skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the conferences I've gone to (i.e. DEFCON, BlackHat, etc) I've benefited from turning off the laptop, silencing my phone, and listening. There is no way you will grasp everything that is covered at a conference, and especially so if you aren't paying 100% attention to the presentations. A little dead-tree notebook and pencil/pen is enough. Learned that the hard way toting 10lbs of gadgets around my first year at DEFCON.

On a networking note, bring business cards of some sort. People forget your name, forget your face, but its hard to forget something physically given to you when you're genuinely interested in talking to the other person.
If you don't know what UB or IDB is, you probably don't want to write a book pertaining to C, :)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+that+for+you&l=1

:)
I don't know if you're the first person, but I've never heard it. Where I come from it's called "spoon-feeding."
Windows Server 2008 Remote VPN-SSL
To use the service, the VPN-Client connects to SSTP server using HTTPS port 443. When the server sends the certificate, clients will check the Trusted Root Certification Authorities as when opening any https website, and it sends the server a specially encrypted key for the SSL-session...
Not likely to happen, outside scope.
I didn't downvote you, but jokes like that usually aren't well received here. Particularly from relatively new users like yourself.
Interestingly enough, a lot of developers argue that Nvidia and ATI are in violation of of the GPL by releasing proprietary drivers for Linux. The language is unclear on whether or not the kernel's GPL license extends to kernel loadable modules or not, many say it does.
Clozure[1], formally know as OpenMCL, is a great CL implementation for Mac and other popular platforms.

I've been running Clozure and Aquamacs[2] editor for the past two years and I can only say good things about both.

[1] http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html

[2] http://aquamacs.org/
Disclaimer: I'm just starting to get into Lisp, myself.

I don't think it's any better or worse than any other platform, really. Using a package manager like Homebrew[1], it's easy to get SBCL installed and running. Gambit reportedly has good support for integrating into Objective-C applications on the Scheme side. There's also Nu[2], which lets you do Cocoa programming in a Lispish language.

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

[2] http://programming.nu/index
Purely financial -- how would two guys from Texas hire an attorney in California (where facebook would file) to represent them day after day without going broke? Now facebook has to send their guys to Texas...the cost which will add up quickly.
I spent a few summers at the National Institutes of Health building a DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) suite for the storage and retrieval of Nuclear Medicine and CT images. It consisted of a client and a server and was built completely in IDL. It used Netcat both to listen/respond on the server side and to issue queries and retrieve (meta)data on the client side.

Like others in this thread, I too received a few bureaucratic slaps on the wrist for doing unauthorized port-scanning during the development process (we were trying to find a set of suitable unused ports for the package). Apparently it was worth the trouble, though--it was nearly 10 years ago that I built the package, and the software's still in use!
10 years suggests nothing, really. If "int x; What type is &x", "int x[5]; What type is x? What type is &x?" manages to confuse you, I suggest you re-learn C, before authoring this book of yours.
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It's not my site (unfortunately) but I know the team - I've pinged them about the various feedback emerging on this thread.
This thing that i am really suspicious about is why was a Nicaraguan army, so close to Costa Rica a nation know for not having a standing military. I love Costa Rica for the exact reason that they don't have a standing military, they really do have a live and let live philosophy. I have many times thought about "screw it all, I am moving to Costa Rica" but it is thing like this that really concern me about doing so. Latin America has been known for it's eternal left / right struggle and Costa Rica just seems too be to easy a victim if the wrong people come to power in one of it's neighbors.
It's always wise to exercise discretion: http://db.tidbits.com/article/8886

Yes, that Randall Schwartz.
Perhaps a middle ground could be using a virtual machine as a staging environment?
People love open proxies, especially if those people also like terrorism, porn and cracking.
As much as I love the Unix-Haters handbook, the more I learn about X the more I disagree with that chapter. X's memory consumption is totally reasonable for something that has to manage screen and window buffers (I doubt this proposed project would be any better). Xlib is retarded, but no one is forcing you to use it (esp. now that XCB is here). The old drawing protocol sucked, but XRender is very reasonable.
No bittorrent. This thing pretty much just plays video from netflix or amazon. It didn't look too hackable at first inspection, but it didn't appear to be locked down, just undocumented.

Hulu+ is in the works.

