skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worked for me using both Ctrl-C and right-click copy in Firefox in Linux.

Page seems to have to completely load before it works though.
In case anybody is interested, the md6 reference implementation is here: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/md6/code/md6_c_code-2009-04-... , this was the one submitted to NIST and has now apparently been withdrawn.
So preventing the legalization of one activity will prevent already-possible illegal activity? If I want to jailbreak my iPhone for illegal purposes, what does it matter whether that process is legal?
If you like the look of it, you can find the app itself at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...
I have been. I was working full time at a brokerage. It was very draining. I worked on my project for two years, every night, sometimes just for fifteen minutes at a time.

You need to just get started. 15 minutes every day.

You are going to have to learn how to be more efficient elsewhere. You're going to have to be ruthlessly efficient with your projects, too. Beware engineering meanders. [An entire world of learning goes here. Too long to write. Maybe someday I should. You'll have to pick it up too.]

I find that when I'm too tired to work, it's a temporary feeling - if you power through it, and do JUST 15 minutes of work, you can do another 15, and then another hour, and then go pass out.

You can do it.
Really getting tired of Apple man... Compared to AAPL MSFT seems benevolent
Cooks Illustrated is awesome. These people are obsessive and I love it.
More fun with trends

Wolfram, Cuil & bing
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wolfram%2C+cuil%2C+bing&c...

Actually need an 18 month range bu this will do.

I'm actually suprised at how much higher Cuil's peak was compared to bing considering the current marketing push (is this all over or is MS pushing harder here in the Bay Area)
My sense is that the professor was wrong in attributing racial motives to Officer Crowley's actions.

The responding officer invented conversations which never took place, which contained racial components. For example, it was claimed the 911 caller had said "two black men", that Crowley had spoken to the 911 caller before entering the house, and that Gates had spoken racial insults to Crowley -- all later proven to be fabrications. I can't think of any reason for the officer to lie about such particular things without racial reasons.

Furthermore, it's notable that conservatives are largely defending Crowley on racial grounds. While I would expect a "conservative" to be against illegal arrests, many (if not most) are choosing to blame Gates for the events.
Yes, F1 cars are designed to survive (or rather the driver to survive) even 300kph accidents. They are safer than 5* EURONCAP in this sense. Things to note are:

a) F1 drivers are very fit as opposed to regular people (so they can endure damage more easily)

b) you wouldn't want to drive an F1 on the street because of other safety issues
Just a data point: they wouldn't let me do it.

My book Beginning Ruby has sold about 10,000 copies with only a few hundred in e-book format, and despite pleading (and even begging) with them to be able to release my second edition in a "free" online format (since the e-book sells so appallingly compared to the print edition) - no go :-( Instead I can release a few chapters each month or something similarly annoying.

So kudos for Apress on this, but with the people bitching about the lack of free Ruby books, it's a shame they couldn't extend the same courtesy to me. Even just free as in beer, not even in speech as with this one..!
You are clueless.

Where would people find counterparties in your system?

In what way would price discovery work?

Exchanges in the US are vastly overcomplicated, but that doesn't mean the concept is bad.
I don't think every opinion is an assertion of fact in that true opinion is by its nature unprovable: "I think Apple makes lousy products" may be what I think (which I don't, by the way) but no one would take it as anything beyond that. Opinion is basically non-actionable under libel laws as long as it falls in the unprovable category.

You make an excellent point, though, in picking up on this issue. No less an authority than the U.S. Supreme Court (in the 1990 Milkovich case) expressly rejected what it called "the creation of an artificial dichotomy" between fact and opinion and held that statements couched as opinions can be libelous if they imply false and defamatory facts.

So, if you say, "In my opinion, politician x is a drug dealer," your statement could be found to be defamatory.

For a good discussion on this, see http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/opinion-and-fair-comm....
GPUmat, CUDA enabled MatLab
FIX != Web
a local or international hacker could potentially initiate commands (such as a denial of service attack) that could crash the tower software, rendering the tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data

Far be it for me to comment (as I have no experience in the software) but does that not seem like something of a MAJOR flaw in the tower software?
Every time you select something they post back to their server with details about the selection (including the article, location of your selection, referrer, etc)
It's very useful. I use it daily, particularly for date math.
Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era (1993)
You're exhausted and showing signs of burning out.

I'd recommend taking some vacation time to do nothing. If you can't do that, then you need to find another job that is less stressful to you.

Maybe even consider taking a job that you would ordinarily consider "boring", so that you have the energy to work on your ideas.

