skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mostly ranges from silliness to fear-mongering, but at least it ends on a rational note:

"Allow me to translate Ms Wilderman's words into plain English," wrote Robert Bruce Thompson, the author of Illustrated Guide To Home Chemistry Experiments. "'Mr Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down.' There's a word for what just happened in Massachusetts. Tyranny."

"Robert Bruce Thompson, the author of Illustrated Guide To Home Chemistry Experiments", also the author of PC Hardware in a Nutshell and other O'Reilly books.
A colleague and friend of mine who used to love drinking is unable to now for medical reasons, and while I've always felt sad that he can't do what he used to enjoy, I've never felt that his not drinking has been anything like a problem for anyone other than him.

That said, I can see that there is some logic for some people. It's very possible for drinkers and non-drinkers to enjoy each other's company while drinking and not drinking, but for some people, if they feel this way, there's no reason it shouldn't be like any other activity. I'm a big fan of sports, for example English football, I don't mind that plenty of my friends are completely indifferent, they don't mind that I love it. I'd never expect them to come and watch a game with me, or even watch on TV. So I wouldn't have a problem with people thinking the same thing about "getting drunk" instead of "watching football".
Getting the email server set up is easy, almost trivially so.

It's dealing with all the other issues that's an immense pain. SpamAssassin is not always a magic bullet, deliverability to third-party mail servers can be a major problem even if you follow all the rules, and Gmail's UI has a number of advantages that many mail programs can't compete with.

If you compare the hours of time a month that takes with the up-front elimination of hassle that Google Apps provides, it's not hard to see why a hacker might prefer to just outsource it and focus on tasks more pleasing to them.
I thought it was in the middle of the desert somewhere, not in a suburb
The device (ZT-180) is already out there and runs Android. Good luck to the devs trying to get kernel source from Zenithink though, not to mind hardware drivers. They've already said they've run into problems. The vast majority of Chinese tablet manufacturers do not honour the GPL and it's already killed one Linux tablet project, CordiaTab. In that case the Chinese company actually tried to extort money from the developers.
You clearly went to a safety school then.
The open-source stuff is a rounding error. Think about all the Google products; Search, Google+, Gmail, Groups, Translate, Maps, Docs, Calendar, Checkout, Wallet, Voice, ... those are all in one repository. (Not to mention all the libraries and internal tools; those are all in there too.)
>Something like 90% of people didn't go above 5GB or so. And this was on residential DSL, not on mobile internet.

That's skewed to people who don't value a fast internet connection. Those that do have moved on from vanilla DSL to DOCSIS based cable, FIOS, U-verse, and other technologies. I'm not surprised that plain jane DSL is the home of retirees and people whose needs rarely go beyond a facebook/web machine.

Funny thing is that I'm with two providers the conventional "wisdom" here and at others sites like reddit consider to be garbage: comcast and tmobile. Comcast is honest with me and publishes its 250gb cap. I get 13/3mbps for that 250gb. Tmobile gives a 5gb cap on my S2 before throttling, thats 5gb on a fast HSPA+ connection. No games, no BS(well by corporate standards), and I can check my usage easily. I can't imagine having to deal with AT&T. Didn't they just unilateraly make everyone pay extra for text messages a couple months ago? Its horror stories all the way down. Meanwhile, I'm going pretty good with my supposedly "bad" providers reddit and consumerist likes to rant about.
<code> But almost all of those lists are about very technical projects, where the only subscriber base should be people from either the IT security community, or the Free Software community.</code>

Sample bias.

Why would I be concerned about anything other than convenience with regards to the email account used for public email lists? The messages are public, my address is already likely been harvested, so anything I do is essentially public.

If I want to keep stuff private, that is maybe the time to set up my own email system. And use encryption and all the good stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

Also, you might want to check out those studies that show the link between one's lack of ability to recognize sarcasm and dimentia.
He provides a lot of powerful-sounding admonitions, none of which equate to "build a product people want, and sell it".

From the post:

For a company to be successful there are literally only two functions the company has to perfect. Building and Selling. Thats it.

Did you actually read it?
I use SpamAssassin server side, and Thunderbird's own filter polishes off the rest. I see perhaps 1 spam mail per week (from the literally tens of thousands that hit my server).
Re: rackspace, you can always sign up for a trial account for something else, and once you're in, get the single email subscription for $2.
I think this is a particular article related to San Francisco, and not the US in general.
Reminds me of this article (http://www.economist.com/node/18678963) which talks about overregulation in the USA.

