skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is suggesting that drivers should be free to police themselves as far as the legality of the circumstances of their driving. This is simply a matter of freedom of speech -- if you see a police car doing radar on your drive home, and call your friend (after pulling over ;) ) who you know will be driving this way, to warn him, are you breaking any law?

The principle being defended here is that you are free to share that information under the 1st amendment, however the method of sharing may be performed. It's the reason being a member of the KKK or the Westboro Baptist Church and saying hateful things doesn't automatically make you a criminal. Whether you agree with the speech or not shouldn't affect it's possibility to be spoken.
I've been reading comments on this and most of them include something like 'we have all these new downtown condos, I thought we'd see growth from that'. It's simple math though, a condo with 1 single person is not going to help your population grow like a single-family-home with 5 people.
Its a font thing. The style sheet calls for a load of YanoneKaffeesatz-Light.otf and a few others from the server. If that goes wrong for some reason, there's no alternate so you get gibberish.
You can't predict every variable. Sometimes one vote helps bring it to the front page and it picks up steam. I suspect the Instagram brand gave this website extra attention.
The fact that anyone would post this without first checking Groklaw or another reputable source is sad.

According to http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110322114658410 Sony has been allowed to act on several of their subpoenas, including the one for Hotz's PayPal account, and the clearest evidence they have to establish that Hotz has business relationships with California parties is a PSN user account that was registered from an IP address that can be traced to the same town in New Jersey that Hotz resides in, and Sony claims that the PS3's serial number matches.

Except for the bit where SCEA's court filings don't even spell the user account correctly.

We also don't know what name, physical address, and date of birth were provided by whoever did register the PSN account in question, because the exhibit where that information might be found was filed under seal. Until we can read how the judge or Hotz's lawyers respond, we can't take what Sony says at face value.

And all this is still just SCEA attempting to establish that they have the right to sue Hotz in a California court instead of in New Jersey. So far, with the weak evidence they have presented, it looks like they won't be able to get their way without setting precedents that would be very bad for the Internet.
Working with people on the same page = win
You can find US Broadband price comparisons here:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/83886

But it varies from place to place. Comcast tends to suck more in towns where it has no competition. In my state (New Hampshire) it has competition from Verizon (or FairPoint now) so we get better speeds for less than other places where comcast decides to have worse speeds for a higher cost.
I don't think they really give a rat's ass. There have always been small businesses. It's not something VC's invest in. If the economics of industries change, so be it; VC's will always have to seek out those industries where a big injection of capital makes success more likely. I know, you know, and they know that, so it's not some trend they need to quash, just a fact of life they will need to deal with.
Here's an alternative: save as much money as you can. This buys you tremendous flexibility when you're in your 30's (compounding interest plus a healthy savings buffer).
What did you find was the best way to get quality traffic to the survey page?
Whoah! Hold on, now. autotools (and CMake) exists for a reason. They, in many cases make your life easier than maintaining makefiles. I do think make is much easier to work with (with some warts) than autotools, and it's certainly more comprehensible, since it's so much smaller and contains far fewer bits of magic. But, to just throw out everything autotools were designed to deal with doesn't make sense.

Sure, if your build is simple, make works fine. But, the projects I've worked on where autotools was used, simply using make would have been a horrible experience. And, in most cases, the projects started out using make by itself and then moved to using autotools when the number of platform specific makefiles became too big to maintain.
Hey, my friend sent me this. I have such a business. Actually, I'm a photographer and I ran a special for the month of March, $100 "blogger headshots". It's a quick 20 or so minute session. I narrow down my picks to four images. I present them to the client sized at 1000 px. Folks then had the option to buy high resolution photos for $25 each if they wanted them for something else.

Normally a headshot session with me costs $250, lasts an hour, and includes multiple locations and clothing changes. A client would receive a few dozen shots, high resolution, on a disk. This is appropriate for actors and authors picking a photo, but unnecessary for bloggers or people who just want decent avatars for linkedin, facebook, twitter, etc.

OH! You can also market this to people who need photos for online dating.

It was stunningly successful. I was able to take a slow time of year and churn out a lot of business. Because it is a special, it got written up in blogs and people Twittered it a lot.

So I say go for it! Just make sure you can deliver with quality headshots.
I don't agree with the article that Firefox is in trouble, but I'm a Chrome Store dev and I've grown tired of reading people online saying things like "they're just bookmarks", so I apologize if I came across as attacking. I think the advantages that Chrome (and to a lesser extent IE) has will eventually be rolled into the spec, and will be negated, however I don't think Mozilla is doing enough to push their alternative as viable. Their spec, to me, reads as web app best practices and the only original thing they're providing is an install button api.
In Firefox, you can also bookmark the URL

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%s

Then give it the keyword 'cache'.

