skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not been following the case, nor am I an expert on security disclosure. Could you expand on how he has used the data and what was very unethical about the uses made?

EDIT TO ADD: Reading your other postings I think you mean giving a copy of the leaked data to Gawker media was unethical. Is that so bad, considering they redacted it and appeared to generally handle it responsibly?
ok. we'll agree to disagree.

I believe if you desire to speak in public but fear it, asking a question at a microphone at a community meeting is a good first step.
The Squirrel Outwits to Survive
The original York, in the UK?

I'm in Knaresborough, 25 mins by train away, FWIW.
I got about halfway through the survey before realizing it was about workstation backup, not server backup.

Time Machine + Dropbox makes workstation backup a solved problem.

Slicehost Backup + Tarsnap makes server backup almost a solved problem. And I say almost because I don't like having no choice but to store my full bootable backups with the same provider that hosts my primary server. If I could store bootable weekly images off-site, I'd be golden.
and found is in quotes for a good reason, as the drugs “found” near
me were “found” in the execution of a warrant for computers only

For what it's worth, the Fourth Amendment protects against 'unreasonable' searches and seizures. Anything found in the reasonable execution of a search warrant is admissible.

I don't know where the myth came from that only evidence related to the probable cause of the warrant is admissible. This is an on-face absurd interpretation: by that logic, if the police entered a house to search for evidence of felony tax evasion and stumbled upon a murder in progress, that wouldn't be admissible because the police weren't in the house searching for a murderer.

There is plenty of case law establishing limits on reasonability. For instance, in the execution of a lawful search of an apartment looking for weapons, officers saw a stereo that 'didn't fit the furnishings'. They lifted up the bottom of the stereo to take down serial numbers, and the person was arrested for having stolen the stereo. The problem, of course, is that weapons aren't stored under the bottom of a flat-bottomed stereo, and certainly the serial numbers weren't a reasonable part of the search for weapons.

But having drugs out in the middle of the room in 'plain view' is clearly reasonable. Even from weev's own post, the drug evidence passes the Horton test.
The Artist Formerly Known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince is no stranger to doing things that hurt his career.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

Words have meanings. It is useful to know them.
I appreciate the traffic to either site. I wrote the post on gCaptain almost a year ago - it just never really got any play until now. Links to gCaptain are great. It's a professional site owned by a friend of mine. I'm still active duty Coast Guard so my site doesn't generate revenue. I'm just very glad to get the word out about this important subject. Thanks again everyone!
No, you obviously didn't read the paragraph you quoted. It suggests that in addition to withholding data, they also withheld source code. The fact that maybe you could recreate the code or download data from elsewhere does not change the fact that the CRU did withhold both source code and data.

As for the "number of FoI requests they would've received and their tone", that sounds like something apache can handle:

GET /public_data/hockey_stick.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cru.uea.ac.uk/
Tone: HIGHLY VITRIOLIC
An ill-maintained and poorly implemented system is no doubt true, but the excuse that it's a solely a technical challenge is absurd. The real truth is further into the text:

"It's not something that you can take lightly and do overnight," said Harrigan, who also served as chief deputy controller from 2000 to 2002. "You have all the collective bargaining for civil servants and (state universities) that have to be taken into consideration. ... It's very complicated. It would take considerable effort."

Yes, an old system is indeed at the heart of the problem -- unions.
A little context: the day after the last State of the Union address, The Washington Examiner front page featured Governor Robert McDonnell of Virginia, who gave the Republican response.

The speech itself looks like innocuous fluff.
Thats why forced adds in a DVD you bought so annoying!
I would assume York, UK based on his profile. Though I am here reading this entry because I live near York, PA.
This dawned on me the other day.

Michael Dorfman is right. Deconstruction is not a single method or mechanical process.

Deconstruction is perhaps best understood if you think of Derrida as an elaborate troll. It is a general strategy for trolling philosophers. All the biographies of Derrida I've read have used words like "playful" to describe him, like he's fucking Loki or something. He says "That work of Plato you're so fond of quoting doesn't really mean what you think it means!" and comes up with a convincing argument for why this is so. (The best trolls sound believable, even to those with well-trained and sensitive BS detectors.) It also explains why deconstruction can only be understood within the context of the philosophical tradition: trolling only works if it's tailored to the traditions and preconceptions of its audience.

The beautiful part is that philosophers who've been trolled are surreptitiously recruited into practicing the same trolling technique themselves.
I'm talking about announcements rather than newsletter types.

Also, this only answers one (tiny) sliver of my question.
> Open question to HN: how could PayPal do a better job of handling the situation?

