skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that may affect what he eventually receives in damages. But the judge taking sides against him based on doing something that he's within his rights to do is inappropriate.
1 + 1 != 3, Customs and Border Protection is indeed subject to federal law. They publish a list of requests (with details elided) on the Internet:

http://foia.cbp.gov/index.asp?ps=1&search=&category=...

Again, you could imagine them asserting one of the exemptions to the Act, but that would require them committing to a damaging position in paper. That is a major purpose of the exercise. The existence of that piece of paper would be a news story. (Man Claims Feds Out To Get Him On The Internet is not a news story.)
Amazon to sell cheaper Kindle only $144 with on-screen ads
but there are only 35. Good list though.
The Short and Sweet Guide to Being F*cking Awesome
Thanks. I think I like that solution, as it's extremely simple. Are there any drawbacks?

CoffeeScript is cool, as it is basically "Python in JS" but I have some resistance against languages that convert to other languages. I'm not so sure why.
Check it out (Gopro): http://www.amazon.com/GoPro-HD-HERO-960-Camera/dp/B003YMN3O6...

Compare it to this (the flip):
http://www.amazon.com/Flip-UltraHD-Video-Camera-Generation/d...

The gopro is a really great little camera, and it's actually pretty cheap.

People mount these to RC aircraft, or to the side of their motorcycle, or the front of their surfboard, or, anything...

The fact that you've never heard of it isn't an indication that it wouldn't be a competitor to the flip, it's just an indicator that gopro hasn't decided to advertise to you yet.

In my opinion, the gopro is the hands-down better of the two cameras.
Why academic start-up companies fail
The paper doesn't say so I am making some assumptions here but if you had a bloom filter per array then as these doubling arrays get really big all the bloom filter would tell you is that the target entry is probably contained in this giant array. A false positive in the bloom filter would cause a pretty significant amount of work.

The stratified b-trees use forward pointers to help target the search in the next array down the tree. Like regular b-trees the smaller root arrays will likely be cached in memory so the the number of random I/O's will be small.
The natural subsidy model for Kindles (to me) has always been subscribe (to publication x) for a period certain, get a reduced-price device.

My suspicion is that this is an incremental development which will serve as a transition to a new pricing structure. As hardware costs decline, one of the largest variables in the pricing structure for these devices will come to be estimations of customers' future spends in the store.

Any model that guarantees a spend is likely to find traction, and I expect to see multiple subsidy models emerging.
getting up to speed on their sprawling codebase

That too is valuable experience, of getting up to speed on sprawling codebases, which is a skill in its own right, and not one you get taught at college, and one you will need if you want to get involved in substantial projects later on. Negotiating corporate politics is valuable experience early on in your career as well.

There is a cost in switching too soon, and that is that you will be earmarked as a person who flits between jobs. 2-3 years at the first job is de rigeur IMHO. Yes you will learn an awful lot in your first year on the job, but you also have no perspective on how much there is. I remember in the dotcom days kids with 1 year of experience out of college would call themselves "senior software engineer". Good luck getting hired by a guy with 10 years experience!
CoffeeScript is much easier to read than javascript, that alone is a blessing. Admittedly I haven't used coffeescript much yet, I just cranked it up with nodemon a couple of weekends ago. I need a good starter coffeescript project that works on the backend with node, and the client side.
Previous: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213
Thanks, we'll fix those.
Yes but what does that mean? One can create and "backdate" (touch -t) any file. So how does one prove that an email is real and not created and backdated today?
Peter Thiel also wishes women couldn't vote.

