skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone please explain to me how gag orders surrounding trials came to be considered legally and morally acceptable. I don't understand the justification at all. Doesn't free speech necessarily entail the right to speak to the "court of public opinion"?

I can understand this sort of secrecy when classified information is involved, in that people who go into access willingly give up certain free speech rights-- they lose any right to disseminate the information-- but, in a case like this, it seems that weev (who would probably never pass a security clearance and get access to classified information) should have the right to say whatever he wants about what's happening to him.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/related/ch1qn/ive_had_all_my_te...
Wait, so you're saying the Kin didn't sell as well as the iPhone or EVO? Why wasn't that reported anywhere?
I wouldn't say Gruber "stake[d] his reputation" on the number. Here is what he said:

> I can’t vouch for the following, but a well-placed little birdie told me over the weekend that they sold a grand total of 503 Kins before they pulled the plug. 503.

That phrasing does not put absolute confidence in the number. It is very possible he was misinformed. But 8000 (as pointed out, a probably over inflated number) is still pathetic.
How to stay motivated (whilst programming a game)
I use password composer (http://www.xs4all.nl/~jlpoutre/BoT/Javascript/PasswordCompos...) which does an md5 hash of the url and the master password of your choosing to generate a unique password for each website. The extensions for chrome and firefox make it very convenient to use.
I know this is self promotion :) but I recently blogged about my reasons for wanting to do this here: http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2010/07/why-i-want-an-eco-house...

The best budget option for a roof seems to be turf

What I have in mind is something of a sunken/earthworks house - so yes, turf roof which I would try and double as a grass terrace etc. cob/straw looks like a useful material from my research too - coupled with the sunken aspect for insulation reasons.

The biggest obstacle in the UK seems to be finding suitable land and getting planning permission etc. I don't really know any solution to that.

Most of the "first generation" examples I have seen build first and sort planning later. But there are newer projects that have applied successfully - and that is the route I prefer.

I think planners are becoming more open to self sustained housing, thankfully :)

Thanks for the book recommendation! I will track it down from Amazon.
Where do you buy the land? How do you find it? What do you look for in land? How do you even start to do something like this?

I'd love to do this too but I'm overwhelmed by thousands of questions.
Mine too, along with the infamous (at least among my friends) quote: "NO ONE Hacks the Gibson!"
A massively ambitious vanilla php project to collect click-through data on an advertising platform, with a dashboard, daily translation of 6gb log files into one-page screenshots for quick overview. This feature took me 2 months to program, was an awesome experience, but the company was soon bought out, and the app was eliminated in the takeover. Sad sad.
The Apollo missions picked up some moon rocks. That's kind of close.
I really like the concept behind this Ask HN, especially the "help someone else in the thread with their goals." I'll definitely try.

Goal: Launch a non-profit student apprenticeship program in partnership with a few corporations.

Roadblock #1: While doing my 9-7 job.

Roadblock #2: A few of my web applications are finally reaching the "need to incorporate" stage. Have very little clue about law and accounting.

Roadblock #3: Have some of the clients/partnerships down, but getting the right students and professionals involved is difficult.
As mentioned elsewhere in this topic, so have all the other terms in the license have slippery meanings.

In fact Good and Evil are extremes of behavior. The words are intended to indicate obvious things. As the Justice said "you know it when you see it".
As a supplement to 2: make sure you are regularly meeting and talking to women, if you are not already perfectly comfortable doing so. As for worrying, definitely avoid it as long as you're doing the above.
True. How about safety and parking there? Both are important factors. Rain isn't much of an issue.

Being from Toronto, the cold and snow are big deterrents. But safety is the biggest concern for me, even riding a bike in a bike lane is really dangerous. Cars don't look for you when making turns, they just go.

I was hit once cycling when someone made an abrupt right turn without signalling. My handlebar dug into the side of their van and somehow I was able to stay on my bike. They screeched to a halt and started yelling at me about how I hit them. They turned directly into me and I was in a bike lane!

Riding a scooter here feels so much safer - drivers are aware of them and are cautious at the appropriate times.
I don't think I understand your first point.
The type for main would be
func(int, *[]byte) int
which reads left to right.
The function definition syntax isn't as left to right, but it's hardly complicated or confusing.

I think your points may be valid, but I don't think they lead to your conclusion that Go's syntax fails at its stated mission.
Unless, of course, you are able to adapt to openness, and compensate for its costs by taking advantage of its benefits. If you can grow despite this handicap, you have an enormous competitive advantage against those who would collapse if their secrets were revealed.

