skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, not. This guy accidentally tested it the hard way:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/afib1/truecrypt_and_the_fifth...
Do you really trust Myers-Briggs tests so much?

"Studies have found that between 39% and 76% of those tested fall into different types upon retesting some weeks or years later"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Rel...
In the US, the prosecution is going to have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is, in fact, encrypted information and that the suspect knows the key.

Yes, there are going to be gray areas. But if Bob has one computer in his house with his and only his finger prints all over it, wear that indicates that the computer has been used extensively, and the computer hard drive is filled with an encryption scheme wrapped around otherwise useless gigabytes of random data, then I am sure beyond a reasonable doubt that there is encrypted data on the hard drive and Bob has the key.
This is a really good example of not reinventing the wheel.

Instead built-in functions of the wonderful CouchDB are used - indeed brilliant.
Usually I hate these things, but this one is making the rounds of the YC founders and it's so funny I watched it 3 times. But if you don't think it's worthwhile, flag it, and if it gets enough flags I'll kill it.
Seems like with -20C temps they would just stay inside the capsule and wait for the support team. They should be quite safe from the wolves inside.
Some of the items in the list above are allegations from the FTC and some of them were admitted by Jason - you can't lump facts and allegations together that's guilty until proven innocent.
Ask HN: Inventory management software/apps
I have 3 warehouses in different cities with dozens of items stored in each. We're a very young company and I've convinced the owner that we need to be keeping track of what's coming in and going out of the warehouses with something other than a pen and paper ported to excel spreadsheets. All I need is something simple that allows us to see what's coming in, what's going out, notifies us when inventory of a certain item gets low, and then allows us to write up purchase orders for when something gets low. What on the market performs these functions best and has the best interface?
Ask HN: What are you doing to improve yourself personally and professionally
What habits are you changing? What skills are you learning/improving? Etc.
Why Google Doesn't Have Phone Support
Perhaps a solution is to commit two crimes: crime A which has to do with the encrypted file, and crime B which has nothing to do with it. Then, use a phrase which is self-incriminating for crime B as the password for the encrypted volume. For example, "IBrokeTheSpeedLimitBy15MilesPerHourOnJuneTheTwenty-Seventh,InTheYearTwoThousandAnd4".
For those seriously interested in this area of law, I highly recommend http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com, as it's a really good source of info on the topic . Susan Brenner is a law prof, and her analysis of current cases is a constant treasure trove of interesting nuggets of insight into the law as it pertains to computers, electronic devices, and digital media. It's broken down enough for the layman to grasp, yet heavy enough in vocabulary and citations/references, that a you'll have a decent understanding of the law and how the justice system works.
"Consider a function(aka curve)..."

Thank you for this answer and I apologize for the ambiguity in my question, especially, regarding the word "curve."

By "curve" I meant "curved line" or even more precisely, a "curved line without a gap." Obviously this is an assumption; I ignore if the line is made of points; because I want to compare a curved line with a straight line. So I believe that the question is not about "continuity."

(By the way Galileo has a nice discussion about lines and points here http://books.google.com/books?id=SPhnaiERbWcC&dq=galileo...)

Maybe I can ask the same question like this. Here are 3 numbers: 0.0872664626; 0.1047197551; 0.1221730476. Is it possible to tell if these are points on a straight line or if they are points on a curved line? I believe both; depending on the scale they are plotted; the numbers would look like a straight line on some scale; but they are points on a sin curve. In other words, nature does not distinguish between straight line and curved line; the same three numbers can be read both ways.

So I am looking for a theorem that would describe this fundamental property of nature.

Thanks.
I've wondered more than once about the possibility of the peaceful, orderly transition he's talking about. It seems as through every great past civilization eventually collapsed under it's own weight, devolving into anarchy or was torn apart by war. Given the past, it seems entirely impossible.
I want to be powered by photovoltaics!
From the about page on the blog:

"I have a BS degree from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems as well as an MBA degree from Stanford. I’ve started several successful companies including Focalink, TreasureGames, and Swish Marketing."
It's important to point out that success for these companies isn't dependent on being in business with the major rights holders.
Did he? I thought he drove through the checkpoint with the machine turned on/suspended in his back seat with the drive mounted.
Do you seriously believe that the FTC had no cause to take these people to court? I don't believe that.
Thanks for the details.

I guess I understand what you mean. Though I wouldn't use the words interactive/non-interactive. Pandora is quite interactive in a UI sense, even though you can't select tracks directly.
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I'm not sure how beautiful the interface is, and it might be overkill if a pencil/paper is not entirely out of the question, but Apache OFBiz has some/most of the functionality you require, I think.
Damn. I read the first bullet point list and everything was somewhat valid for me.
Bank account information. That's worse.
Absolutely yes.

