skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still a bad analogy, and you've used it way too many times in this thread.

Whether or not accessing anything on a webserver is illegal depends partly on your intentions while doing so. That's a basic function of most court trials--to discern your intentions. For example, see the differences between the various degrees of murder, and the way such trials often hinge on "preconceived intent."

If my intention in accessing "/admin" was to access your server without your authorization to access some protected piece of information, damage computers, or defraud you, that may indeed be a crime. See http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html . It doesn't matter whether it was password protected or not. If I went there by accident, however, it probably was not a crime, although depending on what I accessed I may wind up having to go to court to prove that my intentions were benign.
Deflating the "rebel cyclist" myth with data
I wasn't a fan of iTerm "1". What's new in 2? Someone got a summary? I don't see it on their site.
I've always been the same way - most screencasts move too slowly for my tastes and don't hold my attention (that's why I was impressed with the navigation system in these videos).

When I was approached to record a series of jQuery screencasts for TekPub, I almost passed because I didn't personally see the value of video tutorials. However, having done it and received voluminous amounts of positive feedback from people who finally groked concepts that had been eluding them, I've come to realize that different people simply learn best in different ways. The success of Kahn is another good example of this.

I don't think that makes a video-learner somehow inferior for having approached the topic in a different way. It just means that they best absorb content in a different way than you and me. Often, when I hear from people who watched my videos, they're asking for pointers to more advanced content on the same topic, so they can continue building on that foundation. I think it's inaccurate to cast them as being "spoon-fed" and assume they don't pursue deeper knowledge.
IOS hacker begins porting Swype to Jailbroken iPhones.
Probably lynx.

http://lynx.browser.org/
Looks like `links`.
This demo (like all demos) is only showing the best case performance. There are plans to add JIT to C Python ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/ ), but the numbers listed there don't look very impressive.

Mathematically intense code may run faster when it is compiled JIT, but Python users have relied on specially made libraries (Numpy/Scipy/Gmpy/etc.) to get serious speedup.
We all know Games are going to get to Google+[1]. Plus, Google is an investor in Zynga, so it only makes sense.

[1]- http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/google-code-reveals-inten...
Objective-C's most Maddening Bug
ummm ... didnt Photosynth come from the SeaDragon acquisition and Kinect came from the PrimeSense partnership ?

OTOH, I think .NET/Mono are awesome pieces of language innovation.

EDIT: oops - didnt see that this was mentioned below.
You can already record video with your webcam and upload it directly to Facebook, just like you can with YouTube.
What tickles me in that special way is the way this 'conversation' has gone.

Them: "We've got an awesome new idea, 3 strikes policies. 3 accusations, and your out."

Us: "Um, well actually it's not fair to have your internet cut off based on unproven accusations."

Them: "Well then... 6 strikes!"

Us: "I don't think you understand the objection..."
Why The Facebook-Microsoft Alliance Should Worry Google
May I ask what is so bloated and unpolished? Back up your dribbling. I have been using iTerm for a while now and it's as fast normal Terminal. It has profiles. It has 256 colors so I can use the same VIM colorschemes.
I enjoyed the TekPub series on jQuery.
highly recommend movie "Outsourced" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425326/ - funny, seems (never been to India myself) realistic while without extra cynicism, and personally it made me feel better toward the Indian guys/gals on the other end of the phone line.
Thanks. Great comments, but I doubt they answer the question.
Jailbreaking Convention MyGreatFest Brings iPhone Hacking to Mainstream
A Smartphone Device To Detect Cataracts
> Most people would say that Google has been more innovative than Microsoft in recent years—especially in the mobile phone market

Would they? I don’t think so. Android is iPhone + Symbian + Blackberry + Java. Windows Phone 7 is a new beast.
Why do you need gold medalist in your team for something that looks simple?
Google+ Circles Not Compatible with Asymmetric Follower Model
Why Wayne Rooney going US?
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Wayne Rooney at the U.S Embassy to apply for a visa
Well, the Metro and Evening Standard are given away for free in London each weekday, and only make money from advertising.
Ok, sure, I'm just saying that the analogy breaks down. Now the debate is over intent, whereas it's nearly impossible to accidentally break and enter.
Binary Numbers Haiku
What's different about it compared to NameCheap, GoDaddy, iWantMyName, etc?
> We don't get any oil from Iraq.