From now on, from the URL bar, you can just type cache <whatever> and it will go straight to a search for the cache of that.
>equality for everyone? It's a women's interests lobby

It's both and more. The world is a complicated place.
Why do you want to look at my site? Will this somehow make my points invalid? :-) Oh, this guy can't design, so no, kerning is right.

I'm not a designer, and although I design everything for my products myself, I don't pretend that my design work is good; hell, I know that I lack attention to detail, and I'll be the first person to criticize my work.

If you insist, here you go: http://www.codingrobots.com/ (the most recent thing I drew was this, I think: http://www.codingrobots.com/images/cathodique_128.png [this reminded me that this product is dead, and I need to release this icon into the public domain], and I can point out why it's not good, and why it's the best I can do at this moment).

BTW, I'm not looking for a job.

Edit: while the spotlight is on my, I'd like to say that design is a very fricking hard work. Every time I try to draw an icon or position elements on a web page, it's like going to hell -- it takes forever and causes pains. Programming is easier ;-)
New TAG Heuer Concept is first mechanical Watch with 1/1,000s accuracy.
Because as many here would probably not like to accept, HNers are just as prone to social engineering as the guy on Facebook who signs up for the app that can supposedly revert his Facebook page back to the old design.

HN can be gamed quite easily, for this and other reasons.

Since you're near the top of this thread, which itself is sitting at the top of the HN front page, why not link to your site here? I wouldn't mind.
I'm confused, which part of the GPL v3 makes it impossible for Apple to distribute?
Teenage hackers shut down a PHP cloud hosting firm
Planning.

http://versastudio.com/guide/ycombinator
didn't ycombinator also invest in something similar recently? message party or something?
At Berkeley, the BA and BS for Computer Science are effectively the same. All the core courses are the same, it's just the general requirements are different. The degree designation really doesn't matter. If I'm not mistaken, I believe Harvard also grants Bachelor of Arts degrees (they use AB instead of BA) for Computer Science.
Reading this thread, the historical demographic trends were very interesting. Do you think they are irrelevant? If so, please explain why.

Very interesting that from at least the 1850s right up until the 1930s more than a third of the population were immigrants. I would say most of these were from Canada, based on my own study of immigration patterns and knowing it was extremely easy to immigrate from Canada to the US during that period.

Also very interesting that population peaked in the 1950s even though the American auto industry did not go into decline until the 1960s.
The Engineer Responsible For The Mac Operating System Is Leaving
Her article/resume is her "show" not "tell".
The medium is the message... that's UX.
I actually think Detroit is about to see a huge resurgence. From what I understand, there are a lot of young, artist-type people moving there right now, which is exactly the type of people I think Detroit should be trying to attract.
A Bit of Unsigned Fun with Integers
(And, I should mention, hopefully my notion that '08' is octal isn't shared by that many people, since '8' can't be part of an octal number...)
Emily, Scott and I will be attending. Look forward to seeing everyone else.
then everyone will start creating such resumes, and it'll not be unique/different anymore (which'll make it difficult to stand out)
What would be the advantage of using Trunk, rather than the latest stable version? Are we just talking about getting new features a bit earlier?
Maybe Scoble got it wrong and Convofy isn’t just the future of work
I used Evernote for quite a while as my primary note app, and I liked it generally but had problems with their web app which was overly complicated and not nice to look at. I know they are (or were?) working on a new version of the web app, but I've since moved on to Springpad, which gives you the same UX on all platforms (web and mobile), so I'm happy with using it exclusively.
We hired someone recently at Shopify who made a site like this using our platform. It should at least get her an in-person interview.
They had no idea what to do to recover it. They literally said "thanks for the report, but there's not much we can do."
There are like buttons on the item pages... (like here: http://thingist.com/t/item/4720/) I tried putting them in the feed, but they looked really out of place (it made things look really really cluttered)

I really like the idea of [optionally] importing facebook likes... Hmm

(As a sidenote: can I just point out that facebook's API is freaking awesome?)
I was also confused by it. I was wondering if she worked for Leica at some point (i.e., she designed a camera lens?). Only by reading your critique can I guess that she drew it. It looks pretty good, although the kerning problems with the text is a little distracting.
Although, as with anything I believe, new information could change my mind, I don't currently think "learning styles" exist in any meaningful sense. Some information or concepts are better learned through, e.g., visual aids, but that's the nature of the information not the learner.

This video by Harvard-educated cognitive psychologist and professor Daniel Willingham is relevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2NTUk&feature=playe...
At least with education, There is a strong correlation between race and education, namely blacks are less likely to be well-educated than whites. Connect that with income and you are not only seeing a drop in population, but very likely a steep drop in overall tax revenue necessary for Detroit to rebuild itself.
If I were a municipality/county, I'd keep a not-so-skunkworks broadband project on the back burner at all times and start pumping out the PR when it comes to negotiating with Comcast.