The other thing this reminds me of is The Aviator. It's always fascinating because you essentially see a guy build an empire, and help build an important industry, largely through lack of regulations.
Pixenomics: invade, trade and color pixels in this new HTML5 game
Pixenomics is the game of pixel ownership by force or wealth. Invade neighboring pixels by strategically choosing a color. The server is a bit slow with the budget of two uni students, hoping to upgrade soon.
One man's great design is another man's piece of shit, so ignore design feedback -- social software lives and dies by three words... community, community, community.
How small would you have to make one that could check the airflow caused by sound waves?

Could you make an array of them oriented perpendicular to the plane, like a sheet?

Could you make it light enough to float on sound?

What kinds of things might it be good for? Sound dampening?

Could a paddlewheel configuration extract energy from air or liquid flow in any direction?
Wow this guy's life sounds AMAZING. All kidding aside, I'm for anything that makes you happy and doesn't harm others.
Aren't you a little bit uncomfortable giving Google all that data? Do you keep a back-up??
Pixenomics is the game of pixel ownership by force or wealth. Invade neighboring pixels by strategically choosing a color.

The server is a bit slow with the budget of two uni students, hoping to upgrade soon.
I wish ISPs would just give up on the whole "Unlimited" concept. Clearly it's not practical for them to offer truly unlimited service, so let's just cut the bullshit and go to usage-based billing.

Unfortunately, the tech community hates usage-based billing about as much as they hate throttling. Baffles me as to why.

I think we need to make it illegal to advertise "unlimited" without it actually being unlimited. I would have thought that existing truth-in-advertising laws would cover this, but apparently they don't.

Make it illegal to promise what you never intend to deliver and this whole problem goes away. If unlimited is practical to offer, then it will be offered. If unlimited is not practical, then ISPs will no longer be allowed to pretend that it is, and will be encouraged to make the limitations of their offers obvious up-front instead of using shady nonsense like this.
Alcohol's been around for millenia because for millenia, humans could not reliably find safe water sources. All sorts of microbes like to grow in water; if it weren't for the cellular poison known as ethanol, you'd probably be drinking giardia, cholera, E.coli, and all sorts of other microbes along with your water.

It was only the development of municipal water chlorination that made alcohol unnecessary. That didn't start getting widespread adoption until the 1930s (two generations ago), and wasn't legislated until 1972 (one generation ago). So it's certainly conceivable that within one generation, alcohol will go the way of tobacco.
You only have ~100 email accounts per server?
So all the unlimited users need to use over 4gb to raise that "top 5%" number significantly.
More smartphones than computers shipped in 2011, says study
I blog. I don't have much fun while doing it. So, I could possibly be a good customer.

But... I don't get how you are better. You have only stating that you are better. I would also like to see examples of your strength (I know you pointed that your blog is running on the platform, but I don't see anything useful on your blog about how you are better).

Try looking at http://www.smugmug.com/ They have a similar philosophy to you guys (in the photos space).
Just imagine the day we get cheap 3D printers. We see this article on the internet on the Tesla Valve and want to try it out ourselves, so we download the blueprint and send it to our personal printer, which prints a copy of the Tesla Valve and then we play with it ourselves. I am guessing there are so many (expired) patents out there that, just like this one, can be converted to a blue print and everyone would get to experiment with it, instead of only large companies with enough cash to customise expensive equipment for it.
Pretty much this. I spend more than enough time fiddling with things as it is. Moreover, the article latches on to security/privacy whereas my primary concern is ease of use.
Should Beginners, Today, Start With JavaScript?
I understand why, the software works really well. But given the right amount of engineering resources, anyone could duplicate it. Nothing is keeping you on Dropbox other than the quality of the software, so if better quality software comes along, you'll switch to that and Dropbox will be a distant memory of the past.

Compare that to Facebook where you can't switch because your friends won't switch, and you only use Facebook to interact with your friends. Even if there is a better social networking site than Facebook, it won't matter because nobody will use it.
You gain in that mentally you don't have to think about a stack of things your doing to make your browsing as secure as possible every day.
Android Headed To The US Government And Military
maybe it's just because i've seen too much TV, but i suspect that a lot of these fees and red tape could have been avoided if you knew the right people.
No. Please read the article.
Personally, DNA analysis is pretty interesting and is easy to get into right now, even if we are still at the cusp of a $1000 genome sequence. I've used FTDNA and once you have your results you can follow real work pertaining to your own ancestral group. There is a lot of activity on dna-forums.org and it really shows how much history one does not know when reading some of the discussions. I encourage more people to get into it to increase the pool of results available.
JFTR PermitUserEnvironment is nowadays per default disabled. You should also make sure that AcceptEnv is sane (e.g. just accept LC_* and LANG)

But even if you use a static linked /bin/false you must make sure that you disable PermitUserEnvironment as sh(1) is executed if ~/.ssh/rc exists and sh is typically dynamically linked
I had to visit Area 51 after seeing this.

