skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* As far as I can tell, the rev-eng EULA clause is never really enforced.

* Every closed-source vendor in the world --- and many open source vendors --- include this clause. They all get reversed.

* There are a number of rev-eng/copyright "outs" that apply specifically to security and compatibility research.

* It's unlikely that the Greenborder team did the original reversing work; anything having anything at all to do with Microsoft's runtime protections has been picked apart with tweezers ten times over.

* The code itself cites an external source (uninformed.org, a must read for systems developers).

* For all Microsoft's "documented" concerns about reversing, they go further than any other systems developer to help reversers, for instance by publishing the PDB debug symbols for the majority of all their binaries.

* Active, aggressive Microsoft reversers like Skywing also hold MVP certification.

* Other active, aggressive Microsoft reversers have been hired by the Sysinternals team.

I think this is much ado about nothing.
What is it you know that the market doesn't? Why is it no private company was willing to pay 25 cents, but you are?

If you know more about the situation other than a hunch that they'll be worth more then 25 cents, I'm really curious to hear it.
Wikipedia is, surprisingly, quite a fine reference. I say this because the amount of power and influence a person has is directly correlated (in fact, exponential in this variable) to the defectiveness of his personality. The "administrators" are mostly mentally-ill shut-ins playing Internet Tough Guy, and edit-warring with them, even when objectively right, is a lost cause (you'll run into the "3-revert rule", which basically means that if you don't allow groupthink to bulldoze you, you get blocked or banned). Still, it's a great reference 99% of the time, and I'm amazed that this can be the case, given the putrid nature of the WP community.
I think that a lot of people from other walks of life somehow end up working on HTML projects learn that in order to make their mouseover menus work they need something called JavaScript, so they search for cut and paste something that someone says is what they want and then start hunting for someone to get them over the hump to make it work.

This is not meant to disparage people like web designers who come at things from an artistic angle, but a lot of people who write Javascript are doing it in a tertiary role -- in support of HTML in support of producing a visual design that they envision. That these people don't have a solid foundation in programming shouldn't be alarming or disconcerting.

Ten years ago Javascript had a reputation of being a crap/toy language, largely for this reason. It really wasn't until GMail, IMO, when people started saying "Look, a JS app that doesn't suck!" and things kind of went forward from there.
Of course, it does take into account both physical size (inch) and screen resolution (pixels) to calculate DPI.
Designing Erlang#
Oops, Google's Knol Won't Be Killing Wikipedia After All
Because people vote them up. Hey, people. Stop voting these up!
A big wok full of veggie stir-fry was my "go-to" dish in college. Frozen vegetables work well enough if money is really tight, but if you're willing to work with whatever is in season (or on sale) at the grocery store, you can get a lot of variety and flavor without spending much.

Fresh ginger and garlic, along with some soy and sweet chili sauce, is really all you need for seasoning; protein can come from tofu, chicken, or really any meat or seafood item; carbs come from rice or ramen noodles that are boiled and then tossed in to sautee once all the veggies are done.
I think part of it is the audience. Facebook has mostly young people and most of them don't bother clicking on ads.
this is so weird. if I randomly see you in a coffee shop in an hour, I'm going to freak out.
I think the interesting thing is how entrenched the "web 2.0" mentality is already.

When I started programming, it was all about printed documentation. Then, it was about online documentation. Today, documentation needs to also have "user comments".

A few years ago, nobody knew what a wiki was. Now you're not a real webpage (or programming language, I guess) without one.
breakfast:
granola that has flax oil + protein powder + multivitamin.

I am going to switch it up and try oatmeal + a flax/fish oil
I guess is any app of value will eventually need authentication. Otherwise why are you using rails? Apache + fast CMS would probably be better ;)
Actually, I don't think fizz-buzz is the same as the SAT. You only get so much time with the person you're interviewing and fizz-buzz is at least a basic way to screen people out. You can of course ask them questions more difficult...but in the end it's all applicable to what they're applying for. I've never been insulted by someone asking me that kind of interview question before.

