skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link! Does anyone know if this breaks the 3.0.2 recommended patches (e.g. muffling logging, etc.)
I don't see how Groupon is anything more than a huge bubble waiting to burst. They may be worth something, but nothing even close to the valuation that Groupon/bankers are trying to create with accounting tricks.

From a merchant perspective, I don't see how using Groupon helps long-term profitability. Almost everyone I know who use Groupon regularly only visit the participating merchants when using a Groupon and never again. Furthermore, they are reluctant to pay full price at any merchant if they know that that that merchant has previously had a Groupon promotion.

So the merchant not only effectively spends marketing $$$ (since Groupon is supposed to be considered a marketing expense) for customers that will only use the loss-producing (likely) coupon, the merchant also devalues itself in people's (including those that did not previously use a Groupon) eyes.

Additionally, the daily deal industry itself doesn't have strong reasons to remain tied to a company (unlike social networking where people tend to stay where their friends are) and there are very low barriers to entry. Granted, if you're the biggest player in the market, you have certain advantages like economies of scale, brand recognition, but I don't know if that is sufficient to thrive in this industry where people jump from site to site depending on which site has the best deals for that day.

Add in pre-IPO accounting tricks and early cash-out (while the company is running hundreds of millions in the red)...well, you get the point.
Which are all fine if you're using GTalk. However, if all your friends use FB chat, you're probably not going to switch.

Back when I was in middle/high school, people I knew used AIM, not Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger because that's where their friends were. The fact that they were essentially the same just served to enforce the point that AIM would have had to make a very major blunder for anyone to switch. The same holds for facebook chat.
No, I've openly done things that I knew my mom wouldn't be immediately cool with, and would probably find out about. It's just about taking calculated risks.
Organizing Mobile
I'm very surprised they split it into 4 pages (it didn't feel like much content on each page).

(I understand why web publishers split pages, but you can take it too far.)
Love one of the anonymous comments on there:

"From one HP employee to another: THANK YOU for this awesome OS and OTA. The Touchpad, the Pre 3 ... such awesome products. I truly hope our new leadership will do the right thing and bring the platforms back."
A camera you carry all the time is worth more than one sitting at home.
People who walk and text very rarely injure or kill other people, though. I don't really mind people being a menace to themselves, but I very much mind people being a menace to me and people I care about.
I see where you are coming from. IB was a very challenging experience and it is one of those programs that were geared towards getting you ready for University life.
But I live at home and I have to drive 40 minutes to get to there - there is no real passion and you get shunned for having Apple products. I didn't mention that I was developing software, and the plan over the next year is to learn how to do basic programming in Java - it just seems like more of a distraction.

Thanks for your advice - this was my first beta test. It lasted over a month and I've learnt a lot. I managed to get about 20 or so active testers because a MacStories Editor tweeted about it.
Actroid-F: Japan’s Super-Realistic Humanoid Gets A Brother
That is merely a matter of attitude. Right now post-processed sewerage isn't used for food production in most First World countries, but it could be. It is often used on golf courses, and there have been experiments in bagging it and selling it to landscape gardeners as a replacement for bagged cow manure. In the DC area, there was Com-Pro in the 1990s, for example, though I heard it was taken off the market for lack of sales even though it was less than half the price of bagged cow manure. If there was serious need for fertilizer, it could easily be satisfied.
NYT.com: 'incredibly surprising' growth in unique users despite paywall
The genius of Apple's long term thinking
Unique Opportunity For Job Seekers (5224)
That's not actually true. You missed the update http://gothamist.com/2011/10/16/citibank_blames_yesterdays_o...
Single-page view: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%...
The lifetime risk of death from bicycle riding isn't anything close to 100%, and if you think it is, please show your statistics to back it up.
HC's low adoption means nothing in this context as it's only targeted at tablets. However, it's important to point out that 45% of the market is still on Froyo. Google's taking a more heavy-handed stance on updates for new devices, so things should not be as dire on ICS as they have been with past releases. If I had to guess, I'd say 90% of current Honeycomb tablets (thanks to Google's iron-fist control of the source) and maybe 75% of current Gingerbread devices will get the bump to ICS within 6 months.
"oversized" is different to "larger"
Not sure what you're trying to say here. Anonymous was active years before V came out, and they adopted the mask quite a while after the comic and movie popularized the image. Would you prefer they were big black guys in suits and afros? That was their symbol prior to V.
I've noticed that people who back their arguments up with "common sense" are usually wrong.
It is all about the product but it's not as if Dropbox isn't facing some very serious competition. iCloud, G-Drive and Skydrive are all concerns. Dropbox's advantage may be being platform agnostic but one has to wonder if Dropbox's fate may eventually be the primary storage of pirates. There have already been stories written regarding the content owners' interest of litigation.
I believe they would rather you go buy the magazine, rather than print it out.
No way this is right. $100 for Windows 7 Starter Edition? Not a chance. W7 Starter probably wouldn't cost that much retail, and there's no way OEMs are paying that much. I've read that HP/Dell/etc pay more like $25-$30 for Home
Premium, which is several tiers above Starter.

