skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
okay, removed offending ROMs, and put up a homebrew one:
http://www.grantgalitz.org/CrazyZone/

The URL linked above now redirects to the homebrew ROM.

Edit: Oops, I overwrote the redirect, sorry.
Try http://www.grantgalitz.org/CrazyZone/
Check out his other work too: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/ (submitted this to hn a while ago)
The article that the author links to[1] is talking specifically about unit testing in Java. I'm not sure it has ever been that popular in Java to begin with, although there may have been buzz about it for a while. The arguments for its waning hinge on the idea that unit testing is hard and requires training and books. Refactoring legacy code for testability can be tough (or at least scary), but writing unit tests themselves is pretty easy, and questions about how JUnit works can be answered by a web search.

[1] http://binstock.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-popularity-of-unit-t...
China also has a popularly elected government ... The fact that there are two parties in US and one in China does not make any difference IHMO.

Switzerland referendum system would be my example of accountable government.
Next thing you know they'll be running binaries without sending them through IDA Pro.

(Which isn't to say that I disagree with the security concerns raised of a curl|sh. Just that of course many people don't vet their various source code/shell scripts/executables. None the less, you should give them the opportunity to - a tarball and a detached signature seems to be a pretty friendly approach)
Direct link to the actual article: http://redwoodapp.posterous.com/macruby-and-xcode-4-build-a-...
I've already been there working with all the apis I use on unscatter.com fortunately with 2 kids I have to stop. Though I have had some very tired weeks when I can't sleep cause I am up all night coding
Props for mentioning the OODA loop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Ask HN: How to handle the first round of funding?
Hi.
We got rejected in YC this year, and we are motivated to move on, but we have a huge problem, we will soon run out of cash, we are now working on this project and we don't have the time for anything else right now.

Let me get to the point.
We get the product up and running and we receive some funding (Seed or Series A funding whatever you would like to call it), we don't know if is appropriate to discuss with the investor a minimum salary for us (2 developers / funders) ?

If so we are thinking to ask as little as possible at start in order just to cover our expenses.

And one more thing, once we have an offer from a VC that would like to invest in our project how can we get some help from a lawyer? Keep in mind that by then we will 80% run out of cash.

We could start taking in some projects but this will result in a delay in our development and we are trying to avoid that as much as possible.

Thank you
I've never seen any reference saying the Rothschilds or the Rockefellers ever had more than a few hundred billion in today's dollars. Compare to the US federal budget, which is over 3 trillion per year.
For ultra-fast one-way sync, I built Dripbox: https://github.com/epall/dripbox
Your first link is to an article that cites no real sources that actually back up what the article claims. The external sources it cites either do not say what it claims they say, or they are opinion pieces with no cites to their sources. Most of the cites, however, are just links to early articles on the same site that similarly lack any basis.

The standard MO of that site is to make up something, occasionally even actually labeling at as speculation. Then in later articles they mention it in passing, just saying they have written about it before, and citing back. Then in still later articles, they mention it as fact, and cite one of their secondary articles.
Or even the laughable idea of downloading a tarball and running a configure script without first examining it for trojans. Such folly!
500 Interns - 30 Internships at 30 Hot Startups:  No Cover Letters Allowed
How have you built the back-end without using some kind of client for testing?

If you have spent three years developing the back end, I'm not sure you are a noob to all things programming. Why not use the same language you used to create the back end?
Great layout, you'll get your product much sooner than a year!
Moon mining definitely violates space law.
Just text, formatted for 80 cols. Anyone else really likes reading stuff in this "format"?
I am applying, but I do have a few small points:

- As seed capital goes, that's not going to get very far. It is, however, great that other aspects will be supported.

- Given the failure rate, likely worse than international par - that's not really enough ideas being sponsored to see many graduate.

- There are other incubators here, offering similar services (however, not Google's name as a sponsor, nor generally the capital)

- Competing internationally from .za will be hard. Perhaps prohibitively so. Ideas with primarily local applicability will be more likely to succeed, which means ...

- You should really be developing (and selling) a _business_, not an application.
I, and many others, believe Rothschilds have over 500 trillion. Plus 80% share in Bank Federal Reserve New York ...
“Concerned about theoretical man-in-the-middle attacks when piping scripts from curl to your shell?”

This case is where you know what's at the URL you specified, but since it was/will be downloaded over HTTP, in principle a MITM could change the content when it's downloaded by curl, so you're running a different script than the one you reviewed/uploaded.
I'm looking for a design ninja to be my virtual partner in crime
Actually as both artist and mathematician, the first thing I had to do is 'translate' her visualization into something I could relate to my visualization on a given subject. Hmmm--- that is not really clear; I suppose what I mean is that we all 'see' things differently, the trick is to line things up! BTW, I didn't really notice the colors, so for me at least they made little difference...
If you assume so, you'll see that the current masters of our universe will not allow a company to build the capital and technology to industrialize space, until they have the control packet. They are not stupid you see. Same thing happened with IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, etc.

