skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who knows what he'll work on at Facebook? Maps and Wave are kind of unrelated, conceptually. Facebook could use him for something related to geolocation for Places, or they could want him to lead some inbox/chat integration project. Maybe they want him to revamp their photo uploader. He's a programmer, not a collaboration guru; surely they've got 100s of ideas that could use his massive brains.
Operation Iraqi Freedom
It blows my mind that the entire corpus of fetched web pages can fit on a single midrange laptop's HD today; clustering on indeed.
A few things come to mind:

1. Syntax that doesn't suck

2. Higher-than-text-level abstraction
Most of the security problems that have been criticized in the articles have straightforward solutions.

That said, you're right that there are a host of security problems that people will find out about once everybody starts using it in a distributed fashion. These are the ones I'm really interested in, too.

A pretty broad document on their security architecture: http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Security-Architectu...
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Patrick, I'd be interesting in hearing what you mean by "php soup." I've developed what I consider (having over a decade of software development experience) to be a very capable MVC framework. Are you speaking to your particular feelings on PHP itself, or do you have specific criticisms of the codebase?
My next project is more about pure HTML5, so I'm unlikely to want to keep flash around. Good advice, in that ZoomRead was good to finish up as I had enjoyed working on it - flash, not so much for me I think.
So really, legalisation would work a lot better if all countries did it (eliminating drug tourism).
Interesting that all economists seem to be pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights.
You would almost think that most economists worked at banks or for university business schools.

In other research naval officers believe in a larger navy with lots of ships
My very first thought on seeing the title was, "Where is this a problem?" (Didn't realize they were talking about the past.)

My second, immediately following thought, was "Pay them to not kill passengers."

That's progress - how to get simple incentives right is a lot more obvious now to economically literate folk than it was back then.
Is any of the data about the size of their index and so on still available? Is there some competitive advantage to keeping this secret?
Fortunately, this sort of thing tends to attract the wrong kind of attention after a while. When enough people find your behaviour offensive enough, they will stop using your service. That will hit your bottom line, and that will make it bad for business.

Maybe most people will tolerate this kind of abuse even if they don't like it, but even running 90% full planes instead of 100% is a serious dent in your profits in this sort of industry. Sadly, I suspect the comments by the various air industry executives in the UK over the past week or so are motivated more by falling profits than any ethical problem with these devices, but if the end result is the same in practice, I welcome their opposition anyway.

Also, as someone pointed out on (I think) the BBC News story about those comments, it is not exactly in the airlines' interests to have their planes blown up. If we assume that the executives at such businesses are at least reasonably aware of the real effectiveness of these security measures, the fact that they are still now openly saying things have gone too far is quite telling.
For me, this issue affects my language choice.

I can pretty much get used to any language, so I don't participate in the language wars very much. I get used to a language's idiosyncrasies and work around them.

However, I very much dislike coding in PHP and the main reason is the colours of the documentation website. For some reasons, the website maintainers have chosen to display code examples as orange text on grey background.

For me, this is extremely hard to read, I have to really concentrate on the text and sort of narrow my eyes to make it out. Instead of being able to quickly flick through the docs, I have to concentrate on each and every piece of code. It's very exhausting.

As a result, I go out of my way to avoid PHP.
Intrade market: 90% probability that Republicans take House
Are there plans to allow people to import from gmail and/or facebook? I like the idea but, frankly, I'm way too lazy to invite people I know by actually typing out their email addresses, and there's not much to do when I'm the only person I know on the service.

Is there a bug tracker up? I only looked at the project site for a couple of minutes, but I couldn't find one.

When I click on news I get "The page you requested could not be found". That's followed by a link labeled "Home page" that doesn't go anywhere (it points to http:), and a link labeled "Previous page" that doesn't actually take me to the previous page.

Good luck! I hope this gains some traction.
hi, i've been experimenting a bunch with different approaches to doing MVC in Javascript. I did one project where I completely rolled my own rails-like framework, with a base controller, base model & view functionality based on EJS (my favorite js templating library).

Then I discovered sammy.js, which provides a nice approach to routing and linking. my current project uses that, and i roll my own data access code & use EJS for templating. I also have written all my own glue.

The space is calling out for a "Javascript on Rails" that takes a variety of different libraries and combines them in a canonical way so that each new project doesn't have to go through a shopping expedition, deciding which libraries are currently the best.

What's needed, basically:

1. Routing, navigation + back-button. Single-page JS apps operate very differently from normal apps because many links are hash links, eg. #settings. Sammy.js handles this nicely.

