skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack
nunchuks are Ok but don't try it wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a power ranger on it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7431640.stm
It's not so much the crime of theft that bother's me. If I'm not in the house and my apartment is ransacked, whilst not ideal, is not really a problem.

My main concern is for the safety of my girlfriend and myself.

[EDIT] I just wanted to point out some of the security measures that I have in my home (In South Africa).

1) I live in a walled off (3m walls) estate with permanent patrolling guards.
2) The walls have an alarmed and electrified fence on top of them, (about 1m in addition to the 3m wall).
3) Entrance to the estate is controlled via a single guarded entrance.
4) The entrance has camera's.
5) I live in a 3rd floor apartment with a balcony, the only way to the access the balcony is to climb two stories.)
6) The door to my apartment has a security gate.

That been said; my neighbor on the 3rd floor was robbed. A ninja, I presume, climbed to the third floor and stole his wallet and mobile phone.

His girlfriend woke up with the criminal standing in his bedroom, she screamed, he chased and the criminal jumped the 3 stories to the bottom floor and GOT AWAY!

After that incident I installed a security gate on my balcony.
You've just inspired another revolutionary shipping idea. Create a vacuum in all the empty shipping containers being returned to make the ship lighter. ;-)
"In the case of low serum cholesterol there's a specific allele associated with Apolipoprotein E. The variant Apo E2 is associated with low serum cholesterol. And because of Mendel's law of independent assortment it will be assigned randomly in the population." Wait, what? This is only true for a population in which everyone has one parent with Apo E2 and one without it. The post seems to skip over that important caveat.
This is blogspam from AlJazeeraEnglish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk

Just some background info where everyone seems to ignore: Ordos has higher GDP per capita than HongKong.

http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/observer/2009-12/490502.html
A good summary of what to fix in the US immigration system.
The linked blog lists the top ten tri-decades, ordered by temp rise. Here they are in chronological order:

1687 - 1716, 4.333 °C/century

1688 - 1717, 4.7 °C/century

1689 - 1718, 4.446 °C/century

1690 - 1719, 4.754 °C/century

1691 - 1720, 5.039 °C/century

1692 - 1721, 4.642 °C/century

1694 - 1723, 4.524 °C/century

1977 - 2006, 4.95 °C/century

1978 - 2007, 5.038 °C/century

1979 - 2008, 4.705 °C/century

Can you see a pattern there?

So the first 7 are consecutive apart from skipping one year/tri-decade (1693-1722) and the most recent three are 3 out of the last 4 years. And indeed the 2nd, 3rd and 5th highest rise.

And yet the point he chooses to highlight directly after this list, is that the most recent tri-decade (1980-2009) isn't in the (totally arbitrary cut off point) top ten at all. It is however the 13th biggest rise. In other words 4 of the last 4 tri-decades are in the top 13 and at least 7 of the remaining 9 all are from consecutive periods starting 1687-1694.

Does this really show what he's suggesting it does? I'm not seeing anything particularly useful drawn out by his analysis apart from records from around the turn of the 17th century show a large drop followed by a large rise then another massive, but short lived drop.
Chimp and human Y chromosomes evolving faster than expected
Urbit: functional programming from scratch
There is a reality to aging, that's just something we can't escape. We can take measures to stay healthy and young in mind. Of course, experience and wisdom are good attributes to have too.
Mikey Hicks, 8, Can’t Get Off U.S. Terror Watch List
what about having a keyboard-listener on your machine who saves every input you make?
Health warnings on cigarette packs may drive some people to smoke
RSS is the universal language of realtime.
When I went to grad school my wife and I rented a run down shack of a house next to the projects. People were always amazed we lived there and didn't believe us when we explained that nothing ever happened. We had 2k worth of computer parts delivered in marked boxes while we were out of town for about a week and it was just sitting on the porch when we got home.

I asked my dad about this, he grew up in a bad neighborhood when he was a kid... and he said, "These people all know lesson one, you don't shit where you eat".
Just use your own name. There is no functional difference.

There is another Joel McCracken somewhere, a principal of some school somewhere. However, my full name, "Joel Nathan McCracken", has not been taken. I've been thinking about beginning to use it in various places.

edit: one issue with this approach (or any similar approach, for that matter) is that it isn't easy to find the spot on the page where your name appears. A user would have to cmd+f your tag to figure out what you said, if they are interested. A better approach might be adding a link to the tag, but there are problems with that too -- places don't/shouldn't allow html content in their comments.

In any case, its a good issue to bring up.
What Entourage Can Teach You About Successful Freelancing
SMS donations are billed to your cell phone plan, so it only works on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile
> younger people tend to relate to that which is new and exciting to them

Although I'm still young (27) ... I'm becoming more and more dismissive of new technologies.

