skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dangerous way to look at the world.

For starters, people in positions of power have a long history of acting in their own best interests and not the interest of the greater good. Some decisions about our government and country have both arbitrary criteria, and arbitrary outcomes. Historically, politicians will use this ambiguity to bias towards their own interests - including resisting changes that will bring more transparency to the benefits/harms of their "sound decision on the best course of action".

Second, some domains need specialists, some need generalists. To even suggest that we should rely on specialists in all situations is simply a flawed understanding of how knowledge evolves. In particular to running a country, we happen to be at a cycle where the information we use to make very important decisions for the purpose of our national interests is evolving very rapidly. Most likely success means finding new ways to understand information vs applying proven, specialized techniques.

We are not talking about people making mistakes, we are talking about a system that has consistently produced leaders that are incapable of acting in the best interests of their constituency. Its a broken system, and Anonymous / Lulz are making history right now.. they are forcing information to the surface. Their tactics are in fact a solution - setting a precedence to our leaders that their actions will be judged in the future much more openly than they were judged in the past.

And I'll tell you, a world where the individuals in our government system must be openly accountable for the decisions they make, and how those decisions affect others is a better world for all of us. The only other path has been retold countless times in history books, and its so much worse than any disclosure of factual data.
jbyers is right. This duplicates the older thread (that is not his/her thread),

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2791115

that actually has some (useful) conversation (e.g. the observation that it appears ksplice may now become Oracle-only).

The /newest front page currently has three posts that duplicate this news. Only 2791115 (not one of those three) has any useful conversation.
That's very nice. Worth a separate HN post, I think.
I appreciate the point of this article. I have always felt that the entire purpose of music has been to pass emotion from one person to another in a defined, purposeful way.

I hear songs from 20 years ago, and I am instantly transported to a time or place, or I can feel the presence of friends, or a past girlfriend, or an entire chapter past--it's there, within that song.

Such wonderful power, so important. I think the "industry" has gotten itself confused about the fundamental misunderstanding of just what we pay for. Once they figure out that it isn't for a piece of useless plastic, or some badge of "legitimacy" they attempt to force us to comply with in how we acquire or enjoy that experience, that "industry" will transform back into what it is meant to be- an open conduit for musical communication.
al jazeera did a very good video showing the greek debt also using pallets (http://www.wesoscrewed.com/2011/07/19/pallets-upon-pallets-o...). there is just something about seeing that amount of money in cash on pallets that makes me sick to my stomach. Talk about a huge hole to climb out of...
That's a fair rebuttal. What's your opinion about my second statement, where the common wisdom that modifying native objects is a bad idea?
> The publication costs in PLoS journals are 20-50 times higher than your high end[1].

I would think that the cost of actually making it available (no vetting, just throwing it online) is probably much lower than the cost of publication[1]. Note that, from your link, the expenses in the price include "peer review, of journal production, and of online hosting and archiving".

[1] If it really does cost them even 50% of the prices they're charging to put a single paper online, then either most of it is being eaten up in bureaucracy or they're investing it and using the interest to pay for the hosting (which would make a lot of sense, actually).
Why are most taxi's yellow?
People have physically handled $100 bills and visited the WTC and Statue of Liberty.

You want to explain abstractions in terms of concrete things like this, rather than in terms of other abstractions. And "GDP" is as abstract as it gets.
Contributing to Linux to allow it to run better with MSFT products hardly absolves them from funding SCO.
What you can do with the stolen JSTOR documents
> I think this current obsession minimalism is just fashion for fashion sake.

I've always thought it was an attempt for all the administrata (the OS, the required chrome of each app, etc.) to fade into the background, and leave the only bright-and-shiny things on the screen—the stuff that immediately draws your eyes—to be your own stuff: your projects, your content, the website you're reading, etc.

And this dawned on me as I typed this: Lion's Address Book and iCal are gaudy precisely because their content isn't freeform or style-able, and doesn't present an obvious metaphor on its own. Address Book is a list of restricted Key-value store documents. iCal is a grid onto which you may manipulate sliding, wrapped boxes. Without their chrome, you'd have little context to decide what to do with them. So, in these cases, the chrome is the content—and so it is embellished, rather than inconspicuous.
The technical-interview answer:

"Mirrors don't reverse left and right. They reverse in and out."

Then tell the interviewer that only an idiot would look at a local coordinate frame and think it's a global one. Just what is he insinuating? This had better not be one of those "stress interviews" people talk about. There's no way in hell you're going to work for a company that will screw around with you on day one just to see how you'll react.

