skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope his disappearance is the end of this story. The CentOS folks need to be double checking every bit this guy has touched and fully explore the other security ramifications. It is a bit concerning how much (PR) damage one person could do. I can't even grasp the level of crisis this would inflict on the Linux community (OSS in general) if the story turns worse. (sabotage, backdoors, etc)
one day it will bite. Then he'll turn around and ask you why you didn't build it properly...
I wonder if you could use some kind of gyro system on your torso to provide front-to back stability?

Hmm....
Seriously. I posted this comment:

But you also left out a desk and chair: if you're going to couch surf eight hours a day, your spine will swiftly deteriorate. My family's business spends way more on the desk/chair part than the technology part; you can see more about our setup here: http://blog.seliger.com/2008/06/15/tools-of-the-trade—what-a...

If you're going to use an office for more than a few months, you're going to need more than what's listed in the post.
This is a good article, but the real nugget isn't something the author really gets into: Treat everyone with respect and consideration, no matter how lowly they may be.

You'd think that the Lion and Mouse fable would resonate more, but for some reason it never does.
Launch infrastructure into orbit so that you can beam power to it. This way, the heavy powerplant can stay on the ground. Have an onboard RTG for the control systems and the science package. Then you don't even have to send power to a probe full-time. Even an intermittent boost with the available ISP will be an improvement.

The orbital infrastructure could consist of mirrors, which would be relatively lightweight.
Amen to that.

Today is also a lot like the late 1990's. :-)
Open-source Project Aims to Makes Secure DNS Easier
Porsche 911 Turbo: ENGINE BY VW

or - Your 130 thousand dollar automobile is made by the same people who make your kids 15 thousand dollar automobile.

It would turn a lot of people off Porsche and boost VW's brand image.

I think many people are aware that major brands OEM parts from all over.

But there isn't a sticker on the dashboard saying one of the most expensive parts is from a specific maker.

My main point is that Yahoo is transferring a lot of brand equity to Bing. If there was no Bing branding on the SERPs then this would be much less of an issue.

And really, some hackers pop the hood and look at engines but really do most people? Do most people even know how to change their own oil or even bother to?
It would have been a nice option for development workstations, back when I worked at a big RHEL+Oracle shop.
Employees should, at least to a degree, feel a pride in the company they work for, and if they do not they should find somewhere else to work (or at least try to.)

I think he meant people working for companies who actually have a bad name. If you know the company you work for engages in some shady practises, you shouldn't dismiss that with "I just work here", but consider finding another workplace instead.
They say right in the article that this flaw would have been unlikely to bring down a plane. The most likely outcome would have been increased maintenance costs for owners.
Actually it's just Schneier providing a link to this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20zittrain.html?_r...
One of the major issues here is that Hacker News hasn't been YC news for a long time. It's evolved on purpose to be something more than start-up focused.

Not that I don't like your idea, just that what you're asking for is a reduction of scope that I think pg has specifically not intended.
(Caution: I'm an Android fanboy)

I got two main problems with this article. First, it's mixing the weaknesses of Android with the weaknesses of the G1 hardware. There might not be a lot options available these days when it comes to buying an Android-enabled phone but it looks like this is going to change soon.

Secondly, all platforms have their pathologies and obviously Android is no exception, neither is the iPhone. I honestly think this is a fairly unbalanced presentation of Android. How long did you have to wait to get copy and paste working on the iPhone? Can you run multiple apps at the same time on the iPhone? Can you have widgets on the iPhone? What about the well known problems of the iPhone App Store we all hear a lot about these days? And about the hardware: if you have a problem with the non-standard earphone connectors of the G1 (which can be solved by a $5 adapter), what do you think about not being able to replace the battery of an iPhone yourself? You don't have these problems on Android.

I'm not trying to bash the iPhone here as I truly believe that it's a great phone, all I'm trying to say that this review isn't really fair and balanced. It's alright to be subjective but still, come on, isn't this a bit too much?
I think a short waiting period before being able to post might solve a lot of problems at once. If you had to wait 24 hours after registering an account before your could post a comment, how many spam, joke posts, and throwaway accounts wouldn't happen?
I want to get these, however I can't get over the feeling that you'd be seconds away from snapping a leg at any given moment. Hmm.
But didn't they outsource a lot of the work (~70%), including wing design? Not very conservative if you ask me.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/787family/dev_team.html
I've always liked the layout of this site. Clean, functional, easy to use. Thoughtful design.

But today is the first time I noticed the little 6x6 pixel design embedded in the background directly to the right of the book image.

At first I thought I had coughed at the screen, or somehow got pen marks on it and was reaching for some cleaner when I realized what a screen capture into Paint and a quick zoom confirmed.

