skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on this article you can "fingerprint" a computer using the following combination of attributes:

- Precise timestamp

- Monitor size

- User agent

- Browser plugins

- and fonts (!)

Really?? I use several browsers, and switch out a few external displays for my laptop. Plugins come and go with the browser version. My system time is synced to a timeserver (as I imagine are many other computers) but sometimes not. Based on these data, it's hard to believe anyone could truly trace my hardware over time.
Ask HN: What did you ship in November?
Or, what did you work on that you'll ship in December?
By following this logic you should

* never cook for yourself, always eat out
* never wash your own car
* never cut your own grass

ad infinitum

If you make a sufficient salary this can be extended to everything you do and you might reach the conclusion that it's best if you do nothing besides working and sleeping. Then you realize how ridiculous the whole argument is.
Oxygen atmosphere found on Saturn's moon Rhea
It's not really a decentralized system if it relies on a central signing authority. I'm not sure what problem this solves.
They _claim_ to have documented it internally. Garrett-Glaser has publicly documented his case. Any blind faith in the accuracy of Tandberg's response is not shared by me.
Let a thousand whistleblowing sites bloom, I say...
>In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

-- Yogi Berra.
What they need is a licensing clause that requires anyone which uses one of these Project Gutenberg formatted ebooks as a base must display a link to the free version.

That way someone can decide if they wish to pay the price for the value add that amazon is providing (presumably convenience) or just go with the free copy.

Without this kind of attribution, many would believe they are either paying for amazons work to format the book or even the book itself (not sure they acknowledge when a work is out of copyright?)
Does anyone need any non-design/non-developer remote people (business, marketing, product management)? I have some experienced friends who are considering new positions but require remote work.
Would also be a good way to destroy a competitor's business with one faked email.
CevronWP7 "jailbreak" tool discontinued
Regarding his underplaying of fuel mass, check out the rocket equation to get an idea of how hard it is to achieve the delta-v required for various maneuvers (e.g. suborbital, orbital, escape): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

Essentially, your fuel mass requirements increase exponentially as you need more delta-v. It's very much harder to get into orbit than to stay sub-orbital. And you will need a significant amount of fuel left over if you wish to orbit or land at your destination. You can mitigate that with atmospheric aerobraking, but that's not possible on, say, the Moon.
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It's also all about protecting whistle blowers. They've put a lot of thought into ways of covering the tracks of people who come to them to keep them safe - I don't think it's hypocritical. They're concerned for their safety, not their politics.
There seems to be an assumption here that the difficulty of going somewhere is proportional to the energy required.

What about time, and provisions for life support during that time? What about launch windows, in terms of the amount of waiting time required before a return trip and the difficulties of a rescue mission?

Others have already mentioned that the amount of fuel/weight you need is worse than linearly proportional to the energy required.
This sounds great until the spammers get involved.
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Emo hairstyles are one of the more popular hairstyles among teens these days. The whole concept of this teen hairstyle is to look different.
The license applies only if you use the PG trademark(for stuff in the public domain):

'A Project Gutenberg ebook is made out of two parts: the public domain book and the non public domain Project Gutenberg trademark and license. If you strip the Project Gutenberg license and all references to Project Gutenberg from the ebook, you are left with a public domain ebook. You can do anything you want with that. '
Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup
If my brain were in a vat, my need to travel would be significantly reduced. The only reason I can think of would be if I wanted to interact with a distant environment with less latency.
My current employer's original wording: "We strongly feel that education is to be performed by every employee himself if he has an urge to learn." This quote is from our last personnel review meeting.

Note: we are a Swiss company producing "solutions", not software - even every second employee is a programmer.

I actually do have learned my lesson and am about to leave this company for good.
It doesn't matter whether it actually works anywhere near as well as the hyperbolic sales pitch as long as advertisers buy it. It's nothing more than cookies and metadata collected by javascript, probably hashed together to produce a unique ID.
It's different for everybody. It's better to focus on what's sustainable for you personally rather than a specific quantity of hours.
Did BASIC and Ada which many seemed to miss

