skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is entirely possible that the FBI is investigating Carrier IQ at the request of the Senate and has documents about what they have found regarding how Carrier IQ uses its data. Those documents would be part of an 'ongoing investigation.'

Still I appreciate the attempt at a FOIA dump.
There is a not-extremely-active SSH in NaCl [1]. This emulator is a prerequisite for it being added [2]

[1] http://code.google.com/p/naclssh/
[2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=23272
"""But, OTOH, it's not the final version."""

That doesn't change much.

Either it will be released soon, so not much will be added in the final version,

or

we wait for more stuff to be added before it's released in another 2-5 years, making it totally pointless as of now.

(And given that it's not like the previous 5 years were well spent, we already know how this will go...)
Seriously? Wow.
If what you built is a consumer product, and accessible to friends and family - then you know you need to move on when friends after being coaxed into using your product still don't give a damn.
Yup single founder.
denied using, not denied shipping. Most likely the software is there, but non-US vendors (and law enforcement agencies -- not everyone is as clued up and as resourceful as the FBI) simply don't exploit it.
From my own dealings with ad agencies, I can tell you that many of them are permanently behind the curve regarding technology and internet developments. So that kind of experience on your resume may be like wearing a t-shirt that says "mediocre" - even if such assumptions are patently unfair.
What thunder? I don't see much in the alpha release -- and the quality smells of another 1-2 years of waiting...
Ahh.. I think you're right. My records are great. I'll just go to the CPA. Will also talk with them about the S-Corp.

Thanks for the reply!
The encryption key must reside only on trusted (client side) devices to allow your data to be hosted by a third party without them actually seeing your data.
I saw the word "Windows" on this page http://developer.apple.com/icloud/index.php and jumped to conclusions. My bad.
Client side encryption and open source client software a la Tarsnap.
I'm Irish, yet I am on the UK electoral roll and get voting cards for general elections, which my German girlfriend does not.

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/faq/voting-and-registr...

"To vote in a UK general election a person must be registered to vote and also [...] be a British citizen, a qualifying Commonwealth citizen or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland"

http://www.dublincity.ie/yourcouncil/votingandelections/Page...

"Elections for Dáil Éireann: Both Irish and British citizens can vote in elections for Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament)."
You're In the Absolute Best Position
Does anyone have to ask this question when they can simply observe the upvote count at their leisure?

;-)
HN is written in lisp, like Viaweb, because lisp is better, not just as a matter of taste. Check out some of PG's lisp advocacy writing, or some (very) old HN discussions, if you're interested.
Common courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...
Only done it once professionally, at my house, which was convenient to them.
"""Dev work on ST2 seems to have stopped altogether."""

Yeah, no new beta release for a whole of 40 days!

"""Now i'm using chocolatapp, which seems to be moving along briskly and now has a better feature set."""

The only reason it "moves along briskly" is because it started with very little. And better than ST2? Currently is somewhere south of TextMate 1.x
I would be very careful with entering into a partnership with people you don't know. Would you marry someone you know "vaguely" or not at all?

I'd try to structure a trial period where you get to work with the other founders for a predetermined period of time.

If you do chose to continue, make sure you're protected. i.e. who owns the software you're developing? You don't want to develop it and then have them fire you and keep your shares, for example.

You should also build vesting into your shares. 4 year vesting is common, so that if you leave after 1 year you will still have 1/4 of your equity.
Right. The Android Market works the same way.

The problem with Apple's App Store rules is that it's their way or the highway. There is no way to grant your users more freedom than the App Store does.

This, coupled with the fact that you can't install apps other than from the App Store on an iPhone (without jailbreaking your phone or paying extra money to be a developer and building them yourself), is why I will never own an iPhone (at least until they fix those problems).
Groundbreaking photonic chip could spark Quantum Computing revolution
From personal experience, I disagree.

Some of the people I enjoyed most and worked best with were offsite. One I met in person after many months. Another I never met in person. Nonetheless, we could joke and get along quite well on the phone.

These were people who got stuff done. And they figured out that I did as well. We could trust each other.

On the other hand, there were people on-site you couldn't trust unless you practically stood there staring over their shoulder.

Different settings may work better for different people. But when you start telling them what does and doesn't work and mandating your solution -- then you have a problem.

P.S. Hmm. Now that I think about it, in a prior job, some of the people I worked best with were at plants in different states. I never met many of them, either. Being at plants that, you know, actually made stuff, they understood very well getting stuff done. When they said they'd do something, usually they did. If they couldn't, they let you know and why. I appreciated this, and I didn't use my headquarters role as an excuse or reason to blow them off. We got along well.

I've found "having a beer" to have little correlation with working well with people. I remember now the one fellow who wanted to "have coffee" -- just long enough to make sure he could do next year's calculations after I'd left.

