skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, you had to do a lot of peeks and pokes in most 8bit BASICs to really get at the machine. But you could still do something reasonably worthwhile. I don't want to imply that you could do everything. The main idea is simply that you could do quite a bit, and it really did look and feel decent compared to apps of the day. As the systems got more advanced, it became harder or perhaps just less of a priority to empower your average novice.

I've never thought of VB being for an ordinary joe in the same way builtin BASICs were -- it was more of a macro language for Office, and a platform specific COBOL, not an entry-level environment. But I don't have enough direct experience -- perhaps I'm wrong about that...
Today is Napster's last day of existence
The manufacturers haven't produced small bikes for a while, other than dirt bikes. There's only a handful of small street bikes being produced, like the Ninja 250 and the Night Hawk.
Think of it like this: if one person only knows part of a system, they can only reveal so much about it. 15 people might know the entirety of one system, but individually they don't know enough to be a threat. This idea can be stretched out to cover entire levels of security clearance and information (as it does).
As another commenter pointed out, Zuckerberg once called users "dumb fucks" for giving him their personal information. If he does not believe in privacy, as he now claims, why would he say that?
Don't Think like a roped donkeys - CEH - Saher Team
> why would you divide up information into 15 or 20 categories?

To protect the information it in case one invididual gets compromised.

> I bet that even at "Top Secret" levels, the narrowness of view is stultifying.

Yes and that often makes work seem pointless and unrewarding. Invididuals migth get to view a very thin slice of a large project. So they might be designing an algorithm or a widget without knowing how and where it fits in the big picture.

I am guessing for some projects this compartmentalization leads to the dilution of guilt. "Hey I only build detonators", "I only build the shell", "I build the remote control", "I only leave the device in a certain place without know what it is". But all these people could be making something that would hurt or kill someone.
A daring attempt against the Daring Fireball
Distinguished Cherry Bedroom Furniture
By giving a shared in-memory resource for the current state of an object that is not mutated from other threads during a single stack build / teardown. Concurrent access in threads requires locking the object until it is in a determinate state, while in Node you are guaranteed the state until the stack unwinds.
I wonder what happens if a) the hypothetical sentence carried legal weight, and b) I was then employed by someone who tasked me with writing reviews of said dentist for them.

My employer would effectively have to go to court against the dentist to see who owns the words I type, right?
LocalWiki: the open effort to share the world's local knowledge
Can this be reversed immediately by the next president/Congress if it passes now?
Really funny Facebook and Twilight Fail
I wonder how he's doing financially, and whether his attorney is representing him pro bono. I live in New York, and I'd kick some money his way if he needed it.
I suppose it's possible to ask for every penny someone has if you're a match, since they'll obviously pay you their last dime. It's an asshole move to go after someone at their most vulnerable, though, and if it became public would likely get you justifiably ostracized from any decent community. It's also currently illegal in the US.

Of course, asking your medical costs, recuperating costs, etc. to be covered is totally reasonable.
No idea... I never got the update.
Fantastic. Now that's someone/something I would put in the "real software engineer" category. None of this web2.0 mumbojumbo.
Because when people say that something is art, there is an implied "vs. not art". Otherwise it's a misleading tautology.

Ex. Grey is a color but that doesn't make it a color tv.
They do care, but facebook is basically public. They continue to use it knowing that, and it likely has a strong impact on what they put on facebook, whether the users are conscious of that or not. What isn't talked about much is what facebook could look like - you know, if they respected their users.
Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku
56% Of Users Still Love Daily Deals
As far as I know, it is illegal to sell bone marrow. This source, from February, says that the law is being appealed but I don't know if a verdict has been given: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/20/local/la-me-bone-mar...
On a vaguely related note, I've been somewhat bothered by some television ads I've seen for reputation.com. Example:

http://vimeo.com/30825306

"Reputation.com helps you set the record state, by monitoring and managing (!) your online reviews. And repairing your online reputation if you've been attacked, by pushing down (!) false or misleading search results with truthful, positive material, putting you in control (!) of your image online." (exclamation points reflect my level of shock)
Antique Stradivarius violin 'replicated' by radiologist
Engineers pioneer use of 3D printer to create new bones
I'll plug pwdhash — https://pwdhash.com/ — which will turn a password of six characters or more into a site-specific password that passes these requirements.
Can somebody clarify this story for me?
What are the facts here?

* Did they implemented key-logger? Yes/No

* Do they write keys into some local log? Yes/No

* If they have key-logger, then why do they have key-logger? (Company statement - please)

* If they write key strokes to some log file, is that log file related to logs which are send to "mother ship"?
Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkllliihmodekgjcio...
...which is why the manufacturer has had to put up a $20,000 bond for each website it alleges in selling counterfeit goods, lest some of the operators contest this determination and come to court with evidence that they are actually legitimate purveyors of used goods. I have a strong hunch that they won't have to pay out on those bonds.

