skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on the fence here.

One side of me says, I don't wish this type of personal abuse on anyone.

The other side of me says that I don't wish anyone at the age of 21 to be dragged through a ridiculous legal battle that could potentially affect the rest of his life. (debt for life, out of school, jail?)

Which is worse? Corporate greed or personal hacking attacks? Anon endorses the same techie progress that allows corporations like Sony, BoA, etc to reach it's mass market on the internet. Corporations like Sony embrace it's ability to use its mass market appeal (and therefore sales) to hire tons of lawyers to protect it's market.

Gavels vs. Mice. Who ya got?
I'm absolutely not surprised. The additional data undoubtedly nets them a significantly higher return than if they sent nothing.

Doesn't bother me so much either.
And npm is another popular one. I'm not sure if the multiple examples helps your case or tptacek's though. (That is, we all seem to be getting more and more comfortable with this style of installation.)
I am a newbe with the points systems, -4 ??..but we all know employees like to win prizes!. This idea has had positive feedback from many clients for those that engage in our beta testing.
I've been programming in C since 1990, and I still use K&R, although it's mostly Appendix B (the Standard Library) at this point (I find it easier to read than the man pages). The only other C book I have (and consider worthwhile) is Plauger's _The Standard C Library_, not only for his implementation but for the history behind the Standard Library.
I'm sorry, but it seems like you're implying that search doesn't need users. Some of Google's ranking depends on analyzing search histories, so if you were the only user, the experience would be worse. That means that search is also about the users.
Data center technology can benefit everybody, that's all I'm trying to say.
Try signing up for NZ events at http://startupdigest.com/, they are doing a decent job of keeping us updated at the moment.
Big tip of the cap on design. It looks very, very nice. Signed up for the beta as well.
Is LessConf laughing in the face of feminism?
Whenever I get one of those discount cards from a pharmacy/grocery store (CVS, Price Chopper, Safeway, etc), I hand out the duplicates to random people just to stick it to the man.

I do end up with 'interesting' coupons every so often. It's a little like hearing back from an estranged friend.
0 points! hey Minnebar at Best Buy Corp office May 2010 was great!, Free classes and Free pizza! Minnedemo will be even better. Minnedemo deserves more than 0 points mods! come on!
I think championing the gameplay of an obscure (maybe even non-electronic) but fun game is a pretty significant risk itself.

I've been an IGF judge and I love original gameplay, but I also know that almost everything really is a remix when it comes to game design and that there is more fun gameplay that has yet to find its audience than is generally acknowledged.

If you're trying to fulfill your artistic goals, I understand that originality is its own goal. If you're creating a game because you want people to enjoy playing it, maybe you should start from fun.
It could be. I always thought that an interesting way to compete with Google would be to index the web and then sell map/reduce access to that index.
Without following the link, the post reads like spam. I didn't downvote it, but that's probably why others did.
An iPhone User's 1st Days on Android-Where're the Apps & Why is My Phone Frozen?
tptacek has a good point that you shouldn't just trust any old curl-based install, but I think that really applies to any install of any kind. I think you have to consider the source of any software package, it's not something specific to this particular method.
Now how would I have known about him?

Right. That's why I said, another nice project would be to make a directory of accountants who can handle the whole tax process remotely.

But maybe there's no business model in that. Enter SaneTax.
There are earthquakes of magnitude 6 or larger quite often, probably every week. And under 6 (like the 5.8) are even more common.

I'll hold my assertion that it seems to be a more active week than normal in the seismological world.

Your comment adds nothing here and is not backed up by any evidence; "probably every week" does not count as evidence. The majority of the number that the USGS counts includes quakes below the ocean. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqsta...

