skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely AOL had some sort of non-compete clause.
> This finding is of unknown clinical significance.

That certainly made me question why the article was trying to project some paranoia around this.

A tangential note: I congratulate NYT for actually linking to the original JAMA report! Hope other journalists follow suit. Does anyone know if NYT has always done this, btw?
So for the authors of the study, claiming health hazards would be reckless, but for journalists, writing a FUD piece in the guise of a science article is just playing it safe.
Google does that with Chrome as well. Now go figure why BigCos do that with their browsers.

PS: at least nginx takes care of this issue http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#msie_padding
I'm doing some initial work on that.
Which is why my current employement contract has an addadendum that exempts my leisure-time open-source contributions from any claims by my employer. Despite the fact that their default contract has some harsher restrictions/non-compete clauses/claims of code-owernship, this was absolutely no problem to negotiate. Admittedly this is easier in an SMB like I'm currently working for, but still.
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Unless the person is a major contributor to widely used project, all the OSS contributions show you is two things:

(1) The person can apparently code when he's allowed to pick what he wants to work on and doesn't have any real pressure, and

(2) He has time to work on open source.

Most companies need people who can code well under pressure and when they have to work on something they don't necessarily want to work on.

By screening by OSS contributions you will indeed eliminate one kind of false positive--they people who can't code at all. Other kinds of false positives, such as people who can't work well except on self-selected projects, will get in.
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Wow, thanks for all the info! I researched paciolan recently and was pretty convinced they were running a closed system, thanks for confirming my suspicions. I also had a pretty good idea that TM was very restricted and inaccessable.

I'm trying to get access to ticket info in addition to venue info. Venue info I can easily get, but ticket info will be difficult. I've been researching how stubhub and other sites do it, but the only conclusion I can draw is that they have a financial agreement with TM to get access to their data, after all when you list a ticket on stubhub they need to verify the ticket ownership and validity (one would hope they do at least).

I was thinking of taking the yodlee approach by writing connectors that access dat through a series of API calls and simple HTML parsing, however there would probably legal implications to scraping TM sites, so no matter what, it would come back down to establishing an agreement with TM.

Any thoughts on this?
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I concur that there definitely are strawmans and other poor argument tactics afloat. Onan_barbarian says that while some github contributions are really admirable, but some are of zero value, to which you reply by first reconstructing this argument to be "people's work on github is just some trivial side project, that should be ignored.", followed up by accusing him of rationalizing his hopes and making strawmen.

When someone says he did something, a github commit log showing it is definitely better than just him saying he did it. However, the point you actively dismissed was that a commit log of some mundane contributions is much less impressive than a resume describing work requiring a lot of skill.
Actually got a thank you email back yesterday, them seemed pleased :-) See what they did there america? You don't have to sue everyone.
I was really surprised that Apple chose to unveil thunderbolt in a press release rather than at an event. They'd been working with Intel for years and at the end all it garnered was "oh by the way the new MB pros will have lightpeak I/O ports built in and we're calling it thunderbolt." Couldn't they have waited the few weeks until the iPad announcement and unveiled it then? Apple missed a huge opportunity for free press(they were already there for the iPad, why not tell them about your revolutionary new I/O technology?) but oh well. Guess even Apple drops the ball from time to time.
Can you point to any of their recommendations that are clearly wrong or even FUD-worthy? The piece to me reads as bunch of claims that I didn't know:

If a headset isn’t feasible, holding your phone just slightly away from your ear can make a big difference; the intensity of radiation diminishes sharply with distance.

But today’s ubiquitous smartphones emit even more radiation as they transmit more, and more complex, data.

Many cellphones emit the most radiation when they initially establish contact with the cell tower, making their “digital handshake.” To reduce exposure it’s best to wait until after your call has been connected to put your cellphone next to your ear.

During the ensuing conversation, it’s advisable to tilt the phone away from your ear when you are talking and only bring it in close to your ear when you are listening.

Moreover, your cellphone emits less when you are stationary because when you are moving rapidly — say, in a car or train — it must repeatedly issue little bursts of radiation to make digital handshakes with different towers as it moves in and out of range.

