skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raystream was a publicly traded company called InterDom Corp, which was purchased for 200k by Unlimited Trade Incorporated, operated by Ramon Rumpf renamed it Raystream.

http://reversemerger.dealflow.com/wires/article.cfm?id=xhtjs...
I wander if it adds any of Haskell's lazy and thread features?
Dropbox is a fantastic piece of engineering and I recommend it to everyone. But once you start needing more space, it gets relatively expensive.

I'd love to use Dropbox to replace my current Windows file server which has about 5 gigs of data accessible to about 50 users. But by my math, that would cost at least $5,000 a year.
Firefox 8 released with integrated Twitter search, other improvements
I already use a small local bank. They have only a handful of branches and it's pretty easy to get stuff done with them.

I don't want to change that relationship because I am happy with it, and I certainly don't want to abstract the whole thing through a middleman. It doesn't look like Simple is really right for me anyway as I have several joint checking accounts and a business account as well.

But, I really wish my bank had some of the really slick online banking/mobile deposit capture features that Simple is promising. I hope that if Simple gains some traction, they can offer white label online banking services to banks or brand it as "LocalBankCo online banking, powered by Simple."
Darpa gets serious with Internet security, schmoozes the dark side
Check it out if you haven't seen the deck, http://investors.dressrush.com/

I think the navigation is a little awkward since some of the slides are much too large to fit on a single screen, so you end up scrolling and flipping pages.
yeah, and then he said he got the knife in his hand for 15 hours and that is different from 10 robots in Germany. He should come to Solingen, no kitchen knife is made by robots, it's done by experts and I'm sure they got knowledge which he can't have created in one life alone. When he is able to make a razor knife that could cut his beard, then come back to me ..
To answer my own question it looks like it supports call/cc
https://github.com/bjpop/berp/blob/master/test/regression/fe...

tail calls
https://github.com/bjpop/berp/blob/master/test/regression/fe...

So those features are cool at-least...
What does "Ookaboo" mean?
We've disclosed all of our bank, technology, and processing partners.

I don't think we're likely to allow customers to choose which partner bank holds their funds, but we do make that information transparent.
Something that works with existing irc servers would still be fantastic.
> I am on IE5.5

Well there's your problem!

(No, really.)
Insightful comments:

Yes there will definitely be some duds, but why should the entrepreneur be expected to identify a product niche AND risk everything for it AND be able to fully validate the business concept enough to make big life decisions about it?

Dandelion is to remove the stasis that having a good day job creates. We provide vetting, validation, help with proof of concept, find out if the rubber meets the road, etc.

When you're ready to pitch to an angel your pitch will be 100x better, and you'll know what you're getting into, and if you met some people whose ideas didn't pan out, you now have a pool of potential co-founders or early hires who you know are looking for an early stage idea to get behind.

In today's market, having a talented team ready to start is the #1 thing any investor should look for before investing serious money. Dandelion helps exceptional people seriously consider doing a startup, and helps build the early teams that make the company a good angel investment.

And yes, you'll get a cheap/fast way to formalize the company when the time is right.
I see you're a NoScript user. The site looks absolutely fine without JavaScript enabled. What you're experiencing is one of NoScripts additional features, in that it also disables XSLT. If you go into NoScripts advanced options, you'll find a checkbox that you can untick to re-enable XSLT.

I'm not actually sure why NoScript disables XSLT. I'm sure it will be documented somewhere though.
Critical Windows Vulnerability in TCP/IP Stack Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Tempted By a Sexy Debian from the Future
This is unspeakably great. I'm going to have to forward this on to my old OS professor. Really wish we had this when I took that class.
Supreme Court ponders constitutionality of 24/7 GPS tracking
> "AppSumo for weddings"

People need to stop doing that. Isn't AppSumo Groupon for webapps? Great pitch otherwise.
If there's legitimate suspicion of criminal activity, a police force should have no trouble obtaining a warrant. We have warrants so that the police do not operate without over-site and legitimacy.

