skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring the fact that this tangent is offtopic, two wrongs don't make a right. The "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" attitude is and always has been absolute bullshit.

EDIT: s/sin/stone/
I'm not saying they were designed to _prevent_ access. They just weren't chosen with a priority on home users being able to open them, because Apple doesn't expect home users to open their devices. And that's true for like 95% of users.

By comparison, if Ikea sold you a desk and used torx screws (and didn't provide a driver) that would be pretty obnoxious, so they're either going to use standard heads or provide a driver.
So true! You hit the nail on the head, chopsueyar.
I'm not saying they were designed to _prevent_ access. They just weren't chosen with a priority on home users being able to open them, because Apple doesn't expect home users to open their devices. And that's true for like 95% of users. It's not some huge conspiracy against hackers.

By comparison, if Ikea sold you a desk and used torx screws (and didn't provide a driver) that would be pretty obnoxious, so they're either going to use standard heads or provide a driver.
The analysis here assumes (explicitly) that everyone would rather not work than work. While that is an easy assumption to make, I tend to believe that all things being equal, most people prefer to be productive than unproductive. JK Galbraith took that thesis to its logical conclusion, suggesting paying people who don't work (some very minimal stipend) in order to prevent the social cost of poverty. He assumed that the percentage of people that chose to freeload would be negligibly small in the grand scheme of things. I would like to believe this is true, though executing on such a social experiment would be a little tricky.
Initial ideas:

- Keep sharing the link for a week/month on Facebook, hopefully making it viral

- Setup a Facebook page for this, asking the same question "What can we do?"

- It has to start from within, see Tunisia, Egypt etc.

- Making sure folks inside North Korea can access info via proxy servers if it's blocked
Law 1: Reduce
While I agree that it is a problem that the US has a large and growing prison population, I don't think it's a fair comparison to the conditions being described in these camps in NK.

US prisoners are afforded many more human rights than the prisoners in these camps. They are fed and housed humanely. They are also given a fair trial as defined by the constitution before they are incarcerated and they serve specific prison terms with options for parole.
Chromebook - A New Class of Risks
The article makes very specific complaints about China’s behavior. Which do you think are unjustified and why?
My understanding is that North Koreans, by and large, have a very low quality of life, have limited rights, and are not free to leave. By that description, I'd have to say their percentage of prisoners is closer to 100%.
How this will affect Facebook?
If you pretend that Facebook is a car, this will probably be a scratch. Like how people wont give up a car for a scratch, they probably wont give up Facebook.

The general idea that I got about the management of Facebook is that they are a very confident bunch of guys who know what they are doing- since they have spurned many offers to buy them out. This story however kind of conflicts with the idea I had.
In this case the degree is fairly important though. If we ignore degree completely we have most of the liberal democracies in the world lumped in with NK, Libya and Zimbabwe. Obviously lines must be drawn.
Facebook Adds Web Of Trust (WOT) To Protect It’s Users
Seriously -- I was going to recommend this to some colleagues , but twitter-only totally nerfs it.
Will Amazon make a tablet? 'Stay tuned,' says Jeff Bezos
That's the beauty of the platform, it's device agnostic. We'd partner with killer hardware manufacturers to ensure we support a wide range of technologies.

As far as actually acquiring the devices - we'd likely partner with a preferred manufacturer and refer customers to them.
What's your point? That US prisoners and their extended families are being starved, raped and tortured for being critical of a government official, or questioning the official propaganda? Look, you may not agree with US drug policy, I know I don't (I'm not an American), but comparing what is happening in North Korea to what happens in Western prisons (apart from an isolated incident here or there) is, to put it mildly, disingenuous.
Donald Norman (of The Design of Everyday Things fame) talks about the various strategies for this in his newest book, Living With Complexity. It's an interesting problem because it turns out enough people follow the antisocial strategy of taking from the larger roll (what Berners-Lee calls K in his protocol) that both rolls will often run out within short intervals of each other (less than µ).

