skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The freedom of the press is the freedom to publish. That has very little to do with the methods used to gather the information in the first place, or the type of information gathered.

Freedom of the press is a subset and clarification of freedom of speech - it is important that it is not treated differently. It is not the freedom for the "press" as an establishment to do whatever they want in the persuit of material.
Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong.

"Oh, and we also disabled the Field Test mode so that you can no longer obtain a quantitative RSSI reading in dBm. Because if somebody were to, say, hack the phone to re-enable it, they might notice that holding the phone by the antenna could degrade its noise figure by as much as 24 dB (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2), killing all but about 1/250th of the signal power seen by the front end. And we don't know about you, but that just wouldn't be magical enough for us.

"Not only that, but we've either fired the RF engineers who designed our 'magical' antenna, or we're just now getting around to hiring our first ones. Sure, we only release one or two new products a year, but we apparently need three full-time PhD-level antenna engineers ( http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/30/apple-hiring-iphone-anten... ).

"You know, to put the magic in."

I now literally feel ill after reading that.
Yeah well you can prove anything with science
Well, that does have something to do with oil skimmers, and something to do with the EPA, but it doesn't support what anamax said. Obviously I did search google for terms like "EPA oil skimmer", which came up with this "A Whale" stuff and little else - so I was wondering if anamax had a source which addressed his particular claims (apparently not). The sand berms thing seems to be inaccurately paraphrased by anamax as well.
I have little doubt this is essentially what happened-- quite possibly operating completely within the law. Perhaps they do publish a book. But we've all heard about "directory" services like this and I dare anyone to keep a straight face and say they don't greatly benefit from deceiving people.
How do you download a new browser when your old one is expired?
My 2 cents. Kids want to have fun, and it would be awesome if they learned something on the way. I don't think 10 year kids need to know assembly. Might be better to plant a seed of "thinking like a computer scientist" and showing them the concepts of programming than teaching them binary. (I was taught binary at 10, and never touched it again until college...when I had forgotten it all). What if students find your history of computers and computers 101 class too diffucult and not engaging...then you've turned those kids away from ever becoming really interested in Computer Science.

Do kids really care about "really" learning the science? And it's true that a bunch of kids won't ever progress further than making some fun presentations, but what's wrong with that? Not all those kids are going to go on to become computer scientists. For those kids who are really interesting in programming and computers, they'll continue with it.

Creating things is a important part of learning. If kids make fun presentations that they show off to parents and friends, they're gonna work hard on it. Stepping through a program on a virtual computer enviroment doesn't really allow for that.

The class you're proposing sounds like a class I took in college. You're teaching 10 year old kids, my suggestion is to "dumb it down."
It wouldn't bode well for public relations between the browser designer and the user. I see the reasoning this guy has, but this proposal is literally planned obsolescence. That's a scary notion to a user (or consumer).
Law Enforcement "Controls Access" to New Minneapolis Public Wi-Fi Network
And as I said on Twitter... If I were in his situation I would keep my mouth shut and would be directing all questions to my lawyer. Otherwise you run the risk of increasing the guilt by association. This kind of stuff can ruin a company.

I understand the desire to publicly defend your biz partners, especially if they're your friends. So if you trust your friends enough to put your name and business on the line for them, then I guess ignore my advice. IAMAL, so what do I know? :)
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The point the author makes is that relaxing the filtering restrictions could help remove more oil.

Sort of like saying "the filter isn't effective enough, so we won't filter at all".

Bizarro World indeed.
Hear, hear! Good luck, Obie.
Why do people like that download FF/Chrome at all? They already have IE 8 I imagine.
As was mentioned by several of the commenters in the article the researcher (named Olle not Ollie) received the Swedish Sceptic Societys "Misleader of the year" prize in 2004.

Allow me to translate the last two paragraphs of their motivation for the prize, for you:

The Swedish Sceptic Society has noted that Olle Johansson frequently makes claims outside of his area of research. Electromagnetic fields are without a doubt outside of his area of knowledge. As an example when Johannson speaks about microwaves it's implied that these are comparable to X-rays and gamma radiation, despite the fact that it's two completely different physical phenomenon. The important parameters when discussing these phenomenons is frequeny and intensity. If these aren't specified then the discussion about dangers is meaningless. Even Olle Johanssons claims about ruptures in DNA-strings shows a lack of knowledge. As an example Johansson recently gave (Stockholms Fria Tidning 2004-12-24) an understatement on the natural occurance of such breaches with a factor of 100 000. Someone who wants to be taken seriously should at least be using the right scale for their numbers.

