skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Move to Norway
2) Commit a crime
3) Free room and board
4) Bootstrap startup for next to nothing
Yeah, though people have made better user interfaces for it. The particular space between Twitter and IM that it sits in doesn't seem to have been colonized by anything better yet.

EDIT: Though I'm sure there are people here who'd be happy to try :)
I am 100% for this kind of system. Rehabilitation trumps punishment.
Yes, I've upgraded from 2008 to 2010. The ASP.NET MVC tooling is a bit better, intellisense is smarter and multi monitor support is better.

However I still design everything to be cross platform compatible and I deploy my asp.net mvc webapps on Linux with nginx and mono.
Hear hear to that! I'm always puzzled by all these privacy nuts that go on and on about privacy problems with social media sites like Facebook. If something is absolutely private and you do not want to share it outside of one or two people, DO NOT put it on a social media site! Period.

In fact, I would go as far as to say never put any critically sensitive information on the web.
I agree with you generally, but the most damning information about me that's on Facebook was posted by other people.
According to an email from the Broad, there are interconnects between Boston and Cambridge and no water should be consumed without boiling.
more significant difference between seen and unseen link
I've got two words concerning Facebook (and feel free to downvote):

Fuck Facebook

and for the more adventurous:

Fuck Apple
My question is specifically for the jailbroken phones, as hacking of the iPhone begins there.

I have seen nothing besides the odd gnash flash hack on youtube that has flash running within the browser on the iPhone. Most "Hacks" are Site/Server hacks where the site you are browsing to adds Javascript code to auto run flash content for the iPhone.

Question still stands, what are the big hurdles blocking hackers from installing a flash plugin on the iPhone either on safari or other browser?
Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 GMT thousands of photographers will click simultaneously
Of course. It's mostly a question of cost and scalability.
Testing the Limits of Credit Card Signatures (Part 1)
The only thing that keeps Adobe from completely open-sourcing their own player is codec licenses,

Also an embarassingly awful codebase.
Be sure not to miss part 2, where the author takes things to the next level...

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/
I heard about this before everyone else. I was walking around Cleveland Circe Reservoir and saw someone taking measurement of the water quality. This reservoir wasn't used for water for decades and now will be a backup source and a conduit (I wonder if the two geese having a nest in the middle will be swept away with the chicks, boil it!). It was about 11 am (they announced this at 3.50pm). I asked them why are they working on Saturday and they told me about the break in Weston. I went straight to the Supermarket and loaded up for the family. In the checkout they though I was crazy, getting all the water.

An just so you know the water in the Cleveland Reservoir is pretty clean but people wash their dogs there, feed the geese, etc.
Sadly, such a system would never work in the United States. We have far too many people already behind bars to make these types of prisons feasible. Our incarceration rate is 756 per 100,000[1] citizens, the highest in the world. Until we figure out how to put less people behind bars, our prison system will always be a huge mess.

[1]: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/10/02/us-tops-in-world-prison-...
This is great. Reminds me of that guy who kept signing his credit card statements with increasingly random signatures.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311710
Another interesting question would be: how will it make money?

Websites like Facebook and Myspace are shunning the simple advertisement model. Selling private data will become the new standard. A website similar to scope and feature like Facebook will probably not be able to sustain a positive cash flow or break even without selling people's data. UNLESS...they cut features like photo storage, or make a technological breakthrough.

They are making ~$2/user/year (not including expenses). Since it recently supposedly became cash-flow positive, it would be reasonable to assume that the expenses are also around ~$2/user.

The question then becomes, how much of this $2 is slashed off when you decide to not sell private data? You only have to look at the cost of conventional CPM ads (usually less than $0.01 per impression) and multiply it by how many times a Facebook user opens Facebook each year. My bet is that it is far less than 365/2 since Facebook claims 50% of "active" users login every day.
Some text editors have a function for sorting text in-place. Vim does, and I assume Emacs does too.

Sorting makes it easier to recognize a common grouping of imports (e.g. some recurring functionality that requires three particular modules) without inspecting the words carefully.
Yes, that points out the regulatory enforcement issue of this proposal. Eurozone countries are supposed to have much smaller annual deficits (3.6%?) than Greece has (or probably ever had in the relevant period). The ECB and company knew what was happening but turned a blind eye to it.
n+1 is a great and constantly improving magazine. They just launched their new website and have a lot of good articles in their archives. The before/after of their old site and new site is amazing:
http://suyashs.com/the-new-n1-site-has-launched

Note: link to my own blog.
It appears that these guys are still depressed. Get out, get some sun and exercise. That will work much better than antidepressants.

Citations:

Exercise is an Effective Antidepressant
http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/mindandbody/a/exercisedep.h...

