skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"publishing stuff" is not incompatible with undermining the government, it is the means by which the mining under is accomplished. From a govt perspective, Assange is just a guy publishing stuff like bin Laden is just a guy making video tapes. They are interested in knowing if he is doing more than just publishing stuff.

I'm not particularly thrilled with the way the government is reacting to WL etc., but I also recognize that it's rather difficult to tell apart real threats from unthreatening people who behave in many ways like the real threats would. Appelbaum can say he's not going to hurt anyone, but that's what any terrorist can say. His actions may be perfectly legal, but also probably constitute probable cause.

He hasn't been arrested, he's been searched. That is exactly what I'd expect the police to do in such cases. Your neighbors report a blood curdling scream from your house? The police come and check it out. It's not illegal to scream, but you'll still get asked a few questions.

When does it become harassment? We've probably crossed that line, but what's the solution? Once you're screened and land successfully, you're exempt from future screening? That'd be a pretty big security flaw.
I meant the people from Cisco responsible for the deal.
What's stopping you from using Skype on the CR48 is the lack of a Skype web app. Google isn't blocking, and in fact cannot block, apps on ChromeOS.

edit: Skype has talked about moving to the web for a while now. We'll see. http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/04/more-details-on-skypes-big-...
I got several downvotes for responding here. Another response pointing out why my comment was useful got a bunch of downvotes and has since been deleted. Both of these posts futhered the conversation and were within site guidelines. To me this looks like people are downvoting based on whether or not they agree with somebody, rather than the official criteria. How does it look to others?
Out of curiosity, how did you verify that the emails were actually sent before storing the hash. What would prevent me from storing a hash on your server without sending the email?
One problem with this setup is that your hands are not at elbow level.

You want a separate keyboard that you can put on a piece of wood or a book or whatever, so that the screen is level with your eyes (when in perfect posture) and the keyboard is level with or slightly below your elbows (when in perfect posture).
Looks awesome, but I'm skeptical there's a significant market for "easier than Heroku". The reason being that if you have a bottleneck setting up things on Heroku, then you're likely pushing way too many apps to afford to pay a monthly fee for each one.

I think the target market will be looking for something open source combining AWS provisioning and pre-baked Chef recipe collection.
And they were so close. If only they could have worked out the missing piece...

HINT: SD Card support.
'Oprah Winfrey Show' Finale Fetching $1 Million Per 30-Second Spot 
Ad buyers are being asked to shell out nearly as much as they did for the "Seinfeld" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" finales.
Every Day I Try and Get Rejected
A post about how to handle rejection in life.
I wonder if the green usernames may actually help posts by new users gain traction. I found myself more likely to take a look--curious to see what sort of submissions new users are offering.
I think I'm going to have to break my no-game-buying pledge for this bundle, another comment [1] pointed out Trine is local co-operative and I want to show my support for that type of gameplay.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438072 (in a dead thread)
i live here (santiago). i'm pretty insular (work from home for companies in the states or uk), but there is a noticeable uptick happening. people i've only met online are coming out for jobs and things like python, ruby, and "entrepreneur" groups are springing up. there's now talk of arranging a conference later this year. i'll see if i can dig up the details... [later] here you go - http://www.startechconf.com/
knowing the old cisco that's very doubtful, but maybe this new "we have to do a whole lot very fast or we're screwed" cisco will handle it as one would expect.
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Going by the rest of the article, I'm assuming by native HTML5 they mean hardware accelerated compositing? Good for them if so, but 'native' is definitely the wrong word to use, and the development channel of Chrome has supported hardware accelerated compositing for quite some time.

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/desig...

Can even try it out in the current stable channel if you enable it:
about:flags

IE10 and WebGL is the big question for me, which will be interesting to see pan out given their obviously conflicting position with OpenGL.
How to hire a Rails developer
I wish there was a way to do these (like you can in windows), maybe someone knows a way?
- Right click a file, "Send To". The nice thing about it is you can add items to the Send To folder so you can have a customized list of apps you can open files with
- Right click on a folder and "open in terminal"
- Type a path into a finder window and have finder open it
The more important facts, imo, were the six different opinions written and that while the court refused to grant a pre-publication injunction, they didn't actually grant immunity from post-publication prosecution. The summary of the Pentagon Papers case is not "publishing secrets is ok".
Link to github repos https://github.com/cloudfoundry
So, anybody know if they're pursuing a patent on this tech? A quick Google Patent search didn't turn up any US results. I ask because this language from the paper sounded patent-y:

"In a more involved version of the construction, elements from higher levels are sampled..."

