skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does that affect the people you follow or who follow you in Google Reader? I've been hesitant to do this, because I've never been able to find an answer to that question. I've read through seemingly related articles on help.google.com a couple times (including just now), but it's never been clear to me with a comfortable level of certainty. The whole "connected sites" thing is a bit confusing...
Yup, the linked article describes that as well - wasn't much use for me when I was on the call though!
By that argument, why is the government in the security business competing with the private sector to protect citizens against crime?

Up here in Socialist Canada, in addition to keeping its citizens healthy, the government actually provides the water I drink in direct competition with the private sector who sell water in nice little plastic bottles. Yum :-)

Also, the expression "tax-subsidized" is not correct. Funding an activity with taxes is one thing. Subsidizing an activity with taxes is something else, such as a program to give privately held corporations massive tax breaks in exchange for locating their businesses in a particular state or county. Which companies do, and somehow I never hear conservative pundits complain about the anti-competitive tax subsidizing going on.
The Google store is closed to malware the same way the Apple store is. Both stores have automated software to check for malware before approval, and both stores have mechanisms to remove malware afterwards. Apple's checks are more thorough and have humans in the loop, but neither are infallible.
Could be the best coworking space ever - Former Cement Factory
For your own health and well-being, let it go and move on with your life. Your energy could be best spent elsewhere.
"Find out who's farting near you!"
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Large risk as you cannot buy a rep..its earned not bought
chargeback is a cost. That cost is then passed on to consumers.

It's a tradeoff.
No compensation for innocent man who spent 14-years on death row
BASIC was the foundation of the company, by 1980 SoftCard was one project of many.

I don't discount the importance of SoftCard, it was actually key in the development of the relationship between IBM and Microsoft in the 80s, but even more key was the building of the relationship itself, which was largely driven by Gates.

Allen's attitude at the time reminds me of software developer coworkers who over emphasis the contributions that software development makes. I can understand Gates' reaction - Gates' job was not any easier and certainly not any less important, so why redistribute shares?
Valid point. Although, maybe a remote controlled one could be made smaller or dive deeper and thus be less easy to detect.

It could be made more solid through and through, thus be less likely to be crushed at lower depths, thus become smaller. Most of the space is probably due to life support and the driver being able to move around in it, and not to store the goods.
I'd rather not have any facet of government in an easy position to monitor my internet traffic.

In fairness, it's a bit late for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa#AT.26T_Internet_monitoring
I just finished re-writing a wcf service using a home made async socket server over TCP. WCF is just way to complex to get right. By default, out of the box is it scaled down and slow. You have to do all kinds of config magic to get it to perform or send large amounts of data.

It took me a couple days of coding to have an async socket server (using .net async IO) up and running. It was so much easier.

Contrast that with several weeks spent learning WCF and then searching through blog posts to find the correct config example to handle problem after problem.

Caveat: I don't need to switch between different providers, manage security, etc, etc which WCF can do out of the box. I just needed a way to get data from a long running server to a web page. I just wanted some simple IPC, which WCF is not.

I need to write up a full post-mortem on this at some point, but I just needed to get that off my chest.
If a person is fired from a company, and that person doesn't really know why, it is not a plaudit for that company or the managers involved.
Could be any number of reasons for this. The store may have messed up and had its computers infected by a virus. Or Samsung itself. Or user error, like other people pointed out already.

What I would be interested to know is if the logger actually phones home, and if so, to where. That would give fairly conclusive proof if Samsung did it or someone else. If it's just logging stuff locally then what's the point? Maybe Samsung (if Samsung is indeed the culrpit) could claim it's for tech support reasons?
I somewhat agree with bhousel, in that claiming the autodidact label makes this a somewhat odd ? to be asking. Autotidacticism implies more than not going to class, so to speak. That said, Wikipedia makes this nearly trivially easy.

1. Search for something that seems interesting to you.
2. Read the article, and for every interesting hyperlinked topic in the article, open that topic in a new tab.
3. For each new topic opened in step 2, repeat this process. Stop when you understand the world or when biology intervenes.

What I'd suggest instead of Wikipedia is that you buy, borrow or otherwise acquire textbooks and work through them yourself. You'll get a more thorough grounding in a subject than you would from Wikipedia articles and while you might not get the same breadth you'd get from a Wikipedia survey, you will have a more sound basis to say "I understand the basics of X".
He noticed this back in February so I'd think that's a fairly long time to be the only report. A few other things bothered me about the article: the heavy handed reference to Sony's rootkit, as others noted, is inappropriate since the Sony rootkit was clearly a deliberate decision. In this case, the most we can say at this point in time is that he found a keylogger on a Samsung computer. Whether it was put there deliberately or not is unknown. Which leads to my further gripes with the headline (which flatly implies that it was deliberate), with the fact that he didn't retain the evidence but chose to write about it (which means noone can verify his findings), and with his apparent lack of curiousity about whether the keylogger was operational and where it might be sending its data.
Blueprint now works on Yum/RPM based distros - reverse engineer your servers
It's very similar, and having barely used the Windows version (a long time ago) I got burned with the same things: hanging and sending/chatting while on a call.