Sunlight / Vitamin D and depression
http://newfoundlandnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/sadness-seasona...
Yes. Got fan replaced twice, battery once, keyboard components once because of weird sound. Also, I check it in every month for general cleaning and service.

Fan, keyboard and logic board failures are very common with Macs. Just google and see. I'd suggest you get AppleCare. But don't buy it at the time of purchase, you can wait 11 months and buy, sometimes you might end up changing the machine in less than a year, then AppleCare would be worthless.
That document is one of the more ridiculous things I've read today, and that's saying something.

If you get any significant proportion of your mineral intake from your drinking water, you have bigger problems than water.
I agree with you on all other warranties. I've seen Applecare, especially for students, turn out very well though.
Seeing as the response is to a comment asking for differences, wouldn't it make sense to assume that it shows differences? In fact, the response notes that they are an example of a "crucial difference".
Its a highly processed substance and that's why I would be totally against it. Also food companies put a lot of naive looking substances in food that you would never use if you made them yourself. E.g. soy and lechitin in chocolate. Maybe its not harmful, but why am I forced to eat soy and lechitin everyday? Do I really want lechitin or some gum extract in my chocolate? Same goes for corn syrup. I wouldn't suck out sugar from corn for a home made ketchup and that's why I don't want to see any corn extract in it.
Usually, I don't. But my brother a year ago purchased a MacBook Pro, and, thanks to a somewhat paranoid mother, was pushed to purchase AppleCare. A year later, we were typing away at some cafe, and his screen turned white and the machine let out a long constant beep. We tried restarting, clearing various types of RAMs, etc, nothing worked. We took it in to the Apple store and they told us something had randomly given out, and that it could've been some sort of manufacturer's defect. The repair costs would've have added up to something around $800, but because of AppleCare, there was no charge. It was definitely worth it in that case.

Edit: Reading arihant's comment, I now remember that it was his logic board that gave out.
Learn C, then you will know.
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I really wanted to like Buzz, but so far I haven't been able to really dig it. It's missing a certain je ne sais quois, but I don't know what it is.
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97 comments from 8 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289997

Ask HN: Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns?
Zen Coding seems like the Haml philosophy implemented as code completion rather than as a run time compiler. The upside is that the markup you generate is plain old HTML that any web framework can serve. The downside is that it has the readability of plain old HTML.
I'm not making this up. Intern of mine spilled 32oz of soda on his mbp. He dumped as much out of his keyboard as he could but it wouldn't come back on the next day. You're not hiding that from Apple. His machine was on year 3 and had a few screen issues too. He figured he'd send it in under applecare and see what they said.

They fixed it. Replaced the keyboard, replaced the screen, replaced the trackpad. No questions asked and he had it back in less than a week.

I buy AppleCare because of that.
The mag-safe connector? Mine is going bad. Intermittent LED, and the cord is starting to fray at the connector. I had to tape it up.

Seems like a bad design. I notice they use a completely different mag-safe connector on the 24" cinema display and on the macbook air.

bad: http://imgur.com/TmRbu.jpg

good: http://imgur.com/9ciyo.jpg
Hm, if I remember correctly, what made Facebook popular at first, was that it was aimed at a more "mature" audience, as opposed to MySpace which was (and probably still is) infested by teenagers. For example, it didn't, and still doesn't, allow you to configure your page with auto-playing music, videos, custom backgrounds and fonts, and lots of animated GIFs. It also had a higher age limit at first, for what it's worth.
I bet that a commercial license would be available on reasonable terms: Oberon Microsystems have been around for quite a while, and are quite good people (I used their Blackbox [neé Oberon/F] IDE for personal stuff for quite a while, and it's one of the nicest development environments I've ever worked with. (It's a bit of a surprise to see them writing Java, though.)
The nested tag syntax would be a sweet addition to haml.
Codeorgan - web content translated into music
And that upside would go away, because you could just configure your deployment tool to do the 'rendering' upon deployment, generating HTML that could be served by any framework.
The community matters. PHP had a hard life growing up in the early web. Googling for answers in php will often promote bad programming practices, like putting all your code in one file. The ruby and python communities are a bit more interested in code maintainability, at least historically through my own googling around. Learn the frameworks in the ruby or python communities and then come back to php with fresh insight if you really want to go the php route.

My two cents. Hopefully this won't turn into a flame war.
It's not that hard to figure out. If we just got on that whole drug decriminalization / legalization bit, we'd drastically reduce our prison population.
Here's what's going on at a high-level.

1. Somebody discovered a security vulnerability in the implementation of a network protocol (i.e., a bug). The bug can be exploited remotely apparently. Which means that somebody from far away can break into your machine if your software has this bug.