You're in control of it. Even if you don't buy it, specifically, you've inserted American companies into its production and can decide who receives it, what currency it's sold in, etc.

> Absolutely nothing you've said makes any sense because you're cherry picking your examples and being completely unreasonable.

Not at all. You're responsible for the horrible deaths of millions. As long as you keep thinking that some good deeds justify murders you're killers.

Do you know what they kill a faithful 20-year librarian who only killed one innocent kid? A murderer.

Do you know what they call a dedicated doctor who only raped one anesthetized patient? A rapist.

> We pressured Mubarak also...

Ohhh, "pressure". That's like doing something but it's guaranteed not to cost you anything. How... bold.

> And like I pointed out the United States has always been the world's largest donor: The biggest portion of U.S. aid goes to Iraq ($4.27 billion) [...]

And also the largest proportion of your ordnance.

And like I pointed out, that money is less than you spend on bombs, ammo, or air-conditioning for your soldiers. You pay trillions to flatten some place and a pittance on fixing them up. More-over, much of the aid, not only isn't, but gets delivered by profiteering American companies and comes right back to you.

> Yes we have messed up a few times, but we've gotten it right more often than not

You're blind to your failures - if we listen to you you've never gotten it wrong.

People who excuse their mistakes can't cherry-pick and claim credit for their successes. As long as you're running around justifying killing any innocents and covering it up, you aren't doing good the rest of the time even if your rose-colored view was accurate, which it is not.

> you still count point out an example of anyone else doing it better. You don't live in reality.

Did Scientologists kill tens of thousands last year? No? Well then they're better than you. Because as long as you're unabashed killers who reserve the right to fight war for profit you're not being anyone's friend.

> The Syrians do not want US intervention, that is bullshit and like I already pointed out--we're already "liberating" three other Muslim countries and that isn't going out so well.

You're attacking two on false pretenses. That's not liberation and your intentional blindness to this is the issue.

Perhaps the Syrians are more afraid of you than their dictator.

> It must be painful to have to live in a country you hate so much. If so, why not move? Why are you here?

The land and resources are as much mine as yours.

> You clearly hate America, so why stay?

You hate America - you refuse to admit errors, learn from your mistakes, and adapt.

Nobody outside really cares about the USA. If you weren't invading people you could quietly go do your own thing.

> Oh and you're welcome for the freedom our country extends to you

Oh yes, the freedom to be apprehended and shipped off to Syria for years of waterboarding and electroshock. (The same Syria you claim to have no influence over.)
Those low-hz LED tail lights drive me nuts. The strobing effects are incredibly distracting and headache-inducing.
Sōsh Makes Social Actually Social By Giving You Things To Do In Your City
Sorry, I didnt meant to suggest that actually happened in the last paragraph but it does read that way on review. My apologies.
I really like Profiles and Split Horizontally/Vertically
100% correct. You never want to know if you violate a patent, so this idea will only be useful for patent trolls, as you said.
I just think it's interesting that iTerm2 has one author, but iterm2.com has three.
Lion's terminal app is a beach ball nightmare on this machine. Hitting tab to complete a directory in bash results in a 3-second pause every time. Longer if the directory doesn't exist.

I wondered if it was my new SSD, but it doesn't happen in iTerm, so I guess not.
Its a fork, and its basically completely different now. I reccomend giving it a try. I use it because of the more powerful keyboard binding, but it has many other features.

edit: no idea why i thought it was googles fork. corrected.
$10 dollar domain names (that holds true for registrations, renewals, and transfers), free private whois, simpler UI, and no upselling.
Why Your Stitches Cost $1,500
Save-as also provides the function of being able to save to different media/locations.

