skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. He's not being "handled". It's essentially all in his head. And no, I wouldn't seek attention like this. There is no upside. You fight the case in court. That's where the battle is. His essay only hurts him.

To be clear, he's just being asked to serve as a witness and hasn't been charged with anything related to the iPad security. He just doesn't understand the legal process and is requesting things he is not entitled to yet, such as a public defender, and spinning conspiracy theories when they are denied. As of this moment, he is only facing a misdemeanor related to the drugs the police found.

It's not clear whether or not the EFF has the manpower to help him. The essay he wrote doesn't seem like he even tried. However, the EFF is usually very helpful with referrals or pointers. This is from personal experience.

If you want to bet on him over the government or Apple, that's your choice. Based on his actions so far (black hat approach to security disclosure; writing a long, ranting essay filled with conspiracy theories about the case and the way he is being "handled" and publishing it on the net), I'd most certainly call your bet and laugh all the way to the bank.
I can see how that makes sense. I guess it depends on your type of personality and what will hook you more. It's the difference between listening to a song and looking at the sheet music and trying to understand how it works.

Some people might like one more than the other in the beginning, and I assumed that most people would probably like to simply listen to the song before diving in the mechanics. But maybe that's wrong with this crowd.
The editor helps you write Lisp, by keeping count of parens, but once it's written, it should be readable without any special support.

And reading Python without colours isn't much fun.

Haskell can get away without colours in Papers, but the authors tend to substitute lots of mathematical symbols there with the help of TeX. (And they use other typographical hints instead of colour.)
You use a compiler that accepts the assembly code, and produces output for the target architecture.

This was how DEC VMS was ported from VAX to Alpha and later to Itanium, as a substantial part of that operating system is written in VAX Macro32 assembler.
I saw that first on Derek Sivers site, though it was probably linked from HN.

http://sivers.org/horses
I made one of these 10 years ago (Java Applet). Great fun, but I have no idea how to make it into much more than a fun toy.
Stealth mode is reserved for high profile entrepreneur's or successful business's that can be easily copied. Also stealth mode should not mean private beta. Stealth mode should mean hiding from potential competitors. For example, I'm a Facebook developer which means the apps I create are for everyday consumers. A TechCrunch article or HN post about one of my apps would have a negligible impact on sales or traffic, but it would attract competitors. For that reason I avoid that form of publicity.

If I was a high profile entrepreneur working on a top secret project, I still wouldn't do a private beta. Instead I would block IP's belonging to tech savvy states like California and countries like China. Actually I think it is a good idea to block all of Asia. The majority of clones of my apps are created by people in China.
I won't be surprised if V8 is faster than the laggy Java Dalvik JIT VM in 2.2.
I'm surprised this isn't one of the main concepts that repeatedly gets mention on this site. We obsess over 'make something people want', but never drill down deeper. Good design can go a long way toward making people want something.

I'm willing to bet that mint.com got a fair amount of popularity (and memorability) because it was so nice to look at.
Just use google docs:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1ViOs4u4_uaPoDzwnd4...
Completely agree. No small wonder parents who feel obligated to negotiate every little thing with their children are so burned out. Kids need nurturing and honest attention, but they'll turn into little controlling tyrants if you let them.
"We've cured cancer so many times in rodents, if I were a mouse, I'd take up smoking unfiltered Marlboros while working at a nuclear waste disposal site in the Ukraine."

JunkDNA, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020444
Give http://venturehacks.com/angellist a shot.
The md5 decrypted via md5decrypter.com resolves to:

"SCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."
I'm no progamer so this is just a guess, but it looks like an order can be fine-tuned while underway: order some units to move somewhere at a very low degree of accuracy and then fine-tune while they are underway, for example.

Where the initial click is accurate, this would look a lot like spamming but I can see how it would become a reflex.
Ask HN: Is it worth doing a patent?
Our online backend technology and business process seems unique enough to be able to patent, but I wonder if it is really worth the time, effort and cost.

I know Mint.com and eHarmony have patented their tech process, but I wonder if it really adds value to the company, or gives them a true legal defensible position against a competitor in the real world.

I ask this, because I read the eHarmony patent end to end this afternoon, and it seems to lay out how to build the backend.

It seems like revealing this to the world might not be smart. With some little tweaks or additions it seems like a competitor could use basically the same process to compete against them.

To me, this is something I think we would not want to reveal.

