skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the opposite to me. First time I saw an iPhone jailbreak, it was just a matter of visiting a certain web site and tapping a button. (This was, of course, an obvious remote root vulnerability that definitely needed to be patched.) This came back briefly a year ago, but didn't last long. Devices were generally jailbroken quickly and easily, but it's been getting harder. The iPad 2 still doesn't have a usable jailbreak despite having been available for half a year now. iOS 5 only has a tethered jailbreak (i.e. you must connect it to a computer when rebooting the device) and even that is only on certain devices, even though betas have been available since the summer. In fact, even iOS 4.3.4 and 4.3.5 don't have untethered jailbreaks.

To me, it looks like Apple is actively locking down the platform in a big way and trying pretty hard to shut down jailbreaking entirely. Given how long it's been on the iPad 2, I fear that they're succeeding, too.
Bill Gates talks about the future
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You cannot escape the world of safety without using an unsafe feature: an unchecked pointer arithmetic or cast operator. These are features I can statically determine you are using from your code, and which I've stated in a well designed system you have fully abstracted out of the actual program.

Yes: in a couple places in your software you will have a cast, but it is about as useful to complain about that as it would be to claim that the JVM itself has a cast operator in it; if the program code isn't using it, then the program code can be proven to be as safe as the runtime, and C++ does not remove your ability to make statements like that.

So no: I believe that your comment is "completely ignorant" (and rude, to boot).
I study art and freelance as a designer. As you can tell, sketching is a big part of my life. Doodling, sketching, brainstorming, laying out wireframes on paper, value and abstract studies all involve touching some sort of a pen tool, be it a tablet pen or a graphite stick.

From what I found, I prefer sketching with a 2H pencil to tablets. There is just a lot more feedback, and like the author describes it, I'm a lot less likely to get unfocused when sketching on paper than when sketching in Illustrator.
Jason here, who wrote that weblog entry. Quick comments.

- Yes, it is difficult in some ways. Easy in others.
- Emscripten is very likely to be involved.
- It will run slow for some things. That's fine. Things get faster.
- Yes, this is really important.

I'm at jscott@archive.org if people want to work on it.
It turns out that they don't lease vending machines, but he does have connections with manufacturers. Feel free to reach out if anyone is interested.
The key part is when the anonymous buyer remains anonymous. If his invention works, why not patent it and let everyone see the internals?

EDIT: Looks like there supposedly is a patent: "a method and apparatus for carrying out nickel and hydrogen exothermal reactions," with production of copper, though I haven't found the patent itself.

http://www.nyteknik.se/incoming/article3080659.ece/BINARY/Ro...

Seems like someone would independently make one though.
Relevant Richard Feynman story: http://www.indian-skeptic.org/html/fey1.htm
Wow. This takes me back.
Green text on black background, my eyes hurt.
Hi Tony, is this your circuit http://upverter.com/tonyarkles/fc405a95ad5ac85c/basic-amp/ ? I see the Q1/Q2 current mirror. The rest doesn't look quite finished here, but perhaps I'm not seeing the right revision. Curious to know if you were trying to draw it from memory/intuition, or trying to put an existing schematic into the tool?
A bit pedantic, but there are a few African‡ startups wich have garnered attention from the Valley --most form South Africa though (Fundamo, Thawte, etc. A). Google has opened a tech incubator too. [http://www.google.co.za/intl/en/umbono/index.html]

‡Maybe you mean black Africans, but blacks are not the only Africans -there are south Asians, whites, Chinese, Arab, etc.
As soon as I read his tale of accomplishing seemingly impossible feats, I figured he must be selling something.

Scrolled to the bottom of the page, and sure enough, it is so.
How delightful. What a wonderfully responsible news organization...

Is there any chance of somehow getting a copy of the entire unedited interview?
The reason I mentioned "free market" was to not consider gaining money through theft, fraud, extortion, blackmail, etc.

