skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of the social search is not the result itself. It's that you have someone you know to consult on your searched subject.

For example, I will probably see my friend's opinion in a social search result. I might actually not like what he said or suggested, which he does not know that I don't like it. However, I do know I can ask him about the subject to find out his experiences or maybe get his second opinion.

That becomes powerful because it might cut the time for you to find the information you want. It's also more likely to save us from getting nowhere to find things we want.

So, relationships do help us find things quickly. And for those friends who give me wrong opinions will definitely lose my trust.
You just used the words "potato", "noodles", "rice", and "flour" in a distinctly negative tone. Those are some of my favorite foods, preferable doused in butter.

And I'm 6'1", 170 lbs.
If you meant the asterisk at the end, I may not have stated my thoughts clearly(fyi, I agree with everything you said). The only way it would've been a crime on Lebed's part would be if he had gotten non-public information from someone involved in/with the company in question. I haven't researched it but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's utter crap that the SEC can come down on someone hard just for stock tips from someone who's no more well connected than anyone else.

Personally, I work in the financial field(as a developer) and won't touch trading just because I feel like if I make one wrong move I could risk getting fired / barred / etc..
> With Macs approaching 10% of the market this has got to be worth somebodies time to have a go.

Well, apparently there is an issue. Enough so that Apple has taken notice.
As an aside, except distros and open Documentaries, what all do people download legally through bit torrent?

World of Warcraft
If this gets more people to install noscirpt, I'll consider it a good thing.
Her glasses were compared to insect eyes in the book:

>She hooked thumbs in the beltloops of her leather jeans and rocked backward on the lacquered heels of cherry red cowboy boots. The narrow toes were sheathed in bright Mexican silver. The lenses were empty quicksilver, regarding him with an insect calm.
Most of these aren't obscure, but it was a good read, and I didn't know about slurm.

So over on one of the test machines I apt-get install cowsay ... One of the other devs here is going go get a surprise next time he logs into one of the webservers ... ;)
This may be a little snarky, but, as Homer Simpson put it: "Well, you bought all those smoke alarms, and we haven't had a single fire!"
Lessons From FarmVille: How Zynga Uses The Cloud
A trojan can do anything a user can do, so yes.

The one thing Lion has going for it here is that apps can declare their intention to do certain things and then be prohibited from doing anything else. So, for example, a non networked app can tell the OS it has no interest in using network APIs and will then be sandboxed from them (so if its code is violated it won't be able to suddenly start phoning home). But, of course, this requires effort on developers' parts to support the feature. The key thing is that Apple's own apps are likely to use this feature.

But if you download some random piece of software and then run it and the OS says "are you sure?" and you answer yes then you're boned.

And again, if you already said "yeah" to "run this bizarro app from disreputable source", are you going to say "omfg no" when asked if it can use the network?
The question of portable code vs. taking advantage of the best possible system interfaces is a very hard problem indeed.

On the one hand, the number of people using non-Linux POSIX compliant OS's have dropped significantly in the last decade. As a percentage of the installed base, either by machine or by user, what's left? The *BSD's, where I'm not sure there is hard evidence that they are growing even by absolute numbers, never mind as a percentage of the total market. Solaris, which Oracle is busily killing by increasing support costs to the point where people are quickly bailing to other alternatives --- in the end I won't be surprised if aside from the one or two big iron databases servers, there are very few other Solaris installations left. AIX? HPUX? Don't make me laugh.

The only POSIX compliant OS that is growing is MAC OS X --- and Apple isn't afraid to add new incompatible features to their kernel, and then release software which only runs on MacOS --- and usually people don't wag their fingers at Apple complaining that they are releasing non-portable programs. Instead, Apple is usually lauded for keeping a solid eye on usability and writing programs that have a deep sympathy for the end user.