Works every time.
Shareholders yes, though there's more gray area on "leadership". There's no law against using the revenue of a nonprofit organization to pay its leadership arbitrarily large salaries, unless it rises to the level where the IRS starts to see it as dirty tricks. I have no idea what JSTOR's are, though (or if that's even public). But I don't suspect they are pocketing the cash.

My guess is that their reticence to open things is more of an institutional megalomania of sorts. Sort of what you often find at art museums--- while their official mission is to promote the arts and educate the public, many of their staff are at least as interested in building the prestige/fame/fortune of their institution, which explains why they would have weird policies about reproducing their public-domain artworks.
'de-authenticating' a "machine" can be done just by clearing your cookies ! AFAIK, there's nothing machine specific about the two factor authentication ..

It was pretty disappointing for me really .. I would have liked to actually authenticate specific MAC addresses .. but then, I'll take what I've got :)
Demand Media's Lawyers Go After Critical Blog as Stock Sags
The content doesn't, actually. I'll look up the specific case when I get home, but phone book publishers most definitely do not have any copyright claims to the phone number or addresses. They do have copyright claims to the font choice, layout, etc., so you can't copy the phone book wholesale, but you can take the phone numbers, rearrange them, and set them in a different typeface and you'd be in the clear.

I don't believe there's any part of copyright that takes the amount of effort into account. There was a case (again, I'll look it up when I get home) where a copy of a work that was in the public domain was granted its own copyright because it had a few errors in it. The errors were unintentional, but copyright was given. In the phone book case, the court specifically mentioned that even though there was no doubt a significant amount of work required to produce the phone book, that didn't give the publisher copyright.
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It provides no information other than "big number is big, lol."

As an accurate, useful comparison it falls short, and there's a political agenda behind it (I hate politics, yet I'm commenting). But people don't regularly wrap their brain around how big a trillion really is. Had the site used sticks, marbles, pebbles or even an illustration related to time, it would have been useful. I remember as a child being taught the difference between a million and a billion in that manner and it was important to my relative understanding of numbers. Most people don't work with big numbers all day and could gain something from just that simple point ... big numbers are big.

It's dishonest, though, and reminds me of why I hate politics. At university, I had a philosophy professor who argued injustice by comparing the percentage of African-Americans on death row vs. other nations of origin, to the percentage of the African-Americans in the US population vs. other nations of origin. He provided those two numbers and much of the class was shocked. The problem is that the US doesn't pick random citizens to be on death row, it picks citizens who are convicted of capital crimes. A more honest comparison (and, still yet, illustrative of the point, though less dramatic) would be to compare the number of African-Americans convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death with the same rates of other minority groups (or even against everyone else as a whole would be an improvement), and then, of course, diving into conviction rates, reasonably provable false conviction rates and the host of other variables that enter into an imperfect system that is imperfect because human beings are imperfect.

EDIT: Improper use of asterisks. Tsk Tsk. Corrected my description of the professor's comparison by adding "vs. other nations of origin" since that's more accurate.
"SXSW... now in Color"

That sounds like a great co-branding opportunity. Color could also sell/host conference services such as preloading conference-related photos/ads or providing additional Color photographers to "augment" the conference's Color photos when the app's adoption is still low.
Not "any", but "most".
Government is still a good choice for military, police, and funding building roads.

Letting government to spend money in most of other directions is a waste.

Space exploration is just one of many such wasteful examples.
FYI, you can authenticate against both Googles IMAP and SMTP submission services using OAUTH.

* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
Most journals now have an explicit policy that putting up your preprints online is OK. You can check the status of any particular journal or publisher here: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
How would Google have visibility to your MAC addresses?
I used OCR to do some interesting things with a similar dataset:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2791611
Ksplice Inc. must have some unique patents. I wonder if Oracle will merge this technology into Solaris.
I interpreted your point to be that we should leave government to the government specialists, i.e. politicians.
Good point. $200 million in cash or stock and how many milestones you have to hit are significant factors.
This is the point of a randomly-generated application specific passwords: even if someone snarfs it plaintext it's not as useful as compromising your account. You can't do 2-factor authentication with applications that don't support it. You can't do it with, for example, IMAP, period. So instead of someone grabbing your config file and owning your entire google account all they can do is read your mail, which they could have done anyway. In other words, this 2-factor authentication gives you enhanced security with virtually no drawbacks, but this guy is complaining that it's somehow misleading. Google, in this case, has clearly thought this authentication through as much as possible and came out with as well of a designed product as the limitations allow.
Haha. Like saying I have 50/50 chance to win the lottery. I either win, or I don't.
> Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive?

