skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the past they sidestepped the law about spying on their own citizens by partnering with other nations, then swapping lists of people to monitor.

This was ECHELON. There were 5 nations involved: The US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON)

That was before 9/11. Why are people surprised that warrantless wire-tapping happens now?
> that would be every currently available VM, not just JVM

Perhaps of just the current VM's, and not some intrinsic limitation of VM's in general.
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Ah, I thought the 3.14 was a joke score. NVM then.
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Well, you disagree with many (most?) libertarians on this point. They think we'd have reached the same freedom from formal racial discrimination that we have today without starting us down the slippery slope of telling businesses who they have to associate with. I'm not sure that's damning.

Obviously I agree with you on this, but after years of having to confront smart people on HN who disagree with me fundamentally on issues like this, I'm trying to keep a more open mind.
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Good stuff.

Can you please make the text darker - I suffer from some sight problems which make grey on grey quite hard for me to read.
that is actually the point at which i lost sympathy for craigslist. they can license the data or not, but if they do they should not get to demand where and how it is used
TL;DR: Exceeded guidance, no blowout.

Mac sales are static, overall iPhone sales softening as the lineup ages, iPads surging, iPod continues to dwindle, miscellaneous sales remain miscellaneous.

+ stock buyback next year
+ dividends being issued as expected
+ China sales exploding

So: a quiet quarter. New Mac OS released tomorrow. Yay!
AT&T was showing some slightly better results this quarter because they were showing fewer people with smartphones upgrading.
Do they still run stock Windows PCs in a nuclear facility?
Do they still have critical machinery participating in insecure local network?

Well, maybe it isn't a nuclear lab after all, but a honeypot for hackers? And the actual lab is somewhere else?
Because otherwise they would figure it out already, I think.
I remember that as well -- bloggers got it right, analysts got it wrong. This morning I read "somewhere on the internet" that bloggers were predicting ~$10 while analysts where predicting ~$12. If I didn't just imagine that, this would remarkable in that even the bloggers overestimated.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286268
If I was rethinking Digg
Network neophyte here. Am I wrong in that CDN's ultimate goal is geolocation of the requestor, and they're using DNS to do that? And if the user uses a DNS that isn't "near" him, this scheme fails?

If that's correct, is there no better way to do user geolocation than the nameserver they choose to use? That seems weird to me.
This article articulates a whole slew of issues that I'm sure many hners with experience wrt graduate school or beyond have observed and / or experienced first hand.

All I can say is this, jumping into industry, and spending my time on engineering and research of my own that'd be too risky for academia, and that would not have a clear payoff value for a big co R&D lab, its the sexiest, best, most exciting and amazing decision i've ever made.

If my current endeavors pan out, I will actually be able to say I've created software (and an associated business, WellPosed Ltd) that makes innovation on our wee planet happen faster. I'd not be able to attack the high risk & high impact area I'm working on right now as a grad student or jr faculty, but as my own wee company, I can!

:-)
(anyone who's intrigued regarding building better shovels for the data mining gold rush, whether as a user or maker, shoot me a line at first name at wellposed dot com, subject: awesome shovels)
No. You just have a much more expansive view of the role of governments in the markets than I do.
>I'm holding out for iPhone 5, and I suspect a lot of iPhone 4 purchasers are in the same boat.

Yep. Hi. *waves from a 3g-only Verizon iPhone 4 :(
Hear hear. It's all about remote employees these days. You miss the best talent by only looking at ten square miles of a huge planet.
I'd venture to say you in the minority for upgrading a 6 year old Macbook....just sayin.

It's actually due to GPU capabilities of the older Macs. Thus, as well as your SSD'd 2006 Macbook runs, it still will not perform up to the standard they want on Mountain Lion.

I disagree that this would purely be done for a "profit increase"
and, having made it, "openness promotes piracy" isn't a totally unreasonable conclusion to draw from it.

And that isn't what I quoted and replied to. If that was all TFA had said, I probably could have nodded my head and said "Yeah, whatever" and kept going. But TFA made a much stronger statement than that, which you seem to conveniently be ignoring here, since you apparently want to win an argument that no one else seems to be having.

Stop telling people to be embarrassed about their ideas. It's a very poor rhetorical strategy. The only benefit it accrues to you is that it riles your supporters up into similarly gnarly expressions of contempt. It certainly doesn't persuade anyone of anything.

Who said they were trying to persuade anybody?
No need to be snarky! Community colleges are far from just vocational schools.

