skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right to intellectual property isn't a natural right like the right to physical property. The Constitution states that intellectual property (i.e. copyrights and patents) exist to serve the purpose of encouraging innovation. The RIAA, MPAA and software patent trolls' abuse of these rules serves to hinder innovation, and therefore these rules should be revised.

I don't think there's anything especially revolutionary in what I just stated.
Ask HN: Found security flaw in site, what should I do?
I found an obvious security flaw in the site of a regional business that serves 10's of thousands of customers a month - think a hotel room or airline ticket. Just change the sequential transaction id in the URL and you can see all the details of any transaction (with the exception of credit card number) for the past year. Even worse you can change any reservation before it is used.

What should I do? Is there a standard protocol about notifying the company before going public? Is there a group who I can report the flaw to who will notify the company? I am not any kind of security researcher and don't want to get accused of hacking
Didn't the Hauppauge HD PVR do that like 5 years ago for $250?
Watch,Green Lantern,Online,Megavideo
Watch,Green Lantern,Online,Megavideo
but before that watch Noton former Green Lantern. then realized that he needed to train on a strange planet called Oa fought against the arch-villain Parallax which will bring the fear and chaos on Earth.
How Photographers Can Make Money without Copyright
Living in Buenos Aires, i have to said that the article is a big rant. Sure, let's make a complete insight about the economy of a complicated, third world country by well, touring a little bit and talking with a couple of entrepreneurs.

This country has lots and lots of issues, corruption, you name it, but is not that bad at all. In fact, it has improved a little bit since 2001. And what is even more important to this place, it has a little but important entrepreneur community (Pallermo Valley, for instance).

Perhaps, constant adversity helps people to sail agains the wind or any other cliché you might love. And don't start talking about politics without knowing, we were never one of the richest nations of the world, just a couple of very rich people that thought we did and made a couple of history books about it ;).
A note to you, and hiring companies everywhere: posting salary ranges will get you more applicants. People looking to move jobs usually don't spend time interviewing for a position where they have to guess at the compensation.
Love TED talks for the amount of information that is freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Alot of it isn't terribly useful, but just knowing what kind of amazing things the top minds in the world are thinking about and working on is a great way to remind ourselves what is really going on in the rest of the world outside of our current social bubbles.
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Could you describe your experiences a bit more? Buenos Aires seems to be one of the more interesting places in South America. Based on the typical news about South America (or Mexico), just landing on that continent will get you kidnapped, abused by the police, robbed, mugged, cheated, etc.
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I love TED talks, but I'm not sure what to do with such a list without a sort-by-something...
The two things i have to say in reply to that. First, i think there's a lot of bunk common wisdom about tradeoffs as well. Scala's a great example of a coherent merger of object oriented programming and functional program, two paradigms that have for whatever reason been typically seen as oppositional (please note, i'm not accusing you of that, but i think it's reasonable to ask which things you think are unsuitable, understanding that there are tradeoffs). Second, when you're talking about suitability, i have to ask about what your constraints are. If all languages have their tradeoffs, then i don't see the problem with saying that JavaScript is as good a general purpose programming language as any other. Sure it's got tradeoffs, but JS as a language and as a programming platform has really hit a firm stride, and clearly has at least a couple years of solid growth ahead of it. Yes, JS like any other programming language, isn't perfect, but it is going to continue getting better and growing into new niches.
Love this spread sheet!!! Who ever built, keep it up! There is just something so simple as a spreadsheet instead of tons of useless graphics especially when you already know and love the product.
I think you're right... as someone who was very much involved in the whole diy pvr scene, I was pining away for that card to come out (That hauppauge card was even the last "news" post on my site byopvr.com).

By the time the card did come out, I no longer cared. I hate DRM with a passion, but it seems I wanted to spend less time screwing with HTPC and more time enjoying content. A PS3 and netflix streaming serves the need for me nicely, along with cough usenet cough ;) for HD content.

I haven't seen it in ages, but I used to really like SageTV's UI, so maybe GoogleTV will get a better interface out of this...
It's low on the list, but my favorite is:

Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed (http://www.ted.com/talks/ric_elias.html)

"Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time."
Small correction, releases are planned each 6 weeks, same as Chrome. Which is almost 9 releases a year.

The reason this first release took longer, is it is the first one. But FF6 is planned for release 6 weeks after FF5 and so forth.
What's Really New About Chromebooks?
The Slingbox PRO-HD is $300 and encodes HD component video for streaming. http://www.slingbox.com/go/slingbox-prohd-techspecs
This is going to be a great read.
Tech blogs most certainly do mention Chrome versions. For example, Ars Technica and TechCrunch did so for the last Chrome release.

