skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Draft of Secretive International Copyright Treaty Leaked -- Not Good
Not sure what you mean. I mean plainly logging the domain lookups, using the data what the masses do not tainting the privacy of the individual.
I think it's time for me to start running Facebook in a separate browser session. I'm sick of trying to keep track of the moving target of what Facebook will and won't leak to other sites.
I think it's interesting to consider computer viruses and biological pathogens in terms of "optimum harmfulness."

A cold virus's best strategy, for example, is to keep you awake coughing so your immune system is weak, make you sneeze and cough and have a runny nose so you spread germs, etc. But it shouldn't kill you, especially not before you pass it on. I've heard (did I read it in Guns, Germs and Steel?) that syphillis used to be more deadly, but that it got milder as an adaptive strategy.

Likewise, computer viruses probably have a pain threshold they shouldn't pass. If they can do their masters' bidding without hacking you off so bad that you format the computer, they'll be more successful.

Possibly unwarranted conclusion: computer viruses are now widespread precisely because they're Not That Bad.

So, are they worse than antivirus software? A lot of non-geeks may be asking themselves that question today. "Dang, we got a virus one time, but it didn't keep the computer from BOOTing!"

McAfee has just demonstrated a computer autoimmune disease.
NoSQL at Twitter, Presentation at NoSQL EU 2010
How's that? I use Paint.NET when I'm on the road to edit .psd files and it works fine. Actionscript can be written in a text editor if you so desire. Dreamweaver's html and I couldn't even list how many third part pdf editors are out there. So how are designer/developers locked into the entire CS suite?
Another interesting, related fact, that not many people know of: the small photo booths you find on airports, train stations, malls etc., the ones often used to take that classic, romantic strip of pictures with your loved one, or your passport photo and so on, exposes each frame on a special type of transparent, photographic film laid flat onto a strip of photographic paper. The directly exposed paper is the copy you get in the slot, but the reel of film is kept in the machine for "governmental bodies' reference".
What would a stick-person's scanned butt look like?

V?
I guess we project our prejudices into how we interpret the vid. Their job is to kill enemy combatants. Do you expect them to say "oh dear, we hit the people we were aiming at, how terrible". Of course not. To me the judgements on who and what to hit were verging on the 'trigger happy', but sorry, I didn't see or hear evil bloodthirsty yanqui imperialists.
Crazy to think about the consequences of a mistake like this. This was sent by a friend to an email list I'm on:

"Well, consider this community hospital fubared.

IT dudes running around pulling out their hair. If it wasn't affecting patient care it would be a humorous scene-but I can't check xray's, or labs or anything.
Took out a horrendously bloody gallbladder this morning, and I can't tell (labwise) if she's still bleeding...not good."
this could turn into a generic graph API eventually, even though right now it's just an API refactor.

also looks like bret taylor's been working on this - guess the friendfeed acquisition worked well for facebook.
Viruses used to be largely statements and annoyances, the sort of thing a rebellious teenager would pursue as a form of computer vandalism.

Then people realized there was money in botnets and password stealing. The goal of those viruses is to get onto your computer and stay there as long as possible. If you notice it, you'll remove it, so it is in their best interest to avoid being noticed.

Unfortunately, a lot of them are so poorly written they are hard not to notice.
It was the allegations of WMDs gave the impetus for action. Most wars can't be started by frustrating fly-over issues.

The legal basis for the continued US presence is well-established and widely known, so I'm surprised you feel confident enough to dare anybody to explain it to you.

UNSC Resolution 1483 (2003), 1546 (2004), 1637 (2005) and 1723 (2006), IIRC

You're confused. None of these authorized the occupation of Iraq. Each of these was adopoted after the invasion took place as safeguards on the occupation. None of these makes the occupation in any way a legal act. It has never been sanctioned by the Security Council; there are no, and have never been, UN troops in Iraq.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan himself directly called the invasion "illegal". His word.

