skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phenomenon of drug-smuggling submarines should be required study for anyone who preaches total prohibition of drugs.

There is so much demand for this product that its suppliers were willing to build and travel in several homemade submersibles to smuggle it. And yet harsh jail-time and zero-tolerance are supposed to stop the trade?
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I wonder if they make remote controlled ones.
Off-topic: I wrote a very primitive passive keystroke logger a few years ago (just to demonstrate how they work). I still have the source code and folks email me about it often:

https://github.com/16s/16k

My example is really trivial and it only works on Windows, but it works well and demonstrates the concept of passive keystroke logging. Unlike system wide hooks, passive logging just monitors the key states. Sort of like when you are playing a video game and press the 'P' key. The game pauses because it's monitoring the P key's state (up or down) and can tell when it changes. Extend that concept to the entire keyboard and you have a passive keystroke logger.

Passive loggers are more challenging to detect as well and they run just fine as a normal user (no need to be root).
I happened to download an album from the Amazon mp3 Android app and they are giving me 20 GB for free for a year. If I don't upgrade (start paying) they'll revert me to the 5GB plan after the year is up.
My own anecdotal experiences support it. Back when I was running seriously (i.e. 80-200km/week), I regularly got triple burger combo meals with huge fries at fast food places, drank soda like water, ate candy during my long runs and occasionally even dipped pizza in mayo or melted butter when I felt like it. Bacon was life.

I had a BMI a 21, a resting pulse of 47, incredibly good lipid levels and lower than average blood sugar.
Introducing /run
You're almost certainly right, now. But for the last two years, one of the biggest voices and possibly the only popular UK TV show to focus on "supercars"/"performance cars" ... if there has been no effect I'd be a little surprised.
I'm not sure what your point is. If the parent doesn't follow the VC-driven "get big really goddamned fast at all costs" model, he's not successful?

There's nothing wrong with growing a business steadily for 5 years. Speaking for myself, we've been doing it for 4, and somehow I don't feel like a miserable failure.
Jason's right. I cut back my weekly hours from around 55 to 45 when my daughter was born. I was surprised that my productivity didn't drop and nobody even noticed. I wish I had done that years ago.
Could an unintended side effect of this be that it encourages spammers to create even more botnets to run these computations?
I don't have a SO account. Do you mean when someone downvotes you, or when you downvote someone else? Or both?
Watch this ticket if you are interested in MongoDB/FTS
http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-380
Odd choice of title. I would have thought the post would be about where Buzz is going as a service, or perhaps what pieces of the the made it to other services.

Well worded blog post titles, matter, people.
Settings->Buzz->Disable Google Buzz

This will disable Google Buzz in Gmail and delete your Google Profile and Buzz posts. It will also disconnect any connected sites and unfollow you from anyone that you are following.
My kind of HNer.
Unrelated, but I've been noticing that sites like whitepages.com and LookupAnyone.com seem to be showing up higher in Google and many have people's home addresses displayed for free. I saw one that seemed to list almost all of the 12 or so addresses I've lived at in the last 15 years, plus a map with a pin at my current address, and a list of all of my immediate family members. This is all data (theoretically) gathered from publicly available records.

If anyone wants to stop by, just call first. I'm sure my number is on those sites as well. :) Makes me feel like signing up for Facebook.
A Compiler for Python in Racket: Exceptions
You could be disregarding the answer from the start, all because the FBI told you to.
It's an interesting type of discrimination at play here. The rich have just as much right to free speech and human emotion as everybody else. If someone feels that they have been mistreated, it is not appropriate to belittle their concerns based on their net worth. Whether their net worth is very low, or very high.
https://profiles.google.com/

Click "Edit Profile", then "Delete profile and disable Google Buzz completely" at the bottom.
I always thought that Gates was the key business guy and Allen the key technology guy, Gates made the money and Allen made the product. Once the product was out Allen was no longer required, the ball was in Gates court and he sold the shit out of it. Am I wrong in this view?
My guess, as is usually the case with these HFT technology vendors, is that this company is trying to sell the residual technology IP from a hedge fund that bellied up.

To those "hobbyists", what would you look for in a solution?
Wow, that's a lot of faith in the AV industry and definition based AV. Perhaps Mr. Security Consultant should realize the limitations of his tools and the importance of doing random samples. He seriously saw this on one laptop and is accusing Samsung of a conspiracy?

Not that I put anything above big multinational companies, but some due dilligance would be nice. I guess its all about selling ad impressions. Facts, accuracy, and responsibility come last.
See! I learned something already!