Be open and honest in their position on (non-established?) conferences. I think it's likely that the author is spot-on about PayPal's motivations, and that they're doing everything they can within their TOS to get the client to terminate the agreement. So here they are with their pants around their ankles and their only recourse is to de-pant their client. Sounds like bad faith to me, but just try proving it in court.
Ask HN: How to do face recognition
If I'm building an iphoto-like app online, how can I get my server to do face recognition (recognize where a face is in a photo, and also recognize who (of your limited set of friends) this face might be)? It seems pretty simple if even cheap cameras do the first part, and most photo software does the second part quite well.

Is there an open source or commercial package we can get? An API? Are the algorythms easy enough to implement something like this in a month or so?
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And importantly, learn to recognise a rip so that you never get in one.

Surfers like to recognize where the rips are so that they can get back out more quickly for the next good wave. :-)
Pretty meaningless figure. There are lots of mitigating factors, like ads, whether the free app is merely a teaser with in app purchase, whether the app is a fart machine, etc. Because of all of these factors, it is very difficult to extract any meaningful data from app stores.
Strong idea and well executed so far. I know the pain point well.

Not so sure you're appealing to the right target market. It's hard to see this within the HN echo chamber but your site still comes across as very techie. It's clear how your service will help people like us, smartphone-wielding techies, but we don't run restaurants.

You should be targeting restaurant owners, executive chefs and general managers. These people are super busy and extremely tech-averse. They will shut off their brains instead of trying to understand anything even slightly technical about phones, Flash, web, etc. So get rid of that stuff. Instead show how they can get more customers by presenting their food and experience to people who are out in their neighborhood and hungry right now. And show how they can do this with near-zero hassle.

Messages like these might work: You're losing customers!
X% of people are already out and about when they decide to eat.
Y% of restaurant websites are broken on phones (use this instead of "Top 4 problems...").
Fancy phone = the income and connections to be prime customers.

Get rid of everything that doesn't clearly and directly support your main value proposition within the domain of your target market. For example the "Did you know?" section has only one relevant point ("14% of smartphone users look for restaurants...") and it hurts you because the number is small.

Test everything, including our comments. Good luck!
http://developers.face.com/docs/ has anyone used that? Any good?
Brilliant business idea: whiteyboard.com
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The most interesting part of this will be how Gruber eventually spins this... can't wait to see that.
There is also a lot more pressure on young people today to go amass piles of debt acquiring a college degree that they do not need.

The stigma against trade and vocational educations in this country needs to die, otherwise we're going to just keep starting people off at a bigger disadvantage than they need be for very little good reason.
Client side javascript fast compression library using LZJB algorithm.
"Not entirely sure why it was linked on HN but it's certainly interesting."

Justin (justin.tv) mentioned Shogun in his Inc.com interview.
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Changing Government and Tech With Geeks
> Disclaimer: I'm not a businessperson or a restaurant owner.

This is key. stevenwei, you need to get your butt into some restaurants and test this idea out. I work with restaurant owners and workers all the time. They're loud, brash, and won't hesitate to tell you exactly what they think of you (and your product) to your face.

Spend a day in as many of the restaurants in your area as possible and request a meeting with the owner. Most of the time you'll get turned down, but take what you can get.

Ask them about their current website and if they have any issues. Talk to them about smartphones and try to understand how they perceive their problems. Take lots of notes. Then, use the words the restaurant people did on your site. It may seem unclear to us on HN, but if it speaks to restaurant people that's all that matters.
Any kind of perspective would do this guy lots of good, period.
I have some history with Polar Rose. They are currently licensing their Face Detection and Matching engine. Either as a web service or as a library that you can include and use directly on your own servers.

http://info.polarrose.com/solutions.php
I've just concluded a deal with bizfilings.com, and have been completely impressed. They're the best bang-per-dollar and very professional. It takes around 24-36 hours to get the approval going (they do the name check and then manually review your papers to make sure nothing is amiss). One - two weeks later, you'll have scanned PDFs of your approval available online + hard copies via snail mail coming your way.
While the law is there it seems to have halted. I have tried to get information about this out of them on the state level. There is no services yet. But it might be an interesting opportunity for a startup.
It's a lot of work. I think that's exacerbated by modern lifestyles. We're pulled in a thousand directions and we're less likely to live near relatives, which means that the support systems are not there like they used to be.

Kids demand you. Simple things like watching them playing is huge for them. If you try to understand what they're saying (already at a few months old), you'll be surprised to find it pretty cogent and clear. For example, in the article, the little boy was literally hitting his mother over the head to get her attention. But if you're not listening, you just get upset.

I didn't become parent because I think it will selfishly make me happier. I became a parent because I felt I would have something to offer a child and I wanted to give expression to that.
Like everything in life, the thought of doing it, trumps the actual doing it. Finishing the basement, writing a novel, building the next great web app, raising kids all seem like great projects to embark on. But it's the dark night of the soul, when you're up for the 10 night in a row (or you have writer's block or you realize you shouldn't have cut that pipe, etc, etc).