Anyway, thanks Steve.
Javascript seems more correct
What if we used genetically engineered bacteria like what startup LS9 are working on to create petroleum as the waste product?

http://www.ls9.com/

That would quite literally blow my mind then.
The story about this kid keeps making the rounds, I guess it must be a slow news summer, no shark attacks. This is great for a teen and highschool project, but it's not quite as great as the article makes it out to be. And yes, it is old news: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
You missed the part where this produces CO2. And it's producing CO2 from a petroleum product, which means this is CO2 that's been out of the carbon cycle for millions of years, which means it's all net CO2.
It's cool and I think I'll order one, but they missed an opportunity in not offering a way to connect a digital camera to the scope, which would vastly increase awareness of what can be done with it. Of course, people will find ways to hack it together; but given the cost and size of digital camera technology I'm really surprised they're not offering a $79.99 imaging head with a USB cable hanging out back.

Still, well done.
I think that is on all wordpress.com blogs.
I would love to see Android running on some kickass hardware. I'm convinced that's half of why the iPhone is so dominant.
Yeaaaah.. they were summaries of positions. Thanks for insinuating that I was being misleading. Did you really think 'Coda' was a person?

I've been watching parent get upmodded and my comment get downmodded with increasing disbelief. Time was that +16 used to mean it was not to be missed, and -4 was a troll or ad hominem.
The Pirate Bay should stop activities in Netherlands, court rules
I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video case study
Ubuntu is Debian for the rest of us.
Semantic Web, Can it Happen?
They'll test it to the hilt on integration, you can literally depend on that.

Conservative wrt to testing, documentation and procedures as well as a healthy dose of skepticism about new technology.

Just try adding a new piece of avionics to an existing plane or changing something after the airworthiness certificate has been issued.
We are the evidence we are looking for! How clever. +1 clever points.
Social networking toys? What, you mean smartphones, integrated GPS, augmented reality, robotics, pervasive communications networks. None of these advances strike you as important and potentially disruptive?
Gray Goo...

...But in real life.... Oh! The horror!
Hm as one commenter there says fixing wing box design flaw with retrofits doesn't make me feel like flying it
I've found that to be untrue. Ubuntu managed to largely bring together the desktop Linux community. There are plenty of other distributions around, but there has never been a clearer default choice for new users and OEMs.
No more traffic jams?
Top Hottest Firefox Add-ons 
The biggest advantage FireFox has over other browsers such as Chrome, is the vast collection of free add-ons there are on offer!

Over the last five years, FireFox has been developing and growing at a substantial rate, establishing itself as the most used open source browser. Why has it come such a long way? Well, when users go onto FireFox, they find it to be easy to use, clean interface and most importantly the extensions ( add-ons) which makes online browsing oh so much better and beneficial....
YTMND the future of our world
Exactly! I've worked for big companies that have done dumb things, and my bosses and co-workers have consistently taken the attitude of, "I'm sorry this has happened. I'm forwarding the information about this problem to so-and-so." Then they've followed up a couple of weeks later with, "Did so-and-so get back to you? Were they able to fix the problem?"

It's a nice example to try to live up to.
Tempted to quit HN
Perhaps there's a case that the quality of stories on the front page is still good, but the comment threads are definitely decaying.

Today's exhibit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731486

My comment's not great, but I figured somebody might appreciate an attempt at distilling a slashdot thread. Staying at +1 or +2 would have gone unremarked. But -4? Seriously?

I didn't care enough to respond for the past 16 hours, but some morbid curiosity kept me returning to watch. I think it's a window into the community. It wouldn't have happened a year ago, so PG, stop telling us HN isn't degrading.
Aha! now the story behind makes sense!

for perspective, strongly suggest to read "micks56"'s comment here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668067

posted a month back on a similar article (Bumpy Ride for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668025)
Steve touches on something that most good salesmen already know: you never know where your next order is coming from.

I've seen companies bet the farm one one prospect only to have them go somewhere else 6 months into the pipeline. At the same time they ignored anyone who didn't fit their perfect prospect profile.

Failures to understand this have become legend. The Mercedes dealer who ignored the millionaire in flip flops who left the showroom and bought a BMW. The fraternity brothers who ignored the old man on their porch until he got up and left his fortune to charity. The software entrepreneur who didn't take the call from IBM (for whatever reason), so IBM went to Microsoft instead.

