skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Update, 9:03PM EST: "This is NOT a second attack; new information has been discovered as part of our ongoing investigation of the external intrusion in April."
Promote Your Services and Learn Internet Marketing
> I believe there is an enormous difference between what you're citing as spare-time activities versus what a 'project' entails.

Sometimes I have clients with interesting projects but 90% of the time my day job is stirring enterprise soup. I fix bugs, write documentation and make responsible engineering decisions.

My side projects have no tests, no documentation and no comments. I write fun stuff like chat bots that mess with 419 scammers or p2p chat protocols. I get to enjoy all the fun parts of programming without the real-world constraints and responsibilities.
Hi eps,

Join.me is quite close to our technologies, but is just a way to get someone to gain control over your PC, which is clearly not what we are doing.
Trust me, if you try to do remote support with this, your customer won't be able to launch anything...
TeamViewer works quite the same way, you have to take your customer to a link where he downloads and launches a program,
and then transmits you a code..., but that's just too much for most computer users oO !
Citrix gotoassist (you talk about this one, right ?) isn't free...

What we offer is a real service for free: instant installation-less remote support software (by mail, link, or code), that doesn't require any manipulation (or very few) from the customer. And remote access to your home computer with the resident software.
And a video/audio/chat feature that is not here yet.

What we sell is a professional way of using it. Our customer can create a team, have multiple permanent rooms that they can share with each other,
widgets to manage their permanent rooms to add on their Website, high number of resident software, statistics,
callback features: your website is told when a session has started and stopped, enabling automatic billing.

All this for 9.90Euros/users/months, which is way cheaper than any other...

Behind all this we have an API called AMP Online Support, enabling to reproduce all these functionalities in any other tools.
The API is bi-directional, calls are made to the API to create sessions,
and the API can make calls back to the implementation, to tell what is going on, new connection, start/end of session, etc...

And of course, mobile device apps will very soon be available.
7 Tips for Drawing Up A Freelance Contract
I don't think it does [void the warranty]. I remember reading an forum post by an Amazon employee (at amazon.com) that said it was allowed.
Unicorns and Poets
Ask HN: What brilliant but available .com domains do you know of?
I thought I would share a couple of domain names which are available and totally brandable but I have no interest in them:

memespawn.com
haxbit.com
mutify.com

And here's the idea: If everybody post their suggestions maybe someone will find the idea for a domain name they were looking for. Make sure you only post available .coms to keep the quality up.

If this gets any interest I'll do an update with the list of domain names that got registered by HN users thanks to this post :)
Floats are primarily designed for engineering, and not just floats. Read the original von Neumann paper. Basically, out dominant computer architectur was originally designed to optimally support floating-point for numerical calculations.

EDIT: I just looked at the paper again and realize that I was wrong. Von Neumann actually wanted to keep things simple and thus assumed all numbers to be normalized to be between -1 and 1...
What I find strange about the article is how it seems to talk mainly about webapps (do not count on Facebook respecting your privacy) but takes Ubuntu as an example. I think it is perfectly fine to use MS Office installed on Mac OSX to write secret letters. Just maybe encrypt the files before sending them via email. I don't quite see the point of using Ubuntu and LibreOffice instead from a security standpoint.

That said, it makes sense that the encryption software should not be proprietary and closed source.
Fitflop Sale
Browse a huge range of the latest Fit Flops including UK Fitflop sandals, handbags, shoes and boots. It's the Flip Flop with a gym built in. Select from many wide ranges of Gucci Handbags, Hermes Birkin, Louboutin Boots etc.,.
Using Erlang in a Carrier-Grade Media Distribution Switch
You can have a look at http://www.liberwriter.com and suggest ideas for it. I'm clearly not a designer, so any help is welcome. I'd be happy to credit you for it, and link to you.
Well you can have a secure in-box yourself, but your e-mail will still be sent to untrusted providers.

Another option is to give a certificate to your contact and send all conversations encrypted.

edit: oops, I did not notice bhousel's post (posting the same in other words)
8 bit crop circle hack
Hello David,
I am afraid there is something wrong with the link. It won't load here. Is that fine there?
That post is ancient ... here are newer SciMark results for LuaJIT:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-12/msg00924.html
Samsung SMX-C20 Ultra Compact Camcorder Review
Samsung SMX-C20 is one of the latest electronic gadget in the market made by Samsung. With the use of revolutionary technology, Samsung has developed this amazing camcorder suitable for all camcorder enthusiasts.
The live speedlink widgets are a great idea!

