skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you're right that SAA cases are notoriously hard to prove, I simply don't think that Microsoft would even attempt something touching anything in that space given their history.

And the act was initially created in order to level the playing field to encourage fair competition. It does not seem farfetched for someone to argue that by using its immense resources to sweep Fox out of Google's index, Microsoft is engaging in unfair competition. This is the specific type of anticompetitive action the Sherman Act was enacted to prevent.

While it's true this probably wouldn't go anywhere without them getting to a point where they have a majority market share in search, this is a slippery slope and one I still think they won't go down, even if the viability of an antitrust case is low.

Can't argue that getting everything Fox off of Google would be fantastic, but the greater trend of fighting financially for search indexing would snowball into a huge mess. Imagine if you had to go to Bing to find stuff on Fox, Google for CNN, and Yahoo for BBC? The internet as we know it would start to fall apart.
I'm sure most of the people here feel the same way. It just seemed like an audience mismatch, and if you acknowledged it (either the joke nature or the audience mismatch), I wouldn't have felt the need to "Whoosh" you.
Congrats Heroku. We've been building our app on Heroku for a few months now, and it's been a great experience. Seems like we bug oren@heroku.com almost every day, and his responses are always quick and helpful. Keep up the good work and the great customer service!
Well in the code Joe posted, he takes the marked pages and calls mprotect on them so they can be modified. I am surprised he's allowed to do this at all. Is there ever a legitimate reason to do this in most modern systems?

I mean besides this crazy-like-a-fox twin trampoline system, or for compromising binaries at runtime maliciously. The days of overlays are long gone. :)
Obviously both sides don't agree that the relationship is mutually beneficial. If one side not only thinks they can sell what they have, but also finds a buyer willing to pay, is it really greedy to walk away from their current deal. It is not evil for content producers to want to get paid, nor is it evil of them to do business with people who want to pay them.

Search is already fragmented with plenty of sites indexing private article databases not available to Google, how is one more going to make that much of a difference?
"The Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't really apply here, as I understand it. Antitrust is when a company uses its dominant market position to make competition impossible."

I was thinking of the Microsoft antitrust trials where, IIRC, Microsoft was criticized pretty hard for its licensing scheme which made OEMs pay MS for every computer, not just those with Windows, if they wanted to pay less than the massive consumer per-license price. This is pretty similar, although Bing is the one trying to crawl into the market rather than stay in.
I'd say it's highly likely they are using open-source Asterisk

http://www.asterisk.org/
1) They wait until the 3rd paragraph to mention that you have to have unlocked [edit: I mean jailbroken] your phone to be at risk.

2) They wait until the 6th paragraph to mention that you need to have the default password still enabled.

3) The content is misleading on important points: Users who have installed SSH and not changed the password are especially at risk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they are the only ones at risk. Saying they are especially at risk implies that others are at risk as well.

IIRC, the initial Astley wallpaper worm had the same requirements and was reported just as poorly by the BBC.

I'd also like to point out that releasing SSH software that provides a universal default password is idiotic.

Also, if I worked for Apple I might be tempted to say "this is what happens when you leave the protective walls of the App Store". Just sayin...
This:

> Biological systems follow the rule "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", which states that every higher-level organism goes through a developmental history which mirrors the evolutionary development of the species itself.

Is not true. And it had been known to not be true since 1922, and possibly even 1890.
> The Problem for Poor Students Is Low Financial Aid, Not High Tuition

Doing the sums after the fact discards the influences on the person making the decision at the time. If you're able to take up the place and eligible for financial aid, you need to be very sure that the level of aid won't decrease (or associated costs increase) over that period.

The level of confidence a student with an income of $10k can have that ($101k - $100k) dollars is affordable to them (and will remain so over 3 years) is lower than whether ($11k - $10k) is affordable. Basically, they've got less slack to pick things up if there is an error or alteration.

Prediction: I think a price hike (with a financial aid hike) would result in a decrease in the likelihood of someone reliant on the aid taking up the place.
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Whether or not this is worthy, Go will steamroller it.
Is it mathematically possible to accomplish this without another party involved? I can't think of a way, but some mathematicians are pretty clever...
Search engines are completely different from downloaded software - you can't avoid reliance on the provider unless you feel like writing your own web crawler and waiting for it to gather web content (even though it will never catch up with the volume of new stuff constantly being put on the 'net).
Even if this was proven as fair use, it would be quite difficult to make a usable search engine that didn't present at least some of the content back for public consumption.

