skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that bothers me is the method of executing the search on Mr. Chen. In this case, it's not like he has ever been hiding anything, so did they need to bust in his door, execute a search warrant, and seize his computers?

It seems to me that the facts of this case are all public, and if they want to prosecute him, they could have done so without resorting to thuggish tactics.
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: We're going to make the best tools in the world for HTML5
Attack Of The iPhone-Controlled Drones [video]
I can confirm that the security hole was not limited to only friends. I was able to insert non-friend's IDs for the "viewas" parameter.
Yes, there is a Caveat that if some words are removed from the database then you will need to reindex for that to be taken into account. However, in the case of bug tracking (which is largely what we are doing), data tends to be added rather than removed. Plus re-indexing happens on a project bases, not a global basis.

Also, for our use case it is not necessarily a bad thing that removed words may cause an item to be shown in the results. After all, just because a paragraph was removed from a bug description doesn't necessarily mean it is invalid search fodder (bearing in mind that, in our case, full-text search is just one way of filtering).
A funny auction commercial
Because of Jack Bauer!!!
Depending on how this all shakes out, the issues that you touched upon may be an opportunity for somebody else to fill any void created.
By the way, the folklore.org book is also inaccurate; I seem to remember it including some of the website comments, but not any from Jef, and some of them were important. Can't remember any of them offhand, though.

And, of course, the bio section didn't mention that he'd died before the book came out.
I tried to switch to Dvorak. It is great for writing text. The one downside is that I have already trained my fingers to the short cuts and coding with Dvorak may not actually be better because the keys you will be using are not what would be used when doing normal typing. I may be wrong though. I just found it really difficult to adjust to the new position of my key bindings.
ComSci And Lontra Whitepaper Says Cloud Computing Can Be A Trap
I feel like this idea is best executed with a co-op instead of a profit model. That's honestly how I feel about most co-working spaces. I don't really want to work somewhere where I don't have a say in who's there (if I'm paying the rent).. unless it's an 'executive suite'
I'm not sure we can make a useful judgment here. After that stunning success (in the eyes of terrorists), you'd expect more people to try.

Also, you should normalize against the general level of world wide terrorism of this nature, e.g. start with early post-9/11 examples like Bali and Madrid, each of which killed about 200 people.
Or because he doesn't want to spend all his time answering email, perhaps.
I was somewhat confused by this post - I've had the left hand nav for weeks now
I always thought of the TED conference attendees as generous donors who are in return allowed to watch the taping of the content TED produces. The most important thing about TED are the videos, not the actual event. If viewed that way it’s hard to find elitism :)
Aha, that's understandable.
Room for profit is the key. Comments from local folks in-the-know seem to say this has been investigated here in the ATX, and there isn't room for profit.

Alas, your garage idea might be the next step. (maybe a mobile geek-hut in the garage, with solatubes for a bit of natural light?)... hmmm
Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
The identity of the person who sold them the phone was not public.
All they need is a simple migration path for users and they (or something like them) will be able to knock Facebook out of the water—but it'll happen quietly at first, like any other disruptive technology.
Microsoft Announces Social Aggregator
there is this initiative:

http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/

You can add your name here:

http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/stop-yellow-pages/
Insightful,thanks. Helps me understand some situations I have been in.
Because what constitutes personal and friendly is context dependent and highly variable from one person to another.

Neutral is often the right way to go.

What kind of language should the American Cancer Society use? What about the Department of Justice? How about an industrial farming equipment manufacturer?

What some would find amusing, some would find a waste of time and frustrating, and some would find insulting or offensive. That's fine when your target market is pretty much on the same page about that stuff. Just go after them and offend all the others.

But it's not as good when that market is not.

With certain types of businesses, the target market is easier to cluster around some style choices. With other types, either the market or the subject-matter doesn't lend itself to friendly and personal.

In general, the writing across the board for this stuff could be BETTER but that's not the same thing as it being more personal and more friendly. That link to Epic below shows some good copywriting that's not either, but it's clear and forceful and just the right tone.
I just wanted to note that Israel is a state which dealt with constant terror issues in the 1990's/early 2000's. There were times where a week hadn't even gone by between terrorist attacks (blowing up cars, buses, night clubs, shopping centers, etc...). Source:

"Suicide and Other Bombing Attacks in Israel Since the Declaration of Principles (Sept 1993)" - http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Pales...

I'm by no means an expert with Israel. But they're an excellent example of a society dealing with constant terrorist attacks, and surviving as a nation.

Can anyone on HN shed any light on how this affected Israeli society? Ideally before, during, and after terrorism? If possible, could you compare it to how the U.S. deals with terrorism today? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong?
They broke in his door because no one was home, and they'll pay for the damage. That's pretty much SOP when executing a warrant.

