skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm almost going out and sitting on the sidewalk with a sign: "will code for a Google+ invite".
After thinking about it for a while, i think this subscriber chooses pushes you back into the undershareing problem. Since there's no way for me to tag intentions of posts, there is no way for subscribers to filter out me prattling on about minecraft.

Furthermore, if they have to go through all that effort to set up circles and then filters based on content, why not just unsubscribe?

I understand it feels like you want to see everything from everyone, but then i'm not going to say anything, because my messages must be carefully crafted for a broad audience. The more I can narrow the communication targets, the more information i can cram in a message with jargon, acronyms, and silly examples in groups of three.
MD5 sums only verify that the binary you downloaded is not corrupted (in other words, the bits you got are the bits the server intended to send). This is not the same as cryptographically signing executables, since anybody can still replace the original file and md5sum with a malicious file and an md5sum for the malicious file. Cryptographic signatures can't be forged by technical means short of stealing someone's private key.
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That's likewise true for facebook users, or users of any online service. There's a long tail of people who sign up then walk away. But services include it in "user" counts anyway. So it's still apples-to-apples for comparison purposes.
I think this is an interesting train of thought, although I doubt effort will ever go down to zero. After all, we derive pleasure out of many things we do which take effort. I'll often travel to meet a friend for dinner, even though I could've eaten at home, and talked to her over voip and webcam.

I think more so, we're minimizing effort per quality of interaction - or maximizing quality of interaction per effort.
I did actually use tcpflow to see if there was traffic after the file gets executed, and indeed there is. Unfortunately, it's encrypted so I can't see what's being sent.
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The problem with that idea is that many parts of Android consists of fundamental changes to the Linux kernel. Google has repeatedly tried to get their changes incorporated, but Linus and the rest of the core linux developers has vetoed most of these changes.

The objections mostly deal with Android performing certain types of power optimizations that are detrimental to the mainline kernel.

So even if Google did "open" up android completely, it would represent a fork of the linux kernel instead of being "embraced".

The only alternative is to give the linux devs free rein to change Android and rebrand it (since you can't use the android moniker).
They were ignored by people who can't fit that into their narrative.
I believe you can just sign up now...
Show HN: single-page Javascript search engine for Delaware corporate law
Using jQuery to Unit Test the DOM
WePay It Forward: Take the pain out of payments
Oh, I think it remains to be seen whether cloud computing will make the problem better or worse. If all of our data is eventually consolidated with a few very large companies who do a good job of preserving it and keeping it accessible to us, then that may be an improvement.

But keep in mind that these companies are not in the archival business. Fresh data is a lot more valuable to them than old stuff. Yes, Google scans old books and whatnot but that's a tiny amount of data compared to everyone's digital junk heap that they accumulate over a lifetime.

If I consider everything I've ever written on the internet to be my "files" then I've already lost a great deal of it just because I can't keep track of where it all is, let alone whether it's still online at all.
Wow, both ties.com and scarves.com have some of the best product photos I've seen on any ecommerce site. Great job!
For what it's worth, people exhibit the same kind of behavior changes when they think there will be layoffs.
Smartphones Users Are Increasingly Using Mobile Internet
This is _not_ a defense of the proposed legislation, only my experience with local law enforcement in Kansas.

TL;DR There are many professional and thoughtful police officers and deputies that take every precaution to protect citizens' privacy. Because of their hard work and professionalism, logs of the last 24 hours were more than enough to help their investigation.

While working for a sizable WISP in 2010, we were approached by a local police office asking if we could help them pin point the location of a murder suspect on the run from Wisconsin.

The suspect had used our wireless mesh network to access his MySpace account, which was being monitored. Because our logins reset every 24 hours and because of the NAT'd nature of our wireless network, we were able to give the police approximately 10 locations where the suspect might have been within a 200' radius. The police followed up on those locations and were able to find where suspect had been staying.

Unfortunately, they missed him by a few hours and he was eventually caught in Colorado a few days later. It was an eye opening experience. The officers reiterated again and again that they wanted as little extraneous information as possible and did not want to involve anyone that had no connection.
"Boring" has become almost a requirement as I evaluate new software business ideas. The opposite of boring is often flash-in-the-pan fad ideas, and I run screaming from those. I want to build real products people use, not trendy solutions in search of problems.
Drop me a mail at saawsaalaa@shortmail.com, I'll invite you. I accept Paypal.
That was another complaint I had about the memopads, bleed through. Index cards end up being cheaper (free in my case, as I raid the office supply room).
I'm not trying to debate the relative merits of the iPhone and Android, which is silly anyway. I'm just saying that I think Apple believes in their products and is not engaged in a cynical ploy to bring down their competitors via litigation.

