skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could someone please just start up a new Wikileaks with the exact same policies & capabilities, but with better people?
"Imagine if Apple unveiled the latest iPhone without a logo"
I've used Jive Clearspace/SBS for more than 3+ years (both internal and external), and I can honestly say it is one of the most extensible/agile pieces of Java-based technology I've used in my 12+ year industry career. It has been my experience that people who walk away from Jive with a negative experience tend to be 1 of 2 use-cases. 1.) Over customization of the product (as drivebyacct2 stated) or 2.) Those trying to make it something it is not, which is usually a Document Management system. In both these scenarios, Jive has made tremendous leaps forward in making extensions easier and more robust, while also partnering with platforms like Alfresco/Sharepoint for better Document Management capabilities. I strongly recommend those that haven't seen the product first-hand in the last 12 months, to check out the new Jive 5 Engage platform with What Matters. The difference maker (IMO) is that Jive has the best 6-12+ month user story when it comes to ramping up user collaboration and keeping them efficient in that collaboration as their social responsibilities grow in the face of exponentially louder activity streams and notification management complications. Those are my 2 cents.
Thanks, I will ask for an invite.
There is definitely something going on but what is anybody's guess, more interesting stuff here: https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks

Edit: If wikileaks thinks that the file not being decrypted matters if the plaintext is available they are totally out to lunch, of course they will be held responsible.

You are either in control or you're not in control, whether or not the 'insurance' file was the source will matter very little once the plaintext is out there.
I read the first article more carefully, and it inspired this new blog post: http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/08/jimmy-nut-company-pr...
The consensus seems to be that this only effects users in Iran who are not using Chrome. The result is any information sent to or from a secure Google domain could be silently intercepted and modified.
You'd think shareholders would object to this, but major shareholders in public listed companies tend to be entities such as pension funds who in turn have CEOs (you get the picture)

I think it's more that the amount a CEO makes is insignificant compared to the company's other costs. Supposedly GE has 304,000 employees worldwide. If the shareholders decided to pay the CEO $10m less they could afford to give every other employee an extra $0.63 a week. Whoopie.

And yet the CEO can mean billions of dollars made or lost depending on the quality of his decision making. As a shareholder if you think you're actually getting your money's worth you're not going to quibble over ten or twenty million for the chief executive when the company's market cap is over a hundred billion dollars.

Do the shareholders get their money's worth? I don't think there's any possibility you could answer this question objectively.
Wikileaks is denying this, I am really wondering who to believe at this point.

https://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/108251897961517056

If it turns out the full db is out in the wild after denying it wikileaks is done for.

The tweets seem to hint that the file is available out in the open but that wikileaks is not the (immediate) source of the file.
Anonymous boosts Time Warner profits with Guy Fawkes masks
cit is another favorite. Try it inside HTML tags, for example.
Will American Pension Funds go Under?
That while this looks like a good extension to CoffeeScript, it's unfortunate that Haskell's type syntax was appropriated when the relationship between contracts and types is tenuous at best.

There are good uses for static type checkers and design by contract, but neither one is a good substitute for the other.
There isn't any non-Internet communication channel that users could use to find Google's fingerprint. Google won't give their fingerprints on the phone for billions of web users.

Theoretical models that have no practicality in a given real life context aren't worth discussing as a solution.
Do Romantic Thoughts Reduce Women's Interest in Engineering? (audio)
I will say one thing about industrialists; you only have to show them something once.
Show HN: Loopon is a multi-user beat maker in the browser
And, hopefully, a way for Colin, the EFF, your friends, or Hacker News to say "Ummm, looks like the EFF trust list might have been compromised sometime in the last $n weeks..." and for you to be able to audit/rollback changes in that trust list, and/or compare changes with unrelated sources...
Library size is limited to 25k songs. Which would mean I would have to go through and sort which I'd want to be part of itunes match and which would not. I'm already not fond of how bloated/integrated iTunes is.