So why is it that a lot of people are kvetching at GNOME for wanting to use kernel-specific features in the name of improving the user experience, when the same complaints aren't leveled at Apple? I think there's a bit of a double standard being applied here....
But but but... Zodiac!
Because people say, "I am getting so fat!", not, "I am getting so carbed!" So they equate calories from fat being converted directly to adipose tissue.
MacOS Isn't as Attractive to Attackers as you Might Think
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

As it turns out, pretty close to the "tyler, tx" search marker. The marker itself (Broadway and Ferguson) doesn't seem to me like a particularly run-down area.
Find & Land a Microsoft .NET Development Job now available on Kindle
My book on finding and landing a software development job (with a strong leaning toward Microsoft technologies) has been rewritten and is now available on the Kindle.
Isn't there a windows defect (that coves all versions) that will execute a file just by viewing it in the file browser?
Features and advantages of a Spy on Blackberry
Spying on Blackberry phone is now possible with the spy aids that offer secure, fast, reliable eye keeping without letting the concerned person know. The software actually acts by transferring all call logs, sms log (incoming and outgoing), phone book data, and photo gallery into an online account that can be accessed by you anytime, anywhere in the world.
Ask HN: Can we get a Who's Hiring College Grads (Month Year) started
I don't know if HN already has a thread like this somewhere, but every month I see the who's hiring post, and after digging around in there most companies are looking for someone with 5+ or so years of work experience. I think we need to have a who's hiring college grads/entry level post started every month. Any thoughts?
I have found the perfect diet (or, rather "weight control algorithm"), have lost about 60 pounds and haven't gained them back for a couple of years now. The algorithm is extremely simple: "If you ate yesterday, don't eat today." It means I fast AT LEAST half days in a year (see: alternate day fasting). On fasting days, I drink water and green tea (with no sugar, of course). It has numerous purported health benefits. I can vouch for weight loss, lower blood pressure, more energy (perhaps paradoxically) and better digestion. It also frees a lot of time, since you don't have to plan, eat, or acquire food half the time and it turns out digestion also "needs" sleep, so I can get by with sleeping less on days I'm empty. The only side effect is that of lower blood pressure - I sometimes get dizzy if rising up fast from crouching. I started doing this after fasting for 60 hours every fortnight for a year, I loved the feeling and wanted more of it. It also makes me appreciate food much more on the days I do eat. As disclaimer (YMMV), I tend to avoid food additives which are known to be bad (coal tar-based paintstuffs, artificial sweeteners, certain emulgators and such) - the lists of those are widely available. And I try to eat whole-grain cereal products. I also keep kombucha as pets (very clean and quite pets, fermented tea is best poo ever) and I bake my own bread with wild yeast that has apparently managed to have aerial sex with my kombucha scoby.
Apple doesn't love you, they just want your money
Fun With Very Large Numbers - a formula that fails after 10^10^11
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
I'm a parent with computers who has parent with computers and children with computers.

"somebody accustomed to being told that the computer is always right" -- if they believe that, it's stupid, and they have worse problems than malware.
Building a "game design web" using Google Moderator
How would this compare to Newsgroups? Pretty much anything worthwhile that is on BitTorrent can be found on Newsgroup servers and leeched (or in case of videos streamed) at your connection’s maximum download speed. The only advantage I can think of is when ISPs block access to Newsgroups ~ am I missing something?
Part of the "spookiness" was that he was so easily found. Not so easy in the 80s. Nowadays? Meh.
A Changing of the Guard
Web company built slowly amidst hype in our polymorphous Web industry
Thanks. I had seen the Wikipedia entry (but not the stackexchange and the Seth Roberts post) as well but did not post it because I found it interesting to see everyone come up with rationalizations for why their usage of the phrase is 'the correct one'. :)
[EPUB] http://bit.ly/kQYAZQ

I made this one with Calibre, and its optimized for the iPad. Let me know how it looks for you.
F1 robo series maybe?

I agree the driver still has a lot of influence. But, if drones can fly around in the skies then a pilotless F1 car is not so unrealistic. Fans liking robo F1 cars no one really knows for certain but it would be very interesting to see.
You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind
all this new javascript stuff only gives me more and more reason to use noscript
Date format by country
Fair enough, but, like the article points out, personal experience, or case studies, doesn't count as scientific proof here.

