skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine. But you have to admit that there are two sides to this issue: there is a balance of security and privacy. I'm not crazy about the privacy violations, but I don't think demonizing the TSA is particularly useful or mature. I think they're trying to do a difficult and important job that we all benefit from. Perhaps they are over-stepping their bounds right now. However, if there had been another three plane-hijackings since 9/11 I don't think anyone would be complaining. This is the political problem with effectively preventing disaster: if you're good at it you don't get any credit (because there are no catastrophes to remind people of the danger).
A difficult job, yes, but zero margin of error -- or rephrased, 100% security -- is not possible, and attempting to achieve can justify anything that is incrementally effective.
even worse for me, I clicked to find out why employers like citi and BofA in the financial sector were no longer able to afford vowels for their programmers.
More than a million mobile phones in China have been infected with a Trojan.
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
But at least here in the US, every incoming first year student at a university in college has to have an email, and receives multiple emails per day from professors, administrators, etc. Email is still a huge part of the current college infrastructure, that could change, but I don't see it happening overnight.
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My point was that "The consistency is impressive" is questionable, given that the list is polluted with random rants that don't even describe an occurrence. It's a poorly curated list that I find untrustworthy as a result.

...and amazingly enough, I noticed that your chosen 'highlights' include such rants! Deary me, pay attention.
I believe that it will have a lot of influence in how we understand time and causation. I'm not a quantum physicist or a psychologist, but that's the gist of what I'm taking from it. If you look at the study as less of a study into precognition, and more as a study of how time operates then it seems a lot more plausible.
Saw a comment about your site in another thread. Check it out:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897615
Why would you want to go to university with a bunch of completely uncreative people who only sit around and study? Studying (for actual classes) is only part of what university is about. Most Asians are so bland that they could easily be replaced by some sort of advanced work/study-robots and we wouldn't know the difference.

Of course, since universities have been turned into factories, robots are perfectly adapted to that environment.
heard of? Yes. On it? No. Got an Invite?
The sentence does make sense either way -- both in the "government won, and citizens lost" and "government convinced the citizens of its position" senses. I just wasn't sure if you meant it both ways. :)
Facebook are well known for their application puzzles,

http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php

And Google are notorious for having a long drawn out interviewing process.
I really doubt that there is much difference at all in the number of passengers killed, injured, or even inconvenienced by hijackers on planes today compared to the 80's. There have only been a handful of significant incidents in the past 30 years, and probably half of them occured on 9/11.

In contrast, air travel has become horribly inconvenient for almost everyone due to the security theater. We have nonsense restrictions, much longer wait times to get to our gates, and invasive sexual assualt security checkpoints.

We've given up far too much for little or no benefit.
I know what I want for x-mas this year.
Sorkin, is that you?
I would like a shared to-do list that is suitable for touchscreen devices.
The webapp that shows exactly what you're looking for in this "Ask HN" post.

I've created Wappr.com. Too much hassle to moderate/filter (100% neglected right now). I hope you have a much better solution.
Children should be taught http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha
The draft and printed book have 6" x 9" pages, while the free PDFs have letter and A4 pages.
> You may want to share the code in order to set up some more locations.

Again, I have no affiliation with this service. I do realize now that the title of the post might make it easy to assume I had though. Sorry about that.
This is one of the most incredibly racist things I've ever read. I beg you to reconsider - look at the incredibly rich cultural traditions of China (India could also fit into this mold), and then talk to me about creativity.
I don't think there is anything at all exaggerated about this being sexual assault. It's far past anything you'd get anywhere else outside of a pre-prison/jail search.
“Flash Is Great.” — Anonymous Flash Developer
1) Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person. "To sign up to this service you need a Facebook trust rating of 10 or more" <- no spammers on the service.

2) Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too.

How to get the trust rating? That's exactly what social networks are: networks of trust. Pick some obvious trustworthy nodes to start, expand from there with diminishing trust as you get further away, increasing trust the more connections there are to someone who's trustworthy, and so on... there's probably a zillion great algorithms to calculate this.

Solving the problem of trust would basically solve the problem of identity, since identity (in real life as well as online) is a product of a trust network.
This sounds good, but just isn't true. It's fairly lean, especially on effects:

http://api.jquery.com/category/effects/

When you look at that list, fadeToggle makes a lot more sense. The only helper methods are for slide and fade, the most common animation types.
What was his reply?
I'm itching to take a look at Apple's "foundation for a new graphical client"
Indeed: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/11/12/047243/Hidden-De...
Hi, one quick question: If you use @jdoe.net because it looks more professional, what would you use for the local part of the address? Does e.g. contact@jdoe.net look better than jdoe@gmail.com? I'm thinking when used for job applications and such.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_%28online_service%29

Is MySpace dead? Prodigy is, so is kozmo.com, and broadcast.com.

