skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But individual apps can change that on the session level, right?

So still no guarantees and you more or less have to audit every app connecting to your db to make sure it isn't tampering with the sql_mode if you value data integrity.
Lets take into account that invading an embassy is a rare occurrence (happened once that I know of), that it's largely regarded as somewhat hostile towards the nation that owns that embassy and the whole "bad precedent" thing.

Being afraid of "looking like idiots" doesn't seem like a very plausible explanation for invading an embassy.

I doubt the rest of the world would think British authorities were incompetent for wanting to avoid an international incident. Nor is forcing an embassy to release an asylum seeker something "simple".

I doubt that Assange being a "pompous ass" is what's killing the anonymous leaks platform idea. Rather I would say that the relentless pursuit of everyone involved in such leaks and their infrastructure as well as lack of support from traditional media are probably to blame for it.
Why don't they just focus on making the best product and stop arguing about who stole from whom?
I see $31.99 in Australia too... This is making me rage a little inside. It's a DIGITAL BOOK Amazon. DIGITAL. Bits. I know it's a little bit further to Australia but for the love of...

Amazon is like the Harvey Two-Face -- half amazing and half frustrating. I have a Kindle Fire in Australia, but as Australia isn't an official country yet, Amazon Market doesn't work. And by doesn't work I mean I can't even download free applications without an American credit card. Amazon support know this and just apologise.

When friends ask me about the Kindle Fire in Australia, I won't say good stuff about it. When it finally is released here, do you think they'll be it? No. They'll remember I said it was annoying for some reason. The reason doesn't matter. Bad is bad so they'll decide, many moons ago, that they're not getting it.

Amazon in Australia are horrible. For many, many reasons[1].

[1]: Amazon Affiliate program pays out by gift certificate or check to Australia -- http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/11/29/an-open-letter...
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What's funny is I used to use MySQL for db prototyping because altering schemas on PostgreSQL was such a pain (prior to 7.3). Now it is much better.
Never thought this was how my theater minor would come in handy one day.
I could have sworn I've seen a prototype of something very similar to this for motorcycle racers years ago...

EDIT: A quick Googling comes up with a whole suit system by Alpinestars, reported on 2 years ago, and another airbag system made by Dainese from 4-5 years ago, which I think is what I saw. I always wondered if these ever made it into the mainstream, or if they were too expensive or were otherwise unavailable/undesirable for the average motorcyclist.
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Opera 12 displays a blue box while Chrome 21 and IE 9 show a red one. Another cross-browser incompatibility that we have to deal with...
I just want to say: Thank you for doing this. While I'm looking forward to doing this myself (always fun), I really appreciate you guys taking the time to do this for the impact it'll have on non-security folks. Anything that makes learning this stuff fun and interesting will be a very good thing for the development community.
See my comment: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4389384
"16 characters ought to be enough for anybody."
I'm not sure if you are being serious or not. You talk about all those great features that the user isn't probably interested in using, then blame those features for why the user can't start editing code in a few seconds?

Features are great when you need them. But when you don't need them, they shouldn't be negatives. Incidentally, I don't think it was really features that made VS2010 slow.
Also, @Oatmeal is famously nuts about Tesla. His interest is neither casual nor recent.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Average number of small businesses that fail in first two years is 40%, with 5% from bankruptcy and 20% from failure to return a profit.

References:

1. Main article by David Maloney http://ezinearticles.com/?Small-Business-Failure-Rate—9-Out-...

2. Study 1: Shane, S in the study ‘Startup Failure Rates – The Real Numbers’, 2008 http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html
3. Study 2: Headd, B in the study ‘Redefining Business Success: Distinguishing Between Closure and Failure’, 2002 http://www.springerlink.com/content/u5218354gk84k205/

4. Study 3: Phillips, B. D., and B. A. Kirchoff (1989). “Formation, Growth and Survival: Small Firm Dynamics in the U.S. Economy,” Small Business Economics 1, 65-74. http://grips-public.mediactive.fr/knowledge_base/view/483/fo...

5. Do small businesses have high failure rates? Evidence from Australian retailers. http://www.allbusiness.com/buying-exiting-businesses/exiting...
An app is barely a strategy; having a sustainable and profitable business model is. App is a vehicle, and in some ways vastly superior to web in reaching out to people, use of context and focus.
Social network analysis (SNA) is increasingly a method of analysis for many fields. Epidemiology is fascinating, but before deciding to jump into a new field, think about how it may apply to your own sphere of interests.

Since you said you're a programmer, my advice would be to find or collect some data you are interested in, and play with Python's networkx.[1] For some starter data, check out Stanfords Large Network Dataset Collection.[2]

[1] http://networkx.lanl.gov/
[2] http://snap.stanford.edu/data/

(Why were people down-voting this? It looked like a sincere question.)
Keeping your photos beholden to iPhoto is just asking for trouble.

