skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it's still not sufficient for an IRA-style campaign

Sure, you wouldn't be as successful as the IRA, but it would still be a damn sight easier than attacking planes. Consider the hotel attacks in India for an example of how poorly defended most locations are.

> the IRA never set out to murder non-uniformed, uninvolved civilians

They bombed shops and factories that they considered to be part of the 'artificial'' economy of the British rulers. Non-uniformed, uninvolved civilians tend to work in shops and factories, hence the huge number of civilian injuries and casualties.

More stats:

Deaths by status of victim[2]

Status	No.

Civilian	1855

Members of security forces (and reserves)	1123

of whom:

British Army (excluding Northern Ireland regiments)	502

Royal Ulster Constabulary	301

Ulster Defence Regiment	196

Northern Ireland Prison Service	24

Garda Síochána	9

Royal Irish Regiment	7

Territorial Army	7

English police forces	6

Royal Air Force	4

Royal Navy	2

Irish Army	1

Members of Republican Paramilitary Groups	394

Members of loyalist Paramilitary Groups	151

> .... property target of a collaborator ...

Whilst the Troubles was nominally a political conflict the lines were drawn across ethnic/religious grounds. Being a Protestant was sufficient to draw fire from PIRA (similary Catholics were persecuted by the loyalists).
I don't think I'm entitled to share the company, but based on a certain comment in this thread, it looks like he's landed in real estate.

The positions currently listed on the Jobs page for that company are:

* RoR developers

* Customer Acquisition / Marketing

* Loan processing

I imagine that he'll be trained for the first category.

Hope this isn't too intrusive - kind of reminds me of that analysis of patio11 from a month or two ago. Willing to remove this post if requested.
"""TSA’s Office of General Aviation is committed to working with the industry and community to develop and implement reasonable and effective security measures. As part of these efforts, TSA has recently launched the General Aviation Secure Program. This program is designed to build upon the Airport Watch program, encouraging everyone to be vigilant about general aviation security and report any unusual activities to TSA."""

[ http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/tsnm/general_aviation/programs... ]

( which I found via http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/tsnm/general_aviation/index.sh... )
Yeah, well...

It seems that the GMA500 is just someone else's product that they rebranded. Hence, they can't provide open drivers because the "intellectual property" is not theirs to "disclose". This doesn't make it acceptable, of course, but it does explain their logic. Laziness, not evilness.

All I know is that xrandr works on the GMA hardware but not on nVidia hardware...

(And to be fair to Intel, they are the only company that are releasing any Linux drivers for WiMax.)
All day! If I can, I try to only set timers for 8 hours. Not that I always sleep 8 hours, just that I goto bed whenever I'm tired, and wakeup when I'm well rested. The rest of the time I work.

That being said, I also take a day off, an afternoon off, etc. just to keep myself from burning out.

Some people don't work well in a routine manner. Startups are so dynamic too, so if you're in that realm of things, it's almost impossible to have a routine schedule.

Going to bed every night, knowing you won't have to wakeup for 8 hours, is really comforting. I usually wakeup before my timer goes off, but it's way better sleep.

Unfortunately this can't always happen, especially with meetings and such.
From the article:

... how much an Olympic-sized swimming pool of the minimum depth would weigh ...

It says minimum depth, not maximum, and I'd be very surprised if Olympic-sized swimming pools didn't have a minimum depth. They may have edited it since you read it, of course.
I just hire said freelancers as subcontractors, pay them, and deliver the work directly to my client. Simpler for the client, subcontractor gets easy work without worrying about client negotiation.
George Bell at Excite: Decided not to buy Google for $1M. Decided to buy Blue Mountain for close to $1B. Flipping a coin for each decision would have yielded a better result with 75% probability.
website sure looks a lot like http://mootools.net
Tryclojure - A Call To Action
They are asking for the minimum depth, which is 2.0m according to FINA.

