skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Circles are ok to set up at the beginning, but many people belong in more than one circle and it gets cognitively tiring to sort people appropriately into one-and-only-one circle.

A person can belong to more than one circle (that's why you have a list of checkboxes, one per circle).
Laying aside the emotional rhetoric, the point being debated is whether public interests will be harmed or not. What's clear is that prosecutorial interests will be harmed, but the entire point of constitutional rights is that sometimes there is conflict between the interests of those who prosecute crimes and the public interest.

For example, you could easily argue that having a lawyer present during interrogation harms public interests for exactly the same reasons: Child molesters, terrorists, and just plain naughty people will clam up and not give investigators information that could lead to a conviction.

We had that discussion, and south of the border you decided that public interests were harmed by not allowing a lawyer to be present and were further harmed by not warning suspects of their rights.

(Canada takes a different view with respect to the right to a lawyer for complex reasons.)
The limits of understanding - implications of Gödel's theorems (video)
Yes, I understand that. I was saying that an obviously screwed-up system is often better than a subtly screwed-up one.

Nevertheless, a well-implemented MD5-based system could still be "less bad" than the buggy home-rolled bcrypt in that link.
My thoughts exactly. The photographer probably thought he was doing this innocently, but even a small manipulation like this can seriously change what a picture means. There's a really good example of this somewhere online showing how the meaning of a photo can be changed by cropping the right and left sides of a picture involving a soldier. Sadly, I can't seem to find it. So, here's a couple of other examples:

http://familybible.org/israel/conflict/PeacefulTerrorists.ht...

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogra...

AP is absolutely correct to take such draconian measures - they need to be credible.

EDIT: Found it! See here: http://www.rhetorik.ch/Bildmanipulation/soldat.jpg
Yes

I honestly cannot 'go' unless I am not thinking about 'going'; I used to hum and sing to myself, but that made people angry. Thank God for my smartphone!
This makes me happy that we decided to go with Digicert. Although not the cheapest their customer service is above par. We just got a renew (not auto-renew) notice 60 days from expiration. Not only where they offering a 15% discount on renewal but for every day early we renew we get 2 days added to the new cert. I.E. renew 60 days early on a 12 month cert and they give us 14 months.
I'd prefer if HN only got followup articles about such breaches, which have some analysis.

Voting the actual raw data-dumps up emphasizes the other meaning of 'hacker' and almost looks like cheerleading.
America's E-Commerce Capitals: The cities that shop the most online
For me using tweetdeck with a column per twitter group gives me everything that I use in Google+.
I'm always fascinated by journalists ability to take two distant factual details and design an entire plotline and article between them.
Not only that, but it then becomes a 'slippery slope', where do you draw the line at what manipulation is possible. Here they've draw a pretty clear line that the 'content' of the image cannot be changed but that coloring and associated items can be tweaked to more accurately represent the scene.
[Lets avoid picking apart the generalization I made above, yes color is 'content' but I think the meaning is fairly clear here]
First, the bank bailout was successful in its primary goal -- do you see a global collapse of financial lending?

Second, the market is actually doing quite well, as predicted. Jobs, on the other hand, are not so great. Basic economics predicts that stimulus via infrastructure spending is the best way to accelerate growth in the job market -- which is exactly what we didn't do.

I have no idea where you got the idea that this recession was treated with an all-out spending spree. It wasn't. The same fiscal austerity measures that are failing Europe are going to be implemented in the US and fail just as badly.
Really... more msn.com than hotmail.com?
There are actually a number of those algorithms, often it is either a combination of two existing things (G+ is like Facebook but with asymetric relationships like Twitter); a twist on something that already exist (Firefly is a western but with an oppressive government set in space); or (but mostly with physical things) something that is not as good as what was previously but ordinary people can afford it (indoor plumbing which is not as good as servants preparing your bath, but much much cheaper or the Ford T).

Sometimes it is a mixture of these.
I implemented this in java when I first learned about minimax in an AI class, so this all looks very familiar to me.

My scoring function must have been weak though. I remember being frustrated that I could still beat the algorithm. It was completely blind to traps that didn't matter in the near term, but that decided the game later when the board was filling up.
I like the idea of making the logo fit inside a hex.

Though this sort of thing is obviously subjective, I hate this design as it stands. Abstract shapes can work as the basis of a design, and words can work as the basis of a design, but trying to do both at once makes it look like a middle schooler's first attempt at typography. If you're going to set type, think like a typographer: The word should be pleasant to read, not make my head hurt.