Reads like "in one embodiment of the invention, ..."
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Agreed! Never trust a third party for your content.
Intel to break Moore's Law to get Atom competing with ARM
Nice design, although the text seems to spill out of the buy/sell/about boxes. May have to do with my system using large fonts, but I'd expect the divs to stretch anyway.

Is there any guarantee for the buyer that the cards will be valid and not used already? I wouldn't want to deal with multiple entities if a bum card came through.
Let's assume the worst case in order to answer your question in the most interesting way - namely that Mark Zuckerberg enabled these lawsuits and that they somehow have merit.

Back in 2003, Zuckerberg was very smart, a hacker, ambitious, but most importantly - inexperienced.

1. He was desperate for money to fund the infrastructure his startup required. His lack of experience allowed him to give far too much equity to Paul Ceglia - 50% and to Eduardo Saverin 30% - for their non-technical contributions. Friends and family. Mark Zuckerberg has learned greatly from these errors and from the advice of Sean Parker and is today well known as startup founder who has kept control of his company despite several rounds of VC investments.

2. Regarding the Winkelvoss twins, Mark Zuckerberg was too concerned about their possible competition with his idea, and unnecessarily stalled them with misleading information about his progress on their behalf. Inexperience caused this misconduct. Regarding stealing their idea, his inexperience permitted him to inspect their proprietary source code, even though he wrote TheFaceBook.com from scratch using PHP and so forth.

Lesson A: I believe the current lean startup methodology adequately covers the financial errors of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook startup: Obtain the minimal funds to develop your startup from your own savings, friends and family and from angel investors using progressive convincing prototypes such that the least amount of equity is given to early stage investors.

Lesson B. Use Non-disclosure agreements when inspecting someone else's proprietary code, and when allowing someone to inspect your code or any other proprietary aspect of your startup.
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Stop acting like a startup, Google
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Looks good. Couple of issues:

When I search for Best Buy cards and sort by Discount (descending), the top result says a card value of $25 with a price of $24 is an 8% discount. It should be a %4 discount.

When I click the buy button for that Best Buy card (the seller is Cardpool), there isn't an option to buy the $25 gift card. Only $50 and $100 options are available.

Site looks good overall. Nice work.
". Her looks — blonde, Midwestern, unusually attractive for Silicon Valley — helped her win magazine covers."

Great job author, you've indirectly insulted all the women in silicon valley ...
It's a year to two years away from release, much less marketshare.
Ask HN: How Would You Start (Technically) Writing an Ebook
If you were to begin writing a technical ebook that you wanted to eventually self-publish, what would you use to write it in?

I'm thinking TeX, but are there macros to publish to .epub and .mobi?

I'd love to get some general advice from folks who written ebooks about what worked for them, and what they'd do differently -- technically, to ease the publication process.
The biggest photo service are the photos that are already on your phone

This is one great piece of wisdom I frankly would not have shared.
IE9 renders nice and quickly but in contrast to their claims of speed, I've found their DOM manipulation to significantly underperform in contrast to the other browsers. Firefox 4 and Chrome 10+ are able to create and insert large numbers of new elements at the same time significantly faster than IE9, while IE9 stutters and lags under the same conditions.
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Each of the sites we support provide guarantees, yeah.
Send txt messages to Linkedin members.
Uh, what!?
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well maybe, maybe not. the idea was to be at every point in the bandwidth creation/consumption stream.
Very interesting. I'm glad more Heroku-like services are sprining up, specially with support for Node.js

This is a much needed service, and although some solutions already exist, they're far from perfect, and there's certainly lots of space for competition.
Although not quite a comic, Forrest Mims' Getting Started in Electronics is considered a classic.

http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/the-greatest-electronics-b...

Citizen Engineer is a comic book / zine / electronics kit. Unfortunately, they haven't released a volume 2 yet.

http://www.citizenengineer.com/
That's not a strawman at all. If the argument is that any given high school graduate would be better off starting a company than going to college, using 20 hand-picked or self-selected candidates isn't very good support. Pointing out that fact is important context.
I always forget to transfer photos from my SD card to my computer, so this seems like a cool and convenient solution for getting those high quality digital camera photos onto your smartphone/tablet/notebook for sharing online.
It definitely makes sense for VMware to build and open source this, since their core business is selling the virtualization software this runs on top of (I assume).

Though I wonder how much of it is really VMware specific, or if it would be relatively easy to port to Xen, etc.

Edit: actually it appears it might be agnostic to the virtualization layer.
Won't it break the sites that worked around the bug?
1. All this talk about 'Native' is basically propaganda. There is no such thing. All modern browsers generate native code when running JavaScript, and most use GPU acceleration to render content (for example, Firefox uses Direct2D, exactly the same as IE9). IE9 and 10 are not more 'native' than other browsers.

