skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm extremely relieved to see so many posts mirroring my exact impression from this article. Here we have a splendid reference as to the power of words to illicit an emotion, with no real effort to craft an argument of any substance.
A friend of mine was in pretty bad straits with the AIDS virus, full blown, and got into early clinical trials in a potential AIDS cure (don't know if it's this or not).

When we last spoke, his white blood cell count was up, and there was literally no trace of the virus in his blood stream; which is to say that while the virus may not have been 100% eradicated, any presence was literally undetectable.

That was over a year and a half ago, and I recently heard that he's still A-Okay, but I've heard surprisingly little about successful trials in the news.
IIRC (and it's been a few years) the hook goes on sys.meta_path, which uses the HardenedModulesHook to load modules, but then the Python runtime binds the variable names and attributes and whatnot before returning import statements back to application code.
The article misses the big difference between Shakespeare in Elizabethan London and Shakespeare in twenty-first century Topeka - today's Shakespeare has far more competition. He's not just competing against Topeka's Marlowe et al., but against those of Kansas City, St. Louis, New York, London, Shanghai, LA, and everywhere else in the world. His $15 million dollar vision for Topeka's very own Globe Theater has to compete with Google, T-bills, and an Arby's franchise for investment.

And of course Shakespeare of Topeka is also competing against the established brand of the original for access to existing theaters and against all those athletes for a slice of the public's leisure time and disposable dollars.

In many ways the Bard had it easy, there's only so much entertainment value in gin and whoring. If he had to go up against American Idol, things might have been quite different.
You can trick it by reloading the page :-)
So what happens if they contact him and tell him to stop, and that he doesn't?

In this case, they could cut him off from accessing their data. Out of date train schedules would mean his app wouldn't be worthwhile. But suppose the data was not time sensitive -- imagine if the train schedules never changed.

What then? Once he has the data, what can they do? In the U.S., the Feist v. Rural decision stated that you cannot copyright facts[1]. So it's not covered under copyright, and technically he wouldn't be "using" their website anymore.

What happens then, if the author decided to continue using the data that he gathered against their ToS? Would a civil suit be a (realistic) option for the source company?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
Serena Williams banned Top Spin 4 video
Hi,

I'm one of the three people who helped work on this project. It was a fun exercise to learn about real-time browser-based communications.

For the next release we are planning on running a vote to find out which features are the most requested. Many people are already asking for hold piece. We have a lot of ideas about what new items could be implemented.
I found it quite hard to decipher the original images the FBI provided.. So I pulled them into Photoshop converted them to Grey-scale and ran them through a Genuine Fractals routine and mathematically increased the resolution by 700% without losing any image quality, then I filtered them 3 times with some unsharp masking, to bring out some hidden details, finally I inverted the colors which makes several characters that were unrecognizable before appear.. especially on the 2nd page where the smudging is.

The files are 8 mb in size and I have it in both regular and inverted format.

Inverted View
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?f5zukpyfsjdct5s

Enlarged Regular View
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?84z1owcxf52ktmc
Personally, I'd liked to have seen Wave integrated. Hey ho.
The meta-purpose of karma is to promote good, civil discussions. I think that downvoting for disagreement runs counter to this purpose.
They should instead be advocating users to move on to services which use the GPL. Good luck getting all these corporations to open up their source code just like that.
Vote for it if you like the idea (click the like/thumbs up button)
I think it can be split into the issues of license-free JavaScript (those with no license attached), obfuscated JavaScript, and the lack of tools to modify JavaScript on the client side.
HIV Vaccine to Start Trials Within a Year
Right, but here's my problem with that:

I understand that the reason the analogy has become popular is because at some point, an idiot manager looked at a project plan, saw that the project was supposed to take (let's say) 6 months, and said "Hey, if we increase the number of developers from 2 to 6, that means it will only take 2 months."

So I get why it's easy to respond with "9 women can't make a baby in 1 month."