A lot of people who work warehouse-type jobs don't have any additional money available for school. This program is an incentive to attract people who are likely to stick around at Amazon while their education is paid for. It self-selects for people willing to work harder to get ahead and my anecdotal evidence is that tuition reimbursement increases company loyalty.

$2k/year may not seem like much, but when your only other option is to work yet another job to pay for the education, or not get the education at all, then it's a huge benefit.

I have always recommended that people take advantage of tuition reimbursement: the benefit is there, why not use it? There is typically no downside, other than you have less free time. The upsides are obvious.
Doesn't that ignore the effect of government granted monopolies? Since some ISPs are granted monopoly status by local governments, by definition the free market can't work. So, as in cases of civil rights, maybe the answer IS to attach neutrality conditions to such monopolies?
Yep. I told you so: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4219543
I commute from SF and I hate it. Two hours of my day are spent on a bus five days a week.

I hear Google has an office in the city and, if you do your time in Mountain View and they like you and want to keep you, they'll move you up to the city. I'm sure Apple, FB etc could do the same.
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The free topology is 3 servers, one of which is the transactor (the one hosting the db in free edition). You get 2 peers _in addition to_ the transactor (connecting to it). So you could have one additional server beyond the web server, or 2 API servers serving a non-peer web tier etc.
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This comment suggests that you haven't looked too deeply into how a "real libertarian" reasons through problems like Internet regulation, since "maximization of everyone's liberty" is a utilitarian goal, not a libertarian goal.
I once asked on a libertarian forum what would happen in that kind of world, where all streets and roads are privately owned, if someone were able to acquire ownership of a closed set of roads that separated me from things I need to live, and refused to give me permission to travel on his roads and refused to give permission to anyone who was bringing me stuff.

I was told why this would not be a problem: under libertarian property theory, ownership is initially established over a resource by using it. Thus, land becomes owned by the first person to start making use of it. This ownership only extends to that which is being used.

This means that most land is only owned at the surface, and as far enough down as is necessary to provide support for the surface land. Thus, I am free to TUNNEL UNDER THE ROADS, as long as I go deep enough and do it in a way that does not cause damage to the roads. I can thus tunnel my way under the enclosing roads out to someplace where I am welcome.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the end-all be-all for internet privacy? Is there any configuration that would guarantee complete anonymity? All the possible solutions I've heard of (Tor, Freenet, etc.) have security holes which allow unmasking of the end-user.
This reminds me of "The Wisdom of Crowds"[1]. Could it be a case of the masses collectively being more intelligent than the so called experts?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds
Craigslist is ads.
Explain how it could possibly be better to have no program at all?
Hey! Don't impute pure utilitarianism to all liberal progressives! I just want good public schools and guaranteed issue health insurance. I don't need to see everyone's economic outcomes equalized!
can you use dwolla to reduce your costs?

http://developers.dwolla.com/bd/why
It's written explicitly in the U.S. Constitution:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right
to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Something related on a literal level to the article's metaphor- there's a bar in Midtown Manhattan called Vanderbar that sells a $50 Kobe beef hot dog topped with caviar.
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Thanks Rich. Updated.
A libertarian would throw up in their mouth at the idea of a government-granted monopoly.
I doubt it. In order for a message to reach you, the sender needs to know where to send it. And (in the USA) your ISP logs your IP address, so the feds always know who got the message.
cough Goodreads. Already has network effects going for it, and a very vibrant author community. It does pretty much what all the comments on this HN page suggest you should add/change.

Also, your site took almost 5 minutes to load. That is simply unacceptable.
Yeah we'll be making that more lenient since it's really just the "brightness" part of HSB
All arguments are easy if applied against straw men.
Fortunately, we live in a democracy first and the free market is just a tool, not our form of government.

In a democracy, the people hold the power through their votes, not consumers through their (very unevenly distributed) wallets. Those are very different choices made for very different reasons.
Haha if you get a 0 it's either 0 or 3.14 you get.
Craigslist makes use of both Google Maps and Yahoo Mapquest to present locations of individual properties through links on the CL site.

Note that these are free links, not paid-for API calls.

Who's free-riding whom?
Here's the data for this year - it looks like it was Philip Elmer-DeWitt who may have compiled the data.

Interestingly, the independent analysts (oft. "bloggers") were much further off base as an aggregate than the institutional analysts: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/24/all-eyes-on-apples-ea...
Isn't this a little silly, though? It's not the universal libertarian position that all functions of governments are best served by free markets. The real position is: those functions of government that can be served by markets should be.

