skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in DC, and the problem is that the Secret Service sees no end to the amount of things they'd like to do to protect the president: shutting down Pennsylvania Avenue, putting Stingers on the roof of the White House, etc.

That's their job, and they're damned good at it. But like everything else, there has to be a bit of balance. They just keep pushing and pushing. No matter what concessions your give to the SS, next week they'll be back asking for more. Many DC residents already feel the situation is out of whack -- try sitting dead still in a traffic jam for an hour while the president goes to get a hot dog or something mundane like that. Or find you cell phone and cell modem suddenly stops working because of jammers. Or -- and this was fun -- find that when you are driving in the only bright yellow pickup truck around that DoHS are stalking you in a Blackhawk for target practice.

I haven't been up there working in the last four years or so, but from what I hear it just keeps getting worse.

We should do everything reasonable to protect the president, but, in my opinion, we should also realize that the Office of President is supposed to be filled by somebody just like us, not somebody who for all intents and purposes is treated like an emperor and lives in an armed security bubble that extends for miles. If we want that -- and its fine with me if we do -- perhaps we should find some place with a lot of open unused land to house him in away from the millions of people whose lives keep constantly getting disturbed.
Does playing with my smartphone count (it is not a pc)? Hehe.

Seriously: Reading books, tennis, swimming, lifeplanning, occasionally going out for a drink with friends.
Nice. Very nice. Big fan of this feature of gmail.

If only Zimbra could do Doc files this well... :(
Over the years hobbies have come and gone, but some of my other interests include:

Mountain Biking

Wrestling (amateur wrestling, that is. I wrestled in High School)

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Submission Wrestling

Powerlifting / strength training

Running (mostly trail running these days, when I run)

Live music - I'm mostly a metal-head and I love a good live metal/rock show. But I also like classical, so I'll go to an NC Symphony Orchestra performance every once in a while.

Watching Doctor Who and Torchwood.

During football season I like to go out to a sports-bar and eat wings and watch the Miami Dolphins games. I'm also a UNC Tarheels fan, but I am not as into the college game as I am the NFL.

Every now and then I like to do the dance club scene, although not as much as when I was younger.

Reading is big: I like horror, suspense/thriller stuff, sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy, and all sorts of non-fiction topics. Most of my non-fiction interests are fairly typical geek fare though: various topics on science, math, philosophy, economics, etc.

I'm also something of a Libertarian activist and actually ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC in 2008 (I wasn't elected.)
Very cool. I wish I could use it:

Google Docs is not available for jedsmith.org. Learn more about Google products you can use with jed@jedsmith.org.

I love the Google Apps Unified Account, but it seems like every now and then I run into yet another service that hasn't been "migrated" yet.
tell that to people that bought mercedes-benz made in mexico in the late 90's... or i could waste my day here writting example after example

anyway i doubt the comercials for MB then were pointing out the quality of the engine instead of being just empty branding marketing.
I'm not up to speed on security, but it appears to me that your sudo password should probably be different from your account password, so the scenario turns into figuring out the username and two passwords.
Aside from the whole Flash accessibility debate, this site is REALLY cool. I'm lovin it.
Best hands-on introduction I can think of is from the Google App Engine Documentation.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/...
Hack: Egypt Riot Gear
It occurred to me that hacking and innovating is a fundamental human quality that belongs somewhere on Maslow's hierarchy of needs (probably under creativity). As you travel through emerging markets, you see many examples of these hacks (from utility applications, to survival, to entertainment) that put some of the developed world's hacks to shame. Would be cool to document the creativity somewhere.
There's an abundance of Twitter clients for Android, or you can use the mobile web version. I use TweetDeck.
That's quite a random bunch. A few dotcoms, a few established tech companies, a few zombie tech companies, some academics, industrial tech companies and a biotech...

It'll be interesting watching what comes of this.
Startup Feedback
URL:http://www.texaslovestickets.com

I'm kind of new to Hacker news but I would like some feedback on my company from people who know what they are talking about. My idea is not new but hopefully I am different enough to be successful. I am selling tickets for small and medium sized bar type venues. I also sell tickets for school fraternities basically for a 2 dollar service charge on the tickets. I offer print tickets as well as tickets that can be scanned off of phones. I have also developed a 300 dollar netbook/ccd barcode scanner system that I can let venues use for free that can scan print tickets and tickets off of phone screens. Are there other small companies doing this type of thing? I am the owner and I have extensive programming experience and my only expenses are web-hosting and a merchant account. I don't think there is a lot of competition for small venues and I am one guy so I don't have to make a million dollars to be happy. Do you think this is something I could turn into a full time job? Do you see any problems that I haven't thought of? I would just like some feedback from other people in the start-up scene. Thanks!
To the average developer without any prior knowledge to payment processing your chart is incredibly misleading.
LinkedIn members confirm CareerSaver's beliefs...IT Pros-Get Trained
I'm curious if wordpress devs ever contemplate doing a complete re-write of the codebase. It has one of the worst "architected" codebases of any major open source product out there and even people in #wordpress-dev on freenode make jokes about it occasionally.
I didn't mean it to be a broad generalization. Each platform has it's own problems, this is just the latest in another reminder that each of these can shut your business down with the flick of a switch or if they catch wind of competition they don't feel is right for their particular walled garden.