I wonder how many places would already have municipal broadband if Comcast didn't make a sweet deal?

Conversely, how many areas don't have municipal broadband because they feel like Comcast would have them over a barrel for cable TV?
Hmm, that's a good point I hadn't actually considered. BUT, I don't see it as a big problem because once you resize for the largest tab, it's not like the others become unusable, they just now have some redundant space. It helps that most sites conform to a standard range of widths.
You’re not entitled to anything. Hustle for everything you’re worth
Here's a song based on the Fibonocci sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY

Awesomely nerdy...
Ask HN: Review my startup - getupp: location-based commitments
Website: http://www.getupp.com

iPhone app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/getupp/id416103537

getupp is a location-based commitment app that helps you motivate yourself and stick to your goals.

With getupp you can commit in advance to activities that require your presence at a specific location at a certain time, like going to the gym after work, studying in the library on the weekend or getting home in time for dinner. getupp verifies whether you keep your commitments and will share the results with your Facebook friends.

It works like this: Using our website or mobile app (currently iPhone only) you create a new commitment with a category, description, location and time. If you wish, you can let getupp announce the commitment on your Facebook wall and allow your friends to vote whether you'll be able to keep your commitment. To complete a commitment, you need to open the mobile app at the agreed location and time, so that the app can verify via GPS that you're within the target area at the right time. While you can choose whether you want to share a successfully completed commitment on your Facebook wall, broken commitments will always be announced on your Facebook wall. Think of a big red "FAIL" stamp on your Facebook wall, or a shiny "DONE" badge.

We are a young startup based in Hamburg, Germany. Our vision is to leverage social media to help people achieve their personal goals. getupp is our first take on this vision.

We'd love to hear your feedback on getupp. How do you like the general idea? How do you like the website and the app? What features are you missing most?

Thanks
This is proof that nations are hacking and spoofing SSL keys in order to spy on its citizens.
The copywriting is really awful - it makes her come across as a try-hard...

She should have just put up a page with her work and the line: "I want to work at Instagram. Why should you hire me? Take a look at my work", and then post a bunch of kick-ass projects.

Over-the-top copy coming from a designer always is a sign that they're trying to hide subpar quality of work.
Libertarianism for people who don't give a shit.
I don't know if that's true. Some ideas anyone can have a cursory knowledge of your domain, and can identify corner cases you may not have considered. That's mostly the stuff I'm concerned about. I'm curious what kind of corner cases people can ask questions about.
IOS 4.3.1 to Fix Battery Drainage Problem in iOS Devices?
>Have you attempted to contribute to Wikipedia and had that experience, or is this based on your guess as to what would happen?

I have. I was a very active WP editor (mostly on religion articles) in the 2005-2007 timeframe. From what I can tell, it's only gotten worse. There are some articles that you can change without having to bicker for three weeks before your changes finally stick, but at least in the fields I'm interested in, that's definitely not true. These days when I make a change (only a handful per year now), I get accused of violating WP "canvassing policies", which didn't even exist back in my day, assuming bad faith, and whatever other stupid acronym the adversarial side can come up with.

Wikipedians who don't like your edits will drag them through so much bureaucracy only the most determined editors care enough to push through it. Even then there's no guarantee the bureaucracy will make the correct decision; you almost have to get something to the Arbitration Committee to know you're dealing with someone that at least sort of understands what they're talking about.
Blockbuster’s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholder
Very cool! Thanks for the replies, good to know.
Wow. Reading the negativity in some of these comments makes me want to think twice about sharing something I've made with HN. That's a bad thing.

It's not perfect. It's not the first time anyone's ever had this idea. Maybe you wouldn't hire her. Who cares?

Not everyone's running for best-most-perfect-idea-in-the-universe-ever. She made a thing. Good on her.
Wait a minute. jQuery 1.2.3 and jQuery 1.4? Just for the image hover?
Fail Bigger Cheaper: A Three Word Manifesto
Somewhat off-topic:

I had my first experience with IRC at 15. I'd recently discovered fansubbing and wanted to find subbed copies of the yet-un-aired in America episodes of Sailormoon. Some of the guys in my C++ class were avid IRC users and suggested I get on to see if they were available.

Unfortunately, one of the first things I noticed was the rampant use of the N-word. Not especially inviting to a young black girl. I asked the guys what that was about and they suggested I just ignore it. I had enough to deal with at 15. I never went back.
If you have talent, and work hard to cultivate it, then you can take advantage of the opportunities that are around you. Doesn't matter if you're at GA Tech or MIT, there are always more good opportunities than good people.
Japan radiation release 20%-50% that of Chernobyl
I can't see all the browser vendors being complicit in what would essentially be a cover-up just to make the internet look good.