P.P.S. I did not downvote you. I think this is a difference of opinion worth expression or even debate.

Over the course of my career, one of the most frustrating things has been to work with people who not only hold such a differing opinion but who give zero consideration to and have no willingness to discuss differing opinions.

For example, I'm perfectly happy to let others work in open space, if that's what works for them both subjectively and objectively. I couldn't care less. I just don't want it prescribed -- mandated -- for me.
Try a book Adventures in Numberland. It's not a mathematics manual, but written in plain language explaining pretty much everything to simpletons, like me. I'm not saying you're one, but the author is a mathematician, so you might get more out of it.

Amazing stuff. I now understand much about the patterns in numbers that I had no idea even existed, and how they can be used to simplify complex concepts.
It'd also be possible to double-park (triple, or more even), using less parking space. If the car in the middle needs to get out it can ask its neighbours (several levels deep) to shuffle around and make a path
Two Critical Facebook for Business Questions: What's Your Facebook Commerce IQ?
Just speculating, but maybe it's really hard to align projectors at a specific throw distance to make a visually "seamless" image. Plus, aren't 4k projectors really expensive?
to git.we have been using svn for some time but git has lot more advantages than svn for our model.
Apple may be using patent troll to do its legal dirty work
This is exactly the problem we're solving (well, trying to) with Decal CMS. I've been holding off on trying to drive traffic to our initial demo because it's still a little rough around the edges but if anyone wants to check out our early prototype/demo we'd love to hear your feedback http://www.decalcms.com/page/Take_the_Decal_4_minute_challen...
Yes - the problem of structure! That's the problem we're trying to solve with Decal. I've posted this link above but I'll stick it here as well so you see the reply: http://www.decalcms.com/page/Take_the_Decal_4_minute_challen... it's a pretty early prototype of how our "designer platform" will allow you to deploy structured, editable websites. I'd love to hear your feedback.
I can honestly say that this is the most accurate simulation of my color blindness I have ever seen. Usually I can tell a difference between the two if I look back and forth, and almost always when I flip between the images quickly. But in this case I popped them open in two tabs and switched back and forth repeatedly, and could only notice minute changes if I looked very carefully at specific parts of the painting.
I foresee lots of confusion between Ember.js and Ender.js. I hope I'm wrong, because both projects look great!
how do you cancel?
Still no mention of chunked Undos. Undo'ing character by character is why I gave up on TextMate years ago, but I suppose I should be thankful since it helped me find Vim.
Just to make it clear: it's not Firefox itself that is hitting the virtual address space limit, but the linker when trying to link and optimize the source code.

To put things into perspective, last time I compiled Webkit (just the engine, not the whole browser) it ate ~1 GB of RAM, so it's not that surprising that the linker needs 3 GB for Firefox
No, it isn't, for the same reason Newton didn't wear his hair like Elvis. No one invents his own culture. This has nothing to do with how radical Newton's ideas were or how great a genius he was. It has to do with what cultural forms existed at the time. You have to get to figures like Byron before this kind of statement makes sense (and my bet is that this one comes from later even than that).

However, I'm no scholar of the 17th century. Prove me wrong. If Newton said something that sensational, it won't be hard to track down. I didn't search for it like I usually do before making these claims, so your job should be easy.
How well do you know your Facebook Friends?
I've already posted this link in reply to others' comments but I'd love to hear your feedback on our fledgling project "designer platform" which allows you to deploy structured editing interfaces from your HTML: http://www.decalcms.com/page/Take_the_Decal_4_minute_challen...
The SoSS is Bitter
It's beautiful. Downloading now. I scanned the mail, I wonder if they address auto refreshing of network sources.
This unfolding Carrier IQ scandal is a really huge deal in my opinion. It just shows how our phones are used by both companies and law enforcement to track us, and that probably for a decade with software like this.

Anybody knows if there is a website that tracks this incident, affected phones, related news, ...?
Just how many people would figure that out, do you think?
The Evil League to support 'Community'
GitHub fork their sysadmins
You and Mark Aren't Friends
What's wrong with "the world" and what's wrong with working for "the government" are two different things.
Correction: I found chunked undos listed on a separate feature list: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/891742/Screenshots/tm2_release_notes...
Last.fm for gaming. It was a failure but I learned a lot from it.
Maybe in your small sample size, but not for others. My team is distributed, and we're quite effective on productivity.

It has more to do with the people than the geography.
>I have mixed feelings about this idea. SOPA is awful, but political neutrality is an important principle.