And the solution is so easy: treat everyone how you'd like to be treated until they give you reason otherwise. The best people I ever knew (family, friends, business associates) all made me feel special. Come to think of it, they made everyone feel special. No coincidence they were also the most successful people I knew.
"This 51 times larger light gathering produces 4.27 magnitude steps in star brightness. Magnitude Steps = 5 * Log10(eye/telescope). So if you can see mag 6 stars with your unaided eyes, the telescope can get you down to magnitude 10.27, which places a great many more stars into your grasp."

http://www.xomba.com/15_telescope_lets_you_see_more_than_gal...
`And lastly China is successfully and very slowly reducing it's US dollar exposure.`

What's the basis for this claim? How are they doing it?
So they sent out a press release to their own employees instead of bothering to write an email?
Google conveniently hosts and distributes most of the common Javascript libraries through their CDN, and allows external developers to load them using this technique. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/
Relative though.

There's cell phone to iphone levels of disruption to the norm, and then there is kitchen sink to washing machine levels of disruption.

If you look at tech, a comparable time period to the 20's would be the late 80's early 90's, where we went from basically the industrial age to the information age in a matter of years.

What's happening now is nowhere close to the same scale.
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It is for me. I think it has something to do with the baud rate of the virtual terminal...?
Yeah, but a lot of really interesting posts wouldn't happen either.

I once had this conversation via email with one of the slashdot guys. He was considering banning AnnoymousCoward back then, and asked if I could point to any worthy posts that might have been posted by a signed account, and I pointed him to a thread in which an AC who claimed to be ex-FBI had some pretty insightful and thoughtful comments on police corruption and warrantless searches and such. He acknowledged it was a good example but said it was the only one he had seen thus far.
Perhaps you weren't clear in communicating what exactly you were summarizing? Your comment can be seen as misleading. Also, once a comment is already in the negative, I think it is more likely to be voted down even further, so don't take it as an absolute score. You're reading too much into this.

Also, you're exhibiting quite an immature reaction to being down-voted. Threatening to quit?
You make some very good points there, and I love the idea of being able to go to a new site, let it know who I am, and have it already configured for me.

The question I see though is how Facebook can turn around and regain the trust it lost through some of its misguided ventures like Beacon, etc.
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China's population density is far higher in key regions:
http://www.demographia.com/db-intlua-area2000.htm

That was more than three years ago - it will be slightly lower in Japan now, and higher in those Chinese regions.

> There's one fundamental difference between China and Japan

Another that people seem to keep forgetting is that the Japanese people are largely a single people and had something approaching a functional parliamentary system during their rise. The Chinese are trying to maintain centralised planning for the largest show on earth, and their social systems are unhealthy.
I work at AT&T Labs, and yes we generally get informed via an email with an attached press release.
There's an easier way to "take back the beep". Stop using the service.

Most cell phone plans have call forwarding built in. You can easily forward the incoming call to a land line or free voice mail system when you are unable to answer the phone, and save yourself the precious 15 seconds of airtime.
Re-evaluating your values
may be of interest to the hacker world as I know you have a code of ethics which is based upon values.
Right. A normal wing will never bend 150% beyond it's limits in even the worst flight conditions. But it's a testament to how strict the FAA is about engineering new planes.

Watch the similar test done on the 777:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9PVaFGl3o
There should always be 2 sides to any story. Whenever something happens between a large player and a smaller guy, the masses start to make accusations.

Yes large corporations need to be faster at making public statements, but they also need to act cautiously.
I haven't had any experience with Erlang so I decided to give it a try.

I got about three sentences into the tutorial when I encountered "Remember to terminate every expression with a DOT followed by a whitespace!"

At this point I stopped and will never try it again.
It's cool and looks fun, but I can't imagine people doing city tours or Mall security on it - that is, it's not in the same market as the Segway.

This similar idea, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm_2PnSkWck

... maybe. Looks a bit wobblier, but look at it in context - they are on a cycle path and they fit in perfectly well. Someone on a Segway would stand out quite a lot.
I just ordered one. Look forward to trying it out. The $9 S&H fee is pretty infomercial-ish, but still dirt cheap.
The thesis here is easy to believe when I'm stuck in a hot stuffy office, being completely unproductive!
I've had worse happen to me, it's the internet. There is some kind of underwater push-and-pull going on here that will change the nature of HN, and probably not in a good way.

Every community seems to have a life-cycle:

- group of closely knit individuals

- extended friends

- common interest

- more mainstream

- 'founders' start leaving because the content quality drops

- still growing but new folks appear faster than they can be brought up to speed wrt to conduct and topics

- start of the decline because the atmosphere is degrading further and further

Pick your phase, I think we're at '5' or beyond now, there has to be some way to reverse the trend.
I was in the same boat about 2 years ago, so I'd like to share my story with you FWIW... but it'll have to be after work! Just a heads up, my two cents are on their way!
If you work at any big company you'd know it's often standard practice to send out press releases and market statements internally to inform staff of what's happening.
I suggest you follow these steps:
http://arclanguage.org/install
Mmm, that does look pretty good. The "if interested" part made me worried.
Mysteriously High Tides on East Coast Perplex Scientists
Does anybody with more time or understanding of this document know how those boxes were exploited? What lessons, if any can we learn from other peoples mistakes?
"Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications, primarily outside the web browser. Narwhal includes a package manager, module system, and standard library for multiple JavaScript interpreters. Currently Narwhal’s Rhino support is the most complete, but other platforms are available too."