Lastly it's noted that Olle Johansson has claimed a long line of sicknesses, like cancer, blood preasure problems, asthma, allergies and insomnia, could be caused by electromagnetic fields. He claims that you can get skin cancer from tv- and radioemissions. Especially noted Johansson was a few years back when he claimed that brain damage and especially mad cow disease could be caused by mobile phones. (Aftonbladet 2001-03-12).

(From the Swedish Sceptics Society: http://www.vof.se/folkvett/20051obestyrkt-om-farorna-med-ele...)

Hes been making claims in this area of research since the 1970's according to his own bio page at Karolinska Institutet. The cynic in me is guessing the university unofficially keep him employed as a money making machine, by getting all of those electromagnetic scare grants, especially during the 90s mobile scare.
Congratulations Jessica! It's looking AWESOME.
Maybe you just had trouble understanding english.
The issue is that doing this is forcing the issues of a few people on to a much larger set. If someone doesn't want to write code for that browser just don't. If they're feeling really nice, pop an error message telling them that their browser is expired.

Oh, whats that? now the site isn't going to bring in as much revenue? Now they have a choice, whether the revenue is worth more to them than writing the code.
Read the whole thing. It's a well-written attack piece, paid for by somebody.

I really love 2 things about it, that are glaringly overlooked. In discussing the oil disaster and the cleanup efforts so far, and why the latter hasn't been as effective as one might have liked, he cites just about everything except these 2 points, rather suspiciously:

1. new oil is STILL leaking into the Gulf -- cleaning now is a bit like running just to stand still, there will be more flowing out and hitting the beaches tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, etc.

2. BP/Transocean/Halliburton are primarily at fault, both for the original accident/leak, and for not stopping it quicker. I don't buy the argument that somehow because a government oversight agency was not as aggressive as it could have been, and/or was bribed BY these oil companies to back off and let them ignore rules that THEREFORE the government is anywhere near as at fault as the oil companies in question. It's a bit like blaming the police for not stopping a murderer -- rather than blaming the murderer. Hello?!
This is why Chrome has built-in silent autoupdate - the vast majority of our users are on the a new version within a week of releasing it.

See graphs:
http://www.belshe.com/test/velocity2010/#slide38.0

The shallow curve is our development and beta channel users, the steep part of the curve is when we release a stable version. Previous slides show known update rates for other browsers.
Disney has made a fortune modernizing classic fairy tales. The reason that such tales have lasted so long in our shared culture is that people have been free to evolve them into their own works. Who gave Disney permission to create stories based on the Brothers Grimm or Arabian Nights?

Imagine a culture years from now, where every piece of culture has been locked down by a corporation. What kind of stagnation would exist? Would only the authorized storytellers be allowed to participate in authorized creation?

Disney is fighting to extend copyright perpetually. They want to be making money from Mickey Mouse a 1000 years from now. The original artists will be long gone, but no one will be able to build upon Mickey as Disney has built upon ancient tales.

Read some Cory Doctorow for a better explanation of this. Makers is especially good.
No it's easy to know when to quit - when a competing but more senior VP gets hold of your project.
Because copyrights exist to creste an incentive for the production of cultural goods. If Disney can milk their cows forever, there will be little incentive to produce new cows.

This monopoly on such cultural goods prevents the creation of derivedworks and reduce the value to the population of these goods.

They can have their copyright, but for a reasonable time.
They produced, published and mailed out a real 1000+ page book, twice a year, and I'm aware that it cost them millions of dollars and lots of manpower to do so. We can debate the usefulness of paper-based yellow pages in this day and age until the cows come home, but either way it would not mean they committed fraud.
"We were tricking you into thinking you had better signal than you actually did since the first iPhone, so we're gonna stop that and fix the problem by making the weak-bars look taller."
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Because they have an agenda.

Ever since the man behind Fox News bought the Wall Street Journal I've had a rule of thumb that says be very wary of anything the WSJ writes anymore that touches on politics. Their OpEd section has never exactly been a left-wing/liberal haven by any means but now that there's a Fox News connection behind the scenes I expect things to slide more a certain way. Propaganda++.
This sounds like a twist on the Stanford prison experiment, I'm not really sure how this ties to real world executive compensation. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment for reference)
NuCaptcha solves the exact problems that the article outlines.
Wow thats a pretty good chunk of money.What kind of site you got? A social networking site, Q&A site...
The iPhone 4 antenna and a lesson from history
There are many reasons to be skeptical about the claims the article is making. Correlation vs. causation, and the experiment's relation to executive compensation both seem obvious angles of attack. However, the fact that the study supports what some people would like to believe is not a good reason to doubt any study. Certainly there are some people who would like to believe executive compensation has no impact on how mean you are. Would you be just as skeptical of the reverse finding, based on the notion there are people out there who would like it to be true?

