skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first cases in a law school tort class is Katko v Briney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katko_v._Briney). Briney was a farmer fed up with a break-ins of an abandoned house that he owned. He set up a shotgun to shoot at an intruder's knees if and when the intruder forced the door. Katko, a trespasser, broke in and was shot and injured, sued and won. The quote I remember is (I had to look it up):

‘The value of human life and limb, not only to the individual concerned but also to society, so outweights the interest of a possessor of land in excluding from it those whom he is not willing to admit thereto that a possessor of land has . . . no privilege to use force intended or likely to cause death or serious harm against another whom the possessor sees about to enter his premises or meddle with his chattel, unless the intrusion threatens death or serious
bodily harm to the occupiers or users of the premises.
this doesn't bode well...
Farebot, an app for NFC-equipped Android phones for use with MIFARE systems
You confuse criticism of freedom with criticism of stupidity. Some people just want higher standards of critical thinking. Is that so childishly anti-progress, or whatever you'd call someone like me, who thinks people should be maybe just a little smarter about what they consume? You come off as dogmatic yourself in defense of consumerism. Capitalism can still exist if people aren't stupid sheep, you know.
I actually like the XMB UI and I like that it's consistent amongst my two different Sony TVs and my PS3. The remotes for the two TVs are the same too, except the extra button for 3D stuff on one and the way in which you open the battery compartment.

This is a good a customer experience. I can upgrade my TV or DVD player or whatever I don't have to learn how to use a new remote or UI other than the new features.
Google could choose not to show bad results if they wanted to especially since they are scams in this case. They already do this for duplicate content.
Assuming a modicum of technical sophistication on behalf of the legal people (which may be an invalid assumption), I think the fact that git/github is centered on the forking/sharing of code with an explicit graph to walk would just incur too much liability for them because it is obvious (in a technical sense) where the code has gone.

You don't have to do any forensics in the sense of your youtube example, you just have to follow the graph.

Whether that it is a legally compelling point, I have no idea.
A little cynical are we? I like that. :-)

We had pages in the past that were not spam, but I would say they were on the ehow "lighter" side (think < 300 words.

We now are focused on getting experts into our studio and building content around their expertise. This is about 10-25x more expensive, but I don't see any other choice. Google is going to smack down anyone who makes them look bad by trying to rank lower-quality stuff.

We rank only 5th for how to play guitar chords, but ask yourself would rather use this page:
http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-play-guitar-chords/

or ones in front of it like:
http://guitar.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200e.htm
and http://www.guitaralliance.com/guitar_lessons/guitar_chords/i...

out page is clearly the best.... over time google will move us up i'm sure.

big loser in this is ehow for going wide and not deep.
sorry no, all I can say is watch a lot of msnbc/cnbc/discovery-channel at terrible odd hours or weekends, but thats just about the worst advice ever
StackOverflow really doesn't benefit that much if Tumblr turns into a 1Bn company (which it probably will eventually)

If Tumblr makes USV huge returns, they can raise a new fund (not like they would struggle right now..) but most funds require "new investments" so why would Spolsky profit other than being a nice guy?
Yea, I have recently posted a comment starting with "Any Google employees here" knowing that there is more than one employee that posts here.
not only that, in Flash you can write a for {} loop that will bombard the target with requests, as long as the movie is running. The ultimate example would be compromising Youtube's SWF player, and using it as a DDOS bot.
If I recall, the AK-47 had an interesting role in a trilogy of time traveling books.

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

In the books, a near future (near our present) naval task force accidentally travels back in time to WWII. The U.S. eager to get a leg up in the war asks the chrononauts to give them future tech. The only problem is that WWII American doesn't have the manufacturing technology to produce any of the current equipment. So the chrononauts dig through their archives and find plans for the AK-47, which, as it turns out, is manufacturable in early 1940's U.S. thereby giving the Americans a weapon from the future, but still old enough that they could be produced in bulk.
Are you planning to come up with daily deals too? Like Groupon or Appsumo?
This is not entirely true - in the U.S., Paypal does ask for a SSN for large transactions, etc. India's equivalent KYC (know your customer) norms for using the PAN card are not followed.