Kidding aside: An autodidact is a person who is self-taught. They can also be an autonomous learner but the two terms are not strictly equivalent.
I don't think many venture capital firms work precisely in the way this man describes. VC's aren't stupid, and they wouldn't do anything to actively limit their scope of companies to invest in. Every VC looks around for fresh ideas. I think that often times startups who know VCs will go to them with ideas, but not as a springboard or as an "I know you" handout. I think that startups often just go to the connection they have first because its the first place they think of, and VCs picks them up if they are a good idea like any other start up. If we found consistently bad startups which were made by connections then this gentleman's claims may hold weight. I think that this VC will likely find himself turning down many good connection startups by believing that they're doing good and being fair. Its tough to break into any industry, and a connection helps, but only as exposure, not sway toward automatic capital. Exposure shouldn't be taken as a handicap to other start ups. If the startups without many connections have a good idea the interns in VC firms will notice them in not very long and forward the idea to their boss. That or they can apply to Ycom. The point is that this is a pure enough industry that the door doesn't close after the first 10 startups get funding, and those first ten will be judged just like the next 20 or 30 because there's no VC deadline every year (first come first served on applies when there are first in a time frame. No time frame, no firsts). Any VC that doesn't is handicapping themselves or using a different business model.
(Mind the poor english. Its nap time where I am. Also, this article seems to conflict with Ycom's systems, but it doesn't. People that would have had connections just apply to Ycom like everyone else. If anything Ycom has found an effective way of increasing their scope unlike this VC which limited their scope to startups they don't know.)
Lawyer responds to Fred Wilson's Challenge to Startup Lawyers
Good job guys! Pitt alumni rules.
I'm excited to see if any of this money makes it back into the Maritime startup community.

This is an area where Ottawa does extremely poorly. Very little mentorship and money made it from the telecom generation of founders to today's generation.
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Read every day Today's featured article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
That is a good starting point
Reminds of of this case, which happened to famous CS blogger Scott Aaronson:

Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=277

tl;dr of the article: Someone created an Australian commercial for a printer. Two models are talking physics/CS to each other, and the tagline is "A more intelligent model". The models' script is copied from one of Scott Aaronson's lectures.

I think he ended up contacting them, and getting them to donate $5,000 to a CS foundation (instead of sewing them for copyright violations).
From the title, reminded of a blog post by one of the Fogcreek guys: http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/05/20/your-language-features-...
Tons of people use Buzz, and it's pretty obvious that it's going to be part of their rumored "Circles" social network.
And if you do, do it such that company-private stays company-private, please!
I think it means that the author does/did not expect you to be the target audience. To you, an appeal to authority does not mean much, but for someone who does not have much technological knowledge, it may have some weight.

Maybe they were trying to pull views from yahoo finance or something?
Plagiarism? Really? They didn't copy the text of the article, did they? They wrote their own, based on the original source. That's hardly unusual. I'm not even sure it's unethical. At most it warrants an attribution, but this witch-hunt is way over the top.
More Money Than Time or More Time Than Money?
You don't need one of those anyway, if you hash your passwords like you should.
> Further, why is he running a full-system security scan on a fresh installation of Windows? Is that normal?

If you're a bit paranoid or don't trust the manufacturer (with good reason, apparently) it makes perfect sense to run a scan on a fresh system after initial setup. It's probably not a normal thing to do - pausing all usage of the system to check it for malware - but it makes sense.

> the actual sequence of events and his entire methodology should be disclosed.

Eh, not really. We just need to run the same scans (using lots of different software) on other Samsung laptops, both the same and different models, and see if it detects the logger. If the logger is found, then he's right, if it's not than he's wrong (and probably it's his own software which is infected). His methodology only matters if no supporting evidence for infection is found.
I changed my opinion on Color after realizing that saying as much in a blog post would get me a ton of page views.
I am currently working on a course project that involves bolting a proof-of-work system onto DNS to throttle connections to servers. Using IPv6, the DNS server can return an IPv6 address that is usable only by the requesting client because it was randomized in the lower 64-bits and is firewalled from other clients. I've put the project on GitHub and would appreciate any comments!

https://github.com/jevinskie/SlothNS
This brings up a little facet of bitcoin that I'm /really/ not crazy about: The smallest possible unit is 0.00000001 BTC. With a fixed cap of 21M BTC, requiring that each transaction be for at least 4.8*10^-16 of the total possible amount in circulation seems like a questionable choice at best.
We've tried using OpenCL for pricing, the biggest bottle neck is getting data into and out of video card memory.

It's just too slow to move it from main to video memory and back.

Also OpenCL works best when working on large pieces of data at once, with High frequency trading often you want to work on very small pieces, 50 bytes, and process them as fast as possible. Batching up the data and working on it in a SIMD type fashion just takes too long:(
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IOS 5 will feature “deeply integrated” and advanced voice activation technology
True, but it's not impossible to get data sets to work from - on all quant forums the question comes up at least daily and the answers are always the same.
Brazil considers helping Portugal financially
Fork Mozilla's new Release Process draft on GitHub
This just left me scratching my head.

