skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any doubt he did it? I've heard of him complaining about how he has been treated, but as far as I can remember he hasn't (publicly) claimed not to have done it. While I also haven't heard him to confess, that could be to make legal proceedings easier to win, whereas if he actually didn't do it, surely that claim would have been made?
What makes a market unusual?
The traffic is encrypted and they couldn't read it.
I use Google a lot and I still occasionally ask a question without thinking to google it. I think most people are like that. Why be snarky about it? I'd rather just remind them, 'google it' without all the unfriendly judgement that they're being lazy.

It's not like people are personally asking icey or you dozens of questions a day. The questioner has shown no evidence of laziness. Let us all exercise a little restraint.
You don't miss generics? In my limited time working with Go, the lack of generics felt like a glaring hole in the language. That said, maybe that feeling goes away as you spend more time with Go, and perhaps learn to program it more idiomatically.
http://lemonodor.com/archives/000246.html
Rewrite for a standard LAMP stack and deploy to a service like Amazon AWS or Linode. You'll benefit by this in the future as it will make it significantly easier to switch providers when yours jacks up the price like Google did here.
I'd enjoy it if the crap was flooded off the home page by interesting articles such as this.
Its simple when the OEM gets approved by a Mobile Operator at least for the USA ones the MOs are negotiating an update fee that they pay OEMs for that very purpose..

So its probably set up as 3 Major version updates as Google/OHA members want that kept at every 6 months..hence the 18 month time limit..
The Xbox Live con, how to save $26 with a phone call
Padmapper is essentially a craigslist/google maps mashup.

I just moved to SF from NYC and used craigslist exclusively to find a place. It was not an easy process to say the least.
"Raw resources are no longer the main basis for our economy"

It's fashionable to talk about information- and service-based economies, but that's not evolving beyond raw resources; it's merely taking them for granted. We consume ridiculous amounts of raw resources. Just look at what happens every time the price of oil rises.
Subject: Re: [feyerabend-project] An introduction to Lisp
From: "Richard P. Gabriel"
Date: Tue Aug 27, 2002 1:03 pm

At 22:23 +0200 8/25/02, Dirk Riehle wrote:

>Choosing CLOS or the like:
>
>- you don't get enough people
>- those people you get cost too much
>- you are incompatible with the rest of the world
>- adapters and bug-fixes will always be last for you

Though it's not relevant, I would argue like this:

My team will be able to program circles around everyone else. They will be able to construct rapidly a language specific to the problem we are solving rather than using a language designed by computer scientists worrying about their place in history and a herd of library writers working in cubicles a thousand miles from our business. My team will be able to use a language without training wheels. Strong typing is for weak minds, and it's exactly like they say at MIT: Our current popular languages are designed to help losers lose less.

I will be able to point to various examples where Lisp programmers have written not only 3-5 times faster, but they wrote things other programmers thought were impossible. In this regard, I'd tell the CEO, our competitors will be spending all their time trying to figure out that it's really possible we're doing what we're doing, because they will be thinking in terms of customization at compile time or link time, not at runtime.

Moreover, we will be operating where the CEO is focusing on his or her specialty and not imposing his or her knuckleheaded view on technology.

Because Lisp is dead, I'll get better programmers for less money. I'll be able to guarantee 50 more IQ points for the same pay. And my guys will be able to spend their time typing in value not book keeping overhead and typing in type descriptions because their guys are too stupid to know when they type + numbers are involved.

Because no one uses Lisp, I'll have my pick of thousands of great, experienced programmers looking to work for someone with a non-zero IQ, not the ones fresh out of college with 10 programs under their belts.

I'll be compatible with everything because it is right now. And if someone throws me a bug, I can code around it in a few minutes. Being a niche market means we're more proprietary. People will not use Lisp to compete with us because they are lamebrains listening to the latest fashion statement from Sun or Microsoft.The open source crowd isn't even smart enough to notice C++, so they are especially nowhere in the picture.

Of course, no CEO will belive this because every one of them is stupid.

-rpg-
Congrats on this release, Sam. Pow just keeps getting better!
Having done a lot of CJK development, I felt that Go's unicode strings were pretty kludgey last time I looked. Go's strings are all utf8, so unless you're working in its ASCII subset alone, you have to manually iterate over multi-byte runes to get the unicode codepoints out. That's really not what I'd call a friendly unicode handling comparable to scripting languages, or even Java.

Please correct if things have changed. I haven't revisited Go for a little while now, and would be very interested as to any updates to its unicode handling.
Doesn't every Google user bring Google revenue through advertising..?
That's great, but how does that help the guy get out of the mess he's in?... I think he needs official help, not some prize which promotes as much the prize giver than the receiver.
I know it's used a lot in AI. Problems involving backtracking. Expert systems, rules engines.

