skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess SSL is an improvement. Now you just have to trust 2000 companies and anyone controlling their purse strings, instead of having to trust everyone. You feel safe, which is much better than being safe...
Is it possible to boot a generic OS (not necessarily linux or windows) from USB by simply loading a live-CD image file?

Use case: one USB drive with custom MBR, one text configuration file and one or more liveCD images. On boot-up, the user selects one of the images and loads that generic OS.
Honey laundering: The sour side of nature’s golden sweetener
Mark seems to see the main problem with the carbs contained in grains. This does not apply to Gluten protein obviously, as it is nearly free of carbohydrates. The only problem with Gluten seems to be that some (up to a third according to Mark) people seem to be intolerant to Gluten. From what I could gather from the two links you provided, you should be ok with a Gluten-heavy diet as long as you make sure that you are not sensitive to it (which can be diagnosed easily)
Car theft by relaying signals from wireless keys
Welcome to Web 3.0, where even the ads and spam are user-generated!
Single page: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/honey...
Hahaha, genius. Did you just post this, or make it, instakill?

Because if you made it, I love you.
What's the cut taken by Apple Stores? (brick'n'mortar and online one, both stocking MS/Adobe products)
I agree TLS should be more widely used. But...

When the government or ISP in question controls its own certificate authority (and many do), they can MITM you even over HTTPS. Yes, it's another speedbump for them to get over. No, it's not going to stop them.

The X.509 security model is broken and needs fixing or replacing.
Although we are not in the same situation, I can help you with some tips. I work for a web development company in Croatia and recently we started to search for a great salesperson.

We wrote a post on our blog http://www.logit.hr/blog/logithr-hiring-it-sales-specialist/ describing what we do and what we don't want in a salesperson. (the site is in Croatian, but that post is in English). We ran a marketing campaign advertising that post on several ad networks, including Google Display Network (AdSense). It's intentionally provocative, but it did produce the results we expected, namely, a few good men worth interviewing.
We treat hiring the same way we treat any other marketing ad. We want to attract great people, therefore we make an effort to make it look really good.
Of course, that is only a first step in hiring process: the next step is an interview part, which is another topic altogether.

The main point is this: first you need to find quality people to talk to and you need to sell them your idea. Advertising a job post might be one good way to do that.
This guy should simply stop using Quora if he is pissed off by endless stream of discussions. Why go great lengths to mock it? I don't see any point in this effort.
To reflect the fact that people didn't believe her, I'd guess.
HIPAA-HITECH Final Rule To Be Published in March
It looks like they had fun making it. I plan to do a version for HN one day but generated using a Markov Model, with karma as the hidden variable. Just one of the many items on The List :)
You're making a pretty egregious (and insulting) mistake by conflating pirates (i.e., those just want to steal games) with homebrewers (really intelligent electrical engineers, mathematicians with PhDs, tec).

That's not to say that those who crack things (essentially "pirates) like SecureROM and SafeDisk aren't intelligent, but the fail0verflow is on a whole 'nother level.
Yes, I can see it going somewhere now with the growth of mobile devices. I love the old text adventures. Retrotastic.
To Teach With an IDE or not to teach with an IDE
This isn't possible in the generic case. Once the OS loads, its kernel will look for a root filesystem somewhere, and the ISO isn't one of the usual places it will look (ie: a partition).
Fix dye to wool, or during tanning to loosen fat tissue and hair from animal skin.

And once you take the piss out, they are less full of themselves...
I think the very first thing is to try to prevent malicious sites to be on the first page.
For example, try searching for "lawsuit employment rejection".
The very first hit is: jaysgrafx.com/char-tritan-energy-power-com-employment-san-marcos-tx-job/. Do not click on it (it forwards you 84bf4ada.logout3.cz.cc/).
The simple answer for small repressive governments is to block the HTTPS login form so you have to fall back to HTTP. ATI has complete control of all Internet access in Tunisia. You're just not going to get through them unless you can find a way through.