I could be a moron business person and lose my ass. I could have decided to violate my retail agreement and do what I wish. I could have received a box of the stuff from a friend & resell it for $20 a pop.

Of course you could, but the probability that you actually are is sufficiently remote to be set aside. In the unlikely event that such a claim turns out to be true, you'll be compensated.

I could have stolen a shipment of goods or procured them in some other non-authorized fashion and yet still be selling, by definition, the genuine article.

Insofar as you are marketing and selling to Us customers from a US-registered website, that in itself would be sufficient justification to shut your website down. Convicting someone requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but putting a halt to self-evidently criminal activity does not.
I used to be in the intelligence field, and I held a top secret SCI clearance for about five years.

What most people don't realize about classified information is that it's not the information itself that's so sensitive; it's the means via which such information is acquired that must be protected. If this were not so, targets could simply sidestep our intelligence collection vectors.

I rarely dealt with any classified information that was interesting or surprising. It's mostly stuff you would expect. The technologies and methods used to acquire a piece of intelligence were always more interesting than the intelligence itself.
Maybe they were scared of Google+ at the time and made the announcement a bit too early to keep Facebook in headlines. Or they just backed off when there wasn't positive response to it.
Google Maps app goes indoors
WiFi Direct or Bluetooth seem to work well for that. Or a camera and a QRCode. Or infrared was the cool way to do that back in the day; I remember that my Palm Pilot could do that. We have a billion ways to do these things that people don't seem to really need to do. I think it's just a gimmick.
It also makes it more difficult for them to collaborate and conspire without the coordination of those above.
Facebook tipped to raise $10 billion in IPO
The GOOD article, which I linked to below, mentions a $30,000 prize.
"... The whole business used to be focused on the head of the sales curve, the handful of artists who were selling records in the millions of copies. ..."

Selling records, LP's (33rpm) only really took off after FM radio started playing up to 20 minutes segments of ad-free music, uninterrupted. Prior to FM, the single (45's) was king.

"President Kennedy got shot. It wasn't only the
president that got shot, 50's rock-n-roll died...
then they started playing mourning music... then
emerging out of the mourning music was FM radio...
because during those days it was singles, you were
selling singles. Nobody cared about LP's."
Link Wray [0],[1]

A combination of technology & societal disruption allowed records to sell.

[0] Link Wray, interview "Link Wray video interview-pt 3" starting at 4.00min. Exert from "Rumble Man" cf [1].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViHdDE0ks3E&feature=relat...

[1] Link Wray, "Rumble Man"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1650853964354373174
Profile of 3D data imaging start-up ThereItIs
Lady Antebellum - I Run To You
How Best Buy adopted the cloud and embraced rogue apps
Can someone explain what the November 30 date means? Is there another treatment route they will try if they can't find a donor? How is the cut-off date chosen?
Not asking for myself, I was just wondering in response to the comment about offering money. So people who would only do it for money could opt in.
I heard a while back they use your computer as a connection point to other Skype users. That's why I chosen not to use it over my 3g connection. Probably not true, but would make sense in this case to make it difficult to quit!
Seth Godin and others pledged money as an incentive for a donor, but revised the offer after learning that the original offer was likely illegal.

"He now promises the money to the first person who matches Gupta, regardless of whether that person goes through with the transplant: no quid pro quo."

In a separate case, there is an ongoing lawsuit attempting to overturn the ban on offering payment for marrow donation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-11/web-bone-marrow-bou...
I can't answer this question with a very high level of confidence for all of Canada (I'm based out of the prairies) but my current feeling is simply that the quality of the positions are lacking, as the parent has pointed out.

There's a view that programmers are code monkeys. If looked at from the perspective of a manager within the manufacturing industry (Many of Canada's high net worth individuals, especially in my city, have some sort of manufacturing/hard goods background) programmers are high level production staff.

As a result the jobs generally aren't very exciting and don't pay much. Mechanical Engineers are more sought after in my city, at least.

Six figure jobs seem to be within smaller boutique firms and a few of the big companies but it is far from the norm and there aren't many of those to choose from. Programmers earning more than $150k are virtually unheard of, as far as I know. My knowledge could be inaccurate here though so please take it with a grain of salt.

To change it would mean more jobs of a different nature. Startups are the only solution I currently see to change that long-term. And we have many other issues to contend with beyond a smaller talent pool and scarce funding.

I think it'll take a few big wins by a few entrepreneurs with, as my lawyer likes to put it: "balls of steel", to be willing to stay in their local Canadian markets for there to be progress in making this a better place for software engineers and in turn, other startups.

