skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the inherent problem with Groupon or even SCVNGR who is moving in to this space with its "deals for repeat customer" mantra.

I have tried Groupon and has bought a handful. The ones I bought were already businesses I was patronizing (in which case they lost money), or businesses my friends were patronizing (which I was planning to go to, and Groupon didnt do anything to add to that experience) and businesses that were unknown to me (which till now has not translated me Groupon buying in to a repeat experience).

SCVNGR jumping in to this space still has to deal with the sticker shock for a customer, who spent 25% of the total price the first time, 50% and 75% the second and third time respectively. It all comes down to this: If they have a great product and it appeals to me, I will buy it. Groupon or not. If not, even 90% off of the sale price would not get me through the door the second time because the product sucks.

Just my $0.02
Why wouldn't the CNN bar be replaced as well? It seems to be part of the same Clear Channel video screen.
The pilots picked up the radiation while flying around the plant as it was venting steam. They didn't pick up that radiation at the aircraft carrier 100 miles away, so your assumptions about crazy high levels of radiation at the facility don't add up at all.
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Tests detected low levels of radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy helicopter crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan

These were members of a rescue crew, who were most likely far closer to the incident than the ship itself.
Good read, and basically my strategy: measure success as relative freedom from worry, time for self and professional development, accruing assets, and lack of debt. Achieve his by focused hard work, but don't work so hard that you burn out.
This totally reminds me of the movie, "The Recruit". :D LOL
this is not an hoax, I think those video streams have to be updated remotely, maybe he figured out the protocol and the transmission frequency
Imagine Haskell lacked an "if then else" expression. Then:

my_if :: Bool -> a -> a -> a
my_if True ifTrue _ -> if_true
my_if False _ ifFalse -> ifFalse

Usage (those 2 lines are equivalent):

my_if (x > 42) (foo x) (bar x)
if (x > 42) then foo x else bar x

That's the basis of what we call combinator libraries. Application syntax and infix operators, used wisely, actually feel like ad-hoc syntax. Combined with lazy evaluation, they makes fully fledged macro much, much less useful.
Yeah, I think we're all pretty excited, good times!
I'm not sure it's sufficiently studied, but there is some study of power relationships in economics, mostly in areas of economics that argue over the effects of entity sizes and coordination. The theory of both antitrust law and labor law is mostly based on arguments over power imbalances, e.g. whether cartels exercise coercive power that distorts markets, and what power relationships are involved when an individual negotiates with a large corporation (or on the other side, when a large union negotiates with a smaller employer).
1) What does a CDN have to do with the simple real-world fact that content gets duplicated around sites all the time, particularly stupid crap like funny picture memes? A good global hash of this would certainly help optimize web-caching.

2) A well designed app will hopefully not have every page rendered dynamically at the server anymore, but just have an api to send data back to the page for rendering client side. This benefits from content caching (provided the content is big enough to benefit from caching rather than retransmission).

3. Using something like varnish in front of your site will allow you to dynamically invalidate the hash when needed, and in the interim, a generated result to a url is no different than a static one.
> ...being big gives an influence that tend to feed on itself. Monopolies for instance, may last long.

This is exactly why I don't believe that unregulated markets will necessarily be competitive ones.

My belief is that without a strong central government, monopolies engaging in anti-competitive behavior will make the market inefficient.
GDP is up. Dow is back to 12,000. Banks are liquid. Output is as high as it's ever been. Krugman and friends, not to mention the more conservative economists, do not share your views. I really don't understand the populist sentiment.
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Mumbaikar!! I do it too. :) Hey there.
but if its fake, it is fake.
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I'm glad Zope lost, and that has nothing to do with Python.

Zope was just a morass of over-complication. I remember buying the zope book sometime in the early 00s.

I was initially impressed with the completeness, but found it to be overly-complex and ugly to work with. Rails + Django happened for a reason.

Now, I haven't played with it in maybe 8 years, but I'd say pre-rails it was just not as elegant.
From a technical perspective, there are definitely better ways to go about acquisition. It can be very hard for technical people to work in computer forensics because many technically attractive strategies are off-limits to you due to constraints that are wholly non-technical.

Think of it like this. Police would probably find a lot more evidence if they were able to search your car/property without consent, but they don't because that would violate your civil rights. The acquisition situation is a little bit different, because it's not strictly a matter of civil rights. It's more subtle. We have the right to examine the computer, but the process has to:

1) Hold up in a court as irrefutable and demonstrate a process that is inherently resistant to tampering.