http://gawker.com/#!5231390/facebook-backer-wishes-women-cou...
The following cover from Astounding springs to mind: http://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/feb59a.jp...
That's what we call a "straw man argument"-- I never claimed otherwise. I offered it up as a data point (among several) that caused people to dismiss the claim. Statistically speaking, I imagine people who've been convicted of fraud are liklier to commit fraud than those who haven't been.
I will upvote you if you explain what you mean by the last part about "this style of programming" previously being on its (it's? anyone) way out. Do you mean an asynchronous style using callbacks?
I hacked a way to get hidden, autopsying audio on iOS
Definitely - we will be adding screenshots pretty soon. I love the idea of AppHarbor - but sometimes you just need a nice VPS.
Who prints out emails? Besides my father, do people regularly print out emails? Maybe just important ones? I print out emails but usually they are e-Tickets. Call my cynical but I would rather trust an electronic copy on an ISP (or the archived copy) somewhere.
Part II - http://www.amazon.com/lm/R2KJ9BQ8WOKKGB

I'm guessing a list can't be more than 35 items. :)
I created a tool to calculate this over a year ago (http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-like-count) ... this actually benefits the publisher in that the more likes, the more likely a user will like it. Not completely transparent, but it's a well known fact.
The Future of Human Spaceflight
Exactly the conclusions I've come to after a few months at a startup!
How to Finish
Personally I'm usually interested when others extract key quotes from the article. So I do the same.
Convicted Felon May Own Half of Facebook
But do you get to keep your name on the script? There was that other project for writers where apparently they could (and did) remove your name from the list of authors. So you didn't even build a reputation.

As you say, $200k for a no-name script is actually not bad. And if it has some decent success (gets made into a movie at all), that byline probably has some value.
I think what we'll continue to see, is the physical-distribution-based middle-men fall away. They'll be awfully nice to have for quite a while. But the production companies won't need them for very long.

I expect an increase in digital middle-men in dealmaking (ala Netflix/HOUSE OF CARDS). Followed by the digital middle-men striking exhibition deals with the theatre chains. Then it's pretty much free-fall for traditional studios unless they adjust their model.

The theatre chains actually stand to get a shot in the arm with digital and physical middle-men competing on deals in the near-term. And with digital distribution/projection bringing overhead down, they'll pick up an incredible amount of flexibility in theatre-sizing/scheduling/etc. Exhibition is poised to get pretty interesting.

And if the big chains won't do it, I'm sure the digital distributors would be keen to prop up a smaller-theatre model in the interim.
Yes, the Froxlor Control Panel is available specifically for Nginx.
I don't think the feds are denying that they're out to get him. He's connected to the Wikileaks cable leak, the US government position is that this man is linked to what Hillary Clinton called, "ot just an attack on America's foreign policy interests ... it is an attack on the international community"[1].

[1] - http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/29/clinton_wi...
How is it always ex-founder/ex-developer raising all these lawsuits? Do I get everyone in the team to sign NDA, etc?
I bought a couple of those out of nostalgia. They aren't very good. The movement is rough, making them kind of annoying to use.
I'd love to see a service that renders the results in the same way like this or like Paper.li but one that stores a collection of links that i've favorited/bookmarked, say this week or today and then gives me a tidy url that i can share with friends, or makes it available as an RSS feed.

Does anyone know of such a service?
And better yet... flag it.
Has a law firm ever not bragged about how confident they are that they'll win?
Caching and Processing 2TB Mozilla Crash Reports in memory with Hazelcast
That's what I thought too. I stumbled across this yesterday, while searching for a market for my script.

The deal sounds great, I'm too busy to market my script properly, but I can just upload it to them, get feedback, exposure, possibly win some money, and maybe make $200,000 if they buy it.

Worst case scenario is I leave in 18 months with just my script again -- but I figure that's the expected case for self promotion anyway.
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437541
Microsoft unveils Internet Explorer 10 platform preview
Can anyone explain why amazon is doing this? Of all the industries they could move into, why financing indie scripts?
I'm a participant in this same program in Memphis, TN (look for my "Show HN" post in the near future). The focus has been on strong mentorship and an intense schedule of customer discovery and product development.

I'm proud of my hometown for creating this program. For areas such as Memphis that have struggled, I strongly believe the economic development focus needs to shift more to tech and software. There is talent here, but very little infrastructure to develop it. Programs like Seed Hatchery and LaunchMemphis are working to change that.
Soldering is easy - 7 page comic book about how to solder
Some context is extremely helpful.

