skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did this ever lock you out of any machines configured to use Whole Disk Encryption or out of encrypted, mounted volumes?

That read weird to me too. My file system is totally encrypted and the easiest way to get a copy of it is to not turn the machine off but make a copy of the mounted hard disks first. That's true for any encrypted file system, sounds like a pretty big faux pas in the procedure.
I don't think there is a difference really: short term greed which has little negative effect on the future is merely good long term greed (since a dollar today is better than a dollar tomorrow) whereas eating the seed for the next harvest isn't really greed, but insanity.

I am not advocating a blind greed simply to get as much as possible damn the consequences but a rational greed based on the understanding that it is better to have than it is to not have.
Thanks for explaining America, captain obvious. I said "What's funny" because it's supposed to be a joke.
What's wrong with "overkill"?
Weather the Storm - Japanese Earthquake
There is definitely money providing services related to open source software, just as there is with providing services for closed source software.

Plenty of people make their living by doing installations, writing books, creating custom code (either internally or released to upstream), fixing bugs, deploying hardware with it preinstalled, and other things in common with any software project.
The other ones that people mention are Thorium reactors, though I gather those are still theoretical...
Apologize if you realized this, but I think it's just a pun about his company called 'NeXT'
Eight out of 10 South Korean buildings will not withstand a 6.5 earthquake
Show HN: A Simple Diff-Based Copyediting Tool
Xbox Console to be replaced with the Xbox Tablet for Gaming?
A better question is whether anyone going is worth meeting. Or whether it'll just a be a bash-fest give the recent fiasco. Neither seems compelling enough to waste the time/money of attending...
"over-preparation"

I'll admit, it's hyphenated.
I just got done watching this video while sitting at a coffeeshop, and it was super useful, as I'd just started using 0mq on a client/server for testing fuzzing.
Really? I think programmers who focus too much on the business side tend to not be the greatest. Or how I should say it? The vast majority of business programmers are in it for the "job", so that automatically makes them not great programmers.
Don't know if Google really gets social. You really need an addictive core product that people are dying to spend hours and hours on. Can Google really make a social networking product that goes viral with teens and college students (and then others)? I wouldn't bet on Google developing a social hit internally. I think their best bet might be acquisition of something that's already taking off, like FourSquare of Instagram. They can then iterate from there and try to take on Facebook from another angle. Maybe I'm just still disappointed from Google Buzz.
I seem to do a lot of copyediting these days (of friends' papers, application essays, stories, letters, and the like), and keep wishing there was a super-simple way to track my changes and present them to the writer in a visually intuitive way.

This "diffly" app is my first cut at a solution.

It uses Google's diff-match-patch to do the diff. There's no toolbar or lasso or any of that - comments use the Markdown hyperlink syntax, and insertions/deletions are tracked automatically.
WRT to the sibling post I'd be inclined to think that circles being such a common synonym/abbreviation for "social circles" that it lacks sufficient distinctiveness to indicate the origin of a product related to social networking.

If they wanted an RTM then they should have gone for a misspelling.
I'm going to be writing a tutorial on how to make a native Mac app with an embedded WebView pretty soon. Watch our blog for oupdates! :-)
I can't speak for the previous poster, but I started 'sipping the nuclear kool-aid' once I took a nuclear physics class.

Of course, the class was taught over cable TV by fox news anchors funded by both GE, the DNC and the RNC. That's pretty much how the US got to be a superpower and stuff.
I met Felix Dennis the other day. He knew about my start-up and grilled me about it. Quite good practice for pitching: http://wannabevc.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/doing-battle-with-...
Unlikely. The first character in taifuu means "big", and the second means "wind". They came up with this on their own; and it's simply a coincidence that other languages have a word that sounds similar.
Revenue of $100K is a lot less interesting if most of it is going towards iTunes gift certificates to convince people to continue using the application. Is this business at least profitable?
It's hard to answer this question because anyone who answers is implicitly claiming to be a great programmer instead of just a good one.

When I think of great programmers and think about what distinguishes them from me, I'd say it's probably their experience. The more you do it the greater you become at it. I've never looked at a project and thought to myself "wow I couldn't make that even after 10 years". I always think "I bet I can do it too if I spent the last 10 months working on it".
Speaking as just one guy, "log in with $service" is a bigger pain than "Sign up and log in". Sometimes I don't have $service, or I have it but don't like using it, or I have it but I don't want whatever new random thing I'm trying out to have hooks into it. (Anyone else seen in their Twitter feed a bunch of app noise followed by an apology?)

I dropped GMail about a year and a half ago. If any services I was using required it to log in, I would have had to drop them, too. I think it's mostly because I know a lot of programmers, but I do know a large number of Facebook "conscientious objectors" (myself included) who can't log in to things that require Facebook.

