skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is because you pick on a single president what every president has done. (From all parties.) Did Bush do things that where a violation of rights? Probably, but so did every president including but not limited to Obama, Clinton, Bush (senior), and Reagan. I would venture to guess it is impossible to name a president that did not infringe on the rights of citizens. Second, it was the current government that did this, not Bush.
I don't know if it's possible to copyright data (if I understand your definition of data correctly), but it should not be, at least, not in the US. A quick skim of the wikipedia article on US copyright law shows that the scope of copyright is meant only to cover the arts and literary and scientific writing.

Obviously we know that (unfortunately) that includes software, but data would be a stretch.

Also here:
http://sciencecommons.org/old/databases/#dbcopyright
The important quote is:
"...whether the data itself is copyrightable, depends on what it is. To the extent it consists of factual information, it will not be copyrightable."

If it's not copyrighted, you don't need the GPL or anything similar.
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I recall a video of the IronPython team talking about VS2010 support where they mentioned they would be changing the license for GPLv3-compatible. Considering how great this tiny little open source loving team buried deep in the bowels of microsoft have been so far I am willing to trust that is the main reason, not PR.
As far as I know, they haven't released C# 3.0 or 4.0 to the ECMA. I'd love to be proved wrong. See wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)
Opening the Rackspace Cloud
Non Commercial GPL
Does anyone know if a BY-NC-SA version of the GPL exists? The closest thing I can find is the Creative Commons version ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ ). Unfortunately from what I read this is primarily intended for "works of art", not for software.

Thanks in advance.
Wow, where to begin. First off, I'm really happy that Google continues to fund energy related start-ups, their solar and wind efforts are commendable.

Also, I'm fairly sure that the engineers behind this project are top notch and giving this project all they've got, it sure looks like they have picked some interesting challenges.

That said, I don't think this will ever 'fly' (pun intended) on any appreciable scale.

Wind is a fickle thing, and if you look at the design parameters of even the smallest windmills you realize that it takes bullet proof engineering to get a windmill to operate at all for any stretch of time without catastrophe, tying one to a kite seems to compound those problems to the point where even if the power generated were substantially higher than that on the ground you'd still be left with a higher per KW bill. Being able to operate in places where windmills are otherwise not viable is nice, but at 600 meters above the ground there will be substantial risk from getting kits entangled so the closest spacing will probably be such that a 'farm' of these will generate relatively little power for a given area of the planet over which the kites fly.

1 MW seems to be a pretty ambitious goal for a first setup, think about it, a 1 MW turbine sitting on the other side of a line will pull on the tether with a very impressive force, the kite will have to pull aloft a tether strong enough to withstand that force and up to 600 meters of power transmission cabling. These are not simple challenges. What I don't understand is why they don't build a 10 KW or so scale model and gain experience from that before going for a full MW, even a 10KW system flown for a year or two would give them plenty of experimental data to help design a larger one.

Then there are the liability issues, windmill towers are pretty solid and yet they've been known to fail. I figure the failure rate of kite lines+power lines would be substantially higher than that of a tower and so you'd have to contend with the occasional free flying kite+windmill combination.

All that said I wish these folks best of luck with what they're doing, but unlike the cheap solar panel revolution I highly doubt that this will ever be deployed at a scale large enough to be notable. Neat project though!
Think about that again: if you're a software developer $500 is like what, 5 hours worth of work? You only get one chance to validate this, so you'd better do it right. After you've spent $10000 or more in development time is not a good time to find out your product idea is fundamentally flawed.
Rackspace Launches OpenStack - Open Source Cloud Computing Software
A few things iOS developers ought to know about the ARM architecture
Check these guys out Sociallybuzz http://www.Sociallybuzz.com

Social Media Management, Marketing & Advertising Company.

Pretty Awesome.
I'm in the process of doing this myself. I was wondering if there's any framework to help with creating these kinds of pages? Like a Wordpress template for doing these kinds of product pages or A/B tests?
Not sure if it's valuable for anyone. At some point I tried Modapro - generic, containing modafinil - same stuff in Provigil.

I do not have any sleep disorders, so it was pure experiment about getting more productive/etc.

In short - it didn't worked for me at all. I tried it in different dozes, different conditions - same no effect.

There is two possible reasons for this:
1) This modapro is fake
2) Modafinil affect only people with some sort of sleep disorders.
You might want to put in a few examples to bolster your case
looking forward to the combined efforts.

we really want to make the cloud that hacker news users would want to deploy on their own infrastructure.
Ask HN: accessing my deceased relative's iPhone
I'm looking for advice/suggestions on how to retrieve the contact list from a (distant) relative's iphone. Tragically, this person died without letting the rest of the family know who their friends and associates were, and the iPhone is literally the best the family has to work with. Of course, the phone is password protected, or there would be no problem.

