skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICANN and DNS will be dealt with at conferences in 2013 and 2014. WCIT is mostly about charging for international Internet traffic termination, making the ITU-T's recommendations( which compete with the IETF's and others') mandatory, and getting the ITU's foot in the Internet-regulation door.
Ecuador says WikiLeaks' Assange seeks asylum
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus
The only way I can mentally justify something like an ipad falling under the law would be if the point was to keep the Iranian government from legally buying 10000 of them to make some kind of supercomputer. Which seems pretty unlikely as I type it out.

But under than scenario, a few escaping here and there is tolerable, but it would be worth preventing massive numbers of them being sold to a foreign nation.

Of course, since the devices are manufactured in China, there are a few questions being begged.
I don't doubt the psychology described in the article, but there are other reasons to start a company than believing it will be massively success. These two recent posts come to mind:

"Getting Final Cut": http://log.scifihifi.com/post/25094818476/getting-final-cut

"Why you need your own company": http://sivers.org/laboratory
Because the "export" happens when a foreign person gets access to the material, not when they leave the country.
Getting Final Cut
There a little space between relational data modeling, live update, user friendliness (ala webos spirit friendly). Something akin to what Improv accomplished in his era.
How dire is Assange's situation? Is it really possible that the US will try to imprison or even execute him?

Edit: I know were not talking directly about the US here, but the reason I made the jump is that I see Sweden as a lot more likely to allow the US to bully it into giving up Assange
When someone says most X, responding with anecdotes about exceptions doesn't really work as a means of disputing them. That there are exceptions are implicit in the fact that he said most.
Good article :), here's my dissent... I, like most europeans (or for that matter most of the non anglo-saxon world), speak multiple languages on a daily basis. I think its true that a language forces you to concentrate on certain things i.e. object gender, its relative distance, or shape when counting objects, but it doesn't make you "think" differently in any fundamental way. We all still perceive three chairs, or drei Stuhlen o tres sillas, and I think whatever system we were to develop so long as it allowed one language user to express (in any way) a symbol that could be interpreted by another language user it would suffice (see de Saussure). I agree that language is powerful, I just don't think it hinges on spoken language, just an ability to abstract. I don't believe anyone thinks in sentences or words and for most tasks - especially programming, I visualize in what's happening. That's my two cents :)
I think this isn't about exporting cryptographic software so much as about not trading with certain countries (e.g. Iran, Cuba or North Korea) at all.
git diff --color

Or modify ~.gitconfig:

[color]
diff = auto

[color "diff"]
meta = yellow bold
frag = magenta bold
old = red bold
new = green bold
Enterprise IT departments are the reason for the market's optimism. The argument is that corporate buyers will prefer a tablet that integrates well with their current infrastructure. Assuming a decent product, MS would seem to have a built-in market that's insulated from iOS or Android competition. Or so the thinking goes. Even many old-school corporations are HTML5 / web-app first these days. I think Window's platform lock-in isn't what it used to be.
Do you visit only one site on the Internet? I just wonder how far you're willing to go here, because the beauty of the internet, to me, is that there are zillions of sites on lots of different topics.
Legendary senior partner at a law-firm sandwich seminar: "The most important thing about public speaking is to say it with confidence!"

Young associate (me), raising hand: "But what if you really aren't confident?"

Senior partner, fiercely: "FAKE it!"
Hey man, don't question the established order.

Remember, it's a luxury to pander to a VC.

Bootstrapping is only for those dirty proles.
I also find it very helpful to spiff up my prompt when changing into a git repo:

http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/02/02/bedazzle-your-...
I think the attribution to overestimating one's smarts, citing "fundamental attribution error" is a little misguided; most entrepreneurs aren't disillusioned about the success rate of startups. Rather, in the Valley, we call it being optimistic/head-strong/determined and it's a key attribute in entrepreneurs -- one that allows them to continue forward when everyone else is saying "no."
Utterly. Pretentious. Bullshit.
Cybersecurity May Move Forward in the Senate
WCITLeaks.org cofounder here. You're right that the language sounds more benign than they way it is described, but remember that this is diplo-speak and it is occurring in a pre-existing context. The Chinese proposal is actually pretty sweeping when properly interpreted, and is cause for some concern.
"According to BSB chief executive officer, Zhang Yue, he said that the company is confident that the government will give the go ahead for this project."