2. models. Here I have a different definition of what a model is than Backbone. I see a model as a class that wraps a particular service. So you might have a TwitterModel, YouTubeModel, MyServiceModel, etc. They would all benefit from inheriting from a base class that does the necessary networking (JSONP, JSON, etc.). It would be nice if all data came back from the service in the form of a Backbone.js Collection.

3. Views. There is a lot of code that ends up being needed around rendering templates. Think of the variety of different render() functions that exist in rails. That translates to Javascript, in my experience. Rendering templates into a div, doing pre- and post- processing, even swapping rendered blocks into invisible divs so they can be swapped back in quickly when the user hits the back button.

I could go on about the neat things that could/should be done, including all the declarative programming and "convention over configuration" stuff that rails does (example: render_foo() loads template foo.ejs and renders it into <div id='foo'>)

Anyway I feel myself a bit lost in a sea of googling whenever I try to find the definitive projects in this space - so I hope some will comment with their fave MVC-esque projects for Javascript...
Does she have issues with, say, pork?
From the FAQ page:
"8) Your logo is upside down: Why is the light source obviously below the image? It looks quite unnatural...

The logo is simply a scan of my hand, from a flatbed scanner converted to black and white. The "back" in the picture is the scanner cover, and the shadows are from the scanner light."

But no image on the main page =(
I really wish they'd archived that, too.
(Says something about the necessity of making v1 look good. Of course, the web was a different place in '97.)
The young are foolish but brave,
and the old are brave but cowardly.

In the end, to each his own.
I think that people who think this way tend to smoke pot, not the other way around. There are plenty of fully functional pot smokers without conspiracy theories.

This is like sitting in a bar listening to the same sob stories repeated week after week at a local dive bar and saying all drinkers are defeatist losers.
Well I'm not sure if they can grow it. But, isn't that mean you're going to provide a legal way for the cartel to make money? Now they can sell in legal market, and sure more people will be able to consume it since it's legal now, and the cartel will make 'more' money?

My previous question is actually to find out what kind of measurement, precaution or whatever it is, to make sure that Prop19 will cripple drug cartels, without creating another problem.
Pixar doesn't use Azure for it's production render pipeline, this is a deceptive marketing article showing proof of concept. THIS WOULD BE AMAZING if it worked, bandwidth is not an issue because each frame element texture and footage would never really top 1GB, the time is doing the Mental Ray/IBL CPU intense render. Here is what all of us VFX people want: Amazon EC2 render farms for Maya, Mental Ray, Nuke, 3DS, and whatever we can throw at it. Also a strict privacy policy- these renders could be one of the last steps in the composites......
You're off on the right track.

You should probably report it via the Github Issue tracker here: http://github.com/ezl/hnofficehours/issues

Alternately, if you'd like to hit someone up directly, the About page is a good start. http://hnofficehours.com/about/

What's the bug?
MS devs deserve sympathy for the shortsightedness of their managers, who thought that Windows Mobile was good enough for a market that they didn't know was competitive. Micorsoft's developers may have been handed an awfully short timeline for Windows Phone 7, but the company as a whole had plenty of warning.
Are there plans to allow people to import from gmail and/or facebook?

Yes, planned features are on our roadmap, available here:

http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/roadmap/

Is there a bug tracker up?

Yes, it's a lighthouse bug tracker, although emailing feedback@appleseedproject.org also works.

http://appleseedproj.lighthouseapp.com/

When I click on news I get "The page you requested could not be found".

We'll be making some rapid changes to appleseedproject.org in the next few days, so you'll see newsfeeds showing up as the top priority feature.

Good luck! I hope this gains some traction.

Thanks!
http://www.google.com/logos/backrub_small.jpg

Found at: http://www.google.com/logos/fan.html (scroll to the bottom and it has older official Google logos)
Amazingly, I've met another company working on this - Gracious Eloise. You might find it worth looking into as you're doing your homework for this.
Your site is great, and the js version works fine for me.
It means its okay to go into debt for a few years, as long as we pay it back when the going gets good.

A business cycle doesn't have a defined length, which is one of the problems of the approach. I think 3-7 years is a decent range.
You might think that economistshold pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights biases. Or you might think that the more easily demonstrated principles of economics hold pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights biases. Given my limited studies of history and economics, I'd suggest the later.
Awesome!
I should have known to google it... xD
All they would have to do is follow the license's conditions to help keep the software free. Instead, Apple has decided that they prefer to impose Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and proprietary legal terms on all programs in the App Store, and they'd rather kick out GPLed software than change their own rules. Their obstinance prevents you from having this great software on Apple devices—not the GPL or the people enforcing it.

I don't think Apple is the only one being obstinate here. The App Store definitely defines strict terms about how an app can be distributed, but so does the GPL.
Speaking of freedom, are people are allowed to drink beer on the beach? Are teenagers allowed to drink small quantities of alcohol?