In some countries I work in we routinely come across censorship and all kinds of dodgy goings on, so we have a variety of tunnelling methods (VPN, SSH, ICMPTX, DNSTX, Tor and a few non-public tunnelling options). For the most part as long as you can terminate a connection in somewhere you're fairly comfortable with you're better off.

Also don't make the mistake of feeling that the US, UK or EU are automatically comfortable options. It all depends what you're doing with the data. A little common sense goes a long way.
Worst of all, when transcoding you are needlessly discarding data and therefore picture quality. It you don't have to, you shouldn't.
Functional reactive programming provides a decent abstraction for functional UIs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1028250/what-is-functiona...

My understanding is that FRP represents the state of the program as a function of a stream of events. Each time a new event comes in, information about the event is used to create a new state based on the current one. Ultimately the global state of the program gets mutated, but this fact can be abstracted away; program logic looks like: λ event oldState -> newState
This is why login forms themselves must be opened over an HTTPS connection. Displaying a login form over HTTP which POSTs to HTTPS is easily MITMd.

Think of your users. Some of them will be accessing your sites from oppressive regimes. Let them do so safely.

Taking Facebook as an example, considering how global their usage is, and the amount of sensitive data peoples accounts contain, it's unforgivable that they don't force HTTPS traffic for everything.
This is more what I meant. I think my wording sounded way too much like I was saying there was a true parity between the two, which at present I don't think there is. However, given the quantity of pornography out there, I think it's nigh on impossible that a single user would ever grow bored of a preference.

I simply meant was that while some men get off on the humiliation/violence/etc of women there are also men who get off on the humiliation/violence/etc of men. I'd say the vast majority just get off on watching plain old sex, hence amateur porn being the biggest niche on the internet, which means that the vast majority who watch porn are likely watching it solely for the reason of being horny and they're watching that particular video because of "Oh she's hot and I'd want to do her".
Me and friends used to play that game. When we were 8 years old.
That screenshot sums up my experience with Twitter nicely: A dozen random thoughts, truncated to fit a certain size, thus requiring investment to decipher, which at the end reveals somebody talking about something that's only really interesting to themselves, and actually makes you feel slightly embarrassed for them.

My assumption was that other people were using some form of magic tool that filtered out relevent stuff and presented it in a coherent form. Since this looks like a screenshot from the author's own system, it seems that even power-users are seeing the same useless garbage that I do.

Why would you install something like this on your computer?
Social media is a nonexistant. It's something somebody at Facebook (or Twitter) dreamed up to hype and justify existence.

From henceforth I declare this movemenet DuncanIdahia - you may not have heard of us - but we're growing tremendously (we grew infinitely from 5 minutes ago to now).

Whatever.
Sell it as "organic liquid fertiliser". Tesco actually sold a product last summer described with that exact phrase on its packaging.
Programming questions on Quora website
Why should I use this instead of the Mac App store? (1st as a user, secondly as a developer)
That would still be security by obscurity.
So what you are trying to convey, there is no advantage to using SSL vs. plain connection? I wonder why then they shut down SSL in my home country during elections..
Slow and steady LOSES the race - seriously.
What are your thoughts? :)
Why pointless? It's a parody and it contains a critique of Quora that's fairly valid.

It might not be a particularly deep critique but it doesn't have to be.
Nope, they just live with it, I guess: http://www.sega-italia.com/
Gorilla Marketing. (for himself)
+1 Sounds like what the beats used to do, except their poetry didn't compile.
You don't have to use Quora to be irritated by it... The coverage alone is sufficient for that.

God what a nit-picking, humourless bunch we have here today!
I had a lot of fun doing 73primenumbers.com even though I have a lot of respect for 37 signals, and am extremely grateful for Rails.
I think quantifying debasement would run into big problems as it's entirely subjective to observational bias. I find more debasement in your average national commercials than I see in your average commercial or amateur pornography, which is what I find most disturbing about society.
Sophisticated New Android Trojan "Geinimi" Spreading in China
It seemed like a great joke and definitely much respect to you for taking the time to do it. How long did you it take you to complete it? I had a great laugh and definitely made my day! Our lives need some cheering up from time to time so I totally appreciated it.
Typo on front page... "Were ideas come to get reviewed" (should be "Where").

