skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different incident from the Steve Mann airport incident. I actually think the Star Simpson incident was caused by her bring really clueless about how paranoid airport security are, getting a dumb guy scared, and then being as rude to security as many civil libertarians can be. (Star is also a friend of mine, and I think she is a lot less likely to almost get killed by security now too :)

I don't understand the benefit to ever being anything but polite to suthority, even while resisting (legally or beyond legally, depending on how important the issue is to you). I "opt out" of rapescans all the time, and am polite, and the whole interaction goes fairly well. (I think it is security theater, but invasive pat downs aren't always inappropriate; just when there is not enough benefit. I'd draw that line as search incident to arrest based on RS and PC developed normally -- just being a passenger on a flight doesn't make you all that much more likely to be a terrorist). Protest in court, in congress, on the Internet, and during the incident, but don't be threatening or rude.
Really good post. We're in the process of doing something very similar, moving from Upstate NY down to NYC. There are pro's and cons to each. Upstate was great when we were building product. It was good to be isolated from distraction and do absolutely nothing but build. Now that we are launched, there are media relationships, mentorships and capital that just don't exist upstate. It's figuring out what your company's priorities are where you need to be to execute them best
A Uniquely Honest Story Of One Entrepreneur’s “Darkness”
Looks like somebody jumped the gun. This doesn't appear to be true - I was just able to post an imgur link without any trouble. Maybe the OP over at Reddit got hit by the same spam detection issue that was a problem for Scoble a while back?
Yup.

In China this is how Windows was installed:

Windows XP with the latest drivers, KB fix, updates, service packs, and Office, IM, games, tools, packed into a 300MB Norton Ghost image, boot from a USB disk (the USB disk can even act as an USB-CDROM device), everything is automated, the image-to-disk copy takes about 10 minutes. Then you have everything ready.

IE6 was installed like this like 10 years ago.
> So a Java program which is compiled to byte code is actually run as an interpreted program using the jvm as an interpretor.

Of course, this is not quite true; large parts of the program are JITted, and the result is sometimes faster than C.
Go to Paris. Eat at a McDonald's. o_O
Ad 4 I don't see how you can do OO without state.
> And I doubt people are thinking of carrying over comments in headers and line folding...

Heh, I don't think any reasonable web apps actually depend on the value of those :)

> What actually is the proposal to eliminate cookies? Just provide some fixed "identifier" type field?

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a concrete proposal to compare to, other than

Given how almost universal the "session" concept on the Internet we
should add it to the HTTP/2.0 standard, and make it available for
HTTP routers to use as a "flow-label" for routing.
Yeah - I'm using iOS 6 daily and have had very few issues, especially from beta 2 on. Very stable.
So can we go through list of companies that tried and failed in 1999 & see if its feasible now?
I just moved to LA from the east coast, too. I miss thunderstorms and rainy days! I find them quite relaxing and rejuvenating.
load balancers aren't meant to just be "HTTP routers". they can definitely be used as such for smaller applications and do a good job at it, but a real load balancer needs to be quite complex, being able to adapt to the underlying applications that make use of it.

if your goal is to only route HTTP requests, then you're only solving the first step of an increasingly complicated field of computer science (namely, web applications).

Cookies aren't going to go away. if you want to improve the protocol to deal with cookies better, that makes sense, but acting like they are some kind of evil on the internet that should be forgotten isn't going to work. it's a bit self-defeating to argue that some protocols failed because of failure to provide new benefits and then argue against Cookies in HTTP!
Hardly. Given a choice between complex imperative code and complex functional code, I’ll take the latter. It’s just that the resultant C++ is somewhat brittle and not as thoroughly verified as the Haskell version. I would say the same thing if I wrote something in Coq, proved it correct, then ported it to Haskell.
Porting between Ubuntu and Fedora, or even Ubuntu and Android once you have a native Ubuntu build is far easier than porting from Windows to Ubuntu.
Up: A smart armband + mobile app that tracks sleep, exercise, and diet.
RegexEngine - Open Source Regular Language transformer and optimizer.
Adjustable Standing Desk: GeekDesk with Custom Ikea Top
For those who don't know, Plesk has been a recent vector to compromise a large number of websites: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/07/plesk-0day-for-sale-as-th...
As a fan of C, I have to disagree. To quote OS X's `man signal`:

void (*signal(int sig, void (*func)(int)))(int);

or in the equivalent but easier to read typedef'd version:

typedef void (*sig_t) (int);
sig_t signal(int sig, sig_t func);