Just so you know, I work for Microsoft, but not on Windows. I have no inside knowledge of Windows OEM pricing, but I'd be very surprised if Starter cost an OEM more than $5-$10.
So potentially not to different to how you might do it in Io (www.iolanguage.com):

doInReverse := method (
m := call argAt(0)
stmts := list() // list of statements (ie. messages)

loop (
rest := m next // rest of messages after current
stmts append(m setNext) // get current message
m := rest
if (m == nil, break) // exhausted statements when "nil"
)

stmts reverseForeach (n, doMessage(n))
)

doInReverse(
writeln("First")
writeln("Second")
writeln("Third")
)

Of course this is easy in Io because everything is just a message.

NB. The above code doesn't actually amend the AST but it could. Here are some previous examples of amending AST in Io posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1810480 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804599
Google's customers do care about better targeting, and don't give a damn about google's reputation. If google gives them inferior product they'll lose money. But worse , they'll open an opportunity for a competitor.

Google understands that ignoring competitors , even niche ones , can be a long term risk. So they work on controlling all the advertising market. I think that's also the biggest reason behind Android: google makes very little money with it. But it's a great defensive strategy.
New website about "assurance vie"
FYI: MIT Lincoln Lab is not quite the same as MIT. Think JPL and Caltech.

Edit: I should have added that MIT LL has a long history of work in microwaves, going back to the invention of radar in WW2.
When ever <insert big company> sues <insert little guy> over copyright infringement people usually defend <insert big company> with the "they have to protect their copyright or they may lose it". I was wondering, how aggressive does a company need to be when defending their copyrights? Is it enough to make a copyright motion then settle outside of court for an undisclosed amount (say $1)? Or in later proceedings of other claims would that information be available in discovery and thus weaken the company's copyright claim?

I'm just wondering because I'm curious if Bethesda is "required" to appeal the initial ruling or if it's enough to let it be as it is.
37Signals Office Hours
2 gig free, next step up is 50Gb. Anyone else find the big jump means they use the dropbox just for day to day projects? A 10 or 20 Gig price point at $5 a month would be something I could rationally use.
Note: 9-digit is less than one billion. Nothing to sneeze at, though. ;-)
A way to show differences is to say what steps would be involved getting Dart code to run on the JVM. As far as I can tell the only real difference is type erasure, so all you'd have to do is:

1) erase types. All method parameters become Object, all variables become Object.

2) implicitly add an interface to each class for each method type ie classes with String toString(String) get an implicit interface with one method Object toString(Object).

3) implicitly cast from Object to the method-interface type in order to call methods.