With your current situation, all you can really do is stress yourself out even more.
Diamonds Are A Wound's Best Friend
Video controls for live feeds: instant replay for the web
I remember seeing a video that talked about the physics of boxing, specifically rolling with the punches. It clearly works, people who roll are hit much less hard.

However, a champion boxer hits at ~90MPH. You can't jerk yourself back fast enough to make an appriciable dent on the KE of the punch. The effect is almost all in the dt of F=dp/dt.
The officer's report from the Gates incident had Gates coming out onto the street and yelling more after Gates had left his home. I don't know at what point yelling at police officers starts getting in the way of that work, but there is that point somewhere.

The 911 caller has claimed several parts of Crowley's report are false[1]. Given this, I trust Gates' version of the events over Crowley's. According to Gates, he was arrested after following the officer onto the house's porch, when he demanding the officer's name and identification number (which Crowley was legally obliged to provide).

Furthermore, as Gates had a bronchial infection at the time[2], he wouldn't have been able to yell / abuse the officers in the way they claim occured.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/27/gates.arrest/index.html

[2] http://www.theroot.com/print/19236?page=0%2C0
This is like searching "google" on wolfram alpha trends. Use compete.com if you want to prove a point, not google trends.
That would be nice except aren't there ways to leave voicemails directly? In that case you would have a voicemail but no missed call. It's a less-than-important edge case, I admit.
"Technology startups make unique products that people want."

So basically they are just a business.
Help me test my open source budgeting web app
Okay, so its no Mint, but its perfect for people who think Mint is overkill or don't want to give a web app their bank information.

I made it for semi-computer illiterate people to manage a budget over email. So far it has changed my girlfriend and my mom's life.

On a side note, I wrote it in Ruby with help from Sinatra. I think it is a pretty good example of how to write a class-based Sinatra app with a full test suite.

Any suggestions or help spreading the word would be much appreciated!
Then why isn't android or any other open platform a threat?
This is why:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram...
since this is all about the past evolution of the species, let me throw in a few proposals about the future evolution:

http://geaugailluminati.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-human-r... (and)
The Moral Imperative of Our Future Evolution:
http://www.prometheism.net/moral.html
It seems to be a very classy withdrawal. I wonder how much the other candidates satisfy the two 'suggestions'.
Yes and no. When the software was written for these towers, they weren't taking into account phones such as the iphone. Compared with the phones available just a few years ago, the iphone is a relative supercomputer. So I'd say if anything, its more of a lack of foresight rather than a flaw. Who, save for Steve Jobs, saw the iphone coming a few years ago with the force that is has.
Some comments about resumes ...

If you apply for a job with me, I want to know why I should employ you. I want to know how you will add value to my company. I want to know that you will bring skills and abilities.

Do you know what I want? You should. You shouldn't just read the ad for the job - you should find out what my company does, then read the ad, and work out how your skills will help me meet my goal of making money. If you can't or won't do those things, I probably don't want you to work for me.

What skills do you have? How can I tell?

Can you work on your own? How can I tell?

Can you work in a team? How can I tell?

Will you get things done? How can I tell?

I don't really care about your education, or your recent jobs, unless they show me why you are the right person for me. And I want to read that on the first page, preferably in the first paragraph, and preferably without typos, grammatical errors, or anything else to distract me. I don't at this stage really care what your name is, or how to contact you, or whether you can typeset 16 different fonts on the same page.

Why should I employ you? What do you think I want, and why should I think you have it.

And good luck in whatever you choose. You could choose to put your resume in your profile here on HN.
My company came very close to missing payroll several times in the dark days but we always pulled it off. In the same period I saw a close partner company reach the point where they were paying partial paychecks (barely above minimum wage) before they finally folded. I also have a friend who went from almost $5m in the bank to almost $1m in debt trying to keep his company afloat.

Bottom line: if it's a one-time (or once-in-a-while) thing where the cashflow just got held up, that's one thing, but if it's been multiple times now, it's time to get out. If they're just waiting on one big payment from a single customer, run out the door. It'll never happen.

But don't burn your bridges. I work with many people who left our company in the "dark days" and have come back now that we're more financially stable.
Not commenting is Apple's standard operating procedure. They got the lawyers after ThinkSecret, but that was to close a trade secrets hole. Much different than a random internet rant.
Even monochromats can differentiate red from black, because the black is substantially darker. (Which isn't necessarily to say that adding other cues isn't also a good idea.)
Yet they differ fundamentally as history is based on fact, philosophy on logics, psychology and sociology on sort of both, while literature can be anything from entertainment, mostly entertainment, to philosophy.
Would it be useful for browsers to allow AJAX requests that don't trigger "network use is happening" ? Is there a security concern?
So, fix the damn cellphone towers. If a jailbroken cellphone can crash them, then surely a malicious person with a laptop and an antenna of the appropriate type could also crash them.
Ok so its no Mint, but its perfect for people who think Mint is overkill or do not want to give their bank login to a web app.