2) Discover the evidence required to execute the legal strategy.

All the evidence in the world won't convict someone if the defense can take the position that evidence was tampered with. Using the computer prior to examination is akin to taking a gun used in a murder to the gun range before checking it in as evidence. Simply testifying that you didn't tamper with it doesn't do the trick. It very quickly becomes a chicken and the egg problem.
That has loads of useful tools - thanks - although a 20 minute browse doesn't seem to have exactly what I want. It's plausible that I can build what I want from what they have, but it's not clear.

But it's a good start - thanks.
I like the idea a lot, but I'm not sure the fate of the Kindle development program bodes very well: it still isn't out after how long?
http://movieclips.com/DByG-hackers-movie-kind-of-feel-like-g...
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Look into filesystems over SSH. There are things like that for windows and they work okay (though what's wrong with using an FTP/SFTP client?)

I think you're missing the point that admining a Linux server is different. The complete set of tools you need to interact with a remote Linux server is: an SSH client.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthq...:

"The helicopters sounded the alert around 60 miles from the coast and the ship’s sensors also sounded when it was 100 miles north east of the plant."
Actually, two plants in Fukushima. Onagawa is in Miyagi and is not affected, though they did detect heightened radiation readings probably from Fukushima.
That certainly didn't stop the trustee from threatening with motion to compel orders in just about every case we worked. IANAL, so I have no idea what the enforceability is. Every law enforcement/trustee's worst nightmare is a well-informed suspect/debtor.
Embrace the you that you are and don't assume your broken. Any differences you have can be turned into advantages.
At 55s into the video he "hacks" 4 different screens and his one video span across all 4. If it was real it should have overtaken each individual screen, not the computer chopping the video for each screen.

This is without a doubt fake. Not to mention this was posted on a "visuals" blog
The first comment on the page reads:

> Holy crap, the iPhone version is worse! I just fired up my proxy and found it's transmitting both the metadata and the files via HTTP.

Could anyone confirm? This would be a pretty serious flaw.
print [1,2,3].unique()

whoops.
Right, but I can add a sub-language with lazy evaluation, infix operators, and application syntax to Lisp...

I fully recognize Haskell can do a very useful subset of the features of real dynamic syntax. It's still a proper subset though.
I've recently switched over from using the built in VNC server to just exporting the display through ssh (using the -X option), since I'm usually tunneling VNC over ssh anyway. This obviously doesn't help when you actually need to control the desktop, but I found that I usually just wanted to use specific programs remotely, so it works for me.
Thankfully, I am long past the point where I have to worry about my GPA. But there was absolutely a time in my life when I would have used something like this, had it been available.

I can tell you that my wife's a schoolteacher, and that her school system has a web-based system where parents can log in and check on their kids' grades. She has a lot of parents who check that site religiously. All that is to say that while it may not be a "sexy" site, you've definitely hit on a useful idea here. Good luck!
Something I found interesting from the comments on that article was the claim that Dropbox remotely deletes mp3 files that infringe copyright.

Can anyone else confirm that they do this? It's surprising to hear that--I would have expected that if something's in your private Dropbox, there couldn't be any copyright infringement at all. Aren't backups generally considered fair use?
Hey,
Firstly congrats. Getting your first app "out" is hard. You seemed to do that with flying colors :)

What's the technology behind the site?
Do you have a blog?
I'll love to hear more
send me an email (my HN username at gmail.)
Sounds like Coffeescript to me.

Since the reference part points to ECMAScript (without being in the syntax of ECMAScript), I am simply guessing that it is extremely similar to coffeescript that entails a nearly one-to-one bindings to JavaScript.

However I am in no way seeing it sigificantly easier to code than JavaScript itself, given that it's again prototyped language, and it again subjected with the same problems JS has.

There is some interesting aspects of this language though, e.g.

after {delay: 3000} ^{ print "3 seconds later" }

the thing is after returns an "executor" function which get called with a lambda function. If the same thing has to be written in coffeescript:

after({delay: 3000}) () -> alert "3 seconds later"

looks not as elegant, as the parameter of the first function call can't be passed without parentheses.

