jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This isn't nearly as exciting as the story of @N, but I just had something strange happen to one of my Twitter accounts, too.

Registered "tweetcoin" handle awhile back for one of the projects I am working on, and posted on Feb 9 (my single tweet) - "Exciting things in the works" was my comment:

https://twitter.com/tweetcoin

Tried logging in today, couldn't log in. Ended up resetting pwd using my email account, and the reset link logged me in as 'tweetcoin1' - that's when I knew that my Twitter handle had changed from 'tweetcoin' to 'tweetcoin1'.

What's even more bizarre - another tweet appeared under that account. It was dated April 2012, and it simply said:

"This isn't your account."
I'm and Android user, my wife uses iPhone and Mac. Ive a pretty decent LG phone (the camera in particular is better than hers in low light conditions) and my phone cost about half of hers. She goes through 2-3 cables per year. I have never had to replace a cable (although I primarily use wireless charging). She is rough on the cables, as she charges on the couch with our dog and cats coming charging through. Plus, she's a little rough on things to begin with (she drops her phone while charging a lot). Still, I cannot understand buying 3 cables per year.

I do buy spares for my phone, but so I can have one for each place I spend a lot of time: bed, home office and work office. But, I only buy them once, and only when the port changes (e.g. Micro USB to Type C). Also, having now had several devices with wireless charging, doubt I'll ever buy another phone that doesnt have it.

Having my wife buy nearly $200 of apple chargers each year is certainly a tax of sorts.
On the other hand, any police willing to act so unethically might also be willing to plant evidence out of careerism or pure malice. There is plenty of precedent for both.

Who is to say that the tracker actually was found in a locker, or the drugs and guns? Presumably they already knew where he lived.
Everyone want's to play Steve Jobs. I guess it's an ego thing that makes him want to be up on stage, but it feels like a school presentation and isn't a good look.
I thought Erlang VM was written in Erlang, maybe the first few versions where written in C.
I read review for ipad cable once. The reviews had nothing to do with cable. I wanted to report it to Amazon but there was no way to do so.
This is actually interesting, if true. The headline should be something like "semimetallic, reflective form of carbon discovered" though, for the HN audience. "It's a weird one" just doesn't catch here.
Sure, but a manufacturer couldn't sell a car with a solid steel bumper. In the US you have lots of freedom to modify your car after you buy it, but manufacturers have strict regulations.
The core truck buying market won't touch this with a 30ft pole.
The opposite aesthetic direction from the Roadster.
No-strings attached free wireless tethering is a killer app. I expect more than one Android+US Carrier to have it before AT&T+iPhone does.
4.1 was not released for iPad.

3.2.2 is the most current public iPad release.

EDIT: Just saw it was raquo that said his was iPad only, sorry.
The NSA probably specializes in general purpose computational power, they couldn't afford to compete with ASICs at this point. But they probably could destroy any alt-coin alternative to bitcoin in a heartbeat, especially Litecoin which is designed to be mined by general purpose hardware.
Why does everyone make the assumption that torrents and services like Dropship must be used for piracy? Major video game companies use torrents all the time to distribute patches and betas.

A knife can be used to commit murder, but most often it is simply used to cut food. The problem with the way DMCA works is that it bars the development of new technologies because one of many uses could be harmful. The law stifles innovation when used this way.
Well, right now I'm working hard on a social network that I hope will change the world. It's a distributed social network with total control over your data and privacy. And it also helps you make plans for dinner :)
Your comment would've been much more helpful had you provided said alternatives.
What was strike 1?

I can understand them not wanting the files to be public, but as tptacek said this is probably fluffed up quite a bit.

As far as I'm concerned the only issue with how they handled it is the DMCA takedown request, and if the CTO acted as said but that is less of a factor.