If requiring warrants lets some criminals slip away, that's too bad. You can only approach 100% police success in a police state.
Having typed since I was 5, I think while typing, and going back and forth in code is the same as thinking for me. I'd expect that most of these amazing hackers are from the era where they wouldn't see a keyboard until being 16 or 18.

I'm not a vim/emacs shortcut freak, but I do appreciate environments that don't make me use a mouse.
No, nothing has changed about our mission but our name.

Like basically every US bank, we issue a debit card. That card needs to be on one of the card networks. We chose Visa for our cards.

What we're issuing is a debit card, not a credit card. It's standard practice for banks.
I was under the impression that Minix was created and used for this kind of thing. Is there something about Minix that makes it unsuitable today's classrooms?
Sneak peak at Comcast’s Skype on Xfinity service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addres...

Do a control-f for "DOD". These guys have so much IP4 space its not even funny. Being the government, they'll never give it up. So a total of 200 million IP4 addresses:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/02/13/where-did-all-the-ip-num...

So, when the country that starts the internet is also the country with the largest, by far, military and has obscene military spending, well, this is what happens.
When is $28,000/student not enough?
Yeah, the cient looks pretty fantastic, but the apparent limitation of working with Grove-hosted servers does limit its usefulness.

If you're interested, here's my client so far:

http://web-irc.nodester.com/

https://github.com/akavlie/web-irc
Excellent idea. And one I had thought about for many years.

Unlike gasoline where we own the fuel in our car, it actually makes better sense for the batteries in our car to be a service. Every "gas station" just acts as a dead battery replacement depot.

The only bottleneck I can see with this model is the depot's recharging units. If too many people show up at the same time, there may not be enough stock of charged batteries to go around.

On Top Gear UK a few years ago, Jay Leno was interviewed and he made a point about the viability of electric cars. Paraphrasing, he said that until electric cars can recharge as fast as a gasoline car (i.e.: 5 minutes to pump fuel into a car) the electric car is always going to lag behind fossil fuel vehicles.

BetterPlace is at least a step in the right direction.
Firstly, I have no affiliation with Simple. But here's my problem with this line of reasoning: even if Simple wrote a detailed description of what they are and how they work, it wouldn't actually help anyone here. Maybe a couple of us have dabbled in something financial, but that doesn't make us qualified to judge whether banking with Simple is a sound financial decision. I don't fix my own medical problems, I don't practice my own law, and I certainly am not going to be my own banker. The best bankers in the world thought that CDO's would be a good (if risky) investment. It's arrogant to think that you can evaluate the financial stability of a financial company by asking a couple of shallow questions on an Internet forum. A couple of people have asked whether their money would be FDIC insured in their name - that's an implementation independent question that actually deserves an answer. Even so, how are any of us understand whether FDIC protection has exploitable loopholes? Let's drop the technical posturing and ask deeper questions that have meaningful answers. Yes, you might have to think before you type.
why would anyone buy 3 bits of hardware when you could just do facetime + airplay mirroring from any iOS5 device?
Agreed... we need to see better breaks in between sections. It's no fun trying to sort out the navigation by having to combine clicking the numbers at the top of the page and scrolling to figure out where each section ends. A simple arrow between sections and more space between them could solve it.

Also, I wonder about the business numbers. A $0.17 cost per click on Google Adwords/FB Ads? Seriously? Sounds like nobody is bidding on wedding-related keywords.

Also, a 31% conversion rate on all ad-based traffic sounds AMAZING.

So the world's cheapest PPC ads combined with the world's highest converting pages makes for a good business? Sure! Who wouldn't want to invest in that.
I don't know, ask Gopal. But it will be interesting to see if SFDC does anything truly disruptive in this space. Hard to see how shareholders are getting much value from a task manager behind an expensive two-letter domain name!

Sure Marc's got deep pockets, but is there any organic growth here?
I think, when you say that banking is simple to the moderately educated, you're objectively wrong. Banking regularly comes out as one of the bottom few industries in reputation and one of the top few industries in customer complaints. A huge number of people in the US really, really dislike their banks.