In, say, Go, this would be

func signal(sig int, newFunc func(int)) func(int)

which imo is cleaner (it's clear that the second argument and return value have the same type, without having to use a typedef) without sacrificing power.
Yes, you're wrong.

Lion was $30 (unlimited Macs)

Snow Leopard was $30 (1 Mac), $50 (family pack)

Leopard was $130 (1 Mac), $200 (family pack)

OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 were similarly priced.

OS X 10.0 and 10.1 were didn't have a family pack.

OS X Public beta was $30.

Source: http://mactracker.ca/
Quick Tutorial: Create a source from the dropdown. Type in a regex (try [123]*123). Create a graph output from the dropdown. Connect the blue dot to the green dot.
Try out other combinations of sources/operations/outputs and see what you can come up with.
On front page right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955
i would have used the modal verb "may" instead of "might".

to wit: you may as well block...

"might" is used when something is more on the unlikely side. e.g. it might happen.

then again, i doubt i'm going to block my own site, so it may have best to use "might" after all.
> C is an easy language to write code in. Especially if you are competent in some other block structured language - such as Javascript, Python, Ruby and (maybe) Java.

I disagree. You can be competent in Python,Ruby and Java and still have no clue about how memory works internally, a strong requirement while writing C. C is easy to learn but takes time to master to reach a point where you are not shooting yourself in the head left and right.

> Pointers are bad only if you're an idiot.

You don't have to be an idiot to make a pointer mistake, off by one error, overflow a buffer etc... People that wrote nginx, apache, bind, linux kernel, and freebsd are not idiots yet such mistakes happen.
* I never really understood why hardware can't be just clocked to higher and higher frequencies*

Can you provide more detail on this?
Maybe so. And Stack Overflow may not be the site for you either.
If you are already on NME 3.3.3 (latest release), no. It comes with Haxe 2.09. But I am guessing it will not be long before another NME release and it will probably come with Haxe 2.10.
Don't know if something would brake if you updated to 2.10 per Haxe installer but am not going to find out.
Joshua is probably working at it as we type.
Paul Maritz Out As VMware CEO
This could be intentional, as it may increase his peripheral vision through the Eye Glass.
I completely agree that technical recruiting is open to disruption, and I hope that it soon will be, however: given the fees that barely technical recruiters extract now, what hope is there for a truly talented, highly technical recruiter who needs to get paid at least what (s)he could make in a technical role (120k minimum)
Except for the nasty wifi bug that was in beta 1. Where wifi basically wouldn't work on certain routers. Nasty one, that.
The problem I ran into with Arch was that it forced you to make many decisions about your system up-front, before you had a system to begin with. I even found Gentoo easier to set up, and Gentoo forced me to pick which version of cron I wanted to install.

One nice thing about Arch though is the ArchWiki: it has copious amounts of documentation on software that is usually applicable to other distros. A good example is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Awesome
Even if she has, what of it? Academic success does not imply the ability to lead and vice verse. Steve jobs, bill gates, Zuckerberg all built businesses worth hundreds of billions of dollars without any degree at all.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1405178
More recent than the Quakes, Doom 3 had a Linux build.
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and that is much of the problem - an assumption of guilt based on a spray-and-pray algorithm - and why not, as there's very little downside for a false claim.
No, it's really not when you constrain who the possible perpetrators are and consider that they must be long-term, more senior employees. Fraud by higher ranking employees – particularly managers involved in the creation of job descriptions and doing hiring is just not going to be that common.

