some competition in this space and Android-based mobile devices seem like a really distant second. It's time for Google to kick it up a notch.
I've seen it stated a few times that "EA uses Lua on the iPhone" - but my googling hasn't revealed any evidence to support this. Does anyone have a cite for this?
>> "If the future of computing is Apple's locked down iPad and iPhone platforms"

This is why I love not being in Silicon Valley. Anyone who thinks the iPad/iPhone is the future of computing is either mad, or in silicon valley.
How can there exist a free market without the guarantee of the protection of private property? Without that you have anarchy

See "anarcho-capitalism": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

In an anarcho-capitalist society, law enforcement, courts, and all other security services would be provided by voluntarily-funded competitors such as private defense agencies rather than through taxation, and money would be privately and competitively provided in an open market.

You continue...

> > What, in a free market moral system, prevents slavery?

> The government.

No. Slavery is prevented because the income generated by those would-be slaves is less than the income generated when those people fill the role of "consumer".

Also, if there are non-consensual exchanges, then by definition it is not a free market, but that simply avoids the question...
Is the primary motivation behind redirection to another website to track clicks? In situations like Facebook, a redirect effectively changes the REFERRER header so that it doesn't leak any information (about the origin of the request, like: facebook.com/profile.php?id)
The web is not a carefully curated gallery of web pages and yet we're still able to find the good stuff all the time thanks to intermediaries of discovery

This is hardly a strong argument, as the main "intermediary of discovery" is Google, and most internet users are all too ready to give up their banking information to websites which have an official looking header on the page. Just because it worked for the web doesn't mean it'll work for Apple's AppStore.
I've used a T60 with Linux installed for several years as my laptop, and I love it. I ended up with two RMAs (CPU fan died and screen had some sort of display issue), but the third has been a trooper with no issues.
The crux of the article is this quote:

"Vendors with slow release cycles (I’m looking at you Adobe) end up creating an additional delay before developers on their platform can take advantage of the latest and greatest features from Apple. This is no good if Apple wants to be on the cutting edge."

The author makes the common mistake of assuming a static market, in which developers on the intermediary platform are permanently fixed to that platform. In a fluid app market, what is the likelihood that those intermediary developers will stay loyal to their platform while developers on Apple's platform eat their lunch?

Even if Apple didn't have a vendetta against Adobe, they would have a strong interest in preventing a flood of ported apps that, regardless of the quality, they simply aren't equipped to deal with given the current App Store workflow.
Requiring phone numbers could be effective. Though no matter what technology you use there will be a way to get around it.

I think a good case study of a community promoting non-anonymous comments is facebook. They use very little in the way of technology to prevent flamewars and spam, mostly it is user culture.
I think you mean #3.
Technically, the length of the days will average out. Longer in the spring and summer (when the weather is nicer for outdoor work), shorter in the winter.

However, the number of snow days won't average out, but I doubt that is being factored into the data.
Fixed now. That was an inopportune time to deploy!
Powerpoint is a rather amazing diagramming tool, if only you could make the page sizes larger.

Visio is the fallback, but I find working with it feels clumsy compared to Powerpoint.
So you'd like for the web to be put back in the box and replaced with an AOL Walled Garden of wonder? Freedom can indeed be dangerous, but I'd rather be free to hurt myself than smothered to dead by paternalism.
If they fix the formatting issues with bulleted lists, I will be happy. (If you haven't made and revised a lot of bullets on, say, a resume, you may not have felt my pain.)
I agree wrt iAd. Other than that they are very focused on manufacturing devices.
I agree about the issues, but I think 'edit the CSS yourself' is not a solution. I'm in the < 1% of people who'd know how, and I don't want to bother. If I've got to do the formatting myself, I might as well just code HTML - or more realistically, use a desktop app.
"I don't want to defend cargo-cults, but people copy because it works."

My definition of cargo-cult is when you copy everything except the parts that are hard or make you face unpleasant reality.
The e-mail does mention that "this security issue only affects Atlassian customers who created an Atlassian account and purchased one of our products before June 2008. Since then, we have been using a more secure user management system based on Atlassian's Crowd product".
Apple files patent for "peer to peer financial transaction devices"
The thing is that yes, these were all pretty big porting projects, but they were also things that Adobe would have known about years in advance, and just never bothered to deal with until after it was an issue for most people.

When they knew about an upcoming platform change a year or two in advance, and didn't bother to deal with it until a year or two after, I have to assume that they just never cared. That's why Apple doesn't want to deal with Flash - they don't want to rely on a company that doesn't care about Apple or its users, and they don't want to be beholden to Adobe's schedule of 'we'll support that next year when users are hurting for it'.

When Apple announced location support in iPhoneOS 2.0, for example, including GPS for the iPhone 3G, would Adobe have had it ready for launch day? From their history, Flash would have waited until the next 'major release'. Flash-based apps would have had a reduced feature set, and the App Store would have been full of applications that couldn't support the latest and greatest features, distracting from applications that properly supported 2.0 from the start.
I hope #5 turns out to be bigger than I think it will be, but people end up sticking with what is popular (iPhone) even when it hurts to do so.
I would like a review of .NET 4.0 or an overview of new features in VS 2010 sometime.

This is far to large a topic for a HN comment. Here is a link to some links to get you started:
http://hnsl.mn/cNpxVs
[but if everybody under the age of 22 is all about FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS then the world will soon collapse]

Friends Friends Friends is the new way to network, isn't networking one of the things they preach to everyone for everything (finding a job, starting a startup...)
I bought an HP TX1000 like 3 years ago, and it wasn't the first by far.

http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx10...
Definitely agree.

I moved to the Bay Area over a year ago. Most people think that the IPhone rules the mobile phone market. Some people even say that Android will be dead soon because everybody would just buy an IPhone.

The truth is go outside the Bay Area and IPhone is not as prevalent. My non-Bay Area friends have an Android or Blackberry aside from the IPhone.

IPhone is also not the best-selling smartphone line in the US. It is the Blackberry.
How a Company Can Span the Globe and Stay Connected: A Microsoft "Telepresence"
Because Flash objects are positioned above every other element on the page, I'd have to guess which color is below the large, single Flash object. I tried doing this with variable levels of success, but concluded that having a Flash object for every color didn't have any huge downside. Performance seems to be acceptable, unless you're using IE. Let me know if you have any performance issues.
This sounds like it boils down to paying people to spam their followers. Or am I missing something?
That may certainly be true, but what I was referring to is the behavior of Google as a whole company, under the influence of shareholders as well. I have a lot of respect for Page and Brin, and don't mean to malign them at all.
Ask HN: What is the product that lets you u/l directly from camera to browser?
Tried googling, can't find it, and figured I'd ask here. No need to upvote the parent story, just adding an answer here would be a huge help. Thank you!
i suggest removing Python from title. no Python in article. a bit like putting Java in title, clicking through to find out it's about an island in Pacific.
It's easy, you hit "File -> Save" in the first app, then "File -> Open" in the second app....

ooooh, right, web. Sorry. That's what you get when you walk into the walled garden.
Curse that 2 key, always next to the 3.
My thoughts exactly. Thanks for the good feedback :)