skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was never the point. The point is that there will be probably systems which do not allow a modification at all for controlling secure boot as it would be another optional feature. In addition you probably won't be able run Linux without changing the secure boot option for certified systems.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html provides a good overview about the issue
I'm very skeptical about this. It seems like every time a "supposed" scientific discovery gets published in the media before a peer-reviewed journal, it's almost always wrong. The same thing happened with cold fusion, Ida (aka. Darwinius) the supposed "missing link" between human and ape, and NASA's "supposed" discovery of bacterium growth through arsenic instead of phosphorus.

It's always disheartening when science gets reported to the media at such an early age of discovery (i.e. the point where it hasn't been criticised and the lead investigator himself says he isn't so sure). It just opens the flood gates for the retarded news to make of moronic headlines like: "Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged"
way to link bait
Yes, Cringely can really be out in left field sometimes. A good example was his recent theory that Tim Cook is only a temporary CEO and that Steve Jobs has a secret hand-picked successor that he will name in the future [1]. I read Cringely partly for the entertainment value and partly because he really does think out of the box. When the strange happens, at least we're not surprised.

[1] http://www.cringely.com/2011/08/cupertino-two-step/
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Facebook's f8 Keynote: What It Means for Developers & Marketers
Yes, you should definitely ship
Nice work if you can get it.
FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec Member in Connection With Sony Cyber Attacks
These guys built an automatic nerf gun into their build system.

http://www.papercut.com/blog/chris/2011/08/19/who-broke-the-...
The beauty of state-funded news, no?
Even if the neutrinos arrived faster than light could travel (that distance), it does not mean the neutrinos traveled that fast, only that far...

For example: when muon-neutrinos transform into tau-neutrinos, in that moment they could "tunnel" through space-time in some fashion that appears as faster-than-light travel. Or something happens to their probability waves to make them go from existing at point A, to point B.
Brain scans let computer reconstruct movie scenes
Is there any concern about any of these music companies becoming, as Fred Wilson would probably call it, "facebook's bitch"?
FBI arrests LulzSec member "recursion" for Sony Pictures hack
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In all fairness to Leo Apotheker you can't judge whether he would be ultimately successful based on a single year at the helm.

Imagine that the Apple board fired Steve Jobs after one year in 1998? After all he killed the clones as well as disrupting the most single profitable piece of a financial struggling company - http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/what_steve_jobs_taught_me_ab...

Not to mention wanting to open retail stores after CompuAdd and Gateway both proved that was an unworkable idea.

I personally think the board shouldn't have hired Apotheker in the first place but you can't give him more than an incomplete on his two turns as a CEO.
as the CERN to Gran Sasso is direction from North-West to South-East, it would be interesting to see the full data as during nighttime the neutrinos would travel in the direction of the Earth traveling around Sun - thus slowed in the CERN/Gran Sasso frame - and during the day they would be moving in the opposite direction - thus they will be boosted in the CERN/Gran Sasso frame. May it be that they run experiments only during business hours ? :)
Reading around a bit I believe they used GPS to correct for anything like that. Presumably, if there were frame dragging effects they would be measurable via the GPS satellites, although that could also be the source of an error.
I agree, money from ticketing should go to some other use than directly to the police in the locality where the ticket was given. Hell it should go to education or something useful like that. Or to a general fund that is redistributed based on size to all police forces in a state. (obviously that isn't perfect either, that could lead to over hiring)
Client, Project, Support, File Management In The Cloud
Using the Web to Do Social Science (Duncan Watts, Yahoo Research)
I tried to fullscreen it, but i couldn't because they intercept keystrokes.

So i fullscreened and then clicked on the link, but then i couldn't get out of full screen or close the tab because they intercept keystrokes.
Stop saying Social Media is a party...its not
10 Inspired Public Restrooms 
It happens so everybody needs to visit them once in a while. For many of us in Europe and the US there is nothing public about the programme they accommodate so these inescapably important amenities have become a sort of a grey zone in public buildings (yep, that’s what they are).
Not Australia. :)
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Just for reference Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity -
does not strictly prohibit the existence of particles that travel faster than the speed of light, it only prohibits acceleration in an inertial frame to reach the speed of light :

As per Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
)

"In special relativity, while it is impossible in an inertial frame to accelerate an object to the speed of light, or for a massive object to move at the speed of light, it is not impossible for an object to exist which always moves faster than light."
Several studies show causation.

http://beta2.tbo.com/news/nation-world/2008/mar/12/na-red-li...
None of which justifies (or even relates to) paying the police (or anyone else, really) for intentionally endangering people's lives.