I wonder if this building project, which the submitted link says has not even received government approval, will go the way of high-speed rail in China: first, a lot of gee-whiz headlines; second, deadly failures. Shoddy construction of buildings led to considerable loss of life during recent earthquakes in China.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-06-06-china-construc...

(2008 Sichuan earthquake)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/deadly-earthquake...

(2012 Qinghai earthquake)

I've been reading the Chinese press in the original Chinese for a long time, so I tend to read between the lines when I see news out of China.
Your definition of "on-topic" is not the same as ours, therefore you do want off-topic questions.

Saying that our definition of the topic is wrong, does not mean you aren't asking for off-topic questions to be allowed. It's the same thing.
I do similar deep digging for some topics. It may seem useless, and a lot of times it is. But sometimes digging into a problem helps me understand the bigger picture better, and then it seems worthwhile. Lately I've become more picky about what I'll dig into though.
StatCounters solid rebuttal to Microsoft's browser usage disputes
I intentionally mixed the financial companies, because they are all run by 'money people.' That's the whole point. Did you actually think that was a mistake?

The goal of banks is to make money by doing all sorts of things, from trading government paper, to providing liquidity to businesses (credit), to issuing standard loans, to issuing mortgages, to taking standard deposits, to issuing more complex CDs, to issuing credit cards, and on and on. There's no inherent definition limitation, it's up to the banks and the regulators to decide.

The goal of all of those entities I listed is to make money. They're all publicly traded corporations.

A more apples to apples comparison? What are you talking about? The point is to note the fact that there's A LOT more profit in big tech than in big finance.
Get a 50% deposit before you begin work. That 50% should be enough that you won't be completely screwed if they never wrap up the project.

If your goal is really to bootstrap your startup, your best bet is probably to hang on to the day job as long as possible - if only for the predictability of income.
Personally I just do not agree with your codeschool comment. I took the rails for zombies one and it felt excellent. and I specially learnt a lot from it.

My designer friend took the jQuery Air course and found it PERFECT. It gave him a lot of cues that it would not have understood without it.

I'm not quite sure what exactly your problems were with it, but you seems quite bitchy for nothing
"Populist" is generally either neutral or positive in American politics. But most often I hear it used to describe a political strategy, going directly for the masses instead of the upper echelons of power.
Hammer Time Squishing Fonts Into Text With Base64
The Splintering of OS X
He provided no evidence. Do some science, don't waste everyone's time with unsubstantiated opinions.

That's actually what Stack Exchange is about, so it's not surprising I guess that there's this impedance mismatch. If you want to just have a bunch of opinions, take it to Quora.
Starting up a Startup in Singapore - Part 1
Pousada de Cascais - Cidadela Historic Hotel
Is Not Spam - Online Spam checker for newsletters and email marketing
Why, just why.. First they designed the new clean Gmail UI, then allowed people to desecrate it with pictures of their babies?
Pirate Bay Disarms BT Blockade Within Minutes
What the Internet looks like, physically: Tubes reviewed
The answer is simple - everyone is being spied on. Not to tinfoil hat the issue but: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/ EEEVVERYONE

If you want to really get a feel for the situation, read Crypto: http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit... It's a book about how cryptography was finally accepted and allowed in the U.S., and how the NSA handled the growth of everyday crypto (hint: not without a fight).

