skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would seem the best method to negate this intrusion would be to utilize tools already in existence, PGP being the most obvious. To date though, there is no working beta (that I'm aware of) of a mobile solution in the thunderbird/openPGP vein. I understand the inherent vulnerability of having your private keys on a mobile device, but is anyone working in this space? Is it possible within the confines of the iPhone, Blackberry, etc. mail client? I know personally I would pay quite a bit for an app that mimics the thunderbird/openPGP integration on a mobile device.
What Palm really needs (and what I really wish it had) is a non-phone device carrying WebOS

It's unbelievable how important and how big the iPod Touch (it's 40% of all iOS devices) is for the iOS platform.
Language for Unix command line utilities?
I code for a small biocomputing company. We download nucleotide sequence and taxonomy information in a number of unrelated formats from a number of public repositories and run various kinds of translation and analysis on it. Much of what we write are small command line tools that search, summarize, or transform certain types of (large trees of) text files. These programs look and feel a lot like traditional core Unix utilities; our most widely used programs are essentially just a specialized version of diff and a specialized version of grep, respectively. We used to prototype most of our utilities as shell scripts or in Perl; we redid shell scripts in Perl or C (or sometimes Java) if they became performance bottlenecks.

Some years ago we decided to move from Perl to Python for new projects because Perl programs had a way of always ending up as maintainability nightmares and because Perl seemed on the way out anyway. It largely worked, but we were never really, truly happy with our Python code. I suspect part of the reason is that Python can be (or at least feel) less succinct than even C if you do lots of low-level file system stuff with close error checking. The true reason is probably largely aesthetic. We can't explain what's wrong, we're just vaguely uneasy.

What other alternative to C should we be looking at? Ruby? Haskell? Is Go there yet? We have very open minds and are willing to consider pretty much anything that gives us reasonably easy and unmolested access to syscalls and their return values.
Actually, I've been thinking about doing this for a while -- this thread convinced me to put up my MVP to see what happens.

While I'm waiting for DNS to propogate, here's a sneak peek: http://img.skitch.com/20100831-kf41k4mpc4gd612jyhdcbtyxgh.jp...

edit: it's now available at http://dashboard.io -- would love any feedback I can get. :)
I am a she, by the way.
Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, yes, but local vulnerabilities are much less urgent to fix. If Apple truly didn't care about jailbreaks, local-only vulnerabilities might stick around a lot longer.
Third, if you include Vidly/Tweetvid.
> As for the issue of spaces, 1+4/5 is just a symbol, which you can interpret as a string, which you can then parse back to symbols.

You can write a parser in any language; nothing magical about Lisp there.
I should probably already know this (and we'll email you about it), but I was wondering how you're currently keeping your dropbox index up to date. our existing APIs don't make it all that easy (or efficient :).
Companies often change their names well after that, as their ideas change. OhLife only became OhLife 2 years after their Demo Day. Before that they were MeetingMix, and on Demo Day they were IDidWork.
I guess it depends on the kind of school or degree. Higher education always meant to be tied with getting a job...

For this reason I have a hard time seeing a bubble for higher education (Masters and PhDs) but I can imagine it for these expensive professional/technical schools. Then again, I am not in the US so my perspective is likely very different.
The business is 80% automated, the rest is just maint. work such as: sys admin, emails, approving certain things etc. so yes someone can be trained very easily. Barriers to entry... none really in the sense we do not necessarily have much proprietary 'technology' except we have the users/the revenue/infrastructure in place.
Shouldn't be surprising. How often are you going to hear about the mundane but good works of 99% of police officers vs. the one bad apple?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
I know this as top-down programming.
(correct me if I'm wrong, HNers)

In WebOS, "apps" are written in html/css/js, so it makes sense to have the capability of running a standalone js engine like node for GUI-less apps (background services).
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Is life about repetition and habits? I think so and I think that's the underlying factor to messages that convey "just start doing it" and almost any other self-help type message out there. Get into a routine, figure out what works, goto 10.

It's not a huge secret and it's one of those simple things that people often overlook.

Personally, I like Jerry Seinfeld's method of productivity. Define tasks that contribute to a goal and every day that you contribute, physically mark it off on a calendar.

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Is it too late in the year to start mint? I have a very similar situation to the OP; live in an apartment in SE Michigan with a window/balcony, but near trees. I'm assuming it'll have to come inside around mid-October.
Well, the housing bubble was leverage based and the higher education one is less so, especially since higher education loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy (pretty much only in death, right?).

And as you note an education is not terribly fungible.

