skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this quote by the DOJ was pretty ridiculous:

Public interests will be harmed absent requiring defendants to make available unencrypted contents in circumstances like these. Failing to compel Ms. Fricosu amounts to a concession to her and potential criminals (be it in child exploitation, national security, terrorism, financial crimes or drug trafficking cases)

I don't like how they bring out the bogey-men of child pornography and terrorism to justify making her decrypt the drive.
Spend some time on the business model. How many domains are you going to need to sell to cover the costs of your accreditation? Hire another programmer? Turn a profit? Domains is a tough business, be smart about it.
Since it seems to run contrary to what others are saying, I like the hex-inspired logo. It's much more distinct.

The graph is an actively-bad idea both visually and philosophically, unless they're really deeply committed to making Node actually work like that. It looks like it is claiming to support lots of internode cluster-type communication; as I understand it, it has no story except vague sketches here, and no matter what it will be a long time before that is the primary story Node has. There's a long row to hoe betwixt here and there.
If you use general-audience television/movies and the speech of the young as an indicator, 'bitch' oddly seems to be becoming more acceptable over time. I'm not sure if this is a rise of sexism, or simply a weakening of the word's 'degrading implications'. (It might even be a indication of falling sexism; the word becoming less seen as a uniquely-gendered slur, and no worse than calling someone a 'dick' or 'pig'.)

A poll of usage and attitudes by age might be interesting.
I expect Apple would much prefer iOS to have a duopoly with WP7 than with Android. Open platforms lead to messy disruptive innovations that can quickly dislodge established players.
Chrome's market share is above 20% now (Firefox's is below 30%, and IE's is below 50%).
How arduous was the EV process? What did you have to provide as proof? I tried to go down this route with Comodo and it was a colossal waste of time. The documents they require would make the FBI blush.
While I agree with your sentiment, buying votes in DC is not the best approach IMHO. I would like to see them indemnify their partners and then go berserker on the patent protection racket mafia.

[added] Google is in a pretty unique position to do this:

1) They have relatively few patents, so destroying software patents would cause little collateral damage to them.

2) They have financial resources, with $4B set aside for purchasing (or destroying) software patents.

3) They have a lot of smart people resources (in house and hired guns) - the Google v. Oracle lawsuit is showing this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
It's all relative, Tam. When I was 20 in college, $1000 in the bank was huge. Ballmer and Gates pull out at least $100,000,000 every 6 months from Microsoft.

I wouldn't call $25,000 nothing personally, but it's all about perspective, I suppose.

MSFT: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=MSFT+Insider+Transactions
The people that existed at the time these benefits were enacted shouldn't have accepted or allowed a cash-in-cash-out program if they wanted the government to have a _legal obligation_ to pay SS, pensions, etc. The baby boomers are double dipping in almost every way. They live longer, but don't want the ceiling on the retirement age lifted. They want extravagant senior medical programs from the government, but don't want to actually save up to pay it. They want pensions that never did real actuarial accounting to figure out if they could meet their "defined benefits" obligations. They (rightly or wrongly) legalize abortion leading to 50 million (http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html) fewer people in the demographic that would be supporting them in a cash-in-cash out scheme. They exported dollars when the US was the only major capitalist power. They took inheritance from their parents but (generally) failed to either pay for their children's post secondary education, save up for retirement, and/or leave an inheritance for their children. They are banking on their house capital and reverse mortgages to pay their bills. They have debt on their cars, houses, and anything else that is remotely a non-depreciating asset. Don't even get me started on the cheap oil and coal that they pulled out of the ground without investing in longer term (and ultimately cheaper) power sources like nuclear.

It's as if Joseph told the pharaoh that "7 years of plenty are coming..." and the pharaoh cut him off before he could finish and said "hey everyone, we'll be doing really well for a while, let's start a huge party!" And everyone partied so hard they had to borrow from their poorer neighbors because the party was going so strong all their neighbors just said to themselves "oh they are good for it," and after 7 years of partying really hard they said their children had a "legal obligation" to make sure they could still party during the 7 years of famine that all of them ignored.

