skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There actually are such scams all over the place. Couple of years ago I was in a position where I was an accredited investor (based on income) and I had to basically reveal that information on the Internet. I was an attorney in one of the large international law firms and they required you to post a professional biography online. The biography did not mention your salary, but the top lawfirms pay lockstep and publish their salary info so anybody familiar with the legal profession could have figured out the salary from the posted information.

Anyways, as soon as I fit the criteria for an accredited investor I started getting calls for what seemed to be obvious scams. There were generally of two types. One type was a call from a boiler-room type operation from some guy with a hilariously exaggerated Jersey accent asking me to buy some over the counter stock. They would suggest a stock for me and then call a couple of months later and say "see the stock we suggested before doubled in price, you should have invested with us, why not try this new stock we are suggesting now." Of course OTC stocks are so thinly traded one can easily manipulate the price.

The other type of scams are calls that are made to sound like they were accidentally made by people that have their cell-phones in their pockets and accidentally press a button. It is usually conversation between two people that is supposed to be private and you are only hearing it by accident. The two people then disclose "important inside information" that is supposed to make you rush out and buy a certain stock.

So yes those scams are out there. There are boiler-room operations all over the place trying to bilk people that are on the lower end of the accredited investor spectrum.

Usually, they prefer accredited investors because stocks that require such investors do not require SEC filings so the scams are easier.
Either the results will be rigged, or he will keel over, or the experiment will end for some reason.
What happened to OSNews? I remember it being a pretty good tech news site a while back but now it seems that every day there's another over-written, hyper-ventilating, peanut-gallery-baiting "opinion piece" like this. Good for selling ad impressions I guess.
That's because he called tech support, who had no idea what he was talking about and probably figured he was some retarded user. He didn't try calling anyone specifically via the corporate switchboard (like e.g. Grey Powell, the person who lost the phone, whose name and Facebook profile he got off the phone before it was wiped).

He didn't actually make an honest attempt, just a show of one.
Sounds fair, but that concerns the amount of people licensed, not the requirement to be licensed in the first place.

If you create an AMA2 while maintaining present licensing standards, you're simply moving the ultimate responsibility for guarding the standards from AMA and AMA2 to an entity above them.
Everything is expensive when you consider 'money left on the table.' Privacy is not any more expensive than building a service to expose that data outsiders for pay.
Stop Words as Social Signals (a result that goes against IR common knowledge)
There's a 10.1 beta for Android phones around.
Note that you have to use the weasel-phrase "in effect" to put words in the mouth of Jobs and claim that "the author meets this standard". If you're so certain he's met the standard, provide an actual quotation rather than a straw man.

Jobs made no such statement. Rather, he observed that Adobe was very slow in passing Apple's platform improvements on to its customers, and the implication here is that it would be unwise for Apple to allow middleware to put Apple in a position where Adobe could do the same thing again for thousands of apps.

But he made no claim about what Adobe ought to have done, or should have done. Rather, he gave a reason for the policy decisions that Apple has made.
You should do backups.
Do you know why Ubuntu goes for `batch-releases'?
You do not need to make the relative a founder. When it comes to relatives you probably do not need to worry about the accredited investor stuff at all, as there is an exception for purely private placements. (this is not legal advice, do consult a lawyer).

Anyways, I agree that the lower end of the accredited investor range probably does not contribute much or anything to angel investing.
A detailed answer on Steve Jobs' Flash thoughts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
You Dont need a Cofounder anymore
It sucks much less though. That was one of the biggest surprises I found when I first got an OSX machine, just how much better iTunes runs. It's still not what I'd consider good software, but it's a hell of a lot less bad.

I still can't believe Apple so thoroughly neglects 90% of their customers.
Adobe CEO Responds to Steve Jobs' 'Thoughts on Flash'
I agree with your conclusions on Django auth (and I really hate the UserProfile hack) - and once you start swapping out the template engine and ORM you lose much of the usefulness of Django (as well as most of the 3rd party apps).