I agree with your last point: when, how and the shape of the fallout is quite unclear. We can perhaps see some clues at the edges, as some of the more marginal institutions go out of business, e.g. Antioch College (surprise; you might liken it and its sector to the sub-prime and Alt-A mortgage sectors).

But it's still the case that a 4 year Bachelor's degree has replaced the high school diploma as a proxy for [whatever] and until that changes we're more likely to see various sorts of shifting instead of across the board collapse.

Camille Paglia (who's always worth listening to, says this "ultra right wing conservative" :-) suggests we make a major shift to the trades: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649709, e.g.: "The pressuring of middle-class young people into officebound, paper-pushing jobs is cruelly shortsighted."
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The customer is always right.
Where's the autocomplete? I only see find-as-you-type -- there are no Google-suggest like suggestions, per se.

Also, I am very curious to see back-of-the-envelope calculations on resource usage -- e.g. what is the expected billing per user (in dollars)? ("Doesn't matter" is an acceptable answer for now, but I'm worried that this type of service is unreasonably expensive to provide and cannot be offset by ads/freemium models)
PHP hosting when you aren't big is pretty simple.

For small sites, GoDaddy hosting works fine if you are looking to save money.

For "small-ish" sites, I use media temple.

For small to medium sites where I want more control, I use linnode.

For large sites, I use Softlayer.
Is ‘adaptive reuse’ the secret to responding creatively to extended old age?
So Campaign Monitor is a email marketing tool. Gmail excels at segregating unsolicited marketing into a folder called "spam". So when I don't open those emails it makes Google look like a smaller proportion than those email clients that don't filter so well. Also, by default gmail does not open graphics (like tracking pixels) when opening a message.

--just say'n
So if you start a startup and retire at 35, what will you do with the next 50 years of your life?
Sounds like an attempt by i2 to crush a new competitor with a very vague lawsuit. Hard to tell if it has any merit.
If you get uncomfortable, you can delete your account at any time. We'll delete your data. Not in 14 days, a week or tomorrow. That moment.
We're convinced that you'll find enough value with Greplin to overcome that issue - the same way many did with mint.com.

We're also working with a) encrypted indexes b) only writing the index to disk rather then any content. this shuts down a lot of neat features (generating snippets etc.) - but users that are willing to forgo features for added security might find it useful.
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Agreed Gmail/FB/Twitter all have good enough searches, but wouldn't a simple (spotlight-like) search box for all that be game-changing?

From the article: "Greplin only uses OAuth and other APIs for authorization, so they never see your third party site credentials".
What the study actually finds is that heavy drinkers who live to age 55 live longer than nondrinkers who live to age 55. This might be because heavy drinking confers some health benefit, or some behavioral benefit (couch surfing vs outdoor activity). But to me, the more likely explanation is that heavy drinking selects for people who are genetically or otherwise predisposed to live longer (by killing the rest before age 55).

Imagine a headline that read "Smoking correlates with increased life expectancy among centenarians." You probably wouldn't conclude based on that that smoking is a good idea.
The iPod touch is about $3000 cheaper than the iPhone, and that's probably why it's important.

(In Canada, you probably pay $80-$90/month locked to a three year contract, which is around $3000)
I guess I'm a bit of an OSS hippie, but I wish that too. But, having a business model means we can focus all of our time on this. We're able to do more for open source this way.

Also: GitHub has released a bunch of open source (as others have added). One of the other things I like is that details of the architecture are discussed openly. When I joined GitHub a few months ago, I was shocked at how much I already knew about how things worked.
Actually the press release seems relatively specific in their claims. I'd expect the actual complaint to be even more explicit.

If it's true, it will not be very hard to prove.

As an aside, this stuff happens quite often. It's inappropriate and should never be condoned by anyone in an organization. I think people doing it often forget that these kind of actions can be considered illegal in some cases and jurisdictions, or at the very least a serious violation of licensing agreements.
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The thing he is missing is that the tuition bubble (as he should more accurately call it) was directly caused by the housing bubble. Need to pay $200K for your kid's tuition to an ivy league? Take a second mortgage on your house. Universities were only able to charge these outrageous prices because people were willing to pay it. Now that nobody has equity in their homes any more you can expect it to change.

There are economic rules about supply and demand that come into play here. The supply of available seats in an ivy league are limited, and when credit or money is virtually unlimited, the pricing gets ridiculous.

We can expect this to adjust itself in the next few years provided not enough people are willing or able to pay these outrageous tuitions.
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It sure is a good thing that India has nukes!