This is more of an anti money laundering thing than anything else. And in India's case, it is more often than not used to fund terrorist cells.
Right. But that's how Gmail is marketing it. "Undo send" gives you the impression that Gmail is reaching through the tubes and yanking your message back for you, but in reality it's just cancelling a launch that didn't happen yet.
What we don't know about cognitive enhancement (smart drugs)
From the original article, this is already dealt with. "It aims to not only create local mesh networks, but to build a global mesh network of mesh networks stitched together by long range packet radio." (article, under the "Openet" section)
African entrepreneurs: Paddling with style
The same would be true if a bunch of people sat-in on a supermarket chain to protest that chains' actions. Yes, there are costs involved, but there's a difference between stopping someone from making a sale today and destroying $500 worth of property.
My guess is the average Amazon user isn't going over 8 characters and aren't using multi-case passwords to begin with. While stronger passwords would be ideal, most non-savy people are still going with "password", "letmein" and "123456" which aren't secure under any hashing schema.
I have never met David, nor do I know anyone from Tumblr. I've just been a fan. Some people may remember me defending Tumblr when it came up versus the Posterous importing saga.

I've used Tumblr for years. I remember when they launched. I remember when they raised their first round of funding.

I honestly believe that Tumblr has simply grown too fast to scale their operations in a manner that Tumblr is happy with. I think that Tumblr is similar to MySpace in that they constantly think about scaling their service, rather than customer acquisition (ala Posterous.)

These guys are good guys, and are simply caught off guard. Lets not pick on them for making mistakes.

They run a web company - like many of us - hell, if I had 1% of Tumblrs success I'd be arrogant as hell and Tumblr are not.

They are human. David Karp is probably one of the most underrated web entrepreneurs around right now, picking his brains is equal to picking Facebook or Etsy in terms of consumer entrepreneurial advice, IMHO.
Don't be. The DCMA is stupid, but the fact is, people DO post copyrighted material all the time, and it IS legitimate to take it down.

We want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether.
> It might be a good deal, but trying to convince someone to not consult advisors indicates to me a certain lack of ethics. As a general rule I don't think it's good to make deals with people you don't trust.

That's an, er, interesting rule. A big part of modern financial and legal infra-structure is designed so that we can make business with people we don't trust. If you do business only with you people you can trust then you might as well live like a hermit.
Monetising Brands through on Demand Bespoke Manufacturing
Here you go: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/seL4/

Contains kernel and spec. Free for non-commercial use.
Do you really need them?
Nothing wrong with it as long as it actually intelligibly describes how to make a pepperoni pizza at home.

At least video is harder to scrape from another site or auto-generate, which is where the only real problems are.
Sadly, the Indian Government is very slow on all things technology. This might come as surprise in a country whose core competency has been technology!

If you don't believe me just visit any Indian Govt website and you'll quickly realize how light years behind we really are. No wonder hackers across the border show it to the world from time to time.

As far as the PayPal move goes its a very bad move considering that not many own credit cards and there is no real way to pay money online for making instant purchases in India. Not that I like PayPal.
I can't find many details on this. It sounds like a significant breakthrough though. Does anyone know?
Money? How about death penalty?
Getting innocent bystanders involved is literally the point.
Buy the services of a real financial advisor and assume that, after sale, that's it: you will have to personally disengage from the company (e.g. forget your big ideas you want to work on). Nobody is conceivably making anyone an 8 figure offer to get a management team eager to pursue their big ideas. The faster you can exit the more you'll maximize your win.

Take the exit unless you are already rich. Get the help of a good financial advisor and lawyer to make the most of it.
Why (not) to write factorial in Java
All of these are (as far as I can tell) easy to solve and I ponder almost every day why they are not.
Coincidence, sorry author of the article hating on Tumblr.
I was thinking the OLPC with it's peer-to-peer wifi (wireless ad-hoc) for 3rd world countries would be handy in an environment with no other communications...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Self-form-self-heal.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_networking
Tech for good - catching up on Google.org
A Lisp Startup
To be fair almost any password is weak if it hasn't been changed in several years.
Actually I totally agree. I know nothing about guitar, but for that example Mahalo is the page I would go to first. Its bright, looks maintained and more importantly has a lot of what appears to be good content.

Could someone who actually knows anything about music comment on this one? I would be curious to know if the content here is actually better.
sdrinf,

wow this is a very detailed response.
What if the infringing content was committed after the fork was created? It'd be pretty bad locking repos that did not merge in the offending line(s) of code.
It's still strange to me that the press and discussion sites all over the web are directing a lot of attention towards the idea that the US (or European democracies) would do this to itself (for reasons continually left unstated) while the evidently[1] more[2] credible[3] threat[4] of a foreign state actor doing this kind of thing to the US is readily dismissed. As if it really makes a difference to the router who turns it off.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Rain
[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
[3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_2008_So...
[4]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_cyberattacks_on_Myanmar
There are a lot of solutions. I like Manymoon and Zoho Projects. If you use Google Apps, you can purchase both of them on the market and integrate.
Lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care - Gawande
Ask HN: What did you find that was awesome this week?
Like [programming] languages, there are pros, cons, and trade-offs for each flavor.