The USGS calls anything 6+ "large". A magnitude 6 earthquake can be deadly. Even magnitude 5 < can be deadly. There are factors at work depth of the quake as well as other factors, like location where it hits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadly_earthquakes_sinc...
Whilst the system software is vulnerable this doesn't gain a lot (you're in Thomas' arms race): malware intercepts the transaction request and requests "please scan your fingerprint to sign transaction of $1"... then quietly presents a $1000 charge to be signed by the PKI token. Even TPM can't help if the software is hacked.
Oh, in fairness I'm sure you'd get to see them for about ten minutes while they eat breakfast, bleary-eyed, before trudging off to school.

Children aren't morning people.
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Superbugs Found in New Delhi’s Water and Sewage
We actually call tax professionals and spend 30-45mins with them to go over our questionnaire starting from their experience, tax knowledge to the current prep software setup they have.

IRS has manadated new PTIN requirements http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=218611,00.html we need to have their PTIN to even talk to us.

As I said in other comments, customer can call and make sure they are comfortable with the tax agent we assign. If you are not comfortable, let us know, we will assign a different agent.
Pandora's Android app doesn't request either fine-grained (GPS) or coarse (wifi) location permissions. So I don't believe it's actually sending location data, but if it is then there's a larger problem.
Great work, Tom! As a fellow non-technical hacker, I have to say I'm really impressed. I had no idea that Google Docs could be used in this way. I've always used Yahoo! Pipes for similar manipulation of APIs, but as a spreadsheet junkie I think your approach is far superior. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. I will have that included on the site.
This is a great point. They're currently devoting millions of dollars to ruining the life of GeoHot, but since they're doing it in a way that's sanctioned by politicians and lawyers, that's "alright".
I selected 'none of these options apply to me.' I worked with C for many years (pidgin was written in C) and did some C at my first, second, and third jobs. However, I haven't had a need to write anything in C in about 7 years so I am more than rusty at it.

I didn't feel like "I learned some C" applied. That could be my awesome sentence parsing skills at work, though. :P

I wonder if I could get back into the swing of things easily. I should give it a shot.
At first I was excited that Xcode had some competition, so I downloaded this as soon as it was available.

Unfortunately, it has a crappy Java-generic GUI. For an IDE for a platform that makes a big deal out of user experience, it really looks awful. (And it manages to be slower than Xcode 4!)

I understand that tools don't have to be pretty to be functional, but I draw the line here.
Buildings Made with a Printer
I thought everyone moved over to homebrew now :)
Someone must have down-voted... bummer.
The actual hard drive is inside the enclosure (assuming it was real). It's totally normal to open the enclosure to look at the drive inside.

Sometimes the enclosure (SATA to USB converter) fails, while the drive is fine.
Is Adobe PDF Reader becoming irrelevant?
PDF viewing is now built into Google Chome. Microsoft and Mozilla have announced that future versions of their browsers will include integrated PDF readers.

Is Adobe's PDF Reader becoming irrelevant? Does it matter to Adobe that it might be losing control of PDF reading? Why did Adobe fail to build Adobe Reader plugins that integrate nicely into all browsers?
Have you looked at Snap Tax? http://turbotax.intuit.com/snaptax/mobile

If I'm doing a simple filing, what is the value proposition of paying $100s for a tax professional using sanetax when I can use snaptax for $20 and submit right on my phone?
Thanks Jud. I'll email you now. :)
Eventually, we will open up the tax professional directory. So that you as a customer can choose your own agent. We already have the code in place for it.
I like the concept, but the domain is a bet iffy. I read it as "sanitax", which might be misconstrued. Other than than, I like the idea. I would use an actual tax preparer if it wasn't for calling and/or driving.
Read the ending; it sounds like a cloud computing offer:

In the future, we think this service could also be useful for businesses in various industries, like biotech, financial services, manufacturing and energy. If your business can benefit from hundreds of millions of core-hours to solve complex technical challenges and you want to discuss potential applications, please contact us.
I'd love a website to swap these cards around...