If the files were never removed from the persons dropbox and only public urls disabled I'm okay with that. However if the files were removed I would probably count that as all three strikes and jump ship.
Understandable except the assertion of filing a dmca because he thinks that the reposts of code are "geek rage". The DMCA provides that you may be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys fees) if you falsely claim that an
item is infringing your copyrights.

Using this powerful law as a scare tactic isn't acceptable. If you wish to claim that the code was infact infringing, then the conversation is different.

This seems to be:

* illegal use of dmca by dropbox
* dropbox says dropship using reverse engineered sync protocol broke anti-circumvention techniques or contains their copyright

Either of which are bold statments
I would disagree. Not only from the transportation cost perspective, but from: fertilizer, drying cost, food used to make fuel, feed costs and other downstream inflation.
You do realize that Dropbox submitted the DMCA request under penalty of perjury, and that if it was in fact incorrect Dropbox has perjured themselves?
I really hope the rumors aren't true, even though I know they probably are.

The Sony PR people are going to shift the blame to the hackers for having a protocol and server so susceptible to privilege escalation. I don't agree with what the hackers have done, but in the end it will serve to only reenforce the belief that its OK, nay necessary, that end users are unable to mod a device they own. And before someone screams EULA, I'm talking about the opinion in the collective consciousness in general, not specific to the PS3.
I believe it -- I can only think of one time that a server even noticed a barely-touched entree and made an effort to find out if we were unhappy. Training, and eventually tools, for restaurants to understand customer sentiment before they leave the building would be amazingly powerful at influencing satisfaction scores. Call centers have technology at their disposal to perceive callers' moods from tone of voice and loop in a supervisor when they get exasperated. I wonder if anyone is applying this technology in restaurants?
You _accidentally_ sent a DMCA notice?! That might be worse than sending an erroneous one. You're technically under penalty of perjury for false DMCA notices.
ActiveX is an option, and so is Java (!), but both will presumably give the user security warnings at least once. It might be possible with the new Silverlight though, as that contains a reduced XNA implementation. (I don't know if XNA in general, and this subset in particular, allow low level enough access to the 3D hardware to let you implement all of WebGL)
I would strongly recommend a black background to go with the blackboard theme of the videos. (Alternatively, switch to whiteboard visuals). It would blend so nicely. Also, the blackboard animation should be in a smooth vector format instead of blurry compressed, bandwidth-intensive videos. Now for words and symbols, I recommend text. You can easily time-release it with JavaScript. For diagrams, maybe something like Graffiti Markup Language.
http://www.graffitimarkuplanguage.com/about/
1929-1933 was the steepest deflation in US history.
Yup, it's called Newskool. Awesomeness in a box!
No, what it is says is they can't resell a photo, royalty-free, for commercial gain.
Could WebGL be implemented as a shudder activex? Get around Microsoft and use the large market penetration of the other browsers to drive take up for people who insist of using that horror that is IE.
too bad, there are lot of good documentaries there..
Regarding US average salaries, Wikipedia says:

* The average personal income is about $40K.
* The average household income is about $50K.
* About 20% of households make over $100K.
* But only about 6% of individuals have personal incomes over $100K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
Within the subject matter they decide to report they are not terrible, but there are huge gaps in what they decide is worth reporting on.

As far as I'm concerned, their role is not simply to repeat endless interviews with the major political parties. They have a role to play in showing the public that other options exist. Lately they've given UKIP a ton of airtime with endless nonsense scandals like 'X says Y down the pub' and almost ignored the rise of the Greens.

Their wall to wall coverage during the 'phone hacking scandal' compared to ongoing total-surveillance by the NSA getting a token mention every now and then.

Today, they chose to describe Syriza as a 'radical left-wing party'. I don't think that choosing 'radical' in this context is an accident.

I could go on; some of my bugbears are more trivial than others; but I think they're definitely a 'mouthpiece of the establishment'.

Better than FOX? Sure; but that's not a high bar to meet.

