skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profitting from traffic from stolen goods is pretty unethical, for me it doesn't matter if you paid for it or not. Clearly the hacker did this either to damage twitter or to profit from it, and in either case you could have done the right thing. Claiming that others would have disclosed it (which is something TC did pretty loudly) is really funny, so you effectively have already admitted that it was unethical, but because others would have done it that made it 'right'. Anything for a scoop.

You could have gotten a good bit of mileage simply by reporting about the hack, instead you decided to do damage to others for your own profits.

It's funny how acceptable stuff like that has become, and how you seem to be claiming some kind of moral highground here for something that is simply sleazy.

Profitting from stolen goods, directly or indirectly is unethical, if you had any sense at all you'd have given twitter a warning that their files are out in the open and you'd have destroyed the data.

I hope one day you'll find the tables turned, we'll see how ethical you will think this is then.

And I'll be on your side in that one, just like I was solidly on twitters side in the other.

Giving people a platform to do damage and to profit from that is sickening.
What makes you think he would disclose that?
There is an alternative venture http://www.ulurn.com.
Not as successful though...
That could be a little inaccurate. In this case you create a product using and open-source product and an industry player comes along saying Linux infringes on it's patent portfolio heavily. But this infringement was unproven: Microsoft may not have a case.

This looks like extortion--- where product makers rather than face down Microsoft, accept that they must pay. It it likely that HTC does not think it has too much choice as part of the market for their phone is windows mobile.

Many patents could be claimed on any device built now, you don't see IBM, Novell and Oracle lining up.
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That's sort of a ridiculous statement. HP probably has far, far more software under active maintenance than Google, and maybe than Apple. Do you understand how many different products HP maintains software for between management tools, firmwares, device drivers? They've also bought a number of large enterprise software companies over the past decade.
Shame, I can't see this video from UK. 'Not available in your country'. Still don't understand the reasoning behind regional limits on online video - esp as it airs on TV.
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I didn't know that! Thanks :)
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We want to design/develop a Facebook business application. But we are not sure how to get revenue out of it. Is there any FB application where people willing to pay. As this is a business application, advertise is not an option.

P.S. We will also the first user of this application.
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I think that college is the perfect time to be an entrepreneur. Any typical college class schedule leaves students with a fair amount of free time. If you want to start something, it's a lot easier to find time while in college than once you are out and having to support a "real life". Essentially, you have nothing to lose.

Additionally, you are surrounded by other smart people who are in the same "nothing-to-lose" situation. Grab and friend and make something great! The opportunity to go to class and learn something new is secondary to the people you meet.
1. Apple doesn't make a netbook

2. The cheapest Laptop Apple sells costs $999. The iPad costs $499. Where as the most popular netbook on amazon.com costs $362 (Asus EeePC 1005PE). This is certainly more than the $80 difference Microsoft charge.
Apparently, dropping out of grad school also works well.
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Ah, the eternal question of philosophy, rephrased.

If everyone at a large company think and act as if they are a startup, are they a startup?
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The effort of collecting and recording all this data must be huge. And without proper experiment design it's not really worth it (was it going off coffee or his other simultaneous efforts?).

I already know I procrastinate too much on reddit, I don't need a graph really (or maybe graph it for a week to shock myself, but no more). Reading medical and psychology journals with properly designed tests would be much more beneficial. I know people like to think they are unique snowflakes, but in reality the effect of coffee or fish oil on people is going to be pretty much the same. And journal articles point out if there are groups that are different anyway. This is just OCD channeled into something partially useful.
Informed techies are a powerful force. Look what we did with Firefox: we recommended it to everyone and it worked. We are asked which antivirus to use. We are asked how to do X or if we know of a program to do Y. When we speak, the mainstream eventually follows.
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Well you have to make a choice to some degree.

If you postpone school till you're 40 the job market might not accept you. If you don't attempt your startup while young you might not have the energy.
I'm sure that if HP asks nicely, HTC would be more than happy to build them some HP branded WebOS phones.
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I believe the Palm Pre, the Motorola Droid, the Nokia N900 (and in non-phone contexts the Open Pandora handheld and Beagleboard) all use the same TI OMAP3 board.
Some of us simply value civil liberties more. Yes, property rights are important, but not so important as to allow broad warrants, raiding people's homes and seizing all the equipment with which they conduct their livelihood.
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So the galaxies are sitting still, the space inside it is expanding ... at faster than the speed of light.

