skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reputation.com Raises $41 Million Series D Financing Led by August Capital
Here's a very nice Ruby book, available for free as a PDF:

http://rubybestpractices.com/
Bombastic numbers as usual. So, when can I get an MB Pro 13" with an up-to-par screen resolution? :)
This seems contrary to Demand Progress's statement:

“It’s even more strange because the alleged victim has settled any claims against Aaron, explained they’ve suffered no loss or damage, and asked the government not to prosecute,” Segal added.
I work on a pretty big C++ project and had a ~5 year old Thinkpad until about a month ago. I can't say that I notice a useful difference. Incremental builds mean that I rarely have to rebuild the entire solution, and when I do, even on the old machine, it's not a big enough deal that I would bitch about it.

I think that for most of us, a few gig of RAM, 2 cores and a 22" monitor (that was my setup last month) is enough that more horsepower wouldn't make us substantially more productive.
I'm mostly a Windows user, and I don't know why I'd go to a MS store. For example, if I want an iPad or MBP I'd go to an Apple Store. I'm not sure what other stores carry them (does Best Buy?). But I know that the Apple store does.

In contrast, I can buy a PC anywhere. But I don't actually know what specific PCs are available at the Microsoft store. I do know they have all of the available phones at the MS store, but given that the only phones I'm interested in are those by my carrier, I'm more inclined to go to my carrier store (to see all carrier phones) than the MS store.
Rupert Murdoch under attack: Corporate governance and custard pie
Avoid Fast food
I think that when you overload the comma operator in C++, you change the nature of the sequence point. I believe you're no longer guaranteed to have "1, 2, 3" evaluated in that order. In your example, this doesn't matter, but if it was "f1(), f2(), f3()" and for some reason the sequence of those calls determined what each returned, you might have a problem. I could be wrong here though--my C++ is rusty from years of disuse.
Good news. I personally use Software Doctor. It blocks things several time a day, most of which seem to be tracking sites. However I haven't been bitten by any malware such as fake anti-malware in more than a year. OTOH I would like to find something that is both good and free.
Based on U.S. market share, Android would be selling about 10 million a quarter in the U.S., so depending on growth they may or may not be the ones to displace Windows first.

In order to get to 15 million this quarter, Android would have to be outselling iPhone over 2 to 1 in the U.S. to make up for the iPad/iPod Touch.

Android will get a good boost if the rumored Amazon tablet comes out. It's just a matter of time.
Most of the mix pics on the front page are generated by the mixer. We plan to replace those with real photos soon.
Tim Cook just said that they sold about 33 million iOS devices in the last quarter. (20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and half of the 7.54 million iPods.) That’s the number you have to compare. That’s about 363,000 iOS devices per day.

It’s quite astonishing that Apple is doing so well compared to Android. Apple sells two phone models, two tablet models and one iPod model – compared to dozens of Android devices, some vastly cheaper than any iPhone.
You should consider making this into a subscription service
Court Refuses To Stop Secret Web Spycams From Running On Rental Laptops
* How about "You are not allowed to hyperlink to this page?"

* How about that 'MySpace Hacking' case? From Wikipedia:

Judge Wu summed up his opinion by stating that allowing a violation of a
website's Terms of Service to constitute an intentional access of a computer
without authorization or exceeding authorization would "result in
transforming section 1030(a)(2)(C) into an overwhelmingly overbroad enactment
that would convert a multitude of otherwise innocent Internet users into
misdemeanant criminals." For these reasons, Judge Wu granted Drew's motion
for acquittal. Government eventually decided not to appeal [16].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lori_Drew
HTML Comments Are Diamonds (Javascript)
Alternative hypothesis:

Perhaps the social safety net steps in for women before they are driven to violent crime?

On topic:

I wish both genders would quit moralizing and start negotiating already. I can only feel so guilty before I stop listening.
However, being a Man is a horrible disadvantage in child custody battles.

Citation needed.

From what I've read, men who choose to contest custody, usually win. That's because he's likely making more money and is therefore in a better financial position to take care of the children.