That sounds pretty slow, but also not very far from Java. I doubt it would take more than a day to make a prototype .dart to .java source converter that actually worked on JVM.
Business Idea Checklist
Note that they are injecting code into the running Finder process, which is very different from patching the Finder binary. That would be very bad.
Actually I think the responses are right and I misspoke, it was pretty dumb of me. However, I did know at the time I was lucky not to get fired. I did think they were overreacting though, but in my defense, I was a dumb kid, and it was 1996 so security concerns weren't nearly as huge as they are now. The Internet was growing and popular, but 10% of what it was today, so things like security weren't really thought of except for Bugtraq which I was subscribed to, which gave me the inspiration to run l0phtcrack.
I've seen this attitude before, when something new comes out and people complain about having one more thing to learn. It's usually older people making that statement.

I don't think you have to worry about the young developers, to them (us?) it's one more tool we can use to make cool things.

Things move fast, I just came back to web app development after 2 years doing GPU programming in school. I'm super excited by how far things have come, and I see an accelerating trend for the better.

There is an excellent library called d3.js for manipulating SVG, the learning curve is steep but it is really powerful. More libraries like these are/will surface to abstract away the painful DOM interfaces.

I guess it's a matter of perspective, the web looks richer than it ever has and it's still more convenient to program for than a cross-platform native application. Just my 2 cents.
Well if you look at comments on any Yahoo news piece, it's a clusterfuck.
The Linux support is a wise move by Dropbox for two reasons: (1) it encourages an eat-your-own-dog-food culture among employees who use Linux, and (2) it enables Dropbox integration with web-based services in ways the API isn't ready for yet. (File updates get pushed to you via dropboxd; you have to poll if you use the API.)
>does anyone really care what exactly the Galaxy Nexus looks like

Not sure if this a troll, but haven't you been keeping up with the numbers?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2106625/android-mar...

A TON of people seem to be caring about Android phones.
What is the difference between you not paying apple or you not paying dropbox?

The upside for dropbox is you commenting here that you are using them and that their free tier is usable, so you are effectively a part of their marketing arm.

If you really get utility out of dropbox then it is in your best interest that they continue to exist. Sooner or later that might translate into you pulling your wallet.

Freemium offerings are predicated on statistics and dropbox seems to be doing just fine in spite of the freeloading nature of some of their customers.
MS OmniTouch: Turn any surface into a touchscreen with Kinect + pico projector
Word 'round the Precentral forums is that it breaks most patches. Like with all updates, you'll lose custom kernels until the kernel source is released. So I made a list of all the patched I use then removed them along with UberKernel.
Multiple Video Cards
Pick one good pass phrase and use it an the encryption key to a gpg-locked file where your auto-generated passwords are stored. This is what I do. There are commercial products that are isomorphic to this process, though I haven't used any of them. Even a web browser will do this for you (sans the auto-generation part), though they're not good at archival or replication of the passwords.
Cheap power: An overnight revolution
I am lucky enough to own a tablet of each breed, and my TouchPad is by far my favorite. Sure there are less apps by an order of magnitude, but HP nailed most of the core services. For example, mark all as read -- I've yet to find this basic feature on my Honeycomb tab or iPad.
Show HN: I made CommitSearch, a GitHub commit message search tool
I'd much rather see something new to make driver-operated motor vehicles seem old and impractical. Smartphone usage by a passenger on a bus or train doesn't pose a constant lethal threat to everyone on the road, merely a threat of inconveniencing the user when they miss their stop.
I don't know any cyclists that suffer from regular coughing fits, and I ride more than 100 miles a week (and have mild asthma that I take medication for).

Even if there is an increased contact with pollutants, which is debatable, it's not certain that this causes any adverse health effects. Evidence also suggests that the health you gain from regular physical activity offsets any potential damage from breathing pollutants. Most people die of heart disease long before they get the cancer that the pollutants supposedly cause.

You will die one day even if you live in a cleanroom. Why not get some exercise before you do?
This is exactly what happened at my last company.

