skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a contrarian view.

I would argue that mutual spying in general is a good thing and that it generally has the potential, properly managed, to prevent war. The problem has to do with leadership and less to do with spying itself.

During the cold war, both the US and USSR had extensive satellites deployed that would provide an early warning for the launch of ICBM's. As Lt. Robert Bowman pointed out in "Star Wars: A Defense Expert's Case Against the Strategic Defense Initiative," this had a stabilizing effect because both sides could be certain they were not being attacked and therefore would not be inclined to mistakenly counter-attack. Spying can have a similar effect in that it can provide additional reason to believe that another party is not in the process of preparing an attack.

The larger problem though is that geopolitics is real. We didn't invade Iraq for the reasons we were told. We did it for geopolitical and domestic political reasons, and every piece of data would be tortured enough that it would say what the government wanted it to say, even if no reasonable person could put all the data together and make it say what Bush wanted it to say. In this area then spying is beside the point.

We shouldn't forget that the CIA exists to offer a counterbalance to military intelligence which is more likely to rattle sabres than a civilian agency.
1) He's friends with a lot of syndicated cartoonists, and is concerned for their future.

2) He loves the syndicated model and always wanted to be part of it. Luckily he saw that the web was better and wanted to be a part of it.
As a developer who had need to run high performance Java, I gotta say your #1 option is just not an option. OpenJDK with icedtea isn't even remotely close to a replacement.

I understand that Oracle is forcing your hand, but the lack of compassion and sympathy and the ignorant insulting "recommendations" is really off putting.
It almost seems that someone read my comment here on HN a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3330669
I feel like your insight could be easily reversed. I can break down my web usage into three categories:

Work -- Python reference, particle data, journal articles, etc.

Utility -- Email & Chat clients, mapping information, and reference look up

Entertainment -- Netflix, shopping, pictures of cats

Everything else I do on my desktop, even chart making.
LEGO is very closed source. I'm fixing that with my http://bitbeam.org project. It's an open source hardware Lego Technic compatible building toy that you can manufacture yourself. (I lasercut my bitbeams at TechShop in San Francisco.) My long term plan is to make a bitbeam-based CNC milling machine that can make more beams. I won't just sell the "bricks", I'll open source and sell the machines that make the bricks. Opening up the manufacturing process is something I suspect LEGO would never do. Also, I'd like to see a fully open source equivalent to Mindstorms - Arduino for the electronics and Bitbeam for the mechanics.
>those for whom the little details like UI responsiveness are supremely important

That isn't what he said. The general angle of MG and Gruber is that iOS is universally superior to Android.

I remember trying out the iPhone and being shocked at how terrible -- almost childish -- the notification system was. On Android it was graceful and well thought out. The same goes for application integration, where on Android it was well thought out from day one, while on iOS you have silos of applications.

There are a thousand and one ways that Android is more refined and has the "little details" that are superior to iOS. None of these ever matter to Gruber or MG. But where iOS has a nicer bounce after a scroll, well that's critically important.

If we want to go with car analogies, iOS would more correctly be a pimped up Honda Civic. The owner is sure it's a refined, idealized car, but they are the ones who don't realize what they're missing.
Unfortunately, Android development requires the Sun JDK: http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

AIUI, Ubuntu is the primary development platform for Android, (information on the same page), so perhaps Google will produce some kind of solution for this.
So we would be more trustworthy if we left millions of users vulnerable to being silently compromised by malware?

No, Apache and Exim wouldn't get removed, the source is available so a fix can be issued.
Grit & determination are for me defining factors in a person's character IMO. What initially turned me onto this was the Teach for America article on the effectiveness of teachers. One of the most surprising items on the research was the effect of grit on the teacher. More specifically:

"What did predict success, interestingly, was a history of perseverance—not just an attitude, but a track record. In the interview process, Teach for America now asks applicants to talk about overcoming challenges in their lives—and ranks their perseverance based on their answers. Angela Lee Duckworth, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues have actually quantified the value of perseverance. In a study published in TheJournal of Positive Psychology in November 2009, they evaluated 390 Teach for America instructors before and after a year of teaching. Those who initially scored high for “grit”—defined as perseverance and a passion for long-term goals, and measured using a short multiple-choice test—were 31 percent more likely than their less gritty peers to spur academic growth in their students. Gritty people, the theory goes, work harder and stay committed to their goals longer. (Grit also predicts retention of cadets at West Point, Duckworth has found.)"

That started the initial conversation with Adam Smith. This let to a fascinating conversation with respect to startups, teaching, and everything else too.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/01/what-mak...
That implies that the internet's primary purpose is commerce, which I wouldn't say is the case.