And no! If you try to apply using a random URL, it will show a message saying that it is the wrong code.
Here's video of the speech (starting at hour 2, 34 minutes). Exceedingly odd. http://bbc.in/9qS59B
Let's assume your 'some time' costs $5,000 a month. That would make that one year cost around $100,000.

Interest on that sum would be say $5000 a year. So, your 'reliable input stream, say $5000/m' would recover that $100,000 in two years.

From that, I conclude that you do not really need that $3000 a month to do this. The 'only' thing you need is this bright idea.

If I had that idea, I wouldn't tell you about it; I would try and implement it myself.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/signs/strlite.shtml
Doesn't really do much more than what I've already been using http://checkvist.com/ for.
I'll vote for LCTHW
I agree, the new 'X' is clunky. Anyone have any idea how to make the metaphor work without introducing a second ribbon?
So you're saying that you can't release due to some licensing / copyright issue, or that it's just something that takes extra time? I definitely understand the former - not that I like it, but the latter is inexcusable.
varikin thanks alot i did not know about minnebar, checking it out.
I've kind of been wondering if it would be possible to have some sort of mini-stock exchange for startup companies. Like the Toronto Venture Exchange, but specifically for startup tech companies.

Just completely eliminate the VC/angel seed system, and replace it with a democratized, electronic, exchange.
The flash slide viewer is awful.
> I really like that this book was written but $30 dollars isn't actually cheap for a technical book

Is that a joke? $30 is quite literally nothing for a new technical book. Refactoring is still $45 new (hardcover but more than 10 years old now), Effective Java is about the same price, TAPL will set you back $60 and ATPL is $56 on Amazon, HTDP is $67, Koza's "Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection" released in 1992 is $67, SICP is $70, amazon asks for a hundred bucks for the purple dragon books, and then of course The Art of Computer Programming boxset will blow a $200 hole in your wallet.

$30? That's the price of a small and widely-distributed paperback like Friedl's Mastering Regular Expressions. It's basically the lower bound, even The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (345p, published in 1991) is $40.

Here's what's under $30: "For Dummies" books. Even the Head First collection bottoms out around $30.
Eh, it's a good market to take those kinds of risks right now. Everyone is hiring, no one wants to be hired as they're doing their own startup, it's ridiculously easy to get a job—especially at startups.
It's from a very good movie called Sibiriada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBkdlnsKVYU
(around 5:00 min)
Inside Seventh Generation's Firing of Founder Jeffrey Hollender
Maaaaybe on the Vietnamese food, disagreed about all of the other ethnic foods. The problem with Seattle (as it is for many other cities) is that minorities are not economically well-represented.

For example, there are many well to do Chinese folk in this town working in white-collar tech jobs, yet the sort of Chinese food you'd see in this city wouldn't even be fit for a road-side stall in Shanghai. It's strictly greasy spoon, over-Westernized stuff with zero authenticity - head up to Vancouver sometime if you want to see "real" middle class (or upper-middle) Chinese food (and it's about the same price as the greasy spoon swill here). This entire category does not exist in Seattle. Hell, I've lived in cities of a mere 100,000 folk that have had better Chinese food.

My Indian colleagues complain of the same effect for them - a lot of marginally competent stuff that isn't downright nasty, but neither is it high-quality, nor authentic.

The same applies for every other ethnicity under the sun except the Japanese - Japanese food in this city is fairly decent and well represented, though much, much pricier than any other city I've lived in. It's the only cuisine that the population around seems sophisticated enough to discern good from bad.

Capitol Hill honestly doesn't bother me so much (probably why I live there). The hipsters may be desperately preening, but it beats the arrogant yuppies in Belltown aping Lil' Jon all day and night and getting krunk with their brahs, all the while spitting on the homeless drug-addled folk that fill the streets down there. Ugh, never living there again.