Women usually get custody because men don't usually contest it. That's not to say that it doesn't come up. But men often trade the threat of a custody battle for other things in divorce proceedings.
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Could even be used with lvalues

(++k, ++k, k) += 100;

(works with gcc 3.4)
Alex Howard suggested this link to me about how one country is using Bank Accounts for authentication. what do you think of THAT idea??

http://egovau.blogspot.com/2011/06/turning-open-government-p...
Good Idea. I hadn't considered that... I'm also thinking we might eventually allow you to order some as a gift (and send it gift wrapped)...
Interesting. Using this app, I'm able to use Google+ in China. However, going to plus.google.com doesn't work. Does this use a different communication method we & China aren't aware of?
Meet Proust, a social network that digs deeper
Searching for google+ in the app store got me nothing. But searching for "google+" (with quotes) in the app store found it.
The iPod’s Decline Accelerates As iPhones and iPads Take Over
Why do the charges all end with "and aided and abetted the same"?
Frankly, I think most of the claims in your post are bonkers, but this one sticks out:

This inconveniencing of other users could have been avoided and the blame for how JSTOR allocates resources lies with the architects of JSTOR.

"During November and December, 2010, Swartz used the "ghost laptop" (i.e., the Acer laptop) at MIT to make over two million downloads from JSTOR. This is more than one hundred times the number of downloads during the same period by all the legitimate MIT JSTOR users combined."

So we're entirely clear on this: you are saying this is reasonable and that the majority of the blame for any disruption lies with JSTOR. You are saying that JSTOR should have anticipated that a single legitimate user would have placed a hundred times the demand on the system than the entire population of a major university.
Some large companies in the US have tuition reimbursement programs where they will pay for you to go to college while you work there, full-time. There are frequently strings attached to these programs (e.g. you have to remain there for some period after you stop getting reimbursed), but that might work.

Your problem will be getting hired as a developer at one of these companies. Either you have the programming chops to get hired or you don't. If you can get a development job, your ? should not be "how to pay for college" but "why go to college". If you can't, then you might have to do tech-support or QA work for a while as a means to an end. This sucks, but it's a better option than not going and not getting paid.
So...

[dave@mini ~]$ echo -n "-n foo

> "

-n foo

[dave@mini ~]$

Easy!
> i feel that startups are actullay more inclued to supply devs with good hardware than established players.

On most startups, the CEO's desk is, at most, a couple dozen steps away from the devs. It's the bean-counting professional managers that are brought in after that stage that make the developers miserable.
A very interesting article! It neatly articulates why API lock-ins are analogous to other "traditional" monopolies. This paragraph was particularly illuminating:

Social networks are a critical layer of infrastructure for a wide variety of applications and content. Unlike physical networks, opportunities for lock-in emerge not at the physical layer but at the social layer: our connections. In other words, they do not wield monopoly control by dint of massive up-front fixed costs but rather by the accumulated value contributed by users in the form of the social graph!

However, to play the Devil's advocate, I am not entirely convinced that unlike electricity, or water, why these services are considered essential, considering how recently the entire concept of a social graph emerged. I see a strong case for enforcing neutrality rules for the internet, partly because a lot of the costs were initially bore by taxpayer money, but the same can't be said of Facebook and Twitter.
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An interesting combo, even just as a thought experiment: bitcoin + mental poker. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker)

Wonder if there's a way to distribute a pot that doesn't require trusting a central server?
The Banupur that has an approximate population of under 12,000?
Hypothetically: wiring closets are normal places for computers engaged in always-on network services. Putting a box over a laptop can keep it from getting stolen. Your bike helmet can end up in front of your face for a while while you're taking it off or putting it on. Switching your MAC address is reasonable if there's a MAC address conflict, or if you've gone and apologized to the network infrastructure guys for causing problems and they accepted your apology but didn't have the password for the DHCP server handy.

Try to remember you're seeing the picture painted entirely by the prosecution, without even the evidence that the grand jury saw to support it.
I admit it's heavily commented, and his usual tangle of preprocessor macros are blissfully absent.

But it contains hints of Drepperification, like the superfluous use of preincrement.
Here is the documentation for GIAP: https://sites.google.com/site/inapppaymentsapi/home
IOS Devices Climb Over 220 Million
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If the indictment is accurate, he did throttle back his script a bit, and continued to run it for several months after the last JSTOR server crash or blockage.
Sounds painful to use.
Does anyone have the numbers/more info to hand? i.e. what are the charges.
I'm ambivalent about this. It's unfair to basically nuke Twitter/Facebook's business model by turning them into utilities. OTOH, it was unfair of Twitter to promote themselves like a utility for a few years and then dramatically change course (even though it was obviously inevitable to some people).

Related: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/15/faceboo... discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1350689
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No deadlines, no stress, no ice cream :(
There's an enormous difference between controlled access to individual globules of data, and free access to the entirety of a dataset.
How are you handling actually creating the mix? Is it automated or manual?
No, he is not in jail. I chatted with him on AIM earlier today.
Here's how I plan to use it on my home network (if I get one):

Edit: Oops, HN doesn't like ASCII network diagrams.

