skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As much as it has improved over the years, I think this proves Outlook 2010 is still entirely untrustworthy as an email client. Avoid using it if at all possible.

Those are some needless harsh words.Outlook shines when matched with Exchange, not IMAP. It's hands down the best email server-client combination in the market.
Basic Sniffing With tcpdump
Ten Tips to Kick-Start Your Startup With Twitter
I also thought of using the octocat image and adding a sweet fedora.
> Thanks. I just made it up.. but I don't think it's anything complicated.

It's a nice phrase and concept. If you could fluff it up a few hundred pages, you could get a business book of your own out of it...
I've found readability ( http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ ) extremely helpful in situations like this.
Yep, getting that. Was very surprised to click through onto their page and see 'Friend request sent' at the top. I suspect I'm probably just seeing items they've set to show to 'Everyone' though. Quick way of testing: log out or create a new Facebook account, navigate to their profile, and see what you can see.
Some dinosaurs (such as me) are used to doing diagrams the ASCII way, and just fumble around with GUI tools :)

Also, the diagrams also look pretty nice graphically, better than the output of most GUI-based diagram tools, at least the free ones.
I certainly favor the market (i.e. free people) holding Paypal, Mastercard, and Visa accountable for their policies, but I don't condone vandalism.

It seems that "Anonymous" have started on a more constructive approach, which is laudable:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/09/anonymous-stops-drop.ht...

(This link courtesy of http://orlingrabbe.com/, the "Dark Side of the Moon" of web sites.)
Just in time for the holidays: Bing rolls out maps for 22 malls
"Netflix is outsourcing it because they are rich and can afford the scalability that Amazon offers." - You honestly think that Netflix is getting an economy of scale from AWS? I think it works the opposite way. Perhaps they took the time to actually examine the hidden costs instead of using a calculator for 15 minutes on Tiger Direct.
I believe you are dismissing Chrome+Gmail too fast. With Google Gears, i think it´s as competitive.
More accurate headline: "Emmanual Goldstein (once again) gets his knickers in a twist over someone using the word 'hacker' in a way he doesn't like...."

It's actually interesting that there's very little pretense about what the major issue is....

While I don't think I could support something like a DoS attack, I always find it amusing when Emmanuel feels the need to throw a hissy fit about the "correct" use of the word hacker. I guess it's because I find it a little hypocritical...he invariable downplays things like this (as he does in the Press Release) by saying "anyone could have done this, it takes no skill at all...."

The problem is he's always saying stuff like "you don't need skill to be a hacker, you just need the hacker spirit"...the hacker spirit being a sort of inquisitive, industrious, and mischevious nature.

2600 Magazine presents all manner of simple and no-skill-needed activities as "hacking", so please forgive my bemusement...

It's also funny that it seems like a lot of his associates don't feel the same way... there are occasionally embarrassed silences on Off The Hook when Emannual goes on about how some incident he doesn't approve of "isn't hacking".

It seems to me what Emmanual really wants to do is impose arbitrary (though possibly agreeable) moral restrictions on what "hacking" is, and simply changes the definition to suit that without having to admit it.

If I'm a little sarcastic, it's because I truly believe this is counter-productive and will backfire.

Emmanuel will say "this takes no skill at all, anyone can do it".

John Q Public and Suzy Cream-cheese will think "I sure as heck dunno how to do this....it's pretty impressive to me". Meanwhile Emmanual tries to slap down any attempt to distinguish between ethical hackers and the "blackhats".

..."Why do we need that?" he'll say..."We already have a word: 'criminals'".

Well....because there clearly is a phenomenon in need of a description here....and "computer criminals" doesn't have quite as nice a ring and isn't as descriptive. Nobody complains we don't need the word "pick-pocket" because we can just call them "criminals"....

I think it's a losing battle.

Emmanual is bolstering (through implication) the opinion that "any complicated trick is hacking"...and his assurances that this is simple are discarded by people who consider it magical.

Meanwhile, he gives them no alternatives...it's "hackers" or nothing....so of course they go with "hackers".

Personally, I'm happy if they just qualify it with something like "black-hat hackers"...

Overall I'm inclined to agree that these shenanigans are likely unproductive, not difficult to do, and hard to support ethically....still, I think it's fair to say they fit the rather liberal rubric 2600 generally uses to judge what constitutes "hacking" or at least what belongs in a "hacking magazine".
I don't either. This same thread gets posted on Reddit's /r/Python seemingly once every few weeks and everyone freaks out all over again.
"It seems like each week we hear of another company that has decided to roll the dice in court to try to make a profit off of an idea, regardless of how obvious an idea it might be, because "they had it first." I'm no lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV, but it seems like this sort of thing was almost unheard of even a few years ago."