Or, alternatively, some other social signal that people wanted to trade, similar to Button Men at conventions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Men
Have you opened a merchant account that is improveing your business?
Physics Engines for Dummies
You say someone could "easily" man-in-the-middle the connection, but is it really that easy? Or likely? (Assuming you're not installing it from a random public wifi hotspot.)

Even so, assuming you want to be extra careful (you're installing it on a development machine with highly sensitive information), it's not that difficult to clone the repo and edit the install script to install from your local copy of the repo.
They hire folks with no education or experience, train them for a week, and turn them loose - generally paying $9/hr plus a percentage of fees they generate. The majority of their business comes from taking advantage of poor people - they prepare a return that takes me 6-9 minutes, offer a 'refund anticipation loan' that gets people instant gratification, and charge them $200-$400. Eff everything about that. I am thrilled to see the RAL on the way out and look for VITA sites to become much more heavily utilized soon!
Other anons?
The essence of Democracy is not that the majority wins. The essence of democracy and other representational systems (such as the variant on democracy we actually have) is that when processes are followed and the vote is fair, the losers agree to go gracefully and wait for the next vote for their next chance at victory. The winners don't need to be told they won; they know it. It's getting the losers to go gracefully via proxy violence rather than actual violence that is the key to civilization as we know it.

This is the losers not going gracefully. (Or at least, the likely losers. Actually democracy has not yet made its decision, it's still deliberating on the matter of jurisdiction, let alone the actual crime at hand.) This is the breakdown of democracy, not a celebration of it. I won't even immediately leap to saying that's a bad thing, because Democracy !=== "Good". I'm just saying, this is not democracy. It's either anarchy or mob rule.

And if you actually like democracy, raw or otherwise, you shouldn't agree with Anonymous. A democracy is all about means rather than ends, and as tempting as it may be to agree with the end it is imperative to the integrity of the system that you stand against someone getting there with the wrong means. If you don't like Sony, boycott, legislate, lobby, convince with words and fair deeds, not mob criminality.
... trial division has been obsolete since, what, 1640?

Longer than that. The sieve of Eratosthenes is attributed to Eratosthenes, who lived from 276 BC to 195 BC.
Just noticed that www.mint.com does it too...
http://farseerphysics.codeplex.com/
They'd be better off rephrasing the question on the front page "what do these companies have in common" to "what do these products have in common." Android is not a company.
I sell digital goods so I'm in your target market. There's very little information about the features on your web site. What payment gateways do you support? How does the affiliate scheme work? Do you support discount coupons? There's lots of other questions.

I tried the demo but didn't get far because I had to upload a file. I jumped around the video but that seemed to dwell on very basic stuff.

To summarise, you may have a good product but there should be a lot more information on your site because at the moment I just don't know if it's good or bad.
I set up an email with a dot in it early on as well, but I can still access my account without the dot and get emails for that as well.

As others have stated the problem is that someone thinks their address is saiganesh@gmail.com when it really isn't but they use it anyway.

If you can find another way to contact this other person you might try it to tell him that his email is not what he thinks it is.
yeah, that seemed to have fixed it. Terminal works, iTerm doesn't.
Brief look at Node.js based Browserling.com
892 unique ways to partition a 3x4 grid: http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/3x4grid.html

They also have an interactive tool that generates HTML/CSS: http://www.3x4grid.com
I am for trying to poke at someone, but to me the line is drawn at family and kids. Anonymous themselves might not do it, but lets say they make information about the kids public and some weird psycho uses that in a bad way. Just takes one incident involving a child and the public out lash could be severe.
It will only be a mistake if you do not learn anything from it. So I wouldn't even look at your decision as one choice could lead to a huge mistake.
Same deal with MonoDevelop. These alien GUIs look absolutely miserable in OS X alongside the system and all the tastefully done third party native apps you have running.
This is pretty great. Any idea why it doesn't show prices for driving though? I'd love if I could enter the average MPG of my vehicle, and have it show an estimate of driving costs, so you can compare against flying for shorter trips.
especially when the song is Slayer's "Raining Blood"
Really interesting that your submission has to be in the form of something that can run on Native Client. I wonder if they're using this to stress-test implementations of NC.
http://www.se-radio.net/2008/05/episode-95-the-new-guardian-...
"Meanwhile, consumers don't buy functional programming languages."