Norman proposes the strategy of "nearest roll first" instead of "smallest roll first", which is an easier strategy to accommodate through toilet paper dispenser design. Many public stalls hide the spare roll inside a contraption for this purpose.
There is a lot to digest here. Many presentations covered virtualization and the products Red Hat is building around KVM.
Ohhh... someone gonna cry?
DevOps folks are going to love the upcoming "config server" protocol that Zed is proposing to do for v1.8.
We've actually known about this for a while. I think BBC is covering the Fermi symposium this week so they are putting out some stories from it. (I work for the Fermi collab.)

Also from this same symposium:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13362958
I have never had one fail on me either, but that is probably because I'm scared of hard drive failure and move old ones into very-low-use machines .
If I have a time machine I hope I'm doing a bit more than buying stock in tech companies.
Here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en-US&category=col...
I think Farmville reveals a lot about the human condition. I'm totally serious. What it basically tells us is that, if left to their own devices, most people will just waste whatever time they've got. If Facebook or Farmville weren't around, it would be something else. Remember annoying email mass-forwards from your relatives and their friends? That's the kind of stuff that's no longer plaguing us because Farmville is keeping those folks occupied. And for that, in a strange and perverse way, I'm thankful for its existence.
Sometimes I like to indulge a similar fantasy. Only in mine it would be an airdrop of hundreds of thousands of small, hand-crank powered, mesh and satellite enabled, fully encrypt-able communication devices. Upon start-up, the helpful cartoon would explain something like... "you don't have to use this to talk to the outside countries you have been taught to distrust (though we hope this gift helps you see us in a better light), but you can use these to talk to each other privately (without your government knowing it is you doing the talking). Also, if you have relatives outside of North Korea, they are very likely waiting to talk with you in a chat-room or forum. What's a chat-room? Well, glad you asked..."

Yeah, naïve fantasy. But except for very slow strategies (like supporting the thin strands of journalism/information flow inside the country), I can't think of much else that can be done that doesn't include the look of military adventurism and the big risk of needing to rebuild one and a half countries. Even air dropping food directly to towns without the propaganda would risk Seoul.
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Does not reflect well on a nascent company that presumably is not self-powering as yet.
Last I checked we startup faster than CPython. As for early-run-performance. Startup really depends on the total amount of code you have, if you've got a few hundred lines of code the JIT's often warmed up and fast in under half a second. On the other hand if you have a few hundred thousand lines it might take a minute to warm up.
Sadly, I fear it is possible if you are squeezing 50 of them into a room designed for 5 people and feeding them tiny portions of corn meal each day.
It may sound hypocritical for an American to oppose concentration camps in North Korea based on America's prison-happy justice system, but please keep two things in mind:

1. It is only hypocritical for the speaker if he supports America's prison-happy justice system. If he opposes it, or has misgivings, or is undecided, it is not hypocritical to oppose North Korea.

2. Even if it is hypocrisy, that doesn't diminish his words in any way, just your personal opinion of him. If his criticism is invalid, it can be disputed directly. If his criticism is valid, he could be as flawed and terrible a human being as we can imagine and his criticism would still be valid.

#2 is the key point. Arguing that his words are hypocritical is a kind of Ad Hominem Abuse, something generally discouraged on HN as a kind of intellectual laziness, a rhetorical appeal to emotion rather than an analysis of the argument being debated.
Agreed. I don't think Apple really loses that much money to people who want to do DIY upgrades. This change really only inconveniences the uber-geeks among us.

However, on that note, the iMac has always been the hardest computer to upgrade. I believe it's harder to upgrade than the older Macbook Pros; I once opened up my 2006 Macbook Pro to switch out the hard drive, and I will never, ever do that again. I think it's fair to say that if you buy an iMac, you should be comfortable with buying a hermetically sealed black box that you're never going to mess with.
Airlifting catalogs may be impractical but the gist of your idea is so true! One big factor in USSR's fall, I think, was people's knowledge of the superiority and availability of goods available in the West.
"The US has a very generous amnesty and refugee program"

... unless you're a little boy from communist Cuba who wanted to live free in America but was repatriated at gunpoint in the middle of the night[1].