And anyway, they didn't cover it up, they just waited for the patch. But they checked it in to the public repos days ago, so they weren't trying to hide it from the attacker, just keep it low profile. That doesn't make sense for this type of vulnerability, unless there is something interesting we don't know about.

My best guess is that we are waiting for audits of the target sites to finish, and I guess addons.mozilla.com is already done.

EDIT: Nevermind, here is the list of affected sites:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2524375.m...
I think they said it was purchased at a store and activated from an IP address near his house, and the nick was also used to discuss things Geohot has special expertise in. Add up enough bits of circumstantial stuff and it starts to count for real evidence.

Still, it would have been better if he had told the truth and not fled the country. All that's assuming everything in the article is accurate and complete, which it's probably not.

Sony makes it hard to avoid on the PS3, but any real professional clean-room reverse engineer would have resisted the temptation to accept the PSN EULA.

Which ironically lends a dab of credence to Geohot's claim that he's just a talented amateur for-the-love-of-it hacker rather than a professional profit motived pirate. An organized piracy ring probably would have covered their tracks a bit better.
Very unlikely Twitter, Inc is doing that. Maybe you used your account with a third-party Twitter app/service?

(This is why I use wildcards for my domain and sign up with sitename@mydomain.tld)
Here's this information in graphical form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/oimg?key=0AmvRYjkKmN-udGpOZk...

Note that this includes only the white/black/asian numbers, and the total is adjusted accordingly.
But what I meant was that I would expect the numerator to grow faster than the denominator, at least some of the time, as both inequality and regressivity increase.

Not possible. Define P = progressivity index = tax rate for top 10% / tax rate for bottom 90%. Define R = income of the top 10%, B = income of the bottom 90%, and inequality I = R/B. Tax paid by the rich = RP x tax rate for bottom 90%.

% of taxes paid by rich = RP / (RP+B) = IP/(IP+1). (Tax rate for bottom 90% factors out)

(% tax paid by rich) / (% income earned by rich) = [IP/(IP+1)] [(R+B)/R] = P(I+1)/(IP+1)

Simple calculus shows this quantity always increases with increasing P and decreases with increasing I. So a higher ratio implies either a) a more progressive tax system or b) less inequality.
Android NetQin Antivirus installs malware, asks for ransom to remove it
This discussion reminds of the Oxford comma style/grammar debates. Similar situation too: whether to use a comma before the and/or/nor of the last item in a 3+ list. For example: "morning, noon, and night" vs "morning, noon and night".
Nice to see someone else using Mnemosyne. I was going to make an Android client for it as part of the Google Summer of Code, but Google rejected Mnemosyne's application. I guess it doesn't have the same weight as OpenOffice or Chrome or whatever :(
Potentially dumb question (I haven't checked myself), but does this mean that Apple removes the names from the open source Darwin releases?
The whole idea that someone can prohibit cities from building their own infrastructure is the thing I find most amazing every time I read about this topic. Should they also be prohibited from building their own roads?
Nah. If I spent any time on a blog I wouldn't have time for my family or any of the other things I have going on. Maybe in a few years :)
Some readers might be put off by 'designers', 'women', or 'open source', thinking that the article would not be of interest to them. In reality, the essence of the article is how one makes any project inclusive to outsiders. This could apply to in-house corporate stuff just as easily as foss stuff and to any dichotomy you want to look at (tech v biz, coders v non-coders, men v women, etc etc etc).
Tim Gowers writes about Abel prize winning John Milnor's work
Well they can't link it against anything proprietary. Presumably they want to link into Finder in some way or into some of their other filesystem APIs.
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things about Vmail (Gmail for Vim)

http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html
See http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2010-October/159151.htm... for some discussion
I'm sorry, I don't hire Aries. Only Cancers and Leos for my company.
Opera 11 on Linux looks like this for me: http://upurs.us/image/24755.jpeg
Maybe I don't have the proper font. It looks awful.
Let’s Put Detroit’s Census Count in Perspective
You were editing religious articles. And you're complaining about bickering. What exactly did you expect?

Around 07 I made the first few edits to the wiki page for the small town I grew up (added the first 2 sentances of custom text) and updated the census statistics. It's now at 1600 words -- and I don't think has ever had any acronyms thrown at it (the only discussion page text is my question about census data from 2007)

For most articles -- for people who act as contributors -- the bureaucracy just isn't there.
This is a clickable link: http://www.getupp.com

And for the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/getupp/id416103537
Everything You Know About Nutrition Is Wrong
I used Evernote extensively for a few months. Their mobile apps did not support rich text, which frustrated me, but I found myself using the desktop clients exclusively.

Evernote may be excellent for certain workflows, but it just didn't jive with me. The concepts of documents, books, and tagging became a sort of work in itself.

What I really needed was a giant flexible outline: WorkFlowy. I recommend this simple but powerful mind tool without reservation.