skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In for a penny... If you're going to break the rules you might as well do it fully. None of the ebook DRM is unbreakable, the obvious choice is to break it completely rather than try to find one specific workaround for a problem with the DRM.
nice portfolio but the page header is partly off-the-page. the top of the writing (of your name) is cut off. this is on Safari 5 on Mac OS 10.6, fyi
If you think that all it takes to build this business is copying Twilio's code, then you should try making money off printing bingo cards.
But what about blackouts? When the team stadium sales are below x% they aren't allowed to broadcast the game at all, in order to theoretically drive more ticket sales.
The argument could be made that it's rare precisely because it's distinctly not trivial to do.

He does what you describe except using cp instead of dd.
Zeus Trojan Tweaked to Pilfer Business Bank Accounts
>17 billion for each 25 million UK homes

Presumably "17 billion [litres of diesel each year to serve] [strike: for each] 25 million UK homes"?
Yeah, but a lot of people want to watch the Monday and Thursday night games.
Y'know, I think danielbmarkham is wrong to call for the use of lethal force against wikileaks, but I think that his point deserves a counterargument, not just some outraged huffing and puffing.

So Daniel, here's why I think you're wrong.

Firstly, you're justifying this on the basis that what Wikileaks is doing is analogous to war against the US. But it's really only analogous to it, it's not an actual war. Nobody has been killed in this "war" yet, and I really don't see a reason to start.

Secondly, it would set a bad precedent. By all means we can assassinate Osama bin Laden, but if you scale that back to Julian Assange then who else can we justify assassinating? There's all sorts of individuals making weakly-analogous and ineffectual "war" upon the US Government from various extremal points on the political spectrum.

Thirdly, it's unnecessary. Even in an actual war, we prefer
to capture rather than to kill unarmed men where possible. If Assange has broken US law then there's a perfectly reasonable set of procedures we can go through in order to put him on trial.

Fourthly, it would just be a public relations disaster for the US, in ways that I don't feel the need to explain.

In conclusion, Daniel, I know you were being hyperbolic with the kill-Assange thing, but I think you'll agree that under careful consideration of the options that it's probably not the best option.
I'm not sure if the iPhone is sold locked here in Greece, but I would be surprised if it did; it would be the only one. You can get a subsidised phone with any carrier, and they don't lock it or otherwise restrict you. The basic view is "you promise to pay us X money per month, we give you a roughly X12[1] subsidy on your phone now". They don't even care what phone, if any, you decide to get with the subsidy.

Also, this happens every year. Once a year passes, you're eligible for a new subsidy of X12 euros.

[1] I'm not at all sure if the multiplier is as much as 12, but it's at least 6. The main point, anyway, is that they don't care what phone you get.
You're right. Facebook (and Wikipedia) have to deal with this same problem. This is why tr8n provides a mechanism for translators to vote on the quality of translations. And there are also admin tools for suspending translators, adding a vote threshold for translations to go live and a block list as well. Also, users can report a translation, which immediately puts the translator on a watch list.

Also, don't forget, in a crowd-source environment, there will almost always be more language protectors than vandals.
It's refreshing to hear someone make a distinction between the people with whom you're sharing the idea.

The practice of keeping the idea a secret is absurd, but so is telling anyone within earshot. You just don't know who's listening.

This may come across a little (read: very) cynical, but it's in the best interest of angels and VCs to advise us to tell everyone our startup ideas.