[1]http://www.nndb.com/people/574/000025499/
I think it's fair to bring up exploitation of resources, and labor conditions in other countries so that rich countries can live at a higher standard of living. But there is a difference from visiting an exploited country to visiting a country whose regime exploits its own people. Would you agree with this?
i can fire up my browser and download music from .com, .com.br, .co.jp! sometimes i'm even wiling to pay :)

if you try to limit that based on historic boundaries set for other things, it's pretty artificial
Sleazy PR Firm Throws Scummy Facebook Under The Sordid Bus
A Tale of Two Simulations
I haven't looked at the video, but with respect to "music video" and popular culture, New York City should realize that, depending upon the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of local and state regulators, fracking -- of the Marcellus Shale underlying part of its extensive drinking water watershed -- constitutes a major threat to its water supply. (This is from memory, but I think I'm remembering the correct name for the geological feature.)
Facebook adds features to block click-jacking and pasted XSS exploits
Yeah, it's only 13.3% growth over 7 years, which ends up being ~1.8% growth in market share per year. Seems pretty small considering their success in recent years...

Edit: OK, I'm a dumbass -- I misunderstood the comment and didn't realize there was a link to click through to the chart there.
Muhfuhkah you have a knack for taking things out of context. You come up with this as an example of someone facing the threat of being "killed or prosecuted in [their] home country"?

Elian Gonzales faced no such risks.

You're easy ;)
The present value of your efforts at time 0 (the present) would be much higher if you bought apple in time -15 and then returned to the present than if you spooled off a bunch of stock market history at time 15 and then returned to time 0 and dutifully executed your trades.

Of course, it would probably be easier to pull off the second approach (a-la back to the future 2) than the first, since opening a brokerage account in time -15 would likely cause unwanted contact with your past self.

You also run a chance of your past self discovering your plan and fooling about with it in time -14.9 - 0. I guess that lowers your expected value by a figure that depends on your probability of being caught.

At the end of the day, it's probably less of a headache to just buy an index fund.
Ask HN: A, B, or C - Which would get you to make a recommendation on a Q&A site?
A) When I get a discount from the business I make recommendations for (i.e., the business I recommend rewards me according to an algorithm)

B) F*ck giving a recommendation, I wouldn’t recommend a business regardless of a discount

C) When I know a good suggestion I’ll recommend it (regardless of a discount)

We’re doing private beta testing for the options above. Send me an email at nate@loqize.me if you wouldn’t mind being a beta tester or if you have any questions.

Appreciate your help
The rumored manufacturer of the Amazon tablet is Samsung. The Skyhook/Google-android law suit is potentially related. Search the following for "amazon" to see why.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...
End-user req's: just an NFC tag

PaaS customer req's: whatever NFC tech fits their scenario. Any combo of readers, tags, etc

NFC has many advantages over bar-codes which result in a much friendly end-user experience. No wrinkling, crinkling, smudging or any other ways of wrecking bar codes. Plus NFC can come in many form factors - plastic tags, sewn into clothing, or even ingestible pills.

Also, NFC is being incorporated into mobile phones. Imagine a world where your iPhone could unlocked doors, replaced all those crappy frequent buyer cards, and pay for your meals. We think that sounds pretty cool.
I've posted imgur links to share screenshots of an extension I wrote for Chrome.

Yours is the first meme image I've seen on HN.
Okay, well, for those who would rather look at the problems with the US justice & prison systems than the NK camps... what are you doing to fix things here?--anything?

Or are you just deflecting so that you don't have to try to help anyone?
It went on much later than 1993. Christmas time always meant going through the sears catalog and circling things that I wanted. I remember being annoyed at all of the clothes I had to skip past to get the toys. This continued well past 2000.

