skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the response, makes alot of sense. Would you say a startup consisting of only 1 person is sketchy for investors since there is no "team"? I'm in dire need for a team, but can't afford to put one together so it's a bit of cat and mouse. I'm teetering on bootstrapping vs investors and it's scary! Thanks for the advice.
Working on a project is the best way to learn for sure, whether your own or another person's. You'll figure out the most important elements of the languages you're working in quickly, and the holes will be filled in over the next few years of school. Although, you should be reading books/blogs in your field as you go (but, really, you should always be doing that)
8 million units in 60 days. Awfully round number...
Oddly enough, though, the doc sets only include iOS 4.2.
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Yes, I recognize they are differnt -- was posting it as an alternative.

BTW- I had a thought today after reading your post; why dont hackerspaces, like NoiseBridge and The Dojo partner with Techshop.ws -- It would be great to see if each membership could get you access, or partial access to each space.

Techshop is amazing.
Five years in a row, as cansec west has run pwn2own for five years. OS X/Safari has also always been the first one to drop afaik, though this has at least as much to do with Apple kit being the most desirable as anything else.
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Foggy thinking about the Right to Oblivion, how privacy is used to censor
I've heard this argument from medical residents, too. They say it's important for training to see full 24-hour cycles in a patient's care, and that shorter shifts would make that impossible.
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So you win a version of the most vulnerable software/hardware?
Correct and correct. I've been running it on my Eee PC 1000HE for the past year, it runs beautifully, noticeably more efficiently than the Windows XP that came with it.
My modified version of your analogy:

Firefox: Emacs

Chrom{e,ium}: Vim
Do you have permission (in writing) to use the "reddit" trademark? If not, they could pull the rug out of underneath you in about 10 minutes.
To be fair, that's not really the whole interface, just a section of a sheet showing diffs. Here's what the whole window looks like: http://devimages.apple.com/technologies/tools/images/new_sin...
I think alot of that was that even back in 1998 they had Python code in their code base.

Rather than using Python as a filter for finding hackers.
Yup. I actually wrote a filter to our framework when it was built years ago, but as new people help out on dev they don't always use the framework. My bad and I do appreciate the smack.
I humbly bow to you with egg on my face.
You may want to consider changing the name, so you don't have to do it later if Netflix's legal department contacts you.

http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use

Section 3.5

"In using the Netflix Brands pursuant to Section 3.3, you may not do the following

...

use a Netflix Brand as the largest or most prominent brand in your Application or as the most prominent element of your Application or as part of the name of your Application;"
Mozilla WebM support was developed 'behind closed doors' and 'dropped' into the open on announcement day. You're right that it's not the norm and the developers are generally opposed to that approach though.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a Hackerspace type place in Mission District?
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Taking down the Mac gets you the best laptop and the most press. Simple.

It would be different if the other OS/browsers didn't go down too, but because the Mac is always first to go just means it's the most desirable target.
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I have a feeling this discussion is going to go basically nowhere. But I'll bite.

The command you cited is a generator. It generates a complete passenger and MySQL setup. It's a sensible default that handles a large set of use cases. If you want postgres instead, there's a complete_passenger_postgresql. The full list of modules can be seen at:

https://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/tree/master/lib/generator...

Backups are set up automatically. There's a whole mess of capistrano tasks for this stuff. Run "cap -T" to see them. That's the standard way of documenting such.

Actually, you have a load of questions there that are evident once you actually try rubber. That's not a great answer and I'm not saying the documentation is great. But, hey, the documentation for fog is virtually non-existent.

But, no, rubber is absolutely not meant to be a turnkey solution. We grossly simplify a ton of tasks, but at the end of the day, you need to know what you want your topology to look like, what roles you want on which machines, how many of each, how many read slaves you want, etc. The templates we provide make setting up things like backup and slaves trivial, but we don't do it for you automatically.
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WebSockets isn't even finished yet. What's the point complaining about the lack of a feature when it's not even ready yet? It's not like all the other browsers support it either.
I imagine a user consent message in the form of Firefox's XPI "Allow/Deny" bar would work well for this.
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One analogy is inflation vs hyperinflation.

Inflation is usually driven by money supply. Print more money or expand supply some other way and you get some inflation.

Hyperinflation is driven by hyperinflation. That is, prices are rising so fast, that they are forced even higher. People rush to buy goods, commodities to get rid of rapidly devaluing money as fast as possible. This drives up prices. Governments need to print more all the time because what they printed last month isn't enough this month.

Financial bubbles are similar and different to overpricing in a similar way. They drive themselves.
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Oh Lord, am I really about to argue that a Microsoft policy 'makes sense'? How the mighty have fallen. :-/

Not from my perspective, but from a corporate perspective this actually makes sense. gag

The problem is that corporates in general tend to test certain things to a ridiculous extreme, and other (usually more important) things not at all. Wherever I've worked at a large gov dept/corporate in the last ~4 years and they haven't updated from IE 6 the (lame) excuse is that it would require too much testing. Not of the new app, but of all the thousands of old apps, any one of which might get sideswiped by this change and you wouldn't even know why.

