skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By that logic, few of the members of Al Qaida have committed a crime. We all know few detainees at Gitmo ever had, as most were released.

Assange is an annoyance to the US Government. We don't know how big or small an annoyance he is. There was rumor of some very embarrassing diplomatic cables which have not yet been released, which might or might not constitue Assange qualifying as a very big annoyance.
What does becoming blue mean?
But how much of that is hype and how much is a fundamental problem with Blackberries? To me the torch seems a pretty nice product. Sure: still a generation behind. But it's not like opponents are too far ahead: they (and MS and Meego) can still catch up. Look what Android did in one year!

I think if the Blackberry keep being solid mobiles that are a little bit behind the curve but not much (say 6 to 12 months), they'll be just perfect for corporations. There's a bright future ahead.
That is interesting as the only episode I actually liked was the bender and hermes adventure (minus some jokes in the beginning).

I think comedy central has pushed them or they feel the need to be more like comedy centrals raunchier comedies and that just isn't futurama.

The movies were also by far much much better than this new season and they weren't as great as the old episodes which are still fun to watch once in a while, kind of makes me sad but it is also somewhat expected.
Great post!- Given the high debt-to-GDP ratio in U.S. and the upcoming onslaught of new taxes, is the high Canadian number reflective of interest of potential American expatriates?
Backstory: there are something like 10 different commercial web app scanning tools. Aim them at a web app, get a list of XSS and SQLI "findings".

There are wildly different opinions about how useful/effective these tools are, despite the fact that they generate tens of millions of dollars of revenue and arm a significant percentage of all web app testers (we've banned them at Matasano, for whatever that's worth).

HN usually doesn't care about inside-baseball appsec stories, but I think there's an opportunity for HN to geek out on the big unsolved problems Zalewski --- one of Google's leading security people --- suggests afflicts the space:

* How do you compare HTTP/HTML responses to detect templated versions of the same basic page structure (pages that differ only in the database row used to generate them, but with the same inputs and the same mapping of inputs to outputs)?

* How do you even detect whether a page is valid or not? Most large web apps intercept and articulate the page-not-found exception, so that it looks like any other part of the app.

* How do you figure out how to reliably and automatically feed inputs to 100 different applications that will encode inputs totally differently?

* How can you distinguish a "500 Internal Server Error" caused by an uncaught exception handler in defensive code from a "500 Internal Server Error" caused by an undefended component crashing "exploitably"?

There's pretty good money in a simple, clever, effective answer to any subset of these questions, for what it's worth.
He's forgetting that a lot of times, it isn't the end user purchasing the Blackberry. RIM owns corporate sales, and that isn't slackening. Their overall market share in smart phones is declining, but that's just an effect of so many consumers beginning to buy them. At the end of the day it's all about profit, not market share, and a smaller percentage of a much larger pie is often a good thing.

The iPhone (and most Android units, which are keyboardless) don't even attempt to cater to RIM's core market: hardcore emailers. RIM will continue to own that for the foreseeable future. They're even getting some consumer traction since text messaging is so ubiquitous.

Corporate IT departments, that already have BES running, are going to keep buying Blackberries. And the Blackberries are going to keep them running BES. There are certainly alternatives (Android/Active Sync) but the cost involved in switching is significant and the benefits are merely nonexistent.

So all RIM would do in switching to Android is end their vendor lock-in. Vendors don't often give that up.

While the Blackberry OS is rough around the edges, so is Android. And the Berry still does email better than anyone.
Light, by definition, is visible. "Ultraviolet radiation" would be a preferable usage.
Political correctness is the security blanket of the simple minded.
The coming dominance of mobile/tablet oriented web apps running in the cloud with persistent offline operation is what is going to keep RIM (and others) from needing a better OS. Android and iPhone only have a temporary advantage in the mobile space.
>RIM owns QNX which has been working in embedded communication devices for years.

RIM just bought QNX. Blackberry OS has nothing to do with QNX, though purportedly their Black Pad (once you go black...) will.

Note that QNX is known to be solid as hell, but also quite slow -- it by design forces message and context switches for virtually every bit of intra-system communications, buying tremendous stability and security at the cost of performance. Put Neutrino on an ARM chip and you could probably divide the performance by three.

Having said that, ultimately Dalvik is like J2ME, only without the crippling stupidity of Sun's mobile efforts destroying it. There is no reason -- if the cooperation can be achieved -- that a RIM phone, on Blackberry OS or QNX or anything else -- can't run Dalvik (aka Android) apps. If they provide the right API wrapper, and assure the OHA that they'll make a good implementation, there is nothing technically stopping it.
The core driver of the humor is sex. Most blue humor wouldn't be funny if cultural norms shifted even slightly; it's superficially, but not structurally, humorous.
This google talk by Dan Siegel (a neuroscientist & psychiatrist) talks about mindfulness training causing beneficial structural changes in the frontal lobes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4Od7kqDT8&feature=relat...
I can't speak for the original poster... but to me WP7 seems actually quite nice despite me liking the iPhone too.