Life isn't all rainbows and unicorns. Speaking as a member of GenX, our lives are so damn easy most of the time, when we run into problems, we don't know how to handle it. However, we adjust.

I just can't imagine how grandma raised 9 kids with no ER or acute care and little money. Wars, the great depression, death of a child, she went through it all. And they did hard physical labor every day.

The thing is we adjust, it's hard at first, but we persevere.

When you watch your kid doing something you taught him, that's just not a feeling you get from purchasing a new iPad. When you sit in structure you built or use a product you built you'll know the feeling. It's hard to explain but in the end, it's worth it.
Apple only quote numbers when both of the following apply:
1) They beat the competition at that point on it
2) They can present it as a benefit to the UX

Current example: Resolution. They beat the competition, and they present it as a distinct experience benefit.

By and large, they neither strongly compete nor communicate numbers elsewhere. In fact they go so far as to obscure or hide numbers and instead focus exclusively on the quality and experience angles instead.

I'm not a fruit fanboy, but I do think that the way to play the numbers game is to show why they matter in ways that the layman can comprehend. On that front, if Google aren't using this advantage in the sunspiders tests to communicate on a user experience angle then they're missing the advantage of being ahead in the numbers game.
At least in the PL conferences I've been to, the session chair is expected to have a softball question for the speaker if there are no questions being asked. That question usually serves the same purpose as the one that this individual has.
Book Report about Palanuik's Snuff- actually handed in
I’m reading a book between classes called Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk. Its story line is based around a woman who is setting a world record, to beat all other world records. She is a famous adult film actress and she has decided to have sex with 600 men in one sitting, “the record to end all records”. I’ve been working at an adult novelty store on and off for the past 5 years, I was an assistant manager for a year, then was a manager for a year and a half and continue to work on call for the owners now, so reading a book based on this is actually very interesting to me. Questions like; how would you survive? How would your body be able to handle that? Is there some kind of training to prepare for a record like that? What kind of person would you have to be to want to accomplish a goal like that? Is it true that if you’re women trying to set a sex record it’ll be regarded differently then if a man were to try and set a sex record? I’m about half way through the novel and so far, I haven’t specifically learned any knew, because of my experience with product in the industry. The way you can strengthen your inner vaginal muscles to be more controllable and stronger. There are stretches that are easy to do to help accentuate different body parts to increase and decrease orgasm. Although this author who is famous for books like Fight Club and Haunted, has made the experience of what this porn star’s lifestyle is like. I’m looking forward to getting further into the book where more details of her life become more prominent and maybe some of my questions will be answered. This book is kind of slow paced and goes into other characters like “Mr.9”, and “Mr. 238”, “Mr. 417”, I’ve put the book down because of school work but am looking forward to going away on the coming weekend so that I can finish this enticing book.
lol great... her teacher is probably still showing this around the breakroom.. Have you ever written anything as crazy and handed it in?
Equal height search form (styling form elements)
Are you perhaps unfamiliar with capitalism?

I do not think it is somehow a controversial statement that employees of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to maximize profit. He may have stated it in a controversial or misleading way, but it is not untrue.

Additionally, it seems you have interpreted it as some sort of polemic regarding work/life balance, an interpretation which I do not believe is supported by the text.
VALIDATION! I grew up on Long Island, where everyone has either the "Lawnguyland" accent or the "Noo Yawk" accent. I swore that my speech would be tainted by neither influence, and I was victorious: This quiz indicates I have a "Neutral" accent.
Yet another piece from the f5 fluff factory.

Flagged for lack of content. It's simply a bunch of buzzwords chained together for the sole purpose of collecting google juice towards their linkfarm.

Submitted, unsurprisingly, through a dedicated spam account - see his submission history.
There is one option you have not considered.

Name the US advisor as corporation treasury person, hence they would than open the US bank account in corp's name
Everyone who saw the Tom Cruise movie knows that the last samurai was white, too. :P
> * Required

> Looks like you have a question or two that still needs to be filled out.

If I want to skip a question, I should be able to do so.
I completely agree.

I graduated college 5 years ago with a Poli sci BA from a state school. My first job was for $11/hr working on MS Pagemaker for the Wisconsin Medicaid website for EDS. Talk about soul sucking!

Now, I'm a senior software engineer at a VC-funded software company in Boulder. Needless to say earning a bit more and doing a lot more rewarding work.

Between those two places there are about four other jobs and literally thousands of hours reading programming books, working on "play" projects, making websites for my Aunt, Grandma, anyone who would let me, etc.