I believe that the contention of the police is that perhaps the facts aren't all public. They want to know exactly what exchanges too place between Gizmodo and Hogan (or whoever Hogan's go-between was), and I think that's reasonable. Did they ask where the phone came from? Did they ask if attempts had been made to return it? Do the dates of those correspondences match up with the stories both sides are telling? Etc.
Are the CSS/HTML enhancements finally making it into Quirks mode in these new IE releases as well? That was one of the worst issues with IE8 and 7 for us as a company that builds widgets and scripts that need to work on every page on the web.

We're stuck without guaranteed support for position:fixed on any IE version because we can't guarantee that the underlying page uses a modern DOCTYPE.
I believe Google's communications team produces them.
Please see the sub-thread above for a reply.
I don’t understand why you’re making this an argument over the precise definition of “obfuscate” and “idiom”.

It’s clear that using the bitwise or operator adds some bit of mental overhead, at least the first few times the reader looks at it, while floor is completely obvious and clear to the average novice programmer. This mental overhead slows the reader down, and makes the code harder to understand. If it’s just one line like that every few hundred lines, or some optimization in an inner loop that is clearly commented, that’s not a problem. But code written by someone who has decided that all of their tricky lines that first look like one thing but actually do something unexpected are actually wonderful “idioms”, is code that can become a serious pain in the ass for whatever poor sap has to build on top of it or fix its bugs.
I think "moral clarity" over this kind of thing was lost decades ago, when it became common for companies to buy/borrow/find prototypes, and rarely prosecuted. It's common knowledge among chip-design companies that as soon as your prototype board hits the fab (unless you're someone like IBM or Intel with your own fabs), it's going to be in your competitor's hands: NVidia and ATI operate on the assumption that as soon as a chip's sent to Taiwan, it's going to their competitor too. Nobody is ever prosecuted for that, either, on the side of the seller or on the side of the buyer.

Yes, technically selling found property is a crime, but morally, this looks more like a trade-secret dispute between businesses than a normal stolen-property dispute, i.e. the harms suffered are not primarily the loss of the device, but of the secret information. And I think people are pretty jaded when it comes to inter-business trade-secret/corporate-espionage sorts of disputes, because it happens all the time and nobody important ever goes to jail for it, even though there's a lot of wink-wink in which executives are aware of it.

The main difference here seems that it was made public instead of kept secret, and the people doing it were amateurs. If Gizmodo were a consulting firm instead of tabloid, paid $5k to see the prototype for a bit, took a bunch of photos and information, quietly returned it or didn't, and then quietly sold that info to one of Apple's competitors, we probably would never have heard of it. (There's a whole little cottage industry doing teardowns of "found" hardware.) I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs himself has purchased such information at some point in his long business career--- taking care to maintain plausible deniability of course.
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I wonder how many people have considered building something along these lines. I know I did when I started hearing about what came out of f8, and I don't even use Facebook currently.
Who has the story about our software engineer? Talk about hangover after birthday party...
I liked this quote, taken from DHH from 37signals: "“An idea is such a small part of a business that it’s almost a rounding error”. If you only have one competitor, you're OK. If you have 4,000, you aren't.

Something bigger to consider is what the barriers to entry are - even if you only have 1 competitor now, can 50 other companies do it comparably in five months if the idea blows up?
While you make good points, it's probably a good idea to decide on and prepare for your first job. Stick to it for 2 years and you'll be in a much better position to change fields.

Plus if you decide early you can then pay attention to make sure it's a good match for you.
Sphinx is an excellent option for full-text search. The post didn't go into depth on our particular use case, but this full-text indexing is just a small part of a larger filtering system. Having the index in Redis meant that we could execute the entirety of the query (which may factor in users, tags, modification dates etc) in Redis via union/inter/diff operations.

Could we have learnt and used another technology? Sure, and we may still do so. For now this solution works well for us.

Should other people use this technique? Like always, it depends on the situation.
I'm not quite clear on what's being 'tested' in these videos. The idea is give a practical visual comparison of really, really fast things to google chrome loading a web page.

Because it's so practical, you don't need a tesla coil to duplicate it yourself (and be disappointed). Go to google, search for pandora, and click on the first link. Okay, so clearly they're not talking about transfer/load/rendering times. Let's click refresh. Well that was quite a bit faster, wasn't it? But still no lightning bolt.

Cool video, but I'd be worried that users will be underwhelmed when they test it for themselves...
How Did GM Pay Back Its Bailout So Fast? Well, It Didn't...
The part where he mentions Muslims in America do not support it is a good point to note. I have Muslim friends, and they have told me that even amongst the hardcore Muslims in the US, there are lots of talk about disagreement of US policy but no one ever talks or jokes about terrorist attacks. Even in private or just friendly talks.