Has anyone tried this out?
There was a note on their web page at least as early as yesterday saying essentially the same thing as above.
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yeah definitely can't do it during the week. It will definitely be a weekend event.
Skype As We Know It May Not Exist Much Longer, eBay Says
oh I know, I'm just an asshole on an interstellar scale. I would probably want to have it continuously transmit a video of keyboard cat, seeding the galaxy with my trolling.
isn't google already doing this? google is multi-leveling itself. google makes money from all these "think about it" activities that this dude describes.
Choose Your Name With Care
people don't go to chiropractors for serious injury unless they're loony.
I've seen dozens of those "personal failures." :-)

Granted, backwards ABI compatibility is a huge, complicated, thankless task for which you get no notice if you do the job perfectly. The ideal spot for the "break old programs" vs. "cripple new programs to avoid breaking old ones" dial is different for every project. Sometimes the right thing to do is keep the code base from degenerating into a pile of back-hacks. Sometimes it's all about bending over backwards to keep a long-gone vendor's bug from biting your end users.
standard practice seems to be to first toss the PR to employees so that they're informed beforehand, and to check to make sure no mistakes were included. then, to the public.
Yes, but you miss the point.

People own these luxury vehicles BECAUSE of the status associated with them, not because of who produces what parts for the car.

So the analogy comparing the Yahoo situation to BMW was a bad one, which was my point - I wasn't trying to say it was a bad move by Yahoo.

Time will tell on that one.
i completely agree with that statement, i own both the Google G1 and the iPhone and in the looks department the iphone is "the Beauty" while the G1 is "the Beast". But i still love my iphone because its open to whatever whim i have.
I'm stuck on the last bit of their target case:

What I'm talking about, and what has really riled up our internal copyright folks, are the bloggers who take, just paste an entire 800 word story into their blog. They don't even comment on it. And it happens way more than most people realize.

If people don't realize this is happening, how can it be a problem? If a blog without readers violates copyright, does it hurt the AP?
Feel free to leave ofc.

Posting a sulky "im leaving" thread definitely wont win you friends though :(

(it's only a bit of karma; the comment was very ambiguous - perhaps people were telling you it was worthless if not explained?)
I'd say that Freedom is a good price to fool around, after you break $200 for an iPhone + Contract price, + $100 for SDK, + $1,000 for a basic Macbook for development (AFAIK you can only use Mac to develop for iPhone) you've got a $1,300 investment. I'd think that anyone serious about writing a iPhone program would do it after spending that much capital, however not everyone is willing to spend that much cash to fool around. The difference is that after that level of monetary involvement people want to make it back, or just want to make a product (IE, I spend $1,300 on nothing). However it stops people who wish to make a serious product but don't wish to be so financially involved.

IMO, Android hasn't really launched yet, and Google isn't pushing hard enough to counter the iPhone.
The voting is completely out of whack these days. I'm not sure if the constituency of the community has changed, or if people are just feeling ornery.
Ask HN: Who are you?
HN is a great community. Just wondering what kind of people are active at HN: a uni student? an employee in a tech company? a founder of a new startup? an investor ? or??
Tell us who you are.
No registration link:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/the-mandatory-15-s...
I will begin here.

Rising college senior, bioinformatics major.
> Also, once a comment is already in the negative, I think it is more likely to be voted down even further

Absolutely, group think is pretty popular on internet for and HN is no exception.

As for quitting over being downvoted, I can fully understand if you've never had that happen to you and you feel 'at home' here and something like that happens out of the blue that you feel like quitting. In the end that's a matter of how thick your skin is and what you are getting out of the community.

I think people here in general are focussed on the 'points' a little too much.
could a point and shoot camera be hacked together with this? that+netbook would make for a very cool project.
While both show some context, DecentURL is not a shortener. For example, I took the URL of this comments thread and stuck in in both yours and ctxt.us:

Original - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=731637

DecentURL.com - http://news.ycombinator.decenturl.com/hacker-news-one-day-pr...

ctxt.us - http://ctxt.us/news.ycom/A

In fact, yours lengthened the URL quite a bit. Not that DecentURL is not without its application, but your claim that it is the same as ctxt.us is not really valid. I quite enjoy the fact that this is a way to have your cake (a short url) and eat it too. (actually know what the hell you're clicking on)

Props to ctxt.us.
The boy's achievement was decomposing polyethylene. I'm not entirely sure how Nylon-eating bacteria are relevant.