skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designing Without Modal Overlays
He's a short version: AAPL and MSFT have a stake in MPEG-LA owner of the proprietary H.264, for now they lets us use it without paying royalties, Mozilla and other smaller players can't support because it's proprietary. One day MPEG-LA will ask for it’s money and we’ll all be royally fucked, it happen before with GIF, so please support any existing or to introduced open source alternatives.
It seems they're even more thrust into the sue-now-or-never position given Jobs's unwise email. Now that one of the patent-pool members has made an explicit, public threat of a patent lawsuit, the longer they wait, the more that estoppel tends against them.
H.264 patent license published for the first time by the FSF
Tutorial for cracking WPA with backtrack http://luxstock.net/n1
IPad 3G Hacked To Send Texts
Well, I'm not interested in debating this bill now or in this thread (I'm waiting until it's in a more final form and we e.g. see how much Dodd has changed the heinous angel provisions or they get amended by others); my link was just for illustrating my point that you can't say "the Wall Street Journal supports X" without qualifying which part, the front page or editorial board.

ADDED: However for most other papers you can say e.g. You can generally say "The New York Times says" without worrying about which part. E.g. look here where the New York Times deep sixed language critical of the Obama Administration's response to the Gulf oil leak in less than a day: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/98559/
"Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not."
ASUS EeeKeyboard with capacitative screen as mousepad
Open is not enough. Time to raise the bar: Interoperable
I'm not sure I understand your point: Zen Coding just makes it easier to write HTML (like autocompletion in an IDE) instead of translating it into some other language (like your Assembly example).
That's the 2005 revision, presumably that has been updated in the meantime.

If this license was a computer program I'd have to class it as spaghetti code.

edit: the meat starts on page 11.
In theory, yes; but in practice, Facebook seems to be the main nexus of these sorts of things. There are things that people will post "publicly" on Facebook that they would never dream of making a separate website for to post publicly. You might assume that nobody would post Photo X on Facebook if they wouldn't also be willing to make www.hereisphotox.com, but it's certainly not the case in practice.
I have found this one for cracking WPA with backtrack. http://luxstock.net/n1
It only took about a month and change to get to 100 folks a day coming in from organic SEO, and that was when I was young and much less savvy about it. It is really, really achievable if folks are looking for what you have. All you need is solid meat-and-potatoes onpage optimization (title tags, effective keyword use, all that jazz), minimal linkbuilding (ask friends to link to you from their blogs or do Peldi's thing), and (the one I frequently find missing on new software sites) sufficient content to get search hits for. You don't want to try for SEO using the typical five-pages-with-150-words-max that most folks use as their starter site.

This is a compelling reason to put your site up prior to launching, by the way. Heck, put it up before you even have a product coded. (My next one is up already and getting a wee little trickle of traffic with just a few paragraphs and a link to a Wufoo form for folks who want to join the beta after I, you know, get around to writing it.)
What's capacitative ?

The original title is "ASUS EeeKeyboard gets really, really official".
All trigonometric identities can be easily derived from the Euler's formula. Instead of learning the whole course called "trigonometry" at school we'd have been just taught this formula!
Thanx .... LOL it's on the same site.
Now for someone to patch in a bluetooth headset and make it do calls.
From the article
Standing desks and chaise longues are good options. Ball chairs, which bounce your spine into a C-shape, are not.

I'm not sure if "ball chairs" are the same as you mean, but I guess they're.
I think, Mr. Zuckerberg is a more evil exploiter with weak ethics than I'm willing to accept.
While I was working in a supermarket on the till I once contested a signature. This women's signature didn't match the one on the back of the card one bit. So I said "Can you sign that again please", and she did, but it still didn't match. Then I said "these signatures don't match at all" and she got all shirty with me, at which point I decided I wasn't being paid enough to care and just put it through anyway.
It looks like this poster does not know the difference between Christopher "Monty" Montgomery (aka xiphmont) and Gregory Maxwell. While Gregory is a prominent Ogg developer, Monty is the one who designed the Ogg container and the Vorbis audio format, the lead developer of most things Oggish, and the one who engaged in a recent debate about the quality of the Ogg container.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Those inmates probably have better living conditions than I do.
EVERYONE that wants to crack someone else's WEP says they want to crack their own, it's kinda like the people that say they buy Playboy 'only for the pictures', or better yet, tell their own doctor; 'I have a friend that....'
Maybe you can find a crime that doesn't hurt anybody. Especially since you are planning to fail and get caught anyway. Just make sure not to traumatize any innocent bystanders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_Chair

A ball chair is not an exercise ball chair. Looking at the illustration on Wikipedia, it's clear that a ball chair forces a C-shaped spine. Your spine will stay in an S-shape if you sit upright on the "chair" I'm referring to.
Scary story about the Pandora thing. Since I am not an active FB user, I have not yet experienced this brave new world. So hearing such stories about "the Facebook experience" is actually interesting.