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/creating-opera-speed-dial...
The sad thing is that I think you're right--alcohol consumption is normal. I'm glad I'm not normal. Let us know if he took your suggestion and if it actually resolved anything.
Surely anyone with disposable income will just register everything they see here in the hope that they'll be worth more than the $10 registration fee?
I found Russ Cox's interview and setup also pretty original and informative:
http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
The link between screen resolution and productivity is well established:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/03/screen-s...

I have two screens sitting on my desk at home with bluetooth keyboard. Plug it in when I am at home with bluetooth keyboard, and laptop when I am away (although I usually always take my external mouse with me)
If you have an Intel SSD you can use the tools on their site to do the same (intended for PC, but they boot fine on a Mac). No need to set a password but you still need to do the tricky power cycle thing where you disconnect the drive momentarily after power up. Easy on a Mac Pro so use that if you have access to one.
I'm a college student and I thought it was pretty cool--like omegle.com except I'm actually chatting with people who are close to my age and live nearby.
Triunfo del Amor Capitulo 137
Engineer (Generalist) at Everlane, San Francisco
What do you mean "won't load"? How so? Works fine for me.
Oh how I love Steve Yegge for convincing me that time that I was putting into it before was well-worth it.
Taming the Consumer's Computer [2002]
Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps
Stigma of a single founder
It's one step to go from a dating site to a more general college connections site, and then another step to open that up to non-college destinations, and then you're a billion dollar market.
Hm, it loads through some web anonymizer, but doesn't open directly. May be there is something with my network?
I have reviewed your site. Could you please send me a email to sergey@skible.com to discuss the project? Thanks.
Am I the only one who finds that kind of thing depressing?
Some interesting facts about giraffe
The name giraffe is derived from the Arab word "Xirapha," which means "the one who walks very fast." The tallest living animal on land is the giraffe
Blackberry application Development: Increasing Popularity Day by Day
Unicorn: a visual designer with UX chops
Or buy a machine with a SSD...
My experience on SSDs, having used multiple drives myself and sold 100s of drives to tech savvy customers:

- Brand does matter - the failure rate on Intel drives is a lot lower than other brands.

- The system you put it in also makes a difference. For example, certain generations of Macbook Pros are just not happy with certain SSDs. We've had customer that had two or three failures with a certain brand / model / chipset, and then changing to a different SSD they haven't had problems.

- The failure rate for SSDs overall is higher than that for HDDs, but lower than the failure rate for some other products (such as Graphics cards).

- Every SSD we have sold went into a custom built system or was installed afterwards into a laptop, so I don't buy the argument that problems are caused because it's installed by an end user and not at the factory.

- They are blindingly fast. In my opinion, it's better for 90% of users to put a new Intel SSD into their existing system, than it is to buy a new system.
It's not actually the alcohol thats important. It's the glasses that matter, the liquid inside could be anything.

Having something to do with your hands prevents/reduces nervousness, and the fact that you can't drink and talk at the same time enforces conversational turn-taking. All these things apply to cigarettes too, which goes some way to explaining their tenacious grip on some social groups despite their lack of tangible benefits, (ie. they dont get you high)

These are the most important things, but also there's the halfhourly rhythm of having to get new drinks, which gives everyone a chance to switch conversations, and the practice of buying strangers drinks in rounds, which builds and reinforces trust.

So yeah, don't sweat about the intoxicants if thats not your thing. Just go and order your juice of choice.
House : Season 7 Episode 20 : Changes
Networktools.es Internet Tools
Thank you. I find it surprising that one (even Knuth) could get such a high salary for programming back then.
It's nuts to see the bird icon I made coupled with a product go this far. Go Tweetdeck! :)
The 10 commandments of good source control management
- ETA, Spain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ETA_attacks
Is "Hiring only the Best" a Practical Advice for Normal Desktop Application?
Unless you particularly need the absolutely latest version (or further up-to-date, the bleeding edge development version) then

aptitude install puppet

(or the yum equivalent, or what-ever your chosen OS setup's package management is based on) should do the trick and you'll get security updates along with your usual update process and library dependencies (if you are missing any) will be handled for you.
A good designer will learn the medium they need to solve a problem. Great post.
I don't see why not. At $5/year for 20GB it could certainly be cheaper than dropbox. https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage
War on Sony – 102 million accounts compromised
The story behind the biggest hack in history. Sony crippled as 102 million people have their accounts compromised.
Sorry to be pedantic but since the universe is constantly expanding, aren't such coordinates already inaccurate in only a short while after they are created (unless they are highly localized which likely defeats their purpose in the first place)?
Rails has better tutorials, Django has a more complete and up-to-date manual. I tried both and had a much easier time picking up Django because it was easier to see exactly what it was doing. YMMV.
Drew Houston at Lean Startup Circle
Any thoughts on why JPEG hasn't already been enhanced to near its maximum potential in reaction to competition from JPEG-2000 and JPEG-XR (or changes in usage, computer power etc.)? Is it because they are targeted at the high-end of the quality spectrum, whereas WebP seems (via it's WebM heritage) to focus more at the lower end and typical web, rather than photography, use?