It's not about a government agency trying to control everything and turn the U.S. into 1984, it's about an agency getting swept up in their own mission of secrecy and surveillance, and sometimes (in my opinion) using it as an argumentative technique to advance their agenda. This is just another obvious example of that.
Enable priority inbox... then minimize ;)
There's a __git_ps1 function that's included with the git bash completion script (edit: it works with zsh, too -- the __git_ps1 function and the completion).
Why is this even bad? Current US - Iran relations are very bad, and are blowing up thanks to media. It's no surprise that this man doesn't want to risk losing his job.
Make two groups; give one of them some extra and/or supposedly improved math schooling. Check their math grades and, years later, their success in higher education. See how much they correlate.
A presentation is a performance. When you are on stage, you are on stage.
Kathi Rawnsley on Startup Hurdles & Advice
Wow. TFA was a fine article, but I followed a link or two, and ended up reading the posted fulltext of My. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and that was some Good Reading.
Ask HN: Best dedicated hosting service? 
Just looking for some suggestions on the best dedicated hosting service, thanks in advance.
The US is planning to participate in WCIT. They recently appointed an ambassador. We have a US comment on the treaty revisions from 2011 on WCITLeaks.org:

http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/T09-CWG.WCIT12-C-0028!!MSW...
Recording yourself is extremely important. Although it may be awkward to look at yourself stumble through a speech, you will get good understanding of how you are presenting yourself. I'd even go as far as trying different clothing and see how each changes the image your reflecting.
As I use to co-host a radio show, I found that listening to yourself live is the best way to ensure a high quality show. It makes sure you don't speak too slow,fast, if there's an echo etc.
It's interesting when trying to do automated code analysis, and C is an important target for that, since it's used everywhere. But computer programs have a hard time to know when type limits are important and when they're not (or in fact not anticipated by the developer) - so they have to cover all cases.

(IMHO) For obscure cases, there's ideally some clearer version of the same behaviour that could be recommended to the developer - either helping them to find a potential error or to have them use a less ambiguous and easier to understand notation.
It's funny that nobody is questioning the value of the kickstand/keyboard. They've optimized a lean back device for a lean forward experience. Do you see people using their tablets at their desk or table? These are couch and bedstand devices (where at least the kickstand will serve some use).

And optimizing a tablet around landscape mode (thanks to using the tv standard 16:9 aspect ratio, which is awkward in portrait) is a blunder . It's one of those Apple advantages that sits in plain sight and Apple barely acknowledges, while they happily watch their competitors miss the point entirely. That 4:3 aspect ratio gives the iPhone it's killer app - it makes every website feel like a magazine. I think it's part of why Android tablets are largely failing - landscape is unappealing on a small screen.

These factors combined with its late release date (probably in the shadow of a new iPhone) and lack of Retina display, I don't see this being successful with consumers.
I think that if landlords wanted an income from a BnB, they'd just run a BnB.
tours for startups/founders
IT will be 10meters taller, not 10 centimeters.
I just use a ~/.git
Having an unstable, internal kernel interface has nothing to do with being opposed to closed source drivers. Linus' problem is when people bitch and moan when things change and it breaks closed source drivers. He's repeatedly said that anything internal is fair game to change. If your driver is in the kernel it will be fixed if the interface changes; if it's closed then you better keep up on your own.
overall accuracy is better

DBpedia is produced by a rube goldberg machine that parses (undocumentable) wiki markup

if a fact is wrong in Dbpedia you need to do detective work to know if it's a problem with the mappings or with Wikipedia. If it's in Wikipedia maybe the editors will let you fix it on a good day.

Precision and recall for types like "Person" is much better in Freebase. Years ago I spent a week in a half cleaning up data from Dbpedia to do something I was able to do in 15 minutes with Freebase.
Not all but certainly any Windows user who is considering a tablet.

Many laptop users dock them at work for use with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

People who travel a lot may find good use also. Work and play in one package.
Well, if you know there's 2 drone strikes a year, you wouldn't worry about a drone strike as much. But if there's 100,000 a year, suddenly there's a whole different problem back home defending that.

