skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often hear people say that sometimes having options can be more difficult than not having options, but in a business context, I wholeheartedly disagree. Even in the small (300k total accounts or so) project I founded (that I just killed off), I still had to plan multiple steps ahead. Just because something wasn't realizable at a given moment, did not mean I didn't have to make decisions.

In fact, I had to make more decisions: "Once A, B, and C are complete, I need to find funding. If I get funding from X, then I can proceed with Y. If X falls through buy N gives me funding, I'll do Z because of M. If both come through, then I'm limited by H and J, and therefore I'll go with either Q or W." Obviously, it's more complicated than this, and sometimes my mental maps gave me headaches - but what I'm trying to illustrate is that once you have something solid, I think things become simpler. Instead of planning for a myriad of possibilities, you only need to make one or two per instance.
Unveiling of Nokia's first Windows Phone codenamed 'Sea Ray'
If you are using Java applets, then yes, migrate away. That's a technology that's effectively deprecated since at least 5 years. And yes, my point is: move faster.

Regarding stability: yeah sure. Amazon never works, Google.com is always down, ebay doesn't render in half of the browsers. On top of that, all the owners of the millions of websites struggle every day to keep up with all the browsers. Clearly, the web is nonviable and should be shut down.
Humans are in the Great Ape taxonomic family, which is a subclass of the Ape family.
That's exactly right. Owning a lot of valuable "stuff" makes you wealthy even if you don't have a lot of cash.
Google Transit already offers you choices when you want to go from A to B. It could do the same thing with driverless cars. Want to take one the whole way? That'll be 60 minutes and cost $12.50. Or you can can take the driverless car to the train, which will take you the rest of the way. $7.50, and takes 1h20 minutes.
Binary Bomb Squad
First thought — good idea, and it should apply to all ISPs (not only 4G wireless), at least voluntarily as a good tone.

Second thought — minimum rates to what? ISPs can guarrantee certain quality of service only up to their uplinks, they cannot really help with anything out of their network. And most customers do not directly care about this, they need to transfer the data all over the globe (and complain on this).
Not seeing some rounded corners or box shadows is different than not being able to log in because the site used activex.
> Indeed, but wouldn't such a plan start with building on a firm foundation that isn't going to get EOL'd and no longer support security updates after three months?

Why? Why does it matter if 4 is EOL when 5 is available? Instead of obsessing about having security updates, why not just expect updates. If you're willing and able to test and deploy a new browser every 3 months, what does it matter if they call it 4.2 or 5.0? Test and deploy the new browser and stop worrying so much about the version number.

> If anyone is about to pipe up with how they only release useful changes and the community testing is sufficient to prevent regressions, please keep in mind that both Firefox and Chrome have each outright broken both cosmetic rendering details and basic functionality recently, in minor/point releases that you wouldn't normally expect to change user-observable behaviour at all, plus of course there are many widely and less widely reported compatibility issues.

So don't deploy on day 0. Breaking changes can be, and sometimes are, introduced in minor version increments. If you need to test, you need to do so whether you're going from 5 to 6 or 5.1 to 5.2.
Buzzwords, Ajax, HTML 5
I have Efika MX. SmartBook, and SmartTop. I started reading the Genesi forum - www.PowerDeveloper.org, and there was mentioning of hardfp arm version. Maybe that's what they are talking about.

Btw, I'm very satisfied with the genesi products - OpenGL ES 2.0 works just fine, with some little bugs, but overall very cool and I think cheap system (Ubuntu 10.10, and they are working toward Ubuntu 11.04).

LuaJIT works also there (and jits), giving 4-5 speedup over standard lua (It would be better, once LuaJIT too starts using hard floats, it's still relying on software math libs)
I'd heard of Return-Oriented Programming, but it just occurred to me that it's the same idea as 'Threaded Code': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code
Facebook Names Reed Hastings to Its Board of Directors
Surely there is a legal precedent which provides at least some framework for what can or cannot be seized during a warrant search? This can't be the first time government agents have mistakenly seized property in an otherwise lawful search.

Also, while I completely understand Instapaper's unwillingness to pursue this through the courts, that is the way our legal system is structured. If you believe you have been harmed in some way by a government action, the courts are the avenue through which you must obtain recourse.