On the other hand, when I've already taken multiple semesters of advanced math classes and they want to know how well I score on a few dozen algebra questions, I find that slightly disturbing. If they wanted SAT Math 2 scores, I might understand. Otherwise it is pretty weird.

Also, a few years ago in high school my parents offered to pay for prep classes and I decided to because I didn't have much else to do during most of the summer. What was even more striking was that people NOT taking prep classes were in the minority - the only ones that didn't were the ones that were confident they could do it on their own. Even the poor ones managed to borrow a book or two to study.
If you know you want you know the word. Except if you mean people don't know what they want.
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Spinach is great, but if you're on a tight budget, and therefore not getting a lot of trace minerals, the oxalic acid content can actually mess you up pretty badly. (Oxalic acid binds to calcium, iron, etc. to form an indigestible chelate.)
Hmm, 185, 31834, 191212, 311511... Maybe we can predict when it will be posted again?
I just read your article, and it's a really great idea and very well written. Maybe you should try posting it to HN.
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I submitted an image of the Hindenburg. The horizontal scaling actually seems to work, but without a vertical scrollbar I can't see the image. (Safari)
Perhaps you've disabled your screen resolution tracking (screen.width / screen.height).

To calculate the DPI it uses the screen resolution (pixels) and your reported screen size (inches), if either is missing it would fail to work (for now).
> 1. Cooking

Cooking dinner takes me about 20 minutes every day and I eat pretty healthy.

> 2. Washing dishes - especially pots, pans and knives that can’t go in the dishwasher

I must be doing it wrong because I put absolutely everything in the dishwasher. Seems to work well enough for me.

> 3. Shopping - especially for food!

I go shopping about every 5 days and that's about 1 hour round trip.

> 4. Driving out to get take out (just DRIVING!)

I almost never pick up take out. If I do it's to somewhere close and 20 minute round trip.
That is my point. I'm not a high school student. But half the colleges I am applying to for junior transfer want an SAT score. When I have already taken a whole ton of college classes, what is the point? I've been told by many people like you that it's used to predict how well someone performs in college..well, they have over two years and dozens and dozens of credits and classes to back that up for me. Yet they STILL want the score.

And yes, the SAT/ACT may still serve a purpose for many students, but I believe its importance is overemphasized.

Oddly enough, I would prefer something like WAIS to the SAT. Having taken it before, it's vastly more enjoyable (I also spent most of my k-12 education in a gifted school requiring a certain IQ, regardless of what that measures and how useful it is overall.)
Why Google's online encyclopedia will never be as good as Wikipedia.
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If you're like me and super lazy when it comes to cooking you should get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Aids-Microwave-Rice-Cooker/dp/B00...

It's really just a plastic, microwave safe pot.

1) Dump in ~5 handfulls of raw beans, fill the pot up with water, leave them to soak overnight overnight.

2) Dump the water. Add ~6 handfulls of rice. Fill it with water again.

3) Stick it in the microwave for 30 minutes.

4) Dump out the water. Add 2 cans of vegetables and some kind of sauce.

5) Bam, done. The pot should keep you fed for the entire day.

If you want to mix it up, you can also cook noodles in the thing. That's even easier cuz you don't need to soak the noodles. Just drop in some noodles, add water, and microwave for 15 minutes. Done! Real noodles are a lot healthier than that Ramen crap.

The pot only costs 10 bucks. I've been using it for about a year now and it still works great.
dupe?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311883
dupe?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311926
The SAT was trivial in the exact same way fizz buzz in. It isn't meant to find the next Einstein, it's just meant to weed out the grossly incompetent.

A lot of stupid people can probably do well on SAT math because it's too easy. But I promise that it you can't score at least a 700 on it (i.e., demonstrate basic competence at elementary algebra) you are bad at math, no exceptions.