Further more, it's good at solving any problem since it's Turing complete.

To use it in Java I'd say one would embed an interpreter and provide an API for accessing Java logic, or use a bridge.
There are lots of different kinds of people.
Social apps make group travel a breeze
> You shouldn't ask a question where the answer is trivially Googled.

So we're discouraging asking questions now? That's a troubling stance.

Google's general improvements at googling are making things easier to google. But the world keeps inventing better idiots, and it is a cat and mouse game. Which is not to say that anyone in this thread is an idiot; far from it. But we must recognize that some people are inherently bad at search. Are they intimidated? Are they inputting the wrong queries? Are they asking the right things but unable to find what they're seeking in their results? There are quite a lot of things that could go wrong with the search itself, before even addressing the individual and how they seek and learn.

Some people learn by reading. Some people learn by listening. Some people learn by doing. This is not a weakness or a laziness issue, this is a human behavior issue. You're not pacifying people by giving them the information they're seeking. We used to call that answering, because they asked a question. If, as posed in this scenario, the first poser provided incomplete information, and the second poster posted a question asking for clarification or more details, I really fail to see how this is laziness that needs to be pacified. That is a very negative view of someone who just wanted more details.

The person was seeking education, they asked a question. Negativity and arrogance on how it was so obvious and they should have just searched for it are not helping educate anyone. They have the opposite effect: next time the person may not even bother asking at all, now feeling alienated and perhaps it's best to not try to learn at all. That doesn't help anyone. Not the person, the community, you, or me. We are all left worse for it.
I do this too, especially when emailing people who I believe are unable or unwilling to read a long email. It feels weird and unnatural. I'm not sure if the people I'm sending to appreciate it, but I know I can very easily become very verbose, and which details are important is very context sensitive and sometimes non-obvious.
People have done this for years, and the front page is not flooded with them.
A magnetic core memory module for the arduino
SLR Camera Simulator
Indeed ads aren't possible at all. Google purges gadgets from its gadget directory that wrap any kind of ads.
And it can even develop after the wedding.
This is ridiculous! Why not offer fellatio and be done with it.
Homework and Practice Workbook Answers
Which change(s) in pricing are responsible for the increase?
and some people avoid phone communication entirely; For me, the phone is essentially a pager; If you call me and nothing is on fire, generally speaking, I won't be particularly happy.
Screwdriver, book on electric circuits, mug with spare change. (feet)
You are quite right there. Windows environments are a haphazard mess of personal firewalls, routers. There is probably a reason why Jobs didn't want to go there.

Having said that, Skype showed that they could make it work.

Apple's valuation today is based on its growth trajectory. This means growing their customer base and engaging in hand-to-hand combat for existing PC users to move to the Apple platform. In some way, Apple's hands are forced.
The "input from mice, keyboard, and joysticks" sounds like Android might just supplant ChromeOS.

GoogleTV+Android3.1+joysticks = console play... considering GoogleTV hasn't really been popular, this might be what it needs to make a splash in the living room.
For $49 you're probably not going to get enough horsepower to run the whole system unless you can get the volume large enough. OMAP3 or i.MX5 could do it, maybe some of the later Chumby models could work.
Look at the median, then.
Because there is a big fight going on in Telco country.
Telecom voice, old rich 06 mobile industries took over IT, now software is on the revenge software beats Cisco callmanager hardware, MS is hot with Lync and Video..

Telco's / ISP's responds asking money for streamed data

next MS buys ISP's or in a poker move Google will do that.

next hunt media TV .. Sony/MS/Google/Apple who will buy tv
or.. who will invent a better alternative ...

This is why it is so important to stop the copyright laws
As soon a next facebook will be there, a huge video broadcast site (not facebook not youtube).. i'm talking about the next social hype.. sorry cannt tell you all now.
You're obviously not accounting for obesity statistics.

(I kid, I kid! Sort of.)
> Considering how many IP addresses they are getting, how many of those will end up being attributed to the wrong person?

If there are any smart lawyers representing those people, they will ask the subpoenaed ISPs how many requests for identification the ISP was not able to match to a subscriber. That right there will give you some idea of the data quality. I mean, suppose the ISP was only able to identify the subscriber for 15 out of 20 IPs. In this hypothetical example, you would have it on record that this identification method was wrong at least 25% of the time.

That puts you in a much stronger position to argue with their experts who say that their proprietary technology (that they refuse to show anyone) is wonderful and perfect and that you're just speculating about what might or might not have gone wrong. That said, it's a double-edged sword: if their tech is good, things could go the other way. I've heard stories where there were tons of misidentifications and others where there were few, so I don't know any good way to tell.