I guess if everyone is complaining, it ceases to be a problem and becomes a feature :-)
While I don't agree with the author in regards to the app store Apple's restricting installs to the App store is a valid security measure. Allow side loading and there's literally no way to secure the device any longer (which is why PCs have so much trouble)
To me the biggest two things:

1) The dial pad is one of the only things still in a separate window, which is a pain when entering conference call passwords (which is what I use Skype for half of the time). Before you could just click in the call window and start hitting numbers.

2) I can no longer have two different chats open side by side.

Aesthetically I actually don't mind it. It's the huge step backwards in UX that I hate.
Isn't networkworld targeted towards tech oriented people?
Am I the only one that wipes the OEM operating system as soon as I buy a computer? Even if I'm putting Windows right back on it?

I started doing it because of the crap they bundle in there, but this seems like an unintended good reason to do so as well.
You have to run rm -- -f or you can always cheat and use mc (Midnight Commander).
So far the best thing I like about it is that the upgrader offers a "Skip This Version" button. And I'm thankful I know lots of early adopters.
I have applied there for a fulltime position. I got a friend at Google refer and an HR called my immediately to set up a phone interview. It went well and they flew me in for onsite. After more than a week, they sent me an offer after the quite rigorous background check. The whole process takes about 3 weeks. Even though, it's not as fast as the company I will join (took them less than 2 weeks total to get me an offer) but I don't think Google process is slow.
Why have I not heard about this before? This really makes me doubt China's growth (which is all you hear about these days) even more.
The fact that Macs are statistically less likely to be infected by malware does not mean they are immune. It just means, that most malware-authors are more interested in windows because of the larger number of potential victims.

(Who came up with the idea to spin the fact that Macs are less attractive to black-hats into Macs being more secure anyway?)
anything different about your site? Are you targeting a specific niche to get more of a certain type fo book or anything?

BTW, congrats on completing something, always a learning experience to get anything out there I think.
I've found MongoDB to be the perfect datastore for early-stage startups (which are presumably evolving rapidly) for exactly the reasons Mike mentions:

- it's super flexible (and schema-less)

- dynamic queries are fast and powerful

- it's very easy work with

Scalability is another issue, but I think Mongo can scale (and that's slowly and bravely being proven by Foursquare). And almost all startups need to drastically re-architect their datastores when they hit massive scale anyways, so why not start out with the easiest and most flexible option that will let you iterate the fastest?
This is a pretty intense statement. I think you just may be a workaholic that has found this "must work at all costs" startup mentality as a way to rationalize said workaholism. I started working where I am today and was putting in 80-100 hour weeks for a while. I lost a girlfriend over it, and then one day I woke up and realized that if I didn't hit the arbitrary deadline some executive somewhere dreamed up, the world wouldn't end. Now I rarely put in more than 40 hours a week and I'm happily married. Let me tell you something, if it comes down to my family vs my job, my job will lose every. single. time. Random websites that let you track how many tissues your friend in Utah used when he last sneezed will be dead and gone in a few years and no one will care. When your mother goes, you will definitely wish you spent the time with her.
"The best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big"
How do all of you guys find clients for web development jobs. I've heard that some of the freelancing sites are kind of cheap and I'm also worried that without design skills it would be difficult to create a decent web application.
It depends on where you want to focus first.

1. Web development?
2. Mobile development?
3. What platforms do you prefer?

If you want to just learn programming for the sake of learning programming you'll likely not make much progress.

Define a goal and get back to us.
Skype on the Mac has always just been downright awful. The software is extremely buggy and confusing. Maybe some of my problems are with settings I can change, but that is bad UX in my opinion. When I get chats, I hear a noise, but then can't see who sent me the chat until I go to my buddylist and scan for a number indicating the number of messages next to someone. There's also that whole mood message thing which just dumbfounds me. The thing is though, as long as I can click a button to video chat my parents, these issues are ignorable for my usage, which is frustrating and relieving at the same time.
Number three, nothing about Apple's process actually ensures that this can't or doesn't happen. It may have some affect, but there have been mistakes made in Apple's store as well.