Peter Thiel only believes democracy is instrumentally valuable. I.e., it is valuable only insofar as people vote for more freedom, and harmful when they don't [1]. He believes women vote against freedom. Thus, he believes women voting is harmful.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-educa...

[1] The belief that democracy is valuable only when people vote for your preferred policies is not that uncommon. Witness, e.g., hostility by gay marriage proponents towards voters who oppose gay marriage.
How does this prove that the emails were about facebook, and not some other site?

I guess facebook isn't going to use that angle, though.
hardrive data and forensic analysis from this time period exist as part of the Winklevoss lawsuit.
I like the suggestion that we use slide rules in elementary.

On the subject of graphing calculators, saying that you don't need a $100 graphing calculator because you can buy a $200 netbook is as silly as trying to compare an e-reader to a netbook.

On the other hand, there's no reason a good e-reader couldn't also be a good graphing calculator. And the pricing is similar.
I wouldn't call this a key quote, nor an obscure quote since it gets its own little "paragraph" (and the third for that matter). I agree with the GP, this is too youtube-comment-esque where people quote something from the video (often accompanied by "lol") and get upvoted for it.

It's nice when people quote from the article and then discuss something, but just quoting...
The use of recording and communication devices is forbidden in the customs and immigration areas of US airports.

I don't know if it has the force of law. It does have the force of "lots of official looking signs".
Agreed. We got one from our ISP when we signed up for fiber. Not sure I would actually buy one, given that my wife has an iPhone, but the Flip has been very useful.
Researchers Warn of Major Flaws in Industry Leading Firewalls
then at least add some of your thoughts on that quote.
The price of thermal coal (USA) is averaging around $2.26/million btu [1]; the average heat rate (inverse of efficiency) of coal plants is 10,414 btu/kWh electricity [2]. So the fuel component of cost is about 2.35 cents/kWh, or for a 500 MWe plant with 73.6% capacity factor [3], about $76 million/year.

There's also substantial capital costs. According to [4] (table 3.1 p. 19 [5]), representative costs for a new coal plant would be around $650 million for 500 MWe, and a total (levelized) cost of around 4.8 c/kWh. This is from a slightly lower coal price ($1.50/MMBtu).

[1] http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html

[2] http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epat5p3.html

[3] http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epata6.html

[4] http://web.mit.edu/coal/

[5] http://i.imgur.com/eJlUL.png
No, no drawbacks that I'm aware of. You're basically using a closure to bind the object to the callback, instead of using Javascript's weird 'this' binding rules, that's all...
Is the only way to find duplicates on HN, via Google?
I predicted when this first came out that Zuck would have to settle, and out of pocket, but not for 'in the billions.' I still believe that after reading these emails.

You have to remember that a law firm is going to ask itself about total dollar outcome, not necessarily veracity of all claims. Even a 1% chance of partial success is enough to pay for quite a lot of litigation.
Glasses-less 3D display for iPad 2
This is why you should use echosign. So you can prove things through a third party that keeps records!
Amazon to sell ad-supported Kindle
> Mozilla processes TB's of Firefox crash reports daily

Why? Likely because most of them are duplicates? Could they not be a little bit more clever about it and do something like generate a "signature" for each crash report and compare it against the server and only submit unique ones?

Or are they really getting TBs worth of unique crashes everyday? In that case sounds like they have a bigger problem.
Yes. Asynchronous style using callbacks has been done many, many, many times, and it really doesn't work very well. It does small things quickly, but have you noticed the number of complaints about how Node.js produces spaghetti code increasing lately, quietly and slowly but steadily? It's still buried under the hype, but expect it to get worse. And not "get worse before it gets better", just... get worse.

I laid it out more at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370303 .