Is a patent a smart move?
I agree -- and going one step further, WITHIN higher education, there seems to be somewhat of a stigma against training for real-world, hands-on, applications. I was pretty lucky to attend a college that encouraged students to work on projects that could become viable products... but from what I hear from friends, it was the exception.
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SPJ is at Microsoft, and so are Jim Larus and Leslie Lamport. But you know what? For a behemoth that allegedly swallowed half of the computing minds in Europe, and god knows how many in the U.S., it's very sad that I can name only three top researchers, and I have absolutely no idea what they're working on.

I see more development coming out of the Factor camp, and Factor is pretty much a 25 year old guy in a basement.

Lest you think I am picking on Microsoft, I haven't been too happy with the Google language R&D labs as well. They took out billions in cash and replicated Bell Labs, circa 1986.
Craigslist, then Dice, then Monster. Maybe 37 Signals or Techcrunch later.
Scala also, has a standard two-space indentation.
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they conspired to hide it

This is a flat out lie. The data is publicly available.
> So why did it become the #1 post on HN ?

My theory is that this place has become overrun with .NET enterprise developers who immediately up-vote any title that paints Apple in a bad light.
Four out of 23 do, and at least two of them were Japanese-born Koreans who for whatever reason decided to take DPRK nationality.
Check out Lamson: http://lamsonproject.org/

It includes OneShotBlog(.com) as an example of using email processing to build a blog system.
some asshole keeps scribbling over my penis drawings.
I think a good rule of thumb is that you'll end up spending around 2x your rent if you're conservative and 3x your rent if you're not. In your case I'd assume $800 minimum.
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You might as well try to use http://edward.oconnor.cx/elisp/hl-sexp.el everywhere, including REPL first.
That's not correct. The drag too fast tweak is there to discourage people scribbling all over the place.

The actual "fix" for your problem was to collect commands (mouseMoves) and send them every 75ms instead of sending a command every mouse move. There is also some simple delta stuff to save on BW
It might mean something like a computer kill code or something
The problem with the model (1) and one of the reasons its hard to find someone willing to take the risks with it is that it allows for a not that difficult to pull off money scam. essentially you sell to yourself and then you chargeback on the original payment once you received the money on the seller's side. The "easy" solution to this problem is to have a very high fee on transactions so that the average loss on chargebacks will be less then the total fees, or holding seller's money for 3 to 6 months to make sure there wont be chargeback on it. The harder much better way to solve it it so have better fraud detection and prevention, and not everyone can pull this off. you certainly can't on your own, you need someone else doing the heavy lifting.
Those are just tools. A means to an end. The end result is minimal. In essence, it is only one small Makefile, which calls various external scripts.

Much like in life, where minimalism often involves more work. It is harder to design something simple, then something complex.
In our house you could nail it a lot less scientifically. Just scan the domain names and add 1 point for male with a /porn/ match and 1 female point for /baby/. I dare say the Google seaerches would be an immediate giveaway too!
There's another crucial point here - if you can't get acclaim for your idea without having the product as well, that's a major motivator to get the product working.

So sometimes stealth mode is a good idea in order to make yourself get developing, rather than in order to keep the idea itself from the outside world.
APM is not that important. It is just the age old problem that a measurable factor will tend to overshadow other factors that are not as easily measurable.

What is much much more important for the game of Starcraft is split second decision making ability to micro and macro, overall awareness, having a large number of possible strategies and unit interactions stored in your mind and ready for instant recall, etc., none of which are really measurable.

A player that has less APM can be much better at micromanaging his/her units than a player with larger APM. The less APM player can just make sure that all those clicks and button presses count more.

Blizzard decided to measure current APM and give you a real time readout for Starcraft 2 which very predictably resulted in a lot of spamming, i.e., players meaninglessly cliking their mouse and pressing buttons in order to raise their APM and to convince anyone watching them that they are really really good.
You spelled YH! wrong.
ArrowStreet Capital in Boston is looking for a very analytical-minded developer that really knows what they're doing with C# and SQL Server. You'd be working in the research department of a quantitative asset management firm.

* Great office with an amazing view.

* Easy to get to via the T and highway.

* Competitive pay. Great health, dental, life insurance and disability. Absurdly generous 401K, 5 weeks personal time off to start, bonuses (real ones) and other perks.

* Analysts that understand the technology awfully well, and can (and do) write code themselves. No hand-holding or having to dumb anything down.

* General meritocratic environment. Interesting work. There's a significant amount of freedom that allows you to poke at other projects.

* Almost exclusively Microsoft stack, but at the forefront with most technologies, and sometimes we do go for the bleeding edge.

You'd be my co-worker. Send a resume to the email in my profile (put "Hacker News" in the subject so it doesn't get eaten by my spam filter) and I'll get in touch sometime within the next few days to see if you might be a good fit.
Yes, you are wrong.