Apple has filed suits, but I think they did that because they genuinely feel that they have been wronged. Steve Jobs seems quite indignant about the way Samsung's products rip off Apple's so shamelessly.

Also, as you point out, Android products can be made by many different manufacturers. So even if Apple sued HTC, Samsung, and Moto out of business overnight, other mfgs would take their place and make Android devices. So, this doesn't really make sense as a ploy to litigate Android out of existence.

By the way, I'm only trying to suss out why Apple is doing what they're doing. I don't agree with the content of their suits, and furthermore I think Apple's products are strong enough to compete on merits, so the suits seem pointless.

One last thing that's been bothering me: Can we, collectively, decide on what the situation between iOS and Android is please? One month Apple is doomed and Android is marketshare king, the next month Apple are big bad monopolists dead set on snuffing out the little guy.
It sounds like how the PS3 commoditized parallel processing thanks to its cheap Cell processor. In a few days it shattered all records of Seti@Home (or was it Folding@home?), and researchers bought PS3s (sometimes building impressive clusters) for all kind of computations.
(2) It is very easy to be super busy and bored. Having lots of boring work does not magically add up to become interesting all of the sudden.
I migrated my Apple ][ disks in the early 90's. There weren't any migration utilities available (or I just didn't know which BBS to call, maybe) so I had to write my own disk-reader-to-serial on the Apple side and the appropriate conversion routines on the PC side. Fun times.
Alright; I'm confused.

First they say that they "generate around 1 petabyte of data per second"

Then they say "ATLAS produces up to 320M bytes per second, followed by CMS with 220M Bps. The data from ALICE amounts to 100M Bps and LHCb produces 50M Bps." only that sums up to 690M Bps ... definitely not 1 petabyte per second. (That is, assuming that 1M Bps means 1 million bytes per second, or just under 1 megabytes per second.)

And then, later on, they talk about a different mode in which "more data is produced by the four experiments, about 1.25G Bps in total." which is still not 1 petabyte per second.

What's going on?
"the compiled isn't any more likely to work on actual hardware as 3.1 did"

Ice Cream Sandwich can't get here fast enough, both for users waiting for tablet and phone to resync and for Google's OSS image in regards to Android.
I did the same with my Amigas about 5 years ago, which was more complicated than your process (I had to make a cable and buy a USB-to-RS232 adapter since modern PCs don't have serial ports). A few of the floppies were unreadable, particularly the ones where I'd used one of the non-standard formats that packed more data onto the disk and performed faster, but I was mostly able to pull everything off, and the hard disks were fine. I have a directory on my Linux box of the old Amiga stuff, and can play the mods I wrote, and poke around at some of the stuff I wrote, including the first book I ever wrote (which was an interactive Jazz improvisation course in AmigaText), and such.

Honestly, though, other than the music, I didn't find much worth keeping. Pirated games, 8-bit porn, etc. Though, it did remind me of the name of my favorite old synthesis tool (RGS), so I was able to look it up and do some research on modern alternatives...which it turns out there aren't really any, unfortunately. I'd carried on a conversation with the developer when he announced no further development, and wish I still had the notes, as he'd included quite a bit of technical details about the way it works (though it's mostly obvious now that I'm more knowledgeable; FFT over time for the generation of images, adding sine waves for the other direction). But, I've never gotten around to trying to reproduce it.

Interestingly, those ancient machines (a 2000 and 3000, both with hard disk controllers and hard disks; an AD516 sound card; and some other formerly very expensive hardware), and a pile of random Amiga junk and magazines, sold for $300. Given that PC stuff from that era would bring nothing, I'd say the resale value of Amigas has held up shockingly well. Collector value, I suppose. Even weirder, I guess, I bought a Commodore 64 after getting rid of the Amigas.
FYI, Smalltalk is one word, not two crammed together.
We are surrounded by devices that will break or do us harm if used unsafely. Articles like this one seem to point out the obvious "why not just make it impossible to be unsafe?" Yet this is not the case (or even a stated goal) in any other type of system. Why is it that once computers are involved people expect to abdicate responsibility?

Since you didn't like my analogy there are plenty of others. Would you put any random tire on your car and expect it to transport you safely? If I put diesel instead of gas in my car is it the station's fault because the connectors are the same?
Email them and ask politely? According to the second paragraph of the article, they're doing a gradual transition over the next few weeks, beginning with Pandora One subscribers. There doesn't seem to be a way to opt-in to get it immediately.
I think I may start habitually ssh tunneling my traffic through a VPS. My desire for privacy is not and should not be inherently incriminating.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"

:)
Back in High School I wanted to get a bit of IS experience, so I volunteered in the IS dept of a nearby hospital. Turned out, my job was to format all 10-20K of the old Windows95 installation floppies they had sitting around (this was 2000-2001).

