skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on which "we" you're talking about. But in the US, these are rarely enforced, and then only against blatant lies that have substantial financial impact.

It's perfectly legal to mislead, confuse, shade, distort, bamboozle, trick, and distract. And you can lie outright if the lie is small. Or if it qualifies as puffery, which basically the kind of lie we have come to expect from people selling stuff.

For example, Shell can say "We care about the environment" and show pictures of frolicking wildlife. They aren't obligated to say, "but we care about profits more" and show some pictures of oil spills.

My favorite example is Airborne, a purported cold preventative that does precisely nothing. They lied in their advertisements for years and made fistfuls of money. After more than a decade somebody finally sued them, and eventually the FTC beat them down as well. The result is that they had to give some of their ill-gotten gains back, and now lie by implication rather than by direct false statements.

But that only happened because a) they were provably wrong, and b) they had enough money for class action lawyers to decide it was worth years of effort to take a whack at their money pinata. As long as your lie isn't provably costing money and provably false, you're basically golden.
I've never used active record, but from what I've read it's an ORM. Both SQLAlchemy and Korma expose relational concepts directly.

SQLAlchemy also has an optional ORM built on top of the relational abstraction.
It's things like that why I believe that cloud computing and Web 2.0 are a bad idea.

Data and processing power should belong to the user and not corporations.
It gets a little complicated. I got a Lenovo g560 with an Ath9k wireless card, and installed Fedora 14 on it and everything worked. I upgraded to Fedora 16 and everything worked except the wireless card. Apparently there is no way to tell the OS anymore that the wireless card is turned on. Filing bugs with Fedora and asking on the ath9k-devel email lists got no help at all.

What worked before no longer works. The card is permanently hardblocked. Supposedly the fix is to install Windows, flip the switch a few times, and then install Linux. I don't want it that badly. I will just figure out ndiswrapper.....
Actually, Chrome is not the same on all three systems. I can't remember the site, but a while ago someone wanted to share with me a site using advanced CSS3 transitions and it didn't work as expected on my Chrome on Linux (the latest beta version at the time). Only after switching to Windows and using Chrome there (the latest beta version too) I was able to see it.
Being a storage admin, when you start to have gobs of hard drives, there's always one failing. You'll have dry spells where nothing fails, and then all of a sudden you're looking at 2,3+ failures on a system, although not necessarily on the same RAID group.

If your hardware provider needs to cut down on the warranties to be financially sustainable, I'd be concerned. It looks like these are rentals and not purchases, so why wouldn't these guys be warrantying to Dell/HP or the drive manufacturer directly? Are they buying gray market to reduce the cost, trying to pass that savings off to you, but then in turn run out of recourse when they need to replace a drive?

I'm just speculating; I have no idea if this company is good or not. I'm just concerned about the statement you made about the company, whether it's from your understanding or what they actually said.
TreeViewTab extension. Until an equivalent shows up for Chrome I will never...no, strike that, I am physically unable to switch.

It pains me because I have to restart Firefox every few days or else it turns into a slow, memory-eating blackhole. But, sigh, I cannot live without that extension.
It has to be. A friend's account was compromised, but I reset his password for him and MS gave him the opportunity to remove any offending material and everything was ok.

This is slightly annoying though.
The Attractions and Limitations of the Apple Retina Display
Yeah, the connected apps thing really is a joy to integrate with. They've had the push API that sends you checkins for a while but they only added the in-app integration points a couple of weeks ago, and it's those that make the whole thing really interesting.
* tarsnap: uses encryption, paid. http://tarsnap.com

* brackup: uses encryption, host yourself. http://code.google.com/p/brackup

* Camlistore is worth keeping an eye on.
Looks like a next-generation all-purpose low level CMS. By the same author of brackup, Brad Fitzpatrick. http://camlistore.org/
Pointless sophistry? To which your counterargument is "moving on..."?

Yes, of course you have to identify the "experts" in order to know what their perspective is. In this case, the vast majority of knowledgeable people have settled around the consensus that the "official" explanation (two planes crashed into the WTC) is indeed plausible.

But you ignored my second point entirely: if there is (reasonable) dissent, then you can't just pick one side and say they're correct. In fact, by not knowing the underlying science, you can't even participate in the debate. So there's no point in saying "a bunch of engineers and architects have signed their names to this paper saying it's all a conspiracy" when you have no idea why that's the truth (if it were).

Finally, spreading uncertainty and doubt (what about what I said is spreading fear?) is a good thing where false certainty and false wisdom prevail.
I like this, but I find the default <code> style to be jarring when mixed with the normal text style. Possibly making it smaller would be sufficient.

