skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minnesota DWI Law: The Attorney-Client Relationship.
In an unpublished opinion entitled State v. Berryhill from the Minnesota Appellate Court that came out this last Tuesday, August 4,2009, a big discussion was held about the difference between the appellant’s claim of “ineffective assistance of counsel” and something the Court called “trial strategy”. Sound a little scary? It is: Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are something that good lawyers and the courts take very seriously.
Rook uses stones to raise water level and get food
maybe more people are starting to realize that PDF is total shit, furthermore hard-paginated formats are obsolete and ridiculous today
I've had sleep paralysis pretty frequently over the years during afternoon naps. For me it's always the same: someone is calling out to me, but I can't respond or get up because I'm paralyzed. Usually I realize what's going on before too long, and it's not a big deal. But this past Monday, for the first time ever, I managed to not only realize what was going on, but close my eyes, concentrate on my hypnogogic imagery, and transform it into a lucid dream. If you can pull that off, I'd highly recommend it.
http://nearlyfreespeech.net -- also cheaper than GoDaddy!
Maybe it's like Apple and there's new stuff coming out.
I guess that's sort of my point. "Article-based content publishers"? Sounds like, well, most of the internet! Guess I just don't see the value added but hey, to each his own.
I think the mass actually changed. If you move, your mass increases w.r.t to an inertial frame. The closer you travel to the speed of light the more mass you get. I think mass also changes when the gravitational field changes. The device picked up those small changes .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity
How to identify Chinese antique furniture--Huanghuli wood
Where online to by Chinese silk bags, cushion,wall hangings
Highly reminiscent of Ken Thompson's "Trust in Computing" speech where he talks about how you can't trust anything you have written yourself from scratch, down to the compiler, even if source is available: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Download TVUPlayer 2.4.7.1 (Portable)
For those interested, the train they were talking about was the French TGV high-speed train:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV
I imagine I would do better with more fish and seaweed. However, a recent talk at TED, http://www.ted.com/talks/nina_jablonski_breaks_the_illusion_..., implies that we are getting enough sun even at higher latitudes. Humans at higher latitudes seem to have quickly evolved to lighter skin colors to allow more Vitamin D production. Drastic movements between latitudes may cause more harm than good.
According to the quote, the shape of the experiment was changing...
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748871 (which is currently #4 on the front page)
Is the phrase "post-revenue" standard? This is the first time I've seen it (as far as I can recall, at least), and it seems wrong -- my first thought was that "post-revenue" meant "we used to have revenue, but not any more".
The security cameras aren't exposed because of Google, but rather because of a website admin that didn't know what he was doing. Google's responsibly for this is akin to the responsibly a construction company has for building roads to an insecure bank. :-p
I got stung by this last week - a "low grade common" password I used on perlmonks.org which I didn't care much about was the same password I used when I signed up for this new website a couple of years ago that I didn't care much about at the time ... called twitter... Fast forward a year or two and I hadn't bothered changing the twitter password and a few days after the perlmonks incident became public I start getting spam posted to my twitterstream... Grrr...

(and, in the cleanup job I did I found 56 other websites of varying degrees of "care about" that I was using the same password on...)

I still haven't decided how much effort to put into ensuring this doesn't happen again - individual passwords for every website is _doable_ but the convenience tradeoff is not insignificant... (anyone know a password safe type program that runs on Mac, linux, and iPhone, and will sync databases between the three?)
At least most electronics can be made very small, as in they could always develop a backup system from a different contractor if something was important enough.
Doesn't the Vitamin D argument go: "we all stay indoors these days, thus we are vitamin D deficient, regardless of skin color".
That was mostly high quality except for the wannabe "you might be a redneck" (shouldn't be a programmer) section at the end.

> (Functional) Manually caching the results of a deterministic function on ... Haskell

You still have to explicitly memoize at times in Haskell.

> refactor his old code with the goal of reducing its instruction count by 10:1 or more

What a loser! I go into my old code with a goal of 10000:1.

> Recursive subroutines that concatenate/sum to a carry-along output variable

This can be justified.

> Using strings/integers for values that have (or could be given) more appropriate wrapper types in a strongly-typed language

Not always worth it.

> Unit Testing, which you use at design time.

No, I don't.