In a free market economy, one creates value and then exchanges that value for money. This means that in order for one person to get wealthy, it is not necessary for them to drain wealth from others. Equal value is exchanged.

In other words, one gets wealthy by making the pie bigger, not taking other peoples' pie.
the report does note that in the case of an October 2008 “incident” affecting the Terra AM-1, “the responsible party [for the hack] achieved all steps required to command the satellite,” but despite having the capability, didn’t actually use it pilot or control the satellite.

That seems pretty hacked to me.
I believe the menus are usually publicly available beforehand. If there are no vegan options, just don't go. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that every dinner with a pre-set menu will cater toward every minority's dietary choices.
There are relatively few black startup founders, there are also relatively few female startup founders.

But both of these have the same underlying cause, both of these groups are under-represented in the software development profession as a whole.

Those minorities who are well represented in the software development profession are those that are well represented in the startup community.

Being a successful startup founder means that you're an outlier, and bigger populations have more outliers. It's as simple as that.
I'm not trying to criticize you, just asking an honest question - is that legal? Could that be considered a threat? (Cooperate or I'll kill you)
There was another incident 25-odd years ago near where I grew up on the US/Mexico border. Radioactive steel (with cesium or cobalt, from medical equipment, IIRC) was sold for scrap and turned into various things like restaurant tables. It was only discovered when a geiger counter was turned on by a bored geologist waiting for food.
Useful insight, among others in this article:

"I believe that the real purpose of planning is simply so that you remain convinced that a possible path exists."

This guy is crazy, but in the awesome kind of way.
Arrington's response > this post. He may or may not be wrong for saying he bends over backwards for black entrepreneurs. You're saying he's wrong because of one instance, I'm sure he can point out times he has lived up to that statement. You should be mad at Soledad, not Arrington. And what was the point of this post? If you're going to raise an issue, do it in a constructive way and talk about how to fix it, don't focus on someone whom you believe is contributing to the problem, and then give a weak argument. As a black entrepreneur, I'm mad I wasted my time reading your post. And it doesn't help that Angela doesn't agree with you: http://www.blackweb20.com/2011/10/28/drama-why-arrington-is-...
I give it 12 hours before everyone realises this is a pile of bull.
Flagged. This is just a flame with no content. tl;dr: Security Analytics' estimate of Samsung phones counts "shipped" phone, not "sold" phones, and is therefore "bullshit"
Why can't it exist both inside new TV sets and as a set top box for existing TV sets?
The MAC address is certainly easier to spoof, as you are only essentially dealing with 3 bytes of uniqueness (assuming iOS devices all have known manufacturer IDs). By comparison, the UDID is 20 bytes long.
This is way more than "one or two" domains though. And it's not like they all just point to the same page, which would seem like a fairly normal thing to do. These all appear to have slight variations of the same content (at least relative to this Bob Higgins thing), so that they superficially look like completely independent sites... but I have a hunch they're not really independent at all. This seems like a very conscious and moderately elaborate effort to artificially boost the "buzz" around the e-cat in a sort of spammy way.

At least that's the way it looks to me.
Grubbing the La Fiesta meal at Mountain View!
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Nah. I have a huge hdtv on my only desk, so I always want to put it to use when I am sitting there. I think I will just go to the library or the park when I need to do take a break from my computer, and besides, its nice to be outside at the same time.
Funnily enough erlang does not have these horrible GC issues people are seeing in .NET and the HotSpot JVM.
How many of them are white African immigrants (i.e. from RSA, Rhodesia, etc.), or are from Arab North Africa (Egypt), though?
Outside of closed environments with pre-screening (students in a class, for instance), what systems don't work this way?
I like to keep an eye on bands in the metal genre... one issue I noticed is during (and after) the US launch, quite a few metal bands pulled their music off Spotify. Perhaps the US launch was a big enough milestone for these niche labels to decide whether or not to continue using the service?
The first instruction on the first google hit for brogrammer is:

> Polo, tight so the chicks can see how defined your muscles are

It's hard to see how this would apply to a straight woman.
Here we go, grab the popcorn.
Almost all of the photos that people are filtering are uploaded straight off a phone. Generally the cameras on these devices suck. You get tons of pixel noise, weak colors, and relatively low resolution. You also don't get much in the way of creative control, such as the ability to play with depth of field and exposure.