Yeah, that too. Duplicate, or export, or copy.

Power users already have their more powerful alternatives and non-power users are used to what they know.

What?! Why should only “power users” be allowed the luxury of never losing important data? We can make that easy too.
Good post; What I think is important to point out (and what I've always told people) is that overtime is a result of failure: failure of planning, process, time/task/scope/resource management, estimation, etc.
MSFT does something similar as well. Was $500-$1500 while I was there (2002-6)
Except the customers who are even aware of these lawsuits probably account for such a small percentage of customers as to be negligible.
some other resources for those interested in terminal apps, what are some others?

Guake: http://guake.org/

Yakuake: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153

Visor: http://visor.binaryage.com/

SIMBL: http://www.culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php

Solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Alessi Sizzling Summer Sale
lovely work!
I don't think the analogy breaks down. I think most of the people arguing here need to go re-read Wikipedia on mens rea vs. actus rea. Most of the counter-analogies seem to boil down to things like, "but then Google could one day decide nobody's authorized to visit WWW.GOOGLE.COM and half the US would become felons!"
Binary solo / 10011 / The distant future
We've created a Node.JS Module to work with PostageApp
We make interactive training materials for people working in the heavy industries (Mining, Oil, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, etc). A typical user is male, in his 30s or 40s, with no interest in technology, a short attention span and temper, low self-esteem with respect to their work, and a preference for the "physical" over anything "abstract". We train them to effectively operate and (especially) maintain/repair the equipment they use in their work.

This equipment is the heavy machinery they tell you not to operate when you take medication, or the sort you see on the Discovery Channel when they talk about the world's biggest construction projects. Machines described by schematics with thousands of components, that come in manuals thousands of pages long. These machines have hydraulic, electrical, and process (computational) systems that all interact in a complex ballet of physical forces and remarkable engineering. And they all break down — constantly.

When the equipment fails, these lumberjack-types have to look up the schematics and deduce exactly what broke on their machine. An hour of downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars, so they're under tremendous pressure to get repairs done quickly. However, they aren't analytical thinkers (in the typical case), so they aren't great at deducing the root cause of failure. They resort to "part-swapping", where they replace components until the problem goes away. Some of these components cost upwards of a hundred thousand dollars and can take 8 hours to install.

This is where we come in. By commission, we take the manuals for a machine, and compile the anecdotal experiences of its operators and mechanics. We then produce a highly-interactive, true-to-life simulation of the machine, with animated schematics that show off exactly what's happening while it's running, in both normal and faulted states. With these tools, they can actually see how the "damn thing" works, top-to-bottom, inside-and-out. This helps them operate in a way that will avoid driving the machines to fail, and grok the machine well-enough to isolate root causes when it does fail.

I could go on and on about this.. another time, perhaps.

Alas, we don't have a blog about what we make. Perhaps I should start one.
Fiddle with the various anti-aliasing options, it should change back.
Most US ATMs can detain cards. This can be done in response to a request from the issuing bank, or if the card is left in the slot after the transaction as a safeguard.

I'd suspect that they want to keep the opportunity to seize the card until the last possible moment.
Some European countries [1] and even the UN [2] have recently begun to recognize internet access as a Constitutional right. If similar decisions were made here, one might be able to sue one's ISP for breaching that right... but maybe not, as long as there's free internet at public libraries. I'm also very pessimistic that SCOTUS will recognize internet access as a Constitutional right any time soon, what with the MAFIAA still at large.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0309/Is-Inte...
[2] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/06/united-nat...
Nokia also has a version of webcl here:

http://projects.developer.nokia.com/webcl
Apple India's response on Facebook [Levity]
Unmanning the Mines of Australia: Rio Tinto launches autonomous mining trucks
That's a standard political tactic; a compromise is always considered OK, so you propose something ridiculous and end up with half of ridiculous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Window