Best advice is to get out there, get any job, stay hungry, intellectually curious and never settle. Then stop worrying.
Try http://www.programmableweb.com/
Currently, while we are doing Beta, less than $100 per month per person for food and other miscellaneous expenses. We have no rent, since we're college dorm resident assistants with free stay. Internet, electricity, etc. are free too.

It's hard (and unnecessary) to reduce our burn rate any further because that would be cutting into bone.
Including the needs for backing up confidential data? Hm.
> you may find it a lot easier to set up in your own home country

It's often ridiculously expensive to have a real, limited liability company in many continental European countries. For instance, in Italy, you're supposed to have 10K euro of capital (although you can get away with less), not to mention pretty much mandatory fees for accountants, notary public, and so on.
To understand... are you expecting Google to enter every possible search term into your search box and index the results? BTW, your site _requires_ javascript = SEO fail.
Google acts to fix YouTube flaw exploited by hackers
I don't care. iPhone 4. I want iPhone 4.
He seems to be an unabashed anarchist when things are going his way. Now that they aren't he's crying out about his rights.
There's no pre-release developer build of iOS 4 for iPad, yet.
I work from home, and rent/food/utilities/internet in northern Colorado is about $2,000 a month. Aside from rent, the internet is my biggest expense: I live in the mountains, so I pay ~$450/mo for a T1 - cable/DSL is not available, and satellite sucks. I could live in town and pay less, but my rent would go up, and I'd rather live in the mountains.

As for business expenses, I average ~$1,000 in recurring charges per month, which pays for servers, payment processing, web app subscriptions, and international calls. I usually spend another thousand a month on books, courses, and other continuing education, since that's my market.
How about Ally Bank - http://www.ally.com/ - they are online-only and extremely internet/technology-savvy.
I would also like to point out that I feel pleasure after working through a day in a disciplined way that doesn't waste time. So "disciplining yourself not to waste time" isn't always to gain pleasure later, but can also generate direct pleasure. At least for me. (my $0.02)
Yes. Your latter point does (and I cant believe I am saying this...) credit to Gawkers handling of the data. But Goatse handed it out (so far as we know, I admit) with no idea of what would be done with it.

Also from a security perspective (at least from mine) it is just unethical to hand over data you got - no matter how trivial :)
I certainly don't have all the answers, but part of why parents hate parenting is a one-size-fits-all approach to what parents are "supposed" to do: issue time-outs, "recite the rules of the house to a 2 year-old," or overuse the good old "1, 2, 3...." There's no single golden path to parenting.
The Importance of Deadlines
Great for websites with no design whatsoever.
I'd love to see how fast my Android phone runs with 2.2. Too bad I can't. One thing the iOS releases have going for them is that users can actually get them when they are released. 48 Days later, I still don't have the 2.2 update.
I've got it sitting on my desk but I after flicking through it I'm not sure whether to make it my first Javascript book.

Would you recommend it to a first year CS student with Java experience or should I try one of those in the list first?
I guess he doesn't use Google
That's great because that's the main thing most people look at when they're buying a phone. Forget the display and the camera, what are the JavaScript benchmarks like?

Don't get me wrong, it's good that these sort of enhancements are made and that the platforms drive each other on in this area, but it's not actually going to sell any phones because the gap will never become big enough to become a genuine selling point.
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Tell HN: Hacker Newsletter
Timing is everything and two days ago there was a great post by Jason about Email Newsletters Are Still A Serious Business:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488170

Jason's first article about newsletters almost a year ago is what first got me thinking about this idea. The front page of HN always has great reads that provide value to me. However, there are times when I can't get on for a week or when I know if I open HN I will end up on there for an hour or more. I have heard others share the same situation, and at the time thought some sort of newsletter would be a great fit with the content on HN. I didn't have time to pursue that idea at the time, but recently I found some notes that stirred my memory and along with the new Hacker Monthly (which I didn't think would work when Lim first talked about it, but after seeing the first edition and how he pulled it off - I stand corrected), I am moving forward with it.

The Hacker Newsletter will be a weekly collection of the top items on Hacker News. I will link to articles (and comments) based on votes/comments, and there will be an editorial side to it where I might add/remove things based on what I think is most useful for a weekly digest. I will also feature the best "Ask HN" posts, job threads, and a look back at some past articles that would still be useful today. Lastly, I want to do some original content as well and have some different ideas that I am working on, but one will be highlighting projects that HN members have release (both small and large).

Depending on how large the list gets and my time spent on it, I probably will include an ad (hopefully from HN startups) and/or job postings to help pay for it later on.

I want to build something that will serve the HN crowd well, so any feedback is very welcome. The first email will go out this Saturday and you can opt-in at:
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

Thanks,
Kale
For the press and for the record, most likely. Both result in them getting more funding for round n+1.