[edit] Honestly speaking, the food scene's quality is a relatively minor concern compared to just the sleepiness and insular antisocial-ness of the town. It's no food mecca, but it's good enough to get by if you had some interesting people to share it with - but as it is you'll be having greasy Chinese food with a lot of other hackers, and basically no one else.
Looks very interesting + simple. However, in Fx3 (sorry I'm outdated) I can't get passed the intro video after signup.
I'm not sure this is particularly significant...as you could say the same thing about many tasks.

Not running video encoding on your Macbook Air boosts battery life by 2 hours.

Not running 3D games on your Macbook Air boosts battery life by 2 hours.

Not watching 1080p movies on your Macbook Air boosts battery life by 2 hours.
Nutrition, exercise, get no less than 7-8 hours sleep a day. Don't cut corners.
At least in chrome the backspace key performs a browser back. Should try to overload the key with keydown event.

Would also be cool to have a history of ran commands or tab-completion functionality =)
This is a really great idea, but what's missing is private repos and organizations. You could be missing out on a lot of people.
No, it's based on their extensive analysis of the cases and all documentation associated with those cases that tries to discern if there are even mere allegations by the plaintiff that the patent infringement was due to any manner of copying. Their stats show that, aside from pharmaceutical or chemical patents, the number of patent cases in which copying is even alleged at any point is very small (i.e. a few percentage points).

One could argue that perhaps that low incidence is simply due to people not bothering to allege copying since it isn't relevant to if infringement occurred. The authors suppose that that's unlikely, since copying is highly relevant to the question of whether or not willful infringement occurs, and their limited evidence suggests that findings of copying do in fact tend to lead to findings of willful infringement. To test that hypothesis, they gathered up an additional 102 cases where evidence of copying was found and found that in nearly 2/3 of them copying was alleged by the plaintiff. (pp. 28-29 in the pdf). That would seem to be fairly strong evidence that if a plaintiff has actual evidence of copying they're highly likely to allege copying somewhere in their complaint.

Thus, it's a reasonable conclusion that since only 10% overall of patent litigations involve even allegations of copying (and far fewer for anything outside of pharma or chemical patents), that most cases where there's actual evidence of copying result in such allegations, and that allegations themselves are merely an upper bound on actual copying (since the allegations may well be untrue), that there's actually not much copying going on, which means that most of the inventions being sued over were produced independently rather than through any kind of "copying" or "theft."
Man Makes Machine That Converts Plastic Into Oil
Adblock and/or ClickToFlash also would do the trick.
Why "Gents"? Are there no women on HN?

Watch, someone is going to tell me "Gents" is a gender-neutral term like "dude" and "guy"...
It should be possible, but the US government would limit it to accredited investors, and there are already a lot of firms catering to them.
i hope for a ruby front-end will emerge for it.

like what happened with maglev:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MagLev_%28Rub...

a language cannot have enough active implementations. yet only needs one spec.
An excellent (but simplistic) description of a message queue
Will Facebook Kill the US Dollar?
I'm not sure that "browsing the internet and being shown advertisements on web pages" should be considered a task whose intensiveness is on-par with 3D rendering, 1080p decoding, or encoding.

Or rather, I think it isn't a flattering comment on Flash's efficiency that having it display ads on webpages requires that much processing power.
Four end-points means two ribbons.

They could have knotted it in the center though . . .
When giving these numbers about screen resolution, I don't think it takes into account the size of the browser, but only the size of the screen.

For example my screen resolution is 1440x900 but i can't remember the last time that I ever had the Firefox window full screen. Typically mac users do not suffer from the maximized window paradigm that windows users face, I usually keep my browser windows about 1000px wide since most sites are built around 960px and leave room for cascading programs and such. A site that is optimized for much larger than 1024px is probably not a good idea.
Internal email on why a company moves away from MySQL
Not entirely unrelated, but during Milosevic's dictatorship here in Serbia, one of government-owned daily newspapers used PS to "slightly increase" number of supporters on a pro-government rally.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/media-by-milosevi...