The illegal basis for the US invasion is well-established and widely known, so I'm surprised you feel confident enough to talk as if you know otherwise.
I think that's technically a gynoid.
Is Apple Booting iAd's Competition from the iPhone?
I think they'd go a long way if the androids didn't hold still between movements. People never hold still - at the very least, their eyes move rapidly (saccades).
Google buys stealthy start-up Agnilux
Another way to look at that is that (eg Craigslist) with high revenue/employee money on the table are those with potential: Craigslist aren't going in top gear. Apple are having trouble keeping up. They have more profitable things to do with their time then take all possible money off the table.
Makes me wonder who the hell they asked. Copy-machine security experts working at Sharp?
> you're making a product that won't make money

No. You are only making software that doesn't usually get sold. Most of it isn't, but you can custom-develop - building upon piles of other free software - and then license it under a free license to your client who chooses whether to share it (always under a free license) or not. Free software can be sold. I know this because I did it a lot.

> It's hard to be rewarded for free software

OTOH, it's much cheaper and easier to develop it. With closed software, you have to invent your own wheels. With free and open-source software, you are free to use the ramjet engines other people have developed.
"Negative working capital: They first charge users upfront, take a cut and pay merchants back later. These businesses basically are financed by their customers."

This way they basically can't lose money. If they sell something , they make a profit. If not, they don't make a loss. Ignoring fixed costs, this looks like a good idea to follow for a business, if feasible.
It's a clever quip, but I see nothing wrong with "users." It's a neutral, general term that can be used in place of all the terms byoung helpfully lists.

There's nothing negative about using a hammer, and there's nothing negative about using software.
Yeah. I got an endless loader the first time. The second time I tried it loaded, but when I tried to open a doc I was told I don't have the right version of Office (Word 2008 for Mac).
As far as I can tell, this doesn't leak anything at all unless you authorize the site to access your information or click a Like button.
For the IT staff, the fact that your computer slows down is an externality; it is not their problem. If the anti-virus can catch a few viruses and doesn't result in many help-desk tickets, then it makes their lives easier. Cleaning up a virus is a tedious task, as even a simple re-imaging can take a while, and that's if you can use a standard image.

They also don't know how smart their users are. Some of them are great, and might read HN, but others will go download any game or smiley pack they can find.

If IT staff were paid based on how smoothly the computers run, they might have a different opinion. Their current goal is usually just to make sure it runs at all.
The algorithm would need to be pretty smart though, for example I have friends who I'd trust to the end's of the earth on everything except for music, we have violently different tastes and no ability to recommend music to each other.
This could be the most costly consumer software blunder ever? Imagine all the consultants called in for duty.
Beta Test the ESV Online
As has been pointed out on reddit[1], this article is incredibly inaccurate and should be ignored.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bu6j1/c_languag...
Indeed privacy concerns aside, but I completely agree.
This will have a huge impact on the web, how can you pass up on 400M users (will probably be 1B in less than two years) and their data on your site?
I love the idea of heading to amazon and get a list of movies I haven't seen that my friends which i share movie taste with have rated highly on IMDb. I mean, woha!

Regarding the privacy concern its merely a shift in what is private and what is not - this I think can not be stopped by now.
Enso's zenPad is vaporware, get refunds while they last (update)
Direct link http://www.esvonline.org/signup/
The point I was trying to make was that the proposed corporate 'metric' could easily oppose basic economic best practice.

That said, it should be no surprise that Craigslist is at the top - they might be leaving more value on the table than any other company in the world.
If it's only 20 pages, I'd actually guess not. HDD + controller, for a minimum of (say) a 20 gig drive (I couldn't find any smaller ones), I'd guess would be a lot more than the extra hundred megs (tops) in the RAM that it already needs to have anyway. So it only makes sense to have a drive if you want to store a LOT more images than 20.