> You don't use whitespace or indentation

If I'm not using whitespace, what am I supposed to indent with?
A while ago, I noticed a trend of ads that feature a group of mixed-race men often have the Caucasian one being dumb, goofy, or completely inept.
It was obviously a joke. There is no way anyone could look at that massive laptop and say, "wow, that weighs less than I do."
"So the bigger lake in the Spring was making the particle heavier."
I am not sure which effect the quote describes: a slight change in the mass or a change in the instrument. Both are different. If it is the former I should be able to measure the change from light years away (since the lake wont affect me but will affect the particle).
If readable chunks were all you cared about, why don't you just insert a few newlines and a single-line comment? I bet you actually do take some care to reduce coupling even when not intending reuse.
The great thing about "crypto swearing" is that it's a variable where the reader can insert a phrase he or she feels is appropriate for the phrase, without getting offended, or snickering at something not strong enough. For instance, in the above phrase, you could use anything from "dad burned", to "gosh darned" to "god damn motherfucking".
If anyone remembered johnny i hack stuff from way back (mmm nostalgic) that popularized using google to find vulnerabilities such as this. The reincarnation of that site seems to be http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/ (lists a wealth of google discoverable devices/services and other stuff)
Hah. I can't believe someone made an AdSense farm for these cams with this search term as the domain. It came up towards the bottom of the first results page for me.

http://www.viewerframe-mode.com/inurl-viewerframe-mode=motio...
I'm not sure why he would say the unhealthiest population on earth ─ meaning Americans, when you have places like Swaziland, with a life expectancy of 32 years (vs. 78, according to the CIA).

Which of those countries would you say has a bigger health crisis?
http://tlrobinson.net/bigbrother [warning: very bandwidth + CPU intensive, but worth it]

A few weeks ago I scraped the results from one of these searches (using Yahoo BOSS). This page shows the live streams of a random subset of them. Scroll to see more.
Sometimes use of advanced facilities is a way of elevating your status over the uninitiated. Now that you've shown weakness, I'm really going to pour it on!
I'm surprised anyone noticed this. Yes, I agree.
From Wikipedia entry on Sleep paralysis:

"It is recommended that patients be evaluated for narcolepsy if symptoms persist."
I have been able to create a similar phenomenon during very deep mediation. I would turn on a shower for white noise, then concentrate on just relaxing....eventually I would find myself in a very strange dreamlike, yet stil awake state. It was AMAZING!!! After "waking" I would feel enormously refreshed and energetic....
Johnny popularized the phrase "google hacking". See his "No-Tech Hacking" session from DefCon 15: EPIC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWrzVJYLWw
Whops. :)
He literally wrote the book: http://books.google.com/books?id=XKgRELiphAcC&printsec=f...
Why My Previous Business Didn't Work
You can buy "Inurl Security Cameras"!
LG KG296 RED/Rose Unlocked
LG KG296 is a tri-band GSM slider. It features 262k color TFT display, 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microSD slot for memory and music player.
That's badass!
To Pay for Health Care, Treat Aging
Sign That You’re A Good Programmer
I've heard it a quite few times and it's always struck me as an odd turn of phrase, but

Pre revenue: before revenue.
Post revenue: after [first] revenue.

probably makes sense in start up schema. I don't love it though.
No, I don't think being transparent sucks. Rationalizing every single decision would be a good thing, but it would require passengers to accept the explanation that ultimately many things go wrong as a result of reducing cost.
jquery was having problems caused by (apparently) getting hammered by Bing last week.. http://twitter.com/jeresig/status/2935982153

I do notice that use python.org/docs an awful lot though. :)
Darwin Award time!
A country-by-country listing of current account balances - find the US
Here's a giraffe:

http://60.45.63.26/ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion&Language=1
It sounds like a reasonable argument, but it also gives them the right to turn around and tell someone else they can't use it and for some of these really common expressions that's just not right.

Also if they're already using it and someone else tries to trade mark it and prevent them from doing so I would expect Harvard can come up with an expert witness or two and put a stop to it.

So I'm afraid the argument seems reasonable, but doesn't hold water.
Had the birds seen this happen before? I can obviously teach a dog to do that too, if they just associate put-rocks-in-worm-tube with get-food.

The source (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)0...) makes it sound like they had quite a few runs at it, but I only have the summary, and it's a bit hard to tell.
Go Linux, even on your Xbox
The number one sign that you're a "not bad" programmer (since the essay says there are no "good" programmers) is that you are actively trying to get better. You're learning new languages and tools, exploring different styles and techniques.
78% European is diverse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Demography

And, we're talking about less than 4.5m people.

Compare it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago , which has more people than live in all of New Zealand's 4 largest cities and has almost as many people as NZ's 16 main urban areas. And, that's not counting Chicago's suburbs.

Chicago is only moderately diverse for a large American city - there are less than 50 languages spoken by more than 1000 people.

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles for diversity (which has more people than all of new zealand's major urban areas, and I'm still ignoring suburbs and other major adjoining cities.)
It was not changing, the data was being corrupted. The link you gave describes relativistic (not invarient mass) in special relativity. You are correct that the relativistic (NOT invariant) mass can change depending on the inertial reference frame. However, the inclusion of changing gravitational fields and acceleration within gravitational fields is not the special theory of relativity, but the general theory of relativity.