It's really nice to have services like this self-contained (as long as it makes sense; Twitpic, for example, would be less useful if it had no hooks into Twitter). I can pick the service up and if I don't like it, put it back down. And if I drop some account elsewhere or just change accounts, nothing depends on me having it to log in.
Ask HN: What is the status and future of Jython?
Hello HN,

I am considering to use Jython [1] for a large-scale web site together with Django. I have built a prototype and it seems pretty applicable. Also, the recent release (Jython 2.5.2 [2]) seems promising.

I am wondering how it will behave in a large-scale deployment and also the future of the project.

Is there any major companies you know using Jython?

In short, what do you think about Jython?

[1] http://www.jython.org/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300881
I would say listen to Baz Luhrmann - Wear sunscreen. The song is one big life hack and one of the best ones in my mind.
With this and this [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319375] it seems like today is nerd thunderdome day.
Pharmaceuticals seems to be a good example: it's one of the few industries where getting the consumer to know of your product is not the issue (Steve Gary Blank wrote that, if a company found a cure for cancer, marketing would be a non issue). At the same time, being the first with the product guarantees patents and there for lots of money.
Can someone please post the summary? Will really appreciate all the help. Totally OK, otherwise ;)
Hot Spot Broadband
absolutely. i have no doubt that the japanese people will continue to deal with this in the most admirable way. where attention could make a serious difference now is in libya and the wider region. speaking from germany, libya now gets allocated about a minute in the main news and you can see the political pressure for an intervention dropping while german politicians are now starting a stupid discussion about nuclear energy.
Red Hat makes tons of money providing the foundations from which alot of the stated technologies can operate: Linux OS, JBoss middleware, cloud and virtualization technology, and major support for the biggie databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).

They're the guys selling the picks, sluice pans, and LAMPs (haha) for the gold miners.
Great. Another idea that taps into human irrationality and weakness.

Maybe Netflix should stop trying to come up with quality recommendations, and come up with a scheme like yours. The real reason to watch movies is to get paid a few bucks someday.
People seek the most exciting news. The most outrageous headlines get the clicks, even from people who should know they're exaggerations.

If you want to fix the news, start there.
Am I the only one that's not into the Smart Cover? It seems like a neat concept, but I don't think I'll be getting one. Marco's suggestion on Build and Analyze of using a media mail envelope makes much more sense because it protects both sides of the iPad in transit and can easily be replaced for pennies if lost or damaged.

Also, at my local Apple Store the Smart Covers aren't even available for customers to try - they're enclosed in a plastic box at the end of the iPad table. If people don't have an opportunity to try it out, it'll just be seen as another case/cover. And with a $40 price tag, I'm sure a good number of people will opt for something different or less expensive.
Amazing insights into humans after recording 200,000 hours of a newborn baby
Amazing insight into human behavior from a MIT scientist after saving and analyzing 200K hours of his newborn. Impressive use of visualizations and algorithms to go through over 230TB of data
In that case, it is very weird that one sample (Lua) specifies the bounds of the UIWindow while the other is closer to the default setup and does not specify the bounds (Objective-C).
Python encoding and unicode explained
it should be "Pay Good Teachers More, Fire Bad Ones"
Me and a buddy (him being the brains of the operation) made quite a profitable trade hacking EQ and WOW, for a time. He's the name behind a number of (now illegal) tools for WoW and EQ, and what we were doing was in very clear violation of the terms of service.

We did well for ourselves -- I won't speak to my numbers (except to say that my buddy did better), but I know he cleared well over $200k just on EverQuest hacking.

When WOW was in closed beta, we paid a few hundred for beta invites. We would get banned all the time, and have to spend another few hundred for a beta invite. When WOW was released, in the few short months before Blizzard exhausted all the hacks we'd found, we were buying, on average, a new copy of the game per day, for each of us.

The challenge was awesome. Some of the hacks were brilliant, some, pedestrian. Generally, the more mundane hacks were the easiest to exploit -- for example, by intercepting the 'sendMail()' function, we were able to substitute the value of gold we actually sent with an arbitrary one -- as Blizz wasn't checking signed vs unsigned ints on their data types, sending -1 copper to a cohort meant they would receive 65,535 copper on their end. When the game was new, this was ridiculous, as there probably wasn't 1,000 gold in the entire economy at that point that was legitimately gotten.

This was difficult, it was challenging, and yeah, every now and again we'd get a little paranoid at a noise outside, imagining it was a SWAT team ready to breach our house for having violated Blizzard's terms of service. The highs were high, and the lows weren't that bad, since we were making tons of dough.

I cannot imagine the amount of time and energy it takes to farm $2000 worth of gold without these hacks, but I can only guess that it is insane.
The first video interview with the creators of BRAIN, the first PC virus.
He is not a banker
Hiring using stereotypes considered harmful
Not new, but the Facebook hiring problems inspired me to submit this.
> It could have been much worse but it is bad.

