skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone translate the jargon into English? I tried to figure out what they were talking about, but their jargon is so impenetrable even Google struggles to provide meaning. It seemed to be something about how a Bayesian agent will inevitably reach the "right" decision given some type of social network...
Firefox add-on that prevents this (come FF 4, of course, and there won't be any need for it):

http://www.safehistory.com/
Say Cheese New Dieting App Counts Calories From a Photo
"Not compatible with 3.6.12". :(
More important than not being able to call it Java, I believe thar if they don't pass the TCK, they do not get a license to the patents.
we used it at my startup for several months to replace email, discussion forums, and wiki-based sharing. i loved it; others found the UI so hard to use (and buggy) that we wound up abandoning it

we never used the document uploads -- they didn't work reliably for everybody at first, so we used dropbox instead. also most people hated the see-as-you-type feature.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook: What's Next?
A good template is Automattic's Privacy policy which they have made available for anyone to copy and use.

http://automattic.com/privacy/
This coming from the blowhard-in-residence. You're a "bridge troll" (in your words) of Y Combinator News. I'm surprised you get anything else done.

Eco isn't writing a novel here, he's simply musing over current events in a short article for a broad audience.

> I'm not a WL supporter

Keep up the good fight. There is a desperate need for valiant defenders of the status quo like yourself.

> but I'm worried that the effect it's having on public discourse may be bothering me even more than the underlying principles.

Yes, you're constantly bellyaching against individual rights at the expense of the poor misunderstood government.

I'm not sure if people upvote you because they actually agree, or if it's because of the phenomenon that people who act like authorities can fool the easily impressionable (as with snake-oil salesmen, energy healers, mediums and psychics).
Interesting points. I suppose it's a question of how far gone one perceives the system to be and whether one has any optimism that the system can heal itself without some sort of added stimulus.

What would the NY Times have done if Manning had sent the cables to it instead of to Wikileaks? Most likely nothing.

The adversarial relationship between the press and government is a core principle of our democracy, and I think it's because I view Wikileaks as being largely journalistic in nature that I feel that the leaks have strengthened our democracy, though at the cost of weakening our rule of law.

But in my opinion the government has already weakened our rule of law by propagandizing us and lying to us.

Democracy is a tenuous arrangement between the rulers and the governed. In my view it is a tradeoff between individual sovereignty and rights. When the government squashes those rights by breaking its contract with the people and propagandizing a war, the tenuous arrangement has been disturbed and a self-respecting public will claw back those rights through an exercise of sovereignty... and while this may be at the temporary expense of the rule of law, it is guided by a principle that we ought to consider at least as sacred.

So I hope our leaders are appropriately chastened and I hope that your wish of reforms and improvements via the democratic process occurs.
I think you're presenting a false dichotomy. Self promotion as a directed activity is not always so cynical or an attempt to get more than you deserve. It does not always involve dashing your "unique hopes and dreams." Branding is not any more "bullshit" than, say, economics or art are.

I agree. That's why I also dislike people who say things like "You are an artist" or "You are an [economic term thingy]" too. (This last one is theoretical but I would dislike this being said.) When you tell people that THIS IS THE WAY THINGS ARE without including a counterhypothetical HERE'S WHY YOU MIGHT NOT CARE ABOUT THIS, you're doing an injustice to yourself as a writer. It's dishonest to write about a good thing without also carefully demarcating the limits of that goodness.

"If you build it, they will come" is a terrible line that promotes antisocial behavior and irrationality. It works well for the outsider artist who truly does go off and build a monument, but if you're writing a "how-to" article you're not targeting outsider artists. The real line to teach is "Friends are the best thing ever, in business too!", and then to suggest that marketing techniques are the best ways to make yourself visible to future friends. God knows that's the only fame I've found worthwhile.
Actually I just googled it out of interest and the top links for "Little Odessa" ("Маленькая Одесса") point to the movie with that name (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110365/). Maybe that's how the nickname became widespread?
And how much for their "extended warranty"?
A nude awakening — TSA and privacy
Only full replication. So not a good idea for small devices.
Today was a huge day for Android news. First the official release of the Android 2.3 SDK, announcement of the Nexus S and now this?