2. This was used by someone else to push forward their agenda. In particular, their point is that newer dynamic root of trust trusted technologies are better than older static root of trust technologies. The goal of these technologies is to make a piece of code execute securely (i.e., without being compromised or modified by an attacker). Static root of trust can make a piece of code execute securely only by trusting the entire software stack from boot time until the execution of the piece of code. Dynamic root of trust bypasses this entire software stack -- it allows you to just verify that the piece of code hasn't been modified before it's being executed.

3. Now, the bug from step #1 can (in theory) be used for someone to "break" into the persistent storage of the NIC and compromise the NIC "forever" by changing its firmware to a "bad" firmware. This won't be caught by the static root of trust technology because such technologies do not typically check the firmware of a NIC card at boottime. And thus, in theory, the dynamic root of trust is "better" because it doesn't rely on making sure that the entire software stack remains uncompromised.

Now .. my opinions.

a. Remote vulnerabilities are very problematic because they lead to remote exploits. The lesson here -- get very experienced/senior/skeptical designers to implement networking protocols. Here's where it's worth hiring the smart guy. Implementing a new protocol in C from scratch is crazy. I'd fire this guy if he worked for me.

b. Dynamic root of trust is better than static root of trust on paper. In practice, dynamic root of trust is very hard to implement in a way that stays secure while doing something useful. When executing in "secure" mode with dynamic root of trust, you cannot use interrupts which basically means that's almost impossible to do anything useful (like sending or receiving a network packet).
I would like to see Adobe contribute to the HTML5 specs and "merge" the good features of Flash with HTML5. I don't think it makes sense anymore to have both HTML5 and Flash as two separate entities as they basically aim to solve the same problem. Adobe could then build great authoring tools for web apps just like it did for Flash... if only they could see the opportunity.
This is pretty cool - although it did hurt my brain thinking it was a really funny joke, until I realized ... it ... wasn't.
That's a seriously exaggerated title.
Absolutely, here's my story: Macbook always had some minor overheating issues, it would act erratically or shutdown, I think this only happened two or three times in three years. I took it in to the Apple Store once, they returned it two days later and said there were no issues. Flash forward to a week after the Apple Care Warranty expires, full on overheating issues, keyboard stopped working, Finder was running incredibly slow, to the point where all the animations where in slowmo. I bring the laptop in, even though the warranty was over a week expired and Apple was legally in the clear to charge me ~$800 for replacement, they replace the entire innards of the laptop and overnight it back to my apt the next day. I have never been more impressed with customer service like that before.
> It's highway markers look like gel capsules

There's a long-running bug in Mapnik (the rendering engine for the tiles) that, when completed, will allow for SVG highway markers.

> Many users put their hometowns so that they're visible when you zoom out really far

Can you give more examples of this? More than likely it's due to problems with the import of TIGER data a couple years ago. It should have been fixed.

> There seems to be 80 airports in every county

Yea ... I'll give you that one :).

> It's incomplete in many places

... and in many more places it is more complete than Google, Yahoo, or Bing.

> It doesn't even give you directions

http://openstreetmap.org/ doesn't (the website is for the data and the community around it), but there are several examples of websites that do offer directions using OSM data: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters
Warranties seem to have a lot of parallels with gambling. People love to tell the stories about how they bought a $2000 television and the warranty saved them when it broke 1 year later. However, they rarely mention all the warranties they purchased and never used.

That said, warranties are not always bad. In the specific case of students, I suspect the answer to "If having to repurchase/cover the item would seriously hurt my financials" is different for their situation than it is for mine. As such, it might make perfect sense for them to buy the warranty.
Adobe to respond to Apple by giving employees Android phones with Flash
Depression and anxiety are biological problems, at least to some extent, and people who have serious biological problems can't just "get out, get some sun and exercise".

The drugs work for a lot of people, although it's essential to make lifestyle changes (exercise, sun, healthy diet) in addition to using them... but the people who are in the worst shape can't muster the energy to get out of depression until they start taking the drugs.

Anti-depressants are pretty amazing-- far from a panacea, but pretty effective.
agreed that it looks super ugly. but it's probably meant first and foremost to be internal documentation, so i doubt that the writers cared to make it all snazzy using translucent boxes with rounded corners and jquery rollover effects.
So there's already going to be a major shortage, so they discount to further aggravate the problem?

Now, it's not really a major thing to consider since water is so cheap already that almost no one is thinking about the cost when filling their cart with ~$1 gallons of water. They were going to sell out in basically the same amount of time regardless, and this way buys the store good will ("thank you Shaws!", for example).