While your idea of varying inertial reference frames is correct for invariant mass at a constant velocity (or experiencing no acceleration or distortion of spacetime due to a gravitational field), it is not correct when those are included.

In fact, it is easy to see that the relativistic mass must stay constant here for two reasons: 1) Relativistic mass can change between reference frames, but we are always doing the experiment in the same reference frame, and 2) Look at the equations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#Lorentz_...

There are no gravitational terms in those equations, only spacetime derivatives (and various constants).

Edit: It's very late and I bet I'.m being unclear -- the velocity magnitude is probably changing slightly because of the outside fields. However, I doubt that relativistc mass change would be detectable by even their instruments. It's probably just variance in path.
Gee, Google even suggests related searches where you can find more cameras.
Confessions of a Journal Editor [pdf]
Bathroom organiser for storage
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Interesting... but the bandwidth saturation detracts from the impact. Paginate?
There's a whole lot of videos on the BBC site (and presumably on youtube as well) about all the interesting things that crows can do with the tools at hand (or beak).

The avian equivalent of Macguyver?
To you, there probably is no value added. To someone not so much "in the loop", there probably is.

Anyone could upload a video they made on their own site, even before Youtube. Plenty of people did. Yet, Youtube changed a lot of things for a lot of people.
Benefits of Online Chat Rooms
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Man I remember doing this stuff /years/ ago. Can't remember where I learned about it... Maybe 2600? Lots of sweet cameras to look at in Japan. Of course back then I was using a dial-up connection so to be able to see more than a frame every few seconds is a welcome improvement.

Thanks for the nostalgia. :)
To be clear, my point is that people are flocking to these article-based web sites so there must be something there beyond just being text on the web.

The traffic has been growing. At HubPages, we were at 8 million unique visitors in Nov, 2008 and now we are approaching 14 million unique visitors in Aug, 2009.

I would argue that these article-based sites are popular because of the web tools available on them, the community of writers and readers to interact with, and the growing traffic. People want these types of places to add their information.

Sure, they could open a blog account by itself or write anonymously on Wikipedia but it's not the same.

Scribd seemed to be the first of these sites to go mainstream. That was my main point to your question. If there's nothing there, what accounted for Scribd's popularity?

It took me a long time to understand why Twitter was an improvement over RSS. Sometimes, these trends are not obvious until you have the experience of participating with the web site that is growing in popularity.

I hope that better explains my original point.
All security is about levels though - nothing is secure. This library obviously fills a specific level, and provides some protection. It'd certainly make some guy in the IT dept packet sniffing likely give up.

You're not going to use it for a banking website, but saying it's useless as you seem to be, seems odd to me.
Fonts look horrible with FF on Windows, but fine on safari. It's probably because you're messing with the letter spacing.
Hack your dreams
I can't remember where, but I recall reading something about each person developing their own different "secret code" as to what should keep them dreaming or what should awaken them. It's funny that the brain should not accept direct commands but work with keywords.
That, and, if I am not mistaken, incorporating search terms of previous visitors into the page. Somebody would search for 'iPhone widgets' in Google, click on the Scribd link about totally unrelated'wooden widgets', and Scribd would put 'iPhone' on the page, making it much more likely for the next person to be misdirected.
The default setting on most ip cameras is "public". I can't remember it atm, but there's another search you can do that exposes a ton of cameras of the form

<uniqueID>.something.com where something is setup by the camera makers to provide an easy way to share your cam. (This isn't anything new, I was thinking of doing some analysis on all the public IP cams you can find on google a few years ago).

Here's another one
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=inurl%3A%22snapsh...

After the 1st page or so, the rest are all Panasonic IP cams.

I think the answer is to have IP cam makers default to private - just like routers/hubs/etc
From what I understand, you can retroactively file an [American] patent application from within a year of your first public/open demo. Then you have another year to file a real claim.
How myths are made
You're also not counting that it's not so simple. Lotteries are a 1 in millions chance of winning a prize, and a millions out of millions chance of nothing. Developing an iPhone app is a 1-2% chance at millions, but also a chance at hundreds of thousands, a chance at thousands, or even a chance at getting like 100 bucks out of the deal and having some fun at it.
umm yeah.
once in college, before i knew what this was, i explained the symptoms to a professor who just lectured about REM sleep. He had no idea what I was talking about and it made me feel like a crazy person. But a few years later more information has appeared on the internet and I've identified it as sleep paralysis.