Exactly like a lot of stupid people can do fizz buzz, but if you can't do fizz buzz you are bad at programming.
good video overall - would have liked more details on some of the topics - especially the deadlocking issue.
Your comment's a dupe as well.
Congrats a ton to your team!
That's exactly how I feel.

Fizzbuzz and the SAT alike are to me just filling some very limited uses where they would come in handy - like if you ever DID ask fizzbuzz from an interviewee you'd at most be able to weed out people who don't know what the heck they're talking about, like some moron applying for a Java position that knows no Java. But to me the difference is that the SAT is like fizzbuzz applied to everyone regardless...if you had an interviewee that you knew in every way that fizzbuzz would be a waste of time (even that tiny amount of time) because they've proved themselves in some other way, you wouldn't ask. That's pretty much all I'm wanting. Some things are just not worth the effort because there's plenty else to see who they are and what they are capable of doing.
Did you try adding curry?
Believe it or not duck sauce on rice and beans is pretty amazing too.

Then theres always top ramen, but its not exactly on that healthy list, haha.
I've mentioned this before..you are right, but do you ask fizzbuzz of every single programmer you interview? There had to be some where it was like..shit, it would be a total waste of time for everyone involved to ask something that trivial.

But when you have years of high school or college, unless there's something huge missing, I don't know about how useful it would be to ask of it from everyone.

For the record, I almost fell asleep taking the SAT. It's been a while, but I think I scored a 790 on math. I vividly remember some of the people in the same room as me who were really worried they couldn't even break 5/600. Sooo...
That's what I have most of the time, and take a one a day multivitamin pill everyday, plus lots of water (and caffeine of course)
Cooking a nice meal with my wife is one of the few sacred couples-time block we have every day.
We are entering a different era of computing where being a company as large as Microsoft needs much more than engineers. There is a social aspect to computing in large part due to the internet. To dismiss danah boyd as a cheerleader for Microsoft would totally miss the point of what she actually has to offer in terms of intellectual abilities to Microsoft.

Please remember that Microsoft has been flailing from the beginning when it came to accepting the internet. They need all of the intelligence they can get in order to be ahead of the curve in relation to social impact.
Ever heard of speed renting?
This is oddly over-critical of Scheme.

Macros: All the main Scheme implementations offer Common Lisp style macros, so in Scheme you can use either style. (Good thing, because I like the Common Lisp style.)

The section on numeric types is a long-winded and bizarrely negative-sounding way to say that Scheme wins. "In a good implementation, numerics (capabilities and correctness) are better than most CLs; on average, they are worse." Ok... why would you use a bad implementation?

As for Common Lisp having a well-defined module system consistent across implementations... that was not my experience. I was very irritated by that stuff when going through Peter Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp" book, as the book used different terminology than the implementation of CL I had.

I guess it's still true that Common Lisp has better libraries, but Scheme has sure been doing well there lately.

This is not to say that I don't like Common Lisp. In fact there are a lot of things about it that I wish I had in Scheme.
It's not really that cheap. $60 PLUS ingredients. You're going to do as well as that with "by the pound" grocery store buffets, which can be quite healthy.
as is yours
The Java-VM is mostly installed (and installable by-click otherwise) and Python has py2exe. I don't think many windows desktop application are written in the other languages you mentioned.

It's really sad, as lisp would probably also be great for desktop development. I mean it's not the problem of lisp - but it's unfortunately still a show-stopper for typical windows application developers.
The problem isn't that rails is insecure (it is, but that isn't the point.) The problem is that rails by definition attracts developers who don't really like developing.

If the entire USP of your platform is that it cuts corners you'll see it put to use by people who either don't care or don't know any better.