It also doesn't handle ```lang ... ``` blocks properly: compare https://gist.github.com/3050085 with http://gist.io/3050085 .
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

You could at least read the site's guidelines before complaining.
I said by their end but it can also be the full sequence, depending on the job
I meant, coming back from a 3 month leave, and having your first week be a mandatory 80 hr overtime week.

Ok you've taken your time off. You are back now. You have a 3-month-old at home. You are expected to be here for 120 hours this week. take it or quit.

I bet women are far more likely to quit.
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) raises $5m in second funding round
Growth In The Financial Markets Starring the Quants
Mahdi - The Cyberwar Savior?
You're right, free speech is such a hassle. People who have the temerity to make fun of foreign oil corporations should definitely be imprisoned.
Open web standards, but as far as I can tell, no RSS feed!

Looking at the source, reveals:

<link href="/atom.xml" rel="alternate"
title="Build New Games" type="application/atom+xml">

With any decent RSS reader you should be able to plug in the blog post URL and let it auto-discover: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery/
Make Windows HTC HD2 run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
I don't know anything about the app store, but the 70% is purportedly the developer's revenue from someone's app purchase. The 44% profit margin would mean that about half of Apple's 30% app-revenue-cut goes to the cost of running the store and a little less than half goes to Apple's coffers.
Precisely. I was a diehard chrome-lover until I tried pentadactyl.

Now I realize that any tiny reduction in perceived speed (not due to slower JS or loading, but probably some of chrome's UI speed tricks) is made up for by the lack of a context switch between terminal and browser.
"...Everyone believed that he had them, and it's a matter of fact that he had used them in the past." - I am European and I clearly remember the feeling that the US openly manipulated the rest of the world. But it did not work, at least in Western EU, excluding UK.

Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq. There are lot of sources for some of the quotes that I will take here:

* "Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion phase, which lasted from 19 March to 9 April 2003. These were the United States (148,000), United Kingdom (45,000), Australia (2,000), and Poland (194)." - So out of all the EU countries only UK and Poland went to the war.

* "The invasion of Iraq was strongly opposed by some long-standing U.S. allies, including the governments of France, Germany, New Zealand, and Canada."

* "On 15 February 2003, a month before the invasion, there were worldwide protests against the Iraq war, including a rally of three million people in Rome, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ever anti-war rally."
I find this true as well. Right now I have Chrome open with a number of JS heavy tabs (gmail, analytical, Wordpress dashboard because it apparently hates Firefox). I'll also open up Youtube videos on Chrome because Firefox is always laggy with flash videos.

But the bulk of my tabs are open in Firefox, and I prefer Firebug over the Chrome console for development
Remote Monitoring with JMX Tools, Part II: VisualVM
With the Olympics due to kick off on 27 July in London, this article takes a look at how far science would be able to push human athletic abilities if all restrictions on doping were lifted. The article mentions anabolic steroids (up to 38% increase in strength), IGF-1 (4% increase in sprinting capacity), EPO/blood doping (34% increase in stamina), gene doping and various drugs and supplements, as well as more 'extreme' measures such as surgery and prosthesis. Hugh Herr, a biomechanical engineer at MIT, says performance-enhancing technologies will one day demand an Olympics all their own. But is that time already upon us?
yes, you are better off Apple taking care of your business and taking 1/3 IF YOU SUCCEED. Early 30's Chicago style.

You pathetic Hacker News nerds, you are so so funny. Average Microsoft Partner company makes 1000% more without the pathetic 10K investment.

You are... pathetic.
Haha yeah, call me when your landlord lets you off the rent, because a website he uses runs Linux on the server. Community, right?
Economic impact of open source on small business
An Inside Look at oDesk’s Recent Site Redesign
The about:memory feature is useful to get a glimpse into what extensions and tabs are chewing up the most memory, although I haven't had much luck in FF 14 using the GC/CC to correct that. I hope that FF 15 gives the user a bit more intuitive view and control over the memory consumption on tabs and addons/extensions.
Even if you're eating just 300kcal over what you need every day you will become overweight eventually.

Edit: for reference 300kcal is about what you'd burn off with a 4 kilometer run.
Barkeep - the friendly code review system
A little bit of what you fancy - By Dr Desmond Morris
Your communication style! is very unusual! even questions end with an exclamation! am I the only one who's confused!
Wine shop HK
Tourists peculiarly return to their main land with Wine shop HK engraved in their heads. These hold a very special position in the world. Chinese wine is famous for its finesse and splendid taste and aroma that can weak anyone’s knees. From across the worlds wine lovers come here for the most famous Chinese wine.
Here's a few outstanding findings:

- WordPress is a far more important open source product than most people give it credit for. In the SMB hosting market, it is as widely used as MySQL and PHP, far ahead of Joomla and Drupal, the other leading content management systems.

