skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-The State Department is party to spying on other countries and the UN (really? we didn't know that already? come on)

It's not the same to suspect than to have proof. And this is no little thing: it's another broken international agreement.

-More countries agree with us on Iran and North Korea than I thought (shit, maybe our state department is doing a better job than I thought)

Nope, not really. It has been a surprise (to most, maybe you know more of international politics than nearly everyone else)to know that arab countries wanted the US to go to war with Iran. Not a little thing, too.

This is not watergate. I wish we had half this much attention on other major scandals that have gone on in the last 20 years that were far more important than everything I've seen in here so far.

Let's see a bit... :

- 'Sri Lankan president responsible for massacre of Tamils' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-sri-la...

- Berlusconi 'profited from secret deals' with Putin http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-cables...

- A bit of corruption in Russia http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cable-... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables...

- Secret deal let Americans sidestep cluster bomb ban http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-cables...

- US involvement in Spain's national politics and "independent" justice system (with lies of Spanish ministers and all of that stuff) http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/How/US/worked/to/get/...

And many, many more.

Yes, this is not watergate. I doubt watergate was received with people saying, "hey!, this is not big news."
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Thanks for the the tip. Google Adsense specifically forbids displaying their ads on things other than proper websites (because they want to be able to look at the page with their bots). But other ad networks may be ok.
But if my album fails to sell, the label doesn't expect me to pay, whereas with the bank, it does.

Both ways require money. One way is less painful it you fail.
Please review our MVP. We are doing node.js based web-api integration platform.
Example: displaying data from excell file on the Google-maps, or synchronizing wufoo.com registration form results with mailchimp.com.
In short everything that has an API.
Great to see a UK startup bootstrapping themselves to this point.

Particularly proud to have employed Rob and Greg while they were undergraduates.

Check out their Heroku-inspired pricing page: http://mixlr.com/priceplans
I've heard vsftpd [1] is quite good. I certainly wouldn't expect them to be running anything other than ProFTPD, of course, but being aware of alternatives somewhat helps, no?

[1] http://vsftpd.beasts.org/
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I'm sorry... I give you an insight about the country I was born and raised for 30 years and you see it as satire and the general opinion is that I need to be down-voted?

Honestly don't know what to make out if this.

Anyway have an up-vote, because in fact the US has done many things to be hated... as well as many things to be loved.

I, like many, many of my fellow Venezuelans, are very much, pro-USA.
The link above goes to an excerpt for me, here is the full article:

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/mixlr-exits-beta-now-tar...
hm, in my extensive experience, v0 is the most popular bit-rate by a large margin. usually releases are offered in a number of bit-rates.
It's really depressing seeing HN use HTML5 as incorrectly as my managers...
Indeed, and their response was lightning-fast, compared to today's standards.
I wrote up ten of my ideas with some more detail, if that's what you're looking for: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/10/ten-ideas/
To be honest I had the same problem, but did eventually scroll. I think my initial hesitation to scroll was because the top of the page looked so much like it could be an entire landing page, with prominent twitter, facebook, and email links. Of course (now?) there's also a little popup that says scroll, which if clicked scrolls you to the beginning of Ben walking.
Not sure how the scoring works. The choices are hilarious though.
I've always thought it would be interesting to take the genetic algorithm approach on Facebook ads. But instead keep the ad display the same, and do an A/B on customer demographics and interests.

The surprising and amusing patterns you find would alone make it worth it.
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Dear fellow HNer,

This is to help you when you visit this page again in a difficult time...

Shit happens... thats completely normal. Awesome things will definitely come your way. You only gotta do one simple thing...

Keep swinging!.. Don't ever give up!

Tattoo this on the back of your hand if you want... it's totally worth the trouble.

With the very best of luck,

SeeJay

PS: And thank me on that day when you read this post again with joy...
Oh just for the record, No! I don't have it tattooed on the back of my hand... I make sure I have it on my mind instead. ;-)
I think the idea of web-ads inside your desktop app are a great idea.

You can then spend more time finding an ad network catering to your niche rather than your technology.
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Do Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement?
Uh...No.
3D video capture with Kinect
After 30s I was prompted to scroll.
I just need a programmer
I have an idea: Take Facebook's approach to groups (the auto-add feature), and apply it to a dating website.

It might turn out that this approach could replace siloed dating websites (e.g. Christian, Jewish, BBW) into organically formed dating groups all on the same website.

It's like taking the idea of http://thread.com/ one step further.
crash what?