I will stick with manual backups, spotify, and looking for a lighter weight music manager.
Before I read what you posted, I immediately thought: "This will help my productivity during the day".
I have this policy of refusing to go through backscatter machines... while I'm not particularly convinced that the radiation is harmful (although it might be), it's on principle that I don't think I should have to give away naked pictures of myself to get on a plane.

Anyway, this inevitably leads to an extremely invasive patdown by an annoyed TSA agent. I also have a policy to have as much fun as possible during patdowns, so I grin ear to ear, whistle loudly, and try to imagine that I'm getting a free massage.

The look on the uncomfortable TSA agent's face as he goes about his search is all the victory I need.
Washington DC isn't that far, and there's a host of (growing) startup opportunities and like-minded people there.

That said, it's still being nurtured, but it'll only grow if people contribute. You're not too far off. ;)

For reference, I sometimes crash in Fredericksburg, VA but still use DC to keep my juices flowing. It's workable.
I would really like to see Notch release the whole thing under a non-commercial license. They should set up a bug tracker, develop in public, etc., and otherwise run as a normal OSS project, with the caveat that it is not full Free Software because of the clause preventing commercial activity.

I appreciate RMS and the Four Freedoms and what it's done for software, but I think we'd see a lot more code and a lot more relative freedom out there if someone set up a precedent and a pattern for other developers to follow in releasing source while maintaining revenue stream. It's not realistic to GPL everything, as the main developer can't make any money at that point. However, it is reasonable to release the source and say either "distribution must be limited to persons with a valid Minecraft license" or go totally non-commercial and only allow freeware derivatives (without separate license).

In this age, nothing is lost by doing this; people who aren't going to abide the license are not going to abide the license anyway, and the object code is copied around and traded on pirate networks freely. So, what more is lost by providing the source to all paying customers under legal terms that forbid activity that could threaten Mojang's revenue stream? I can't say I know of anything, but the benefit would be huge.

The only protection left against any digitized good is purely legal. If something gets online and a substantial portion of people have an interest in it, expect it to be irrevocably and freely traded in violation of any terms you establish. However, anything significant enough to be a threat to Mojang's profit stream will be vulnerable to legal remedies, and no major player (i.e., no one who'd have the money to pay Mojang) will run that risk when they know they will be sued and lose. It's just easier and cheaper to pay in the first place.

If they're planning on releasing the source to the mod community they might as well just open it straight up because it's bound to get leaked anyway.
Yes, this fraudulently-issued certificate is being reported seen in the wild from users of Iranian ISPs. It has not been reported anywhere else.

If you were using an Iranian ISP to log in to *.google.com, you may have been hacked.
I don't understand the meme that this is a move to encroach on Apple's territory. Apple could give two shits — unless Facebook decides to get in the hardware platform business, theres no way Apple loses any significant business. In fact, maintaining the best mobile browser means it's more than likely it'll help them sell devices.
I did just this for a presentation:

https://bitbucket.org/mdg/cohpy-hips-presentation/src/89b3d2...
Are you proposing that terrorists are currently satisfied with the number of people that they kill, but that they would be motivated to kill more if we started ignoring them? That makes no sense to me. I'm pretty sure that terrorists are already killing at the highest rate they can manage.
I regard startups that cannot get funding beyond friends/family as hobbies.
I believe jashkenas' example defines both a pre-condition and a post-condition, specifying that f accepts only odd numbers and returns only even numbers ('!' here is the operator for new contract, rather than logical negation). If f is called with anything other than an odd number, an error will be thrown right away, before the body of the function is run.
Customer data.

In addition to doing data recovery for people (sensitive documents, photos, etc.), I have a few clients I do work for and I'm exposed to client lists, password files, software license keys, etc.. If my home-office machine were ever stolen, I never need to worry since I use full-disk crypto.
Yeah, because those gestures are more akin to keyboard shortcuts, i.e. something for power users. OS X is perfectly usable without complicated gestures. Two-finger scrolling is the most complicated thing an average user has to learn.