Intentionally doing things the hard way can sometimes make you much more resilient, as long as you reach the endgame in one piece.
An aggregator for sports scores, including a scraper which pulls data from major feeds, and sends them directly into an InDesign template for publishing setup. The same week that I finished the feature, our company corporate office decided to go with an out-of-the-box solution, still waiting to see how it will stack up.
I searched for a very long time when I last used 2008. How do you do it?
Anyone who has done a lot of bit twiddling in C has other uses for ^. (I find it ironic that 4^5 has an obvious meaning outside of programming that it doesn't have in a large variety of widely used programming languages.)
At work, we used Google Website Optimizer on the redesign of one of our sites. The site is a coupon/deal site that makes several million dollars per year through affiliate links. The site hadn't had a new design since the late 90's. Since 99% of traffic comes from organic search and lands on a page for a specific merchant, and leaves through an affiliate link, we didn't want the new design to make that process harder. Here's what we did.

The designer created 5 variations of the merchant landing page. The variations had different color schemes, placement of coupons, etc. We used GWO to test the original versus the new variations, using an exit through an affiliate link as our goal. In this round, the original beat out all of the new designs (60%+ conversions vs 30%).

Back to the drawing board. What was it about the new design that was affecting conversions? An informal focus group revealed that the listing of coupons looked too much like display ads, and people didn't like clicking on ads. The designer came up with new designs that looked more like a blog. We re-ran the tests with 5 variations, but the original still beat out the new versions though by a smaller margin (60%+ vs 50%+). The focus groups liked the new design better than the original, but real world users weren't clicking as much.

That's when I stumbled on the answer. Whenever we did focus groups we showed users the design in a conference room, and it was always on a local server. Whenever our QA department did testing, it was always from our office, 1 mile from our datacenter. When I sent a friend a link, he thought the site was too slow. I suspected that since the new page was slower than the old one, people were giving up before it fully loaded.

We re-ran the GWO tests, this time with various stripped-down versions of the landing page with different loading times. We even created one version that loaded even slower. Finally we had a winner: when the new design was stripped down a little, and the images heavily optimized, and aggressively cached, we got the load time down to about the same as the old version. This was the version that beat out the original (60%+ conversions vs 72%). This is the version on the live site today.
Well, you can choose sentence that are easier to remember.. It helps if that sentence is related to the website in question.. so for instance.. "I Like To Visit Hacker News" -> iltvhn.. I kind of type the password while saying the sentence in my head. However, as I said, I usually change i for 1, and a for @.. 1ltvhn. :p (Don't try this pass on my account please!)
Python. Easy to get started, but also very capable.
Step #1 should be clearing cookies and cache. It's solved most of my Gmail problems when I have them.
May I recommend learning either python or ruby? They are both fairly easy to pick up.
I honestly think I would be good that that. I am a very mechanical person-- a large portion of my friends and family refer to me as "the fixer." I feel that I generally am able to develop innovative solutions to problems, but I currently lack the coding skills.

The problems with the few things I want to accomplish currently is that they are not really money-making solutions. They are personal things that I would like to implement across a variety of platforms to include Windows, Linux and my cell. Another would be simplifying work-related tasks that could benefit my co-workers as well, but are not something that the company (nor myself) would be interested in spending largish sums of money on developing.
That is unfortunate about your friend.

Helmets seem to be all or nothing. If there is a law forcing them, 95% of people wear helmets. If there isn't, 95% of people don't wear a helmet.

You would expect people to carefully consider it and make a decision on their own. For some reason people can easily rationalize not wearing a helmet in two seconds and roll with that for years.
I am at the early stages of this; so I can only part answer your questions. But, basically, land is fairly easy to come buy. There will be various land agents nearby (particularly in the countryside) you just have to track them down.b (I've also used this site before: http://www.uklanddirectory.org.uk/index.asp)

Alternatively find a nice spot and find out who owns it; make an offer. You might get a good deal this way - I had my eye on a pretty nice third of an acre plot which I agreed for under £15,000 (which is a steal). Unfortunately there was a couple of NIMBYs over the other side of a small copse (in huge houses I should say) who had me in mind as an eco warrior and, I guess, expected hippies, and drugs and whatever other stereotypes they could come up with. And so planning permission was looking like an expensive process.

What do I look for in land (it is a personal thing of course!). I want a small amount of woodland - or access to woodland next door. I'd like a hillside so I can sink a house successfully. South facing plot (for build purposes). Road access. I'd like it to have a running watercourse. High water table so I can sink a well (that is a minefield of health and safety btw). Enough space to run a septic drain. Enough wind/sun to provide power [in the long term]. Close enough to have mains in the short term.
This is much like unit-testing: it can prove the presence of bugs but not the absence. Still, it's necessary, despite its shortcomings.
Usually when the hotel offers room service (legitimately), the guest has to call and place an order, and it is usually credited at checkout. That gives you 3 days lead time on average.
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I don't understand why there's a need to take sides one way or another.