I have a Too-Big-To-Fail theory—as any complex social system grows, it reaches some kind of equilibrium boundary, and if it tries to grow beyond that, black swans, catastrophes, and the usual apocalyptic implosion inevitably occurs.
No I know this is going to put me out on the fringe of Anarcho-Libertarian-Fascists, but we all need to stop building social organizations that are too big to fail. The consequences of total failure just keep getting bigger(see WW2).

So the solution for India is that it needs to be a few smaller independent nations. Even the idea of a single, unified "India" is a fiction created less than a century ago for the political purpose of throwing off the oppressive, exploitive imperial rule of the British.

Just look at Rome or any empire. It's the same exact high level pattern. I'd say the same applies to China, Russia, and the US too! (God knows I'd love to throw those Red-State weirdos out of the Union–just kidding of course).

If humanity wants to survive for the long-term, living in peace and prosperity on this Blue Marble, we're going to need to master our collective ability to break down inefficient social organizations without resorting to the same kind of barbaric warfare which we've always used.
There's two ways to look at the issue. One is the question of value generated by the degree. If the degree adds a million dollars to your total income, it is natural for the education industry to try to capture more of that value. By that metric it all looks peachy.

In a free market, the relevant metric is something more like at how low a price you can bring the service vs. your competitors. It beggars the imagination to believe that the current price charged is the actual minimum price for the services that people are actually looking for. The question of the intangibles of the college experience is incidental, first because even those intangibles can almost certainly be had for much cheaper, and secondly because it isn't necessarily the case that people want them, regardless of how much you want people to want the same intangibles you do. In addition to the fact the intangibles could probably be had for cheaper, we have this Internet thing slowly but very, very surely eroding away the physical constraints of the old system.

They've been really shielded from the free market by easy subsidies and loans and the fact that the unaccredited competition was neither socially accepted nor able to be quite cheap enough to break through, but all of these things are suddenly changing. The costs to a startup or something of providing a college-quality education continues to drop, and the business scales fairly well. We're getting over the idea that college = good with the increasing evidence that it's not true, which will continue to open the door to non-traditional-college alternatives, some of which will begin to exceed their college breathren. The subsidies are likely to become harder to get and increasingly scary, as word of things like the non-dischargability of student debt in bankruptcy are increasingly well known. Every pillar propping up the current system is collapsing over the next few years at once.

As the college education market gets forcibly introduced to the free market, I expect the blood of the incumbents to flow freely. Like all bubble pops I can't predict exactly when it'll happen ("the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"), but I'm pretty confident about the outcome, based on the fundamentals.

(How confident? I am not planning my finances for my kids on the assumption that college is going to cost them each $50,000/yr in 2010 dollars. I computed it once and at current rates of tuition growth that's a reasonable projection for a 2-year-old and a not-yet-born. It's just physically impossible for a college-equivalent education to cost that much. So you might say I'm betting quite a lot on this analysis.)
Not as I recall; the really big gains where in the post-WWII GI Bill era, which began the really big shift on the supply side. I think by sometime in the '70s or '80s a substantial degree of saturation was reached ... and of course the '80s is when the costs suddenly detached from the rest of the economy (of course, you should check this against a more reliable inflation metric than what the necessarily biased US government puts out).

One would also want to look at when the 4 year college bachelor's degree replaced a high school degree. Why Johnny Can't Read was published in 1955; not too many years/decades after that it was widely recognized that a high school degree no longer signaled much of anything.
Doesnt this exclude heavy drinkers who died before the age of 55-65? This skews the results towards individuals whose bodies are presumably quite resilient against alcohol related health complications and managed to keep the person alive long enough to be included in this study. The title should read something more akin to "Late life heavy drinkers outlive late life nondrinkers"
We knew this was safe because it worked for YC.
Thank you! I had only done a bit of cursory Googling, but I kept coming up with blogs and other sites that provided rather limited attribution.
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I think it's impressive they actually managed to fit a real word in there, even if it's a hacker neologism.
Are you saying the 1000's of universities in the US, not to mention the 10's of thousands worldwide, are successfully colluding to drive up prices? That's a hard position to maintain. Universities do compete on price heavily, even if it's in the form of grants.
I wonder how Google, with its competing Android platform must feel about this. That is to say, are chrome and android for that matter more like the Nexus 1: designed to push other companies forward, or more like standalone products of their own? Or maybe Google is being even more forward thinking about it and realizing that they can derive competitive advantage from both scenarios.
Only thing I can think of is AWK, but that's only slightly more readable than perl and is probably less maintainable since perl has vastly superior profiling and debugging tools.

I mostly use Python for the sorts of things you are mentioning. And from what you're saying you don't like a bout Python, I suspect that going to Ruby or Haskell or such is going to be worse. Python can more easily call the underlying C routines then either of those.