The only question of merit here is whether or not keeping the speed limit artificially low is, in fact, dangerous or inefficient. The author contends to have presented evidence that this it is, so the reasonable response is a discussion of the engineering factors or the reliability of his sources.
One thing I can't tell: was this ghost written, as part of the new book?
I wasn't familiar with what 'Flickr tickets' were so I did a little Google-fu and found this excellent explanation:

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distri...
How the hell did some business fluff get on a site called "Hacker News"?
95% of business think can be reduced to fluff, dribel, and nonsense buzz words like "Do things different", "Think innovatively", etc.
Why don't they teach them something like "Todays Lesson: The public is stupid, so make a fart noise phone app and you'll get rich."
It was Napoleon who said that he didn't want a good general, but a lucky one.
Make money telling people how to make money with Android
Article author seems to confuses 'terminal emulator', 'terminal', and 'shell'.

For example: "Funny enough, gnome-terminal does support some of the windows defaults such as CTRL+LeftArrow to move back one word."

That is a (presumably) bash feature, not gnome-terminal. (And if bash is anything like zsh, it is capable of quite a bit more.)

"The most important feature for me was not the alpha transparency or tabbed command prompts, but the ability to select across multiple lines."

And that is a terminal emulator feature...

Futhermore, the "windows console" (whatever that's actually called) has very little actually in common with actual 'terminal [emulator]/shell/[p]tty' stacks.
Check out the macro tests in this directory: https://github.com/graydon/rust/tree/master/src/test/run-pas...
I'm new to Seattle and I'm extremely excited for this meetup. New friends here I come!
I've done this a couple of times just through sheer stupidity. Then I forget about it.

It always makes me laugh when my colleague ends up going through it to add another method and can't get his head around the fact one of mine has a hidden dependency obscured by an autoloader, with irreverent comments like `// lets get some validation up in this bitch` littered all over it.

PHP autoloaders and magic methods are a great source of such frustration when pulled off right.
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Ask HN: Would you like an IRC server?
The "feature requests" thread is pretty much dead so I'm putting this up here too.
I'd really like an IRC server for Hacker News, where we could discuss about pretty much everything related to Hacker News and it would be easier to find a partner or make friends. What do you think?
Facebook launches Beacon 2.0 (auto-sharing)
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Not to mention field reports getting something working - especially useful when an API of a library is not so obvious and the documentation is lacking. EG Rails-centric documentation but using Sinatra.

Although the time could arguably be spent more productively improving said documentation, sometimes an informal tone (which may not be appopriate in docs) can help to dissolve frustrations..
It's more complicated than that.

The advance was paid direct into my former solicitors’ (FSI) bank
account wholly without my consent. The money sits unspent in an FSI
client account. FSI has refused to release the money to Canongate as a
result of a legal fees dispute (FSI initially agreed to handle my
extradition case “pro-bono”, or without fee). The FSI fees have been
audited by an independent costs draftsman. The audit shows extreme
over-charging. The outcome of this dispute is pending, but a
favourable finding would release the entire advance, which has not
been touched, back to Canongate and Knopf.
burgerbrain - You're right in that I use many of these terms literally interchangably.

You're right about ctrl+arrow being a bash feature (confirmed using xterm) - thanks!

What I was trying to get across in the article is that the entire emulator/shell/tty is a package and people are quite particular about theirs.
It's not Java specific, but there's some work out there on standards for logging. IBM rolled out this big thing called "CBE" for "Common Base Events"[1],[2] a few years ago, as part of their "Autonomic Computing" initiative. Eventually that somehow got all rolled up into one of the many WS-* specs, and become part of something called WSDM-WEF for "Web Services Distributed Management - Web Event Framework."[3],[4]. There's an OASIS spec[5] for this stuff, and an ASF project - "Muse"[6] - to provide a Java implementation. There are also classes to implement this stuff in the Eclipse Hyades[7] project.

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/CBEbestprac...

[2]: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/autonomic/books/fpy0mst.ht...