It seems like those wanting to introduce WebP and those wanting to enhance JPEG for web use need to agree on some benchmarks/metrics to use. Either in collaboration (as why would Google object to smaller JPEGs?) or in competition like Sunspider vs V8 vs Kraken in javascript-land.

Whatever they come up with will have drawbacks but it'll be better than randomly comparing a handful of images by eye. And if it's automated and open sourced then criticisms can lead to improvements for everyone.
Cucumber + watir webdriver on macosx
Came here expecting to see comments discussing the best way of avoiding liability if caught downloading CP.

Was not disappointed.
If you haven't seen it in 2 years you'd be very surprised. Another developer took over it's development and has done a great job whacking it into shape. I use it instead of Terminal.app now and don't find it lacking.
Usability does not mean able to understand and completely master at the first sight.

Complex problems require powerful solutions - something you actually have to work a little to learn to use.
Possible explanation: Stop trying to defend trigger happy cops shooting family pets.
Woah! Massively misleading title - the paper actually predicts that he was in a town called Parachinar, about 400km to the west of Abbottabad. The 81% figure was simply based on a geographic decay calculation - that is, it is a figure that represents the probability that Bin Laden was x km from his last known location in the Tora Bora region. The larger x is, the lower the probability.

Parachinar is just the other side of the Pakastani-Afghan border, next to Tora Bora, about 50km away in fact. The real location was much further
they don't have your mac address in most situations; they have the mac address of the router, which is not the same thing. hence the discussion above about being careful to avoid a router that might leak this information in some other way.

dhcp gives addresses to the computers connected to the wifi. but those addresses are only used on the "user" side of the router. packets going out from the router to the internet do not contain those addresses (nor do they contain each user's mac address).

as far as the rest of the internet goes, there's a single address, with multiple ports, which is your router. the nat (network address translation) in your router maps from the port used to the local mac/ip (dhcp) address. so someone "outside" does not know, without additional information, which user of the wifi is making a particular connection. hence this story.
"Twitter Inc. will probably more than triple its advertising revenue to $150 million this year as more companies use it to spread marketing messages, according to Internet researcher EMarketer Inc."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-24/twitter-s-ad-rev...
VMware, CloudFoundry and the Bottle Deposit Scam
Everybody loves a good snog – Finding sentiment in the UK via Twitter
Sigh. Can we get this correction to the top of the comment list please?
I see 2 possible solutions:

1. The coordinates expand with the universe.

2. The coordinates are static and the universe just expands. Note that this isn't awful, planets and stars are always in motion. When planning inter-galactic missions you're always going to have to know where's the starting point and to calculate where the ending point will be at the relevant time.

So to say where Earth is you're going to write down a 4D vector, specifying at what time this was measured.

Btw, the article didn't mention 3D space did it?
PHP Web Development – Looking For a Cost Effective Company for Hire Developers
PHP gives the dynamic platform to create unique and amazing sites. Day by day, its demand is higher and therefore the ultimate quest for PHP web developers because of rising demand, the cost of development is also going up.
You could check out https://countermail.com/.
I gave a skim and didn't find this

11. Never commit revisions which can't be built. (In the exceptional cases, always state in the commit message that the code doesn't build.)
Oh come now. Their products mostly suck. Their support sucks. The Playstation, they did okay on, only now it turns out that if you bought one, crooks have your personal information. They cut corners on consumer security.

Their laptops have tremendous numbers of mechanical failures. Their eReaders are slow, have glare, and have serious usability issues -- e.g. the page turn buttons are located in a spot where you can't comfortably press them. They bought Minolta, and ran it into the ground -- they've been promising a successor to the a700 for close to 5 years now without being able to ship. The lower-end cameras are innovative, but have serious, serious usability issues. The Minolta 5D was a wonderful camera. The early Sony successors copied and improved on it (a700 was the most usable camera ever made -- and the only one with a useful auto mode). The current ones made a new, broken interface. The support is gone -- warranty issues don't get fixed, and if you buy from Sony direct, heaven help you if you want a return.