And I agree with your moral rationalization of you hording as much as you can get (within reason), adding in the fact that if you realize it's more than you need, you can always share it with friends/neighbors.
Open air and exercise can have effects pretty comparable to many pharmaceutical remedies, for a wide range of conditions - including conditions of the mind.
I've had the Mac Genius replace my first generation Intel Macbook Pro battery for free, 3 years later without Applecare. However, I also have this video problem that could have been solved had I purchased Applecare: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1697470...
This is really cool. Does anyone know if some people are actually developing tools that would make such collaboration easier because keeping track of mathematical insights on a blog in the form of comments can't be too much fun.
I got AppleCare on my 1st-gen MacBook Pro for peace of mind. Although I haven't really needed it since I bought it, I don't regret buying it: I didn't have a lot of money at the time, and if something had happened to the MBP I couldn't have afforded to replace it.
Yes, totally get the AppleCare -- I've had to replace a main board in a PowerBook one too many times, and the total cost (without Applecare) would have been more than just buying a new one.

You should also get yourself an AmEx card and buy the hardware on it -- it extends the manufacturer's warranty (whether you get the AppleCare or not) by 1 year, i.e. with AppleCare you get 4 yrs total, without it you get 2 yrs total. And it doesn't cost anything extra. (Here'a a post I wrote about it a while ago: http://ten7i.com/content/how-buy-mac-pro-right-way-and-save-...)
Still doesn't necessarily make sense economically... most of those things are a cinch to replace yourself with a $10 electronics screwdriver set from Radioshack.

From iFixit.com, my model MBP:
Fan - $50
Battery - $100.
Keyboard - $85.

The logic board is probably a bit trickier, but I don't know how common those failures are (a Google search on any mass market device will show a lot of failures... .1% of a million is still 1000.)

For comparison, AppleCare on a MBP is currently $350, and covers an extra 2 years on the end of your complimentary 1 year.

EDIT: Looking at the absurd prices for replacement parts for a newer Unibody 17" (motherboard - $1000), I think it definitely makes sense there, unless you're the type to replace often.
Absolutely. I sum it up as: "What happens on the internet, stays on the internet".
Looks almost exactly like the Sparkup plugin for vim + TextMate, which also ended up on HN not too long ago: http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2010/03/04/write-html-faster-with...
One more thing, don't buy the AppleCare from Apple: there is actually a company in CA that sells the real deal AppleCare for less than Apple does by miles. See here: http://www.lacomputercompany.com/cgi-bin/rpcart/featured.cgi... (they are an actual company that I've bought all my AppleCare from and it works)

You can also have the person in the Apple Store match the AppleCare price that they have if you're sceptical: I've done that without a problem as well.
It's so silly, but very funny indeed (see also the comments on Schneier's post).

But I guess it's only possible because this particular bank really messed up, isn't it? Custom security questions are meant to be used in netbanking, not to be asked by humans.

Are there any other banks who do that?
It doesn't really matter what it is, Adobe can get x to consumers years ahead of the W3 and browser vendors.
Better than removing the deluge of unwanted app notifications individually would be a list, off to the side, of apps your friends have used that you haven't opted in or out of yet. Opt in and they all show up, opt out and it's added to a list of unwanted apps in your profile that you can edit later if desired.

Obviously this would make users happy but not app makers, because the way it currently works is free (obnoxious) advertising for them.

The mixed-access to updates based on bi- or unidirectional association is one of the very nice things about LiveJournal's social scheme. I knew a few people who use FaceBook for one level of communication and retain their LiveJournal accounts for another, because of this.
The problem with depression is even if you know doing activity x will make it better, you're too depressed to do it.
There are a bunch of different renderings of OSM data available. More importantly, you can download the data and render it however you'd like.

Cloudmade's default rendering of New York looks pretty decent: http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=40.741014&lng=-74.009399&... but they also let you create your own style (e.g. http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=40.741014&lng=-74.009399&...)

Lars Ahlzen uses OSM data to make beautiful maps at http://toposm.com/

...the list goes on.
It wasn't really all that exciting - I was writing an IRC bot for fun, a Roberts Rules of Order moderator. Well, Roberts Rules of Order imposes a structure on events that requires timing, so for instance, if somebody gets the floor, then one minute or two minutes later, we warn them their time is expiring.

The epiphany was twofold. First, I realized that passing an anonymous function pointer to a queue is a lot more general than defining, say, a bunch of event names. This makes the design of the event queue really lightweight.

The second part of the epiphany was that anonymous function pointers in Perl are closures, with lexical bindings to the environment at the time the pointer is created. So my event queue reduced to a simple list of times and closures - magic! Events are entirely general and you can spin off just the event queue logic as a separate module without restricting any later options about what types of event you'll be queuing. It was probably the most satisfying programming I'd done in a decade.

I should note that I stopped doing programming for my bread and butter in 2003 or 2004, and switched to technical translation instead (easy to quote, no debugging, no disputes about what was done or whether it met the user's expectations - it's like programming for hire without any of the downsides!) So I program for fun and to build my own tools, with the result that a month or two may go by without my writing much of anything. That's lots of time for the subconscious to reorganize between exposures, so essentially I'm relearning programming a couple of times a year. Lately I think I'm getting kind of good at it.