There are some people who do some work to make sure they choose a bank that will not treat them poorly and then continue to do the work to make sure that they don't incur surprise fees or other pitfalls. Those people think their banks are just fine. But, really, why is all that work necessary? The idea behind Simple is to have a company that treats you well by default.
Visual Complexity of Windows
Radio Interview with Matriarch of Social TV - MIT's Marie-Jose Montpetit
We've considered it. Not something we're likely to do in the next year, but it's on our radar.
Cool idea. However, I am missing the method to auto-group chats by topic. Would be nice to have it with IRC.

Currently, I am doing that (not with IRC, but with Jabber/XMPP) via my side-project http://TwoToReal.com (beta): You ask questions (or raise topics) for which automatically determined experts are then pulled in via IM into a real-time web chat (most of the knobs/switches are tuned by machine learning).

What are your pricing plans?
I think a great way to deal with this problem in a hacker type of way would be to create and post schematics for a cheap device (e.g. using your old cell phone or other types of old consumer electronics devices) to detect the presence of these devices. A big motivation of using these covert devices is that they work, i.e. the average tracked person is unaware of them. If this fact can be nullified, then law enforcement people may be less willing to use such tactics.
Tailing does, however, require significant resources on the part of the police department; a point which you seem to be purposefully ignoring, because it has been made by several responses to you up- and downthread.

Slapping a $200 GPS tracker on a car is a hell of a lot cheaper than paying for someone to tail you.
Verne Unveiled: Fedora 16 Released
Investigating Verizon’s Network Optimization
Which shows that this implementation doesn't support imports, keyword arguments, metaclasses, eval and variable scope annotations.

This might have been a nice exercise but it is completely unusable as a serious implementation.
I used Arch for a while, and really loved it... in theory. In practice, updates would often break things, especially when those updates were x.org-related.

Using Arch also really made me appreciate all the work Ubuntu does to make a desktop that isn't ugly. I found myself installing Ubuntu-patched versions of many Arch packages just to get things like a decent notification system and non-ugly fonts. (And even then, OpenOffice fonts never did work correctly.)

I was raised on Slackware, so I'm no stranger to DIY-style Linux, but these days I'm happy to install Ubuntu and have a working, decent-looking desktop system in 20-30 minutes.

That said, if I was looking to build a minimalist dev box or something other than a general desktop system, I wouldn't hesitate to install Arch.
GPS signals are everywhere, so the only thing you could intercept would be the outgoing transponder signal. This could be masked as almost anything.... random cell phone packets, radio waves with local pickup, etc. Hell, they could even just manually retrieve the data once in a while when your car is parked outside your house.

So it might be hard to execute, but certainly still a good idea. I just wanted to point out that GPS logging is entirely passive; only the transmission can be detected.
》Also, a 31% conversion rate on all ad-based traffic sounds AMAZING.

31% is the conversion rate for "type your email to see deals". It is not that unusual.
This is great, thanks for posting it. I manage my passwords with 1Password, and while they're good about pushing updates, I've never seen their Firefox extension marked as compatible when a new version of Firefox is released.
Please stop using white text on black background
Is it just me? White text on black background is just horrible on my eyes, when I leave the web page I continue to see patterns for 5 minutes. This should be common knowledge among web designers/developers, no?
Sources of Fab.com's 4 million visitors per month
I disabled addon compatibility checking, and jumped from 7 to nightly (version 10) and was surprised to find all of my extensions still work great (including Firebug).

Mozilla is working towards making this happen automatically, but it seems to be working well already.
You sound bitter, also they have a cooler name.
Berlusconi Quits
Is it going to remain free? Would consider moving our internal irc server here but am concerned that in a few months it will become pay only?
You should believe neither them nor trevor99. Look at the facts and draw your own conclusions.
I guess it depends on what you want to use as your textbook, Tanenbaum's books or Lions' Commentary.
The US DoD acknowledged fact is that American Citizens have been illegally^ detained, in some cases in Gitmo. This assertion that it somehow matters that they weren't kidnapped while currently in the US is puzzling to say the least.