The way my puny layman mind can figure out ... if 2 objects move away from one another at slightly more than half the speed of light, then one would see the other as apparently moving away at greater than the speed of light.

Also, iirc, the expanding balloon metaphor was more to give an idea how all points are moving away from one another, and each sees itself as the center. It was not meant to talk of dimensions, or moving into ...
(btw, thanks a lot for the link. great read)
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I think it may have to do with advertising targeting different regions. If they're advertising something you can't buy in your country, then what is the advertiser paying for?
In this kind of "tough cards" situation it seems that there are two overrepresented categories (here, doubles and ovals). So the cards that counter those attributes (e.g. half-shaded singles) would be able to make many sets. But since a card can only make one set and take off two other cards, the ability of those cards to rebalance the tableau is limited.

So when you get in one of these situations where the next three cards are feast or famine, it tends to persist. Having a persistent cluster like that gives you a lot more chance to run into the no-set case.
> The expanding universe is due to gravity, which means that in regions of high density, the dominant gravitational effects are entirely local.

Is this the conventional view. I always thought the universe was expanding as a result of the big bang momentum. This expansion would keep going unless there was a critical mass to pull it back. (that was the way things were when i was a kid). Or am i misreading.
While the IO9 post is better than most pop-physics articles, I feel a need to repeat myself...

Your question contains invalid assumptions. There is no analogy that gives both a satisfying and accurate answer. You want to know about physics? Understand the math. The closest you can get without differential equations is Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
I believe the Gottmans have done some very good research on marriage - http://www.gottman.com/.

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The converse, negative thermal expansion ceramics like zirconium tungstate, are fascinating materials; they shrink when you heat them.

It's all to do with low-frequency vibrational modes, but if I started talking about mode Gruneisen parameters I'd start boring the arse off all of you and, what's worse, giving myself flashbacks...
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I've noticed recently that for some stories the number of comments doesn't show up. The link to comments only says "comments" instead of "n comments". Is this a known bug?
That's not what soundsop was saying - he was just pointing out the obivous error in the suggestion to overclock the CPU, and then use ECC to be safe. The ECC, though a good idea by itself, will not help with any errors introduced by the overclock.
ahhh, thanks.
The good thing about appengine is that they bill you for cpu/hour used, you only pay for what you really use.
I also considered appengine as an option as back-end when i was thinking about a multiplayer android game a few months ago but the thing that bothered me was their limit on api request/s that at the moment is at 30K/minute. It didn't seem enough for an app as the jay's one that needs nearly 10 requests/s.
Guess i was wrong.
Where's the difference between using this pubsub implementation vs. using Redis one? I think that overall Redis one is way better (stability, performance).
Yes, the video wasn't working when I tried to view it earlier.
It's not the "few seconds" that's the problem, the problem is that it breaks the "flow" that you were in, such as switching tasks when concentrating hard or enjoying a jog or getting to sleep. The act of recording the data is quick but the mental jolt takes time to get over.

This is why passively recording the data is the way forward. I myself ordered one of these:

http://wakemate.com/

They're also a YC startup.
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Awesome, they recorded the gizmodo website shot (2:17) with firefox :)
Also, you can use it to determine the height of a skyscraper.
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So... what are the Facebook alternatives that are looking strong?

Also, what tools are available for extracting all your data? (Pictures, notes, etc for example)
Sometimes I can't imagine who's worse the Apple fanboys who justify everything Apple does or the Sony fanboys who believe people don't have a right to their own hardware. It's one thing to believe the lawsuit is frivolous, it's quite another to say "It's Sony's; like people didn't drop $600 on this thing and expect it to work as good as the day they bought it.
Looks like a pretty standard multifunction shovel to me.
Don't believe the metaphors. In every science special worth its salt, you'll see some image of a balloon being inflated.