"No one cares about your idea" is only true for those who have something of their own to work on.
Here's Google's incredibly vague blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/being-bad-to-your-cus... - and HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959348

Whatever they've done, it seems to reportedly be affecting some queries but not others. The author of the searchengineland piece may have had to try a few queries to find one that ranked.
"Invent with Python" author boycotting amazon for the holidays
One application that this might be useful for is an IP lookup. Typically they're stored in block ranges and querying can be tricky, especially if its an offline operation done with hadoop. Could also be counter-productive, but an interesting thought.
I wish there was some context there.
I've got 2 teflon jackets on... so don't spare any punches... looking forward to more.
I hate to say it, but I think hackernews has officially jumped the shark. :-(
It was a secret because if anyone asked for proof previous to Wikileaks releasing pertinent information (in regard to Iraq), the answer was "No, I don't have anything to prove it..." Speculation doesn't make something any less secret and is often inaccurate.
Do Your Electronic Fingerprints Leave You At Risk?
> [...] it's also safer. Car drivers don't understand bikes: when they see you they have all sort of weird reactions [...]

I don’t understand how people reacting unpredictably could be safer. If your choices are (1) drive a car and other drivers behave as you would expect or when they don’t at least you are in a similar vehicle with seat belts and some shock absorption, or (2) drive a motorcycle, and other drivers either don’t see you and drive into your space without warning or else freak out, and in a collision you are likely to be horribly maimed or die, I must say that (1) sounds dramatically safer to me.
Thank you. I miss http://i.imgur.com/1P67U.png (postrank).
It seems that that latter part is part of the Geek.com writer's commentary on the original article from PC Pro, though, so the original article likely didn't call out their own broken logic.
I used MongoDB for my MSc thesis, and I really enjoyed the silent data corruption feature [1]. That said, I would use MongoDB again if it stops being horribly unstable.

These days, I use redis for caching and as a celery backend, and I love it to bits.

[1] not.
So why the downvotes?
This does seem like it's 1/2 step away from LOLCATS.
Was anyone else hoping this would be about Quality?
It's in no way analogous to war against the US. It's a publicity campaign against some people who are pulling some levers in the US.

As has been said a million other places, there's way more embarrassing stuff about other gov'ts than there is stuff about the US in these cables.

But all you see the news media talking about is "whether Assange is unamerican".

Cui bono?
Even more surprising is that everyone of these [Wikileaks supporters] I know are ardent freaks about keeping their own lives private.

Privacy of the individual is not the same as privacy of a government[1], we must take into consideration the balance of power. If you look at things with respect to power it makes sense that the most private individuals want powerful organizations to be more transparent as they have disproportionate power over individuals.

The author didn't clearly explain why he hates Wikileaks but presumably it is because of what was leaked: diplomatic cables as opposed to something that uncovered massive criminal conspiracy.

We haven't seen anything to suggest that these leaks are dangerous to the US. Defense secretary Robert Gates basically said they were embarrassing and awkward but won't have much of an effect on foreign policy[2]. For earlier leaks on the US military shootings he said there was no apparent fallout[3].

[Wikileaks] are my enemy, and I support any use of state force against them, up to and including lethal force.

This is an overreaction. The information was not that valuable or that hostile to the US. Most of it was a confirmation of stuff we already knew. And even if it was serious, I don't want my government going around assassinating people for leaking documents to the media. I don't know how that can justify lethal force. Maybe if it was strategic military routes or something that is obviously not newsworthy.

1: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/privacy_and_po...

2: http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/11/quotable-secretary-...

3: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month...
What's WifTether? I'm looking for reasons to root it, but for now TempRoot is working fine. I am also not sure if it will have any adverse effects, like preventing updating or anything.
I am guessing it's different by giving you full control over whom you are sharing your disk space with. And, perhaps, by having less blurred focus as an app in general and not trying to be social disk/file collaboration sharing/discovery/you-name-it everything like Wuala did.
Interesting. The one experience I've had with pair programming was also with non-trivial algorithmic stuff, and we had the same positive experience. I wonder if it's a more general phenomenon: "pair programming is for the hard parts" or something like that.
alex,

I respect your right to disagree. Heck, I don't claim to have all of the answers.

Here's the thing: WL is taking it on itself to make those decisions for all of us. Put differently: the government is broken and is making too many things secret. WL has decided that because it is broken, they get to decide what sort of massive response is warranted.