If you take away admin, auth etc I really don't see much that's compelling about Django. However you are also correct about Pylons - I would like to recommend it but the documentation is terrible and has its own share of hacks (the "c" global, @validate decorator etc).

Rolling your own isn't that painful though - you might want to look at Werkzeug. Coupled with SQLAlchemy and Jinja2 you have a really nice DIY framework for very little effort, that grows with your project. I'd also like to mention WTForms which uses a similar pattern to Django forms and is very easy to use and extend.

The Flask microframework, while just a few weeks old, is built on top of this toolkit and looks very promising, especially for beginners to Python web development or smaller projects.
The older I get the more convinced I am that it's possible to define anyone as a hypocrite simply by repeatedly moving to a higher abstraction until you find a layer where what someone says and what they do are not in sync, and then you can righteously declare "hypocrite!", even though the actual conflict was generated by creative semantics (which all higher thought is).

Therefore in order for a hypocrisy to be a useful word I think it needs a more rigorous connotation. I'm not saying the moral angle is the correct one, but I certainly think that Jobs' letter is far from any reasonably useful definition hypocrisy.
I loved that player a few years ago, it's great. Ever since changing to Linux i have missed it :(
I don't know about legal restrictions, but I frequently see the claim that people empirically don't move within the EU as much as they move within the US. I'd guess that variability of language/culture probably plays a role...
Notify.io has had webhooks and so much more. But yes, yay webhooks.
I don't think you've tried the app he is talking about. The ABC app for iPad is for watching the streaming video of recent shows. It has nothing to do with articles or sharing.

Call me old fashioned, but when I want to share something with a friend, I either tell them about it myself when I see them, or worst case scenario I shoot a quick email that says "Check out the new episode of Castle on abc.com!" The only people I know who wouldn't be able to parse that simple message and then go to the website and watch the show also don't check their email or even have an active account. Not everything has to be an automatic, shareable mini-link that can be pasted into a twitter stream.
This guy is so wrong; everything he describes is already happening; he just doesn't see it. There was stagnation for a few years which we're still catching up from, but these days we have innovation out the wazoo.

Take WebGL as an example: it started as a Firefox developer's side project, and competed for a while with other 3D APIs like Opera's simple 3D and Google's O3D. Then Khronos got involved, a standard got written, WebKit got support, and next year we'll likely have 3D games written in Javascript running on our phones.

What part of that process is broken? Seems to me as if it's working perfectly.
The world will continue getting dumber... until we re-program our genes so that we won't perceive excess as attractive... We can also improve a few other human limitations such as keeping meaningful relationships with more than 150 people.

It's hard but it will happen eventually, or our species will die out before we get there, who knows.
That wouldn't surprise me to find out. I've seen a lot of shows that use Mac laptops (e.g. How I Met Your Mother), but the logo is always covered. I guess the laptops look nice, but they don't want to give free advertising to Apple.
IPhone's Gay Social Networking App Leads to Murder of Phoenix Man, Police Claim
Very true. Reminds me of this email I got recently from my brokerage:

While the Fed is lending money at almost zero interest rates, why not take advantage of it through <brokerage name>? <Your broker> will lend up to $566,000 at 1.25% for every $100,000 in a Portfolio Margin4 Securities Trading account. As of 4/5/2010, more than 500 stocks had a dividend yield of 5% or more.
there was never a "stop supporting JRE 1" campaign like there has been for successive versions of IE.

there isn't a "stop JRE 1" campaign but there's a good amount of "stop breaking stuff with your updates, sun".

working in helpdesk a couple years ago, we needed to keep specific versions of JRE for specific applications. if you ever needed to use two apps that required two different versions of JRE, well....good luck.
Alright, I have to ask.

>blood (literally)

Care to elaborate?
Why bother inventing an abstract normative claim when you can quote the actual (and only) one that appears in the document:

"...we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open."

