skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, pretty much every single person with a job leaves their home empty all day. Everyone already knows this.

I can't wait until I get to read about someone who decided to rob one of these people, but then gets shot to death by the spring gun they set up. Bonus if the spring gun auto-uploads to YouTube.
Most of this data is completely useless, because there's no way to tell where these users live, at least without a serious amount of stalking and sleuthing.

Unless, of course, they've been geotagging their tweets from a mobile device. In which case it would then be trivial to look at their most frequent location, determine it's a residential one, wait until they're out, and head on over.

Which is why I will never enable Twitter geotagging.
Yeah, I was trying to figure out the sale price too. They have monthly plans that range from $50/month to $350/month. If we assume that they have 100 people on the $200/month plan, that's $240,000/year in revenue. So $500k could be reasonable. No idea what their expenses are though.
is there a reason why you can't do both? does it really cost $5k to cripple your app?
Tor is nice, but what anonymity is required for this?
Some questions:
1) How to unsubscribe?
2) I can sent RSS feed to account that is not mine? (Spam?)

Those 2 questions can block some new user to try the service I think.
I love the SVN brick + merging room analogy.

"Magical" indeed, precious. They wants their code in the trunk, doesn't they, yes they do. Stupid, fat, filthy geekits, they want to ruin the precious! We must stop them, we must.
>social engineering training

Was the class actually worthwhile, or was it just CYA? Some sort of taxonomy/formalisms for thinking about social engineering would be cool. I have no structured mental model now.
I certainly don't trust any CA that has even the appearance of being tied to the Chinese government.
His ajax demo is your first idea: http://razorjack.net/quicksand/demos/ajax.html

You can use the ajax demo to make your second idea. Like this:

$(function(){
$('#load-players a.button').click(function(e){
$.get(($this).attr('href'), function(data) {
$('.rank-after').quicksand($(data).find('li'));
});
});
});

For each link:

event-name.html
<ul class="rank-after">
<li data-id="1"><img src="federer.png" /></li>
<li data-id="2"><img src="roddick.png" /></li>
</ul>
customer: I'll have the lamb and wild rice please.

waiter: good choice. [minutes later] Here's your meal. Enjoy =)

customer: WTF? What is this? Is this… is it... cat food?

waiter: it's what you ordered. See on the foil in big letters it spells out "Whiskas Lamb and Wild Rice." Enjoy =)

customer: I can't eat that! It's gross!

waiter: oh please. According to our pushy web developer, flashy presentation is overrated. It's food, it's edible. Enjoy =)

customer: but it will taste terrible!

waiter: Have you seen Jakob Nielsen's website? Taste is irrelevant.

customer: but this isn't even people food.

waiter: you're not Lady Gaga.

[apologies for flogging / not letting this go... I couldn't resist the opportunity to mix Whiskas and Nielsen together in the same bad joke... I need help.]
Something tells me that heavy users of foursquare have already considered the implications of letting people know where they are at all times. I don't think this site will deter these people from checking in somewhere.
Vietnamese Women of Hanoi
"Subversion encourages a simple central repository model, discouraging large scale branching. In an environment that's using Continuous Integration, which is how most of my friends like to work, that model fits reasonably well. As a result Subversion is a good choice for most environments."

...using continuum you can just plug in a POM with a git connector and no trouble with CI and git...
You are correct, thanks so much. I'm changing that right now. I should have changed it earlier, I just listened to an interview with Kevin Hale.
Collaboration 2.0? Twitter team-ups for fun and profit
Even if their location is available, there's no way to tell if they live alone.
lol well when I'm out committing felonies I prefer not to leave tracks like my IP address visiting pleaserobme.com?
As education becomes more and more important certainly there will be more and more interesting thoughts coming forward, and without any doubts these thoughts will determine how the future of the world is shaped.

I doubt it. A lot of interesting thoughts about education exists already and to a great extend even implemented in pedagogical principles, techniques and methods. Well implemented yes, but in widespread use, no!

I don't see much hope until teachers are at least as well versed pedagogically as they are in their subject of instruction.
Now that I think about it, I could make a pretty neat little social engineering mobile game out of this. With the back end tied in to this, you could make a geo-aware app that lets you "tag" people as robbed or whatnot.

Of course, that's more than a little evil, as I'd probably map it, and then you would have a site for sharing all the information associated with opportunities, and I have no doubt that some entrepreneurial spirit would take that information and use it to actually start robbing houses.
In the twentieth century we learned that math is bigger than we can possibly handle with anything like traditional mathematical rigor. There is no contradiction in saying one is running an experiment on math when it is not possible even in theory to obtain the result of the experiment through any means more efficient than simply running the experiment. And given Computer Science's focus on things that are, generally, Turing Complete, proving that that is frequently the case is a sophomore-level homework problem in any decent curriculum. (See "Rice's Theorem".)