There were many other technologies that had the potential to change the global political system, like the Internet.
Emerging Languages camp - day 1:

http://olabini.com/blog/2010/07/emerging-languages-camp-day-...
That's basically the objective of the modern Greenpeace, elimination of human life from the planet. If you talk to the founder of Greenpeace he will basically tell you that his mission for Greenpeace was full filled and that most of what they do now is on the lunatic fringe.
No the space bubble ended the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, we're currently rebuilding technology to get us back to 1969.
Upvoted for noting that simply not paying attention to what's been said good cause for downvoting.
The book cited as source is from the same author as "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution", which I really enjoyed reading.
So I guess writing a DNS resolving library wasn't justified, even though it dropped the memory footprint from 15M (when using C-Ares) to 400k (a bit more information about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324428)
One difference thiugh is every one of those tools are accessed via a unique url. Facebook.com is the only way to access the other.

It would be interesting if, like facebook, you coukd do nothing on google without signing in. further upon sign in, if you were given a more cohesive iGoogle profile through which to access these services.

Clearly what google lavks is not the message board, but a cohesive ux to tie these all together - but only if thats how these services were of value, like facebook. But they do have intrinsic value as standalone services, thus the user base they do have.

Its a risky situation to try to glue all the already valuable services google has together with some ambiguous social duct tape. Im sure that would fail.

Creating yet another site where we can create an account wont work. Letting us share through some service like disco is a single channel through which to share info. That competes with twitter.

Additionally they cant provide a business profile as linkedin owns that space.

It seems as though they need to find a way fir people to create an adhock social network for various activities and provide the tools that support this group.

typed from phone, forgive typos
Visualizing TCP (Russ Cox)
And I do have exactly the same experience.

In almost every language, a research for "vlc" gives you either adwords for scams, adware, software+toolbars, software+homepage-changer or websites in the first page of Google results (using rings to get higher).

Most of the time, they don't offer the source, modify something and do not offer the source, or abuse trademarks.

Since Google refuses to remove them from index, or from adwords, the only way is to DMCA them.

I have literally sent hundreds of DMCA. It almost never works.
Just wondering, what do you think of Greenpeace work?
If they would've built the entire infrastructure without public money sure, but that's not the case. Also, when dealing with limited resources, like spectrum, regulation is necessary. We put in money to build the infrastructure, we should have a saying in how it's utilized. And, by the way, I wish dealing with most companies would be as smooth as the power company -- ymmv.
(Founder Stories) Right Media’s Mike Walrath
CS grads who want jobs, or self-taught programmers would be better off learning Java than Ada or C.

Java is the new COBOL. Large companies write their back-office applications in Java. The largest amount of third party free libraries exist for Java - e.g. numerous Apache projects. The most popular free development environment tools are oriented towards Java - e.g. Eclipse and NetBeans. The most popular free unit test environment is oriented towards Java - JUnit. The most popular continuous integration environment is oriented towards Java - Hudson. The most popular complex, free build tools are oriented towards Java - Ant and Maven. The most popular mobile phone platform is programmed in Java - Android. The second most popular phone platform is programmed in Objective-C which is closer to Java than to C in syntax and programming style.

Back in the late 1960's, CS departments eschewed COBOL and instead taught FORTRAN. I never was paid for programming in FORTRAN but I made a very good living for twenty years programming in COBOL - which I self-taught.

Mr. Dewar is right to emphasize theory but he is too close to the US military's ADA language - and I think is disconnected from the business world where most of the programmer employment takes place. ADA went nowhere commercially and Mr. Dewar is living in the past.

Teach students skills that will get them a job - how else to pay off those massive student loans?
go here instead :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill
This is interesting. In my time designing lunar excavation equipment, much of our problems arose from the intended location: permanently shadowed regions of craters. We were intending to mine for water for propulsion, consumption, etc purposes.

Basically, it's really hard to mine in those conditions. And when I say "conditions," I mean down to 50K. Lots of familiar materials just won't work at those temps.

Mining, instead, for high-value minerals would presumably not require such extremely low temperatures. It would, however, still have to endure many of the other issues we faced: never-eroded (read: abrasive) regolith, the vacuum of space, reduced reactionary mass, etc.

I wish them luck!
This could be a direct response to the concerns you voiced in the Pow thread a couple days back. And your input is on word choice? Jeesh, someone's hard to please :)
I use this in Safari/Preview.app -- hope it works across all PDF viewers though.
Actually, no I don't think it does indicate that. He's saying that he loves technical debt because it means things get written fast and furious, and he can just leave the technical debt to someone else. If he hated the debt, he'd take care of it.
Mine the moon? That's a pretty stupid idea. Much better to aim for an asteroid - no property rights and no gravity well to escape afterwards. Net value of the rare earths in a 1 km asteroid was ~1 trillion dollars, from memory.

