skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That works well until you get a team mate that doesn't know how to not talk and always wants to discuss everything.

Can you imagine a meeting where four people are quickly reviewing several details and are halfway done in the course of 5 minutes when a fifth shows up, starts talking about something for twice that length of time and ultimately cannot make their point clear?

How would you feel towards that person when they talk to you every half hour about some detail that you don't care about, some question that they could find out if they bothered to search and read, some thing that is wholly immaterial to the work you have to do.

I know I just let my silent resentment grow and browse hackernews all day hoping they will step out for a few hours.
For shared hosting, I like webfaction. Only shared account I've seen that lets you create long running processes. The guys that run it are fairly involved in the Python OSS community, which I also consider a plus.
The Workforce Paradox: We're Short on Talent, Not Just Jobs
Yes, but the problem is it's hard to know exactly how ignorant the person you're explaining it to is.

For example, I recently had to explain just-in-time compilation to a manager. If I had launched into an explanation like "well, it's dynamically translated, so the compiler is generating machine code at runtime," I would've gotten a blank stare in return. So without knowing where the holes in his knowledge were, I had to begin with "OK, so you know code is like a big list of instructions, right?", which I'm sure came off as condescending.
Thank you.

As to your question of who would be the first to incriminate Gawker, rather than Chen: Probably the Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property (CHIP) unit in the criminal division of the US Attorney's office for the Northern District of California, located in San Jose. Gawker's legal representative would have to be summoned and indicted by a grand jury, unless the firm chooses to waive that right and proceed to a hearing.

Gawker Media LLC is a Delaware company headquartered in New York. Title 18 §3237 provides that any offence begun in one district and completed in another (eg CA and NY) can be prosecuted in either district, but it would probably be most practical to do so in California.

Gaby Darbyshire is COO and legal representative of Gawker Media, and per a letter [1] taken into evidence during the search was fully apprised of the situation. The letter did not repudiate or disavow Chen's actions but rather emphasized his employment by Gawker and use of his home as his regular place of employment. Under the doctrine of Respondeat Superior, Gawker is liable for acts carried out by Chen because an agency relationship exists between them; and because he committed a crime, in the scope of his employment, with the purpose of benefiting his employer. Even under the stricter rules of MPC 2.07, Gawker's COO and CEO appear to have approved and even reveled in Chen's illegal actions, and thus acted with scienter.

1. http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize-jason-chens-computer... 'Gawker's legal response to police'.

small voice I think...
(edit: FYI grellas is a real attorney, whereas I'm just thinking about trying to become one...don't rely on anything I post!)
List of Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of possessing Casio watches
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The rapid turnaround actually makes me suspect Adobe. Are we to believe that somebody else came up with a fancy js/Flash combo exploit, and decided its first use should be a false flag ad for Adobe based on a day or two old campaign? I don't think Occam's razor is kind to Adobe.
I think we're talking past each other a little here, but you're probably right that TV has had a positive impact. I'm still dubious whether it's a net positive impact--television displaced books, after all--but my wider point is that by and large, the bulk of television programming falls closer to the worst case outcome than the best case outcome.

I'm actually more optimistic about the internet, because like books, the internet at least encourages literacy. At least so I thought, until bandwidth increased to the point where the internet became another TV. Now I'm dubious. I see the early internet and TV as going in completely opposite directions, though, hence my reluctance to conflate all advances in media as having the same effects.
The only difference is in the transport - HTTPS instead of HTTP. Everything else about the protocol is the same - browsers can still send referrer information in their requests, cookies can still be set, and so on - it's just that a passive observer sniffing the network will not be able to see anything other than an encrypted connection to google.

This really is google just playing their cards at the right time and cashing in on the current privacy bandwagon in the media, casting themselves in a positive light.
It doesn't alleviate any real privacy issues, whatever they are, with google.

There isn't a downside for us users - it's a good option for google to provide - it will cost them money in infrastructure, and will slow down the user experience by a significant factor - (you might not thing a half second matters, but it does, and google knows this - so this is possibly a convenient time for them to introduce this feature while people are focused on WHY privacy is important)
I think I have some family members that should go to Guantanamo then.

Also, almost any watch or clock could be modified to become a timing mechanism for an explosive device, this one really is no exception.
check out http://outright.com/
How far are we from just encrypting everything on the web because it has a negligible cost? Is this purely CPU-limited or is there another reason (does it take much more bandwidth? screw with caching?)? Is Moore's Law taking care of this quickly, or is it still far off?
Seriously? You don't see a use for secured searches?