The idea of "math" you get in school is not wrong, but very incomplete. "Experimental math" is a perfectly valid field of study; mathematics itself proved it, about a hundred years ago. Theories are made, predictions are given, and there's no way to prove or disprove them until the experiment is run, at which point you still only have evidence, not proof (in general); sounds pretty scientific to me.
all of this is data from foursquare, which is opt-in and does use geotagging. want to know the home address? check out the user's profile.
$500k doesn't even meet their reserve - it's just the starting bid they've listed. Who knows how much they think this is worth. Even at $500k this seems like it's way overvalued to me.
1) send STOP to the bot. More info here: http://www.rss.im/help
or send HELP to the bot
2) that's what verification code is for. chatbot won't send notifications or even feed's url and title until the account is verified
>>To see why this is worrisome, [...] giving the Chinese government free run of the citizen's email archive.

It sounds a bit silly when you put it into words and read it.
During the 2002 SLC Olympics, I got a job as a driver/interpreter for Hungarians who were here because they'd won the trip in the lottery. I spent the whole day hanging out and jawing in Hungarian, and when I got home that night I forgot to make the switch to English. My wife (who doesn't know a lick of Hungarian) was too surprised to say anything for a full minute, before she interrupted to let me know I wasn't making any sense.
So someone gets robbed, then they subpoena the web logs for pleaserobme.com, and then they arrest everyone who visited the site? That doesn't really scale.
If that were true, then we'd still know when to rob your house : )
This writer missed or is ignoring both the deliberate fraud known as Climategate, and the new discovery about the importance of sunspots; does he know or care about climate change in the past, the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, the freeze towards the end of the Roman Empire, and the like? He seems to be too committed to American liberalism, and to have spent too much time arguing with creationists (which, from my personal experience arguing with them, is not good for anyone's sanity), to be able to discuss these issues scientifically.

Also, does anyone else get tired of the canard about apes evolving into humans? Recent science indicates that apes and humans are different evolutionary paths; no human or human-precursor species ever evolved knuckle-walking or the simian proportions of arms to legs (and both Neandertals and Cro-Magnons looked mostly like Germans, Scandinavians, or Finns). Pop-cultural understanding of human evolution -- including the pop-cultural understanding held by the evolutionary apologist culture -- is frozen in time at 1945 or earlier; the Holocaust has frightened us away from discussing human evolution (and its natural corollary, human race).

This is all the more ironic because, if we _were_ willing to discuss human evolution and race, we would discover pretty quickly that the Nazis were wrong. There is an Aryan race, but it's local to Persia and the Indian Subcontinent (hint: languages and cultures can spread without genetically significant numbers of people spreading with them); there is no Nordic race, but two mostly-unrelated races coexisting in northern Europe; the whole narrative of the development of Western man is the evolution of the Iberian race and its descendants...

I'll get off my hobby-horse now.
I'm not sure that Christianity is about "simply believing" -- I mean yes that describes the effect of Christ's grace (all you need is belief/acceptance to receive it)... but that's not why I choose to believe in a God.

I completely agree with you.

Belief for the sake of belief is not why I choose to believe in God, either. However, you must at least admit that justification by faith (simply believing) is at the core of the protestant Christian tenets.

If you trace the original conversation though, I was just trying to point out that fear was not a motivator for my belief, and tried to show why. I could have expounded on the core of why I do believe, but that would have resulted in a full dissertation.

As you pointed out, there are hundreds of historical texts and reasons that form the foundation for belief (see also Josh McDowell - Evidence that Demands a Verdict).

We're on the same page, I was just explaining something entirely different.
This is an awesome display of the info we freely give out. If this app was fully functional it would also list the nearest pawn shop and crack dealer.
Given that google acts as a phonebook, simply googling someone by real name has a good chance of digging up their address. I picked a friend in the US at random, simply knowing which state he lived in, and I found his phone number, address, and ZIP code. Also a handy link to google maps.

People are no where near as isolated as they'd like to believe.
I was thinking to myself, "Only single people twitter their whereabouts?" I've got plenty of people left in the house when I leave. I don't think leaving the house is as great a risk as some might think.
Twenty minutes to make sure no one is in the house followed by a quick peek through the mail box (or windows) will give you a pretty solid idea if they do, though.
Are you sure you're not R. Kelly?
As someone who struggles with this at 25, this is fairly discouraging to hear...
Filtering is one of the possible features indeed. I've added a suggestion here: http://rssim.uservoice.com/forums/40421-general/suggestions/... if you need it, vote for it!
Regarding spring guns, fun fact: it is illegal for you to make your home unsafe for burglars and other lawbreakers in most US states.
Proving Something to Oneself: The Sourtoe Cocktail
I think intelligence affects your understanding and enjoyment of humor, but intelligence is not particularly strongly correlated with social class or standing; there are smart garbage men and people I would say are actively stupid running around with PhDs in various things. It is certainly correlated, but less strongly than our instincts-to-hierarchy would have us believe.

