skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If your contraband is drugs, offer them a small hit while talking. It re-enforces, subconsciously, the idea that the dope is your possession and that they are partaking due entirely to your good will. If you are transporting sex slaves, then I must say first that I cannot possibly condone your chosen occupation, but -offering each one of the policemen a taste of the goods may well seal the deal without any additional cash thrown in."

--

What a piece of shit.
Solar has one really great aspect, it can be installed easily at the point of use. Tranporting power on the grid results in a lot of loss, by being at the point of demand solar gets an instant bump in terms of value.
It's Lua, not LUA. Lua is the Portuguese word for "moon," and it does not stand for anything.
Agreed. The example of the Nest thermostat for instance...the author is suggesting that existing thermostats solved a problem, when in fact they are the problem (no one can program them correctly, and they are dumb).
Definitely Java/Tomcat.

Most enterprises use Java and will have dev ops who are experienced in deploying apps into Tomcat. I personally have never seen a Python app in an enterprise before and couldn't even name one.

If you are looking for something lighter than Java/Spring maybe Play 1 could be an option.
Anyone know of someplace similar for French? I've read that Ste. Anne Guadeloupe is a good place to go, but 100 schools?
I was praying that one was sarcasm...
And which strongly influenced mutt, which many of us moved on to. I also used pine back in the day.

Godspeed, Mark.
Apportable using GNUstep to port applications from iOS to Android
Apple claims Samsung Galaxy Note II infringes patents
Client owns the project and codebase, particularly if they paid for it. Developer does not have the right to take that code and resell/re-use, but it would be really difficult for client to enforce or restrict a freelacer from using "snippets".
Yeah, playing dumb has always worked for me when I was on my own, even when I was at fault. With my wife in the car, we've paid heavily discounted "spot fines" a few times when caught speeding, fitting the pattern of small-scale corruption he describes here. I'm sure there are cases where the cops will think nothing of making up infractions whole cloth to shake you down, but I haven't run into that personally.
I'd guess the GP's point was why are the DHS getting involved in what is primarily a civil action (tort) between a rights holder and an alleged infringer.
Pigeon Defeats UK Code Breakers
I think the author means that people shouldn't look for just for problems that aren't solved yet like pg wrote, but also problems that are solved but needs some tweaks. Of course every startup means a new solved problem.
Wow, the stereotypes are flying today.

Brits (westerners for crying out loud) are famously patient, I think they invented queuing but someone who knows better could correct me. The USA is also quite good, we seem to respect lines well enough.

Asians are also hard to stereotype, Japanese are also famously patient and orderly, it would be very hard to put them in the same bucket as say Chinese, the queuing cultures are just completely different. Try a Chinese train station just before Chinese New Year. I believe they just fill a (huge) square of people and somehow they manage to filter in somehow, I have no idea how they do that!
Your master services agreement with your clients should define this in your intellectual property assignment and/or licensing clauses. To not have this defined is risky business practice.

I currently do user experience consulting, and my current MSA (the standard AIGA MSA) has a full assignment clause, which reads, in part:

Upon completion of the Services, and expressly subject to full payment of all fees, costs and expenses due, Designer hereby assigns to Client all right, title and interest, including without limitation copyright and other intellectual property rights, in and to the Final Art.

There are other possible choices depending on the project, including limited-use licensing clauses:

The rights granted to Client are for the usage of the Final Art in its original form only. Client may not crop, distort, manipulate, reconﬁgure, mimic, animate, create derivative works or extract portions or in any other manner, alter the Final Art.

In both cases, any original inventions (e.g. a new design pattern) are only licensed; they are not assigned.

When I did development consulting (many years ago), our rates changed depending on whether or not we could reuse what we created. It was all in the contracts.

One thing to remember is that full assignment of all code literally means you need to wipe it from your systems, and do full knowledge transfer including how to build it, how to upload it to the App Store, etc. If they don't have a development team, that's probably pretty risky for them.
In absolute terms, Detroit has lots of housing. But very specific types of housing is in very short supply. My sister lives there and "hipster" housing is in very short supply which is who I expect will live in these.
Explaining gives the opportunity for clue to sink in. Low p event but it still could help.
Super! Is this closed-source or open-sourced? Thanks!
Because most of essential problems are already solved, you can only find solutions for unsolved small problems that interests only small group of people.

I disagree. Some huge problems remain unsolved because they are big beasts to tackle. Education, for example, is ripe for disruption, and while there have been some advances (Khan Academy, Edx), we have a long way to go before you can get a respected degree online.
Are you suggesting this in addition to the above, or as an alternative? It is not an alternative.
AFAICT Microsoft is the only big name who've really taken Peopleware to heart, right down to borrowing the Santa Teresa Labs idea of cross-shaped buildings (so that every office has a view).
+1 same here. I like the 2nd kind of ideas. Tweak it and voila! You have a better product and you know that you can sell it.
If you have money in the bank and still believe, you pivot again.