BRK.A is a terrible liquidity example.
I saw the scrollbar, and the little hint saying scroll at the bottom of the page. However, using either the page down key or clicking in the scrollbar confused it. It only worked for me if I scrolled down with the down arrow key and I got to see the speech bubbles that didn't trigger the first time.
It's an introduction to a service, I don't think it is meant to be visited regularly.
Take it easy, I'm not demanding anything of you, I was just curious as to the scope of the ideas and was wondering if anyone else mistook the intent like I did.

You don't have to invest so much of your ego into it.

As for Reddit, they're got serious infrastructural and financial issues, so you've used a pretty bad example there. It was by the grace of god and the success of Reddit Gold that they were even able to expand their rather pressed team recently.

Twitter isn't profitable (yet?) so far as I know.

Don't know anything about the other two.

If you're going to get uppity with someone about the perception of your semi-regularly posted spaghetti-to-wall ideas, and counter with something with examples like that, you'd be better served by using profitable examples if you think profit is some kind of universal validation for them. (Again, I can't comment on the other two. No idea.)

Which is what I was originally wondering anyway, if they were intended to be services/sites with a profit motive, or something you thought would be fun hacks.

I consider both to be valuable things to share with other people, and my last collaboration was in fact, just a fun weekend hack. I enjoyed it greatly and would love to find an idea for something similar soon were it not for the book I am working on.

Anyway, you came off as a bit on edge there when no offense was intended and I'm a bit shocked as I'd expect better of you from what I'd previously seen in your contributions to the community. I'm not perfect by any means and in fact angle for devil-side advocacy, but I never mean to hurt feelings in the process.

If I offended you, I apologize. I do in fact appreciate what you share with us, even if bending over backwards with appreciation wasn't my first conversational priority.

I'm getting tea and logging off until I get some hacking done.

Cheers.
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Thanks for the info. I like the idea of the practice sessions - probably since I am new to this and more of a computer person than sales guy.
Thank you very much for sharing those :)
You could host a webbrowser view inside your app and use any webview. Most affiliations platforms should work except adsense and other technologies who need contents on pages.

You could also try to contact http://www.spointer.com/ . They are doing targeted ads embeddables in apps. They detect topics that might interest users with in-browsers addons.
Blizzard feels like the Apple of the gaming world- slowly, but consistently dishing out great products which you can trust to be fun and exciting.

And yes, the editors are very powerful. Look no further than "DotA" which has spawned no less than THREE spinoff games:

League of Legends, Heroes of Newearth and now the main developer(IceFrog) of DotA has gone on to develop DotA 2 for Valve.
It has nothing to do with altruism, it's about selling directly to the person using the product vs selling to someone who forces other people to use the product. Even if the seller is acting primarily out of self interest, users are going to end up much happier buying something because they like it, and not because forces out of their control have conspired to make it their only viable option.

EDIT: here, straight from the horse's mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
how many of those are around?
Hype du jour. Great way to get front-paged.

It goes in cycles on here.
I think a lot of participants might be in the same situation I'm in: I like new and exciting languages and play with them now and then in my free time, but I work in one of the "boring" languages. Having way more experience with the boring language, it's the one I turn to when I have a deadline or the problem is hard enough that I can't afford to spend brain cycles on the language itself.
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Interesting. Looks like you do some kind of development that you expect to get paid for? But you are happy to use software that other software developers salaries are sustained by people buying the software.

You are a terrible double standard.
You may know already, but a lesser known feature of php is that you can pass a [stream context](http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php) as optional argument to most file-operations. This enables you to make fine grained http-control (post, headers etc.), still using `file_get_contents` and friends.
that must be it I guess, should get more links, even the links are on the index and not inner pages
It's the pianist, not the piano. It's the photographer, not the camera. Nonetheless, highly skilled people do care about their tools.

From the article: "Lisp doesn’t get in my way as much as other languages."
RIM acquires mobile UI company T.A.T
Apple Granted Patent For 3D Display Method
I bought my dad a Desire HD for it's big screen (the pixel resolution is the same as the standard Desire) and installed a magnifier app:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/ideal-magnifier/com.ideal.magnif...

It not only magnifies, it lights up with the camera flash, it can reverse the black/white or add color filter if you find that easier, take a snapshot and let you zoom around it etc.
"Wikileaks is pursuing a remarkably old-school method of releasing these, with the whole centralized distribution point."

Please could you clarify what you mean. According to cablegate.wikileaks.org the distribution is being done via torrent (with an increasingly large number of seeds becoming available quickly).

http://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/cablegate/cablegate-201012...
attackers most likely used an unpatched security issue in the FTP daemon

If they don't know exactly how the server was compromised I don't understand how they can know the vulnerability is limited to software downloaded within a certain timeframe. The added backdoor yes, but the vulnerability that allowed the attack to succeed is still unaccounted for.