But let's say that instead the project plan said that it was going to take 6 months, and there was 1 developer on the project. It's absolutely likely that adding an additional number of developers can shave some time off that project (not inversely proportional to the number of developers you add, and not in every single circumstance, but I'd argue for the overwhelming majority of projects).

The analogy suggests that no part of project development can be parallelized, which to me just seems like shitty management of the project.
The benefit to Google of the current mode is the ability to rapidly change the code pushed to your browser.

If there was a open source release of the gmail client code, it would force google into maintaining an API for that code for the foreseeable future, which would require additional effort.

The closest to this request that seems remotely likely is a client side API for gmail, so that browser plugins or third party services could extend it. I see a lot of cost to Google to actually release the code, and not a ton of benefit.
The python runtime does not appear to do this in the specific case of submodule attributes. Right now, the Python bug against this indicates that it is considered a documentation bug... but my hunch is that it's an actual bug. I'll try manually inserting the setattr() line into my local copy of the SDK and see how integration testing goes then.

What do you use for GAE python integration testing?
After the Japan Earthquake - Details of a Long-Term Shortage of Electricity
WebOS 3.0 SDK
Well, I guess we'll see how this works out for RIM. They've already announced their "not BlackBerry" tablet OS will allow the sources for at least vanilla Android apps to be easily built as RIM-tablet apps as well (though the packaging will be different; IIRC, you won't be able to just give them a .APK).
The Gmail frontend is written in javascript using the closure library.

http://code.google.com/closure/

You can look at the (compiled version) of the code by looking at the scripts tab of the chrome web inspecter. They're there :)
BlackBerry Enterprise Server will support Google Apps Q3 2011
I think you may be overstating exactly how "low brow" Shakespeare was. At the time, high/low brow was pretty much determined by asking, "was this written by the Greeks or the Romans?" So their concept of quality was based on what we moderns consider antiquated rubrics.

I think low production value and Jackass are pretty far off base. You are correct that nobody thought of the bard as highly as Virgil; it is also true, however, that the only way for him to reach that rarified air would have been literally impossible. (Travel time and become an ancient Roman).

Not sure what I'd consider something equivalent in modernity. Maybe something like Lord of the Rings? Hugely popular appeal, enjoyed by a wide range of social classes (something Shakespeare was famous for as well), yet incredibly rich and deep.

I guess I'm just nit picking here, but it is an exaggeration to make too strong of a comparison between a low quality YouTube video and Shakespeare, even looking in the context of their histories.
The title seems to be off, from the article: "... she and her team gear up for the first round of human trials of an HIV vaccine." from that it sounds like they are starting human trials. As I this is not the first vaccine to get to this stage, it's certainly not what your friend was given (I assume your friend is human) as they haven't tested on humans yet.
How did u collect the emails? just a popup in the middle of the game asking for the user email? who would agree to that?

(i admire your geniousity)
Can you suggest a single use case for putting /usr on a separate partition that wouldn't work far better without? Sharing /usr across the network makes no sense, since its contents need to come from the same packages and versions as /.
The German solution is to burn their dirty high sulfur coal in Poland. Most German coal is stripped mined so unless you fall of the bucket excavator there aren't many miners killed.

It does pollute the atmosphere - but the winds blow east so it's the polish, then Belarus, then Ukrainian atmopsheres so who gives a s
How weird. Their position here seems to be that proprietary software running on Google's servers generating html is ok, but proprietary javascript embedded in those pages is not ok. (because it runs in your browser?)
Google Officially Ends Support For QR Code in Places
When i was 8 or 9 years old me and my best friend always fought about who would cure aids and who would cure cancer when we were grown up. Now i'm 23 years old, and went into CS instead of medicine although i had the possibility and had nearly as much interst in the field as in CS.

Nice to know someone was already hard at work while we were joking around.
I suspect the answer is "yes" for most users.