A basic functional system of transportation sufficient to enable (but not optimize) commerce seems like something that could reasonably require a government to operate.
Laws are not about dictionary definitions or personal interpretation. They are a formal specification and that formality is what we call "legalese".

I'm not a lawyer, so I would probably mess up the explanation, but fortunately I saved the link to it, so you can read it straight from the lawyer who explained it right here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3696526
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It's nice that you try to be inclusive with "partnered", but then you throw it all away by not supporting the likely tax filing status of gay couples: joint for state, not married for federal.

Honestly, that's the first question on the page and it looks like it was designed by some committee trying to find a compromise that offends the fewest people, with no concern for whether you're using the most common terms or whether your model actually fits the real world.
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Do we know when MacBooks will ship with Mountain Lion installed? Or will they keep getting shipped with Lion?
I think you're making a distinction between donations to an operating fund and donations to an endowment fund. The Pittsburgh Foundation (and presumably community foundations in general) do accept donations, but they focus on endowment funds. Am I hearing you correctly?
Thats a conversation from two years ago... But whats scary about it?
OS X Mountain Lion will be available on july 25th.
Actually, that's on a legal copyright data -- the expression of the information belongs to its author.

The facts themselves aren't subject to copyright.

Access through the CL site is governed by various computer use statutes. Though aggregation-via-proxy as PM are doing through Google cache raises some interesting issues.
I'm color deficient --- failed the tests at school where you pick out the letters/numbers from the bubbles --- and I got a 100% on apple and a 0% on Batman...:(
Anyone here who knows the product want to have a go at proving a simple tag line, short about that would be suitable to use on their inbound marketing blog?
We live in a Constitutional democracy, with what has evolved into a deliberately difficult for amending that Constitution. A group of people holding the (temporary) power to change policy cannot vote down the 1st Amendment, for instance.
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It's been GM for about a week or two now.
Well if the rumored plans are true new iMacs will be coming out towards the end of the year. The 13inch MacBook Pro is the next Retina in line.
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The Bat!'s still around, since 1998? That is awesome.

I don't think RITLabs took any VC money... hmmm ;)
SF has limited space mainly because city homeowners lobby against new building permits. 418 housing units constructed in SF in 2011 -- do you seriously think that in a city with $3000 one-bedroom apartments, there aren't hundreds of real estate developers who would build new units here?

The will of the majority is no evidence of fairness or moral rectitude - the will of the majority is what was responsible for slavery, institutional racism, and now marriage inequality.
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I saw the same issue in Safari 5.1.7 on OS X 10.7.4. Nudging the colorpicker fixed it for me.

PS: I vote for keeping the cats :D
But in a libertarian world the government wouldn't stop competing ISPs from competing. But yeah, half-libertarian policies like regulating ISPs to prevent competition but not regulating other aspects is problematic.
Google obeys robots.txt file. Padmapper does not. That's a critical difference.
Perhaps an iframe would work best. With some injected styles and javascript (some that would make the iframe expand automatically à la Disqus), I think this would work nicely.
That's not that unusual for sites that contain user-generated content. If someone's hosting a blog full of scraped YouTube videos, YouTube can go after them without contacting the owner of each individual video.
My view on this is much as it was before:

- The Craigslist apartments listing interface really, really sucks.

- Padmapper's search interface is much, much better.

- CL almost certainly have legal recourse to control use of their data and trademarks, or at least make things miserable for PadMapper should they choose to do so. Which would put a crimp on PM's future growth prospects as a lawsuit magnet.

- CL undoubtedly add value to their listings by filtering (through community input) for misclassified and spam listings.

- I really wish the two organizations could reach an equitable compromise which preserves the PM interface concept. Licensed use. Buyout. Whatever.

- Barring that, CL are ripe for disruption. My read is that PM have enough mojo at this point to make it on their own by licensing listings from other sources and soliciting them on their own.
Specifically, this:

p=_u[_k+1];
s=-(_i>=p);
_i-=p&s;
yj=_k;
p=_u[_k];
while(p>_i)p=_u[--_k];
_i-=p;
yj-=_k;

is incomprehensible and basically unmaintainable. The variables are named badly and the control flow is not obvious.
Without a hint of sarcasm, I genuinely admire your resolve to be open minded no matter how patently stupid an idea is. I'm not as open minded as you; some day I'd like to be.

The moment someone can supply an objective, verifiable, scientifically valid proof that formal discrimination would have ended on its own, then I'll consider it. Otherwise, it sounds like after-the-fact rationalizing from people who were part of the problem and ashamed of themselves (as they should be). Ideology and academic hand-waving about the principles of some Invisible Hand moving society forward simply did nothing. The hands that broke the shackles were very visible, covered in dirt sweat and blood, and very pragmatic.