I haven't been able to put it into a pattern yet, though it's happened when I'm sober, semi-drunk (but never when I'm passed out), and when I fall asleep in a car--not driving, of course, though it's accompanied by a dream that I'm driving and am unable to move--talk about scary.
Even more interesting than this one-man band is the progress being made on Eigg and other remote islands off the West Coast of Scotland. Many have never been on the grid (they're islands with 10-100 people living on them) and they've previously relied on mucky diesel generators and such like.

Now, solar panels, wind turbines and hydroelectric are being installed to give these communities a stable energy supply.

http://islandsgoinggreen.org/
Yes. I have 5 windows with a total of maybe 180 tabs, using about 800MB.
I like this one:

http://translationparty.com/tp/#597126

resolves to A & (!A)
For the majority of these I doubt there even is a website admin. I think most of these urls were found by people that have the google toolbar installed looking at their own private cameras.

There are downsides to the toolbar, one of them is that google knows about urls that are never linked.
I always just figured (foggily) that I was half asleep when this happened to me. It can be pretty scary/frustrating being essentially paralysed even when you think you know what's going on.

I think that sometimes in dreams you can transition from your 'dream' limbs (which you can control in the dream) to your real limbs (which you can't) which could explain a sudden inability to move in dreams.
The empirical data only tells you that your mass result is variable. It's your theorising that suggest as a hypothesis that the lake's current volume is perturbing your measurement - which you then show to be consistent with the rest of your theoretical framework by experiment.

I wonder if the bounds are such that someone walking along the corridor will affect the measurement ("yo momma so fat she perturbs the expected measured mass of the Z-boson!"). What's the relative gravitational attraction of, say, Jupiter versus a nearby train.

A great insight.
I'd appreciate if you pointed me to the article/statement of the researchers divorcing themselves from TED's video claims. Thanks.
Image library software, seo tools
When you do your initial image uploads the tools automatically optimise the preview page for the key phrases you've added to each image. And then there are more tools for refining metatags at category, page, preview page and image level. And because our system is a fully functional CMS you can also create new content pages especially for relevant generic search terms.
A Japanese Giraffe at that!
it didn't work last time, why would it work now ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=748336
you need to make preparations for your death that include your online possessions and presence.

Need to?
There's a picture in my local paper this week of an envelope. It's addressed simply to:

The editor of the local paper

Congleton

Apparently, it arrived at the offices of the Congleton Chronicle without an issue.
Upper East Side Condominiums feature luxury
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Try this one: "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
If Google decided to buy all their CPUs from Intel, rather than AMD, is that Collusion?

Who exactly is being defrauded in this situation?
Developing for the iPhone AppStore is betting your money on horses
Yes, Men Can Get Breast Cancer
One of the major problems with HN is that is is an old, established community. That means that lots of stuff that is new to newcomers is old hat to the old hands here and they do not tire of telling people that.

In deference to the 'old hats', they do make this community in to what it is, a place where some pretty cool stuff gets posted and discussed at a fairly high level.

I personally see absolutely nothing wrong in people posting stuff that is new to them, for every 'poster' there must be 10's if not 100's of people to who it is news as well.

Just because you already know everything there is to know doesn't mean that that goes for everybody else too.

One way around this is to have a karma threshold for displaying submissions, that way the 'old hands' if they so choose could blind themselves to whatever the newcomers to on 'their' view of HN without any interference.

And it would stop people from taking 'revenge' on the submitter of this story the way it is being done right now, which I really think is not becoming of HN.

Have some room for each other please, and do not kick people for doing the same thing that you did yourself in the not so distant past.
Financial Times preparing iTunes-like pay model
Python 2.6 abc - Abstract Base Classes
You know, all the cool conceptual new media artists use Arduino. It's marketing baby!

More seriously, Arduino is open source too.
Hopefully Cydia will gain traction. I've bought a couple apps on it already and its been a positive experience.

It has the potential to be huge, however no VC firm will touch it since it also has the potential to be sued out of existence. I doubt it will have the resources to build things up enough where it can scale up and get a mainstream marketshare.

Android seems to be the only real alternative to Apple's appstore madness. I'll definitely be supporting that platform in the future. Getting an iPhone 3g last year was a really boneheaded move.
State Universities
Ask HN: Where to find great Enterprise salespeople for startups?
We're looking to hire a top-notch sales guy for Enterprise Sales. We've tried Craiglist with limited success. Any other tips on where to find good sales guys/girls? Is there a HN-friendly job board that isn't only for techies? Thanks!
In that vein, Javascript's Math.random, while the implementation is JS-engine specific (so I'm hesitant to condemn it across the board), hardly qualifies as a CSPRNG either.
Yes, so /dev/urandom is not suitable if you want "secure random numbers", because its output may be pseudorandom.