There are stores that are ahead in providing better, "runtime" control over facets of the CAP theorem -- ex. Cassandra.

There are stores that have several and more expressive datatypes -- ex. Redis.

Then there are stores like InnoDB, which some are more familiar with its pairing with MySQL. The interesting parts here, as far as one store to rule them all, are developments like HandlerSocket or building other structures atop the same store -- ex. Voldemort.

Similarly, there are stores that share a common filesystem [structure] and can be queried in different manners -- ex. Apache HBase (or any Hadoop / HDFS based system).
We want people to copyright less, and for copyright laws to be reasonable, and punishments proportionate. Not to do away with copyright alltogether.

For whom are you speaking when you say "we?"
Why this will save money:

The Hot Spotters - Can we lower medical costs by giving the neediest patients better care? by Atul Gawande

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/24/110124fa_fact_...

On HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154579
Listen to this guy. I've been lucky enough to go through this process before, and patience and confidence that it will be alright if the deal falls through is your best asset. Keep a cool head, keep running your business well, and remember that their initial offer that you've received is likely nothing like the final offer you will have on the table if you negotiate based upon this confidence.

I definitely would say be careful about "shopping around" as others have said -- this can be effective but often times as long as the other party knows that you're capable of shopping around successfully this can apply just as much pressure without poisioning the well of the negotiations. If you're shopping around, it's hard to tell the person who is looking to buy you that you sincerely think they are the best place for you to continue on your startup's mission.

On the terms themselves: first, make sure you have something in there that will accelerate if you get terminated without cause. This is pretty much standard. Second, having no realized stock or cash at close is absolutely insane, particularly if you have a profitable business that has been around for 5 years and you're expected to stick around for 4 years. Make it clear that if you really are going to give them your business and also 4 more years of your time you expect to be well compensated at close and over those 4 years.
As I interpreted it, the grandparent post foolishly tried to express his more general question by coming up with a silly hypothetical^ device. The purpose of the device was to injure a police officer as a result of the home-owner not being aware of what was going on.

I've taken the hypothetical device out of the question by pointing out that there are real-life situations where no-knock raids have causes unnecessary loss of life. I'm not arguing with a strawman, but rather restating the grandparents original point/question in a less absurd and tangential fashion.

^I sure as hell hope it was hypothetical anyway...
Yeah, can they anonymize my entry and my prize? I don't think I'd want my friends and family knowing I helped these guys out.
A strong password like that is written down on a Post-It note on the user's monitor, and hence is not very strong at all.
Is Satan a good investor?
Agreed that it is non-ideal and unpleasant that the US backs Mubarak. However, you make a big assumption. Because in reality, the alternative to Mubarak is not necessarily democracy. It might be another autocrat. And it might be something even worse. Freedom does not necessarily lead to a bunch of shiny happy people living safely on a shining hill. Sometimes it leads to anarchy or genocide or war.
I'm sure the Dutch will love this. Their public transport system is switching to a MIFARE based setup and it has been hacked to pieces. People can program their own transport cards, undo payments, refill their cards at home.

Now with this app they might even do it all while on the road.
Owning Payment.ly
If you owned Payment.ly and had the funding you needed, what type of business would you create?
That's a way in which the article is deliberately misleading. Inheritance is just one way in which wealth is transferred intergenerationally. By highlighting the small percentage, the article creates a false impression that a significant amount wealth is bootstrapped by individuals.

That got me thinking about the obvious question - how are they counting people who married into wealth? They have 23% getting wealth from employment, 16% from inheritance, and 43% from owning a business. That only leaves 14% for spouses (less lottery winners, malpractice award recipients, etc.) That just doesn't seem correct - considering the frequency of marriage among adults.
How much do you want to bet?

Of course, the kernel is hackable (just hack the hardware, done). But if you stay with what the claim actually is, not what the press writes about it, we can play.

Download kernel and spec from [http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/seL4/] stay in the proof assumption space, described here [http://ertos.nicta.com.au/research/l4.verified/proof.pml], and let us know if you can find a deviation from the spec, hacking or otherwise. Take as much time as you like.

If yes, we'll be very interested to hear and I'm sure we can write a paper together that a lot of people want to know about.