The theory that people will start ignoring versions has not yet been proven. It still might though.
It seems to me that he's talking about computers personalizing based on their interactions with you passively.

However, I completely agree that reddit and almost all website that brings together like minded people will have this "bubble" effect. That, however, is nothing new. It's the same as similar groups of people going to the same church, or joining book clubs, or gathering in groups for any reason. The scary thing here is sites that everyone uses will begin to passively function in the same way, making it even less likely than ever for someone who isn't seeking out a diverse range of opinions to find them.

Also worth noting is that there is a moral assumption here that being exposed to a diverse range of opinions is a good thing. If you don't believe that, then this is a moot point.
If removing legal protections for intellectual property would put Michael Bay and Uwe Boll out of work, I think it would be worthwhile.

(Epic downmod in 3.. 2.. )
Why don't you send an e-mail to the webmaster of the site?

If you're concerned that the company may misunderstand your intent and take some legal action against you, may be you could send an anonymous e-mail...
I would phone them or make a disposable email and warn them, that way if they take the news bad they'll have a hard time hunting you down. I can't imagine why they would react badly to that in light of all the recent security issues in the media, but there's all kinds of jerks in this world.
Air India unit - Centaur Hotels website insecure
We certainly do create our own filters by what we subscribe to, how we moderate posts, or how we otherwise personalize our accounts.

There's an argument that people should self-police their own filtering to allow diversity to flourish, but these self-created filters aren't the issue, in my view.

The worry is when self-policing isn't an option, either because people aren't aware filtering is going on in the first place, or that they don't have any control over the filters.
Am I the only one who gets tired of hearing the exact same token Austrian economics complaints about the Fed lowering interest rates every time a story that remotely deals with the economy come up?
Libyan Satellite TV Website Hacked by Ktkoti
Not that you asked me, but living here i wanted to share my two cents. Buenos Aires is not tragic at all, it's... just a little melancholic. A tiny London with poor people and too much humidity, but with great people, lovely architecture, and well, there's insecurity, no way to deny it, but it all depends on where you go. You can walk, travel, go out, party, do whatever you want and you won't feel paranoid or anything. Oh, and there aren't as many escaped nazis here as in the movies, either.
I think what is normal is to let the company know first.
And also give them a test they can reproduce with the bug
and also a deadline in which you are going to make public the security bug you have done.
The deadline is because many companies ignore the problem until is public.

This opinion comes from reading this Chris Shifflet's article:
http://shiflett.org/blog/2007/mar/my-amazon-anniversary
"On this day last year, I informed Amazon about a pretty serious vulnerability and demonstrated it with a few examples and a detailed description. In the description, I explained how to exploit the infamous "1-Click" feature, causing victims to purchase items of my choosing without their knowledge or consent, and I stressed that the scope of the problem extended beyond my benign examples. After some mild prodding, I finally received a reply letting me know that my email had been received, the vulnerability had been verified, and Amazon considered fixing it a top priority.""
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The predictable criticism of my latest VentureBeat post
I completely agree. I'm having trouble imagining it as anything other than some kind of personalized online borders. I think coming up with a more easy to grok name for the issue is worthwhile. Any suggestions?
On the other hand, if you read a patent and take in its ideas, and then act on them (say, by applying those ideas yourself), you may well have violated the patent.

"Intellectual property" is more than just copyright.
It is still really disappointing that TED never released the Sarah Silverman talk (http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/15/the-ted-v-sarah-silverman-f...). Isn't it their purpose to expose the ideas, and ours to contemplate them?
There is a not starving (though severely bankrupt) very small peninsula country on the atlantic that has not legalized, though "decriminalized" ALL drugs to measured success. That country is Portugal, which officially decriminalized all drugs nationwide in 2001. It is a very interesting data point in the argument over drug legalizations. Arguably it is the closest anyone has come to large scale legalization of drugs (interestingly, their case is not limited to just marijuana). More information can be found in this Scientific American article and the Wikipedia article on the drug policies of Portugal:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-dr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
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A big insight into how misdirected our efforts are. PS. You know who figure out an efficient way to make aerogel? (A foam like substance with amazing insular properties?) NASA. The people that come up with these sorts of things deserve that money to work with instead.
1. Upgrades will be downloaded in the background and installed automatically by default. It's not yet as seamless as Chrome, though it's moving that direction. (For example, a while after the upgrade is downloaded, current versions of Firefox will prompt you to restart, with a dialog which is a bit more intrusive than the tiny "Christmas tree" toolbar icon that Chrome uses.)