The brief preview of the Honeycomb UI was very nice.
Your learnt C in highschool? Thats pretty great. In highschool we had a very talented and enthusiastic teacher who rewrite the vb6 examples in quite a bit of the terms curriculum in Python and introduced us to that first.
Correction: 13 minutes
For anyone wondering what javascript is involved, it's simply dynamically creating an <a> tag to said third-party site and doing a getComputedStyle on it to see if it's a certain color. The color can be set via your own CSS with a and a:visited.
Wanting to shoot small? If they don't already have them, Dropbox Pro or Evernote Pro subscriptions sound like a good idea. Or a Kindle/iTunes gift card; you can never have too many books/apps/albums/movies. Also, O'Reilly books can make a great gift.
Popcorn.js, the HTML5  framework, is getting a facelift. [code screenshots]
Works On My Machine(tm) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/03/the-works-on-my-mac...
Try this: http://www.2shared.com/file/8HJYdcSG/stanford-safehistory-09... (No worries, I'm honest. :) Just save it then drag and drop.
Realtek AC’97 Sound Drivers – Update Easily 
If you are using Realtek audio devices, then you know that for these to perform its functionality in the correct manner the Realtek AC’97 sound drivers are required. When you have your computer configured the entire system is provided before you and you do not have to worry about anything.
Great read. Now that I am nearing 25, this was a question I used to ask myself.
I see Kindle purchases as a gamble on Amazon's good conduct, and I think it's a good gamble. The amount of leverage Kindle customers have over Amazon is phenomenal. I buy thousands of dollars of physical books and other merchandise through them every year. (By comparison, I don't spend more than $200 per year on Kindle books.) If they ever screwed me on my Kindle books, I would shop on Amazon, read the reviews, and then spend an extra five minutes per purchase finding somewhere else to order. I don't think I'm atypical for a Kindle customer, either in my high spending on Amazon or my willingness to go shop elsewhere. If they screw Kindle customers, they will pay for it dearly, and that's good enough for me.
Steve Wozniak’s 9 Favorite Gadgets
Vector based Google Maps coming soon, brings offline and 3D capability
As a college student I have noticed many of my peers have to make the choice between a desktop and a laptop. The laptops often win because of their ability to be carried to classes and to collaborate with peers. Having a whiteboard to collaborate on at school and a computer right there to program on afterwards is very nice.
I don't think it's the presence of the checkbox so much as the reminder that "we will now have your email address and you will receive generic mail from us". I don't think I've ever heard of anyone /excited/ at the prospect of receiving generic mail from vendors, and certainly know of plenty who hate it.
well to be fair, some combinations won't really work since they depend on others being in use. e.g. curse cards
Considering that most of these studies are by people with an interest in getting a certain result, it's likely experimental errors/not publishing some results will bias the published numbers in a certain direction.

The scientific method has never been proof against people that lie by omission.
What I'm wondering is if you can still get an unlocked phone for $199 if you sign up for the plan. It would be more attractive to know that you can still walk away from the plan with a phone you can use elsewhere.
That looks legitimate.
Yet another example, I think, of why people who have no experience with drugs or drug users should write like they understand what drives people to drug use. Hell, this sounds like it's written by a guy who's never used weed, let alone anything that has a serious effect on the brain.

While it's true that people get addicted to placebos that stimulate artificial happiness, that's an issue that goes way deeper than fast food. We have to start asking us what counts as a placebo for happiness. Does listening to shitty pop music count as a bad way to achieve happiness? Even if it's just the worst godawful music and it doesn't encourage anything other than listening to it on repeat and buying albums? What if we're listening to more sophisticated music? Or listening only to Beethoven concerts? What about watching films? Reading books? Attending lectures? Having friends? Where does happiness start being earnest and stop being a disease?

