skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a matter of opinion. It may well deserve the opposite, or it may be preferable to protect it but inappropriate to force non-government parties to stay quiet about it once the information has leaked.
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so is amazon going to even attempt to frame this as a terms-of-service violation? not a peep so far.
One thing that now seems ridiculous is the bank authenticator tokens, the blizzard authentication apps are a great example
they just crawl yelp like any other site, yelp happens to use semantic markup (microformats) on its data.

Google does show special search snippets, and _used_ to show yelp review snippets on place pages, thanks to the microformats markup.
Is it fake? Snopes says a lot about it not really demonstrating a decline in education, but I didn't see them make a strong call on whether they were or weren't actual questions from 1895?
The story as submitted from Google's blog:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959348

... and from http://thenextweb.com:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959676

The original Google blog post has more than either of the others, which simply quote from it and add nothing of value.
Cool, they'll have to distribute their content over hard-to-control media (Tor, P2P etc.), thus helping such technologies becoming widespread.

Throw in a P2P-based DNS sponsored by COICA, and those elder, digitally illiterate baby-boomer leaders will have done a lot for a freer Internet, although unwillingly.
Should be an interesting battle if Kik survives the financial burden.

Basically, they allege that

- Kik's CEO used inside knowledge of RIM's BBM platform to develop Kik

- Kik infringes on a bunch of their patents

- Kik has said bad things on their promotional material about RIM

- Kik was illegally slurping and storing user address book data (even though the claim they were not)

I think the most interesting thing here is how they were accepted into App World without issue as were other similar applications with even more similar behavior to BBM than Kik has had to date. Also interesting is that RIM alleges that Kik will continue all of this infringing activity unless it is stopped by the courts even though there was no mention of a prior cease and desist.

Should be a good fight.
Folks want, Patrick. Folks want.
I'm glad there aren't too many dumb readers of HN. Otherwise we'd see a post 'I just stood on my iPad and now the screen is cracked'.
copyright laws != 1st amendment
Well, they can't really say so clearly exactly what they did. In an effort to stop people from gaming it, they keep their exact algorithm hidden. When people get around it, they tweak it further, in an endless cycle.

My guess is that their solution isn't actually based on customer's true opinions of the vendor, and thus the solution is cheatable. Hiding the solution is probably their best option at this point.
Worst part: the policy of canceling the second leg of a round trip does NOT prevent anyone from gaming the system. All you have to do is buy a round trip where the FIRST leg is the one you want to fly and skip the second leg.
Github wants to price discriminate between serious users who can afford to pay more, and casual users. Projects with a high development budget (e.g. complex software projects) don't necessarily use more disk space than someone's personal website, so disk space isn't a good way of price discriminating.

On the other hand, organizations with a high dev tool budget are probably more likely, on average, to have more private repos. So it's in Github's best interest to charge by repo count, until they figure out a better way of discriminating between customers.
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I have 3 nanoc ( http://nanoc.stoneship.org ) blogs: http://frozenlabs.com/blog , http://deadsunrise.net and http://vivirdescalzo.com

deadsunrise.net started as a sinatra app, then wordpress, now nanoc with markdown or haml. Nanoc is cool and they are static pages so you can host them anywhere.
I chuckled, and I'm happy Steve Yegge might blog some more, but this feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.
The report from Google is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959348

This article adds nothing.
True, but if the corporate office notices that one store almost never has any reviews posted, or notices that their sponsored site (with the receipt codes) has a store getting 5-star reviews (indicating that the receipts are only being given out to people likely to be positive), while a non-sponsored site has markedly lower scores, then you'd probably look into what's going on there. And the best way to figure out how a store is actually doing is still to go there and see for yourself.
Wikileaks has been accessible in TOR for ages (as .onion site). Content is usually available as torrent too.
How many of them are Jewish?
look at Groupon. One of the main reasons it's so big is the custom, humorous descriptions that go along with each item."

Groupon feels that this is valuable enough that they hired 100 new people for their editorial department just in November*.
If you're talking about the US this is a popular misconception. The number of rich and poor people does stay the same from generation to generation. But the people themselves move very fluidly through these brackets. One of the best predictors of income bracket is age. Young people are much more likely to be poor but they seldom remain poor. As they gain more experience they become more valuable and pull themselves out of poverty. Likewise many people with medium and large amounts of money lose it and become poor. Saying, "In 1990 10% of the US is poor and in 2010 10% are still poor" is pretty silly if most of 1990's poor are different people than 2010's poor.