- Languages commonly used by high-tech startups, such as Ruby and Python, have little usage in the SMB hosting market, which is dominated by PHP for server-side scripting and JavaScript for client-side scripting.

- Open source hosting alternatives have at least a 2:1 cost advantage relative to proprietary solutions.

... The most important open source programs contributing to this expansion of opportunity for small businesses include Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, and WordPress. The developers of these open source projects and the communities that support them are truly unsung heroes of the economy!
United States copyright law matters where I teach. (Most countries these days have somewhat similar laws about what the United States calls "fair use" and the somewhat different concept of what teachers are licensed by law to do for preparing classroom materials, but that can vary a bit from country to country.) Because United States law is reasonably generous to teachers,

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf

http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs

I do make use of copyrighted materials to prepare class handouts (especially), but because there are restrictions of reproductions of materials even for teachers, I generally prefer to use materials that have been put on the Web specifically for use by other teachers. That's because then I know there is a license from the copyright holder for the use I intend.

There are at least two organizations now for sharing classroom materials, one a commercial service that charges fees,

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/

and one coordinated as a nonprofit organization, for sharing free materials,

http://www.sharemylesson.com/

but when I visit those sites, I rarely find anything suitable for my classes, so I usually do direct searches by subject on Google, sometimes site-restricting to sites of educational institutions, to find suitable materials for my classes.
Another way (as a man) to get an idea of what's going on. Join a kitting/crochet group. Try to learn how to knit. (There's knitting circles all over the place) You'll find yourself in a female dominated environment, tis a kinda weird feeling at first, and a bit eye opening.
What is even more baffling is the bit just preceding that at the top of that section [1] that says:

You will not upload, post, transmit, transfer, distribute or facilitate distribution of any content (including text, images, sound, video, data, information or software) [...]

Text?! Well, that rules out backing up e-book collections there.

To be fair, I don't think Microsoft are that out of touch with reality that they truly believe nobody will use their Skydrive to back up their porn stash or, uh, erotic literature. I also doubt they will police content to that extent, and they're just doing a CYA with these over-broad terms and conditions.

As an aside: for some reason, this reminds me of a question I had to answer when filling out a UK visa application (paraphrasing) -- "Have you even been involved in any terrorist acts?"

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/code-of-cond...
He's not being sarcastic, I think. I've got a somewhat similar background and I agree with his stated view.

Citizen and consumer activism keeps the bastards (more) honest. One thousand motivated and angry citizens with a plan can act as a very good counterweight to hundreds of millions of dollars of marketing (and lobbying). Really!

Mundane jokes seem trivial, occupation of capped oil wells in the North Sea seem like a bit of a jape. But the effect of these and all the (cute) Greenpeace donation collectors is consciousness-raising and creation of citizens and consumers who ask hard questions, and that scares the politicians no end. It scares Big Oil too and keeps them (more) honest.

The status quo that you speak of is vastly different to that during the 80's and totally alien to the status quo in the 50's, at least in the rich West. Perhaps you've not really noticed the change. I've worked on and off in the oil and gas industry since the 80's and I see a vast, vast change both in the public's attitude, and also in the mentality within the companies themselves.
lb is the measure of weight gbp is the currency. I know, it's confusing that they're both spelled "pound".
I'd expect this to show something other than a blank screen on older versions of Chrome (18), at least.
yea too bad safari doesn't support webm like firefox and chrome do.
I am also a happy FireFox user, but recently I have found a growing number of websites that won't even let you use their functionality unless you are using Chrome or Safari (Fluid for one: https://www.fluidui.com/editor/live/). It must have something to do with FF's support of certain capabilities, although specifically what I'm not sure.

This is pushing me to use Chrome for those reasons - so I hope that FF fills whatever gap is causing sites to exclude FF (oh, and IE, Opera, etc.)
IKEA Beer
Nokia's Q2 results: $1 billion loss, 4 millions of Lumias sold
A reserved instance is about $650/month. One possible use: run your master postgres on it and use streaming replication to transmit the data to something more durable.

(Don't process cc transactions this way.)
Trusting Microsoft with cloud storage is akin to using Hotmail for email. It's unthinkable for anyone with technical knowledge, but often the only option that non-techies are aware of. The best we can do is educate others to use something sensible.
I'm not naive, I realize Obama is more of a politician than a leader, but this stuff really stinks like someone else is running the show behind the scenes.
I wonder if I'm the only person that feels anxious that Gmail + Google Calendar + Chrome + Google Drive + Google Search + Google Docs + Android Phone + Google Maps + Google Voice + ... gives one company an astoundingly deep and unfettered view of exactly everything you are doing, who you are talking to, and even what you are thinking (to the extent it is reflected in those activities) at every waking moment of your life. Rational nervousness?
Evertracker - Making an iPhone App Video
I'm sure those who really do wish to store and distribute material that really is illegal or unacceptable will use encrypted file storage.