Like, I'm uncertain if he's saying "you shouldn't let eating make you happy if it will also make you unhealthy" or if he's saying "don't rely on anything to make you happy unless it's somehow a completely authentic reaction". The fact that he takes the swipe at "drugs" as a blanket category suggests he's less worried about drugs' side effects than he's worried about the possibility that people will rely on drugs for happiness, simply because they're an artificially induced stimulus. But everything's artificially induced in that case, really, or at least the line isn't clearly drawn.

I feel it's worth saying: some of my favorite people use drugs to force their mind to think in ways it doesn't usually think, and then use their experiences to gain a deeper knowledge of themselves, which brings them what I'd call legitimate peace and happiness. I resent the suggestion that they're somehow cheating. I also resent the idea that this article had to talk about drugs at all, seeing as it's not exactly the most informed source of information.
Agreed. What's with the circle and tick? Also, I don't think the name really works. "OpenCal" - it sounds like OpenTable but in that case the name tells me more about what the service is. What is "Cal"? (I know calendar, but calendar does not communicate online appointments, the same way Table does restaurant. At least not for me). My point? You should change your name. I'm sure you love it, but it's holding you back.

Beautifully designed site though. It looks like a very slick service.
What if your neighbor ducked right outside your window and constantly set your TV to <undesirable TV network here>? Then you might care. With IR, the signal would be iffy and probably not work at all from the window outside and your neighbor would have to have line-of-sight with the sensor on your TV which means popping the remote up from under his hiding place. With Bluetooth, neighbor-interference is much less complex.
I have a bunch of filters setup to archive but also label them as "Skim". So I see in my sidebar when there Skim has unread messages, and I get around to reading them when I have time.

I could just have those filters "Never mark it as important", but those messages are less important than stuff in the not-important part of my inbox. It's stuff like high-volume mailing lists that are never urgent. I'll let Skim go for 2 or 3 days if I'm busy, whereas I like reading all email in my inbox within a couple hours of seeing it.
To some degree, yes, but I haven't used it like that.

I think the collaboration indicated in those videos doesn't match up with reality. Who wants to watch while somebody takes meeting notes? A better use is sort of a delayed-simultaneous approach, where the discussion is had over the conference call/Skype and somebody volunteers to be scribe. Everybody can then follow along if they wish while the notes are taken.

But I don't see the real-time hand-off stuff as being very useful, at least not in most of my teams' situations.
Near field communication (NFC)
Mr-Ray allows users without wave accounts to participate in a wave. It sends changes by mail and gives them a simplified interface to add content: http://wave.to/projects/mr-ray
Yeah, not having to implement (say) priority work queues YET AGAIN in a RDBMS was like checking your regulator at 40m and finding that you have enough air to get back to the surface, after all.

We do a bunch of calculation with cached data in Redis, and it enables the naïve pattern of grabbing chunks of shit from the data store without having to cope with the horrible SQL generated by the ORM.
"What would the NY Times have done if Manning had sent the cables to it instead of to Wikileaks? Most likely nothing."

Agreed. But twist it a bit. What if the NYT had received 100 docs on the subject of prisoner torture: detailed accounts, videos, reports of the problems it was causing. What would be their response then?
The bootloader should be unlockable all the same. They're not going to go in and lock down the bootloader on phones after they've shipped. T-Mobile will give you the unlock codes if you're a customer.

Hell, I bought a G1 and wanted to unlock it to sell to some guy and all I had to do was get a family friend with a T-Mobile to call up and ask for the unlock code for a phone with ID blah-blah-blah. They handed it right over. T-Mobile is VERY reasonable about this kind of stuff.
firefox users:

about:config

layout.css.visited_links_enabled -> false

problem solved.
Finding Your Passion in Web Design
Russian Satellites Crash Into Pacific Ocean After Failed Launch
I worked on a UML/Business Process editor for Google Wave. Apart from the tool (http://www.processwave.org/2010/05/processwaveorg-editor.htm...) we used Wave for all kinds of project planning and internal collaboration: Meeting minutes, decision processes, SCRUM diary, travel planning, dividing costs of lunches.

