skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An theoretical attack on the key descriptor version 1 in WPA/WPA2 (802.11i)
Lionel Messi Free Kick Goal vs Deportivo
I've intentionally chosen Windows 7 + Windows Server to run my IT infrastructure, but the majority of the factors that motivated that choice were not due to much real work on Microsoft's part. QuickBooks, an internal Access database, our bookstore's POS software, and CAD software. All are needed, none of them run on Linux (and most of them don't run on Macs.)

Windows being the best choice of operating system is an entirely orthogonal issue from Microsoft being dead.
Just a thought, thinking very far ahead, but if you are in a position to employ others, would you want them to have a CS degree?

How you answer that may help you.
Often I see posts from HN eventually going to different categories of Reddit, but it's usually not the other way around. Interesting.
The problem with perl is that it got a bad rap and has never shaken it. The "perl is line noise that makes magic" sort of reputation. The people who love perl don't seem to be interested in moving the language forward and shedding the old ways of doing things.

Now.. CPAN.

Let me explain my latest round with fighting Perl/CPAN. I wanted a perl interactive mode. When I want to test out something in Ruby I use irb. In Python, I can type in `python` and enter interactive mode. Even PHP has a rudimentary interactive mode now.

So I try looking at `perl --help`. Nothing there. So I turn to google and find that I need a REPL whatever that is. So I try to figure out what a REPL is. Find that. Now I find that I need to run a little script to run Devel::REPL. Doesn't work. So I load up CPAN and type in `install Devel::REPL`. No less than thirty minutes later, 150 or so screens of noise, and at least 25 questions that I have to hit [enter] for I get a failed install. I have no clue what failed -- something to do with tests (the error is 4 screens back in the middle of even more text) so I try to force the install. I'm now 45 minutes into this and finally get Devel::REPL installed. I fire up re.pl and I get `SCALAR(0x100b81070) is not of type SCALAR at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/namespace/clean.pm line 56`. All of this for a feature that should come with a base install.

This is just one example of why I avoid perl as much as possible.
What algorithms lack praticality?
Get your degree and work on your own projects. College is perfect for that since it's a few years where you have student loans as a financial buffer and nobody's pestering you about not having a job.
A four year intermission between Act 1 and Act 2 is not a good sign.
The commerce clause in particular has been used to justify most anything, including laws around production of your own goods because that can function as an alternative to interstate commerce.

But strict constructionism isn't an answer either. We shouldn't only have a right to bear 18th century arms, or let computer files be searched without a warrant merely because they aren't on paper. It's always going to be subjective, applying the law to questions that didn't even exist back when it was written. We have to do it, but we have to be more careful about it than we have.
So this is what a time machine would feel like!

Cool article though, really loved the video.
This is like kicking current iPhone users like me when they're already down with the announcement of the Verizon iPhone.

Haunting.
Abuse of the Core War virtual machine - Heighway Dragon Curve in Redcode
I'll bite. The pricing seems kinda weird... $80? Okay, that's fine... what is the sites traffic like? What kind of people frequent there? What kind of marketing do you do? How much traffic will I get on the first day/week/month?

Iif I'm going to spend $80, I want that to be the best damn 80 bucks I ever spent.
Hitting Enter in the search field on your front page sends an empty POST request to http://alpha.beepl.com:8889/, which spits back quite a bit of (what appears to be) sensitive configuration information.
I would imagine Verizon is hoping it's sweet enough deal that it lures people who already have an iPhone on AT&T
As much as I want RIM to succeed, it seems to me that they had four key strengths, of which only one remains:

1 - A reputation for rock solid build quality -- Some of their more recent phone releases, to me at least, seem to eking out margins by lowering build quality. I don't have the same view of their build quality that I used to.

2 - A killer physical keyboard -- Unfortunately for RIM, the Android, Windows Phone 7 and other physical keyboards out there are "good enough" that they're not enough to keep people on Blackberries.

3 - Push Mail - Google and Exchange do a satisfactory job with this on the iPhone, Android, etc. that it's no longer an advantage

4 - BBM - This seems to be the last thing they've got going for them. The messaging is free (a boon for kids) and private (also a boon for kids who don't want their parents to see who they're messaging with).

To me, it seems like RIM really has an uphill battle to have a strong second act. They've rested on their laurels way too long, and given some of the comments made by the co-CEOs recently, it seems like they've got their own reality distortion field going.

Say what you want about Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, but Apple's track record (since the second coming of Jobs) is that of releasing products other companies imitate. RIM can't really say the same. At least not recently.
I think Apple's Human Interface Guidelines helps push developers in the right direction:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...
"I don't know anyone who has gone to school for a PhD just to get a better paying job when they get out."

