skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that not all user data is encrypted on an iOS 4 device, mainly just the user data of apps from Apple that are included with the device.

Does Apple's iOS provide for encryption of all user data? Or is it the case that the app's developer has to avail himself of an API to make this happen?
builtwith is almost what I was looking for.
Hmm. They start talking about making things illegal at just about the same point that I'm thinking this can be a great competitive advantage for anyone who will hire unemployed workers. Different points of view, I guess.
And the US was found lacking in the Pope per Capita ranking?
OneSwarm
Safer, more secure, what's the practical difference here? I'm tired of the implication that OS X is inherently more secure. I have yet to see anything to indicate that is true, especially when considering the, albeit still slow, growth of malware in OS X as market share has increased.

Honestly, for a user that is not using Internet Explorer, I can't imagine a workflow nearly as dangerous as is possible with Safari. It's not hard to be safe in Windows these days.
Yes, I don't think Byron was knocking API documentation in the form of comments. My interpretation is that when someone edits clever code they don't understand fully, they tend to add lots of comments—and that (not the comments) is absolutely asking for lots of bugs.
This is super-neato, but what I am really waiting for is a way to fake device capabilities in the market, so I can finally use the RememberTheMilk app on my rooted gTablet!
Fedora 15 (Lovelock) Released
I would love it if this was combined with the UX of NoScript so that I could greenfield my perms and allow them selectively, granularly, and optionally permanently. At any rate, hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the PII giveaway.
That's so cynical it just might catch on!
Will this also work if one has his iPhone set to delete its crypto keys after 10 failed attempts?
It'll be interesting to see what does happen. Some of these kids do seem rather smart but incredibly naive (hey, reminds me of me at the age of 19) -- what does happen when Asteroid Mining Kid runs up against cold hard reality?

Let me just clag in his whole description: John Burnham believes that the search for new resources has driven exploration, expansion, and innovation—from the discovery of the Americas to the California Gold Rush. Likewise, he believes the key to colonizing space is to make it possible to extract valuable minerals from asteroids, comets, and other planetary bodies. John plans on using his fellowship to develop space industry technologies to solve the problem of extraterrestrial resource extraction.

Really, what can you do to advance space industry technologies under these circumstances? You're a teenager. You have a hundred thousand dollars (aka what Elon Musk spends every four seconds). You know far less about space technology than 99% of the people who work in the industry. And you're very smart, but a lot of people in the rocket industry are very smart. What do you do? Go intern for Elon Musk?
Thanks for the publicity!
60 unusable stock photos
You might want to consider a language based on combinatorics such as Fexl (see http://fexl.com). It enables you to write functions with or without intermediate symbols to the extent you see fit. In other words, you can go "point-free" or "point-full" as you like.
I understand why there would be so much English search traffic in New York. But what's going on with Florida?
That would a priori seem to confirm your hypothesis

I'm not sure that a priori means what you think it means.
A lot of what you're paying for with the "big bucks" vendors is support, maintenance, advice, and depending on your position in the business food chain, some visibility (presenting at their conferences, etc.)

Intangible: what about when your "intelligence" isn't working so intelligently, would you rather be angry with your internal team or some vendor?

In a lot of cases open source BI makes sense, but the cost-benefit analysis should include things other than money.
Although I am not a programmer, I do prefer monospaced fonts, and my favorite right now is the bitmap font Tamsyn. I recently discovered it via the Arch Linux wiki and I now have it set up as the font for my Xterm windows (set via .Xdefaults).

My favorite TTF monospaced font has got to be Consolas, which I use in Windows as the font for Foobar2000 and Notepad2 (I keep everything in plain text).
Bank of America's $10 Million Dollar Breach Loss
When pitching my ideas, I generally assume that people who don't like it wont tell me what they really think, to avoid having an 'awkward' conversation.