Filters cover up these flaws. You no longer see all the noise and general crappiness after taking a photo blurring it, overlaying textures, and then blowing out the color. Plus they give you a bit of creative control. I think that's the reason that these apps are so popular.
the real trick is to have playOn send your G-TV the stream.
I used to work at an investment bank where we were able out-do our competitors at latency even though we were using Java and most of the industry was using C++.

The ease of building lock-free algorithms and changing threading models in Java was probably a significant factor.
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Typekit: Remaking the Matrix
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The fact is Apple's reputation has been permanently tarnished in the face of developers, including PG. Even today, Apple uses very restrictive license agreements in the appstore. Here is a full explanation of their licensing restrictions from 2010, feel free to provide more up to date information:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/iphone-developer-progr...
Actually the problem is deeper than this. You can't have type safety w/o memory safety, and it has nothing to do with casting.

Here's an example. You allocate a chunk of memory as type Foo. You use it as Foo. You hand out references to Foo. Everyone is happy. Then someone says, "We don't need this instance of Foo anymore" and deletes it. Someone later comes and allocates Bar and the memory allocator correctly goes and grabs some of Foo's old memory and uses it for Bar.

All good, right? Well, except there's this other thread that is using a reference to that old instance of Foo. Suddenly you have a type safety issue at hand.

Now you can say, "Don't write programs with bugs". And indeed that is just about the only alternative.
Lol...nice one. Not nearly as successful as Paul but if Mike is reading this, you can make it two black tech entrepreneurs you now know: http://www.phyzixlabs.com/.
The E Cat test shows energy output but is not conclusive on sustainability
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Of cause a socio political minefield. Maybe I am too pragmatic about that -

BUT:
If I were a founder that would feel being discriminated against in any form (sex, gender, color, your name it) why should I not pare up with a co-founder whom I regard as being not discriminated? If I have no biases within my own friend circle this should be not problem at all. Or would it?
By awkward address, you mean "International Terminal G (EMB), 275 S Airport Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94080, USA"? Just checking. We'll add support for place names at some point. Thanks!
Almost anything has 'Arrington' seems to beg for a debate. I stopped reading TechCrunch (and Arrington) a bit back since their tabloid-style Twitter memos.
This was fixed shortly after your report. Thanks!
It's an asat classic about like this one: http://bit.ly/snDQPZ

Definitely my favorite as well.
Ah, since OP's example groups were Chinese and Indian, and your examples were Chinese and (American) Indian, was pretty easy to get confused! :)
By this do you mean unhandled runtime exceptions?

Partially. Mostly I mean that bad code can make your runtime unstable by corrupting memory.

You could say "but I write code that never does that". Pretending for a moment that I believe you, you're still assuming nobody else does that, either.

RAII is great, modulo the problem that you have to handle the whole "no exceptions in constructors" problem to avoid resource leaks.

Querying object types at run time is probably a sign of horrible design

Querying object types at run time is usually a sign of doing something that wasn't anticipated at design time. As systems get larger and older, and as they get pieces patched at runtime, doing unanticipated things becomes inevitable.

Java isn't designed to be maximally clean and flexible for a tiny team. It's designed to build behemoth software for industry which is very forgiving of problems.

C++ doesn't do that as well.

I don't understand. C++ has exactly the same model for collections of polymorphic types.

Yes and no. C++ has more restrictions in terms of using only RTTI-capable types in mixed collections.

What types aren't RTTI-capable? Primitives and structs.

Java has the same problem, patched by autoboxing in such a way that you can't actually screw it up thoroughly. C++ lets you get into unfixable problems pretty quickly.