I trust myself to deliver products my customers want and find useful. That's enough for me.
Of course you would be. That's because everything after "make your changes" is supposed to be applied by the Scheme compiler, possibly with assistance or annotations from the programmer (e.g. macro expansion, tail recursion elimination). Doing it manually is the Wrong Way (TM) unless you're in a PL/compilers class.
I hope this is not ActiveX-sans-security-hole all over again. Native code has the huge benefit of being native but also the huge drawback of platform-dependent, which is a huge step backward for the openness of the Web. I only hope the use of NaCl does not take off is kept to the minimum and the absolutely necessary.

Even if they are talking about Portable NaCl, I have doubt about how portable they can make it.
Yeah. I meant that the mistake is less likely to have been made in the first place.
Another awesome thing about Amazon payments is that they don't charge you anything to send an invoice and accept payment with a personal account. I think paypal takes something like 3%.
I'm saying that there's blame to go around. If there's some sort of major privacy issue that has a direct negative impact on users, sure, I can see cutting it off.

Barring that, killing apps that are as popular as UberTwitter and Twidroyd with no prior public warning simply isn't the best way Twitter could have handled this.
He doesn't have a jumbo jet to himself. He has a jumbo jet to carry a miniature white house--press pool, kitchen, office, and hospital included--wherever he goes.
I don't know about the year-by-year breakdown, but that's exactly how I feel currently.

The platforms I've built for are each in the process of betraying their developers. I've done well with them so far but it's absolutely time to build independent businesses.
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I'm married, with a baby on the way and a couple of dogs. That eats up most of what I used to call 'fun time'. I don't do any hobby or personal hacking, although I do consulting outside of my day-job and am able to scratch that itch that way.

When I can find 'fun time', I abuse the hell out of my Netflix membership, mostly by watching historical foreign films, documentaries and crime dramas. I am also a fairly skilled bowler, with a 186 average. I am an unskilled but enthusiastic golfer with an average closer to my bowling average than I'd like. I read as well, although my tastes are a bit unusual (last book I read to completion was Vergil's Aeneid in the original Latin - I'm working through Atlas Shrugged at the moment).

Not sure what inspiration you can draw out of that, but I'm sure this will put Google one step closer to tying all my online identities together.
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This is funny because I just opened a PSD in Gmail thinking that it would throw some kind of error... but then it worked almost flawlessly! (albeit it was missing layer styles, as far as I can tell)
Heh, I hear ya. Let us take a crack at it.. can definitely do a better job of it!
Hah. Neat. Thanks for the reply. I've book-marked your page. Not sure I'll use it, but it's worth keeping.
No shit? You're Philip Rhodes? I voted for you (and then got the hell out of NC).
The default is 50 but you can tweak this value with maxerr option. So, to increase the number of errors before it stops up to a thousand do this:

/*jshint maxerr:1000 */

I should probably add it to the docs on jshint.com.
With REST instead of Win16 ODBC? I'll take it.
HN Recap: Top articles on Hacker News
> nmap and other tools will already identify services on different ports

Yeah, and camouflaged tanks show up pretty plain in infrared.
Guitar practice

Sailing (both small one-designs, and helping crew on things like catalinas)

Drawing

Going for a drive and listening to music or talk programs

The never ending quest for a new or better pizza

Social online mixer type real-world events

Museums

Conferences, and generally travel

Ham radio (oops, mostly PC hah)

Kites (and kite aerial photography)

Swimming

I would like to get more into rock climbing

Visiting family, friends, small business owners
Asking you for what is already public would be no fun. People are forming various schemes to get you to part with your private data because that is what is valuable.
Extracted from this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236191
The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to
prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that
objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at
his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's
closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell,
intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The
Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small
Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and
looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by
saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand
that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting
Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's
object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
The text I was replying to.
no. if you're scanning for open ssh ports you just scan IP blocks, not host names.
Its a crazy idea, and I agree with the author that implementing it would be suicide for San Francisco. That being said, the existing system of 'employee stock purchase programs' or ESPPs where employees are required to tell the company when they sell them (even if they are no longer with the company) if they hold them for less than 2 years, gives us a hint of how San Francisco might try to implement this.