I like that MS tried for once to think outside the box: maybe it will be good, maybe it will be crap. Ironically everything I hated about MS (trying too cover all the basis, doing me-too products) seems to be the way Google is going.

But that doesn't mean I want Android to do badly. I just think the mobile market is still young and there's a lot of innovation. I like a good competition, and I appreciate when a company, ANY company, tries to do a serious product. I could not care less that it's MS, Nokia, or Palm.
Simply amazing, I'm impressed.
They're not limiting it to US entrepreneurs, just limiting their recruitment efforts to California at present. K-Swiss and Apple have convinced the world that the world's best stuff is "Designed in California"
It was not insane to kidnap Abu Omar. From what I can tell, it was coldly rational and warranted in a cost/benefit sense, based on the evidence available to the government at the time.

I do not see how it could be rational. Based on years of torture, we apparently have learned nothing that could justify a conviction in even a kangaroo court.

Look, I know that many people believe that everyone who any government anywhere ever declares to be a terrorist is automatically guilty. But really now: he hasn't been convicted of anything. Even though he was tortured for years. Even though was under the control of a police state that has a long reputation of convicting innocent people the state doesn't care for. And despite all that: no convictions. Which means he never should have been kidnapped and tortured. When you kidnap and torture innocent people, you are doing something wrong.

All you can do is posit that something like that might happen, and sit back waiting for everyone else on the message board to try to prove the negative. Isn't that fun?

Again, you seem very confused. I'm not trying to disprove your larger assertion. I'm calling into question subsidiary arguments that you've made. Those subsidiary arguments are not proving a negative, so you need not weep any more on that score. Now, since you've made many many subsidiary arguments, I don't think that calling a handful of them into question seriously damages your larger claim, but if you believe otherwise....
Here's my possibly slightly less ridiculous proclamation as to what RIM should do:

RIM should set up shop in a warmer climate, maybe the California Bay Area, so that they can attract more software design talent hesitant to live in cold, windy Toronto.
Exactly. The Blackberries need to modernise their system, sure. But as long as they keep being the best in what they are, they've got a pretty nice niche, and it's all for themselves.
"XML-based terminal"

talk about a Heaven meets Hell scenario
>Look at what happened with the PC market. Compaq? Gateway? Even Dell and HP, the biggest two are earning very little from their computer division (well, relatively little). The two winners in the PC market have been Windows and Intel.

Your analogy suffers from a strong survivorship bias.

If you were paying attention to the computer market in the 80s, there were countless companies with their own take on computers. The overwhelming number of them disappeared, while a very few (like Dell) managed to hang their fortunes on the winning side (PC-ish, Windows) and saw the dollars pour in.

The more I think about your analogy, the more I realize that the example you gave is an exact counterpoint to your given conclusion.

And really, you claim that Dell and HP make relatively little from their computer divisions? They are both global companies, having profited to the tune of many billions, on the backs of that effort.

RIM cannot continue on their current arc. They will be dead in a matter of years. It is absolutely, positively guaranteed.

In any case, one thing about Android is that in no way do vendors lose exclusivity...that's a part of the platform. I know tech people hate HTC Sense, but you know a lot of end-users actually love it. The same for Moto Blur and the other differentiations. We are not a good study in the utility of such differentiators. RIM would have the full ability to completely customize Android to be a very unique, very powerful experience.
An interview with Max Keiser: 'America, a walking dead-zombie country'
yeah this gives me flashbacks to the 80's
My guess is they miss the old rivalry, back when things were simple, good vs. bad, white & black. The tech industry today is too morally ambiguous, with Apple sometimes playing the part of evil villain against Google, Adobe and others, something they're not comfortable with.
(a) I think it's easier to have someone killed in an area already bristling with guns and rife with violence, an area where a civilian killing, even an intentional one, is easily covered up. (b) I think it's much harder to kill someone in Sweden. (c) I think there are many people in Baluchistan who we have demonstrable direct overt military incentive to kill. (d) I think there's little to no incentive to kill Julian Assange. (e) I think we're demonstrably ineffective it neutralizing targets in Baluchistan.

Those are my premises. From them, I derive the argument that the evidence available suggests that we don't intend to harm Assange. We simply suck at picking people out and killing them, even when we have straightforward military objectives served by doing so.