When people pitch ideas to me, I try to avoid talking about whether it's a good idea (as Jason says, one generally has no idea) - but what I do instead is say whether I would personally actually use it, and/or pay for it. I find it surprisingly easy to say, "honestly, I wouldn't use that" - whereas saying, "I think that is a bad idea" is not something I'd generally feel comfortable saying to a stranger, unless very specifically asked for it. Of course, it could be that I would actually use, and I just don't realize that yet, - but that is data in itself.
Where is the Disruption at TC Disrupt?
And the lines connect places where the same person took multiple pictures reasonably close together in time and distance.
I couldn't bring myself to read it. I think you summarize my instinctive/intuitive/gut-level reaction. (Literally gut level, which is why I stopped.)

This reminds me so much of what I hate about much of the pedagogy of "writing". Formulaic writing is just that, formulaic. It may work well in the artifice of a classroom; not so much in the real world.

Strictures can be useful, e.g. in technical documentation. But even there, it takes some creativity to communicate clearly and effectively. "No more than two em dashes per paragraph" simply doesn't cut it.

Oh, and to the author of the Slate article: Allow me to introduce you to the en dash –. Buwahaha...
I find it interesting (but not all that surprising) that so many people developed a similar concept. The research professor I was working with this past year actually published a similar system: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/pubs/TRUST11.pdf
Don't know how to adequately put this, but THANK YOU!! I have similar feelings (guilt, etc.) and reading this in the morning helped my mood tremendously. Guilt is useless.
It's fascinating how many relics of ancient civilisation are concentrated in that part of the world

Not really. It'd be much more fascinating if you found relics of ancient civilisation which weren't concentrated in that part of the world.
I think the 'surprise' here, if there is any, is that so-called old media claims to be in favor of so-called old-style copyrights, except for when they want to copy something, and then all bets are off.
Facebook is hiring. India has 12 openings
What do you consider to be a good "build-it-and-forget-it" platform?
Kindle battery life doubles overnight | Fully Equipped - CNET Reviews
This is one of those times where I wish I could see how many points your comment got.

I don't know whether you've gotten a lot of votes or not so I don't know if your answer makes sense to other people as well.

Why do you think you don't need permission to take pictures of a country from space?
I think there are certain areas in all countries that they would want to keep secret, and if you allow people to photograph in certain areas and not in others, that's exposing where these areas are (which is an invitation for governments to spy on those areas).
GWT does a really good job to bring portability across browsers, just as dojo and jquery do, however if you choose html+javascript library you still may encounter html/css related quirks.

However GWT does not do a perfect job even across browsers, we did stumble upon an events-related bug between IE / Firefox and Chrome. But that should have been fixed by now.

My take on GWT is that it is another abstraction layer and so adds complexity for most uses cases, which should not be there.
Sony admits Canadian site was hacked
I guess that by "neither of these are standard features" you mean "not on by default". It's two clicks in settings to turn these on.
Speaking for myself, I have established 90% as my lower bound :-)
Interaction & Visual Designer Wanted
We're looking for someone to lead design at our company. Our yet-to-launch product will be used across the web in a variety of contexts, so the challenges will be significant. All companies want good design, but stunningly beautiful work is a strict prerequisite for our success.

We're based in Palo Alto, and well funded by investors that include Y Combinator, Peter Thiel, and Andreessen Horowitz. We have the founders of several successful companies on board, with histories of building design-focused products, both for companies like Apple and independently. We're already running with a sizable group of extremely enthused beta users.

You should have a history of building beautiful things that work well. We're looking for experience designing interactive web software (or mobile or desktop software), over someone solely focused on graphic design. Although the work will primarily be web design, there will be plenty of opportunity for other creative projects. You should send a link to some of your work when you contact us.

If you're interested, we'd love to hear from you: notastartup@gmail.com.
Oh what bullshit. Best excuse for not being employed is that you don't need to be. If you've got the cash to enjoy a year or two off to go on a vacation, go back to school or whatever, then you ought to take it.
I used it a few years ago when it first came up. The concept is great. I'm not sure about the idea of attaching it to Azureus when most of the network protocol seems to be new-ish.

