skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see how they could evoke state secrets for wiretapping and such, but there's no secret here except that they screwed up and seized something they shouldn't have. I don't know how this specifically would be as easy to dismiss, but lawyers and the government always can find new tricks I'm sure.
25 Scientific Ideas of Life Extension: an Investor Booklet
There are lots of lessons here. Basically EE acted with hubris because they saw themselves as the only game in town. SO came along and quickly dethroned them in the programming arena (EE has a somewhat broader base than that).

Charging people for user-generated content is a shortsighted and doomed business model. What's more it's sleazy. I'm reminded of the whole CDDB/Gracenote fiasco from years ago.

Chris Dixon wrote a great blog post about this [1].

EE in this context (or the "evil hyphen site" as Joel calls it) is acting as an extractor. They're simply putting up a barrier and charging a toll.

Compare this to companies like Dropbox and Evernote. These companies provide pretty amazing services (particularly Dropbox) for free. I've seen many people say they pay for Dropbox not because they need the space but because they want to give them money for their amazing services. These companies are builders.

And let's not forget that EE earned a lot of bad will by once being free like SO and switching to this hideous pseud-paywall monstrosity. Treat your users like crap and they go elsewhere. Quelle surprise.

[1]: http://cdixon.org/2010/06/19/builders-and-extractors/
> a developer with a good knowledge of some lesser known language/technology might ask for a higher pay because he knows his skills are in demand and the employer cannot easily find somebody else with those skills for a lot less money.

Given the huge productivity gulf between low and high ends of programmer productivity - a gulf that vastly outstrips the gulf between low and high pay levels - it stands to reason that as you move up the pay scale, programmers will tend to become net more productive in relation to what you pay them.

If you pay twice as much for a programmer who is ten times as productive, you end up ahead of the game.
But the iPhone came out before the iPod Touch!
There's no real reason to expect that it wouldn't make it in. Squeeze was just promoted to Stable, so Wheezy should remain unfrozen for months to come. That's ample time to bring in guile-2.0 during the normal migration of packages from Unstable to Testing.
Meh… it's semantics, they'd vote against Operation Save our Children if they were voting for the Internet Bill of Rights Act
>> In April, the Obama administration moved to dismiss Jewel, claiming that litigation over the wiretapping program would require the government to disclose privileged "state secrets,” and that they were immune from suit.

Hardly surprising, since he voted to immunize them while in the Senate.
This is humor, right? Right?
post author does not comprehend..the attackers were not bored 'kids' the techniques used are common techniques used by criminal hackers world-wide.

HBGary was incompetent at even the most basic level.
From my understanding, there are no 'banned books' in the US, but rather ones that are blacklisted by library, teaching and bookstore groups making them difficult to come by. I'm personally unaware of any book that the US Government has banned, although I'm always willing to be wrong :)
I was at a watching party with a couple of IBMers who worked on Watson, and one thing they said is that it's not a question of speed, but of timing. Players time their pressing to an estimate of when Alex will finish the question, and Brad Rutter in particular has been clocked at under 2ms with shocking regularity. The advantages Watson has are consistency and the emotional perturbations in its opponents. You could see them getting frustrated, and that likely only served to harm their ability to hit that window between the end of the question and Watson's button press.
It is indeed copied from some other Scheme, though I can't recall which. Rather embarrassingly, I've never fired up Scheme48, or used the original scsh.

Lots of the POSIX bits in Guile were inspired by scsh though, originally anyway. Most of those pieces are 10+ years old.

There are ports around for scsh; googling "guile scsh" will lead you to a few. But there is no proper package with a proper manual.
Yep. Pretty crap site. The 2nd question reads: What operating systems Nokia should use?
Not only is it a grammatical error, but it's almost the same as the first.
Ask HN: How much does it cost to incorporate?
What is the average cost of incorporating Federally (after all is said and done, lawyers, etc...)?
In what cases is Java faster than C++?
You can't be serious. Dear God, I hope you're not serious.
As you approach it, it looks like an airport. (Dulles, specifically.) I work at the Hawthorne location, so I don't see the imposing architecture everyday. But, we do have a similar board of IBM Fellows, and I often pause at it on my out at the end of the day. It is humbling and inspiring.
If James Golick considers this to be important enough to criticize other people and even write a blog post about it, why does he write a fix?
Can someone tell me if this is real? I ACTUALLY can't tell.
Using Google's new blocklist data as a ranking indicator is a bad idea...
Well said. I must say, I don't really relate to the "man vs. machine" narrative here. Maybe it's just because I'm not taking the long view (the one in which the machines inevitably rise up and enslave us? or in which "we" become machines?), but all I see is wonderful positives: as you say, the fact that we can now fly in metal tubes doesn't diminish us as humans for not having wings and jet engines. Look at us humans: we can fly now!