From all your comments, I can tell that you have straightforward and valid objections to the way the US has persecuted its "war on terror". You and I probably agree on most of them. I understand how those objections might bleed into the Assange story, but I think that's all it is: an unrelated objection bleeding into this narrative. The world is not a spy movie, even though the US has sometimes acted in ways that might make it look like it is.
Wonder if we'll start seeing a black market for eye-swapping surgeries because of this...
Thanks for the explanation. Here is the relevant Wikipedia article with a whole universe of humor related terms that I (non-native speaker) didn't know before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-color_humor
Probably cats to a file.
There seems to be a lot of debate based on emotion with remarkably little fact.

Many corporations are moving to a bring-your-own smartphone policy. My organization did exactly that recently, and no new Blackberry has been purchased in some time: We have the BES server and the plans, but users don't want to carry some deadweight blackberry and the Android or iPhone smartphone that they also carry. With Exchange Web Services, the whole BES thing seems like such an anachronism anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Do you have anything to comment on the article?
This video inspires a mixture of emotions. Awe at the lego models. Confusion at the strategy of the players. Admiration at the attention to detail in the motion of the units and the animations. Rage at the outcome of the battles because GOONS TOTALLY WOULD NOT WIN THAT FIGHT NO WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING WITH GOLIATHS THAT'S SUICIDE ARRRGH.

Still. Great lego.
Please stop trying to get me to justify the kidnapping of Abu Omar. I don't think it was the right thing to do, and the evidence suggests that it wasn't an effective course of action.

I'm doing my best to foresee all the various ways this discussion can turn into an HN referendum on the "war on terror", and I'm obviously failing, because I'm reading things about genital electrocution and discussing the 2003 kidnapping of a Jamaat Islamiya recruiter instead of what has actually happened with Julian Assange, someone who's newsworthy exclusively for having posted files to the Internet.
I appreciate your confidence, but you are wrong:

OpenSolaris/suncc, Jacques' program:

$ cat immutable.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
char * s = "abc";
*s = 'c';
printf("%s\n", s);
return 0;
}

$ cc -o immutable immutable.c
$ ./immutable
cbc

EDIT: I can't reply to you, so I have to take this route.
I also think that this behavior is not desirable. However,
I do not see the passage in the the standard that forbids
writable strings. On the contrary, in Annex J writable
string literals are explicitly allowed as an extension,
and I don't see any indication that the presence of
writable strings make an implementation non-conforming.

Perhaps you could point to the passage in the standard
that requires string literals to be immutable (your words,
not mine) or that requires a compiler to issue a warning
if a string literal is modified.

If you still wonder why I'm arguing this: It is not for
the sake of nitpicking, but to support kabdib's post.
The curious thing about the Amazonian peoples is that a lot of them are refugees on the run. We don't really know a lot about what the continent looked like before the European conquest because most of the indigenous peoples were slaughtered or integrated into Spanish/Portuguese society as slaves.

So there's actually a lot of evidence that these hyper-insular tribes are products of the conquest, and did not have this extreme a society before Europeans arrived. In some ways, this man might be the last remnant of a hodgepodge guerrilla army of sorts that has been fighting a losing battle for centuries.
It won't tell which application is draning the battery. When I had GoogleTalk it would show 93% used by applications. googleTalk would appear for less then a second, then replaced by google map which I never used.

BTW a more usefull app would by to display this data with a graphic. I use The app Battery Snap a lot. It shows the evolution in time of the battery usage. This shows how the energy evolves in time. One can see changes in the slope.

The problem left is that we have no clue on the reason of battery consumption. In some case it can be an app (mp3) in others it can be because I lose GSM contact. It would really help to have more info on the slope changes. At least a hint on the possible cause.
Doesn't this kill any hope for BlackBerry to have software revenue? Can't see that being a good thing given how fast the app market is growing. They should have bought Palm back then could.
Exactly.

I'm personally not very confident in RIM's hardware or product design skills. So on the hardware front, RIM wouldn't be a competitor.

So, if we ignore RIM's role as a hardware manufacturer. If they were to adopt Android, they'd essentially be reduced to a service provider: BIS/BES. There's no way I'd settle for that if I was RIM.

Would it even be feasible to integrate BIS/BES security features and what into android?
Talk about derivative work!
No, fairly straightforward logic and (for that matter) jurisprudence argues that virtually every member of Al Qaeda is a party to any number of crimes.

Sorry, try as hard as you can, you're not going to elevate Proff to the level of "enemy of the state". He's a guy with a bunch of files that the US no doubt wishes he didn't have. It is a complete certainty that every one of those files is going to be public sometime within the next couple years. Nobody with a functioning adult mind and more than a years exposure to any part of the problem space could believe otherwise.

(Bradley Manning is, if credible allegations are to be believed, an entirely different story).
Ruby Koans. Best way to learn Ruby.
So are dollar bills. In some situations like prisons, so are cigarettes.