We played with the document sharing feature, but finding Waves worked so badly that we never found what we were looking for. For all kinds of project documentation and notes it rocked though. We all worked in the same room, but our supervisors were a few rooms away and often commented on stuff inside Wave and started discussions (we had inside Wave).

I would use Wave as a more flexible wiki replacement today, focussing on team-internal collaboration and documentation of decisions and technical things.

edit: wrong link
doesn't 15% less time in gmail = 15% less ad clicks for google from gmail?

ok it's not a 1:1 correlation, but I'm sure there's some kind of relationship. there's an intrinsic conflict of interest - the more you make the app convenient to the point the user doesn't need to interact with it as much, the more you hurt your ad revenue.

(that said, I'm sure a dip in revenue from gmail isn't going to end google)
It's done thru iTunes itself, and is pretty straight forward. If you have an iTunes account, just go to https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/publish... and follow the steps.

Info/details are at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
My Experience Freelancing on oDesk
There's a similar system already in place in Japan, it's quite impressive. You can link a credit card to your phone and actually use it like a ticket at train gates, or buy stuff and pay the bills at convenience stores by scanning the phone. Adoption seems to be a bit slow though, probably because of the risk of linking a phone to a credit card, and sheer habit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaifu-Keitai
I haven't worked in a phone tree in a loooong time.

That said, when there are hundreds of people who could take your call, don't be afraid to just hang up and roll the dice on someone else. 50% of reps are below average. if you're pretty sure you're a standard deviation or two off center, just call back.
i've been tracking articles on the TSA in my delicious links, and there have been a steady stream from colleges, almost all against the new policies.
Looks like someone implemented this for Chromium as well:
http://codereview.chromium.org/1591027/show

I'm not sure if it is main Chrome builds yet or not. Anyone know the status of this?
http://infochimps.com
Totally understand - I wouldn't have made it a launch blocker either:) Great to hear it's on the roadmap though.
I see void being passed as a parameter list to main in a lot of examples. All of the things I've read suggest that the only difference between having a void parameter list and an empty parameter list is in function declarations, and that the two are equivalent in function definitions. Why is it used so frequently in the main function definition, if it serves no purpose?
It certainly isn't how you're going to go much further forward. Way to go go make a first impression like this.

Really, you're clueless about Patrick and just about everything else you're commenting on how about you spend some time familiarizing yourself with all the actors here before making snap judgments that are bordering on libel?
My bad. We do have a sponsorship program :)
Elsewhere geographically, sure. But you'll still be stuck with a contract early termination fee.
"Top 10 reasons why Smashing Magazine is successful". They do write link-bait titles, but I rarely regret reading their articles as they are well-written and usually link to a lot of good, free resources.

I see a lot of sites that take SEO, Link-bait and frequent-posting of articles to the extreme and I think SM has done well to stay away from the stinky end of that market.
Coming from a small nation, doing anything tech-focused and not launching internationally is hard for me to wrap my head around. But I guess the factors in play here are a) a huge domestic market and more significantly b) the inevitable licensing issues that other commenters have pointed out.
You could probably achieve the same result by dumping a bunch of the plugins you installed in Firefox.
Hm. Same with Sprint.

I walked right in one of the stores and asked for my MSL for my phone. They looked at me and said "If you use it, we're not responsible for what happens. That could mean bricking". After I agreed, he wrote it down.