I usually don't have much time for trolling, but sometimes it's fun ;-)

Cheers,
Gerwin
Email the lawyer we work with, Chris Hurley at Beacon Law.

http://www.beaconlaw.com/team.html

Phenomenal guy, wicked smart, former startup CFO, and has been involved in loads and loads of M&A's. He'll be able to guide you through this 100%.
What damage does a DDOS cause other than loaded normal traffic any other day?
I'm not sure about that- unlike social network data, there isn't a publicly availible dataset containing the names of all the people in here which could be used to de-anonymize this data.
Duck penises: http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2010/01/friday_weird_scie...

I'm not kidding, either. Read the article -- it's pretty amazing how both male and female ducks have evolved to accommodate/discourage each other.
So, essentially, this is a contest to make a way to predict who is most at risk for going back to the hospital.

while this sounds nice, there are some issues.

1. How can this do anything but hurt people? Medical professionals do all they can to keep people from returning to the hospital, explaining to patients what they should be doing in a medical sense, the only real use is to deny insurance or increase rates on "high risk" people.

2. Should they implement the winning solution, then act on it by sending additional "how to be healthy" propaganda or otherwise attempting to prevent those people, the pattern of behavior of will change accordingly, thus likely breaking the predictive capability.

This is not like the netflix "present better suggestions" problem. This does not need to be that fast, efficient, nor as creative. Just having a large set of statistics taken from the dataset (which seems rather small) and making a large Bayesian Network to crunch out the probability of needing medical care in a given time frame seems to be the best solution to the problem.

I am interested in seeing other views on these points. heavens, I might learning something about a field I am a dilettante in from a master. (ironically this is more the goal then being "right" is)
I'm refering to the wikipedia article on ammunition clips in general: "A clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together as a unit, ready for insertion into the magazine or cylinder of a firearm. This speeds up the process of loading and reloading the firearm as several rounds can be loaded at once, rather than one round being loaded at a time."

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Clip_%28ammun...

Using the term "clip" to mean "magazine" is both slang, and incorrect.
Here are questions I'd think about:

* Why are they interested in your company? If it's technology, would others be interested in the same technology? What are alternatives to your tech? Scarcity and competition will drive up prices. A good investment banker can help you identify these opportunities and get the most out of your situation. If it's for the market opportunity, you want to consider the buy-it versus build-it quandary they are evaluating and keep this in mind as you negotiate.

* Are you through the risky part of you business? When you start a new venture, there is a huge amount of risk you are assuming, particularly on the front that the business will actually work. If you've proven the business will work for your customers and the business model will be profitable, you're in a much higher position of leverage. If your business is not clear of risk yet, you should keep this in mind.

* What is your chance of success at this company and how will it affect how much cash you'll be able to extract from the deal/stocks? Will you be caught up with red tape? Is it going to be like delicious at Yahoo? Will you have control over your future?

* Are you planning for the worst case scenario? If they could fire you on day 2 and leave you with almost nothing, I'd never agree to it. Contracts and agreements should be planned with the mindset that if things can go wrong, they will go wrong.

* How can you get more money sooner? A mostly stock deal that was vested over 4 years the deal seems crazy for me personally unless it'll set you up for life. You've gotten a taste of entrepreneurship. You have been genetically mutated forever and will never be normal again. You'll likely get the bug to start something else in a year or 2... or sooner so keep that into account when thinking through the deal.

Good luck.
> f your answer is "by seeing who reports about Kim Kardashian and who interviews Chomsky"

I understood the subtle point your making, but what struck me was that it is roughly the heuristic I use to choose between whether to visit CNN.com or DemocracyNow.org on any particular day. And yes I prefer hearing what Chomsky has to say rather than Kimmie.
Maybe if there was something there, instead of a whole lot of nothing replacing said capitalism & branding.

I don't need the world to be busy & full of visual & auditory noise, but these pictures are conspicuously vacant.
Paris catacombs
No, your router can't defend against a DDOS. Like you noted at the end, it was data saturation that was the issue.

I'm not really sure how the LOIC works (I've never checked out this program), but my suspicion is that it simply floods a connection with ICMP.

It's kind of like...one person is only so strong, thousands are much stronger.
I changed my password between two and five years ago, and I wasn't able to replicate it using my account.
I just unlicense my stuff.

I don't really care because I got paid anyway.
Or hijack a US military satellite, I forget where I read that, something about Puerto Ricans hijacking a still working but no longer used US military satellite.
This is such a good point. As little javascript should be run client-side on initial page load. What little does shouldn't be vital to the layout or presentation.

Not taking this into account causes unusual UI lag, frequent dropped initial clicks, fast responses from the server but slow page load times, or visual "chunking."