My own experience is that I can eat as much butter (real butter), bacon, olive oil, and other fats as I want and my weight won't change. But as soon as I start to eat bread and potatoes, I can easily gain 10 pounds.

This is a very complex issue. For every single person there are many factors involved, like personal make, hormones, age, genetics, even how your mother ate when you were in the womb.

On the big scale, these studies are trying to find the cause for the obesity (and heart disease) epidemics. The accumulating evidence is pointing to carbs as the culprit.
Entrepreneurs Build Big Dreams Without Big Money
So, to recap, if that commuter had told the operator to mind his own business, this would still be going on.

Also, the T doesn't bother to count the number of passengers and compare it to the number of tickets sold.

Also, the T's management doesn't read Craigslist, and hasn't for years.
I'm sure he didn't mean to offend you, but those were mentioned because they are pretty rich in carbs. I must say though I haven't heard of anyone eating flour, especially doused in butter, no less ;)

Regarding your height/weight: age, physical fitness and genetic disposition are also determinants of that along with your diet.

Edit: I'm 29, 6'1" and 180 pounds (I could lose another 10-15 pounds if I got back into marathon-running condition), and I do enjoy eating foods such as pasta on a regular basis.
Yankees Bedding Set
I think the idea is fetch.io will compress the video for you for streaming, so you don't need to download the full, uncompressed version.
Well if you want to get pedantic, a "virus" spreads by infecting legitimate executables, a technique that hasn't been viable since the days of "Don't Copy That Floppy". In everyday use, the word "virus" is synonymous with "malware" and almost always refers to a trojan or drive-by.
Is Hyper Local Networks the next big thing?
Think about a system that allows people to follow places, see what's happening there and meeting new people online (at those places).

A hyper local network where there is digital places and interaction with people at those places. Doesn't that look like The Matrix (movie).

I mean everything is a place - restaurant, bar, office and even a website. What if people can meet at those places, interact in real-time and make new friends?

Moreover, people connect locally to make this online interaction actionable. We're launching something along these lines and would love your feedback - http://www.loquila.com

Best
Rajan
Because you can't really protect the user from their own stupidity.
abcde - CD to mp3 ripper
apg - random password generator
base64 - better than uuencode
boxes - draw any kind of boxes around your text
bsdiff - binary differ
bspatch - binary patcher
bvi - binary vi (yet another hex editor)
ccx2 - console xmms2 client
clive - flash video downloader
dvipdfmx - dvi to pdf converter
enfuse - poor man's HDR
get_flash_videos - yet another flash video downloader
glark - advanced grep
indent - code beautifier
lshw - list hardware configuration
mcurl - multiple part downloader using curl
mktemp - safely create temporary files and directories
msort - sort records in complex ways
netbrake - bandwidth limiter
od - octal dump
par - paragraph reformatter
par2 - archive verification and repair tool
ped - sed done right with perl
pinfo - color info reader
pipe.vim - make vim part of a unix pipe and allow it to
edit the pipe contents
pv - Pipe Viewer: a tool for monitoring
the progress of data through a pipe
pydf - pretty df (disk space viewer)
qmv - use your favorite editor to rename files
(part of renameutils)
qodem - modem program that can do serial, telnet, ssh,
zmodem, kermit, etc
rdiff-backup - like rsync, but can do incremental backups
recode - like dos2unix and unix2dos, but with many more encodings
recordmydesktop - make screencast videos
remark - great logfile colorizer (part of regex-markup)
rkhunter - find rootkit infections
rlwrap - add readline editing support to any command
safecopy - data recovery tool (better than dd)
sponge - soak up stdin and write to a file
(for things like pipeline editing)
sux - su while transferring X credentials
unbuffer - force flushing of stdout
upx - executable compressor
utimer - countdown timer and stopwatch
vared - edit shell variables (part of zsh)
watch - run a command multiple times and display the output
(with differences highlighted)
xdotool - simulate keyboard and mouse activity
xxd - hex dump
zargs - a version of xargs that makes the find command redundant
(part of zsh)
zed - very small and fast vi-like editor (part of zsh)
zrun - automatically uncompress arguments to command
A TechCrunch article. I renamed the article because I felt the original was a bit of hype. Nonetheless, I found it interesting because the guy kept believing and built the company and survived business terrain change over the years. Hope it spur some people on.
The "fat is evil" thing that happened in the latter half of the 20th century is going to go down as the biggest scientific fuck up ever.