They should decide which is more important -- the text, or the design elements like the hexagon -- and make one subordinate to the other. Set the text in a decent font and decorate with the design element, or embed small words inside a big design element as they did at the end -- I agree that the "js" part of the logo is very nice. But don't try to emphasize the weird shape and the text simultaneously on the same level of the design, because it just looks dorky.

Not that I'm a designer, of course. Maybe three days from now I'll wake up and find myself in love with this design.
Since they have been mostly supply constrained I would say not a whole lot more. It's a valid question though, they might be able to extract a larger subsidy from carriers.
On my ride to the office I had the thought that the launch of MTV may have something to do with it. Just as my parents' generation made "fuck" an everyday word, the MTV generation seem to have a different view of the words "nigger" and "bitch," possibly in part because of the glamorization of hip hop culture.
Ask HN: I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to learn Java.
Any recommendations on books or resources to get up to speed with Java quickly. I'm a pretty experienced programmer looking to port some iOS applications to Android and get to know Java so I know when to dip into the Java platform from Clojure.

Also, where can the java community be found online? Thanks in advance.
Console tool for reading Hacker News
I am using combination of dynadot.com (domain registration) and pointhq.com (dns), so far so good :)
Quora Adds Video To Its Q&A Pages
> unlike 'bastard'

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=all+men+are+bastards
5 Best Chrome Extensions for Google+ Power Users
SCSS is a very good choice if you want to have maintainable CSS.
That would have been 6 more years of commercial work for John Hodgman and Justin Long.
Sadly, exploitation is often much easier than protection. They only need to find one hole - the defender must secure everything.

Oh, and it's probably not good to encourage this kind of thing either.
GRE Scores by Intended Graduate Major
This thought, expanded (Lawrence Lessig on the subject:) http://www.thenation.com/article/how-get-our-democracy-back?...
My wife and her friends (who amazingly all accepted her G+ invites and immediately started the service) like it much more than Facebook. My wife's an RN, and reasonably technically savvy, but not someone I'd call a "geek". I asked her why she liked it more and she said two things that I thought were interesting:

1) "Well, I like Google better anyway. So I'd rather use their service."

2) "It just feels better than facebook to me."

Really surprised me, considering that we're going to replace her Android phone that she's only been using for 6 months or so because she hates it so much and because she really likes to use facebook.

I'm not sure if her experience is going to be the norm, but it seems to bode well for Google.
Process seperation isn't the only savior to this, its just one way to compartmentalize things, intermediately, as of Firefox 7 (Aurora), there's been a massive improvement on managing compartments of memory

andreasgal.com/2010/10/13/compartments/
Preparing image planes in Photoshop
Your comment needs punctuation and/or rephrasing; it's difficult to parse and, even then, vague as to your intended meaning
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It'd be awesome if they could integrate it with Calendar for events/RSVPs etc.
You might want to look for a more current and better example.

PapiJump was a free game and it came out in summer 2008. Later the developer released PapiJump Plus, a paid version of the game. It never was all that successful in the grand scheme of things, at least compared to Doodle Jump. Doodle Jump is a clone that came out one year later. It cost money from the start and it felt a lot more like a sequel than a straight up clone.

All gamers love sequels. All gamers love variations on a theme. The story of PapiJump and Doodle Jump is not in any way surprising and, I think, also not in any way something that defines the whole iOS ecosystem.
The firehose is actually a sample of the full amount of data. If you want more coverage you need to use other techniques. One way to do it is to search for a specific word. Constantly...

Here's a poor quality video from TC Disrupt last year which tells you a bit about how to geosearch Twitter to mine information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QCnPHHCTXg
Well it did mentioned that "'Design' is now at Google" and the designs are being unified. All Google products are being +ified.
And the problem with saying "No one will buy Amazon e-books without a Kindle, and no one will buy a Kindle if they can't read the books elsewhere," is that it's already untrue. With the Kindle app on iOS and Android devices, plenty of people are doing just that. Don't really have numbers to back that up, though...

So another option came to mind: E-readers that can run apps. Apps like Kindle, or Google Books. That might just be wishful thinking, though.
agree.. mixin is so powerful. You may add compass to make it more.
is it 2? if so, it's strangely crude.
I'm not sure many professional photographers are using cameras that do that.
Bell's research sounds fascinating - I wonder if it leads to any suggestions to getting over the moral panics more quickly? They're almost never productive, and they harm far more than they help. I'm thinking especially of the political angle, because in the current arrangement, there's no serious incentive for politicians to resist moral panics, and you could argue that there's a significant incentive for them to encourage moral panics (e.g. Michelle Bachmann's endless madness).
Decryption is not about finding data which is inside something, it is about making sense of data you already have. Forcing someone to decrypt something is asking them to provide a plausible explanation of what the data means.