Is this something Apple will do if they are provided with the right documentation? Do they have a service mode for the iphone or a special cable or something?

Is this something the police are able to handle?

Finally, is this something I can do? My thought is to use iTunes to create a backup of the phone, then dive into the backup using strings. Once I locate some promising strings, I would use a hexeditor to find the offset, and look for plaintext contact information.

Any thoughts or references are much appreciated. Thanks, HN!
Eh, as long as you know/control the calling convention and control the compiler you can produce stack maps which allow you to identify pointers.
I like the design, but it would seem a call to action to signup would be best put at the top of the page.

What do I know though? You're the one with the A/B testing hammer! :)
Violation of rights seemed to have been more pervasive with the Bush presidency. He may had good intentions but looking at the big picture this is a huge step backwards. The Patriot Act, championed by his presidency, not created by the current administration, greatly increased the NSL power. That is why I single him, he was the main driving force during that time. Congress should have known better. Unfortunately they were probably being lied to, to scare them into submission the same way that they were lied to about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Don't get me wrong, I want to protect this country (USA) with all my might, but we also have to be really careful about not taking steps backwards with regards to civil liberties. Essentially, that letter almost seems to give dictatorial powers to the government, which is what makes it extremely alarming.
The first thought that popped into my mind after reading your question is about protecting your market. If you expect this product to be highly profitable and these other companies already distribute the software with other services, they might wise up and sell it as a separate service. If they were to unleash a feature-rich product on you with their brand image, you may find it difficult to handle. That being said, the fact that they have not done this already might imply that it's not highly profitable. That might be ok for you if you just want to have a smaller-scale profit with a niche audience.

My second suggestion is simply to talk to people, find anyone and everyone who might be slightly interested and see if you can shoot them a personal email, tweet, etc. Most people who would get value out of what you offer would be happy to hear from you at least once. I've been doing the same with my side-project, Sparkmuse, and the responses have been both extremely helpful and surprisingly interested.
I've been in that situation before. One thing that you can try is find a cool API and make a tool that uses it.

http://www.programmableweb.com/ is a great place to search for APIs.

A few ideas:

* Command line client for the Indeed job search engine. Maybe make it similar to the top command? (http://www.indeed.com/jsp/apiinfo.jsp)

* Find a recipe, using what you have in your pantry, by using the BigOven API. Perhaps make a way to catalog your food? (http://api.bigoven.com/)

* You can find plenty of location data with the SimpleGeo api if that's what you're interested in (https://simplegeo.zendesk.com/entries/209068-python-tutorial)

* Make your computer talk to you a new notification, email, tweet, tell you the weather, etc. There are some software libraries you can download for this, and some online services you can check out as well (e.g. http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=hello) You could also hook it up with Notifio (https://api.notifo.com/) to speak when you get a reply on HN or a notification on some other website.

Hope that helps. Good luck and have fun!
This is why I don't trust the government with an internet kill switch.
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Yeah, the call to action has been under serious experimentation :)

One hypothesis for not having Plans & Pricing button upfront is because it works great if your software is priced at sub $50 level. But VWO goes for $49, $129 and $249. So, unless visitors watch a video and get familiar with what exactly we offer, such prices will scare them into not learning more about the product.
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I look at it as a hidden golden feature.

If I don't want to talk to someone. I simply say "The cell signal isn't great here. I may drop you."

I then slide my fingers over the magic drop call button. The call degrades and gone....

The screen is great and all but the best feature is that I can magically get a bad signal whenever I want if I hold it just right.
Opening the Rackspace Cloud - Introducing OpenStack
I like Ruby and assembly (and C, Python, Lisp, JavaScript, ...). So I agree that one's primary language may say something about them, but that something might only be that they happened to land a good job doing X.
It was touched on in the article, but allowing the actual plumbing of a cloud to become commodity, it allows them to focus on their core business: managed hosting.

Along with other benefits such as a developer community around their infrastructure and ease of friction around moving cloud hosting providers (i.e. Vendor lock-in) makes this a clear win and an excellent move by Rackspace.
It's hard enough to make money from GPL'ed software; a non-commercial variant seems redundant.
Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker. Also check out this blog post of his that summarizes the largest longterm studies of the mainstay psych drugs:

http://www.madinamerica.com/madinamerica.com/Home/AB86250A-A...