I'm surprised none of the ISPs are complaining. They generally can't handle tens of thousands of requests. And this sort of thing will eventually have to go to a higher court. Different courts have split over whether copyright holders can do this sort of thing.
From Project to Product
No, it's squash.
I still wonder, at what point, would other variables come into play, and what those variables might be? Let's say you get a couple more partners, then would you take 100 companies?

The point is similar to this one: we often have long wait times for specialist doctor's appointments, and there are many young people wanting to become doctors, then why can't we just train more specialists?
How flexible are they on that? Can you make it branded with some company that's sponsoring you for a period of time, or will that get treated the same as a block of regular ads?
Came here to recommend padmapper.
Yeah - but pad mapper is great because of it mapping the CL listings to the map.

CL is still by far the best for finding listings in SF. Unless you're extremely wealthy and are going to get a realtor to find that much more expensive unit.\

CL is pretty much the SF Bay Area defacto site for anything like this -- its just that CLs UX sucks for such things, thus padmapper still makes perfect sense.
Introducing Groupon Now!
I'd take that even a step further: Google's been trying to unify Android across its mobile platforms, but why stop there? Why not bring this to desktop? And what better way to unite the desktop and mobile than through the browser and the cloud?

The latest versions of Chrome Canary have been increasingly focused on bringing the app experience to desktop computing. It already has dedicated applications for Google maps, Wikipedia, etc.

I'd credit a lot of Apple's mobile success to their ability to create a consistent experience across the product line. If Google can unite Chrome and Android together into a coherent experience across all product lines, they're going to have something very special on their hands.
More to the point, a "let me google that for you" comment used to be the kind of dick move that got people downvoted to -8. It's not really worthy of this kind of analysis.
Apache Struts 2, XWork, WebWork ... Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities 
he recently released Apache Struts 2.2.3 framework includes fixes for two reflected XSS vulnerabilities I came across in late February.

User provided data is not properly escaped before being included in XWork generated errors, thus allowing successful reflected XSS attacks as described in MVSA-11-006 security advisory.

NOTE: Other open source projects and commercial products relying on XWork framework could be vulnerable to attacks similar to the ones described in this post.

NOTE: WebWork framework released by OpenSymphony (http://opensymphony.org) was already confirmed as vulnerable to reflected XSS attacks using similar vectors.

URL: http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/05/apache-struts-2-xwork-webwork-reflected.html
52min intro on webgl at Google io
I know; my comments about ASLR/DEP and the kernel were intended to be separate. As for whether there's a kernel vulnerability, I'll defer to you (although it doesn't have to be full-fledged arbitrary code execution; it can just be a system call that's lax about security tokens), but in general the breadth of kernel code the renderers can access is pretty large.
Oh gosh it reads brilliantly - it is meant to be ironic, yes?
The tip about some previous hackernews apps being rejected for the word "Hacker" sounds like it might be best to describe Hacker News as just news.ycombinator.com "YCombinator is a startup incubator...".
How CoffeeScript makes jQuery more fun than ever
In addition to your custom components point, I wonder if licensing restrictions come into play at all. I am not familiar with Google's policy on use of external code based on license of said code. If there is, hypothetically, a policy to use code for internal projects of only certain licenses, then pypi (generally) may be slightly less useful to them.

If they were re-implementing a significant amount of code then go may indeed be more productive.
Richard Gabriel is the master of writing things that leave that exact question unanswered. For eg - http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
Multiple Serious Security Issues Found in WebGL
thanks, will re-do this
You might want to put 'Hacker News' in the app's title, though.
Why Skype? Microsoft confirms $8.5 billion purchase, clarifies nothing
Disclosure: I'm the ceo of dotcloud.

Tons of Google App Engine users are currently migrating to dotcloud: they tell us it's simpler, with less API lock-in and more choice of stack.

GAE has a few sweet features that we lack - but not for long.
Microsoft sells keyboards.
Web Business Models, Lean Startup & The Missionary Position
> It's really jarring to see such wrongness

Codd help you
> So we're discouraging asking questions now? That's a troubling stance.

It seems pretty obvious that some questions are better not posted on a discussion site, because they bring down the value of the conversation.
after several months of such treatment he will easily confess to being an elephant and a little mouse at the same time.

Sleep deprivation does wonder to human brain. Water boarding doesn't leave any traces (and thus we can believe official statements not mentioning application of water boarding to Manning :) and does even more wonders to a human (anybody who don't believe that it is a torture - your comments are welcome after you spend 5 full minutes without breathing. Please ask a friend for help if you can't hold your breath for that long on your own.)
Don't the FSF a several other software foundations have similar copyright assignment requirements?
Wood Type Revival
Matt Griffin and Matt Braun have started a Kickstarter project to revive historic letterpress wood type as digital opentype fonts for designers.