Any situation where your cellphone has a weak signal indicates it has to work harder and thus will emit more radiation.

I'll leave it to the Google-fu of the HN community to weigh these claims. But the reporter has cited expertise where necessary. That's far beyond what I find on blogs or forums, including this one. In a evolving field of science, isn't that the best we can hope for?
Looks like you don't want to be there when it 'rains'. But it's amazing how far the impact of the big crater reaches. I wonder if these are cracks in the surface or sprays of dust.
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Not nearly as high tech, but I really like these picture of an old abandoned magnesite processing plant in Kosice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asebest/1919339156/in/set-72157...

They should shoot Fallout - the movie there.
I would go find a new employer if that was the case, what bunch of idiots.
I graduated, but made the mistake of not starting a project whilst at college. If you start now, you could have something to work on after college - with a degree in hand too.

If it becomes too much, you'll then have to choose one over the other.
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I got this working in a Rails 3/Devise app in a matter of minutes:
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I'm just curious ... how many of the people who are upset about this have been working for the DREAM Act (which has also being held hostage to 'comprehensive immigration reform')?
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I don't think I'm being cynical but I'm open to the possibility. The response from the religious groups to the HPV vaccine was very much along the lines of what I laid out in my original comment. Here's a Catholic perspective on the matter: "...and by eliminating one element of risk it might act as a green light for promiscuous behaviour,” said the Catholic Church spokesman.

Taken from, http://www.christiantoday.com/article/catholic.church.warns....

It's pretty amazing that, on Hacker News, a glib throwaway comment like this gets any votes whatsoever. If you disagree with what I wrote you should at least be able to take a minute to write a few well-formed sentences that make a point, instead of leaving this comment that adds nothing.
Don't be snarky.

There's definitely horizontal/vertical artifacts, probably from raw pixel interpolation. They're just more noticeable in the color image because the patterns are offset so they cause hue variances: http://fstutoring.com/~chris/temp/artifacts.png
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I'm with Google on this, although I do think they've dug themselves into a hole here. They're making the right decision, though it will most definitely be one of the toughest to deal with.

The way manufacturers customize Android really reminds me of the Ubuntu design thread on HN a few days back that argued about the close/quit functionality on Macs and PCs with some really ridiculous "solutions." Open-sourcing design (at this scale) is just asking for trouble.

Every manufacturer/carrier keeps thinking they can come up with a better Android, with better features, and more custom fit. All I've seen is slower more bloated ROMs with extra eye-candy, built-in applications nobody wants, and even reductions in the original Android feature-set (most notably tethering). All the compromises the iPhone didn't make, Android did, and now the entire platform suffers.

But the real lesson here is for the carriers. The carriers need to step up to the new smartphone world, where phones are no longer a one-time sale, but a long-term investment including support and software updates (especially if you decided to customize your own version of Android).

The easier alternative would be of course just to let Google handle the software updates (i.e. Nexus S, Nexus One, G1, etc). But then you don't get all your fancy custom themes and subsidized applications. Boohoo. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
Great post.

As your speculation hints, maybe WebOS is something to watch for the future, but at this point, it's probably financially a waste of time to develop for it. A lot of chips have to fall into place before that changes.

"Ballmer will use the phrase "bridging the gap" a lot." LOL that's comment gold right there. I jumped over to brianwillis.com to see if you blogged, but no luck. You should think about starting.
no, the uniques is much lower, sorry.

$ wc -l 20110330-access.log
254162 20110330-access.log
$ awk '{print $1}' 20110330-access.log | uniq | sort | uniq -c | wc -l
3349
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Incidentally the architecture discussed is fairly common on some levels, but it's interesting that twisted python gets a mention. It's not clear how the author intends to use twisted - as an agent it would be sufficient for multi-protocol brute force agents given twisted's protocol support. Likewise, the architecture described naturally appears to be extendable to multi-protocol regardless - paramiko[1] springs to mind as an alternative and possibly superior SSH implementation, but it's also worth considering scapy[2] which could be enough to implement arbitrary protocols.