How do you think the Chinese government will like this? Or any government who attempts to censor searches? How will they know what's being searched for? Also, a lot of value can be gleaned from just the results, and not all lead to insecure sites.
Yes, definitely. My brain takes a long time to shift gears.

One thing I've had some success with is writing stream-of-consciousness style after work for ~500 words. Expressing a ton of thoughts without any filter or careful thought seems to prime the pump for socializing.

Huh. I wonder if there's any connection there.
Well, reporting isn't a selfless act, most of the time - the goal is to match eyeballs to advertisements. You're right that they would have been a lot better off to get rid of the thing before they published a word, rather than waiting for Jobs to call. Perhaps they were nervous about the fact that they damaged it during the teardown.
I believe gmail always had HTTPS as an option - in 2008 they added an option to selectively make it the default if you want - now they've reversed that and made it the default from the start.
There is strong reasoning, backed up by user experience testing that the small delays introduced by SSL on web pages add up to big drops in retention... and business is business. HTTPS connection setup is significantly slower than a regular connection - you may not think that sub-second delays matter but they absolutely do in the competitive web-app world.
> Granted I hope ActiveRecord3 will include everything by default like DataMapper does but whatever...

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but Rails 3 will still be a full stack framework. Something will be chosen for everything by default.

You'll be able to fully switch out ActiveRecord for DataMapper if you wish.

> Hell Python was the inspiration for Ruby.

I've never seen this before, usually I've heard Matz saying that it's Perl. Maybe a typo?
You are not taking into account the Apple fanbois that now want Adobe's blood because Flash works so well on Android. Adobe is sticking it to the One True Religion, and the followers aren't happy.

(I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. I personally hate Flash for technical reasons, but it really comes down to having choice. I don't use Flash and won't develop Flash apps... but you can do whatever you want.)
I can't believe how many people subscribe to the "guilty is as guilty does" mantra. Because FB tried to profit to forcefully from user data these adolescent comments has to be Zuck's. Or he has to be a sociopath, or worse.

Assuming these IMs indeed are his, I find it amusing how people who complain about FB making their info public have no qualms about totally jumping on private comments made by another.
in uTorrent, copying the data over and (in the right click menu once a torrent is stopped) going to advanced > set download location should force a recheck at the new location.
Freshbooks does sound like it fits the bill. What I see a market for are SaaS accounting apps that are tailored to the domain language of particular industries: accounting for bands, accounting for programmers and consultants, accounting for day care. So on and so forth. That way people feel more comfortable with the language used to present the accounting.
I like “failure of imagination” myself:

The phrase failure of imagination has been used to describe the cause of the Apollo 1 fire in 1967. The term was attributed to astronaut Frank Borman, speaking at the Apollo 1 investigation hearings (dramatized in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon in 1998.)
— wikipedia
This is quite cool, but doesn't address the fact that Google is still a centralized repository of search history. While moving to HTTPS does most definitely eliminate some major problems, it does nothing to fix one of the biggest structural weaknesses to search.
Google's log of searches is an amazingly useful feature. Sometimes I google for some obscure library, find it, go to lunch, and then completely forget what it was called or what search terms I used to find it. With the search history, this is not a problem.

I also use Google search for package tracking, and it's nice to get the numbers out of the search history instead of the merchant's site.

I know everyone wants to think that Google is collecting this information so that they know who to come for first when they take over the world... but it's also possible that the feature exists simply because it's useful.
"Laurent Eschenauer, one of the OneSocialWeb developers, says his project and Diaspora share the goal of providing a “free, open and decentralized alternative to the social networking silos that are Facebook and Twitter.” He says he hopes that Diaspora looks to work cooperatively with his project, rather than “reinventing the wheel."

...

"Both OneSocialWeb and Appleseed share the same problem: getting enough users to make users want to sign up — the so-called network effect where a network gets exponentially more useful as it gets bigger. (Think of the fax machine as an example — two fax machines in the world aren’t very useful, but your fax machine becomes much more useful when there are 1,000 of them, and even more valuable when there are 10 million.)"

...

"Users don’t have to choose to stop using Facebook or Twitter and will be able use the Diaspora client to use those all those services in one place — much like Friendfeed currently does. But when Diaspora knows that the person you are trying to communicate with also has Diaspora, it will use peer-to-peer, encrypted methods to send that message. And as more and more people start using the free software, they’ll slowly find themselves weaned from for-profit services, according to Moglen."

I think if the various social networks coming up interoperated, on some significant set of features, it would be good for all of them and all of us.