My money is on Amazon. No other network has as many users associated with credit cards as Amazon, as well as written reviews by 'authorized' users.
> [...] you need more servers.

I have no affiliation with this service, but I agree with your point and I too hope that they will get more servers.
"Actually, it reminds me of Prodigy." - Steve Case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_%28online_service%29
Sometimes I put short ifs in one line, just personal taste

def fact(n):
if n<=1: return 1
else: return n * fact(n-1)
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“…the foundation for a new graphical client”

Cocoa??
Fairly recent [1] stats seem to point to:

hotmail: 360m+ active accounts
yahoo: 275m+ active accounts
Gmail in 3rd, followed by AOL webmail [2}

Although yahoo! mail seems to have a more active user base as it's ahead on most site ranking systems [3].

Sources:
[1] http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/metrics/email-statist...
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/14/gmail-nudges-past-aol-email...
[3] http://www.hitwise.com/us/datacenter/main/dashboard-10133.ht...
It wouldn't be cheaper for Apple. They would need a lot more employes to handle these hard drives.
Though I'm glad for this desicion, I can't help but wonder: what's in it for oracle? The puny 5% of desktops running mac os?
I agree with a lot of what he wrote, but his own list of reasons why Google can't innovate refutes his assertion that they can "...by buying companies like Instagram".

Once a company is acquired, all of the same constraints that apply to internal Google projects now apply to it. They are Google for all intents and purposes. "Strategy taxes" now apply, they'll have to port their iPhone app to Android, port their systems to Google infrastructure, and so on.

That is, if the acquisition doesn't get gutted entirely and its employees redistributed to other projects. See AppJet, Jaiku, JotSpot, etc. The "Google Blackhole", or talent acquisitions.
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Presumably TechCrunch feels some affection for Google, and has decided to give facemail the tech-journalism kiss of death.
> Facebook can build a simple API which, given an email, tells you the trust rating of that person.

That's, in general, a really good idea. Trouble is; it is something that Google could trivially offer as well (in fact, they have even more metric data to work with).

And the bigger problem is that you'd need to introduce it as a global standard so that email servers and clients would recognize it.

> Emails from facebook can include the trust rating too.

Sadly, that's easily spoofed :)

The problem of trust online is the fundamental "flaw" in the internet (and the reason spam can exist in such a massive form). The person that solves this in a manageable and global way will be printing money.
Make it one step better. Noboy can email an @facebook address without paying a registration fee. Same for receiving...
if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock. Now it’s a party

I dont get the maths here. Given that facebook already has 3000+ employees, I am not sure they can give everyone 0.1% stocks and given how 100 Billion evaluation is an atrocious claim, numbers dont add up to me.
I up-voted you because it's a legitimate reaction. And it gives me the opportunity to point out why your question is flawed.

The whole issue is the burden of proof. Here in the USA, the whole government is supposed to be about the people: "government of the people, by the people, and for the people". We built this country, and vested the Federal Government with power, in order to guarantee our freedoms.

Thus, there is absolutely no burden on us, the people, to prove or even explain why the government's bumbling encroachments are wrong. It's the other way around.

It's entirely the job of the government to prove that any encroachment on our freedom is both necessary and effective. To date, they have only asserted that this is necessary without any supporting logic or evidence. And to the best of my knowledge, they haven't even tried to make the argument that it's effective.

And absent any material demonstration of those things from the government, freedom should win by default.
Which I guess can be written like

def fact(n):
return 1 if n<=1 else n*fact(n-1)
> A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison?

"Facebook is the new AOL" is about as close as Hacker News gets to a meme.
quick google search...

http://www.addiff.com/Pub/gyc.aspx
Isn't that a usual practice? (It is, in my country, not sure of valley culture)
"What you already knew about latest-controversial-topic" -- TechCrunch

Come on, now. People are going to defend what they use. You can find just as many iPhone fanbois as you can Android fanbois. You can find just as many Flash fanbois as you can HTML5 fanbois. (Well, almost. But then Flash has been around much longer and is pretty thoroughly cross-platform. HTML5, at least with websockets, is only supported on half the browsers at this point and much less if you count old browser versions. Using HTML5 web sockets can do some pretty spiffy things but at this point you're cutting off a big percentage of possible users to take the leap into it)

I don't see any TechCrunch fanbois though. Hmmm. Yeah a lot of times they are the first to break a story. I'm not saying TechCrunch is valueless, by any stretch. But lately the percentage of articles that linkbait the latest controversy without providing much if any added value/information seems to be increasing. That's disappointing.
no my point is that the author most likely got the wrong information than having done it on purpose. I can understand a person not being fluent in a foreign language, but I can't understand a person misrepresenting a distance of 1000km on purpose.