Unlike Apple, Microsoft is also interested in business models that aren't B2C.
Great question. We get this many times.

Two things:
1. Who does the taxes?
With snaptax, you still have to file your own taxes. Go through the questionnaire, go through the numbers and select right options.

With sanetax, you are letting an expert handle your taxes. Regardless how simple or how complicated are your taxes.

2. Expenses:
With sanetax if you have simple returns, I have seen agents charging the customer $40. With snaptax, you need to spend both ~$20 and your time to complete taxes.
The FBI mostly has been watching, but not directly involved because so far, for what they've done it's not worth the resources and money to go after. The FBI could go after anonymous but the cost and time would be so high eventually you're gonna tell yourself, we just wasted a lot of tax payer money chasing a bunch of kid pranks. That is unless Anon does something stupid to invoke massive public anger.
I'm on the younger end of the age-scale (23), and i would have to agree that less people are learning C as a matter of course these days. Over the whole programmer population the percentage would be very low, but the hacker population is almost defined by its use of C. Many notable and large hacker projects are based on C; Mozilla, Linux Kernel, GNU tools, etc. I think this is in part because the community has such a strong legacy and is driven to keep building and extending what has come before, but also because of the higher average programming ability in the hacker community compared to the general programming population.

From my perspective using Linux is one reason i know some C, but the greater reason is because my formal education included embedded C programming with microcontrollers. Programmers going through pure software engineering courses seem to focus much more on computer science and web development concepts, rather than systems design and programming. That said, i'm sure my experience is not typical, and other universities probably use C in some part of their courses.

In terms of actual programming, i haven't yet found a project which required the use of C, and in the cases where i have used it i've often stumbled more with the bulky IDE and build configurations than the language itself. My particular trouble is around external references and including code not in the standard library, and then the further dependency hell.

Searching around i haven't really found any C tutorial that really covers this sort of stuff really well, most tutorials focus on the language itself (which i don't really have an issue with). Does anyone know any good resources on how to set up an optimal and easy to manage C development environment?
I would guess it's more of a "pow.* was available for this TLD" decision.
Let's not forget Mark Pesce at linux.conf.au feeling compelled to put fetish photos in his presentation to illustrate some minor point unrelated to sexual fetishes.

Once you start down the trashy route, there's nowhere to go but down; you wind up competing with all the other douchebags for attention.

Also, you pick up a bunch of fans from this sort of thing who are essentially shitheads ("Huh huh, those humourless feminazis are at it again, you tell 'em, I thought your talk/conf/video was just good fun") so your good name will be further trashed by all your defenders, even if you want to back off.
That's effectively 114200 cores devoted continuously for a year.

Or 256 x Quadro 6000's @ 99.6% up time. Granted,
Google can hand out the real CPU time not just a bank of GPU's. Still, I don't think it will be that long before someone pulls that "switch".
Calibre's nice but it always messes up the formatting / paragraphing even for text-only files
Ok, we get it, some people are paranoid and afraid of running a "random script" and having to sudo to install it. Can we please have a discussion on the merits of the actual application. I just installed it - I trust 37signals enough to give them the benefit of the doubt - and love how simple it is to access different apps I'm working on at the same time without having to worry about configuration. Thanks 37signals.
I found that interesting too, thought it was a joke at first.

The only details I was able to dig up are in the Data Center specs [1], and they're pretty brief:

> Energy-efficient LED lighting is used throughout the data center interior. / Innovative power over Ethernet LED lighting system. / Each fixture has an occupancy sensor with manual override. / Programmable alerts via flashing LEDs.