Also "You then review someone else idea" should be "elses".

"themselft" should be "themself".

Not being nit-picky just helping out :)
I think it took some portion of an afternoon when I was sick and did not feel like working on Important Things.
How to tackle boilerplate coding in Rails
How to Write Good Code
Seriously, one needs a detailed filter set to navigate through overwhelming stream (or mess) of questions on quora.
How does a PS3 compare spec-wise with a regular PC? Alternative server solution?
Brilliant. Funniest thing I've seen all year
That metaphor just doesn't work.

AOL was a walled garden that survived first by convincing people that there was no real Internet outside of it, and then by trying to pretend that the "Internet" was just a part of AOL.

Eventually, people caught on that there was in fact this giant Internet out there all by itself, and AOL wasn't technically required to access it. So people left.

Facebook, however, is the entire Facebook. There is no giant social entity outside of it that people are being kept away from. It's an end product.

So sure, somebody may make a bigger, better one. But they're not going to suddenly remove the blindfold and expose Facebook users to the Truth, because it's just plain not out there.
Asshole is subjective, and unhappiness is not automatically justified by its existence.
Well, all the OSX users should just Thank Steve that the XCode designer is no Visual Basic so at least you're limited to people with a significant amount of development savvy doing non-standard UI. Otherwise, you'd have the hodge-podge horror that's been visited upon Windows for the last decade and a half or so.

It'll get there, though, just wait! I'll chuckle when I see the first 200x200 OK/CANCEL buttons in AppStore screen shots :-)
Somewhat related, and also interesting is the possibility to boot a Linux distribution over the net:

http://boot.kernel.org/

Adding gpxe to a GRUB menu as an item may prove to be another great way to boot a rescue system. Note that I didn't try this yet (only booting installation media with b.k.org).
Several billion more? There are an estimated 2 billion internet users, and of those not using Facebook, a significant proportion of those are in countries that ban their population from accessing it.

Facebook might have plenty of scope for revenue generation, but their actual number of pageviews and users can't grow much more without them actually being the internet for the average person
For a detailed description what image will boot with the memdisk method see http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#INT_13h_acc...

DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, ...), Windows 95/98/ME and boot loaders (Syslinux, grub, grub4dos, gujin, gag, mbldr, ...) boots, other operating systems must be aware of the memory mapping.

With SuperGrub2Disk http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SuperGRUB2Disk you just have to add a iso file into a specific folder and it will automatically be added to the bootloader menu. But AFAIK it does currently not support the memdisk solution.
Here's a few links to Gruber criticizing the poor state of the HIG, and Apple's design decisions:

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/hockenberry_hig

http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/brushed-metal

http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/much_ado_about_click-throu...

http://daringfireball.net/2006/08/highly_selective

http://daringfireball.net/2003/02/inconsistencies

http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/themes

http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/more_smart_cut_copy_paste

http://daringfireball.net/2003/02/when_in_rome

http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/does_brushed_metal_matter

That Gruber rarely criticizes Apple's design decisions is simply false. Apple's inconsistency in UI design and application of the HIG is a pet peeve of his, and it has been for many years.
Gujarat International Kite Festival 2011: Wallpapers & Pictures
Uttarayan is celebrated across Gujarat, with major centers of kite-flying in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Nadiad, among others. The Gujarat State, India celebrated International Kite Festival 2011 on the day of Uttarayan (Makar Sankranti). The people of Gujarat known for their devotional celebration of various festivals. Tourism Corporation of Gujarat has celebrated the International Kite Festival 2011 with wholesome participation from all over the globe at Sabarmati River Front from 9th Jan, 2011 to 12th Jan, 2011. Uttarayan is celebrated across Gujarat, with major centers of kite-flying in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Nadiad, among others.
Probably similar to the cut taken by Best Buy or Amazon.