I'm not saying there aren't good rails developers, but in my experience they are a minority.
He never says what he's getting. I would lay money Casey is a fat, typical, American mother and he's getting loads of starch, cheap meat, and a low variety of vegetables.
Economies of Scale (Roy Fielding)
$300 million is nothing to sneeze at. Last I saw they had ~ 500 employees = $50 million cost, double it to account for non-labor costs, and its a pretty healthy business especially in difficult times. They have the cash flow to experiment further to get to google-like revenues (which is what they're doing).
A dish I like for breakfeast:
- grits (cooked) together with ham & eggs
- fresh tomatos as "salad"

Grits are awesome to start the day with because they are not lying
heavy in your stomach but the energy lasts long.
There was an hilarious dilbert strip which I can not find which had Dilbert washing his cubicle with a spray bottle and rag, dancing about having a great time, and then Alice shows up and says, "Okay, you've had the bottle long enough. It's my turn to pretend to be a janitor."

It's not funny till you've been there: Mundane labor in the office [1] is strangely delightful compared to typing.

[1] Not just janitorial work, but office moves, decorating, carrying stuff, etc.
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You got Tim Ferris! That is good work,

how many hours did it take him to close the deal? (jk)
When you lift weights your muscles break down and release proteins into your bloodstream. I've heard that if you do things like 1000 bench presses with just the bar then you can get so much muscle breakdown that the protein can actually cause liver damage. If that is true then that is something I would worry about when using this device. You are basically circumventing your body's defense mechanism to prevent that from happening. If I were a coach I'd probably have the athletes do some bloodwork to make sure this wasn't a problem, especially for college kids who are likely to be drinking and such in addition.
check out problogger.com ;-)
Posts like this are why Mark Cuban is my hero
Non-Hacker News
In order to help alleviate the perceived problem of off-topic posts here, I've created a slinkset at http://nonhackernews.com . (And yes, I realize this post is contributing to the problem, but I promise it will be the only one.)

Despite the name being the opposite of this site's you are all very welcome there. My goal is to bring the same level of discourse that this site has to general interest topics. It's a lofty goal I realize, but I think it's possible.

Topics like economics, health, etc. is what it is designed for. The stuff that a lot of people seem to enjoy here, but a lot of other people seem to want to be off-topic.

This is totally a public service on my part, and I'm not putting up ads or trying to capitalize on it in any way. And please don't take this as an attempt at some sort of great schism of the audience here, it's not. I'll still surf this site no matter how popular NHN gets. I'm only trying to make another site that I (and judging by the votes many "off-topic" posts get here, many of you) like to read.

I'm also looking for a few more people to be moderators (I've already got 3 other than myself) since I don't have a large amount of time to put into it. The goal is to keep the the discourse intelligent, civil, and balanced, and without trolls, press releases, spam, and pictures of kittens. I have a feeling that a little moderation will go a long way toward that.
> - rice - beans - soy - potatoes

Yeah, and those poor people grow up short with bad teeth and don't live very long. If you can afford good meat and fish you should eat it and avoid starch.

Soy is pretty much toxic. Do some research.
Time is at such a premium no matter what your goals are. And since this is HN, I should mention that this seems like a great idea for a startup.
I can disable that? How do I do that?
Just wear a damn balaclava. It's not like the police are going to bother to investigate a yard sign theft, even if they have access to the footage, so stealing the sign provides an opportunity to (a) put one over on a bunch of obsessive weirdoes and (b) be briefly, locally famous.
Why Google's Online Enyclopedia Will Never Be As Good As Wikipedia
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Desktop Linux suckage: where's our Steve Jobs?
one catch: each had just three minutes to spruik themselves or their property before moving on.

"Spruik themselves"? Let's keep it clean, people.
Because Slate says so.
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"... It's the Captain Kirk school of management. Scotty says it's going to take 48 hours to fix the warp engines, Kirk says you've got two, and somehow Scotty gets it done. But the real world doesn't work that way' ..."