Most likely it was just bad editing/bad writing - and it's unconscionable to explain it away as "on purpose".

And by the way, the original article now has the corrected location: Changsha

It wasn't on purpose - just a mistake.
Good on you for refunding the $200,000.
I'm glad that they're not throwing everything away. I wonder if this will provide any benefit to the Linux OpenJDK.
This is my first comment in HN. Twice downvoted and twice upvoted. Why?
This is obviously a subjective matter, but I would say that the sum of the culture of the West is far richer than that of any other culture, even though ancient China and India are impressive in many ways.

But it really doesn't matter what China was like 2000 years ago. What matters is what Asians are like _today_.
Pay-per-answer email service. I want to create email address- smthg like @payperanswer.com

I can give it to recruiters, and all ppl that want something from me. Senders need to credit say $1 to sent me something to that inbox and once i reply to that email money go to charity of my choose (and 50% go to payperanswer.com or something).

I wanted to build something like that myself, but dont have time atm.

Extra bonus - convince Steve Jobs to use, price it like $1000 to Apache SW Foundation, and publish all emails publically - what would be HUGE!!! :))))
Hi guys, I'm the founder of Geckoboard. Thanks for your interest (and thanks for the mention lachyg).

We currently have a a backlog of > 1000 invites. It's still early days and the product is a little raw but if you're interested in checking it out mail me (address in my profile). If you include your HN handle I'll get your invite out straight away.
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Trotsky has lots of upvotes because he or she managed rev the Hacker News Facebook Hate Machine with a bit of humor.
Send/receive faxes to/from a dedicated fax amchine, use an analog modem or coupler, connect multiple extensions to the same line, connect an Asterisk box, play DTMF tones into the receiver and have it dial, pulse dial by toggling the 'hang-up' switch...

That's all I can thing of right now.
Suggestions:

1) I'm not sure whether you're using Amazon referral links. You can show the book cover next to the title linking it to the amazon using the associate tag. It will fetch you some decent money I believe if someone buys the books using the links. Have never used but read about this in Stackoverflow.

2) You can use amazon.com/books instead of amazon.com in the Stuck? message link when adding a new book.

Great work!!
"Killer"?

Hard to make an email killer. Hotmail, for instance, is still incredibly popular, and will continue to be.
This oughta help stop the FUD.
john@jdoe.net is what I'd use, or if you have an uncommon last name like me and it's available as a domain name, john@doe.net and a blog at john.doe.net.
It's rate of false positive that really matters. When that software says something is wrong at magnitude-X and with a very low false positive rate that thing is really wrong at that scale, then I shall agree it was BPs fault for ignoring it.
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I closed my account few months ago, does this mean I will miss the revolution?
This is great. I've been anticipating this book for a while. I'm tired of hearing the same canned complaints about perl. It's a great language. Thanks for showing us all why. :)
if there had been another three plane-hijackings since 9/11 I don't think anyone would be complaining

FWIW, I would still be complaining about them. If we had a 9/11-scale tragedy every year, the real, practical effect of this is a trivial drop in the bucket compared to other issues. Even if we were just to focus on air travel, it wouldn't be that big a deal.

There is absolutely no way that it's worth the degree of attention that it's getting, not by several orders of magnitude.
So... Is this good or bad?

I know Oracle is giving its back (not to say finger) to the Apache Foundation, but OpenJDK is a GPL-licensed version of the Java stack. Why is it bad (as in why so many complain) that Apple, Oracle and IBM cluster around OpenJDK? Why is the GPL not good enough?
These are certainly all things that get a lot of chatter on the forums lately, so as a summary of the current most-hyped ideas in software development this article seems pretty well on the money.

IMHO discussions like this will be more interesting if we try to avoid loaded words like "modern" (which makes it sound like something new is inherently better) and concentrate on honestly assessing both the advantages and the limitations/dangers of emerging technologies and techniques. That way, those of us who might find these ideas useful in future can learn from those who have been using them already and make more informed decisions. It's not as if each of the ideas in this article hasn't been horribly overhyped in some advocacy, even if the idea might have genuine merit in the right circumstances.
This is off-topic, but I'm amazed by the descriptions at the end of TFA (I know, I know, it's a press release, but still...)

Oracle is the world’s most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems company. (...)