[1] - http://www.lag.net/paramiko/

[2] - http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/
It's much more likely to be a fusible alloy such as Wood's metal or Field's metal. My guess is that it's closer to Field's metal, since it is non-toxic and has a melting point very close to their advertised ideal.
So much for 'let the market decide'.
Nice solution, but: MSIE and Opera have no support for Drag & Drop, multiple file selection or upload progress indication.
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Correct me if I am wrong. Isn't it likely that you would create a quick bootloader in the 512 byte long boot-sector, and then load this Itsy-OS from storage (e.g. flash, ROM, etc). Ofcourse it would require the bootloader to be written...
Use Bayesian statistics!
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I work with senior medical alarms (I've fallen and I can't get up), and deal with a few home healthcare business owners.

What type of market research are you doing? I can try and get someone who'd be willing to help you out based on what you want to learn.
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Yeah, people are underestimating (and have been for a while) how useful social search is, and +1 is really just an extension of that. Although that may be because you need a Google Profile and have it linked to all your profiles to get the most use out of it.

Google had what people had been linking to on Twitter, but they didn't have what they had "liked" on Facebook. Now they have an answer to that too.
the ipad 2 was on the front page of thousands of free daily commuter papers across the globe.

nobody cares about a new port. event or not.
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Africa's always going to be a problem. Assuming this vaccine is effective, we need to take the same approach to HIV that we did to smallpox. That will likely mean substantial Western subsidies for poorer nations, and a concerted boots-on-the-ground effort to administer the vaccine. It will be a long time before HIV is eliminated, and it will come at a substantial cost to taxpayers, but it's well worth it to rid ourselves of this disease.
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Now I'm waiting for HTMLτ.com and HTMLplus1.com.
When the SSC was cancelled, I decided I never wanted to be a scientist (I was 15 or so); it would be so horrible to work on a program like this and be entirely dependent upon the government for funding, then have it killed. Entrepreneurship seems much more incremental; if you raise 50% as much money, you can still often do things, just with more risk and pain; if you have a big grant funded science project, 50% in getting it funded gets you very little more than 0% success.
He has to be a statistical outlier. Freddie Mercury had cash too, but that didn't save him. Same for Easy E. I'd be very interested in studying Magic's genotype and seeing what makes him so special.
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Did people know what a "googol" was? It doesn't really matter at all in the grand scheme of things.
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I totally agree with the sentiment here, that such contracts that lay claim to your IP that you develop on your own automatically belongs to the company. I hate that and I've actually rejected offers in the past because of that reason exactly. I also think that if you could get a high profile enough case with that as the focal point, you could probably have such a thing declared illegal, and then establish precedent that could be used to invalidate the whole, "we own you AND your thoughts" corporate thinking. Or so I hope :)
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Handled one too. Will be acquiring at launch, with or without Sprint.
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I built this 'rapid customization resource' for windows computers (like...for example your co-workers who might leave their computer unlocked from time to time) so you can show them, very quickly with a single javascript file you download and run a few of the cool settings they can change on their PC. With April 1st coming up I thought I'd share with the HN community

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The author might be right about toys like the iPad that aren't really necessary, but the trip to Bali for 5000$ feels way different at the age of 35 than 65 (that's at least what I assume). Saving for retirement is one thing, but using the money to actually improve your life is an entirely different story.

I experienced, whenever I spend money on things like vacation, travel etc., I never regret the money I spent. It might feel like big spendings in the very moment, but after the trip, it was totally worth it.

So, if this way of thinking works for the author, great for him. Personally, I would evaluate the things I spend money on in different terms (do they give me skills, experience or memories? or is it a really useful tool?) rather than the money it could bring me in in 30 years.
could one make a cup that has field's metal (or whatever they use) in its walls? i hate the idea of having something in my coffee and an extra thing to wash.
That's how you (and I) use search, but a huge number of people search for the same things every day. We use the location bar or bookmarks, but a lot of people just google, then click the first link.