My understanding of how it all fits together, please correct if wrong: the default datastore is (strongly!) consistent and partition tolerant but sacrifices availability. The new HRD gives you availability and partition tolerance at the cost, potentially, of consistency. You can get an intermediate state by wrapping writes in taskqueue tasks, which I do for writes that can wait but must not fail on the standard datastore.
You pick it from the list and I use it to calculate the difference between the current time in your zone and the time you want the message, then add the difference to GMT time on my server. It was simple once I got the dots connected and figured out PHPs DateTime class. :)
Title is misleading. To me, the headline "AIDS vaccine in final testing" implies that they are undergoing their final testing to verify that it does indeed prevent people from contracting HIV. That is not what it means. Rather, it means that they are in the final rounds to verify that the vaccine is safe, before they start human trials.

A more accurate title, to my ears, would be "HIV vaccine almost ready for human trials."
Javascript on Gmail predates GWT. It may be possible that they've moved it to GWT but I don't think so, it loads too fast for starters.

For GWT normally you have to import the libraries, and then you get a lot of gibberish that looks like its been run through an obfuscator. Then in the body you have a section where you basically say 'insert stuff here', and that is where all your controls get inserted (by the magic javascript). Gmail doesn't have either of those that I can see.

I had a look at the source of gmail, and it looks like a normal page (lots of standard html controls (which you wouldn't expect to see in GWT) plus some weird ass timezone javascript at the end of it. Which does look kind of obfuscated, but probably was just run through a variable-name-shortener.

What I don't see, is any other script or onclick= stuff. And that is kind of suspicious. There's a blank script tag in the header, maybe they have a javascript that runs (to add all that junk dynamically) and then somehow erases itself (a neat trick?) or they have some other way of hiding the javascript?
both loaded pretty much instantly for me. if you are still seeing issues, email me. sachin@posterous.com. thanks
Where/how are they hiding the client side javascript?
More correct (if less vivid): see Amdahl's Law. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law)

Most activities can only be made partly parallel. The rest must be serial; that is, will depend on steps done before, and cannot be made faster by breaking it up for more workers. If a task is 90% parallelizable, and you multiply the number of workers by 9, you only get a speedup of 5. If you multiply the number of workers by 100... you still only get about 9 times faster. :-)
Anyone can participate in open source.
That's not correct - plenty of employment contracts lay claim to any contributions, which means the projects can't accept them.
Increasing Readability and Efficiency in Common Lisp [ps]
Here’s how to use Twitter “Web Intents”
Sadly, plenty of ISP's use that math. (Users * Bandwidth / 10) = uplink.
This is a very misleading headline.

Many potential vaccines have gone through Phase 1 human trials in the past decade. Phase 1 is hardly the "final" test. It's mainly to establish safety, it doesn't even prove the drug works. AIDSVAX made it all the way to Phase 3 trials, but unfortunately it was not found to be effective.

I've got my fingers crossed, but this is not a particularly newsworthy event.
perhaps its simply endemic. Internally to Google (which presumably arose outside of Google) was the notion that folks who agreed would simply put +1 in their email. Some tools (especially code review tools) could parse that and agreeable phrases like "looks good to me" as the writers approval of the original message. Sort of an in-band upvote if you want an HN translation.

When I read about it this morning I thought to myself "well that makes sense to 'me' but I wonder if it will be opaque to folks without that context?" Sounds like for some people it is.