Our electoral system is bad enough without major media outlets focusing almost all of their time on Red vs Blue.
Some developers seem to be unwilling to learn anything else other than JavaScript.
Beards cause trouble for facial regulation. While I expect bears are the focus of much research, one way to screw with the system is to grow a beard for your ID photo, then shave it off - or vice-versa.

However, women don't generally have beards, so I expect that facial recognition is more effective at identifying them than us men.
Did a Node module a while back to include PHP scripts in a node environment. https://github.com/digplan/php-node
Ha, hell, as last term I should add. FIFA.
You'd prefer next year?
Very cool! Thanks for yet another great contribution to the Meteor open-source ecosystem.
> it's so difficult to understand that everyone feels the compulsion to explain it to everyone else.

All successful religions include proselytization in their basic tenets.

Ahem. Anyhow. Let me be more charitable. git is so hard to learn because it has an impedance mismatch with the primary user's use case.

git clearly works in the large--that's what Linus designed it for. The problem is that git forces you into that workflow immediately and has no intermediate steps. The problem is that most of us use version control to coordinate less than 10 people, and git forces way too much mental energy on top of something which is very simple in CVS or SVN or ... any other version control system, really (maybe arch had a worse mental model ... that's not a compliment).

Use Mercurial for a while, and then use git. You will find yourself saying things like: "Why should I need to even care about X?" and the answer is always "Well, if you had 100 committers and 40 branches ..."

Things like: "Why would I need to name a branch?" "Why wouldn't I just sync a repository completely?" "Why not just clone the whole repository?" etc.

The problem is that everybody is forced into "git in the large" in order to contribute to open source projects. The tutorial that needs to be written is "git in the small", but I'm not sure that the design of git actually allows that tutorial to be written.
>> When did he make unverifiable claims? When did he profit from his claims?

When he launched an app that claimed to be the new safest thing ever, surely? Perhaps with an unbreakable One-Time-Pad. You know, the stuff we're commenting on here...
I understand the bet. I do not think you understand what "averaging $33B" means.

For instance Rubbermaid simply owns numerous home, commercial and healthcare markets. They make everything from saws to Sharpies. They doubled their market cap in the last five years. 20,000 employees (more than anyone on that list) $6 billion in revenue (ditto) P/E ratio of 30 ... and they're worth $10B.
I haven't used magic, but their demos imply that they keep data on you.

Example:

"Send a cake to my girlfriend"

"That'll be $45.43 in 90 minutes".

"ok, do it"

Who's the girlfriend? Where does she live? It's evident they've asked these questions the first time she's come up and then recorded them for later use. Since the service relies to much on personalization, the longer you use it the higher the switching cost will be.
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" was near the top of my reading list as a 14-year-old. "A Pattern Language" was another. Also: "The City and the Stars".
It really isn't a one way street. People of people come from TLA and go on to work in the private industry as information security consultants. I have many friends that have taken this path.
Illegal organisations quite literally fight for territorial monopolies. The problem lies with the desire of companies to maximise profits; governments' willingness to facilitate it on occasion is a symptom rather than the cause.
You're rewriting history. Take the railroads. Railroads that were working with the government made transcontinental tracks first. The first private one came after. Laissez faire economics didn't get there first and create a bunch of monopolies, they came by and large from corrupt politicians being bribed to pass laws to support them.

(Politicians were really corrupt back then. For example they would commonly threaten to pass nasty laws to mess up railroads just to get bribed to stop. It's amazing how bad it was, and how far we've come that today's politicians aren't so corrupt like that (partly the change is due to technology making it harder to hide what you do)).
This post is a placebo. You are now cured.
I think the fundamental problem is that running for national office in the US is extremely expensive¹, so anyone who wants the job and is not independently wealthy has to spend a lot of time fund-raising. Even if the fund-raising does not involve outright corruption, it requires an aspiring Congressperson to spend a lot of time hanging out with people who can afford to make large donations.