Why? Because my experience tells me when something new is just a rehash of some older concept that sucked. That's why I stayed away from SOAP ... learned about CORBA in college and hated it. That's why I stayed away from ASP.NET ... because I first had the pleasure of working with Rails and with PHP (with my own home-backed framework).

Of course ... I could instantly see the potential in IPhone ... all those portable devices that fit in your pocket, with a GPS, a photo-camera, an Internet connection and a single online store that sells apps ... all of which could lead to interesting stuff like augmented reality ... that's love at first sight.

I also think that it's a bad idea focusing on grokking technologies. Algorithms, data-structures, math ... these are things that will never be deprecated and where experience matters.
There's a reason you're happiest on weekends
Guardian iPhone app proves users are willing to pay
On my block, the only two houses without alarms were the ones hit. (They both got alarms and no one has been hit since.)

As someone else said, this type of crime is one of opportunity, usually. It's easier to burgle a place without an alarm, so often that's what happens.
Why China Will Rule the Electronics World
And you use an unpickable Modeco door lock?
You changed the lock yourself to make sure that no previous tenants or a janitor have a key?
The drake equation is by far the most far-fetched equation I have ever since, which certainly does not deserve to be termed to have anything even close to mathematical accuracy let alone a testimony from observational confirmance.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052699
Are you sure your lock can't be opened without trace (bumped)?
The weight savings comes from the material it's made of. From their website:

"Cargoshell is manufactured from composites and therefore much lighter than a steel container."

http://www.cargoshell.com/EN/concept.php
It's about 2 years old. It's regulated by the Mobile Giving Foundation - http://mobilegiving.org/ The interesting thing here is that the carriers have agreed to pass your full donation amount to the charity, they don't take a cut.
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Yeah, I believe he called them first, they were pretty laid back about the whole thing.
Can We Change the Web’s Culture of Nastiness?
Disneyland with the Death Penalty

We sent William Gibson to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html
The only difference is that now you have to pay for a busted side window for somebody to find out that there is no meter change in the ashtray
In computer security circles (AFAIK) security by obscurity is not security. You always assume that the attacker has your source code, the layout of your computers etc. If you translate that over to this, you assume that thieves know that your door is unlocked and you have valuables. It would be a no-no.
Poll: Are you a single founder?
Are you running a startup on your own without a co-founder?
Follow the Law, China Tells Internet Companies
Wow. That's colder than the sublimation point of Carbon dioxide (-78 °C) Wonder if it spontaneously froze out of the atmosphere there?
Ye Olde Online Kingdoms Map
15 hot tech startups ready for an IPO
Lose Belly Fat in 14 Days - 4 Tips to Getting a Flat Midsection Fast
Checking in on Project Natal
I think this is pretty predictable. There was an opinion piece by a Fellow at the Open Society Institute in the WSJ yesterday that explained this mindset. The entire piece is worth a read, but here are the two relevant excerpts:

"One night in the mid-1990s when I was working as a journalist in Beijing, I went out to dinner with some Chinese friends. I had just finished reading a book called "The File" by the British historian Timothy Garton Ash. It's about what happened in East Berlin after the Berlin Wall came down and everybody could see the files the Stasi had been keeping all those years. People discovered who had been ratting on whom-in some cases neighbors and co-workers, but also lovers, spouses and even children. After I described the book to my Chinese dinner companions-a hip and artsy intellectual crowd-one friend declared: "Some day the same thing will happen in China, then I'll know who my real friends are."

The table went silent.

...

I do believe, however, that in my lifetime the Chinese people may learn more about some of the conversations that have taken place over the past decade between Internet company executives and Chinese authorities. When that happens, they will know who sold them out and who was most eager to help the Chinese Communist Party in building a blinkered cocoon of disinformation around their lives-and in some cases deaths.

This censored environment makes it easier for the Chinese government to lie to its people, steal from them, turn a blind eye when they are poisoned with tainted foodstuffs, and cover up their children's deaths due to substandard building codes. It is a constant struggle, and sometimes literally a crime, for people to share information about such matters or to use the Internet to mobilize against corruption and malfeasance.

That is the information environment that China's business elites, many of whom have gotten rich running Internet and telecommunications companies, are responsible for helping to build and maintain. For now they are national heroes, having made great (and lucrative) efforts on behalf of China's economic growth and global competitiveness, making China a force to be reckoned with on the global stage. But if history takes some unexpected turns-and that's the one thing you can count on Chinese history doing-it won't always be on their side."

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870436200457500...
The only transaction and data rates are your sms send/receive costs. You send 2 SMS's and they send you 2 SMS's in total.
Democracy, Cyberspace, and the Body
Google's board and executives have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to do what is in the best interest of shareholders -- not Chinese dissidents. It doesn't matter if those executives are founders are not.