Well, if you're a single founder who wants to take funding at some point, you have a fairly direct incentive to prevent "single founder = failure" from becoming the received wisdom.
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This is a great litmus test for assessing who actually understands the technology they're using, and who merely parrots what they've read or been told. Anyone who believed that a software update could fix the attenuation issue with the iPhone 4 fails to understand what is really happening when they bridge the two antennae.
503, 8,810, this is all proof of Prince's point: "all these computers and digital gadgets . . . just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."

Whatever is going to happen to KIN's real person, Rosa?

They are already disappearing her from Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/148231/rosas-journey-intro
Yes I am serious about building a business around this. My strategy is to simulate as much aspect of a virtual person's life as possible, because the simulation of different aspects strengthen each-other, makes the simulation more precise, enables more and more emergent behaviour. On the other hand in the beginning I will mostly try to aim for those aspects which have immediate business value: to simulate consumer behaviour in shops, restaurants, etc...

I happily talk about this with you. My email is:

nadam60 at gmail dot com
yep, also store mine on a dropbox account, safe and secure.
As you move through the wilderness, the wildlife around you runs away depending on how loud or out-of-place you are. Think of it as being a really effective animal-chasing flashlight.

In the vast, vast majority of cases, a confrontation with an animal of any size will lead to the animal trying to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible. I've been within 20 feet of big black bears and had coyotes sniff my toes; all I had to do was move a little and they took off. People just like to imagine "confronting" a bear and scaring it away because those few cases get a lot of media attention, and they're exciting.

So try instead to shrink your circle as much as possible and see what you can encounter out there. I like to sometimes find the right sort of spot and sit really quietly for a few hours, to see what comes along.

Tom Brown's books on tracking &etc. are pretty OK and talk about this a bit.
Can you do APRS? AX.25? Or let me know how you can use the old RTTY for it, very curious!
You might try this to help improve and maintain your teeth and gum health (in addition to regular flossing and the steps your dentist recommends of course ):

http://www.30smile.com/

I know it looks hokey and informercially, and I was very skeptical but my father (a retired orthodontist and now an investor in the company) was insistent I try it so I said I would give it a try and see what happens at my next checkup which was a couple months away. At my next checkup my dental hygienist was really impressed with my gum health, something she never mentioned before and I didn't mention anything about the tooth brush. Same thing with my wife at her last checkup and I've heard similar from other siblings. It takes some getting used to as your gums will likely bleed some in the beginning but I think it's worth it as you don't worry about trying to hit all the spots. One other thing I've noticed since my last cleaning is that I haven't seen a buildup of calculus in certain areas that I usually got before even though I would try hard to brush and floss those areas.
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I was shocked to discover how often that occurs with families, even in the north america.

A friend of mine is having a difficult time convincing his parents and hers that he has found his own partner - even though they would be very suitable candidates for an arranged marriage.
Note that font rendering differs massively between distributions. I prefer Ubuntu's softer (OS X -style) look best. Others might prefer Fedora's crisp (Windows-style) rendering.
eating what the locals eat, beware of endemics. If you're in rural India, do not drink the tea sold at road-side carts.
The trick to creating a UI is to make it feel responsive
You would be wrong to dismiss the blog post and its author.
It's also possible they sold 500 before they pulled the plug, and 7500 after (things take a while to get down the drain, to stretch the analogy).

Still, Gruber is a rumor spreader, not a trusted source on anything.
Irritating. The patent tradeoff is disclosure in exchange for monopoly, and Landmark's pretending the disclosure part doesn't have to exist.
I mentioned the iPhone and EVO as the "phones to beat" if you want to compete in the market for phones teenagers want. If Microsoft couldn't even get in the same ballpark (or even league) as these phones, pulling the KIN made sense.
I dislike the look of Droid Serif. I use Droid Sans as my UI font on my netbook (running Ubuntu), though. I'll certainly compare them when the Ubuntu font is released.
Youch! Beware, there are hidden pitfalls here.

I tried the fuse-python xmp example and accidentally mounted the filesystem on top of an existing folder with the result being that the folder vanished. Now if I try to cd into that folder I get an input/output error. It doesn't show up on directory listings. And umount says it's not mounted. I have a backup so this is not an unmitigated disaster, but the folder is huge (it's my development folder) so I'd much prefer not to have to do a restore. This is MacFuse 2.0.3 running on Snow Leopard. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.
Writing to disk and transaction logs are nice, but they aren't magic bullets. What if a data center catches fire? More mundanely, I've heard ~6% of hard drive fail/year. Only replication can help you there.

I'd argue that durability is a sliding scale. You have to figure out how much risk you're willing to take and you cannot have a perfectly durable system.
Get admitted to a PhD in CS at Stanford next cycle.

Bottleneck: At my age and with no formal education in CS and poor academic records, getting an admission is next to impossible by conventional wisdom.