You're right - use only instances of classes with virtual functions, never a primitive or non-virtual class, and you can avoid it. But "with enough auditing, the problem goes away" assumes some pretty specific things about your final environment, including the assumption that errors either don't make it through or are very recoverable.
Yeah, absolutely correct. Fender still makes some good guitars, but a lot of crap as well. G&L has been making sturdy, quality guitars for a reasonable price for a long time. They definitely have the mantle now.
Nickel 62 (34 neutrons) and 64 (36 neutrons) are the only ones capable of fusing with hydrogen to produce stable copper (63 with 34 neutrons and 65 with 36 neutrons). Others are going to create an isotope of Copper, which will decay to cobalt. Obviously by their claim they're only finding copper.

The problem here is that only 4.5% of nickel atoms would even be capable, which doesn't sound like an efficient reaction medium. I don't understand how a full atom would be capable of fusing with nickel when a single neutron can't efficiently fuse with a uranium 235 atom at a .72%.

What I'm wondering is would there be any energy gain from turning Nickel 58 with 30 neutrons into Copper 59, which decays into Nickel 59, which in turn decays into Cobalt 59. However, this decay is long lived (76,000 years so likely not going to result in any immediate energy gains), but then there's the potential of turning cobalt 59 into nickel 60.

So then you reach the question of does turning Nickel 58 into Nickel 60 net you energy? Also would keep forcing a new proton into Nickel 60 making it Copper 61, decaying into Nickel 61 + proton -> Copper 62 -> Nickel 62 (the highest binding energy) actually work?

Honestly, I think they've found a "potential" here, but it's likely just the potential for exploitation. It's been too long since I've done that kind of math to work out if there's the potential for energy gain, regardless of if their 'method' would allow it.
If we are satisfying our contractual obligation, and shipping what the clients want, how could a competitor make a case using "damaged sales"? Isn't that like saying that I start a cola company and say Pizza Hut is damaging my sales by selling only coca-cola?

In your retail example it makes sense when the wholesaler did not have their act together, but we do, and we are doing a good job.
I think the key (and I'm saying this as a fulltime programmer), is to learn how to see things as an artist. I had a fantastic art teacher my last year of high school, and for a month or two, I think I understood how to look at things in a different way. I have two drawings and a painting from those few months, and they're some of my favorite possessions.

I've since forgotten how I managed do make them, but I think that's largely from a lack of practice.
That's changing, frankly... and rather quickly. I speak as someone who builds (and sells) SaaS products to physicians.
You cannot escape the world of safety without using an unsafe feature: an unchecked pointer arithmetic or cast operator.

Or threads.
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Snap Framework v. 0.6 released
If you're on a mac and want something in the menubar (or whatever they call the thing on the top), try PandaBar. Very nice, has keybindings, and the dev adds features requested as quickly as Apple will turn around updates through the App Store.
OP here. In my case, that is essentially what it is. Cooperate or I'll kill you. It can even just read I can kill you, so I will.

That is why I am really unsure about cannibalizing my own baby by not killing them, but I am very unsure whether that is the route I want to tread.
Because mass production generally leads to decreased costs, which has the potential for profit from initial loss on sales.
It's not a general-purpose car, though. It was clearly intended as an extra toy for those with the money to spend on such things, so these sort of objections kinda miss the point.

No, you're not going to drive cross country with it. But it's still pretty cool.
What about dedicated servers?
I paid off $35k worth of student loan debt within 3 years of graduating. While I was in debt, earning more to pay it off was a great motivator. Now that I'm debt free and have my basic living costs covered without worry, more money just does not motivate me anymore.

The most depressing comment I read on HN was one guy telling a story about a sales manager he knew that encouraged his sales people to go into debt so they would be more motivated to earn more and therefore, make more sales.
You are a pretty big fool, believing Apple is to blame for pricing in the iTunes Store. The content providers set the prices, not Apple.