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Base_Event

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Distributed_Manage...

[5]: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=w...

[6]: http://ws.apache.org/muse/

[7]: http://archive.eclipse.org/tptp/4.0.0/javadoc/Platform/publi...
I'm the author.

I wrote an iOS App Store crawler, and have been picking through the results for the last few days. In this blog post I share some of the oddities and curiosities I found in there.
Feynman is not wrong. Technical skill does not equal understanding something. Consider an idiot savant who is technically proficient at playing piano but can't string two words together.
These definitions of 'understand' may help:
1. Perceive the intended meaning of (words, a language, or speaker): "he could usually make himself understood"; "she understood what he was saying".
2. Perceive the significance, explanation, or cause of (something): "she didn't really understand the situation".
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&q=define%3Aunderstand
I would think there would be value in framing it in terms of "why we're not just another cloud + mobile (or whatever) company". Go out of your way to show that while it's nice that you happen to be "on trend," it wasn't because you just sat around playing Buzzword Bingo until you had a fill-in-the-blank idea. Instead, it's a real solution to a real problem, and the reason it happens to use something trendy is because the new technology allows you to bring forward a solution that wasn't beaten into the ground 10 years ago.
When we first started the process I was evaluating both Tender Support (http://tenderapp.com/) and Uservoice (http://uservoice.com/fullservice). Overall I preferred the way that Uservoice worked although there were a number of limitations at the time to how you could brand your help page.

Then we moved to Zendesk and used them for several months. Overall we were incredibly pleased with the process, although I was not a fan of their public support portal unless you use their API to roll your own.

Three weeks ago we setup an Assistly account and were instantly blown away at how they simplified the process of providing support, and added the ability to easily create complex business rules. When you're using Assistly it feels more like an native application full of keyboard shortcuts rather than a website. In short Assistly isn't a chore to use.

Plus, Assistly has some of the best support for their customers.
This wasn't characterized as a discovery, either by the reporter or the scientists involved. But it is really interesting. Either you didn't RTFA or I'm not sure what you're complaining about.
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Blarg, I worked at 500 Boren this summer and am going to be back in Jan. Hopefully I'll catch you guys then.
Funny, but it's not all on Ceki. The folks who created java.util.logging instead of simply adopting log4j, and the people who created commons-logging and the couple of other miscellaneous frameworks that are floating around, also bear some responsibility for this mess.
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again.
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Tell HN: New Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing Maps
A subtle but telling action, all of the new Facebook Timeline features use Bing Maps.
Ask HN: How does (or could) machine learning help you?
Being a machine learning PhD student, I see a lot of really cool algorithms that are capable of amazing things, but typically they are only applied on toy problems. I'm curious in finding out if anyone has any experience with machine learning in the real world, either as a user, an implementor, or both. This covers both big data and more reinforcement learning approaches, offline and online methods, and personal and business life use cases. Alternatively, if you have a problem that you think machine learning can solve, but hasn't yet, let's hear it!*

* - Let's stay out of the realm of "find me things that I like" or "tell me news that I really want to hear". These tend to drift quickly into philosophical debates of "well you need some things you don't like too!" and such. I'm more interested in hearing more concrete problems. Maybe something you have to do by hand now, for instance.
This is usually short for "our idea is a special snowflake that no one else will ever think about unless you let it slip, but if it leaks out, anyone could rip it off in 5 minutes."

Your idea is only unique if it's uniquely bad, and if you can't execute better than someone else who randomly hears your idea, you're not worth investing in.

I once did some contract development work for a startup with non-technical founders who had me sign an NDA up front. They were very impressed with their idea, but not so impressed with the importance of executing it. They never got funded, I never got paid. Lesson learned.
Yes, thanks, that's a good summary.

Since the conversation from yesterday (with 137 comments) was voted pretty highly, I assumed that this submission was related, and the previous one would offer interesting additional discussion.

I'm sorry if it was inappropriate to link to. By offering it, I was in no way advocating a particular point of view, even though I quoted the title of the HN submission, which does put forth a hypothesis.

