skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen cases where predatory hustler types have cozied up to entrepreneurs to steal various intangibles: intellectual property, time, publicity, and yes, ideas.

Yet this isn't exactly what this article is talking about. I agree with the article in general-- that "stealth mode" is usually unnecessary and isolating and that people simply stealing an idea is pretty rare to non-existent. What's even more rare is someone successfully stealing an idea. Usually anyone mediocre enough to want to lift someone else's idea isn't up to execution.

What I'm talking about here is more the personal one-on-one long-con... the predatory narcissistic types who hang around the business community, make grandiose claims, and then deliver nothing or worse mooch time/money off entrepreneurs. Stealth-mode won't protect you from this. Street smarts and skepticism will.

Edit: Here's a bit of advice for avoiding these gadflies:

Get specific. Who are you? Why are you interested? What do you want to do and what do you want in return? If they claim to be an investor, are they an angel? Accredited? With what firm? What else have they invested in? If they don't get specific back, they are blowing hot air.

Avoid "business consultants" who talk about "accelerating" you or "taking you to the next level" without getting very very very specific about how. Most of these people are bozos. Even if they're not bozos, usually they are not who an early-stage startup needs.

If someone talks fast and uses a lot of buzzwords, this is a bad sign.

Check references carefully. Keep in mind that narcissistic self-promoter types can be extremely creative about making a nothing look like a something.

If you do get involved with someone, drop them and move on if they don't deliver. Don't ever take hot air as a substitute for real results.

If you hang around the startup culture and talk up your idea you will run into these people and they will at the very least waste your time.

Also: the "scene" will kill your startup. Concentrate on executing and ignore the "startup scene."
Black screen in IE 9?
That's a kind of arbitrary approach. Individuals have unlimited freedom of speech, why shouldn't groups of individuals exercise that same right? I'm rather less rah-rah on the first amendment than most, and would far rather have publicly financed elections, but I can't really see a philosophical problem with Citizens United. Unions (which are specialized corporations) would not take kindly to restriction of their free speech, and CU benefited them as much as any other corporate speaker.
Yeah, that is how I felt at first as well. But I regularly use a Windows VM / Remote Desktop Client for Windows on my Mac, so I've gotten used to scrolling one way in the VM window or the RDC, and the other way outside it in the rest of my Mac.

Now, for better or worse, I have no problems switching my scrolling when I'm using someone's Windows computer.
This is a great thread, but rather than it get buried after a while, I've just set up a quick tumblr where everyone is welcome to showcase their stuff: http://solostartups.tumblr.com/submit

(I won't be sticking ads on it or anything lame like that - just thought it'd be a nice thing to exist).

Note: as of 8pm GMT, it's empty because I didn't want to harvest links from this thread without goodwill - but submissions are open, so please do get stuck in.
At what time is that in the video ? I didn't see it.
Allocate an array that crosses segments. Watch the details be hidden from you.
I actually prefer the Wayback Letter (most things I see in HNL I've already seen on HN proper), but it frequently goes through spurts of not happening. I realize that you're a busy man and that, for example, having a new child is more important than sending out the day's Wayback Letter. But it'd be nice to have some sort of status indicator--if you anticipate an "outage", let us know ahead of time, or if you don't it'd be great to have an email or website that just said, "There's stuff going on in my life, expect the next few days to be canceled."
I made that site because I couldn't find anything quite like it. Since making it though, I've found Beeminder, which is pretty flipping cool. Additionally, there's EpicWin - but that's only an iPhone app, no website or Android. I'm biased :) (PS, there are few Android equivalents out there, but meh).
Well, Java sucked, Apple blocked it.

If you pretend your technology to be secure, but constantly fail in that aspect, you'd expect this kind of result.
have Company implement the Person typeclass

The obvious solution is to factor out a base class, LegalPerson, with some but not all of the behaviors of the existing Person class. Then derive a separate Company class from LegalPerson. All the stuff we don't want corporations to have, we leave in the existing Person class, so Company doesn't have it.

create a new Suable typeclass

I would view "Suable" as an interface implemented by LegalPerson, and inherited by Person and Company. LegalPerson obviously has to implement lots of interfaces. :-)
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>>>Why is this problem so difficult to fix, at least within the school environment? Schools are a relatively confined space and should be quite easy to police.

People who want to commit violence can use all means physically available to them. There are violence problems in many prisons as well, another "relatively confined space". Does this answer your question adequately?
Very nice site! I like your pricing page. As someone who planned his own wedding, I feel like your startup is tackling a great problem for people.

The wedding industry is all about sucking people dry of their $$$, and if you can do a bunch of useful services for a flat $80, that'd make many folks very happy!
But I don't think that the Articles of Incorporation should be considered a physical manifestation of that corporation, so I don't see how you could claim that the corporation was "in the vehicle".