But it is ok, right? Because "in the long run we are all dead" and it takes a Austrian Economist so long to be right, by the time it come to paying the piper everyone has forgotten and is asking themselves "why didn't anyone see this coming?"
At the first Ignite San Diego, one presenter gave a talk comparing working in the tech industry with being a pick-up artist. I think it was pretty comparable to this presentation, but I remember the general opinion being more that it was more in extreme poor taste than straight-up offensive.

I also remember thinking it was a little ironic how many people threw the word "douchebag" around afterward.

Admittedly, I don't have quite the same perspective since I'm a man, but as a minority I try to imagine if someone used some word like "chink" or talked about "peeing in your Coke" in a presentation in an effort to be edgy. Unless it was said in a patently hateful way, I probably would think of the speaker as stupid rather than malicious.

It's also possible that growing up in Hawaii (where ethnic jokes are socially acceptable, and generally made without malice) has made me take a "it's probably a joke unless proven otherwise" default reaction.
Move over, Kindle. iriver Story HD is Google's e-Reader, $139.99
Facebook's investment from Jim Breyer in 2005 came with million-dollar bonuses for Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, and Parker. Just sayin'...
PCI and APIs in the Cloud
Canvas on Firefox is hardware accelerated (at least on Windows), so it's really fast. I don't have Chrome installed, but I'm pretty sure it chokes on the FishIETank benchmark with 1000 fish: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/FishIETank/Def.... Firefox on the other hand easily gets 60 fps with those many fish.
In my current price range, Lamy 2000 and Pilot Capless.
Saving up for a Pelikan M1000 and/or Visconti Homo Sapiens.
PS, Gates has taken out over a billion so far this year. Must be nice.
Apple attempting to redefine Pro with FCPX
"Apple genuinely thinks that FCPX is a better piece of software than FCP7. It has the best technological foundation of any video editing software out there and is built for the 64-bit, multi-core, OpenCL world we are now entering. It is certainly more Pro than FCP7 in terms of technology and speed, and in many ways that’s how Apple is defining Pro.

Looking at the new FCP, it seems fairly clear to me that Apple wants FCPX to be a solid foundation that works for most people’s video editing needs. If you need more power or more features, Apple is pointing you in the direction of third-party plugins. It’s very clear from Apple’s literature about FCPX that third-party plugins are meant to bridge many of the gaps missing from FCPX."
The quote is from the article.
They need reform on the scale of decades, though, not years and definitely not months.

Large super-majorities of the public oppose cuts to SS and Medicare. This, by the way, includes self-identified conservatives and Republicans. In large part this is the public being ignorant and wanting something for nothing--if the public had their way, we'd balance the budget and double Medicare and SS benefits by cutting foreign aid payments.

That said, for something as important and widely supported as these two programs, we should be discussing solutions to their long-term funding issues as a standalone debate. Cutting them after a month of backroom negotiations while using the credit worthiness of the USA as a hostage strikes me as very inappropriate and not politically sustainable.

Edited to add: the reason these cuts are stupid is because many of them would come into effect immediately, which would be disastrous for our already weak economy. The size of the cuts are appropriate if projected into the future and not the immediate present.
I think people are taking this more seriously than intended. It's a PR ploy for a company unrelated to RIM (and as spaetzel pointed out, possibly unrelated to Waterloo too).

Unfortunately their little PR ploy looks embarrassing to Waterloo, UWaterloo, and especially RIM. As a UW student, it's a little insulting that they expect to appeal to protectionist urges to help their own little company, which appears to not even be from Canada let alone Waterloo.

I hope this is ignored as it deserves to be.
What many people (including the writers of this article) don't seem to understand is that major nations don't pay off their debt -- they inflate it away.
He probably has insurance, and since he controls his company's insurance, he probably picked something reasonable. You also need to do that to be competitive at hiring in this space.