All the warm and fuzzy about leaving China won't stop shareholders from suing google if it turns out a decision to leave China has impacted them negatively.
Five emotions you never knew you had
Japan had a bit of help from abroad after world war II, and like Germany for a long time did not have the financial burden of an army.
A few years ago here in London I saw stickers put up by the Socialist Workers Party saying "Thieves! This is a working-class area. Don't steal from your own people!". Obv there's a whole lot wrong with that as a statement, it's interesting to see the same principle involved.
Car lock can be easily destroyed. Locking your car when you have nothing valuable inside may cost you the lock. That was in the case of my friend. Also possibly window if interested party has just a stone on him.
I believe the weight savings is from the materials/design, not the fact that it collapses.

And it seems the advantage of collapsing containers is that you could more efficiently shuffle the empties in complex shipment chains.

Would you rather ship 100 containers to the US and have 20 China-bound US shipments and 80 empties come straight back? Or ship 100 containers to the US, take on the 20 China-bound shipments, collapse the 80 empties and have room for 60 more elsewhere-bound US exports you can drop off on the way back?
That says something pretty sad about the mental health / public policy of that destination...
Great Video: You Have $5 & 2-Hours - How Much Money Could You Make?
I think that was an important point, but not the central point. I think more important was his argument that if you are using a tool and doing something significantly different from it's intended purpose then you're better off rolling your own; and php is a fine enough tool for the job. Not that it's pretty or anything though :-/
Funny comment:
"PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ARE LIKE GIRLFRIENDS".
Like Ada and Linda:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LindaEtymology.
If a langage was a girlfriend, what would be the equivalent of _ ?
There's a lot of back-and-forth in this thread about whether this disproves AGW or not.

Before people get too invested in these arguments, it might make sense to step back for a second or two and ask yourself the question:

"What is the null hypothesis?"

As far as my understanding goes, in order to be doing good science, the null hypothesis must be that there is no phenomenon to explain. So the qustion we should be asking is: "is this evidence consistent with, or does it refute, the null hypothesis?"

As far as I can tell, this evidence is consistent with the null hypothesis. While that is interesting, it's not super-important, so we should all save our passion and debating time for evidence that potentially refutes the null hypothesis. That kind of evidence is much more important to find and pore over...

* [edit] fixed a few typos
Funny... Can I allege I thought the same about movies? ;-)
That really sucks. I left the .NET world about a year ago, work in Django now.

I'm sorry your baby got trashed. :\

The .NET world is plagued with horrible programmers.
Adobe: Eclipsing Microsoft as patch concern?
Verisign researchers identify details of Chinese attack on Google
Is that a real NYT app or a fake? Apple doesn't want to know
Unfortunately, managing US bound exports is probably not a problem right now unless it's containers full of toxic pcb material that we dump into foreign landfills.
Robert Sapolsky discusses Toxoplasma's effects on mammalian behavior
That was Fred's point -- Sergey and Larry hold a controlling stake still in Google. So Google's best interest is still to meet their best interests which aren't necessarily financial.
The 30 year rises listed in that article, differ markedly from the other blog by Lubos Motl, which he links to in support.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/01/warming-trends-in-england-...

What am I missing?

Can I also take this opportunity to point out the very dodgy choice of scales on his first graph. The temperature data is limited to 1/7th of the height of the graph, while the C02 changes are stretched to full height.

Graph here:
http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a7c8...

The obvious impact of this is to downplay any shift in temperature in response to changes in CO2 levels and any deviations from the linear trend line.
A startup's "Why we use Lisp" story
good luck with that heart attack.
Behind the China attacks on Google (FAQ)
I think you take a major strategic step when you force yourself to use the straight pieces horizontally. You learn how to play without relying on them to clear large areas.
Yeah, I've seen a lock-smith open it, they drill, which obviously is destructive (although a thief might just replace the thing around the lock, like the lock-smith did.

Anyway, the thief probably doesn't care about whether or not I can tell he was there. He want my laptop, because it translates to a fix. As a matter of fact, I've heard "they're insured anyway" as part of the self-justification among the petty thieves.
He should pay tjogin because of the contract he and tjogin have, or, absent such a contract, because he wants more content from tjogin or people tjogin could communicate with.
I lived in Amsterdam and drove an old car (Citroen DS). It was pretty beaten up but still a classic and parts were pretty expensive.

The locks were pretty bad, you could lock the doors but a screwdriver would be enough to open them so they didn't provide much security.

One day the glass on the passenger side front window was smashed in, but there was nothing in the car so that was an expensive fix.

After that I left the doors unlocked, worked for years.

Every now and then I'd find a door open in the morning but no more smashed windows. The car was very tricky to start (with the gearshift lever) so they never managed to steal it.

In the winter a homeless person would sometimes sleep in it, we sort of had an understanding that if he didn't mess it up I was ok with him using my car as his base.