Here: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/nb_10153_12605_NB_Catalogs?adCell...

It looks like they separated it into a few distinct catalogs, which is kindof sad.
Would be curious to hear how their in-house TFA compares to some of the big enterprise vendors in the market
That's a very interesting legal angle. I'd love to know if a lawyer could confirm if that's a valid way to look at it.
Facebook to warn of risky links with Finnish app
No kidding, especially considering this: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-audio/2011Feb/...
StockTwits Partners with CNNMoney on Blog Network Content
That just begs the question. Where must the line be drawn? Those disagreeing with my point seem to feel that the line should be right between us and whoever is more ruthless than us.

But why do we automatically view ourselves on the correct side of that line? I've we're engaged, as a matter of policy, in activities that many or most Americans believe to be evil, doesn't that put the drawing of the line into question?
Sarcasm or not, it is a valid solution.

Making the whole problem somehow relevant economically to US or international community might be helpful, although I have no idea how to do that.
The 'PROTECT IP' Act: COICA Redux
Likely scenarios resulting from various system defects:

Non-security defect: system goes down for a while, company loses money, possibly data, reputation suffers. Companies using sensible redundancy and backup procedures are able to recover.

Security defect: system is compromised, user data stolen, internal company secrets stolen, financial data stolen, financial instruments (CC data) stolen. Massive impact on the company and on the customers, much higher potential for the destruction of the company due to damage to its brand and its business.
Obviously this isn't meant to be taken seriously, but you could never buy a company for it's market cap. Shareholders wouldn't agree to an acquisition where they make exactly what they have now.

Also, you couldn't just buy up a ton of shares of stock either with the whole supply-demand curve of shares. If you buy 1% of Apple's shares, the share prices isn't going to just hover around the original price.
Giving Up on Inkjet Printers
The consumer hardly hear that they are complaining.

The consumer probably was affected WAY BEFORE. or do you think no one ever was without cable one rainy day and decided "ah, let's play some street fighter instead of browsing reddit... dammit! i can't play?!"?

90% of the consumers that were affected by that outage were already affected before. The outage is just the cherry on top of the cake.

But people will continue to buy the game.

Way back I bought star craft from Blizzard. just to find out that battle.net servers were uselesely slow in Brazil at the beginning. A few weeks later i was playing on some bootlegged server.

Blizzard still got the money. But since now I was having so much trouble to play my original game on a 'pirate' server and talking with 'pirates' they never got my money for the broodwar expansion. It was easier to log into an FTP than to go to a store (i'm talking about pre-download age for games here)
"Be serious. Brainfuck is Turing-complete: are you suggesting that other programming languages could reasonably be implemented on top of it?"

Be serious yourself. With that sort of hostile characterization, I have little interest in following up in a dead conversation. You don't appear to have spent even a second trying to understand what I'm saying before leaping to a nonsensical strawman. (And I am well aware that understand != agree. But you didn't take the time to even know what you disagree with.)

"So your opinion is basically that it's time to stop innovating,"

No, it's time to resume. C is not where the innovation is.
All this new stuff does is show they're not afraid to fight dirty which is really just a reason to dislike them.

There were plenty of reasons to distrust them long before this, like when they figured it'd a really awesome world to live in where app developers could access your home address and phone number just because you like playing a game they made.
For 8.5 billion, you could hire a couple dozen of the highest class escorts forever and travel the world in a super-yacht with them for sixty years.

Or you could pay a ton of people that you hate the most a dollar per hit to punch themselves in the face for a year straight.

Or you could build your own Skype service from scratch and have about $8,499,500,000 left over to maintain and market it.
Excellent, well-formed points, raganwald.
Mexico is a functioning democracy and the Mexican drug mafia isn't America's headache.