I really enjoyed this article from Garry Kasparov in the New York Review of Books. Spoiler: it's [partially] about how the best chess player in the world is a really good human paired with a really good computer. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...

So let's all join hands with the machines and sing Kumbayah ... all watched over by machines of loving grace... of course, yes, this is a medium-term view. The long-term, I suppose, probably belongs to the machines.
I'm guessing that most of the EE user base pre-dates the existence of Stack Overflow and the choice it provides.

Many of those users have an emotional and habitual investment in EE and that's not going to disappear overnight but SO does represent a threat to it both in terms of existing users (who can use SO alongside EE with no additional cost) and new users (who are likely to be drawn to SO's low barriers to use - that is it's completely free, as opposed to EE's technically free but you're going to have to look hard for it).

The point about users seeing through the BS is over stating is but it's hard to see how there isn't going to be an erosion of the EE user base over time.
shrug

It sometimes feels like almost every new policy introduced by Apple for their AppStore was specially crafted to piss off and offend developers. Yet, they can get away with it because end-users are satisfied.

I guess same applies here. Microsoft has just gone out and explicitly said what Apple has not (yet) .
Doesn't the Apple App Store have the same problem?

The only difference being that Microsoft actually mentions the GPL explicitly.
Thanks so much for the advice.

The second I read @andymoe's comment I knew it was exactly what I needed to do. I left, went home and must have sent out two dozen resumes.

I'm back at my desk today and I've 'confessed' my feelings to my office best friend. I was surprised to find that she feels just as crapped on.

It's honestly like a weight off my shoulders. I'm not alone here anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm still following through with @Chrisclark1729's advice. I think it's really really solid - but it takes more time to accomplish.

I'm going to wait until Monday to see if there are any hits on those resumes - and spend the weekend trying to weigh the cost/benefit of getting out 'now-ish' vs. earning while I look for work.
So, BSD, MIT, Apache, and similar are OK.
Not much different from what happened to airbus only a couple of years before.

Uhh, no. That had much more to do with the structure of EADS (the airbus parent) and how it's a joint company between multiple European countries. Notably France, Germany, Spain and the UK.

Airbus also had French / German co CEO's at that time, which didn't help decision making.

The problem stemmed from the fact that manufacturing is divided between various plants in various countries. Notably between Toulouse (France) and Hamburg (Germany). This is certainly not the same thing as outsourcing critical components to external suppliers (which I'm sure Airbus does too to a lesser extent).

Upon final assembly of the A380 in Hamburg they bungled the cabling which hit them back another six month or so. They where other problems of course, which there are always bound to be on such an ambitious project and with the (likely) unrealistic time scale for delivery.

The A380 was two years late, which is probably not bad for such a project. I wouldn't bank on it that the Dreamliner takes of in 2011. At least not commercially.
Ask HN: Need suggestions for online t-shirt store business.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but still I will give a try.

I have an startup idea about setting up an online store that will sell t-shirts designed around a niche concept. It will be somewhat like Myntra.com. I can develop and design the site but I don't have much idea about T-shirt printing business. I need help in these -

a) Where can I learn more about this business? Any links or resources will be helpful

b) Do you know any T-shirt whole-seller near New Delhi, India region who can provide me cheap unbranded plain t-shirts? or from any other place who can deliver me it in 2-3 days time?

c) Which design and printing technologies are used in creating custom t-shirt designs?

d) If this is not the best place to ask this question, where should I try?
How the web raped animation
looking at the results, i think the employees voted a lot.
>> the "evil hyphen site" as Joel calls it.

Was there a reason that they stopped calling it the sex change site? I know that the put the hyphen in there but it was still funny.
hmm… you appear to be right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-commonly_challenge...

That brings me to my second question: why don't we have a similar process for websites?
Please notice that I have never actually said any of the things you just attributed to me.

In particular, I didn't say Microsoft weren't involved in politics, I just said they have so far remained above the recent trend of dropping major functionality for political reasons.

Also, please keep in mind that I have never said IE, even IE9, is a "good browser" or "as good as Firefox 4" or anything along similar lines. My position here is simply that I think Microsoft have started going in the right direction again with IE, specifically by focussing on improving performance and standards compliance in the areas that users need immediately within a sustainable rate of releases. Meanwhile, I think various other big names, including Google, Apple, and now Mozilla, are taking a dangerous and probably unsustainable approach in various ways that are, ultimately, not in either users' or web developers' interests.

If these trends continue -- and that is a big "if" in a world as fast-changing as software -- then I expect future versions of IE will start to reclaim market share. Meanwhile, Google, Mozilla, et al. will keep throwing resources into areas they haven't properly thought through, with negligible practical benefit to users any time soon and increasingly frustrating web developers as well.
"Chrome is only eating away from IE's market share"
Really? I'd love to see some sources on that, because I know of dozens of people who've switched from Firefox to Chrome.

