skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As European countries come England is the hardest to get in and out of and it's not like Julian Assange is not going to be recognized on sight by half a million people at least by now.

The boats all leave from ports where there are customs inspections, crew and captains who would all not be too happy giving shelter to a fugitive, international airports need a pass by immigration and the chunnel does too.

Lots of illegals make it in and out of Britain but they don't start off as high profile fugitives.

I think you're giving him too much credit. The best he could probably do is go to ground inside England but even that is not that simple.
A testament to the perspective from the status quo. It's a shame that jail is the norm rather than the exception.
Not in the near term. During the Q&A, several questions were asked about tablets, including how the rise of iOS and Android tablets have affected the team's conception of what an ideal device would look like.

In all instances, the ChromeOS team members reiterated that from the very first day, their vision was to address the notebook form factor, because they're attempting to build a platform that can be used as their own primary device.
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2009/1/10/applicable-les...

Some crazy stuff that you could do with Forth. The author shows how you can inject a forth VM in shellcode and build exploits on top of that.
Would love any feedback: parkgrades.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980478
I am very curious to see how the Education Reform Movement is going to change this over the next 5 years. More importantly, how Technology can be used to make education more efficient.
How do you type acronyms like NASA?
My experience is that "legacy" refers to "any software that we want to put down or don't want to support 100% any more", so I guess Google decided all native software was legacy the minute they announced Chrome OS.

I've seen the same thing happen with code internally - a developer writes an untested replacement for a component and then instantly declares the old version "legacy", even though it still works fine.
I'm starting to think of Lieberman as the new McCarthy.
Anyone know the reasoning behind the Cr-48 name? Maybe because that isotope of chromium is one of the longer lived non-stable isotopes of chromium?
That makes no sense. I'm not trying to assert or prove anything. It would be wildly irresponsible for anyone to take any drug without doing their own research into its safety and efficacy; I'm just listing some of the benefits that scientists have found, and people can do their own research if they are interested in learning more.
The cost of failure on Everest is ultimate, but the cost of failure in a startup is temporary and economic.

What about the folks who lose their life savings when their businesses fail, and decide to commit suicide? I have no stats on how often that actually happens, but it's something to consider.
Regarding convertible notes: "“You’re putting in money now and getting a valuation later, whether the company is a failure or a success. If it’s a success, you get the valuation after it’s a success, but you really want the valuation of the company to be lower,” he says. “As an investor, that’s the wrong alignment with a start-up.”"

I didn't think sophisticated investors were doing convertible notes without valuation caps - something this article makes no mention of.

cdixon: "I believe that pretty much every other seed investor who advocates converts also assumes they have a cap. So any discussion of convertibles without caps seems to me a red herring." [1]

Clarification please? (Josh?)

[1] http://cdixon.org/2010/08/31/converts-versus-equity-deals/

EDIT: Congrats on the recent funding and founding!
I think that is precisely their mindset. For 99% users, once you move office-suite applications to the cloud, 99% of their computer use is on websites. Therefore, the operating system and "legacy" PC software should fade from view.
My form didn't seem to submit properly. I wonder if they tested it thoroughly.
As of 12:44 PST, it's live.
I think he might be an NUJ stooge - this has been the greatest boost for print journalism since somebody came up with the idea of page 3 mamographs
I agree with you that tech diving can be safe and fun, but it is also possible for things to go wrong with deadly consequences. All I can say is that when I was doing technical diving you were always told that self-rescue was the first option. If your buddy and/or team can help you out then that was great, but we never dove with the assumption that our buddy or team would be able or available to help out. This means complete redundancy and ability to isolate failed components of your life-support system. It is not about solo diving, it is about sometimes being in a place where the only person you can truly count on is yourself.

The dive computers available today are simply not useful.

This is something I strongly disagree with. Dive computers are very, very useful. They can't measure bubble or various saturation levels of different tissue types, but neither can you. The models they use may be idealized and only have a fixed number of compartments for the offgassing calculations, but they provide several other benefits that make them a key component of any deep dive. For starters they track your depth over time. Everyone drifts and bounced around within a range of depths even when you think you are staying on a fixed depth over some portion of the dive. The computer is sampling and adding the depth changes into the model. This enables the computer to be more accurate than you can ever be. If you disagree with its model then you can do some research into what it is using as its basline profile and either buy a computer that uses a model you like or adjust its calculations according to how you think you fit its model (several of the dive computers you should be looking at allow for this latter option.)