Furthermore, they should send them to one web page explaining why and where to get the cure. (don't cut them off from that...)
I don't think that a flash drive would have been enough in his case. Maybe he had lots of pornographic pictures or videos with children.
Can't you just like, um, get a job?

Seriously, work at McDonald's for a week, mow a few lawns, wash a few windows, pick up dog poop off someone's front walk, rake leaves, etc. It's not hard to make $300 in the US once you decide to get your ass off the couch.
Hipmunk has Paul Buchheit, Sam Altman, Ron Conaway, @aplusk as investors, Steve as a founder and @kn0thing as a marketing head.

Has a ton of revenue already, Doesn't really need more capital - Steve has enough from the Reddit sale.

Enough said.
The ones that just want money to drink don't want a personal connection. They want your change, or a beer.
I'm just sort of pining for a far flung day after programming becomes established as an ordinary middle-school and high-school class, and those students grow up and become MBAs and CEOs. For now we have Excel. :)
I think it's saying that we should buy a pack of their cards.
Can you define interactive and non-interactive for me?
It's an interesting perspective, but some people deserve to have the weight of the government applied to them, whether or not they think it's just.

Fearmongering about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency from a guy whose company was misappropriating its customers' banking information should generate as much sympathy as John Dillinger's getaway driver bemoaning the cops' ability to buy fast cars.
I like the assumption implicit in this study: time spent driving is equivalent to the time spent dead.
I would appeal to the press -- try to get them to write stories about how the FTC is attacking an honest, hard working small businessman. Appeal to my congressman and senator to see if they could help a constituent creating jobs.

But here is why they couldn't do that -- no one wants to be in the same room with this guy:

"Thousands of consumers who applied for a payday loan online were charged up to $54.95 for a prepaid debit card with a zero balance. According to the FTC, the debit card company sold Visa- and MasterCard-brand debit cards through a payday loan marketer whose Web site homepages contained a loan application form and a button for submitting it. Consumers who clicked the submit button were taken to another page offering four products unrelated to the loan, each with tiny “Yes” and “No” buttons. “No” was pre-clicked for three of the products; “Yes” was pre-clicked for a debit card, with fine-print disclosures asserting the consumers’ consent for their bank account to be debited. Consumers who failed to change the debit card offer to “No” and simply clicked the prominent button labeled “Finish matching me with a payday loan provider!” incurred the fee for the debit card."

Sounds worse than GoDaddy if you can imagine that
There are two sides to every story and after reading the FTC complaint I don't have any tears for these guys. Tricking money out of people you know are already poor is a really dick move.

> Hundreds of thousands of consumers incurred debits of between $39.95 and $54.95 for the EverPrivate Card in the course of applying for payday loans on Swish’s websites. Many of these consumers, who, as payday loan applicants, were struggling to make ends meet, also incurred fees and penalties from their banks because they did not have sufficient funds in their accounts to cover this debit.

It appears this was an upsell scam--the customers filled out an application for a payday loan and on the second screen were given "special offers". The one for the EverPrivate Card (one of four offers) was already checked and the big obvious button to finish what you think is the pay day loan actually is the order button for extra offers. That's extraordinarily scammy. Good on the FTC for going after these guys.
Well, yes. I take him "seriously," but I'm not yet convinced his techniques outperform the kernel. That's how systems work is done. If you want to convince people that your way is better, then you need data to back it up.
It's no surprise that our system doesn't work. It was designed hundreds of years ago,

It does work, mainly because it was designed by hackers...

Think about it, our government is based upon an application that was launched 15 years before Babbage was even born!

It has redundancy (feds and states), load balancing (redistricting), semi-autonomous components (local governments), built-in testing (checks and balances), and even maintains itself (constitutional amendments).

I didn't say that it always runs well, but it keeps on running. I only wish that I can launch something that runs for 230 years.
Here's an idea: vote with your wallet. My upper limit for e-books is $11.99. I might pay $12.99 if it's a book I really want, but the majority of books I purchase from the Kindle store are $9.99 or less.
I'm not the one downvoting you. But I want a conversation that's adding information or content to which I wouldn't easily have access. So for instance, an answer to the question I pose above (or, if not a concrete answer, something along the lines of what would probably happen).
Regarding recently opened files, you can always say that you deleted them.
Go For Wholesale And Cheap Pocket Invitations 
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His summary advice:

"How do we cope? Avoid memory operations if at all possible."

WTF?
The landings are relatively rough, at least compared to something like the Space Shuttle. About 5G and if something goes wrong and Soyuz lands with its failsafe mode (which happened a few times in the past) G forces can exceed 8G.