It won't literally cost nothing to have a medical emergency, but if you have decent insurance, it's manageable.
100 Most Beautiful Words in the English Language
That actually was answered by a court quite recently, and is mentioned in the OP.

A guy going through border guards control somehow let them see he had illegal images on his laptop. The court concluded he is no longer protected by Fifth Amendment because of that, and ordered him to EITHER reveal the password OR give access to the (encrypted) content in question in some other way.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html?tag=mncol...
AP Confirms Photographer Manipulated His Own Shadow
> Perhaps they need a better VM, but that is the technique they use. To see Python's byte code open up a .pyc file.

Ohyes is talking about per-function static compilation performed on the fly to machine code. Not bytecode.

It seems about halfway between static compilers and JITs really: functions are compiled to actual machine code statically, but the VM can recompile functions or compile new functions and replace old ones (of the same name) on the fly, e.g. during a REPL session.

That's not what Python does, Python code is compiled to VM bytecode and the VM does not compile it any further.

Under ohyes's scheme, the VM would compile that bytecode further down to machine code (or just skip the bytecode). It's closer to what HiPE does than what Python does.
Having one man insult women doesn't necessarily generalize to the entire male population, but what is damning is when a man insults women in a public setting under the assumption that nobody will criticize him for it (implicit acceptance).
Kagan's current girlfriend should be the one offended. If he's willing to call an ex a bitch she is in danger of him defaming her in a similar way if they split. And they seem to share a professional environment which could be detrimental to her career. Guys who publicly call exes bitches generally consider all exes "bitches" because of their self centered view of why the relationship failed.

"No Cindy, you're special. My ex Jane was total bitch."

"No Jane, you're special. My ex Stephanie was a total bitch."

"No Stephanie you're special. My ex Anne was a total bitch."

If he's capable of calling the ex a bitch in public he's capable of the same with his current girlfriend.
Ouch. Accurate, but ouch. Bonus points: Eternal September in Congress, as we're always getting a new crowd of inexperienced people.
"the internet White Knights"

What does this even mean? Does it simply mean "a man who disagrees with me when a woman is being discussed"? That's an interesting way to dismiss an argument without requiring yourself to think about it thoroughly.
Firefox 7 Shows Up on Aurora Channel, 6 Moves to Beta
Seemed as though by "Love this." you meant to endorse the sentiment. Were you saying you love the fact that a user made the sentiment? If so, why?

Also, as I have never been on FB, I was genuinely curious as to how they implement private messaging. rwolf's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751654) in this thread is a little bit enlightening, but not completely.
Matt Cutts is taking suggestions for new webmaster videos on search
"We are still having conversations now about the meaning of 'opening doors'. Opening doors is seen as a transgressive act for feminists since the 1960s, but actually the action is rooted in notions of moral purity from 1600s.

It has taken us 400 years and we still haven’t sorted out the door."

Who is the "we" in that sentence? I've never had anyone, male or female, be upset with me for opening a door. I cannot imagine respecting someone who was angry about being shown a courtesy.
Quoting DavidSJ's http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751333

> US v Hubbell makes clear that the government cannot compel production of documents (except under immunity to prosecution) which it does not know, ahead of time, to exist.

Dunno if that's true (as IANAL), just quoting.
It's ok to call him a "douche" though.

(Not defending him, just pointing out the irony)
In the US, limiting lobbying is tough (impossible?) without undermining the First Amendment right to petition.

I totally agree lobbying is a problem - perhaps one of the largest (along with our two party political polarization). A solution that doesn't break the US Constitution would be awesome.