Now, proceed from there.
I don't get the author's point. It seems to be "because 8-bit micros are so cheap, don't design with discrete components". This is valid and has in fact been the goal since the MOS 6502 in 1975 ($25 vs. $300 for an Intel 8080 or Motorola 6800). But he goes on to say "thus, 8-bit micros are themselves going away".

The second part is just not true, nor does he offer any evidence for it. He points out this deficiency in his argument himself by noting that many 555s (mid-70's design) are still available.

I think a better point to make is to watch the applications for parts as they age. You could buy 8-bit home computer from about 1975-1991. You could buy a 16-bit workstation from about 1981-1995. You can't buy either of those new today. Even your home office router is 32-bit.

However, 8-bit CPUs are still almost everywhere today. I designed a new hobbyist device with an 8-bit AVR with built-in USB DMA engine. (http://rdist.root.org/2009/01/21/introducing-xum1541-the-fas...)

The TI MSP430 series uses microamps and run off a small battery. The 8-bit CPU will always exist, it will just have more specialized onboard peripherals and be used for different applications.

One unit of measure I like to use is "word size vs. clock rate". For example, a Intel Core Solo running in 32-bit mode at 2.0 Ghz can represent ~2 seconds of clock cycles in a native word. A 16 Mhz AT90 can represent 0.004 seconds in its 16-bit word (actually 2 registers since it is 8-bit). So in general, the AT90 is a bit harder to program than the Intel CPU since you have to worry more about multi-byte arithmetic.

Another unit is clocks per byte of IO. With a gigabit ethernet adapter, the Intel machine has only 16 clocks/byte. Running at the full USB rate of 12 Mbit/s, the AT90 has 10.66 clocks/byte. So they both need hardware support to keep the pipe full.

It's fun to compare applications for various CPU types, but I don't think 8-bit is going to disappear even in the next 20 years.
Anyone who created Java applets heard lots of gripes about the Microsoft JRE vs Sun JRE. I wouldn't be surprised if web games implemented as applets are still using the 10 year old API of the old Microsoft JRE.

I still shudder when I think about fixing Java plugin installation issues.
To be fair, a massive ecological crisis (the dustbowl) and price controls on food (making it uneconomical to ship food to cities) also contributed to food shortages.
I can't understand why Apple would pay Jon Stewart to misrepresent the truth against their favour. He had an iPad on screen for a good two minutes, while insinuating to the audience that Apple's goons broke into Chen's house and stole their computers after Chen gave back a phone that they originally said wasn't theirs.

In reality, Apple asked the DA to investigate what they believed to be theft of property, in response to which the police executed a search warrant on Chen's computers.
Unrestricted flow of capital, goods and labor was the explicit goal the EU set itself in 1992 when it was founded.

The EU might not be there yet, but they have come a rather long way: I can work and live wherever I want in the EU (I’m from Germany).
I wish I could be excited about that, but because the iPod and iTunes don't support FLAC I have to maintain duplicate, MP3-encoded copies of all of my FLAC-encoded files, and I don't want the duplicates cluttering up my Rhythmbox library.

So, sticking with iTunes via WinXP in VirtualBox here, sadly.
This is strictly my opinion speaking, but the Macbook looks like the "default" laptop. Much like how the "default" video game controller was the old school NES controller (but probably has since been replaced with the ps2/3 dualshock).
I have been running lucid on my desktop for about two months know fully knowing the caveats. Here are some things ive found
a) Its visually the most slick linux distro I have used so far.
b) Ubuntu now has a cloud offering for consumers which allows you to sync data between computers much like dropbox.
c) Ubuntu now has a enterprise cloud offering where the act of maintaining multiple ubuntu computers has been simplified. You can install packages / run commands on multiple machines at once from convenient web interface. You can even check on the machine load from this interface. - http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private
d) Plymouth now comes standard. This means the entire boot experience from bootup to X is very seamless. Kudos to the fedora folks for coming up with this, props to the ubuntu folks for integrating it.
e) The only issue ive had with lucid is that 2 of my 1.5TB SATA drives are not detected. Ive opened a ticket for this sometime back but the ticket hasnt received any love so far.