2. Updates will be automatic by default. They'll be installed without prompting, unless users disable auto-updating. This is important because, just like Chrome, the updates will include security fixes.

3. Add-ons hosted on addons.mozilla.org will be automatically updated: http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/04/19/add-on-compatibili...

Lots more details in the links at http://mozilla.github.com/process-releases/ and https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease
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Releases will actually be every six weeks (about nine times per year) starting with Firefox 6: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease
This is already happening; for example, the official announcement of Firefox 6 on the Aurora channel does not contain the word "six" or the numeral "6" anywhere: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/27/firefoxaur...

Same for the Firefox 5 Beta announcement: http://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/05/20/firefoxbet...
off topic, but i find i often go right to the comments on HN because there's more insight to be found than in the articles themselves and i can get the gist of the article from the comments. i wonder what value there might be in mining the discussion to determine the meaning of the stories?
Google "responsible disclosure". The normal process is to inform their security contact (or more likely tech support), give them a number of weeks to reply and sufficient time to fix the issue. After you've given them a chance to address the issue feel free to publish a report.
That's a horrible TV Tropes article. It reads like Wikipedia...
> HLA is not assembly

It allows you to write software opcode-by-opcode. That's assembly. The differences between HLA and NASM or MASM are matters of degree, not of kind.

> but a high level language

No. High-level languages do things like manage memory for you and otherwise abstract large bits of the machine. HLA does not do that.
Retail apartment buyers in China only borrow half the capital from the banks, but the developers who build them borrow all of the money from the bank, interest-free, based on their "guanxi" relationships with bankers. So instead of reducing prices on unsold apartments, popping a bubble, they and the banks collude to just let the empty apartment buildings sit there empty for years, until they sell. The property bubble might not burst for a long time.

Of course there's also social pressure on young unmarried males to buy apartments, because the girls won't marry them if they don't. I predict the banks will slowly lower the capital requirements, down to 30%, then 20%, then 5%, eventually to 0%. After that will come a Chinese version of CDO's, then, perhaps decades later, the bubble will burst.
I was confused, too. I think the problem is that bubble in this sense (as something that envelopes you) is crossing cognitive wires with Dotcom Bubble 2.0 (market bubble), esp. here on HN.

Perhaps a curtain metaphor, a la The Iron Curtain: Velvet Curtain, Mirrored Curtain, Circular Curtain, Silk Curtain?

Or a cocoon: Filter Cocoons? Digital Cocoons?
"Reading the comments it seems that a disproportionate percentage of the subjects were into meditation (a number of them report 'increasing meditation')."

I haven't read this study yet, but I know that Johns Hopkins is doing another study where one of the groups actually takes meditation lessons for six months before taking the drug. These studies are mostly meant to validate the methodology and to demonstrate that they can be used safely in a well chosen population when done under professional supervision. It's not really meant to accurately measure what percentage of the population at large would be able to safely achieve ego death and/or have a primary religious experience.

Also, I agree with you that medical studies are generally sketchy, but these aren't medical studies. These studies might eventually be used by a drug company in convincing the FDA to grant a new drug investigation permit, but probably not for at least another 5 - 10 years.
Call lulzsec as fast as you possibly can! /sarcasm
Thanks :-) Comparison to London makes me feel better about Buenos Aires. Puts thing into a context. I actually used to live in North London, in a semi-rough area. Even though London was an expensive mess and certain areas gave the feeling of insecurity, I still liked it...at least it was an interesting mess.
FYI If you havent taken the time to read the comments posted to the actual article I strongly recommend you do. They're priceless - perhaps better than article itself.
The Brain on Trial
The book is vaguely interesting, but truth in advertising is that it's pretty dry and only ten or twenty pages out of the entire book are about drugs.
An argument to Service Providers: Blogging Turns You Into Superstars
Here is a link to a store where you can buy aerogel to give you an idea how cheap (even fancy) solutions to this issue can be. http://www.buyaerogel.com/
Lisp allows inline assembly -- but that doesn't make it a low-level language. C and Forth can do the same, yet no one would confuse them with assembly language either.
Hand it over to LulzSec
Previously submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603659
I used to have a SageTV DVR, back in the days of analog cable in the USA. It mostly worked pretty well, and had a good UX.

It is (was) written in Java (but was responsive and nice to look at), so I imagine this is pretty attractive to Google.
Well and the other problem with MDMA is that it's often meth or cocaine based, not actual "molly" or pure MDMA.
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Why Your Form Checkboxes Need to Have Label Tags
FTW -> FTL && FTH.