Company X issues a stock option and records the grant, employee exercises the option and Company X is required to pay 1.5% of the gain defined as the difference between the exercise price and the fair market price at the time of exercising) as tax when its exercised. This 'paper' gain is subject to the same taxes it would seem as AMT which has a similar "your liable for the tax even if you didn't get the gain" pain for tech employees.

Restricted stock would no doubt be taxed at issue time, I would be surprised if it wasn't already but I'm not an accountant.
I'm not even sure what exactly a VPN is, to be honest. I use SSH and SSH tunneling to do everything.
Contemplate, sure. Seriously think about, no. It's too hard to make the case that it's an economically viable activity.
It sounded unique that I wanted to experiment with a ML algorithm but our product is GPL so if its not opensource we cannot use it for legal reasons.
One downside would be that getting rejected by both might incorrectly convince you that your idea isn't good, when it might really end up being something wonderful. Don't let rejection stop you from pursuing a great idea.
Sadly none of them are available.
Painting, cooking, and photography.
I think you can enable support for more products in the Google Apps management page. I have access to pretty much all Google products in my GApps account
Wattvision (YC W09): The Initial Setup Experience
FWIW, I have both a free account and a paid account, and have noticed that both have slowed down quite a bit in the last few months. Most likely their business is growing fast and capacity management is complicated (even if you're Google)
NaCl is disabled by default on the Cr48 development laptop. I would at least hope this means they start enabling NaCl by default in the ChromeOS source tree.
I'm not sure how to read these, but it reads like this one is expired and done, no?
This is actually quite timely advice, as I'm co-authoring a book for O'Reilly right now. I do question one of the points made about book length, though - do people really prefer smaller books? This is purely based on my perspective (so should be taken with a grain of salt) but I assumed that people prefer larger volumes because it gives them the warm fuzzy feeling (tm) that they're going to find whatever they need inside. (We are going with a small-ish book, however.)

Any thoughts? Thanks guys!
Are prices killing tablet adoption?
I wonder how people would react if a different company did something like that with their browser.
Honestly I don't care. I just want something easy to remember. About caring about other people's perception well I was concerned about potential employers, nothing major.
AFAIK the security limits are intentional and when they add new NaCl APIs they will have the same restrictions as the equivalent JS version of the API. NaClets that run within an "app" instead of a "page" may be able to bypass some restrictions, though.
Princeton Student Reveals Way to Access Other Students’ Personal Data
Great article! I program Rails by day, but lately have been working with the haskell Yesod framework: http://docs.yesodweb.com/book/basics. It even has type-safe urls.

I would disagree that lack of popularity of language is not a technical problem- it is because there is less community code available.
The only place you may see a data driven argument to support advanced languages would be a journal on software engineering or the like. (I'm a little skeptical that many CTO's read academic journals.) Developers in the field are not going to publish formal studies on language comparisons. CTO's most likely would have to use the method suggested by pjscott.
The article mentions a clear criterion for flipping the on-by-default switch:

"We’ll also be working on Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs), a feature that will eventually allow us to provide Application Binary Interface (ABI) stability.
[...]
Until the ABI becomes stable, Native Client will remain off by default. "
Yeah, that's me. :-)

Oh yeah, and thanks for the vote! I didn't win, but I did pretty well by historical standards for a LP candidate for state-wide office in NC.
I've always thought that high school physics & algebra should be taught as computer game programming lessons.
Second. I use twitdroyd (mostly for reading tweets), but I'd be pretty pissed if they actively modify my tweets. I wish the article would be more specific that.
Photographer asserts copyright on photo at center of recent tragedy
Yes, every time I exercise NQSO, a paystub is sent to me and tax is withheld. I also get a paystub when exercising ISO, although no tax is withheld. It is actually more chore for me because I need to keep track of the gain and send estimated tax (I only do same day sale, the only sane option in my opinion). The article is very misleading to imply stock option is tax free. Techcrunch never grant her any stock option I figure.
Our office in Chicago is directly across the street from the Federal building where Obama's Senate office was, and where the transition team was based out of. For a couple months after the election, the streets would routinely get closed down as he came or went from the office. We'd get stuck in our car for 15-20 minutes waiting for that to clear.

This has nothing to do with "treating the President like an emperor". How the President feels has nothing to do with the catastrophic cost of a successful attack. It seems reasonable to me that we should deal with inconvenience here.
The "platform" for NaCl is x86, so the same code runs on OS X, Windows, and Linux. pNaCl supports both instruction sets (x86 and ARM), so it's even better.
Have faith in Android tablets
An Introduction to Debian Packaging
I love it. We're done with the "ZOMG WEB!" thing. You don't have to lay out your GUI's with a markup language designed for typography - The modern VT100. You don't have to keep state with a stateless protocol. Now you get a nice (mostly) standardized interface and you get to build a lighting fast native GUI for your app.