2 hours later, at a Windows programming machine, I loaded up QPST and changed the tethered NAI so now my machines can get online easily (without using tethering programs as a shim).
Wikileaks v Bill O'Reilly - the War on Journalism -(ft. Julian Assange)
Looks more like an advertisment from an unrealiable source. The problem here is, that all presented data might be right, but you can not trust the conclusions and don't know if there is other data that has valuable information, which you don't see in this presentation.
If you can get around full-disk encryption by a jailbreak or rooting, then it's obviously not actually full-disk encryption. LUKS et al should be ported to Android. Does anyone know how hard that would be? Android kernel is not massively different from plain Linux, so it shouldn't be too difficult to build the modules needed for full-disk encryption, right?
Crowdsourced Interactive Animated Music Video - Johnny Cash Project
I'm using MongoDB as the default data store for a new geo LBS startup. Scalability and performance features were the main attraction, but also I just like the interfaces and ergonomics it presents to me as a programmer. Much prefer representing stored data structures in JSON, doing queries in RESTful HTTP-ish friendly form, and doing processing in Python, JavaScript, etc. Oh and not having to care about data schemas. At least early on in the project lifecycle, when there's no revenue and you may need to frequently evolve and/or significantly pivot the codebase. I love the fact that it tries to keep everything in memory if it can, and that it was designed from the ground up to be distributed.

MongoDB is also rapidly becoming my "goto" data store when making prototypes to explore some new software project space. Because it's so amenable to rapid development and change. It's also replacing memcached in some situations where all I needed was a dumb memory cache. It can act like a dumb memory cache, except it has these extra features waiting in the wings I want, which is a bonus.

I liked Redis in my evaluations and may use it more in the future but it lost out to MongoDB for the LBS project because it didn't fit the requirements as well or get enough little "taste wins" with me.
Back in 1997-1999 it was fairly easy to get access to MS source code on the corp net. Esp if you were in Visual Studio or Windows NT (2000, XP, etc) team. Meaning pretty much anyone could get it. I had a local copy on my workstation I would study. Very readable code the NT 4 codebase. Everyone who wants a copy of codebase X can get a codebase X with a concerted amount of work. It will be impossible to stop this.

Having access to the source can give you insights into the various ways you can attack a system. It saves months if not years of hacking. Yes you can make exploits w/o the source. With the source it is a whole new ballgame.

Firewalls, MAC, separation of concerns, etc. With the proper virus one can bring the whole system down (pick your system).
Great point all around. The author also didn't take into account that poverty drives obesity arguably more than his happiness theory. Unhealthy food is much cheaper than healthier food - look at the menu of McDonalds vs the price of fresh vegetables, breads etc. You can mitigate this to a point with bulk foods, however that requires an initial investment which is often not possible for a poor family.
Cyberwar and the Future of Cyber Conflict
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I actually predominantly learned COBOL and RPG in High School (which makes me feel old, even though this was in 97). I thought COBOL was useless at the time, but amusingly have had to do two separate source code audits of COBOL code in the past year (where I was the only person in my company who could do it).

My senior year, they decided to pilot a C programming class. None of the teachers knew C, but one Math teacher volunteered to take night classes and teach us what he was learning.

I would say in about two months, every student in the class was significantly more knowledgeable than the teacher; but he was very cool about it.

The only bad part was he spent about four months on graphics programming; which wouldn't have been bad, except we learned Borland C Graphics (getpixel, putpixel, etc.) which were pretty much useless.

The year culminated in us sending a team to a C Programming Contest being held at a nearby university. I always thought it was amusing that the grand prize (which we didn't win) was a copy of Visual Cafe (the Java IDE).
Since they point out this inverse relationship as remarkable, I don't suppose there is an expected relationship of this sort between the two. Certainly there would be a negative correlation, but I don't believe they are coming from the same data.
This is still a problem. Latent exploits still sit ripening on the vine of every codebase.
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which are created from real sheep skincare could be donned in all kinds of weather. When 1 thinks of boots, 1 has a tendency to relate boots to chilly weather.
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Java is the prototypical Blub. It's saddled with a type system that wasn't even state of the art in 1991, motivating gigantic enterprisey libraries of RequestSpecificProcessorFactoryFactory crud. The VM is the reason we grudgingly tolerate it where I work.