I'm not sure as I haven't studied it, but I suspect the corporation 'lives' at the address for service; alternatively, in a filing cabinet in the CA Secretary of State's office ;-) It certainly doesn't travel around with its papers, any more than you are your passport.
How about building upwards? Learn to think in three dimensions.
simply kewl! It makes reading so natural.
I'm a CS student at a university known for it's CS program. I know about semaphores, but this has not been covered in any of the first or second year classes.
Presumably it was to not discourage people in the future from enlisting/responding to the draft for fear of copyright, and to avoid the "poor windows and orphans of the famous writers who died in the war". Maybe the French are different, but "will my copyright endure longer if I die" would not really be on my list of concerns in war.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is the only one on the list who I've heard of.
Well, we can vote - but this is hardly the most important issue on which we vote.

We could get a bit smarter, and lobby - but we're unlikely to be able to out-spend Disney.

Or we can ignore the legal system and share things, which is probably the most practical and effective approach. They can't imprison us all.
I also agree with purchasable extensions, as long as the prices increase exponentially from a very modest price in the first renewal.

Further, I think there is room to tie trademark into the process for media properties. In cases like Steamboat Willy, the character reflect a trademark for the Disney business. If it were applied as such, one might argue that a public domain version of the film (which could be seen as a product in the trademark domain) might be freely distributable but not modifiable without risking trademark infringement. This protects the free flow of information to later generations, as well as provides the company a means to protect the its brand from confusing or abusing variants/remixes. Further, registered trademarks already require regular renewal from a living person or operating business.

Not sure how one would apply that music and non-fiction (or if one should even try); seems about useful as copyrighting N seconds of silence.

(Obligatory: I am not a lawyer.)
The Fountain of Creative Juices
A review of legal, free and open source software issues in 2012
That's a terrible default! Ignoring read-write races is a surefire way to... well, create bugs like the one in the post.
It's typically shorter than both the U.S. and Europe: 50 years postmortem. For example, Ernest Hemingway (died 1961) entered the public domain in Canada last year. In most of Europe (life+70) his works will enter the public domain in 2032, and in the U.S. (95 years from publication, for works published before 1978) they'll enter at staggered times starting from the 2020s.

That's why this exists: http://www.gutenberg.ca/
It also seems like a big failure of the OS/browser that it can't be sandboxed effectively.
At the same time, Doug Baskins, the author of Judy, open sourced an implementation under the LGPL [1]. This license insists "that any patent license obtained for a version of the library must be consistent with the full freedom of use specified in this license." [2]

[1] http://judy.sourceforge.net/downloads/10minutes.htm

[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
This is an example of outstanding documentation:
http://laravel.com/docs
Would you invest time in a framework where the developers knowingly lie about security vulnerabilities and provide fixes that are intentionally complicated?

That seems like something that would ruin any future credibility of the project. No further security vulnerabilities could be trusted as being accurate (and any further patches would just be begging for additional scrutiny).
Iomega was just renamed to LenovoEMC or something, so now they have low-end storage.
I sympathize with the intent of this; I agree that the doctrine of corporate personhood, in its current form, has done far more harm than good. (I don't favor abolishing it, but rather modifying it along the lines given downthread, by factoring out the aspects of personhood that corporations should share and only giving corporations those aspects.)

But I seriously doubt that this method of getting the issue before a court will work. There are way too many legasl dodges that can be taken before it gets to that point. To really get it to SCOTUS, one would need to have a case where far more substantial harm is done and where the doctrine of corporate personhood plays a key role in the harm. I don't see that here; it's too obviously a ploy and too easy to label as frivolous.
It looks very nice. If I happen to write a project on PHP, I'll sure give it a try.

They didn't tag v4.0 release on github, hence the zip package link is 404.

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/4.0.zip

You can instead fetch master:

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip
Using the above curl command I was able to verify that an old rails 1.2.3 app that I pretend-maintain for a friend returned the ID as a string. Since it is a string and not an object, it's safe. That's all I know. From what I gather/conjecture, rails 1.x didn't have the functionality that caused this vulnerability in the first place.
It's only tangentially related, but I had to make a comment: http://www.economist.com/comment/1835110#comment-1835110

I happily pay for my subscription to The Economist and enjoy reading it on my iPad. But they don't even allow you to select a single word in an article, which would make it possible to look things up in a dictionary.

This kind of limitation to attempt enforcement of copyright is part of the whole problem right now.
Seems like I see this article on hacker news a lot. Here are some of my past favorites.

http://www.humbledmba.com/startups-in-stealth-mode-need-one-...

http://eaaasyusuf.blogspot.com/2012/03/tell-everyone-about-y...
I think it was some kind of feeling of fairness: that, absent the war, they would've lived longer, so there should be an adjustment to make copyright expire according to when they would've "normally" died. On the other hand, that's true of any copyright system based on years postmortem: you could argue the same about someone killed by a drunk driver, or hit by lightning, or murdered. That's one reason I prefer publication-date-based systems rather than years-postmortem systems (the other reason is that death dates for lesser-known authors are often very hard to actually find, whereas publication dates are typically printed right in the book).