This same pattern continues on iOS devices. They don't ever use complicated gestures, certainly not as the only way to accomplish something. The most complicated gesture you need is pinching.

The new iOS 5 has gestures to switch apps and get home, but those are really like keyboard shortcuts since the home button is still there and offers a simpler alternative.
No, don't flag it, it's better that people see it. People who would be inclined to use this know where to go anyway; it's good to raise awareness among the more honest people.
Because Arch had to make some changes due to assumptions on their end, w.r.t kernel naming scheme. This is part of the breakage that the article mentions.
I didn't know about Ace before this. Looks pretty interesting, with even more features than Code Monkey. The only problem I see with it is the License. (MPL/GPL/LGPL) I'm not a big fan of copyleft licenses.
Good news. I've tried AppHarbor and it's really easy to deploy your .Net site. One quick suggestion though: don't make me log in to see your documentation.
It's ridiculous to commend choices that lead to bad results.
ok, figured out that it takes care of the existing prototype operator (::) in lexing [1],[2]. It seems little annoying but guess I'll get the hang of it.

[1] https://github.com/disnet/contracts.coffee/blob/master/src/l...

[2] https://github.com/disnet/contracts.coffee/blob/master/src/l...
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Try a linux vps. $10/mo or so will take care of it and you'll be able to run your tools in the environment they were built for.
Startup opportunity?

I'd consider subscribing to a few services that provided plausible claims to properly curate lists of ssl cert fingerprints for at least the majority of my security-critical domains. Even if it were just limited to the major internet properties (start with google/yahoo/amazon/paypal/twitter/facebook/etc), and add in major (and minor) banks, government institutions... If someone started up a service claiming to have telephoned the appropriate security people at those places and confirmed the cert fingerprints via non-internet/real-world-confirmable means, I'd certainly consider paying a few tens of dollars a year for that... Especially if it integrated nicely with a browser/os plugin.
Introducing Apache Mahout
the only way someone could access this information is if the web server itself is compromised

good thing that never happens.
Thanks for the clarification, Allen. It's a great tutorial, I was glad to pay for it, and I will be recommending it to others!
IPhone hacker golden boy hired by Apple
Dragon Hills Golf and Country Club
Next wave of energy from the sea (gallery)
> and that many apps don't work with them is a shame.

shouldn't a fopen work seamlessly with symlinks? Shouldn't it be dealt with at the filesystem level instead?
Salesforce.com CEO Gifted App Store Trademark to Apple in Thanks
Mostly circumstantial, but I think the duck test passes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_controversies#Microso...
When did Irene stop being a hurricane?
Here's another request for elaboration...

(and a meta-comment; OMG, look how quick google is getting hackernews into it's index these days!)
Apple is currently involved in a legal battle over whether it legitimately owns that mark and has failed to get injunctions against its use.
Why foreign YC founders chose to start their companies in Silicon Valley
Apple is on an incredible roll in Thailand. Our tiny town of Tak just got its first superstore ... and an Apple (iBeat) store at the same time. Dumbfounding.
I'd bet that nine times out of ten, she's going to open that PDF as an email attachment. Then it's up to the OS to match the file with the app. I often think that email is the real file system today.
I'm working from the original article's demands, which deny diagrams or being able to point at something:

And imagine, moreover, that you had to do so in a purely verbal manner, that is, without drawing pictures or pointing at things or otherwise making gestures.

With diagrams or pointing, showing what left and right mean becomes trivial.

On the knee-jerk reaction thing, it's more pointing out that it's a matter of moving the goalposts as mentioned below. It's making an arbitrary line of what can be communicated

I agree with you that the incomprehensible alien form is pointless, but as soon as we have a common frame of reference, we can drill down to defining right and left. All you need is four points: Point A is 'up', Point B is 'down', put your viewing position so that Point C is between you and the line AB. With A being 'up', Point D is on the left side of the line AB. Whether you use stars, a mountainside, a tree, galaxies, or jellyfish, that's all you need - but you still need a common point to refer to.