I should tell you one thing at the outset: I’m a type nerd. I can spend hours mooning over the beauty and minutiae of letterforms, and nowhere is this proclivity more pronounced than with wood type.
Gagaville: Zynga and Lady Gaga
Just got the 3.1 update for my Xoom. Few observations :

* Flash acceleration seems to be both enabled and making a positive difference in smoothness.

* UI is noticeably smoother and we got a brighter text selection caret.

* New scrollable multitasking is welcome as I was frequently hitting the older limitation of handful apps listed there

* No crashes or force closes yet

* SD card STILL does not work which is ridiculous.
> It's really jarring to see such wrongness

http://tinyurl.com/mgc9ss
What mess is he in? Last I checked, he was appealing the extradition to Sweden for questioning about the "rape" allegations. Let's say he loses the appeal; he shows up in Sweden, answers some questions, and is done. The Swedish government has an amazingly weak case against him; so weak it's already been dropped once.

If he doesn't lose the appeal, then he'll stay in England a free man.

The US doesn't like him, but he didn't do anything illegal in the US, so that's not really a problem for him. I doubt he'll be dropping by, though.
Based on his single example I suspect any market which requires intimate familiarity with and the ability to minimize what bureaucratic ritual dances must be taken before, after and in-between any action.
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What evidence is there of him being tortured? It seems he's basically in solitary confinement: 3 meals a day, sleep when he wants it, and an hour of exercise. It's not joyous, and months without human contact is not exactly good for people, but he is not being treated terribly from what I understand.

What's terrible is how long he's been held without trial, however.
Exploring Bundle's Data
Eh, it wasn't meant to be a dick move. I apologize if it was taken that way. It's definitely not worth this much hand-wringing.

However, it is kind of frustrating when people don't attempt to put forth the most basic effort in finding information like this.

I'm not an Apple developer at all, and it took more time to copy and paste the url into a comment box than it did to find the phone number.
It's unfortunate that you've been downvoted for this.

Just bookmark the post for posterity's sake. When the bubble finally bursts, you have evidence with which to back up a satisfying "I told you so".
Yes, me too. People have mistaken my cubicle for an unoccupied one.
From second sentence of TFA:
In October Android Chief Andy Rubin provided his first definition (links to tweet)

Then: ...Today during a press Q&A at Google I/O, Rubin gave a more detailed explanation...
Some guesses:

* Barriers to entry not commonly seen in the web/mobile space (complex bureaucracy + entrenched players with opposing interests able to grease that bureaucracy, etc.).

* Lots of disparate stakeholders that all have to be coordinated and managed (healthcare: govt, taxpayers, patients, doctors/staff, insurance companies. Education: Parents & taxpayers, teachers unions, students, local+state+federal govt.)

* The market is not traditionally tech-savy and/or early-adopting. Users have to be actively convinced. Getting traction is even more of an uphill battle.

* Anywhere the risks to loss of investment are not transparent or clearly understood.

Maybe all markets are like this to an extent, but some moreso than others?
There has to be some middle ground between Apple's style and Google's style. Apple overdoes their control a bit, and Google doesn't exercise enough control. You shouldn't have to make an anonymous reviewer think about puppies to get your app passed. I'd just like an app market where Apps are guaranteed to not be privacy violators, trojans, or capable of damaging my hardware.
Anyone know what the chances of them taking someone who applied late might be? We just heard about Y Combinator and applied a couple days ago. Their information is vague on this only saying that chances are very slim. Probably more slim now that they are taking 60 off the top.
There are obviously people whose views range from "he's a terrorist" to "he's the best man alive", and everything in between.

You know, people were saying the same thing before they gave it to Yassir Arafat, except for the part about him being the best man alive.
Iteration over strings is rune-by-rune in Go. However, (somewhat counter-intuitively) string indexing/slicing is byte-by-byte, so you can't just go "str[0:10]" and get the first 10 code points. Then again, that's true in utf16 also, if I'm not mistaken.
But if you want an array of runes instead of a utf8 encoded string, you can just do "[]int(mystring)" and it'll do the conversion for you.
Usenet is protected by "common carrier" legal immunity, not by secrecy. I am sure the MPAA and RIAA know what Usenet is... but consider how flaky their "we have proof of you uploading the video to us" cases are, and then consider how they would go after people who didn't even upload anything.
You might find this interesting:

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/232
I wonder if they're just playing their cards close to their chest until the Oracle lawsuits are done and dusted? If not, then this feels like a bait and switch. I'm sure the open nature of android attracted a lot of attention for them from manufacturers and the initial batch of users alike.
It's sad that Yahoo Groups has a download limit on text.
You're right, but "dishonesty" is a dirty word, despite not necessarily always being bad or immoral. It's up to journalists to perform balanced reporting. We trust them to do that.

Lazy journalists that simply rewrite press releases, emails from their friends, or otherwise fail to do any meaningful research are the ones truly deserving of the label "dishonest" (amongst others!).
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