If you don't have money you either get some, sellout, or die.
Using Social Charity To Increase Goodwill From Site Visitors
I think his advice is mostly for non-tourist areas. If you remain in the areas heavily traveled by tourists and remain in these tourist areas, I don't think you'll come across these issues. I'm sure ex-pats, depending on strata, would encounter these situations, given they need to go places to conduct whatever business they conduct (i.e. they likely do not remain indefinitely in the tourist areas)

One might only come into these situations if you veer off well known tourist areas. If you take local transport (non-tour buses) then you might be subject to the same shakedowns as locals. So, if you act like a tourist and walk like a tourist, then most likely the biggest problem would be picked pockets.

Take Mexico, for example. My understanding is that so long as you stay in the tourist areas --say Cabo, Cancun ,etc., you'll, for the most part, be fine. Go outside the tourist safe areas and you're taking a bit of a risk. The size of the risk would depend on many factors, but it certainly increases. Mexico earn a sizable fraction of GDP from tourism, they'll do all the can to insulate tourists from the violence.
Huh. For some reason, I'd never considered that people might be willing to pay for a remote "on call sysadmin". We already admin a handful of mail servers, that's something we could add to our services.
Apollo Pulled From Android Market
>If the overwhelming majority of the Afghan people wanted the Taliban gone, and they had U.S. support, and we didn't fuck a bunch of stuff up, then of course we could have rid Afghanistan of the Taliban. If the Afghans legitimately trusted us, and supported us in large enough numbers, the Taliban would have had trouble finding even caves to hide in.

Ugh. I would be nice if Americans could start learning the right lessons from their past mistakes. Listen, I'm rather sorry to tell you this, but just fuck off. Please.
For that argument to work, there needs to be sexism to point out, but all you have is conjecture.
Mine is congruous with the general sentiment: the base plan is overkill (price-wise, that is) while the top-tier plan is insufficient. Most users that would conceivable want to track a single campaign will be individuals with projects or very small businesses. Neither of these groups would be likely to acquiesce to a ~$250-a-year service. The top tier is probably too feature-sparse and large companies will demand more.
LEGOS, LEGOS, LEGOS!

A Dover coloring book and a box of colored pencils.

A pogo stick.

A computer with Gimp on it and a couple pointers.

Frisbee, yoyo, big floor puzzles, bow and arrows, snack food.

Yeah, got lots of kids. ;-)
Yep, the demographics on this thread have changed since I posted. A lot of us read HackerNews, and maybe we contribute out of proportion to our numbers when we see FB getting slammed unilaterally, as was the case before I wrote my response.

We don't use mailing lists much at Facebook, preferring to use Facebook where possible. Like anybody else, Facebook employees who see something of interest on HN often use Facebook to share the link with those friends. There is nothing conspiratorial about this process; it's the same way all other links on Facebook spread through peer groups.
> In all the years of doing this, I've had an official try to shake me down maybe 5 times.

Corruption in most of these countries is a negotiation game that is conducted implicitly. That's why playing dumb is so effective--if you don't know the rules of the game, you can't play, especially if you don't share a language. So, for every time where someone has forcefully pressed the point and made it clear to you that a bribe was expected, there have likely been a hundred times where a native in your place would have been expected to pay a small bribe of some sort.
Sorry if my comment came across harshly, I didn't intend it to.

By expected value, I mean the price as you'd calculate it with a risk-neutral valuation based on some model of the underlying security.

For example, if you have a model that says an option is worth $4, and it's selling for $2, you should buy it if you're confident in your model. If you can do this repeatedly on a bunch of independent options you'll make money in the long run (assuming your model is correct and you're placing a large enough number of bets relative to the probability of making money on an individual option).

I learned this with a combination of practical experience, self-study, and coursework.
So I saw this and thought it was an interesting idea. The website caters to teenage girls almost exclusively and I wonder how empathetic visitors will be to the idea and see the website and business in a more positive light...to the point of being more likely to purchase a product...or would they be apathetic to the whole thing?

Any ideas or thoughts?
It really depends on how comfortable you are at Linux systems administration, and how ambitious you want your mail server to be. If you're going to have to rely on any (really, any) of the guides or howtos online, then expect to budget in many hours of problem-solving and knob turning.

We currently spend very little time each month on ongoing maintenance for our mail server, and we have a stack that includes good spam & antivirus systems, webmail, easy user administration, and hourly offsite backups.

