skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> In late December 2010, a hacking
group called FAIL0VERFLOW discovered a way to access certain (but not all) levels of the
PS3 System by circumventing the corresponding TPMs. Id. at ¶16; Bricker Decl. at ¶5, Exh.
D. At that point, hackers were given the tools to run unauthorized and pirated software on
the PS3 System <<<

My understanding is that fail0verflow's exploit didn't enable piracy at all because metldr wasn't being exploited. Anyway, won't this go the way of iphone, where is was ruled that jailbreaking is legal?

My hardware, my rules...
Agreed,

Both companies seem to be doing wildly well with their respective mobile strategies.
The new exhibit is an awesome tour of the field. Strongly recommended for everyone, no just geeks and nerds.
> Do I really need to have been born in the USA to be able to read published statistical data about the population?

I'm not disputing your ability to read. I'm pointing out that your conclusions were faulty. Was I wrong to assume that more knowledge might have helped you avoid the error?

> As I said, my intent was not to belittle, nor is it to "win" any kind of contest.

Then you should work on ensuring that your intent is reflected in what you write.

> The desire to be part of a winning team has turned the tide from reason and logic to emotion in modern discourse (and especially politics).

Projection....
Really enjoyed the article. I've skimmed Greene's book and thought it was just a modernisation of Machiavelli's "The Prince". This article really shows how passionate he is about understanding and accepting human nature. Because Greene's book is prescriptive in that it lists 48 laws, I had thought there wasn't that much depth to it. I'm pleasantly surprised by Greene's insight.
Investors will generally be more willing to invest in a team of good people creating the application than one person with an idea. You say you have some background in business, that's a start. Look for a good developer to start on the core functionality your app requires.
Sony is always willing to spread the love while I fully understand the desire and drive to reverse and break the security of closed platforms.. grandstanding about your success in a public way traceable to you seems really misguided...

It would seem better to release and wait for the ashes to settle first no?
You can remove them using Titanium Backup or something similar if you have root:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/titanium-backup-%E2%98%85-root/c...
Tell HN: Flooded area in Queensland now the size of Texas
Just a note to say I hope all the hackers are safe in Queensland. The flooded area is reported to be roughly the size of Texas, America's second largest state. The area declared a disaster zone is 75% of Queensland - roughly twice the area of Texas, or roughly the size of Alaska.

So if you're in the area, or were in the area, or have afilliations with the area, I hope you're safe, and wish you the best on the road to recovery, whenever that may start.

ADDED IN EDIT:

From a comment by jacques_chester below:

Here's an easy hack. Pull out your credit card, go
here: http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

Joint appeal from Red Cross, the Salvation Army and
the Queensland Emergency Service.

I can't make that link clickable here in the text - go find the comment and click on it there.
I believe the Xperia and Backflip are being discontinued by AT&T.

If I were to buy a 3G phone on AT&T right now, I think the Captivate would be the model to get. I've not looked at the Aria, but, I just put a G1 and G2 on AT&T within the last week and am pretty impressed with HTC right now. http://www.google.com/phone/ might help you a little.

If you can get a Motorola Milestone, you can unlock that from Rogers.ca and run that on AT&T and get 3G (Droid 1 'clone').
Apple makes their money from hardware -- software sales are just icing on the cake. Sony, however, has to take piracy threats (since even well-intentioned cracking will lead to piracy) very seriously because they make all of their money from software sales.

Sony's ineffectual attempts to lock down the PSP (starting with the last-minute homebrew policy reversal) probably contributed to the firmware hacking community's fervor. However, after the rampant piracy on the PSP platform, I think Sony is going to take any firmware hacks very seriously. Gamers have proven to be perfectly willing to pirate games if given the opportunity.
I'd rather DumbSQL and SmartSQL personally
tagr: "this project tries to save delicious' best feature, tagging."
I don't disagree, but Android users seem to get by more or less "ok" without hardware 264 decoding (at least the ones who have devices without hardware decoding).