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
The statistics of the "Like" button
Have you used it recently? It was really buggy/slow a few months ago, but has improved drastically.
Blame Nixon. Or OPEC.
Do good engineers really care who your VCs are? What influence can a VC have over a possible hire? (just curious.)
Security Flaw Exposed in iOS Jailbreak Code
I completely agree. As long as we can recognize that these types of failures are the failures of management and the owners, not the employees. They shouldn't have to work overtime for the poor management of their leaders.
One hundred percent / One, then zero: trivial! / The great Benford's Law.
What's the issue with using OpenCV?
C'mon, please at least share with everyone what features you find are "bloat".
Designing Your Death Dossier: 25 Documents You Need Before You Die
Here's one way of doing it with a PCR machine:

1. First find a risk gene of interest. You can find a gene name via flipping through scientific articles about the disease, and then finding the exact sequence of the gene on NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/guide/human/inde...).

2. Design primers that amplify around the region of interest. ($15 maybe tops?)

3. Toss everything into a PCR machine and amplify it up. ($3 or so for per-run reagents?)

4. Take your amplified product and send it off for sequencing (another like $10 or so?). When you get the sequence back, compare your sequence to the published sequence and see how it looks!

There are a few caveats in primer design, and there are some other ways of detecting disease markers, but this is one easy relatively low-cost approach.
Tech people are young, like the presence of others their type/age, cool enviroment, etc. Based on CSI Miami (seriously, how else am I meant to know :P) it's none of those things. Pretty high murder rate, I doubt there's many tech people in Vegas either.
Isn't that irrelevant? It doesn't stop them from being right, and it's a little hard to skew losing advertisers as a good thing...
No kidding. Restricting candidates who worked with X technology doesn't make any sense. You can't say you're trying to hire the best engineers, while at the same time arbitrarily limiting your pool of applications based on pointless criteria.
I don't think there's any penalty for false accusations of copyright infringement. Likewise, nobody needs to pay for falsely accusing you of anything unless you sue them for defamation.

If your ISP actually cuts off your internet after 6 false accusations, you might want to take them to the courts. EFF will probably love to take on such a suit. Unfortunately, very few people have the financial means or guts to sue the RIAA/MPAA and follow through with it.
I've been using it since last 7 months. This version definitely seems speedier, I'm talking about the lags in bringing up new tabs/windows in previous versions.

Moreover I love the simplicity of its key combinations - CMD + left right.

CMD+^+E -> A nice expose style overview for all your tabs.

Though their search is horribly slow.
Keeping things just good enough that search users return is not the same set of incentives as delivering search that meets the comprehensive set of user wants.

Your instinctual reaction to frame this in the context of a market is faulty. ALL of the major search players operate under the conceptual mode of users as product, advertisers as customers. The same is true with other media companies (TV, newspaper, etc). That seems to be the only model the market will currently bear, as the existence of media giants is predicated on their ability to accelerate consumption
I highly recommend Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/

They have a friendly management interface, which keeps getting more impressive over time. They scale very well based on what you need, and I've found their support quite helpful as well.

I also recommend their domain name registration; in addition to having much better policies than most registrars, they also provide email for their domains, which saves you the trouble of maintaining a mail server yourself.
It's fast. iTerm 1 was __very__ slow, and if you code in vim (not gVim or MacVim) because you like to ctrl-Z/fg like me, you have to try iTerm 2. It's Terminal with a real fullscreen mode and the support of 256 colors. Plus some nice other things (autocomplete...).
It's a hard point to justify but you made a great case for it with the article.

