skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just some interesting background. Orin Kerr is not only a former prosecutor. He is now a law professor at George Washington school of law, has blogged for a long time about the issues of the CFAA and other legal issues at the Volokh Conspiracy (http://www.volokh.com). His thoughts are always worth reading.

He donated a lot of pro bono time to Lori Drew's legal defence because he felt that if violating a web site's terms of service could count as a CFAA violation that this raised fundamental due process problems, and he's also gotten a fair bit of respect as an expert in the area of computer crime law with his law review articles and even blog posts being cited by courts in these areas.
> The iPhone 4S sends identifiers everywhere.

So if I'm reading this right, Apple is sending UDIDs over HTTP?
Also interesting is that it has the Honeycomb source too. I wonder if it is as ugly as some have claimed it to be.
Yes, and just like illegal drugs, the government will have yet another unrelated crime it can arrest you for when you happen to antagonize it or do some other legal-but-looked-dimly-upon thing. What a utopia.
Tor in the Amazon cloud
The Water Fountain Store Redesigned Facebook Page Is Up
Negotiating at the endgame is way, way too late. You need to negotiate this at the beginning. Specifically, make sure there are no liquidation preferences. Those preferences might say that, if the company is sold for less than $X, the investors get their investment out in whole, and then whatever is left is split proportionally among the holders of vested options.

I was screwed by this once, and have since pressed to have liquidation preferences removed. Once was in a B round, and the VCs dropped them completely. Another time I was part of the founding team and successfully insisted they be removed in the A round.

I've seen VCs argue in favor of liquidation preferences (there was an HN discussion pointing to a discussion on avc.com). Understandable from their point of view. You can fight back, but if the investors won't give up on them, you obviously have a hard choice.
> I see no reason to believe that a replacement really is as good as getting the original part to work properly.

It's certainly possible:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/prosthetic-limbed-runner-...

These legs allow him to run more efficiently than his original legs would have.

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-o...

The relevant quote is: "'These pumps don't wear out,' he says. 'We haven't pumped one to failure to date.'" The same can not be said of the human heart.

The rest of your argument is from lack of imagination.
Are Australian investors overly conservative? We investigate.
A little bit of a derailment from what this threat "ought to be" about, but...

The reality of the situation right now in the startup world is that when people hear you are making x amount/month, you get 500 emails, but when the tables turn and you are suddenly on the receiving end of heavy criticism, you get zero emails.

Is this a serious observation? It is my experience that literally nobody cares how much money you're making. Your popularity as a "startup celebrity" is entirely associated with how cool your project is perceived to be, and who is backing it. There are legions of founders making plenty of money on perceived-to-be-boring projects that nobody cares about.
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon for math
Anyone have an opinion with regards to Ada is this context? From what I've read from Ada it tries to do soft errors as a rule.
GetFlight.com.au lands in Singapore after scooping award
From my limited recollection, Australia has tended to implement such restrictions even more aggressively than the US legislation/policies they took inspiration from. So the 2nd-order trickle down effect could be worse in Australia, and presumably other countries.
Skyrim needs an auto-scaling off switch
From Jean-Baptiste Queru's announcement

http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c0e01b46...

I gather that the "complete" Honeycomb source is available as part of the git history, but without tags.
Finalists unveiled for $250k Game On comp
Although I share your sentiment, there is contrary evidence.

Consider this essay:

http://www.taquitos.net/chipworld/articles/snaxpo-learned.sh...

> Convenience in foods will continue. Anything that takes the steps out of a process will become successful. Witness the "chip/dip" combo packs that Frito Lay is now selling. Open the package, you have chips and dip right there. No need to go to the fridge! At the testing area, Jays demonstrated a combo pack that had mini pretzels and honey mustard that was extremely tasty. Other examples included a pre-cooked baked potato that includes the sour cream, butter and salt and pepper inside the package. All you have to do is nuke the potato for a few minutes and you've got instant lunch.
Ask HN:  Does anyone use popups?
Working on a project that makes it really really easy to put a popup on your website. Want to see if anyone here uses popups and would be willing to talk for a few minutes about it.
I think that link is just outdated, it doesn't mention ICS at all.

The link for this submission says:

"This release includes the full history of the Android source code
tree, which naturally includes all the source code for the Honeycomb
releases. However, since Honeycomb was a little incomplete, we want
everyone to focus on Ice Cream Sandwich. So, we haven't created any
tags that correspond to the Honeycomb releases (even though the
changes are present in the history.)"
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords :-)
Reading this article made me think of this: http://paulgraham.com/top.html
I wonder if perhaps paper based letters would make a larger impact than email. A huge bag with hundreds of letters stands out these days.
From the video it seems like he found a suitable pivot for them, that's about it, the rest are assumptions.
Be careful what you wish for. This is not Tron or the Matrix where hacking against the system takes you to magical adventures. Censorship sucks no matter how you look at it.