The choice of using Java also for the "community server" will probably keep a lot of people from using it. PHP would allow for a wider adoption especially since the community server doesn't to all that much...
I love the straight quotes, but I'm experiencing increased vertical space between lines in the terminal as well. Seems like the author has the same "problem" judged by the screenshots posted.
Ask HN: Advice on working with foreign domain registrars?
Specifically I'm looking at .me/.it/.ly domains. Does anyone have any advice on things to avoid, companies to avoid, reasonable prices, etc.? Links to reputable resources would also be appreciated.
Even if people love snakes that doesn't mean they

a) want to spend time talking to other snake-owners

b) want to do it over the internet

c) can't do it already

d) will pay for it
Hasselblad's 200-megapixel camera: $45,000
The greatest thing my Grandma ever taught me was that it's okay to be sad when bad things happen. It used to be that I'd get sad for some reason, then I'd feel bad for feeling sad, and this would just set up a tight vicious cycle until I literally became depressed. Once I gave myself permission to feel sad and not feel bad about it, I was able to stop that from happening in the future.
You are most welcome. The maps totally deserve the attention.
Twitter announces Tweetdeck acquisition
I don't think that this is brute-forcing the passcode at all, rather I think it is brute-forcing another method to locking the iPhone, namely that of iTunes...

iTunes has a special file on your computer that when you plug in your phone will allow it to start syncing data to and from your phone (including making backups) without requiring you to unlock it.

What I believe they are doing is actually brute-forcing the required entry code for that. Once you get that code (and there is no limit to how many times you can try) you get full access to the phone, including that bit-for-bit copy they are talking about.

Apparently the key space is small enough that it is easy enough to brute-force.

In that case it doesn't matter what kind of protection you use, whether it is the pass code lock, or the alphanumeric that they introduced on the iPhone 4 (IIRC).

Note that all of this is speculation, I have no inside knowledge, but that is how I would go about attacking the iPhone.
It's not a question of whether people love snakes (some do, most don't) but whether you can capitalize on the love of those who do in order to build a sustainable social network. And the answer is that you can't -- social networking doesn't work that way. There's already a facebook for people who like snakes, and it's called facebook.
People also take a lot of pictures of local businesses, although looking at Street View for that street that also seems a little unlikely. Maybe it is one of those people with a bicycle helmet camera taking pictures of their commute every day? I'll have to take a look at the pictures and check.
Acunu's Storage Core is now open source
30 Creative Free Hand-Drawn Icon Sets
Why is (B) not ideal? Sounds like you get the usability (recoverable passwords) without the security issues (assuming that you properly separated the keys, etc.)

I ask because I am writing an app currently that stores an SSN. The data are downloaded for later use on non-public facing machines, and the SSN needs to be decrypted at that point. I am saving the data using PKI, and will be able to decrypt it later (but anyone without my keys won't be able to).
Still looks 100% like an attempt to drive traffic to your company blog.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863... would have been the best submission URL.
Well said. There are some excellent points that I tend to leave out, like opportunity cost and the importance of marketing and promotion for the product to really take off.

This is a good reminder to explain these, since it better puts the idea guys in the dev's shoes.
Somehow, Inconsolata how much ever loved by so many people, is definitely not my taste.

Droid Sans Mono works the best for me. I have heard many Python programmers with the same taste.
Nope, eBay definitely doesn't allow you to just work something out. Sellers are not allowed to induce buyers to "Pay using online or other payment methods not specifically permitted in this policy"

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy...
That does look pretty similiar to what we did. I've emailed Plamen about it - hopefully we can integrate all this stuff to give CM users full control over what apps do with their personal data :)

TaintDroid is pretty awesome as well: http://www.appanalysis.org/
Shawn Blanc: Writing a Weblog Full-Time
Actually in that position, interning for Elon Musk sounds like a great idea, followed by using that $100k to fund living expenses in college and grad school, with the bonus of having a streamlined academic plan and semi-guaranteed dream job when you graduate.
Brain Strategies for Productivity & Creativity
I was in SIGOps with Brian back at UIUC when Paul Swanson was running it. That was back around 1997-1998, so that's not surprising since Brian had published his source code for his "toy" OS and it was widely available.