Basically, I plan to stick a dumb Ethernet switch between my ISP point of demarcation and my current router, which will continue to feed my private network. Then connect the M-Lab router to the Ethernet switch and offer open Wifi for friends and family (and maybe the occasional passerby iPhone).
Yep, this is true. At the very least I've got to be able to knock up an instance of the server OS version quickly without interfering with the rest of my desktop config.
Gross background.
If it needs "high throughput of human waste matter", it's not a toilet, it's a sewage treatment plant.
It would settle the question for past companies in established markets, not new companies in new markets. Would evaluations of US Steel and Standard Oil apply to (early 2000s)Google and (early 1980s)Microsoft, in terms of your proposed arguments?

That's the problem with basing all future predictions on past data; Mr. Rachleff also questioned Google’s reliance on its algorithms. “There’s no analysis to be done when you’re evaluating a company that’s creating a new market, because there’s no market to analyze,” he said. “You have to apply judgment.”
Pushing for existing closed networks to be somehow regulated seems like a worse solution than pushing for federated social networks where you can switch as you like and still communicate with everyone. The best way to avoid abuse is to have a system with a low cost of entry for new players and a low cost of switching for users.
I'm going to stick my neck out and say you're probably in the minority vs. number of people not willing to do this due to time/knowledge.
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Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?

Not at all. Writing to the hard drive is going to take much less time than downloading the articles from a remote server.
How come it's illegal for aaronsw to steal thousands of documents from a document repository, but it's not illegal for advertiser to steal thousands of history entries from my browser? If anything, this sounds significantly more illegal: code that I don't want to run is injected into my browser, and then it steals personal information that I make an effort to keep secret. If this isn't unauthorized access to a protected computer system, what is?
Totally agree with you. I'm not pushing for regulation, I'm arguing for data portability.
Exactly. I don't know why people talk about Apple and PCs in the same breath anymore. They sell hardware. Computer was dropped from their name a long time ago! Look at this chart: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/07/aapl_sales_by_q...
Yeah, I haven't seen anything that backs up Demand Progress's position.
That danah boyd article is excellent. She nicely describes the trade offs inherent to regulation.
ugh & tjogin, good points.
I think one of the main benefits to the Windows stores (besides the fact that they sell Windows Phones, and by all accounts don't actively try to talk their customers out of buying them) is the fact that they sell systems there which are part of Microsoft's Signature PC line.‡

For those unfamiliar, it's basically a system from a vendor without all the crap that they install on a fresh system. The fact that Microsoft actually has to have a service like this is certainly an interesting topic for discussion (I'm sure Microsoft would prefer that vendors not load up new pc's with garbage software that slows them down)

‡ http://signature.microsoft.com/Default.aspx
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I used this to make a utility logging class for bash scripts. It prints nicely formatted messages to the console and/or logfile. The format is similar to Linux boot messages.

https://github.com/timbowhite/bashtasklog
Here's what's supposed to happen: A student on campus wants to do a research project analyzing a large number of journal articles, or even just the metadata around a large number of journal articles. They approach their librarian, the librarian approaches the journal vendor (JSTOR or someone else), and everyone works together to find a way to get the student their data. Maybe the vendor hands over a special dataset. Maybe they give them back-end access to their database. Maybe they allow the student to run a Python script against their website, but only in the middle of the night so as not to slow down service for other users.

Here's what sometimes happens instead: The student writes and runs a clever script, the vendor notices that their servers have slowed due to automated script activity on their webpages, shuts down access from that IP address, and lets the school know. University IT staff and librarians drop what they're doing and try to track down the party responsible. Once they've been identified, the nice librarian has to have a talk with the student about what's permitted under the university's license agreement with the publisher, and together they go to the data vendor to ask forgiveness and permission. They usually get it.

Here's what Aaron did: He walked onto the MIT campus, set up a script not to analyze metadata but to actually download large numbers of documents, and when his IP was blocked, he used traditional hacking as well as Johnny Long-style "no-tech hacking" to get around it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2160824376898701015

Publishers, rightly or wrongly, assume that someone systematically downloading entire journal runs is intending to set up a shadow database to give away their content for free. The feds seem to agree, in this case.

The thing that gets me is that JSTOR was more than reasonable in this case. They didn't immediately shut down the whole campus (like some overly-aggressive publishers do), but started with the IP addresses involved. When it didn't stop, they had to cut off access completely. Aaron, who isn't even a student at MIT, managed to kick the whole campus off JSTOR for weeks, and as soon as they restored access, he went at it again. If I were a librarian at MIT, I'd want the book thrown at him.
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If all academic papers were released under a Creative Commons license, would this even be an issue?