There aren't any trojan asteroids in the earth-moon system according to http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/observatory_l2.html, but there are quite a few close approachers which could potentially be redirected closer to Earth.

btw, this is not a new idea, so there's no excuse for not knowing about this, especially if you're in the field: http://www.nss.org/settlement/L5news/1982-harvesting.htm
This was really an inspirational and superbly executed talk. The slides ware basically just background without much value. I just wish hi's Metrics project would exist for my stack (PHP), I'll probably have to roll something of my own, or find something suitable as an alternative. Any suggestions?
For those who aren't savvy: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1091104
There is such plan for every single strategic resource. Stuff like opening mines, that are currently unable to compete, because of low prices of Chinese, etc. products.
Ask HN: Does HN Need a Meta Section?
I've only been an active member on HN for the past six months, but already I've seen dozens of discussions deteriorate into commentary on the HN voting system, ethics of downvoting, whether the comments themselves are worse than before, what can be done about it, and so on.

This is a problem. It derails useful discussions and it means that interesting meta-discussions sometimes get voted up higher than the actual discussion related to a link.

One way other sites deal with this problem is by having a "meta" section, for discussing the operation of the site itself. Stack Overflow quickly implemented one of these shortly after it launched, and Matt Haughey talked at SXSW about how important it was for Metafilter to have MetaTalk, a place for collecting bug reports and to get feedback on their algorithms and moderation.

Does HN need the same thing? Has it been discussed before? Is there some benefit I'm not seeing from keeping all the discussion in the main channel rather than having a side-channel for meta-discussion?
What is the one with the eyeballs? I don't get that one.
When I imagine mathematical operations like these, I sometimes imagine numbers moving around, distorting, and fading in and out in a way representative of the calculation. For instance, “x^2 * x” would show the x on the right moving onto the x on the left, and the 2 fading down to be replaced by a 3 fading in, like an odometer. I’d like to some day create a Flash animation of some calculation showing those movements.
You're mistaken on this point. The courts already rejected the ancillary jurisdiction rationale, and rather than wait for Congress to make a decision on net neutrality, the FCC adopted a new rationale (which, as I recall, hinged upon reclassifying broadband traffic) to justify imposing their net neutrality rules. All of this is in grellas' post. The issue grellas is raising is whether it's acceptable to let a regulatory body like the FCC make such broad assertions of authority at all. The matter of ancillary jurisdiction is already done and settled.

When I said we're not in any real danger of the FCC having a "broad, unchecked power to control what happens on the internet," my point was that irrespective of whether Congress denies the FCC this authority right now, it always has the power to do so. And though it's irrelevant to my point, if the courts had upheld the ancillary jurisdiction rationale, Congress could always strike that down, too. This situation isn't like the executive branch jockeying with the legislative branch for power: the FCC is not a peer of Congress.
Those close approaches are moving very fast.

Plus who would wont some limited liability startup to redirect asteroids closer to Earth, probably using big thermonukes?
I'm guilty of this: `wget mysqltuner.pl && perl mysqltuner.pl`.
I'm interested to see your results when you get done!
This doesn't answer your question but here I think is a good place for me to spell out what actually happened between the Pow thread and here:

* Sam Stephenson posted Pow with instructions to install it by piping curl http:// into sh.

* I posted a comment calling that installer directive "borderline irresponsible", while at the same time attempting to convey being impressed with Pow itself. My execution of the message I am trying to convey is not graceful.

* Because I have better name recognition on HN and also an unasked-for but not unappreciated status as HN resident security dork, my comment shot up to the top of the thread.

* Because HN is a community of nerds, a bunch of people jumped on to say (in effect) "hey wait, people are also at risk when they install software from Rubygems, but you don't call Rubygems out".

* I responded to some of these comments. I was careful at first because wow is this a boring argument, and more careful later because wow did that comment thread ever spin out of control.

* At this point, 2/3rds of the comments on the thread are nerds arguing about (or, more accurately, piling on to one side of the argument or the other) curl|sh installers.

* Here I decide to edit my comment to note that it sucks that this argument is taking over the thread, because Pow is pretty cool. I see it as an appeal to please downvote my comment because it isn't germane to Pow.

* Sam Stephenson posts a comment thanking someone else for praising Pow, because he's happy not to see FUD about Pow. I now feel very bad, because I can see why he feels FUD'd. I'm having a bad week, so I don't communicate this very gracefully.

* Sam, obviously still stung (or amused) by the HN debacle, posts "gosh", a program that makes fun of the notion that you shouldn't pipe web pages into sh.

