skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my reading of the article, the defendant is being painted to be bigger, scarier target so that AT&T looks like a victim instead of a corporation failing to secure the confidential information of their customers as due diligence demands. From the comments on this thread, the defendant did not have intentions that were completely (as in 100%) benign. In addition, the co-defendant pleading guilty will probably make it harder for his legal team to prove his innocence. However, why is AT&T getting away with what basically amounts to negligence? Specifically, AT&T failed to provide reasonable (industry-standard) security to their users' confidential information (email addresses and other personal data).

It says about 120,000 Apple iPad users were affected, so 120,000 counts of negligence. My "class-action lawsuit" senses are tingling.

Edit: minor reformatting and rewording.
Great to see Scottish startups providing internships for students. Essential to stop the flood of talent heading to the financial sector and/or out of the country.
Here's also a map of absolute numbers:
http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/worldmap.html
> money spent to purchase patents, which in theory is going (directly or indirectly) to people who are innovating (assuming the patents are actually innovative and useful).

unfortunately, the patents purchased are not likely to be useful (in the sense that the creation of that patent brought value), and i think this is especially true in software patents. I say so because i expect that those patents purchased are already used by various software engineers (probably unknowingly). The creation of those patents did not add value, due to the fact that no creative forces were involved.

In a real arms race, the race to produce weapons might induce economic activity because metal needs mining, manufacturing and jobs. This does stimulate the economy, and you can construe that theres some benefit to be had.

For software patents, it does not stimulate anything! Perhaps lawyers who gets paid drafting it, but actual creative output isn't there, and so it is a net drain to even create the patent.
You're assuming a few things here.

1. People would shy away from this new form of transportation. Why? People get on airplanes every day without thinking much about it. Ditto for driving 60+ mph a few feet from stationary obstacles and opposing traffic. Risk and transport seem to go hand in hand.

2. It would be cheaper to build an "unsafe for humans" version first. Why? If the ultimate goal is human transport then I think it's easy to argue the opposite. Why build a system with different design goals, different termination points, etc and then build a system with completely different goals.

3. Lowered road traffic. That might be true but at what scale would that kick in? Is that a worthwhile near/mid-term goal? What about the negative press generated by killing truck driving jobs?

You also have to look at the perceived value of the system, especially early on. If you put a link between two major cities and can significantly impact travel (from an individual perspective) between the two the PR will be fantastic. In comparison, how much freight are you going to have to move around before there's a noticeable impact? What would that impact even be? Shipping is one of those things that is invisible to most people unless it's not functioning properly.

Also don't forget that Elon is already tackling two modes of human transportation with a very high potential for blowback in the case of a fatal accident. I don't think he would shy away from it.
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+1, but unfortunately Swype UI as it is belongs to Nokia. Maybe they'll do something similar, some swyping similar gestures can already be seen on those videos. Time will tell.
Conservative in the sense that they are trying to preserve continuity and stability. Probably not the best choice of words on my part. I'll edit it out.
I am happy.

I've always wanted a real Linux phone that is well-supported both by a community and a commercial vendor.

Consider the alternatives: iOS and WP are closed, Android is based on Linux but needs a JVM to do most things - and of course is heavily controlled by Google.. Why is a true Linux phone where you can run native apps important? Because you can port existing libraries that people have worked hard to make on the desktop, easily onto the phone, and create awesome experiences without reinventing the wheel - consider Telepathy-supported unified IM.

You could also do lots of geekery - use your phone as a first-class development device (I've served a couple of websites for development work straight through my N900 over 3G, running a LAMP stack on the phone, while coding the whole thing in a shell using Vim and it's associated addons, right on the phone). That's not the point here though.

The point is that this gives you true freedom to do whatever you want. This involves building amazing apps, porting excellent libraries previously used on the desktop, and lots more.

From what I've read, I'm assuming that Sailfish lets you do all that.
All great points, but I will point out that the major cost item on high speed (or any rail for that matter) is the rail itself. The cars and locomotive are relatively cheap, but you're looking at figures of $1M+ USD per mile of track.
I think your second idea is closer to what I think matches the things known about Hyperloop. I am convinced that electric (or hybrid) cars that self drive along beacons is the obvious next step in human urban transportation. These follow loops, like bus routes, that will pick you up when you get to a location along the loop since you have requested it (e.g. phone app) and drop you off at say a station, or another loop intersection where you can get into another loop vehicle, a loop bus or train at a scheduled and managed time. It can send the right size and amount of vehicles out of the depot into loop depending on how many people want to get on during a cycle, it can park the electric vehicles to charge at the right time. To the user it's a matter of saying 'I want to get to the conference at 9am' and the system will tell him what time a car will pick him up at his chosen pickup point.
I'm also a 'Junior Developer'(around 2yr) and am currently in the phase where I have started to see the faults in the systems my seniors design. There's a module that's driving me nuts, and I'm still pondering on how to tell the senior developer(who wrote it) that it's crap, over engineered and too specific. The module works to an extent, but I can see problems up ahead if the module doesn't get fixed or an alternative is created.