The very people who were given all the authority and trust, and who were supposed to protect human life, actively killed people by pushing carbs as healthy and fats as unhealthy.

They directly caused spiking obesity, the #1 medical issue in our society.

Repeat after me: The biggest health issue in our society was directly caused by the health authorities. This means doctors, medical researchers, and governments.

Heart disease, cancer, and obesity are all linked to carbs now. Millions and millions of people have died because they followed the advice of the scientific authorities.

When the general public figures out how wrong the scientific and medical authorities were for SO LONG and SO LOUDLY... public trust in science is going to be maimed for generations.

If you can't trust them on the #1 public health issue - the #1 killer of humans - what can you trust them on?
Guide to the App Galaxy, by Google
Apple sells anti-malware right in Apple Stores. How's that for truth-concealing?
Given that momentum based mouse scrolling existed in the prior art, I doubt that the addition of touch would pass the non-obviousness test in court.
Yep, lots of them are known to some subset of people. However, if people find one or two really useful ones that they didn't know about previously, the list has done its job.

For me, the major winner was dstat. Did not know about that tool - I've been struggling with the output of iostat. I'll also be experimenting with tmux as a screen replacement/alternative.
The author is Clifford Stoll, who wrote the classic 'The Cuckoo's Egg'
Well, here's how he did it [1]
I would be interested in your opinion -- you aren't the first to be dubious of his claims.

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to...
dunno how I missed this one earlier, but nice design work....and G finds yet another way to present their ad/promotion scheme
Police confiscate German Pirate Party’s servers
That would be a heck of a surprise for a "good" atheist to wake up to.
Haha, brilliant article and well found

I love stuff like this, who would have thought it though??

Encarta was the most advanced thing back then!
I think it's ok that the person asking the questions is not visible, however the video feels a bit awkward because of the angle. It feels like you are looking down to him. I guess it would be less awkward if the camera and the head of the person interviewed where at the same level.
Seriously the Feds better be watching this closely. This smells like a lot of trouble when Harold is wrong.
I think is may not be testing the right things.

For example, what if the test was in Visual Basic, and instead of asking questions about non virtual destructors in virtual classes, it was asking questions about uses of various database Apis. " Oops, you used the wrong enum value in that function call."

Would that test yield top programmers, or just people who knew a database API very well?

Also, it doesn't demonstrate the ability to solve problems by writing code. At best it tests C++ code review skills.
LINKEDIN: The Truth About What It's Worth
So what? A user who has been tricked into installing Mac Defender will be just as easily tricked into authorizing Mac Defender to get out.
Yeah, Mike Pence actually stood against permanent extension of part of the act - he's my "representative" and this is the first time to my knowledge he's ever done anything at all I approve of.
I'd be curious to know the answer to this too - I've seen an increase of "one off" seemingly acceptable posts being flagged dead, and browsing their post history it wasn't cases where they were set to auto-dead.
IncludeJS - Use CommonJS modules inside Ruby/Rails
A friend of mine found himself in the situation of having to implement the same business logic in both Javascript and Ruby.

So he wondered how to get rid of that duplication. The solution he came up with is IncludeJS which allows you to implement something in Javascript and use that code _both_ in Javascript and in Ruby.