(Edit: added second paragraph.)
Color's Chief Product Officer DJ Patil Resigns
I knew a girl that threw hers into the pool (then, foolishly, bought another).
Marketing Strategy – How Apple reinforces that Simpler is Better?
We have a bank in the Netherlands that did the same with savings accounts and interest rates for them. The rates started high to draw people in and then lowered, till they had over 100 different savings accounts.
There's a lot to agree with here and a lot to disagree with. But I think of it as a separate debate. The fact remains that those obligations do exist. Even if conceded that it was stupid for us to enter into these agreements, they're still legal and still have legal force. If your company agrees to pay another company for some service or product but then refuses to do so at the end of the month, that's both illegal and immoral. Same deal here.
Why I stopped following Seth Godin's Blog & buying his books.
Unless of course, you do use something like sass for managing all those little browser specific bits. ;)
I should add something to your statements. SCReddit is a lot of things (not good), but their leniency towards commercialism is by and large more flexible than the other SRs. It's mostly driven by the fact Starcraft has been an underground, disproportionately represented (compared to how much "passion" the TL/etc community as put in) community. As such, they are starving for progress.

That being said, there are some "new kids" to the SC scene which create a stink at every turn. Overall, your description of Reddit is more or less accurate.

I think you can see now that "JakeFink" has more or less won the day over there.
Lack of old culture?

Your comment was kind, so please interpret this as a kind reply. When I used to interpret for official visitors to the United States from China, I could take them to a cemetery in the city of Boston where there are graves that were dug before the founding of the Qing Dynasty in China. Harvard University, for example, dates to the Ming Dynasty.

Similarly, here in the United States we use the ROMAN alphabet, a cultural survivor now more than 2,000 years old, and the Indo-Arabic decimal place-value numeral system (just as much of a new upstart in Europe as it is for any American), and Gregorian chant and other music that precedes the use of musical notation anywhere in the world. We have plenty of old culture here.

The United States also has new culture such as ragtime, jazz (various genres), blues, soul, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music that compare favorably in the aggregate to traditional music from anywhere in the world, broadcast media and motion pictures that were largely invented here but now enjoyed around the world, and this cool thing called the Internet that links all of us together on Hacker News.

Your point is well taken. A lot of countries offer a lot of interesting lifestyle features. I would return to Taiwan (where I met my wife, and where I last lived a decade ago) at the drop of a hat. My oldest son is very interested in living in Norway, a land my ancestors left for Minnesota a century and a half ago. It's wonderful that more and more what country a person lives in is a matter of choice rather than solely a matter of birth. The trade-offs involved in living in one country rather than another involve many interesting incommeasurable issues.
I think a hybrid system would actually best. Otherwise posts that don't get many votes wouldn't update their score.

The best would probably actively update on votes and do a catchall operation on ones that haven't been voted on or all on a certain periodic cycle.
Debugging Nginx and Django: Viewing HTTP headers in Google Chrome
Circles work when I know what kind of posts my friends like and when they know what I like, but what about when we don't know what each other likes?

I want to share my posts with all my friends and have them decide what they want to see. I want to tag my posts or have my friends tag my posts. Then, they can follow my posts with certain tags or hide them from their stream. I want to see what they post in certain circles and join or subscribe. It's like twitter lists, but instead of lists of people, it would have a list of posts.
First of all I want to make it clear that I'm not defending Noah's use of that slide - I think it was dumb. I don't think that you think I approve of it, but I just wanted to get that out of the way up front. For the sake of argument though I'll be operating under the assumption that denigrating an ex- in a slide is a good idea, and the issue is to choose the correct word.

Back on topic, the ideology I was thinking of is the idea that men and women aren't statistically different (or if they are, that mentioning such things is impolite). I would argue that "bitch" captures a characteristically female way of hurting a man with whom she's had a relationship. (See Carmen for the high-culture version, or Louis CK for the pop-culture version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpW3orlfp7E) It's true that the word also carries other connotations, but I don't think that was the intent.