This makes me cringe when compared with the beginning of the article, "I have only a vague idea of what that even means." It's so damn obvious you can't even understand it!
I think this says more about people's willingness to sign petitions (and what those signatures are really worth) than anything else. When I was in college, I swear someone would knock on my door or approach me on campus at least once a week trying to get me to sign a petition. When I asked the person with the petition questions about what they wanted me to sign, they seemed flabbergasted. Most people just signed it so they'd go away.

Now a UN delegate should know better than to sign something that they don't fully understand. I'm actually shocked that they'd be so lax about signing something. Although, I must admit I don't really know who this UN delegates are or what kind of qualifications they have.
Before globalization and free trade it was roughly true that what was good for American industry was good for the American people. Now that money can be transferred from country to country easily, that factories can be transferred easily, etc. it is no longer true, necessarily, that what is good for American industry is good for the American people.

The economic and political beliefs of the masses have not caught up to this new reality. They still think in terms of Ford being an American company rather than a company whose headquarters are in America. The interests of a corporation are to its shareholders and not to any particular country.

Mega corporations like Shell transcend the nation state. They are able to influence the national policies of multiple countries at once. Unfortunately politics is local and the big picture is lost on the majority of people. People are largely stuck in the paradigm of my country versus your country. This is allowing corporations to commit morally dubious acts on a grand scale.
If the files are just for you there wouldn't be an advantage having asymmetric (public) encryption.
Thanks for the reply.

I agree that not everyone has time to read every new submission, a problem only made worse by the same story being submitted repeatedly. I agree that there are many ways for resubmissions to be accidental, and I'd like to see a mechanism for helping to reduce the problem.

Apologies for being somewhat "whiney" - I find it hard to be unremittingly positive about something that seriously irritates me. I know, I am somewhat OCD about it.

And finally, I appreciate your comment about it being meta, but there's nowhere else to generate conversation about how to make HN better. The "Feature Suggestion" page doesn't generate discussion or ideas because it appears to be write-only for the general audience.

And I don't mind the down-votes, I just appreciate the opportunity to learn from them. So thanks again.

ADDED IN EDIT: I guess you deleted the comment because you felt it was a bit whiney and meta. I found it useful.
The person who submitted the bug included an example of finally with MySQL, and the PHP guy was holding to that theme so that his response would be as clear as possible. So really, you should be blaming some random guy on the Internet for having no other use for PHP than using it with MySQL, which is more than likely true.
Epic's Mark Rein talks iOS, Android, and we review Infinity Blade
awww sorry I didn't read in time, but couldn't you say hi instead? i even presented!
"So we have the engine up and running on Android, and we're supplying it to licensees. We don't have any immediate plans in terms of our own games for it yet," Rein told Ars. "Our concerns are probably the same as John Carmack's. Lots of good hardware, but it's all over the map, and the rest of the issues he pretty much addresses [in the recent Ars interview]. It will get there, I'm sure, but our technology can be licensed and used on Android. It's just not as big a focus for us as iOS."
I can't really remember a time when the hacker community wasn't trying to distance itself from script kids. It seems like a moot point among the tech savvy, but an uphill battle with the general public. I guess the layman's concept is focused on effects, which almost makes the script kids more "hackerly" than the author of the DDoS script itself... I guess this is a good juncture to try to correct this perception.
Blade and Soul First Closed Beta for VIP Set on December 18, 2010
GM being Innovative (go figure) Green Tech
This is also useful in the opposite direction (learning what mathematical theorems are applicable to the problem you are currently facing).
This seems naive to me in at least two ways.

That revealing past secrets will somehow make governments more transparent - they'll use encryption and off-record remarks, watch what they say, ensure records are destroyed, tighten security protocols. But IMO, and it is just that, they will still keep the same secrets and have the same covert conversations and exchange the same messages.
You are a very handsome young man.
Yes, this happens to good looking people who lose their looks due to accident or age, the ones with nothing else find it devastating, the others (the lucky ones) find it a very sobering and saddening experience.

Physical beauty is a wasting asset, present when you are least able to appreciate how valuable it is.
not if you have a lot of meetings - gmail's calendar integration just isn't as good.
I do this exact same thing. However, the speakers aren't loud enough to overcome the sound of the treadmill + walking. Hooking up a pair of external computer speakers was essential (especially since Netflix doesn't have captions).

I also cover up the time and LED display on the treadmill, makes the time go by "quicker".
The key part that's worth knowing about:

> I did some googling and the pieces slowly began falling into place. It turns out there’s a horrific bug in recent Outlook versions’ handling of read receipts: unread messages deleted from an IMAP folder can send a “not read” MDN, even if you’ve explicitly configured Outlook not to do so.