Personally, I just leave my mobile devices plugged in most of the time anyway so they're always topped off, but that's just me.
This is why even us die hard php coders sometimes yearn for RoR. .to_spanish !
Assuming you're sjuxax, thank you for the research! I think a lot of us sometimes forget how simple it is to go to the primary sources in cases like this.
Why people love Stieg Larsson's Novels
foo = 'lolsomestring'
if foo:
[code]

> where a string is implicitly converted to a boolean (as opposed to using bool()).

Umm, no. You're assuming that the condition of "if" is necessarily a boolean.

It's not clear that it is. It looks more like "is the value not an element of [None, 0, 0.0, False, {objects of 0 length}]" and a couple of others. (There's a strange exception for certain objects.)

The fact that False and True are Python constants of a "boolean type" does not imply that booleans are privileged wrt conditionals.
The many trading companies in Chicago also offer software developers interesting problems to solve and attractive compensation.

There's certainly a lot of web work being done in Chicago too, but the trading companies offer developers the chance to focus on enterprise software systems and proprietary high-performance trading applications.
What's causing this?

ruby-1.8.7-p302 > "Where is the bathroom?".to_spanish
=> "\302\277D\303\263nde est\303\241 el ba\303\261o?"
One can hope so. It's really dependent on how the DMCA is interpreted. I was wondering where this legal action was when I heard about the exploits.

Shame on Congress for passing the DMCA to begin with. This exploit only furthers cryptography in practice (that is, this will be a lesson in crypto textbooks for generations to come).
They didn't have an exploit: they showed how to get the private keys to sign anything. Much more valuable (for legitimate uses (and piracy)) than geohot's posting of one individual key.
This notion of owning a piece of hardware without the legal right to take it apart worries me.

Close that car hood citizen, there are secrets in there, don't make me taze you.

erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70
The marketing value of a supercomputer built from your company's product is surely worth the loss of subsidy. Each time one of them is built, it invariably results in a bunch of news stories. This helps reinforce the PS3's reputation as the most powerful modern console hardware.

They're probably enabling it in some cases -- the US military has built clusters with thousands of PS3s. I doubt they procured those through Best Buy.
If what you say is true (that Google has patents on WebM), then Google's claim of supporting WebM due to it being "open" is contradictory.
Actually they are equivalent. HTML5 video tag is codec agnostic. In this instance HTML5 includes to both WebM and h264 video over HTML5. Both are DOA.

So why support h264, which is scary and patent encumbered, when Google can give a little boost to its own WebM standard at no risk to Chrome's viability in the browser market?
> The cost of legislating net neutrality is quite low and the consequences of cartel pricing are quite damaging. Therefore it makes sense to regulate now rather than later.

How about some supporting evidence? For example, is it necessarily true that regulation now will be benign to good as opposed to extremely harmful? Or, are you suggesting that this is a case that govt will do well? If so, why?
It's long-term good in the sense that it means your freedom to produce video that other people can play back is no longer at the convenience of others.

At present, you can do most of the things you do because the people that control the intellectual property rights are allowing you to do that at a minimal or no cost. As the GIF example demonstrates, it's not always wise to rely the charity of for-profit companies when it comes to this type of thing.

What are the chances of this being a problem in the future? I don't know. I believe it's good long-term in the same way that I believe insurance is good long-term. Taking out insurance doesn't always pay off -- in fact most of the time you'd hope it doesn't -- but that doesn't mean it's not a good thing to do.

This is to Google's benefit and, as I said in my original comment, I believe this is at the heart of John's problem with Google. Google positions its actions within a moral framework that never mentions that the actions which it takes are of financial benefit to Google. I don't disagree that Google is doing that and that it's frustrating -- only that basically every company does it.