I am not talking about diving on some recreational computer, I am talking about using a dive computer designed for mixed gases and dive profiles with a ceiling. If you are doing mixed gas diving you need a computer that can be set with the mixes you will use and be switched as you switch. Maybe you are good enough or experienced enough to get away without a computer, but I have always dived with a hand-caluclated profile (with various bailout options and numbers) in a BC pocket, a mental model of where I think I am in the dive running in my head, and a dive computer that can provide both accurate and precise info based upon its own model of the dive and diver.
or legacy table names
It's faster to hold shift. Caps Lock + n + a + s + a + Caps Lock is 6 keys, vs Shift + n + a + s + a is only 5 keys.
I need to think about organising the updates teamwize. I usually go with projects because most of my projects are small. That said, I will collect more feedback and see what's the best way.

Interesting view on user-based pricing. Basecamp, github, and most other sites that I use personally go by project numbers. User count comes in the second level. E.g. 20 projects and up to 50 users.
The title makes no sense with the article, in my opinion. It's more a narrative of how software is better with less, and how they came to that conclusion. Of course, Inc is in the pageview business.

Or should I say software business?
You'd think a double-tap on shift would do it. Let's change the world one key click at a time
Some strong deals have no cap.

More importantly, angels behind a note want your valuation to be as low as possible (so they get the most value) - it's the misalignment that's most toxic.

Also, I'm seeing lots of sky-high caps, too.
Yes, K2 is is much more technically demanding climb (See the Black Pyramid, and basically any of the other less popular routes) and more unpredictable (falling seracs above the Bottleneck killed several climbers in 2008). It's usually only attempted by very skilled mountaineers. You won't find the same sort of climbing tour groups like operate on Everest - which is part of the reason why Everest, though the tallest, doesn't seem to be the pinnacle of mountaineering.
Gmail really does seem to load in about half the time now in the Canary build.
If you do media in a big corp, the Xserve was a pretty good box for that side. It also (up until Windows 7) made a pretty good box for a mixed educational environment.

My biggest problem with OS X Server isn't the loss of the Xserve, it is the old Samba.
Farmville for Dummies
"We don't check that the user is authoritative for an email address, some thought needs to go into how we prove a user has access to an email address in a federated system."

Ideas?
The Long and Troubled History of the Amiga
Only paper? Hope that's a joke. HN Monthly has a terrific PDF version. Please reconsider, even if you charge a buck.
Definitely. There is already enough risk running high pressure oxygen given how some o-ring lubricants can react, I cannot imagine adding an additional fuel to the mix.
Why put a country drop down when it's only available in the US? From Canada here... bah humbug.
Never before have I seen a book title so accurately describing the individuals who would buy it.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested
I wonder why the Guardian version didn't make it to the front page.
There's a term for it, but I'm blanking on it.

I believe the idea is that it's for people who are legit trolls. If you let them know, they'll just create another account. But if they think people have just grown tired of their antics, they're more likely to move on to another site.
Introducing ChromeDeck - Your Shiny New Friend - TweetDeck's posterous
Hacking For Social Good | Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System
The whole thing is an ad for Keynotopia, so it's not that surprising. That said, a hugely useful ad, which has me pretty excited about trying Keynote for mocking up an iphone app. I didn't know Keynote could do hyperlinks.
For me the Amiga will always hold a special place in my heart. It's a real shame that in the 90s it was handled so badly, and had it not it could've carved itself a niche in the low latency multimedia department.

If the Amiga had never suffered the way it did, could it have been as big as the Mac today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-MepaJCM4
Meet Cr-48, the Chrome OS Pilot Program notebook
They were hardly large deployments. It's telling that their enterprise customer quote was from the "IT director at Washingtonian.com, which runs two Xserves to support a website".
[clop clop]

LIEBERMAN: Halt! Hallo! Hallo!

NYT EDITOR: 'Allo! Who is zis?

LIEBERMAN: It is Senator Lieberman, and these are the Members of the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. Whose castle is this?

NYT EDITOR: This is the castle of our publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

LIEBERMAN: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God
with a sacred quest. If he will give us testimony he can join us
in our quest for the Holy Leak.

NYT EDITOR: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen...
Uh, he's already got one, you see?

LIEBERMAN: What?

LEVIN: He says they've already got one!

LIEBERMAN: Are you sure he's got one?

NYT EDITOR: Oh, yes, it's very nice-a [to other editors] I told him we already got one.

OTHER EDITORS: [Laughing]
McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists.

He may have been wrong about who exactly was a Communist or wrong about his methods, though.
> I remember Mike Pall saying something similar in an LTU thread some time ago.

He did and the mozilla guys pointed out how this wasn't the case. The languages are very similar but JS has some weird semantics due to how things are scoped. (ref. the Chakra optimization brouhaha a month ago)
But I use both fingers for the letters in NASA so I would normally have to hold 2 different shift keys. Are you saying you hold just one shift and type the rest of the letters with your other hand
Seriously, I got all excited too, however
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-chrome-web-...