I know, not '80s, but '90s and not ex-SSSR, but close enough.
If they didn't, they'd get applications from thousands of semi-interested, likely unqualified redditors. Also, the kind of people who like solving puzzles like that are the kind of people you want to hire, especially if the other four employees are the kind of people who like making those puzzles. With so few employees, finding that fit is immeasurably important.
For me, this interview wasn't about creating another "iPhone gold rush" story. It was about understanding how they could build an app business without coding or designing. They even hire someone to write their descriptions for a few hundred bucks.
i have something similar http://miketung.com/sh/ . Supports personal home directories with the 'login' command (uses oauth).
They claim that "InnoDB is stated to be a faster storage engine", which is not necessarily true. The most important features of InnoDB are ACID transactions, foreign keys and overall reliability.

The article also says "There is another option called NoSQL which is primarily meant for applications that have to scale on the cloud", which doesn't really mean anything. Not to mention that it suggests that NoSQL is a single technology or product.

Overall the article is an example of a very poor journalism.
Unity on Wayland
It is. One of the reasons I posted this interview is that on top of doing $80k in monthly revenue, the founders are big Tim Ferriss fans and only spend an average of five hours per week on this project - one of the founders still works a full time job.
Where is HN headed?
This used to be a site where mostly bright people discussed in a mostly intelligent way, but lately I feel like it's being overrun by people like you who provide words to the database but no content, and that's a shame. (of course I'm doing so myself now, I'll justify that to myself by saying that it's buried so deep in an article way off the front page that it won't bother many people any more, but I fully recognize that that's cognitive dissonance too).

I may have deserved this rant, or maybe not. That's not the point. I won't name the user, that's not my point either. If you want to find out more about the context, be a good hacker and track it down ;-)

The point is that I feel (no statistical inference here) I have seen more and more of these "YC News used to be great and now it's bad" type comments lately. The point is that I got this and other more aggressive comments back for what I felt was an genuine, honest and fairly well informed comment thread.

It got me thinking about HN as whole and where the community's culture was headed. After 181 days here and having really loved it, I also wonder what this community's direction is. I am sure I will keep wanting to be part of HN for a while but:

Where do YOU think YC's Hacker News is headed? If such a thing as a life cycle exists for online communities (I believe so, be it an eternal somewhat repetitive life cycle) wher is HN in its own life cycle?
Interesting, and I think I may have misread the conclusion (or your version thereof), to wit: it does not conclude that drinking up to 2 units per day is good, but that non-drinkers are worse off than people who drink up to 2 units per day - a figure which probably includes more than a few people who drink once every few days or even every few weeks (as opposed to none at all). It also does not differentiate within that group those who drink wine vs. other alcohols.

I hold the result inconclusive, then, on the subject of alcohol itself. Good info, though, thank you!
I doubt there are many people using Evernote that couldn't figure out what "text editor" meant.
Note that it won't work on mobile devices, and probably has some accessibility issues too. Fancy, shiny new things are neat, but show off that you know standards and accessibility at the same time.
1) create the concept in your mind first. This costs $0. Try to think through it deeply enough that you really understand what challenges the designer will be up against.

2) Figure out what the simplest thing you can launch that is still cool is. $0

3) Have a designer do the design and iterate a few times if necessary. This will cost a bit.

4) Build it.

5) Advertise it. I like stumbleupon a lot for this b/c you can get a lot of people to at least see the first page of the app and maybe use it a bit. If you get a lot of "thumbs up" ratings, your cost per display goes way down b/c they serve it free some of the time.

Focus on apps that solve a specific problem that you or someone you know has.
OAuth 2.0 Authorization using Rack
Personally, I was surprised that licensing alone was swaying someone. But maybe the recent InnoDB fracas is changing that?
That guy who was wondering how to spend $3,000 a month to generate income should talk to these guys.
As is this is not very useful to me, because often dates are associated with the things you do. I want to know what has to be completed tomorrow/next week/etc. A calendar or timeline view would make this very useful. I think you might be able to do a neat calendar view that also shows the nesting, so I'd be able to see:

School: homework X, homework Y, test Z
Project A: email joe about X, implement Y
Project B: ...