All I'm saying is wait a minute, the entire purpose of my voting is so I can make decisions. If you'd like to point out specific things that are secret that need fixing, I'm with you. Please continue. But if you're saying that you have become the arbiter of what causes harm or not, you are taking on yourself something that you have no right to do, whether you're alex or some WL guy. You're making the same mistake only in reverse.

Does that make sense?
I am investigating replacing MySQL with MongoDB in my model layer for my next prototype.

My mind is still thinking in 3NF though. I understand dernormalization and avoiding joins will be useful from a performance standpoint. However I am unsure when to either go ahead and include a foreign key, retrieve it and perform a second query from the application layer, and when to go ahead and duplicate\embed all the field data. I'm leaning towards just making 2 simple sequential key lookup queries, the 2nd on the retrieved foreign key, rather than duplicating fields everywhere and keeping track of massively cascading changes. Instead of performing 1 MySQL Join. Although I usually think in terms of minimizing roundtrips to the database server.

Wondering if anyone has a heuristic for this or suggested reading?
"Strata Rejects" lightening talks
I really haven't seen anyone talking about whether Assange is un-American.

Since he's an Australian, it's not much of a question to ask.
They're probably in breach of contract too, I expect there is a click-through.

In the UK they could probably be got for "hacking" (ie cracking) as they are using the computer from which they download updates without authorisation and breaching a security feature in order to do so this puts them in contravention of the Computer Misuse Act (or at least on a naive reading, mine, it does so).
Interviewing PhD Students
I wonder how many DirectTV subscribes would jump ship if they lost Sunday Ticket.
true, though the devs still use it and release bug fixes.

Theres nothing to rule out folks taking active ownership of dev work on the project, eg take the time to go to their svn repo http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison//svn-instructions... and eg run hg/git/darts import on the repo...

Also, if you look at the svn repo, its been touched with as recently as the past 8 weeks. thats pretty good for a project thats not active
The images interspersed throughout the text are blurry, too blurry for my taste. They need to be crisp and clear.
Good, you've thought of smartarse response like mine. But I personally would still be wary.
Actually, one of the best book for Prolog is book written by my professor Ivan Bratko: http://www.amazon.com/Prolog-Programming-Artificial-Intellig...

We had to write Pascal interpreter in Prolog - that was an experience. I strongly suggest to everybody to try Prolog - then you will understand why it is good idea to use declarative languages as much as possible when building product (including SQL).
Telling "those who can execute quicker than you is dumb." Fair statement.
Didn't work so well the last time we tried it:
http://viartis.net/parkinsons.disease/images/AgentOrange.jpg
fwiw, even the term "fail" alone is still pretty subcultural. i don't entirely agree with alanh, but they are definitely right that many of those who understand the reference are letting their understanding blind them.

this type of blindness is rabidly (albeit understandably) common among technology companies in general. given that that Google reaches all types of users and an error page is meant to inform, i'm not sure the reference is worth the risk.

that all said, i personally find the reference obvious, thus boring. but that's just my opinion. :)
Not sure how much I can say about hardware, but it feels a lot snappier than the N1.
I haven't had cable or satellite for 4 years, so this rings true for me. I go to bars or friends' houses to watch MNF, or I just skip more of them these days. Other than that, there's no way to get the current episodes of Dexter online without subscribing to Showtime.

Funny thing is...I'd pay for both MNF and Dexter a la cart on iTunes/Amazon if it we're available. As it stands, neither networks get any of my money. But the local bars do :)
First of all, thanks for taking the time to review. Your observations are really helpful.

I should add a thicker border separating pages. Also to notice is that infinite scroll is entirely client-side, so no Javascript enabled browsers will just get the pagination as normally.

RSS, yeah, it needs one.