Here is a list of official channels:

http://www.roku.com/roku-channel-store

And official/unofficial:

http://www.roku-channels.com/

Also - not trying to be spammy but see if this link gets you a lower price. Their promo graphic says you get "Rokus Lowest Price". It gives me a month of netflix, so don't use it unless it helps you out.

http://roku.tellapal.com/a/clk/LTgJ2

If that doesn't work they place this link all the way at the bottom in grey text. If you're a new netflix customer you get $20 off any model.

http://www.roku.com/netflix-deal
What platform to use to build a how-to site with user content and moderation?
I have a CS education but consider myself a self-taught programmer (whoever said CS <i>taught</i> you programming!). I have a (novel :) idea for a how-to guide for a niche area that I feel has been largely ignored. Mainly original content, with an ad-based business model.<p>What platform and technologies would you recommend to get a site up and running quickly? I need an easy way to write articles, have other editors write articles AND allow users to submit/contribute to articles + comment. Small item, but also need directory structure to be hiearchical so that it appears like http://domain.com/category/topic/<p>I am comfortable with PHP, AJAX, CSS, etc. but would much prefer a turnkey system so I can get to producing content quickly and less time on coding. Considered Wordpress but feel that may not provide the required feature set...of course I may be wrong. Need something similar to what drives ehow.com, mahalo.com How-to's etc.<p>All ideas welcome, thanks.
You can drag the objects in the recycling machine at the bottom, and then it gives you information about how to recycle your old stuff. Nice touch!
That's of SystemX a Virginia Tech cluster dating back to 2003, not of Apple's data center: http://www.arc.vt.edu/arc/SystemX/
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Direct link to the CoffeeScript/JS source: https://gist.github.com/664351
Mind if I ask which channel? I suspect my code deserves "brutal", at least on round one :)
It also protects against overly-cynical literal interpretations—if you read something and think "no one would be stupid enough to write that," then—since you can understand that the author was clearly attempting to make a certain argument, whether or not they succeeded—you should assume they said what they were trying to say, instead of bailing out like a compiler. The Principle of Charity, in other words.
I finally had a chance to follow up on this, and yes, Moonlight at least, is officially condoned by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/newmoonlight...
I recommend Readability:
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I don't understand why anyone uses the DM functionality on Twitter except in the most extreme emergencies. Even if the security problem noted here didn't exist, Twitter DMs are always one character or click away from being accidentally broadcast to the world. Almost every day I see a misdirected DM in my timeline; almost every week there's a news story arising from a misdirected and sensitive DM. Do other people seriously have this much trouble finding an email address for someone?
my hope is that they'll get it right and improve it on all platforms.
If this gains sufficient traction, and if this provides a better-looking way to render stuff on screen, I guess this will lead to applications that talk the superior protocol, not The X protocol. Such applications would not run on X displays.

If I interpret things correctly, the link you give explicitly describes such a scenario:

Further down the road we run a user session natively under Wayland with clients written for Wayland. There will still (always) be X applications to run, but we now run these under a root-less X server that is itself a client of the Wayland server. This will inject the X windows into the Wayland session as native looking clients. The session Wayland server can run as a nested Wayland server under the system Wayland server described above, maybe even side by side with X sessions.

So, the X protocol could still be there for quite some time to support 'old' applications, but new applications wouldn't use it anymore.

There are quite a few if's here, though. The first non-Ubuntu application to drop X support could face quite an uphill battle.
Adafruit Industries should start a fundraising campaign on kickstarter.com or a similar site and aim for the kind of run-away success that Diaspora had in their fundraising efforts. More publicity, more money, more developers ... angrier Microsoft!
Interesting to consider the extent to which his core philosophy would be met with scorns of derision (or at best, uncomprehending looks) from most United Statesians. Just try to imagine someone running for major political office here, expressing sentiments such as these:

"I feel that the fundamental basis of patriotism should be a belief in mankind and its freedom  . . .  far beyond the aspirations of any one nation, any one religion, or any one geographical location," Vandermeerssche wrote in the book.

"One must learn to discover the values and the similarities of human being that go far behind the color of their skin, the artificial and superficial expression of their creeds or religions and especially beyond the particular piece of land on which they live. The concept of 'international patriotism' is the only guarantee, it seems to me, for lasting world peace."

In a 1988 interview, he put it this way: "We have to start teaching our youngsters that patriotism, as we know it, to defend only -your- piece of land, is wrong."
I'm not sure people would hate Ticketmaster if their service charges were hidden in the ticket price. That they break it out and show you how much their "service" is costing you is what brings on the hate. We're talking 50% of the ticket sometimes. ($30 ticket plus venue $8 plus service charge $7).