Now you know of one.
How about because ppl prefer religion over science. And security over freedom. Federal government getting more corrupt and more powerful with each year.
Honestly if you have no friends or followers you won't have any beta testers or early adopters either, unless your advertising budget is enormous.

Go to tech events. Make friends. Be involved.
To be fair, Roubini is no Austrian, far from it, he is a Keynesian. He was simply a high-profile Keynesian who was not blind to the storm.
CPAN is large and comprehensive but every time I've had to use it I've had to watch a minimum of 20 minutes of scrolling compilation, installing dependencies and running tests. Ruby and python install what I need in a few seconds so I can get back to work.

Maybe it's a question of perl putting a lot of things in CPAN versus other languages putting more in the standard library?
Edited:

-WHAT IS THIS? "Everyday, Rrrewind saves the most popular stuff from many social sites, so you don't miss a thing."

I don't like "the most popular stuff from many social sites" but I can't think of something better now. Hopefully someone else will come up with a brilliant alternative.
Sensationalist article which probably allows the author to say "I told you so". Rushkoff is probably right .. in a decade or so if the leadership at Facebook becomes incompetent. By then, the rich clients of Goldman Sachs and all the private investors are all laughing to the bank to the sound of ringing cashiers.
This is a as good an advertisement about not straying too far from your core field of competency as any.

mises.org : strong on the Austrian school of economics, not so hot on the whole social networking thing and the actors and principles behind its chief exponent :)
I'm going to keep my phone until July when the iPhone 5 comes out. I'm betting that's going to be the LTE phone. Besides, Verizon's network is a bit slower than AT&T in my area. I'll have to wait until the announcement though. :-)
For those interested in my personal answer:

My experience as a student of CS is that you are taught principles that will most likely stay the same for the next 10-40 years.
Besides that, every talented student i've met so far figured most of these principles out for themselves before deciding to study cs.
Either they learned it out of own interest or just concluded them out of the it world they were presented at the time.

There are a lot of students at my university who put lots of hard hours into learning the cs just because they hope to earn a lot at a stable job with the degree and i don't judge them for their goal, but i wouldn't be interested as an employer in one of them because from my experience the ideas needed for innovation aren't born in a grinding mind.
I'm not even remotely a fan of Zuckerberg, Facebook, the Facebook culture or even the article, but one thing is for sure... I can't argue with the headline.
In a blue block on page 18 of http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf :

>Envision It!

An individual learns of a new and more secure way to
access online services using a strong credential
provided by a trustworthy service provider.

Running this past my parents was met with a blank stare, followed by "what?". And they're significantly better about their online habits than most people, especially the ones they're targeting with a system like this. Anyone interested in identity online already has several means of proving they are who they say they are, and can generate X.509 certificates to provide ridiculous-quality proof for individual transactions.

While I fully expect something along these lines to exist eventually, I'm honestly scared by the sunshine-and-ponies descriptions in that document. They're also making enormous claims of universal interoperability that reek to me of XML/SOAP/etc evangelization - it never works that well.

(Link thanks to trotsky: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086135 )
Perl has a built-in REPL, it's called the debugger.

perl -d myscript.pl

starts a debugging session on a given script, but you can start the debugger without one, just by passing an empty program on the command line:

perl -d -E 3

(-E is new in Perl 5.10, if you have an older perl, use -e; "3" has no significance, any expression will do).

You'll get a prompt, type "h" for brief help, or just use

x EXPRESSION

to evaluate any Perl expression and see what it returns.
"Popular links archive" sounds boring, but I'm boring too, so I don't have a suggestion other than "da best links bro".

Uh, "Rrrewind gives you the most popular websites from the best social networking sites - you won't miss anything again."

God, I suck at this.
Accept her. Don't try to fix her. Don't let this change your view of her too much. There is a lot more to her than this. Don't magnify the issue by focusing on it excessively. If your shock and anger remain, get help for the difficulty you are having in coping with your feelings. Don't make it her problem that you are shocked and angry. Not all men react that way.

Peace.
In October 2008, he predicted that hundreds of hedge funds were on the verge of failure and that the government would have to close the markets for a week or two in the coming days to cope with the shock.

Most hedge funds would have been bankrupt if not for the bailouts, so he was technically correct.
The HIG is dead (at least according to gruber http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/uniformity_vs_individualit...).
I attended my first dissertation recently and it has energized me to finish my master and to suss out a nice PhD for myself. To be able to discuss my ideas for a couple of hours: yes please!

Have a ball tomorrow!
If you're looking for perfect copy, can I suggest wordy.com - it's a Seedcamp startup that specialises in copy editing, and we've used them with fantastic results.
I don't know if I'll switch immediately, but come any catalyst - be it a new iPhone model or my AT&T contract running out - you can bet I won't be sticking around.
Verizon iPhone Likely Coming Jan. 11
I don't know the answer to that. Sorry.
That's pretty obvious. Just in a few month government and every established corp will require those for it's online services. Online banking, paypal&co, all app stores, gaming, taxes, healtcare, insurance ...
re: AT&T's plan, I think they mean two gigabytes, not two gigabits?
I just wanted to point out that the mouseover tones on the navigation on that site are great. Is that a pentatonic scale?
Is this plan actually unlimited, or is there a soft cap? I'm guessing the latter.