Take for example, Apple. Apple only lets users download apps through the App Store. This is good for users because it means that users can trust the software and developers can easily charge for software and make a living from it. But Apple also does it because it's good for Apple. They make money this way on software that's sold and they can also limit apps which would otherwise compete with their own software.

Does the fact they have an ulterior motives mean that it's not good for users? I'd say no. John says no, too. Well at least he does when it's Apple. When it's Google, he seems upset by the dishonesty. I don't mind if John wants to be upset with dishonesty but I think you should make it clear why you're not upset at Apple's similar dishonesty (the reason might be because Apple doesn't frame what they do in such moral terms as Google).
Should have leaked the keys through wikileaks .. harhar..

But seriously, the fail0verlflow guys had legitimate grounds to exploit the PS3. Sony had taken away OtherOS, effectively crippling the product they had purchased, which was advertised as offering this feature. Imagine instead, what would happen if Sony had taken away the ability to play games?..
Note that phone jail breaking was given a very narrow exemption by the Library of Congress through the terms of the DMCA. It doesn't establish any legal precedent here, and lobbying for such an exemption is a lengthy process.

Morally they seem similar enough, sadly that's not the issue.
If you buy hardware, you should own that hardware and be able to do with it as you please.
Not sure why, but I immediately understood what the site does. Congrats on that, that's one of the most difficult parts.

Suggestion: I'd want the service to allow kids to claim things they've done to earn points, for which they'd get their piggy bank filled. Eg. did homework, cleaned room, washed car would translate to x piggy dollars, which I'd then translate to real money in their bank.
1. I've now switched back from Chrome to Safari.
2. I'm glad that I made the decision to switch my organizations web videos from Akamai to Vimeo & not Youtube.
3. Google is the new Microsoft.
I'm at a loss to think of a hack to help them, but I'll keep thinking...
There is no moral greyness; It's a business model that has it's potential profits and potential risks. If their business model as a flaw, that's not a failing of someone else's morality. We also have no moral obligation to ensure the profits of corporations.
Love the idea. Chore tracking would be a really cool feature I think.
Very cool! When I first saw this I thought it was going to be about Lift developers being able to use ruby code- there are a lot of Ruby packages out there that they could benefit from using.

Just from looking at Scala, it seems like a superior language, and from looking at Lift it seems like a well done web framework. However, a lot of the benefit of Rails comes from the ecosystem where there is a plugin for your every need. I doubt that Lift can offer enough benefits to offset that.

Maybe they can use this for their pattern matching:
https://github.com/waves/functor
I find it dubious someone can just decide to be a "software engineer".

You'd have to already have a personal interest in programming and be doing it on your own as a hobby.

Are there people who seriously just go to college for 4 years and learn coding like accounting and then just do a 9-5 job?

There are thousands of decent hackers out there, maybe just uptrain.
Brilliant at the Basics of Business - 100 tips [pdf]
Interesting point. Lets take what the template might be:

Hey {username},

Well, there may be no convincing you to stick with Google products, but I'm
genuinely glad that you took the time to share your thoughts. It's clear that
you're very passionate and have taken a lot of time to think things through.
You're right, {topic}, on Google and around the Web, could be better and
should be better.

As we work to improve our {topic} technology, I hope that you'll return to
Google one day and let us know how we can further enhance your Search
experience.

Thanks for your time,
{employee-name}

The bot would have to detect the tone (swearing) plus the topic (geo-location) and then spit out this response.

Searching for various sentences from the this text gives only two hits, both for this particular forum post, so it seems the text is unique.

Given the text is unique, I'd guess that it was from a human. Does anyone know if Google uses markov chains to generate unique responses to some queries?
From my experience, Google does actually seem to do a reasonable job of ensuring they don't over-crawl your site with the automated crawl rates. Increasing the crawl rate above the automatic figure can certainly be helpful - just make sure you know what you're doing.
Advice: don't.

I switched from iPhone to Android, and while there are some advantages (mainly: I'm not on AT&T), overall it's not nearly as nice an experience.

