skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I totally agree with Gladwell on this one. I'll go even one step further and claim that many to most of the people you see joining these Facebook charity groups do so almost involuntarily because their friends do. I was so irritated by this when the Save Darfur groups started gaining traction, that I created my own bogus group with the premise that we should recycle garbage and feed all the rotten thrown-out foods that supermarkets discard to African orphans. Within days I got several thousand members with some commenting about how great the cause was. I even threw in some really bogus stats, like 30 orphans die in the time it takes you to exhale. Morbid prank, I know, but it was an experiment that proved to me that most on Facebook don't give a damn about causes and join these groups for purely narcissistic reasons.
Non-carbonated: Water, milk, iced-tea

For water, I refill an old glass apple juice container and fill it with Brita water and make sure I always drink about 3 liters a day.

Carbonated: Coca-Cola, Sprite, Diet-Coke (is it just me or does Diet Coke never seem as cold as Coke even if kept in the same spot of the fridge?)

Beer: Alaskan Amber Ale, Bluemoon, or a microbrew pale ale.

Rarely: Earl Grey tea, but usually with sugar or honey

No wine, no hard alcohol, no cocktails, no coffee. Not sure why but not really into them.
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Definitely, I guess as a uni student, I'm worried about the majority of non-technical students who are going to have their sessions hacked and have no clue what hit them and cannot setup proxies/tunnels.

I'm not saying this isn't the site's fault. They definitely need a wake-up call.
I miss having an old car -- a few years back I had recently moved overseas, and was driving a car I could reasonably buy with cash from the ATM (no bank account yet, etc). Well, one day I managed to lock my keys in the car (and myself, my wife and 2 friends out of it) while we were at the grocery store. I turned around, jogged back into the store, bought a screwdriver and a coat-hanger, and jogged back out. The screwdriver was to push the upper corner of the door away from the frame (easy to open a little space, but hard to do with just fingers); the coat hanger was to snag the lock and pull it up.

The hardest part was actually getting the screwdriver out of its damned unbreakable-but-dangerously-sharp plastic packaging.

All-in-all, we only got home about 5 minutes later than we would have!
we were on the internet before you had any of your "am i on the internet?" criteria checked :)

just trying to have a conversation, not really interested in arguing (usually futile, especially on the web/forums/etc.). if i'm missing something i didn't see/understand, i'm always looking to find the error in my ways (it happens often, hence i've learned to always be eager in engaging conversation, whether on the streetcorners or the webs...).

what were the strawmen or false dichotomies?

i think all my points and questions were valid. i'm not sure if you're being disingenuous and dismissive, or just afraid to concede that your rhetoric is both unconvincing and (probably) wrong, or a combination of the two.
I've formed some strong ties through Twitter, but as with Dixon's experience, they only begin on Twitter--they don't evolve there. Conversations quickly move to email, Skype and IRL.
Also, as far as your input filtering goes, I enjoy the 2001: responses. But you're not picking up extra "$" characters for it. It gives me an answer for "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4" and "$$$$$$4$$$$$$" and "$$$44$$$4$4$", for example.
see my reply above for hopeful clarification on how wikileaks is different from your typical "important stuff".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828531
Languages evolve. They also include lots of ugly history. Fact is, it's part of the language today, and nobody is using the word "indiscriminately" or as an otherwise ethnic slur. In other words, we don't have to feel bad for using it.
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$620 per month at about 7% average (3-4 loans between 6.x% and 8.5%). I've got $5k left one one loan that is $150 of the monthly payment. I'm going to dip into savings and pay that off in the next month or two. That'll leave me at $470 per month and $37k total.
Apple has always been very conservative and exceedingly smart when it comes to buyouts, and a takeover of Facebook seems unlikely, to say the least. Purchasing a company with a current P/E ratio of 500 to 1000, in an industry Apple has little experience with, seems like it would be very uncharacteristic.

I could be wrong, but I think this is a good example of a baseless rumor that won't go away.
I've actually tried this, although I suppose I should give it another go. So far, the quality of design that I've seen from students was just not quite up to par.
What about pairing the auth token with a browser fingerprint? [1]

It would make it harder to troll an open network for random victims, and wouldn't annoy the user.

[1] Perhaps a hash based on something like this https://panopticlick.eff.org/
No, it makes for an argument for having a transparent and clear salary policy where equal work deserves equal pay, and if you're adding value to the company it should be clear why.

The study doesn't mention the opinions of people regarding their colleagues value-adding.
I trust my server operator much more than anyone squatting on attwifi, yes.
I've seen such things on HN at least. I've been contacted after posts I've made here and there are tons of people who received good help after asking for it on HN.