On a side note another thing that I did find interesting that my friend told me was that the FBI visits Mosques frequently. Just to have friendly talk or to keep in touch. US intelligence works with local Muslim activist and Mosques more than people think.
I still don't have it!
I guess we both have our sampling biases.
I think that those situations are different from Al Qaeda striking the west, though I agree that Schneier's imprecise on the distinction.

The big difference is that those acts are local rebellion.

The actions by locals, against an "other" (or its agents/totems) within the locality, have little to fear from other civilians who might happen upon them plotting, training, preparing or delivering terror against the "other". And for the attack to be successful, it merely has to be "news" within the locality. You don't need to inspire/impress a command/support structure half-a-world-away. You just need to keep the support of others in the locality.

An "other" operating within a foreign country, however, risks exposure at every turn. Particularly within a country "alert" to the risk and when the "other" is trivially identifiable as such. And his attacks must be more about style, as he needs to inspire/impress people with no local context for a precise or less spectacular attack.
Looks nice, but now the list of services (images, videos...) are shown twice - at the top and on the left. Not exactly the minimalistic Google we've come to love. I say do it only on the left.

Search for "Paris", see the navigation on the left with "Maps", click on it and the navigation vanishes. If people cannot trust a navigation to always be there after the click, they will consider your creation baffling and difficult to use.

Both of these things would have unlikely happened at Apple. They happen here because Google's main process is "lots of A/B tests by regular folks", and regular folks just aint nitpicky and anal enough to complain about 99%. Oh well.
It was the same for me. Plays nice with "Say it once and only once.".
Or some sort of distributed system with a number of servers provided by anyone, acting on a specified protocol, allowing you to pull from one network to the other.

Like the http or smtp, except for posting short messages about what you had for lunch and funny pictures of your cat.
With memristors you can decide if you want some block to be memory, a switching network, or logic. Williams claims that dynamically changing memristors between memory and logic operations constitutes a new computing paradigm enabling calculations to be performed in the same chips where data is stored, rather than in a specialized central processing unit. Quite a different picture than the Tower of Babel memory hierarchy that exists today.

That part is mind-blowing.

And I'm wondering, if this all works out, will the whole multi-core thing and all the trouble that comes with it (from a software standpoint) be pushed back for another decade?

And what implications would that have for programming languages? Seems like it would mean JavaScript wouldn't be so much worse than Erlang after all (cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304599 ).

(Yeah, I know, it's a little bit of a stretch.)
I agree it is a total waste.

The reason everyone and their half brother gets one is because these directories sell the ads based on their "circulation".

The more people they can claim to get the book, the higher rate they can charge for advertising.

So as far as the Yellow Pages are concerned, they held up their end of the deal with their advertisers. Whether you read it or not wasn't part of the deal.

A lot of these directories also offer a "combo" where you get advertising in the print edition and on a web site in order to bridge the 20th century and the 21st.

So until companies stop spending their advertising dollars to be in the 'pages it will be some time before you stop receiving it.
The company is lucky they aren't located in California. Here, even if you are identified as an employee, you may retain ownership over works you have created unless you have signed a "work for hire" agreement or something similar.
Ask HN: Do college admission requirements disfavor hacker start-up founders?
I saw an interesting comment by pg in the last day or so on the issue of whether students at very elite universities choose safe careers rather than the risk-taking of founding a start-up. I'd love to see more discussion of this issue. Are the most selective colleges selecting students who play it safe in high school (thus getting into a highly selective college) and missing out on risk-taking students (who end up attending somewhat less selective colleges)? If a college admission policy were tweaked to maximize selection of future successful start-up founders, what would it look for among high-school-age applicants? Are there things that high school students can do that are both good practice for business risk-taking and safe choices for building a resume for a college application?
Establish and Maintain Your Online Identity
Moore's Law is not dead. It's merely pining for the fjords
Here is pg's comment that prompts this new thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320363
I see they were trying really hard, but... the movie was a torture. Or maybe it was just my impression.

Also, it was funny that youtube included onesocialweb.org in the related videos at the end - it seems to be a similar concept, but I've never heard about it before.
This looks like the same idea as the hub:

http://kingscross.the-hub.net

It's a little more expensive, but that's London for you...
Well, that's no problem! Several executives from large companies in the business of selling my private information have recently informed us all that privacy is over-rated, doesn't exist anymore and if you even want it to exist, you're wrong.
Ask HN: Why is AllRecipes.com so fast (Featured in those new Chrome Ads)?
After watching the Chrome Ads, i jumped over to the site and by golly, it really flies. Do you have any idea what they're running? I checked google/stackoverflow/linkedin for clues but came up with nothing.
Has IE suddenly become the most standards compliant browser, or is there some subtlety here that's missing?
In general, I disapprove of the increasing militarization of police tactics. Far too many search warrants are executed by SWAT teams wielding tasers and guns, and result in the deaths of innocent people.