Javascript doesn't particularly bring any abstraction capabilities to the table that Perl (POE, Event::Lib, IO::Async), Python (Twisted), or Ruby (EventMachine) doesn't, and current Javascript is actually deficient in the abstraction department by comparison. (The latest ECMAscript spec can compare to them, so Javascript will get there. Something like Python generators allow you to string together a couple more tricks together before the complexity becomes a problem, and Javascript will eventually have this.) They all result in programs that end up the same way. There are some tricks you can play that improve the situation a bit over raw callbacks, like trying to sequence them, but composing these tricks together gets harder and harder the fancier you get.

None of those libraries really took off and some of them I know had way more effort poured into them than Node.js has seen yet, like Twisted. And it's because the style, combined with language runtimes that can't manage the scheduling for you while retaining the code context, has certain inevitable results. You can (and should!) delay the inevitable, but it's still inevitable.

At the very least, I would suggest that if you going to consider using Node.js you should be aware of the fact that it's not a blindingly new thing, it's a relatively well-explored space being translated into a new language, and you can get a good sense of the tradeoffs from the many previous explorations of this space. There are still places where it may be the right choice; as I said in that other message, I have chosen event-based coding in another context because it was still the right choice. But I knew the tradeoffs going in, and took steps to mitigate them, rather than being blindsided by them.
As an addendum I'd answer each one of these by saying 1) Take your estimates and add 50% 2) Work 10 hours a day, 5 days a week max. If you have to work a Saturday or Sunday, only put in 4 hours. 3) If you're running a place and making people go on death marches because you've decided next Monday is do-or-die just because you feel like it, re-evaluate your planning and your execution because either your deadline is wrong or your execution is wrong.
Looks like the Job at Seed Hatchery is getting done.
Doesn't mention Kindle-ability though...otherwise it's book shelf building time :)
Are you after a job or are you trying to creating a future for yourself?

Lots of companies say something like, yes our salaries are low but it's great experience that will set you up for the future. That may be true... But someday you have to actually get to that future.

I always say, in business there is no such thing as cheap or expensive. There's only worth the money, or not. Well the company is buying your time...
I really like this idea; isn't that what the "comments" link does at the top?
Predicting Flip Videos Downfall in 2009
Come to think of it this way. If there is even a 10% chance that this is true and the settlement would be at least in the range of $200M to $1B (wild guess), and the lawyer's fee is 30%, that's an expected payoff of $60M to $300M. Nothing to sneeze at.

Even if they lose, think about it, DLA probably already have some spin about how they are just being "professional" about due diligence and doing the best they could for their client. No loss in reputation.
One of the great benefits playing a MUD back in the day gave me was the ability to negotiate a lot when trading stuff, so I got a feel for when to push, when to take the offer, when a negotiation just wasn't working out, etc etc. That said, this book has about 90% of everything you need to know.

I don't really like self-help/improvement books and the like, but this was just no-nonsense and straight to the point.
I somehow doubt they are abstaining from moving into other industries just because they are doing so with this one. Corporations tend to be pretty decent at multitasking...
Possibly as an avenue to creating original content for Amazon Instant Video.
Why "post PC" doesn't mean "sans PC"
Anyone know how to set a default view option across all folders? Like overwriting the previously set option for all folders?
Give them time to line-up sponsors and continue refining the business model and per-unit costs:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/02/free_kindle_t...
Partial Android Honeycomb Source Drop
You've got some good points -- but on the other hand, they're not doing anything Craigslist or eBay hasn't been doing for ten years now. Even some of their other examples (buying better tickets while at the all-star game) can tend to run afoul of the rules (tickets are often non-transferrable), but I suppose the market-maker isn't who gets in trouble for such transgressions. Likewise, it's the Tesla owners responsibility to get the rider to sign some waiver saying they won't sue if they get hurt during the ride, not Zaarly's. They're just formalizing the "hey man, would you give me a ride in that sweet car? I'll pay you!" type of interaction that has occurred throughout history.
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you're trying to exploit a competitive offer rather than arrive at what is fair

What definition of fair are you using such that what you're worth to someone else isn't a key consideration?
> Seriously, how is this legal?