Thankfully, I don't spend much time with Ticketmaster. I go to more indie productions and they almost never use TM. I prefer smaller, more intimate venues. Arena shows? Acoustics are horrible. I also can't stand the scalpers that inevitably come with any big show (thank you American Express and Front of the Line for saving me on a few "Big" shows I've gone to).
"The city is quite segregated (mexicans, white, black, asian, etc are in certain areas and don’t often mix)."

Eh, kind of. It's more segregated by socio-economics just like everywhere else. As a counterexample, many areas in Gwinnett contain Hispanics, whites, Asians, and blacks. Many of the neighborhoods on the East and South of Atlanta contain whites and blacks in mixed neighborhoods. I don't know that the wealthy parts of town are any less diverse than the sample of wealthy people overall. Mostly white, some black, some Indian, some Chinese, etc.
Patently false. For one example: DirecTV shut out the off-the-shelf smartcard hackers.

You're falling into a narrative trap. It's not actually "hackers vs. Microsoft". Microsoft pays some of the best in the world. Most examples of hackers beating companies involve companies that did not invest seriously in countermeasures. That's not a problem Microsoft has.
Wow, that's a great idea. The only thing I'd say you need is more information about the service itself. Emphasize that real humans are looking at these documents, and explain the physics of the system a little more. That would differentiate you from OCR and other silly handwriting recognition software. Might want to flesh out a privacy policy too just in case someone uploads their personally identifiable information or the plans to some kind of bad thing.
>Let's not even talk about just what part of our society would have a real vote and which part would have 3/5 of one.

The rough draft of the Declaration of Independence is interesting: http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.h...

"he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce:[11] and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."
Well, considering he is doing blank templates and did a "how to" blog post, I think he is being more reasonable than anyone should expect. What they did was rude.

[edit s/black/blank/]
PG uses a mac book air: http://paul.graham.usesthis.com/

maybe we can infer that Lisp (or Arc) works well on it.
Sizzle: A compiler + runtime for Google's Sawzall language, optimized for Hadoop
Drama!

Seriously though, everyone should be aware that "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" are not the same thing. And they should be aware of which case applies.
I have everything running on windows in msys/bash/emacs with lein and cmd.exe with lein.bat. But I also have all the appropriate GNU tools installed and working enough to build with gcc/g++. So my install is relatively complete and probably not typical considering the time it took to get to this point.

I ran into problems where lein.bat didn't work in powershell or msys. This is commonly the case so I didn't think it warranted any bug reports. It did take some additional effort but it was similar to the effort required to get just about anything working in clojure.

For the record my take is this is a Microsoft problem. They need a packaging system that works and is built with all the crazy native windows development quirks in mind. See http://coapp.org/
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Warning, completely tangential: I misread this headline as "OSX 10.7 will support MDI." Oddly, that makes about as much sense, given 10.7's fullscreen-app focus, since there haven't been any indications of what happens if you try to fullscreen an app with palette windows.
I propose the following strategy for you to try to clarify your thinking on the fourth statement:

1) Rewrite it as:
(fill in the blank) economic reasoning has few virtues in its own right, but is leveraged as a rationalization for policies convenient to (fill in the blank).

2) Ask yourself how much political power Keynesians have if they don't even have the power to impose Keynsian solutions.

3) Fill in the blanks for the statement in (1) as it actually applies for those with political power.
This is great, all of the modern iOS devices are powerful enough to run as soft synths...combined with a multitouch interface, there's no reason I can't have a bank of 303s and 808s such with knobs and sliders and stuff I can move about as well as on a real piece of hardware. If I setup a few iPads I can interface with all that stuff at the same time.
I do 2: Tai-Chi for breathing and balance, and kickboxing for cardio (I just do the training, no sparring). My advise is to do something local (close to home), that involves other people; there's more chance that you'll stick with it (IMHO).
WikiLeaks defectors working on alternative whistleblower site
This was originally posted by martinemde looking for support and then flagged down here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1873881
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What's ironic is that Microsoft recruited a high-profile Wii hacker to work on Kinect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/12/johnny-chung-lee-joins-pr...
Well, we agree on the gerrymandering, but I think you're just seeing what you want to see WRT campaign finance. Why wouldn't "patrons" just favor existing congressmen? They can deliver the goods immediately, instead of having to win a race and get seated first. Eliminates a bunch of risk for a higher ROI.

Basically, I can see your scenario of a noble candidate who can only get funded by one noble wealthy patron, but I think that will basically never happen compared to outright bribery which will happen all the time.