There was no Ada in the list. You couldn't list Ada's authorship and still keep the entry-box above the fold.
Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)
LEGO Robot Shows How Animals Overcome Fear to Obtain Food
Wordpress Plugin: Amazon Auto Updating Site « Web development & SEO: VellumWeb
David Deutsch, while making valid philosophical/metaphysical points, exhibits symptoms of a serial cow-tipper.
A lot of customers these days will do a Google on a company or product name before doing any business. They look for reviews as well as other opinions. If the search turns up a thread like this, I'm sure they'll run away.
Make your code Clear not Clever
Love the reference to Joseph Schumpeter in the debit card image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter
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SysAdvent Day 1: Linux Containers (LXC)
http://geo.flagfox.net/?search=wikileaks.org
Do you know why Opera is doing so well in Russia?
> Because, fortunately, the world is not vector-based :)

Why 'fortunately'?
Aside from propulsion, which is solved at least for space probes, the great problem of outer-planet exploration is bandwidth. Using a microwave high-gain antenna, the data rate at Saturn is on the order of 10kbits/s and New Horizons would have to cope with 1kbit/s at Pluto. This is incredibly small for instruments capable of taking high resolution pictures.

So the next revolution in space exploration would have to tackle the data problem; optical or near-optical lasers for transmitters and standard photosensors (CCD) for receivers. It is technically possible to use off-the-shelf components, the remaining difficulty being the beam aiming system.
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Net neutrality rules: coming December 21
Visual Basic for Windows Phone Hits the Windows Phone Marketplace
My apologies for the confusion, then. It's also in the fine print (1.E.2.)... I feel like deleting my entry to avoid the noise. What to do? Downvote away, folks!

Edit: As an aside, PG could copyright their digitization of public-domain works, right?
Ten Gifts Your Computer Wants For Christmas
It must be about time for TechCrunch to hyperbolically declare the death of Firefox, then.
I think some customers do this, but they're in a minority. I don't have any figures to back this up, it's just my general observation of peoples behaviour...
Yes. Fonts are the key. See the EFF site for a demo:
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I was surprised to see a huge ad on the page and thought it was spammy or high-schoolish.

You might want to remove that ad on the header atleast on the careers and the about us pages on your site. IMHO, it doesn't make a good first impression.
I know PATH is looking for an ANDROID developer (mostly because I have been waiting for it to come to my Moto Droid)... Not sure if they do remote though, I would check it out.
This is an effective demonstration: http://panopticlick.eff.org/
I knew you were hiring cause I saw it on some newly launched job board some time ago (reddit maybe?) but I was wondering: since you are in sydney, isn't time difference with remote workers an issue?

(I love my current remote job and don't want another but I think RTM rocks :)
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No remote: EatingWell Media (www.eatingwell.com) but relo package available for the right person.

Two programming positions: one 'junior' one 'mid level'. Our flagship site is Drupal with new tools coming out in Python.

A quickly growing company, still small (~35 people), stock options after a year, good benefits, great atmosphere, dog friendly office, good eats from the kitchen.

Your supervisor is a programmer; we are taking an afterthought of a department and growing it into the main revenue stream. Tons of room for growth, lots of freedom, and your input will be taken seriously.

Strong sys admin skills are not necessary but a huge plus (reverse proxy, managing clusters, etc)
You can craft a SQL injection by linking to a blog with the right URL, thus causing Wordpress to attempt to ping them and, in doing so, directly execute your SQL statement of choice against the DB.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625
How Gawker plans to go beyond blogging
Note the new layout...
Sorry if I came off snarky in my question. I def didn't mean it that way.

Your explanation makes some sense, but (IMO) engineering teams should just strive to have developers own the testing process, especially if you except it to be "agile" automated testing of the unit/functional/continuous integration variety. Is testing not something that developers should (collectively) own?

More finely granulated titles/roles = less agile.
Ayn Rand U: The Cautionary Tale of a Short-Lived College
A Recommendation for Google's Webspam Team
allowing your device to be hacked just builds interest and therefore sales of the hardware

I suspect that $250 price tag is the result of selling the hardware at a loss. If people buy them and don't use the locked-in book purchasing features enough, B&N loses money. They have an incentive to actively prevent rooting.
How to email a support request
calling it a "small business" invokes images of a struggling entrepreneur out to improve the world.

this is a scam. threats of litigation. withholding of property. unlawful contracts.

you used "mob mentality". that's a big red flag to me. are you perhaps the owner of that small business?
Cyclists Pedal Faster On Wednesdays, Reveals Smart Bike Data
I took it up and brainstormed a product and wrote a few blog posts up at http://WeddingBudgetBuddy.com but I haven't launched a product yet. To me building audience is key, and I've been making slow progress getting relevant traffic. I'm going to try to launch soon.

I learned loads about starting a product (as opposed to a simple project) this month and it was incredibly valuable.