(Not a lawyer, so if I'm wrong about any of the above please correct me.)
A few binary bombs:

http://www.pacificsites.com/~ccrayne/clax86/demobomb

http://www.pacificsites.com/~ccrayne/clax86/demobomb1

http://www.pacificsites.com/~ccrayne/clax86/demobomb1.exe

NOTE: I haven't tried these programs myself, so can't vouch for their safety. Use them at your own risk.
"The de facto standard in this country"

Which country? It's a global problem (and this is a global forum). Kudos to Nevada for having the presence and foresight to pass this legislation. It opens up a world of possibilities for future transport options, and whilst it will take a while for the public to catch up and accept both the technology, and the transport changes it enables, this is a huge step in the right direction.
I agree that he's wealthy.
My understanding of the argument is that someone, or some entity, with a certain amount of money should not sue a significantly smaller person for another amount of money that would cause a hardship on the smaller person.

Is there a point at which those values of money make it acceptable to take some one else's work, alter it, and re-sell it? If Maisel had settled for $10,000 would we be having this issue? What about $1000? Nothing at all?

Litigation is unfairly tilted towards those with money. Fortunately for Jay he has some. He obviously felt that Kind of Bloop's cover unfairly used his art, so he sued. I am assuming that the settlement will cover _his_ legal costs. My wild-ass guess is that $32.5K would be about right to cover filing, and negotiating a settlement with a good NY attorney.

So, if an artist feels that their work was ripped off (whether or not that is ACTUALLY the case), and they have the means to do so, do they not have the right seek litigation against the offender?
Yes and No. Rememberme cookie autologs in when you goto company.sprint.im (if you have logged in before). It however does not log you in directly if you try to goto sprint.im. This is something I probably should work on. A simple login link would solve all the problems.

I use codeigniter.
Those contracts were signed a long time ago. The first version of _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ was released in 1997!

Edited to add: Hindsight doesn't wear glasses. ;)
Apple purchased Emagic for their 3rd party software and skill. They bought "a killer 3rd party app". They did this because they did not have much in house talent working music production software. Since then Apple philosophy is to develop and hire talent in house, because it's typically much cheaper. But with games they face the same challenge they did when they bought Emagic, they don't have any great gaming talent at Apple. Apple currently promotes Infinity Blade in it's commercial as if it's exclusive to Apple, currently it is but that's not due to contract, Chair can port it if they want to.

> PopCap makes its cash from its multi platform strategy, make games that will run on anything and them port them to everything.

I know that, but that strategy could change with the purchase, that was my point. PopCap's team can get better or than get worse. If the get better and the new owners decided to go exclusive that could be a miss.
I don't think Apple should buy Popcap, I think they should have worked
a long term deal with them. Apple didn't buy Bungie because it's not fully invested in games. Just to illustrate Infinity Blade was mostly developed in a Microsoft os environment.
I'm not sure why you keep suggesting that the credibility of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) depends on the accuracy of Al Gore's movie. Furthermore, it's not just the IPCC that provides evidence. There are thousands of peer-reviewed articles on the topic as well. Do you think that editors and reviewers at Nature and Science are acting in bad faith? If so, why? If not, then do you know something they don't? If so, what? Or do you think that the entire AGW "industry" is one that provides a "signal" that encourages people to down-weight/overlook evidence against AGW? If so, then why do you seem to believe that the fossil fuel industry wouldn't have a similar influence in the other direction? Indeed, the fact that news articles suggest AGW controversy far more frequently than scientific articles do suggests influences on the public sphere that come from outside of science.

Science provides huge rewards to those who disprove an existing theory. By the sounds of it, you seem to think it would be "easy" to do so with AGW. So why not just systematically lay out your refutation? If you're right you'll be famous and save the planet billions/trillions of dollars. You'll be able to command huge fees to give speeches, etc. etc. If this doesn't work out, then it suggests that science is broken for AGW. In which case, why would this happen when it's the same process that works pretty darn well for everything else?

> They reference Hansen -- TILT! He used to be a big global cooling guy.

So? People can't change their minds when confronted with evidence?
X Marks the Spot: A Pirate’s Tale in Computer Terms 
A follow up to Type M for Murder by Alexa Lash – a writer, editor, and on-the-spot poet. Former Floridian and resident Bostonian, she has written for the Seminole Chronicle, Momslikeme, and the Central Florida Future, and is currently working in the Journalism Department of Emerson College.
It's the thread that keeps on giving! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456
From what I've seen, the .NET community is actually really excited, as are a lot of MS folks (myself included!)
I believe Mango is going to bring background tasks and IE9. For what it's worth I find that the back/start button combo on Windows Phone 7 beats the app switching on iPhone, even though Windows Phone lacks true multitasking. The music scenario is the one exception. I swore I had at least one third party music app that did background playing but I must have been mistaken.