I've always considered this metaphor really good; it's just it is badly explained. The go to guy for decent pop physics explanations is, in my mind, Dr Brian Cox [1] (he does some really excellent TV shows here in the UK). His explanation with the balloon notes that while the surface area increases (expansion of the universe) the volume of the balloon rubber does not. You have to ignore the air inside and outside of the balloon as having any importance.

Then it should become clear how the universe can "expand" without actually expanding into anything.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
There's a factor he doesn't mention, which is which set is removed from the table. Norvig's code removes the first set it finds. Another strategy would be to identity all sets and remove one at random. And who knows how humans play? It's not obvious whether these are equivalent regarding the rate at which the table gets "worse".
some sites seem to use widgets/like.php so you should block that too.
That's how you rack up overtime.
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Ensuring a baseline ability of doctors doesn't ensure a baseline level of care. It can actually decrease the number of doctors and make it harder for poor people to get care. If you required all car mechanics to go to school for a decade and intern for four years, you'd get some great mechanics. Unfortunately, you'd end up with higher repair costs and more broken cars.

So yes, I'd certainly like to decrease the influence of the medical guild. While the average doctor would be less qualified, the average outcome would most likely be better.
Nokia is certainly a massively successful company. But three years ago, nobody could TOUCH them in smartphones. The mobile computing market was theirs to lose. And they lost it to Apple.
Sensible response by Mozilla, but a shame that means we won't be seeing websockets included in the near future.
I love the rousing music accompanying the video, it's like something from The Great Escape!
While the facts don't work out, am I the only one who enjoyed the clip?

I think it's hilarious and I he pretty much gets the fear/thoughts of many Apple fans/developers/users.
As one of a handful of mineralogists on Hacker News (and I suspect that Timetric's pretty much cornered that market), I'm delighted to see phase diagrams on here!

This stuff is utterly fascinating. OK, I'm biased, I did my doctoral thesis on diffusion networks in silica glass, but things like the ortho/clinopyroxene or feldspar systems - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar - are just really beautiful.

(I mean, look at it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albite_-_Crete_(Kriti)_Isl.... Not as spectacular as APoD, OK, but I don't regret my time in science.)
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You have to ignore the air inside and outside of the balloon as having any importance.

And that's the bit of mental acrobatics that makes the metaphor break down. Which is why the advice above ("Don't believe the metaphors") is relevant.
I'm sure Ron is great (we've met briefly), but the breathless tone of this article makes me despair for the internet industry. Showbiz and Public Relations do not make for innovation.
No one knows image manipulation more than this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DarkShikari

At least no one that I know.
Yeah, I think so too - the link is broken for me now
Some more thought (can't edit below due to noprocrast :). As he suggests at the end, the distance between points (cards) on the table seems to be important. If we have some set with a given mean distance between point (or some better measure of clustering), and we choose a set at random, since there are more sets made of distant points, the remaining points will be on average closer together. This is our badness measure (closeness of points on the table) probabilistically getting worse. I'm sure he got that far. The hard part is choosing a distance measure that's amenable to analysis under random-set-removal, but you could probably get a weak result just on mean distance, no? Can't sleep, sorry for rambling.
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Levels of Evidence [what's convincing in medical science?]
If it's a thing where its utility grows as a result of an expanding number of business users, you could charge accordingly. 0 for the first year, then. If it takes off and provides businesses with utility, then charge something next year, or in 6 months or whatever. But you'd have to be upfront about this kind of business model, and maybe outline what future charges might be.

Also, is it of any utility to ordinary folks, small businesses etc? If so, freemium is an option.

tl;dr: need more info
Should read "If we have some table".
control is such a nasty term.
Steer, like a kindly ship captain.
I don't know - as long as you say, during the explanation, that the air inside/outside is irrelevant then it's a good demonstration of expansion!
First you said "they paid". When this was questioned, you said that people wondered how much they paid, not if they paid. And now you say that it doesn't matter if they paid?
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The $20-40 dollar cost is a shocking figure. Shame it's a quote from infamous shill-for-hire Rob Enderle.
Perhaps he's trying to start a new meme: someones "kutcher number"
Oh goodness! Oh for heavens sake!
Yup, most Eastern bloc armies have these or similar. Well, the one I saw, of the Romanian army, may not have had the bottle opener :)

Or I may not have seen it among all those gadgets.