(I would also observe the relevant definition of "sophistication" here would have to be something about joke complexity or the subtly of the incongruous connection being made, rather than the explicit subject matter. Someone who never heard of Proust would never generate one of my favorite unfamous Python sketches, the "Summarize Proust" competition sketch, but they can still be subtly humorous in their own way. Or humuorous, as the case may be.)
The Best Web Browser on the Planet
How do you deal with worldwide audience and shipping? I suspect in many cases it costs more to ship than to actually even sell the product (this is where those economies of scale might help a lot)? That's been my experience so far living in Sweden and wanting a few things from back in the US.
Maybe not, perhaps he also tweets 'In closet, with gun' when he's in the closet, with a gun?
important to note that this does not do any layout, it uses the intermediate .gv format, which has been pre-processed by graphviz.
I'm waiting for someone "popular" to realize how awesome Fossil is. Subv, Git, and Merc can all blow me.
I am trapped.
Bloody annoying auto-starting video.

From the guidelines:

> If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn
> us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.
>but of course, then you are not using the majority of the features that make git so nice to work with

You still get the blazing speed.
Then again, he might also tweet that he is on vacation while sitting on the closet, with gun..
Something tells me this is the first time "Trapped in the Closet" has been referenced on HN, congrats sir :)
Now that totally interests me. Thanks!
I searched for my city, and found the most recent listing on the site. Clicked through to that Twitter user's profile, then to their website which was about yoga classes. On her yoga website, she lists her home address. It's in the WHOIS data of her domain too.

Chances are it's not that rare to be able to get an address for someone that's connected enough to be tweeting their location all the time.
That's my reading, too. The author is really making a point about the fundamental challenge of programming purely logical models in the physical world.

It's a little disappointing to me that the HN community is more interested in the concrete example than the meta topic itself.
Where is the Buy it Now button? Next to the Due Diligence button?
True but it's much safer to rob a house when you know they won't be home for a longer period of time. Or when you know they won't just pop back cause they forgot something.

Really takes a lot of the risk out of it.
LA Ruby Conference: Aaron Patterson on Mechanize and Nokogiri
Verizon To Offer Skype On Phones
It even should be written [auto-starting video] in the title
It comes down to why people buy your app. If a lite version is going to give them a chance to experience why they would want to use the full version without alienating them, then go for it.

But don't think of the reduced version as a crippled version, think of it as one that gives the flavour of what the full app should be with some obvious disadvantages. For instance, if your app lets someone produce images and email them, the lite version should let them produce images and email them, but put a "produced by App Lite version" watermark on rather than disabling email functionality.

That way they can see exactly what the advantage of upgrading is, without being restricted from using all the features.
Wait, this article thinks that Enterprise-y game development is a GOOD thing?
It doesn't look like they need to be 501c3 themselves, because they are merely an intermediary. It's strange that this is not obvious from the site, but in the 3-minute video, they said "...and at the end of the year you get a nice tax report of everyone you've given to..."
I totally agree with you; SEO should be done in house. However, what if you absolutely need the help and do not have the time to do it on your own.

Are there any decent SEO companies out there?
I would suggest a different checklist to pick version control systems. Point one my list would be: "does the system preserve or damage your original?" CVS and SVN both fail on this by writing dot files in each and every directory of what you are trying to manage (breaks some non-compiler applications)- so I would lean more to Git, Mercurial and BZR.
Microsoft Fights Google With Google-Hosted Videos
It's one thing to be a bad teacher, but it's another thing to be a bad person. I don't think anyone should call someone out like that in public, via any platform. It's totally self serving and not at all constructive.

On the other hand, the way the teacher handled the situation may have not been in best intentions and I am very glad that freedom of speech has been upheld here. I just hope everyone looks back at the situation and realizes their faults and moves on. It's good to see that the judge had a level head in this case.
Sorry, can't find the link, but it was a Topcoder problem at least 5 years ago.

Well, it is trivial with two balls, once you get it, but it's tricky with respect to "just binary search".
Doesn't Zed count as "popular"? He's been singing the praises of Fossil for a while now.
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This is true, I forget where but a few years back a burglar sued a homeowner and won because he entered a cabin and a springloaded shotgun blew off his leg
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My God—it’s full of unicorns
Same here, but ZFS isn't BTree structured, whereas BTRFS is both Btree and copy-on-write (ReiserFS was Btree but not
COW) - giving you better speed along with the similar featureset.
Someone should make a startup and name it John Smith
Yeah, I was there when he hopped on, but very few HN people would actually listen to him (sadly).
How is knol a deadweight? At worst, its an idea that didn't work (still too soon for a conclusion).

