skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't they over-thinking this a bit? This seems like the Microsoft-ification of crapper design, i.e. gratuitously complicated, unmaintainable and essentially irrelevant to the basic problem.

We are talking mostly about places without proper sanitation, how are they supposed to have (and sustain) facilities for generating plasma?

Left to itself human waste degrades and the residue can be used for fertilizer or maybe even fuel. A cesspit or septic tank provides for safe storage until it is ready for disposal, preferably in a way that aids the local population.
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22.
On October 8, 2010, Swartz connected a second computer to MIT’s network and
registered as a guest, using similar naming conventions: the computer was registered under the
name "Grace Host," the computer client name "ghost macbook," and the throw-away e-mail
address “ghost42@mailinator.com."

23.
The next day, October 9, 2010, Swartz used both the “ghost laptop” and the
“ghost macbook” to systematically and rapidly access and download an extraordinary volume of
articles from JSTOR. The pace was so fast that it brought down some of JSTOR’s computer
servers.
The prosecutor would be quite foolish to grant bail.

This is what I'm saying. The prosecutor does not make bail decisions. That's a decision for a presumably-neutral judge.
Read this: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf

The bubble is when there are large numbers of Ponzi finance entities that can only meet their financial obligations by acquiring additional investments. I think that the startup scene particularly Internet related startups often appear to be ponzi financed when they spend a long time acquiring users or data without a stated business model for generating income.

Also, for a bubble to be ready to burst there needs to be large scale public participation. In 1999 everybody was talking about tech stocks (literally everybody). In 06 everybody was talking about flipping houses and cash out refinancing. Everybody doesn't have access to early or even late stage venture financing opportunities. If you see products that allow individuals to invest in this type of speculation and they gain in popularity then the bubble talk will be a lot more real.
One of the really cool things about this is the readily available links to descriptions of the core applications. Easily the best-designed distro website I've ever seen.

The bad news: branding collisions galore:

The 'e' looks way too much like enlightenment's 'e', and enlightenment already has a project called elementary -- http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Elementary

The design of the whole bloody thing looks exactly like OS X. The topbar, the notification icons, the dock, the Midori icon (which is weird -- Midori already has a standard claw icon that looks cooler than the compass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28web_browser%29). Hell, they even have a set of "human interface guidelines"! http://www.elementaryos.org/docs/human-interface-guidelines
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Kenan Systems, where I worked a decade ago, might provide a cautionary tale. Kenan Sahin built the company up into the 800-pound gorilla of telecom billing software without giving up any of his equity in it. Then he looked at how he wanted the company to expand, looked at the competitive environment, and decided that he needed more capital to avoid being leapfrogged. So he sold the entire company to Lucent, whose CEO was on an acquisition spree.

Unfortunately, Lucent was at its peak when it bought Kenan Systems and, briefly, everything started unraveling within a year of the acquisition. Lucent eventually sold the Kenan division to CSG, which later sold it to Comverse. A friend of mine, who had joined when it was still Kenan Systems, was laid off a few months back; her co-workers told her she was lucky to be laid off while the company could still afford to give her a decent severance package.
Might want to check out StarStreet (https://www.starstreet.com/), which uses real money. They frame it as a sports stock market, to avoid running afoul of online gambling laws.
If you eat ice cream frequently, buy a heavy spoon.
Google removed the papers from its search and news indices. Given this judgment, it is rather odd that these newspapers, which fought so hard to restrain Google, are now clamoring for re-inclusion

That's not 'odd', it's just the harsh reality of the power bases of post-Web media, and it reveals the stupidity of bringing this legal action in the first place.
Well I was planning on making it a Facebook game. So conceivably you could still make dummy accounts, but because it's social and your friends will see who you're betting with I'm hoping that won't be too much a of a problem.
There are quite a few light linuxes around: AntiX, SliTaz, Crunchbang. Good for older hardware (like what you can get for £50 or $50 down the local charity shop) and cheap no name ARM based laptops (ARM Ubuntu is in development).
Victims don't charge.
Since online gambling is illegal in the US, you may get push-back from Facebook even though you seem to only be emulating gambling.

You're also using the word "Bet" which may cause companies like Facebook and Google to censor you in areas like AdWords, Apps, etc.

If it was me and I wasn't based in the USA, I might create a standalone gambling site. US companies can't compete with you right now. Mark Shuttleworth figured out that US companies couldn't sell strong SSL certs to companies outside the USA thanks to ITAR regulations. So he created Thawte in South Africa and sold strong certs from there. Verisign bought the company for around $700 million. He used that money to create Ubuntu.

Best of luck!!
Intresting, thanks for the link!
Swartz's organization seems to pretty clearly claim that both MIT and JSTOR asked the feds not to charge him. While JSTOR's statement doesn't actually say thatº, it certainly seems plausible to me since they very clearly say that they privately engaged and dealt with the matter with Swartz. You simply don't do that if you're pursuing criminal charges.