I have a FB account to be able to see the occasionally linked page on FB, but the interface was too complicated to me even before all this privacy mess.
If you haven't tried it yet, Haskell is a real joy to use. There's a Batteries Included binary distribution http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/index.html , and a really good free online book for it http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
Which me? Me the business owner that hires both web designers and programmers? Me the team leader that needs to manage a heterogeneous group of people, each with a different skill-set? Me the one-man-shop (and programmer) who outsources the design work?

If I have both web designers and programmers on my team having them communicate can most certainly be my problem (or at the very least a problem I am gravely effected by).
Open Source vs. Wall Street Bonuses
Hehe, I have a 1984 book about computers, with a ZX Spectrum on the front cover. Got it from my dad. It's not in English, though.
Five Steps for Consumer Brands to Earn Social Currency
How I learned to love Twitter
That's not hacking, that's being a glorified script kiddie.
Might I recommend the poster plugin for Firefox? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691

Has the added benefit of working on stuff you are developing on your own machine.
Someone please kill this thread. Thanks!
As a student, I wish I had bought AppleCare. I can now only use my MacBook Pro hooked up to an external monitor :(!
I've been thinking of setting up a standing work environment. Anyone have articles or recommendations for setting one up?
http://learnyouahaskell.com/

Worth a look, too.
There is an interesting parallel between the 'bleeding edge' of digital computing and analog computing in the form of propagation networks.

Analog computing never really went away, each and every opamp is essentially an minimal analog computer.
Reserving judgment about the other merits of this article - it's sad to witness again how simplistic, shallow generalizations are the norm when discussing financial matters:

"Another thing which is crucial to the financial services industry is the concept of being too big to fail, which has been put to good use by Citigroup, Bear Stearns, and Goldman Sachs over the past few years in sucking money from American taxpayers."

While this may be true in some sense for Citigroup, applying that to Bear Stearns is dubious, and it's plain wrong for Goldman Sachs. Banks like Goldman and JP Morgan Chase were basically forced to take TARP investments:

http://www.businessinsider.com/uncovered-tarp-docs-reveal-ho...

Several of those banks didn't need the forced investment, didn't want it, and thus strove to repay it as soon as possible:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/27/news/economy/tarp_takeback/i...

Goldman in fact repaid the investment in full on June of last year, with a hefty 23% interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#TARP_and_Berkshir...

In other words, Goldman didn't want or make any profit from the TARP investment - the American taxpayer did. GS didn't want that investment at all - it took it to comply with the wishes and policy of the American administration.

The current Abacus scandal is occurring not because, but despite the fact that GS collaborated with the administration and took the TARP investment. In fact, this scandal is mostly about how GS foresaw the collapse of the housing bubble, and set up positions to profit from it - thus absolving itself from any need for taxpayer assistance.

If anything, the American administration and public opinion seem more forgiving toward institutions that played the "too big to fail" card, taking too much risk and heavy loses as a consequence. Those institutions were bailed out, and are currently seeing nothing like the penalties and negative attention that GS is suffering. If the SEC's portrayal of the Abacus deal is accurate, GS should be punished - but the "too big to fail" approach is vastly more dangerous and damaging.

Either way, the discussion isn't served by over-generalizations and lumping everything together.
Hyundai Sonata 2011 Review and Price
We all know that the famous Accord is the inspiration for Hyundai Sonata. Leaving this all the 2011 Hyundai Sonata is looking one of its kind, so developed and got a great importance for family type cars.

Fully upgraded for 2011, the latest Sonata is having a great style and comfort in traveling.
A simple "speech injection attack." The bank obviously needs to sanitize the input before serving it up.
1 Reasonable privacy
2 Plausible deniability (like OTR)
3 Fast updates
4 Easily customizable
5 Client-side extensible interface (Greasemonkey style)

About reasonable privacy, the service shouldn't be able to read content. The provider can tell Alice (user on IP 1) sent something to Bob (user on IP 2) but the message content itself shouldn't be compromised. In particular profile-identifying details should be reasonably safe. This requires client-side encryption, of course.

Plausible deniability isn't that tricky, it mostly requires careful use of protocols at design phase and there is OTR to borrow.

With AJAX or dynamic JS scripts updates should be fast. The intersection of updates of contacts could be done in a single API call with multiple parameters (server-side intersection of data.) Or more scalable but a bit slower by doing multiple calls to separate server clusters (could even be calls to fetch plain files on CDN containing latest updates, aka "the wall".)

I've played a bit with zero-knowledge technologies (similar to Clipperz) and I think it's very doable. The big problem problem lies on images and video. Last year I played with HTML5/canvas with encryption but the CPU and delay is prohibitive since it requires to work on decompressed images pixel-by-pixel.