Let's grant integrated and complete, but definitely not "open". Though this is dwarfed by Apple's incredible self-praise:

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Woah there cowboy! A bit of humility maybe?
unfortunately not on python 2.4, which is the version we have on our production servers (2 yr old Linux)
I believe that with your approach you are guaranteed to only invite great applicants, so that's cool. But I worry that you also dismiss many great applicants who are not that snappy, have a bad day (minute, I guess!) I couldn't come up with a great paper. I read blogs, sure, but papers?

If I needed a developer who's great at answering tricky questions in front of an audience, your approach is perfect. But I'd also love a developer who solves hard questions with a bit more time to ponder the problem space. I worry I couldn't spot them in a such a tough phone interview. Oh well, next post! :-)
It seems most interesting to me how the blatant racial statistics and stereotypes in this article receive nary a comment.

Yet if the subject was, for example, how a study showed "blacks" underperform in American high school, people would be lining up to point out how the study is flawed, etc (since any seeming statistical patterns based on race are all imagined, or manipulations of data).

Am I the only one that sees a double standard here? Or is it as simple as: you can be racist when complimenting, but not when criticizing?
Well, didn't they buy Drop.io? So obviously they're going after our emails. The interesting thing would be to see if they require people to adopt new email addresses or not
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You don't think that Apple has a bright future building computers? This deal wouldn't have made sense 5 years ago, but Apple is an important force right now and is poised to be a huge part of the future.

The fact that iPad and iPhone don't run Java right now isn't relevant. They very well might in the next 5 years. Things change fast!
Not sure why you think that, Facebook has always stressed one, real identity. If your facebook URL is facebook.com/john.smith, why should your email not be john.smith@facebook.com? Is there a compelling reason? What would be the difference if john.smith became an employee of facebook?
And...? Don't leave us hanging!
I'm no fanboy, believe me. But most of that is pretty accurate.
The Danger of Cosmic Genius [Freeman Dyson's climate change skepticism]
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
I'm all for opting out every time; I plan to do it myself. Moaning and threatening sexual harassment borders on childish, though. Not because the new pat downs aren't sexual harassment, but that your double standard of "moan with straight men, accuse the rest" makes it obvious that you don't actually feel harassed. It cheapens the more legitimate complaints of people like the woman in the article.
Stop trying to build the next Facebook
A lean startup isn’t necessarily a small one
A Little Less Privacy, a Bit More Security
If Twitter is smart they will provide the smart ultra cheap fast answer:
mailto:username@twitter.com
with automatic forwarding to your actual email (that they know of already).

No brainer.

I hope that facebook users will use their twitter name to setup their facebook email adress, ie: use it as a very public address.

@jhr
HN bug - number of comments only listed after comments loaded
Just noticed this morning that some of my submissions in my submissions list had "comments" next to them without the number of comments. After clicking on comments and refreshing, or clicking on comments and going back to the submissions list and refreshing, it showed the number of comments next to the "comments" link.
I know 3 completely separate (and non-tech focused) groups of people (each 30+) that were/are running on Wave and are each pretty upset that its going away. I know that each of them came to swear by Wave for almost all intra-team communication.

It wouldnt be a stretch for active users to run into the high tens of thousands. Unfortunately, thats tiny compared to the usage of Google's high-profile projects, so it gets killed.
Can We Translate English To English?
Dare this not be sarcasm?
This is the classic Chase & Simon (1973) article. Similarly, programming skill has been described as being based on the ability to remember abstract solutions (programming schemas e.g. Davies, 1994; Détienne & Soloway, 1990; Soloway, 1986) and applying them. From the perspective of a non-programmer, a program is just a wall of text. I remember someone did the same basic experiment with program fragments (real vs. random) and got similar results.

Experts can write the focal elements (e.g. pseudocode) first and then expand them into a full program. A good example might be the fizzbuzz test, or generating the permutations of a string, you'll have an idea of what the problem involves because you've done it before. If you can't visualize the problem in terms of something familiar, you'll have a hard time taking a top-down (e.g. memory-recall-based) approach.
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How did he answer?
it seems that "rapey-scan" would be most appropriate
I agree, for me when I saw that people were seriously investing in instagram and picplz, it confirms that there is some sort of mini-bubble happening.
Tekadi, Kerala. Just kidding.
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I trust Google with my email more than facebook.
This is wild. When Facebook flips the switch, they'll instantly become the largest email service.
The iPad is magical?
Can someone explain why Pre IPO stock would be worth so much? Either something is wildly inefficient, or the employees are getting duped. If X shares are expected to be worth $1m after IPO, Facebook could offer potential employees X/2 shares, which is still a $500k signing bonus, and use the other shares for something else.
I believe genius and hard work are merely two ingredients into success or excellence in performing a task.

A person of below average intelligence who has studied chess for years and years could beat a genius who took up the game a week ago.