skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say reelection to the second most powerful office in the country is a pretty compelling personal benefit.

The fine line usually placed in the US between corruption and politics as normal is that of the quid pro quo; it's fine to take money from people who happen to share your beliefs, but if you change your votes because of that money, it's corruption.

Politicans have always hidden behind the plausible deniability this gives. You can always claim that you changed your mind on an issue of your own free will, and the donations came later as an unexpected benefit.

But ultimately, it causes well funded interests to dominate political discussion. The teacher's union is almost uncrossable, but how much funding do homeless lobbies get?

Charitably, this is because of survivorship bias - politicans who don't have platforms that generate revenue die out - senators already literally spend half their time raising money [1]. More likely, everyone in congress and the senate sees the writing on the wall and preemtively switches to the right platforms.

The cracks are starting to show in this veneer of innocence, with Chris Dodd earlier this year directly threatening to withhold donations based on SOPA, unless the Obama administration toes the line [2]. It's so long been an open secret in Washington that it was a small step forward for Dodd to take, but it had the unusual effect of exposing the Washingtonian power games to the rest of the country, so it caused quite a bit stir up.

I'm not taking a side on what happened. I genuinely have no opinion one way or another. But if it were as mtgx suggests to curry favour with the MPAA to mend bridges after SOPA, there is zero lattitude on this. It would be corruption.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/a-big-moment_b...

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/14472117492/mpaa-d...

Edit: tows->toes. Yes I am an idiot.
Huh? Perhaps you mean Glib? Static linking works just fine with glibc:

[me@host: tmp]% cat > hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; }
[me@host: tmp]% gcc -o hello -Wall hello.c -static
[me@host: tmp]% file hello
hello: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped
[me@host: tmp]% ldd hello
not a dynamic executable
[me@host: tmp]% ./hello
hello world
The value that scalpers add is that you can get tickets at a later time. That's about the only value I can see that they provide, and whether that benefit is moral or not I guess depends on whether you believe in first-come-first-served for that item.
That’s kind of the point. You can be successful with the rich as a target group – but you can’t be successful the way Apple is.
Wow, whoever ran that elevator really needed to get his business sense fixed.

Some of the piles in Indiana and Kansas would make you think they are building a ski slope. First time I saw one I was so confused given that moisture is such a problem and drying is not cheap[1]. Some elevators make a lot of profit managing moisture.

[1] If you are an awesome engineer and can figure out a cheap way to dry grain / corn, there is one big market for you.
Only exes at the time being. Go is the main loop and needs to have control of the execution flow for concurrency.

If you think of it, DLLs are a bit like separate programs that you communicate with trough the C call stack instead of another structured protocol. In Go you would spawn different processes and use something like protobuf to exchange messages.
Telecommute FTW.
The product process at Posterous
The problem is people buy cheap, crap laptops, notice they are cheap and crap, and hear that the Macs are not cheap but also not crap. They then run out and buy a quality Macbook for $2300, completely ignoring the fact that it's not that Apple makes a better product, it's that Apple makes a product that exists in a market these people have never even considered.

Quality Windows laptops exist. I sold my HP Envy for almost as much as I bought it for after a year of solid use. It cost me $1000 brand new, and there was almost nothing the Macbook could offer besides OSX that could do anything but match it.

Yes, Macbooks are better than $300 laptops. But you know what is also better than a $300 laptop? A $1000 laptop, and the extra $1300 in your pocket. Your Dodge Neon is a piece of junk, true, but before you shell out cash for BMW 5-series, why not take a look at the Ford Fusion?
Show HN: landing pages for iOS apps with interactive, usable demos
If DRM is standing in the way of lawful use, there is an (apparently never used) remedy in English law: complaining about it.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/296ZE
Plus no one will ever steal it.

I've had two people say to my face "Wow, that's an old computer".

Which is silly since it is the world's coolest looking laptop.
An interesting article that discusses this finding: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/uoc--tao07021...
You just reminded me to check for Netflix popunders.
What about the HK extradition expert?
Dear Person Seeking a Job: Why I Can't Hire You
And seriously what is going on with the trackpad situation on PCs ?