Last year I took a contract at a major govt dept where they were still using Windows I shit you not 95. That wasn't the only thing that prompted my swift exit, but it weighed heavily in the decision making.
One annoyance he didn't really touch on, but that has driven me up the walls, is that [edit:thanks thought_alarm!!!!] double clicking a build error does not jump to the build results, which are now in a renamed "Logs" view.

Also, it is incredibly slow and crashes several times a day.

That said, the IB integration is amazing and the navigation between related files is so good that I am using it.
Was the world less credit card centric when you were a kid? It may be different now.
Pride. Sounds to me like everyone knew what they were signing up for and fighting to make the accomplishment goes a long way in building the group.
If you play it backwards, it says Paul is dead...
If I'm understanding correctly this does double the amount of information sent in a chunk of time.
Example:
You send 1Mbit over a sec. Then you pause for 1 sec to receive 1Mbit. Effectively, you've only sent 1Mbit over 2 seconds.
Now, due to being in full duplex mode, you can send 1Mbit over 1 sec while simultaneously receiving 1Mbit over 1 sec. Thus, allowing you to send 2Mbit over 2 seconds. 1Mbit/sec is double .5Mbit/sec.
One of the benefits of working 9-5 at a company that makes a million dollars a day is that I have my weekends free. So I bike to Fresh Pond[1], to the Arboretum[2], or elsewhere, and read. It's like meditation, and it improves your vocabulary.

[1] http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fresh+pond+02138
[2] http://maps.google.com/maps?q=arnold+arboretum+02130
Presumably it will cover all the point releases, which typically happen after a new product release.

It will also cover every machine authorized with your Mac's app store account.

I have 3 boxes. If we assume 5 point releases before the next paid upgrade, that's 63 gigs transferred. At your rate, that's $11.34.
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But keep in mind, the 3rd Gen iPod touch only inludes the 16 & 32 GB models, and not the 8GB they sold along side it. The 8GB was really still a second-Gen iPod.
I'd hope that in academia your term paper isn't held up waiting for a couple of new white board markers, or a ream of paper because your requisition form wasn't approved.

It's somewhat discouraging that Apple is charging for what used to be provided at no cost. Still, if Apple can't make five bucks on a product that other companies sell for hundreds, what hope do any other developers have?
The MacBook Air doesn't ship with Xcode.
I think you sorta misunderstood, and but also possibly hold some misguided beliefs (like i dont?).

The first thing is, there's a lot of things Square could do, and we could both live on the moon eventually also. Their current implementation is a skimmer with all of the logic and safety in the software with all the guarantees of PCI network security beyond that (lol, i bet its salesforce or ec2). On Verifone's end, it's not like we're talking some software-based encraption. Think hardware based asset tags to compliment client certs. Surely it's self-evident that the ease of obtaining what at the moment at best could be a client certificate from a phone and recovering the information from a tamper-resistant device that goes dark if you take it offline too long (rendering the information useless). If they took their device and made it less like a mouse and more like something that tried to tunnel through the stupidest medium ever, I could live with it a little more and see the 'they are stupidly insecure' argument as fud.

Second, you realize it took 1 person about a week to reverse, document and develop the PoC for blocking skype (me) and not much longer for a crypto-library from it (accuvant ryan)? A year is a vast over-estimate and im pretty slow at it.

If the overall debate pertains to whether verifone did this right or not, I'd agree with you. Although, I have to admit cheering for them with their 'and we will prove it with an app@#@!' part-- if they were consultants they wouldve gotten invited to speak at blackhat.

If I had to take a stab at it, after looking at square a little bit. I'd say that if they made the honest argument, Square would try to throw lawyers at them. The honest argument is, 'have you looked at these guys? they're bordering on a criminal-enterprise-by-design, albeit rubber stamped by PCI'. I mean seriously? a point and a half more if I don't have the card and want to enter it on your website instead?

(Also the hubris in their research & disclosure policy made my blood boil)
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Wow you guys are seriously just haters who obviously have little (if any) real experience building commercial-grade rich internet applications.

If you go beyond a simple page you need a decent "heavyweight" framework, otherwise you just end up with a big ball of mud or writing your own. Extjs happens to work extremely well for experienced JS devs.

Illuminations is an outstanding plugin of serious pragmatic use. Its already paid for itself many times over in my work.

Oh and btw my forms work great - your obviously just a fool who blames the framework instead of your lack of ability which is the real cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."[1]
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
He's mocking Meego. Just as they're seeing traction with something, they make a huge change so all their devs have to scramble to keep up.