But what makes this a stupid defense is they aren't asking to make the numbers public, it's about making some top level data available to congressmen, which I would think should be indefensible.
Discussion is not the point of SO, or any Stack Exchange site. See http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...
Is there a course on udacity that teaches you how to build apps on Google App Engine? They do have one on building web apps but it does not specify which platform they use (if any).
When I was working at Dell, we were told that if we shipped/sold or willing sold to someone who we suspected would sell to someone in to one of the embargoed countries, we could be personally charged and imprisoned with no amnesty.
Great post, especially the concept 'Talks should always be reactionary rather than anticipatory'.

A public speaking ancedote for all those that are nervous at public speaking or currently aren't that good at it.

My father excels at public speaking. He has done many conferences, TV interviews, company all-hands meetings, regular presentations, etc. He is natural, comfortable, excited, etc. Most imporantly, he can really read a room and react to people and tune his presentation on the fly to what interests the crowd.

But it was not always so. When he was in his 20s, he was absolutely terrible at speaking in front of a room. At one point early in his career he was giving a presentation and his boss turned to the HR guy that had hired him and said 'is it too late to undo this one', purposely, loud enough for him to hear.

Over the course of 5 or 6 years he dramatically improved at public speaking.

Public speaking is a learned skill. You can practice it. Do not leave making the presentation to the last minute, finish it a week before hand and practice 40 times. Comfort comes from being prepared. Walk the room beforehand. Check all of your gear and have backups of everything just in case. Be prepared to use no slides so it won't be a completely new experience. Have fewer slides, it makes you feel more naked but the audience won't notice if you get things out of order a bit.

Toastmasters helps. If you are younger, join a debate or model congress club. It's like shooting a foul shot, you just need more reps.
> No FUCK OFF, hacker news is better than...

It's also better than screaming obscenities at eachother.
If it was a week or two ago, the quiz was probably from the same person as this article.

He's not just doing it for fun; he's a professor at the University of Utah, and he's researching this area, looking for bugs in compilers. In fact, he's developed a tool for this: http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/

These tiny bits of strange code are condensed versions of what you might see in the wild, especially after preprocessing.

Nobody's doing ++x > y, but they do something that looks reasonable like foo(x) > bar(x), where foo() and bar() return chars.
I have a feeling he'll be "couch surfing" from embassy to embassy to delay the extradition as long as possible.
Better than inconsistent.
When I tried to find more about this once, I found out that all "sources" were basically Bruce Schneier opinion pieces.
Hacker claims mass bank breach; releases Visa, Mastercard data
There is also codepupil - though it's in preview mode.
Can anyone direct me to the new URL for Hacker News? I missed the announcement where this site was converted to Hacker Ads.
using FB's jabber/xmpp servers here for fb-chat, working well.
I'm saying that Golden Gate Park is not the same as your office building, or school campus. I don't begrudge the park the right to exist, but places of learning aren't places of pure entertainment, at least not in the Stack Exchange worldview.
Let me get this straight: we're going to use Bret Taylor as a cautionary tale?

Are you f...ing kidding me? Some random tech press guy is passing judgement on a multimillionaire? Talk about delusional.
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You're changing the subject. I and my parent aren't talking about bankers, who don't read "the Us Magazine of business" (Forbes) anyway. The "money people" here are Sales and C-levels. Forbes is just negging (PUA-style) the techies here.
Ask HN: LastPass now offers credit reports. Should users be worried?
Anybody who is internet savvy enough knows that "Free Credit Report" sites have a pretty negative image as misleading and spammy and even a borderline scam.<p>I was pretty shocked to see this added to their [2.0 release notes](https://lastpass.com/upgrade.php?ver=2.0.0&type=cr&upgrade=1.90.6). Just like I don't expect my bank to offer me free smileys, I don't expect my password manager to offer credit reports.<p>Does anyone else see this as an alarming development for a service that holds the key to a lot of important private information?
A Datacenter Mockup made out of Lego
1 Year Later, Google+ Public Posts per Account are Down 74%
Fortunately others provided relevant links and data below my comment.

edit: The immature and offensive comment was posted by the user with username posabsolute (Cedric Dugas), who has fortunately thought better of it and deleted it and has evidently created sock puppet accounts to downvote this comment.
If he were to ever enter US custody, he's not likely to come away from that for a long time. The question is how interested is the US in getting him into custody and how easy is it for them. I imagine it's not terribly difficult but the US also hasn't done much so far.