Here we are a little stuck. I don't know Sam, but I know the team he works for and admire it. On the other hand, I do know that curl|sh is a bad idea and am not going to say it's a good idea just because HN commenting dynamics, whether my fault or not, spun out of control. It doesn't matter how much I like 37signals. I still have to rely on my judgement. I may be wrong, but from what I can perceive now, curl|sh is evil.
Groklaw was very useful for getting documents out, and explaining procedural things. Basically, the practical aspects of law. Even when a legal document is public domain, it often requires someone with access to a for-pay system to find it, grab it, and put it up on free site.

The analysis side of Groklaw, on the other hand, was so-so, especially the farther it got away from actual legal issues.

I'd like to see a site that gathers legal documents related to the same kinds of issues Groklaw covered (and more, perhaps) and makes them available for free, but that either does not do analysis and editorializing the way Groklaw does, or that has several independent people providing analysis from a wide variety of perspectives.
Yeah, but if you pipe the curl output to your shell anyway, this is the same thing.

Unless of course it's some sort of "timing attack" (advance apology to purists if I'm using this term incorrectly) and the server knows you've downloaded this once (with gosh perhaps) and then sends you the malignant stuff the second or subsequent times.

Edit: sorry, the above makes no sense because you will have reviewed it with gosh and probably wouldn't download it again.
My own experiments along these lines are in StoneKnifeForth, a self-hosted compiler for a variant of Forth: http://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth/
and tokthr, where I'm hoping I can get to a usable interactive interpreter in under 2K: https://github.com/kragen/tokthr

I think I need to correct stoneknifeforth a bit to make it run on current Linux.
Thank you kind sir!
Ask HN: Rate my weekend project.
You might want to give this one a try:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fox-splitter-...
Grades are fundamentally supposed to measure what/how much a student has learned. (though their success in this regard is debatable) I don't know that success on innovative projects measures learning. It'd also be a real b*tch for folks who are not innovative thinkers.

This is not to say it's an impossible idea, but we'd have to verify that generally speaking, performing well on projects correlates to learning- either that, or give up on the idea of grades representing learning.
I'm getting "Please try using a standards compliant browser." in Safari 5 & Chromium 12.

[edit: fix confirmed]
Objects in orbit are also moving pretty fast. Slowing it down a bit so that it's captured by Earth's orbit wouldn't take that much energy. Also, mass drivers would be the preferred option, no nukes necessary.

A 200 metre asteroid might make a pretty big hole, but then so would profitable quantities of ore coming back, or a rocket capable of getting to the moon in the first place. Nobody seems to be too worried about SpaceX accidentally crashing their moon-capable rockets into a city.
I'm really, really glad. Fuck Groklaw.

Groklaw was like a big, angry shark gobbling up all of the material that a half-dozen journalists in open source and technology journalism would have loved to cover, had they not been emasculated by editors who were in love with PJ. It was a big ego game for her, not to achieve fame, but to achieve some level of personal satisfaction. It was always my hunch that she was filling some empty void in her life with Groklaw -- mommy and daddy made her feel useless, so Groklaw was her way of fighting back. Or she had an abusive husband and Groklaw was her only power in the world. Whatever. It doesn't matter now.

Apparently all the PJ lovers missed the posts where she promoted religion, and called for the censorship of OSTG/OSDN journalists because NewsForge published an editorial about being okay with using proprietary software, and told people that it wasn't okay for kids to believe in Santa Claus. PJ executed hit jobs on anyone who publicly disagreed with her or her ideology.

She reveled in that power. She had the entire tech journalism establishment by the balls, and she wasn't afraid to use that to satisfy her personal vendettas. Anybody who questioned PJ in the least was accused from every angle of being a Microsoft or SCO shill, or taking money from some front company. Anyone who asked who PJ was and how she was making her living (perfectly valid questions -- the same ones she asked of everyone who spoke out against her or did anything she didn't like) was subjected to an Anonymous-style attack from her community of blind followers. One person even claimed to have been the victim of arson at the hands of a Groklaw fan, but nobody could print those stories because PJ had a stranglehold on the tech news publishers. Nobody was allowed to publish anything about Groklaw.

Except of course the one rogue publication that did the same thing to PJ that she did to her enemies. PJ deserved what Maureen O'Gara dished up to her -- and more. There were so few actual journalists in that industry anyway... everyone was either starfucking Groklaw and promoting Linux and the FSF with fluff pieces, or they were prevented by editors from chasing stories that showed those shadow-gods in a negative light. Had Groklaw never existed, open source and Linux journalism would have been so much better for it... there would have been real story-chasers, not free software worshippers and fanboys.
Is a ruby gem really needed instead of just wget'ing a file, vi'ing it and either rm'ing or ./running it?
I think it is going to be "as easy" as showing up and starting to dig. The lawyers will wrangle things out in the meantime, but that's a trivial task compared to mining the Moon.