Imagine if Google search results just had a bunch of links that said, "link 1", "link 2", etc instead of the title and summary of the page.
It's true that UC provides financial aid for anyone coming from a household with a total income of under $70,000, but on the other hand that single figure takes no account of family size or the highly variable cost of living in California. That cutoff might seem generous in, say, Eureka, whereas in San Francisco a $70k household income is nothing to write home about.

Not that I think such financial aid programs are a bad thing, but there is no getting away from the fact that UC fees have been vastly outpacing inflation for a while, not just since the financial crisis struck. If you entered the UC system in 2003, for example, by the time you graduated your annual tuition would have almost doubled - not exactly helpful to financial planning.

1999-2000 $3,429
2000-2001 $3,429
2001-2002 $3,429
2002-2003 $3,384
2003-2004 $4,984
2004-2005 $5,684
2005-2006 $6,141
2006-2007 $6,636
2007-2008 $7,126
2008-2009 $7,788
2009-2010 $8,958
2010-2011 $10,302
"The problem is that you end up nesting a lot."

I haven't done that much of asynchronous programming, but I think you end up creating some helper constructs that help prevent excessive nesting. For example you could create a function that takes an array of functions and calls them sequentially (in the sense that when the first callback is executed, it calls the second function and so on).
"e.g., contra the green movement, CF bulbs do not save energy during heating season, so are net polluters"

Not so much:

"""It's true that incandescent bulbs give off heat that can help to keep your home warm. But, Rubinstein[0] points out that it's only a tiny amount. There are a number of factors that can impact the amount of money and energy you save by switching to CFLs (or other more efficient lighting).

If you live in a cold climate (in an insulated house), losing ambient heat from those old inefficient incandescent bulbs may increase your heating bill slightly, but you'll save more on overall energy costs because of the electricity you'll save on lighting. If you live in a warm climate, you might even rack up more savings since you won't need to use as much air conditioning. Rubinstein's bottom line: You're almost always going to save money when you replace an incandescent with a CFL, but you may not save quite as much during the heating season in a cold climate."""

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/the_conscious_consumer/70/three-...

[0] http://lighting.lbl.gov/
On the other hand, one may argue that lbrandy is now an expert on color space conversions. He already had enough expertise to solve the problem and he now knows even more. Asking an expert wouldn't have helped him in achieving that.
Parent is just quoting buzzwords, but I can't say that he's altogether wrong: the reason this is a story has nothing to do with science, or any desire to find the truth. It's a clash where each side has already decided that it's Right based almost exclusively on political lines in the sand. Hacker News is pretty much one of the only places on the net where a significant proportion of posters have not already decided the issue for sure.

For my part, and I am educated in the sciences (though not environmental ones, to the extent they can be considered "science"), I have no freaking idea what the true state of affairs is, and I doubt that anyone has much valid knowledge in this area. I don't trust any of the data that I see because a) historical inference is really, really difficult, and I'm very unimpressed by how it's been done, and b) there's so much incentive on each side to mangle the data to fit the conclusion. I don't have any faith in the environmental researchers to fairly report what the data tells them, but I'm just as skeptical about the bias of people arguing against them, aligned as they tend to be with the idiots and organizations that fight so hard against evolution.

Just to be clear, I absolutely believe that there are valid theoretical reasons to consider the possibility of (human caused) global warming; the models are more than enough to show that it's a real possibility. It's only the claim that it's already been observed (and that it's significant, reversible, etc.) that I'm skeptical about.

However, I think that strategically speaking, the environmentalism movement's increased focus on global warming is a big mistake because it gives anti-environmentalists a fixed target to nibble away at, and they're doing a pretty good job of causing doubt. Wasn't it obvious enough that spewing pollutants into the air is bad? Why not focus on that, like everyone used to?
Instead, the environmentalists have taken on the burden of proving that global warming is man-made, catastrophic, and reversible; until then, the burden was on the anti-environmentalists to prove that it was safe to pollute as much as they wanted, which was pretty much an impossible task.

I worry that far more important environmental concerns than carbon output are being ignored because of the excessive focus on global warming, and this shift in attention could be truly catastrophic.
Remember how sweet http://dogpile.com was back in the altavista/excite/yahoo/etc days of category-based search engines? Are we going to have to use search aggregators again? I sure hope not.
Ask HN: Approaching my CEO about a bad decision of his
I work for a small(~6 full time people) startup web company, with 3 developers, 1 CEO(founder), and a few other HR/Admin people. I'm the latest hire, however I have very good rapport with the CEO.

About 9 months ago, a very good saleswoman for a rather popular company came into the office and sold our CEO dry on some software as a web service. The software basically takes reviews of our product and stories from our site's visitors.