It’s not very glamourous but compared to the Space Shuttle Shuttle it’s very safe. It has been safely returning humans for decades like clockwork.
The template language uses and promotes the new HTML5 doctype and semantic tags. It also makes a heavy use of the data-* attributes which allow features previously available only in declarative XML formats. WebSockets are optional but there is support available out of the box. And this is just the beginning...
Trendrr Goes Hyperlocal with Reputation Monitoring on Foursquare and Gowalla
it's just a tool to help solve the problem. Kind of like the chessboard/dominoes thing. You could have just as easily formulated the problem on a go board. But having black and white squares on the chessboard makes the solution much, much easier to visualize.
Why was this submitted with a throwaway account? Seriously. Since the submitter account was created specifically to post this article, how can it be expected that the submitter isn't biased as well (and judging by some of their pre-edited comments, it is pretty clear they are). It's all well and good for Jason and Swish to post their side of this but it certainly isn't the whole story. Whomever posted this should at least stand by their submission.
And then it goes on "so ignore your fear and do it anyway", which is terrible advice. Really really terrible.

It's like telling you that when you are driving and a warning light appears on the dashboard trying to tell you something, ignore it and push on forwards anyway - wouldn't want to be a weak, boring driver, would you?
Tap the line cutter on the shoulder and smile while you say “sorry, you may not have noticed, but the line starts over there.”

I do this sometimes with kids who play music on the tram and it is very unpleasant. My monkeybrain kicks in and I get a rush of fight hormones, my face gets red and most likely the guy/gals opposite too. The situation never escalates but I feel uncomfortable after that.
Pandora has been quite nice. Especially since they added some classical music. They don't have a lot of, say, German music, yet, though.
I'm not saying that you are wrong about generic cases, but in the case of Squid I think the author has done proper analysis before deciding on an architecture

This essay is written by Poul-Henning Kamp ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp ) so he has enough experience with OS level code to comment on this particular area. I guess it can depend on what kind of problem you are trying to solve. In the case of Varnish vs Squid, his approach worked better.
This works really well at networking events. Most people at networking events 1) feel like the reason they went there is to meet new people and 2) are still too shy to actually meet new people. Walking up to them and saying this provides a solution to both problems.
> or in outer space

Wouldn't it be easier to create an undersea or polar society before trying to create one in space?
http://eretail.yobiz.com/ips or it may currently be http://yobiz.com

The owner posts here frequently. I'm sure he will find this and can give you more details than I am able to.
Is the capsule reuseable? It looks pretty beat up from the outside.
The Winamp iPod manager wasn't so bad. Sure, there was no drag and drop, but I always kept dropping in the wrong place anyways. The biggest problem was how it handled certain aspects of tags and labelling different from iTunes. It really wasn't a problem if all you ever used was Winamp, but if you started with iTunes, and switched to Winamp, it would just reorder your music (the most obvious example being 0-9 coming before/after a-z), and piss you off.

Today, I use foobar to play my music. And I keep iTunes around to load my iPod. Cause as stupidly annoying as iTunes is, foobar gets it worse.
For further detail of what exactly this guy was doing -- see this screenshot from the Exhibit(hat tip to tptacek):

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723241/100420swishcmptexhibi...

I have a sharp eye, and even I missed the trick here at first glance which is to change the default option on signing up for the VISA pre-paid card.

If you look at section 5 in Exhibit D:

http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0723241/100420swishcmptexhibi...

you will also notice that these guys were charging a startup fee of $55 for anyone who got these cards.

For Jason Strober to claim that"I had nothing to do with the advertising" when the sole purpose of his company was to run the above scammy, unethical, and deceptive practices would be laughable if so many people weren't hurt by him.
i agree sales is key...

in the months before the sales guy can work on marketing, sales strategy, market research... building a reputation with the target audience.
A policeman came to visit our social education class in highschool, and my friend asked was it illegal to have an encrypted file that you don't know the password for. The policeman just looked at him like 'WTF are you talking about?'
If the software even still runs...
It seems to me like too many bands are trying to be startups. More bands should try to be lifestyle businesses.
An indicator on the dashboard indicates an objective fact: x is not working as it should.

In a social context, the vast majority of "waring lights" are not objective reality. They are just a subjective state of mind.

And BTW I generally ignore my check engine light. ;)
Okay, thanks for your reply.
1. Before we had a product I spent a lot of time taking care of administrative stuff that was necessary to get the company going. I also wrote the copy for the website. The biggest thing though is to talk to the people who you will eventually sell to and see if they are interested in what you are building.

2. Practice is a huge part of it. I also think its worthwhile to learn about the training programs bigger companies put their employees through. I have a few cd's from http://www.sandler.com/ that have been very helpful. If you have a friend who works in sales, they probably have a bunch of these.
It's hard to say exactly where the line is that you can't cross without getting killed. Industry experts know more precisely. I suspect the fatal combination is (a) a music focused startup that (b) touches label music and (c) makes money.
But we got mostly lucky. The political live played out quite different from what the writers of the constitution had in mind.