It certainly isn't going to be common enough that it's worth destroying internal trust and credibility when open (within company) reviews and sufficient internal control mechanisms that didn't include hidden manipulation of candidate hiring could do an equivalent job without reducing the organization's ability to hire stellar candidates (not that I'm biased, given my case, of course =)

I mean, it may well happen, but all sorts of unlikely events may happen and yet would similarly be problematic to keep constant protection for. It's all about the risk/reward analysis and, in this case, I believe you've calculated that incorrectly.
Exactly! Unless those glasses are shooting dangerous gamma rays, you have no right to remove them.
I agree that you can't go videotaping people in semi-public areas without someone getting annoyed, and that you can't take up pitchforks after hearing only one side of a story. But beyond that, I think you're being a jerk.

You criticize his 13-year-old contraption for not being as good looking as Google's last iteration of a product not yet launched. That sounds incredibly discriminatory.

You claim you'd treat his rig differently if he looked blind himself. Provided the device actually works well, how exactly do you determine that it's a necessary physical aid without intruding on his privacy?

You say you can't judge the employee for assaulting him without knowing if he, a long-time public user of this technology and a university professor, were just acting like an asshole. Yet you have no trouble speculating he were intrusively "scanning" everyone, which by the account is not something one would do with this device, especially in the given scenario.

You fault him for not contacting the police, which he explicitly said he had done.

All in all, it seems like you're projecting something onto him that is in no way deserved. This is not some video artist or smelly person we're talking about here, it's a father on vacation while wearing a prosthetic, getting into an altercation with staff that left his prosthetic damaged.
There's a large series of events before a non-criminal who isn't absolutely insane decides to attack you.

Firstly, you are demonstrably wrong, and as evidence, I would put forward around 20% of nightclub door security as exhibit A.

Also I would say it is very easy to construct plausible scenarios around this particular story.

"Remove that camera."

"I can't."

"Stop taking the piss."

"I'm not, it is all part of a medical experiment."

"I said stop taking the piss and take off the camera."

After this it goes downhill rather rapidly.

This is of course a fiction, from someone with no firsthand knowledge of the situation, but to try and make out that being attacked by security for stupid reasons is an unlikely event that does not happen to lots of people with fairly boring regularity, is an even greater fiction still.
"Consistency problems" is a red herring; Cassandra can be easily asked to sacrifice availability for consistency [on a per-request basis], if that's what you want: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/dml/data_consistency

Facebook never used modern Apache Cassandra, so when they tasked a team of experienced Haddop/HDFS engineers to build Messaging, it was natural for them to choose HBase. But the things they've had to do to deal with the problems in that architecture (e.g., sharding into "cells" to deal with namenode SPOF) [1] make me think that they would have done better with Cassandra.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/brizzzdotcom/facebook-messages-hba...
Which candidates have been hit by this? The "music" in the campaign video was Obama singing. If I were posting such a video I would not automatically expect it to be hit by a DMCA takedown.
Microsoft officially announces Microsoft Office 365 aka Microsoft Office 2013
Just so we are all on the same page, the males look of distinct North-African extraction - Algerian, Moroccan, Egyptian or Libyan.
Sukuriant's point might be terse, but it's not invalid either.

In 20 years' time, I'm pretty sure that the next iteration of us will be saying something like "When they phased out HTTP, there were only a few billion servers..."

Better will always make its way in, even if there are entrenched systems running the 'old faithful' code already out there. IE6 is being phased out, yes, VERY slowly, but we're already way closer to getting it down to an irrelevant number than we would be if there weren't pushes. Will we ever get rid of it completely? Maybe not. I'm sure there's still a gopher server out there somewhere or another, and it's not that uncommon to get Telnet access to some commodity (crappy) web hosts, but SSH is pervasive and good, and we're all better off for it.
Did you read the same article I read?

"...seems like as clear-cut a case of fair use as can be imagined." They don't 'claim this is,' they say 'seems like.' And with that phrase, I am primed to read a sentence later in the paragraph on why that's not the case.