The dropdown moving into view is an experiment, and I'm just testing to see how it goes. My thinking was to scroll the readme into view, and scroll up a bit more to put the next element right under the mouse pointer. So if you try clicking somewhere below the middle of the screen (depending on the size of your screen), you can browse the entire list without using mousewheel or moving your mouse from position, and every readme will scroll to the position you are looking. This is especially helpful if you do a search for something and want to view all of this week's items. But if it turns out to be confusing I'll remove it.

Links with target _new and _blank isn't something I like too much, so I leave it to user choice if they want to middle click or normal click, which is what they're used to already.

The cart idea is interesting, and has some potential. I think it should be made to watch the repo on your account on github, so it'll probably require you to login with your github credentials. Also something for the future as I'm not ready to do logins yet.

The UI needs work.

You're probably right about the description as title I'll try that.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977048
I think all that can be said about Wikileaks has already been said.

This thread has degenerated into name-calling (several commenters accusing other commenters of being fascists). Why is that?
A google search for "sip account" turns up "Easy to use VoIP phone system. Complete web-based telephony system" as the first advert, and the SIP page on Wikipedia as the second link and a bunch of tutorials and howtos.
There is the model that takes cable fees and applies them to online content. This is how espn3.com works and is getting even more interesting now that you can stream that content to an Xbox 360.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977247 (register.co.uk link)
The nexus one's screen is actually more like 650x400, since they have some weird tricks to squeeze in subpixels. The Galaxy S line (I have a Vibrant, currently) has a much better screen.

Galaxies also have higher-resolution touch detection and better graphics chips; they offload a lot of the UI rendering to hardware, which makes the experience very smooth.

Unfortunately, Samsung is dragging their feet on upgrades. Current Galaxy owners are stuck on 2.1, with no news about 2.2. A Google-branded phone, with Galaxy hardware, is exciting.

That said, it's a $600 phone; if you've already got last-years $600 phone, do you really need to upgrade?
I wish it was the other way around, B&N seems to run a better store than Borders.
I wonder if I get a tshirt with a big pair of eyes on it I can get better service, cheaper rates, more honest dealings ...

Smiley faces on bills (immediately payable invoice notices, eg in a restaurant) earn greater tips for the server too.
I think he meant that if you consider yourself invisible as a motorcycle you can drive safer, not that driving an invisible vehicle is safer than driving a visible one.
I am not sure I understand your argument. I am not talking about a soulmate here, just someone who does not freak the parent out sitting next to them…
That's funny, my first thought was that it looked exactly like an Apple product page, almost embarrassingly so.
This kid must be so young so as not to have learned about diminishing marginal returns. The average cost curve of computer skill acquisition is decreasing once you get on the back end of it (the "expert" range) so of course your average cost per skill is higher than someone who has less skill.
Pot, Kettle, Black.

The only part of this comment thread that you are posting in is exactly rhe one about whose length you complain so loudly, and it would have been at least 50% shorter if you had not done so.

You did not discuss anything whatsoever in the rest of this thread and in spite of 'leaving people to help themselves to the last word' you keep coming back for more.
Excuse me, anti-American.

But then, you knew what I meant, right? Glad to see that my typo was the most important part of the post.
Great question, look forward to different answers.
I don't know why everybody is so keen to encourage others to give up cable TV.

Sure, I don't have cable TV, and I get most of my video-watching via the internet. Where do I get my internet access from? Why, Comcast, the only provider of high-speed internet in my area.