I am not joking that PowerBooks from 5+ years ago wipe the floor with every single PC laptop I've used so far. Is it really that hard to get the texture and responsiveness right ?
Don't be evil eh? ;)
Google Video is not the same as YouTube -- it's video search that includes videos from external websites. Is YouTube going to start indexing external videos, or is there just going to be a video void for finding this stuff?
>That model didn't work for AOL //

Over it's lifetime I think AOL made quite a lot of money. Just because something comes to an end doesn't mean that it "didn't work".

They apparently currently have a market cap of 2.6 billion so many years after their heyday I'm amazed they're still going.
Live Higgs Boson Blog
I largely agree with you, but for what it's worth, that doesn't "just work": there are places in glibc that use dlopen to pull in modular code; one example is the DNS resolver.
> Chacha got it wrong

Chacha? Really? God damn I swear HN is full of internet hipsters. A query for [stubhub] on any major search engine has the following under the Wikipedia search result:

> StubHub (often styled StubHub!) is an online marketplace owned by eBay, which provides services for buyers and sellers of tickets for sports, concerts, theater
The video playback app was on Android devices, so it used the regular Android Java APIs. Still, the chatroom approach that gkoberger describes would work for any platform, as long as each player can play, pause, and seek, and have a separate thread that emits and receives events in the chatroom.

http://popcornjs.org/ appears to be a library for controlling HTML5 video, if that might work for you.
the ramifications of this judgement are interesting for many reasons, and this is one; it's hard to see Apple being compelled to take positive action each time you sell your copy of software, but on the other hand, if you did and the licence is assigned to the buyer, does a contact now exist between apple and buyer which Apple has to uphold or face breach of contract?
Australian judge

New Zealand. You might aswell call Joe Biden vice president of Canada.
Even if you assume that the algorithm's quality is exactly on par with the seasoned police veterans, the fact that it's fast is a sufficient value-add by itself.
What is the largest and most successful software tool? How much money does it make? [1]

You can sell dev tools, but the market is small and fairly stingy. There are also lots of good free opensource alternatives, because your users are perfectly capable of building and maintaining their own tools.

[1] I believe the answer is probably Visual Studio, which as far as I know is run as a loss leader to promote Windows. Given the amount of development effort going into it, I doubt they sell enough copies to cover the cost.
"Welcome to ZDNet!" covering the article. Goodbye ZDNet. Why do companies insist on things like this? Many times I see "Would you like to take our survey?" I haven't even seen your damn page yet!
I would love a reverse lookup, so that I can pick the Can and Cannots and a list of licenses that qualify would come up.

Awesome tool, thanks.
Wow, that's quite cynical! I don't think your pessimistic "gloom and doom" view is shared by that many people in the Western world (perhaps a loud minority? perhaps it is a US thing?). Also, why are "outsourced labor" and "awakening behemoths (China)" listed as negative things?
Any ideas how to promote this kind of initiative in students?
Guido's take back in 2007: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=2...
It's hard for me to imagine anyone making the move to arm chips that don't have hardware virtualization support, which I think the cortex a15 will be the first mainstream one.
More importantly, both Poker and Starcraft have you make decisions when your information is incomplete which is crucial in startups.
Agreed. He spends 326 words saying what can be summed up as "when you're small, small changes will be noticeable. When you're large, you'll need to make some larger changes to notice a difference".

Actually, that's not a summary, so much as I challenge anyone to find more value or detailed analysis in the original piece.I read it and thought "what did I learn here?", not to mention how utterly vague it was.
Yes, using fixed widths with media queries is a fairly common approach (sometimes termed adaptive web design rather than responsive web design). If you feel that the design needs more control (over proportions, etc) then it's sometimes a good trade-off but it's a decision I'd make on a project by project basis.
Why Thunderbolt cables will be expensive until 2013
I can't stand design pomposity, but this is excellent. As a ~25 year Microsoft fan, who thinks the company is much smarter than it is given credit for, hire this guy already.
"it ensures the person sending the email is who they say they are"

Although, if you're going to trust the pgp key you get sent when you mail someone asking for one, you don't have any more assurance that you're encrypting it to the person you intended, and you _almost_ may as well have sent it in cleartext in the initial email...

Get your pgp fingerprints in some out-of-band method of communication. (When was the last time anybody even heard of a key signing party? I attended on at the Perl Conference in '98 or '99 - don't think I've been aware of one happening in any of my circles since)
I don't consider forking to be important, Windows is better off optimizing for multithreading instead. (You don't want to fork a heavily multithreaded process.)