"We're starting with the U.S. and will expand to other countries once we get the necessary certifications. To participate in the pilot program, visit the Chrome notebook website."
Sexual Harassment in IT
Do you care to elaborate now? What about this situation makes you feel like we're going backwards? What announcement would have made you feel like part of the future, if not this?
Flagging this one, then.
طريقة تنزيل الصور في المنتديات
Sounds like they borrowed the tracing idea from mozilla.
For a second I thought it was a play on create (Cr348 = Cr-48), but your explanation sounds better.
Isn't the 'crime' that Assange purchased/published stolen material?

In the end, does any of this really matter? has there been anything on Wikileaks which exposed mass injustice and therefore we can attempt to overlook the fact that this man published confidential gov't information which was received illegally.

I'm surprised that all the media is focused on Assange, who is really just a distributor of the data gathered by Bradley Manning.

At the same time, the whole thing is very sad. Manning is in a whole heap of trouble and I suspect will spend much of his remaining life in a US military prison. Assange has people threatening his life and governments after him. And in the end, for what? This isn't Watergate (unless I'm missing something). They aren't Woodward, Bernstein and DeepThroat, even if that was their initial goal.

They should have looked at the materials they received, measured the influence those materials would have had to make the world a better place, and then decided on an action.

Instead they bragged to the world that they had managed to gather all this 'confidential' material, and possibly ruined both of their lives in the process. I'm sure we'll all remember Assange, Manning seems to have already been forgotten by most, and the only thing that will change is the intelligence community will get smarter about hiding their 'secrets'.
GPLv2 likely does include patent protection implicitly. Here's an article written by a law firm discussion the issue (PDF): http://www.fenwick.com/docstore/Publications/IP/potential_de...
If you have a website, you are at least in the marketing business; rather, your website is a marketing tool, for good or bad. If your website has any features other than basic marketing (prices, times, list of products or services, location, etc), such as purchases, mailing lists, and other such things, then the product you are giving your customers is software. That is in addition to whatever your core business is about.

Someone mentioned a dentist. If his website includes anything interactive, then part of his product to you is software. It might be a stretch to say he is in the "software business", but he (or an employee or contractor) is definitely delivering a software product.
Any Googlers here (Matt_Cutts?) in a position to comment on how long we'll be waiting to hear about this? Because being accepted as a tester would absolutely make my December.
I applied for access to this months ago and I'm still waiting.

Has anyone received access to this ?
Can you comment on your experience with it ?
I'm interested in how much data you were able to store into it and what kind of response time you see.

Thanks!
Yes, I think the "it's important to have a lead that'll help get the Series A done" advice got overshadowed by the "angel-backed companies don't raise enough cash" comment.

Having a strong lead in my own (priced) seed round proved very, very, very helpful later on - but I still wasn't able to raise much more than $500K on the first go-round.
They alluded to something like that in the webcast.
Minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial : http://www.annexia.org/forth
Lambda the Ultimate thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2452
Yes it is. Its like the web, once the user goes to your App you can show them whatever you want.
Native apps became legacy on June 24, 2010. [release date of first iPhone :)]

Don't worry, they will become cool again for chrome OS in another year or so.

[oops, copied the wrong date from wikipedia. you get the idea...]
Cute quiz to measure how addicted you are to the internet?

http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-quiz.html
I don't understand. My company recently raised using convertible notes with a cap right around where an appropriate valuation might have been. Now my investors are all interested in seeing the company valuation at the next funding round be a multiple on the cap. Where are the misaligned interests?

Additionally, it seems as though high caps are a separate argument from the "conv. with cap vs. priced round" argument. With either, the market decides what an appropriate valuation, cap, or terms (no cap) a company is able to raise at. Therefore, it is simply the mechanics of the market that lead to no cap notes and sky-high caps, not the fact that the deals are done with convertible notes.

Not trying to be argumentative; I'm really interested in learning why you've taken a strong stance on this.
MagicRuby - Free Ruby conference at Walt Disney World
Also how expensive is it?
Funding Markets Develop in Reverse « Startup Boy
I understand that Jessica has chosen to be the "face" of InDinero, but aren't her cofounders working just as hard?
Meanwhile...

U.S. to host World Press Freedom Day
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979895
GSM supports two lines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_line_service

Surprisingly, Android doesn't have it.
> What's the git equivalent of `hg qrefresh`? What about when there are other commits on top of the current one?

There is no direct equivalent as far as I know (short of using one of the quilt-like tools built on top of git) apart from amend for topmost commits, but it's easy enough to do with rebase —interactive (or rewrite in mercurial).

> In this case I meant that you don't qfinish the patches right away

Then they're not changesets, they're patches.

> You leave them as patches while you submit them to the mailing list.

You can do that just as easily from a local branch.

> You're talking about pushing to a public repository, which is different than patch bombing a mailing list.

I'm not talking about anything.