I already knew most of the things described, but it's always nice to refresh your memory:)

In this stage of my career I'm thinking more and more about going somewhere where software engineers get paid what they are worth (And I'm beggining to realize I'm worth something). With "somewhere" I mean another country. Since mine is becoming increasingly unfriendly to live in.

Any suggestions/advice on how to successfully relocate to a job in another country? US or UK come to mind, since there's no language barrier for me there.
To be frank the name never ever matters as long as it means something to you the creator. You could always create a niche outta the weirdest of names. Stick with it.
In the long run what is going to hurt SQL server is the fact that it is on Windows only. And if you look at the technology trends for databases - big/midsize IT shops are gravitating towards integrated solutions(Exadata e.g) where Microsoft still relies on third party for hardware. Small shops/startups are gravitating towards commodity hardware(primarily linux based), where trend is more towards MySQL/Postgre/NoSQL, where Microsoft is lacking. And then the cloud (where Microsoft does have an early presence, but then Amazon has been there long before and Oracle is there in too)....In that context this In-Memory database technology tussle is playing out, which was clearly ignited by SAPs Hana (even though oracle had times-ten long before SAP came out with Hana). So looking at future market direction, things are not looking very good for SQL server, even though it is probably one of the best products to come out of Microsoft and currently is doing great.
I believe Intellectual Ventures is one such entity!
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>All my development happens in ssh and firefox. So performance is not an issue.

Does that really bear out? I like the idea of a low-powered netbook connecting to a high-powered server for development, but in my (very limited) experience it's a pain.

I have two machines, and old laptop with an AMD RM-70 and a Thinkpad X41 with a Pentium M 1.6 Ghz.

On both machines, using Firefox is a painful experience because the performance is so bad. Using chrome is pretty good.

I've been thinking about buying a newer netbook with better battery life, but the performance of newer low-powered mobile CPUs doesn't seem that much greater than the systems I already have.
This. Between this and delivery drones, is our nearby future of transportation.
Perhaps it's so the bad pilot can't easily kill the nice pilot sitting next to her.
And there is CLX Networks (http://www.clxnetworks.com/), on Wired UK's list of hottest 100 European startups (September issue).

And Telepo (http://telepo.se/).
You Asked It - A fun little game built using the Twitter Search API
Slightly off-topic but why would you build up a dictionary in h(), then index it, then call the function being returned? The dictionary must be garbage collected later too. To me this seems rather inefficient compared to a simple if/then/else. I think readability also suffers.
Microsoft accidentally gifts pirates with a free Windows 8 Pro license key
Stockholm is located on a group of islands on the other hand which impacts the surface area.
How many of those were instigated by the FBI?
Ask HN: What expenses should one consider as one's income increases?
It's not easy to appreciate where money can be best spent in terms of improving the quality of our lives at a given income
level. What expenses or services have you found to be well worth the money spent?

Gleaning from various personal finance experts, we have the following start:

USD / month Epic Win
10^2 Leatherman
10^3 Smartphone w/ 'Net access
10^3.5 A high quality bed, and if you work a desk job, chair
10^4 Maid, Personal Assistant, Therapy
10^4.5 Country / Gentleman's Club as relaxed office
10^5 Car w/ Driver, Prop w/ Pilot
10^6 Jet w/ Crew

What would you add to this list?

Have you seen anything have an unexpectedly large value?
I'm looking for a part-time web developer for a budget of around $1k/month actually. Check my profile out for my contact details.
Despite the fact that nominally conservative parties implement such policies does not make those policies 'conservative' in any meaningful political-history/ideological sense. Just like Obama renewing the Patriot Act doesn't make it liberal legislation.
Here is a tear down: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6422/samsung-chromebook-xe303-...

The ram and nand is soldered to the board. It does have SD card expansion though.
I don't think short variable names are bad per se. To me their context in the surrounding code is more important.

I've seen some beautifully, long, descriptive variable names, but the clarity their names afford counts for nothing if they reside in a huge recursive voodoo function with multiple execution paths and excessive use of loops. Nothing can save you then :)
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I'm saying that you have a peverse understanding of what racism is, and that you should 'read up on racism'.

Your first paragraph is saying that calling out differences in two cultures isn't racist. This isn't true. Yes it can be done differently, but if you start talking about 'fried chicken and watermelon' (as an example), you're talking about the difference between two cultures, yours and the stereotyped one you're referring to.