It is targeted towards less-than-computer-literate people who know how to use email. I'm not quite sure how to reach my target audience yet :). So far it has changed my girlfriend and my mom's life. They see budgeting as a fun game now.

On a side note, I wrote it in Ruby with help from Sinatra. I think it is a pretty good example of a class-based Sinatra app with a full test suite.
You also have to copy through the browser's clipboard interface, not the X11 selection. Presumably Javascript is capable of hooking the former, but not the latter.
Why do people virtualize the hardware and OS? Shouldn't it be a software architectural thing? That's why we have web clusters, load balancers, content-based caches, database clusters, distributed hash tables etc and not big iron mainframe style partitions. Look at Google!

I am slightly biased against this as I run a large ESX deployment with about 100 virtual hosts. Performance sucks compared to native and it purely shifts the management effort from one concern to another saving a grand total of nothing. Blades however have some credibility.

Usually by now someone mentions security to which a certain Mr Theo De Raadt concisely debunks:

"x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit. You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
Google trends is next to useless for this kind of thing. All I see is a ratio of the peak volume vs. a baseline "normal" traffic volume. Looking at quantcast and compete.. they went from zero to roughly 500k visitors a month in less than two months, plus they survived a massive traffic spike without a glitch. I call that a success in my books.

It's very handy, but specialist tool, almost like an almanac that computes useful facts in real time. Stuff I would normally use my Lee Valley pocket reference for (http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=30039&...)

Example: What is the thread count of a no. 6 bolt? http://www08.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+thread+co...

Any engineer would love it.
And buggy whip manufacturers, telegraph operators, Java coders, etc.
Excellent comment +1.
Cell phone tower infrastructure has always been a walled garden, with the presumption that the carriers will always control the software and hardware used to communicate with the network. This might arguably have been a valid assumption when the cell system was engineered. It is certainly not a valid assumption now.

Jailbreaking is a fact of life. What are they going to do? Make it illegal? Let's assume they do. Does that make the network more secure? Did outlawing SPAM decrease the amount of SPAM? Did criminalizing cyber-attacks even decrease the number of said attacks?

To beg a legal remedy to circumvent the threat of cellular attacks in itself means that Apple, or rather AT&T (who is, of course, behind this claim), has a security methodology that is utterly broken, and absolutely begging to be exploited.

They might as well have hung a sign on the towers which said, "Hack Me. I'm Easy".
I don't agree with this comment, but are the votes against it really that reasonable?

To me, it appears more as "-1:I Disagree" votes, which IMO ought to be avoided when possible.

If anything, perhaps it would be better to instead vote up jmillikin's rebuttal.
Relative Timing With Org-Mode
It's probably easier to list a few things that are NOT technology startups (at least in 2009): consulting company, staffing company, technology product resale company, ecommerce site.
Text gets scrambled when you copy. First paragraph works ok, try others.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/11403547.asp?yazarid=69
Would some of the people who anonymously downvoted care to explain why?

When I was a teenager, I had some anti-police/anti-law angst like a lot of people in free countries feel and express. After traveling, and seeing how police operate in the second and third world, I can confidently say we have some pretty outstanding officers in the United States. A good friend's father is a policeman as well, so I've gotten to hear a few stories of how policework goes.

Here's the points I made:

Point #1: Abusing police is not okay, gets in the way of their work, and at some point, is no longer protected speech but instead a crime. I don't know where that line is, but it's somewhere.

Point #2: Being rude and insulting to any people with power over you is likely a bad play, and they'll probably make your life harder.

Point #3: The article mentions a number of negative police incidents, but really doesn't give much respect to the vast majority of officers who are doing a good job in hard work. I think that's a bad thing.

I'd be happy to discuss with anyone who disagrees philosophically or factually, and hopefully I'll learn something.
The Ultimate Secret of Successful Projects
Original source: http://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=480730&page=...
If you want that effect, you could turn off the dock bounce for applications. The problem I have with Google's approach is that it seems like the application didn't launch until it gets into the dock. Like, I double clicked it, but maybe the second click was off? It seems like the computer hangs before launching it when it actually did launch it and just didn't get the icon in the dock.