(implementing "after" in coffeescript)

after = (a) ->
a? and typeof a == "object" and (arguments.keywords = a;a = a.delay)
if a
if typeof a isnt "number"
throw new TypeError '"delay" argument must be a number'
(fn) -> setTimeout(fn,a)
The restrictions are at the DNS level

8.8.8.8.
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For one specific mobile service provider.
On #1, it's specifically the TMI comparison in the article that isn't very convincing, because many of the postmortems (though there is some disagreement) conclude that it was somewhat luck that the corium didn't melt through the containment at TMI, due to the specific pattern of melting and cooling. So the fact that it held doesn't tell you what would happen in another incident with much confidence (even if the two designs were the same, which they aren't). There may be other reasons to conclude that breaching containment is unlikely, but the particular argument the article presents isn't a great one.
But can you change that on a phone?
Do you have kids or a mortgage?
Sorry, but that's highly misleading. Demand deposits are liabilities on the commercial bank's financial statements. The "cash" is an asset, which is owed to the depositor. That's very basic financial accounting.

Banks pay for FDIC coverage, like you or I pay for car insurance.
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One of the areas I've seen Groupon work is in the CrossFit fitness class I'm a part of. What they're able to do is add people to their daily classes while maintaining their original cost as if those people hadn't joined (there's still just 1 person teaching the class.) In this case Groupon works well for them because they can scale their business without adding cost. And if they don't retain the Grouponers no loss, they've still made money, albeit not at the same margin. Obviously if they do retain the Grouponer they're even happier.

The only real issue that the business is facing now is moving to a bigger space to accommodate the growing demand.
Well, backups of your torrented music are obviously not fair use, and doesn't Dropbox have a "public" folder or something?

That said, yes, I'd expect them to stay out of my data unless I do something silly like using them as a distribution mechanism.
> I think scientific navel gazing just got a new mascot.

Aside from breakthroughs made during World War II, I think that most of the technology surrounding you can be traced back directly to "navel-gazing".
>On the other hand, all their safety mechanisms so far have failed. Electric, diesel based and the automatic steam based.

Wrong and wrong. Some backup cooling mechanisms have failed, not all safety mechanisms.

The electric backup worked as designed. The diesel backup did not, as I understand it, because it was affected by the tsunami (which is inexcusable in my opinion). And the backup diesel generators brought in from off-site, from what I've read, could not be attached due to incompatible connectors (which if true, is also inexcusable).
I'd buy it. Just make it deeper than Game Dev Story.
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Looking for files in the article is completely broken. To look for a file named syslog.conf, you need to say

find -name syslog.conf

otherwise find will not look for that filename in all subdirectories.

So the shown

find /etc/*.conf

is only doing the equivalent of

ls /etc/*.conf

unless there is a directory the name of which ends in ".conf", in which case all its contents will be listed recursively. The required find command is:

find /etc -name \*.conf

And what "find / syslog.conf" is doing is to list all files and directories in /, going down subdirectories recursively, and list syslog.conf in the current directory. What should really be used is:

find / -name syslog.conf

which returns something like:

/etc/syslog.conf
> backups of your torrented music are obviously not fair use

Obviously, but how can Dropbox tell if the files are torrented or were purchased legally without DRM? Or legally ripped from a CD for a backup?
While it's representative, moot doesn't have $50bn to lose. His principles are less likely to be marketing than Zuck's.
Also, the digital "interference" shown during the transitions is pretty, but it's not technically feasible... Sometimes it has horizontal scanlines, sometimes vertical, sometimes scaled chunks, etc. There's no codec or transmission method that would have artifacts like that.

This is just someone showing off their After Effects skills.
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I'm worried that these people don't care about the people they helped screw over. I hope thats not the case, but I'm worried that it is.

Or they are just more worried about the NDAs they signed and the army of lawyers the bank's employ.
Weird, no? Could be the timestamp on the server wasn't correct when the content was uploaded or something, but what are the chances of that?
They do have internet access, not some random radio update protocol.

When I wrote the software for the Coke and Samsung screens in Picadilly Circus in London (the times square equivalent) we used wired internet or brought hard drives in. We did actually have wifi access (firewalled though) to ground level.

All running Linux then. Alas i didnt get a photo of the one time we got a bootup screen on the sign with penguin after a power cut.
Apparently these are called "ouroboros programs". http://asiajin.com/blog/2009/09/22/uroboros-programming-with... (which serves an empty page to me right now) used to have a period-11 cycle of programs. I wrote a period-3 program (http://www.stratigery.com/source.html#Ouroboros).
Vertical panels need more design and testing.

I haven't tried 11.04/Unity yet, but my experience with previous releases has not been encouraging w.r.t. setups without any horizontal panels.

For example, with 10.10 I need to set the background to translucent (the default tiling is broken when vertical), edit the Ambiance theme to then have panel applets actually have a translucent background, replace the default window list with DockbarX, and replace the panel menu bar with just a main menu. And the clock applet calendar view is still broken, showing up above the applet.