Switching from GTK to Qt for instance.
Ahh, cynical sarcasm. What would a long list of comments be without you.
The reason that people are pissed is that it's one more annoying hoop to jump through, especially for people without iTunes accounts.What about people kids without credit cards or Paypal?

All this for what? A paltry $10 million or so for Apple which is already rolling in tens of bilions of cash(partly thanks to developers, you always see Jobs touting the app count). Is it even worth it for Apple?

The company is smacking of greed and squeezing the last dollar these days with all these moves like a forced 30% cut of services and now this, which can damage the ecosystem.

>No, cue the you're assuming you won't get Xcode 4 with Lion rabble.

That makes it even worse, Apple can't be making more than $5 million from this.
That is the same problem Ubuntu has, a minor update, download entires packages.

For a diff to work you need to store the original packages, and this will take so much precious disk(for SSD drives on macbooks air) and add complexity.
Here's a hint: They didn't build Angry Birds with Visual Studio.
Saw this live. He's amazing.
Any idea how it works?
I think the $15,000 cash prize and PR with being first, regardless of OS/browser, plays larger than the delta between getting a high PC laptop and a MBP. And it's not like they don't already have Macs -- that's how they developed their OS X exploit.

UPDATE: It's actually a MacBook Air 13", not MBP. The other laptops are ASUS G73SW and Alienware M11x.
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I much prefer Chrome's approach, where it remembers sites you've visited that have a search bar (IMDB for example). If I start typing 'im' and press tab it changes into a search box for that site.
Totals as of about 9:40 PM EST on Wed, Mar 9:

Mac OS 516
Linux 492
Windows 331
BSD 49
Server edition is significantly different from all other editions. It uses different kernel settings (tick level and scheduler), and there is a large delta in the packages used.
It's not surprising because he [Charlie Miller] was fourth or fifth in line.

Everyone who signs up for this has exploits already in the bag that they've been working on for weeks, it's not like it's hackers showing up and racing each other to discover exploits from scratch (which, incidentally, renders the whole "first to fall"/"browser X pwned in seconds" style of headline asinine)
Also as an addendum; the thought process about hardware reversing is not entirely correct. You will run into things like can't build a device that can sniff that fast without a substantial budget; how much is that microscope? That just have no real parallel in software
It was a great talk. Future of education. I loved the way Bill interacted with Khan.
Have you been to Noisebridge?
Wow, I would invest in this. It is an excellent idea, and it will further disrupt the existing music industry for the better.
So true. I have been a long time HN reader. But I had to sign up just to upvote this comment.
Anything like this in Seattle? More interested in software than hardware/"Make"/lock-picking/other forms of geekery, but I'll happily take a mix.
Lol. Only 2 downloads: http://i.imgur.com/4HhdK.png
Can you hear this? (hearing test)
Xcode isn't included on Macbook Air.
As one of the founders of Hacker Dojo, I'd like to say: well put.

Although I'd like to make clear the majority of our funding comes from member dues, which is not unlike most hackerspaces.
Ask HN: Are there any other reasons to accept a PhD offer?
Out of a passion for both brain research and computation, I've been working towards getting into a PhD program in computational/cognitive neuroscience (my work would focus on applying machine learning techniques to fMRI data). I've done this at a later stage than most people, having left a career in data analytics (I'm currently 31).

When I started out, I really thought that I'd pursue a career as a scientist/academic, but I've since read plenty of articles (one example among many: http://www.economist.com/node/17723223) about how abysmal the academic market is. I'm also aware that in cogNuro and neuroscience, even the best people (with very few exceptions) post-doc for 4-5 years.

So, I'm at a strange stage.
1) I've been accepted to a top 10 program (private midwestern university) where I'd be working with a well established and very active advisor.
2) Yet, I'm fairly certain that I no longer want to be an academic. Not only do I think my chances are slim of landing a decent job, even attempting to go the academic route would put me at 40ish before my first job.

My questions:
-Is there any other reason for me to accept?
-Would the PhD have any value outside of being intellectually very rewarding (as one professor friend of mine said "a 6 year adventure")?
-Are there any applied routes that I could go? I do know that there are applications of this technology as "lie detection" and helping people with locked in syndrome, but it seems that these aren't nearly mature enough to produce jobs for PhDs. Of course, doing machine learning would probably be applicable in the data analytics world, but if I'm just going to go back to my old industry, I wonder if I'd be better off doing a masters in stats, cs, etc.

I ask these because I'm really trying to find out if there's anything that I'm missing. I just want to know if anyone is aware of some route that I don't see that would make this valuable.

If not, I may have to make the sad decision to turn down an offer to do some really cutting-edge research.
No. Some people enjoy simply wasting other people's time.