I have a hard time seeing why "political neutrality" is ever an important principle, but especially in this case, Wikipedia would be acting in what it considers to be it's own self-interest. What merits are there in any entity remaining "neutral" in circumstances like that?
Funny story with PC icons
I just found one very funny story. It only contains of some PC terms and about 5,6 images, but the story is really incredible.
Good digging. Hamming doesn't seem the kind of guy who would just make that up. Perhaps it's a paraphrase of something Newton did say.
I know what the general advice is, but not doing what people tell you to do is pretty much what we encourage people to do.

I see no difference between encouraging people to bend and break the rules to create an innovative start-up, and bending and breaking the rules to attract a VC. It's all part of the same mentality.

But if that isn't a good enough argument, then try the maths: the probability of success is 50-50 on every try.
This is a incredibly useful overview. My jaw dropped when I read about all the uber-jump commands! I've been setting markers, but this is 100x better. This is exactly why I read every single post about vim, because I always learn something new.
Not necessarily. It only takes one bureaucrat to reject code that doesn't pass tests or follow required conventions. For example, a good rule of thumb is that no new code will be accepted without documentation.
Ah, I see. My mistake.
(Golf clap)... and in practice how would one verify such a scheme?
Even coming from a stance of neutrality, the time to be political is when your existence is threatened.

The only reason why Wikipedia's existence might not be threatened by the bill is because they're just too popular. Those behind SOPA know that if they enforced it against a site like Wikipedia it would reveal it as the flawed piece of legislation it is. Instead they will nab smaller time websites for infringements because people won't care as much.

In a way, SOPA might be good for the Facebooks and the Wikipedias because they will never get shutdown, but their competitors might. I guess this is contradictory to my first sentence, but I don't believe in relying on "too big to fail" for existence.
SOPA is awful, but political neutrality is an important principle.

When a law threatens the existence of your organization as we know it, what else are you supposed to do? Would you rather have:

a) a completely politically neutral organization that has silently been neutered such that it cannot fulfill its mission

b) a mostly politically neutral organization that only expresses political views when the issue directly impacts their ability to fulfill their mission

The readers will be able to figure out the right position, for their own interests.

I don't think the problem here is whether people would be able to make up their mind if they had all the facts. The problem is that this issue has not received enough media attention and as a result very few people are even aware of it, let alone aware of its repercussions.

National media outlets certainly have a reason to avoid coverage of this issue since most of their parent companies support this legislation.
Easy answer: $0.

Anyone who says otherwise generally benefits from the result.
On the surface, his request to not republish seems laughable.

However, I'd guess Alan expected our collective failure to respect his wishes knowing that once it began to spread he could cut off access. His goal of getting a small set of the most devoted users to download and sanity check his pending release was accomplished.
Thanks. It was a temporary glitch and is working fine now.
The projects have very different goals so I don't think there will be too much confusion.
Except that if the guts are there to add features quickly, it could have been time well spent. We just don't know yet, but progress over the next month should be indicative (see progress on ST2 as an example of a seemingly healthy codebase in this regard)
For me, it reminds me to finally install and test it for my GIS work. It's a RDBMS that's always been on the backburner for time reasons. I'm glad to see these posts because it lights a fire under my ass.
Don't know why I'm being downvoted. Did you all want to discuss facts regarding Smartphones today and how that might impact law enforcement or did you all want to have a "police state! rabble, rabble!" circlejerk?
The examples you pick and the way you present them are very relevant. your observations are also very well made and in my opinion very reasonable.
In fact i agree with you.
I just think your conclusion is undermined by your unwillingness to question yourself, even if you state that everybody should do just that.

To pick up on your example, castration. I recently red about swedish history and found out that some decades ago the Swedish government forced castration on a rather high amount of people through criminal law. Sure, the reason was supposedly not the same as in North Carolina, but if 1 to 3 percent of the population got the penalty, one may ask if the criteria were really all that well defined and legit. Personally, I also consider this horrific.
The truth is, the developed and tolerant swedish society we all know basically started after the castration trend. I will not say it's a consequence of it, I sincerely hope it's not. But will I disregard that possibility just because I don't like it? No, never. I dare to look at those facts and try to understand them. I don't like that possibility, it is brutal, but I will not censor my critical thinking.

We have gender distinction in sports because it's obvious that men and women are physically different. No one objects that. But no one dares to admit the possibility of man being different than women intellectually/psychologically/mentally, because that's a taboo. It's not obvious, there is no scientific evidence, etc. but why does everybody gets so angry if that possibility is even talked about?
I'm tired of this fake morals. You are not more respectful towards woman rights simply by staying away from sensitive topics. Most importantly, I don't mind if you think I respect women rights less than you because of my opinions. I know I how much I respect women rights, I could care less about proving it.
On top of that, Microsoft has spent years fostering an open source community in CodePlex[1]. Many of their internal engineers have software on CodePlex, so why would they destroy all that they've worked for there?