But MS/Adobe also sell directly, and they deal directly with large institutional clients like big corporations and universities, cutting discounted deals, site licenses, etc.
It's tight on RAM (only 256MB main memory + 256MB VRAM, a large portion of which can be used as fast swap space, at least on Linux), the SPUs will sit mostly idle unless your software is specifically written to utilise them. Especially older models consume a lot of power, even when idle. A cheap Atom-based Nettop or NAS is probably better for home server type stuff.
Guys, please stop downvoting. Okay, I admit it -- I too had fun looked at the mocked Quora and think it was a time well wasted :)
BP Gulf of Mexico rig had no IT alarm system
I could never understand why guys put up with it. I'd rather be alone than be with a woman like that.
This service is great but as it does not verify any data so you basically just download data via http and run it as your operating system. Just install a live system on your usb pen and use it or run a live system and setup the network boot environment.

http://grml.org for example can create a pxe boot environment from the live system, just run grml-terminalserver and it will start a dhcp/nfs/tftp server and provide all necessary data.

P.S: I am involved with grml so take it with a grain of salt
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Atn+inurl%3Ahttps

Quite a few of Tunisian websites are signed by "Agence Nationale de Certification Electronique".

Also, there so many intermediate CA's that I find it hard to believe that the system isn't broken:

https://www.eff.org/files/colour_map_of_CAs.pdf (via https://www.eff.org/observatory)

We already had UAE government successfully MITM-ing SSL by forcing CyberTrust-delegated CA to forge a certificate:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/uae_man-in-the...
Illinois moves to tax online purchases
Interesting, but I don't think it gets to the heart of what I'm trying to get at. Imagine that instead of drawing a box where the mouse cursor is, you want to draw 20 words of anti-aliased text. Calculating that text is too slow to do repeatedly every time the pointer moves, so you're going to have to write the text into a once into buffer, and then just blit the buffer to the screen. But that buffer is state. It needs to be updated to when the text is updated.

So maybe I could use FRP to automatically recalculate the buffer when the text changes. But nnow I point out that you can't just arbitrarily allocate a graphics buffer for each piece of text, it would take way too much memory. I could just allocate a buffer only when the buffer is actually on the screen, and not when it's clipped. But even just calculating if the object is on the screen can become very costly when you are working with complicated graphics geometries.

Anyway, I gave up doing it in a functional manner, and just embraced the inherent state-iness of UI work. But I'd love to learn if I've been doing it wrong!

(incidentally, Apple get's around this when working with UIs by 'binding' variables to graphical objects - if one changes, the other changes automatically - eg, moving a slider changes the variable representing the value of the slider. Changing the variable changes the slider on-screen). All done in Objective-C by making heavy use of forced setters/getters.
This comes after e.g. the KeeLoq debacle: see http://dblp.mpi-inf.mpg.de/dblp-mirror/index.php?query=keelo.... Summary: cryptographically securing remote car keys/garage openers is an improvement (older products just broadcast the password), but badly implementing outdated custom algorithms is... not as useful as the car industry seems to hope.

I'll stick with "real" keys for a while yet.
>...or a more general societal trend that emphasizes aggression

Eh? I don't see it - from what I can tell the trend has been going the other direction since at least the '80s.
If you haven't yet, check out inform7.com. It's a free system for developing text adventures, with a sweet GUI IDE (cross platform Win/Mac/Gnome) and a language that's similar to English yet has interesting support for relationships between game items. (ie, you can define a relationship of 'loathing' between characters that influences reactions.)

It can compile to the same format as the old Infocom games, or to glulx, a new format by Andrew Plotkin (the guy this thread is about) that allows for bigger games.
Pylons – Extremely Flexible Python Web Framework
Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It’s also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility — but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast, flexible and easy.
This even crosses over into what most would term "real life": children on a playground who haven't integrated the idea that they're playing a semi-consequenceless social game 100% of the time they're at school, will usually report being bullied (by someone who does understand the concept, and is exploring the position-space in the game.)