Indeed. As a moderator on a fairly active IRC channel (on Rizon!), I've seen my fair share of trolling. I remember an instance a few months ago where the room was engaged in trying to persuade a naive person to some viewpoint, gradually growing increasingly frustrated at his lack of acceptance of any points. Then, after a good 20 minutes, he said something to the effect of "Gotcha! I agree with you, but was just trolling.".

In my experience, the most effective method is to mute a troll before they have a chance to stir anyone up. Unmute them a few hours later to give them another chance to participate.
Not an entirely fair comparison, is it?

Here is the equivalent new project window in Xcode: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/new.png (also: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/project.png)

A shot of the main window: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/main.png
Privacy is the new black in censorship fashions. It used to be that people would invoke libel or defamation to justify censorship about things that hurt their reputations. But invoking libel or defamation requires that the speech not be true. Privacy is far more elastic, because privacy claims can be made on speech that is true.

Hear, hear.
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Over the years I've found lectures less and less useful to attend in person as profs and other presenters post their lectures and powerpoint slides online. I can just watch/read those and get everything I need from those materials, then when I'm in class I can ask much more useful questions and cover the details that really make the difference.

I love how the Khan Academy is institutionalizing that idea. I can't see any reason that lectures need to be done in person, but being able to work through sticking points with someone. Now that is valuable.

I really do think Sal Khan will revolutionize teaching. At least in the areas this model is applicable.
A bit off-topic:

I host Hack Fridays at Brown University in RI every friday. I'm seeing if I can open it to the general public, but if you'd like an email when I figure it out, email DTrejo [at] c̣ś.b̀r̉ọŵņ.ễd̃ǔ
Right, here was the article with the former, three time champ:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/likely-pre-pwn2own...
We usually don't have problems with markers or paper, the department has a stock of that. There's no lack of money in academia, just wasteful spending.

Wait and see if Lion comes with XCode. Then we can say they are actually charging for it.
Great write up and nice execution on the idea. I was addicted for a little bit. Also it is cool to see how your app is setup and deployed.
Sounds romantic. As an undergrad I set out to read Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian one summer. What could be a better use of a summer -- and I'd learn Italian at the same time. To this day I still haven't read it, nor do I know Italian.

And oddly it does please me to know that there are people reading poetry simply for pleasure.
Isn't this exactly what we already have with Clear Channel?
When would you use this kind of setup over Heroku?
Yes, this is exactly why A/Bingo is hosted on BCC. I love Github, don't get me wrong, but successfully marketing Github does not pay my rent.
Amusing how paranoid the browser developers have become about CanSecWest:

Pwn2Own browser day: March 9th, 2011

Safari 5.0.4 released March 9th
Chrome 10.0.648.127 released March 8th
Firefox 3.6.15 released March 4th
Internet Explorer 8 didn't get a patch this cycle (too cool for school)

Mobile day: March 10th, 2011

iOS 4.3 released March 9th
Nexus S 2.3.3 released Feb 24th
Not sure about WP7 & BB
dude doesn't need money and founder is socially awkward. that describes every funded startup. don't see why there is such dismay. at least he didn't show up wearing a bath robe with sean parker in tow.
I just sent my friends in Stellarondo over there. If you're into great indie folk music you should check them out: http://stellarondo.bandcamp.com/
I don't know that I honestly would have given much weight to this idea if I'd heard it pitched to me, but as they've already got 1300 artists across 90 labels, I'd say it's obvious that I'd have been in the wrong.

I don't know if they'll ever get the bigger labels, and for my money, I hope they don't. I mean, I'd love to see that nut get cracked, because honestly, something like this COULD (I don't think it will) be the end of the RIAA. But if that happens, then I'll be just as sad as I was when eMusic turned coat and started bringing in bigger fish.
Firebug. The Webkit inspector is catching up nicely, but for now Firebug is Firefox's 'killer feature' (at least for web devs).
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Second that, and it's awesome that the two best are both available on Linux. I go back and forth every few weeks.
Your friends in Stellarondo remind me of Albert Castiglia, and I can't think of many things more complimentary than that.

Thanks for the link.

Edit: Still, thanks for the link, but I'd apparently had another tab behind that one that I was actually listening to when I turned my sound on.

They sound absolutely nothing like Albert Castiglia, however, I'm still really enjoying it, just in a completely different way.
I think the official reason (I read somewhere in documentation) is because they don't want web sites to suck up mobile bandwidth by automatically streaming stuff. You can have videos autoplay, yes, but videos you can overlay with controls, whereas audio can be integrated into an interface in such a way that the user has no means to stop playback.
Can you elaborate on the differences b/t Chrome and FF extensions a bit? As a Vimperator addict I don't doubt it, but Chrome does seem to have a rapidly expanding extension & app ecosystem.
Is there any permissions/information you guys don't request on Facebook Connect? The long list scared me off.