But if I were him, I'm not sure I'd be willing to take any chances. The consequences are just too great.
I severely doubt it'd go so far as execution, sudden disappearance into a political black hole never to be heard from again? More likely.
The US has nothing to do with this. Sweden is trying to have him extradited from the UK for a sexual assault charge.
There's a number of reasons why racial profiling is considered wrong. Two of the biggest ones are that a) race is something that cannot be controlled, it is not a choice, and discrimination based on innate characteristics is wrong; and b) it's not effective.

However, language is a choice. Language is something that can be controlled. If you're being discriminated against because your language is a very strong indicator that you are a foreign national from an embargoed country, then it's really hard to say that linguistic profiling is wrong, because the two biggest objections to racial profiling don't apply.
Just wanted to let everyone here know that you can access the documents directly on our site at wcitleaks.org, or follow @wcitleaks on Twitter for updates.
Somebody here already mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

It helps to imagine the scale of it if that existed for Google and Facebook.
Misbehaving Particles Poke Holes in Reigning Physics Theory
Mm, not necessarily. A bed and breakfast is a lot more work than being a landlord. I think some landlords might be okay with piggybacking on someone else's willingness to do a lot of the work.

Maybe we will see a future where rentals spell out the terms of what you can do in regards to airbnb and what their cut is in such cases.
Your ideas for discovering competitors are generally a nice standard way of identifying some of your competition.

However, it completely depends on the niche/topic - if you're building a Mobile App its completely different to if you're building E-Commerce Store etc.

Secondly, I believe that whilst there is some case to execute the idea better than your competition it’s actually more important to distribute much better than them.

I mean... does it really matter to know what they're doing?

There are 7 Billion people on Earth... you should assume at least 50 people are working on your idea.

You should be focusing on ensuring your distribution is the best it can be (I mean sure, there are advantages for using some competitor analysis especially if you're trying to take advantage of SEO etc)

The more you're focusing on your competition the less focus you're spending on your product & distribution and the less likely you’re going to fully exploit and maximize the opportunity.
The difficult one with the green squares challenges us to find the difference between 4FBB0E and 5FC004. It's a pretty substantial change in the red value (though totally invisible to me). They cover themselves in ochre, right? So they're probably more sensitive to red.

Also, they screwed up producing the video. The first time they show the green squares, the different one is in the top left. The second time, it's in the top right.
US imprisonment has very little to do with this. The man faces rape and sexual assault charges, one of the most serious offenses a person can commit.

Though I back his politics 100% and consider him a hero to be remembered, he has every responsibility to face his accusers in a fair trial. Shame on Sweden if they hand him over to the Americans after his trial has concluded.
I thought the UK decided to extradite him to Sweden for rape charges?

While Wikileaks is certainly a motivating factor, and I'm sure it's why this story gets as much press as it does, I don't think it's where his legal problems stem from. As far as I know, the US has nothing to do with it.
I can build a crude missile guidance system using PS3s. I'm not sure about iPads, but I'd wager one is looking at a similar situation. Still think this is ridiculous, however - a check of residency should have been between observing someone speaking Farsi and denying the sale.
But Microsoft knocked one out of the park yesterday. Completely. Hit. A. Home. Run.

They COULD! GO! ALL! THE! WAY!

God I hate this writer already.
In that case the product is dropped rather than the company dropping it.
then what exactly are they waiting for. He's not likely to get any lower profile until past the time anybody cares (including the government)