Guess the glass can be half-empty or half-full. FWIW, I'm also sitting in Germany and I'm mighty impressed by the Japanese response. It's bad but it could have been much worse.
What are you talking about? With Javascript disabled the only difference I see is that the advertisement below the story is missing.
Just a point of clarification, I think it's files synced per 15 minutes, not shared. Although I suppose shared is a loose term cause you could be sharing with the Dropbox server or your other devices.
Chernobyl killed 50 people immediately, and is estimated to have killed 4000 people worldwide from excess cancers. That's worst case, assuming there's no minimum threshold for radiation causing cancer. Some scientists think there is a threshold, which would drop the number quite a bit. There's too much statistical uncertainty to know for sure either way.

TMI is estimated to have caused only one excess cancer. So we're looking at 4000 people killed over the lifetime of nuclear power world-wide, compared to 24,000 people per year killed by pollution from coal, in the U.S. alone.

Coal accounts for 50% of the U.S. energy supply, compared to 8% for nuclear.
What Is "Lean Startup"? (video of Steve Blank)
Folks we are losing our basic human rights a little bit at a time here. It's like back thousands of years ago where if you wanted to convict someone of a crime you sneak them away in the night, torture them, set their house on fire, attempt to manufacture some evidence, then wreck their life then leave them alone for a little while. Vigilante justice, get 12 men together, and what they want is the law.

It seems like some government agencies are turning into old vigilante justice squads. Going around, setting people's lives upside down, being judge jury and executioner, then the victim is left to pick up the pieces where the real criminal escapes justice from the law because the other branches of government don't care.

It's like the 1200's all over again. We made laws against this sort of thing for a reason. If you want to challenge the legality of some entity or transaction then you can't just go and set their house on fire and then go hide when it turns out you were wrong.
It's amazing that they can't succeed despite their foothold. Everyone in my age group whom I know uses Gmail and uses chat on the Google Talk network. Almost no one uses Google Reader or Google Buzz.
OpenCog
What the crap?
I think the point is, "most Americans use several barrels of oil a week, for driving their cars and powering their HDTVs". We all use a lot of energy these days, so it seems unfair to single out Dubai.
"For now, no, it's still being developed. There will be many sites, some catering to niche audiences"

This is the same problem I've seen with other open source projects (and even Linux). There are just too many choices and people don't know what site to use, so they just use something else.

Appleseed could work if it became a platform, like email, where ISPS give you a page (and anybody could host their own), and they are somehow all connected together, but that would probably take many years.
Er... isn't Facebook's primary feature for, I don't know, social networking? Being a means to connect with people you know?

It's certainly expanding to provide many services besides that, but I don't think anyone is replacing the rest of the internet with just FB.
Ask HN: Ask someone for their principles, but they don't want to say?
I'm having a conversation with someone I've known very well for the past four years, and somehow the conversation turns to principles. I ask her what her principles are. She doesn't want to tell me.

I just left my day job to be an entrepreneur. I told her that I didn't have room in my life right now for someone who didn't at least have honesty and moral courage as principles. This is the stand that I took, and though everything was calm and peaceful when we parted, I think I just may have ended the relationship with my best friend.

I can't imagine why someone, least of all my best friend, wouldn't want to tell me what their principles are. How do I make sense of this?
Efficient and Playful Tools to Teach Unix to New Students
Great, I can't wait to spend a bunch of time getting situated with yet another new service that Google will probably kill off in a year when it fails to overcome some arbitrary metric for success.
Nitrogen Dioxide is another harmful coal emission.
Divorak needs to get off the internet and realize that the online communication doesn't create some separate place but is a part of real life. This "second class citizenry" rhetoric is harmful and absolutely misses the point. People are relying on Facebook for their online presence (overly so, of course) because there are many benefits to doing so (ease of use, lack of cost, easy mobile access, ability to pester customers etc.). We don't need to end the Facebook "ghetto" as much as we need to make the rest of the internet make as much sense to end users as Facebook.
I have had a working relationship with Rackspace as a web developer and reseller of hosting services for the past 18 months. I have yet to find a competitor that can come close to meeting the high-level of customer service that Rackspace has to offer. I am not sure that you complaints are worthy of such harsh words. I would strongly encourage that you stick with them and see how the relationship transpires. I an certain you will change your tune.
Since AFAIK they were designed to withstand a 8.2 earthquake, they pretty much exceeded expectation. And we can reasonably count on the standards being upgraded significantly after this.

I like a lot the comparison of nuclear energy with airplane safety: when you look at the statistics, it's a lot safer. But when it fails, it makes the headlines.
Divorak hasn't been relevant since the death of floppy disks.
BraveNewClimate is definitely an advocacy site, but I think it's unfair to call the guy a lobbyist. Your own link says he's a climate scientist, and doesn't make any claims that he has financial ties to the nuclear industry.