The second paragraph was a straight-out derailment:"oh, if you're really against racism, why aren't you against this other kind?", the subtext being that the speaker is biased or selfish because they didn't evenly address the other potentially racist stuff.

Seriously, if you're going to be correcting others on 'what racism is', you do need to spend some more time reading up on it. There's a few subtleties that have bypassed you, from your comment above.
And I would agree with both of you but you do need to be better at something for someone than your competitors. You don't need to be better at everything or everyone but there needs to be a reason to use you rather than your competitor for at least a subset of people..
i think you do not even require adwords, because you can construe that interstate commerce happened if the traffic of the website is routed from your web server from one state, to another, and that you paid for the traffic from your web server!
Hey, I noticed the traffic spike and came to say hello.

The thing about a chatroom and load, is that your server is effectively just message passing, and if there is any CPU spike, that is all it is - a spike, which VPSs for the most part are fine with.

When you are executing physics and logic 30 times a second constantly regardless of load (so I made a mistake in phrasing there in my blog post), then you will be throttled on a cheap VPS because you're no longer being a good citizen - which was my point in that post if I recall correctly.

To my recollection, this hasn't got much to do with memory at all. I hope this clarifies what I meant to say a bit more.
As an English speaker I'd pronounce it Pout ssh. Which doesn't sound very appealing or at least seem to relate to polling at all other than the first two letterS. And the last three letters seem to relate to your username.
Yeah, maybe, I think the Win8 approval process probably leaves alot to be desired at the moment, all things considered.

I am surprised by the crassness of the failure reason, the app evaluation obviously has no "context", very production line!
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Yeah, that's pretty much it - I don't really want to keep dozens of domain names and DNS entries for pet projects lying around when they're only going to get 10 hits a day and the code is all available :-)
As with SpaceX I think Musk would solve this by designing for humans but testing with cargo.
I generally code inline documentation first and code second and usually utilize 1-3 char variable names.
I can see this lead generator tool.
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Rather than self-driving cars, I see hype-loop kind of system being more effective overall(reliable, cheaper). Obviously a lot more work has been done(Google) on self-driving cars but I would secretly hope/wish that Elon really gets cracking on this thing(especially since he has to regular suffer one of the worst commutes in the world - 405 freeway in LA - especially that particular section).
How high are the taxes in Sweden?

Highest bracket in Tel-Aviv is, as far as I know, ~60% (50% income tax + 10% health/social taxes) + 17% VAT (=~sales tax equivalent, essentially applicable to individuals but less so to companies)

Highest bracket in NYC as of 2013 (unless the "fiscal cliff" is averted) is a few % short of 60% (40% federal, 13% state, 2% fica, 2% social security, and a few more). If the fiscal cliff is averted, it's still 53% or so. + 8.5% sales tax. (sales tax applies everywhere)

Also, what do you get for these taxes?

In Israel, you get comprehensive universal healthcare (services paid by tax, drugs and medicines subsidized by tax), comprehensive public education - no tuition for high school, $3000/year tuition for public universities, $6000/year for private universities or colleges. (All Israeli universities are world class; most colleges aren't). You also get reasonable social security payments when you retire, and reasonable unemployment for 6 months or so after getting laid off (and unreasonable barely-but-enough-to-not-starve unemployment later). And also mandatory conscription when you reach 18, and the occasional bus bombing.

In NYC, you'll get free public schools (some of which are excellent and some of which are glorified babysitting institutions), and other than that ... mostly nothing. You're supposed to get social security payments when you retire, but the books don't balance (unlike the Israeli pension fund books, which do). You also get the occasional hurricane (but only one in the last 100 years had really been devastating - two in the last 106 years)
It would be awesome to call a random car any time you want, but I hate to think of the mess some people would leave in it once they were done with it.
except that the wording of the law allows for application in which unfortunate individuals can be prosecuted, but the reason for the prosecution isn't due to the fact that their action has harmed society at large, but might have harmed an important individual or entity. In other words, they can be applied unfairly, and this gives power to entities that have lobbying power over the citizen, with no recourse for the citizen.
Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHn3qp_E3_A for those who don't have Silverlight.
here you have one: tired fingers.
myReallyLongAnTemporaryVariable could be just t :)

Regarding the article, shortening and using a simple name without superfluous information is the best approach:

dR = radius
this doesn't make any sense, radius is better.
But
for(i;i<something;i++) {}
everybody knows that i is an iterator.

Context is really important to name your variables.
Where did you learn how to set up the chroot jail? Any tricks necessary?
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a vaguely written law also allows prosecutors much more broader power than intended, and thus this power could be abused for other purposes than serving justice (for example, to punish an individual unfairly for whistleblowing because they happened to have accessed the information via a channel that could be construed as breaking this particularly broad law).
Its very conformist when compared to the UK or US where ecentrics are if not celebrated are at least tolerated.