º I would probably be hesitant to say that publicly as well, considering the feds came down with a monster 35-year indictment against a juicy target. The "victim" announcing on Day 1 that they don't support the charges would not be accepted very charitably by federal prosecutors.
I couldn't enter the site. HEre is what i get:

Your request was blocked by BlockScript based on the policies of the strikesapphire.com website.

BlockScript is security software which protects websites and empowers webmasters to stop unwanted traffic. BlockScript detects and blocks requests from all types of proxy servers and anonymity networks (such as web-based proxies, open proxies, Tor, VPN servers, etc.), hosting networks, undesirable robots and spiders, and even entire countries. For more information, see: www.blockscript.com
Why did Aaron hack their system instead of working with them to further understand what were his needs that their system was lacking and how they could reduce that gap?
More importantly: is it webscale and does it run on the cloud?
It truly depends on your goals.
ex: cardiovascular fitness, strength, mass, cut/toned physique, explosiveness/quickness, etc.

To quote an acquaintance: "change your diet for weight goals, change your training for body composition goals"

As a very rough direction, I would advise you to follow a well-established and respected program for training, and avoid anything and everything processed for foods.

I personally follow the Starting Strength program (a compound-lifts program designed for beginning strength training) & GOMAD (gallon-of-milk-a-day) for diet. I have had excellent results with respect to my own goals.
On the other hand, if you're bootstrapping your startup, then age may be a benefit. Especially in B2B sales are easier when you're not regarded as a "kid".

And obviously VP at 50 doesn't matter when you have your own company.
I see how rating helps with making playlists from your own library of already rated tracks, but could you explain how it helps with discovery of new artists?
Have a look at AntiX base - essentially command line Debian 6 with the MEPIS kernel and non-free drivers.
what's with all these society-rejects living in Japan?
you know you will always be looked down upon as a foreigner, a gaijin, right? you will never be accepted as one of them even if you marry a jp. wife
> The pricing is designed to extract maximum value out of business customers. If they have 125 simultaneous projects, they officially have More Money Than God.

Have you used Git? Perhaps the most natural way to use it is to have each thing that is independently deployed have its own repository. So, where I work, in my one-man department, I have 40 repositories, and that is so low because there are some things that are in one big repository that should logically be separate repositories.

For instance, our internal reporting system is one repository now. Many of the reports in it should be separate repositories. If those were all split out in the way that best fits the way the code is actually related, developed, and deployed, I'd have about 40 more repositories.

I also have a bunch of tools and scripts that are not under source code control, but should be. If I got that stuff organized into logically related projects, I'd have maybe another 40 repositories.

And all of this only needs maybe 300 megabytes of storage. I'm not using Github for work not because we cannot afford $200/month (we could, although we are about as far from "More Money Than God" as you can get), but because no way am I spending $200/month for 300 megabytes of storage.
I find anything that lets you zone out is a great physical activity. Granted, I'm not a battle-hardened entrepreneur.

Martial arts are great, if you know a weapon or specific technique you love. Nunchakus are great, but make sure you mark them as wind chimes for legal reasons, if you use metal ones. It builds everything. Carido, strength, dexterity, and even pain tolerance. I'm teaching a course starting September - if anyone is in London, ON, you're welcome to join.
I'm not sure what you're appealing to. Real-world analogies don't always transfer readily to digital law. Even in the words of the ageing CFAA, "exceeding authorization" to steal commercial information is most certainly a punishable crime. You don't have to pull out nmap and zero days to be convicted of hacking.
screw coffee. Asians drink tea not coffee.
Blocks.

Although I'm not sure what would happen if you compiled the appropriate parts of http://compiler-rt.llvm.org/ into a 3.x application.
I'm not actively developing any more, but I've actually just released my first indie game so I speak from experience.

- What is the concept of your game?
It's an asteroids clone with a bit of a twist. The asteroids can be one of a number of colors and the player has to switch bullet colors to match their target asteroid. Hit an asteroid with the wrong color bullet and it spawns more.

- How far are you in development?
Complete - you can check out some pics and download (it's free) from the official site...
http://www.mattmccomb.com/Coloroids/index.html

As for the trials and tribulations...

+ Use frameworks -
I handcrafted my engine from scratch. My maths/geometry isn't bad but implementing the physics and rendering took me much longer than any other aspect of the development. And for what gain? I learnt a bit about maths/physics but it's not useful to me. I would have been better off using a library (cocs2d, unity, etc.) and pouring my time into gameplay.

+ Finishing is the hardest part -
Adding features and tweaking control systems, that's fun! Coding menus, creating icons and writing app descriptions, not so much. I left all the dull stuff to end. I spent my last week of development writing emails to app review sites and creating promo images/videos. I suggest that you plan ahead and do some of the dog work as you go. It'll make completing much easier.