And I don't get your drug analogy. Buying drugs legally means you know what you're buying, you can easily track the quality and strength like you would for your favorite brand of coffee. You can know where it comes from, who worked on it, if it is sustainable. You can use drugs legitimately, you don't need to hide. You can be open about it with people, and share how it has a place in your life. Illegal drugs on the other hand have none of this. The only thing you can do is build a relationship with a good dealer and cross fingers that the quality will stay the same most of the time. And there's obviously no way it hell you will trace the product back to its production. You can even go to jail for using it. And the unreliability of the product makes the experience unsafe, unpredictable, unhealthy, and dangerous. How is that "freedom"?

Edit: Seeing how popular the parent comment is, I urge readers to think twice about it. The parent comment's "looking at the bright side" stance is a coward and lazy attitude. Sorry for being harsh but it's true. It's much easier to invent yourself a wicked reason why it would work for your own individual best, put your mind at ease and just sit back instead of going through the mental effort of worrying about this and putting the energy to stand up for everybody's rights.
You know that Honeycomb was the only distribution for which Google did not release the source, right?
Response from Maria Cantwell:

Thank you for contacting me about the internet streaming of copyrighted material. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue, and sincerely regret the delayed response.

On May 12, 2011, Senator Leahy (D-VT) introduced S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT IP) Act. Under current federal law, U.S. law enforcement officials and holders of copyrights, trademarks, and patents, have limited legal remedies available to combat internet websites that are registered in foreign countries but operate in the United States by selling products, services, and/or content that violates U.S. intellectual property law. If enacted, the proposed legislation would create an expedited process for the Department of Justice and intellectual property rights holders to shut down through a court order these websites by targeting, the owners and operators of the Internet site, if known, or the domain name registrant associated with the Internet site.

The proposed legislation would require the Department of Justice to demonstrate to the Court that the Internet site accessed by the domain name is "dedicated to infringing activities." Such a website would have no other significant use other than engaging in, enabling, or facilitating infringing activities. Once a court order is issued, domestic operators of domain name servers would be required to effectively prevent online users from accessing the infringing Internet site. Providers of online information location tools would be required to take technically feasible and reasonable measures to remove or disable access to such an Internet site, including not providing a hypertext link. Finally, financial institutions involved in online transactions and Internet advertising companies would be prohibited from doing business with any Internet site subject to a Court order under the legislation. Intellectual property rights holders can take Internet payment and advertising companies to court if they believe these companies are not complying with the law. This legislation was reported out of the Judiciary Committee on July 22, 2011, and is awaiting action by the full Senate.

While I am supportive of the goals of the bill, I am deeply concerned that the definitions and the means by which the legislation seeks to accomplish these goals will hurt innovation and threaten online speech. Please be assured that I will keep your thoughts in mind should I have the opportunity to vote on this or similar legislation regarding intellectual property rights.

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Before reaching out to a VC or investor, reach out to founders of companies they invested in. Get some feedback from them - founders love helping other founders.

If a founder is really interested or intrigued with what you are doing, and offer helpful feedback, ask them for an intro to one of their investors when/if they think you are ready for funding.

1.) This will give you high quality feedback before you get in front of investors.

2.) This will give you warm intro's to investors and investors are much more interested in warm intros than cold calls.
Getting off the Rollercoaster - How to Make Your Business Growth More Consistent
It is a bad thing that companies can charge monopoly prices.

It is a good thing that companies write good software.

Some specs are important. People care about storage space, screen quality, device responsiveness and battery life.

Some companies have escaped the competitive hardware market with differentiated software (or other things). So while 32GB micro SD cards cost $30, some others can charge $100 for 32GB of flash storage.

http://www.google.com/search?q=32gb+micro+sd&tbm=shop...

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_...

In an area of specification that people definitely care about, some companies can charge a 300% premium.
This is New Technology, Nano Spider, DNA Robot Destroyer Cancer of the Body
JIT allows a range of optimisations that are not possible with AOT compilation. A JIT has access to more information at runtime such as profiling data and so can perform more informed optimisations. It can also change over the lifetime of the programme if observations change.

Some interesting stuff here http://wikis.sun.com/display/HotSpotInternals/PerformanceTec...
What about a form that lets someone submit a comment and it appeared as a Pull Request in your repository? Once you merge in the change, Github will rebuild your blog and it will appear. That would be kind of cool.

Or you could just have a comment link that uses the github website comments - if you are really interested in technical discussion it's probably fair to assume the poster has a github account
Malaysia certificate used to sign fake Adobe update
What people criticized about them was the delay of an open source release to sustain their business strategy (commoditize their products' complements via open source but keep a integrated experience by proprietary early-access agreements - see also http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html ).