If you aren't a computer programmer, there are few jobs, even if you have a degree in something hard, like Physics. If you live somewhere like Arizona, there are few jobs even if you are a computer programmer.
It's currently on my waiting list. Right now I'm halfway through "Musashi", which I'm finding quite motivational.
I'm not sure how the two books compare though.
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Downloading HN
i would really love to have backup of all the great knowledge on here for off line viewing, so why dont HN have an image of its database open for the public to download
If not for Apple, I would not be selling software. I would still code, but for myself. I like to solve problems and software is like a puzzle with any number of solutions. Any time I spend dealing with merchant accounts is time not spent coding. Not that Apple's submission process is smooth -- speaking of-- any opinions on iOS4 submission changes would be welcome. I am not going to quit my day job, yet, I love to use and write for iPhone and the state of cell data networks means an uneven experience without a front end.
Editing the email subject can change the way you manage and search your email
Very cool algorithm. I just implemented and tested it for fun:
http://www.nashcoding.com/?p=51

Basically, all it's doing is tracking the letter with maximum frequency and subtracting 2x its occurrences next to every other letter. If there's a letter that's still positive in frequency, it keeps going, otherwise it assumes all the vowels have been found. Clever!
Very cool of CMU, and gratz.
We have that list, but we really would prefer not to broadcast interest too publicly because we're still employed. We would like to pitch individual angels.

Maybe that's what we have to do though...
Related: The Daily Mail Oncology Ontology Project
http://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/
Yes, you are missing something about what people mean by "ideas are worthless, execution is the only thing that counts."

When people say that, they are usually referring to an untested bare idea. That is worthless (or has negligible worth) because it has not been tested. If a startup is in stealth, then maybe their "idea" has been tested, or they have proof it's worth something. But a random idea by default is not worth anything because it requires proper execution to test for its worth.

So let's say I told a guy hey I got this cool idea for a website that let's people upload videos and share them. Let's pretend no element of this idea has been tested, that, there has been no indication in society that people like to watch videos. Let's say I did this 10 years ago. To some untrained person, there's no difference between that idea and an idea where people can share photos of their underwear. To a sufficiently untrained person (let's say the average person is sufficiently untrained), both ideas are equally worthless because no element of either idea had been tested at the time. So if two ideas have the same starting point whereas no element of the idea has been tested to be potentially successful, then both are worthless at that point.

However let's say I have another idea, and it revolves around letting people video chat with each other online. So in this hypothetical universe, watching videos has no predetermined usefulness, however it turns out people like to chat with each other. So the element of this idea revolving around chatting with strangers has established value, but the part pairing it with video is new. So it has some possible value now, unfortunately it's common knowledge people like to chat with each other, so because of the ubiquity of that idea element the value drops back down to zero. But let's say it wasn't common knowledge that chatting was popular, and instead through some tests we discovered that. Now the idea has value because we've proved it has value but only we know about it. We would probably proceed to stealth mode to implement such a thing to take advantage of this discovery.
I'd like to use OpenVPN, but unfortunately it isn't supported by Apple, nor does it seem very likely that it ever will be.
Universities don't promote this. Most humanities departments are fighting for their lives because of declining numbers of students and limited institutional support.

The #1 major in the USA is "Business."

Hacker News constructs this imaginary world of lazy "liberal arts" majors with degrees in french literature and can't find jobs. But, hardly anyone actually majors in subjects that people think of when they think of the "liberal arts." Only 27% in the USA even graduate from college at all. Thus in terms of actual numbers, there really aren't that many spoiled humanities majors loafing about.
Provide a browser plugin/native app/something so that I can get screenshots onto a remote serve painlessly. I hate the whole printscreen-photoshop-paste-save-upload cycle.
I'm about 60% male but hey, my girlfriend use my computer sometime :D
I have played around with Lamson. It still requires app developers to install, customize and maintain. I'm trying to understand if there is a market for a service that makes it super-simple to process incoming email.
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It's actually pretty neat. Enjoying it for 15 minutes. Now if only there were a tad less penis and vandalism guys awake...
Check out the Gdocs compilation from the last thread this morning.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At7Zl0IkSUKrdGl4RE1Y...
Yeah, not only are they probably using two-year-old data, but if the confidence given is 97% for it being the wrong gender for me, I doubt that it's actually an effective tool.

There are all kinds of fuzzy behavioral ways to analyze gender. I remember when the Gender Genie (http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php) made a similar splash. The issue is that it ignores the finer-grained sociological contexts in how certain people behave.

I can't find their name, but there is an African tribe where, as a courtship ritual, men dress up and wear makeup to attract women. To other people, this would sound like gender roles are reversed, but in reality, it's just their cultural definition of gender roles at play.

