skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time a new method for jailbreaking is announced, you know there must be an exploit in the OS. Apple will surely fix the exploit with an OS update, but as an effect customers won't be able to use jailbreak with that version. And so it becomes a question of whether you choose freedom or safety.
This pattern is usually attributed to the famous Perl hacker, Abigail. Abigail is also noted as one of the people who popularized the idea of a JAPH. That is a short piece of Perl that prints out "Just another Perl hacker". For instance the very misleadingly commented:

$; # A lone dollar?
=$"; # Pod?
$; # The return of the lone dollar?
{Just=>another=>Perl=>Hacker=>} # Bare block?
=$/; # More pod?
print%; # No right operand for %?
I think orangecat's point is that rationality and the moral correctness are distinct (assuming you haven't solved the is-ought problem). "Rationality" is just taking actions which are most likely to lead to your goal, whatever that goal may be.

Now, that still leaves us to explain the correlation between (a) rationality in the pursuit of relationships and (b) having "questionable" goals like pure sex rather than love. And I think it can be explained this way:

First, sex is a much easier to define and measure goal; it's hard to gather data about how well you have achieved ephemeral things like "love". This makes it less amenable to rational attack. Second, people who are initially rational are more likely to see the rather unpleasant realities of love (tracing it back to evolution-driven competition) and become cynical of even the existence of love (and so settle for sex). Third--and I think this is close to what you were getting at--men who have been shunned by women may become so bitter that they don't really want to the love of a woman while still acknowledging that they want sex.
...and yet it was Congress which passed the War Powers Resolution which was in turn used to legalize the conflict in the first place, which congress didn't seem to complain about much according to their near unanimous vote (1-shy). In regards to the "invasion" itself, it sounds as if you're trying to make some type of moral argument for leaving Hussein in power.
After my profile was created, it just took me back to the home page. :-(
Perl Pros:
1. It have every feature you may need in a language and them some
2. The best community ever (i know subjective but ... i am sure most ppl will agree with me on this)
3. CPAN (I wonder why other languages never was able to beat perl in this area)

Perl Cons:
1. Many feature are hard to learn and use
Private Equity Firm Leads Buyout of SoftLayer
I actually don't disagree with his central thesis that the NYC startup scene doesn't rival the Bay Area scene. What I disagree with is his bizarre characterization of NYC. It's like if I were to write a blog about D.C. and all I could talk about where the endless mile upon mile of endless monuments and golf courses with a KFC at every green.
Zed, whats with all the premature optimization? Surely Mongrel2 should first be able to make coffee, build you an island and f@!in transform into a jet and fly you there, before you start to make it faster!

Just kidding. It's always nice to see science in action. Great work! I suspect there's an impact on ZeroMQ's own poll/epoll strategy.
Basic physics demonstration: synchronisation [video]
It's pretty darn close to 1 - 1/e.
I don't disagree that that would be a haul. But complaining about high rent in a high rent neighborhood is like complaining that your Ferrari is too fast. It's not like there aren't other places to live in the city not really that far from the financial district.
This is a TEDxBoston talk - TEDx is a series of independently organized groups who put on events in the spirit of TED.
The author also seems to forget about dividends. If the market doesn't move at all in a period of time, it doesn't mean the companies I've invested in won't pay any dividends.

It is important to buy companies based on their fundamentals.
Ask HN:  How to Get Metrics for CronJob Emails Sent Using PHP
I used mailchimp and constant contact for previous projects, but I'm sending out personalized emails using a php cron job. Can I plug in to either a constant contact or mailchimp api or is there another solution?

I want to measure open rates, click thrus, and other standard email metrics.
I have, it works fabulously. I needed to jailbreak my phone because the home button is broken, but couldn't use traditional means, as they required you to press the home button! This web-based one worked amazingly; you really do just visit the site, press "OK" and then three minutes later its done.
My favorite is Billion. That gets confusing if you don't know what's going on.
Thanks for taking the time to write the article.
Amazon Web Services sees $500M revenues, partly due to social games
Completely agree. It sounds like the new add on product was related to your current product. The danger is a distraction from a completely unrelated product.
Uh.. that's not just New York. Basically, anyone who's not in the industry views everyone who does "computer stuff" as one homogeneous group.
I think this is a great idea, but, are Job Boards the new "thing" for "community-type" sites to implement?

37Signals, StackOverflow, GitHub, ... But hey, they're all full of job postings, right?
These discussions on HN tend to spiral to the point where I don't really want to be a part of them. But I guess talking about something is always better than the alternative, no matter how uninformed or flawed the discussion is.