At first I almost just left. But the guys in the IS dept were actually really nice and let me use the spare parts they had just sitting around. I ended up making a setup with 3 screens, 3 towers and each tower with 4 floppy drives. Plus an extra tower & screen to browse the internet while I would swap disks in and out of the other three.

My hidden back corner behind all the ancient, noisy tape drive towers (it was a Hospital... need to be HIPPA compliant and anal about recouds) became the cool place to hang out and I ended up learning a mountain of information from those guys/gals.
2 New HTML5 Frameworks for Building Mobile Apps
Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?
Some quick impressions:

* There's no serious set of test cases. Many Bcrypt implementations were bitten recently when it turned out that they didn't properly handle characters with the high bit set.

* It only ever uses a work factor exponent of 8 which is probably too small for most modern use.

* Even if the password hash specifies a different work factor it will still use 8, and then fail.

* It's not going to interoperate with other implementations for these two reasons.

* The timing of regex's excecution probably leaks information about the salt.

* It uses perl's 'eq' for comparing the strings. The time that this function takes to run is probably dependent on the length of the matching prefix of the two strings. So there's possibly a timing attack enabling an unauthenticated remote attacker to read some of the password hash string. He may need to know the salt, but the salt is not considered a strongly-kept secret. Nate Lawson's blog is a great source on this topic http://rdist.root.org/2010/01/
Kind of like with games. You need to balance challenge and routine in your work. Otherwise you will be bored or stressed
If you're looking for a GNU/Linux mobile device, try MeeGo (currently only the Nokia N9) or Maemo (Nokia N900). MeeGo and Maemo are GNU/Linux with a few small proprietry components.
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If you don't want to log in to Facebook, or don't have an account:

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Burj Bank to develop modern Islamic finance system in Pakistan
Some thoughts off the top of my head (hopefully accurate):

- Do you use Vim? I believe it's written in C
- Apache web server - written in C (I believe)
- Mozilla Firefox - written in C++

These above would have the advantage that they might be programs you are already using, and thus somewhat familiar with.

For something smaller:

- Aspell is a clone of ispell that is written in C++
I believe they were looking for a new maintainer of
the Windows port a while back.

- Also, mongrel2 (by Zed Shaw) is a new web server written
in C that seems well thought out. And since it is new,
it may be more understandable than some of the larger
programs above. Also, the ZeroMQ infrastructure that
it uses seems interesting and useful to know about.
I'm not quite sure on books, but there are a TON of resources out there to help you get a solid web design foundation.

Here are two resources that I read daily and provide a lot of good juicy material:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/
Checking out the "old" Flash site, any experienced Flash developer could have prevented that prolonged 10 second delay. It's not the tool, it's the talent. That delay must have been a business decision (i.e. make it all load up front no matter what).
There already is a hardware accelerated 3D context that uses the canvas element... WebGL!
Heap URL shortener with webhooks now has a bit.ly compliant API
Same here. Even my mother is already at G+. I think I will be able to delete my FB account in 1-2 months.
Every time I see a dialog like that, I think to myself,

"Yes, I want to run it. That's what I told you to do, stupid computer. What kind of moron do you take me for, anyway?"
As an OT aside: this is yet another bonus for doing Code Review.
Yeah, that's what I did initially with my "daily exercise you can do at work email" site.

I decided to spend a minimum amount of time on it to just test it out: just a form and a little description. The only decoration was that the text was centered and navy :)

Results: only 4 sign ups over 3 months..mostly from friends and family.

Then I made a nicer design, added content, and voila got about 30 sign ups in about 1 month through google search results. Added benefit is that now I'm not embarrassed to promote the site which of course has yielded many more sign ups.

To sum up: an effort invested in design pays off since good looks provide a hint of legitimacy. Generally speaking :)
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They could add google groups to the google+ environment.

Create a minecraft group with only the manager being able to post there but that anyone can see and you have what he wants.

Create a minecraft group with open/moderated subscribership and you have a typical forum.

Create a minecraft group with private subscription and you have your private channel.

For this groups should be both a persona and a circle. The group persona is who you follow to read, the group circle is who will have access to the information (like in the google groups).

Now it recognises the groups and gets the images from there if you add one, but there's no place in the group to add "accept posts from google+", and no place in google+ to "read from the groups I'm subscribed".
After beta we're going to target the enterprise / corp market for premium features that are more unique to that set - scale, security, archiving, API, etc.

We'll always have a solution targeted at people holding meetings for 25 - 50 people, fully featured, and free.

Advocacy from happy users and the viral nature of the product (everybody you meet with might need their own meeting solution) will power exposure to decision makers at the enterprise clients (who currently use GTM / WebEx) that can flip over 500 accounts at a time.