I didn't say Apple personally set the prices, I just stated that Apple's business model is dependent upon blockbuster hits. Google's business model, on the other hand, is dependent upon advertisements.

And how is Apple dominating my computer? I have no clue what you mean.

I am not sure of your particular case, however, Apple is a prominent user of DRM which they use to restrict and control millions of people's computers:

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple
Sure. If you have this problem in 10% of your code, you can save the wizarding for the other 90% where tuning the garbage collector isn't terribly important, and you wouldn't need to write memory management code for acceptable performance.

10% of your code being performance critical would be a lot, in my experience. The usual number where I've worked is probably closer to 1%.
If you click on Soledad O'Brien's name in the second paragraph, you get this link: http://uncrunched.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/soledadobrien....
I've been following this story for 12 months or more. I've read a lot of criticism and deep discussions that go way beyond my capability to understand.

But we should know, soon enough, if it's a fraud or not.

Either the thing works as advertised, or it doesn't.

Even if this particular test has 'teething problems' I would assume that, within a week or two, all will be known.

To me, it's a case of sit back, remain patient and open minded, and watch to see what happens.

It's not like he's asking for taxpayer money or subsidies. If he ends up fleecing a rich company or individual, well, that sort of things goes on every day. It would be a drop in the ocean compared to, say, pets.com or any number of mega-flop movie releases.

I just don't get the invective directed at this guy and his project. If he's wrong, there will be plenty of time for gloating and schadenfreude. If he's right, a lot of people are going to look very silly with their big statements.
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Did I just get sold on this car? haha.
Oh yes, I did enjoy reading that article. It was refreshing in today's world of 24-hour bite-sized news. All that trouble from such a little piece of radioactive cobalt. Imagine if some mad man decides to attach something like that to a cab in NYC. Just as stated in the article, it would cause a huge panic.
Weird, that's the second HN post in a week that included the Radio Yerevan story. What's the likelihood and our posterior probability of that?
Off the top of my head, I believe before Margaret Thatcher took office in Britain, taxes reached 99% at the top level which stagnated the economy. There are other periods I have read about but can't remember the specifics at the moment.
Top Christmas Gifts 2011 for kids.
A man like that shouldn't have just been let go without finding out exactly what he was doing.
Socialcam was featured a few times but still they're not ranked very high in the Appstore (#41 top free in Photography, not even top 1000 overall free). They probably have most of their downloads from the times they were featured. I'm not sure if I buy the hype. Video is a difficult problem to solve and I'm not sure if they've really solved much.
What I meant was that it would have been much better if they'd originally thrown their weight behind FLAC instead of developing ALAC in the first place. We're stuck with it now. I think it's very unlikely they'll ever add support for FLAC in iTunes or iOS now.
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Are your lectures online? I would be interested in watching a couple on the topic.
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I googled for FLAC combined with a couple of different artists I listen to. Every single hit on the first page was a bittorrent site. I added "-torrent" and got a bunch of non-bittorrent file-sharing sites. :(
With celebrity narrators! I can't decide if I would want Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, or that guy from the Mass Effect codex.
FLAC is the defacto lossless standard everywhere but iTunes. Boomkat, Bleep etc sell FLAC files. It also works in music software like Traktor, Ableton Live and Renoise.

FLAC is honestly one of the happier OSS success stories.
Oh, nice, I didn't know that!
Yes, exactly.

Sorry for the guitar geek-speak. I guess for a second there I mentally collapsed the distinction between one of my nerd communities and the other.

Maybe I'll go onto Harmony Central's guitar boards and start using acronyms like DRY and OOP just to balance the scales...
I would argue a "the world is INjust" (fallacy?). Humans are and will always be biased in some form or another. Any form of "just" is more or less socially constructed by those who invested their efforts into shaping the accepted perception of "just" and moved the public perception towards what they perceive as what "just" should be.

So the two alternative are that one can either work within the current status quo (e.g. be pragmatic about it) or, if the situation is presumed by many as unbearable, actively work together to change the situation.