skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not in the know if Apple provided such offer

They do. In settings, General -> Legal one finds:

The WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore software is open source software [...] You may obtain a complete machine-readable copy of the source code for the LGPL-licensed portions under the terms of LGPL, without charge except for the cost of media, shipping, and handling, upon written request to Apple.
> Many things don't need to be delivered. The post office could actually let people see images of mass mailings before they are even printed or let people print them themselves with no delivery.

How curious, I imagine this is how people described fax machines in the early 70's...
WSJ Responds to Safehouse Security and Anonymity
Ask HN: How do/should co-founders handle disagreements?
I'm referring to things like design decisions, strategies, etc. -- cases (hopefully seldom) where you guys just don't see eye-to-eye. Is there some framework or process that people follow?
Loyalty cards at VONS are opt-in. Which means you, the consumer, have to sign up for the card, and then choose to use it when you make a purchase. This law is targeted against the equivalent of walking into a store, someone putting a tag on you, and tracking what you do now, and forever after you leave the store, _without your knowledge_.
56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate
Digital Holograms Faster than Ever
Thanks for your reply. While I don't deny the existence of flagging of voice and text communications (this has been a well-known fact for years), my point was not "no, they aren't watching." My point was "yes, they are watching...but who cares??" If you have something you want to hide from the government (or other organization), encrypt it.

Also, even having access to my home network (which is firewalled once by my router, and again by my computer) there is still no way to just "flip the switch" and monitor my webcam. I would have to

a. have a port available PUBLICLY through both firewalls that allowed someone to connect and view a live stream of my cam (which would require streaming software running in the background, AKA I'd have to purposefully turn it on) or

b. have a trojan installed unbeknownst to me that somehow figures out, in every model of laptop, how to turn on the camera but disable the "camera is on" hardware light, connect to a remote server (without the operating system knowing about it (not bloody likely)) and send a stream of everything happening. There would have to be a standard API implemented by all PC/camera manufacturers that allows this trojan to do this, which has also been kept entirely secret (impossible, if more than one organization is involved) and also the trojan would have to be installed on all computers and ignored by all virus scan software. The trojan would also have the ability to open a hidden connection that the operating system would allow but not report as an active connection.

Like I said previously, this is ridiculous. Perhaps this could MAYBE happen in Windows/Mac (good luck keeping this secret), but not an open-source OS like linux. So yes, maybe you don't know how to do it, but I do...and I'm telling you that I would have to purposefully allow it to happen. Please don't spread misinformation just because you think it may be possible or because you saw it in a movie.

Also, note that at no point did I call you paranoid or mention a tinfoil hat. I simply stated my disagreement to your main points, which you have still not argued against:

1. You are on public networks here. Your computer is connected to the largest public network in the world...consider it a free for all. Your cell phone transmits information using radio waves...meaning anybody (anybody) can listen in.

2. Nobody cares what you are doing or saying. You'd have to actually be planning some sort of attack to become any sort of priority on a keyword monitoring system. Which brings us to

3. If you really do want to hide something -- from the government, from corporations, from anyone -- you have to encrypt it if you are going to send it over public channels. Airwaves are public, the internet is public. Don't expect free privacy.
I'm putting together a pull request with some cleanup for Automake files. I'll take a look at porting the Automake configs to Scons next.
You should ad that including pretty girls showing their vaginas on your webpage does attract an audience.

Not sure what the ROI on those Fucked Company t-shirts were, but I'm sure they generated page views.
At my office, we're struggling with a 0.25Mb up connection. What I wouldn't give for a single percent of google's connection speed...
... and that is the hard lesson of being smart isn't it?

You can outsmart yourself if you don't listen to people who are smarter than you--or simply have better perspective at that moment.
Sandia uses GPUs for calculating parity in software RAID,
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICPP.201...
You can see this for yourself - run the test referenced in Rob's post above. IE9, right now, reports a 13-14x slowdown on that test with trivial changes.
That works great, unless said miners have an almost ridiculous quantity of tools just lying on the ground waiting for someone to clean them up a bit and start using them.
I've been thinking about this sort of thing a lot lately. Sugar (http://www.sugarlabs.org/) get a lot of things right in terms of p2p user interaction. If you want to, say, edit a document with a friend you just click invite and Sugar will handle everything else. It will even send them a copy of the editor app if they don't have it installed.

I think developing small-scale p2p apps (eg IM, 1-1 audio/video, multiplayer-editors ala etherpad) can be made a lot easier than it is today. My rough plan of attack is to use erl-telehash (https://github.com/jamii/erl-telehash) for addressing and NAT traversal with something similar to bloom (http://www.bloom-lang.net/) for coordination / logging / debugging. Add libraries for at-least-once messaging, leader election and operational transform. Maybe piggyback on chromeos or android to get secure p2p app installation.