But really, why is this argument even important? .NET can scale, if you toss out the religious arguments then you realize that just about anything can scale if you do it right. Which is the key point isn't it? The great startup lesson is that the PEOPLE are far more important than the technology.
Hey guys, I disagree with codingthewheel's idea, too, but we need to get a little meta here:

His comment is not spam.

His comment caused discussion.

His comment is an opinion, not a false fact.

There are no personal attacks of any kind in his comment, and his language is fine.

His argument is simply unpopular.

None of your responses indicate any of the usual legitimate reasons for downvoting.

So why the downvotes? Do you really want HN to be an echo chamber instead of an arena of civil discussion?
One more evidence of the rise of emergent nations: the former colonial powers become in need of help from the colonies.

I wonder when Britain will start needing help from India, or perhaps further down, when France will start needing help from Algeria and Vietnam.
It strikes me as kind of strange that some newspapers have absolutely no problem citing tweets as sources of information, but are too proud to admit they got a fact from a blogger.
IIRC, Paul Allen wrote most of Microsoft's original BASIC interpreter... And the emulator they used to develop it.
A better analogy would be a tech startup suing TechCrunch, except that Top Gear is infinitely better.
Reflow currently takes effect only when you double-tap, not when you pinch zoom (just like some versions of the stock Android browser). The reflow is still a work in progress, which is why it's disabled by default - we have some improvements planned for future versions.
And yet..... You still seem to have plenty of time for HN? Which would seem to indicate you choose not to spend time with your visiting mother, just like you're choosing to spend time on HN.

IMHO, behind most, if not all, of the stories of "herculean entrepreneurs" sacrificing everything to spend 100 hours a week on their startup, you'll find the same false martyrdom. People spend 100 hours a week on their startup because it makes them feel important and makes them feel like their working their hardest. The sad reality is that's only going to be effective if your work is mindless grunt work.
Britney VS USSR school girl
All Ye founders take note and prepare thy operating agreements - for the waters of startups are red with the blood of ye fellow founders!
If it were a crime to rewrite/summarize an article without attributing it, about half of TechCrunch would be illegal. Though perhaps the difference is that we expect "real" newspapers to be better.
Virtually no hobbyist would be able to compete against big financial firms' hardware and algorithms. It might be a smart move for a large high frequency trading firm to put out these sorts of tools for free. An incredibly easy to use free api with good (though not superior) speed would be pretty popular. More subpar competition == more money for them. Though, admittedly, probably nowhere near what they are making now.
Is that a random article? I kind of wanted human selected ones...
Is it just me or was Bill's reaction so cordial and professional? I loved it; thought it was great.

"While my recollection of many of these events may differ from Paul's, I value his friendship and the important contributions he made to the world of technology and at Microsoft," Mr. Gates said in a written statement.
Ask HN:  Looking for feedback on my spare time project,  Booklends.com
Did Andrew Mason Fail by Not Selling Groupon?
I never knew this, thanks for highlighting it and writing a nice post about it. That's why I read hackernews, to find out things I don't know from people who know them.
Amazon probably does treat all copies separately in order to maintain the distinction of a personal backup service and not a music broadcasting service.
Secure two step verification for Gmail for emergency.
Considering the low activity, I think you should dial down the number of submissions on the front page. It feels so barren.

The design also makes it very difficult to scan the titles. I can't put my finger on exactly what creates the problem.

The most important thing is to restrict downvote priviledges. You have an opportunity to restrict this to a very high (comment) karma threshold, while the karma economy still allows it.

The same can't be said for reddit.
If You Only Have Time To Read 5 Stories A Day, Let Summify Pick Them
It appears we have a not-argument against a not-argument. I'm not claiming TG fans are interested in electric cars. I'm claiming that TG fans are interested in cars with awesome performance whether they're electric or not. As you correctly pointed out, most TG fans would jump at the chance to own a Tesla. The equation becomes less clear when you thrown a more traditional super car in to the mix, but that's all besides the point, because very few of these people can afford to actually buy one.

I'm rebutting this:

"I think your average Top Gear viewer is as far from a potential customer as you can get given the general stance the show takes on such matters"

Well, come to think of it, you're right in many respects. The average TG viewer simply can't afford a $110k automobile. I think you slightly misinterpret the TG editorial view though. They're not opposed to electric cars. They're opposed to slow, ugly, uninspiring cars. The net effect of environmentalism is that efficiency is put before all of these other factors. There wasn't one jab at the green aspect of the Tesla Roadster in that episode. It was all about the performance and the trade-offs.
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To downvote on SO you need a certain number of points, which you get by doing other activities [like posting or answering questions]. After reaching that threshold, you can choose to downvote a question or response, which costs you one point and costs the other person 2 points. I.e. If you wanted to downvote this post, i would lose 2 karma and you would lose 1.
That's understandable, if a little antagonistic. I'd probably probe further just to make sure your definition of "fad" is not "anything newer than Blub."
When I comment my goal is to have the most Karma per thread.