^They don't admit this part for obvious reasons. And they also say waterboarding isn't torture...
Advice on advice: How to talk to your mentors
* cheap and good enough is what almost everyone wants.*

The key word was almost.

Some people are willing to pay much more for something that is hand-made by a craftsman, even when there is something that is as good (or even better!) made by a factory. Their willingness to pay goes up dramatically if the craftsman is well known and signs or stamps his work, and can also go up if the craftsman in some engages directly with the buyers and the buyers can get to know the craftsman. Many value the authenticity and the connection to the craftsman. Some, in the right context, value being able to show the object and say "This was hand-crafted by xxx".

That is why, even though swords hardly ever see practical use anymore and you could get a machine to manufacture a sword to high standards you still have a few skilled craftsmen making a living hand-forging swords. Similarly, you can get software to play Go for free, a cardboard Go-board that works well enough for $25, and a decent bamboo machine-made set for under $100. But there are still plenty of people paying substantially (sometimes very substantially) over $1000 for a hand-carved Goban made of kaya wood.

I do not think this trend will change any time soon.
yo editors, I think I've got the right to pick out a juicy quote. (stands arms akimbo, looks up at you, has an impossible hair color)
A suitably motivated individual might reach out to the various accredited institutions, try and track down one of the Cmpt. Sci Profs who teaches the "Intro to Operating Systems" courses, and find out
A) Which Textbook they Use.
B) Which training OS system they use.
C) Which language they implement their OS in. (ANSI C is likely to be popular)

Or, they could be lazy, and hope that this HN thread turns out to be a representative sample of the Textbooks/Operating Systems in use.
As of Firefox 4.0, there is an extension api that is both version-less and allows restarting extensions without restarting the browser. Especially with Firefox's new release schedule, more extension developers should probably make the effort to start using it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Bootstrapped_ext...
DOD has 211 million public IP's! That is a way to reduce the budget deficit by auctioning off extra IP's. I doubt the DOD needs that many public IP's
The Google bikes that three of the founders are riding is a nice touch, a gentle hint to their expertise?
Well, Minix has a microkernel architecture, unlike this which seems to be monolith (and probably simpler to understand).
Fair enough, but then I question the $0.55 to acquire a customer. You're not a customer until you BUY something (for etail, anyway). What they're really talking about is acquiring a prospect for 55 cents. Huge difference.
I've seen quite a number of such "Trader Advisor" Websites and have always wondered - how is their business model anything but a self fulfilling prophecy? I mean - you make a bet on a stock (or manufacture a stock to bet on), but tell an audience to follow your advice, thus increasing demand and drive up the price of the stock.

Seriously - how is this not transparently fraud to people in the stock market? How is this not transparently fraud to everybody, actually? Or is it just praying on the hobbyist investors who are deluded into thinking "get rich quick" works for ordinary folks while the people "in the know" are delighted to have an army of zombies to commandeer?

Would be great to hear if anybody has some insight into how fraudsters like this are prosecuted (or avoid prosecution).
Sure, but why aren't they tracking everyone on foot? It's not because it's illegal, and it's not for lack of desire either - it's simply too expensive. So given the current law, you can express LEO behavior as a function of tracker cost:

$10000: Use GPS trackers never, send patrolmen instead. We agree that this is suboptimal.
$500?: Tag more people of interest than you could do on foot, involving some-but-not-many unrelated persons.
$100?: Tag more vehicles, with a concomitant rise in data collection not related to any current investigation.
$1: Tag every vehicle related even tangentially to an investigation, just on principle. This I would not approve of - how about you?