Aside from the allegations about breaking into various physical hardware infrastructure at MIT, wouldn't that be like being charged with downloading too many Jonathan Coulton albums?
Voldemort v0.9 released: NIO, pipelined FSM routing layer, hinted handoff
A matte screen without having to choose an upgrade on the 15" MBP please.
Yeah, the switch that he hard-wired into would certainly count as a "computer".
Probably because people have been predicting this kind of thing for years. It is also worth pointing out that only 18% of Apple's ridiculous revenue comes from Mac sales.
This is probably one of the better use cases for the comma operator in C.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/52550/what-does-the-opera...

string s;
while(read_string(s), s.len() > 5)
{
//do something
}

versus

string s;
read_string(s);
while(s.len() > 5)
{
//do something
read_string(s);
}
My Apple II development workstation was actually two Apple II's - a II+ where I edited the code (because it had a Videx keyboard enhancer and 80-column board attached via a soft-switch to a 14-inch white-phosphor monitor I had to convince a CCTV company to build for me), and a IIe enhanced with a 12-inch green screen to run and test what I built (moved via floppies). That and a pretty-printed listing. The II+ motherboard video out was also piped to a 16-inch color TV via composite. I wrote a couple programs that used both the Videx 80-column text and the motherboard video at the same time.

My dual-headed Apple II+ was something to behold.
Manual for now, but I have some plans... I'm sort of taking the lean approach: Do the minimum, see if there is interest, do a little more... etc...
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Where do you get that number?
Bug: Email address is case-sensitive for login.
Overhead such as...? The only one I can think of is the mutex lock/unlock, but there are the _unlocked variants for those.

"And why bother with stdio (or its Plan 9 equivalent) when it's so easy to do the buffering faster yourself?"

For the same reason you'd use any abstraction: to keep your program simpler. Even if you consider it "so easy" there are plenty of opportunities there for off-by-one errors and buffer overflows that would disappear if you used stdio instead.
Show HN: Random wiki image as wallpaper
Reputation.com Raises a New $41 Million Round
Android is growing faster (and from a larger base) but I believe both iOS and Android are growing faster than the market right now.

It's RIM, Windows Mobile, Nokia and the others who Android seems to be impacting rather than Apple.

Not surprising really. Regardless of what you think about Android vs iOS, you'd be hard pressed to find significant numbers of people who preferred the other platforms to iOS. If Android is going to dominate the world you'd expect it to pick off the weakest competition first.

That said I don't think it's going to be a one player market, or even a two player market. I don't see either Android or iOS going anywhere and Windows Phone is looking interesting and getting a lot of good things said and written about it so I think it has it's part to play.
I guess this begs the question - was it one of their monkeys that caused their outage on Sunday night?
Similar to http://werc.cat-v.org/
Only he's a fellow at Harvard, not an MIT student or faculty. So no, they couldn't handle this internally.

Possibly with the local police, but that may have been what caused it to escalate.
Yes, wouldn't want someone else to do my tasks for me!
The combination photos are fun, how did you generate those?
Why would I use this rather than going to my local supermarket, and just building my own there?
> I would guess most bitcoiners are mathematically inclined people, and not super into pure gambling.

Being mathematically inclined doesn't prevent someone from being into gambling. They are just less likely to treat gambling as a method of financial planning rather than a game.

The risk involved in gambling gives the game more emotional impact. This makes it fun, and (to some people) worth paying for as a form of entertainment.
I went to an MS store in LA the other week. It was sad, but I couldn't stop laughing. Why is there an MS store when all of the products on display aren't even MS products? The tablet right in the front of the store didn't even work (touchscreen was broken), and it had a STYLUS! I actually laughed out loud.

Within close proximity was an Apple store, the MS store, and a Sony store as well. The Sony and MS stores were such blatant ripoffs of the Apple store in their design that it just added to the hilarity. The staff at the Microsoft store even wore the same shade of blue shirts as those at the Apple store.

Point of the story? Apple's lead in the industry is evident from more than their products and their profits.
The nice thing about this is that they sold 20 million iphone 4, which is actually over an year old now ...
I agree it's great you can get a PC without the crap installed but I think MS have to tackle off the root problem and have it so that's how they all come.

Seriously, you'd get a noticable performance increase on the average low end laptop right off the bat if they could do that.