Just like in the US, which also was quite lucky in the same way.
I'm not put off by someone maximizing the money they're getting for what they do, but I am a little bit by people who do what they do to maximize the money they're getting. Of course, it's a matter of personal taste and point-of-view...

But "put off" might not have been the right word, maybe "disappointed" or "disinterested" would have been better. Basically, I saw swombat's question as a question from a developer interested in knowing if he might be missing something, if recruiting might be an interesting career path for hims. And the reply was like "the money, man!".

I could just imagine the real-life conversation, and know I'd think "oh ok... nevermind, I thought there was more to it".
In a vaguely similar vein, the recent Mirage paper showed impressive GC improvements by running ocaml on xen without an operating system in between. It allowed them to use a much simpler allocation algorithm.

http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2010-hotcloud-lamp.pdf
Why does this look like some cheesy "win her back" drama dating advice site with less cheesy graphics?

What's the value behind this that it's actually on HN? (not being a prick, but I honestly didn't see it).
I don't care what they are looking for. I treat them courteously as long as they treat me courteously. I've given 20's to people who sang a funny song, however, my usual M.O. is this:

"Spare some change?"

"No"

"<insert whatever way they want to ask for change again>"

"No, Fuck Off!"

In life you have one chance to make your pitch, make it count.

I don't say sorry that I don't have money for them because I'm not sorry about it. I also listen when they have their long story, I also listen well enough and remember faces well enough that often I can recite the rest of their scam story that always stays the same and never changes because they are not participating in the improvement of their condition. Apparently, someone has been needing change to go to an interview with IntraWest for over 12 months (incidentally, the first time he asked me was less than a block from IntraWest's head office).

For example the guy I gave a 20 to for singing a funny song, I saw him a few months ago and he let me know that he had found a place and was starting to record, he was still begging for change, and I said 'i think i did my part when i gave you a 20', i gave him a smoke, he agreed and moved on, but it was nice to see that in some way he had taken it upon himself to improve.
HN type sites for other industries?
Wondering, do other industries have Hacker news type sites? Quick, fresh, open type listings?
This was a foregone conclusion when the labels set this policy several years ago. Clearly this former president of Grokster is still telling the same story.

An interesting bit of insider info I have - a relative of mine is a young Sony VP. Apparently their senior executive still wants their digital people to explain things in terms of 8 tracks and tapes. No exaggeration.
I think the middle way is to make a habit of looking at your automatic responses, and occasionally respond in a different way.
They basically starved their population into poverty. Only when they unleashed competition and the private sector somewhat, did they make progress.

You could argue that China is now successful despite it's government, not because of it.
I still don't get how an artist actually makes money on a streaming service. It seems pretty good for the labels, but not for the artists. I know people say artist should make their money off other things, but their are some good artists who do poorly in a concert venue.
Just break up into smaller countries.
It's not so much that they don't want to "deal" with the changing business, it's that there aren't proper incentives in place for the people who run the companies.

Chances are, if you run a major music rights company, you get paid a large sum of money and the financial incentives are structured in such a way that it's in your best interest to simply keep the ship sailing rather than make any drastic changes. Why take risks when you can keep getting your 7 figure check? If you tried to stop the bleeding all at once, you'd most likely be shown the door.
The bizarre, sad tale of Togo's fake national team.
How does it compare to Hong Kong, and, say, Switzerland?
Soyuz reentry vehicles are non reusable. They're similar to the original Apollo capsules (originally designed roughly the same time as well).
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As of this writing it seems to be ok so long as you don't touch the music files or the lyrics.
What are companies for sending out phone calls?
i am looking for companies that send large numbers of outgoing phone calls. they need to have an api and other features like text to speech.

here are a few i have found twilio, cdyne, call fire, and voxeo. most of these services focus on ivr and call centers, not on outgoing calls. does anyone know any good companies that focus on outgoing calls?
That looks a bit messed up. "October 4" was deleted and replaced by a date in August in the new version?
"My Story" (of why the FTC came after him for $300k)
T-Mobile G2 pre-orders suspended due to ‘overwhelming demand’
Be sure to check PHK's comment (#5)

madvise + mincore syscalls could be used to get the kernel to preload the pages asynchronously.
I'm out of the loop. What are long term interest rates saying right now?
Did you mean: Post-Vacation-Amnesia?
You may be right. Though the old founding fathers did not found on new territory. They just took a stretch of British Empire.
If you're interested in more volume and flexibility, check out Flume, a new open-source project from Cloudera (the Hadoop/logging experts). Solid software and community behind it. http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/flume/UserGuide.html
btw, songkick is funded by Y Combinator.
I think Glympse is trying to solve this problem http://www.glympse.com/