But, I've got probably over a hundred hours of my time sunk into all of that, and there's still a lot more I'd like to do to the server.

So, from a billable hour standpoint, you probably can't justify hosting your own mail versus Google Apps (or just about anything else), unless you're specifically looking for functionality that Google doesn't provide.
DIY Retinal Projection
Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective.

The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it.

It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify yourself.

The real goal of this post is to get a bunch of men to fantasize about "her" and glorify how cool "she" is for being a geeky hacker.

Not all trans(vestite|gender|sexual) people are like this.
I use bootsnipp. It's really useful. I recommend it
>I just don't think that's necessarily the primary reason it has been upvoted.

So do you always assume bad faith on the part of others or..?
Without giving a second thought to whether or not the events described are commonplace I thought the article gave some great insights into the psychology involved if/when you get shaken down, both for you and the officers.
I refuse to acknowledge the word "steal" as appropriate here. "Intellectual property" stealing was known for ages and described the process of depriving someone of attribution of his work. I can steal a poem if I recite it as my own. This is stealing, theft, and was recognized as such since really long ago.

OTOH, if I print, or make a handwritten copy of this same poem, preserving the name of the author, I'm not stealing. It may be debatable what I actually did, but I did not steal.

Every time I see well defined concept being reused to mean something different than it meant for hundreds of years I'm cautious. I think everyone should be.
He says right there he was dealing and trafficking drugs, and traveling to meet narcos. The countries are run like corrupt shitholes precisely because gringos like McAfee poison the community with their dirty money.

Every society has its dark underbelly of criminals, but what narco and sex-tourism money does is tip the scales of power in those societies in favor of the criminals. Suddenly, the poor but honest technocrats running the country find themselves fighting a moneyed criminal class. No contest.

McAfee and his type are best served staying home and cooking meth in a trailer somewhere, not play Mad Max in people's homes with his easy money.
Ah yes, pre emptively insulting anyone that disagrees with you. A fine debate tactic if there ever was one.

Look, we really really don't need every single Goddamn topic that involves females to turn into an ultrafeminist soapbox. At the very least it seems to attract a certain amount of crazy negativity (see SRS on Reddit), at best it's highly offtopic. This is Hacker News, not Feminist News.

Here you're judged by the coolness of what you do, not your gender.
Or in his case, on the run with murder charges.
Create a Countdown Clock Widget for Your Website
I don't understand why a name change that doesn't alter the person's first name would make you think that there had to be a sex change involved.
Indieconf 2012: The Anatomy of a Freelancer
He should write into the MSA that he has a standard library of code snippets already written that he plans to incorporate into the finished work, and clearly label these in the codebase with an explicit license.
For the last paragraph, I should add that Yandex was founded before Google. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex It is not an application of a global idea.
Ask HN: Know of a hacker in Cambridge or Boston who wants a bookstore?
I started Lorem Ipsum Books 9 years ago with the belief that bookstores were an important part of our community--and that they needed to innovate in order to survive.

Freshly out of graduate school at MIT the bookstore was started with the notion that integrating Internet-sales into a traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore was the way forward for small retailers. Rather than run from technology, we were going to embrace it to provide a new sales channel. With a group of friends I built this new way forward, creating Lorem Ipsum Books in Inman Square, Cambridge.

Lorem Ipsum benefited from a custom-coded inventory system that automatically listed our inventory for sale at other online partners like Amazon.com. It was fun to use, efficient, and worked. For awhile there, it looked like this dual-listing was the answer to bookstore's problems. Then supply-ballooned, demand remained the same, and prices dropped.

We tried many things, but were unable to get the store from red to black.

They just deleted our Wikipedia page, citing progress as being 'unremarkable'. Clearly something has to be done...

It's time to innovate again.

The bookstore needs fresh ideas, a radical change in thinking, and a reimagining of the role of the bookstore in the future. I don't want to shut the store down, but may be forced to. Instead, I'm looking to pass the store to other keepers--other innovators--hands.

I write to Hacker News to ask if anyone knows anyone in the Cambridge or Boston area that would be interested in this project?
The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus
I've only been to 30 countries. And I've had to bribe a police officer at a traffic stop for not wearing a seat belt. Was about $5 which I think is extremely cheap to bribe a cop for. In Toronto it would be wayyyy more.

I've also been told by a local to stick a $20 bill in my passport to avoid problems going through customs because we had expensive computer equipment on us and were in a rush for our next flight. I refused that advice. But I've seen boxes that have been opened and things missing as well so I was taking a chance by not doing it.

I've seen a lot of corruption, and had a chance to participate in it. Seems McAfee's advice is based on experience. I wouldn't discount it so easily.
+1. Good night :)
SuperMechanical Twine with Full Sensor Package on eBay
Some recent discussion on it and more up-to-date info.