I think a better way of phrasing the problem would be: You have a communications conduit to a parallel universe and we only have the ability to speak through it. The alien understands us but has no prior concept of right and left. We can't point or refer to bodies in our universe as they can't see them, but apart from that, all physical rules are the same and they have the same level of science knowledge as us. How do we tell them right from left in this instance? We can get the concept across with left- and right-handed molecules (though DNA may be out as they may not have it), but how to indicate which is left and right in verbiage only, I'm not sure.

Phrased this way, you don't have to do silly logical twists to have the alien living in our universe yet still somehow preventing them from seeing the same things we do.
Ask HN: What wont you learn (probably) as a self-taught programmer?
I have spent the past year writing python, primarily for statistics and data mining, but also for websites with django. I haven't worked in a professional setting since last year when I wrote 100% entry-level php. I haven't taken any cs courses, and I'm wondering what valuable skills I'm probably missing. I know there are many :)
Awesome. Thanks for explaining that.
It's not a meme, mg invented it out of whole cloth and it's spread from pure tech crunch inertia. I mean, he's even personally reported 'mixed signals' that Apple not only doesn't mind, that in fact they're actively helping...
Thanks for explaining that, kind sir.
I'd wager it's 2 / CURRENT_EARTH_POP / 100.
Sounds cool ? I would have signed up for a trial or looked at it a little more if you didn't make it painfully obvious that after I take the time to set it up I'll be charged $5 per month in the future. FWIW I spent about 5 seconds on the website and then left.

Iterate!
They're both common. Some people build something elaborately wrong, others just don't get enough done.
I think you missed my reference to your specific point.

"No-one I know - from the savviest sysadmin who only browses in lynx to the most malware-infested bloated-PC user - has ever used Alexa toolbar."

I'm one of "those guys" who everyone comes to in order to get their shitty computer fixed for free. I've seen a lot of "normal users". I do not think that Alexa users are a representative sample based on what I've seen.
Shit that sounds painful.
Stanford researchers invent sutureless method for joining blood vessels
You're thinking of the Closure Compiler and its annotations, not the Closure Library.
Very cool widget. Integrates really well with the page - if you hadn't told me, I'd have no idea it was being served externally.
I know he has a huge responsibility, but life could be worse eh?
This is perhaps the earliest-dated public indication of the attack: https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=2da6...

Hi,
Today, when I trid to login to my Gmail account I saw a certificate warning in Chrome .
I took a screenshot and I saved certificate to a file .

this is the certificate file with screenshot in a zip file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?rrklb17slctityb

and this is text of decoded fake certificate:
http://pastebin.com/ff7Yg663

when I used a vpn I didn't see any warning ! I think my ISP or my government did this attack (because I live in Iran and you may hear something about the story of Comodo hacker!)
Muis Prayer time 2011
How does it integrate with the `coffee` executable? Does coffeescript have a compiler plugin system, or are you patching the compiler? Will this cause me problems when I try to update my coffeescript compiler?
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Hi there. You either didn't read, or misunderstood this writer's blatherings. She claimed by googling something about her blog you'd discover the identity of one of the attackers. Has nothing to do with other women being victims.
Jtalk presentation at ESUG'11
The slides of the talk are now available online. Note that the presentation itself was written in Jtalk, so feel free to reuse it to write your own slides.
Actually, the code generation part was the part that I found was the most interesting and challenging.