Brian also worked at Be, Inc. and Danger before Google. The guy knows his low-level code.
A lot of things are like this, such as how much of what Amazon sells, Kindles are at one end and obscure books, dvds are at the other end, it's an often quoted phrase for online selling. It's a flipped round (but still related) version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail
I knew moving to Boston that I could expect lots of snow, but the way it can affect your lifestyle for four months (especially if you walk everywhere) was something I didn't think too much about.

The harshness of this winter is not an insignificant part of my decision to skip town and move to San Francisco :)
Saying that doctors are the only ones bound by privacy concerns is incorrect.

A lot of businesses cannot bad mouth customers or defend themselves in public due to how badly it looks to hash out all the details between the parties. If you check out WebHostingTalk.com you will see that sometimes hosting providers and dissatisfied customers will get into multiple page slugfests over who was in the wrong. This just makes the hosting company look unprofessional.

Let's say someone wrote a negative review about a cell phone store: "They wouldn't give me a cell phone! They're a horrible company!". The cell phone store isn't going to reply back(in a public space) "You couldn't get a cell phone because your credit was terrible & when we ran your card for a deposit it came back as declined!". It makes them look bad for airing the customers dirty laundry in public. A generic response & a request for the customer to contact them on the issue is the best they can do in that situation.

These review websites sometime have a feature where the business can become "verified" which allows them to respond back to these posts with at least something generic like "Dr. X has attempted to communicate with Customer Y" or something generic like "I am sorry to hear of your problems, please contact us @ xxx-xxx-xxxx so we can help resolve this matter". This is probably the most any business can do as far as communicating details about a certain customer without looking bad.
How Will States Tax Internet Downloads? Congress May Decide
I am on the board of a non profit.

We have a Google Grant, but none of us has the marketing expertise to set up an effective campaign (ineffective we are pretty good at).

We have unsuccessfully tried to recruit SEM's as volunteers through Craiglist, Volunteer Match, and contacting local marketing professors (we don't have the money to hire anyone).

Does anyone have any suggestions how we can get help with this?
I'm not sure. Fundamentally I agree with you, but I'm a "computer guy" so I always have a lot of screen real-estate.

However, when I'm on my netbook I do appreciate measures to reduce vertical clutter.
Copyright prevents the creation if derivative works.
Thanks for trying it out. There was an issue with sites that redirect from http to https. Just putting in a fix and will ping you when done.
I like forming LLC's in Indiana. It's cheap, takes a few minutes, no hidden fees, and no hassles. Once the company becomes something you can reincorporate in the right state for your business.
You're definitely right about the competitive advantage thing. You want to create a silly blanket rule? Fine - I'll be happy to interview the guy who's a rockstar engineer but decided to travel Asia for 6 months.
Why Emergence Capital is the Sequoia of SaaS
Hey Samir, what do you mean by balloon distribution business? Like big balloons that go on top of retail buildings, those get well balloons or just regular sized balloons.
Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?
Unless there is a cap on market capitalization of Big Companies viz Goolge, Apple etc why should investors risk their investments in a startup?
"You Might Also Like:" Privacy Risks of Amazon's, Other Collaborative Filtering
FYI from January 31, 2011.
Test management on the Cloud - Review of Testuff
By identical, do you allow for rotations - i.e. two pieces are identical if one can be oriented to perfectly overlay the other? If so, there are an infinite number of solutions.
Not much. Basically:

1) Bad thing happens
2) Brain says 'Has this happened before?'
3) If no, ignore (file away)
4) If yes, has it happened once or multiple times
5) If once, ignore
6) If multiple times, work out a solution

So all I have to do is rely on my memory.
I had no idea that any such game has so much Python code. I was under the impression that Python (and Ruby) were too slow for most game stuff. very cool.
You need an email address and the bank account information, don't you? I'd love it to be otherwise, but getting banking information from e.g. my younger brothers is a lot trickier than just emailing them.
Yeap, that's one of the lessons to draw from this. Another is that it's twice as hard to change two habits at the same time: i.e. maybe people who quit smoking and find themselves getting fatter to this because of a self-regulation issue.