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?2,154755,154835,quote=1
Google Makes A Pre-Holiday Marketing Push For Chromebooks With New Online
President Obama buys from independent bookstore on 'Small Business Saturday'
The domain was registered 11/16

No one is, even in the slightest, is doubting the validity of this blog?
Is a New SARS-like Virus Spreading in the Middle East?
Interesting overall. But I'm pretty sure that's not how the birthday paradox works. You have to put all the ~random elements into the same pool so that each one of your 2^16 values has 2^16 candidates to match against. This handshaking is always one on one. I mean yes it's possible that the same SAS will show up in completely unrelated calls but that won't help Eve.
Really cool project, and looks like it was executed really well in many ways.

However, I couldn't help being reminded of this comic: http://xkcd.com/196/
I feel like there's a lot of social factors that would make using an invention like this a little awkward. Maybe that's just me?
everyone in southamerica knows bribing police officers (on the street) is a no-no in chile
And when "HTML5" (whatever that means anymore) finally is ubiquitous it'll be the old tired standard and everyone will be dying for the day they can finally use all that hot new stuff in the next version.

Thus is the nature of any technology whose design is controlled largely by a committee of companies who are each other's top competitors.
Just, no. You lack a fundamental understanding of the psychology that underlies my point. Knowledge that you are missed out on a more lucrative deal makes the current price less appealing when juxtaposed against the missed deal. This is identical to the cognitive process that causes people distress when they miss refilling their parking meter by minutes. If you leave your car on the street for 3 days, it should not seem that unreasonable that you receive a ticket. However, in the cases where one approaches one's car while the ticket-writer is still present but the ticket has already been written, the person is more likely to flip their shit. The latter is far more upsetting because the person "missed it by that much."
That would be Uncle Al.
Netflix Is Bluffing
Hmmm, I don't have any immediate ideas, but will spread the word to others in the community who may be interested.
Can someone tell me what the advantage of emitting LLVM IR is, compared to machine code? I don't think I ever saw that clarified anywhere.
Netflix focusses on movie/tv-series subscription model (streaming+dvds), and they are laser focussed on improving consumer experience in this area. On the other hand, Apple, Google, Amazon focus on other businesses (hardware, advertising, and e-commerce). That's why I think Netflix will survive, and that's why startups survive and thrive: Focus!
Cyber Monday Music
My girlfriend wrote this post for the same reason she wrote the the other posts on her blog: to share her work and talk about neat hacks. Your statement that she's doing it for attention is incredibly sexist.

Also she's queer, so the idea that she's doing it for male attention is pretty funny really.
Agree. I assume some of the trailers of the movies are automatically generated. There are these groups in my university conducting research of generating trailers / sound effects / background music. Choosing the best scenes in the movie automatically and combined them in a good way.
Could someone point out what the story is here? The linked article seems to suggest that an Israeli official painting his face black and captioning it 'Obama style' is racist, but I fail to see why. People dress up as other people all the time, and usually it's a sign of appreciation.

Flagged pending clarification.
I find that being mortified is a good reason to learn from mistakes -- and not just mine.
I did not realize he had written UW imapd. All I knew about that was that it was full of holes, and it's the number one reason I avoided IMAP for as long as I did. When running servers for my users, I only offered POP3 for as long as possible since someone (Solar Designer) had gone to the trouble of designing popa3d with security as a first-class requirement.

Perhaps these holes were related to what you said about failing to grasp the event-based notification scheme. It assumes a certain level of knowledge about how the underlying system works. Maybe his talents were elsewhere.
It depends on your activities in those countries. If you ran a business in the most corrupt countries you most likely have to bribe.
@thesmitpatel
Is it just me or does it seem like the author doesn't know you can change to any number of desktop environments that will give them all they want while still being Ubuntu.

/Openbox/Slackware. This whole Linux thing is about choice.
Is there a good place to plug-in to get an overview of what (has been and is) going on in this area, without having to dive in all the way? An overview of the concepts, not the nuts and bolts, not the heavy-lifting.
I imagine that most of the people who would want to see a blockbuster will know about it due to the overwhelming marketing. At the other end of the marketing budget spectrum the movies probably rely on word of mouth which would probably get a boost from file-sharing.
>One could probably assume you already know it. Right? =)

There are actually web developers who don't know jQuery?
I loved the stuff about reverse engineering the protocol. Very neat stuff.

This is a great post with so many neat hacks along the way--when she started talking about modeling and 3D printing the enclosure I was thinking "Wow, this is a true renaissance hacker."

The world needs more blog posts like this.