We only have 1 product to review, and the code to write a 'story submitter' is trivial at best. Needless to say, the tech team didn't find this useful and campaigned hard against it. The saleswoman was very good, though. She promised that her company would help us with social marketing.

I know we spend at least $40,000 a year on this 'stories & reviews' company, and they are sucking us dry. They have not helped us with social marketing, other than telling us 'You guys should blog'.

I recently asked for a budget to do some advertising on Facebook, and the CEO told me I could create 2 ads at $20.00/day. The ads hit their limit every day, but the data we're getting isn't enough to make an statistical decisions.

I feel like he gave me a nickel, pinched my cheek and said "Don't spend it all in one place, kiddo".

I think investing more in advertising and tools like Mixpanel are worth 50 times more than 'stories & reviews'. And with the little traffic we generate anyways, not many stories and reviews are being submitted.

I've asked him for more money, and he tells me "It's not in the budget right now."

How do I approach him to tell him that we should be using the 'stories & reviews' money on more appropriate things, like advertising and adwords, without saying 'You messed up.'?
Get your movie tickets - yeah we'll sell your info - Fandango...
Everybody loves cheap hydro-power.
I can personally attest that in the past I have spent an hour googling on a problem to figure out what to google to get a solution.
> Is there a law against it?

I don't know. I'd imagine that there isn't a law specifically written for robots.txt and scraping.

If a case went to court I'd imagine it would be settled based on laws meant for things like "keep out" and "No trespassing" signs:)
I can't agree more. The lack of transparency is the real killer in the approval process. They added a "transparency" feature to the approval process site, but it is so vague that it is mostly worthless. They added a "in review", "awaiting appstore reviewer" and a few other states to the app management area.
According to Lehman, just before the crash, their CDS exposure was '...limited.'

At debut Novembre Zynga's revenue from offers was ~33%. With each interview since Arrington broke news on the scam, that percentage has gone down. All 'according to Zynga.'
His point is not that "people wanted to claim they were doing fancy math with their data storage, over all other considerations" -- but that they wanted to reify their extant degenerate patterns as theory.
int
main(int argc, char **argv) {
void *faddr = strxfrm;
void *paddr = (void*) ((u_int32_t)faddr & 0xfffff000);

if(mprotect(paddr, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) >= 0) {
((u_char *)faddr)[0] = 0xcc;
strxfrm("foo", "", 0);
} else
perror("mprotect");

exit(0);
}

$ ./mp
Trace/BPT trap

The simplest answer to your question that jumps into my head is "relocations", but I'm always surprised by the everyday craziness of the C runtime and the Unix ABI, so I'm sure there's a simpler answer.
oh lol the HN police is on the move again!
In general it sounds like a great deal -- freelance-type hours but with a regular paycheck and health benefits.

I had a similar position once and it was great for my family. I never had to miss anything important and had no commute. The only con was lack of face-time with peers.

What are your concerns? It sounds like you are looking for some hidden gotcha.

EDIT: I posted my comment prior to your edit. So, here's my counter-edit :-)

I suggest talking to an accountant. He/She will be able to tell you what costs to keep track of and how to put aside enough for taxes -- and possibly if you're getting a good deal.
> Unlike games like chess or backgammon there's currently no AI / bots that can beat no limit holdem or omaha. The University of Alberta and others are studying the game but it will be some years yet before we have a poker equivalent of 'Deep Blue' beating the best players in the game.

If I were successfully researching poker bot I would not go public with this.
While the prototype does not implement it, the concept includes the ability to show two windows at the same time.
Financial aid (and other demand-side subsidies, such as scholarships and low-interest loans) is how the costs grew to their present heights in the first place.

If, say, Bill Gates routinely handed out $10K to every person who has just bought a car, what do you think this would do to the prices of cars?
I agree that as a site owner you have the right to who has the ability to search your site, but when you start to have someone like Microsoft going around paying people to alter their robots.txt file to keep Google's crawlers out of it, I think you've stepped into distinctly different territory from a right of privacy.

Furthermore, I would make the argument that this is much different from signing a contract with a publisher. On the contrary, I would say this is akin to a movie theater paying a movie studio to keep a movie out of its competitor's theaters. This exact scenario was ruled to be a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pict...)

This sounds to me as though it's the exact type of anticompetitive action things like the Sherman Antitrust Act were meant to prevent.