I am starting to notice a slight change and some locals urging me to stay local. Perhaps there's hope for the future.

So to try and succinctly answer the question, I think the pay reflects how interesting the jobs are, unfortunately.
The age of pedestrians killed in accidents was surprising to me. Of course I didn't do an exhaustive scan, but everywhere I looked they were much older than I imagined they'd be. Many seniors.
I'm American, but I'd happily do one of these kits and also go through with the operation if it would save Amit's life...

...but I see no way to actually do that. Does anyone else? Where are the kits?
You're having a hard time finding the conspiracy theory because there isn't one. bediger simply called the government arrogant, along with worries that people are making decisions without enough info.
I believe they are still in battle with a company that creates similar "timelines" and has ownership over it.
Tech Companies Spend $4,339 (Or $21K In SF) To Recruit You & They Find You Here
I'd be surprised if that were true; you could always refuse the money and feel like an even better person (or at least just as good). And then it would attract the people who do want/need the money on top of that.
Better be in jail but alive (with free health care btw.) then dead. You could do the procedure overseas.
i believe this tool (and the one in Lion/XCode) uses ipfw+dummynet, which is available also for linux/openwrt and windows at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/ (you can find also some documentation material there).
Conde nast... not gawker.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/05/ars-technica-acqu...
"Should it be allowed?" is the wrong question.

A better one is "Will it work?" I'm betting the fraud on such a system would be both rampant and painfully opaque to the victims.

Wait until the lawyers get a hold of that.

Good companies would steer clear, defeating the entire effort. Send this back to the drawing board. Hint: The internet is not a requirement to ease the funding burden.
Btw, I think it's a good chance to ask, why there's no way to specify several directories for leiningen to use as java-source-path?
What percentage of that is stream revenue from existing mainframe customers?
But this isn't unique to Node, is it? It seems like you're saying you've added a feature when you've really removed one. You can create a single threaded event loop in any language and get the same properties, no?

I'd argue something like Clojure is actually providing a feature here, instead of taking something away from your toolkit. You can have a single view of an object for the life of, say, a request all while its root binding is actually being mutated by other threads. You won't "see" the new value until you deref the root binding on the next request. Except nobody stole threads from you and sent you a bill.
You can't, really, but if he checks his email more often than once a month, he may act on the message that says "xxx has added you as a friend, please confirm."
I was just recently wondering what will happen to all Internet discussion when bots reach the level of intelligence that it becomes difficult to separate them from humans. Just the thought that other participants might be bots will pretty much diminish most of the community value that any website like HN could have.

Or does it matter? Is it satisfying to converse with bots if they (seem to) have human level intelligence?
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Austin's Engineering Brain Drain & How Startups Can Help
Anybody who thinks they have any sort of privacy on facebook is an idiot.

I'm an IM and with a little social engineering I can take all of your info, all of your family's and friend's info, ruin your relationships and put you in debt in a matter of days. The fact that users willingly share so much info is enough to overcome any privacy safeguard in place.

I suppose we have everyone to blame for this.
Dual-CPU? You can get a dual-core or more for far cheaper than that. Look to AMD Phenom IIs for the middle-range, you get better performance for the buck especially if you factor in the motherboard.

Besides being faster, this kind of machine is far cheaper than a hand held, locked down device. Here are the costs of ownership, about $2000 for two years: http://www.steamenginefinancialcoaching.com/2011/02/14/the-r...
Ask HN: who does most of your writing?
I'm trying to do some freelance writing work before the start of Christmas break, but so far I've found that most people don't charge for writing/peer editing services on sites like reddit, cl, etc.
A side note to the content of the article, which was interesting, but I couldn't zoom the text.

I'm using Chrome, and when I zoomed in, the pictures, headers and footers all grew appropriately, however the text remained a constant size.

I'm not sure how they managed that, but it makes for a terrible user experience when you want (or need) to increase the font size to make it more readable.
When I was growing up, I was always told never to put your real information on the Internet. As I grew older, I simply changed around my "real" details a bit. So, my Facebook does not have my real identity, I like stuff that... I don't like.

Like I've said before, if you don't want people to know, don't post it on the Internet.

Funny thing is though, the people that told me not to put info up on the 'net... didn't listen to their own advice. lol
Organized crime just squealed with happiness. Abduct someone -> sedate and extract bone marrow -> PROFIT
Just as an FYI, pretty much nobodies AV detects anything of note anymore. How malware campaigns are run these days are heavily reliant on rebuilt executables pre-tested against AV engines. AV is more or less completely broken (even more than it used to be) it's just there isn't particularly an alternative so it doesn't get discussed too much.
I really do wish this reminder had came sooner; I have the swab kit sitting on my desk, waiting for a free moment for me to swab and send. While I'm obviously still going to send it in, I was really hoping to help Amit. :(
No. Privacy is what you make it to be. If you don't want someone to know you like to rub lettuce over your face, don't tell anyone.