In the Captain Kirk school of management there was a common enemy, objective and strict hierarchy of command. Kirk, Bones, Spock, Scotty. As a team they work well. Bones empathises, Scotty the practical, Spock logical and Kirk the emotional who inspires. The one time Spock the logical is left in command all hell brakes loose, cf: Series One, Galileo Seven ~ http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_Galileo_Seven_(episode) or http://is.gd/2ZeI

Organisations need leaders like Kirk to take into account the whole picture, the logical and illogical. Someone has to inspire, push and sometimes demand the impossible to hold-off the bunch of Klingon's breathing down their neck. Commercial companies are no different. They have to make profit even if it's Raman-profit. Another reason to be a founder and not a technical follower.
> Rice and beans.

I wouldn't aspire to a Hispanic diet. They're mostly short and chubby as far as I can see.
I've got the opposite kind of thing going on here in my life, with a super-warm, and that's putting it politely, laptop.

Can these guys do anything for me, I wonder?
Just one word about Knol:

nepotism.
My understanding is that hands in cold water will lead to blood vessels contracting and thus the entire body not being cooled, just your hands being kinda cold. Their device keeps blood vessels expnaded thus inducing hypothermia.

The diference is between chilling entire body and only your arms.
Since using RescueTime, My productivity has increased many orders of magnitude. I love it, especially on tuesdays and fridays when my focus fails me! B)
Unquestionably. What they ultimately do is reward the unproductive for their great virtue of being unproductive.

If the purpose was simply to reduce the amount of CO2 produced, then governments would agree to a common tax: x number of dollars per metric ton of CO2, period. Instead of that, the money transfer occurs between different entities. This rewards countries that aren't capable of significant CO2 creation, CO2 creation being a signal of a first-world, productive country.
Do you know why this happens, or how they circumvent it?

Is it because it is water (i.e. not air-cooled)? Or is it because the temperature differential is too great (i.e. dangerously so, according to the body)?

A damp towel might overcome these issues - or wetting your hands and holding them in front of a fan, for evaporative cooling via fake sweat + fake breeze.
According the FAQ, anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity is on topic. Does this mean that on-topic for nonhackernews is anything that does not gratify one's intellectual curiosity?
Ever try making pizza on it? Flip it over, stick it in the oven as high as it will go and then after it gets NASA hot (this is a good time to have your dough warm up from a nice slow rise in the fridge) just slide your pie on. It will cook up in 3-5 minutes and come out tasting surprisingly legit. Cast iron is the deal.
The Statcounter logs show Unknown resolution for a lot of the machines.

I'm not sure if that can be disabled or not or is system dependent. (I'm assuming every system reports it correctly as of now).

If your system reports the resolution correctly here - http://andylangton.co.uk/articles/javascript/browser-screen-... - then it must be some other bug.
I would be willing to be a moderator.
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Yes he does say what he's getting - read all the way to the end.
Oracle is just 'allowing' you to use the product on EC2. You don't get utility licensing.

See http://blog.mobocracy.net/2008/09/oracle-does-not-enter-aws-...
"She asks for my input, but I for the most part ask her to make any healthy food she wants (high in fiber and protein, lots of fresh vegetables/fruits, lean meats etc etc)."
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If there were a drug that had an identical effect, it would be banned, of course. Or heaven forbid, a gene therapy. Apparently we've got some kind of huge mental distinction going between outright transhumanism and a little temporary cyborging.
The creation of a non-hacker news site seems a bit knee-jerk. Would it not have been better to have waited a few days to see how the recent debate has affected the quality of submissions?
I meant off-topic in the way that most people who claim things are off-topic mean it, hence the quotes.
I think it's a good idea. It'd be cool to see the same people here express their views, share ideas, etc. on topics other than programming/business.

I have time to moderate. My email is in my profile.
The recent debate is just one out of a number of posts/comments that have been ongoing for months. (I actually like the quality of submissions here.)
If you sign up an account there I'll upgrade it.
I was writing a comment of my own till I found myself using the phrase "knee-jerk" ;-). The challenge of "social news" is pretty well like the challenge of open-source -- how to keep communities together long enough to create something great.