Whereas, China has a long history of supporting North Korea despite it being a ruthless dictatorship.
(This is a recurrent fantasy of mine) I think we should have an independent armed forces with the power to intervene in gross violations of human rights, something like the UN but with exponentially more authority (current UN peace keeping forces are a joke, e.g. see Srebrenica massacre, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre, for just one example of many). This force would have the initiative to wage war on authoritative regimes, like the Taliban, Kaddafi, and the one in North Korea.

Currently this is done in a haphazard way, through NATO (e.g. Libya) or countries acting by themselves (e.g. France in Ivory Coast).

Thinking of the practical problems clearly shows that this is an impossible idea. But on a theoretical level, is it valid (e.g. where does this force take its authority from)? I think so.
Apple needs to press play on Game Center
Failure is just experience on the way to success
Given the timing on this, I can't see it as anything but an attempt to distract from the fiasco currently going on with Facebook hiring a PR firm to smear Google.

That said, this is a pretty cool feature, and seems to play into Facebook's ongoing attempt to become the standard for identity on the internet - added security is a really good thing when your entire identity is tied to a single service.
I must say that Linux managed to beat them at goal #1 ("including the ability to look at CVS tree changes directly") by using git instead of CVS.
Firefox 4 on windows - The blob of text doesn't have a margin to right, making it stick to the scroll bar and hard to read.

Great idea, I might even try out, but first I need to get a portfolio going. Damn all those closed source projects and non participation in StackOverflow...
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It's our way. We do business with China and visit them regularly, even though we know that much of what makes their manufacturing industry so competitive is the use of slave prison labor.

It's weird how we decide what people deserve "liberation" and what people we just shrug our shoulders at and keep supporting, in one form or another, the government that is oppressing them.
I wasn't complaining about a language. I was arguing that I think I see hints for what direction Apple is moving.
Visitors? Don't they only give out like 3000 visas a year?
I turned an exact passage from a heavily opinionated and critical article on North Korean slaves that turned into a Chinese government hit piece and held a light on US policies toward blood-soaked Mexican border drug wars (that are now spilling into Texas and neighboring states, btw).

Do we need to excoriate and condemn the Kim regime and his policies and call for a revolution within their borders? Absolutely. Should we shame bordering countries into liberating them in the name of "freedom" (of which, said bordering country's people are themselves not free)?

I believe the US is firmly (and some would say inexorably) ensconced in two wars (and on the ragged edge of 3 or some would say 4) trying to "liberate" the Middle East. How's that going for us?
Dragons.
Seems to work for printer manufacturers.
A "security torx" has a small post in the center so that your torx driver requires a hollow center.
I would advise you to stop huffing butane until the comparison you have made sounds as plainly preposterous to yourself as it does to people who are not suffering from an altered mental state.

HTH. HAND.
Because it's easy, and the costs are low?

I sometimes torrent TV shows that I forgot to DVR and don't really feel bad about it.

It really is a symptom of the decadence and entitlement of your typical Internet user.

If the entire internet disappeared tomorrow, am I allowed to complain about it? Where do you draw the line? ("Be thankful for your brocolli, there are starving children in Africa")
Making a concentration camp is intentional. Allowing a drug war to proliferate is neglect. Intent matters in criminal sentencing and it matters here.
38 Directories to Submit Your Web App to When You Launch
First mistake : attacking Google, also known as the overlord of the internet (as far as the internet has one)
Second mistake : attacking a feature that was largely unknown. I just learned of its existence, thanks to this story !
Third mistake : getting caught
Fourth mistake : When you're Facebook, you should never ever complain that anything is a violation of privacy. It's like a fast-food company claiming something is low quality food and an insult to taste.
Why Is Facebook Afraid of Google?
Will A California Law Result in More Payments Innovation Flocking to Boston?
Would love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.
I 100% agree, imagine if we had invaded North Korea rather than Iraq. Both had bad tyrants/dictators but North Korea makes Iraq look like Disneyland. Same as number of other countries, I think we should be tackling objectively worse humanitarian problems as higher priority.