Plus, I think the argument is weaker when duration is already life+70. If it were, say, life+0, or life+10, you might have an argument about their widow/orphan, but life+70 is already enough to cover any survivors comfortably for the rest of their own lives. Life+100 gets into territory where their great-grandkids are getting the money.
Hey guys, I'm designing an annotation product that uses highlighting as part of the control scheme, and I'm wondering if you'd be willing to test it at some point in the future and see if it interferes with your reading habits. You guys are hard to find! Also, any other 'highlight readers' if you reply here or PM me I would be very grateful.
Ah! Hey, I'm willing to agree that it might just be my googly-eyes that this works for :)

This question is for all of you with strabismic (yes, it is a word :D) eyes: Do you 'see' 3D movies? Or are all of them flat with red, blue and various outlines on the screen? For me, it's the latter. Now I have no idea if this has to do with this condition or is something else!
A few years ago I found the material on aggregation, joins, and indexing most useful.

Now, Chapter 6 on HMM is more closely matched to my interests.
In our program at Michigan, concurrency isn't really discussed until your 3rd or 4th year when/if you take the operating systems course.
Overall: This is interesting, because of how huge of a Java/Tomcat house Apple is in-house.

In a browser: Java, like anything has it's bugs. Hopefully the stewards of Java for the browser keep it current.
Well well well! Great job at blocking Java, Apple. Stop those bastard virus writers from spreading their malicious code. On the other hand, I assume this happened silently since I didn't notice a thing. Would be good to show an extra forced popup message saying, look, we disabled Java for you because it's a total shitstorm outside at the moment. But if you really need it, do x y z to (temporarily) disable the block or to whitelist certain applications/sites. Now that'd be a sweet security system! Arggghh!
Very true - extremely fast queries can slip between the processlist checks. The problem I've encountered with tcpdump is that you can cause packet loss by running it. It's not common, but it happens enough that I've become gun shy about using it on production systems.

The pt-query-digest function will cause additional load on the DB, but it won't interrupt communications.
Earthquake territory, which severely limits how far up you can go.
Anybody know how this was typeset? It looks too nice to be LaTeX. ConTeXt? MOM?
Apparently everyone whoever cried TLDR is a jackass, and the makers of the software are "ILLITERATE JERKBAGS" http://gizmodo.com/illiterate-jerkbags/ despite a comment that "the technology does exactly what it says it does", which is to allow users to shorten long form content to whatever length works for them.
Since the article has been updated and the "Drawbacks" section removed, here's the diff showing the original contents of the "Drawbacks" section that the story linked to, along with the deletion by user Fintler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_array&dif...

"Removed speculation that this subject is related to the referenced patent. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball or a place to discuss how the law MAY be applied."
> Disney wants to keep control of Mickey Mouse cartoons, and it doesn't feel unreasonable at all that they should.

It feels completely unreasonable to me. There's no reason why Disney should be given an exception when others aren't. It's idiotic to suggest that they should get special treatment just because their IP is commercially valuable.
Not everything needs native C++ performance. I use C# all the time on things that need easy maintainability and to be as secure as I can reasonably make it.
What's different (from a quick look at ronin) is that this actually runs the assembled code within the currently running ruby interpreter. That's a lot more than a DSL for creating assembly.
I'd like this scrolling scheme a lot better if there was some physical feedback on my mouse. Basically, I'd like there to be a little detent feeling at the end of the page, so that I know when I'd scrolled a complete page.

Without a force-feedback mouse... I guess I'd prefer if there was a little bit of "edge resistance" or something going from one page to the next.

Otherwise, I'm OK with just hitting page-down to go to the next part of the page. It would be nice if browsers were a little smarter, and tried to not cut off text at the top edge. So in other words, when you hit page-down, you will see a complete line of text at the top.
Nice. Though, I agree with others that an explanation would kind of be helpful. Also since you're going with the minimalist approach, maybe make everything a bit bigger?

Are you just searching within a subset of domains? If so, may I shamelessly recommend adding http://throwww.com to the list?
This link is awful. This [1] is a much better link, and the source of this news according to 9to5mac.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/11/apple-blocks-java-7-on-o...
I think the best solution to this problem is to keep your fixation point and move the text.

Implemented beautifully in ForceFeed (http://qwerjk.com/force-feed) which is currently down :(
I don't care if this is usefull or not (I think it probably is).
It's pretty cool.
So organisations that rely on Java applets (such as some online banks and others) can expect a lot of support calls around now.