I also had some thoughts about the CALM hypothesis (http://www.bloom-lang.net/calm/) which I haven't seen mentioned in the literature. A monotonic bloom program is one in which every delivery order for a given set of messages results in the same state. For many protocols what I actually care about is that every possible end state is equivalent, for some protocol-specific notion of equivalence. For example, for leader election all I care about is that every end state should have exactly one leader. Monotonic programs are easy to model check and I think explicitly stating the desired equivalence relations will reduce the state space explosion at points of order. It might be possible to get good results from a very simple/naive model checker by exploiting this.

Not hugely related to the article, but its been on my mind a lot lately.
The problem with that punishment is that it "hurts yourself" - what are you going to do - stop giving news to the CNN or Wired Magazine for example if they break an embargo? Techcrunch can break embargoes because there is literally no point in not giving news to Techcrunch.

And "an email an hour before" is enough to build a great story around a developing issue - this is no challenge to a real newsroom.

It just doesn't make any sense - the only thing embargoes do is to inflate the egos of PR firms.
This isn't the first alternative parser for MediaWiki content -- there are 28 rows in this table. (I just added Sweble's and my own project...)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers#Known_impl...

Most of these are special purpose hacks. Kiwi and Sweble are the most serious projects I'm aware of, that have tried to generate a full parse.

However, few of these projects are useful for upgrading Wikipedia itself. Even the general parsers like Sweble are effectively special-purpose, since we have a lot of PHP that hooks into the parser and warps its behaviour in "interesting" ways. The average parser geek usually wants to write to a cleaner spec in, well, any language other than PHP. ;)

Currently the Wikimedia Foundation is just starting a MediaWiki.next project. Parsing is just one of the things we are going to change in major ways -- fixing this will make it much easier to do WYSIWYG editing or to publish content in ways that aren't just HTML pages.

(Obviously we will be looking at Sweble carefully.)

If this sounds like a fun project to you, please get in touch! Or check out the "Future" portal on MediaWiki.org.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future
Just because it's not enforced doesn't mean it never will be.
I don't think anyone is arguing that none of these technologies exist, but saying that the average person shouldn't be overly concerned with any of this.

I don't really care if companies, the government, or my family know what sites I visit, where I travel, or who I speak with and which topics I'm interested in.

Certainly, there are people (like you and others) who have passionate objections to all of this. There is an easy solution: Do not use technology.

On another note, I'm sure many of the readers on this site are actually the individuals responsible for building some of these systems. :)
I think we killed this poor site.
Awesome app. This is random, but I was just looking for something similar
But I do believe it's supposed to be available from the day
the binaries are out.

So, does anyone knows for sure?
Vitamin R
Of course, the bandwidth is limited to gigabit (probably) to the desktop, or less if the OS/Hardware can't handle it. And I'm sure they limit bandwidth for users... imagine a PC infected with a virus, or bit torrent left running, if everyone had full gigabit upload speeds.
From the University of Toronto campus, all requests to www.google.com go through Canarie, the local hookup to Internet2, I think.

This means all my searches are very fast, and also means when our main provider (Cogent) is down, we still have access to google and their web caches.
Yeah, sounds possible. So do you see similar numbers from your campus to speedtest SFO as well?
Not having Google datamine your business records, Priceless.
More importantly, Google is one of the world's largest ISPs (practically Tier 1) and maybe the world's largest CDN. The speed of their Internet is quite obviously limited by Speedtest or some artificial limiting, not their lines.
Why dropping out of MIT with No Plan was Worth It for me
Adding Highscore functionality to HTML/JavaScript based games
I use Express Checkout with http://bop.ly. I was having that trouble before too but you have to pass an item with a name and a description,and amount. Let me know if you want more details.
Headline is missing the key word "Reportedly" and is seen quoting "SemiAccurate".
In other news allofmp3.com has announced an expansion of its Warner Music library ...
A soundproof room, but you can hear outside
It's helpful to think of the flow of capital acquired through privatization of Russian state property into US-based and EU-based businesses as a form of money laundering. It's about legitimizing these assets and moving them farther away from the source of their original dubious provenance. DST investments are yet another instance of that.