Why? I'm curious. Do you believe that iPhoto will stop being able to export your photos?
Some universities do this. (Well, mine did at least). I think normally you had to pay, but I new a few people who talked the university into doing it for free for them. They also give you back the original books, spiral bound (they cut the spines off them in order to scan them).

You may be able to find a local university willing to do this for non-students.
I don't think the point is that they fail, but how easy for them it is to get money (then later valuations) without having users nor revenue. That is what worries people when they draw the similarities with the first bubble.
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I have found that if you have anything valuable-ish in external pockets to your luggage, it will usually disappear. e.g. change in a bag; CD's & DVD's etc.

I'm sure the baggage handlers that do that don't make it obvious to their co-workers.
How exactly do you install this? I've downloaded the archive, unzipped it, and gone through the folder, but I don't see what specific file I have to open (or how).
Thanks, and sorry for the n00bish question!
I was around during 1999 and the three key differences are:

1. The audience for the web was very small, in fact most homes were still using dial up in 1999 since cable modems hadn't even taken off yet

2. Launching a startup took quite a great deal of money in 1999, today it's a mere fraction of what it use to cost

3. The economy in 1999 was pretty damn amazing, but the negative side of this is that there was a great deal of dumb money floating around
I've not yet heard of an instance where rms has allegedly sexually assaulted anyone or said anything that could be seen as blatantly sexist or misogynist. He may be awkward around women, I'd also argue he can be awkward around everyone - the man is not renown for having the best social skills.
This is actually one area where PostgreSQL really shines. With LedgerSMB we define our interfaces in the db (as stored procs) and then have a very simple query mapper function which looks up the stored procedure in the system catalogs and then figures out the arguments. We have a second function which then generates a query based on supplied args and runs it.

No other app code since we started this (at least code in the new framework) includes any SQL. All the SQL stuff is done by one simple function. The real programming is in the database for this interface. Our approach isn't fully developed. I expect we will be working on an object-oriented interface inside PostgreSQL soon which will make the queries look like:

SELECT (f).* FROM (select entity(?, ?, ?, ?, ?).save) f;

save(entity) will then handle actually saving the data.
I feel like it should have been you justifying your belief why this normal, instead of asking everyone to justify why it is bad.
I've found testflight to be an absolute UX disaster for non-geeky users.
It's the trend started by Android and then followed by iOS and also begun on OSX. It's not quite required but you're pretty much going to want a cloud account.
Don't think we need this submission twice on the front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389061
This has been brought up before [1].

I believe that currently, the biggest problem in mobile is discovery. I can't remember what problems were prevalent in 1999 but it could have been discovery on the web as well. If you're a startup, life is going to suck for you developing on mobile. You have a name recognition problem on top of developing on a platform where discovery is inherently broken. It will be tough to get those organic installs because on Apple, those are driven largely in part to your placement in the rankings, and there's less to do with SEO on the App Store as there is on Google. So I think success on mobile can be had in only a finite number of ways:

1) You buy your way to the top and hope your customer LTV > acquisition costs (See all mobile games)

2) You spam the hell out of your users on other distribution platforms (SocialCam)

3) You're lucky and you develop a truly great product that thrives on mobile (WhatsApp, Camera+)

4) You can succeed with mobile being a utility, but not the essence of your business (Uber).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4172261
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You have to keep in mind that, traditionally, app sales basically halve week on week for the first month or so, and then hit a plateau. You basically make all your money in the first month (or two, if youre really lucky). So, if i was in their shoes i'd rightly be worried: they'll likely make 2000 next week, 1000 the week after, and so on. They'll be lucky to make 10k out of this, which is great but not life-sustaining for a team of two in the first world.

Of course i'm talking trends, not real numbers here, so don't nitpick the specific numbers i've made up here please.
Read the spec instead. It says "in a number system with a large base". I suspect the unspecific wording is on purpose (to allow optimisation for sane conditions), but it should be fairly clear that the intent is that classes cannot override ids.
last time i finished everything short of writing the program to capture the flag after i realized how to do it. i guess i was tired after basically staying up all weekend glued to the keyboard with the other nuts on irc/campfire. never actually took the last step, never sent stripe my proof and never got my t-shirt. I have regretted my apathy ever since!!!
Can't wait for this one!
Schedules might be useless in Seattle, but the subway schedules in NYC are incredibly useful.