Difficult to know what to suggest in such a circumstance, do you give the customer instructions about how to override this and let them risk getting pwned by some random site?

Or do you just tell them they can't use the service anymore until they do a full rewrite?
In case of patent lawyers, break glass and extract HAT-trie or crit-bit tree.
NXC also has most of these features today.

Trouble is, that it still is kind of slow compared to RobotC.
why would that be bad? You would get to read your file.
I'm sure an idea of a similar framework gets proposed all the time, however once stakeholders look at the huge cost in it, it gets tabled.

An argument people make on Hollywood's side is that sure, there are entire storage facilities of content that should be moved into the public domain, but who is going to fund the conversion (old deteriorated 35mm film) to media usable by the mass public?

Then on the public side, who is going to manage/fund the perpetual database and management of what's public domain now and what's still copyright protected.

I'm glad that Europe is stubborn and is moving works into the public domain. As more and more good content is becoming freely accessible, it gives our policy makers here material to argue with.
I agree with munificent, with the precision of the scroll in the current implementation, but that seems trivially fixed with a snapping behavior.

There are keyboard short cuts and clickable side arrows to turn the page, though why they decided to override [space] with autoscroll, I cannot comprehend.

The scrolling feels backwards, now that I'm gotten used to Apple's tablet-style reversal on the touchpads. I'm sure this makes sense on a scroll wheel. Not sure if there is a way to detect the default scroll mechanism.

Overall, thumbs up for many long article applications.
Why you should consider these before exhibitng at a trade show
More so, in some states homosexual acts are technically illegal and in theory punishable by jail time.

No longer true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
I'm not sure, because I'm not an expert, but let's guess: Probably there are a lot of stars of this type wandering. That star just was in the place where the Milky Way was formed or it was captured later by the Milky Way. The star is not very bright because bright stars die soon. So we only can see it because it's near us.
To my knowledge it is not. For this reason, I stopped using it, despite their otherwise very nice approach generally. I have been doing without cloud storage for my most important files (financial documents, etc.), so I'm pretty interested in Filerock, having found this thread.

I naively attempted to roll my own mash-up for this purpose (https://github.com/clebio/duplicitySync) and was not successful. The combination of local encryption, incremental backup, and _synchronization across multiple computers_ was the breaking point.
They're especially annoying on devices with small vertical resolutions, like netbooks.
I've heard you sometimes shouldn't actually delete data from a database and should use an "IsDeleted" flag instead, particularly with customer orders and such.

What are the proper circumstances to use immutable facts? Anytime you need an undo or audit features?
> after some number of years of teaching, professors get a year off

That exists, it's called a sabbatical. Teachers are expected to do original work during their year off, and it often consists of writing books.
Bullshit. That isn't a problem for Tokyo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Tokyo_Panorama...

I remember someone from Vancouver saying the same thing about that city in a previous HN thread on this topic.

Earthquakes are just an excuse used by NIMBYs who want to preserve their oh so precious "bay view".
Sucks for people with VPNs that are java applet based.
The point of Java is that it has access to things at system level. If you don't need that, use HTML.
I'm sure you will see it before you graduate, whenever you take your basic operating systems course.
Did not work for me at all. Just keeps showing the spinning search indicator. I suspect Google Blog Search is about 1e+6 times more elaborate, so hardly there are any perspectives. Kudos for doing something anyway.
This is somewhat all over the place without a lot of supporting evidence.

Is the author suggesting that the web will die, and be replaced by thousands of special purpose apps that must be downloaded from the app store?
The current vulnerability affects environments where untrusted code already executes. Since applets can be used to upload arbitrary code, it makes sense to block it.

This isn't a political move I don't think, just a common sense mitigatory move to protect people. Web apps running Java are safe from this vulnerability, unless they're accepting user-supplied code and running it.
Then there's those that think it's better to have an anti-todo list.
On Heisenberg.js - "The JavaScript version of the HTML5 Boilerplate"
Mozilla is blocking Java as well, keeping hundreds of millions of Firefox users safe.

Mozilla Security Blog: Protecting Users Against Java Vulnerability

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/11/protecting-user...
If you're checking a flight to see if it's delayed and you're not already at the airport - you're already late.
They should have pulled the plug on it, if they couldn't manage to upgrade in time.
Thank you, it turns out I was able to get the curl command to run against production site by adding the --insecure option and using the default port:

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST -d '<id type="yaml">--- !ruby/object:ActionController::Base bar: 1</id>' --insecure https:localhost
Did they already push the blacklist file update to all Mac machines? Or is it bundled in a software update that OS X is going to ask me to install when I get home from work and wake my MacBook up?
Dance music theory expert explains the principles of big room chord progressions
That "concern" is absurd. You're making no sense.
Me too, but my dad has had a pretty bad experience with his x220s. Anecdotal, obviously, but I'm not sure the quality has kept since the glory days of Think Pads.