In general, I steer clear of ideological decisions with hand-wave philosophies which hold their conclusions to be self-evident. I see a lot of this in economic discussions, too. My challenge is for these ridiculous vapid ideologies to come with formal justification that doesn't involve circular reasoning or false premises.
thanks, you're not the first to raise that point. we'll give that some further thought.
I put my information in, and the max home I can afford is about 1/5th the price of my current mortgage. I know that my house is more than I can afford, but that is a pretty large discrepancy.
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What do you see as a straw man there?

edit: up voting you to counter a ridiculous down vote.
Unfortunately the graphics card is simply not up to the task of running Mountain Lion. I don't necessarily think this is a play for profits, hell the OS is being sold for $19.95 and can be installed up to 5 computers that you own free of charge...

Unfortunately there is no way to upgrade the video card in a laptop.
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Point of comparison, as of March 2011 Stack Overflow, which got about 2x the traffic for page hits/month, used 12 cores for the web tier and 12-24 cores for their SQL Server 2008 database(s?). Source - http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...

Does anyone know what db engine serves as backend for HN?
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When you consider that the law was only changed due to a change in the prevailing attitudes towards racism, it's not all that far fetched. A much harder argument to make is that the change would have happened as quickly as it did.

But then you look at the last 20 years and you wonder whether quickly changing legislative reality is a good thing to want.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if most of your communication is over GMail/Google talk/Skype/Facetime/etc, there isn't a way the feds could wiretap that without the cooperation of Google/Microsoft/Apple, and AFAIK, they will require a warrant.
No, but at the same time, it's just respectful to not keep the codename of a project that is related to such a tragic event.
> Shamr.io
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120724_PJ_YQW/

Slow as hell, but far from 5 minutes.
Asking Permission
" Specifically, the groups say that compelling private companies to “speak,” by requiring them to carry all traffic across their networks, instead of allowing them to discriminate as they see fit, violates the principle of freedom of speech. "

As someone pointed out in the comments below the article, this seems like a path the ISPs really don't want to go down. If you equate all packets running through your network to your speech, then you're implicitly making yourself responsible for their contents. This is hardly in their best interests, considering the amount of pirated content, [everyone's favorite boogeyman] kiddy-porn, and God-knows-what-else running down their pipes every day.
someone can supply an objective, verifiable, scientifically valid proof that

How could you do this for any counter-factual of a government policy? Is criticism of the PATRIOT Act stupid if someone cannot provide an objective, verifiable, scientifically valid proof that we wouldn't have been attacked without it?
Not when your have to pay the rent {insurance, child support, tax bill, etc} every month.

In fact, most of the more important creditors we have to keep happy to in order to keep our lives functioning are far less lenient -- and have far more recourse to make our lives miserable if we don't pay up -- than most freelances are with their clients.
This is because traditional media doesn't police this stuff for us anymore and the average person is too busy to keep up with these issues on their own. Most people have trouble just keeping up with their hobbies let alone politics.
or maybe it was because you were working too much? You shouldn't sell yourself short or overlook the affects of overwork on a persons ability to deal with outside forces.

Additionally, i think ALL reimbursement programs are great. But as a comparison, this one is kind of shit. 2k a year max helps with books. That's about it. It is hardly an "Amazon Sends its workforce to school" Program. There is a regional gas station/mini mart here in WA state that offers a better program and you only have to work 35 hours a week.
The current machine lineup will likely start shipping with Mountain Lion very shortly. I'd put good money down saying that any machine ordered online tomorrow ships with Mountain Lion installed by default.

In fact wouldn't surprise me if they've already started imaging machines with Mountain Lion, as they know when those machines will reach customers and can guarantee they'll arrive after the OS goes live.
How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?
FFS not again. Exceptions are more human friendly and provide more context than 102324323452. Even a NullPointerException explains more than that number.
I tried this out earlier today, and it's great but one thing confused me a little - your system seems to choose a home price for me based on income and savings. In the real estate market where I live this results in twice the house I would want/need. It also screws up the tax and rent/own calculations, I would think.

Is there some way I can set the max home price?
Hit us up on olark and we can go over your numbers.
Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months)

In other words: my terminal windows, browser, text editor and twitter client run just as well as on Lion.
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True, but that's irrelevant to the comment I was replying to. We are talking about user expectations with regard to content they posted being made available on other sites.