Top complaints: poor battery life (I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S, but I think iPhone4 beats all Androids), inaccuracy of keyboard, and overall lack of fit and finish - eg. sometimes the phone will freeze for a few seconds and then come back to life.
Listed under "Roadmap" in the readme is the following:

Investigate Unicode support for Ruby 1.8. to_lang has only been tested with 1.9.

Do you have a copy of 1.9 to test with?
Removing bananas from diet will help to get girl child
Then Sony's console business would go bankrupt?

But seriously, except for scientific computing, the PS3 was a terrible Linux system, especially for the price. Is this really about restoring functionality, or is it just punishment?
Accents and special chars, I think it is trying to output "¿Dónde está el baño?"
Meet the Dentists
WRC Technical - Flappy Paddle Gearbox
Chrome just needs to put a 'mark as spam' button right in the browser which could then be used to augment their current ranking system.

Isn't that pretty much how spam filtering for email works? If enough people say something is garbage, it goes in the toilet. The user is still free to look in the toilet, but usually they don't need to.
+240% because of a tweet? I don't think I've ever seen a better opportunity for a short.
Replace 'hardware' with 'anything' and I'd probably still agree with you.
Gruber is very pro a lot of things, but Apple fits in well with what he's championing in life. If he comes across as biased it's that he's enthusiastic about the same things Apple embraces.

If you switched the byline to someone else, like John Dvorak, and showed this to people they might have trouble refuting it once their ad-homeneim attack option is gone.
How I use Emacs for Getting Things Done
A better comparison would be suing customers for modifying the guns. I remember I saw a documentary once where a company was sued because it sold (I believe) handguns that were easily modifiable to be fully automatic
More interesting is that Russia is also missing. They don't have a Great Firewall blocking them, but instead a local competitor that people use, VKontakte. Originally that was a clone of FB circa 2007, but I guess since then they've added functionality of their own.
Nowadays they'd self-publish and would only have to worry about reviews from people who bought the book from Amazon (and many of them stack their book reviews with friends and family).
Even if you get an unlocked phone, you will most likely only be able to get a voice+text SIM card when traveling.

I haven't seen great deals, but all of the carriers in Australia now offer some sort of prepaid mobile data.
so only apple will be allowed to install things over the air on my device when I get the verizon iPhone? sadly i find that comforting
"Whoa there buddy, you made your own gravy for that chicken? I don't think so, you have to buy our gravy for your delicious dinner."
It's also about homebrew. I think PS3 homebrew games launched from the XMB and run under Game OS could be very cool.
I never realized gruber reminded me of glenn beck until now
Here's an easy hack. Pull out your credit card, go here:

http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

Joint appeal from Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the Queensland Emergency Service, I believe.

Edit: http://telethon.smartservice.qld.gov.au/ takes you directly to the credit card donations page. First link gives you other options.

Edit 2:
Red Cross direct donations: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp

Salvos: https://www.salvationarmy.com.au/newdonation/donation.aspx
If you agree with Sony lawyers that companies like Sony, along with the current copyright law, are doing a good job of encouraging productivity, then you absolutely ought to feel a moral obligation to help ensure their profits and perpetuate their business model. And I guarantee that many of the people working hard to jailbreak the PS3, believing the opposite, feel a moral obligation to help eliminate that business model. There's nothing about capitalism that suddenly abrogates these decisions.
I'll have to take your word for it. That literally reads as the dictionary definition of a protection racket to me.
Judging from a lot of the comments on this topic and others many geeks don't believe intellectual property should be protected. When someone creates a platform (Heroku, Facebook, Apple's App Store) they have a right to lock it down. If you don't believe in that don't buy the product!
The article discusses this: it was the earnings collapse of the rest of the S&P500 during the deep recession. This collapse didn't hurt Apple proportionately, but since their stock dropped off quite a bit despite that, their P/E was way down relative to the rest of the S&P500. (3x cash on hand at one point, the author says, which is pretty crazy)
Shorting a microcap/penny that's involved in a pump and dump is exceedingly risky. Not only have they proven they can manipulate the stock to great heights, but shorts also represent a guaranteed sale even at prices no one else will touch if they can force you to cover.