I don't think Dixon's is talking about the same thing as Gladwell. The examples that Gladwell cites are large movements not business or personal connections.
I stuck around for the credits just to check if they used twin actors for these roles or not. I thought they used a single actor (with really solid camerawork/sleight of hand split screen style effect), while my friends were convinced it was twin actors. Turns out we were both wrong. Brilliant.
If PB had been at Pets.com then I'm guessing FriendFeed would have involved feeding dogs?
Logging into insecure sites over Tor is probably not a good idea. It's always good to assume that people running exit nodes are not the most trustworthy.

HTTPS Everywhere is good but only works on known sites (and known domains for those sites).
HTTPS Everywhere only works on a select few sites. You're up a creek for anything it doesn't cover.

And Tor, there's lots of cases where operators did bad things. Don't trust it for sensitive information. http://blog.ironkey.com/?p=201
To be clear, that tutorial was made in 2007, so is a bit dated. Also, it shows how to set up FF to use the proxy, but the idea of a tunnel is not FF-specific, nor is this vulnerability.

One big issue with SSH-tunnel as a solution is that anything not set up to use the proxy still works, it's just quietly vulnerable.

Any suggestions on making TCP traffic which doesn't go through the proxy totally fail?
I think all cookies are sent with every request, so cookies can't be used to (securely) pass data to the next page. It'd work just fine on the login page, but every page after that would have to renegotiate to generate a new cookie, meaning you basically just created SSL everywhere.

Local storage, however, could probably be used to do just such a thing, as it exists only locally. In which case you could just have the login page generate an RSA key pair, receive the server's public key in the response, and use that for any kind of secure communication on each page load. The server would have to remember sessions => encryption keys, but that's not too hard.
Show HN: Internet Explorer Stole My Life 
Had an idea on my lunch break Friday, and 12 hours later a friend and I had a made it a rough reality:

Internet Explorer Stole My Life.
From the site:
"Simply put, Internet Explorer is the bane of every web designer and programmer's existence. It's seen masterpieces ripped to shreds, and countless hours wasted simply attempting to get it to play nice. This site is a tribute to all those days gone because Internet Explorer refuses to adopt proper web standards. Take a moment to mourn your lost time and send a message: enough is enough."

What you see here is the first public iteration of the site. I'd love to get any feedback to see where we need to go from here.
Maybe an extra 5000 cars on the road in the most traffic-dense parts of the city isn't ideal.
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What about the scientology protests? I think there was an element of social media fueling that fire.
Had an idea on my lunch break Friday, and 12 hours later a friend and I had a made it a rough reality:

Internet Explorer Stole My Life.
From the site:
"Simply put, Internet Explorer is the bane of every web designer and programmer's existence. It's seen masterpieces ripped to shreds, and countless hours wasted simply attempting to get it to play nice. This site is a tribute to all those days gone because Internet Explorer refuses to adopt proper web standards. Take a moment to mourn your lost time and send a message: enough is enough."

What you see here is the first public iteration of the site. I'd love to get any feedback to see where we need to go from here.
In tech? On HN? In YC? Definitely.
Just tested it out, worked like a charm. Very handy!
Yup, they're one of our examples of a "good" setup. However, Google leaks iGoogle and some other things (Latitude, address book, reader, ...)
I don't know if it's a good example but the mister splashy pants on reddit incident was really cool and funny. Here's a ted talk about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash...

Most of the people who were part of that probably didn't do anything else but even if 1% bought shirts, that's a net win for Greenpeace. You don't need everyone to make an impact. Same with the facebook groups, even if only 1% are hardcore activists, it's better than 0.

I'm sure there are other cool examples.
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Bullshit!

I support your right to portray yourself in whatever light you can muster, but there's no shortage of critical thinkers on Hacker News.

The phenomena that you're describing is often called "othering" and it generally sums up nicely as "a room full of dudes bending over backwards to be so accepting to a woman that it's creepy". It is a real problem.

However, I know I'm not the only person on here who couldn't care less what your gender is. I want to respect you for what you produce, and I'm not going to mince words if I think something is goofy.

Being a radical is tiring and it's not cool to put the onus for change on women, who I suspect get worn down demanding equality. I know that I would.

Yet, there are times and places where major gains come only from sticking your neck out once in a while. Being a woman on HN might be one of those places.
It's 100% open source! Please feel free to review it.

http://github.com/codebutler/firesheep

It doesn't currently do anything with passwords, it's only pulling out cookies from HTTP Response headers. But it would be trivial to also get passwords in non-HTTPS requests for logins with the same method.
The strange thing is that given Randall's influence, this has a pretty good chance of being implemented.
To which CU are you referring?
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Most sites don't properly invalidate sessions when you log out, you can't protect yourself as well as you think. See our slide on this topic:

http://codebutler.github.com/firesheep/tc12/#18
The point is that there are so many legal grey areas.