We really don't know the specifics of Apple's process so you really can't say that. Also the author makes the point that he can't think of a malicious app that made it into Apple's app store and I agree with him on that. I can't think of anything either. If you can think of one than you should tell us otherwise you shouldn't say Apple's made similar mistakes.
Telcos and cable companies often receive subsidies at the state level to bring broadband to out-of-the-way places, for speed improvements, etc. Not sure if this is the case in NC, but the situation nationwide is not that clear-cut.
Except for the teams of people patching software for security holes and issuing those updates automatically through a package manager?
I haven't had any trouble doing either of these things -- but Skype 5 on the mac is the first version of Skype I have used. So, I get the impression that Skype 5 is fine for many new, casual users.
I also organize styles by controller/action in my Rails projects. This trick from "The Rails 3 Way" is great for assigning the correct classes to the page:

Using Haml:

%body(class="#{controller.controller_name} #{controller.action_name}")

Using Erb:

<body class ='<%= "#{controller.controller_name} #{controller.action_name}"%>'>
Ha, I posted that I wondered if I was going to come back to a -4 or a +4 karma :)

Yes it was sarcastic. As other commenters said, it's a very common and senseless rhetoric used by anti-privacy politicians. Applying it to an extreme example (like camera in your home) was meant to demonstrate how daft such a stance is.

But I disagree, I think it was a very good spot for it: In my mind, some of the best irony is when it's nearly indistinguishable from truth. So I will take the swinging karma as a complement :D
Why it makes sense to delay the iPhone 5
Did you know US mail used to be delivered through pneumatic tubes?
"Why is this acknowledgment famous, anyway? I don't think it is very funny."

Maybe because other people do find it funny? When I first read it a few years ago I was laughing my ass off, and forwarded it to the usual people in my "forward funny shit to" list. I imagine several of them did the same.

"YMMV"

So... you answered your own question?
Fair enough! This crow is delicious, want some?
Hi All!

7DaystoChangetheWorld.com is an experimental fundraising platform we were working on prior to the recent tragedy in Japan.

We decided to launch an alpha version to the public in support of the Japanese relief effort. We're hoping the resident geeks @ HN can provide some feedback and criticism.
Kudos to Ian for his detective work, but it is not entirely inconceivable that someone else wouldn't have done exactly the same thing and -- surprise, surprise -- reach exactly the same conclusion. This seems like a bit of an overreaction.
Exactly. The option of scaling out later is great, but the huge benefits for early stage projects are flexibility and ease of use.
Just wait until this is used to put in picture ads or more subtle product placements everywhere ...
Do you think that the current system has led to a vibrant competitive marketplace for consumer broadband in the US? The facts seem to be that many municipalities are able to provide much faster connections at a lower price than the local cable monopolies are either able or willing to do. If you put aside theoretical preconceptions about how economies ought to run, it's hard to see how anyone can argue the better service at a lower price is a bad thing.
62% of 'good dancers' understand HTML, compared with 81% of people in general
Stumbled across the same function (GetAsyncKeyState) when I was a kid....mainly because I couldn't figure out hooks.

They are not difficult to detect though. Emulate an (obscure) keystroke, wait 5sec and do you own GetAsyncKeyState. If its cleared then another app pulled the keystate via GetAsyncKeyState.
I refuse to upgrade to Skype 5 after trying it once and accidentally upgrading a second time when the app tried to auto upgrade itself. The horrid UI combined with Skype's stated desire to bring ads to the client makes me search for an alternative which sadly there isn't.

In a business setting I would say that 90% of the time Skype is used as an IM client because of its working persistant groups and functional file transfers.

Entrepreneurs take note, there's an opportunity to make a competitor to Skype even though many would say that's crazy since Skype is so entrenched. However Skype has failed to innovate and is regressing in user experience. If someone nails the group chat features first and give table stakes for the voice/video chat we'd have a viable alternate for business use.
Hm, I suppose I can agree to that.

I find that a few real-life experiments with clojure has been disturbingly slow, and that it's not trivial to optimize speed with lazy structures and magic background threads. Although some web stuff I've done has been pretty spiffy.
The plutonium was only found in trace amounts comparable to the amounts left behind by nearby nuclear weapons tests: http://mitnse.com/2011/03/30/news-updates/
Don't you think, that it's obviously immoral to force others to pay for the benefits, if they don't want them, like governments does?

In principle, I slightly agree with you. But only very slightly. I tend to think it's obviously immoral to build a system where a minority live in excess while the majority live on scraps. It's clear we have a philosophical disagreement. Apart from that, I don't see how you'd run a functioning society without having it apply to everyone. If I don't want the benefit of societally-enforced laws, do I also have the right to not obey them to the detriment of others? If I do not want the benefit of regulations to prevent air and water pollution, does that give me the right to pollute it for others?

Besides, if you feel so oppressed, you are in fact free to leave. Most countries are not like the Soviet Union, and as far as I know there are alternatives without taxing governments. Those alternatives have other drawbacks, though, but that's exactly my point. It seems to me that those who complain about taxes want to have their cake and eat it, too.
Copying text (or close paraphrasing) == Copyright Problem

Using someone's ideas/text/research without attribution is plagiarism.