The best solution I can think of is public financing of elections, but I am very pessimistic about such a law getting through Congress, even if the Democrats retake the House in 2012.

¹According to figures gathered by the Campaign Finance Institute, it costs about $1.3M to win a House seat and about $7.5M to win a Senate seat. (http://www.cfinst.org/data/HistoricalStats.aspx)
Strict single term limits for all members of Congress would go a long way toward making this natural tendency manageable - if it's a natural cycle (and I think it is), then it makes sense to re-start that cycle as often as possible.
Microsoft in the 90s

Standard Oil
10gen offers training for DBAs: http://www.10gen.com/training

No certification right now but that's good feedback, thanks
It not just you. Skype was founded by the people that also founded KaZaA and they (obviously) took the technology/knowledge they already had, modified it and applied to a different purpose.
Uber exited our market of Southeast Asia and we are left with a giant monopoly (Grab) that intends to become a SuperApp a-la WeChat in China. That is a scary prospect.

Their race to the bottom was absolutely beneficial to consumers while it was going on. Smaller rivals have nowhere near the resources of Uber when competing with Grab.

We surely missed Uber when it left.
> "Galileo and Darwin are famous examples of this phenomenon,"

Famous, yes, but there can also be incorrect assumptions in that. Galileo, for example. A lot of people assume his heliocentric model was correct and was only rejected because heliocentrism was considered heretical because it contradicted the ruling assumption of geocentrism. But the Vatican at the time was seriously considering a number of models including some heliocentric models. One of the reasons Galileo's model was rejected, was because it contradicted observations. Planets didn't quite move in the way he predicted, and that's because Galileo clung to the incorrect assumptions that orbits had to be circular.

Of course his core idea of heliocentrism was less wrong than geocentric models, but at the same time it's an example of how addressing one incorrect assumption can lead you into another incorrect assumption. And that also lead to a lot of resistance to your idea, even if the core of your idea is correct.

As for Darwin, a lot of people at the time already assumed that something like evolution had to be going on, and that many animals had common ancestors. They just didn't know how it worked. Even while Darwin was working on his theory, Alfred Russel Wallace was working on the exact same idea. So in that case, the idea was actually obvious to anyone paying attention, and Darwin happened to be the one to get there first. But if he hadn't published about it, Wallace would most likely have done so.
I'm curious about this chapter:

"Why not a parser generator"

Seemse like the way to go these days? Why write it yourselve if you can generate it from EBNF notation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...
There's a lot of autorouter hate in the electronics community which I think has a basis in truth, but is in danger of losing sight of the big picture.

Autorouters can be terrible. They mainly are. The reasons are partially with optimisation algorithms (although these are getting better), but primarily with poorly defined constraints.

Currently a schematic holds the physical connections and maybe a little bit of extra data - some pins might be "power" pins, or maybe a net or two is defined as a high current net - but broadly the circuit metadata which is highly relevant for routing is held in the designers head.

When you lay out a board you're always thinking about high current and high frequency (and especially high current high frequency) paths. You're looking for paths to ground, you're isolating sensitive analog regions from noisy digital regions, you're making sure the ground plane is uninterrupted. You're basically making thousands of tiny tradeoffs based on an understanding of what the board should be doing. If a computer doesn't have that knowledge, of course it can't effectively lay out a board.

If we can improve schematic annotation and part representation to properly hold this information then there's absolutely no reason autorouters can't be better than manual layout. If we can combine it with simulation then autorouting should really be the only logical choice. If you can almost completely avoid EMC testing by carefully defining all the high frequency nets and letting the autorouter find a design which is optimised for RF performance, then why wouldn't you? An EMC chamber costs thousands of dollars a day - you can easily spend 10s of thousands just on the testing alone, not to mention redesign costs.
To put it in other fancy words: when challenging paradigms, expect resistance. If you want to non-obvious („contrarian“ in SV speak), look for paradigms and question them.
> Corporate greed and willingness to deceive

* Need to maximize profits.
The corollary is that your heresy needs to ultimately have an empirical basis which can explain the phenomenon in question better than the existing dogma.
I have 3 years of experience in Python and Java but I don't want to tie myself to a specific language/framework.