It would be nice if you could provide an example of something you think is inelegant and/or awkward in Python so that we could figure out which direction to point you.

I do a lot of coding in common lisp and some programming in haskell, but wouldn't recommend either of those based on what I've heard from you so far. There's a few dataflow style languages I've seen that would probably allow very succinct code, but they were all toys and performed quite poorly.
Do enough heavy drinkers really die by 55 to account for the difference?
Nice pun.

I personally find the sans-serif monospace fonts much easier to read on a monitor, especially at small sizes. Out of the list, I find Consolas far superior to the others. Inconsolata is very similar, but it doesn't have real italics, and the vectors aren't tweaked for optimal anti-aliasing.

Typography is something Microsoft actually does very well.
As a point of reference, the BOM for last year's Burning Man setup can be found at the bottom of this page:
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/OpenBTSBM2009RF

The default hardware for OpenBTS is the USRP, not the USRP2. The USRP + 2 RFX 900 daughtercards set me back about $1400.

OpenBTS units like these use Intel Atom SBC boards, which retail for <$100: http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/d945gclf/...

The bare hardware cost is less than $5K, but perhaps the $10K price quoted in the article includes the tower, rigging, cables, power source, enclosure, Wi-Fi backhaul, etc., not to mention a nice profit margin.

Incidentally, there are some gnarly GSM patent licensing issues that are discussed in the January 2009 entries on the OpenBTS blog.
Has the mainstream acceptance of online shopping progressed to the point where people are willing to buy clothes without trying them on?

Yes, but you need a good return policy.
Expect a lot of returns.

However, I still don't think women want custom jeans.
If GitHub was open source, we wouldn't be able to make money to hire people to make awesome features. An Open Source GitHub would without a doubt be a much worse experience for everyone.
Somehow I fail to see how this is "shocking" news. India is just kindly asking RIM to provide to them what they did provide to the US and other western governments for years, namely the ability to snoop on the message traffic.

And of course a real criminal or terrorist can just use any encrypted IMAP server in a remote location to exchange messages in secrecy, completely bypassing RIM and the snooping effort...
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This deficiency of not being "integrated" is also true to a lesser degree in Ruby.

Ultimately, you get the thing to behave how you want with the syntax you want, but under the hood you're not getting code as data that you can manipulate as freely and naturally as you can in lisp. Instead you hack on the language's object models and method dispatch to get the syntax to line up with the one you have in your head.

In this sense, beauty is only skin deep in Ruby when it comes to DSLs. (It's nice and all, but it's apples to oranges vs lisps.)
Look at that second chart more closely; the education cost bubble started about a dozen years earlier than the housing bubble. And home equity wasn't and isn't the only source of funding, especially for the less wealthy.
Seems oddly appropriate that Palantir would be accused of stealing secrets.
$35k in Iowa City is equal to $58k in Queens.

So I'm thinking 50k.

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...
Not sure if you realized it, but saying someone used a strawman is generally an insult to their argumentative abilities :)
There is an android app that does that: http://pgpmanager.blogspot.com/
Are you referring to Chris Paget's demo at DEFCON at the end of July?

OpenBTS can in fact be used for nefarious purposes (or to demonstrate the intrinsic insecurity of the GSM standard). It could also in principle be used by law enforcement agencies to track criminals.
>Something I'd really like is the ability to search through my social news comments/submissions.

I use comment feeds to archive my own submissions into a feed folder on Thunderbird, makes it quicker when I can't remember a link or resource properly but know I've commented on it before. Also I have a vague idea that it might be interesting to look back on.

It means I usually try to quote or make it clear what the context of a comment is to make it a more readable resource if anyone should ever want to do that.
If most places only care about experience, then some sort of apprenticeship or internship programs should spring up by themselves. These are now done through partnerships between universities and companies, but is there really any value added by the university here?

Or, another possibility is that the degree only serves as a "necessary but not sufficient" marker. It increases the probability that you know your stuff, but only the first couple of jobs confirm that you learned anything. In which case yeah, selling your degree back to them would be bad.
Unimportant tangent: Is checking receipts and looking into bags really legal in the (I would assume) US? It isn't in Germany and if employees hold you against your will they better be damn sure that you actually stole something or they are in serious trouble (as in: possibly going to jail trouble).

That’s just a risk a store owner has to bear.
I didn't say not relevant, I said not worth a post. The main problem with twitter is that it turns content which would normally be too light into something that seems like it is substantial.

But your quip got your 1.5 month old "drive by account" a dozen up-mods, so good on you.