Your TV and Blu Ray aren't bad, but a bit overpriced and slightly lower quality relative to the competition.

But that's not the point. 20 years ago, Sony was like Apple or Trader Joes. You couldn't go wrong buying from them. The quality was spectacular. Sony products didn't break. Today, you go wrong buying from them 95% of the time. 5% of their products are market-leading. They ship known defective products. It's a very different company.

In terms of bringing gaming to the masses, you're thinking of the Nintendo, first with the NES, and many years later with the Wii.
When I used to live in SF i went to Tosca in north beach and had endless hours of talks about technology, design, philosophy and of course chicks.

We called the sessions Drink & Think and they are still to this day some of the most interesting discussions I have ever had meeting new people and discussing things I didn't know I didn't know.
Machiavelli, Richard Dawkins, Ortega y Gasset, Madeleine Albright, Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot.

But Machiavelli & Ortega y Gasset is a must read.
Computer program understands the 'that’s what she said' joke
That scene is from a small Punjabi town. It is difficult to carry lunch boxes in Mumbai's local trains.
How to add custom logon message on Windows 7.
Hollywood Bingo Bonuses and Prizes
Entrepreneurs are Born, not Educated into Existance
Misconceptions regarding Java Heap size arguments
A cynical mind might say that a really adventurous life might also expose one to more risk of being young and dying, rather than old. Or other less than pleasant outcomes.
Yeah, times didn't hold up in the yesterday's reports, the attack was around 12-1AM in Pakistan as witnesses' reports state so it must have been around 3-4PM in Washington.

Today's news are more accurate on that matter:
"At 2:05 p.m., Mr. Panetta sketched out the operation to the group for a final time. Within an hour, the C.I.A. director began his narration, via video from Langley. “They’ve crossed into Pakistan,” he said."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pa...]
What about contributing to opensource project? We just started putting together Cassandra GUI, coz there isn't any..
I would like to learn more about that. Please ping me over email to discuss how I can be of use. Thanks.
ScottGu is several levels above Hejlsberg, who was underneath him in the org.
How did "going to the pub and talk over a beer" become "a social hack"?

London on Friday afternoon is the biggest hacker fest in the world!
"In all fairness, VSS was a great tool."

I disagree. Even back in 1995 it had fatal flaws. More than once it got so confused that we had to restore the source tree from backup. There was also the continual problem of files being locked by others when they should not have been, hampering progress and complexities. I was glad when we could kick it out of the door.
> weak social links

I guess Stalin believed in "In doubt kill em all". Weak social links won't save you when there's a psychopath on the throne.
I disagree. Get your code updates in there when leaving for the evening/weekend. But, of course, you'll do it in your own project branch that doesn't affect other people.
Shuttleworth should have had the courage to postpone this release until it was fit to use.
Romance Stories, Online Stories, Free Stories
Romance Stories, Online Stories, Free Stories
Thanks.

Which values are you using for the matching? I was assuming a fingerprint of the cert. Have you considered compressing the domains? Compiling them to a DFA should yield a very small structure, and you then will need far fewer bits for the actual fingerprint.
Total Number of Innocent Muslims Killed in the War Against Osama
Web App Development Solutions in India
Pegasus InfoCorp provides complete web development services to clients across the globe, helping small and large business clients establish themselves on the Internet.

Know more about Web Site Development in India so please visit at http://www.pegasusinfocorp.com/software-services/web-website-develoment-company.html
We have plastic bowls for use in my office, and a micro. As do most of the other offices - I am in Mumbai, and a micro isn't that hard to afford for the middle class and many firms.

That said, there are a lot of other people who eat their food cold. This is India, so for whatever N=true, N'=true
That's why our brains afford us both desires: the need for adventure, and the need for security. The two keep each other in check. Adventurous people, who aren't reckless, simply choose to be more adventurous than fearful when there aren't too many real safety risks, but mostly perceived ones.
IT dominates UK outsourcing industryUK.com
the thing that really bothers me is that the 'aliens' are using ASCII and not unicode
I'm not sure about being entrepreneur in US. Once I saw blog where someone listed costs of incorporating. Amount you should set aside for health insurance sent chills down my spine.

Also more or less obligatory (if you are sane) usage of legal advice for any contract and such seems like a huge burden usually not present in other countries.
You seem to be correct on both of those points.

Sandboxing Lua does seem quite easy though: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1224708/how-can-i-create-...
No, it makes sense. While the humans were busy debating how many codepoints the character 愛 should have, the aliens standardized on ASCII and invented intergalactic spacetravel instead.
Nah that isn't an issue anymore - just don't merge it with the main trunk.