The same principal works for real life too.
I think it has something to do with the data not showing up in the registry for 30 days and maybe the new year coming.
Melagenina Plus...
Is Siri? No. Are the persons responsible for it's functionality- maybe (but more unlikely than likely).
Peter Thiel Invests in Floating Incubator
i was always a big fan of sloppy http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ and hadn't bothered to look for alternatives, but the other projects here are equally heartening and have... less java
Looks like it's -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; that's inhibiting the zoom.
Then what is it built for doing 8 hours a day? Running? Swimming?
- Much of the reason for the secondary contact information is to ensure that if you are a match they have multiple ways to find you.

- You may be a match for someone ten years down the line. Odds are that you won't be in exactly the same place with the exact same contact information.

- It costs about $100 to do the analysis on each test. Therefore, if you provide additional information that may in some ways be redundant, it will aid in screening for likely matches.
It's a bit funny to notice how the folks on HN generally haven't studied
the site they are using. Sure, there is source code available for the
forum through arclanguage.org, but it does not include all of the secret
sauce that PG is actually running on HN.

If you believe that you have unlimited voting on HN, you are mistaken.
Some votes and flags don't count, or better said, count less. There are
thresholds in place to prevent excessive voting, up or down, and
excessive flagging. How you vote/flag is weighted in a number of ways.
For example, if you flag submissions that are heavily up-voted by
others, your flags might count less, but if you flag submissions that
are heavily flagged by others (till [dead]), your flags might count
more.

Can I "prove" the above with actual code running on HN? --NO. The most I
can do is point out posts where PG has (vaguely) explained how things
work, and of course, things may have changed since he posted his
explanations. Also, there's probably tons of other secret sauce that he
has very intentionally never mentioned.

The meaning of "up" and "down" votes has never been defined. Some might
use votes to indicate agreement or disagreement. Others might use votes
to indicate appreciation, contribution, or other personally defined
metrics.

I'll flag spam submissions and posts, but I'll only down-vote when
someone is clearly and intentionally being an ass. Though it might seem
odd compared to other forums, I often up-vote people I disagree with (or
who disagree with me -- same thing) because I appreciate the time they
took to share their views and opinions with me and everyone else. None
of us have a monopoly on knowledge, so finding other ways to look at
something is always beneficial. Agreeing or disagreeing with another
point of view is less important than appreciating and learning from
other ways of looking at things.
This isn't true. I've had two rejections for HIG violations - one was an unclear error message (authentication failure-style message when no network was available) and the other was orientation problems (one of the official iPad app templates at the time supported three orientations by default, which is against the rules).

Specifically, section 10.1 of the App Store review guidelines states:

> Apps must comply with all terms and conditions explained in the Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines

It is very much the case that you can often get away with it (see for example all the apps with splash screens), but it is "expressly forbidden".
The risk to the donor is quite low. It requires general anestesia, and so a night in the hospital. But serious complications have a probability of 1:20000 (wikipedia German). The english article gives some more differentiated figures.

The spine is not invaded, the "marrow" means technically stem cells extracted from blood, in most cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrow_Transplantation#Risks_to...

I'm not a doctor.
I went to UC Davis when this (Davis wiki) was launched. It was invaluable at the time. But I wonder how well it will fare elsewhere these days. You need a decent-sized community to get good content, but most decent-sized communities are already well covered by heavily used services like craigslist and yelp.
This. More of this. I can't wait for this to be more accessible and natural.
I would be wary of anyone calling him/herself a "web security expert" who tolerates a presence on multiple social networking sites. It speaks of a mindset not nearly paranoid enough.
First Look: Spotify with Music Discovery Apps and Google-like Search
Just provide a vector of multiple paths and it'll work fine. It's just an omission from the docs. Feel free to file an issue.

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/test_pr...
Responding to what you said before: I also believe that representing everything as a tree (why are programmers so obsessed with trees!?) is ridiculous: code is, quite simply, code. Outline structure or not, what matters is the actual meaning of the code, and this is part of your mental model of the program, not the syntax.

Compilers represent your code as a tree - a parse tree first, then an abstract syntax tree. That is how code is understood. It's not an arbitrary decision on raganwald's part.
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SE Podcast #29 – Chris Poole
What if someone wants to tell a few friends about something but doesn't want to tell all the people working at Facebook, all its clients and potentially any other Facebook user?
What we need are better editor setups that can slightly shade the backgrounds of nested blocks to clearly indicate indent levels and easily enable the programmer to see what matches to what.

Something like this for VIM:

https://github.com/nathanaelkane/vim-indent-guides

Screenshots at the bottom of the page.