Something is a store of value because you expect that other people will value it as highly in the future as they do now. (Or at least some predictable fraction less, accounting for inflation.) Whether it's gold or dollars, it's still based on investor psychology, and is still just as subject to whims of herd behavior. Ask people who bought gold in 1979 how well it stored its value.
While I think this season's not as good as seasons previous, I also think you're being too harsh--and I think the quality of writing is getting better.

The Late Philip J. Fry (the time machine one), as you admitted, was hilarious. They worked in references to piles of classic science fiction movies; the show covered time travel, theories of the nature of time and the universe, paradoxes, and predestination; and the writing was tight and funny. So we seem to agree that one was solid.

A Clockwork Origin, two episodes later, pulled together the panspermia hypothesis, the debate between intelligent design and evolution, the singularity, and clear send-ups to Second Variety and Planet of the Apes.

Proposition Infinity was more a political than a science fiction episode (and we had those in the earlier seasons, too--the garbage sphere, the women's planet, etc.), but I thought did a hilarious send-up of Proposition 8, religious responses to homosexuality, San Francisco gay pride parades, and so on.

And while I agree that episodes from this season are in general more vulgar than average from previous Futurama seasons, I also think you're viewing those seasons through rose-colored glasses. The sex in this episode was no more explicit than Fry and Leela in Tales of Interest, Professor Farnsworth's seduction of Mom in Mother's Day, or half a dozen other episodes, and while I thought the third episode of the season (Attack of the Killer App) was disgusting, I don't honestly think it was more disgusting than Fry and the Slurm Factory, where it's revealed that Slurm is slug poop.

Futurama's always mixed highbrow with lowbrow. I agree they've gotten raunchier, and I think it hurts the humor. But I think writing the whole season off as a loss is extremely unfair.
Have you double checked? Seems weird, especially for a mobile checkin app that is much more likely to encourage using open wlans :/
Scott Adams, 2012! For a better America.
Though uncouth, I've noticed that eating with your mouth open has a similar effect.
That Sun's CC does something goofy here has nothing to do with the argument. Code written to depend on that weird behavior is unreasonable. Why are you arguing this point? I don't get what you think you're proving here.

There are plenty of platforms that C runs on that are incapable of making anything immutable, including program text itself. That doesn't make C strings less immutable. Why isn't your compiler yelling at you for doing that? I think it's broken!
I had a look through your sources and they convinced me that you were wrong about water conservation. Even if lots of places have low density and plenty of water, there are negative effects.

Surely using as little as necessary, most of the time, is a good policy.

"Per capita residential water use in the United States is more than four times as high as in England and five times as high as in Germany."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_...

There are many conclusions you can take from that, but a common one would be: Many people in the US use more water than necessary.

In terms of buildings, my experience with houses in Australia (almost zero insulation, single glazing) and northern Europe (astonishing volume of insulation, triple glazing standard) also suggests that there is something to think about here.
Well, Apple's core OS was severely lacking, and they did need to make a major switch to really start turning things around. Unfortunately, the analogous thing to what Apple did would have been to acquire Palm and use its underlying architecture for a new product that was still called RIM OS (and hope that the CEO of Palm was some genius visionary that could run your company instead of you, I guess?)
It reminds me the famous libcaca:

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

One of my favorite application of the libcaca is neercs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQr42LjaNCY
Is Urban Loneliness a Myth?
Fry and the Slurm Factory was a brilliant episode; it mashed up Studs McKenzie with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was gross, but in a structurally comical way.

Attack of the Killer App was just unfunny, in the same sense as Bill Maher is unfunny compared to Jon Stewart; it's a humor based on superficial recognition of current events, not keen observation.
FYI: The story of the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas", mentioned in the 5th paragraph of the article, is dramatized in the novel Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Perhaps this relates to the experience I've heard some relate, finding that food tastes better when camping. There's more fresh air, more air movement, and perhaps deeper breathing from moving around more.
Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning
The same principle of 'temperature matters'. Some things are better cold.
Jack Horkheimer, the "Star Hustler", passes away
Do you have any evidence / citations for this idea? I've never heard of it, even in articles like 1491 from the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/03/mann.htm .
"He should be called by his tribal name ..."

And what is his tribal name? Remember that he is the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. We would need to contact him in order to know that, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxDfcyT92wQ&feature=relat...
For the benefit of those that don't know: raise to the power of 0.5 instead (x^y button, 0.5, enter).

edit: Doh! That's what the linked page says. In my defense I have a horrible connection tonight and it didn't load until just now :)

edit 2: Lol@ the itchy trigger-finger. Isn't that what the downvote karma limit is for? :)
If I’ve understood correctly, the warrant was issued by an on-duty prosecutor and overturned by a chief prosecutor. It could be a simple revaluation of whether or not the accusation falls within the legal definition of rape, whether or not there were sufficient grounds for a warrant, etc.
I beg to differ. Beer tastes better from a glass bottle than from a can. The smell doesn't account for everything there.