> It's a bit more complicated, but it does have the nice effect of giving you a "history" of a series of changesets. I don't know how you'd do that with git.

I don't either.

> I agree that you can do those things in git -- I'm only say that it doesn't encourage it

And I disagree with your assertion that mercurial encourages it.

> The existence of the index actually encourages doing it the wrong way: checking in states of code you've never tested.

Not any more than the ability to `qrefresh` only a subset of your working copy.

> No, Mercurial doesn't force you to do it right, but MQ and its qpush/qpop provide an easy way to do it the right way if you want to

And it's almost as easy to do the same thing with git.
can you elaborate on the 'fail because of timing'??

Do you mean a VC funding cycle where most funds are distributed in one quarter over another (or time of year)?

Maybe I continue to miss something.

Thanks
Yeah, OSX Server is perfect for something like that. I was just curious, I sort of figured iTunes ran on XServes in various data centers.
Test drive a Chrome notebook. – Google
I hold the left shift key and type NASA with the rest of my fingers. Just because a finger is tied up holding down a key doesn't mean the rest of the fingers cannot also be used. :)
Hold left shift with left pinky. Type n-a-s-a with both hands. I honestly have no idea how else you would do it. Hitting caps lock seems like such a waste of time.
Wow, thats an amateurish looking site!
Yep, it's like titling one "book for readers".
67% don’t get enough positive feedback
37 votes 2 hours ago. And it isn't in the frontpage.

Isn't something broken in the ranking?
I absolutely love the fact that a laptop fully based around the web is being denied a caps lock key. Good riddance. I think 99% of its usage (constants aside) is for trolling/yelling.
I have spent hours in a class room trying to teach adults to reliably save a file in a known location and later open it. How to create folder to hold related files for a project. Some students are insulted by the simplicity of those exercises, but others _never get it_. I can walk them through the motions, draw tree diagrams till we are all sick of them. Some times I can train them to recreate a particular example, but they are still unable to generalize what is going on. And the are not dummies I'm talking about.
A/B Split Testing for ASP.NET
My problem with the project model is a project could be anything. If someone didn't want to pay for the next tier they'd create less projects or have 1 generic project which is the name of the company and dump everything into it. Which is what I do with the free version of FogBugz for my personal projects.

A user will always be a user. One business may need 12 projects while another may only have 1 project everyone is working on. But if both have 30 users they use up the same amount of bandwidth.

And as you suggested, it really comes down to how different businesses work. Some companies work faster than others where 1 project may last 2-3 days. Someone in that company would have to be on top of closing that project and the next one. Or do they create a Generic project for the quick ones and a specific project for the more long term ones?

Properly utilizing Projects (and milestones for that matter) have always been a challenge for me with the project management applications I've used (Basecamp, FogBugz, etc).
Or you live in the Bay Area or NYC and hope to avoid poverty.
The purpose of the presentation is to pique one's interest in Keynotopia.

It worked to the extent that it made me curious enough to click through to the site.
Can you point out an example of an offline app in the current store? All the apps I've tried so far seem to literally just be an icon + link to a website on my start page.
Open Source Bridge 2011: Registration Now Open
11 points, 42 minutes ago, and it isn't in HN frontpage.

I'm seeing these things happening all the time in HN now.
Easy Javascript History Manipulation: pushState() and replaceState()
We modd you down, because if you aren't here to contribute then maybe you shouldn't contribute.
Wouldn't his skipping bail ruin everything he's worked for and towards with Wikileaks? It just doesn't make sense to me that he's considered a flight risk.
Irony: clicking on the "Chromium and Open Source" link gives you a "you must upgrade your Adobe Flash plugin" message.

Oops.
But not every organization has the power to throw you in jail with impunity if you resist their growth.
I doubt it.

From what I understand, the significant improvements in speed come from Crankshafts tradeoff of compilation optimisation for startup speed. If your app is a for loop with 2 iterations that code path won't be heavily optimised as the interpreter would potentially be more spending more time compilation code than in execution of unoptimised code. It will therefore startup faster. However, hotspots (loops with 1,000 iterations, per se) will be heavily optimised.

This is great for websites as speed and responsiveness is perceived as startup time. You'll certainly notice a difference when using the Node as a scripting tool. However, most Node applications are long running servers executing the same code paths over and over. Its unlikely that Crankshaft is performing any extra optimisations, it is just changing when it performs these optimisations. However, if Crankshaft _is_ doing significantly more advanced optimisations (I don't know) then, yes, Node will benefit. Please correct me if I am wrong, I would love to be.
>"Base Bamp"

Check, wait, no, uncheck.
I noticed that they are using cperciva's scrypt() for key strengthening:

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

They opted to go with a memory bound approach rather than a CPU bound approach so that login time doesn't adversely affect UX.
OT but nice minimalist design.