If you know you're riding the "dump" phase down then you're all good, but the last thing you want to do is be at cross purposes with the manipulators.
You sure about that? He was a decent NBA player in the 70s and was on the NBA All-Rookie First Team (1968) along with two championship teams.
That's not true for lots of consumer products available for sale.
I can't speak for the science, but anecdotally this has been very true for me.

I used to never drink coffee or tea; when I really needed to "wake up" I'd have an espresso and I'd be good for 10-12 hours.

Then I had a kid and found myself needing it daily. After a few months of daily coffee I started to realize that I was exhausted until I drank some coffee; then I wasn't so tired but still couldn't concentrate very well.

Having read a similar article a few weeks ago I switched to tea instead of coffee and I must say I've felt much more productive on tea as well as slightly less exhausted before I drink it.

Would love to hear of others' anecdotal evidence.
Since it involved a group of people doing it, you can't really know what the true motivation behind it was -- but I think removing the otherOS functionality simultaneously gave the movement behind this 2 things:

1) Motivation, attention, and energy (more people hearing about their efforts, offering their help, more passionately)

2) An area to focus their energy on (jailbreaking, or restoring access to homebrew/otheros as a goal)

Another thing to consider is that as far as I know, you should in theory be able to run the system at it's full capacity with the latest hack, whereas anything running on otheros was crippled by default.
"One good developer can do the work of three or four guys," Annerino said. "Once a company finds them, they don't let them go."

We might get paid double what they do, but not 3x or 4x. Or maybe I'm not that good ;)
It's a loss because Chrome is moving from the HTML5 video must-support category to the Flash fallback category.
Love the idea and the design
My awsome multi-billion idea, which I guarded like a paranoid praetorian, has been launched by other companies at least three times now. More if you count flattr.

What I've come to see is that the idea is not all there is. There's also execution (I suck) and timing and most of all luck.
Supply and demand. If you're having trouble finding people with what you're offering, raise your offer.
It's not a cut-and-dry matter of whether intellectual property "should be protected". I think most hackers expect some protection in the form of copyright. However, most hackers are also tinkerers and are disturbed that current IP law so heavily favors corporate interests, even to the extent where you cannot use something you rightfully own according to your own desires.

Would you buy an oven if there was a big label that said "IT IS ILLEGAL TO USE THIS OVEN FOR BROWNIES; ALL BROWNIE BAKERS WILL BE PROSECUTED"? Do you think laws that allow that kind of thing are good? Remember, this isn't a rented oven, you bought the whole thing outright. Why should there be laws that allow hardware makers to say "THIS COMPUTER CAN ONLY RUN MOBILE OS 5.5; ALL USERS OF NON-MOBILE OS 5.5 WILL BE PROSECUTED"?

What about (cooling it on the caps) "it is illegal to publish the words etched into the bottom of this oven. Do not read the words on the bottom of this oven"?

Copyright was originated to make the creation of intellectual property economically worthwhile so that more intellectual content could be produced and distributed. I think we crossed that threshold a long time ago and now we've gone way overboard into the other extreme; our current laws actively discourage creativity, which is the exact opposite of their purpose.

Why doesn't your post say, "It seems many companies don't believe that those that purchase their hardware have a right to use it according to their own dictates. If these companies don't believe in that, don't mass produce and sell your product to everyone!"?

Surely massive distribution with no restriction on buyers is a horrible way to keep a secret.
It's about freedom to tinker, It is wrong to seize some hackers computers and sue him because he was able to figure out how a device he owned worked.

I don't want to live in a world where I become a criminal for even attempting to figure out how MY stuff works.