I can't wait to see what people cook up over the next five years. Particularly with the trend towards tablet computers.
I use Chrome every day, and would be unable to list one major difference between Chrome 6 and 7. Or 5 and 6. Or 7 and 8.
What you are describing is actually happening in the current Batman arc (in the comics) - Batman Incorporated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Incorporated
Word processors are just not typesetting/page layout tools, generally.

Plus, good page layout is hard. I certainly have plenty of bad examples on my shelf--not that I'm brilliant at it myself, or anything.
The site continues to be useful to many people primarily because of subreddits.

I still remember when subreddits were first introduced. All the users were certain this was a bad idea and that reddit should have implemented tagging instead. Now nobody mentions tagging. And most people don't remember reddit without subreddits.

And PG got impatient and created HN because this feature wasn't available fast enough. :P
Twitter bans two Twitter clients
It won't take long before this gets weaponized. Then safety as well as privacy will suffer mightily.
Very cool. But I'm holding my breadth for the llvm version. Think mobile ARM.
Hey Bruce,
What you're talking about? Can you provide examples? Wagg-ed is the best damned social media program on planet earth!

Oh yeah, and be sure to check out the new edition of Windows CE. Keep Rocking.

____________
Sent from the year 2937 from my Windows Galactic Mobile Handset WebCommunicator 7 edition.
Tracing back to original content requires digging through 4 layers of references. HN->geek.com->google blog->sketchup blog->OC

http://www.sketchupartists.org/spotlight/artists/robh-ruppel...
> You sound like a child.

Sorry, mom. I will be super, duper serious from now on. As we all know, the internet is serious business and there is never to be any humor, ever.

> This billionaire hero worship is just so over the top and short sighted. The real economy of everyday goods and services is SO much bigger and just as important than consumer devices and social networking.

I think you're kind of missing the point about what you're going to learn from someone like Zuckerberg or Jobs.

Why do you think they have billion dollar businesses? What got them there? What chain of events transpired leading to the creation of that wealth?

In both of those cases, you have guys who figured out concrete ways where new technology could benefit people every day. They saw a future just over the horizon that could be better for everyone, then built companies to create that future. And in each case, their companies gave birth to lucrative cottage industries that let individuals and businesses make some great money.

In a country clearly destined to transition to a very different day-to-day existence than we knew in the 90's, Obama is absolutely better served to go and talk to people with visions of the future than he is talking to the guys who run the Octopus carwash chain or Panera Bread.

But don't listen to me – I'm not serious enough to be taken seriously.
Not at all. Because unlike Apple, Google isn't forcing people to play by their rules; they're just holding this out as an option for those developers who choose to use it.
That's fine. We disagree.

In my opinion, the ongoing damage to the local economies caused by these security bubble monstrosities far outweighs the impact of an attack. But to each his own.

So I'll simply ask the obvious question: how much is too much? You seem to be saying that anything the secret service wants they should get. How about closing off huge hunks of DC to ground traffic? Shutting off all wireless availability for a dozen or so miles around wherever the president is? Because the changes requested will just keep getting more drastic. That's the nature of the problem I'm describing. So now that we know that I think it's too much already and you don't, where do you draw the line?
No, it has to do with the single sign-on conversion. Docs is enabled:

http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/hn_1.png

But I get this when I click through:

http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/hn_2.png

It was a caveat I was informed of when I performed the conversion on my domain, but I didn't expect something flagship like Docs to not work.
Why are they forking jslint instead of modifying Google's Closure lint? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1654082). Google's code has a more true open source license.
they're about to break h.264 video

h.264 was never a standard for browsers to implement. It is widely in use, yes, but not a standard. This is why there was such a huge issue over <video>, because Firefox, Opera, and Chrome didn't want h.264 in the standard.

Firefox and Opera have much larger marketshare, and they weren't implementing h.264. It was DOA as a "standard" long before Chrome dropped it.
Reminds me of the seinfeld episode. Why do you want to return this? "Spite". Sorry, we don't allow refunds for spite. "Ok, I'll change my reason". No sorry, you already said spite.
There is a startup weekend on the 25th - 27th. I will be driving up from San Antonio for it. Check it out at austin.startupweekend.org
I found a couple people surprised by this in another context, so I'll include it here: while nice and featureful, Google Docs requires viewers to be logged into Google. This is a problem for some curmudgeons like myself, so if at all possible, try to have at least some alternate means of providing the data.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236746
Poker night in Silicon Valley
Come on out to poker startup #4 in silicon valley and show us your skills.

Startups and people in tech only please :)