Without these I don't think that you can consider SF one of the most free places in the world.
They basically plan to implement the ostatus protocols (google them)

Ah yes, I was at the Federated Social Web Summit in July, hosted by StatusNet (met the Diaspora team there, briefly), so yes, I'm aware of the OStatus protocols. I've been following the Github since September, and I've read the specifications that have been put forward, and most of it is more theory than documentation, although that can be forgiven so early on. I still feel, however, that the specs they do have are quite vague, especially in terms of the issues of privacy, access management, security, etc, which is Diaspora's raison d'être.

I guess I assumed that they would have had a lot of that stuff worked out before they had even started coding, or asking for money for that matter.

I could talk more about it, but I'd prefer not to spend much time explaining why there isn't enough information, I'd prefer to have information which I can compare and contrast. It may be that Diaspora and Appleseed are simply at different points in development, so I may just have to be patient and see where they end up.
Sooner or later it will be legal everywhere, just wait and see.
It's a question about how a balanced budget amendment should work (if we had one). Balancing the budget every year would be a worse idea than requiring it to balanced over several years.
The age fallacy of entrepreneurship.
These days, do you guys feel like Google and Facebook are equally cool places to work on innovative and world-changing projects with other smart folks?
Ask HN: Internet-scale fax service w/ API?
My business partner & I are building a web application to drag the construction industry into the 21st century. They'll come, kicking and screaming, but not without their fax machine. I've found a couple fax services that provide an API, but they all seem to aim their pricing model towards companies building an internal app that will send fax pages on the order of 100s, not 1000s a month.

Are there any service providers out there that get it, or is this something we'll have to build for ourselves?
Even Drop.io wasn't particularly straightforward IMO. I would give the URL to clients who needed to get me a batch of files and many would not understand the process without help.
At least there are enough security against dumb attackers.
What are the best programming books around?
I am currently 15, studying in 10th grade in India. I have been experimenting with Semantic Web technologies since like the past 8 months or so. I want to improve my core skills and would be great if could get some recommendations for some good books. I am planning to read Don Knuth's TAOCP, is that the right way to go or should I start with another book?
Passion + rant = rambling. Let me know how I can improve!
> You also have to think though, if it was going so well they wouldn't have sold in a talent acquisition but continued for a far better payoff later on.

Not necessarily. In an environment like Facebook it may be possible to leverage their talents to achieve results that would have taken far longer if they were independent.
What is your point? AFAIK the prison guards union is not against prop 19, they said they are neutral.
This is a Keynesian and Monetarist view of budgets. The idea is that IF you balance the budget (they often don't think this is ever a great idea anymore) then it should be balanced over the ups and downs of the business cycle.

So let's say a business cycle starts up again and somehow the government doesn't spend all that extra money before it comes in and there is surplus. Now booms are followed by an inevitable bust no matter what anyone tells you when the next one starts up.

Keynes argued that you should spend during busts to keep aggregate demand up and let the economy recover. So you run a deficit during this time. If you consider a balanced budget then they might argue that you should balance it with consideration to short term gains and losses.

If you're interested this video is a fun and very accurate way to learn about two different views of the business cycle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

For the record I'm with Hayek in this video :)
I recently read about one(Chandigarh, India) about one which lets you send a fax through an email, but I am not sure if it provides an API or not.
If you want to stem the money to the brutal drug lords, the first thing you should do is stop using drugs. It is very doubtful that the drug lords will just disappear with legalization.
Yep, many economists do work for those institutions. And yep, all of them have /some/ particular axe to grind (everyone does -- I do, you do, etc). That doesn't mean that what they're saying isn't correct.

- Businesses are, in fact, what generates most of the wealth and innovation in a country

- Taxes, whether personal or corporate, are not economically efficient. Government can be compared to an electrical grid -- the money comes in one place, flows out somewhere else, and there are line losses on the way. (Government overhead, wastage, etc)

- As to workers' rights: any society represents a particular set of choices about production needs and social needs. Sometimes those needs are cooperative, sometimes orthogonal, and sometimes they are in opposition. When "workers' rights" means "give us the money and the time to innovate and consume outside of work", it's good for society. When it means instead "give us the power to force you to comply with stupid and inefficient rules about who can do what" (e.g. most modern union shops that I've encountered), that's bad for society.
Why Innovate in Utopia?
P3Go
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http://www.ndscardsale.com<p>- Brand New P3Go GT-Break G-Switch PS3GO GT-Break Modchip for PS3
- Have all function features of the first generation PS3 Jailbreak dongle.
- Brand new the second generation configuration, support upgrade without Keys, plug and upgrade.
- Use SLC NANDFLASH, up to 128MB and can compatible huge firmware.
- Luxury material, bilateral protecting circuit to support plug-and-play
- Function and protect your lovely device.
- Three high firmware including high-speed CPU, high-speed SDRAM, high-capacity SLCNAND.
- Has a Micro SDHC slot that currently, support upgrade without keys.
- Has a 32bit 500M processor.
- Support starting game by micro SD in console. Then will have new
- Extension function upgrading firmware by cheat, real time save.
Consider how many people are stuck in cages for no good reason over this. If some organization other than the government were kidnapping that many people, solving that problem would be a high priority.