He gave a talk on this topic during RailsConf2011, which provides some more details:
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/1941
I have a real issue with directing people to say "we are not aware of a thing" in a memo that shows they are clearly aware of it.
put.io also supports "ftp’s, direct download links, many paysite links, basic http authenticated links" (http://put.io/features). So I guess fetch.io has less features :)
I agree with the other commenters that "common sense is remarkably uncommon." Yes, once you've grasped how web cookies and iframes and other mechanisms can be combined to track you across web sites, it is obvious that Facebook can track you even if you don't click the "like" button.

But most people don't have this level of understanding, and I'd say that Facebook goes out of their way to make this non-obvious. So yes, you're right, but also yes, this type of article is relevant. You probably read something like this once, and it was a revelation for you. Now others are getting their tall, cool, glass of reality.

No idea why you're getting downvotes, unless people equate your comments slightly dismissive tone with being non-contributory. Personally, I've seen far worse, and you have some useful tips embedded in the comments, so as far as I'm concerned your comment is a win. Thanks.

You might want to consider amplifying on your methods of maintaining your privacy, others may find a more detailed set of instructions helpful.
see also http://vorstand.piratenpartei.de/2011/05/20/polizei-beschlag... (scroll down for english version)
A Beginner’s Guide to PPC: Introduction
Careful with that kind of advice and things like "I have found the perfect diet".

It's much safer and simpler to lose weight and improve overall health by simply not eating crap (which is quite hard to do in a typical western country, I agree) and having regular exercise.
Posted a comment on the site, but to me the real win comes when you add grep to your aliases. That saves a ton of keystrokes, assuming you have deep directories in your project:

http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2010/03/04/git-config.html
I'm actually fairly confident in the director's visual style. I haven't seen Splice, but you should definitely watch Cube. It had a strong strange visual style for the look of the titular maze. If he picks up on those elements in the novel, I'm confident he could make it work.
This is good advice, but what about non-fitness goals? I think it's helpful to have a systematic approach to all aspects of your life, but figuring out where to start can be difficult.

For instance, if you feel sleepy or sluggish and it's a problem that you'd like to correct, you might be inclined to adjust your sleeping habits. But what if your sluggishness is a function of your eating habits or your mattress quality? I agree that there's no perfect formula that one can follow, but I think it's more of finding a "system" that you can apply to your life to break down the problems and correct them one by one. So, you might call up your area mattress shops with a 30-day return policy and pick one out that suits your budget. Sleep on your new mattress for 30 days and return it if it doesn't produce the desired results. That's body hacking.

Finding the "system" is what intrigues me most about body/fitness hacking (and hacking/technology in general)
All it takes is one or two mistakes. Typo in URL, click a link, blindly click past a prompt that you should be reading, and you have malware and you probably didn't even notice it, no matter how smart your girlfriend is.
The real 'shitty' thing about HP, and many other Windows laptops isn't even the malware, it's the @#$@# that the manufactures pre-install on these laptops and desktops that they sell. Three years ago my gf and I ordered HP laptops and had to use a program called Crap Remover to get rid of all the Nortan Antivirus junk, the HP software bundled junk and all the preinstalled crapware junk they put on it. After that it ran fine (as fine as Vista got that is) with MSE.
Ruby needs a modern garbage collector, so I guess this is a step in the right direction.
just another one

alias grm="git status | grep deleted | awk '{print \$3}' | xargs git rm"
A friend of mine ran into the situation of having to implement the same business logic in both Javascript and Ruby.

He wondered how to get around this and his solution is IncludeJS which allows to write the business logic in Javascript and use this code in BOTH Javascript and Ruby.
He gave a talk about this during the Railsconf 2011, here's the URL where you can find the abstract and slides which provide some more details about this:

http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/19412
yeah, nothing new...
They are fundamental. LEARN THEM. They're actually not that hard.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
sudo apt-get install ack

got me:

ack - Kanji code converter

:(
Techie follows ex and kid to Tyler TX, starts hacking town's public data
Well said. I never understood the point of Blippy from the beginning. Never saw what problem it was solving. Apparently nobody else did either, heh.
Ah, I see what you did here.