Or am I missing something?
You could be referring to the story about how Panic's Audion nearly became the basis of iTunes, rather than Soundjam which they bought instead, though it is quite an old story.

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
Optionscity Software: Chicago, IL http://www.optionscity.com/jobs/seniordeveloper.htm

Looking for Java J2SE Senior Developer for financial app working on rules engine (Sorry, no telecommute)
The actual patent abstract reads :

A three-dimensional display system provides a projection screen having a predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function. Three-dimensional images are respectively modulated in coordination with the predetermined angularly-responsive reflective surface function to define a programmable mirror with a programmable deflection angle.

It can be found here:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
Living Fat = 3 months, Living Lean = 12+ months. I'll use my 401k but not Roth IRA. Also have some equity/cashflow from a duplex that helps.
FWIW, I woke up this morning feeling great on 4 hrs sleep and not worried about money at all - the prior six months mornings were filled with worry and dread.
Best of luck! If things look grim, don't give in.
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Indeed. When all the Linux distros kicked out WUFTPd from being the default FTP server in the early 2000s due to security concerns, nearly every one evaluated ProFTPd and VSFTPd against each other, and VSFTPd came out on top.
"The only thing that makes music worth anything"

If it's not worth anything why do you want it?

You apparently feel you are entitled to a lifetime of free entertainment. What have you done to deserve that?
The tools are irrelevant, you could do that with many alternatives to those proprietary programs. Contact details are on the bottom of the page, "imprint", if you still feel like you want to know.
Unfortunately it works both ways as well. I would love to tailor my resume to highlight what makes me awesome for your company and particular problem/domain, but so often I see job descriptions that are just lists of buzzwords and some pathetic attempt to sound cool "we have ping pong! (read: I swear we're hip)", "we're looking for a rock-star (read: slave)".

Then to top it off, when a hiring manager realizes that he doesn't have time to deal with hiring, he passes it off to a recruiting agency -- something that makes it even harder for me as a job seeker to help sell myself to the company. Am I the only one that hates the secrecy that recruiters use in describing their clients positions? They make it sound like I might possibly be working for the CIA or something with their lack of details on what matters (e.g. Company name so I can research their history and what they need) and they give me an exhaustive list that nobody could ever possibly have had experience with unless they had already worked at the company! No I don't have 10 years experience with $_OBSCURE_TESTING_PLATFORM, but give me a few hours and Google and I can figure it out. But how can I relay that via a resume? Especially one that will be filtered by either a computer or an HR drone that knows nothing other than buzzword bingo.

This is an area that is ripe for someone to come in and revolutionize the arena.
The United States of Diabetes?
Thanks, no blog yet. Plan to start and post as I learn (Austin places to work/meet, local grants and SBA loans, best library for tech books, etc).
My thought on this? This would be a step back to the dark ages of ad-infested shareware.
What DevOps is not
Could they have passed 8th grade in 1995? Doubtful:
* Advances in Science
* More (and more widely varied) history
* Different economic and political regimes
* Speaking a foreign language
* Algebra II
* Books (easily 90% drivel) which pass for great literature these days

Hard to compare when full information is not available. What is NIST standard for a bushel of wheat? What about rate of compounding at a bank (was that 10% apr or 10% per minute)?

This likely would be an easy test for most with today's level of education after a day of remedial education that covers the basics of this test.
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Off topic, but I like to read blogs on my ipad while in bed and I hate it when authors fuck up with the meta viewport tag.

If I want to double tap to zoom in, because my eyes are not the same as 20 years ago, just let me do that, ok?

Sounded snob? maybe. Sounded reasonable? hell yes.

Btw, is there a bookmarklet to remove the meta viewport tag available somewhere?
Hammock-driven Development
Pirates don't differentiate between major labels and small labels that don't cheat the performers, or even artists' own labels.
Got a few emails on how to get started on it.

- To get started on Android development, you will need Eclipse IDE, the Android SDK, a few plugins. All of which are free to download at http://developer.android.com/index.html & http://www.eclipse.org/ ..

1. Go through the Developer's Guide. http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

2. Start off with the problem.

3. Think about how to solve it. Simplify it more. Take away all the unnecessary features.

4. Explore if it is possible to speed up the development by using these Resources? http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/index.html

5. Launch it early, and get feedback.

6. Reiterate.

Once you make it to step 6, you are almost there. Stick with it till you are really good at it. Once you are at this stage, you can either a mobile developer job or build your app, etc.
My pleasure. I'd love to hear from you if you decide to give one of these a shot! :)
Last summer, I rather surprised myself by using my android phone as a level while working on a backyard building project.

