skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I thought at first too, but I think what he's saying is that the wireless AP you set up on your computer spoofs the victim's phone, using the phone's MAC address, wherever it is in the world. Then, when you use your iPhone/iPod Touch connected to that AP (the one he's talking about in step 3 is, I think, "yours" and not "the victim's") and use the "locate me" feature, the Skyhook system polls both your iPhone and the victim's for nearby wireless AP's that are in its database (this is why it's important not to be near other AP's). When the victim's returns a whole bunch of Skyhook AP's and yours returns nada, Google Maps tells your phone it's located at the victim's location. Interesting.

The "not being near Skyhook AP's" caveat might make this hack difficult to pull off in urban areas, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to build an iPhone Faraday cage :)
Educate me - which adblocker is it that you know of that removes the adverts from websites and then sells the resulting ad-free site to the user?

To suggest that blocking an advert is stealing assumes that the author of the web page would make money off that advert in the first place. Furthermore, that logic suggests that anyone who chooses to ignore advertising rather than just blocking it is also guilty because they're depriving the publisher of a potential income too. Total rubbish.
Students often express a vague interest in LISP when I teach AI. It would indeed be nice to have an extra book to loan out.
IMHO, using the word "CRAP" to describe good practices seems like a bad idea. I thought the article was going to be a rant about some UIs the author didn't like... instead it was useful advice. I'm glad I clicked through, but "CRAP" didn't help that.
> It's only a very small proportion of people who like to block adverts and leech pages.

If you want to talk about leeching, why not address the issue of massive flash and image based adverts that suck-up the bandwidth of those on limited/capped connections? Is that not leeching?
"When a person buys a Windows PC, they can boot it up and use Microsoft Mail with whatever email address they have. ...There is no web site that I know of that lets you work with any email address."

Uh... Gmail? You know, the one by the same company who made the browser you're writing an article about?

In fact, I would be surprised if Chrome 1.0 doesn't have Gmail, Calendar, etc. seamlessly integrated.
I basically have dishes and soda bottles all around me. Thats why there's tomato sauce on my keyboard. But my room is pretty clean, no junk on the floor, just some dishes at my desk and some clothes on my bed. I like my floor to be clean and i like to have a lot of open space in my room, so all my stuff is close to the walls, so i can do some walking in my room or some push-ups or something other than siting at my desk. I also have some nice relaxing calendars with girls on them, i find having girls on your wallpaper to be distracting, but no problem having them on you real wall. The main problem with my room is heat, its an east room, so the first 6 hours of the day its constantly heated up by the sun, and the concrete is hot enough to heat the room in the afternoon and the early night. Next summer i an getting a new air conditioner!
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I don't know how, maybe the pen manufacturers have some type of telepathic device in it that activates the chew part of my brain? And perhaps, by chance, you have powerful electromagnets in your office that prevent this brain-controlling circuit from getting activated?
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Scratch that. GMail only allows accessing other accounts using POP3, not IMAP. Boo.
I'm not sure I agree with the assumption "The main problem with fear of breaking the code is the implicit assumption that any code is really that good to begin with."

Most of the time I work around code because it is a POS that I do not have the time or budget to clean it up. It's fragile but it works, leave it alone until the day it breaks and then it will move from important to urgent and budget will become available.
I'm starting a CS degree in a few weeks, therefore I'm poor and in need of Lisp books. :o
would you prefer they use floats?
Haskellish/Pythonic/C++ Job offer
The theory is that asking for a HN is a good filter for a good coder.
( This offer will likely go on reddit, my apologies if you see it more than once. )

I am looking for a haskellish/pythonic HN reader for a senior dev/Technical director.
I need someone able to model and code well (No architect who never codes).
The ability to communicate well with a team is also a big plus.
You don't need to speak french (we are in France) but a reasonnably good english is mandatory.

If You :

* like coding 4+ hours straight.

* like to solve a coding problem elegantly (and are bothered if can't)

* like and read real CS books (SICP, TAOCP, CTM etc...)

* code in haskell, python and c++.

* are a gamer (this one is optionnal)

* are interested in computer graphics (optionnal too)

You fit the bill. I would like to talk to you. contact me ("contact at gamr7 dot com").

What we offer:

* interesting problems and creative freedom

* quality of life (no overtime, sunny countryside, french food and low rent)

* a pay in Euros

* confortable workplace, etc...

* coding in haskell, python.

Note : I looked at the etiquette doc. It says nothing about posting job offers. I really thinks that this one fits well within the HN community, it fits the "could interest a hacker" criteria. I didn't find any way to directly post in the jobs section.

Edit: added email contact .
His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve.

His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music tracks – very similar to the iPod.

This seems to me that if there had been a prototype, it would have stored only 3.5 minutes on the chips available at the time, but there wasn't. Only sketches. The thing he has in the picture there is most certainly not a 1979 prototype.
write compilers and interpreters for fun

Yet I do not know a single person who uses an ESR language, nor any even semi-mainstream language that is influenced by his ideas. The only thing he has IIRC is /etc/termcap. Someone's gotta do it, but doing it doesn't make him an authority on anything...
Same. Many of my favorite songs are album songs, not the "hit singles". I will usually buy an entire album if I want one song -- but I don't want to be forced to.
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This is why Lisp programmers call "DSLs" libraries. ("And you should too, kids!")

To authors of DSLs for their special hardware or daemon or whatever -- I don't want to learn your retarded homegrown programming language. Give me a library for a language I already know. (Specific gripe -- lighttpd config files. It's not quite Lisp, it's not quite Perl... It's USELESS. Instead of doing what I want, I have to work around the author's idea of a programming language. Ick.)
Not only is it a bad example, it's cheating! The guy in Tokyo didn't know the target personally; he just looked him up in a register. The origin of "Six degrees of separation" presumes that each individual in the chain knows the next link personally.

Here's how the original experiment worked:
"The recipient was asked whether he or she personally knew the contact person described in the letter. If so, the person was to forward the letter directly to that person."
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment )
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I use Thunderbird with five accounts. The only problem is you have to get into an action/archive/delete mindset for your inbox or it soon becomes unwieldy.
I suggest a title edit: "Don't be afraid to break stuff in your local checkout of version-controlled stuff."

Especially with large projects with many dependencies, breaking the wrong thing in the wrong way can screw everything up in ways that end up taking many hours and debugger voodoo to properly put back together again. I see these often enough in production -- I feel no need to give myself more ugly, scary bugs to fix just for the experience.
Yep I got it.

Only it's not working for me. Perhaps the thing that is repeated and the style of repetition is more important than simply repeating.

In other words, once you generalize the article enough to get some meaning from it, you're left with the empty feeling that the obvious was stated and the hard parts were left out.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. I should have explained myself better but was trying to be as terse as possible.
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FTA:
"I'd love to go through the details, but I'm not going to," Woodward replied.
The details, Woodward says, would compromise the program.

This clearly indicates that it is not like the airplane and tank. The difference is that with the airplane and tank, even when you know the enemy has them, you're still hosed. If knowing about this "secret" is all it takes to stop it from working, then its not very revolutionary at all.
"I don't see how you possibly could make any guesses "

Really?

3

Okay. Let's try it again.

42

Looks to me like guessing is a pretty easy thing to do. Perhaps you were looking for some kind of formula? As if a piece of math would make you more comfortable about even 5 years from now?

I think you're taking the underlying logic to the singularity a little too literally. It's all general trends with general statements to back them up. Wonderful piece of speculation, which I agree with. But it ain't science. It ain't logic. Kurzweil just speculates using a lot of mathematics. I grok it. But I'm not selling my house to buy a bunch of EverReady batteries to power my nanobot Zoot suit any time soon.

It's a guess. Get over it. It's all guessing.
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article mentions 'learned helplessness'. read Singer's 'Writings on an Ethical Life' for some background on this or have a look at a Google search result - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2768
Basically, random electrical shocks to dogs induce a state of 'learned helplessness' or in everyday speak - complete pyschological collapse during a particularly cruel expt.
lisp is cool.
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This person didn't invent the term CRAP to define good design; it's been around for longer than I can remember.
Why a Google Browser?
(Nero Wolfe)

...
Archie was in a shock, and reason was neither that all the orchids were stolen from Wolfe's gallery or is been out for (more than two) times in a day to solve mystery.
Archie started thinking.
Until in my career, I never saw that fat bastard taking money from a client without
Solving the case and being satisfied that he has really earned the money.
But what the hell is this?
some 'Lisper offers him a couple books (and think what, those are related to LISP which I here are related to black magic, No wonder; Wolfe will enjoy those and will give me hell solving all the mysteries after reading those),
And he accepts those?
Something is wrong.
Ive not been able to find copies of these books in India. Been trying for past 2 years.
Chrome is an OS in the same sense that the X server is an OS.
Like the stars and moon,
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my parentheses
I'm wondering how someone who might be interested could get in touch with you . . .
Except England, or even the UK, doesn't have a President so we tend to assume such discussion relates to the US.

The point is valid though.
You can contact me at "contact at gamr7 dot com"
I want to master the way of the Lisp Jedi.

"These are your father's parentheses. Elegant weapons, for a more ... civilized age."

http://xkcd.com/297/
That was actually a very good op-ed. I went through and read some more of this guy's stuff and he takes a very interesting curve ball attack when it comes to reporting on tech, as opposed to his other journalist colleagues.

And he brought up some very good points on why Google might have made a browser. Maybe they just did it to be doing it, I don't think anyone has come out and been so boldly colloquial in their thinking about the matter.

Is it left field? Yes.
Is it a bit naive? Just a tad.
Is it relevant? Completely.

This guy underscores everything that needs to happen in tech journalism and he proved that when suggested that Google Chrome was created just because Google wanted to make a browser, and plant their claws deeper into the desktop application scene.

Great job.
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Congrats on making a replacement!

Good luck with the programming. I've found the IDE horribly awkward, the API documentation completely lacking, and the debugger to be time-consuming and frustrating.

All-in-all? I wouldn't miss it for the world. Good luck, Jeff.
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Here is a link to the ParaScale web site - I think they explain themselves rather better that Techcrunch do

http://www.parascale.com/

Looks interesting
Because he is an observer of hacker culture but writes as if he is a participant.
Congratulations, Jeff!

(BTW Is Stallman really THAT... inhuman?)
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Intertwined,
language and data,
the moulding of thought.

Lisp
To express oneself

in seventeen syllables

is very diffic
Because I am an autodidact that happens to be rather poor at the moment, and has been meaning to master the use of lisp macros.
It's strange: Although SPORE clearly has many flaws (somtimes strange control setup, lacking depth), I feel that it is really far more enjoyable than it should be.

The sheer scale of things and the continuous development of your creature, your world and the universe is really an amazing experience, although the "game" itself is rather dull.
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God, I remember those Tetris dreams when I first starting playing the game (all those years ago.) I really hated them-- found them oddly disconcerting, and not at all restful.

Off the top of my head, I'm failing to recall another computer game/activity that had a similar effect on me...
How far has the automobile industry advanced in the last 100 years? Four wheels, petrol engine. Personally I'm still waiting for my flying car.

Of course that could be slightly harsh. The land speed record has been broken again and again in that time period. That brings up an interesting point. Only one of those attempts set out to break the speed of sound, all the rest set out to beat the last guy.

We need targets to aim for and any project which aims to pass the incumbent leader in 10 years will be a lot more politically valuable than a project which will reach Alpha Centauri in 50 years. Even if they are the same project.

Having said that this discussion is entirely academic. The proposal was made in 1988 and not followed up. Today, we're just aiming for the Moon.

p.s. Good luck solving whatever population problem there may be via space. I wouldn't like to try shipping a billion people 100 miles. Moving them to another world would need more than improvements to the space program. It would need the space program to be made irrelevant.
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Under the usual nationalization, the common shares will be worth nothing as the entire company will be under public ownership.

However, under this scheme, the common shares, while diluted, are not explicitly worthless as the common shareholders still own a part of the company. As to how the shares will trade today, that would depend on whether the market had already anticipated this move and priced it in.
Forcing people to buy albums for more money than the single they really want is another way to disguise the concept of charging more for popular singles. That's the iTunes policy they really hate. The reason there are only a few "complete works" for sale on iTunes is that Apple won't let the labels call nine completely unrelated songs a "work" as a sleazy way to charge $6.99 or $9.99 for a Kid Rock single.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/11/18.html

p.s. Complete works" are not rare in the classical music section. Perhaps the artists should try actually composing a complete work--as prog rock did in the 70s--and seeing if Apple will see things their way?

I wouldn't argue if an album like "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" or "Dark Side of the Moon" was packaged as one movement per original LP side or even one big purchase.
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I never really dreamt about Tetris, but I did start seeing it during my waking hours—I'd be driving along, and realize, "Hey! The negative space between those two cars would be perfect for a z-block."

It was very disorienting when several of those happened one after the other.
Haha, thanks for this, it made me smile.
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I ended up outputting them as csv and importing them into Excel and doing a mail-merge with Word. Word even shipped with a template for the exact avery labels that I bought.

Web word processors have a long way to go. I know Word is a kitchen sink, but it's a working kitchen sink.
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An uninformed, pointless article.

Sure, the existence of chrome will increase web developers testing workload, but the html rendering is just like Safari because of the use of webkit. He treats it like a new html rendering engine, which is just wrong.

He doesn't even mention the gauntlet that it throws down with Javascript performance, and the challenge that this brings to Microsoft's silverlight (for instance). The new javascript engine is where the web dev testing may be needed.

But his main and lengthiest mistake is with regards the EULA, which he seems to take as evidence of google being evil. Did he honestly think that google would try to cliam ownership of blog posts (or books) written via google chrome? Like that was going to ever fly, with users, courts, or sane Google executives.

It looks very much as if Google was not "trying to pull a stunt" with the EULA.

Google made a cut-and-paste error. It was a bug. Google chrome is a beta. B-E-T-A. It has bugs, and they get spotted. That's what betas are for. if you run around flapping your arms screaming and shouting that the beta has bugs in it, then you are doing it wrong.
Are you not reading what I wrote? You yourself just suggested a method of curing all those things you wrote. So obviously it's possible to imagine them. You don't know how exactly, but you have a starting point: inject some sort of protective something that will do it.

Why do you think I would laugh at them? It seems quite plausible to me.

You are totally wrong about people in 1920. People 2000 years ago even were eating various plants for their medicinal effect. Some of the books from that time (or a little later) still exist! And some of them even work (willow bark for pain for example).

That does not exist with AI. Give me any idea at all of a programming method (besides random permutation) that will, eventually, even with a lot of work, result in AI.

You don't realize just how much harder creating creativity is from anything else humanity has ever done. Create a mechanism that will create something new that has never existed before? (And is not simply a reshuffling of other things.) Computers can not do that, and I don't think will ever be able to do that. (Again, except by trying everything randomly.) Even humans rarely do that - and the ones that do have no idea how they do it, so what makes you think we can program such a thing?

Read some quotes from Mark Kac about magician genius and you'll start to understand the problem. No one has any idea how they make their leaps. A regular genius simply can not do what they do. So why do you think we can program a computer to do such a thing, when we can not even understand how it's done in the first place?

AI is not coming. And on top of all that computing speed has hit a wall. The entire premise depends on computers getting faster and faster. They aren't right now. Intel can not make CPU's run any faster than they are right now. Instead they are adding cores.

Now I expect that to be solved at some point, but it means the exponential growth curve broke. And that means no more singularity.

That's something I don't see much talk of. But it's over, there is no more exponential growth in computing speed.
The cynicist in me would like to point out that pretty most every revolution accomplishes their leaders´ goals. Pretty few of them have the same goals the leaders stated before the crowds that helped them with the revolution.

Revolutions are not a very safe solution. Quite the contrary.
I think certain kinds of celebrity gossip may qualify as memes also. I'm confident that gossip is definitely not "ideas".
It doesn't take special talents to reproduce -- even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of.

I agree. Contributing to Emacs is hard. If it isn't having to wait for copyright assignment papers in the mail, it's a 1000-message-long thread debating the British vs. American spelling in the docstrings. In the end, having sex is a lot easier.
One might consider it valuable to produce (as the artist) and have access to (as the audience) all the crap/filler produced also because this gives some valuable insight into the artist and the creative process itself.

Build one to throw away, but release it too.