The article goes on to say "copyright law explicitly mentions commentary and criticism as justifications for fair use." I don't even see a mention of 'political use' to defend the "seems like" phrasing.

Unless they edited the article between views, I'd suggest you've incorrectly characterized the article.
Agreed. Works fine for me.
I know it doesn't work well for multi-displays, but I freakin' love Command Center on my laptop when I'm not near an auxiliary monitor... so they got something a little right at least.
But what about buffer overflows? Buffers overflow when a fixed size buffer is allocated, some data is copied to the buffer and the idiot who wrote the code didn't check to see if the data was too big for the buffer!

Researchers have found memory corruption flaws in both Daniel J. Bernstein and Wietse Venema's code. You want to try this "de-myth-ification" thing again?
Incorrect, or they're rolling it out over time. I just posted fine.
You are not testing it to help Apple, you are testing it to check they didn’t break your apps.

If your apps break because of a bug in iOS 6 and you didn’t test them, you will only have yourself to blame when your customers leave 1-star reviews.
Wirecutter creator, Brian Lam, on starting over and doing what you love.
Redis Tips (Mozilla Developer Network)
This is very much what I meant to convey -- anyone this intense needs something equally intense as a distraction. I swear it flips some kind of switch in the brain.
"I also contacted the Embassy, Consulate, Police, etc., without much luck."

He said he already tried getting law enforcement involved.

Maybe he plans to use lawyers as a last ditch effort, if his internet plea doesn't work? I would think it's a bit extreme to involve them first before trying to just settle things with McDonalds directly.
I really need to learn some C to get my hands dirty with DWM on my Arch laptop.
I'm surprised Jawbone didn't stipulate that the UP should come packaged with different colours, similar to Jawbone's packaging strategy with various external shells (and colours) for their bluetooth headsets.

Perhaps this is in the works. Looks like a competitor to the Fitbit.
Why is iOS 6 so special ?

It has for me anyway been the most stable and trouble free beta iOS release to date. Which you would expect as this is more of an iPhone 5 / developer API release.
Andreessen’s Advice to Marissa Mayer: Cut 10,000+ Jobs
mtasc was an AS2 compiler, not an AS3 one.

As of Flex3 (~2008) Adobe's AS3 compiler has been open source.

(But haxe is still better than AS3, IMO).
Meego startup Jolla soon to have phones available
Flash fill looks sick.
It would be very easy for any ordinary McDonald's to have rules against filming in their store. Heck, just one incident like this and the manager would instantly ban cameras from ever being in his store again. If word of the stink got above the manager's head, then corporate would ban cameras in every store. I get told no pictures allowed in lots of NYC stores that aren't even in tourist areas and aren't good candidates for money laundering. Can I come to a meeting at your offices and film every single thing I see, including the screens of any workstations I pass by walking to the meeting room?
deepin,ylmf的貢獻很大。
> As an aside, I'm curious how many flash haters out there have actually written flash applications.

In my experience, the folks who are most vocally anti-Flash have never written a line of code in their life. I've never seen a reasonable justification for the amount of hate it receives. If anything, Flash deserves high praise for playing such a key role in the evolution of a media rich internet, despite its flaws.

I don't think the haters realize how good it actually is compared to the historical alternatives. It makes me physically ill to think of a universe where RealVideo became the dominant format for streaming media.
Angel investors take notice of Canadian startups
I read a local free real estate advertising magazine.

Every week, the editorial has a message that fits the latest data.

Every week, the conclusion is that NOW is the time to buy real estate.

If the market is strong, get in before it is too late.
If the market is weak, good time to be a buyer.
If the market is very weak, take advantage of those distressed sellers.

It really is amusing. It's more blatant than most self-interested publishing, but so much of what we read follows the same script in more subtle ways.
Does ios6 finally have file upload in the browser? Can anyone confirm firsthand?
What will be really interesting is when he brings his recording device into somewhere people get naked, like a locker room...that isn't going to go well with a lot of people.
I love eating fast food in other countries. It's always different from home and that fascinates me.