It is great for advertising goods, just as a newspaper or magazine is. That doesn't make a newspaper just a medium for commerce.
The notion of replacing the sun java6 with a openjdk7 is extremely laughable. If you have a high performance java server app, openjdk just doesnt cut it.
There's a world of difference between a visual designer and a UX designer, not to mention a software designer (==architect). Most of the people here are more like UX designers, which in the context of a founder, means a "product person".

So if you're a product person (clearly yes), you qualify IMO.
Probably why so many hospitals are choosing iPad over PCs.
i read it, and read it twice more after you commented, and failed to parse any meaningful information. :/
I went to one VZW store this morning, and they were sold out 10 minutes after opening. Headed straight for Best Buy and got the last of 5 (?!) that they had received.

The phone is not without problems. Everyone mentioned my voice sounds a little tinny compared to on my OG Droid, and Ubuntu won't recognize the phone so music transfer is a problem. Still, I think I'll be keeping it, even if it is unbelievably huge.
I'm familiar with Duverger's law, but it's almost completely irrelevant here.

"why would they get money from people who don't vote for them?"

Please, think about this statement a little more deeply.

Elections are, usually, winner-take-all. Donations assuredly are not. A vote for the Bloomberg party might definitely be a vote thrown away. A donation to this party does not suffer the same fate.
The background story of Évariste Galois is phenomenal. He was expelled from school twice, fought in a revolutionary unit, was imprisoned for threatening the life of the king and revolutionised mathematics forever. He died in a duel over a woman at the age of 20! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Galois

Imagine what he would have done if he had lived to 40? There were some really fascinating characters in the mathematics in the 19th century. A very far stretch from the world's stereotypes of a repressed, bespectacled geek or the boring image of mathematics given by high school classes.
I wonder if Verizon has some silly exclusive. The pentaband HSPA+ version went on sale here in Canada last week and even earlier in the UK.

I wonder when we'll see it available contract-free for ~500 from other places.
Fortunately, Eclipse users are generally going to be in a position to fix the problem, or they can even pin the packages in advance if they want to remain vulnerable. On the other hand, any other resolution would lead to compromised users not able to fix the problem.
What is it about technology that makes people proud to announce they know nothing about it while simultaneously assuming positions of authority and power over it? At least in other domains people put up a pretense of having knowledge about areas they are taking crucial decisions on. Something about technology and especially the internet seems to evoke this phenomenon.
I've been reading PvP for a long time, and I have to say Scott isn't the best person to go to for this offer. He's a bit of a blowhard, and he's can be very unprofessional (doesn't keep to a rigid schedule, gets in online flame wars, etc.).

If they want a real example of how to do it, I'd point them to Howard Taylor, who hasn't even had a LATE update yet, with a 7-day color strip, and feeds his family of 6 or so (Scott is just him and his wife).
I highly recommend contacting your Representatives/Senators immediately. It amazes me that both of the California Senators are cosponsors of this turd. I would think they are among those who can be swayed.
Counterpoint: I find it refreshing. In my opinion many otherwise interesting virtual communities degrade due to lack of some form of moderation.

I don't see it as artificially restricting questions. They're enforcing the rules that preserve the character and quality of the site. It's not arbitrary:

> This question is not a good fit to our Q&A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion.

There are other places for that sort of free-form discussion. Separating them from the factual Q&A is a win-win.
Google is really letting Verizon screw this up. First no Wallet, then Verizon apps on phone, and now that the LTE model is released, we find that the GSM model is cheaper to import than the Verizon LTE model is to buy without contract.

The GSM model also happens to be pentaband 3g, so it works with TMobile and AT&T in the US. I've been using mine on TMobile for 2 weeks now, bought for about $730 from Expansys.

And yes, it is awesome. Just make sure you unlock the bootloader immediately, so you dont have to wipe it later if you choose to unlock then.
http://hackerthings.com has a pretty good list for tinkerers.
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I think your definition of commerce is much narrower than the accepted legal definition. Communications is commerce, hence why the FCC can regulate radio transmissions.
It has never occurred to me that girls don't play with Lego. My five year old daughter loves them. Hardly a tomboy either, she uses Lego to build little rooms for some little dolls to play in. She has made little desks and beds. Then she play acts with the dolls like any little girl will.

Of course, it did start with me(her dad) having fond memories of Lego as a kid and wanting to make sure my daughter had a chance to build with them. But the fact that she actually likes using them is up to her.
You do know that Oracle's JDK 7 is based on openjdk7, right?
Ahh, it isn't just bike couriers then?
I doubt that a technological solution is the best answer to SOPA-like legislative nightmares. A true, lasting solution would likely involve deep, structural government reform. (Very hard to accomplish, but likely to be effective.)