The more I read about climate change and nuclear energy, the more pro-nuke I am. If I start writing up what I've learned on my blog, would you call me a lobbyist too?
Actually, there are several like that. The most salient one in this case would be "tycoon." A few more:

- skosh

- bokeh (a photography term referring to a certain kind of blur in English)

- rickshaw
Dropbox, fair enough, I didn't know they'd done that.

The big red flag for me was you calling Google and Facebook lean start ups when they weren't. I didn't have to do any research for that. Google's entire 20% thing flies in the face of lean methodology.

None of the other google prdoucts you mention are lean anyway, gmail was built for internal use and then made public. Gmaps and Gdocs were bought, so no lean methodology by Google there.

I'm also not sure what you mean about them staying in beta for so long? Google's beta's are practically meaningless. Was there anything special about them taking the beta off gmail?
For the record, Paul Adams' work on "loops" had a profound impact on why we felt SecretSocial would be relevant.

No doubt his departure to Facebook slowed Google's product dev down, but looks like Messina and Co. and revving up the engine again.

@SecretSocial is basically on-demand loops for topic-centric conversations that last only as long as you need them to. Then they go poof

http://shh.sh
While generally a reasonable point of view, which I'm not really contradicting there are a couple of points worth mentioning:

1. Eliminating the keyboard dock makes sense just because the Bluetooth keyboard is a much better solution. I just put my iPad on a book stand when I use it, but Apple's regular dock would do as a stand. I don't use the keyboard that much - really only when I have a long email to write, or some text to write that I want to capture while it's in my head, but when I do it's vital.

2. Pages and numbers are actually quite popular on the App Store. Maybe that's because people haven't figured out that they aren't going to use them but I'm not so sure. I don't have a computer at home anymore, and occasionally I need to print letters (e.g. To the bank, to landlords, etc.). For this kind of light usage, Pages and an AirPrint printer work very well. For domestic use that's really all most people need. But without pages or an equivalent I simply wouldn't be able to do this.

So a less sweeping view is that doing light office tasks is actually very important for the iPad to be viable. It's just that it's solved now and the keyboard dock isn't needed.
I did not in any way say that the Japanese response was inadequate or even merely ok and I have seen nobody in the media making a statement to that effect (nuclear incident excluded – but that’s mostly about the lack of information and contradictory information).

Saying that the situation in the affected areas in Japan (which, even relative to Japan’s size, is quite a large area) is most certainly bad is in itself not at all a criticism of the Japanese response and I’m a bit baffled at how you could get that impression. There are certain things no diligent and excellent preparation can currently prevent (as evidenced by the horrible death toll).
I'll second that. I basically grew up in Florida and have been through my fair share of hurricanes. I love California and SF in particular and more than happily will deal with the occasional earthquake.
Interesting that you say that because Google did buy Dodgeball, but then didn't support it. Dodgeball founder Dennis Crowley left Google with a lot of bad feelings and went on to start Foursquare. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/460987802/
Mod parent up. There's plenty of evidence of unethical behavior (including fraud), particularly in mortgage origination, servicing, and securitization, but the various regulatory agencies will not prosecute.
I went in the my local apple store to try the iPad 2 out when I saw something I'd never imagined I'd see. There was a guy in a blue shirt, hanging out, playing with a smart cover. That's it. Apple thinks this thing will generate enough revenue for them that they will deticate someones entire day to shilling it for potential customers. They sure didn't do that for my iPad 1 case. Or my iPhone 4 bumper.
Clickable link: http://www.simplesecurityra.com
Oddly enough, I am still looking for one that will work for me. I bet there are others out there who fill the same.

I do wish that companies did not try and recreate myspace, facebook, etc. I would rather them build the next thing and allow the internet to catch up to the concept.

Internet identity is getting more important. The average user is now just getting a whiff of the value in having a your own web footprint and what that entails.

I want to see a social site with a mullet...business in the front, party in the back.
I think it would have been useful to include "Dvorak" in the submission title.
In response to mahmud's question where he asked:

> Why is this news? just see your /var/log/security

To some extent this is some data in response to the question asked here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313446

I didn't post it there because it seems to stand alone and be of general interest, independently of that question.

<fx: shrug>

Usually people on HN can make their own deductions and draw their own conclusions, but I guess it might be better if someone writes a complete blog-post to explain all the relevant points. I'm not qualified, but I'm sure there's a great post underlying this raw data. Or your own.
But I don't use Pages (etc.), and none of the other iPad owners I know do either. What Marco seem to be wondering about is the killer functionality that absolutely everyone will be using the iPad for.

However, I think we've already found it: the web.

Maybe that's not the only thing the iPad will come to pass as the definitive device for. But it's certainly off to a good start.