I'm just surprised that this is surprising.

[1]: http://www.codeplex.com/
There's no way to send a remote message to enable it?
I'm surprised by how torn the community appears to be - after their success in Italy, I would have expected stronger support for such a proposal. Is there a tally somewhere on that page? My rough reading is that supports outnumber opposes, but not by much.

I'm heartened that they're considering it. I certainly think it's worth trying.
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I'm not sure... TM1 actually has some pretty rough edges which don't seem to snag in actual use. It's the only non 'mac-like' app that I've ever grown to love.
Let's say the event happens 4 light-years away from us. It's not traveling instantaneously, it's only traveling at the speed of light. So it will take 4 years to get here. But we will never see it, because the light from the event will also take 4 years to get here, so we will be destroyed at the same time that the light from the event arrives.
I would look to how I can leverage the two, I know there is a lot of open source in these fields and that does not create a great opportunity for direct payment for your development efforts but their are ways to leverage your knowledge of the field and development skills. For example, if your industry relies on aggregating a lot of public data, you may be able to build a company that designed tools that collect that data, and then sell the refined data to researcher.

Or you can always develop out a niche site that caters to that research, where individuals in the industry can get relevant news about the industry.

You can contact researchers in the field and see if they need development services for custom applications and set up a freelancing shop that supports several researcher.

To me there should be a way to combine to two, to compete in a market that you have already built value in. I am not disparaging web development, a lot of people will say web developers are a dime a dozen, but the reality is good developers are probably one of the rarest skill-sets on the planet and therein lies the problem, to become a skilled web developer takes years, I would say almost a decade of experience, because the web is always changing, until you have seen it change a few times, you have not mastered the skills of adaptation. Which are requisite for future-proofing applications.

I am getting off on a tangent, but the point is make sure you are ready to start over, because switching oars now means beginning the assent up river again, for some industries their is no choice, just make sure you have looked at all the options in yours, before you decide it is one that there truly is no choice.
Even more broken than before, in fact. It cannot handle IME input at all (I'm testing with Kotoeri). Trying to type "aiueo" yields something like this (including all the NSUnderline stuff and highlights): http://cl.ly/0U3c3G3K471c0b341v33 However support for South Asian languages has improved a lot from what I can see, which is a good sign.
TTT, Teacher Talking Time, something that should be minimized in most classrooms. I taught English to non-native speakers for a year, and did my best to minimize talking time, and to increase creative opportunities through games, strategies, team work, and entertainment. Of course in a conversational English class, minimizing TTT is extremely important. But I would say even in most other classes, teachers just talk too much, and don't focus nearly enough on properly engaging the students.
The truth of the matter is that unless you have massive amounts of traction, investors won't really care about your product at such an event. Personal introductions into VC's is the best way to get your funding, and it acts as the first screen of your hustle.

If you can't hustle, find someone you know in common with a VC, and convince them to make an intro, you might not have what it takes to launch a startup. (Hint: It's all hustle).

Get on LinkedIn, use Meeteor.com, and start uncovering the relationships that can help you. It's not that hard, it just takes effort.
This isn't all good. There are reasons that email tends to be popular. On the other hand, there's a reason email can go off into the weeds as well.

The issue I have is that face-to-face meetings tend to lack depth. By necessity, you either have to take a lot of time explaining yourself over and over or you make decisions based on surface criteria. In fact, a lot of time, decisions are made based on how well a person has manipulated[1] the group -- not on the merit of the argument in question. Lawyers make their money this way every day.

If you're not good at being put on the spot -- or you forget an important point you wanted to make at precisely that moment, you loose. Some people are good at holding court until their brain catches up, but some are not. :-)

I think a culture of (respectful!) criticism is good, but that doesn't require face to face.

[1] not necessarily with bad intent -- maybe they are just naturally more persuative, whatever the argument.
Loving the new proportional-fonts-for-headings in Markdown. It seems so obvious in retrospect, but it's the one thing that makes writing longer document painful for me in any text editor.
Underemployed Lawyers Hang a Shingle on Shpoonkle, to Some Colleagues' Chagrin
sure got hit with an ugly stick:

http://cl.ly/CZC2
my calendar links are broken (i.e. when I click on one of the calendar days.)

http://tasksmash.com/saiko-chriskun/20111212
I agree, but was just hoping to represent his point.
Yes, I do agree somewhat, there should have been someone checking the matching as well as some oversight on the employees. I find it odd that someone would get so indignant that they'd take down an OSS piece of software.

But in the end the music/film industry has been asked, with little to no programming skills, to try and regulate the web industry, who's livelihood depends on lots of programming skill.

I think YouTube have moved strategically as they can see where that's ultimately going to end up, with a swing back towards sites doing the filtering.