Maybe it needs a drive anyway for some other reason (like the software that runs it lives there instead of on a CF card or something), so it ends up being cheaper and easier that way?
Well, first off, I have bad news for you: the more recent rootkits we've been seeing are doing exactly this. They are very quiet, very sneaky, very hard to remove, and they just love it when you purchase items online.

As far as whether viruses or antivirus software are worse to deal with -- well, I have three systems in the shop so far today for virus infections that were so bad that it rendered the computer unusable. One woman told me she broke down and cried because her brand new laptop got infected yesterday and quit working just before she was supposed to do online college course work.

Running without A/V software is exceptionally stupid at this point, even if you think you're smarter than everyone else.
So is this like Youtube for books, where you can upload any copyright violating stuff you like, but as long as they take down the ones that get complained about then they face no legal problems?

Even with that, it seems incredible that they'll do the actual scanning for you too?
Thank you. Not sure why pivotaltracker is getting so much love here for UI design? It might be a powerful bug tracker tool but for UI it should not be getting mention among some of these other beautiful and functional apps like wufoo.
Well, I mean, patching...
fabulis seems like another good match.
If the numbers of computers infected are true (163K for Pricewater House alone), Mcafee could easily lose considerable marketshare overnight.
Email that's hard is free. Email made easy costs something.
This article implies that employing more people per dollar revenue is inefficient. However this is only true for comparisons in a particular industry segment.

Starbucks' revenue per employee is less than any of those but it doesn't make it less inefficient, just a different model.

If you flip the logic round and apply it to customers, 37Signals looks very inefficient. Oracle has few high paying customers whilst 37Signals has many cheap ones.

Comparisons of rev/customer or rev/employee are always interesting but only meaningful in a single industry segment.
I doubt I would design a site differently, but I sure as hell would make sure I connected to the "open graph".
Its simply to big a win, it can't be ignored unless your a big enough player.

And may i restate: The API is slick and sexy and feels damn open.

The only downside here is that its a company like facebook that ends up as the biggest winner. But should you as a minor site really give a damn? I mean, its unlikely that facebook is in competition with you anyway so its not like you actually lose anything by giving them data.

And isn't this really a step in the direction the entire web have been crying out for a long time? No more data duplication, "let me put my info one place and then pluck it from there".
I consider todays f8 to be quite major for web developers like myself and obviously for facebook as this means they are actually heading towards their goal from some time ago; Becoming a platform.
Since nobody has added their startups yet. Here is ours:

Tonido allows you to share your personal digital assets (Files,Photos, Music) with friends and family without going through third party services. Quite opposite to what fb and goog do.

common guys. add yours !
Wow. Googled "crossfit webapp" and this came up. I'm a regular HN reader and ust started crossfit and I'm fucking loving it.
Direct quote from Mike Chambers: "Because this is Flash, it is rather trivial to port games created with Flash that target the iPhone to target other operating systems, such as Android."

Which pretty much sums up the entire reason for 3.3.1. Did they serious expect that, going in with this offering, they'd get no pushback from Apple? It's been abundantly clear from day one that the iPhone store is a closed platform, subject to the business ideals of Apple (i.e. make Apple more money). Any sane iPhone developer knew this going in, and really doesn't care (or they'd never have started).

I suspect the correct way to view the iPhone store is not "A horribly closed environment compared to e.g. Windows/the Web", but "A largely open market compared to the PS3/Wii etc". Closed platforms have existed for eons without the world ending, and they'll continue to exist in the future. The real novelty with the iPhone is it sits in the middle - neither open nor closed. People are freaking out trying to shoehorn it into one camp or the other, when it's just not possible.
He didn't say the language sucked, he said 'javascript' sucked, which includes the language and what people do with it.
Because more money is involved. Because this is actually actionable and requires immediate consideration in long term business planning.

And maybe, with some people, because they don't really like the idea of shouldering that much responsibility.
The big thing to me is the addition of a search method. If I understand it all correctly (I did miss the first part of the f8 keynote) we've got the permission to pull any data out by keyword for the very first time.
I hated scribd, now I hate docs.com. I don't like docs inside docs.