Besides, the opportunity cost is zero to not lock these people up. It's not as if some other problem is going unsolved in favor of taking this law off the books.
Creating correct incentives is difficult because it requires

(A) Articulating exactly what you want
(B) Measuring that accurately
(C) Keeping out things you don't want

None of these are easy problems to solve. And they are generally ignored because most people don't realize they are problems at all.
This should work: http://www.programmableweb.com/api/ringcentral-fax
I'm more speaking of php in general, sorry about that. My point is you will have a hard time convincing a ruby dev to do php.
Accelerando is freely downloadable. Google it. (It's a legit copy, not pirated.)

It's not high art. Like most Stross books, the writing is uneven and the character development is close to nil. But the ideas are breathtaking, and make the book worth a look.

I meant, by the way, that diaspora might provide a good platform on which to build reputation, and OpenID might provide the means to uniquely identify a single human so that a reputation can follow him or her around. But I don't know much about either project, so I could be wrong.
Ask HN: Need Help (Looking for volunteers)
I'm trying to validate a potential business offering and looking for volunteers to help me with suggestions/insights

You'll be an ideal person if
1. You work long hours/eat junk food? and/or
2. You find making home cooked meals to be an issue?

If your answer is 'YES' to any of the questions above !! I would appreciate if you can give me 15 mins of your time for a phone interview

Thanks
My tinfoil-hat theory: Diaspora is an inevitable failure deliberately planted and promoted behind the scenes by Facebook, as part of a strategy to discourage would-be social networking startups.
habitat loss, local pollution, overhunting or any other
myriad of ways that humans wipe out species.

Why not? I was challenging your statement:

Why is it bad to be disconnected from nature? What's wrong
with going in the opposite direction towards increased
artificiality, given that our very artificial
infrastructure keeps us alive?

Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_threats_to_the_Gr... is an example of destruction of environment around us as we keep doing what we're doing.

I don't feel the need to count the species that became extinct due to habitat loss, local pollution, overhunting or any other myriad of ways that humans wipe out species.

Keep doing what we're doing and we will screw ourselves, global warming or not.
Useful idiots
My saying that drugs are dangerous is different than saying that drugs are inherently bad. I consider recreational drug use to be akin to mountain climbing: a safe, healthy hobby which will fucking kill you in you're not careful. :P

Anyway, you're arguing with the wrong guy. :) Drugs should not have anything to do with the criminal justice system, period. But to say that drugs aren't a problem worth taking seriously is ridiculous; not because drugs are evil, but because people are people. Alcoholism is a real problem. So is compulsive gambling, manic depression, and yes, drug addiction. We can take proactive steps to deal with that problem without turning people into criminals.
This isn't much of a stand, IMO. Apple will just pull it unceremoniously.

Those who loved having it on their devices lose. VLC loses "customers." The GPL loses by looking worse than Apple's own rules. Apple loses by looking as if their approval process failed to catch yet another edge case.

Everyone loses.
Someone who submitted the app agreed that Apple's terms were fine and the developer could legally distribute the software in the manner the app store does. It probably would have been better not to submit it at all.
The odds of going to jail in California just for possession of a small amount of marijuana are somewhat lower than the likelihood of going to jail for speeding. As long as the founder is not dealing, I don't see why you'd worry. Particularly since many Californians use it legally.
It's not unreasonable for drop.io to burn $500k/mo? I run a ten-man startup and I can't fathom burning that much.
And a chance that legalization of marijuana leads to legalization of other substances.
Sounds good. They're a great way to just get some guidance into getting my feet wet with iPhone development. Looking forward to them.
They would not be able to compete with regular businesses if the price weren't artificially high due to prohibition. We stopped seeing gangsters like Al Capone in the liquor business when Prohibition ended.
How does GPL lose by pushing software to be open?
Personally, my first step would be to remove every assertion that has a "maybe" near it.
It's ironic to me that "openness" is cited as a reason to prevent certain software from being used and enjoyed on a specific platform.
Ugh, I do that a lot. Thanks!
Even if we go away, you can use any dynamic dns service to redirect.all the apps are self contained.
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