Sure, I'm much more keen to enjoy 'proper' food from the country I'm visiting, but there's still a place for experiencing fast food.
Yes it does. You can upload from your photo album.
9to5mac typically has a comprehensive overview: http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/16/whats-new-in-ios-6-beta-3/
Giant rover to make ‘terrifying’ landing on Mars
It seems like Microsoft has really tied Valve's hands here. Unless something has changed recently, all apps installed on Windows RT will have to come from MS's app store (marketplace? bazaar?), which doesn't bode well for the future of Steam on the platform. I'm hoping they end up doing a lot more than porting Steam to Linux, because outside of Valve's efforts, most of the games on there are not (and will likely never be) Linux compatible.
The problematic aspect seems to be, that a) Obama was singing the song and b) that there are lots of videos on YouTube of exactly this segment that were not taken down. And in political campaigns there are no automated take downs - just devious acts of sabotage by the opponent ;)
Well, Someone Not Obama owns the rights to the lyrics. But that's the only grounds I could think that such a takedown request would be plausible. Compulsory licensing (which says once it's been recorded and published by someone, it can be recorded and published by anyone provided they pay the lyricist and composer the statutory fees) does not address fair use of any particular recording.

So now, IMHO, we're left with whether it's OK for Romney to use the recording in a critical manner. And I'd say yes. I think it's beyond 'would not automatically expect' into 'there's no way anyone could claim...'
A terrorist attack?
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Anyone else have alarm bells going off about the statements about buffering? He's very careful to represent storage of the images as an accident caused by the incident, which is slightly odd in itself - why not simply say it records everything it sees and that that was very useful in this case?

Then if there was no storage, how come there are images for several minutes before the assault? It must have been at least a ring buffer, so there WAS storage (albeit temporary).

I'm not condoning the violence that was done to him in any way. But this dissembling makes me want another witness before I take this at face value.
As an OS X user, I literally cannot remember a Flash site (other than a video wrapper) that felt completely fluid. You never get 60fps because Flash mostly always insists on doing things on the CPU.

Dunno what things look like on Windows, but I'm hoping WebGL takes off - it really seems to be best positioned to do complex things without sacrificing performance.
It’s not so much about creating beautiful documents, it’s more about making the world a more beautiful place.

Everyone uses Word. I have to stare at Word documents all the time. Why can’t I be happy when they look a bit better?
It is NOT FREE.
> It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces.

I'm not sure about that. You go on to talk about decorum and respect for the privacy of others. If someone walked into a restaurant with a glass eye or Pistorius-style prosthetics, I would feel rude asking them about it.

Sure, you and I know his camera is reality-augmenting, but if I didn't know about Mann I would probably assume it was a high-tech medical advice I hadn't heard about; I wouldn't simply assume it was a recording device.

In the same way you wouldn't expect Pistorius to walk into a McDonalds and announce why he has an unusual bodily attachment, I'm not sure Mann has to explain his EyeTap.

Granted, there are serious, qualitative difference between EyeGlass and a prosthetic leg; one might be an invasion of privacy, the other definitely isn't.

I think it's clear from the article's description that his EyeTap, which can be used to record pictures/video, is not constantly invading anyone's privacy. He has the choice (and I think we both agree, the obligation) to use it responsibly. If I don't have to announce that I have a camera in my backpack, he doesn't have to announce the camera-features of his permanent eye fixture.
The Linux Standard Base keeps most of the system structure and ABI consistent across distributions, which means that binaries are trivial to move among them.
Fun fact: Dachshund actually translates to "badger dog." They're the perfect shape to go digging around in holes in the ground hunting badgers, rabbits, and the like.
It's interesting, but a shame the article doesn't go deeper. They looked up a guys LinkedIn page and grabbed a paragraph from a 2 year old article about the other guy.

I'd love to know why Jonathan Gay made the switch to small business in agriculture.
If I'm interpreting that correctly, that could be a huge win for privacy
What if they open source it?

I'd love to have a community scrutinized game to prevent cheaters