Here's one idea:

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/07/july-4th-is-a-scam/

Probably not the best solution, but a decent candidate, a good initial stab at the problem.
What got my attention was the amount of funding the fist line of companies got compared to their counterparts. SlideShare (3m!), Flickr acquired for 35m (!).

Does anyone know why Flickr sold? Why does about.me need 51 employees?

1. Asides YouTube, the acquisition amounts are not impressive.

2. How is value being calculated? Funds raised?

3. They do not even almost match up to Developer founded companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc).

4. What is even the idea of the vs. argument? It takes a good idea, a big market and good execution to win big. Developers, Designers, Business people, all contribute to that success.
Common Lisp has a global variable called read-base ,which controls also base numbers are read in with. This, IIRC, was put in because some earlier Lisps read numbers in octal, while others used decimal. Setting this variable to something higher than 10 can give you strange results. For example,

nil
=> NIL
(eql '() nil)
=> T
(setf *read-base* 36)
nil
=> 30477
(eql '() nil)
ERROR: 19101 is not a function name; try using a symbol instead
(|EQL| '() nil)
=> NIL

For you non-lispers, the empty list '() is equal to the "false" value, nil. Also, the pipes are special syntax to allow for symbols which normally not parse as symbols. (The uppercase is for historical reasons too).

The moral of this story: "See that control variable over there, the one that does weird things to parsing? Don't touch it unless you know what you're doing."
Bitbeam: Lego Technic-compatible open hardware building toy
The verizon Galaxy Nexus off contact is 650+tax.
Buffett's most favorite founder in Berkshire Hathaway, Rose Blumkin, is the ultimate example of grit: http://www.buffettsecrets.com/rose-blumkin-nebraska-furnitur...

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/13/business/rose-blumkin-reta...

Also a cool read is Dr. Arthur Jensen's research on calculating prodigies: http://stepanov.lk.net/mnemo/jensen.html. For me, the last paragraph is the kicker:

"But the nature of this hypothesized advantage is really still uncertain. It might well turn out to be characterized more as a motivational variable than as primarily an attentional or ability variable. Why did Devi as a girl practice numbers so assiduously? Or why did the young Richard Wagner, to the consternation of his parents and teachers, repeatedly play truant from school just to be able to spend whole days concentrating on the orchestral scores of Beethoven's symphonies? Or Ted Williams, the famous baseball player, whose mother worried about the normality of his running all the way home from school every day to practice until nightfall relentlessly pitching baseballs through a hole in a backboard? It is the same story repeatedly in the biographies of the world's truly exceptional performers in every field. A good case could probably be made that the most exceptional performers and creative geniuses are much further out from the average of the general population on some kind of motivational factor than on any traits most psychometricians would consider a basic ability or cognitive capacity."
My point is that Iran is being made out to be the "bad guy" because they've taken something important and supposedly secret that belongs to the USA and won't give it back.

I don't think a country is the bad guy when they are simply trying to stop another country from spying on them.
Scientists report first solar cell with greater than 100% quantum efficiency
I got 1 upvote for anyone that can provide me a pdf of this thing.
Serious discussion of revisions feels like a core part of jurisprudence.

What if constitutional language-seeking behavior were more human, and evolved with us?

It is philosophical, but psychologically healthy to recognize what needs governing now. Is a government contextually present more able to fit reality?

If no question is stupid. "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."..... Why is it felt governing and law is unquestionable? Sometimes our definition of stable is wrought?

A different angle, in same direction. Better constituting our futures is important.
"How do I get into defense contracting, again? I have the parts for a "drone" sitting on my kitchen table right now that, from the sound of things, is about navigationally equivalent to this thing."

I don't know how serious you are, but every state and local law enforcement agency in the US will be looking to buy smaller, more affordable drones for traffic and crime uses in the very immediate future (if they aren't already).

see: http://www.npr.org/2011/12/05/143144146/drone-technology-fin...

I know this is an aside to the original article ... I just wanted to say that, if you were serious, I would totally invest money into such an endeavor :)
Yeah sorry the article layout is actually sloppy, bad design, poor readability...will work on making more persuasive, data full examples in future and appreciate your candid feedback...but here were a couple assertions:
-First, as the the consumer tech market becomes more crowded, differentiated brand and experience design is becoming critical to both short-term and long-term success.

-Second, successful designer founders will attract the remaining distribution of aspiring entrepreneurial designers, theoretically shifting the supply of designers innovating rather than advertising sugar water.

-The third assertion is that designer founders have unique skills (not just visual) to understand human needs, make products that people actually want by driving new ideas and connecting things that aren’t obviously connected, and to communicate persuasively by visualizing a narrative of the future state of things.