+ Feedback is Critical -
find a diverse range of testers, old, young, gamers, non-gamers and let them play your game from day 1. They are the most vital source of feedback you will find. NEVER rely on your own judgement - you're your own worst critic.

+ Enjoy the process -
build a game you enjoy playing and believe in.
Hey Dan! I think this is a really cool idea! I'm part of a team working on a startup, and I would love to chat. Email the team at selfey.sw@gmail.com if you're interested! Thanks!
I don't think it's "them" at all. They sound as if they'd be happier if the incident was already closed, as they thought it was.
I'm not specifically familiar with JSTOR or MIT's network, but I am familiar with other services that allow free access from anyone coming via a school's network block, and I'm also familiar with networks that will allow guest access for a short period of time so as to not inconvenience true guests.

Lots of services do this because it's far less hassle than distributing traditional credentials and typically it's less likely to be abused because unlike name/password pairs, you can't post an IP address to usenet and have somebody else use it. The abuser also has to be physically present, which makes them much easier to find.
"Aim of this project is to develop new technology for processing human waste without links to water, energy, or sewer lines, and at costs affordable to the poor in developing countries."

This existed many years ago, and worked great up until "intelligent humans" decided it was progress to defecate in clean, drinkable water. It was called an outhouse.

Humans are idiots.
Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately I'm a student based in the US so I'm not sure how feasible it is for me to move for this project :)
Many small processes? How many?

4 KB * (many) could be frightening.
A new implementation of str(n)cpy
That isn't really that strange: http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/
I see what you're saying. Yeah, one certainly needs to be careful with those sort of high-level abstractions. I remember when I first started learning WPF, I ran into the exact problem you described. I had a data grid bound to an sqlite database. Without optimization, every row update was making three of four calls to the database. When there were a few thousand records, the UI would screech to a halt.
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I'm not a plan 9 programmer, but to me it looks 'cute' (in the sense of attractive to some people but annoying to others) - that form of abort() would only be used on systems where that operation is known to abort the process, but enclosing it in a while simply makes it apparent that there is no alternative to trying it.

On a more prosaic note, perhaps

for(;;)
*(int *)0;

generates a compiler warning that the programmer wanted to avoid.
I suspect the reason is at startup the person making the final decision on hardware actually has to use it and is intimately familiar with what's being done on it. At a big org with say 1000 developer's that's not the case and at 1kish savings per machine there's a big "look what I saved us" opportunity for that decision maker.
I admire the spirit and dedication to execute in a new derivative domain. By the looks of the product, you've executed initially well, now just a matter of making it sustainable.
I would love for Google's broadband ventures to be successful enough for them to consider expanding to European markets.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years.

I wonder if this data will be made available in some form, I'm sure it could be a great source for some really nice visualizations.
nobody? please help me
Error handling because you want to make a beeline to the handler, and memory management because you need it to be quick and goto is cheap?
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Yeah, this is a fair point.

I think, as much as I dislike pair-programming overall, that's something I would prefer to use as a safety belt here (because it's only expensive for the period during which a new employee is still learning). Pair programming hasn't ever been tried at justin.tv either though, as far as I recall. I'm probably going to give it a try at ZeroCater for new engineers actually (we're hiring!).
spend millions to save billions.. sounds about right
clinging to life

Curse those doctors and cancer researchers.

hoarding resources to themselves

The economy is not zero-sum. If we cure aging, 80 year olds will be producing goods and services of value rather than living off welfare.
26 years old today. Definitely reflecting on this. I recall once reading that there are two kinds of breakthrough successes - younger "rockstar" successes driven by narrow, intense passion, and older "masters" who have accumulated an unmatched breadth and depth of experience. While I can see elements of both in myself, I can see the door for the first closing rapidly.
Is it a good idea to personally email new beta signups after the sign up?
I have a web application I am building (nvrforget.com) that has a launchrock splash page and I considered emailing each individual sign up to find out what they need help with related to memorizing, but I decided that it was bordering on creepy so I didn't. Is this true? or is that a good idea?
I dunno, man. I do most of my ruby/node/c development on an 11" mba, which is about as powerful as an '08 mbp. Sometimes, I am annoyed by slow test suites, but overall I dont feel the machine is holding me back. If you asked me to work on a windows box, I'd end the conversation politely.
Not really. The Javascript loads an array of links to check against, builds a 1x1 pixel iframe, puts all the links in there (with styles applied to hide visited links), then it checks to see which links disappeared.