All in all, lucid is a great release. It will make it harder for my osx using friends to make fun of my desktop. Tux has shiny new clothes :)
Intro to Singular Value Decomposition
The video in the article shows him in various postures, but never moving. I wonder why this is so.

The video mentions (4'18") that the same team studied another guy, mechanical engineer Mr Manek, who survives only on boiled water: "They conclusively proved that Mr Manek did indeed survive on nothing but water and cosmic energy". I wonder how they did the cosmic energy bit?
umm. I don't think the author knows what hypocrisy means.
They may technically have "balanced budgets" but many large states have huge off-balance-sheet liabilities (as does the US Treasury).
What class, what school, which country?

Generally, it's very rare for a 'program' to be patented. What usually gets patented is algorithms and frameworks.
Officially because they should be testing the version before distributing it.
The main advantage of batch-releases to my eyes is that every 6 months there is a lot of fuzz and media attention, which is very good to draw new users - so, very welcome.
We (Braintree) are priced competitively. We may look higher than others because we don't use any pricing trickery ( http://bit.ly/cUyJTa ) and bundle gateway services. We created a checklist for merchants to help them avoid getting duped http://bit.ly/9W57Pw .
"Personally I'd work hard to live in a big fancy house and drive a cool fast car even if there were no women in the world, because I just like 'em."

Why yes, isn't that a great design? You don't even need to rationalize about what attracts a mate, you just like to do it by default, and most women just happen to be attracted to that by default also.

Certainly your chance of reproducing and passing down these default settings will be much greater than someone who has to rationalize about attractions, don't you think?
I don't think anyone would ever have the need to remove the Badoo icons software from his/her iPad.

My comment was only intended to be about desktop computers.
You can still play games. You can't play them online, but it's not like you paid for that privilege. Online play is footed by Sony for free. You can still watch blu-rays.

As someone who installed an OtherOS (Yellowdog linux) and found it completely useless, i can say that for most PS3 users this feature isn't going to be missed, no matter how many friends you told that your ps3 could run linux.

You have to keep in mind that keeping linux support probably ment future man-hours maintaining compatibility in future updates. For such a useless feature, do you really expect them to keep maintaining its compatibility? After all, you don't pay Sony and monthly fees to provide the updates or your online gaming capabilities. I figure they dropped it because it was a) useless, b) apparently exposes a vulnerability in their drm and possible future exploits unless they keep maintaining it.

PS3's hardware is subsidized so that you will buy games at inflated prices. I for one completely understood that when I bought a PS3.
Made easier by the government setting controls on the price of produce and other goods.
You can still play games... Just not online, which is a free service anyways.
Out of curiosity, is your library on an external disk that sleeps? Mine was, and it seemed to hang while waiting for the disk to spin up. I moved it to an always on disk, and the hangs stopped.
Don't try to upgrade an iPhone this way though: you will lock it up and will have to restore it via Windows running natively.
True story: back in the early 80's there was a guy on the west coast with a bit of a cult following (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia#Wiley_Brooks) who also claimed to be a breatharian. Supposedly he would only drink a little herb tea, but only when he had to come into the city. A friend of mine went to see him speak, was totally entranced and started following the beginning breatharian regimen (which revolved around only eating yellow food. Yes,yellow. Don't ask me why.)
Anyway, to make a long story short, the whole thing blew up when his disgruntled ex-girlfriend blew the whistle on him and said that he actually loved to eat fried chicken. He was also spotted leaving a 7-11 with a hot dog.
So, you wanna start running barefoot?
Fake Steve: Please stop thinking about Gizmodo, breaking down doors, etc.
Will it do that without breaking an existing sync connection to iTunes?
The problem is that Sony would have to patch vulnerabilities like that and keep maintaining the OtherOS compatibility.