Do not get confused by real-world analogies. When you have a safe, you can map the space within the safe and be sure you aren't missing something. When you have data, you have no way to make sure that a given explanation is the right one.
Sometimes when compiling and trying to use system calls gcc will complain about the functions not existing. This is usually because of some preprocessor guard not being defined. An easy way to see what macros have been defined is to run gcc with the "-E -dM" flags.
The New Twitter Developer Site
Here's the first one the company blocked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729084
Google+: And You Thought Facebook Is a Privacy Nightmare
So the moral of the story is, conduct your criminal activity via software running on an external server on a TrueCrypt partiton, and always interface with it via Tor?

Then they can't prove it's "your server" and thus order you to reveal the key.

(For example, if you have access to a credit card not in your name, you can set up an EC2 micro instance for free for a year. Then install TeueCrypt and be on your merry criminal way. What could the DOJ do?)
I don't know where you're from or what your healthcare system is like, but I'm in Western Europe and six months in the hospital with your company without a leader will ruin you if you have only 25k in the bank.

I don't know why my fellow European are so self-righteous about 'our' healthcare system - don't believe the bullshit you're being told about how great our socialism is, I'm going through a 'light' version of it right now and it ain't all roses and sunshine. And I'm in one of the richest countries of the world that is consistently ranked at the top in healthcare - snicker.

(yes I realize that in the US health care is more expensive and that a broken leg will set you back there more than over here, but if you think that you're shielded from the financial effects of health issues over here you're deluding yourself)
The Nook 2nd Edition is apparently really easy to root and install apps on: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138564
I remember when useful information was not in a binary format, and had easy to read bullet points.
Do you have some pointers for standards compliant (or at least relatively compliant) CSS and HTML for rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows in IE 7 and 8 that don't require using DXImageTransform?

All of the information we found that had information on those three components offered either code that didn't work, required dozens of tiny little images, or used DXImageTransform which renders very poorly, particularly when there is text in the same element.

IE users are used to a crappy web experience, I'm stuck on IE 7 all day at my day job and a very large number of sites simple don't work. From fields you can't fill out, to misaligned elements, to sites that simply refuse to work on anything older than IE 8, FF or Chrome.

In our own site development we spent twice as much time trying to use various "tricks" to get IE 7 & 8 to look exactly like it looks in FF or Chrome. Either they worked in 7 but not 8, or 8 but not 7, or if they did work, looked significantly degrades over the rendering in FF and Chrome. Drop shadows were a particular problem. But many elements on our site use gradients, and any of those elements with text were virtually unreadable once DXImageTransform got ahold of them. In the end, short of rebuilding the entire site with dozens of little images, we decided to treat it like we'd treat the same problem with a traditional desktop graphics app -- Level Of Detail.

Just like with a desktop app running on low end hardware, where you make things work by lowering resolutions, decreasing draw distance, lowering polygon count, turning off anti-aliasing, frame skipping, etc. We chose to offer a lower LOD to people using a low-end browser. The site fails gracefully to this lower LOD with all of the functionality still intact. A red box with rounded corners and a slight gradient simply becomes a red box.

As it turns out, this works also on other oddball browsers like Opera. The last version of Opera would successfully render our site with rounded corners, but no gradients. So they got that LOD. The new version renders everything.

There's nothing weird about it, or bad attitudy about it. IE simply represents a less capable platform that should be treated as such. Our philosophy is to spend our dev cycles making good software rather than trying to coax a black and white tv to show color.
How is the latest iteration on the blog?
I think it depends on what he wants to do with the money? He already mentioned that money isn't going to change his life style (but we'll see if that's really the case) but having only 25k in the savings with a family? That's just being a bit reckless. I do agree with the points of a few commenters here that he should just take a 1M or 2 off the table so he can focus on the company and not worry about his personal financial circumstances. Also, you never know in this world when a medical emergency happens and he needs to use this money. Having the money gives him breathing room and overall the benefits of just having options in life.

If nothing else, he can reinvest that money to other startups as an angel.
Yeah, but I don't own a Kindle. If I owned a Kindle I probably wouldn't be inclined to switch either having invested in books locked (albeit easily unlocked) to that platform. I had been considering the Kobo reader since Kobo is the only vendor that also offers an app for my phone as well. I might also consider this iRiver reader since I know that the Google Books website works fine on my phone.
I'm not sure if I agree. One thing that's nice about HN is that I so often get the story early, otherwise I would use one of the weekly/daily best-of aggregators anyway.