From the value perspective these investments don't seem to make much sense, but value is not the primary objective, or not the only objective in this case. It's also about legitimization and moving assets outside of purview of those who could potentially reclaim them.
>Opera is always several years ahead of its time

Except in adoption rates.
Freedombox foundation is trying to achieve the same end result.
The rise of the permanently temporary worker
The Dynamic Code Evolution VM
I usually figure they're not interested if I haven't heard back in 2 or 3 days. Sometimes I wait a bit longer if the writer is very well known, and therefore more deluged.
Testing the Link Between High Gas Prices, Online Shopping
Markdown...ugh. Let's just stick to DokuWiki or Mediawiki syntax for everything, please. If you need something more advanced than that, you should be using LaTeX. Actually, it'd be cool to build a working MediaWiki + Markdown => LaTeX converter....in something like Python.
I was fairly sure this link introduced no new information on the subject. Thanks for confirming the suspicion.
A co-worker wrote this.
http://isthismeetingpointless.com/
I usually go with an Eclipse variant.. Eclipse PDT and Aptana have worked out well for me. Currently using Aptana now. But really, anything that makes you more productive is good I think. Getting into IDE holy wars is pointless. Nobody wins and everyone ends up feeling the other person is retarded :)
Rise in layoffs, gas prices cloud hiring outlook
Have you properly defined your types in the nusoap registry?
Definitely true: creating an environment where a culture can be created is a huge part of being successful and recruiting great employees.
Exactly. I find glorifying user-tracking like that really disgusting.
Why, exactly, would a consumer NIC be faster than 1Gbps? I'm sure the MV campus bandwidth consists of a ton of fiber directly to the core. They probably give everyone all the bandwidth they can stomach--no one could generate that much traffic, even if they wanted to.
How New York City Will Own Silicon Valley
I am sure it was a great chance for those guys to show their competence to their potential employers. If the project had a success, they could show themselves as valuable and desired professionals in the eyes of companies looking for workers.
How a Rewards Card Saved My Life
I think the question is about how the kernel can use the GPU. Linux probably doesn't need to train hidden Markov models. It might, however, need to do crypto (e.g., for an encrypted filesystem).
The results from speedtest.net shown in that article indicate a ping time of 3ms. So Google's internet is still really really fast.
If you want to blindly support any tax because it's a tax, and blindly hate any company that makes money because it's "an evil corporation", you are free to do so.

But it's abundantly clear by the facts in this situation that this is a net positive for San Francisco.
But how do figure out who that is?

I'm just getting started in the startup world and eagerly welcoming advice from all sides, but I know I need to strike some sort of balance between information sponge and intrepid plotter of my own course.

How to find that balance point?
It's a big deal because you are signaling your intention to to fly to destination C, not B, when in fact your hidden intention is only to go to B. This is called lying. Try telling them the truth, either by buying the single A->B flight or by telling the check-in clerk that you have no intention of flying to C, and you won't get the good price and may get banned from the airline.
> It's only misleading if it's inaccurate.

Bullshit. Misleading statements are accurate statements that deliberately omit or skew vital information.

> Even with the wide range, that's an excellent valuation no matter how you slice it.

I can't find any information on what the valuation actually is, so I'm not sure where you're getting that it's a good valuation. Depending on what you count as Facebook's "seed round", they could mean $20k. If it was a huge amount, they'd probably have said so - see, for example, Color's $41 million.
Agreed just not clear what it is.
“The three general areas where organizations feel the Google Tax most strongly are deployment, IT support costs and user training,”

Could someone explain how #1 and #2 applies to Docs?
What's your plan for helping with this effort?
In the Java example with three try/finally's, he calls 'dispose()' on a File. I've never seen this before, what does it do? Or did he just hallucinate that to make the example look more dramatic?
Offline events work best when your product has strong ties to the real world.

According to pud, it depends. He gave Evite as an example, but mentioned that Yelp did something similar.
The Air lacks the all-important keyboard backlight. That alone makes the MBP the winner in my book. There's also the fact that if you want to do something requiring more RAM and/or CPU, it also has a performance edge.
ARM11 Linux educational computer aims for $25 pricetag
Is there anything your looking for specifically that would talk about specific topics?
Having surpassed Star Trek's communicator, we seem to be well on our way towards the tricorder.
Anyone know if there is a website like this for the US?
Google Apps terms of service: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html

See section on confidential information.

Note the differences between the free version and commercial version:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/premier_terms.html

See also 1 & 2 of Google's privacy policy here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
IIRC it was also one of the success factors of MySpace.
I agree with you, and in my opinion, this kind of behaviour warrants a ban.
I think the problem is that doing so is a zero-revenue effort. Why spend man-hours putting together an automated workflow for source release when you can just do it manually (and lazily) every time someone complains? That doesn't justify it, of course, but looking at it that way makes it seem not-weird.
Nope, they'd just be web apps. More like Adobe Air or Titanium.
So, you're the infamous "."
Yuo were prolific, I'll give you that.

Like a motorcycle stuck in the mud. Ra! [/inside-joke]
Privacy software doesn't help when your information is directly sold to the highest bidder (which can be the government, see the latest TomTom kerfuffle).

There are technical steps we can take to minimize our publicly available footprint on the internet, but there's no way to completely control it, short of oversight on the corporations that mine our data.