However. Think about it for a minute. Just how should the police generally execute a search warrant? If the suspect doesn't answer the door, should they leave a polite note and come back several hours later once the suspect has had a chance to smash the computers with a hammer, set fire to the paper evidence, and flee to Barbados?
Could Gizmodo have avoided legal jeopardy if they had used that $5000 to secure an exclusive instead of using it to buy the device?
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Yeah. A lot of people misread words as other words. Sometimes they are mildly funny but rarely are they especially interesting.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256826 is a start for evidence of them.

If what Ted is saying is true about them not paying anyone (who's good) enough to retain them nor hiring a few serious kernel hackers, then that pretty much makes the case, wouldn't you say?

I.e. given that they take a snapshot of Debian unstable and then furiously try to make it work in 6 months.

Another bad and telling sign is that ship dates are more important than quality, and that will also lose them good people. I would not want Canonical on my resume for very long after 6 months before the release of Hardy Heron and I have found such work places to be utterly depressing and demotivating.
Well, Microsoft has created their own tests. They argue that tests like Acid3 are testing edge cases and as such are not really useful to test browser behavior in the real world.

What I don't understand is why they don't use the latest Chrome beta to do this tests - e.g. Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta passes all tests for Dom Level 2 Style.
I hear what you're saying, but all these mitigating factors that you bring up appear to make it less likely that the guy was simply an employee of the company.

This is again again opposite of a typical employee/contractor status dispute. Same issues, but the company wants things playing out in the "employee" direction so they can claim IP.
Yes, I forgot about Clojure.
Very Bing-like
It looks like they are cherry-picking HTML5 features that IE supports, but Mozilla/WebKit don't. But I don't see much of the important stuff like tag support, web workers, geo-location, databases... MS is pretty much full of shit.
Are his kids really that loud? Why doesn't sound proof his office and discipline his kids for being too noisy. (I'm sure this would please his neighbours as well).
A good point. The obvious alternative to terrorists being stupid and/or scarce is that their motives are quite different from what's usually assumed.

That being said, I'm also not sure I buy the 'terrorists hate freedom, so they want more big-brother security' theory. That seems much more likely to be a combination of a frightened populace and opportunistic government.
Yeah, you're right. I needed to reread the story to figure out what was going on with the case.
I'm trying to explain that the words "obfuscate" and "idiom" have meanings that aren't actually "OH GOD - DON'T DO THAT!!!"

Well, "obfuscate" does, but "idiom" doesn't.

Consider. I've dealt with people who were considered above average programmers and yet for whom "floor" wasn't obvious. They needed to look it up, and then they needed to look it up again when they saw it the second, and sometimes the third time. It cost them mental overhead because it was something they didn't know immediately, it's in a library, they needed to find it, and it's not actually part of the language.

The bitwise operators, however, they knew immediately. They were part of the library, they could immediately deduce what was happening, because it was part of the language. They were glad that someone didn't use some library call that they'd have to look up, and instead used the actual language itself, the built-in operators. And it was clear from the context that the desired result was an int that was close to, and preferably smaller than, the float they started with.

So there's an alternative viewpoint, and one from my direct personal experience. I agree entirely that code should express the intent of the programmer, and it should be clear, and that future maintenance is critical.

I'm not for a moment advocated that every clever, unobvious, difficult to disentangle trick you know should be used. Of course it shouldn't. Code should be clear, concise, and express its purpose.

But it should, above all, be maintainable. And sometimes an idiom is short, precise, unambiguous and does what is needed, and sometimes it's easier to simply regard it as an idiom of the language and get on with it.

Sometimes idiomatic code is, well, OK.

And I'll stop there. Feel free to disagree, feel free to dismiss my experience, thoughts and comments with an airy "no - it's not maintainable - it's not instantly readable - it's not possible for a programmer with no experience to modify effortlessly." It's not fashionable to expect maintenance programmers to have brains and skills.

Sorry. </rant>
This video contains no substance. It's an advertisement (albeit entertaining). Flagged.
Ugh, software teams are the new bands.
Sorry, I only saw this much later. When I say that Erlang is non-Algol, it is not a criticism of a given programmer. It is a criticism of the industry as a whole, that nothing that looks like Algol can succeed anytime soon.

Erlang is full of frustrating quirks and in other contexts you can find me complaining about them and how they don't all go away when you get used to them. (; , . is just plain BS.)
why do you hate fun?