Also in the summer, I was camping when my flashlight died en route to the washroom. On the side of the path, I downloaded and installed a flashlight app, and then used it to find my way.

I volunteer in an after-school guitar class at my son's school, and use my phone to tune the kids' guitars before class starts.

A few weeks ago, a website I maintain went nonresponsive and I used my phone to ssh into the server and restart apache.

Just for fun, I installed an app that measures my heart rate using the camera.

Just five years ago, if you had suggested these uses for a phone, I would have thought you were nuts.
I can agree with the definition of the problem, but I am not convinced that you can find a technical solution to it.

Currently the only information on the site is :
"Skills is a tool for identifying expertise and passion in developers."

I honestly doubt you can do that in an automated way, but hey, we'll see.
having the "i don't have enough time" mindset. there's no such thing as "no time." if it's important, if it's a priority, you'll have time and you'll get it done.
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So, using a free web app with ads and a paid option (think flickr) is ok, using a free mobile app with ads is ok, but when it's a desktop app it's no longer ok?

This is not about doing shaddy techniques / crapware / spyware. This is not about changing user settings, installing toolbar, sniffing on user's activity, etc... It is just about displaying relevant text link ads inside a program you enjoy using.
Not necessarily. Neither of the sites that have done the most for my quality of life have ever brought in much in the way of direct income. They have, however, put me out there as a guy who's capable of building products like that, which have led to some really good consulting gigs, thus allowing me to keep traveling the world and doing my thing from a laptop.

So even though it was years before I hit on the first product that generated significant income on its own, there was still a net benefit from having put out my shingle right from the start.
They have actually released some big so-called "insurance" files via torrent in the past. They are AES256 encrypted.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5728614/Wikileaks__insurance...
Are Companies Scanning Open Source Commit Logs And Patenting What They Find?
Creating a Sense of Luxury in Singapore (interview w/ luxury watch company CEO)
Very logical fit. LastPass have been making noises about integrating bookmark sync since around the time Xmarks added password sync support, and I'd rather it be this way around than the alternative (LastPass is extremely secure, Xmarks... don't know). This presumably means my bookmarks will sync between all my browsers, computers, and my phone, as well as my passwords. Hoorah!

Disclaimer: I am a LastPass subscriber
Google’s new algorithm is the height of hypocrisy
All your drives are belong to us
Now more commonly seen in Contiki:
http://www.sics.se/contiki/
which is an operating system for resource-constrained platforms ranging from 16-bit 10kB RAM sensor motes to C64s. It's quite an interesting project.
What the eff ? :

"Safari can’t open the page “https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the... because Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server “www.eff.org”."
The transition has started.
They probably did this expecting that many users would use the full-screen capability of the video player, and lacked either the technology in hand or the time to set up a means to have it use a different file for low- vs high-res playback.
James Hamilton's review: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/11/29/AvailabilityInGl...
I've been tinkering with Corona http://www.anscamobile.com/ which is not point-clicky like Gamesalad, but rather a framework/mechanism for implementing apps/games on mobile devices in Lua, with various support for physics and so on in the box. I think the idea is to be somewhere between Gamesalad and Objective C, in terms of:

* effort
* amount of code you need to write
* flexibility

I've no idea if it's actually good; I've just been tinkering. But it seems worth a look.
Breaking up with Hotmail
I got my job from startuply. :)
seems he is in India?
Near-nude woman in wheelchair at TSA checkpoint
Is social media useful for judging older job candidates?
Apple/Google/Facebook CEOs are super-popular.  Microsoft/Yahoo:  not so much
> This is clearly the case for f(n) = 1, g(n) = lg(n), hence the constant function is O(lg(n)).

It is not, because constant function has no logarithmic behavior. To distinguish that is the whole point of big-O notation. When you tell someone "this is a O(logn) operation" they do expect log performance.

Yes O(c) is strictly under O(n) too, but so what? We can just as happily declare most functions double-exponential in complexity, but what use is that? It would be one of those formally correct but practically useless definitions.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in hiding, avoiding Interpol warrant
I was at this talk; it was excellent. Watch it.
My Nokia can do flashlight years ago without any 3rd-party app.
Crash a Lamborghini.
The site seems to be unresponsive atm: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/eff.org
I’ll have the DOMFileSystem with a side of read/write access please…
Personally I'm going back to a wristwatch because it gives totally different perspective of time passing by than a sellphone. Magic is in the habit of watching it all the time.

And I love good maps, it's quite sweet NOT to get lost when you run out of battery.
IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing