skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the inherent contradiction of IP in a digital world.

One one hand you are supposed to be paying for a scarcity: someone expending time and resources to produce something. On the other hand you are supposed to be paying by buying a copy: something that is an abundance with a natural price of zero.

Buying is not just setting a price according to the seller being a nice guy or having indirectly done something else. Buying is a market interaction: you aim to pay the lowest price available (Don't we want functioning markets?). Well, that is zero, because copies are infinitely available.

No matter how much the law tells us copies are restricted, they are not in fact, and we know it. The market will always drive toward making things available at the real physical cost of their production. As long as IP tries to force prices so far away from their real level, people will respond in odd ways.
>The interesting thing about this whole episode is that it serves as a wonderful illustration of the self-correcting nature of the scientific method.

This is actually not very good PR for science. The wonderful illustration here is that after billions of dollars and millions of lives we realized we were wrong? What system couldn't do that?

To me, what this actually illustrates is the mistaken way we use science today:

Today: "Ok, it looks like it's probably fat that's bad. Ok, everyone! No more fat"

And everyone laughs and points at all the stupid uneducated fundies still eating fat.

Tomorrow: "Oh, we were totally wrong about everything we said. Ok, everyone! Stop what ever you're doing!"

And now we get to laugh at all the stupid people who don't eat fat anymore.

Scientific method never proves anything, it's only good for disproving things. If a (valid, i.e. falsifiable) theory doesn't get proven wrong we develop more and more confidence. That still doesn't mean it's right though.
Many of them thought they were doing something about their health. They thought they were "eating right".
I always install it by downloading standalone version from http://betterthangrep.com/ There is a command on the homepage you can copy paste to shell and execute.

Ack is simply too often used and I don't want to type ack-grep all the time.
What happened to the microsoft retail stores? Did they close up already?

Update: checked Wikipedia, they have 8 stores open and two more in development.
I'm not a JavaScript expert, and so I didn't understand this bit:

> create a circular reference and thus, a memory leak

It was confusing because JavaScript uses mark-and-sweep collection, which can handle circular references just fine.

A bit of googling turns up this link, which explains it:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-memleak/

The problem is that the DOM is reference counted (at least in some browsers, at least back when that article was written). So, you can get memory leaks in cases where JS intersects with the DOM.
current rumors:

reason may be the public hosted etherpad ("piratenpad") and a direction by the french public prosecutor's office
Ah - thanks clarifying that he targets OSX people. I didn't think that dstat, xargs, curl, vim, screen, rsync, or ack were obscure; but it makes sense if it the audience is OSX users.
It also depends how much they steal from Ferrari during the current year as well :-).
None. ;-)
Simple advise - don't over-eat
OpenSSL Weakness Can Expose Sensitive Information
The big thing I really would like to see is an ipad app that allows me to edit my files in Textastic. This looks very nice though.
Fine, but it might also hurt your creativity to drink the companies cool aid. Also, think about all the time you gonna waste in meetings. Not to speak of learning and using tools, that you dislike because they suck for you.

I'm graduating in two weeks and I will try to do my own startup. If you're interested in robotics shoot me a message.
Maybe San Francisco can host the world's first Prius Grand Prix - that would be real fun!
MongoDB based logging server
The Rapture date, according to Isaac Newton
There happens to be an entire nutritional philosophy based on exactly that approach:

http://thepaleodiet.com/
People resist the idea because the answer is too simple. "Fats" are better than "Carbs". So lard is better than a banana? Ugh.

It's not the broad category of "Fats" vs "Carbs". It's the TYPE of food. Eat good food. Period. Not something made in a factory. Twinkies: out. Soda: out. Standard pizza with refined grains and loads of cheese: out.

Eat healthy food: the right meats, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lots of water. Don't eat crap. Exercise.

It really isn't rocket science, but when we make one food group "bad" and the other one "good" just so we have another excuse to eat junk, we lose.
The first sentence is not a snark, it is a clarification. The question why systemd was invented instead of just using launchd had been raised in the past. Distributions avoided launchd because of licensing.
Part 2 has been released, for those who have subscription. https://lwn.net/Articles/443775/
For those interested, the crux of Friedman's argument for pursuing examples of "Concrete" Incompleteness is:

> The second rationale for pursuing Concrete Mathematical
Incompleteness preserves ZFC as the ambitious target. The
idea is that normal mathematical activity up to now
represents only an infinitesimal portion of eventual
mathematical activity. Even if current mathematical
activity does not give rise to Concrete Mathematical
Incompleteness from ZFC, this is a very poor indication of
whether this will continue to be the case, particularly far
out into the future.

page 8 in http://www.math.osu.edu/~friedman/pdf/0EntireBk051411.pdf
The OP is confused --- a proper garbage collector will collect cyclic structures.

The situation that he describes was a problem in versions of IE prior to ie8 because of limitations on its garbage collector --- specifically that it was unable to collect cycles if the cycle involved a DOM element. This is fixed in ie8 (and, presumably, subsequent versions), and even in ie7 the situation gets cleaned up when the user navigates away from the page (although JS that creates a lot of "throwaway" DOM elements could still get into trouble). So, most programmers really have to worry about this only if still targeting ie6.

(By the way, if you are afflicted with ie6, the jQuery 'data' APIs work around this misbehavior; other libraries often have similar tricks.)

The official scoop from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd361842%28v=vs.85%2...
It never rains, but it pours
There is one for freebsd here: http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/en-us/?route=downloads.mult...
it's simpler to use than ditto, i like it! good job!
Perfect for the super connected.
I did quite a bit of research into carbs after being diagnosed Type One diabetic and I wholeheartedly agree with this article. Turns out, carbs weren't a staple part of our diet until the agricultural revolution (17th century?) and then only really caught on because it was cheap and easy to farm, compared to fruit and meat. So there you go. Capitalism has been fucking us for centuries.
Flights to Dubai
Dubai is one of the most talked about places of recent era. The existence of umpteenth number of attractions in the metropolis calls infinite number of visitors each day. Hence, the city booms with plenty of accommodation facilities to suit all pockets. The three best hotels in the conurbation recommended for all boarders of Dubai flights include the Admiral Plaza Dubai Hotel, the Radisson Blue Residence and the Al Bustan Rotana Hotel.
> Rated 12+ for the following:

> Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor

> Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

Is that because of the app or the content? :)
I regret not having kept that data. But my goal was to add 1kg per month(about 2.8 lbs) to my weight loss. So if something I tried didn't come close to increasing 3kgs after 3 months I ditched it. Of course I left room for decreasing effectiveness of methods I applied earlier.

The sequence of things I tries was something like this:
* get active, i.e start using stairs instead of lifts, walk more, sit less (worked)
* cut sugar altogether(worked)
* start going to gym with a program mixing cardio and lifts(worked)
* limit calories(didn't work, couldn't control hunger)
* lower carb consumption(worked)
* cardio focused workout(didn't work; went back to my original program)
* eat 6 small meals(didn't work, made no difference)
* fasting(worked)

It was effectively a journey of discovering what my body and mind reacts to.
I actually think the 2D layout of the code is interesting... But more suited to a GUI than a text-based programming language.

Of course, the point wasn't suitability, but rather inscrutability, so they accomplished their goal.
Article Marketing Robots
Writing articles and submitting them individually to articles directories is kind of inefficient and inefficient. Plus in order to create your customer list in a very reasonable amount of time you might want the cabability to may well avoid time by means of a mechanical article marketing submission service so that it is practical for you to definitely submit one article to a lot article submission websites all while doing so.
I think this is true. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find such a team yet. Of course it would be nice to believe, that I'm quite talented. But really, I think, it just shows, that it is very hard, to find a team that is stellar in the things that you find the most interesting.

Or, maybe, I just have a weird taste...
Would be interesting if somebody has been successful in finding such a team for him. Sounds like you, tomerico, found one after you graduated, no?
Major sites are still unpatched against the 1.5 YO TLS renego vulnerability
Here as well, but after hearing what some of my friends do, and seeing stuff online being done, I keep thinking there's got to be a way to get in on that.

Will people really give away the sources of their income? I'm guesses not, since it's possible they could end up with a ton of competitors from it. (Which is why I'm not mentioning what my friends do. It wouldn't be fair to them.)
I launched TikiToki Timeline Software (http://www.tiki-toki.com) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future!

I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July.

This will be a bit of a gamble, given that what I earn from subscribers via TikiToki for a full month is less than what I would earn in half a day as a freelance developer!

We do it for love as much as the money!

Edit:
If we want to go into detail, I should also add that I also earn about $80 a month from Adsense for a blog my wife and I run (http://www.casualgirlgamer.com) and about $25 a month via Big Fish's affiliates scheme. Peanuts really but it all adds up...
Thanks for reference. It will be great if you can think of some features for this. May be some body will find it interesting to implement. Atleast I will get some thing to play in my mind
I apologize, if the second paragraph sounds rude. That was not my aim. Now its to late to edit.
Especially when I'm hacking my own, non-renewable, non-refundable body I'd want more than a bit of scientific proof that a) it works and b) it won't mess me up. Whereas your regular self-help book might just wreck your bank account (at the worst), some of the things in this book might do a lot worse things. Yes, they might not, too. But are you willing to take those risks? (Again, the slow-carb diet and the kettlebell workouts are probably amongst the least controversial parts of the book)

And yes, I've read the book, most of the "hacks" have been done by Tim on himself, sometimes with a with/without methodology. Not really bad and actually something that everyone who modifies his lifestyle should do. But that still doesn't replace blinded studies, never mind that he very rarely states how many "hacks" he's been doing at the same time. And never mind that he's been quite athletic for most of his life, so a lot of the techniques won't work that well for your average pudgy nerd.

It's not a very expensive book, on the other hand. But if someone buys it, I'd recommend taking everything cum grano salis and do your internet research before embarking on a "hack", especially if it means taking supplements (e.g. the bro-sciency ECA stack).
Conway game of life in Coffeescript
There is a better explanation at the very end of this awesome description of javascript's closures and scope resolution: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/
I would leave it as is. After people get viruses from downloading software a few times and are told they should have used the app store they will switch soon enough. Virus software is a horrible patch that enables users to continue bad behavior.
So, it's definitely not this weekend (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20rapture.html?hp).

The interesting part that people may not know about Newton is that he used most of his time on mumbo-jumbo (i.e. alchemy) and religious stuff like this. One wonders, if this mind, one of the greatest (if not the) mind in history, would have achieved if he had focused all his energy on science.

Similar thing happened to Blaise Pascal: After his conversion (due to a accident where he nearly died) he stopped all his mathematical activities, except for one night when, to dull the pain of a toothache, he returned, and almost invented calculus!

So, when making fun of all the fundamentalists getting ready for Rapture, etc., bear in mind that the "deadly loop" of religion can hold even the greatest.

Here's Marvin Minsky's excellent quote on the "deadly loop" of religion (http://www.j-paine.org/dobbs/heroes_and_differences.html):

After a dinner of take-out dim sum, Minsky, who had been reading the Koran with some dismay at its violent inquiry-blunting formulae, sermonized, "Religion is a teaching machine — a little deadly loop for putting itself in your mind and keeping it there. The main concern of a religion is to stop thinking, to suppress doubt. It's interested in solving deep problems, not in understanding them. And it's correct in a sense, because the problems it deals with don't have solutions, because they're loops. 'Who made the world?' 'God.' You're not allowed to ask, 'Who made God?' "
Correlation != causation.

Let me guess the root cause of this "fat is evil" meme. People who love fat are often gluttons. They eat what they want, in large quantities, and don't care about the consequences. They also consume huge quantities of processed sugar, which is now found to be "bad", and don't eat their greens.

Health freaks avoid fats and sugar, living on lean meat, veggies, and grains. This may not be optimal, but it's better than Big Macs, Cola, and fries.
That's simplistic advice. Food additives like High Fructose Corn Syrup cause you to crave more food even though you're calorically fine. If you listen to what your body says while eating poorly, you will over eat.

http://www.wellnessresources.com/weight/articles/high_fructo...
Or, more importantly, sqlplus (for those of us that need to work with Oracle).
I love ^R

But make sure you've found the command you really thought you were looking for before mashing the return key. Sometimes my muscle memory is a bit too fast...
The main problem with these trick programs is that as a software engineer of n years I don't debug programs by staring at them for a long time or by memorising a lot of tricks. I usually do it by running them and checking their output, or by catching runtime errors in a debugger. Writing software is not a one way process, it's a skill or an interactive process with the machine.
Have a look at `join', it joins lines of two files on a common field. Together with `cut' and `grep' you can use text-files as relational databases.
Has this actually been tested? Does it really create a leak, and does the second code really eliminate it?

And with the way Chrome handles tabs (in separate processes) does it really matter, since closing the tabs releases the memory?
"man alias" ?
True. But I still can't help being surprised about the results. Maybe, thats because here in Germany, suggesting software patents has almost become non political correct. At least, thats my perception.
>> 1.1.2 Minimize Software to Minimize Vulnerability
>
>I agree on yum. If the attacker has root and can run yum. It is too late.

You missed the point. More software means a larger attack surface. Minimizing software isn't meant to keep an attacker from installing software, it is meant to keep an attacker from using unmaintained/unneeded software to compromise the box in the first place.
> Don't consume carbs? This sounds insane. What about a balanced diet of caloric value inline with one's caloric output?

What about it? It's not necessary. If you look for it, you can find lots of examples of societies that were quite healthy on diets that weren't "balanced". One popular example is the Inuit, who got 75% of their energy intake from fat (largely seal and whale blubber) because that was what was available to them whereas fruits and grains and vegetables were not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit#Diet
See the internet explorer memory leak section at the end of this article for a full explanation: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/
any recommendations on the best way to become self taught? (books, tutorials, ect?)
Yeah, most of these weren't anything new, but I hadn't heard about ack. Very useful.
Ask: HN load times...What up?
Why does HN load almost instantly on my iPad but take upwards of 20 seconds on my Mac? Same wifi connection, same time of day, etc. Seems like it is taking HN longer and longer to load in a web browser?
I must admit I'm impressed. Barring a very slight jerkiness at some random times it actually feels native: fluid, fast, and the "physics" is very, very close. In comparison iScroll 4 is better on general smoothness but feels strangely alien to iOS (notably the inertia bounce at list ends).

With the swarm of crappy alternatives - barely mimicking the native behaviour - I saw before I was giving up on the hope that something like this could even remotely exist.
The Rapture After Party
And C, Why is it still in use, Aren't there alternatives?
Although grains don't seem to be very healthy, don't forget about sugar.
0 < monthly income < $1000

That is from rental properties I own.
This kind of describes a free-for-all wire service, it will need quite a few Janitor members to keep down the spam and low quality postings.
Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense"
maybe re-ask the question as a poll and put some ranges.
The content =)
India is in serious trouble, and they both have nukes.

This won't end well, especially once Pakistan decides they don't need US money.
Just a quick point, but rather than using the DOM0 interface, use the DOM2 addEventListener method.
Fage, butter, cheese, eggs, chocolate. Sounds yummy! Not exactly cheap, though.
For that I use gqlplus.

http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/
I clicked on this with interest, thinking it was an introductory article on the PPC architecture and instruction set.

Perhaps the title should use pay-per-click instead of PPC? :)
> nethack & slash'em

> Still the most complex game on the planet.

Dwarf Fortress.
Great looking site and good niche! Can TikiToki connect to Flickr or Facebook and create timelines from media in those sites?
Faster A/B Testing
I know, that's was one of my starting points. My comment addresses the last part of the parent comment: you should experiment and find what works best your yourself. Although I consider myself a paleo, I am not a purist.
> Work where you will be the dumbest person in the room.

Good advice.

Interestingly, taken literally the only way to make that scale is when everybody is working on their own startups.
I started a ROM site when I was 14, it eventually got really popular and thus got quite a few youtube videos and good search engine rankings. These days the ROMs have been long removed so traffic has obviously fallen, however due to the links and still decent search engine rankings it gets roughly 100k page views per day. End result is that the ads give me around $2k to $3k a month. Pretty happy with that since I no longer work on it and it's basically just rotting away.
Your speculation is correct -- we re-keyed the certificate just as a precaution. Rolling a new cert is tough as thousands of people's clocks are wrong, so we thought we'd give it a full day so those people wouldn't receive errors -- we didn't realize the old one would be revoked so quickly (it was automatic with the rekey).
what blogging platform are you using for casualgirlgamer.com?
I'm all for contributors to open source projects making money through services like this, but this kind of post seems less appropriate here. It reeks of misguided PR, even. I'm sure that publicizing this to an audience that actually cares about certification would be more effective. Good example code is the only kind of "certification" that is worth anything in the hacker/startup community. Who needs a shiny certificate when you have Github?
I am so glad I am not upper management at Sony right now... heads must be rolling.

Regardless of whether or not Sony can make it out of all this intact and actually fix the underlying problems in both their architecture and philosophy; I think companies will forever take user-privacy and user-rights a bit more seriously.
Yes, we have Flickr integration. So you can add your Flickr images to your timeline. Facebook integration is in our roadmap, though not as yet a top priority.
If you love Neuromancer, I think you should read James Tiptree Jr.'s (actually Alice Sheldon) short story The Girl Who Was Plugged In (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In), which Gibson said he was influenced by.

Tiptree is pure genius!
About $30/month from a very small free iPhone app with iAd. Thinking about making it a paid app and seeing how it does.

If you're curious: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nations/id386514813?mt=8
The timing of the renewal is awfully convenient -- two weeks after the death of the number one most wanted terrorist, and immediately preceding a presidential (re)election cycle.

I would hope that an intelligent, accomplished US leader would not feel the need to flex military muscle and pass tough-guy legislation just to gain credibility with right wing voters.
"...it is more systematically profitable to sell carb products and (food) companies are really really good at selling things to people."

Apart from the cheap, unhealthy ingredients and slick marketing, modern processed food is also engineered to be appealing; and for the want of a better word, addictive. Prehistoric man would have to do a lot of hunting and gathering before he would consume the equivalent amount of carbs, sugar and salt that one could quickly and easily consume in a single meal from a fast-food restaurant. Humans never evolved to be able to cope with the amount of crap in modern food.

We also evolved to hunt or farm our food before we could eat. Now with the internet, you can order your groceries with the barest physical exertion - the click of a mouse.
Is that the restaurant at the end of the universe?
Something I rolled myself using Symphony CMS (http://symphony-cms.com/), a neat open source XSLT driven content management system.
Never heard of contributory infringement?
>Honestly, listening to some Mac user responses to this problem, it's like entering a timewarp back to when all the measures implemented on Windows/IE to deal with this stuff hadn't even been thought up.

That's because many of the measures implemented on windows are fundamentally flawed. Virus/Malware scanners? Really? So we want to turn infecting people's computers into a business?

The MS approach has always been to make money on working around defects. I really, really hope Apple doesn't decide to go down this route.
How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways (April 2011)