If you suggest to someone (at/formerly at) Google a course of action and they reply 'lgtm' that means "Ok" :-)
That must have been a different thing right? Because vaccines don't work anymore when you're already infected? But still that's amazing news!
The Last Flight of the Unladen Swallow
Not sure this will help, but here are my two cents:

1. Are you a Celiac? http://www.celiac.com/

2. Advice I received from a Taxi Driver -- "If you're having a bad day, walk away." He referred to his 'bad days' as those when he didn't make money, but his advice struck a cord with me: If you cannot do anything about it, walk away and try again another day.
You're correct about what stage they're at, but this is still very exciting news.
Really cool experiment, although a bit difficult to extend as there are only 132 bytes remaining for loading anything else from the disk, which is not much (the boot sector is normally 512 bytes long on x86).
CAN-SPAM act applies to postings on Facebook, says 9th circuit
Facebook's Like button can be either "Like" or "Recommend", and publishes the selected verb into news feed. Many news sites use recommend for this exact reason (NYT, for example).
Heroku is looking for entrepreneurial hackers
Heroku is on a quest to change how apps are built and deployed, and we're looking for like-minded hackers to join our team. If you're opinionated yet chill, with an appreciation for aesthetic and a entrepreneurial streak, take a look at our open positions:

Rails developer - Work on the web development portions of our product, including our API and our add-ons program. http://jobs.heroku.com/entrepreneurial_rails_developer

Erlang developer - Work on our legendary routing mesh. http://jobs.heroku.com/erlang_infrastructure_developer

Product manager - If you've got a good mix of business sense, technical background, and organizational/administrative skills, this one is for you. http://jobs.heroku.com/product_manager

See the full list here: http://jobs.heroku.com/ And, feel free to drop us a line if you think you have something to contribute that doesn't fit one of these descriptions.

P.S. Heroku is owned by Salesforce Inc, but we operate fully independently. Our founders (James, Orion, Adam) are still running the show, and our team of 35 is in the same office we had prior to the acquisition. It still feels like a startup.
Read this again and i find it great.
so helpful for a young start-up to choose from the start the rigth tool and architechture.

Thanks again.
>(because it runs in your browser?)

Yea, exactly.
chatroulette in text. How is this any more interesting than browsing all twitter feeds simultaneously?
A vaccine would prevent you from getting aids, but probably not cure it.
you mentioned receiving the advice "go to a doctor / shrink / and talk stuff out." but did not mention pursuing it. this is good advice and as a college student you have several people you can talk to about this:

- college-health therapist, social worker, or doctor
- family doctor
- recommended or yellow page'd therapist, social worker, or doctor

These folks will be able to help you assess your troubles, and initiate treatment or refer you to a provider proper treatment.

Good luck, hang in there :)
or even, "New HIV vaccines almost ready for human trials" since, according to wikipedia, there have been at least 13 previous phase 1 trials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_vaccine#Phase_I
A few simple lines of JavaScript:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”></script>;

After that, each of the actions (Intents) has a different code.

Reply:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=TWEET ID”></a>

Retweet:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=TWEET ID”>

Favorite:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=TWEET ID”>

Follow:

<a href=”http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=USER NAME”>
The article is the 4th on the list, but the page it links to may be paywalled. The opinion hasn't been published yet, but the decision seems like it might be relevant to HN readers. The case is Facebook Inc v. MaxBounty Inc, if you want to read up on it: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2010cv0...
Yes, you're correct.

There are 3 major phases in clinically testing a drug's safety and efficacy before it's brought to market, and it seems like they're close to starting the first one.

For all those interested in the 3 phases, here they are:

Phase 1: Small number of healthy volunteers to assess drug safety, toxicity, and pharmacokinetics.

Phase 2: Small number of patients with the disease of interest to test drug efficacy.

Phase 3: Large number of patients with the disease of interest to test effects of new treatment in comparison to those of existing treatments. This is where you see double-blind studies, etc.

Personally, this isn't terribly noteworthy. They've merely devised a new theory that's shown to be effective using animal models, and are still quite a ways away from seeing if similar results will occur with human testing. Of course, I do hope they see good results.
Does this feel like an April fools joke to anyone else?
Just played for a bit. It's awesome! Very smooth gameplay on chrome and a nice retro ui.