Mainstream culture subsumes a variety of subcultures and idioms, meaning that using statistical methods to determine the characteristics of specific behaviors within a coarse-grained social group may overgeneralize. For a more nuanced approach, it would be a good idea to use ensembles, or add subculture membership as a feature to a linear regression classifier.
Startup founders do not go into poverty.

To do a startup, you have to be middle-class, at least, from the start, because otherwise you have no hope of getting the funding or building up the savings.

The most successful startups are an exception to the fact of American society being tiered, but these types of sociological statements always admit exceptions. If you want to see our tiered society in action, note how difficult it is to get venture capital and press coverage if you're not from an upper-class background, and compare it to how easily rich kids are able to get these resources.
It sounds like you're not using a javascript debugger (or rather rolling your own).

If that's the case I'd encourage you to familiarize yourself with some, firebug/the Chrome Inspector/IE + VS/whatever
By the way, just think of the few recent pieces of software that made the most impact on industry; Clojure, Redis, Nginx, Memcached, jQuery,etc. All the works of random sole hackers, the last two pretty much standard resume pieces for any web developer. None of these guys existed on the map until they changed the industry with a Changelog. And because of that, I have every reason to believe that the next great engineer-aesthete is faceless today, and bumming around on friends' couches and handouts; not someone being cultivated with corporate endowments and backing.
This is all great thinking on Ford's part but one piece stands out for me:

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

I like Ford's approach but he would not be impressed with how restricting the ability to lay off low value workers has damaged our economy. People are even put off of hiring knowing that they might be paying higher unemployment insurance at the end of it, and Europe was dominated (and weighed down) by trade unions for a long time.
Well, it think it depends a lot on who's working in the startup. If it's got several founders of other wildly successful companies attached to it, both in terms of board members and actual employees, then the idea by itself may be worth something. The idea has essentially been fully endorsed by some very knowledgeable people who have had success at picking the right ideas in the past. If the startup is run by a bunch of nobodies, who really cares? Most startups are run by nobodies though, and honestly I could care less what their ideas are unless they've had some great successes in the past.
In my case, it's the throughput that was a problem; there was practically zero latency or cost of sending a message using node and WebSockets.

I was considering doing some sort of curve-fitting to (lossily) compress the drawing commands. Sending a couple points to describe a quadratic or Bézier curve is a lot nicer than hundreds of points to describe tiny line segments.

And, as luck would have it, <canvas> draws both natively! :)
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If it is ever seized they will just use another domain name with a hardlinked IP address. The actual domain is not needed to operate. The IP address will make the rounds and become as well known as the domain name.
Not really. Because of the high variance it's difficult to make claims of that sort. You have to bear in mind that prior to the late 19th century Stevenson screens were not in use, and thermometers themselves were less accurate. Also it's pretty clear that there are systematic biases in the data, meaning that WMO stations on average move closer to the equator over time. I havn't checked whether this bias exists for the UK data, but it does for the overall data set.
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So does JG Wentworth, with their memorable slogan, "It's my money and I need it now!"
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isn't it more cost-effective right now to reach a lot of different people for absolutely free

Not really free, since you have to spend time doing it.
Recompute or remember?
That's what I thought.

If they expect it to be cracked (which they might, why put it there if you don't expect anyone to crack it) it could be something much simpler. I'd maybe start looking at some sort of substitution scheme or something similar.
I preferred Shogun a lot more over Musashi. I know the second is a classic, but the first one was a much more engrossing story to me (despite its historical inaccuracy). :)
Gruber's source: Microsoft only sold 503 Kins.
let me know if you have any questions or anything. also feel free to tell me if you think something could be done better.
Check out the Gdocs compilation from the last thread this morning. You might try posting there.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At7Zl0IkSUKrdGl4RE1Y...
You're missing a U at the beginning of the string.
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You don't understand how press coverage works. Being upper-class has nothing to do with it, unless you are princess diana. You just pay people to do your PR. They get the story into the press for you. The PR people themselves are NEVER from upper-class backgrounds... it's a pretty ghetto occupation to get into in the first place. In fact they are usually from such limited backgrounds in the first place that half of them will do the work for almost nothing. (but it's the ones who charge a lot who you really want to hire)
1: Data keep on changing. There would also need to be a way to get diffs.

2: Bandwidth. Who will pay for it, and why?

3: Who in their right mind is going to read it all that they would want an offline copy? Found a page that's interesting? Do "File|Save" from your browser. Think there are nuggets you've missed? Do a Web search, then "File|Save"
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