The web page is the doc, don't try to force another doc area with another scrollbar to mess the whole UI experience.
Curious - what obligates them to provide DNS service?
I don't have time to counter all the misinformation here. Just a couple quick points:

- McAfee has been crap for a long time now; they're not much better than Norton's products from the last few years.

- Corporate networks are running McAfee because McAfee (and TrendMicro, and other garbage a/v vendors) provide incentives to VARs, consultants, resellers, etc.

- However, this is a far cry from "all antivirus is bad". There are plenty of good products available, some of them are free, and they don't have serious negative impacts on system performance. The on-demand catch rating of some of these products exceeds 97% in independent lab testing, which is pretty damn good.

- If you use a company computer, and you have disabled antivirus on your system because you don't like it, you are putting not just your company's computer, but your company's network at risk. In most "serious" companies, this would be grounds for termination, and I don't blame them. I would also like to emphasize that the workstation you use belongs to your employer, not you.

- I don't care how smart you think you are, if you're running Windows, you're at risk. Even current versions of Firefox are vulnerable to remote exploits, and we've been seeing a hell of an uptick recently in website infections. That blog that you've been visiting for years might try to hit your computer with something nasty tomorrow, and you'll never even notice. For that matter, a lot of website administrators don't realize they have a problem for a long time.

- Rootkits are getting very quiet and very sneaky. I think we're starting to see a trend where computers are coming in with a couple of different infections: one is a recent rogue antivirus infection which drives the user to get help, and the other is an older rootkit that's been running quietly in the background for a while.

You guys should know better.
Selectively enforcing. Not against popular games written with lua by big corporations. Which only makes this action worse.
Adobe Stops Development For iPhone
... says the insurance company, who installed char cloth in your walls as "insulation".
The Startup Story of LegalZoom.com
Obviously it's better, but I'm not so sure it's common.
Know Your Shit: Ten Years of Twitter Ads
10 Hilarious Viruses, Trojans and Worms
Final post too. :-)

In 2006, it was already declared to have devovled into civil war along sectarian lines. The insurgent activity is focused on the US forces being seen (rightly) as illegal occupiers.

So we're in agreement that the US is really there for the oil, which makes all these other arguments kind of moot, right?

I'm not anti-US. I'm anti-"1) illegally invading countries because they have what you want." And I'm anti-"2) scores of dead and mangled innocent men, women and children because of 1)." And I'm anti-"3) soldiers coming home fucked up physically and mentally from 1) and 2).

We can't continue arguing like this, but I respect you and wish you the best, Errant.
Peak Phosphorus, and Why It Matters
Facebook won't sell though. I'm pretty sure MS would love to buy them if they could, but heavily investing was a good compromise.
I upvoted all of the comments in this subthread. Does anyone else want to join me in the -4 karma party?
I guess that peak oil is like the tip of the iceberg...

It is to be expected... all of us in the developing countries would like to consume like the U.S, and according to a persistent useless factoid, we would need 5 Earths to sustain that: http://www.useless.org/node/70

OTOH the article sounds a bit alarmist "humanity faces a Malthusian trap of widespread famine on a scale that we have not yet experienced" - is the source reliable, yellow journalism or what?
Have a reference?

(boy, I'd hate to have to type that name to log in...)
> What is your evidence for that claim?

Common usage, which you can see as easily as I can. For example, do news agencies typically use FBI or F.B.I.? Do they typically use UN or U.N.?

> That is, what is the evidence that current professional editors are on record as saying that the quoted advice is old-fashioned and not to be regarded?

You again misunderstand the role professional editors (and, by extension, style guides) fill. They enforce what's commonly known as a 'house style', which may be influential outside of a given 'house' (company or newsroom) but is not authoritative in any sense anywhere but that single location. Language is not defined by books: it is described by them.

> (This subthread started, after all, with an HN participant noting that editors were FOLLOWING the quoted rule.)