I coudl think if a few ecentrics in the UK would woudl have probaly been locked up in sweaden - after all the way that the adult Lisbeth Salander is treated by social services did not come out of no where.

And Sweaden was the last first world country to practice the sterlisation of undesirables (only stoped in the 70's)
Campanja is another rapidly growing startup in Stockholm.
Surely this more like suing a bank that lends the money to a project that abuses a patent?
Several cases when it makes sense. One is mentioned in the article, copied from a math formula. Another frequent case, in clojure and C#, for example, is a placeholder.

Expr.SortBy(x => x.Id)

Still, I prefer to comment non-obvious cases.
This all depends on where you're from. US is easier for Canadians, UK easier for Australians, for example.

For non-commonwealth/non-EU residents, the UK has gotten very difficult since 2008 for people who are unable to get an employer sponsored visa. Even to the point of doing away with both the post-study visa and the Tier 1 general.

UK salaries also can vary drastically depending on where you live (and not necessarily in tune with cost of living differences). We're also on our way out of the economic mess, so salaries are going to be depressed anyway in general as companies hire on, but use the economic mess as a reason to give lower salaries.
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my overall point is that I would rather see musk devoting his time to more promising and (in my opinion) more valuable projects (which danpalmer just said he would)
Sorry to be the pernickety one, Jacque but inyour opening sentence: "For a while now there are tantalizing hints that Elon Musk is at it again." isn't correct English since "are" is the wrong tense.

Try "For a while now there have been tantalizing hints that Elon Musk is at it again"

Or perhaps better: "There have been tantalizing hints that Elon Musk is at it again for a while now"
You can take it a step further: until we can model human behavior mathematically, a legal system attempting to regulate that human behavior cannot be modeled in a mathematical way.

In other words, by the time we have consistent laws (in the mathematical sense), "Precrime" could already exist.
Kleiner Perkins adds Design Fellows program to promote design in technology
I could see a ticking countdown timer being a nice addition to grab the users attention. Presumably if this widget is on the page, it is the main purpose of the page. Way to ship! Keep us updated on how it goes.
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If you’re interested in pressurised tubs for mail, 99% Invisible had a recent show on it: http://99percentinvisible.org/post/31907362467/episode-61-a-...
Anyone that has worked on a web site or application of significant size will say that a front-end developer is as much a developer as anyone else.

Sure, HTML isn't that hard, but when you're dealing with cross-browser issues, supporting legacy browsers and then writing hundreds of lines of JavaScript you appreciate that it can be really hard work!
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They taught me unit testing at university and I've been using it ever since. It has a lot of benefits. But things like decoupling, orthogonality and naming conventions are worth thinking hard about in their own right, not just in terms of the side effects of TDD.

Contrary to popular belief, it's entirely possible to create an unmaintainable mess that breaks regularly and is impossible to extend with near-100% test coverage.
What The Council for Entrepreneurial Development Can Do For Startups
I think the article forgets one reason why Scandinavian countries do well in IT start ups: Allmost all Scandinavians speak English quite well. Given that most new technology and research is communicated in English, a decent level of English is necessary to adapt new technology. This gives Scandinavians and Dutch entrepreneurs an edge compared to most other European entrepreneurs, except obviously the Irish and British entrepreneurs.
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Jolla’s MeeGo-based Sailfish OS: Maybe next big smartphone platform
So now they censor apps based on the word hacker? What about the word "drugs"? "homosexual"? "terrorist"? I really don't like this Microsoft that tries so hard to become the walled garden that is Apple.
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Yes, a ticking countdown timer could be a good idea. I'll certainly keep folks posted
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Hm; might be unreasonable - but I'd worry about the security situation in Israel. In the US, not much of a safety net; I'd guess in stockholm things are alright for the taxes you pay.
We've always had beer available near the end of a hard day at work, and it seems to be the norm at nearly every agency I've worked at or with.

Frankly, I don't see the fuss. After just a single beer I don't really feel like carrying on with my work. It's nice, but it's not something I'd miss and since people rarely seem to carry on working after a bottle of beer I'd rather just either head home or for the team to head out and have a drink at a pub.

It's more a ploy to make the job seem better than it is to twenty-something developers.
What if it isn't air, but an actual fluid, e.g. water? It cannot be compressed, so it's "crash proof" (carriages cannot hit other carriages with water in between). It also has plenty of mass, so once it has started moving, it will push carriages around easily. A torus with permanently moving water (probably a more high-tech fluid), where carriages are injected / removed after acceleration / before deceleration?
Out of curiosity, would there be copyright issues to worry about there?