There's talk of it becoming a monthly thing, which I'd love to be a part of.

Well done to all who launched!
"We take 27%"

Ouch.
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except none of the reviewers even tried to do business with the company. reddit said give one star reviews, monkeys give one star reviews.
It would be nicer if the download page has some screenshots of the features listed.

EDIT: I also had to download to realise that it wouldn't work on my 32-bit OSX 10.5.8. Could you please add more info to the site? Thanks.
I've never seen this comprehensive an exposition of intransitive coin games; that's pretty cool. But I must admit some surprise at the lack of Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern references (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjOqaD5tWB0).
For me, this approach is far more impressive than any story about a founder giving up years of his or her life to flip the company for a huge payout.

What you've described is what I aspire to once we have children. Working from home. Flexibility to spend time with family. Thanks for sharing.
To get a feeling for the Self language and what was (is) possible, you should (if you can, of course) take the time to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU

It contains a few gems, and is really worthwhile watching. (Disclaimer, I think Dave Ungar has done tremendous things for PLDI; interested people should definitely check out his UC-Berkeley PhD thesis of 1986, easily one of the best I have ever seen...)
Thanks muchly for the notice.
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Round Up of Twitter Apps for Mac
A years salary, it seems.
They don't really need to trace your hardware over time. They're selling the info against the device, not against the person. Someone might want to target ads to your activity profile at work, someone else might want to target ads to your activity profile on your laptop at night. It might actually be better for the advertisers to have separate profiles for those machines than one for you the person.

You may switch browsers and displays and plugins all the time, but someone like you is very rare. More people have never strayed from their Windows XP and Internet Explorer for the past 9 years than not.
The EFF tested this themselves. They run a website, http://panopticlick.eff.org, comparing with computers that have visited in the past. They have over a million fingerprints at this point, and my Chrome install is "unique."

It displays all data it lifted from your machine, along with how rare each datum appears to be. On my Chrome 7.0.517.44 install, I appear to be identifiable by my user agent (1 in 182,518), browser plugins (1 in 1,277,632) and system fonts (1 in 638,816).
It should be noted that this is still a relatively early beta, and not fully the "Reeder for Mac" that people may be expecting.
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Advent calendar blog for entrepreneurs
Fully agree, and now that FF4beta7 fixed some of it's font issues, I'm switching back to it from Chrome. Here's why:

1) Panorama (a.k.a. tab candy). I can finally organize my tabs into little projects.

2) Much less restricted extension support. There a number of extensions that just aren't possible on chrome.

3) I hate the chrome start page, while helpful I find it usually leads me to distracting sites CoughHNCough instead of the reason I opened the browser instead. I call it Google's "Keep browsing" tactic. More annoying It always comes up on new tab/new window, even if you have the default home page set otherwise.
CropDusting: The Office Game
In the future you will live in a tiny little house
Not without making significant changes to the content, no.
Social is Just the Beginning
Of course it _might_ make things more difficult. What I'm saying is this: We know how our informants are, so we'd know if they died. The government would _love_ to find more stuff to pin on Wikileaks. Therefore, if 50 informants got killed, as your sibling says, Obama'd be on TV talking about it tomorrow.

But we haven't. So until someone shows that they have been killed, I presume that they haven't. That doesn't mean that it won't happen in the future.
For CVS and svn: you can hide it until someone actually looks at the relevant code. For git: not really (as long as you assume you change only the data - clever attackers could serve one repository to the developers and another to .mil/the rest of the world/...) I don't know about mercurial, but I'd wager it's the same as git in this respect.

In either case, an attacker could add arbitrary commits, and the system administrator would roll back to the last known-good backup as soon as the compromise was detected. I don't think DVCSes help much here.
I use Mike Cohn "theme scoring" to prioritize my projects:

http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/tools/theme-scoring
Nah, $250 is believable. Compared to the iPad, the specs are lower, which means cheaper chips, and the screen is about half the size, and not IPS.
You totally missed plusbryan's point.

The evidence of this being a scam is that someone posted an e-mail the owner allegedly sent. That e-mail could be a total sham, or it could be exaggerated, or there could be a huge other side of the story.

There are absolutely scammers out there, and this business might be one of them. There's no hard evidence either way, though.
The article doesn't quite make that point. You can say one thing (you didn't account for time, money and staffing), or another (great plan, I hope we can find the time, money, and staff), and get the same strategic result.