You definitely have to read the book though, it's incredibly well researched.
Ask HN: Good product landing page templates?
I'll be validating customer interest for a product idea this week: building a fake product landing page, sending adwords traffic to it & see if it converts. Do you know any good landing page templates to start from? What kind of info is needed as a minimum on landing pages?
Trying all the combinations 10000 shouldn't take all that long.
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Is the World Ready for the Waterless Urinal?
My faves include
http://jamlegend.com
http://gotreehouse.com/
Well, I love mine, and despite the fact that it is discontinued, it will be a long time before it is obsolete. Thank goodness for 3rd-party firmware!
Do you have an account on every free website you've come across?
By using a recent distribution of Linux you can actually mount the phone as a removable device and browse the filesystem.

An article that talks about it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/ubuntu-lucid-lynx-1004-ca...

It doesn't specifically mention contact data, but it's probably stored in some unencrypted database which should be easy to look up if you can get in. IIRC, the stock Apple messaging app was back-ended with SQLLite so you might just be in luck!

EDIT: In fact, I'm going to try this on my iPod Touch (3rd Gen) when I get home. I'll let you know how I get on :)
EJSRB is a full javascript context, and javascript is a language you probably already know. While our views are separate from controllers and models, they often need more advanced string manipulation than liquid or mustache give you. The fact that it is a full javascript context means you can define your own helpers, and have them still work on the client side. For instance, say you want to generate element ids from the json data. This belongs in a function that is accessible to your view layer, but you shouldn't have to program this twice (once for server, once for client.) AFAIK, there isn't a great way to accomplish this code sharing yet.
A quick google found this: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/ YMMV
"This is not even remotely true."

I meant psychoactive drugs. I realize that NSAIDs and other drugs stay effective.

"The central nervous system drugs work too, although the statistics are less impressive."

If by work, you mean they have some effect, then yes. However, all the research seems to show that you're worse off in the long term than if you'd never taken the drug at all:

http://www.madinamerica.com/madinamerica.com/Home/AB86250A-A...

(And again, you'd really have to read the book to understand the research he's citing and its implications, but the blog post is at least a quick glance at the results of some of the biggest longterm efficacy studies.)
There's some unfinished, but clear documentation on this page:

http://developer.windowsphone.com/windows-phone-7/

In particular, this PDF gives a great flavor of designing for Windows Phone 7:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9713252

Overall, I'm quite impressed. They've aimed at a similar target as Apple did with the original iPhone. Make it fast, clean and strip away as many features as you dare.
How do you guys make money? Sorry, didn't have time to explore the entire site
Ask HN: Do you hate your competitors?
Hate is a powerful word. When you think of a competitor what emotion pops up?
This could very well be the biggest announcement of something being open-sourced made this year. I wonder if Amazon will make a comparable countermove or if they will join. (Or ignore it altogether, unlikely).
Does it mean that any site can be shut down if it's used by terrorists? Which one is next: facebook, because terrorists can create a group there and send messages, twitter, because a terrorist cell can use it to coordinate attacks, or perhaps wordpress? Which service will be shut down next?
I would venture to guess it is impossible to name a president that did not infringe on the rights of citizens.

The degree to which any perceived infringement occurs is what is significant. Bush pushed for and succeeded in suspending habeas corpus, a Constitutional protection by which people can challenge their imprisonment. This was only done twice in history, once by Bush and once by Lincoln at the start of the Civil War. By contrast, President Obama opposed the suspension of habeas corpus since he was a senator.
Interesting concept, I like the idea of using video, it gives it a human touch.

What I might do in addition is record the video/pitch, embed it onto the homepage of my dry test, and underneath it include a textform to let them immediately let me know what they think and how to contact them. What do you think about that?
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3 years out of undergraduate school?
The program I dropped out from was, as you say, 3 years on paper. However, you had to have already a masters degree in roughly the same area of expertise as your dissertation theme.

Otherwise, they had a "special" Direct PhD program where they would put you in the same classes with all the introductory classes with the rest of the masters students (4yrs vs 2 + 3 yrs).

Besides that, everybody knows that figures are extremely optimistic. I have heard from different people that 4 years is considered the bare minimum you need to finish. Then, there comes the limbo of post-doc stints before making it to adjunct professor.
Egads no. Competitors are like ballet dancers -- I understand in an intellectual sense that they exist, but spend very little time thinking about them.
Why everyone talks about facebook killer?
This may help: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596153595

It requires that the phone had at one point been jailbroken, for the most part, unfortunately. If you're in the NJ area, I have a copy laying around somewhere...
So, uh, a bunch of my friends are working on this:

http://www.jobyenergy.com/

Which is pretty awesome.
The device locks you out after a certain number of attempts.
I've come to conclude that I am alone in the world in this respect: I deliberately do not listen to music when coding (or studying) because I find it way too distracting. I end up listening to the music; enjoying it; analysing it. I would liken it to putting my favourite television show up on a jumbotron while playing tennis. It either is going to distract me terribly, or, if not, it is borderline pointless to have it playing.
Fantastic reference! I'm extremely interested in any updated details, since I won't have access to the phone until some time tomorrow.
Rackspace, NASA Team on Open Source Cloud Platform
I don't know...