Perhaps this is lack of imagination on my part, but how does offering people the ability to opt out of invasive data collection stifle innovation? Sure, it's another hurdle for any company to overcome (one amongst thousands, if you run a for-profit site), but it doesn't stop new software from coming about.
The Gathering, a large LAN party in Norway had a 100Gbit connection. As one of over 5000 participants, I achieved this: http://speedtest.net/result/1260898925.png
"CSS could have used a table-like layout model that makes it easy to arrange <div>s into rows and columns, allowing a smooth upgrade from people who were using the <table> tag."

Like this? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html
Hey Neilk!

Did you ever turn up anything regarding this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2216249

btw, neat js parser, i'll have to check it out. :)
Old School Research Papers
.. and nonmemory resources? File handles, sockets, network connections,... ?
Pretty girls can be a good design element to draw the users' eye toward something on your site. But this post is more about bringing in new traffic; web design is another topic.

To answer your ROI question, the girls modeled for free and I sold about 20,000 shirts. Also, they didn't show vaginas (at least not on the publicly facing parts of my site). Here's an example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pud/58650101/in/set-1268624
What solution does CSS offer for three-column layout (with a resizable center column) that is remotely as simple as:

<table width=100%><tr>
<td width="200px">Fixed left column.
<td>Liquid center column
<td width="200px">Fixed right column.
</table>
Good background from the bitcoin people:

"A number of Byzantine Generals each have a computer and want to attack the King's wi-fi by brute forcing the password, which they've learned is a certain number of characters in length. Once they stimulate the network to generate a packet, they must crack the password within a limited time to break in and erase the logs, lest they be discovered. They only have enough CPU power to crack it fast enough if a majority of them attack at the same time.

They don't particularly care when the attack will be, just that they agree. It has been decided that anyone who feels like it will announce an attack time, which we'll call the "plan", and whatever plan is heard first will be the official plan. The problem is that the network is not instantaneous, and if two generals announce different plans at close to the same time, some may hear one first and others hear the other first.

They use a proof-of-work chain to solve the problem. Once each general receives whatever plan he hears first, he sets his computer to solve a difficult hash-based proof-of-work problem that includes the plan in its hash. The proof-of-work is difficult enough that with all of them working at once, it's expected to take 10 minutes before one of them finds a solution and broadcasts it to the network. Once received, everyone adjusts the hash in their proof-of-work computation to include the first solution, so that when they find the next proof-of-work, it chains after the first one. If anyone was working on a different plan, they switch to this one, because its proof-of-work chain is now longer.

After about two hours, the plan should be hashed by a chain of 12 proofs-of-work. Every general, just by verifying the difficulty of the proof-of-work chain, can estimate how much parallel CPU power per hour was expended on it and see that it must have required the majority of the computers to produce in the allotted time. At the least, most of them had to have seen the plan, since the proof-of-work is proof that they worked on it. If the CPU power exhibited by the proof-of-work is sufficient to crack the password, they can safely attack at the agreed time."

http://www.bitcoin.org/byzantine.html
"Because there is no way to predict the breadth of information that might be submitted through SafeHouse, the terms of use reserve certain rights in order to provide flexibility to react to extraordinary circumstances. But as always, our number one priority is protecting our sources."

Define: certain rights
Define: flexibility
Define: extraordinary circumstances

This is less of a response and more of a reiteration. It completely belies the intended purpose of SafeHouse. No leaker with half a brain would leak something _worth leaking_ to this as long as that clause exists, period.
"A Developing Breed: Creative Technologist"
Sure. Another alternative is to pull the try/catch/finally into a separate function that just returns the value. But that's not always convenient, YMMV, etc. Either way, I'd consider it just an occasional annoyance (occasional because frequently print() is quick, or the resource is not expensive or contended).
>That's how open source projects work

Just to clarify, that is how GPL licensed software works. There are a lot of different open source licenses that do not require anything.
Where does drinking water come from (info graph)
Are incubators & Angel money more harmful than beneficial to startups?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=GNU+LGPL&l=1
Importing a list of users to Google. Adding bookmarks and desktop shortcut icons to each user's desktop. Telling the user to use their web browser instead of Word.

These are pretty much the same costs as transitioning to any new software, though. I consider myself a pretty experienced computer user, but after Microsoft made the Office 2007 change (with the "ribbon" instead of menus and toolbars), I was lost. Obviously I was able to find help on my own and RTFM, but this is not a skill most people using Word have. So switching from Office 2005 to Office 2007 was probably just as expensive as switching from Office to Google.

Interesting how Microsoft doesn't point that out.
My one year crash course in computer science: Semester 1
I remembered when this aired, crazy times.
This only becomes a real issue when one of the KHTML copyright holders makes it an issue

which they haven't.
A Starting Guide to VIM from Textmate
Microsoft's hosted Sharepoint services probably have the same policy.