I saw some jets on the ground for the first time. Except they don't look real. They look like the same image repeated.

http://i.imgur.com/Phk7M.jpg
You go to

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/

or use wget or curl to download the source for what ever you are interested in.
"I disagree that it's primarily Stallman's work. For one thing, OS X is based upon FreeBSD and Mach, neither of which are affiliated with the FSF. And I'd argue that the foundations of Google and Facebook are PHP, Apache, Python, etc. which are also not FSF."

OS X used all the major GNU tools, and was built with GCC. Without his creation you wouldn't have been able to build OS X.

The foundations of Google and Facebook are ultimately the GNU toolset. Everything you mentioned, php, apache, python, are built on top of the GNU tools.
With the right guidance, perhaps, but probably not on their own. It helps that JavaScript has C-style syntax, but a beginner would not know which features to avoid (http://oreilly.com/javascript/excerpts/javascript-good-parts...).
To be fair, Android and Chrome are pretty huge projects. I know the numbers (though I don't think I can share them outside of Google), and while they're nowhere close to being a big part of the total, they're also big enough to not be considered a rounding error.
Press release by the SF Planning Department containing the video http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2925
A couple of cigarettes each year is not going to increase your chances of health problems any more than a couple of drinks. Yet, we look down upon the people who even try a cigarette just once.

And what about drinking and driving? One drink is legally okay in most jurisdictions, and generally considered to still be safe, but it is often taboo to even do that these days. Zero tolerance is a strong meme in that area.

And those attitudes are not necessarily bad, but it takes what does cause harm in excess and applies the same logic to moderation. I'm just not certain alcohol is immune to those same social pressures.

I guess only time will tell...
"Email augments my life but does not control it." I can't really say that the way self respecting hackers are, but self respecting people are.

I'm not a hacker, i don't plan to be one. I run my own server with a similar config as you do [i do run spamassasin]. I don't let telephone, mail, im, or letters run my life; as i don't let google, yahoo, facebook or whatever do the same. I'm not a hacker, but i share and respect the values Harald Welte wrote about, as a person.
I call shenanigans; this is about economics.

Dad had FAR more buyIng power on his $4-6000 per year salary than we do today.

He didn't have to commute as far and the price of gas and food was far lower than today.

Further, people simply went out and ate out far less and just lived on less.

This is about the evil of marketing to convince generations to consume.

This is about greed.
If you don't mind me asking, why are T-Mo/Sprint/US Cellular/etc not options for you?
How did they not have even a single mention of SACD, DSD or PDM?
If you are still waiting for that day, you can get the valve 3D printed now from my shop: http://www.shapeways.com/model/292339/tesla_valve.html

And if you already have a 3D printer, you can get the files free here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16919
Quite interesting!

At first, I didn't understand why you only wanted a 200x200 image. I expected it to cut a big picture up into smaller squares and lay them out in a table.

But I was wrong! :)

It actually creates a 200 row by 200 column table and changes the background of each cell to match the image's color at that pixel.

I'd recommend improving the description of the service on the site. It took me a couple tries to get it to work (I used too big of a picture), but finally got it to work. Glad I did.

Thanks for sharing.
I never understood the appeal of doing a local online startup. The conversion rates are not much bigger in local, and your visitors are scattered all across the USA. So suppose you got a 1% conversion rate, and 1 million uniques. That's pretty good: 10,000 buyers. At 1% conversion rate and 100 uniques in 1 city, you're down to just 1 buyer. That stinks. But it doesn't scale because no local advertiser is gonna get excited over 1 buyer.
Wow this is really cool! I imagine you should be able to take an image and render it with CSS3 rather than tables. Is that the next step :)?
> And how many of those things would be around if they weren't generating revenue for someone?

I've visited the building where Red Hat has their Brazilian office (or, at least one of them). Nice place for a non-profit.

The argument it's not possible to make money and, at the same time, respect the rights and freedoms of users is an old one. We shouldn't be hearing it anymore.
>You're either alone and should just find a way to be in that happy, light place without the wine...

Yeah, that sounds definitely like you're pushing your views to me.
Nope, not ajax, not crazy, and not poorly written.

Simply a large page where a client can easily and quickly updates prices on a large number of products. Each product has a number of fields, and there can be lots of products on the page (depending on the search parameters they chose).
I just tested it and i didn't get it to work. ~/.ssh/rc is not executed directly but given as an parameter to your shell (/bin/false) which will ignore the parameter.

To be more precise sh -c /bin/false -c '/bin/sh .ssh/rc' is executed where /bin/false is your shell as ssh uses popen(3) to run the command /bin/false -c '/bin/sh .ssh/rc'. I tested several shells which may be used as sh and none seems to read a user configurable file.