I have lots to learn from you guys on culture!
I use Adwords to test things ranging from product titles to high level ebook concepts to optimum price point. The only way I could see it becoming too expensive is if you're shooting way too broad, so I'd like to hear your experience with Adwords and how our usage differed.
Great points by both of you. Couldn't agree more.
You Can’t Get There, the Same Way You Got Here
Try using it sometime. I work for a startup that is in computer vision and managing our OpenCV dependent code is the least favorite part of my job.
Having had a machine in Romania keep (and supposedly destroy) my card in the first week of a 10-week visit in 2004, I can attest that this is not a US-only thing.
Why SourceForge Lost
Mobile Games Generate More Revenue if Given Away for Free
"The complexity of software and low standards for patent eligibility mean that software engineers produce potentially patentable ideas all the time. [Snip] Auditing 10 million lines of code for compliance with 18,000 patents is an impossible task—especially because the meaning of a patent’s claims are often not clear until after they have been litigated. [Snip] The result is a transfer of wealth from young, growing, innovative companies like Google to mature, bureaucratic companies like Microsoft and IBM—precisely the opposite of the effect the patent system is supposed to have."

Those three sentences together form the best explanation I've seen yet on why software patents are so problematic.
Almost every cool person out there has a google+ account except me. =( I would love an invite.

Here is my email: m4rkuskk+thanks4invite [at] gmail.com
Yep I've been running iTerm2. I suppose I've just never looked for the window splitting.
What are these downvotes you speak of?
When it comes to presentation, Mark Zuckerberg is no Steve Jobs
A Haskell post not submitted by dons?

Pinch me.
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The other patients in the room four also disturbed young women give no answer and Kristen went quickly things are not as they seem The air is heavy with secrets and at night when the
Man gets lab-grown windpipe
DYN.
Are you really serious/sure?

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/HTC-Droid-Incred...
Clickables

Blog Post: http://blog.postageapp.com/2011/07/node-js-module-for-postag...

Node.JS Module: https://github.com/postageapp/postageapp-nodejs
I have a couple of very small VPS's which cost $15-20 per year. That's less than the cost of a cup of coffee per month. There are plenty of similar offers on sites like LowEndBox.com. A few SSH tunnels on a minimal Debian install shouldn't take up more than 64MB of RAM, so you don't really need an expensive Linode for that.

Caveat: These low-cost "companies" go out of business all the time, so you'd better read the reviews. But since I consider them disposable anyway, I don't really care if the uptime isn't 99.9% or the company goes bankrupt after 9 months. If you plan to do anything other than tunneling with your VPS, I'd suggest that you pay at least $10 per month.
Not sure why this links to schneier. The actual article is here: http://exiledonline.com/wn-38-ira-vs-al-qaeda-i-was-wrong/
Please......
stergitos<at>gmail
Sounds like a request for a Chrome extension
Indeed. The mail is ridiculous, and often highly dubious, but it is not outright malicious like the redtops.

Pray for its improvement, not its demise.
I have no idea what point you are attempting to make. Non-power users don't need full-blown version control, there are plenty of more straight-forward ways of making sure users don't lose their data than that. Save-as is not mutually exclusive with automated backup systems, or undo systems.

Furthermore, nobody is forbidding them from using the tools "power-users" use. The only difference between power users and regular users is what tools they choose to use.
It's really sad that its cheaper to have a person act like a computer than vice-versa. Its like we are going through the industrial revolution, only backwards.
No worries. I just wanted to make sure you (or others) didn't think I was that careless.
Mass produce a coffee printer
Thank you for your detailed description, it was fascinating. Is your market under-served compared to consumer facing apps, and etc.?
No no no NO!

This is wrong on so many levels. If you don't like the process, don't support it. Google is _not_ better than any other company out there. Sure, you have sympathies based on previous encounters and actions, but the goal is the same for every company: Make money.

You're saying that it's different if Google tries to patent something. It's not. There's no moral involved here, this is just plain business. Either you like patents or you don't. Hoping that 'the good guys' apply for lots of patents is crap.
Social Plugin Tracking in Google Analytics
Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps
I'm a big fan of due process, but a lawsuit hardly seems like the right process when someone downloads or shares a $20 movie without paying. (It's worth noting that when the MPAA sue people, the people complain that they can't afford to defend a suit, but when the MPAA try some other tactic, people complain that the courts should be used.)