For comparison, on Windows 7 none of that is necessary -- the panel works just as well vertically as it does horizontally.
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Thanks.

It IS so much more.

I also like looking at sites which are build with Wordpress, and are not just sites based on content, but also on functionalities.
So what about BitCoin? It seems like a thoroughly decentralized currency. The only problem is the limited size of the Bitcoin economy. There is currently 5.68 million BTC, or $5,108,175 USD, worth of Bitcoin in the world right now, with a max of about 21 million.

Could multiple open distributed digital currencies work?
Spot on advice, and a valid rebuttal. My trifecta was more in the spirit of securing against hundreds of brute force attempts, but I can't really knock your excellent advice.
First thing I noticed as well. Unless they happen to be different screens...
Yeah, what are the resonant properties of silicone?
Thank you for this and it was highly informative, but the article's tone seems a bit apathetic to me. It is still tough for me to stomach even a little engineering pride in the immediate wake of a tragedy of this magnitude. I know the policies and procedures in place worked as they should for the earthquake's immediate damage, but what about the specific preparedness for the tsunami, which will be the largest cause of causalities. It is an enormously challenging problem, but surely more could have been done.

Also: Would be better to say Great Britain and Honshu are about the same size instead that Honshu is larger (Britain is slightly larger). Leiman Shock: slight spelling error in Lehman Brothers?
Absolutely agree.

I love Linux, I'm using it for 10 years and tried many distributions and the only real problem I've experienced was a problem of drivers for my graphic card. Yes, there are some issues with usability, somebody says that UI of Ubuntu is not very clean and easy to understand... Don't get me wrong but I just can't be scared with this after compiling ALSA drivers in Mandrake 6.01 (don't remember the exact version) to get a working audio output, or compiling kernel to get a working audio input, or rebooting to windows to download drivers for my Intel dial-up modem, booting back to Linux and then understanding that I'm missing a dependency, then booting back to windows and so on...

However, there are few issues that prevent me installing Ubuntu (or any other linux as problem with drivers exists in all distributions) on the home PC of my parents like
upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 my GPU gets hot as hell; when my colleague maximizes flash video to full-screen his X-server freezes; when my friend plugs his second screen both his external and laptop screens turn black and etc, etc. I understand that these problems occur because of proprietary drivers but I really hope that there will be some day when everything will just work.
"If we don't do what I want it will be the Great Depression" is an unfalsifiable claim with little evidence to back it up.

The main evidence it has supporting it is the a "post hoc, ergo propter hoc" claim (there was a bank crisis before the great depression). But this ignores a huge number of other factors which also contributed to the GD - massive ecological disaster, huge drops in trade caused by Smoot-Hawley et al, new anti-competitive laws and onerous regulations, new technology making millions of workers obsolete.

The claim that a banking crisis caused the GD is popular mainly because banks are easy to model. It's kind of the economic equivalent of looking for your keys near the streetlamp rather than in the dark alley where you lost them.
to see what it was like, i wrote and recorded a whole CD on ubuntu http://sites.google.com/site/monorail42/ ... mostly with rosegarden. it was sort of painful to do! i also used a set of python scripts called MMA to lay out the song structures.
WhiteyBoard is the only type I've tried, so all decals might have this problem, but I found their product to be pretty awful. Came damaged, didn't stick almost at all. Their customer service is also a absurdly poor, which I'm pretty sure is a problem specific to them - I recommend avoiding.
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Perhaps. But there's ways and means to get their accounts out into the open. And no NDA can prevent a person from speaking in court.
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coffeescript is only a syntactic change and introduces no new semantics.

it will always win in terms of code generated
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/09/a...

Filing documents containing claims that are false is perjury. Filing 10,000 documents containing false claims is 10,000 instances of perjury. Other corporations have taken similar actions, filing tens of thousands of documents in court, withdrawing the documents, and admitting that they were factually incorrect.

Additionally, knowingly originating securities that do not meet the representations made in their prospectuses is securities fraud. We know because of FCIC-related testimony that this was done at BofA at the very least.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/business/20gret.html?_r=1&... (article is related but not about BofA)

I would normally recommend that you read something at market-ticker.org, but for the most part KD's been light on the evidence lately so I'd be hard pressed to sift through his recent angry rambling to find something substantial.
Easily. Edit /etc/resolv.conf, write an HTTP proxy, write a web browser, etc. There is probably some GUI way of doing it too.
http://thinkmodo.com/ probably did this viral