Also, "You Are Not a Gadget: a Manifesto" by J.L.
Would you be as likely to put a year of your time and money into creating something, if you knew it would just be ripped off and profited from the instant you released it?

If I could just as easily rip of and profit from other's work? Sure.

It turns out people either do a crappy job at copying you, in which case your are fine, or they do a much better job than you did, which means you just have to work harder.
The Google toolbar used to have a happy and sad face you could click on. Where that went or what it did, who knows...

Wait I found the answer: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048181/Google-Adds-Spa...
Sycophantic Search.
Think about a world where anybody who could say anything that would possibly upset you (whether they're trolling or just calling you on your bullshit) are invisible.

Sometimes, the truth hurts. A filter bubble is a carefully engineered blinder, a space free of novel data.

If you're trying to understand your opponents' position in any kind of debate, yet your search engine carefully chauffeurs you away from any info that might upset you, you're trapped in a filter bubble.

("Bubble" has irrelevant economic connotations; "hall of mirrors"/"echo chamber" fits better, IMHO.)
A lot of casual users aren't aware of HTTPS, either, and don't ever need to 'enable' it. It just works. The infrastructure for it is rather centralized now, of course, but it doesn't have to be that way.
All the links (Disclaimer: I didn't test all of them) go to http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_on_averting_climate_crisis.... which happens to be the first video in the list.
Nothing really is a natural right. Nature is not a lawmaker. All rights, rules, and laws are simply what we define them to be. The laws of physics are about the only absolute laws out there. Watch out for people using the word "natural". Whenever they mention this word, they use it to mean whatever suits them best. It's from the 101 guide to critical reading: the use of the word "natural" is a huge red flag for someone trying to sell you their politics.

It may seem natural that it is hard to make copies of physical objects, but just wait 10-40 years (depending on who you ask) until 3D printers become commonplace, and then reevaluate what you consider to be natural.

I'm not a huge fan of corporations like Disney; however, I have a feeling that we are not using the proper ammunition when we attack them based on what our idea of "natural" rights is. As a programmer, I feel that following logical rules should not be encumbered by patents. As an artist, I get pissed when someone tries to imitate me without proper credit, and I feel fully justified in using legal means to stop them. I guess this means that I believe (so far) that abstract algorithms should not be patentable while software implementations (which carry not just algorithms but also a cultural component) as applied to specific problems should be. I know some people try to make them both patentable -- I am against that.
He has also written a book: http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-What-Internet-Hiding/dp/...
Show HN: Interactive Evolution of Image-Producing Neural Networks
It's about time we pushed back on some of the cutesy web vernacular. At least "meme" defined itself. Filter bubble doesn't make any damn sense.
This post only discusses the theoretical profitability of a botnet mining coins. (quote: "Symantec has NOT observed any botnets currently being used to mine Bitcoins" [emphasis mine]).
While you're at it, any alternative recommendations?

I'm still a novice at writing assembly (more interested in code gen and instruction set design than coding assembly by hand), but I've found these helpful:

* http://asm.sourceforge.net/resources.html
* http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/
* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1662430 (good resource, link to HN discussion)
Programing language for startup
I am reposting this question as I realized I was not specific enough the first time around. I have a startup that will need a lot of the functionality of Airbnb site. It is in a different space however tje features available on airbnb are very similar to what I will need tomhave built.
My question is, what language should I build this startup in?
I am talking to several differnt programmers, each who are suggesting a differnt language. Before anyone suggests just going with the best programmer and don't worry about the language, be assured that I am considering that however I am not interested inhiring just one person but ratjer building a company with many future programmers.
The three languages I am comnsidering are PHP, Java, and Ruby on Rails.
I am looking for a language that will have the functionality that I want, be scalable if the company takes off, and be a language that a lot of programers know to make future hiring easier at a price that a startup can afford. Which of these languages wouldmyou most recomend and are there any others I have missed that I should be considering?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Steve
That's my next electronics-related purchase; Rigol seems to make very nice little units.

If you're just a hobbyist, though, the DSO Nano v2 is actually a great little device:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/dso-nano-v2-p-681.html?cPat...

It also has a newer replacement which is significantly more useful, the DSO Quad:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/preorder-dso-quad-4-channel...

I was given the Nano v2 as a present, and for quickie low-frequency testing, it's fantastic.
Sorry for the Typos. The Ipad loves to change the text as you write it.
There was a really good comment thread on this article when it was posted here 18 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603104
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