I'm inherently suspicious of any politician that's funded by only a few people. You know they have the candidate/congressman on speed dial, and the candidate/congressman knows how important they are. It's a built in conflict of interest. Numerous small-dollar donations, on the other hand, tend to reflect actual democratic interest in a candidate -- even if it's a machine, at least they put in the work to build the machine, lots of retail politics helping lots of little people.
They have a policy. He violated it. Other people have violated it without suspension, but they were lower-profile than Olbermann. What can we productively discuss, as hackers, about this issue? Nothing, I think, so I flagged this.
"(and his prior supplements business)"

He made his money from this, and busted his butt to build that business.

4 hour work week is about how he was able to continue to live off that business, while devoting only 4 hours per week to it. It was an alternative path to selling it off or continuing to burn himself out as a hands on manager. There's also a lot in there of various things he tried and failed.

Overall, it's similar to the YCombinator ideal of busting your butt while you're young to solve the "money problem" once and for all. 4 hour work week is a different approach to the same goal.
I agree, healthcare has actually been sort-of addressed. (And by sort of, I mean that while it is a move in the right direction, it is possibly the worst in terms of cost, and is a freebie to the healthcare industry; it does nothing to actually solve any underlying problem).

But are you aware that these healthcare plans have been debated since the '30s? For all practical purposes, 80 years to solve a problem in a half-assed way is in line with my original claim.
What that article says may be true for DSM III (or IV) alcoholics (which as a class may or may not include the OP).

My point is simply that in the general population[1], patterns of alcohol (mis)use seem to fall on a fairly wide spectrum, and are not simply a matter of "isa" or "!isa" alcoholic.

*[1] based on careful sampling and rigorous application of standard methodologies, i.e. "considering people I know."
Assuming he worked his ass off is speculating as much as assuming it all never felt like work to him. I can attest that I've done what people thought was working my ass off but really felt like nothing because it was enjoyable and came naturally.
And the just-announced Mac Pro Server: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_pr...
Good. It seems pretty clear: MSNBC has a policy, Olbermann admittedly violated (although his statement makes it clear that he thinks doing so was not unethical), they suspended him. I doubt he gets fired, and hope he doesn't.
But honestly Zed, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy I just didn't "lift" your whole book and put my name on it!
Learned that soon enough, only 2 Xserves were used and the rest of the rack quickly went back to Linux ;-)
Although those puppies are still up-and-running of course (my Xserve adventure was in 2003)
Why is it unethical to spend your money on your family? I think that's a claim that needs more explanation.
I think they surf linked-in after lunch too for what it's worth.
She did everything she could to ensure that horrible outcome, most notably by overreaching and attempting to demonstrate that she had nothing to do with underlying copyright violations she was (in effect) caught red-handed on. Her team's handling of this case is a setback to efforts to rationalizing copyright damages.
Actually, he only needs a visa to enter the country. The Geneva Convention allows anyone to present at a border post and claim refugee protection (with a few exceptions, but visas aren't included in those).

There are various laws that require careers to prevent people without visas arriving at borders, but those are aimed at making it harder to ask for protection. He managed to work around those; mission accomplished.
Well obviously it doesn't "prove" anything, but I don't think it gives a "high level view" of what's happening either.

You shouldn't take the mean of a highly non-normal distribution. It's virtually meaningless (no pun intended).

When the population you're looking at is completely arbitrary anyway (top 50), the results are further nullified.

And taking the mean of a group of percentages is... not wrong, but dangerous IMO.
Generic advice. I wish he went into more detail on how to build a good team. Chris, if you read this, please elaborate.
It will be curious to see what unlocking the drivers for the Kinect will actually do. If there's no semblance of an API from the device, it might just be giving you back raw data. With the Wiimote, that's more manageable since you're only dealing with 3 axes. With a crazy point cloud, it could be tough to infer anything from the data. I think I read somewhere that the Kinect handles a lot of this on its own though...
This is a good illustration of how tone doesn't come across well in writing. Reading the comment by the original author, it sounded like a friendly request to please take the content down.

The guy whose site it was clearly didn't see it that way and responded as though he'd been viscously attacked. He ends up coming across as quite angry, when more likely he was just rattled and feeling defensive.

I guess the takeaway is to always take a step back before responding when you feel attacked. Chances are you're not being attacked nearly as harshly as you think.
Sounds like a reasonable business move to me. Businesses should be able to develop competitive advantages.
Is it against the rules or law to wear a disguise assuming you're not breaking any other rules or laws? It seems like he wasn't impersonating another specific person.
There are forum plugins for Wordpress. That might give you some of the features you are looking for. I have not used them myself, but I know they exist. If you know CSS and PHP, you should be able to mod something to get the feature set you need.
If you want something that goes up quick so you can generate content, Wordpress is the way to go.