Is car pooling now a taxi service, because I pay the driver?

At which point is it illegal for me to give someone a ride?

What if they give me services instead of cash, like an hour of web design?

What if they give me virtual tokens/karma instead?

What if the transportation didn't take place strictly in the city but was half in the city and half outside?

Are you really running a taxi service by giving ONE PERSON a lift, or does it have to be several? Does it have to be publicly advertised?
People still care about myspace?
Love the idea of wordchuck as a stand alone business. How's it going?
Have a bazillion karma points. I didn't realize that switching resolved that whole problem. This is why I continue to bring up stupid hypothetical situations on HN from time to time ;-)
Employers need few arguments for keeping salaries secret. It's already pretty well-known that secret salaries work in employers' favor: less information puts employees in a weaker negotiating position.

It'd be more interesting to see an argument for why employees should keep their salaries secret, because the only one I've heard is that their feelings might get hurt, yet their are several tangible benefits to sharing. If an employee had a better idea of what "market rate" for their position is, or if they knew which employers consistently paid the highest salaries, or if they knew that their employer consistently paid high salaries and yet they didn't receive one, it'd put them in a significantly better negotiating position.
I really like the CORE series of books, i.e. Core PHP

I also build stuff and learn at the same time, which means a forum comes in handy. Check out PHPBuilder, I am on there if you need help.
I did a "Rate my Startup" post for my startup (http://www.happybuy.com/) a little while back that didn't get much traction:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780988

Would be great if you had any feedback on the site you could provide. Although not purely writing, any experience or advice on how to improve its SEO would be most appreciated as the current search traffic is low.

Thank you for helping out other HN'ers.
This kind of reporting is extremely, extremely dangerous. I'm all for this kind of rumor-mill stuff, but, when placed on a site that's supposed to exist as a newscenter, the lines can become incorrectly, and dangerously, crossed.

I'm not sure if it's the traffic success of Angelgate or what, but this kind of rumor-mill junction is the type of libel that can drop stock prices and damage the PR of a company - without any real facts. And that's obviously wrong. That we allow million dollar swings to occur because of one man's reputation for fact alone is an absolute joke, and one that shouldn't be stood for. If Arrington wants to run a tech gossip site, run it. But don't run it on a site that's meant for news - and occasionally, opinionative blog posts that clearly define themselves as such. And definitely, don't run it as fact - with a "this is absolute truth" headline - without the substantive evidence to back it up.

It's irresponsible. And irresponsible is a rather tame way to describe it.
So i tried hitting $9999999999999999999, priceless result.
It actually quite make sense!
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To a degree it is, here and on sites like Stack Overflow, by doling out privileges based on karma. Randall has just described a more extreme version of the same idea, where membership itself is one of those privileges.
I would cheat on him.

Well, this suggestion is now completely infeasible due to the existence of this thread, but couldn't the two of you hire a chaperone? There are a lot of cultures where there are many people who are used to the chaperone role. I think (albeit, with a bit of effort) you'd be able to find someone willing to spend 3 or 4 months hanging out in San Francisco on an unconventional but free vacation. Just offer them a sizable reward if they catch you. (There is even a fetishist scene from which you can acquire working chastity belts!)

Alternatively, just hire a "virtual personal assistant" to video chat with you once per hour and also go over a once per minute time-lapse film of you sleeping every day. IR sensitive webcams and IR LED lamps are pretty cheap. Even better, you can trade a favor with someone who handles the tech for the house arrest ankle bracelets.

Granted, none of this is foolproof. You're probably smart enough to circumvent any of these measures, but you'd have to make an active effort to do so. This takes an affair well out of the realm of circumstantial "temptation." (Though in your case, given your unusually poor impulse control, the temptation might increase because of the measures.)

EDIT: This gives me an idea for a product. Maybe call this something like "Watchdroid." It would be a battery operated remotely aimable webcam the size of a cell phone, connected over 3G.
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There is so many hoops I have to jump to make this work in OS X.

$ mv firesheep-backend firesheep-backend.binary
$ cat > firesheep-backend
#!/bin/sh
sudo /path/to/firesheep-backend.binary $@
^D
$ sudo chmod +x firesheep-backend

Then restart Firefox and start capture. You need to run sudo once every certain period.
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The marketer in me thinks the tag actually gets better click-through than untagged (SFW) articles.

A bit "meta" and ironic, like how certain rock bands used to call themselves suggestive names to lure people into venues.
I just checked out the site and the copy that jumped out at me that needs revision is the sentence: "all with one clean, zippy software"

Perhaps you could revise the copy to:
"Recruiterbox is a no-nonsense recruitment tool. Publish jobs, screen resumes & track applicants - an all in one, simplified approach to recruitment . At a price that will make you smile."
Yes, there have been things we didn't invest in because we thought they were too evil. We don't have any actual policies about it though; we decide case by case.
I would have expected each wireless client, on an encrypted network, to negotiate its own key with the access point -- so you'd only see neighbors' traffic if the access point chose to rebroadcast it to you.