This release doesn't change Google's strategy nor the fact that they will continue to release Android's source code in the future with a significant delay compared to early-access partners. There's no reason to congratulate them now nor complain louder some months from now, they'll continue to do what makes sense for them from a business standpoint. The only news are the yet-to-be-discovered jewels in the just-released source code.
I think version control and content management are complimentary in some ways, but how is serving static files an “ultimate blog engine”? I feel like we’ve had that for a few years.

What might actually happen is that Git or Dropbox become the interface through which we “put files on the web”. One’s blog is just a subset of files that one is maintaining anyway.

That’s nice, and a consolidation of tools. But not, um, advanced.
Flash vs HTML5 : Developer's point of view
I never had any doubt that they would.
From the article it looks like UDID's are being sent over HTTPS
HTML/CSS3 News & Resources
I'm sorry, I've dried out to a hard, cynical husk in my old age. Yes, he did say those things, but I still say he didn't care jack about internet freedom, these were convenient rocks to throw at China. Any rock would have sufficed.

And if the administration's actions now don't reflect what was said before, it's just coincidence.

Did he actually take action at any time to defend internet freedom, or did he merely speak?

The administration today, and congress, are opposing internet freedom by their actions. An example for the administration is their defense of the law that says any email on an internet server older than six months is considered abandoned, and they therefore have a right to look at it without a warrant.

The only thing that counts for me is action, and that only lasts until the next hostile act.
The underlying popcorn.js launch was discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3216043
Sick and Lucky
@johngalt: Great counterpoint.

@jacquesm: Maybe Santa is more Stallman-esque than we give him credit; perhaps he doesn't enjoy being tracked?
Those writeups are helpful in the same way that watching NASCAR prepares you for a driving test. There is a huge gap between scaling your typical web app and running Amazon, Twitter, or Facebook. Between the millions of small web apps out there and the few hundred that warrant setups written about on highscalability, there are sensible steps you can take toward scaling that involve sensible architecture choices, database structure and indexing, layers of caching, load balancing and failover, etc. This is where the low hanging fruit is, and I think this is a good place to start.
>Why is Chris DiBona's comment in this thread dead?

He posted the same text in 2 comments (in two different threads). Probably the second of the 2 was a victim of an automatic dup detector/killer.
How do you know what to write in the spec?
Finding The Perfect Christmas Gift For Her
The first iphone? The first ipod was famously panned [1] on specs and then was a huge success.

[1] http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
I'm in deep agreement here. Gregory Bateson put it well, many years ago, writing to someone who wondered whether she/he had a role in a friend's suicide:

Complete, in your imagination, this scenario:

Your friend has achieved her suicide and arrived at the Pearly Gates, where she is challenged by St. Peter, who notes that she has come too soon. She says that it was all --------------- 's fault.

There are many ways of completing the scenario, but one way or another, your friend has to demonstrate that she had no free will but you had. I suggest either that you both had free will or that neither of you had.

http://pages.citebite.com/d1u1k9v8e9gfq
Interesting. I wasn't aware that HN checks comments across threads. Makes sense.
Didn't Knuth write TeX in a variant of Pascal?
Don’t Abuse My 3G
I agree that HN shouldn't be used for legal advice.

I was actually involved in a case where the registration page, terms and usage policy were confusing and inconsistent in a similar fashion (not exactly, but close), and as I recall, the judge agreed with that part of the complaint.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe the legal basis for that portion of the decision was that the terms are being defined by the corporation (presumably with reasonable resources to make sure they do it right), and being presented to the user (presumably with significantly less resources) with little option for discussion - you either agree or go away. And therefore the judge felt that it was incumbent on the the website to get it right, since they had designed the registration and defined the terms. The benefit of the doubt was given to the user.

I would never advocate lying under oath (as you suggested). Presenting an argument is different than lying under oath.

Your experience may be different, but that was my firsthand experience.
That last picture is extremely weird.

(A 1:20 scale model of the border between India and China? It's too small to train on directly, and it's too large to see all at once for higher-level planning.)
http://pages.github.com/#using_jekyll_for_complex_layouts

So while it is just serving static files, it's static files pre-processed by Jekyll.
How To Get Hired -- What CS Students Need to Know
You seem to be making the inaccurate assumption that both the law and its enforcement are logically consistent. This might seem reasonable if you are a mathematician or engineer who is used to working with formal specifications and precise definitions. Unfortunately, the people who write and uphold the law are about as far from engineers as you can get.
Bedside Test for Consciousness
The US authorities can already seize domains under their jurisdiction (as to whether or not the process is legal, I think the jury is still out on that). This includes .com/.net/.org/.us.