I think the "issues" category on the geek feminism wiki does a good job of summarizing the "female-unfriendly" things[1]. Objectification and a "sexualized environment"[2] is what the poster refers to can be common on other sites. Sexism[3] and essentialism[4] is something that generally takes the form of attitudes or opinions, and therefor is less obvious. I see this here on HN in various forms e.g. this comment[5] saying "women are less likely than men to engage in deeply focused solitary activities". "Othering"[6] is something you can see even on this page.

[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Issues
[2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment
[3] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism
[4] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Essentialism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism
[5] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Othering & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other#The_Other_in_gender_studi...
[6] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1550429
Each: A Brief History of Iteration
Good thing Apple's review policy on the AppStore worked. (In case it's not immediately obvious, this is sarcastic in multi dimensions).
You forgot the key - "Tuesday". Apple likes to do things on Tuesdays.
What's more fundamental: the way that campaigns are funded, or the fact the most voters have no clue what their representatives actually stand for? Does changing campaign funding solve a fundamental problem? It seems to me that influence can easily be traded for things other than campaign contributions.

The energy company lobbies with millions because they can expect the benefits of lobbying to exceed the millions. The people could easily out-vote the special interests, but they run into the rational ignorance problem: with current technology, the cost of casting an informed vote is greater than the expected benefit. Isn't that the fundamental problem?

The solution, I think, is to create technology which makes it easy for voters to hold their reps accountable, thus shifting the task of accountability into the "worth it" category for regular people. That's what I'm working on anyway: http://votereports.org/
It is good to see some analysis turning up on the exploit front. I was (and still am) surprised that the coverage of this jailbreak has been focused almost exclusively on the jailbreak itself rather than the attack vector and its implications.

The fact that a zero-day remote code execution exploit can be triggered so reliably in every iOS 4 and iPad 3.x device that the creators could drop a cute "Slide to Jailbreak" widget on a web page is alarming. With nothing more than a single rogue link and a bit of Objective C, this exploit could easily be used to produce a worm spread by e-mail or SMS to every contact with a link to the same rogue code, hopping from device to device as users tap an innocent link from a friend. In fact, the action of clicking a link could be bypassed entirely by script injection -- resulting in infection should the user merely browse to a page serving the rouge JS. Considering that the exploit is PDF-based, it's likely that it could also be triggered by viewing a document in Mail.

The prospect of iOS worms is very real, and unless Apple begins to take security more seriously (note that this is the second remote code execution exploit accessible from within MobileSafari, and they've yet to even make a peep about this one), I would not be surprised if we begin to see malware on the platform.

[ See the original exploit teardown here: http://digdog.tumblr.com/post/894317027/jailbreak-with-pdf-f... ]
Excellent paper. The real evolutionary feedback loop in play here is sexual selection, not natural selection. Women evolved men and men evolved women. Women select for status, because that provides for better children and better care for their children. That means the chief has more wives because he has more status and resources. Half the men die because they are feeble or in adventures. Men select for fertility, hence beauty and youth. I suppose all this worked pretty well in a tribal society, but we now have a serious imbalance as a civilization. As I said above, men in jails and unchecked aggression and greed in our leaders.

It is now up to the women to do a little directed social evolution to get us a more equitable civilization. I think we men have done quite well in evolving out women, so I have great faith if the future of civilization.
6 Reasons I Am Not Reading Your Blog
How about a law that make it illegal to make unnecessary niche laws that only serve parasitic lawyers.

Here's a relevant Phillip Howard TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/771
Three days now, and no one figured it out yet... I want to know more... links, anyone?
Thanks for the feedback! Made some quick changes to address 1,4, and 5.

2 & 3 will take a bit more time to change but is great feedback nonetheless!
Microsoft turns on Visual Studio LightSwitch
Compiler Construction (uses Scala, targets JVM)
Geek out to Analytics and Funnels (Ask HN)
Just got a new job offer, i'll be working on funneling and analytics to start out with. What is your best resource, or tip for boosting user conversion through metrics?
I voted you all up because I thought this exchange was irrelevant but pretty humorous.
Some highlights:

* Eisenhower's original draft of the "military-industrial complex" speech originally referred to the "military-industrial-Congressional complex"

* every $1 spent on lobbying for lower corporate taxes brings a return of $6 to $20 in tax reductions

* the top 10 hedge fund managers last year made an average of $2.5 billion and paid 15% of that in tax

* "there were more people who believed in the British crown at the time of the Revolution than who believe in our Congress today"