Are you sure that neither WEP nor WPA/WPA2 do it this way?
yep then you extend it to something as simple as having a second ID in localStorage or a flash cookie

then the next version of this plugin just spoofs all of those parameters as well

the only solution[1] is SSL and client certificates

[1] in the case of being on the same network
They already tell you to turn off your Gameboy. I doubt they'd let passengers get anywhere near plugging directly into the power from the engines.
Like strict vs. lazy evaluation by default...?
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Focuth is a time\task management tool that allows you not only to manage your tasks but to track how productively you spent your time and concentrate on important things. Unlike many other time\task management tools it’s aimed to train your own productivity habits rather than to replace them with a software.

Who is it aimed for?
First of all for people who find themselves being hard to concentrate on their work, those who are easily distractable due to their work online. Also it is for people who’s hard to force themselves to create todo lists every day but they wish being organized. And of course it’s intended for IT people, those who spend much time online, since this is a web-based tool.

How it works?
Write any activity you are going to do and specify time to perform (or choose a thing from assigned for today). Even absolutely useless activity.
After you have done it, check whether the activity was useful or not. Afterwards you can analyse how productively you spent your time, and how good you are in time estimations.

Also the project has built-in todo list with an ability to split complex things on steps (subtasks).

The project is in its early beta stage so any feedback highly appreciated.
No, the answer is NOT that art is subjective. I don't think it can be boiled down that easily, but if I were to try and answer succinctly, I would say the difference is there because black people, specifically African Americans, live in a culturally parallel America where there are different rules about what is and isn't acceptable. There is intense pressure on Black men to be "hard" and the way to express that is usually laid out in song.

I actually DON'T think it's his responsibility to be a role model. BUT I think it's wrong to glorify his success without saying something about the path he walked/walks to obtain it. He is 40-something and STILL writing lyrics about selling drugs.

As for citing examples, I'm sorry, I haven't been keeping a running log of the number of funerals I've been to, the guys I've known who've gotten shot, the women (including myself) who've been physically harassed by guys trying to re-enact the latest video, the children who are lost to drug addicted parents, and every other societal ramification that comes from supporting hip hop culture without qualifying/recognizing the damage it does to the black community. I live it, I think that's enough.
No, hot water. Plus Honey if you need a sweetener. Milk works too. Also if you'd rather eat cocoa than drink it, I would order bulk organic cocoa nibs rather than processed sugarified chocolate bars.

[ If you want to get fancy I'm sure you could order raw cocoa beans and roast them like you do coffee beans ]
For anyone who has SSH access to a server (but not VPN) and is wondering what to do when you need some security in a pinch, here is a quick fix...

Open an ssh connection to a server you have access to using something like the following:

ssh -ND 8887 -p 22 rufus@12.120.186.8

where 8887 is the port on your laptop that you will tunnel through, -p 22 is the port the ssh server is on (22 is the default but I use a different port so I am used to specifying this) and the rest is your username and the address of the server

Set your network to point to the proxy. On a Mac that would be…

... Open Network Preferences…

... Click Advanced…

... Click Proxies…

... Check the SOCKS Proxy box then in the SOCKS Proxy Server field enter localhost and the port you used (8887)

... OK and Apply and you are done!

Now you can surf safely.
Well, whatever... encrypt all you like, $5 will still crack your session: http://xkcd.com/538/
Rands. At the very least, his blog: http://randsinrepose.com. But, his book - Managing Humans - is great as well: http://www.managinghumans.com.
I've only had a problem with the Cradlepoint because I had it on and it was warm. The battery? I just put it in my carryon, and it's never been a problem. I spent almost $7000 in cheap airfares in the last year, so this has definitely been tested!
Exactly. That's why the net effect of this is going to be exactly what the author wants. All major potential targets will update this really fast.

I can't think of a more effective way for him to convince them all to update now.
I was just looking for this yesterday but couldn't remember what it was called.
They could run a generator off a turbine in the airstream. A lot of EW pods were powered this way. This would cost a bit of fuel, but there would be no direct connection between the cabin electrical system and the engines.
Linux installation needs work. README is empty, and the INSTALL says use ./configure which doesn't exist. ./autogen.sh complains about needing xulrunner-sdk path, which is isn't something normal for linux.

Edit: Oops! Linux support is "on the way." I guess I assumed since linux is the easiest platform to get your driver to go into monitor mode.
Thanks for the information. I've been mostly considering New Zealand and Canada before posting this thread. I am beginning to like the sound of New Zealand more and more. :)