I find my Windows Phone (LG Optimus) is more stable than the iPhone too. Overall I think Windows Phone 7 is really solid OS. It gets all the basic functionality right and is often better than iOS. However it does lacks the polish and apps that make iOS great.
I'm a programmer and former technology staff writer at Forbes.

For what it's worth, this guy isn't a tech journo
I can recommend the following to accompany Turing's paper.

http://plover.net/~bonds/mind.html
A potentially hostile group that also has much greater resources at its disposal than LulzSec, and much more ambiguous motivations.
Does anyone know a way to get around my work firewall so I can access Turntable.fm from work?
I know someone who spent some time in one of Japan's smaller prefectures. He hated how all the trains stopped promptly at midnight, making late night things impossible. Something like this would let you take a train there and an automatic car back.
Site-ul Radio SuperHits Fm Romania
Hmm. I've built something similar to instapaper for myself. (Using a native OS X app). People were making jokes at me how I was re-inventing the wheel.

Now I'm somewhat happy having done the extra work. At least the FBI doesn't have my "read later" bookmarks. (Which often consist of the words 'hack', 'malware' and 'reverse engineering'.)

I guess I will reinvent the wheel instead of using cloud services more often in the future.
The Bitcoin Security Challenge Part 1
As a real practical question out of curiosity: how would you design their system differently so unauthorized people having only your hard drives couldn't get any data at all?
Turntable has got me thinking. It seems to me there would be a market for doing something similar for "real" DJs, where they could stream live sets to listeners. I know I love to listen to a good electronica DJ when I'm coding or just chilling, but I can't always take my laptop with me to a live set. Obviously it could be done with justin.tv or ustream for example, but something more customized for sound should exist. If it got popular one could even have a profit-sharing scheme with the DJs like justin.tv has (or is it ustream?), so not-super-famous DJs could earn some cash on the side.

What do you think? Would anyone ever use a service like this?
True; a similar one is to settle disputes predictably, so that lawyers can settle a dispute without actually going to court - again, not necessarily justly.

There's an interesting "law and economics" justification, which is that the party who in the best position to have prevented the problem should be responsible for the damages caused. The damages become an incentive.
What actually are those apps that truly require a browser? What's the benefit of binding a program to a web browser? There has to be one, otherwise it wouldn't be done so often, but I have a hard time seeing it. What are some concrete examples?
Maybe more Microsoft SQL Server users follow Hacker News now than before?
It's ridiculous that a photograph from 50 years ago is still under copyright.

Copyright law is supposed to encourage artists to create new work. However, it's been perverted to let artists (but mostly large corporations) milk money from a single cow in perpetuity.
If you are aiming this towards software development projects, you'll really need to integrate with popular bug tracking software etc. If you want to be hip, integrate with github.
The good thing about these internet memes is that nobody will come and claim copyright on the image ;-) (Or will they?)
Close in anti-missile defense (video)
You're supposed to enter your email address... lol. There's a reason the text box says "Enter email here" and the bottom of the page discussed the "email entered will not be...". Also, it just doesn't make any sense to search by password.

Yes, I would be disturbed if a public site was reversing weak poor choices in hash algorithm and publishing data about the resulting passwords.
I agree with you, and I didn't mean to imply that ROP is all that new. It's been on my personal radar since 2008, which is when it became really popular. I think this was also when the automated tools for exploits started to appear. Of course, the basic techniques go back before then. This happens with computer science - we had to give up writing a certain patent [not security-connected] because we found the basic idea in a paper from 1956.

We discussed address space randomization, which of course we use, and our conclusion was that for us, this doesn't provide enough protection. Not every location can be randomized with equal effectiveness, and sometimes just having an offset is enough, and we're a high-value target. Thus, the advice to "not make buffer overruns." I am also not an exploit writer, or even specifically a security guy (although I need to be aware of it). Obviously, return-oriented programming is not a "we're all going to die!!!" thing. But it's an extremely dangerous technique, which really illustrates the danger of writing user-facing code in a language with no memory safety.
A couple little images that are hopefully a show of support:
http://aptsurdist.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/a-story-by-waxy-o...
SpiderNode to the rescue?
The backlash is particularly interesting. 1 person checked out the site because they were intrigued, but left confused as it seemed to be a business chat. Didn't seem very professional to them.