The API is not that bad, especially if you implement some lightweight wrappers around it. It's capable of very high performance and does async IO better than Linux.
"A key difference is that in the past, different social groups had something to look forward to (emancipation and liberation), despite the looming threat of thermonuclear warfare. Nowadays? In the western hemisphere? It's all gloom and doom."

It was so awesome to be disempowered and enslaved. That's why gay people are so much happier than straight people today.

More seriously, though, there's as much optimism in activist circles today in America as there has been in the past. Especially if you hang out with the FOSS crowd, or in hacker spaces. 3D printing offers at least as many possibilities for liberation as any prior innovations.

As for your rosy view of the past, I recommend reading about the split between feminists and abolitionists over the 14th amendment. Or the British suffragette movement. Certainly no advertising appealed to such groups until they were already successful: for the most part they didn't have purchasing power, and those members that did had derived it from buying into their own oppression (by, for example, being housewives).

Advertisers have almost always, with few niche exceptions, sold a safe view of an ever-so-slightly better world.
Maximizing Your ROA (Return on Adventure)
If the final purchaser is aware that their high-price ticket could be nullified at the door, it removes motive to buy in the first place, leaving the scalper with hard-to-move tickets.
What will be said to those who claim racial profiling by these algorithms?
>unless the Obama administration tows the line [2]. It'

toes.

You toe a line.

You put your toe up to the line and stay within that line.
I don't use opera, but I guess I'm part of the other 1% in that I don't use any google services (outside of basic search).
This is what pisses me off. We clearly have the capability for really obvious stuff like this to just work ("navigate to wendy's house"), yet it still often doesn't.
Jason Nazar - How To Break Out Of The Pack
I would not be surprised if they integrated igoogle services into google plus somehow. perhaps a split newsfeed+widgets service. it would be an effective way to drive a nontrivial amount of traffic to google plus.
1. Zig where others zag.

2. Sometimes, think less.

- Thinking can prevent you from taking action.

3. Stop talking about yourself and others.

4. Repeat... own... then make new mistakes.

- You're not gonna learn from your mistakes the first time, but make them quickly, own them and move on to new ones.

5. You should be uncomfortable.

6. Forget 80:20, it's 99:1.

- Pareto principle is true for established organizations, but when creating something new there is one important thing to do in your journey right now.

7. Become a critical optimist.

8. Kaizen: improve everyday.

9. The means justify the ends.

- Do things right, enjoy the process, and the ends will materialize.

10. Self improvement = 2 questions:

- What are you pretending not to know?

- Why aren't we doing the things that we know we should be doing?

11. Don't be an extra in your own movie.

12. You can be the 100th monkey.

- You change our collective consciousness.
I read everything leading to this.
all of those are significantly more complicated. you really can't argue that a shape made up of one very simple shape is only slightly less complicated than a shape made up of a couple/several simple shapes. by that logic, you could argue that every letter in the Latin alphabet is very simple; I'm sure everyone would agree that there is a significant difference in complexity between a rectangle and an uppercase 'F'.
Heroku offered me a paid penetration test contract, but required that I sign a retroactive non-disclosure agreement which would have precluded publishing this article.

Worth pointing out: virtually all paid pentesting engagements are delivered under NDA. In fact, more often than not, they're done under the far-stricter terms of a master agreement with detailed IP clauses.

If you're talking to any firm about having your app tested, get an NDA in place, and don't feel bad about asking. Nobody who thinks they need it should forestall having their app checked out because they think the firm they're going to work with is going to try to make news out of their findings.

Obviously, if your customers find vulnerabilities themselves, all bets are off!
Haha... so that's the same thing she just replied to me when I sent her this link. Womp. So much for that idea.
A grand jury doesn't form on its own, an FBI prosecutor initiates the indictment, and as the famous quote says, a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich if that's what he wanted.

Also, yea, New Zealand is not Australia.
Italy threatens Apple with potential ban over warranty dispute
I think it was less the market share than the incredible pain that supporting IE6 had become.
MailChimp log in page now includes checkbox to toggle password visibility
"low quality content on PC" is completely wrong. Some of the best programs around are desktop software. Samplitude, Sublime 2, Studio One 2 are a brief few. What happens in your circle of friends does not represent anything and is one of the reasons why I think Facebook is so unhealthy for the younger generation. BTW if you do real pro audio/video work you are not going to be using Linux simply because most "Pro" audio/video does not come in a Linux version.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_ceiling for a basic overview.