The president was a coder and always wanted to work on features that had a strict deadline for our clients. He would give us the code a few days before and we would have to break our backs to fix it.

He also refused to check anything into SVN.
Short version: The USPTO seems to believe that it is too similar to "The Elder Scrolls", and denied the trademark based on the fact that the two would both cover electronic entertainment goods-in other words, both are video games.
Connecting ClearDB to Heroku via the ClearDB Add-On
Rules for effective email newsletter/marketing
DDoS and SQL injection are hot topics on hacking forums
Forums are the cornerstone of hacking, providing a venue for hackers to sell and exchange information
I built CommitSearch because I wanted a way to search through a repo and all of its forks to see if a feature was ever built or a bug was fixed.

Also used it as a chance to play with Node, Backbone, and Redis.

Let me know if you have any questions or issues, thanks!
What? Why on earth would you think that?

As others have said, it's the icons in finder.

"Hacking the filesystem" makes it sound more drastic than it is, they have worked out how to bend the extensive HFS+ metadata system to their will. They are not monkeying around with the storage of the actual data, that would be crazy.
What is interesting to me is when this got posted several weeks ago, an admin/mod deleted it off HN.
Quora on News Aggregation
Yahoo was done in by arrogance
I'm far more used to emails cautioning not to reveal my password to anyone since they will never ask for it than to having my password legitimately asked for.
Think of them in terms of what they threaten, and they seem like a failure. But measure them in attention they've brought to this cause, and they're a pretty significant success. Planned or unintentional?
If Amazon consolidates its power in the publishing industry, what would become of a book criticizing Amazon?

It would be published as a simple PDF or mobile-friendly ebook format on the open web. Or, you know, just blogged.

Or sold as an app on iOS and Android.

Or sold by Pragmatic Publishers, or O'Reilly, or any of the other similar small publishers that will soon be all over the landscape, particularly in the all-electronic publishing era.

Or sold by Barnes and Noble. Does anybody remember Barnes and Noble?

Who knows, maybe Facebook or Google will start an e-publishing arm. Wouldn't be too difficult.

One shouldn't minimize Amazon's mighty marketing power, or their mighty infrastructure, or their customer goodwill, or their good hardware, or the extent to which they have a good eye in a market where everyone else is blind. And these things are going to continue to give them a mighty share of the publishing industry, because writers and vendors go where the money is. But they don't have a monopoly, and I don't see how they have an incipient monopoly, because publishing text is so easy that it literally can't be stopped by major governments.
on Opera it just shows a 'like' button. Any ideas on that?
What is Sage CRM?
So what is Sage CRM anyway?
Apple and Starbucks team up to offer free weekly iTunes download
When people use 'beta' as a scrutiny shield, I fully agree with you that it deserves a storm of invectives. My take is that some projects truly deserve a 'beta' label, suggesting there will be meaningful updates to it. Our common distaste for the word will devalue those worthy projects.

Yes, projects are truly never finished. But in news you can't spend all that much time refining a package after an event has passed and editors have their sights on other things (excluding truly evergreen items.)

Being a cynic, I'd normally focus on anything labeled 'beta' and disassemble it with a jeer. But, my restraint is there so that I don't miss out on examining things that aren't labeled beta and thus slip under that beta-hating radar.

For example, check out the Guardian's 'favorite foods' map. Make sure to mouseover Mexico and India:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/interactive/2011/jun/...
And I'd be able to buy bitcoin from drug dealers trying to convert bitcoin into cash, buy shoes from someone with the bitcoin, and that someone could sell that bitcoin to someone looking to buy drugs from a drug dealer. The demand for bitcoin naturally smears over the entire market for bitcoin.
Am I reading this right? Plentyoffish is supposedly the 2nd most traffic'd dating site from UK visitors, but it doesn't have EVEN ONE registered member from the UK?

Do they block UK members? Why would they even care, then?
I couldn't help but picture beers quantum-levitating toward me from the refrigerator when you said "small, light and cold objects."
It's worth mentioning that Minecraft has over 15 million registered players and almost 4 million sales, and it isn't even out yet. That's way better than a whole lot of "mainstream" games do.