2. I am impressed by the work on implementing new standards - kudos to Microsoft. But I did not see anything about WebGL, which is a very important standard that is already implemented in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and (soon, or already) Opera.
Microsoft releases preview of IE10 (and demos Windows on ARM)
What about App Engine or S3 if you're just serving static files?
Magic Eight Ball with Raphaël JS
I agree with lucas, but more because of the faulty Keynesian economics described in that article.

Innovation and productive activity "generates" money, not consumption.

It doesn't make any sense to say that if I purchase something off of the McDonald's Dollar Menu, I have somehow generated and additional $2.08.
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This is a world's best entertaining game IPL4. In this game cricket and bollywood celebrity both are together, there for public can get more entertaining from the game. In IPL also involved Cheers Girls for improve for player's game.
I'd actually recommend to go through Apple's HIG before trying do things differently.
I've tried news:yc but was not happy with it's UI :(
More and more people are using their PCs with big TVs, so hopefully it'll make a comeback. Valve announced Steam will have a big screen/TV mode soon, and it'll be interesting to see if Portal 2 supports split screen natively (L4D 1+2 did, but required some hacking around in the console).
FTA: "... CSS3 Multi-column Layout (link), CSS3 Grid Layout (link) and CSS3 Flexible Box Layout (link), CSS3 Gradients (link), and ES5 Strict Mode in action. We also demonstrated additional standards support (like CSS3 Transitions (link) and CSS3 3D Transforms (link)) that will be available in subsequent platform previews of IE10, which we will update every 8-12 weeks."

Oh, hell yes! CSS gradients and animations/transforms? Christmas came early this year. This version can't come soon enough.
Just text "#search name" to the number 415-742-2852

Pretty awesome.
Why? Everyone else is supporting XP with no major problems. Meanwhile, MS has the source code for XP, and for some reason can't replicate that success?
write it in markdown of some flavor and make it as simple as you possibly can. then you can convert it to any target format you want.

start simply, use as little markdown or markup as you can get away with, and just start writing. futzing with the package or syntax or style or layout or anything else is a great way never to get actually writing.
Seems reasonable to me. I think terms like this are essential elements for a PaaS offering.
You raise quite a few valid points. But I didn't make the site; I just submitted the link because I thought it was pretty funny. :) My intent wasn't to offend or get anyone in trouble, and I apologize if that happened.

I did originally censor the title, but someone (moderator?) changed it to uncensored. There appears to be no way to censor URLs. There have been a few stories on HN that hit the front page with "foul language" in them. It would be nice to have a NSFW category/option.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote essential :)

Designer needed. Ability to code valid HTML is desirable but not essential.

We are a team working remotely (Europe, US & India) on a wide variety of client sites and workload is getting too big for us to manage alone. There should be quite a but of freedom to run wild with design work if you can justify it as useable ;)

Email is in profile. Send me a link to a portfolio or a bunch of links and we'll go from there.
Neat comic.

My opinion differs on soldering irons. I find that cheap electric soldering pens tend to give me poor results. For someone starting out I think this could be discouraging. Radio shack has a cheap butane pen that works much better for me. It does cost slightly more, but I find it is usable on a wider range of projects and can even heat shrink tube in a pinch.
I'm a bit sad about this. I liked DownloadSquad, and they did some good work.

I hope they find success in their next endeavours.
Good call. This is where I put on my IANAL hat :) I guess I made an assumption based on the fact that Ellsburg never got prosecuted for anything.
Blogspam of: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/1... which is interesting.

The work itself is behind a paywall, but you can read some of the supporting material at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2011/03/30/1018033108.DCSu... to get an idea.

I found the giant line graph problematic because of the hand waving they did to normalize when the breaks occurred during the day. It also disturbs me to see such large, high frequency variation in a line that is averaging a large number of events without explanation.
Surprising that they gave such detailed feedback. That's usually a big no-no. And for a good reason as we can see here. If the candidate disagrees with the feedback, he will get angry. But good luck with the search.
A good place to start might be the driver application at https://github.com/ghostbar/deb-xscreensaver/blob/master/dri...
Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice?
I think "native" means they can leave supporting new features everyone else has had for years until a new version of the OS comes out, rather than being bound by this silly "upgradeable" thing.
Hacker News' display of usernames borders on anonymity; it's not highlighted nor emphasized in any way. It's like HN is an invitation to debate with its hivemind.

It should at the very least be easier to scan the usernames when reading large threads. Now, it's either a strain or something you forgo entirely. I'd be interested to see an eye movement analysis of HN users in relation to the username displays.
So, Cisco guys aren't really the toast of engineering hiring on HN?
No,"If you are an affected,motivated Cisco employee,ping me" posts?
Interesting...
Another downside: being convicted of fraud. Governments tend to not like it when you lie to them. People go to jail, lose legal licenses, etc... Society may not care about honesty, but the courts certainly do.
Bin Laden was A) not a citizen and B) I think he did a little more than make videotapes.