It would be nice if the major browsers started giving encryption and compression primitives to JS. And even nicer if there was an API to manage images, audio and video.

Chrome NaCl looks also very promising for this kind of disruptive technology.

Of course, the non technical problems of getting traction with users and making it commercially viable are still there just like in any other kind of social network service.
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A history of BitTorrent (Infographic)
How to Buy Happiness
Of course it is a EULA clause - it's very literally attempting to restrict what you can do.

And this kind of clause is simply void under German law, because if you buy something, it's a contract between you and the seller, and this kind of contract is not allowed to contain arbitrary limitations on how you can use the thing you have bought, nor can the seller impose an implicit additional contract between you and some third party on you.
What happens if

Security Question: Can you repeat the question?

Answer: Can you repeat the question?
Example: Controlling randomizer using code contracts
Is writing TONS of HTML really a problem that needs solving? Are people writing Bible-Tome sized pieces of markup? This feels like a solution in need of a problem.
I just read the mpeg LA roster (the pdf is posted in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312344), and I can't find Apple amongst the member list.

Most of the other usual suspects are there (Microsoft, Samsung, Philips, etc), but Apple isn't mentioned, which is weird because on the http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx site they are listed prominently.

Any explanation for that ?
That's one excellent reason why as the CEO of a big company you should probably not be sending out emails to end users as a PR gimmick, stuff you write can come back to bite you, if you write it as the CEO then it can bite badly.
I'm a little bit confused over what appears to be a mass hysteria about privacy problems for Facebook. I guess I really don't mind if Facebook tells company X that I listen to Modest Mouse, or lets advertisers know that I play disc golf.

Facebook is still the best communication tool out there for sharing everything (pictures, videos, messages, etc.). If, in return for using an excellent and free service, Facebook sends out a little bit of trivial information about me then so be it. It's really not that different from AdWords.
The point of a EULA is that you, the end user, agree to the license, effectively signing away legal rights that you would otherwise have.

This is not asking for agreement, and the government of Germany has already imposed the implicit additional contract by granting a patent monopoly, the only purpose of which is to restrict the behaviour of others.

The text is only giving back what German law has already taken away, the ability to use these 900 odd bits of mathematics, but only for personal, non-commercial reasons. If you want to use it commercially you'll need to negotiate another licence.
Yes FB is definitely becoming less useful. For example, it used to be that if I listed my employer and set it to "friends only" then that was that. Now, if you visit my profile, it's still friends only - but if you go to my employer's public page, my name is (actually was) listed there! Same with all my previous employers, the colleges I attended, my interests, etc etc. Hometown too maybe! So I have removed all of that.

I can't help but think this will backfire for FB. Their long-term value is being deeply embedded in people's real lives. The real value of FB for me is that my friends merely need to keep their profiles up to date and I have a self-updating address book and birthday calendar. If no-one lists that then FB is merely as sticky as Twitter which is to say, not much.
One of the comments to the blog post mentioned that if you have good word of mouth you don't need to worry about these strategies. I don't think this is true, of course there have been notable exceptions but in general unless you have reached the household name status of Microsoft, Apple, Google ect there is always an untapped market out there of people that would gladly be customers of your product if only they knew about it.

Even with the big companies still not everyone knows that about all their products that they may be interested in.
http://www.fiverr.com/ is also an option
An excellent and concise 5 paragraph essay on why his generation "job hops".

It occurs to me that we may be seeing a measured and reasonable response to general trends in US technology management. In the run up to Y2K a lot of programmers said that management had gotten quite bad in the '90s (I'm not sure that I can tell since I spend the '80s in the Boston area and the '90s in the D.C. area).

It was during that period that we started to realize that the wholesale layoffs of mainframe programmers weren't just an "old dog, new tricks" issue but one of gross age discrimination, that salaried programming positions largely evaporate as one hits the 35-40 range (there are a few fields where this doesn't seem to be generally true, e.g. embedded and classified Federal government work). And I think it all came to a head in the dot.com crash early in this century, when we saw what seems like a permanent sharp decline in CS undergraduate enrollment in this country.

"Generation Y" frankly hadn't been given any good reasons to be very "loyal", and many of them and us older types have adjusted our attitudes towards work in the light of harsh experience, ours and those older. There's now no shortage of programmer parents who are telling their children and the peers of their children to avoid the field, although with the Great Recession it might become one of the "least worst" options. E.g. trying to become a lawyer or doctor looks even more iffy right at this moment and of course the financial industry is making what looks to be a long term retreat from its bubble.
So you're mad they're basically turning from a free model to a freemium model? The whole "privacy" thing is just ridiculous. When is Facebook's selling of your info ever going to impair on your real life? The information they sell is never going to lead to someone knocking on your door and calling your house. It will impair your visual Facebook surfing experience, at worst. And impair is a strong word.