Google 'ICE domain seizures'.
I'm a fan of the "V" module.

perl -MV=Data::Dumper

"Quicker", if you don't count install time.

cpanm -n V
Might be a way to jailbreak the phone though, no?
Not exactly. The text-to-speech is done in the cloud, but the hard part (algorithmically speaking) is natural language processing, which apparently (I don't know for sure) is still done on the phone.

I don't know what Apple's excuse is though, but limited processing power is certainly not a problem.
Found this[1] as well while poking about - fairly tall structure, unique curved shape, nothing but a road, some outbuildings and some antenna masts for miles in any direction. Thoughts on what it might be?

[1]http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.509945,93.236595...
Projects Google X Labs should really be working on
HN Chicago Meetup: Tomorrow night at 7pm  Hophaus
Hi, HNers!

We're having the first HN Chicago meetup in a looong time tomorrow night at 7pm at Hophaus.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hophaus&fb=1&gl=us&hq=hophaus&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&t=m&z=11&vpsrc=0&iwloc=lyrftr:unknown,6271729341756540401,,

We've got a mysterious sponsor who'll be paying for one free drink for everyone who comes. After that, you should be plenty loosened up to talk shop, goof around, and meet some fellow hackers in Chicago.

If you're not on the HN Chicago e-mail list, you can join over here: https://groups.google.com/group/hn-chicago

See you tomorrow night!
Accessibility is not just about screen-readers. There are hundreds of mobile browsers, consoles and a myriad of other devices with zero to broken javascript support. And even in screen-readers that do support JS, most interactions are broken unless you use proper mark-up and manage page focus and keyboard shortcuts.

The point is that it's trivial to make a site like this usable without JS, with little effort. You just have to start with the right mindset.
PETA thinks Mario promotes animal murder
yes you are true :) I am flash developer who is now switching to javascript, but I am not enjoying like I enjoyed flash.
I've heard Jack talk about his work--I think it is his life. He loves what he does. Don't demean that by saying he has no life.
The first step on your bridal diet plan it to decide what you want
*That Guy* Syndrome
Stronger Than Steel, Novel Metals Are Moldable as Plastic
Open sourcing my last failed venture
Steroids for Startups
Sent you an email with my contact info.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3209601
A little over a year ago, my uncle wanted to reconnect with an old friend, so he tried fFcebook for the first time. He came to the form and did EXACTLY what was described above. He knew that he was signing up for Facebook, but he only thought that he was signing up to read it and not to have his own page. He thought the e-mail and password were his username and password and the first and last name were his search terms. It took two months to get everything straightened out with him.

So, yes, Facebook's terrible UX will no longer just be obnoxious, it will actually be making people into criminals.
Full-Text Search Support with InnoDB
If you are using Java to crawl the web , I would suggest using Jsoup for data extraction -- you can extract data with jquery like methods.
so, we create hell on earth for other people and when these people decide to leave the hell, we caringly, with all the good emotions in in the voice, say "please don't do it". You must be kidding.

How about just looking around and honestly answering simple question - whose hell today i'm part of ? One don't need to be an active or the most painful part, being just a part, a silent brick in the wall, is enough. And may be, if one has enough brains and courage, to refuse to be the part of the hell, just for one person, just for one day.

And, yes, two decades ago during student years, 3 persons i personally knew very well made the decision, and i respect it. They made the biggest decision in their life, and i'd not disrespect it with "what if"s or "they should have reach for the help" or with any other trash like this...
So this bill seems to target any link on your website. Let's say that you have a blog that allows for people to post things as comments using a service like DISQUS. Could one request essentially take down the entire DISQUS service? Same with Facebook comments that are becoming more and more popular: could one request take down something like Facebook?
Part of what liberty means is being able to exercise your rights even when they are bad ideas.
My source was there, in the house, in that bedroom.
Well, I am using this on Ubuntu Lucid, with jdk 1.6.0_25-b06

You may wanna try playing with some variables. With the following command line:

java -cp .:servlet-api-2.5.jar:jetty-all-7.0.2.v20100331.jar -client -XX:MaxPermSize=1M -Xmx2M -Xms2M HelloWorld

I've added -client -XX:MaxPermSize=1M -Xmx2M -Xms2M. It took it down to 7Mb from 9Mb. However, this should not concern you in VPS/Amazon EC2 instances, as you can always run linux there, and these problems should not come by.
Coding Challenge: The Luhny Bin
I know each one of us has a circle of friends that they have cultivated to provide unconditional support so that when they need that its there.

This is a fairly strange assumption. Not everyone makes friends easily.
El Marketing Multinivel y Sus Dudas
What's wrong with asking for suggestions on how to act?