If it's appropriate to delete my comment, let me know.
That's not strategy. That's a get-rich-quick scheme.
Verizon Blocks Updates to Apps That They Don’t Approve of
As a former Apple VAR, I recall thinking in the late 90s that Apple had this attitude of "Fuck the channel; we don't need the fuckin' channel." Interesting to see confirmation.
Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars
Not Sharing Is Caring
Not necessarily. Seems a smart way to get developers to verify their account and run through the app creation process.
Interesting to note that Facebook Timeline uses Microsoft's Bing maps for all mapping presentation. Direct shot across Google's bow?

I'm a Facebook developer and followed these instructions from none other than TechCrunch to get my timeline profile up and running.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/how-to-enable-facebook-time...

In any case, I thought the Bing Maps integration is a pretty significant item to note the growing competition between Facebook and Google on the social scene.
I wrote a web service in Tornado around a year ago, pre-1.0. It's a very nice, albeit minimal framework. In terms of comparisons to others:

* it feels easier to scale up than Flask, but that could be my minimal Flask experience showing. Certainly, it is more performant than basic Flask installations and configurations.

* it makes it harder to separate your concerns than, say, Django. I've been working in Django for a long time, and while I have definite issues with the "app"-style packaging (ie. if I add an external forum framework, for instance, I need to munge my "profiles" app to support it), it does feel easier to separate your concerns in Django than in most other frameworks I've used.

* it's fast, and reasonably agnostic - the MySQL DB layer, for instance, can be completely eschewed for something else.

I imagine they've added a lot to it since then, and the service itself isn't something I've looked at for a while (failed startup idea). But from what I used back then, I'd definitely recommend it.
As an aside, I just finished reading Walter Issacsons - Einstein biography.

Easily the best biography I have ever read. If you don't like biographys, this will change your mind.
I have been working on Had That Beer, www.hadthatbeer.com/signup?c=earlyaccess to check it out, for about 8 months now. I am the sole developer, designer, admin etc. I know the pain of all the manual data entry that has to be done for beers and by the time you are done a new batch of something else has been brewed and you are out of date. I would go through select geographic areas, get as many beers in as you can and start promoting it in that area. Best way to get feedback is to get users, and some of those users might not mind helping add a few brews.

I think your project is definitely worth pursuing. If you don't think so then maybe we could team up.
Have to agree here. It is much easier to screw up a database schema than application code.

I am talking in terms of performance here. Also, I always feel that if you understand the schema (whether relational or not) of an application you understand the domain.
Every Objective-C class/object is a C structure. Every Objective-C message send is actually a C function call (objc_msgSend). Every Objective-C method is actually a C function definition. So, to the contrary, every Cocoa project is just using C functions, types and using the ObjC runtime.

The point you are trying to make is that porting an ObjC application to another language would be difficult because of the syntax of the language, notably, the interspersing of arguments within the method name. My point is that this has zero relevance to adopting a new application-level API.

An application-level API hooks into OS-level calls (which are not ObjC), which gets turned into assembly, which gets turned into machine code. The only way Cocoa applications would no longer run is if the Cocoa library could no longer bridge the the operating system or if they intentionally did not ship the Cocoa library. Thus, creating a new application-level API would deprecate Cocoa, but wouldn't render those applications useless.

Clearly, a company would have to transition to the new language/API. However, once again, the syntax of ObjC would not make it any more difficult or easy to make this transition compared to any other language. And this did not stop Apple 10 years ago, so I don't envision this stopping them again (C Carbon -> ObjC Cocoa; note that you can still make Carbon calls on Mac OS X).
As a creature of the board - as opposed to an internal hire with a built-in power base - he's actually the last person you'd expect to go rogue. Indeed, the big criticism of high-level external hires is that they're insufficiently independent and easily manipulated.

For a guy whose credibility was already in tatters, $35 mm to be a fall-guy for hire seems like a pretty good deal. I suspect he felt the same way when he signed up. I just wonder if he realized the payout was going to come so swiftly.
The "like" button at the bottom of this article cracks me up.
i guess, some times ago blind people were not expected to make even $12-15 in the high-tech, and these days they are employed like equals. Once the process is streamlined and with the help of technology, i think, the autistic people will be able also to make more. The start is hard and slow in such seemingly impossible tasks.
Depends on context...

...and coding fail. Put the JavaScript at the bottom of the document.
It's hardly surprising that these people are being caught. Using a VPN service that resides primarily in the USA, the same jurisdiction in which your attacks are being carried out, seems a bit shortsighted.
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