Yikes, that's annoying.
Use it every day.
Phlux is spot on.
I'd say quality of the content is excellent in some specific areas and terrible in others - very little consistency. Travel topics are terrific - China tags read like Xinhua propaganda. Having growing pains it seems.
BTW: I love the game; if one goes into it thinking, "Mike Tyson's punch-out in armor" they'll have a lot of fun.
Their privacy settings are such that their Wall posts and photos are viewable to Everyone. Making a friend request basically results in a "follow" a la Twitter situation.
My mistake (and laziness). Mea culpa.
In video review form http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE
URL design for an HTTP API
Hi HN,
I know there's some very smart and experienced developers out there, so I'm double posting here hoping I'll find a good solution to this.

Thanks for your help !
Embarrassing. Will fix shortly. Thanks!
I know there's some very smart and experienced developers out there.

So I'm double posting here hoping I'll find a good solution to this.
I've had that as well. Always thought it was a bug. A lot of University students use it to stalk folks over here, which is kind of depressing..
"the only thing missing is a non-voting immigrant mercenary army, whose legions can be deployed in foreign wars without creating grieving parents, widows and children who vote in American elections."

That is already well under way, the Marine Corp in particular recruits heavily amongst immigrants without asking many questions about their legal status and promising (and delivering) citizenship afterwards.

SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ?
So does pornography not count as entertainment? I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all.
Permalink: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/12/the-treadpad.html
I'd like clear my point with an example:Being geeky early adopter (different from normal crowd), I can tolerate a few bugs and see javascript errors and such. And even bear with bad UI. And with feedback, I help you prepare your stuff for 'main stream'. And when I leave. You are already in your transition period from early adopters to main-stream and you are ready for them.Problem is not that they 'listen' too much. Problem is that they just listen - without using their on brains. You got to compare feedback with your vision - not just do what they ask for.
You are the good kind of crazy :)

My OS doesn't use a monospaced font for textareas by default, so the ASCII art is unreadable. Mind setting a font-family?
great story, thx for sharing
I can try :-) I am no doctor so everything I'll say is based on what I've seen and personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt.

A close friend who went to the same university as I did smoked every single day for as long as I (and most people) can remember. He was considered "dumb" - writing this now sounds like people around him were assholes, which isn't the case; we were indeed all friends. He did score poorer grades than the rest, and had severe mood-swings.

A few months ago, he decided to stop smoking pot. I cannot begin to tell you how different things felt. His performance has apparently increased dramatically (to the point where he's now over the group average) and the mood swings are gone. Interestingly, the mood didn't improve for the better and he might be going through depression. But despite the psychological downturn (which may have other causes), his cognitive abilities have noticeably improved.

Again, I'm no doctor, so I can't say for sure whether the two things (stop smoking pot <-> better mental performance) are connected. But as with most people, my gut tells me it is. Just thinking about the people I know who smoke every day, I realize that my expectations for them are lower. Again, by writing this I feel like an ass - I am just being honest, though.
Some Great Little Mac Apps
Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
I'm curious what you all are asking for this holiday season since it seems like many of us have similar interests and tastes. Personally, this is my (small) list:

- subscription to Fast Company

- Delivering Happiness (book)

- Do More Faster (book)

- The 4 Hour Body (book)

- Tie Fighter Lego Set (always need at least one Star Wars gift)

- Synology 110j NAS server

So what awesome things are you asking for?
I think this sum is tiny compared to what they are paid. So, no, they won't do anything to fix it.
I think too, in addition to what you suggest here, is that the size and scope of corporations needs to be limited. A company like Citi is too big to control. It is so big that its collapse would cause problems for the country even if the source of the collapse comes from its dealing in other countries.

We need a new system but it appears to me that what we have in the U.S. and elsewhere is regulatory capture. I don't see anything changing in the near term.
I wonder what else Google filters out of their lists.

Although, thinking about this a little more, perhaps they look at spikes in search data that represent "changes in mood", and filter out things that represent a constant "hum".
Yes, I suppose you are right about the memory usage: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/#memory-usage. And of course Moore's law has been on target so far. However, next year I'll want to run more kinds of different processes, putting more projects on my servers and I'd rather conserve RAM as much as possible.
>From my (albeit limited, this is not a statistical sample) experience, it seems like smarter people are the ones who tend to worry more. Almost as though they can chase through situations quicker and come up with possible (bad) results that give them reason to worry. It kinda plays into that ignorance is bliss mantra, but that's just my experience.

My mother is a frantic worrier and pretty intelligent IMO. I have a tendency towards worrying but when my mind dwells on negative situations I try to practice considering what the good outcomes might be or indeed to go overboard and consider the most outrageously impossible worst outcome.