If you use a static linked shell and enabled PermitUserEnvironment an attacker can still use LD_* variables to circumvent restrictions as /bin/sh is typically dynamically linked.
I don't think that's the issue. Look through the R4 zones on the sunnyvale zoning map. http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/CommunityDevelopment/Map... Almost every one of those is a beautiful new (tall) building that efficiently uses the space, and the plots aren't huge.
It's 2012, and there's still no official SIP to Skype gateway
Any idea why Skype does not provide any official means to call skype accounts from a SIP connection? Even a paid interface is not available.
The only thing that is available is a paid service where you can call phone numbers from Skype to your SIP trunk

so, there's a huge world of SIP telephony, and another huge world of Skype users. And they don't talk to each other.

I'm not considering dirty hacks which bind Asterisk or FreeSWITCH with a Skype GUI client installed on the same machine.
I remember reading about this valve in 'Man Out Of Time'[1], (great book BTW, highly recommended).

Well, you said ask questions. :)

1) I seem to recall this valve only works when there is flow, so if you need to store liquid oxygen, for example, you would still need a check valve on the tank. Is that correct?

2) I think there is another variation on this valve for liquids, is that right? This version is for gasses, the valve for liquids looks like a series of petals. Is that right or did I imagine it?

3) Was the original intent of this valve to prevent back pressure from the blade turbine?

Thanks,
o2sd

[1] http://www.bookdepository.com/Tesla-Man-out-Time-Margaret-Ch...
That's awesome you set this out for yourself. Almost every bright person and genius I know are all self taught, kudos for jumping in the pool and the best of luck. Keep us updated.
And how does it feel when you get negative karma?
Well I have some stories of things that happened to me that I think freak people out a little bit.

For instance, when I was 8 and cooking for myself in a small house where I lived alone (the main house was all of 150 ft away), I sliced my hand up pretty badly and stitched it back up without telling anyone. Well stitched isn't quite the right word. Held together is more accurate.

I was probably a bit more accident prone as a child than others and I think it confirms many people's worst fears. Personally, I think a few scars here and there add character and I'll still stitch myself up when I get hurt.
What the Future will look like if ACTA gets approved - Stop ACTA
It looks like the script is trying to swap to a higher resolution tile before that high-res tile is fully loaded, resulting in a black square in the interim.
It's a good theory, but on the other hand stiffer alcohol regulations could be a response to a larger underlying prevalence in alcohol abuse.

You often find more police stations in places with more crime. Does that mean police stations cause crime? I doubt it. You could argue police stations cannot reduce crime to the levels of lesser crime areas but you cannot say that police stations are the cause of crime. The reality is: there is crime so you build police stations, not the other way around.

I believe this is the same for alcohol regulations. There are a lot of alcohol abuse so they make alcohol regulations stiffer. It may be true that regulations does nothing to reduce abuse and actually cause people to abuse alcohol even more but there is no evidence to prove this unambiguously.
Thanks for the constructive criticism! To clarify, my goal is not to find a client in Dec, but by Dec. Start focusing on client hunting around Sept, giving me about 4 months to find a gig.

Still unrealistic? Currently don't see a better option than to try, and if I fail, go back to temping/saving until I can try again. Is there a smarter way I'm overlooking? Thanks for again for your input.
When I read the post I didn't get a very sanctimonious feeling out of it.

But quotes like these are not at all defusing the hostility:

> "Like with most things it's easy to slide down a slippery slope. One glass of wine turns into two and then you've polished off the rest of the bottle."

You've gone from "here's a great idea" to "if you're not doing it my way you're on a slippery slope to hell", and I think that's the tone people are objecting to.
Which is why it baffles me that so few people use S/MIME--other than the trending preference for webmail which isn't well suited for encryption. S/MIME is simple to setup on most email clients, and offers encryption of the body of the mail if the recipient is uses S/MIME as well. There are several of us at work that send encrypted emails all the time.
I agree completely despite being a frequent recreational user of drugs including alcohol. I was once an extremely shy person who on following friends to social gatherings would ignore girls hitting on me and otherwise avoid interaction. I was very lonely so I sought out drugs as a way to subdue my inhibitions. Misguided though that may have been, ecstasy in particular has helped me gain confidence in social situations (due partly to a placebo effect :). I realized that I should and would be able to be comfortable and have fun while sober if I only tried.

Drugs are fun in moderation (let's not throw the babies out with the bathwater) but only to the extent that they cause fun rather than detracting from it. In my experience for a given drug such a point of inflection always exists.

Drinking for the taste also makes sense.
Well... I still own (and use, once every couple weeks) a car that runs on ethanol and has an analog electronic injection. The radio is, most probably, its smartest part ;-)

It can be examined and changed, but it's not as easy as recompiling its engine.