Because the US government is much easier to reform. It pays at least some lip service to freedom.
Not a particularly useful exercise. Imagine 100 years from now we've maintained the same debt level. This graph will show just as much information (big numbers are big!) as it does now, but the analytical value of it (if it exists now) will obviously be totally dissipated, as we'll be an order of magnitude richer.

A better comparison would be to take a single person, and put the per capita amount of debt in $100 bills next to them. If you want to get really histrionic, do it with a baby. Still, it won't come up past the ankles (around $15,000).

This isn't a small amount, but at the same time it's not the end of the world. My college loans come out to that amount, and I barely notice paying them monthly.

It's equivalent to having a mortgage-sized to around five times your annual income. An annual income that typically grows 2.5% a year and comes with a machine that prints out money whenever you need it.

Edit: typo in Google search, it's more like $50k than $15k. So a bit worse than that analysis would suggest.
Don't downvote this question, it is valid.
The money is near the Statue of Liberty.
Google+’s Circle Logic
Second that. Be present. Live in the moment. A few choice photos are fine, but don't let the need to document and fb-brag consume your life. Just live it.
Its funny when you follow the RSS feed for HN you will see stories like this hit, blam, blam, blam in rapid succession.
Alternate title: 5 things everone already does with dropbox.
From what I have heard, ksplice is pretty popular with VPS (virtual private server) providers. When there is an exploitable bug, they have to announce the planned upgrade to their customers and wait for a few days until they can run the upgrade. Even worse, they basically announce that there is a hole in their system to the very people that already have elevated access to that system. (Even non-remotly-exploitable bugs are a problem here.) Ksplice allows for an upgrade as soon as the bug is found/fixed in source code without tipping off potential attackers that could exploit the bug.
The new feature of the Android Market - Multiple APKs
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Facebook even censors pirate bay links within private messages between you and friends iirc. They don't block select other torrent sites though. They're a bit odd like that.

Some more info
http://torrentfreak.com/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-links...
I love this service.

And now, Oracle has immediately dropped support for RHEL. For shame, Oracle.
I wonder whether Microsoft thinks it falls under http://www.google.com/patents?id=cVyWAAAAEBAJ&dq=hotpatc... .
A better comparison would be to take a single person, and put the per capita amount of debt in $100 bills next to them. If you want to get really histrionic, do it with a baby. Still, it won't come up past the ankles (around $15,000).

More like $45k.
Time to fork it!

http://knoppix.mirrors.tds.net/pub/linux/frugalware/frugalwa...
Microsoft's IE team sent Mozilla congratulatory "birthday" cakes when Firefox 3 and 5 were released.
A fish doesn't care what country it was caught by. The US limits are surely set with the current population in mind... a population that is directly effected by what other countries are fishing. The more Japanese fish you eat, the less America fishes. It all evens out.
I'm not sure if you're joking. I'm going to, for my own sanity, pretend that you are joking.
Startup Sets Sights on Mars
they don't want things to be insecure, they want the computer security industry to stop being bullshit.

the true irony of course is that all the flailings of the antisec movement will result in is greater revenues for the same computer security industry they hate.

hacktivism isn't working.
Yeah, left off the tens (of trillions) digit when I calculated it.
Google and the Technocratic Conscience
Ask me for any improvement on the Hacker News Navigation
Hi guys; some days ago i published a Google Chrome extension that adds some functionalities to the navigation through this site (Hacker News).

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bldhjkmbdomhijjjnmckgchocnfhkpnd

If you are a Chrome user an have an idea for a feature that you would like to see implemented in the HN navigation please tell me about in this thread.

So far it have 3 features/changes:

1) It adds the button "parent" in every (child) comment, when you put the mouse over it highlights the parent comment. When is clicked it brings the parent comment closer to the child comment, this is especially useful for when you cant see the parent comment because is too far away.

2) It also changes the title; so it becomes "$TITLE | Hacker News" instead of the current "Hacker News | $TITLE"

3) You will never get again the "Unknown or Expired Link" message. Always the valid and correct link to change the page.
Adblock does not allow you to dodge the paywall, from personal experience.

There is an easy way to escape the paywall: After a new page opens, wait for the text to load, then after the text is loaded but the rest of the site's infrastructure is still loading, hit Escape to stop loading. Whatever code is responsible for summoning the paywall GUI never finishes loading.