I read about this technique from a link here a couple of years ago I think, it helps a little. One can spirally negatively with thoughts of possible scenarios very readily and when I remember this is a useful check on that.

Couldn't find the link, it's a common technique to teach in cognitive behaviour therapy, like http://us.reachout.com/the_facts/fs_factsheet.php?s=05&f....
They did something similar on 'The Man Show' a few years back; they got women to sign a petition to end 'Women's Suffrage'.

Someone else thought this would make a great point and put their effort up on youtube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE
Sounds like: Those evil foreigners are taking our jobs.
Next generation of algorithms inspired by problem-solving ants
Other approaches that have worked pretty well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha
Your code is object-based not object-oriented because of the lack of inheritance.
Frankly I believe Hacker News should not allow new registrations any longer.

Edit: Or at least make it invite-only.
Is this the reason behind the "Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts
dropping science" thing?
Ggplot2: a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics
Another thing i can tell you about how it feels. You'll have to get used to being a loner. It's not hard to make friends since people find you to be open and simple. But then when you have nothing to say, they vanish. It's strange how ultimately friendship can be more about what the other person says rather than what the person is.

However, one learns to accept this as how the world is, and there's no ill-feeling or depression associated with it.
The education bubble in pictures
So, to follow your comment let's hope that in 200 years we have forgotten the biebers and spears, and remember the radioheads and other musicians who aren't formulaic but are pushing musical boundaries.
ChromeOS Review: It's Cheap, Fast, Disposable & Frustrating
if angry birds were an android exclusive would you have seen 1 mil downloads the first day?
At first glance, yes. But consider that datacenter floor space can cost $300/sqft or more. And you need people to negotiate with landlord, process utility bills and manage vendor relationships.

I've been involved in building out datacenter space for a large application -- out upfront costs before collecting a dime of revenue were over $500k -- and that was to refurbish an existing raised floor space! Few entities have that sort of money around, so now you're borrowing $500k at 6-9% interest. You're probably leasing your hardware as well.

The paygo model with AWS has other advantages too. What if your app is a failure, or you need to change your deployment model? With AWS, your costs disappear when your consumption does... with a solution you own, you may carry those costs for years.

So keep in mind that while Amazon may not be the cheapest option from a high level, when you actually look at the costs and risks associated with rolling your own, it may offer the best value. But it's a tool that isn't right for everything -- buying a nailgun is great if you are putting a new roof on your house, but a waste of money if you're hanging pictures in your living room.
How the Mac App store could blow up the software market
Fastest falling: Wamu -- LOL.
The Pragmatic Programmer (book) -
New office chair -
Candy/Chocolate/Wine/other goodies

The wife and I bought a new car this Christmas season, so I think that counts. We already have it though. '06 Volvo S60.
Always In Startup Mode
pypy has quicker start up than CPython and also has a JIT. They're working on interesting memory optimisations too.
cowards!
So much whining. Just have a look at how, say, Germany copes with globalization. It's a rich country that exports to China.
Very useful. Wish I'd seen it when I first got here ... it'd be great to include a link to it on the main page and mention it in the FAQ.
To continue with poloniculmov's comment, the classical music you are listening to now is the 'good' stuff. If you go and study manuscripts of music that isn't played any more, it's for a good reason. Take Salieri's music for example, it's fairly bland (though the odd piece stands out).

Then we have some crazy music like Gesualdo - his music is quite frankly bizarre to some modern ears (those who have't been exposed to much 20th century music, anyway - I love it). A great film on this by Herzog:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_for_Five_Voices
>I'm surprised not to see porn represented on this page at all.

I'm surprised that you're surprised. You expect Google, in what amounts to a press release, to direct people to pornography sites?
Why do you feel it is bad for the American people to have our computers and televisions made in China? Are consumers enjoying cheaper goods not also Americans?

(Note: Ford is a silly example. Many of our cars are already made in the US by machines owned by domestic subsidiaries of foreign corporations. The machines are operated by a small number of non-union laborers earning high wages.)
How about breaking the country up into smaller pieces? Citi can only be too big to fail, if there's a big country behind for the guarantee. Small countries would also ease regulatory capture, since all those small regulatory regimes would have to compete with each other.
A Kindle is top of my hope-for list.
Has yellow journalism destroyed good reporting?

Also, the internet is dead.
S&P 500 adds Netflix to its queue
when actually it's: evil corporations are creating a class of disenfranchised workers.

the essential evil is this notion of nationality.

for most of history people had the ability to vote with their feet. nationality is essentially undemocratic in that respect.
I love this description, it gets right to the core of the issue. Well done sir!