I agree that it may be "lazy", but from a purely practical perspective, it would be tough to find a similarly short word (short enough to fit on the bobble-head) that conveys the meaning. "Evil" might work and is gender-neutral, but the class of actions that make one "evil" are broader than the class that make one a "bitch".
So, some quick math: The average user downloads 83 apps. 15 billion apps have been downloaded. There are a bit over 180 million iOS devices. $2.5 Billion has been paid out to developers; that's about $14 per user. Since the average price of an app is $1.48, the average user buys 9.45 apps.
"Counterintuively, during a recession, the government is usually the only entity that's able to pump enough money into the economy to fuel growth and ultimately end the recession"

Yes, that's the theory. But look around you. Is it working?

No. We're doing way worse than those recessions where we instead responded by cutting taxes and actually living within our means.

This theory is wrong.

It's 2011. If this were going to work, it would have worked by now. It's not three months after the crisis anymore and it's past time to stop talking like it is. This approach is now a concrete failure, and I really don't buy the whole "it just wasn't big enough"; it's already far larger than it ever has been before, and what we've got is a far larger failure than ever before. (And I mean, policy failure, not just financial crisis size.) It's time for people to stop running around and talking as if the bastardized Keynesian economics the government is babbling about has any sort of connection to reality. They've have repeatedly utterly failed to correctly predict the effects of their policies, and that's the standard that matters in the end, more than anything else.

We've tried spending like drunken sailors. It's time to try... not.
I do believe the article is spot-on about why there is no recovery from the crisis that actually reaches the population at large.

The headline is a bit misleading, however. It's not that the bubble destroyed the middle class. The bubble was a way for the middle class to continue living a happy life despite the fact that there income share was continually being reduced. Instead of consuming on income, they consumed on the housing bubble.

So it's not the bubble that destroyed the middle class - the article basically says so itself - it just delayed the inevitable and made the decline much more spectacular.
I think what it amounts to is:

* The government 'knows' that you have a bunch of digital data, therefore it must be stored on a digital device. Therefore, all your digital devices are reasonably suspect.

* The government can't search your laptop without full access to files. If you have full-drive encryption (or even just homedir/per-user encryption), the government can reasonably claim that you haven't given then full access, with some amount of proof that there is encryption being used.

* Once you have unlocked your primary partition, the government would probably have a hard time convincing a judge that there is any reasonable way to know if you have a hidden partition, other than asking you with a polygraph... which I don't think you can be compelled to take.
explaining google+ and its appeal has pretty much just been this: http://xkcd.com/918/
Chrome extension to help DuckDuckGo users who can't leave Google behind
$1 of every $5 in US wallets in 2010 came from programs like unemployment & SS
Most of my conversations with "norms":

"Hey, want a Google+ invite?"

"What's that?"

"It's like Facebook, but without Farmville."

"Sweet, send it over!"
Video landing pages
This.

Also, the value of patent pool may be vastly different to the consortium than to Google. Basically, the value reflects how the buyer evaluates competitor's competetitive strength.

In this case, it may be the consortium considers Google a very strong competitor, while Google considers the consortium a somewhat less troubling competition.
I think it depends on what hardware you're running. On my laptop Chrome is so noticeably better I only keep Firefox around for testing. On my maxed out desktop I can't tell the difference.
This looks awesome! Great work dude.
The difference between urgency and importance
Are there any phones out there that can't be at least updated to Froyo now, whether officially or not?

If you're geeky enough to want your own ssl cert then you're geeky enough to root your phone & install CyanogenMod.
Is it just me, or is this writer ALL OVER THE PLACE?

Personally I like Google+ because it combines some of the things I enjoy most about Twitter (being able to follow/listen to people post things publicly) and my varied social networks (being able to segment users -- "put them in a hole" -- and speak to each individually as opposed to having to blast to the entire world every time).

The ultimate test, however, is how many people end up using it long-term. Because eventually I'm going to want to make a decision whether to use one or the other. I don't have time for both Facebook AND Google+.