This solution does not work well when trying to open multiple NYT tabs, however.
Multiple files is an implementation detail. When navigating through Finder in OSX, "applications" appear to be monolithic, and double-clicking on them will launch the application. But, they are actually just directories with the .app extension. You can navigate through them and inspect the files and subdirectories they contain. But you don't have to.
Google in Bork Bork Bork Language
Not being associated with a university anymore, Google Scholar saves me about ~70% of the time too. However, many of those links aren't legitimate (i.e., licensed) you see a lot of links like http://dept.example.edu/~prof/BIO332/resources/paper.pdf .

Glad they're out there, but it would nice to not depend on grey-market servers.
> this guy is complaining that it's somehow misleading.

The one thing I will grant the author is that the explanation given for application-specific passwords could be somewhat clearer.

Feel free to call me stupid, but the first time I used the interface after reading the description, I remember not fully understanding what was going on and thinking that I had to choose a particular name to use a password with a particular application. It took me a little more thought about the purpose of these application-specific passwords to understand that that wouldn't make any sense, and these are instead just plain old passwords with labels for personal convenience in case you want to revoke a particular one later.

I like to think of myself as reasonably technically inclined and this still threw me off, so I can certainly imagine how it would really confuse an average user (though the number of average users using this feature is probably pretty negligible).
Because clearly paywalls are the only way a journalist can possibly get paid, right?
The Hawaii-based longline fishery for swordfish was closed in 2000 over concerns of excessive sea turtle by-catch. One consequence of the closure was that 70 Hawaii-based vessels were replaced by 1,500-1,700 longline vessels from various Asian nations

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

The problem does not simply go away because Americans stop eating fish.
No, if someone gets the password you've set aside for your IMAP client, they get access to all services. This is factually wrong: "all they can do is read your mail." As someone with Google two-factor auth and an iPhone, I can tell you it's not that sophisticated.

You can label the access key "IMAP key," but that's just the human readable label. There is no functionality tying a key to particular Google services; any key unlocks them all. There should be such functionality, which was one of the points made in this (admittedly flawed) article.

For the record, you are right when you say they don't "own" you account, since they can't change the password. But they do have broad access.
Preventing form re-submission with HTTP 303 redirects
Are you sure that application specific passwords are really locked down to that level? If I steal the application specific password out of your IMAP client, what other Google services can I use it with?
AFP: Google refocusing on products: CFO
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The Cult of 11: Great leaders need to chill
Their have been lots of emoji and other special char domains used already. you just haven't stumbled upon them yet.
Lodsys sues Rovio over AngryBirds for iPhone and Android
An interesting feature of app-specific passwords -- which helps to mitigate the complaint in the article -- is that if you are logged in with one, you cannot access some core settings to the account without going through the two-factor process. For example, you cannot change the master password, backup email account, or disable two-factor authentication using an app-specific password. So if one gets leaked somehow, you can always recover your account (though of course a lot of damage might have already been done).
showing that there is a demand by going out of your way to track down and buy what you want helps it happen.
£.com is another similar domain
They don't do full text search on these articles.
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A friend of mine just launched this..
Another good option is Linq -- it's great for storing lots of data. We use it here with backbone. We're using this one: http://linqjs.codeplex.com/
This is a fantastic project. Why has it been kept secret? :-)
In no way am I excusing what was done to this guy, but when will people learn that accessing a computer without permission has anything other than serious consequences. As far as the law is concerned, he might as well have raped the CEO's wife.

No - the damage done is not remotely equivalent, and yet the criminal penalties are the same.
As other commenters have noted, the argument in the article is ridiculous. If you don't like the feature, dont use it.

That said, I think there are some possible areas of improvement:

1) I agree with the author that the ability to revoke a 30 day session would be excellent. If someone steals my laptop I'd like the option to force 2 factor on that device.

2) I'd like a Windows/Mac OS X authenticator token app. This exists for RSA, I'd like the same for Google. (bonus point for making it different than the token on my phone and allowing me to disable the software remotely)

3) Provide a way for application developers to register that they're the one using this particular one time password and then disallow the use of that password by any other app. (perhaps this could be achieved with OAuth?)

In general I like the Authenticator functionality, I think Google has put a lot of thought into it and I'd love to see them try and push for wider adoption.
From a Basement to the Stars: How the OpenStack Cloud Was Born
Or you just create something that's worthwhile, unique, and noticeable.
The big value of Ksplice for me is that I'm paying a few $/server/month for a service that writes, tests and distributes those live binary kernel patches when the exploits come out. So it can't be just some volunteer OS work, there also needs to be a support organization.
Is the US health spending problem in our heads?