I do not know how I can politely convey the depth of my feelings about what you have said, here.
what a waste of time (creator time)...
Awesome! Good luck.
I read what veb said as there were two different groups.

"Pirates" who were unable to crack it.
"Homebrewers" who didn't want to (because it previously run Linux so they could do homebrew without cracking it).

Sony remove the Linux ability, so the second group ("Homebrewers"), now had motivation to crack it, and succeeded.

If anything I think veb's comment was complementary of homebrewers. He is saying they succeeded where the pirates failed.
PixelQi demos its 7-inch displays, working on a 9.7-inch
Ask a VC: Questions about the New Enterprise Boom? Ask Jason Green
Google Announces High Replication Datastore for App Engine
I applaud the effort, but when comes down to using it, I don't like it:

- Way too slow to load (all main screen icons in Bodega: 8s, Mac App Store: 1.1s)

- not a very good list view (name + big icons + price)

- detail view has too small screenshots

- even stranger navigation (back button on the bottom?).
Programming in a paradigm that your language is not made for is indeed a poor experience. JavaScript is not made for OOP or FP, it is made for prototype-based programming so if you want a good experience that is what you should use.

As for FP/MVC UI have you ever heard of tangible values? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/TV
Calculating that text is too slow to do repeatedly every time the pointer moves, so you're going to have to write the text into a once into buffer, and then just blit the buffer to the screen

This sounds like an example of memoization. The buffer is allocated once, on demand, and presumably reallocated when the text changes. Mutable state is involved, but it's hidden inside your memoization function, which is typically provided by the language. You supply a function like: λ string -> GraphicsBuffer.
Like A Little goes big!
Mass Animal Deaths Are Not in Fact Unusual
IPad Ripple Effect: The Unfolding Future of Video Transcoding Technology
What do you do when the Military squats your ASN…you let them
the reason is it is not as big a deal as it seems is that it only applies to affiliates who have a physical presence in the state. For example, if I buy an e-book for my Kindle, it would not fall under this law.
Surely car design/manufacture is much harder than implementing proven crypto? The mind boggles. Crypto is a solved problem as far as protecting passwords goes. How can such huge companies continue to get it wrong?

If I made cars, I'd make sure I'd solved this problem on my products, then buy some TV adverts showing thieves in carparks bumping other manufacturers locks wirelessly with ease. Perhaps backed by graceful classical music. Try and make it look like the advert was bought by my rivals and aimed at car thieves.

Although that might be asking for it...
I guess it only makes sense that "post-modern databases" are written in C++. Meta me this!
Sure - open source is about source-code availability, public domain is about the legal status of that source code - as free as can be.
Day 1 Of Unretina In The Mac App Store … Wowsers
I do know where you're coming from, but SQLite, which is in the public domain, is by far the most deployed SQL implementation, and most of those deployments are by companies - big companies, even.

Also, by your logic, nobody should ever have used the GPL when it was new-fangled.
The Mac App Store Offers A Taste Of OS X Lion And The Future Of The Platform
Real-time Data Delivery: HTTP Streaming Versus PubSubHubbub
True. However, that should be a motivation to make that service more secure. But it does not make the idea flawed. It's very convenient to be able to boot any distribution just like that, without preparing USB sticks or CDs.

By the way, thank you for your work on grml!
So the problem of "hiring the best" is solved by making hiring your top priority. Likewise the problems of development are solved by making tools your top priority. Presumably along with everything else that is a top priority, like making something insanely great.

I'm sorry, I just sensitive to how many times I've seen "top priority" in somebody's management presentation, as if it solves something.

That said, I mostly agree with the gist of what he's saying here.
I don't see a browsing path off the homepage on quora that doesn't involve signing up or logging in.