Let's be honest here, the problem with wikileaks isn't the (nonexistent) threat to national security, it's their politics. These meatheads at the airport weren't concerned with national security, they were concerned with teaching this liberal pansy a lesson. Short-cop-syndrome writ large.
unXis Inc. was created for the purpose of buying SCO's assets. To say that it exists to cause trouble is not a stretch. To say that it is a mistake when they claim to own something they clearly don't is.
Checkout http://authoringebooks.com/ it's $50, but it's by jeremy mcanally and he wrote http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/ making $40k in a year.

So I think it covers a little about what tools to use etc..
Going to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ on Chrome (dev-channel) shows a little banner with the following message,

"Cool, you're using a Chrome 12 nightly build!
Don't forget to enable your partial hardware acceleration in the about:flags thingy..."

Seems like they're actually worried about Chrome, since Firefox and Safari don't have any similar messages.
Hi Amy,

I have tremendous respect for both you and Thomas and I'm sorry if the anything in my post came off as disrespectful. My point in saying that his "job" was writing JavaScript frameworks (which I have since updated to better characterize his relationship to them) was not that there was anything untoward going on. My point is simply that he is comfortable making the tweaks and modifications necessary to wield the power of multiple disparate libraries. Quite simply, he is a JavaScript hacker of the first order and is more comfortable taking on that job himself than at least 80% of JavaScript developers out there.

I felt like I had to write this post when I read this:

A whopping 100% of sites or apps using these libraries don’t use all the features they provide.

I have been talking to many, many developers who started with a "simple" app that became very popular and soon exceeded its original scope. To deal with this increase in complexity, they start building many of the features not available in microframeworks, but that come standard with so-called "monolithic" frameworks. My point is that many people need that level of sophistication, but there is a widespread misconception that, for whatever reason, picking a "monolithic" tool is never the right choice.

The suggestion that "You don't need all that code all the time" is not the problem. The insinuation in the JS community seems to be "You never need all that code," which I believe to be false.

Again, no outrage on my part. I just think that we need to address the reality of how modern web apps are built.
you can also hold down ctrl and scroll up or down the trackpad with two fingers to magnify the whole screen. Really helpful for zooming in when your laptop is hooked up to a projector.
>Ad skippers are a minuscule minority, and by definition the last people you are going to target.

86% of [UK] TV Viewers Skip Ads: http://www.lightreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=423&...

"One study found that nearly 60 percent of male viewers skip commercials and an even greater percentage of female viewers, nearly 70 percent, do the same. http://books.google.com/books?id=wUB9cczGxiAC&lpg=PA380&...
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Glad you put in the work to organize your comments. I've only caught a tiny slice of your input, but it's clear you really love what you do.

I hope you reconsider your ideas on code sharing, it's amazing how much one can learn on blogs and github. I started doing a little part time web programming in 2009 after a decade of strictly c++ simulation and analysis and would be lost without experienced folks (many teenagers) sharing their insights on practical web development.
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Cute, but we can verify that he has not: stock holdings.
Up/down arrows are not synonyms for agree/disagree but are supposed to reward people for providing valuable additions to the conversation.

Too many times have I seen people downvoted because they provide an unpopular perspective on a topic. This results in HN turning into a circle jerk of similar discussions/ideas and avoids some of the most truly interesting conversations. To me, this is the single biggest threat to HN.

Why would anyone mention any radical ideas when the masses downvote them because it does not match their own?
When was the last time Heroku accepted a pull request from you? ;)
Interesting.... Could anyone be more specific? Plenty of "serious" firms ask about last salary earned (in fact, if you were to fill out an application on line, you may not proceed, as these fields tend to be mandatory). Is your advice to simply fill out $0?
I've always thought "current salary" was irrelevant and just a nasty tactic.
Anyone have an instructable for not-very-good DIYer?
AltaVista is owned by Yahoo. No engineering or product personnel were allocated to it when I was at Y!, it's essentially on maintenance mode.
It doesn't care about virtualization layer, runs on raw hardware too.
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That's not really context, just another assertion that allowing women to vote is a "bad thing", just restated in different phrasing, which obviously provides nothing in the way of an argument.
I mean - more of the actual use (non-chair-on-table) solutions?
This makes me worried about hash collisions as well. The article implies that a file whose hash matches something they already have will never even reach their servers - so presumably I just have to keep my fingers crossed that the file they're synchronising to all my machines is the one I uploaded, and not some other user's completely different file that happens to have the same hash?