These people see the same results again and again, and they only have to click +1 once.
Or maybe not everyone has the same priorities as you. When I was living in the US, my top priority was comprehensive immigration reform so my fiance could have the right to work so we could live a normal life.
I wasn't even aware that there was a SoCal tech scene. Must have missed the memo.
What do you mean by 'raw pixel interpolation'?
The sad thing is man, some DO. I've personally seen contracts with clauses like this:

"Any code, materials, designs, patents, design patterns or other such intellectual property ("IP") created by candidate is automatically and immediately assigned, irrevocably, to Employer upon its creation without further consideration."

The legality of this withstanding, I'm just letting you know, from experience, I've seen this approach in LOTS of contracts. I've learned the hard way that just because something is illegal or unenforceable doesn't mean that a company won't TRY to get away with it anyway. Often times, they do, because "the little guy" doesn't have over $100k to pay for an attorney.
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PG would disagree with you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171.

For the record, I personally believe that you're right.
I thought I heard someone mention in a comment thread related to this that the last changes were ~6 years ago.

edit: Wikipedia says Jan 2004, so ~7 years ago.
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Yeah I was definitely not referring to any clinical definition. Anonymous seemed to describe it in an informal way so that's how I responded.
Very well done! I'm going to have lots of fun with this. There's one problem though, I played, and suddenly everything just stopped. I'm on http://blockbattle.net/f/BeJegHPARhCc4uteNaVuPg==/1/ and my user is called TOBIE.

Could be my connection but have other connections alive and well right now.
The death of the SSC kept me out of particle physics. I was thinking of becoming a theoretical particle physicist, but I'm skeptical of doing theory without frequent input from experiments - it may be mathematically elegant, but it may well not be physics. I eventually went into biology, where there's more data of some kinds than we know what to do with, albeit other kinds of data we'd like are still hard to come by.
Also Apple has many retail stores of it’s own to sell the iPad to those that are curious enough. Other tablet manufactures will have to fight it out for retail space with other competitors.
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Yes, HN has lots of trouble figuring out how to set their desktop background and their browser homepage.
According to the blog post, "if you’re looking for a new pasta recipe, we’ll show you +1’s from your culinary genius college roommate."

From the example, what you see is "Laura Delaney +1'd this", so at the very least you can evaluate the "+1" based on what you know about Laura.

Better still would be if they include Laura's name because she's +1'd (what an awkward phrase) a lot of cooking results, maybe in proportion to links on other topics.
I realize that you're probably just providing a tangential anecdote, but his reasoning for why sharing /usr is useless doesn't really apply to /var.
You people are insane. Going out on a limb here, as I hate making my life public - I worked at Factset Research Systems for just about four years. They are a publicly traded company (FDS - NYSE). Guess what - They would allow precisely 0% of the code I wrote for them while working there to be shown to another company.

So what you are saying, is that, given that, unless I went home and coded and contributed to an open source project during my free time, I am a shitty engineer, not worth your time. Get real. Incidentally I work elsewhere now. They asked me to solve a programming task before an on site interview, and then...shock, I had an onsite interview process.

Do you think that when a heart surgeon from NYC applies to work in Seattle or LA, they say, "That's great that you didn't kill anyone at First General on 57th street, but, do you have any published video of you doing surgery pro bono we can watch so that we know you're not full of it?"
I disagree that electromagnetism was ever a "low level" theory in the sense that I'm using. What I mean by a high level theory is that it deals with things that we can reasonably manipulate and interact with in an extended fashion.

What I mean by a low level theory is something that deals with the very lowest level building blocks of the universe--things that are locked away inside the "elementary" particles, or that mediate forces like the strong force. We can, with enough energy, coax them out to play--for microseconds, and in small quantity.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing research into the low level stuff. I'd just like to see something more concrete than "game changing potential for us as a species" to justify the argument that the SSC would have been a better project to fund than the ISS, given that we couldn't have both.
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Fixed. Sorry, I was typing most of this on my iPad.
Same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2386990
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So is it going to be $8 or $80?

Probably $8 outside the USA and $80 inside ?