9/11!

... remember the good times when the excuse was "communist! Go back to your 'papers please' country"
Csharpsharp - A collection of classes and extension methods that improve C#
Thats one of the directions we're going in with Newz.io- very soon. The underlying concept is to make it dead simple to show people what you're reading in an attractive way.
When Your Dream Company's Hiring on Twitter
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If there is a copy of the purported Ceglia emails other than in Ceglia's imagination (e.g. in the verified forensic analysis previously done for the twins), then they truly do exist.

It would be interesting if a web email provider was used. Doubtful they have any decent retention strategies after you hit delete.
OK, please tell me what is wrong with my comment. My POV is exactly the same as pppp in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437687
Transport links vs Inter Milan - Schalke's Champions League
Pagination Comes to Google Docs
docraptor.com uses princexml which theoretically could not only do HTML, but any XML based format. Prince does however include a default style sheet for XHTML and HTML seems to be the only input that docraptor accepts. Not sure what happens if you throw non XML conform HTML on Prince.
JFFS2 is intended to be used on raw controller-less flash an thus have to solve many problems that are more efficiently done in hardware. So it's probably only useful in embedded systems. Running normal filesystem on raw flash is good way to make it unusable in few days of light use.

In fact, JFFS2 works by scanning all the storage on mount and having it all in RAM, that causes it's problems with large volumes (slow mounts and also large memory use). In embedded systems, for which it is intended, mounting the volume is rare operation and volumes are generally small, also typical embedded systems running linux has more RAM than Flash.
Allen Institute reveals detailed gene map for human brain
مشاهده ونقل مباشر لمباريات دوري زين السعودي للمحترفين 2010
I see this kind of comment frequently, and I must admit sometimes I feel that way too. But if you notice the status bar on the iPhone screen shots, you will see "TELIA" which seems to be a Swedish cell provider. This means that English is probably not the author's native language, and should a) give him a break and b) commend him on a technically awesome article in a language other than his own (as a bi-lingual speaker myself, I can tell you I'm really impressed).
I'd never heard of Zaarly before now, and I live in Kansas City. For a while now there's been some rumblings about "The Silicon Prairie", it's nice to see it validated, even if it's just by a single SF hipster.

Off-topic, but siliconprairienews.com seems to have sufferend the hn-equivalent of the slashdot effect.
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Honeycomb source code released -- by Asus, not Google
I read this years ago on an airplane. I though the history of Frederick Winslow Taylor and his work in the iron yard was a pretty powerful indictment against his version of management theory. And if Taylor's methods are represented in today's MBA programs, than I'd say auditing a marketing or advertisement curriculum would be better than an MBA or a Philospphy degree.
The problem is that Zaarly doesn't actually have to be liable. Lawsuits cost defendants a ton of money and there are plenty of hungry PI attorneys out there that will litigate in hopes of contingency fees.
VMware launches Node.js, Rails and Spring PaaS
I use a slide rule regularly. It is neither quick nor accurate, but it is useful in the same way that making approximate calculations in your head is useful. That is to say, added precision doesn't help you understand the relationships in a problem and speed can obscure some of what's interesting. However, this kind of thing is only entertaining and instructive for curious people.
Postagram Transforms Any Instagram Into A Postcard And Delivers It For $0.99
Live Stream: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools
Even when the Flip was hot (I got one for Christmas a few years ago), the thing felt like a cheap toy. Once smartphones with decent video capabilities came out, it REALLY felt like a cheap toy.
It did crash. Now back online: http://spne.ws/9fy
[video] TouchStudio - IDE for your WP7 phone
Shakhtar Donetsk vs Barcelona 12h April 2011 - highlights | Footy Station
New MongoMapper documentation site
Thanks for the suggestion; working on a post now!
I think his first link was supposed to point here: http://mir.aculo.us/2011/04/11/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-mic...
BDD Antipattern: The technical spec (or why geeks need to speak business)
Not sure what you found convincing - it certainly screamed doctored conversation to me...
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