Another wondered why you'd use an 'obviously racist' meme to advertise your business. ... I still can't figure out how it's racist. I'm guessing some of the jokes were, and not he associates all use of the meme with those jokes.

But most importantly, you haven't successfully gone viral until someone's upset with your success. Congrats, Hipchat! :D
What makes the web great is its constant change and innovation. How is it that a 2 person startup can deal with it's users changing browsers whenever they want, but a giant corporation can't? When your browser is beholden to a corporate dev cycle what you get is Internet Explorer.

What exactly would be wrong with a test system that included support for a variety of browsers? Perhaps they could automate this test suite. Any process that made your dev system more agile would be a step forward in this turbulent economy. The current rate of change in the world is going to be increasing exponentially for the foreseeable future. Those well adapted to this environment will prosper those who aren't will perish.

Furthermore, "faced with deciding which is more important: security updates or the critical production web application needed to manufacture your product is not a happy place to be." if you're running the same browser to browse the web and do process control you're asking for XSS/CSRF attacks against your process control system, setup some special link on the desktop that launches a custom browser, then you can keep that browser stable and have an up to date browser for the rest of the internet. Personally, if I was charged with securing a process control system I would have it entirely disconnected from the rest of the corporate network. Only systems that need to access the process control should be connected to that network. We live in the world of stuxnet.
... And it's going to be around three years, until everyone takes them for granted and bitch about every minor niggle. :)
Ask HN: Any YC companies running on Drupal?
If yes, which ones are they?
It's unpopular, but I tend to side with the creator in copyright cases. I like creators. But in this case, they're both creators.

One point: I think a mechanically produced low-resolution version of the image would not be "transformational". The image here does look mostly like that - an exception is the tie, which is rendered as if flat, to preserve the pattern. I think if all or most or enough of it was like that - a sort of cubist version - it would be transformational.

It really sucks to pay tens of thousands of dollars. And the experience itself sucks even more. The guy should have just got an injunction, not damages etc. Though I guess, many had been sold already - it was too late to prevent the problem. The only justification I can think of for the artist is to cover his own legal costs. I wonder if he would have just asked Maisel to stop, with no lawyers involved, if he'd known in time? OTOH, Maisel firmly believes he was in the right - so I also wonder if he would have stopped? Maybe lawyers - and their costs - had to be involved
How about the State requiring each car owner to have insurance which would cover to $X all damage caused by the car AND the State also limit claims to $X.[1]

The insurance companies with their phalanxes of clever quants can work out how dangerous each car model is and price it accordingly. Adam Smith's invisible hand can do the rest.

If the insurance companies get greedy and "certainly not conspire" to price high, then the car makers would be free to spin up their own correctly priced insurance companies and take the business in order allow car sales.

[1] Barring malice and probably a dozen other exceptions.
I did read the post. Your other repliers covered the qualifiers.
Ever watched Idiocracy? There's a mechanism in the cop cars that forced all cars to pull over and shutdown in that movie. Just hope it doesn't turn into this afterwards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC_H2s7rMvE
53 VCs from 40 firms send letter opposing PROTECT IP
Do we know what the warrant stated? If it authorized them to take the rack containing the server they were after, then this is legal, if unfortunate.

If the police have a warrant for my apartment, and you happen to leave your backpack and server, your stuff will most likely be confiscated, along with mine, if it interests the police.
Why The Non-iPad-Tablet Isn’t Selling
I don't think the IT skill required to reliably extract evidence from an arbitrary hosting operation (of potentially arbitrary complexity) is simply "on tap" for the FBI.

If you want to say "tough luck that's just what it costs to collect evidence in 2011", fine, but it's probably not fair to say that the FBI should just naturally have that capability.
Commitment equals action. If you are not doing something then you are not committed to it. If you want to do something, but you aren't doing it, find out what is blocking your commitment to it.
This is why I will be able to go back tonight and honestly say that I didn't waste time on Hacker News in the morning. :)

Thanks.
Right but new books have been published since then. I am sure the contract has changed over the years as new things have been brought into the fold, movies for example. You would have thought that by book 4 someone would have brought this up.
You could always hash the e-mails, although this would make resetting your password impossible.

How much data do Facebook's OAuth tokens contain? By looking at one, can you tell that it's linked to Pavel Lishin's account?
Here's a recent great book with free pre-print pdf: http://szeliski.org/Book/

Along with the lecture slides from different professors linked to on that page, it should be a sufficient start.