More on all that in a future post - it's a very interesting market!
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BitTrust API makes developing apps that use Bitcoin a breeze
Probably worth a toast, but not worth worrying about. Your target market is and always has been the people who buy apps through the app store.

We have some free and some non-free apps in the store, and we've never given the piracy stuff a second thought. We were actually pretty stoked when we saw the first game pirated. It made us feel legit. ;-)
No, it is all of the fans sucking air in the front and dumping it out the back. Fire up a 2U server in an otherwise quiet room and it will sound like someone just fired up an vacuum cleaner...
If you ship it, you can put your own name on it. That's what's noncontroversial. This has nothing to do with "corporate dominance". RMS was trying to dominate others by telling them how to talk. People find that kind of pedantry annoying.

I for one agree with DiBona 100%.
The effort would go below zero when things interact for us and we don't have to think about sending a message or even replying to them anymore. Everyone will know everything and won't care to do anything.
Oh good, I'm not the only one that thought that!
a) See my other posts in this thread - we will be targeting enterprise eventually, see every free account user as a potential advocate / sharer of our brand.

b) We've built patented tech around cloud which gives us a cost basis that is low and we're self funded with years of runway to build the brand and product the right way.
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yes it is. if you don't like the closed-source apps, you can run your own pure replacements.
I'm somewhat mystified by how much circles are talked about in proportion to how cool they are vs. how little hangouts are talked about in proportion to how cool they are.

Circles are neat, but nothing really amazing or incredibly original IMO. Hangouts, on the other hand, are IMO the coolest feature of a social networking website in the past few years, which I think a lot of people would agree with if they tried them. Yes, Skype has group video chat too, but someone has to pay money for it and I doubt it's as simple to set up as Hangouts.

I guess it's because Circles are a much more visible feature, but I don't know.
You got your type class in my jQuery: Functors
Good lord you're a troll.

0. Few people who use this quote actually know its origin and context.

1. Scribd, Hulu, Justin.tv, Slideshare... there are tons of ruby sites in the top 500, not just Twitter.

2. Serialization isn't just on the wire, it also may be stored in memcache or the like. But even on the wire, crossection bandwidth is scarce in large clusters. There's a reason google developed protocol buffers.

3. Debugging by wire sniffing is shitty period. I don't think binary vs ascii is very meaningful. What matters more is the infrastructure on each end, eg do the client and server have good reflection, monitoring and logging capabilities. These are what affect programmer time.

4. This is a RPC format. Sending payloads to browsers is not a use case. Even so on modern javascript implementations decoding a byte packed binary format is likely faster than the eval path used by naive browser JSON parsers because it doesn't build any intermediate forms like token streams, ASTs, etc.

5. Same as 4.

Your view is both myopic and hyperbolic.
This legislation would certainly aid responsible and trust-worthy law enforcement officers in catching criminals. Bush's (and now Obama's) policy of warrantless wiretapping may have also been effective against terrorism. Perhaps torturing indefinitely-held detainees in secret overseas prisons shed even some light on terrorist operations. That said, I vehemently oppose both of these policies, despite any good that may have come from them. The former is obviously by definition abuse, and the latter has a staggering potential for abuse. As citizens, we should be wary of any legislation where the potential for abuse is high, or where the consequences of any abuse could be severe.
Grooveshark has had[0] a very sharp HTML5 interface for several months now. Here's a story[1] on HN from 220 days ago with discussion about it. Pandora is very late to the game.

[0] http://m.lifehacker.com/5705712/grooveshark-pushes-out-a-new...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968362
I completely agree with this type of use.

The issue is laws are generally written to allow unlimited access for any reason to any amount of data at any time. This allows abuse. While the law will allow your use for the greater good, it will probably also allow a police officer to request the logs of his daughter's current boyfriend.

I haven't read the law, so my comment may be completely inaccurate, but I don't really have much faith in the law being written properly and providing real incentive to not abuse the power.
A couple of things struck me about this post.

First, the hate mail. I'm happy that you're taking it in stride, but personally, I think all of the hate mail senders should be outed and their accounts removed from HackerNews. (Yes, I know they can just make a new one.) This community shouldn't tolerate this type of bullying - which is exactly what this is - and resetting karma to zero and forcing people to own up to their actions in public is the type of response I'd think appropriate.

Second, given the response, there is clearly a huge demand here. Perhaps a business opportunity is worth exploring in this context? People are clearly not getting the feedback they need from existing services. I wonder if there is some sort of "pay per submission" service that could be linked to reputation to facilitate CV/resume reviews... like linked in without the recruiters. Obviously needs more thought but there's definitely something there given the interest you received.
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