More at: http://www.fixcongressfirst.org
It's not a feature, it's a workaround for a limited multitasking model.
Yea I find it annoying that coverage is all about "jailbreaking". For gosh sake, they could use this and do drive-by looting of virtually any iPhone.
I was shocked when IEEE Computer wanted a Word document. In their defense, I don't think they actually lay everything out in Word. I think they just decided that's the easiest way for their layout people to get text and figures for an article.
Right. Compare to the Android marketplace. If the AppStore is shit, what the hell is that?
I know you're being sarcastic, but an exploit in iOS really doesn't have anything to do with Apple's review policy for 3rd party applications.
Also, cross compiled/deployed apps means:

- Apps won't use iPhone features not present on other phones

- Apps will be available on other phones, thus making iPhones less attractives (that card can only be played while iPhones have this incredible momentum)

- They might be ugly, targetting the lowest denominator

In the long run it's stupid idea (IMHO), but it let's them milk the iPhone current gigantic success.

It's not evil, I mean it's not actively causing harm in the ultimate scale, but it does suck.
Could anyone enlighten a foreigner why these bills ('Fair Elections Now Act', http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:S752:) seem stalled? Who decides when, which actions are taken on what bills?
It's worse than that. The four square blocks the author spent his time in != New York City.
I lived in New York for ten years (most of it in Washington Heights), and I can't agree with you enough.

Except for the home-cooked meal thing. My ex-girlfriend and I delivered an entire Thanksgiving feast to a friend's apartment when we discovered our stove had stopped working (and probably hadn't been working for months), but cooking food was a relative rarity. New York is the only place I have been where people throw birthday parties for each other in a local bar.
This was reported yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1569171
Transforming Education - Part One
Will you maintain Mongrel forever?

With all due respect, this seems a ridiculous question. Do you obtain written statements to the above effect from all maintainers of software (open source or otherwise) before using it? Yes, it'll have to be maintained, but Zed's article alone is more documentation than you could ever hope for from most programmers. It's clear he isn't "most programmers" but that's no reason to hold him to ridiculous standards.
Glass Artwork
interesting article! Is 'super-poll' done yet? i would have liked to see a super poll line on some of those graphs to see how it compares to just vanilla poll and ePoll at different ATRs. Though i guess you would also have to test for situations where ATR varies over time (so that you could measure the impact of moving fds back and forth).
Could you post a sample source in org-mode, the Latex it produced, and then the final pdf? I've tried going through documentation to get a feel for it, but everything I've found focuses on features in isolation, and are not focused on using it to write full papers.
Are you disillusioned with the current status of programming/IT/tech in general?

I cant say if I'm reading this right, but it really sounds like you're suffering a crisis of confidence in your decision to spend your time / career in tech (tech just being a broad catchall). I might be making a leap, but to me your tone of frustration and harshness ring familiar and its an open secret that a lot of us hit this brick wall at one point or another.
Our obsession with aggregate differences between the sexes is pointless and probably counterproductive since we spend our days dealing with individuals, not aggregates.
I think it's actually meant to be a comment on the editorial slant of The Economist, which is generally not in favor of the choices that are made by European states.

(They give reasons though, which makes it an interesting read even though I frequently disagree with them.)
The jailbreak for iOS 1.1 based on the TIFF vulnerability also had a side-effect of patching the vulnerability itself[1] -- does jailbreak.me (or another party) do the same?

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102907-iphone-ipod-tou...
So how do people know that this site doesn't install a rootkit that spies for credit card numbers or something similarly sinister? Why do they trust it? Because it looks "legit" or because it's in the news?

Imagine something along the lines of:

Clueless user: Wow this jailbreaking site really worked well! Now that it has finished, it's showing a Paypal donation button in my browser. It was really helpful so I'll just go ahead and donate $10 on Paypal, right here in the browser of my newly jailbroken phone...

Author of the crack: [trollface.jpg] (thanks for the Paypal login details!)
Fun With Fast JavaScript
You can manually attach browsers by visiting http://example.org:4224/ where example.org is hosting the test driver.
"War Powers Act needs fixing, bipartisan panel says" http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/08/war.powers/

Excerpt:

The United States needs a new law requiring that the president consult with Congress before going to war, a blue-ribbon panel led by two former secretaries of state said Tuesday.
James Baker, left, and Warren Christopher led a panel that recommended a new War Powers Act.