If you were to take seriously some of the estimated cost of keeping youtube alive, it is more of a deadweight.
Writing Custom Nagios Plugins with Python
It is worth pointing out that many workplaces are not open to the public either. So in both cases they are really "private except for a list of people of my choosing" and the difference is that in one case I am allowed to choose on restricted criteria and in the other I am not.
Hang on, stay on the horse for a moment.

Do sunspots, climate change in the past, the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, etc answer the question of whether producing large amounts of greenhouse gases is bad for the planet and its current inhabitants? And does the deliberate fraud of one group of scientists mean that the question has gone away or been definitively answered?
Confused Facebook user debacle not what it seems.
> You can keep saying that, but you're wrong. They did. They said that the models' predictions didn't correspond to what they thought that they were seeing from the measurements.

It didn't correspond to tree-ring measurements. Which is already an unreliable and lossy sort of data, so they applied corrections for other phenomenon. And if it were a primary line of evidence in the case for climate change there might be a problem. But, as it stands, they were not and it was not.

Further, at this point, all the work they did is replicable. The orignal data was not lost, it simply wasn't kept at that facility (for a variety of reasons). The IPCC is investigating any serious wrongdoing and having an independent group check the results.

> How about telling us what you'd take as a statement or evidence that AGW wasn't happening?

Sort of like asking, "What you'd take as evidence that evolution isn't real." At this point it'd need to be fairly extraordinary, since there is a LOT of data (both observed and modeled) that supports the hypothesis.

So I dunno. Do you have anything better than, "One statistician disagrees with Al Gore's movie from 4 years ago but agrees with the IPCC?" Or maybe, "These people did something with data that I don't understand and called it a trick, I knew those guys were up to something!" Maybe something to counter the EIS footage? Or perhaps data to argue against the basic tenants? Is there actually much less CO2 in the air than claimed?

What evidence would you take that it is happening? Epochal records of CO2 content in the air? We have that. Clear evidence of sharp and sudden environmental change in temperature sensitive areas? We have a ton of that; some of it is incredibly dramatic. Decade-term data that still shows overall warming trends? We've got that and its far more reliable than the extreme longterm data. Clear chemistry explaining what should happen? The base science backs this up.

Do we have absolutely conclusive proof yet? No. Do we have enough evidence to start taking this seriously? Yes, I believe my threshold is met. Do post-industrialized nations like America stand to gain a lot financially by embracing this? I think we have much more to gain (and a lot to lose if we let China continue to outpace us in renewable energy research and production). So not only do I see a lot of science backing this notion, but I see a lot of opportunity. That's enough for me.
Its smooth for me, FF3.5/Win7. I can't tell any difference between it and Chrome
It's probably more like social engineering defense training. The usual scenario being: You're at a conference and a hooker type shows up at your hotel room out of the blue, do you a) invite them in and have a good time, especially leaving your laptop/files/etc alone with them while you sleep/clean up/get some liquor, b) not do that.
More generally, boobytrapping stuff has lots of potential harm to lots of potential people. (gas company employees, police, etc). The fact that it's also harmful to thiefs is tangential.
kn0thing-- ?
Interesting to see an elegant, functional, web app that is essentially an artistic statement.
Even in England it used to be commonly called Informatics. I like Informatics/Informatik/Informatique etc. much better than "Computer Science", because most applications are not really about computing, but about information.
Loopt eyes “Holy Grail” of location-based advertising
That CA is already included with Windows and Mac OSX. When you look at the list, it's quite impressive exactly how many root CA's are actually trusted. For example, the DOD is also trusted...

For what it's worth, it's not in the default ubuntu list, but you are using Firefox, it's in there...
And does the deliberate fraud of one group of scientists mean that the question has gone away or been definitively answered?

No, but it does call the evidence into question even if it wasn't directly related to the fraud.
Apple blocking Google Voice blocking webOS App
I'm in the habit of telling taxi drivers who pick me up from my house and ask me "so, you're going to the airport, taking a long trip?" That it's a short trip and that my roommates were just too lazy to take me to the airport. Makes me feel slightly better about someone knowing where I live and that I just left town.
Kaspersky antivirus via patented hardware
Is it? Interesting. It was 7 or 8 years ago now.
He mentions mind-share as a factor. It is compelling that I can go in #git on freenode and have any questions I have answered promptly and completely.
I still don't think the sentence adds up. $30,000 profits which require "$15,000 to cover cost of inventory" is not really $30,000 profit. That'd be revenue, right?

As the reader, I'm left figuring out which part is wrong and it looks good or bad depending on which way I choose...
Rearranging is quite fine, it's crossfade and zoom that is very jerky on my notebook.

I suspect it could be something about transparencies.

Firefox has long tradition of slowdowns when dealing with alpha-channel transparency, especially when compositing multiple transparent layers (also this demo uses "text-shadow" CSS property which puts additional load on renderer).