If everybody starts getting all their TV through the internet, what will Comcast do? They'll start charging everybody a lot more for internet access in order to make up the lost revenue. For the moment, though, I'm flying under the radar, getting my internet and all the video I can watch for less than the cost of basic cable TV. I'd like to keep it that way. Therefore, sssshhh!
If he's making his deliverables, then you don't have a problem you won't have with anyone else you might bring on. He probably just doesn't like phone calls and is too polite to say so. The grass will likely not be greener with someone else in that guy's place.
There are indeed locales, but no indic support. While for some strange reason Android got Indic locale, specifically Hindi, there is no support for it in terms of rendering and the built in font does not contain any Indic. Pretty wierd stuff as the Input Language selector is just showing Square Boxes for Hindi and after setting locale to Hindi all numerals are just square boxes. The Arabic support is also spotty as currently Android Gingerbread just doest not have any shaper for these complex scripts.
Infographic: The Evolution of Social CRM
This is nice, but the items in your feed seem to be missing links to the relevant HN comments pages.
What kind of data was that, by the way? (in real-life terms).
Offer to sell the B1-Bs to Australia. We've retired our FB-111s and have a serious gap in our air power lineup.
There's also TreeAge which is popular in health informatics (the name is a pun off of "triage") and, perhaps more generally, BUGS/JAGS which can be used to build and test arbitrary Bayesian network models.
"All nouns can be verbed, and all verbs can be nouned." (JARGON file).

But seriously, this is how language evolves.
For a lot of people, HD antenna will give you a better picture (less compression) than cable.
Obama, Congress Near Deal on Tax Cuts
Always Online: Because Downtime Like Tumblr's Sucks
Is this the new paradigm in Tech/Silicon Valley? Copying the crucial component of others' work and just building a business off of it?

I hope this is not how we create innovation going forward.
google is so going to buy twitter.
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/07/06/samsungs-hummingbird...

impressive... I have a snapdragon 1ghz in my phone and it is pretty decent. Would be interesting to see the difference if any on normal phone tasks.
Python’s Innards
I wouldn't call Soho haven tenants costumers, it sounds derogatory. We are a pseudo-collective for sharing office space not a business venture. Hence, we are all tenants here. That being said, I apologize for the confusion. If you are looking for a dev job in NY, I'd suggest checking the NextNY job board,the tech meetup mailing list or stack overlflow's job board.
Printing something on a label/piece of paper is still orders of magnitude cheaper than embedding a RFID tag...

Also, Gingerbread does not support writing from the device (i.e., your phone cannot act as its own RFID tag), I'm supposing the hardware support is there, though.
Does sound too guarded. But I did cave in and specified `from a chemical point of view' already.
Your suggestion could be a possibility but it then introduces fraud on behalf of the buyer that we'd have to account for and put more thought into.

We've got the Ts & Cs fairly well covered, that's an evolving document though, I think.

Perhaps this is a Canadian bank issue, I'm really not sure yet. Our experience has been that every processor we've talked to (And thereby their Acquiring Bank) has told us they couldn't get the model approved before we had gone through the application process.

If you're saying that it doesn't seem to be a problem then I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board and scratch my head a bit. There are companies like AirBnB and Yardsellr that have been approved recently.
I am too. I've been on T-Mobile for years, and I'm relatively happy with their service, but 3G reception (although fast when I can get it) simply isn't on par with AT&T.

Aside from that, I just don't like the fact that even though my phone is unlocked, I can really only use Tmo or wifi for fast data.
This is like a little Christmas gift to all the hundreds of people this guy ripped off. Good riddance.
No, but we do get a kick out of Americans who talk about rooting for their favourite team.

That's the trouble with America; many of my favourite pickup lines are unusable there. For instance:

"Have you ever tripped over a log?"
"No"
"How about a root?"
Believe me, people working at those facilities already have very good level of security, both at home and work.
YC is the way it is because of the people who apply to it - not the other way around.
And I apologize for the snark attack. I'm still tussling with them over a few issues, and just thinking about it gets me wound up.

I keep hearing that T-Mobile is #2 in customer satisfaction, and I wonder how. Looking at changing providers, I worry that other providers are actually that much worse. That, or that my experience is dragging down the average that's keeping T-Mobile out of the #1 spot. :)
Hubris affects the law-abiding and law-breaking alike, and that guy had it in spades.
Code Quarterly: The Hackademic Journal
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Looks to be more of a consumer-focused device, but I can't help but feel that it's more so an effort to bolster Android branding/perception than it is to sell devices.