*Edit, added link to Paramount case
You're right, that does make more sense. It would still seem that Lisp would have been more prominent if the ability to claim good theory (regardless of what you're actually doing) was a primary consideration. The average rank-and-file programmer (or manager) today just doesn't care about theory.
I haven't had time to look at much other than the ToC, but aren't a lot of these issues addressed by Objective-C?
It can sometimes be really hard to even communicate assuming you do have the ability to tell them everything they need to know about. I'm not sure the original poster would have been able to figure out what he should have done had he not gone down all these rabbit holes; you need to understand the true screwed-ness of visual formats to really grok it.
It seems that discovery of this cheat was mostly due to the newbness of the cheater.

If skilled player possessed backdoor access to poker system and used it wisely, peeking in only from time to time when it's necessary and might go unnoticed he'd be rather undetectable.
Vendors can easily beef up prices and give cash backs because they have to pay a "finders fee" to the engine line google, or anyone in fact. Evil!
That's a pretty good way of thinking about it (if still a bit state-ist), but the reality in Haskell is not quite optimal. Since Monads aren't really built-in, there's no semantics-checking -- the compiler can't confirm that your 'monads' actually follow the Monad Laws.
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"We could take the circuitous route of pointing out our oil addiction, then pointing out how oil lobbyists strongly influenced our invading Iraq..."

No, we can't take that route. Nevermind that it's a conspiracy theory. I thought I had it made it clear that I do not consider the coercive use of force to be "capitalism". Nor did any of the important economic philosophers, except for Marx, who wasn't any good at economics.
I read a while back that Amazon does something very similar. They give new visitors a larger discount on certain items compared to regular visitors. Of course googling it now only returns http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/09/06/amazon_makes_regular... so it may be bunk.
Much as I agree, I'd say widespread adoption is iffy at best. For one thing, Cyclone was last updated in 2006. For another, Cyclone imposes some performance degradation (about 50% slower, according to one paper). For many projects, performance is the reason they're using C in the first place.
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The piece claims to be originally from 2000: "This is a reproduction of a manifesto drafted anonymously in the year 2000."

It's also somehow not surprising that a business founded on the principle of making games in a not business-like fashion failed as a business.

However, "scratchware" still wins, in the form of freeware games like N, Cave Story, or La Mulana that become sold on consoles, the now donation funded behemoth Dwarf Fortress, or as the directly commercial games like World of Goo or Braid. The piece touts "scratchware"; it was only the introduction that touted Manifesto Games.
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I don't really buy the argument that either Microsoft or the content creators are 'evil' - yes it is only natural to want to be paid - but that doesn't mean that if it happens it won't be a bad thing.

On your second point - search is by no means as fragmented as this would result in it being. The specialised databases you speak of are just that, currently our expectation is that Google, Bing, et al all index the web we see on a day to day basis. Ideally those databases (if they are already in some form 'public') should be indexable by all search engines - it's the best thing for the consumer, and is pure competition on the technical front.
They run on Amazon EC2 with instances that have Asterisk; Digium is one provider of hardware for these situations but I don't know how that's incorporated into their architecture
I think not heeding robots.txt would cause them more problems than it would solve.

Currently, it gets used for more than "deny/allow all" - it is selective. If I have to worry about stuff I don't want indexed being indexed, then I'm going to block all crawling. Yes, I know that wouldn't be easy, but I wouldn't be alone in my sentiment.
I have gotten my money's worth with Prime, so I am not too concerned. I would be willing to pay slightly more than "suggested retail price" to have something delivered the same day I order it (as happens more and more frequently with Prime orders, even when I pick 2 day shipping), but Amazon does this and their prices are less than any retail store. So I am not going to complain.

(A few weeks ago, I needed a mini-USB cable. I ordered it at about 2am, and it was delivered around noon. All for $4.68...)
But for many more projects, C is just there because it was there at the start. For those Cyclone seems very ok.
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When I was a kid I remember hearing about how acid rain was hurting forests in many areas, including large parts of Canada and the USA.

Factors like that are certainly going to have an impact on the recent tree record.
I would say that only a very small percentage of C programs are C for speed. Often, they are C for historical reasons instead. (I can't think of any program I use on a daily basis that is C-for-performance, but I can think of a lot that are written in C. This means I get all the crashes and security problems associated with C, but I spend all my time waiting in IO and can't see any of the benefits. These applications would do very well with Cyclone.)
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This has nothing to do with app approval. It barely has anything to do with the iPhone.
The problem with Haskell monad tutorials is that they focus on one thing that monads can do--in your case state. Monads can do more than that, though; nondeterministic computation comes to mind, as does simple error handling through the Maybe monad, and you can do continuations through a monad. It's a very abstract concept, and because of that people have a lot of trouble with it.