I know some people are going to say its absurd to suggest Verizon should offer a truly unlimited plan, but in that case, they shouldn't be advertising their plan as such either.
Android addresses UI shortcomings
Photographic Weaving: The Process
I would not be surprised if AT&T matches the price in the near future. Seems like the least they should do unless they like losing customers..
I guess I was less addressing the issue of asking questions in class (which you're right, did not happen a lot in the bigger lectures at my university - though it still did - but was super important once you were at 300 level and above and the classes we're a lot smaller with a lot more dialogue between lecturer and student) than the fact that this sort of policy gives academic institutions (that charge students thousands of dollars to attend) even less incentive to provide students with quality education from enthusiastic teachers.
It wasn't speculation. It's been worked on for at least a couple years. Asian manufacturers leaked info way back in last winter. It's been in the works a long time.

It was almost released this last summer but there were network capacity concerns and radio problems.

There are different prototypes with different & hybrid radios but I'm not sure which is going to show up Tuesday, but I'd wager it's CDMA only.
This is the WSJ; did you really expect them to know the difference?
Show HN: My weekend project: A classifier that classifies text as stupid/clever.
Over a weekend at a friend's house we wrote a text classifier that classifies comments as stupid/clever. We used various techniques to train it, but here it is:

http://www.pythiafilter.com/

It doesn't understand content, only style (mostly), so if you post something incoherent but grammatical it will probably think it's clever. It's not perfect, but it got 94% accuracy or so on the test set (which, admittedly, wasn't of very high quality). YMMV, and this is just something we did for fun one day, so don't take anything it says seriously.
This is why I'm running an old beat up 3GS. My contract is up and I'm ready for a new phone.
Clickable: http://www.pythiafilter.com/
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ugh, this guy seems to be nuts!

does he have any economic education at all?

also, his blog host seems to be unreachable.
The thing about WPF apps is that none of visual studio, expression blend, or the zune client use a standard windows UI – cocoa makes it fairly easy to create an app that looks like xcode, and WPF seems that it makes it easy to style controls in a CSS fashion (I don't know; I haven't used it). I'd prefer consistency, even ugly consistency, over something nonstandard. Apple's gotten a little lax about this... see app store and iTunes.
I can. Facebook is basically web hosting with to let you do blogging, e-mail, and instant messaging. Sorta. And third parties can provide more features, like online games.

So basically, Facebook centralizes things that already existed in a more distributed form. I call that predation, not creation.
The proper way to fix this is to add a per-IP rate limiter to the entire site.
Most other fixes are just a cat-n-mouse game.
Agreed, thats the first fallacy that caught my eye as well. They have a long way to go before anyone even remotely trusts them as a corporate entity.
As one of the largest home-grown Canadian operations in this sector, I hope that they can again be a dominant company.

Unfortunately, I just don't see this happening. From being blindsided by the iPhone to not even bothering on catching up with touch-screen phones, it seems like they have a leadership problem that starts from the top.
Depending on your needs, MTurk workers can give you decent feedback for very little money.
Forecasting the economy is trickier than the weather, even with the advanced quantitative tools available to Economists today. Standard economic models were totally blind to the collapse. In fact, following standard models was worse than having no model at all, it created false security and hid risk from the markets.

Austrians don't concern themselves too much with quantitative models because they are inherently unreliable. The main idea is that interfering in prices produces negative consequences in the same manner that any control of prices does. The Austrians are simply extending the theory of price controls to interest rates.
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As I understand it the surge of popularity has been in crippled iOS appliances. Their real computers have never reached even 10% market share.
If there's one example of this out there showing that it could in principle work in the Windows world, it's gotta be Steam. I wonder if Valve has thought about expanding beyond games?
“Zuckerberg is quickly learning the cold reality that making the world a better place for human relations with your grand idea runs headlong into stifling government rules and regulations that short-circuit voluntary exchanges and gum up the division of labor. While government wants to treat everyone like uniform and interchangeable ants, humans are unique, as Murray Rothbard wrote in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays. "It is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for freedom."

Forcing Facebook to be publicly traded and sending Zuckerberg to Washington with hat in hand, like Bill Gates before him, is more tragic than Jenkins knows. Rothbard pointed out that "only the free man can be fully individuated and, can be fully human." Investment, mobility, the division of labor, creativity, entrepreneurship, and ultimately wealth creation depend upon individual freedom. Dotting i's and crossing t's for the SEC won't spur the creative process. Next, valuable resources and brainpower will be stationed in the nation's capitol to play defense.”