If an experiment's findings are bogus, it is because there is a problem with the methodology or execution. If you want to attack a study, attack it on that basis. If you can't point to a problem with the methodology/execution, your attack is at least as suspicious as that hint of confirmation bias.
Really interesting- the cashflow analysis is killer! Totally worth paying for, if pricing was based around the product as a cashflow tool. The rest, though, is just a 10% Mint clone, without the flexibility.

I'd almost rather use it as a dedicated cash-flow analysis service- way more focused, way more valuable.
I do not think the pervious commentor was implying that they committed fraud; he or she was simply saying that they likely benefit from deceiving people. Many legit companies benefit from deceiving people.
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oh a tweet? nevermind then -- innocent, case dismissed! :)
Some quotes from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pages

"The term YellowPages is not a registered name within the United States and is freely used by many companies."

also

"In some countries, the familiar "walking fingers" logo is not protected as a trademark and may be used by anyone."
I talked to my lawyer and he was fine with me publicly commenting on it, especially since the mainstream media is doing its best to turn this into a huge story.

AND

I do trust my partners enough to my name and business on the line for them. They are innocent.
To start out free, google app engine is a good way to go. It is a little quirky and different from most solutions, but it's great to start paying nothing.
That argument depends on showing how photo/videography of courtroom proceedings would provide substantially more information to the public than textual or graphical reportage does now. Is the public going to be any better off by having access to recording of a judge's furrowed brow or the steely glint in a prosecutor's eye? Because past experience has shown that such trivialities are the sort of material that gets replayed over and over on TV.

More seriously, consider the fact that people's attractiveness varies considerably, and a large part of our media is built upon selecting for visual attraction. What effect do you think that televised trials will have for plaintiffs, defendants, or witnesses who are ugly, or have a speech impediment, or whose attorney would come last in a beauty contest? It's a well-known fact that simply being taller correlates strongly with victory in presidential elections. Televised coverage of an emotive case mandates developing a 'charismatic strategy', and selecting for counsel and testimony based on their favorable visual impact - after all, this is the essential function of the casting process in narrative filmmaking (where I work). Once you go down this road you might as well go all the way: 'Your honor, I move for an extreme close-up of the witness, emphasizing his shifty gaze!' 'Objection! A cutaway to the defendant's cringing posture is clearly in order!'

On a more general note, your literalist reading of the 1st Amendment would grant the press the right to do anything at all - burst into your home while you're on the toilet, raid your bank account, murder people on live TV, and start shooting wars in the name of public curiosity about the potential outcome. By this logic, anyone who declares themselves to be a publisher and has an inkjet printer or a blog is exempt from any constraints as long as they provide regular updates on their field of interest. Strict construction that leads to absurdities is no better than implicit assumptions about the judicial branch's freedom to establish standards for its own operation.
.NET?? 0_o
ASP??? o_0
WHY??? O_O
yellowpagesunited.com is down now. Anyone with a mirror of the logo?
PHP is a programming language, it was not designed for 'simple web/database apps' any more than any other language...

Um, yes it was. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#History to verify that PHP started as a bunch of CGI binaries to serve some simple dynamic web pages. The database bit came later, but at the start it was explicitly designed for quick and dirty web pages.
prgmr.com should have a new server up within the next couple days.
Take out the https:// and you're redirected to http://www.bizyellow.com/
Aren't those people charged executives of Hashrocket as well?
Mr. Splashy Pants
How about neither - there can always be a retrial and/or appeal and/or exoneration by other means.
From everything I've read Netty looks like a champ compared to all other NIO servers. :-)

So, I'm quite excited to have found the answer to my question, AND someone has already started a clojure/netty project:

http://github.com/texodus/saturnine

Check out these comparisons of Netty vs others:

http://gleamynode.net/articles/2232/

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19456

http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/07/scalable-nio...

http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/09/scalable-nio...

http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/13/scalable-nio...
How about just showing the bandwidth itself and then make it colored differently if it drops below the ability to make a voice call?
I think muxa was wondering you'd have built this on .net. I'm assuming it's because that's probably the skillset you have. Am I correct?
Why its so easy to be an Apple Fanboy
Yes sir. However, I need some feedback from you guys. Any?
More articles like this should be posted here.
Suppose there are three people, each of whom hold an opinion on some topic which contradicts the other two. So two out of three think they are right, yet at most one out of three actually is.

This is expected, when people disagree about the world. There is no need to bring psychological biases into it.
Wow, looks pretty good. I've just been doing ad-hoc accounting, but this might convince me to get more organized.