My only criticism is the op is really hard to beat :P
Tell HN: Google Search has an honest-to-goodness minor bug
Try searching for, say, 'github', and you will find that github's URL is displayed as: "www.https://github.com/" - it happens for any site with https in the URL.

It only works sometimes, though - it happens to me when if I search while logged in, but not while logged out. For evidence see this screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2986043/Screen%20shot%202011-03-30%20at%2018.25.41.png

I know this isn't an interesting observation per se, but it's rare you see Google making a blatant misstep.

(Also it seems to me that telling HN about this will probably be more effective than submitting a bug report.)
I always wonder how they actually test if a vaccine against lethal diseases is successful in humans. I can't imagine there are volunteers who sign up to be injected with a vaccine and then get injected with a live HIV virus, just to see if the vaccine works. Or do they just inoculate volunteers from the highest "at-risk" population -- but then, how do they measure if people have been exposed eventually to the virus or not?
I think it's a poorly researched article... maybe first drafted in 2001?
The plutonium leak confirms a meltdown and containment breach. That is what is significant.
Ask HN: Finding a Co-Founder while in High School?
I have a lot of ideas I want to work on, a couple in particular and I realize I can't do them alone, or rather, I can but it won't be (and isn't) fun.

Where are some good places to find a Co-Founder? (I live in the East Bay)

I don't know of many programmers in my school. I know one person who has a sort of entrepreneurial side of himself but I don't need the entrepreneurial sense (he also doesn't do much), I need someone with a greater or equal knowledge of programming and (more importantly) a drive to actually use that knowledge. I know a few people in startups and plenty of people who work in some part of Silicon Valley, but most of those people are considerably older than me (40+) and/or not someone who I would want to work with.

You might be wondering how being in high school is related to finding a co-founder, or if not a co-founder someone to work on a particular project with, and it's because based on what I've read/heard, people find co-founders in college/university. I don't have that advantage of being grouped with people of similar interest.
Not believing it either. Why would Samsung ever want to install this?:
http://www.willebois.nl/starlogsetup.exe (30 day demo [click at own peril]).

From: http://www.willebois.nl/

That is not an enterprise grade keylogger rootkit, but a 23$ shareware program you could also find on cnet.com. Is the program registered? To who?

Close to 1 april's fools and Hassan has to admit he has a jealous lover? Or an affiliate/employee gone AWOL?:
http://www.willebois.nl/content.php?pg=spbonus&type=htm
Google +1 And The Rise of Social SEO
Acer Iconia - dual-screen touch screen laptop available for preorder @ $1200
To wit, I believe it is both a vaccine and a cure, though again, I'm scarce on details -- but I had the same question for him when he first told me about it.
Why are you using so much data stores? is it due to some legacy? I understand why you need MySQL (because some key algorithms are based on jointures), but why have at the same time Redis and Casandra? you also mention that you'll maybe replace MySQL by HBase? why?
You also mention that the MapReduce jobs inputs are some flat logs (i suppose that those logs are stored in HDBS) so are you using any API to write in HDBS from RabbitMQ?
I like the fact that you don't need to login to play... The only issue was i couldn't find any opponents to play :( Tetris Battle on Facebook is pretty addictive...they always seem to have someone to play against (though sometimes I think I'm playing against AI opponents).
I have a problem with this article, which is that treats JavaScript "programs" as different from other resources on the web. Must the HTML and CSS which make up a webpage be free? What about pictures, audio, and video?

JavaScript may be the most flexible language which web browsers natively understand, but HTML has long included forms (now with support for validation) and CSS lets authors program complex, interactive rules for presentation.

Even without JavaScript, websites like Gmail are undeniably applications (in this case, a mail reader, manager, and composer), some part of which are downloaded to and rendered by your own computer.

(P.S. I believe I've heard about more security vulnerabilities in browsers' handling of images than in their JavaScript engines. Also, CSS is turning complete: https://github.com/elitheeli/oddities/blob/master/rule110-gr...)