If service A has Ua users then the value of A is Ua^2 (or whatever). If B has Ub its value is Ub^2. If they interoperate then the value of both approach (Ua+Ub)^2. E.g. 3^2 = 9 and 4^2 = 16, or (3+4)^2 = 49. As service A adds users, services A and B both enjoy an increase in the value of their networks.

Edit: math notation.
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There have been totally unproved speculations that they've been doing that. But if they did it on a scale like that their CA would be revoked from all default browser installations.

They could still force the issue and mandate that their CA be patched back in on all computers sold in mainland China.

Either case seems very unlikely, just outright blocking things they don't like seems to be their current approach. I don't see why they'd change that for Google.
In addition to developing some truly excellent software over the years, Omni Group has been providing these open source NeXTstep/Cocoa frameworks since the 90s. It's nice to see them keep the tradition alive.
Ask HN: Finding business partners in other countries
Hi there Combinators,

I'm currently running a startup in my country (in Brazil), and it occurred to me that our current product/concept/idea would probably apply (and sell) better in other countries (such as US, for instance), given cultural differences and such - but given the product is mainly dependent on local sales to work (not a website), it's a bit impractical to simply 'translate it to other languages and advertise on the net'.

The bottomline (and question) after all this preamble is: have any of you ever looked for business partners/representatives in other countries/regions? If so, what did you find as the biggest gotchas, drawbacks, difficulties?

Any thoughts are appreciated (and very welcome) :-)
Me personally? I want https for gmail...ok, I've had it since around 2008. For web search? If I'm going to search on something top secret I wouldn't want Google to have identifiable info on me either so I wouldn't use Google or I would try to obfuscate my identity from Google through other means. So, for me, https on search isn't a common use case.

As to China: I think China will block https search on Google. I think any government that censors search will block https search on Google. Playing the China card on this new feature isn't interesting. Google and/or the press should not try to score points through inflammatory China comments with this new feature rollout. Https search should be added simply because its a feature users want; and I'm sure some do.
Raises hand

Excuse me, Mr. Kincaid, how exactly do you automatically assume that

But it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks, even though we never used that data in any Google products.

is synonymous with personal data, given the massive amounts of data that travels the airwaves between wireless access points and network devices, anything ranging from device identification to protocol addressing? Secondly, it's not as if this isn't a casualty of running an unsecured wireless network.
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"Screw with caching" is probably the biggest issue. In order to negotiate the SSL connection, any proxy (on either end) needs to have your certificate. There's also the issue that some browsers (Firefox, I'm looking at you) do their best to scare users about self-signed certificates, which means that you need to pay for a cert.

It also breaks the shared-hosting model: your entire HTTP stream is encrypted, which means that key negotiation occurs before the server has your HOST header. This, in turn, means that the TCP/IP data (IPs and ports) are the only pieces of information that the server can use to determine which certificate to use. In practice, this means that a server can only host multiple distinct sites if it has multiple distinct IPs.
I actually agree with you that the paywall will fail. Trying to get a lot of people to pay a set amount for news will yield less money than getting a limited number of people to donate an unlimited amount for news; that is, non-profit journalism. The latter is the most likely endgame, and being a part of it is pretty interesting.

http://www.texastribune.org

If you agree that the New York Times creates value, I don't understand why you're hesitant to support them as you mentioned in your initial comment.
In a nutshell, Lam was bargaining with Jobs - 'your phone, which is my possession, for documentation I can use to post another story on the subject.' Consider - it's not good enough for Jobs to come by the gizmodo office and collect it - that leaves gizmodo open to jibes that they are just part of Apple's PR machine. Lam wants a written admission, the publication of which will inevitably undermine Apple's reputation a bit.

I'm not a lawyer either, but I feel pretty sure than any objective reading of it will be interpreted by a court as withholding of stolen property, which is yet another felony offense in what seems to have been a long string surrounding this device. I wonder if Lam has hired an attorney yet, as Chen did.
I'm sure that the SEO problem isn't a big deal for Google. ;)
The author treats a "hacker" as some kind of sub-human species and write an article on owning a "hacker" that reads as if it was a book on owning a dog or something. Hacker != Lack of social skills. "Insults skills of other workers, doesn't know how to dress, plays games on company time, talks to friends on the phone." I don't know what kind of people this guy hires, but I definitely would not hire someone like that. Let's not box everyone who like to write code into a stereotype. I seriously doubt this is based on reality.
Would it be possible to devise a caching system that works with encrypted data without weakening security too much?
I think we have all had situations where we would have forgotten something if not for someone calling us back as we left or holding onto it and giving it back next time.