The current War Powers Resolution is "ineffective, and it should be repealed and it should be replaced," James Baker said in a joint appearance with Warren Christopher, announcing the results of the study they led.
I am new to the whole NYC startup scene. Which, according to you, are some of the cool startups in NYC ? Also, are there any NYC-startup specific news sources ?
And as a sidenote, in most nordic languages as well...
Agreed. I was really surprised with how odd vim-latex felt.
In my experience, most of these language-specific vim plugins stay pretty light, enhancing built-in vim behavior to perform in the expected way given a particular language's peculiarities. Instead, it tries to build up this complex system of macros and shortcuts that added a really thick layer on top of actually writing LaTeX (a process that I actually quite enjoy). Maybe it's another one of those things that I have to see in use to appreciate, and I'm sure there's some really useful stuff in there, but it just didn't seem worth it.
Secure your google docs.
Navigating the Cloudy Waters of Cloud Standards (didja say 13 organizations?)
Do the Rich Need the Rest of America?
"disrupting" will replace "ninja" in recruiting job ads for Software Engineers.
Go to OpenCoffee. Go to Web Innovators Group. Go to Venture Cafe. Go to DogPatch Labs' open hours.

There are tons of events where you can meet VCs, and/or people who have connection to them. Check out:
http://greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar
I agree. They labeled it an elegant solution. More appropriately, I believe, it is an elegant hack.
Okay, yeah, I can't remember the last time there was an advisory about a remote hole in a default FreeBSD build.

You credit FreeBSD's "extensive peer-review and security auditing" for this... do you have more information or links about that? I know the FreeBSD folks have been proactive about fixing security bugs, and conservative in their default build design, but I haven't heard about their peer-review and auditing.
A principle reason they give as a defense of their app review policy and walled garden approach is that it is necessary to protect users from bad or malicious apps.

I think he's inferring (or pointing out the irony) that perhaps it's not the 3rd party ones they need to be so overly concerned with.
This is not surprising, but very sad. :(

More female hackers / startup-ers / etc please!
Can you provide more detail on where the NYC-startup scene is ? (Where could one meet people working in these startups ?)
We're a startup that just released Aprigo NINJA for Google docs. If you use Google Apps for your domain, our app will give access management controls for google docs, showing how files are shared inside and outside of your company.

If you have less than 20 users, it's free.
More than 20: Free 7 day trial, then $10/user/year

We're a startup using google apps, so I thought some other small startups might be interested in seeing how their google docs are being shared with the outside world.
While I agree with your general take on the severity of the problem, I'm going to point out:

* The teardown you've linked to is (a) pretty superficial and (b) wrong (though I see it's now been corrected) --- here I will annoy you by smugly noting that you've linked to an exploit teardown written by someone who thinks it's likely that the iPhone would have been vulnerable to an Acrobat Reader flaw.

* It is not generally the impression I get from vulnerability researchers that the iPhone does a poorer job of defending against remote code execution vulnerabilities than Android; specifically: the iPhone has much stricter (DEP-style) page protections than OSX, and the iPhone has strict code signing.

Does Apple need to take security seriously? Indubitably. But I don't think you can read tea leaves here. Things like this are going to happen to every phone. Let's see how Apple handles it; that, at least, is a signal we can actually discuss reasonably.
wait, what about "geek pasture"?
I'm on Rimuhosting as well; I've been using them since 2006, and it's been a pretty smooth ride (and prices have dropped along the way as well).
> Lua, JavaScript

I'm told several of the top 10 games on the store use Lua (with permission, presumably). And you're specifically allowed to use JavaScript since it comes with the system.
You could be right if NY has a law more strict than federal law. Do you have information on this?
Referendum to remove any federal law from the books by popular vote. 51% removes the law. It should be hard to make laws and easy to get rid of them, not the other way around.
Can you post your custom latex class/org file? There aren't many good example of how to do that on the web that I've found, and it's something I'd love to get started on.
>I find this attitude deeply aggravating. Europe has simply chosen a different path to the US, and to pretend that the US is superior in every way is ridiculous.

I think you're misreading him. He's making fun of the reporting in the Economist which is alternately, "is Europe going to collapse?" "Is America going to become Europe and then collapse?" and "OMG scary Chinese." The Economist has a fairly particular world view, and he was skeptical that someone who reads it regularly can come out with a different one.
Isn't that like arguing that you can pick up programming knowledge on internet discussion boards cheaper than a degree program?

In theory, sure, you can. In your spare time you might run into someone who really knows his shit and enlightens you.

But, just as with the coffee shop, more times than not you run into people whose facade of knowledge would shatter the first time you ask a question. Trick being, if you barely understand the topic yourself, you'll only stumble onto a question that exposes their ignorance by chance. You're as likely to be led completely astray and have your time wasted as not.

Further, the chance that a given discussion board or coffee shop will contain someone interested and educated in the particular concepts you care to discuss when you care to discuss them gets pretty damn small beyond trivial depth.

The reasonable component in the price of higher education is about the quality of the interpretation and dialogue between yourself, the professor and the other students.

In short, you're paying to have some assurance that the discussion and/or lecture will be of a higher quality than you would find elsewhere and some assurance the discussion will occur and be relevant at a given time.