Tracking flesh and blood people through time using tax returns from the IRS yields dramatically different conclusions than tracking buckets of people using Census data. I'd like to do a visualization of income bracket churn in the US. From what I've read I imagine it would look roughly like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/2008022...

Also Thomas Sowell has written extensively on this exact subject. Here is an article about this misconception that is a lot more elegant than this comment:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/income_con...
Oops, I wanted to write: My resolution and colour depth alone (1050x3360x24) identifies me for 18 bits at that site.
> "Common utilities such as java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap are also not available."

I've never written anything native for BB, but have done some webapp development (holy usability nightmare Batman! Their browser is horrific in a level that even IE isn't)... but this revelation is scary.

Being forced to write Java 1.3 is like digging a trench with a rusty old spade.

Being forced to write an app without java.util.ArrayList and java.util.HashMap is like digging that trench with your teeth.
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.

#1: Not "Parts of Speech" in #2.
Color-display phones with MMS outnumber TV sets globally by more than 2:1
Actually that is not true. Documents are not automatically declassified if they are leaked. Intuitively they are, but 'officially' they are certainly not.

Specifically, those who hold a US govt. clearance should not be accessing any of those docs as they could be in (potential) deep trouble.
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The New York Times posted classified government information a while back -- "Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials."

Do you think their hosting facility should drop them?
It does not counter his argument, but this doesn't mean he's right, either. His argument states that given a platform function, developers have historically used/exploited said function in ways that its creator had not intended. In terms of device functionality, this comes in terms of new applications for and of that device. The OP surmises that increasing the number of "opened up" functions via providing an API for developers will increase the usefulness of the device via the previous statement. Following his reasoning, the ultimate functional and useful device is "open" in the sense of FOSS because developers have the ability to exploit all functions of the device. My question to that conclusion would be, what if hackers made changes to the device that ran counter to the initial design philosophy of the device...which is what the users initially purchased the device? Is this a good thing always? Is this a bad thing always? The answer is neither, and this is why the implied (as interpreted by myself) conclusion is false.

The OP's argument doesn't necessarily follow because usefulness does not equate to functionality and hack-ability. Good design is not something you can quantify by "featurefulness". If it were, users would have stopped buying new copies of Microsoft Office years ago. Following from the end line of Paul Graham's post, if you give hackers an inch, they will take you a mile. PG doesn't state whether or not that is a mile in the direction your preferred direction of travel.
Hmz, there are a lot of reasons why Amazon could have given them the boot (hitting usage limits due to DoS, payment problems, attacks on the whole Amazon infrastructure). I'd like to hear their story.
Video on the iPad is its killer app for - I don't check email with it, I do a fair amount of Web browsing and I have read a few books through Kindle on it - but with video (a ripped DVD, iPlayer or a movie rented from iTunes) it is simply wonderful.

[NB I noticed the other evening that an iPlayer at the distance I normally cradle it is larger than our 50" plasma at whatever distance that is from where I sit - no wonder it feels so immersive]
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This was a bad move on Amazon's part. We expect Joe Lieberman to be a horror.

But doesn't this put fear into cloud service users that their stuff can be yanked at any time? Kinda of a Godaddy/nodaddy type situation? (I use both Amazon (EC2) and Godaddy (domains) products)

Granted this was a pretty big case but I think situations like this either affirm or enhance trust in a third party platform/provider. If Amazon had relented and kept hosting, it would have spoke volumes on customer dedication.

Of course they probably didn't like the DDoS attacks constantly.

It wasn't wikileaks that did the actions or stole the information. They just posted it. In this day and age of tepid media for profit and intertwined news organizations with gov't/business, real news like wikileaks is needed.

This is an attack on the messenger.
Maybe I missed it, but at no point did I see Snopes give an alternate age or source for the test. They only argue that the test isn't any harder than a modern test, which is IMO debatable.
I've been waiting for major sites to allow sentence-level highlighting. Way to go NYTimes -- it's a good start!
the startup community is far more than poor hackers starting a website

I'm speaking from my personal of running Hackers and Founders Silicon Valley. We have 2000 members, and we get together for beer/networking every 2 weeks. It started with me and a few other hackers getting together in a bar every couple of weeks to talk about startups and give each other advice.

The startup culture and community that I'm around is that of freely sharing business knowledge and helping each other succeed. That's what I'm referring to.