The market is there, and the landscape is shifting. The reason $60 AAA titles from giant monoliths all feel like they're imitating each other is that they don't know how to do anything else. But small, innovative developers are finding a lot of success.

As someone who loves the indie scene, it's hard for me to think of a better time to have been a gamer, and I too have been playing since the days of 5.25 floppies.
I know about GTalk, and have used it in the past, but nobody uses it, possibly because nobody knows about it. The extent of most people's interactions with GMail are the Inbox and the Send Message workflow. Few people bother setting up contacts in GMail (it's all in their phones), and even fewer will actually click on a contact to be able to see the "Invite To Chat" button.
Apple Releases, Pulls Apple TV 4.4.1 Update
Uh... it's a touch screen with a computer inside of it. What sort of "look" were you expecting? By that standard, how is the 4/4S not a "3GS" knockoff?

Seriously, smartphones all look the same today (modulo the occasional models with hardware keyboards). If you really believe otherwise, you're way too close to the industry.
IPhone 4s Battery Life?
Having visited Abu Dhabi for a little more than a month, I don't find this too surprising. A lot of the drivers there are insane and coupled with a cell phone, they're killing machines.
Well fuck, that makes a lot of fucking sense.
So about 2% of users are getting around the paywall by making themselves appear as multiple users. Great job increasing unique users, NYT!
>because I still have problems making really simple Haskell functions that don't crash.

Do those functions compile, and then crash anyway? I'd be interested to see examples. In my limited experience, if you can get your code to compile, it's pretty stable. Would be interesting to see counter examples.
Adobe Releases Reader for iPhone, iPad
Tehelka is one of the few publications in India I would trust.
+1 I agree that we need to make sure this technology is for the people and not owned by major corps!

Thanks for the quick email response. I am happy to get involved!
The first prototype that Android showed resembled the Blackberry. The first device that they released was the G1. There is no way that within 1 1/2 years that Google decided to change course in regards to production schedule unless they felt there was a disruptive product being released.

You are ignoring the obvious when, in most cases, that is the truth. It doesn't mean that Google was necessarily wrong for what they did because they clearly were not if you're measuring by market share. It also doesn't mean that Android doesn't have its own identity.
In-store iPhone 4S Purchases Limited to Reservations
I didn't allow them and it still worked for me.
Ubuntu's Linux, surely

And what is the goal, well in the short term it is surely to make them more employable and the jobs requiring say Excel outnumber those requiring C++ 100:1.
This sounds like a lot of necessary infrastructure. Widespread smartphone adoption seems more likely to me.
ZendCon 2011 Live Stream
Actually, the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) may not be high-profile but seems in general reasonably knowledgeable and neutral. But I guess in Germany you'd report such a failure via the CCC or a similar organization.
The Galaxy S and S II have very acceptable cameras. This might be expected to inherit the same design. Samsung's camera app, on the other hand, is a disaster. But one would expect this will ship with a Google integration instead.
Goldman Sachs loses $428 million in third quarter
The Royal Road
Also, what the devil is "an Apple SWAT team"? I know this is an article in Forbes, but does it even sort of exist?
The article fails to answer its own question. It just does a bit of hand-waving and points at the apple app store.
How can I improve it?
Correct. Fixed that. A Billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
Dog Walks In Dovedale
Exactly! Open Source and Transparent
There is no difference to me, there isn't much difference to Apple but there is to dropbox - their business is dependent on users paying for cloud storage.
The problem with that, as I see it, is that in the longer run cloud storage becomes a commodity. Hence Jobs' description of it as a feature, instead of a product.
This is a Google phone. The Google software images have traditionally been pleasingly free of crapware. Though on the whole, you're absolutely correct that Android OEMs and carriers have a nasty habit of Dell-ifying their devices.