FYI, they're also a close-quarters combat weapon, and were a favourite of assault engineers.
I don't think that's the reason. As far as I know it's just normal ice.
It might manage to help the guy's case, though. If it looks like TechCrunch is pressing charges as part of some kind of publicity stunt, their testimony becomes not very credible. No idea if the guy would be able to manage to get it brought to the jury's attention, but if they found out about it, I can't imagine it winning points with the jury.
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Still, they can change the ad - based on your IP address.
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At college you might learn the phrase "anecdotal evidence."
I disagree. The argument is that it's under constant change and discussion. This is true for every single part of the development stack. It's important to just get it out there and iterate in response to what developers are _doing_ with WebSocket. The sample size to justify Content-Encoding: gzip, deflate in that mailing list post is two, and is very unlikely to grow if Firefox doesn't add support! We could discuss theoretical improvements to WebSocket for months on a mailing list.

If you look at the initial discussions about the WebSocket protocol, much was said about reconnection negotiation, queues/batches support, meta headers, et cetera. Discussing a feature forever holds back progress. Firefox argues that there's "a lot of ongoing discussion", but that's been the case since Day 1.

Firefox should do what Chrome 4 did, add it, then continue to improve it. There's a very low chance that the developer API will change anyway.
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The interview questions link is the reason I upvoted this announcement; they interest me. And for what it's worth, I also find your reasoning for linking to them sensible.
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Returns on ICQ? Did they even requested the data about how many users signs in and number of messages per day for resent 5 years? =)
That's because they have a contract with Channel4 to stream it in the UK: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-s...
Not sure if the episode mentioned is already on there, since I in turn can't view the videos there...
That is true, the network effects make it a more complicated equation though, using Firefox didn't mean that you can no longer use certain aspects of the web. I guess it has to do with a critical mass of people, first enough trying your product that it's visible that facebook is no longer the one stop shop for all your friends data (I guess this is what Twitter is, although it's not so much a general purpose social network). Then eventually you need to get to the point where enough users are on board to make it a better use of a persons time to communicate through the new network without losing to much value.

Once you hit this point there is no coming back as has been shown with myspace. I guess a parallel could be drawn with IE - FF there, once a user has been converted to FF and decide it is better IE faces a monumental task to get them back, something they may never achieve, always appearing to be one step behind with a heap of non standards syntax for good measure.
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In addition there's long standing research in the field of Library Science about the importance of citations. It seems like a natural progression from judging the quality of a paper by the number and quality of papers citing it, to PageRank.

This book basically described something very similar to PageRank in 1993 (5 years before Google):
http://www.amazon.com/Library-Research-Models-Classification...
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> 2 objects move away from one another at slightly more than half the speed of light, ...

IIRC, mass grows towards infinity as it approaches the speed of light. So that's not possible if the objects have mass.
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I also think its poor to offer image on the interview questions/answers (yes, even if they are on a public site somewhere).

Google recruiters send people to Steve Yegg's stuff, which includes links to interview questions (including ones they actually use)

They also tell you to do TopCoder questions, which are also pretty close to the real thing.

Facebook also has their "Puzzles" page, which contains similar information: http://www.facebook.com/careers/#!/careers/puzzles.php

The truth is that with hard-core technical interview questions you can either do them or you can't. They aren't trick questions, just tests of what you can do.
Were you trying on a macbook?
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To not play fast and loose with the facts, the warrant was signed at 7pm and Jason Chen reported getting home around 9:45pm, but the search was well underway at that point.
Googles business model requires openes I really don't think it's fair to compare the two. Apple sell products, google sell advertising. Apple is dependent only on their own ecosystem, google on the entire Internet.

I would be much more worried about the data that google collects about you than apple. And let's not forget that google is not more open than you don't know exactly how their search algorithms work and have no saying on the premises used to rank you.
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I offered this opinion internally, loudly and repeatedly, and Android management surprised me by coming back with “OK, it’s your problem now.”

If you haven't seen this tactic before, it's worth keeping in mind (from either side ;-)
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