Keep in mind that you are not all the users in the world.
Is it a legal Constitutional loophole? US Government can't spy on US citizens, but that doesn't mean other governments can't. Or even private companies. NSA in fact then should always have others do it as this technicality absolves them from feeling guilty and lets them sleep at night.
I don't think this is a problem isolated in China, I grew up in the Australian education system, went to a top 3 public high school, and the situation(at least for math/science) is the same. Subjects are taught by teachers who follow textbooks, where textbooks are full of practice questions to make sure you can give the correct answer. The underlying motivation for the material is missing - very very few teachers know the material or truly want to properly educate students.

The only difference is that the material is comparatively much less/easier than in the Chinese system, and motivation for students to do well is much lower - the exam has much less impact on the students future.
Chen was neither charged with a crime nor was he serving a sentence at the time he fled.
This is my start-up I've been working on for about a year and a half. Feel free to leave feedback/suggestions in the comments. Yes, after about a year and a half, it sure would be nice to get a friggin' angel round.
Add to it that the Metro group is not some competitor nor an unrelated business, but a major retailer that sells and will continue to sell windows PCs. It doesn't look like a dispute microsoft would want to win just for a cool name it didn't bother to legaly check first.
That only works out if you believe that Gartner's ‘research’ is sound and has an error margin of zero.

I encourage you to read Asymco's post on these kinds of guesstimates: http://www.asymco.com/2012/08/13/how-many-smartphones-did-sa...
I like it, kudos! While I don't see myself ever leaving Vim, I think WriteLaTeX (or something similar) could easily become the standard way for introducing beginners to LaTeX.

The only missing features I can think of are: snippets for environments (tables, figures, beamer frames, etc.), base templates (report, book, beamer presentation, letter, CV) and maybe interactive wizards for more complicated stuff (for example, a grid-like input for the tabular environment).
> If users aren't willing to opt in to your data collection, then you're not offering something worth the trade. Facebook and Google rely on peoples ignorance to make money.

"All data collection should be opt-in" is overly simplistic. Google street view is, on the balance, a huge value and it's Germany's loss. I'm much less a fan of what Facebook. The details matter.
interestingly COPY survives in PostgreSQL though not quite in the same form as in Quel.
Took them long enough!
this is an outrage!
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The algorithm looks like that "in a number system with a large base". It is arguably not what the spec intended but probably acceptable in exchange for performance.
Reminds me of complaints I saw about new table saw tech that aimed to prevent injury[1]. It wasn't that people were opposed to increased safety, but rather were afraid that expensive equipment would become mandatory, and possibly encourage complacency that would undermine existing safe practices.

Did you feel that the Cypres encouraged skydivers to become more complacent?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop
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> If the prosecutor has no case, though, Assange has nothing to fear going to Sweden. Even if the US could extradite him, they could do it from the UK just as easily as from Sweden

I disagree. If the prosecutor has no case, Assange has - rightfully or not - every reason to wonder why they are pursuing him in this manner, and every reason to then worry about what the underlying motivation is. He might be more paranoid than justified in how he interprets it, but if I was in his shoes and a prosecutor acted the way the Swedish prosecutor has in this case, and I knew I hadn't done anything wrong (or thought I hadn't), I'd be worried something was up and be far more concerned about that than a potential Swedish jail sentence.

If the prosecutor actually has a case, Assange presumably knows he did what is claimed, and in that case he would have more reason to believe early on that his "worst case" scenario might be a very short stay in a low security, comfortable Swedish prison - the crimes he is wanted for questioning about have very short sentencing guidelines in Sweden.

In terms of extradition, if I was him I'd not be so concerned about legal, above board extradition. I would be concerned about the fact that Sweden has admitted to, and have been censured by the UN for, having violated their own laws as well as international treaties to participate in rendition arranged by the US of two Egyptians to Egypt where they were subsequently tortured. If they were willing to do that with some relatively low level targets, at the behest of the US, then there is every reason to worry they'd be willing to be "flexible" about giving Assange to the US.

The odds of them taking the political fallout from that in this case might be small, but then this is not just about what Assange might objectively have reason to fear - a lot of it boils down to what his actual, subjective fears are. I see little reason to doubt that Assange personally genuinely fear the US is after him and that he believes he is important enough that given its past history with rendition that Sweden might very well be easy to push into handing over him too.

He might very well make irrational choices because of that fear without there being any implication of guilt behind those choices.

Then again, he might also be guilty and just not want to face it.

Point is, this isn't nearly as clear cut as some would like to think it is.
There's a Bob Dylan song called "Julius and Ethel". What is he singing about?

Julius and Ethel are the young couple who were executed for espionage in 1953. This was at the height of McCarthyism. Most of us agree McCarthy was a little, ahem, extreme. It's an interesting story and younger readers should check it out. Was Ethel Rosenberg really a spy? What did she do? The Wikipedia page has some links to further reading.