Obviously I wasn't suggesting you weren't watching Chrome at all, but it's good to hear you're making the right decisions in competing with Chrome (primarily the reduction of Firefox's inherent clunkiness and slowness).
How Lendle (Kindle book sharing) was built
The solution to terror is not war, but understanding and working towards a future where all mankind can live peaceful and happily. Not exploiting each other and respecting each other's believes and religion.
Not too sure about this, but moniker.com might be worth a quick look - they just might have something you could use.
Python client for Etsy's statsd (node proxy for Graphite)
Pretty much - recently, a member of the army (or something such) wrote a book with some very sensitive details that caught the government off guard.

The government's reaction? Buying all first-edition copies of the book.
Aye, I have a 512 Linode, I can get about 1k req/s with nginx/fastcgi and about triple that with caching using memcached :D

That said, I'm trying with httperf and getting much higher numbers (around 38k req/sec :))
I consider this instance to be a step worse, given that you have to actively work against the tools available to create an SQL injection vulnerability (or at least take extra steps to work around the easy way of operating).
Presumably those "books" with child pornography in them aren't allowed to be sold in the States. As someone who doesn't live there, I'm curious: how is that enforced?
it can't be true. four bottles of vodka is too few. just nothing.
This makes it sound like the GPL and similar licenses are the one true free software licenses out there.

As others here pointed it still seems to be OK with BSD, MIT and other OSI licenses.

In my opinion allowing something with a GPL license would just cause complications for them and the people who build the app.
This is hilarious! Made me laugh :D

Edit: In case people aren't sure if this is a joke or not, view other articles on the site.
Nokia’s current market cap is about US$34 billion, so the only people who can do this are the people who control institutions with massive quantities of money to throw around, such as... Microsoft.
I think that's a fair bet. The new wave of "probablistic everywhere" NLP models, though even the very simplest strictly dominate older grammatical methods, are not often capable of taking advantage of a lot of the structure of language and topic that humans are wont to do. It's a cutting-edge accomplishment when NLP algorithms learn prediction of long-range word pairs such as how you almost certainly will see "law" or "marriage" somewhere in a sentence containing the word "annulled" even if that local area of the sentence doesn't seem to call for it. Humans on the other hand are more likely to forget that it's possible to annul pretty much anything else.

I don't own a TV and plan on watching the Jeopardy match later online, so I'm just going to guess about Watson's performance. I think that humans abuse discovered patterns and structure in language and meaning to search through possible interpretations very quickly. Watson on the other hand uses far less structure and a room full of 200 cores to search through everything is knows much less efficiently. I feel like Watson's "strange" answers probably aren't nearly so strange when you realize it's simply being more fair to any possible answer than a human would.

What's scart is this sort of thing---a willingness to consider out of context answers---sounds pretty similar to the kind of behaviors we humans praise as creative!
Website is down :(
I'm in a dead-end job but I'm developing an app
They aren't prohibiting "Free Software", they are prohibiting software that is under a license that requires the distributor to pass certain rights along to the recipient.

Hence GPL like licenses that require distribution of source code, and that you grant redistribution rights to everyone you distribute it to are being explicitly prohibited. (And in fairness I can see why those licenses would cause problems for Microsoft as distributors)

On the other hand BSD like licenses that allow you to repackage and distribute without source and without passing rights forward are acceptable.
> Now why is this? It's because web apps offer a significantly poorer user experience across the board.

That is true today, but to say the issues can't never be solved is a bit of stretch:

- Speed issue: NaCl.

- Standard widgets: HTML5 already have input type=datetime, color picker, address book, and many more.

- Animation: WebGL.

- GPS: Geolocation API is available today on most browsers.

- Sensors: Accelerometer API is available today on some browsers.

Now I'm not saying that web app will certainly become the norm, but it's not impossible.
Or the "End" key.
its not a war, its a peace mission.
otherwise they wouldve lowered the drinking age in the army to 18. which they didnt. therefore the US is not at war.
(seriously, this is a fact, with the drinking age)
Like this one?

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/03/whos-your-arch-enem...
i hope this is real
I understand that people like netbook/nettops etc, but ram is really cheap. At 10$ / Gig range there is little reason to have less than 8GB and 16GB while probably overkill is still fairly inexpensive.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...
If the author thinks others might be interested in the answer, this is exactly the right place for this type of question. Sure, it's not going to get upvoted to the top of the page, but it's the type of constructive question and answer that belongs near the bottom of a comment thread. Both Debian & Guile are interesting to hackers, and there would be a large overlap between the type of hackers interested in Debian and the type of hackers interested in Guile.
I believe that from now on, most of the statistical analysis, will be done using visual representation, like infographic, because it is easier to comprehend. It is also quicker to see an image than to read a whole essay regarding the analysis.
That might be a sad state of affairs but I didn't see the author making it out to be the result of an immoral decision. Just a bad decision.
full sentence doesn't make this agenda so clear:

Boeing's goal, it seems, was to convert its storied aircraft factory near Seattle to a mere assembly plant, bolting together modules designed and produced elsewhere as though from kits.

of course it is still designed in Seattle, and many of those parts and outsource partners are still in the USA, only 30% is from abroad according to the article.
This is amusing in the light of Microsoft's attempts in recent years to cosy up to open source and pretend that they're embracing it via Codeplex, Mono, MPL, etc. I think this shows what their true values are.
The "secrets" part doesn't even matter.