With friends like mises.org, who needs enemies.
It was an extremely efficient monolith, while Bill Gates was managing everything. But than he concentrated on the Sun anti-monopoly suit and MS become a regular stupid corp.
RIM really only had one idea, and every successful product they've had since then was an iteration thereof. I don't see them pivoting and becoming relevant again, especially not with WP7. RIM's looking a lot like Nokia these days. I'd love to see them succeed, but I don't see it happening unless they have something major in the works.
Actually, I bet same kind of people hang at both message boards but the difference is HN favors "experienced users" (with high karma etc) over newcomers, to cut back spam primarily. So if someone with a higher karma had posted the same link, probably it would have stayed on the front page for longer, resulting in more upvotes.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, but just different.
Best wishes!
I doubt the Verizon "unlimited" claim is sincere. Let me explain why.

When Verizon rolled out its 3G data plan (EVDO Rev.0) in 2005, they initially sold an "unlimited" plan. Very few smart phones could do EVDO, so it was mostly the sale of USB dongles for use with laptops and similar.

In 2006, Verizon started terminating "abusive" users for downloading too much on their supposed "unlimited" plan, and after much wrangling, Verizon finally declared that using more than 5GByte/Month of network traffic is their line in the sand for "abuse."

The above resulted in a class action suit for false advertising. The way Verizon resolved the dispute is not very well known. They simply changed the terms for new customers so new customers would pay per KB fees for everything in excess of 5GByte, and the new accounts were no longer advertised as "unlimited."

The old customers were allowed to keep their "unlimited" status and use the connection as much as they want, but if transfers got too far past 5GByte, the connection would be throttled back to a slower speed. As the saying goes, the old customers were "grandfathered in" with basically the old terms. --The reason, of course, after a few years is most people would make changes to their account, like accepting a "free" new phone/dongle offer, and create a new contract under the new LIMITED terms.

Since I was an early adopter, I have an old "unlimited" account. I refuse to change the account, so it remains unlimited. Only on very rare occasion do I see it get throttled for a few days until the billing cycle ends.

With the new iPhone offering, Verizon might be using the same "unlimited" tricks to get early adopters. It will be interesting to see how this works out...

EDIT: precafinated typos
Very insightful. Thanks
It's great to see Appleseed's progress. Diaspora's gotten all the press, but it's far from the only game in town ...
Good, downvote positive feedback. Great idea.
Is it just me, or is this article literally frightening to anyone else..?
This is the most contrived article I've read this year. The author must have had an aneurysm trying to stretch the Austrian economics rhetoric and catechism to fit his argument that Zuckerberg is the second coming of John Galt.
Many people do trust Facebook, and Zuck had some choice words about them.
I have difficulty believing that the folks who work at Google have sufficient time to read the millions (if not billions) of emails they handle daily to snoop out some seedling that might, maybe, someday have sufficient value to be of interest to them.

Of course, that assumption might come from the nearly 3000 unread emails in my inbox. Maybe they can keep up with my mail better than I can. (Not a "startup". Just some gal with some websites.)

Peace.
Copywriting is hard. Don't settle for amateur work. Hire a professional copywriter whose work you like.
Here's something completely outside of the box, but what about Android adoption? It would immediately bring more developers to their platform by proxy of Android.

I do think the huge change in OS may be something that their devout users have a problem with, so it may not be an option.
From your earlier post though, you're only 1 or two years into your CS course? If that's your exposure then I'd agree: the stuff you learn in the early part of a CS course is the stuff that a bright person could figure out for themselves. It's the basics. The basics are important of course, but that's not all there is to it - and that's why the course doesn't just end after the first year.

Also, regarding your final paragraph, innovation isn't the only valuable attribute. The best innovators aren't necessarily the best finishers. A well rounded team needs both to deliver a good product.

I know you were giving your opinion; just trying to provide an alternative point of view.
It really seems to come out in the wash that way. We have the concept of use ( and ) to group stuff beaten into us from an early age. Then you can either choose to separate elements with , or with nothing at all. It makes sense that the first element is special. Then you can nest them. And that's it really. How else would you do it? Lisp is the "it's code by default" model and Forth is the "it's data by default" model.
What I want to know about is tethering terms. Do it right, Verizon, and you'll poach many AT&T subscribers, myself included.
> How about because ppl prefer religion over science. And security over freedom. Federal government getting more corrupt and more powerful with each year.

When do you think that each of those became true?

Or is it that they've finally crossed a tipping point?

I agree that they're all true, but they've been true since before 1776. And, as bad as the US is on an absolute scale, I'm having trouble finding some place better. Suggestions?
Is it possible to link to the results page to pass it around?