I have made a conscious choice to network, be helpful and ask for advice when it's available an appropriate. Because of that, I've gotten advice over coffe/beer from Joel Spolsky, pg, any number of YC founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, Ben Horowitz, the former CEO of Alta Vista, etc...

Business knowledge, connections and advice _are_ cheap if you put in the time and make the effort. Paying $1000 for 8 hours of business advice seem like a poor business decision to me.

But, then I have a profoundly different belief about how startups can, do and should help each other out.
This is completely and utterly preposterous.

If you are a citizen of Connecticut, or, hell, anywhere, please email Lieberman and tell him that his actions and comments are completely ludicrous and, in fact, anti-Democratic.

http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/contact/email-me-about...
Lieberman is an authoritarian scumbag and a traitor, his loyalties lie with Israel over the U.S.
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Firefox 3.6.12 1366x768

Feel free to give me an e-mail if you want a screenshot too.
Hmm, snopes doesn't seem to be saying that this is not, in fact, an exam from 1895, just that current educational standards haven't declined since then. So? Neither the HN headline nor the article make the claim that snopes refutes. Strawman.

This is interesting, just because it illustrates how the world has changed since 1895.
That's exactly what I noticed right away. I would assume it's a peek at 2.3/3.0 considering that Android "themes" aren't officially supported and are hard to come by, ntm Google is very fond of circulating development versions among its employees.
Have capitalization rules changed over time? IIRC, German capitalizes most nouns, and German was very nearly chosen for America's national language. Further, reading a facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, one can see that Rights, Happiness, and other important words were capitalized.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Us_declaration_independenc...
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People who care can vote with their cash. I doubt many will.
Who says anyone is corrupt? I don't understand why having classified information automatically makes you corrupt.
This is truly fascinating. I wonder to what extent things would have played out differently were there not the looming threat of a boycott during the holiday shopping season.
Joe Lieberman can call for whatever he wants. It's his right under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

A Senator calling for a web host to take down a site no more constitutes "government censorship" than a Senator calling for pickles not to be put on hamburgers constitutes "food and drug regulation". Down with Wikileaks! Down with pickles!

The Constitution simply does not give individual Senators the power to censor websites, or, for that matter, all Senators en masse the power to circumvent the Constitution without having that action overturned by SCOTUS.

China would be embarrassed --- perhaps murderously --- if its censorship apparatus was this much of a Rube Goldberg contraption.
What do you propose we use to determine veracity if not evidence? Should we just believe everything we hear?

And isn't what you just did with Snopes a pretty good example of not wanting wanting something to be correct and not looking too hard for evidence to the contrary?
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Everyone appears to be assuming it's for political reasons. Quite possible, but it doesn't seem like there was any serious pressure so far and there could be lots of other reasons. ("Hey, our shared infrastructure is being DoS-ed because of you")
A couple of years ago, I set up privoxy to rotate my user agent string periodically, usually once an hour (once I even changed it once per request). As fun as this was, even when running adblock and noscript and flashblock, it was obviously not very effective.

This kind of fingerprinting does not bode well for TOR users. What is required is an intermediate proxy that modifies the out-bound browser traffic to delete or randomly modify these highly-unique sets of info (font sets, plugin sets, etc.) presented by the browser.

I'm still amazed at how much info flash, java, and javascript can glean about a system. I'm curious... is it possible to get the username or file/directory names readable by that user from the browser?
I disagree. I guess we can't agree to disagree as to whether or not we can agree to disagree.

As a neutral observer (who did not downmod you, btw), your post did come across as oh-so-slightly whiney. I pay for Github. I don't care that they are offering Micro free.

What would be awesome is if they sent you a subscriber-only shirt after every 12 paid months or something, though. I don't actually use private repositories; I pay for the micro plan just to show my support :)
Simple interest would be calculated by simple division, but for compound interest you would definitely need more information. Maybe it was safe to assume at the time that students were taught about simple, rather than compound, interest.
I'm just saying but who knows if in x years you also have to use Apple? You know, there was always an alternative for Microsoft products like there is for Apple ones but people actually vote on this with their wallet: if the vast majority chooses Apple you will be forced to use their products too. I'm sure of this because I would never think about working with Objective-C and here I am doing iOS apps because that's where money is.
But the long-term memory is a memory cache that shrinks when not used. That's why the ignorant are always thrashing about, no matter how clever they are.
Except when the world reads this diary, spies will be discovered, people will die and other countries will refuse to cooperate with the United States.
A statement being contradicted on Snopes isn't automatically rendered false. The education system, in at least some locations and some subjects, is indeed declining, based on the statements and experiences of several public school teachers I know personally.
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Thanks for your comment. I have to say I am a bit hurt by Wordpress UX and (no flamewar intended) its PHPness.
I think I am going for Posterous. If I could host my own blog there are three interesting options I would ponder:
toto - http://cloudhead.io/toto
jekyll - http://jekyllrb.com
timeless - http://timeless.judofyr.net/timeless
You mean this story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html