Flipping out over some weird privacy details is ridiculous. There may be small leaks, but they don't/won't last. Patch it up. Move on. Keep talking to your one-off acquaintances.

We need to be OK with people making money. Facebook provided me (and you) $1000s of dollars in value over the years. I have not given them a dime. Facebook, gladly take 5-10% of your visual mind-share back. You earned it.
My take is that Mr Z. is a relative kid (that is, relatively inexperienced), sitting in a room with a bunch of cagey investors who made him an "instant" multimillionaire, and are now asking, "So, what are you going to do for us?"

He has no idea.

My guess at a phenomenological relationship for ethics as a function of time in this situation would be
E = E0 exp(-ĸt)
where E0 is am empirically determined constant, and dependent on the individual, and ĸ = a measure of the social debt owed to the people pulling the strings. Note that the unit of ĸ is inverse time. This indicates that when the string-pullers obtain their leverage quickly, as in this case, ĸ is large.
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I think 5K is going to be the magic number for big co. I know most of the large corps that I have been at we (VP's, Directors)where allowed a max of 5k unapproved on the corporate credit card.
Money has proven to be very effective in bending ethics. Many people would do worse for a fraction of Mr. Zuck's money. I think judging him as a evil exploiter with weak ethics is a little harsh.
Facebook makes everyone a celebrity in their social circle. It makes you and your friends "newsworthy". It lets you check out people you secretly like and gives you another chance to laugh at people you made fun of in school.

It's not about keeping in touch. It's about hanging out and gossipping.
I usually provide an untrue date of birth to places where it doesn't matter. The only places that really need to know are the places that also need your SSN. Everybody else just likes having sensitive info lying around.
This is rubbish. My privacy is important to me because I enjoy it. I enjoy being able to do things/have thoughts/express opinions that are not universally popular. I enjoy not having my interests analyzed by potential employers. I enjoy not having my details handed out to marketers. I enjoy all these things far more than having a free way to keep in contact with one-off acquaintances.
Addition, multiplication and exponentiation all have pretty clear day to day applications.

Is there a laymans explanation for how you could apply this in an 'ordinary' setting, in other words is this from my non-mathematical background a useful construct or should I treat it as a curiosity?

I find it interesting that there is a simple order to the operations +, *, ^ and so on that apparently can be extended further than I was aware of, is there a limit to that?

How would a fifth element in that series be applied?

Edit: as to the last, it seems the series builds on the previous operation in the series to build the next, so possibly 'pentation' would be a series of tetrations?

2+4 = 6

2x4 = 2+2+2+2 = 8 (edit2: using an 'x' here because hn eats asterisks thinking you mean italics)

2^4 = 4x4x4x4 = 256

2^^4 = 2^(2^(2^2)) = 65536

2^^^4 = ...?
If only you had hired people that could learn new skills.
It's amazing how many industries can be disrupted by a single person creating a new protocol.
Nuts and Bolts of Transaction Processing
Xwrits is good, too.
It's true though. I had never seen a google ad until they started pushing chrome, and google was pretty small when I did hear about it.

Word of mouth is pretty powerful. Seen an ad for twitter or facebook that caused you to sign up with them? Ubuntu? PayPal? Ebay?

They're not as exceptional as you'd think.
FB also seems to get less useful over time as you add more people.

Initially, when you have a few people you know really well and get on with, you can post quite freely knowing that it's unlikely to come back and bite you.

Later, as you gain a truckload of acquaintances you have to be much more measured and it winds up feeling like you're running some sort of discount PR agency.
Tetration is used to express Graham's number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahams_number) which appeared in the Guinness book of records as the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.
How feasible is this? Can anyone share their experiences?
The problem is not at all that they're making money.

The problem is that they've decided to extract value in a way that leaves me no choice about how to pay them. I've certainly gotten plenty of utility out of Facebook, but I'm not willing to pay for it with my privacy! Frankly, I'd much sooner pay for it explicitly, in exchange for a privacy guarantee. (Although, it's debatable how much that guarantee would be worth, given Facebook's history.)
Isn't it easy just to change your name.
Apple won't support open formats, even if they are technically superior to encumbered ones.

For example, see Vorbis and FLAC support in Quicktime.
I remember attempting to make a torrent of the then newly released Slackware 8.0 ISO, almost within a few days of bittorent's release.

It took another year before you could find enough content to use it though. eDonkey had all the good materials, but people were moving over to KaZaa. I think Bittorent took off after people got tired of moding KaZaa and removing the spyware; KaZaa-Lite worked until ~2003, but after that bittorent took over.
I don't know why every chair has wheels. I hate chairs with wheels. Every office I've been to, I end up sitting on one leg, the other stretched out. And I can't push my feet against the wall and lean back because of the blasted wheels! But when I go home to my beloved $20 chair with no wheels, no armrests, and only lower back support, I feel great.