Browsers are securing against this by limiting styles that can be applied to the :visited pseudoclass to just color, then it serves back the default color if a script ever tries to check.
How about a bitcoin bank instead? BTW, how much are you spending on lobbying?
Read my comment again, I'm not asserting anything more than a passing similarity.
I liked your use of ed. You can avoid one pipe with the -s option: `echo ,n | ed -s file`. Also, another POSIX one-process option besides awk: `pr -tn file` (with different padding).
It looks like google didn't release it in all the stores, for example, it doesn't exist in the Lebanese App Store, where I can download it.

I still don't understand why would someone want to alienate users of certain areas or countries. Doesn't it make sense to release in all the stores to get the most exposure?
That's because those restrictions are illegal themselves. "Don't download the whole database" is not an illegal restriction.
So many billions.
Do you have any basis for claiming that "an open door could likely be construed as implied consent"?

I would not advise that you try that in many parts of the US. You'll be risking getting shot, and the homeowner would not have committed a crime.
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I don't think it's creepy, as long as you don't bring up information that might be too personal.

A rule of thumb I read was "Would this be creepy if it happened in real life?", and here you'd be analogous to "a restaurant owner asking a customer how their experience is on their opening day", which is totally normal.
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Have bash skills?

http://blog.audaxhealth.com/jobs
Looks to me like glibc and FreeBSD are the only ones that flush stdout, which I'd view as a bug on the other systems...
Right. I'm using the traditional definition of 'unskilled labour', which is generally that which does not require a high degree of training/education - not none at all. I believe that this class of labour is reducing in availability - which is a problem for a substantial proportion of the population.

I wonder if this will have knock-on implications for those of us who have relatively high levels of training. Right now, if my specialism becomes obsolete I can at least pick up a non-specialist alternative job - will this be the case in the future?
So, you don't have sanitation, but, somehow, they figure out you would be able to maintain and operate a self-sustaining facility that gasifies your waste using microwave heated plasma that's also, somehow, compact enough you don't have to build the sanitation system you didn't have in the first place to drive your waste into the facility.

What baffles me is that the people bright enough to invent it didn't come with a similarly brilliant excuse to deploy it.
Now with $76bn cash/cash-like to hand. It'd be fun to see some big acquisitions but I wouldn't bet on it.. Perhaps a few million into the MacRuby project? ;-)
Is this what our tax money is going into. Aaronsw just presents a soft target for the Feds.
How Are People Really Using Their LinkedIn Profiles?
There is no "Bitcoin" to get in trouble. That's the whole point. There's nobody to go after.
BTW, a lot of these people are pretty committed athletes. If you're not, and you're looking for something that's easy and obvious, try doing some pushups throughout the day. When I'm feeling antsy, sometimes I get up, do 20 pushups, and then go back to what I'm doing. Start small: two pushups count if you're not used to them.

I like to run, and if you're starting out, it's relatively easy to buy a pair of running shoes (try going to a running shop with a pair of shoes you already own; the staff should be able to look at your wear pattern and adjust the shoe they recommend accordingly) or a pair of Vibram Five-Fingers. Start easily: go out running for five minutes. Or ten minutes. Build up little by little.

Otherwise, I think the meta-advice of this article is that we make time for things that're important to us, which most of us probably already know, or know on some level.
I know only two cases Google ever allowing to use externally-hosted identities to interoperate with their services: GTalk and Wave, both having such possibility only due to XMPP as their base.

If I understand it correctly, Buzz has interoperability by some means, but not in area of user identities - only Google users may use Buzz.

I sincerely hope G+ will have strong federation support someday. But for now, such articles, telling that "G+ is about federation" (while there's even no API yet, or I missed something?) are over-optimistic and sound more like an advertisement.
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OpenMobster, Mobile Cloud Platform: 2.2-M3 released
I would like to announce the latest release of OpenMobster. Among other things this release includes full integration with Titanium for cross platform app development. More details can be found on the attached link.
Two reasons:
- Easy migration between hardware configurations of a running system.
- Snapshots to revert quicker after a failed upgrade / change. (Typically in addition to traditional backups.)
Oh well we can't be upsetting the government. Carry on.
That's ridiculous. The overhead of fork is about a bajillion times higher than malloc.
Just because I'm a programmer doesn't mean I want my computer to be needlessly complex. Elementary is based on Ubuntu, so you can do anything with it. It just has a core set of apps that are designed for usability.
> Do you think doing your business behind a house scales to 58,000 per square mile?

At that density, you either are long dead from a cholera epidemic, or have a proper sanitation system already in place for decades, rendering this system completely irrelevant for the application being proposed - to provide a "waste disintegrator" for those without plumbing.

56000 people per square mile is about 3 times the density of São Paulo (where I live - about 7500/km2), which is slightly larger than New York's. Let's say it's 4 NYC's one on top of the other.

Can you imagine New York without sanitation? Me neither.
Sorry, I should have been more clear: Your personal anecdotes are not sufficient to establish any meaningful connection between these two. Moreover, this is entirely tangential and has nothing to do with what we were discussing.