If the number of bounces makes you think apps are slow to start, you can disable dock bouncing. But you're totally right that it does make it feel like Chrome starts up faster.
The idea that anyone would take Apple's argument seriously illustrates the growing gap between people who understand what computers are and people who don't.

It's easy for us to say "well, obviously that makes no sense, because you could do the same thing with an Android phone or a laptop" because we understand a computer to be a universal machine, but the people making the law usually understand computers as no more than a glorified wrench or hammer, capable of doing some particular subset of Useful Things.
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Maybe 'cause it's meant for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers?
Looks interesting. I'll give it a try.

What about accepting sms messages in addition to the emails. I did a couple of test projects with textmarks.com. It's free (with an ad on every outbound message), but it would work well for your app.
Whine whine whine.

This is still a totally awesome app.
I'm sorry but you're just looking for a reason to make it about race. On your claims what the caller actually said was...

"two larger men, one looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure"

So the officer did transpose the correct race in his memory but the reality is the 911 caller was the one who injected race. In fact, if anything it was race bating on the other end. The reason the story came up in the first place is because the caller felt the need to distance herself from using the term "black" as if "black" is any better or worse than using hispanic.

(all this is from here: http://hiphopwired.com/4706/henry-louis-gates-jr-arresting-o...)

I, for the most part, couldn't find articles that support your other claims.
I did find the "Crowley claims to have talked to Whalen claim" here (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/27/141815/821) but again there's no proof the conversation didn't happen. And if anything I believe the officer only because Whalen has shown she refers to people by race (see above). So if someone who referred to a person (on tape) as "kind of hispanic" got a closer look and realized they were african american it stands to reason she would refer to them as "black"

Basically I find the whole "crowley lied" scenario dubious since I don't think a lying police officer warrants an invite to the White House. For President Obama to invite both I have to think he sees a misunderstanding and not one side being at fault.
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"Point #3: The article mentions a number of negative police incidents, but really doesn't give much respect to the vast majority of officers who are doing a good job in hard work. I think that's a bad thing."

Every time you criticize creationism, make sure you also point out all the really good things Christians do.

Every time you criticize a movie, make sure you also point out all the really cool films Hollywood puts out.

Every time you criticize a politician, make sure you also point out all the really good things that the government does.

...

The article is not about whether the police are good or bad. The article is about whether the police have too much power.
I had never heard of textmarks. Great tip.
There are no cockpit covers it allows the driver to get out (or removed by marshalls) quickly in case of fire (which was the biggest in old days).

yeah these days, risk of fire is quite less but still its a delicate balance which one has is more risky (fire or debris hitting drivers)
that is cool and informative - mind sharing the source for generating the sums?
No need to learn a new editor. There is a great plugin to use Vim with Clojure. I've always been a Vim user and think its great, although I've never used SLIME so I can't directly compare.

http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/vimclojure.html
I'd love a point threshold thats configurable on the RSS, so that I can put hacker news back into my rss reader without worrying about massive amounts of pollution.
No, that's not the case at all.

This article hit the nail on the head. http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram...

For a while (this seems to resolved now) you could enter "one cup of flour" and it would return the nutrition facts as requested. Enter "two cups of flour" and the engine would choke. Would being a mathmatician or a scientist make that problem disappear? No.
It hasn't to do with the kind of phone and if it has more power or not. Years back I saw a quite detailed document on how to modify certain areas of memory in low-end Siemens phone so it would agree too cooperate on exhausting timeslices form unsuspecting BTS. BTS's trust mobile stations by design.
I built a site to keep tracking of my bowling average during different leagues and practice using textmarks' API.

http://whatsmyaverage.com/
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Sony Ericsson W995 a grandeur presentation with multitasking and multiprocessing features. phone is hiring 8.1 MP of camera quality not less than any digital camera used in research and communication. Its images are like a original images.
oops, this link takes you to the top of the thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=6310157
Great ideas here. Switching email accounts has got to be my biggest time sink on the iPhone. I have one account for work and one for personal and it is a pain having to go to one to read the new message and then switch to another to read those messages.

Another alternative would be to introduce a new view, which contained unread messages on all accounts, sort of like the Apple Mail interface on the mac which lets me choose between mailboxes or an aggregated view but instead of showing all mails it only shows ones that were unread upon opening the view.
And just to be thorough, about other people having the same problem:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2046835...
pg provided that recipe in the footnotes of his most recent article.

http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
I'd recommend 'The anatomy of the 1541 disk drive' or if you speak German 'Das Grosse Floppy Buch zur 1541', both co-authored by the great Lothar Englisch.