The best part of the fun was generating sequences of instructions that the assembly-language guys wouldn't write becase they were too confusing.
Red Hat's biggest enemy (VMWare)
Even assuming that the message to terrorists is the only basis for our policy decisions, you can slice and dice this anyway you want. Consider the converse argument:

By spending millions of dollars and wasting thousands of man-hours of the citizenry for every single American ever killed by terrorism, aren't we sending the message that all it will take to completely cripple the US is to kill 25,000 of its citizens?
Jailbreak iPad with Spirit
Spirit is one of the fastest and easiest tools that you can use to jailbreak any device. The Spirit currently supports only iPad devices that run with the following operating systems iOS 3.1.2, 3.1.3, or 3.2.
The biggest thing you will miss is how much better some of your peers (and elders) are, who they are and where you can find their stuff. This has gotten a lot better since the web came around so you have an easier time of it than some old hand autodidact.

Self taught programmer here, it took reading a pile of source code and a bunch of links posted on HN for me to realize that I wasn't half as sharp as I thought I was.

Pretty humbling, the upside is that now there is more to learn.

CS courses as such are not the main differentiating factor between self-taught and not when it comes to quality, it is who you learn from, what and how.

If you teach yourself there are problems with perspective and breadth of knowledge about the field as a whole where a mentor could probably make you move much faster.
Ubuntu Linux is doing reasonably well in America, as does Debian (neither controlled by a US based company).

A mobile phone OS? I think the Psion was doing ok in its day -- the operating system was later named "Symbian" and run a few hundred million Nokia phones, although it is not doing so well anymore.
Windows 8 design to radically depart from Mac OS X Lion
The Mystery of Steve Jobs’s Public Giving
"Partisan bile" refers to your snarky dismissal of the case for deregulation. There are real problems with regulation, including Sarbox. The law has encouraged cartelization of the economy by pushing firms towards acquisitions instead of IPOs. Most regulation punishes startups and protects incumbents. Sometimes the benefits are worth it but often they are not.
Ah you're right, edited
WikiLeaks springs a leak: full database of diplomatic cables appears online
Introduction to Statistical Computing
Windows Explorer: Now with more arrows
I count 25. Did I miss any?
This is somewhat sensationalistic journalism, typical of Techcrunch. There's nothing terribly groundbreaking in this BoltJS library. I don't think there's any way you can make a conclusion that this is what Facebook is going to use to compete with Apple. It's a typical MVC JavaScript boilerplate, there are about 10 other JavaScript projects similar this. And given my past experience with Facebook JavaScript API's, I have absolutely zero interest in using theirs.
Why would I agree with either of those statements? Because you declared them factual? You're coming off as weird. Like a creepy guy telling a girl she wants to go on a date with him and thinking by staring at her all intently she'll bend to his will.

Weird.
And I won't stop bugging you about Speedstasche! The first time I met you was when you showed it off like 2 years ago!
I was surprised the article didn't mention that Jobs is a Buddhist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%81na
If you enjoy this, or even the idea of game mash-ups I can't recommend Tuper Tario Tros enough!

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/522276

Like the afore linked Super Mario Crossover, I see this and wonder, "how did they NOT make this?"
Yes, a python version of ggplot2 is well overdue!
I think you want ggplot2 and reshape2 ;)
Open wifi is't really a factor here, the word wifi is nowhere in the article.

The first major point is that the defendants did not act in concert (see article title).

The last point is this: "nothing in the BitTorrent architecture changes the fact that each defendant also will likely have a different defense."

That part of the ruling revolves around the fact that the defendants are all allowed to have their own defense and that rolling the 188 cases into one deprives them of a fundamental right: that to a defense they themselves are happy with rather than a single unified defense for all of them.

Of course that makes the case about 187 times harder to litigate than it was so far.
She says she's hated on because she's a woman yet I specifically gave reasons to dislike her writing that had nothing to do with her being a woman. Although the fact she uses her gender as a shield is pretty absurd.
Stego's actually great here. Stay on the insecure or 'fake-secure' (ala this MITM) links and put out a cover story for yourself. Then communicate for realsies on stego.

And.. if your cover gives reason for you to put out a lot of data in forms that are easily stego'd, you're in good shape.
We had something on here many months ago about a voting system basically the same as what we have now, however instead of determining the winner by who got the most votes, the winner is determined by randomly choosing a single ballot.