From that I conclude that there's some lower price bound at which the freedom/security tradeoff turns against us. I don't think we're there yet - I don't disapprove of anything reported in the article. But it'll happen eventually, and we should figure out how those laws should work before there's a de facto standard in law enforcement, because that standard will be "use them every time". Police work is terribly hard as it is; any further handicaps that we feel we need to impose must have the force of law behind them.
Princess of China Coldplay and Rihanna/ Tuesday Live Session
Assuming you'll have to create an entirely new Grove account for each bot you want to add, though?
"Every "gas station" just acts as a dead battery replacement depot."

There is somewhat prior art in the US. Blue Rhino[1] rents propane tanks. You buy one for $40 or so, or you switch out your empty for a full one for (I think, it's been awhile) ~$15 or so.

"If too many people show up at the same time, there may not be enough stock of charged batteries to go around."

That could theoretically happen with gas, too. Which is why there can be a warehouse connected directly to [insert incumbent renewable or dirty electricity provider here] that charges these swappable batteries 24/7, loads them on trucks and "refuels" the charging stations. The station itself likely doesn't even have to provide charging facilities at all and can go on selling Twizzlers and Funyuns to munchied travelers passing through.

[1]http://www.bluerhino.com
When you "cabal unpack language-python" and fix the dependencies, make sure you boost its minor version number (e.g: from: 1.0.3 to 1.0.3.1), otherwise cabal-install will ignore your custom install of the package and will revert to the one from the repositories.

cabal-install is a big hurdle -- must be improved for faster Haskell adoption.
The "atom" logo on the website and the card have a different number of loops.

Have you guys standardized the number of loops or is the number of loops a clever way of denoting different products?
Good thing for them they can hide their algorithms behind the DMCA as proprietary work.
"We are offering a free trial on all organizations during our beta testing period......
If you sign up for an organization we may contact you to gather feedback - both to improve Grove and help us determine our pricing."

I'd say that means it'll likely be a paid for service. Maybe with a small free option.
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The Work of JTNimoy - Tron Legacy
A pan-European, unified solution would indeed be rather hard to do, but even going country by country you could earn quite some money. Start with the UK (fewer i18n and support problems), then probably the countries who are paying for the rest of the EuroZone right now.
I'd like one too. My Twitter username is @danielwithmusic.
Oddly enough that may be a picture of John Resig.
Wrapping Your Head Around HTML5 Canvas: Part 4
If you’ve made it this far in the series you should have a core understand on the basics and how all of them fit together inside of Canvas.Unfortunately for you, you’re used to my terribly dry sense of humor as well.Congratulations are in order though if you’ve stuck it out, because today we’ll be diving into some of the more advanced 2D Canvas API features.
One functionality I miss from HipChat that I haven't found here, is the ability to copy files from your disk and paste them to the chat (or drag and drop), where they get automatically uploaded so all the chat members can view or download them. If Grove gets that, I'm sold.
It sounds like there is still a kernel module (the system tools RPM).
Thank you! Perhaps this warrants a blog post by itself?
I can appreciate your position that if cops have to flood the courts, eyes will glaze over and careful consideration will go out the window.

But what use is an unclogged judicial review process to protect our fourth amendment rights if the police already have a green light to conduct unlimited surveillance?

More specifically: what good is judicial oversight when selective reporting of telemetry data can and will inevitably show you crossing paths with persons and locations noted for criminal activity?

Do you really expect the court is going to be familiar with sets of coordinates and realize that they are mere stops at intersections along your commute to work? Or popular shops and restaurants? Will they have any clue that the one time you were at the intersection marked in the warrant filing, that it was because there was an accident along your normal commute and you detoured a couple blocks?

24x7 telemetry data is effectively automatic-probable-cause. Cherry-picking that data is the digital equivalent to two cops playing the "Hey, Bob, do you smell marijuana?" game.

You will have crossed paths with criminals. You will have stopped, shopped, worked, ate or drank in proximity to criminals. You will have associated with people who could be argued to be intermediaries for criminals.

Give me a month's worth of 24x7 telemetry data and I'll give you an arguable criminal narrative.