Once again, it is the open and honest user who is close to an edge case who gets caught up.
I wish all cloud storage providers would prompt an "encrypt with your own key" link before you upload each file, and then do the encryption for you. Of course, then you'll have to trust them with their own encryption method. But if they are using standard encryption methods, that shouldn't be an issue, right?
That's not true; you use:

-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;
And if you have a CEO running another company who is already making $5 million/year who has a great track record and could be the best bet for staunching the bleeding at RIM and maybe even turning it around.

Why would that person take a risk of going to RIM?

My point is that sideline "this is an adequate salary" ranks up there with saying, "that's an adequate temperature for boiling that liquid". Well what's the liquid? What's the ambient pressure?
If you use a lot of tabs and don't close your browser for long periods of time Chrome is vastly superior to Firefox (and all other browsers) in terms of memory use and stability.

Even if you don't use any add-ons at all. I've always taken issue with Firefox, it has the broadest support and community centered around add-ons - but if you actually use any add-on the browser becomes completely useless. I've been bitten so many times in the past that I barely trust any add-ons on any browser, eventhough I've only had issues with Firefox.

Hopefully it will be better now.
I'm pretty sure that's because they still insist on manually approving every single app.
I didn't say "It's Warren, therefore it's good." I said it's Warren, and it is good.

Wait... is this Scott Brown??
Inactivity 'killing as many as smoking'
The same thought crossed my mind as I read the article. How does Microsoft know what I'm storing in a private directory?

Creepy level: 110%
"Step one: matching up the venues" - for your interest Bopgig uses a Google search on foursquare.com to obtain venues, seems to work decently and is automated. The 4sq api seemed to return too many errors when last tested.
I believe the powerlifting and bodybuilding organizations already have doped/undoped competitions. I have no idea to what extent cheating occurs.

Anyone have more info on this?
Thanks for sharing aes.io. That's the first I've heard of this service. Since their a web app with client-side encryption, I presume their using javascript. If so, any idea how they address the problems mentioned in this post ( http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-cr... ).

Update: Looks like they are using some kind of embedded flash. Does that mean a flash or actionscript cryptography implementation?
> Thin people eat moderate meals and don't snack.

You had me until "don't snack". My experience is that moderate snacks help to ensure meals are also of a moderate size - otherwise you get that urge to gorge at your next meal...
The sum of bad moves from Nokia is atonishing! iPhone-like in 2000, Meego replaced by WP are some examples.
click on the image once, then it zooms in to the actual size.
Paint.NET. It's such a simple program and there are a ton of really good plugins.
Use CompeteMonkey to follow changes on other websites
The full text of the underlying study from The Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

is available in a printer-friendly

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

or .PDF version

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS01406...

to persons who register at the website for The Lancet, and registration is free.
Once I've got homebrew or macports installed, I miss very little. What features do you find it lacking?
just to let you know...you're not much behind

the "pure" techies are weak on planning and marketing products - you're ahead of them already.
Front-End Dev Tip: Break on HTML Mutation
Very insightful. Best quote from the article: "There’s people that will read this and find it completely ridiculous. "
and style change for links (color change, not underlined by default)

so, pretty simple changes.
From the code of conduct.: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-live/code-of-cond...

> provides or creates links to external sites that violate this Code of Conduct.

Along with

> depicts nudity of any sort including full or partial human nudity or nudity in non-human forms such as cartoons, fantasy art or manga.

So linking to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism would be enough to get banned, no?
Party Entertainment
Isaac Lomman do work in a field of party entertainment by providing entertainment through his acts and tricks of high quality comedy hypnosis shows.
Right. But I think the more significant number is what percentage of a user's purchase becomes profit for Apple. After including expenses for free apps (assuming the numbers in the article are accurate and keeping in mind this is old data), the profit margin on that 30% drops from 44% to around 25% such that Apple nets about 7% of App Store sales.
They probably mean that many applications also have an HTML5 version that's optimized for mobile phones.
Watch The Dark Knight Rises
Watch The Dark Knight Rises film adoptation is by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan and account by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan. Camerawork is by Wally Pfister which is edited by Lee Smith under Legendary Pictures, Syncopy Films, and DC Comics. The motion picture is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures which is expected to be release in theaters on July 20, 2012.
Instantly reminded me of Amped, an excellent book.

http://boingboing.net/2012/06/07/amped-daniel-wilson.html
Just the link color was borrowed from Twitter Bootstrap. Rest is pretty much white background, max-width, padding between <center> elements on the page, bigger line-height :)