It ran Dec 16, 2005. Apparently, "Late October 2004: Top Administration officials convince NYT to spike the NSA domestic spying story." from http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/timeline-collection/warran...

The NYT did publish it, but one guesses they did it when the government agency(s) in question permitted them to. Or after someone else broke the story, and NYT would look stupid for not covering it.
Well, the other advantage to using language-provided ropes or some variation on it, especially in functional languages with the capability for parallel execution, is that the rope structures (i.e. trees) are similar enough to Steele's conc lists (c.f. Guy Steele's "Organizing Functional Code for Parallel Execution") that searching in parallel could be achieved with little to no extra work from the programmer, which when possible would be much better than straight Aho-Corasick on a byte array.
GitHub is popular for the free open-source hosting, which offers limitless free repositories. The only catch is that anyone can view them.

When you pay GitHub money, then you get non-public repositories.
This sounds like a job for freenet. http://freenetproject.org/
I would love to have enough projects that I could fill my day with in 25 minute intervals. I'll just stick to 1 project-a-day.
But it does show the Achilles heel of cloud computing. Is it wise to depend on 3 American companies that have other interests to protect? The potential cloud computing oligopoly could be bad for freedom and openness on the net.
Note: I generally agree with the leaking of relevant government data to expose abuses.

> "But doesn't this put fear into cloud service users that their stuff can be yanked at any time?"

Not really. Illegal content already puts you at risk of getting yanked at any time. If you were hosting pirated material or anything else that is illegal in the jurisdiction of the host, it can be yanked.

This is not a judgment on whether or not said content ought to be illegal, but rather a simple statement that nothing has changed.

That being said, I am uncomfortable with this sort of thing having no set procedure, and being instigated/pressured upon by government officials. We have a clear process for DMCA takedowns, and likewise a request to remove illegal information needs to come from law enforcement within their jurisdiction, and not from self-interested politicians.
> I'm actually a bit surprised this hit hacker news without any of us authors posting it,

Picked it up from the NLP Lab twitter stream. BTW, thanks for the awesome NLP tool chain! :)
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Why weight? The problem only requires knowing how to convert a bushel to English measurements.
I am willing to relocate almost anywhere in the EU (elsewhere could also be possible). Right now I'm enjoying a very warm winter in south east Europe. Also willing to travel for face-to-face meetings, I just need to grab my backpack.
The car dashboard thing has been done. For Android I use Torque.
http://torque-bhp.com/
While you have a point about work/life balance, this board is associated with Y Combinator...

I come here for technical discussion with interesting, informed perspectives of people who actualize technology often through a startup. If I wanted to chat about lifting, I'd head over to EXRX's forums, or just talk to my friends in the gym. I've got no real interest in forming a startup, and don't feel as if I'm a bad person for not wanting to when I visit.
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Hm, I guess I disagree — http://hg-git.github.com We have a ton of mercurial users on GitHub using hg every day.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959142 - foxnews.com
I know this is a big claim, but there are mathematical reasons to support why it works. And it works, at least on my computer.
Do we have a clear declaration that this content is illegal? I wasn't aware we did.
I don't know about that, a popular past-time here is complaining about all the various ways government is screwed up/stomping our rights/doing something stupid/etc.

It's what normal people talk about over beers instead of emacs vs vi.
That mono sound really sucks you in
I can't speak for Dan, but it's probably best if you don't do this! I think most of the data itself is UMI data from ProQuest, which seems to be licensed pretty strictly.
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"The NYT did publish it, but one guesses they did it when the government agency(s) in question permitted them to."

No, not at all.

The difference here though is breaking a story of huge interest to every citizen versus merely making public previously private and confidential communication between diplomats, indiscriminately.
So tropo uses voxeo to do its phone/voice/sms related stuff? Kind of like a competitor to twilio?
Ask them to type, send a text message, use a digital calculator, my microwave, the internet (email, www, torrents), driving fast cars, etc etc..

People had far less to know.