For a service that's useless to like 99% of PS3 owners, it's understandable they no longer want to maintain it. And frankly I don't really care for it, so long as I'm not paying a monthly fee.
YES Thank god. The video codec is 100x worse than flash. At least SWF is open, so you can generate SWF files royalty free from adobe. H264 aint quite that. I tunes sucks, hate it, and no itunes for linux. Hey remember itunes + palm? Yea? We're open my ass. If Apple is so devoted to breaking people free of proprietary crap explain the itunes-palm pre wars.
Ubuntu Release PARTY near you (if you're in CA)
Release parties, for those of us who live in California (see you at the San Francisco one tonight!)
Apple modified WebKit to support most uses of a:hover by changing how touch interaction works when a :hover style exists on an element. Apple cannot do this with Flash, which means Jobs's argument here is right on the money.
Microsoft Cancels Courier Tablet Project
Was posted on HN a few weeks ago... still upvoted because it's great :)
Please get James Randi's people involved.
Throw out your frameworks
Technically, the states cannot print money. They can and have had unbalanced budgets.
The movie scene I was referencing describes the situation exactly. Someone does something mildly bad and technically illegal, and a crowd forms that wants to kill for the sake of killing.

He gave back the phone. Give him a month probation or whatever, but don't take everything he owns.
It's pretty trivial to turn the cursor into an hourglass with CSS. That isn't a limitation of web applications.
The OtherOS is not nearly as useful to PS3 owners as a trunk is to a car owner.
I've successfully upgraded my first-gen iPhone through VirtualBox several times.

You just have to babysit it and re-enable the device in the USB list after each time it restarts.
People are playing word games. The Flash file format is published, but it isn't governed by a standards organization which is what people usually mean by "open". Even armed with this SWF file format specification, is it possible to create a third party Flash VM?
Is he a Steorn salesman by any chance?

Thermodynamics isn't just a good idea people, it's the law.
And many, many coders are so averse to this idea, so they do not do this obnoxious stuff.
Yes if I rolled my own it would almost certainly be on top of Werkzeug/SQLAlchemy/Jinja2.

The history of Flask is amusing but I'm not particularly interested in another microframework - 80% of web app development is doing the same boring shit over and over again (user logins, permissions, registration, form processing, image uploads, password resets, REST apis, etc). Microframeworks punt on all of that stuff and expect you to reinvent the wheels there.

We don't need more microframeworks in the Python world, what I really want to see is a full stack alternative to Django that took care of all of the boring stuff so web app developers could focus on the 20% of work that makes their app really unique.
From dictionary.com:

hy·poc·ri·sy   [hi-pok-ruh-see]
–noun,plural-sies.

1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.

3. an act or instance of hypocrisy.

I don't see how the author misuses the word "hypocrisy" at all. It appears to me that his case relates to #2 above - Jobs pretends to hold an attitude promoting open standards etc. when that is not the real motivation behind his actions at all.
Is this comment even serious? You've been on this site for nearly two years now... how many articles have there been that talk about this issue, explaining that the equation you have given (while true) doesn't work because E and B aren't necessarily independent? Consuming less calories can change your metabolism, affecting your burn rate. The body is a complex hormonal system, its not that easy.
In the sense this article suggests, you never actually _needed_ a cofounder to begin with. They have always been and continue to be nice to have and preferable in most cases. I am saying this as a solo cofounder.
RIP Courier
> I hope we can all agree that Apple has never really been an open standards company

Show me this for Flash:

http://trac.webkit.org/

Or this:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1063/

And check out paragraph 2:

http://webkit.org/projects/goals.html

Fire up Chrome to check out how many re-implementations of WebKit are out there based on this open source and open standards base.
duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272481
You'll love this:

MP3FS is A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. This was written to enable me to use my FLAC collection with software and/or hardware which only understands MP3. e.g. gmediaserver to a netgear MP101 mp3 player.

http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/

I have a ~/mp3_music directory which provides an exact duplicate of ~/music except for transcoding non-mp3 audio files on read. It's seriously kickass.