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

Reading over the BBC's timeline of the Assange case really leaves one in a state of bewilderment. The "rape" story was shared with between two women and then with a journalist? The allegations were dropped. Then reinstated? He's being extradicted for some allegations? Allegations, not charges. And those have nothing to do with leaking documents and espionage? WTF?

Are all the newspapers innocent in this? They spread the cables far and wide. It took more than just a disillusioned private and some nerds sniffing Tor exit nodes. The papers are still attracting readers and advertising dollars using this whole incident as a catapult.

The whole thing is really bizarre if you come at it objectively.
The currently available release of Express only supports Windows 8 (Metro) apps. The Pro version supports "desktop" apps, as does a supposedly forthcoming Express version.
This particular department, at least, seems to be trying to put forth a modern/accessible image as consumer advocates, with delivery style perhaps patterned more on Consumer Reports than traditional bureaucratese. They have a YouTube channel trying to demystify various things, e.g. which aspects of home improvement might require permits: http://www.youtube.com/user/massconsumer
"But you introduced the notion as something"

You keep spooning these words into his mouth but no he didn't ever say them. You think they are equivalent to what he said but they are not. What he said was 'X is arguably not rape'. That doesn't mean 'X is ok'. That means exactly what it says.
If you're currently on stable but are comfortable running a mixed system, you can install python3 from testing to get 3.2.
2.8 million, that's hardly anything. Only two third of the population of the whole of New Zealand.

Long island is part of the largest metropolitan region on earth. You don't need to worry about "how many people will ever trek out to visit this".
Bit bummed that it's not available on Amazon.co.uk for even £2.99... Instead it's £15.30

Think I've got the physical book somewhere anyway. It's just now that I travel a lot, I like to have the Kindle version as well.

Seth Godin seems to be able to synchronise his deals/giveaways between amazon.com & amazon.co.uk... Shame this wasn't as well.
I believe that's incorrect. Manning wasn't talked into putting himself in the brick. Well not literally: he bragged about what he had done to someone on an internet chat. That someone was a convicted hacker that gave him up to law enforcement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Chats_with_Adri...
Twitter adopts a motto to defend users
What is it powering though?

The way I look at it is this:

MySQL is at its roots an SQL-like database specializing in content management. The sorts of data integrity problems that can occur in MySQL are entirely tolerable in a content management environment for the most part. It was designed to be a fast backend for web sites with an SQL interface. A lot of the issues it has are entirely due to that legacy, but those issues don't matter at all when you are using MySQL for content management.

Every single one of those examples are probably using MySQL for some sort of content management.

So it isn't just whether they can tolerate some crap in their systems. It is what sort of crap they can tolerate. If the MySQL gotchas don't result in intolerable crap, then it doesn't matter.

Now, personally I wouldn't run an accounting system on MySQL particularly if I was expecting many apps to access the same db. This is because the sorts of issues that MySQL has are real show-stoppers in these environments. But content management? Why not? Heck many of these data integrity problems may be features in these environments.

For example, suppose MySQL@Twitter truncates your tweets to the maximum length silently without issuing an error. Bug or feature? Suppose it truncates numbers in your accounting software? Those are two completely different cases and while they may in theory be comparable, in practice they are not.
I emphatically disagree. Obama and his administration seems way more competent, and willing to hear many sides, than Bush.

Obama tried to close guantanamo for years (see politifact) before giving up. He tried to end the trickle-down economics that Bush had (such as ending tax cuts for the rich) but conceded to the opposition somewhere around the US debt ceiling crisis.

His administration's technology initiatives are far ahead of Bush's (witness http://data.gov for instance, and requirement for all agencies to have an API).

His social programs are better thought out and actually save us money. Compare for example Bush's Medicare act in 2003 vs the CBO's assessment of Obama's Affordable Care Act which actually will save a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Or compare Bush's "gotta go cya later" bailout to the TARP that happened under Obama. His administration even set up http://recovery.gov to "track the money". Or compare the success that they had in bailing out the automakers. I would say that this administration is much more conscientious than the one with Dick "Deficits Don't Matter" Cheney and co.

Where Bush basically attacked Iraq with no emergency or multinational support ("coalition of the willing" was a sham), US involvement in Libya under Obama is closer to a Just War in that there is an emergency (dictator bombing his citizens), and it was also merely part of a multinational response, including a UN resolution, to a situation decried by human rights groups.

Where I agree with you is Obama's cavalier attitude toward executive privilege and rights granted by the NDAA. This represents an erosion of CIVIL liberties and security in America, which I am not happy about.
“Medium” is well done, but is it the future of publishing?
Do you know if compile-to-JVM languages can be used for Android (both technically and realistically)?