What you don't do is notify people of the root cause - the manager who thinks that time, money, and staff don't need to be accounted for.

The question is - what are your goals? Making the presenter look bad is only a good idea if you are in a culture where all bad ideas are attacked (hopefully without cramping innovation), or you are pretty sure the presenter needs to be taught a lesson. But otherwise, it's better to achieve one goal without the other.
maybe its just me but that looks a whole lot like one guy making lots of Yelp accounts. In particular that two entirely different "accounts" posted the same letter from the guy word for word. I think the letter itself is likely real though.
Wow - that site rapes my CPU. What is it with sites doing this? Do people not realise that it's really annoying/
There is a European equivalent to YC. It's YC. (maybe)
Luxembourg, Europe. (No remote)

Looking for 3-4 more java developers in the field of:
- distributed large scale crawling, content extraction, data analysis
- web applications

We crawl, analyze (extract article, author, date, theme, sentiment,...) and monitor websites (news, blogs, ...) for our clients.

Please see http://blog.trendiction.com/tag/jobs for more details or contact me directly under t.britz@trendiction.com
If you can find it, Beautiful Young Minds is a great documentary about the British team for the International Math Olympiad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Young_Minds
Probably better, the CDN should be able to absorb much more traffic. (At 10Gbps, you need to worry about the attackers saturating your upstream pipe. Forget responding, just receiving that much traffic is nontrivial. EC2 nodes are probably networked using gigabit ethernet, so no matter how clever you get you can't solve this with everyone's favorite "single load balancer plus nginx web servers".)
Even the default IE8 on my stock Windows 7 Enterprise appears to be unique. In that case it's the browser plugins which identifies it (1 in 1277688). My installed plugins are nothing out of the ordinary: Java, Flash and WindowsMediaplayer.
A New Type of Tracking: Akamai’s ‘Pixel-Free’ Technology
Thanks for the recommendation. PhD Dissertation Linked:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-287.p...
4G is a myth (and a confusing mess)
I'm sure there are ways around that. Give Assange a boatload of prepaid credit cards, have him pay Amazon, something like that.
That is the kind of moderation I had in mind - but you are right, it could take more time than it's worth.
Do we need a new language for teaching programming?
Reflective Essay on How to Compose Such an Essay
A reflective essay is written to reflect the personal experiences of the writer. The essay should be written in a manner which provides the reader with an understanding of the writer and his or her experience. With the proper tips on how to write the essay, students will find it an interesting task.
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Yeah, it is kind of scary if you own a small business. Basically there is no trial, but rather just a guilty verdict.
bit of a misleading title - potentially arsenic-metabolising lifeforms aren't "alien" to earth. "It means that life began not just once but at least twice on Earth." Still exciting, but less so than potential ET's (e.g. meteors carrying lifeforms to earth, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala)
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Who owns Wikipedia?
Thank you both for the advice.

The poor spec stories from your link were sobering.

I know the domain expert was on the verge of paying an IT services company for the work so presumably there are funds available. Maybe an equity/cash arrangement would be acceptable. On the other hand I like the transparency and fairness of brk's approach although of course they are not mutually exclusive.

Thanks again.
Your comment was like a bucket of cold water thrown in my face, snapping me out of my own smarminess in order to get back to doing something useful. Thanks.
The US has a massive commercial advantage because its laws, while not better per se, are at least uniform.

Also, European national states are mostly too weak to have any influence in the global problems of the 21st century. A smaller share of a larger (power) pie would still be an improvement.
Most likely, the initial Netcraft attempt to connect is met with a RST. Subsequent attempts are also met with the same RST. This is because the attempts are spaced out in time enough for the original ACL, permitting access, to be flushed.

According to the RFC, the RST does not get an ACK if the initiating node is "legitimate." So the "silence" or non-ACK is a good sign, which results in the initiating node being added to the ACL. You don't want plain TCP handling this because of half-open TCP handshakes which can exhaust kernel data structures (memory) and CPU (from having the kernel sift through a large data set).

Regards
I was hoping to get feedback on why a contestant would be able to compete very well with Pascal over C++.

Because that's what he's been practicing with. CS courses in schools in Eastern Europe are tought in Pascal, or at least used to be.

In the end it's as interesting as the brand of chess pieces at a chess tournament. If you look at the solutions to Google Code Jam (http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0) for example then you'll see that it's mostly disgusting code made of arrays and loops and you can do those in pretty much any language. People get good at algorithms by sitting down, learning and implementing them, not by sweating the choice of language.