Interesting town, Amsterdam :)
There are two blockout clones for Android: one named Blockx, and the other named Blockout. I haven't tried either, but the spirit of the game is apparently still alive.
I suspet the CEO is getting a lower percentae of market rate than the average doctor working for the red cross.
That does not seem to be a fun place to live. It almost sounds like a voluntary prison sentence.
I flew on Jan 11 (3 days ago) with just this method.

I think the restriction is that you're only allowed to have a personal item on international flights. Domestic flights are the same as always.
Vampire Weekend sets the record straight about Tom Delonge's pitch
Evil black mustache?
The plan to save the music biz
The purpose of locking doors where I live, at least (San Francisco) is to prevent street people from coming in and sleeping in your hallway, and protect your stuff against petty theft by fairly desperate people who will try doorknobs looking for stuff they can quickly grab. Locks are quite practical solutions for both problems.
I agree, though I would be even more prescriptive: when people hear of a new idea they should first try to understand the upside (the value created if the idea takes off). Then, think through obstacles/problems and put them in perspective with the upside. If the upside is deemed minor, it could be better to see if the core idea can be mutated into something more valuable before looking at obstacles/problems with the current idea.

(The split between "idea upside" and "obstacles/problems" that I've made is somewhat artificial -- you can say that a small upside is a problem -- but I think it's helpful.)

(EDIT: "idea" -> "idea upside")
Haiti: A disaster everyone knew would happen
Obesity Rates Hit Plateau in U.S., Data Suggest
It's a 6-pin Ruko series 600 (probably local to Denmark). The cylinder was reset (pins changed) as part of the apartment take over, but theoretically the janitor could have fixed a copy for himself.

I'm probably not perfectly secured against a motivated thief, but he's not interested in me. He'll find a three year old MacBook (if I'm home, which I'm probably not), a lowend 37" LCD TV bolted to the wall and a few bottles of good scotch in the cabinet. If I had a collection of fine arts or other valuables, I'd be better secured.
I played for about a minute. Now I feel car sick. Or maybe Tetrisick?
Ask HN: Subscription Payment Gateway?
I have developed a webapp which I'm planning to release soon.
Can you recommend any Subscription Payment Gateway?

I know about RBS WorldPay, Paypal and Amazon FPS. What do you use(or would use)?

Thank you in advance.
This isn't really new. He's always been a bit fuzzy on technologies; neither RSS nor XML-RPC really show a deep understanding of XML, the scripting environment which I became deeply familiar with in college was always a bit weird about some of the fundamentals, etc. On the other hand, his resume blows mine away; his list of truly independent inventions may not be very long but the list of technologies that he is basically the reason they are popular is. I have found it more educational to think about why that is than to be dismissive because he doesn't always have a precise understanding of everything. Who does, after all? He's got a lot of GetItDoneness, even if his technical skills aren't always the absolute best.
I don't lock my car or my garage for this reason. None of the security on my car does anything to stop a cinderblock, and that's the likely attack vector. I live on the border of the west side of Chicago --- a very high-crime area --- and garages and cars are busted into all the time.

A couple times it's been clear that someone had been in the car. But I've never had my garage door and car windows destroyed.
Replace your statement with "Why is (heavy metal|electronic|rap) subject to copyright when they are indistinguishable to anyone but the 'artist'".

They are still distinguishable and agreed upon to be different.
This is exactly why I lock my doors and use a door chain. If they wanted to get in, they'd make enough noise to wake me and everyone else in the house up. Hopefully it would give me enough time to wake up and get to my gun.

If I didn't live in an apartment, I'd install an alarm system for the same reason.
This started some nausea pretty quick for me.. which makes it brilliant.
This may happen when the interviewer is younger than you -- young inexperienced managers are often underconfident and they just don't feel comfortable interviewing people older and more experienced than themselves.

I started hiring people when I was 26 (now 37), and I can tell from my own experience than my first attempts of interviewing people older than myself were quite uncomfortable -- so it's not surprising that I tended to avoid such applicants.
This is incredible. Somehow I find it easier to concentrate and figure out than normal tetris. I can think faster with this one.
You need to declare it to be able to have your case locked.
Even if you don't subscribe and can't read the article, the discussion could be interesting as there are probably many subscribers in this group. It might even prompt someone to subscribe. And of course you can search for the same news from a different venue if your interest is piqued; no one has a monopoly on the news itself.

In the case of WSJ and NYT, they've provided an approved (by them) way to read paywalled content for free: by visiting via the google "trick." A post of the google search, like ars did, is enough.

It's one thing for a subscriber, or google trickster, to post a quote; I think that's generally accepted practice, Murdoch and AP notwithstanding. In the context of struggling content providers and blustering media owners it's at least ironic to post an entire article.