Unless MSFT starts paying phone manufacturers or developing their own hardware, I don't see this catching up as much as Android or IOS.

There is nothing intuitive about the OS and honestly very underwhelming, I doubt a consumer who is aware of IOS and Android and have the option of choosing either one of the three will end up with Windows7.
This is one flaw being criticized, he admitted Apple and phones aren't perfect, he apologized after the initial talk to those affected, he expressed how committed Apple is to making ALL users happy, and he offered a free case. Yeah, he might feel like it's a bit over-the-top media sensationalism, but to the USERS/CUSTOMERS, he is being nothing but kind and supportive.
I initially thought along the same lines, but not outdoors.

Depending on the energy consumption, this technology might serve as a nice protection inside buildings. Like areas where you don't want unauthorized personel to go to. For everyone else you could "lower the shield" for the moment of passing-through.
I would actually buy one at full price except I get a free BB through work. I used to have a G1 and I really liked it much more than the BB but I can't argue with free.
So, I have a BS in Aero/Astro Engineering. This doesn't exactly qualify me, because when you graduate you're not an engineer, merely ready to become an engineer.

That said, it seems to me that the safety culture is a symptom, not an underlying cause, of the troubles that NASA is facing. Fundamentally, the political nature of NASA planning and acquisition drive NASA-designed systems toward complexity and high-performance. It is the complexity and performance of (especially) launch vehicles, combined with their stringent requirements and catastrophic failure modes that drives the safety culture. If they didn't obsess over safety, these monstrosities would fail every time.

Take a typical aerospace quality part that has $700 worth of material and labor in it. Because it is engineered with a factor of safety of, 1.05-1.2, for example, there is a $25-30,000 paper trail that documents the mine where the ore was extracted, who did the refining, what the heat treatment process was, where it was performed, and so on and so on ad infinitum ad nauseam.

Take the (awful) STS, for example. Congress was promised "airline-style" operations for this "space pickup truck." Well, an airliner has 0 mission-critical parts. A wing spar can fail and the skin should hold the wing together. The STS has over 700 mission-critical parts. For example, if an O-ring fails on a booster, everybody dies. If some foam hits the leading edge of the wing, everybody dies. High-perf mission-critical parts seem to be a result of the political need for the appearance of technology leadership.

I can almost guarantee you that the O-rings and leading edge pieces were manufactured in different states. High part-count is an artifact of the procurement process.

Elon Musk has talked about what makes SpaceX's pricing possible. (Note that they're offering launch services at 1/5 the cost of the shuttle.) He has a vertically integrated rocket factory. In one state. NASA could not build the Falcon 9 if it wanted to simply because they could not vertically integrate in one state. Every state would get a piece of the pie.

Algorithmically, because that's the crowd, here, you pay an exponential administrative cost for each of the factors: performance, lateral integration, and complexity. We've done all three.

NASA treats the fact that the Space Shuttle is the most complex machine ever built as a point of pride, for political reasons. It's actually our national shame and folly, and has set space access back 30 years.
We're launching this week (Sleep.fm) an updated site (http://sleep.fm/coming-soon/) to announce our iphone app.

We just learned & became skilled at Objective-C; stoked to finally be releasing a product outside of web browser. Appreciate any/all feedback on new site UI/UX.
Looks like they have a 'pro' account, which gives you access to a lot more data (radar maps), plus email alerts.
Yeah! joshwa's got a point there! Law enforcement agents concerned with not publicly identifying themselves might also likely be concerned with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
I'll throw in my own startup here as well:

www.adsreloaded.com - It's an alternative iPhone advertising platform.

I'm a 21 year old student founder, and am always open to answering any questions you might have, just let me know.
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And, given that it heats water, what if it gets applied to someone in heavy rain, say with clothes soaked? Would it go so far to effectively boil the person?
Interesting. Made me think to write a simple mixin for sass.

@mixin fg-contrast($bg) {
background: $bg;
$textcolor: #ffffff;
@if lightness($bg) > 50% {
$textcolor: #000000;
}
color: $textcolor;
}

Could also be done by using the red(), green(), and blue() functions, but lightness was simpler.
I like this quote from Milan Kundera: "Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary" If you feel too strongly about your competition, you'll lose all perspective and get defensive and will tend to copy them.