-Furthermore, a startup with a designer founder who can lead and model design practices has a competitive advantage [2], especially when the designer is accompanied by technical and business co-founders. The critical mass of combined design, technical, and business skills enables product iteration to happen faster and at a higher resolution.

-Finally, later-stage companies have an appetite for designer founders who are capable of leading product innovation within their organization and are willing to acquire designer founded startups, which creates a virtuous cycle of wealth.
I'm routinely offended by things MG Siegler says about Android but I actually found his article refreshingly open about his biases (not that he ever really hides them). In this piece he's at least very open that he's talking about perception and the war over "tangible" issues is pretty much over (in that both platforms are sufficiently good).

My main problem is that just as the intangibles matter on the iOS side they also matter on the Android side, but the Android ones don't seem to get any merit. The fact that I'm free to use my device how I want, write an app for a friend, give it to them for their birthday, share it by email. The fact that the Android ecosystem lets me choose the kind of device I want, how much I want to pay for it, how it should look and feel and behave. Those things are in many ways intangible because many of them are just potential things that I don't actually do but the ability to do them is important to me. So sure, "you either see it or you don't" is a fine statement, but it goes both ways: you either value your freedom or you don't.
You need MTP stuff -- mtp-tools. The newest Amarok or Rhythmbox w/ plugin should work fine.

The Nexus unified the filesystem, and therefore cant give USB block-level access. MTP was the only way to go unless you want to have a separate partition, which leads to the terrible 'is the app on local or on sd?' situation.

Here is the situation described: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/19/galaxy.nexus.f...

For mac users, you want this tool: http://www.android.com/filetransfer/

After having the Galaxy Nexus for 2 weeks, the phone no longer feels large in my hands, but the Nexus S it replaced looks ancient and pathetically tiny/low-resolution.
No one would ever attempt to prosecute a corporation for perjury (the penalty specified by the DMCA) if it sends out a piddling few hundred fraudulent takedown notices. On the other hand, I wouldn't put it past them to throw the book at any individual they catch sending one. Individuals have neither the stamina for a long legal battle nor any means of plausible deniability ("The notices were automated!", "We don't know who sent it.", "The guy who sent it has been fired, problem solved.", etc.), and prosecutors like winning cases.

IANAL.
For people in the events/ticketing space, this is a big deal. Zvents doesn't get a ton of press, but they are a major player in how people find long tail events on the web, thanks to the fact they power the local section for hundreds of major websites, particularly newspapers.

Right now, StubHub only has bigger events held at "real" venues, whereas Zvents has an index of long tail events that's perhaps 10x bigger than StubHub's. The thing is, StubHub is a secondary marketplace for tickets, and there's basically no secondary market for these long tail events. So does this mean that ebay/StubHub wants to stop limiting themselves to the secondary market?
Unfortunately it doesn't work on any network besides Verizon's, so...
Perhaps the House of Representatives should be populated like a jury. Hundreds of regular "Joe Citizens" are randomly selected and then voted on each year. No more career politicians selling out citizens for kickbacks. No more career politicians not doing their job because they are on the campaign trail seeking reelection.

Then revert Senate seats to be appointed, not elected, positions. The Senate and President will (hopefully) squash crazy ideas that may escape the House.

William F. Buckley said, "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
SOPA votes derailed by politician's 'offensive' tweet
No, actually. These days there are very few non-generic pieces. If we're talking bionicles, then yes. But 99% of pieces in any modern set (branded or otherwise) are generic. The exception is usually things like fighter windshields (if they're called that in space?).

e.g. The Star Destroyer engines are actually wheels presumably borrowed from some other set. The Death Star as far as I can tell has no "special" pieces, nor the AT-AT, AT-ST or X-wing. The millenium falcon has a few special bits, but even they look repurposed from some other set.
>we find that the GSM model is cheaper to import than the Verizon LTE model is to buy without contract.

The Verizon LTE model is $650 off contract. Third party retailers may charge more because they only otherwise make money if people sign contracts and generate commissions. I read Radio Shack and Best Buy charge $750 for the commitment free device. But if you go to a corporate Verizon shop or buy it off the web, it's $650.

That said: I actually found that with my corporate negotiated discount with Verizon getting me $50 off a device if you signed a contract, it is cheaper for me to add a contract line to get the subsidized price, and then immediately cancel it and pay the ETF rather than buy the phone outright. Doing that also means I only pay sales tax on the subsidized price rather than the full $650.
I hear corporations are "real people" these days. ;)
You are correct. I only looked at the price at Best Buy, which is $799. Wirefly is $709.