The bottom line is that the government has sovereign immunity, and can only be sued when it allows itself to be sued.
As far as I know, you don't incorporate federally, you incorporate at the State level. Hence the terms you hear thrown around like "Delaware Corporation," etc. You just need to incorporate in one state, but then some (maybe all) other states just require you to file certain paperwork (and possibly pay some fees) if you intend to do business in their state. If you're doing a webapp though, I don't think anybody really tries to enforce making you register in every state where somebody might try to use your app. But if you're selling a product you might run into sales tax issues, see Amazon's battles with North Carolina, Texas and some other states.

All of that said, the act of incorporating - in and of itself - isn't terribly expensive. IF you pay a laywer to do it for you, I've heard prices thrown around anywhere from $500.00 to $1000.00, but some lawyers who specialize in working with startups might do it for equity or on a deferred basis. Ask around.

If you do it yourself, it can be done for basically whatever the fee is to the State. I organized as an LLC in North Carolina, did all the paperwork myself, and it cost me like $200.00 or so. The downside to an LLC is that I'll have to reincorporate later if I get outside funding, but I figure if I reach the point where somebody wants to invest, then it'll be worth it to reincorporate as a traditional C corporation then. YMMV.
In the enterprise - which is where the Nokia-Microsoft collaboration is targeted - the ability to treat user data with more confidentiality than Google is typically structured to provide is a huge advantage for Nokia. Ultimately, Google is a company focused on consumers and that is not fully compatible with Nokia's interests in being part of the enterprise technology suite.

Essentially, the choice between Android and WP7 for Nokia is a choice between the impact of their respective revenue models on Nokia's customers. From a B2B standpoint, the Android model only works if Google can directly monetize Nokia's customers into a revenue stream. Microsoft's more traditional OEM model allows Nokia a greater degree of control over customer experience.

That may be one of the problems with Android which Nokia chose to avoid. Although advertising which extends content can add to the user experience (for example in the old print DDJ, an ad for a compiler). That's not what Google's advertising model delivers. The Google advertising model is largely independent of the editorial content of a page whenever they have access to individual data - It's focus is on individual user behavior and history linked to IP address and browser signature and delivering ROI to advertisers not publishers. Has any publisher ever claimed that Google ads improve the user experience of their website?
While the OP comes across as a tad hyperbolic, this is what I've thought for a long time: if a business is dependent on the good graces of the provider of a platform it's built on, it simply does not have a working model. It happened before with Facebook credits, and Apple making a similar move is no surprise to me.
Mass Customization, Mystery Developers, and Startup Visas: The Blank Label Story
I already answered that question from someone else several hours before you posted it: no, I do not work for Microsoft, nor do I have any other connection to them that would bias my comments on this matter.

I simply disagree with what appears to be the majority view on HN in this case. Also, it doesn't help that a significant number of people seem to be responding to clichés that they assume I've repeated and not to what I actually wrote.
As long as they're only describing the act in text it's legal. If there are photos, it's obviously right out. If there are illustrations, then the courts haven't definitely settled the question last I heard.
Clang vs. GCC: compiling Java HotSpot VM
Surprisingly enough, this was not among the reasons cited in RMS's original "Why you should not use Tcl" post: http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/0000.html
You can file suits until the cows come home. It doesn't matter because of "sovereign immunity" (see http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Sovereign+Immu... ).

Basically, the government is immune from lawsuit unless it chooses to allow you to sue it. And this is the presupposition, so they don't need to justify it.

You've got only two defenses against this: (1) The right to vote; and (2) the right to keep and bear arms.
How UK Intellectual Property Law Stifles Innovation
I'm amazed by their ability to piss off developers almost every time they make a decision.

Yes, but you can't even publish an API without pissing off a developer somewhere. Folks like Guido Van Rossum even say things to the effect: if someone somewhere isn't pissed off, you're probably not doing it right.
Isn't the real problem that Jeopardy just isn't hard enough?

And making it harder (more obscure trivia) would only help Watson.
Earn 20.000$ by successfully hacking Google Chrome
Yes, it's a joke. Check out the other articles. It reminds me of The Onion.