They are two different considerations, commonly confused. You can violate copyright without plagiarising, and you can plagiarise without breaking copyright.

It's an ethical consideration, certainly, unfortunately it is so persuasive nowadays that no one does anything much but shrug and say "yep, aren't they rude"
How many of these are we going to get? Here are some more ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267708

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067884

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067768

Yes, the US "justice" system is broken. Yes, people should care. Yes, everyone should protest the injustices and do what they can to overturn the corrupt and conspiratorial system that rewards those who have money and discards those who don't.

No, it doesn't belong on HN.
A low-level keyboard hook (that's a specific kind of Windows hook) does not need root either. It still only monitors the session that the hooking app is running in the context of.
It was mentioned because the author of the column (M.E. Kabay) used to be a director of the same program at Norwich University that Hassan got his master's from, and as he said, "it is a pleasure to collaborate with an alumnus." Basically it's a shout-out to the university.
Yeah the impression I've gotten is unless you need most/all of the tools WCF supplies you shouldn't use it because it's so painful. And how often do you really need a majority of the stuff it supplies?
"(T\W\ TFR*\"
Seems like shorthand for "Tuesday\Wednesday\Thursday-Friday"?
As long as it goes by the Android model (turned off by default and made clear that once activated that sideloading can be dangerous and warranty voiding), what wrong with that? Isn't it a person's personal decision whether they want to prioritize security?
Crazy? no. the name will be what you make of it.
I don't see Gates as the great computer guy. I look at him as a ruthless evil genius that made Microsoft what it is. Of course that's partly because he's also a "great computer guy".

To make an analogy with Apple, if anything, his role at Microsoft was more like that of Steve Jobs, rather than that of Steve Wozniak; he provided the vision, he made the business calls that made Microsoft. Bill Gates does have a different style than Steve Jobs and doesn't have the same distortion field and attractiveness, but his speeches at Ted are great nonetheless (which makes me think he was bored at Microsoft :)).
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Know Your Meme acquired by Cheezburger in seven-figure deal
The plant should have been dismantled, flooded, and buried within 24 hours of the emergency generators going down. They knew how bad it was/is, this all could have been prevented.
Turn off karma for users, keep it for new posts, problem solved.

(posts get the karma, not people)
The bots are doing nothing 'wrong' as such.

Not really... because they just add to the noise on the new page when it isn't something for HN. HN is curated by hand (with votes) for that reason.
Microsoft’s Chief Marketer Steps Down After 22 Years
Thanks! Yeah I learned lots working on this project. I've got a bunch of other things planned too.

There's nothing intentionally different about my site from the other ebook lending sites. I did try to make it as simple as possible. I have a feeling that there is space for a handful of sites like this, since Amazon did sell millions of Kindles this past holiday season. People may segregate themselves into communities of other like-minded readers.

Actually you don't need a Kindle device to borrow or lend the eBooks. You can read the books on your computer or other device (iOS, Android, Blackberry, etc).
I experimented with FTS in MongoDB (I did what you did, except that I added stemming) and I was unsatisfied with the results. I think you should take a look at Solr. I was reluctant to add a piece of Java infrastructure to my tiny project (I am not a Java person) but that was the best decision ever in my case. Indexing is fast (compared to what we both did in MongoDB) and independent from MongoDB itself, and searches are much, much faster than doing it in Mongo. Plus you get all of the niceties of Solr: a ton of configurability, faceted searches, solid stemming in several languages and a decent user-facing query parser, all for free. Even if you don't need all of those right now, there is plenty of room to grow and most of it is a configuration file away from being available.
It's not really that simple. You can't really ever simulate your trading with 100% confidence since you're never entirely sure what your participation in the market will do to the results you see when you /aren't/ participating.

There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that as you try and increase the amounts of capital you're putting to work in the market that it becomes tougher and tougher to maintain an edge in the markets.
Research Paper Topics – Discover the Most Interesting Topic
If a good grade is to be received for a research paper, students need to come up with research paper topics which are interesting. This may look like a tough task, but is not. If the right elements are considered, students will be able to select good research paper topics.
For the people comissioning the subs, it is not a question of "resort." The margins in the drugs trade would make your eyes water. Cocaine and similar substances are practically worthless at source compared to their retail value in the US/EU.
I'll be honest: my experience with Color on my iPhone still sucks mightily, but Mr. Nguyen is a terribly articulate, charismatic and obviously intelligent individual, and the interview embedded on that page has really left me a lot more inclined to check back and see how they're doing as Color iterates.
How to send SMS in Windows Phone 7 using C#?
How to send SMS in Windows Phone 7 using C# ?
9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month
Yeah, I guess you only talk to mac users anyway.
The IETF "DANE" working group is specifying a way to do this using DNSSEC.