This stuff is literally economics 101 supply-demand curve material. When you artificially cap the price too low, you create shortages and a black market.

Economic theory says that what you should do is set up an auction where everyone says how many tickets they want to buy and the maximum price you're willing to pay. The bids are sealed so nobody knows what the price will be until the auction is finished. Sort the bids by price (breaking ties by how fast you put your order in). Everyone actually pays the highest price that anyone not getting a ticket was willing to pay.

Economics and game theory says that the stable equilibrium for this type of auction is for everyone to honestly report the maximum price they are willing to pay. If everyone does then everyone who got a ticket is either indifferent or happy about getting the ticket at that price, and everyone who did not want a ticket would indifferent to happy about not buying a ticket at that price.

Theory assumes that people's opinions about how much they would pay don't change as the event comes closer. This assumption is, of course, wrong. But I do not know of a more fair strategy than this one.
Quarterly Google purge - iGoogle, Google mini and more reach end of life
How to Learn to Think Like a Scientist (Without Being a Geek)
'In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Sears had it nailed. It was top-notch, but now it’s just a barren wasteland. And that’s Microsoft. The company just isn’t cool anymore.'

Microsoft once was cool. It might be difficult to imagine, but from the time PC's came out with DOS through to MS Windows, you really could do interesting things on commodity hardware with their great tools and large user market.

It was obvious to me that MS lost it's cool as the Internet gathered steam at the time the Web was born. Doing Post-grad I couldn't help but laugh, to connect to the Internet using Microsoft operating systems you needed a vital component [0] from a lone programmer from Tasmania. How did that happen? How did MS miss the tidal wave we now call the Web?

"Open access to the World Wide Web was
not originally included in the classic
MSN service at the time of its initial
launch"

Toys like the Internet simply didn't register to the like of Microsoft. Gates even tried to tame it - remember 'The Microsoft Network?' [1] MS missed the Internet and the Web because of this need for control. Lesson learned: No matter how hard you try, networks can't be fully controlled or contained. You can't tame the beast.

[0] Winsock built by Peter Tattam owner of Tattam Software a small Tasmanian software company. Used Trumpet & didn't pay? You can here ~ http://trumpet.com.au/index.php/news/3-latest-news/17-mar-20...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Network#MSN_Classic
Not sure that would have helped much in this case - he used dumping the environment as the particular avenue to get the "private" data, but he mentioned he had source code access and the ability to run untrusted code. If important credentials were in or available to the code, it sounds like they would have been vulnerable anyway.

It's a hard problem trying to secure credential that code needs to work, from other code running as the same user when someone has source code access to "authorised" code.
I've been denied my window on the market with LoseThos. God is just. I'll take compensation in God swag. You guys are fucked.

God says...

returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry
unto the king for her house and for her land.

8:4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God,
saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath
done.

8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had
restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he
had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her
land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is
her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king
appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was
hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the
land, even until now.

----

God says...
no_way_dude far_out_man recipe now_that_I_think_about_it
think_you_could_do_better a_flag_on_that_play One_finger_salute
you_shouldn't_have I_was_just_thinking Shhh Boo crazy
ghastly commanded debt wonderful busybody no_more homo
thank_you_very_much whale comedy by_the_way duck_the_shoe
high_mucky_muck oil how_about_those_yankees why_is_it
adultery tattle_tale place ba_ha high_mucky_muck Ivy_league
comedy sex you_think_I'm_joking Dad Oh_really fool not_a_chance_in_hell
strip I'm_the_boss no_you_cant you_talkin'_to_me youre_lucky
whoop_there_it_is are_you_insane goods fake bad_ol_puddytat
run_away Okilydokily hold_on_a_minute youre_welcome I'm_not_dead_yet
doh basket_case so_let_it_be_done beep_beep cursing

----

God says...

8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and
gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of
Haman.

8:3 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his
feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman
the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

8:4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther
arose, and stood before the king, 8:5 And said, If it please the king,
and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the
king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he
wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces: 8:6
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?
or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? 8:7 Then
the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew,
Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have
hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.