In some ways its very Karmic in that my goal is to maximize all users Karma over my own individual Karma. I get really excited when a comment of mine results in multiple 20+ Karma comments because that means I'm really contributing.
Nice blog post. But why is it hosted as a GitHub readme?
Before people ask, yes I do know about the other sites that are very similar to this.

I got the idea around New Years and have been building it in my spare time. Even after other Kindle book lending sites launched, I figured I may as well finish mine anyway!

Edit: Wow HN, you killed it! I'm upgrading the Linode now. If you can't get through, just try again later, thanks!
The linked page seems very safe. It has a very bad form checking function, but no actual form...
And I thought my implementation of Deflate was bad (.NET 4.0)
There are many submissions that I read on the new page that I like, but aren't something I want in my saved list forever. I don't know if many other people treat article upvotes as I do, but it might explain part of the difficulty.
What do the Different Flowchart Shapes Mean?
I would suspect that the people who build these vessels might be smart enough to avoid actually traveling in them.
Don't forget that it's not actually your position that is being tracked - it is the position of your mobile phone device, which could be carried by someone else. As such, that limits its value in court.
That was what I was thinking: just as nine women can't have a baby in one month, you cannot create a seething furnace of urban synergy by just throwing a bunch of infrastructure together. It's like giving a kid a cupcake liner filled with raw batter: you're going to make him cry.

I don't see NYC or any of the other regions mentioned—London, Tokyo, the Valley—becoming irrelevant anytime soon. I doubt any city is going to steal the title of "Capital of X" from any of them, though the industries that drive the success of these cities may wane—and wax and wane and wax and…—new cities (or existing cities) will rise to prominence due to the development of new industries and new ways of working.

One of the ironies that always struck me about the Valley was that much of it was built on the dream on making distance no longer matter. Instant, global, paperless, tele-blah, and on and on. Yet the Valley continued (and continues) to matter.

What we think of as technology really isn't technology any longer, in any meaningful sense. Pencils and paper are technology, yet CTOs don't control the stationary cabinet. I've asked, sarcastically, CTOs why they don't show more interest in the legal pads and ballpoint pens, to make a point: computers and phones are no longer perceived as technology but as things.

And as things, along with other newly-just-a-thing things like web apps and virtualized servers and storage and clusters, the history and dynamics that favor the Valley don't necessarily support the sort of innovations that are going to make a big difference.

That's why the New Yorker article on Nick Denton, who, according to the article, is trying to bring a television-like time model to web advertising—and is working to kill the impression model—is so interesting. It details a guy that's using technology—yawn, programmers—but has internalized and is working to forward the interests of a completely different culture.

Of course, the existing web advertising mindset is a product of the application of the paper publishing world's advertising models, which just goes to show that as time passes it's less about how any given technology technology wants us to think but how we make sense of that technology.

So maybe the sorts of things that come out of the Valley will change. There's an understatement. Of course they've already changed!

Place has a huge role in shaping what happens. Where you live affects the way you think about the world. The way you think about the world affects where you want to live. (See Slate's "The Big Sort" coverage.) Until a city has a distinct worldview, a Weltanschauung, that draws people and changes them—and the rest of the world—it doesn't really matter.
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> Don't things like real time linux or soft real time patches for linux help, though ?

I don't see how it could.

The CPU essentially drops everything it's doing when a packet comes in. Have that happen often enough and there won't be time left to do anything else, unless you start dropping packets.
Gentoo is good but paranoid penguins prefer Linux From Scratch :)
Try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
Is as good as any other article ;-)
Apple’s protected App Store doesn’t look so bad now
"(FIRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)-
(CDnSE PRSE ONSE 74 NCBE)-
(PRTSE PRSE ONER DE 75 NCBE)"

First Person I saw on the 71 bus?
Second Person I saw on the 74 bus?
Third Person I saw on the 75 bus?

When I saw those lines spelled out like that, I read them as above. Just kinda made sense. Looking at the rest.
Ask HN: Cricket Semi-final !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone on Hacker News following the cricket semi final game between India and Pakistan.
He isn't doing it to benefit himself. He probably doesn't care whether you like him or not, and he definitely doesn't need your money or respect.

I guess Paul just wants the world to know that the image of Gates as our benevolent patron of philanthropy is itself revisionism, lest anyone forget that Bill Gates was one of the least loyal and trustworthy friends a person could ask for.

It doesn't surprise me that HN sides with the victor in cases like this, but I would argue that any serious business person should watch and learn carefully from the lessons of two close friends who changed the world and ended up disliking each other.
Salesforce Buys Radian6 to Make Companies More Social