Lately I have been playing with golang. Specifically looking for research or healthcare companies.

Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Big Yes ( I worked with distributed teams for 2 years)
Willing to relocate: Seattle/Boulder/Denver
Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Java, Spring Boot, Sql,
little bit of javacript/html/css, docker
Résumé/CV: On request
Email: sitaulabns@gmail.com
> If that day comes, I'll might celebrate, because YouTube comments are mostly worthless, full of sexism, racism, insults, and sheer idiocy. I rarely come across a YouTube comment that imparted useful information.

One could argue two ways here. On one hand I think it's actually interesting and instructive to read comments from anonymous sources - what people "really" think, without the filter of being tied to their real identity. On the other hand, there are countless examples of people proudly posting/tweeting/etc horribly sexist, racist, insulting, and idiotic things under their real names along with a profile picture of themselves, so it's not so clear that removing anonymity will transform the comments section into a particularly erudite and informative place.
Cool idea, but I imagine adoption would be pretty tough.
That's why you cache methods to reduce lookups.

http://jsperf.com/global-namespace-chain-vs-string-based-loc...

In your tests the method "add" is pretty far away from it's original variable, and MUCH further away than any jQuery method is, so you're also testing the time it takes to lookup that method. In jQuery, methods are either attached to "jQuery" directly or on the prototype.
Isn't their image with no alt tag (http://pokerstars.com/banner7.jpg) in violation with Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973? [1]

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

A Federal law requiring US government electronic and
information technology (EIT) to meet accessibility
requirements

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitati...
Please don't cite dictionary definitions. A dictionary will give you every possible meaning of the word, in any context.

In the context of economics and law, currency is physical money.

I think you are more interested in winning the argument than being correct.
TLD: .is (pricey, but not expensive). Registration at inwx (seems competent, nice interface). DNS at either inwx or ______ (I haven't been able to find an EEA/Switzerland DNS provider). Hosting at OVH (cheap, IP failover, often used for torrents) or Leaseweb (used by some torrent sites, not quite as cheap as OVH).

This assumes that your content is only somewhat controversial. For worse: TLD .is, Hosting at PRQ (hosts NAMBLA, AnonTalk, …), no idea which registrar I'd use.

If people are actively trying to kill you because of what you want to publish, your only options are PRQ or NearlyFreeSpeech. Both can be fully anonymous, i.e. they will host your content without knowing who you are. Payment would be somewhat hard (I wonder whether they would accept mailed-in, sterile bills (though these could be traced)).
better: http://cloudharmony.com/benchmarks
It's not that simple, though: legal sites have had their domains seized as well. These days any site with user-generated content is at risk although thus far they've focused primarily on hip-hop and other music sites.
I keep re-trying Thunderbird, hoping it has improved, but keep abandoning it because it keeps annoying me. Especially that embarrassing contacts importer.

But it's still the best I've found on Windows, so I keep installing it everywhere, and helping others do so as well, especially at school (as the school's setup info is about 3 versions of their email server behind).
I just had the same though except substitue OpenDNS with Google. OpenDNS would be better for users but this feels like a Google-y thing to do especially after the whole China debacle.
> but this failure hit multiple AZs.

Gah! You can't always account for all the failure modes that Amazon might have.
Not sure if I could say Amazon should be doing that - but I'd love it if other value added providers (such as Heroku) could implement this.
Will be testing it soon I think
>Every iOS device has the potential to reveal someone made a trip to a police station, or spent a lot of time in a suburb that doesn't match with a particular story.

Sure, it has the potential. But only if the idiot was dumb enough to check into jail from Foursquare (or otherwise use a Location Service).