In a calendar/timeline view.
Firesheep, a week later: Idiot Shepherds
Ask HN: Thinking_Sphinx help needed this weekend (Bay Area)
I have a production-only thinking_sphinx / sphinxsearch bug that I just have not been able to figure out. I want to hire someone in the Bay Area who can pair with me this weekend to help. Please email me at mathewgjohnson@gmail.com if you might be interested.
I can't upvote you enough.

One of the questions most often asked is: How do I become a better web designer?

The answer is to get inspiration from sources outside of the Internet. Design books that talk about theory will do more for oneself in the longrun than more CSS galleries.
Running NoScript and only enabling javascript and flash when needed likely has a similar effect. The advantage, of course is that with Flash installed but disabled, you can enable/disable it as desired and as battery permits.
I've done a lot of Flash hacking while at justin.tv and I have to say, while it has its bugs, the Flash virtual machine is an under-appreciated piece of technology. It can be incredibly fast, in the right hands.

I believe the people calling for its demise are actually calling for an end to sloppy programming by bad coders who work for ad agencies. If Flash ever actually dies, and gets replaced by "HTML5", people are going to be sorely disappointed when those very same bad coders simply start writing exactly the same sloppy code in javascript.
Flash tends to be a bear on Macs - even some basic YouTubing makes my 8-core Mac Pro with 10 GB RAM turn all its fans on.

JavaScript, on the other hand, has seen a huge emphasis on performance, with Google's work on V8 and the stuff Apple has been doing with Webkit. I strongly suspect it'll be better performance than Flash.
neat stuff.
I don't know if this is what you were eluding to but maybe this is why mod_pagespeed was just released.

Making the "internet" faster would make google faster.
I'm actually getting a lot of requests for intros to these guys and I posted the interview less than an hour ago.
She could have avoided all of this by simply accepting their initial settlement offer. I don't know if the exact amount has been published, but based on the offers that other people got, it would have been in the ballpark of maybe 2-5 thousand dollars, which is not much more than it would cost to legally obtain the couple thousand songs she had downloaded.

It was her choice to go to court rather than settle, even though she had pretty much no case. The actual lawsuit was for only 24 songs. If, for some reason, the court had found that she was an innocent infringer, and awarded the minimum possible statutory damages of $200/song, that would still have been $4800. Since there is pretty much no chance of them finding her to be an innocent infringer, the minimum is $750/song, or $18000.

So, when she turned down their initial, quite reasonable, settlement offer, she was looking at an almost certain loss in court for a minimum of $18000. The jury gets to decide the actual amount, and they can go way higher than $750/song. When the defendant lies, tampers with evidence, and tries to blame their kids and others, you think a jury is going to go for the minimum? No way.

This is now the third time it has been to court. After each victory in court (each of which resulted in a larger damages award than the previous one), the RIAA has offered to settle for much much less than the court awarded. And yet she still turns them down.

I have no sympathy whatsoever for a defendant who exhibits such monumental stupidity.
http://enekoalonso.com/terminal.php?command=ls&path=../....

Security fail.
It's really more a test of your ability to use Google than your knowledge of trivia. Even if you're completely non-technical it shouldn't take more than 20 minutes to solve. It might take two guesses if you're not sure on the ICMP code, but other than that it's pretty straight forward. I was able to get the right answer pretty quickly even though I don't know any of that stuff and am completely unqualified for the position.
Why founders should love the pain of giving share options to developers
Yeah, I had gotten the impression it was distributed CEP.
After posting the interview I realized that the guy I was emailing about an interview was probably a virtual assistant. I assumed he was working in their office because he responded to my interview request so quickly.

I wish I asked them about it.