For what's worth, I remember the "magic number" for creating a habit is 60 days - and there's also good research on the stages one goes through when creating a habit and what's most likely to sabotage him/her at each stage. We really really need more "science in plain English" books about modern psychology.
The scholarship process is also broken. With many of the "merit-based" scholarships, there is a bias favoring those coming from low income families (otherwise why would they ask for parents' income information?)
Disruption is not sufficiently described by the success--others must fail
Tattoo copyright: Warner Bros. almost has a major movie release blocked
Why Email Will Not Die
Final Xbox founder leaves Microsoft
Loggly introduces new pricing
Hi BasilAwad...these are simple balloons that you can carry in your hands, not the big ones that go on top of retail buildings.

thanks
-Samir
@everybody: "This way we can disable Internet access on apps and games that are just downloading ads."

In The Business, we call this "piracy". Unless, of course, the developer is an altruist who did not intend to monetize their app, but accidentally dropped in an ad window.

Like web browser ad blockers, I expect that developers will ignore this UNLESS it begins to eat into their general user base. Then will come the code libraries that try to guess whether the permissions are accurate or not (e.g. timeout on internet connectivity downtime).

Or fewer free apps, I suppose. Either solution fits the new game theory equilibrium. My money is on "Google is not going to martyr their ad-supported app developers by rolling this into their Android OS builds", with a distant second to "faux-permissions detection libraries".
Sean Parker: Spotify US launch is very close
Reminds me of all the times when I share an idea to hear the other guy say "wow, great idea!" to which I go "wait, really? how do you know!?".

I've replaced the binary means of judging my ideas with one that allows for more shades of gray. I rarely give any specific idea more than 15-25% chance of gaining traction.
Not sure a poll will get you the information you need on this one.
I've been using Meslo LG DZ (dotted zero), which is a custom version of Menlo tweaked for better vertical spacing. Looks great at 13pt in TextMate / MacVim.

https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font
Google is shipping CR-48 Chrome OS netbooks again
First look: Fedora 15 arrives with GNOME 3.0 and systemd
Developers band together to fight Lodsys if necessary
This is awesome. One thing I'd add is a note about front-page.php vs. home.php - to me, that's the most unintuitive part of WordPress themes.

If you're setup like a blog, i.e., list of posts on the homepage, than home.php is the root page of the site. However, if you use WordPress for a normal/non-blog site, with a static Page as the root, front-page.php is the file you want to be editing, and home.php will then represent whatever is your "blog page" (regardless of whether its the homepage or not).

If either front-page.php or home.php is not present, index.php will be used.
I have a friend at Stanford who got a $100k fellowship for graduate school, and is interning at Tesla this summer. He's doing the exact same thing as you're proposing Asteroid Miner Kid would do, but through the completely traditional route. Seems like a waste if AMK does the same thing as my brilliant but more conventional friend.
I've been wondering the same thing. Journals are mostly out of the question unless you've got time to spare. Conferences might be better if you've got something novel that can get through peer review, and have a few months to spare.

Perhaps consider writing it up from a generic point of view, adding references where necessary, and post a link on HN and security mailing lists? Or submit a paper to arXiv?
One just showed up on my doorstep two days ago. I completely wasn't expecting it. Writing this note on my CR-48 at the airport.
so, it never happened before with seller/buyer using telephone or mail?
On Windows 7, you get Consolas as well -- and you can always edit the registry, as skermes pointed out.