That comment was deleted before I got to it.
The centuries-old struggle to play in tune
I also like yc 2010 zencoder.

Easy-to-use, blazing fast video encoding for your app
Microwave hysteria in New Mexico
But, I still found it funny when I read coders at work ;)
Let me quote your original post:

>Someone, anyone, tell me why the U.S. is still there and under what legal basis. Anyone. I dare you.

I quite clearly explained 'why the US is still there and under what legal basis'. Despite what you think, those resolutions did in fact make first the occupation and then the continued non-sovereign presence legal and represented the UNSC's explicit sanction for the coalition's presence in Iraq. Between 2003 and 2008 US and other coalition forces in Iraq operated under a UNSC mandate (read up on MNF I), so it's irrelevant that there were no blue hats in the country.

Whether the original invasion was illegal or not, Kofi Annan's word does not make it officially so. Like all UN Secretary-Generals, Annan was just an administrator whose opinion carried no legal weight. All binding declarations in terms of international law can only be made within the UN's participatory bodies, like the Security Council, or by the International Court of Justice.

I'm not willing to get into an argument about the legality of the initial invasion because that's not the point you raised in your original post and it's not relevant to the discussion being had about the legal status of US forces in the country right now. The current presence, as I pointed out, is without any shadow of a doubt entirely legal and has been since UNSC 1483. Times have changed, the issues are different and rehashing the arguments of 2003 won't get us anywhere.
Apple's Revenue by Product Division
Is Steve Jobs Afriad of Android?  And a Bigger Question
Also posted at:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1282791
I believe their point of view is that, if you really are using, say, Photoshop professionally, then the machine you use it on is likely just a "Photoshop box," and they can thus take as much control of it as they wished. (I can imagine that, if they didn't want to avoid dealing with drivers et al, they would just make "Graphics Studio OS" as a drop-in replacement for Windows and OSX.)
Wow. Kinda makes me wonder if we should be using general-purpose computers for so many things. The anti-virus is kind of a major single point of failure for machines that need to do just a few specific things.
I also found this to be the most interesting part of the article. I was surprised that the current had a positive, localized effect, even though it was being applied to the skin instead of the brain itself.

I think the article's speculation on doping athletes (and perhaps other learners) with electrical stimulation is quite valid... The article links to the research paper, which lists the exact device and method used, and it looks to be cheap, widely available, unregulated, non-invasive, and undetectable. I wonder if there are any long-term side effects?
The only problem with Avast is enterprise management. Products like Symantec and McAfee suck, but at least provide options for managing 100k+ deployments.
Is It Better to Buy or Rent?
What's the update? This is from 12 days ago.

I ordered one near the beginning of April. So far I've received one (1) generic response to my enquiries. So we'll see, I guess.
There was the nice "asteroids" microsoft DHTML demo. But Microsoft was afraid of DHTML...
Just FYI:

1. Kids will inevitably learn every curse word.

2. Doing so won't bring them any harm at all.
Except when your friends do. And except when it changes. I have lost count of how many times I have had to go in and rejig my privacy settings and how many times Facebook have very slightly reduced what you can stop from leaking out.
The last computer virus I got was the stoned virus on a DOS 6.2 machines sometime around 1989-90.

And I never run anti-virus software. At home I have Windows, OS X and Linux boxen and not in 20 years have I had a computer virus.

It's really all about usage patterns more than anything else.
Yeah, this took me by surprise that my little meta game theory comment was rejected so much. I know it wasn't that clever, but still. With down-votes like that, you would think my username was jasoncalcacanis or that I had insulted pg's mother. I'm guessing that people here are looking out at the Redditors like the Romans looking out at the Visigoths. Meta comments are the gateway drug to memes, and nobody wants that!

I now resign myself to an additional -4 comment. Karma comes, karma goes. I guess it all evens out in the end. Funny that.
Cox does this, and the results are 100% (shockingly irrelevant) ads.