Not sure what constitutes a "Transaction", though. Maybe include a tooltip or explanation underneath?
Solution? A framework which allows you to write lisp which turns into php written in php? Below is how I would do this in what I am calling "lisphp" http://github.com/shaunxcode/lisphp

(map-dict
[k v | tag :li (tag :strong k) (join "," (map [get :name _] v))]
(group-by :color (sql-query "select * from favcolor order by color, name")))
I believe the data loss was on Jeff Atwood's personal blog codinghorror.com, not Stack Overflow, and it was due to outsourcing the hosting/backup to an (incompetent) third party.
How many security vulnerabilities does your power drill have? Is all the wood you get backwards-compatible with it?
Courtroom artists serve exactly that function - to sketch the scene in courtrooms where cameras are not allowed, for distribution through the news media. I'm not sure what the trend is but I wouldn't be surprised if it is a waning profession, given increasing number of courts that allow photography/video.
The passive repeater is for getting around things which don't allow line-of-sight, and passive because it's just routing a signal without any amplification. The image on the article receives a signal, and sends it via coax to a transmitter. Other forms mention a waveguide, used to connect two dishes. And the output is weaker than the input (necessarily), which seems to imply background noise would be stronger than the signal from your bed. Or at the very least, the bed would provide a slight shielding effect due to the cost of conducting the signal.

ie, a passive repeater looks like this:

______(dishes)______
| |
V V

\__________________/
) /| (waveguide) |\ ) signals _ (weaker)
) |________________| ) \
) / \ ) |
) / \ ) |
/ (Ground) \ ) V
/ \ )
/ \

Maybe you're thinking of some kind of electromagnetic lens?

(had fun making the image, part of the reason for this comment :)
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liquid sky
...and has exhausted all appeals, and...

I know I'm being grumpy about this, but I just don't see what public good will be served by such a move. I can't think of any clear benefit the televised coverage has brought to the legislative process, and extrapolating from existing coverage of the courts I suspect the vast majority of airtime would be spent on catering to the most prurient sort of public curiosity.

If one considers McLuhan's famous remark that 'the medium is the message,' it's hard to ignore the fact that the medium of television is awash in sensational trivia, relies heavily on emotional manipulation of the viewer to construct a compelling visual narrative, and frequently oversimplifies complex issues to the point of distorting the facts. Now this is no more the fault of broadcast technology or infrastructure any more than lies are the fault of the speaker's larynx or distant relatives; but the sad reality is that a great deal of television is the intellectual equivalent of a sewer, and whatever you drop into a sewer is going to end up getting dirty. It's a problem that law and the legal process are so obscure and inaccessible to the public - but not one that will be solved by turning courtrooms into studio sets.
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They just graduated from Berkeley.
Come on man. We're all ignorant. I just called you out on a particular thing you seem ignorant about on which you wanted to make an absurd claim about based on your own limited experience. You should expect to get called out.

In my own ridiculously limited experience (which happens to include one new FP lang) I found your claim to be simply, irrefutably (in my mind) untrue.

The whole point of karma on HN is to keep things in balance. And I saw the need to keep the balance here. If you can't roll with that what's the point of discussion?

Movin' on.
Could the big browser makers all agree to set expiration dates on all their browsers?

They could! It'd be as much a runaway success as software expiration was for eradicating piracy, and I doubt anyone is competent enough to roll out cracks or patches to "fix" people's broken browsers.
Classic case of cognitive dissonance [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance]. I assume the people in the study changed the belief that was less personal / emotional: that science was useful.
sorry but so called developing world like india and africa has better cell connectivity than downtown new york (where i work)
plus a cell phone with sms service coasts about 5$ month.

So you should rather work on mobile based implementation rather than creating a new device, also rather than web based tweet submission. you should use sms based submission.

but dont underestimate power of mobile in india africa and other places. mobile infrastructure is in very very good shape. though not 3g or data services.
I could not agree more, if I download a software, I am the one who decides when and for what purpose I use it.

I agree that people should be strongly recommended to update, or (as in Google Chrome) update automatically if possible, but refusing to boot is just plain wrong.
I think we'd quickly have an interesting court case in the US if a political party cited this as their defense for carrying out a criminal conspiracy during a session of Congress. After all, that clause only addresses what can happen during the session.
"If Disney can milk their cows forever, there will be little incentive to produce new cows."

How so?
You know, we effectively had this back in 1995 or 1996 when Netscape would release betas. Each version would expire and require you to upgrade a few months afterwards. The Web was very different back then, but I think that this could possibly work for browsers like Safari where there aren't a bunch of folks with plugins. But breaking my favorite Firefox plug because the plugin creator was on vacation for six months and missed a browser upgrade would be not so cool.
I thought that power lines run at least 220 volt in the US (if not more).