The front-page is big enough that I can handle there being one post for the original raw-data, and a subsequent post for the Ars analysis.

Your other point about "cheerleading" is well taken, It is easy to get caught up in the David vs. Goliath sentiment.
Your "$10 to buy .com!" buttons don't have padding. Despite giving us nice big Call to Action buttons to click... we still have to precisely target the message text itself rather than the button image.
They call it Google's ebook reader, but did Google have anything to do with it other than providing the content?
Any recommendations on books or resources to get up to speed with Java quickly

My knowledge of Java books is probably pretty out of date, but I got some mileage out of the Deitel & Deitel book Java: How To Program.

Also, where can the java community be found online?

http://www.jroller.com

http://www.theserverside.com

http://saloon.javaranch.com

all come to mind...
Yea. Your point is that they can't lock you up forever based on the suspicion of a hidden volume. My point is that it would likely to be hard to them to reasonably assert a hidden volume, and even if they could assert a hidden volume, if you unlocked one but had several, they wouldn't be able to reasonably convince a judge of suspicion of several hidden volumes.

Then, having several is difficult since they all have to nest, and can't reside in parallel (i.e. the second hidden volume has to be inside the first hidden volume, it can't reside along side the first hidden volume within the top-level volume).
I agree that competing on features seems like a mistake (one reason why I think Google+ will not fare that well). But competing on price I think is actually a very different matter. Price changes everything. Price can make the difference between feeling like a sucker or feeling like you just had a marvelous experience.

Take something like the iPad. With all of its beauty and design, had it started at $899 or $999 like many speculated, it would have done far poorer. Like potentially flopped. Apple knew price was extremely important and so they were very aggressive on it.

The Kindle and Nook are such good sellers, in part, because of their price. They're the impulse buys while you're standing at the checkstand. With that said price isn't always a factor (and in some cases more expensive is better than cheaper), but you should treat price just as you would UX and design -- very seriously.
To be honest I thought you guys went a bit overboard on the examples of how to make money. There were just too many. I'd like to see you guys cut a few of those out and actually tell me what you do and give me a reason to think you are legitimate. Cool idea for a commercial though. Just a bit overdone.
"Basic economics predicts that stimulus via infrastructure spending is the best way to accelerate growth in the job market -- which is exactly what we didn't do."

Which is why I carefully qualified my statement with bastardized Keynesianism. I don't mean that as a pure insult; I don't particularly believe it's the best economic model, but I don't have much evidence either way w.r.t. the current situation, because it isn't what our government is actually using. It's what it claims to be using as cover, but take Keyne's theories and feed it the actions of our government, and the anemic recovery and ballooning debt is pretty much what it predicts too.

Proper government spending may be the best way out of a recession (I'm very skeptical about it, but it may be true), but even Keynesian theories would seem to say that no spending would better than spending that has a less-than-unity "multiplier". I am much, much less willing that most people to simply assume without actual evidence that spending must have a over-unity multiplier, and I don't see much evidence that our current spending does.

"I have no idea where you got the idea that this recession was treated with an all-out spending spree"

Reading what Keynesianism says and comparing it what money is actually being spent. The so-called "stimulus" has virtually no relationship to what the theories call for (it isn't quite zero, but spending that actually conformed to Keyne's theories were in the high single-digit percents of ARRA last I knew), and there doesn't seem to be any other really compelling philosophy behind ARRA, so barring some other coherent explanation of how the actions of the government are supposed to be helpful, I'll characterize it as an all-out spending spree. It isn't that big of a leap. You just have to look at what is actually being done, and not what is being said.
Great - thanks so much!
Oops, thanks for asking. I left out hotmail.com which was 13%

My mistake.
Again, the best analog is a document handwritten in a made-up cipher. If someone finds a paper in a notebook that looks like it contains useful information but the actual glyphs used are unreadable to the masses, or the order of the letters are scrambled, or whatever other personal encryption scheme the defendant used when he wrote that note, can the government compel the defendant to reveal the key to his personal cipher? Can the government compel the defendant to not hand over the key to the cipher but provide a decoded interpretation of the message?

That is the correct analogy for this situation much more than safes or doors. Computer encryption is the same thing, just uses a common cipher and the information is encrypted millions of times faster than a human could crypt by hand.
Except there's no good 'record' of private posts you've received. If someone sent me something a week ago that I want to refer to, it's a bitch to find it again. This is why I'd rather see some gmail integration, essentially Facebook messages backed by your real gmail account, but with a simpler, prettier frontend integrated into G+ when you just want to fire off quick messages without context switching out of G+.