It's hard to believe that these guys thought it a good idea to make a couple of thousand dealing with something a company has literally billions invested in the product line.
I think he meant: 'it would hurt sales [for Apple] to say this is the next iphone.'
Exactly. That's why I think they should create a "private searching" mode that doesn't log anything, similarly to what browsers do in "private mode". Of course you'd still have to trust Google, but once they say they will do it and put it in writing, you just need one person to find out that they aren't really doing it to ruin a lot of trust, so they would have an incentive to do it (and it would probably be hard to keep it a secret eternally if they pretend to do it but actually don't -- ex-Googlers would leak it eventually).
Your inference is in error. No-one would be naïve enough to believe that life is a binary choice between getting a degree and being a homemaker. Regardless, my statements did not claim as such.
I have been a longtime supporter of the EFF but I think they should stay out of this. The knee-jerk response related to journalistic privilege seems incorrect and as time goes on it is becoming very clear crimes were committed.
I wonder if they have a Voyager VM.
I kept thinking about the last part. Scala is a really nice language. The GWT route was to create a Java compiler to generate JavaScript. Doing the same for Scala seems like a huge effort. But what about this option? It is a little bit crazy though.

What if you use Scala to create a DSL to create JavaScript RIAs? The DSL can be the framework that will give structure to the RIA. Then you use JavaScript to fill in the blanks.
Sure, that happens all the time. But the usual is then indeed to follow the path back and alert the owner, not to sell off their property.

The way they went about it is stupid, the way it is playing out right now could very well put one of the IT trash sites out of business, and Apple will have made a point.

Alls well that ends well.
For shared hosting, https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/. Well-run, good docs, some nice aspects of their custom-written provisioning system, and particularly good pricing for smallish sites and/or sites with a large static component.

For a VPS, http://prgmr.com/xen/, though they frequently close signups due to new servers selling out as fast as they can put them up (probably a sign that they should raise prices).
I think it'd be cool if the procrastination cutoff didn't work until after you've had a chance to edit a comment. maybe a "but at least let me edit existing comments" checkbox.
So if SSL has such little overhead today regardless of scale (and can be hardware accelerated) what the heck is PayPal's excuse for being so horribly slow? Gmail can run rings around it with far more data.
Dust mites are a bitch.

Although I was pretty skeptical, I noticed a marked difference after I encased my bedding (mattress, pillows, comforter) in special dust-mite proof sheets. Dust mites can't get in (or out, if they're in there), and the proteins that actually cause the allergic reaction also can't get out. So you have less bugs producing allergens, and the allergens don't get into your lungs. I hardly ever wake up coughing uncontrollably anymore. (Air filters and powerful allergy/asthma drugs were pretty effective, too, but the combination is best.)

Anyway, I had no idea I was allergic to dust mites, even though I often woke up in the middle of the night coughing uncontrollably and woke up in the morning almost drowning in my own phlegm. I thought it was post-nasal drip or bad sleeping posture or something. A 15-minute skin test later, and now I know for sure what I am allergic to, and can be on the right drugs (and immunotherapy). So if you have similar symptoms, get tested, and get your body fixed. Dust mite allergy can be cured, and there are nonsedating side-effect free drugs that can help you while your body is being fixed. (Singulair.)

I hate to make preachy public service announcements, but a lot of people are probably unnecessarily tired today simply because they spent most of the night not being able to breathe and didn't even realize it. And if you don't sleep, you can't hack!
My wife calls this "programming-land". When she comes home, she can tell right away if I've been hacking or goofing off reading reddit; in the former case I'm somehow behind the curve social-interaction-wise.

If we're going out afterwards, I can adjust, but it takes a while for me to get my mind off the problem at hand.
It seems Brian Lam has a little inferiority complex here. He wants to use the tactics of a tabloid and get the respect and access of the WSJ and NYT. The interesting part to me is Jobs said a few months ago he read Gizmodo. That's a pretty big nod of respect and legitimacy yet Brian Lam seems to have wanted even more validation from Apple. It almost sounds like he was trolling for an unreasonable PR gift from Apple or some other grand gesture. It would probably be unreasonable to prod or extort for equal access much less special privileges. Gizmodo just isn't that important compared to the WSJ and NYT. For the record I'm coming from the perspective of not being offended or upset Gizmodo perused this story aggressively. They're a tabloid. That's what they do. If you want real journalism go somewhere else. I'm more offended that they would try to extort Apple in an attempt to get special access. This e-mail reads like someone carefully skirting the line of blackmail. That makes it a much bigger issue than simply trade secrets.
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If you're not allergic, you're not allergic. Then they're just there, eating your dead skin cells. You shouldn't worry too much about microorganisms unless they cause you problems -- they are everywhere, and you can't get rid of them.