But the challenge is what makes it interesting :-).

PS: If anyone has any data/anecdotes/advice on "impossible" PhD admissions, I'd be glad to hear it (either here or my email is in the profile).
Publishing doesn't violate a patent, but it doesn't require commercial activity - building your own device, or writing your own software, for your own use constitutes a violation.
For some reason when I follow this link, I appear to be logged in as Daniel M with full access privileges - might want to fix that.
Very ambitious. I mean this in a jealous way.

It will probably take 20 years and a billion dollars - but both seem miniscule if the project is successful.
Statistics should only be applied to fairly uniform and understandable phenomena.

Applying statistical likelihood in this instance is stretching the bounds of statistics considerably more than The Daily Mail stretched them.
Even this grows into a nightmare. I've been moving dedicated servers to cloud / virtual solutions for the last 4 months.

I'm in love with Rackspace Cloud stuff and their support, and will end up saving thousands while providing my clients with a state of the art email system and more redundancy. Plus, with their cloud servers I can replicate and backup easily.
I looked at Python a few years ago and lacked the self-discipline to continue forward with it. I remember nothing of that failed attempt other than everyone spouting how wonderful and easy it was. It could very well be my answer though. One of the solutions I would like to work on involves a few small applications that I would need to run on Windows, Linux, OSX and cell phones. I could cut out the cell phone requirement if needs be as I would likely be one of a handful in my company that would use it.

I sought Java out as a truly multi-platform endeavor that most of my users would already have installed on their systems. I know very few Windows users that have Python or would know what to do with it. Also, I would eventually like working towards redeveloping our current web apps which are a mess of dysfunctionalism at its finest.

Does it sound like I would be better served with Python?
Also, the allure of VB for me, like any Visual environment is that I can quickly build nice GUI's that make my stuff instantly usable by the-- less informed-- that I work with.
I was wondering the same thing. Or are trending topic searches included?
And you've come along to illustrate his point!
It's beautiful. Despite the flaws, it warms my heart to see that someone is actually taking interface fonts seriously on Linux. I share the controversial belief that games and software are far too obvious to be the reason why Windows got ahead. I think it is the attention to everyday details like fonts, that made Windows more popular.
have you tried rebooting?
Clever. But I find the idea of RouteFS more clever than the toy FS he built...
Car parking is bad, which means scooters are good. Although I got a couple of tickets for putting mine on (huge) sidewalks, which was, IMO, incredibly lame.

Safety... yeah, you're probably a bit safer than on a bicycle, but you have to watch out. The first night I had mine I hit some tram tracks and felt the back wheel skittering around, which was not a fun feeling. Kept it up, though.
PAM Vulnerability in Ubuntu allowing root access
Summary: Imperfect system is imperfect.

'Ya gotta love a tautology adorned as journalism.

Are there any reasonable alternatives for privately funded research? No. There will always be the urge to game data to fit the hypothesis and honest people will still make mistakes. This forever shall remain a challenge for science.

I'm struggling with the urge to flag, but recognize the applicability to HN.
Quit smoking cold turkey (was a 1 pack smoker for over 7 years). I am 3 days nicotine free and that sounds very interesting to me.

Roadblocks: they keep selling them...

If someone else is planning the same, the tips at whyquit.com helped me.
I want to downlink some pretty simple information: lat, long, altitude, temperature, so I think RTTY should be good enough. There are some nice modules by Radiometrix which work on 433Mhz (unlicensed band in the UK) (e.g. http://www.radiometrix.com/content/ntx2). The CU Spaceflight folks have been using these modules at 50 baud. I think I'm going to stand on their shoulders for this part.

http://www.radiometrix.com/cu-spaceflight
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The method aims to emphasize local differences between images and is not particularly designed for this. But maybe it is possible to get image B from image A + LDM. I need to think on this point.
Color : next after being able to deal with gray-level images (soon).
The google codejam occurs about once a year ( http://code.google.com/codejam ). If you make it past the qualification round and the first round, and you place in the top 500 of the second round, then you get a codejam tshirt. (This year, I placed around 1300, which is good, but not good enough!)

Getting that tshirt is my goal - a nice, tangible way to symbolize the massive amount of algorithmic things that I'm attempting to learn. A year ago, I couldn't solve a single problem in round 2.

Practicing for this sort of thing is a lot of fun. Programming competitions offer bite-sized questions to think about, and I believe that solving these types of questions really helps my coding style. If you don't write the best, most straightforward program to solve the problem, then you're going to run into costly bugs.
Driving Usage Through Emails - Apture's great example
To say that he's wrong and that his ideas are laughable is very small-minded. He stated that he's a father of two -- he knows what he's talking about. If his statements don't describe your experience, that's because you've had different experiences -- not because he's wrong.
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