I wondered what the justification for PoE lighting could possibly be, sounds like all the lighting is also functional as instrumentation.

Anyone know more?

[1] http://opencompute.org/specs/Open_Compute_Project_Data_Cente...
That only works on the 1040EZ which many people are not eligible for. I'd imagine the majority of people on this site for instance cannot use it.
Unfortunately, outside of xcode, their is no other competition. No other IDE comes close. Considering this release is a pre-beta (and not some faux-beta popular with web two point oh startups these days). Having used other Jetbrains products, I'm fairly certain that when all is said and done, the final product will be solid IDE.
Logic Programming in Scala, Part 1
:) Supposed to be "sane tax" - Bringing back sanity in taxes. Signup as a customer or send an email(email in profile) if you like to discuss.
A lynch mob has a purpose.

It isn't necessarily even the same purpose at the end as it was in the beginning. This is the danger of mobs, people become more emotional and feel more entitled to take more drastic actions that they would otherwise eschew alone. It would only take one lone nut case with a gun and the information Anon has gathered to turn this media curiosity into the biggest story this side of Libya.

I am not against what Anon is arguing for in this case, but what they are doing is highly questionable and crosses the line. This is no longer civil disobedience but something more akin to mobster tactics. If the same was done to them, someone pursuing their families, they would be crying foul from the internet's roof tops.
It is unfortunate that 'religion' and 'belief in god' are so inextricably entangled in American society.

Too often, what people call 'religion' is really an organization that seeks to use the existence and/or potential favor of a supernatural being to impose external controls on 'believers' (which is to say if you don't do what I say you'll go to hell kinds of things).

There are folks who believe in the existence of a God but are not trapped by Junior High syllogisms like "Can He make a rock so big He can't move it?"

Brent Walters [1] is one such person who has spent a lot of time critically examining belief in God, why he believes, and what he believes, and more importantly what he does not believe about God. He has tracked down sources, and copies of manuscripts from around the world that help inform and educate as to what was going when they were written and to help understand the context of the writing in that light.

I think Hacker's embody a very powerful concept which is what the Vatican (and the Dali Lama) really cherish which is the search for truth, through rigor and reason. When a device or program misbehaves a hacker wants to know why it misbehaves and whether or not that behavior is normal or abnormal. Its the truth underlying the observation that they seek. This is why debugging can be so rewarding, not only do you fix the problem but you often develop a deep understanding of the how the environment provoked the problem in the first place and what needed to be true for the problem to not occur in the future.

Truth seeking is a requirement for hackers. As it is for those who would become enlightened.

[1] http://www.kgoam810.com/Sectional.asp?id=32111
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SCTP is a good start for sure, and someday may make sense. The problem is a deployment one: it can't pass through NAT, making it off limits to most users today.

As for solving problems from the transport, that is not true. I assume you're suggesting that streams can only be tackled at the transport layer, but SPDY's compression is clearly an app-level endeavor.
This looks pretty cool; I'd love to try it out.
Not to mention how the iphone originally only offered webapps.
ah, slightly nervous that pg & co. have had no questions regarding us. ah well - the anticipation builds.
Good point; I didn't think of it that way. I never saw Anonymous as particularly honorable.
The ruby community seems to be backing away from this lately. DSLs don't compose well.
Did you really say "not backed up by any evidence", and in the very next sentence provide the actual evidence??

If you look at that handy evidence you provided: Magnitude 6 or larger quakes happen 150 times a year. That's about 2 or 3 a week.

And regarding 5.8 magnitude one you mentioned: earthquakes in that range happen about 10 times a day!

Are you really surprised that events that occur this often happen to cluster up on one day?
SCTP is not available on Windows by default, and you need administrative privileges to deploy it. I'm not trying to start an OS war debate, but this is a very practical problem.

Mobile, oddly enough, may be the best route to bring both IPv6 and SCTP to life.