skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lost my ID on Friday right after I got off the plane (or still on the plane) and now I have to get back to California today. After extensive research, I found out you can get through TSA without a proper ID in some cases. The TSA website says they will try to verify your ID in other ways and issue enhanced interrogation, and that you should have two other forms of ID (listed here: http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/customer/editorial_1029.shtm#1 ) I had my mom overnight me my birth certificate, and I'm gonna use my credit card (and I have two school IDs as well) so hopefully I don't TSA raped too hard on the way in.
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What worries me about this is the original intentions of the owners of jquery.it. Obviously they planned something malicious, and were setting up for it, only random chance resulted in them getting outed before they could begin deploying their actual malicious code.

Frankly, had you been more careful, worse could have happened down the road. Still, I would be interested in seeing exactly how jquery.it made it to the top of the search listings.
By selling the magazine, both digital and print. There won't be subscription yet.
But you'd be one typo away from being blocked by proxy filters
That's kind of the point, is it not?
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I actually like Facebook's privacy better. Except for chat's online/offline status, it seems to follow a 'most restrictive permission applies" policy, which is nice.

Using Google's example: If I have a biking group and a work group, there's probably someone in the intersection of those two groups. I might want to share something with my biking group but not share it with my work group. There's not a mechanism to do that, that I can find, in Google+.

On the other hand, in Facebook, if I post something but restrict it from my work group, people that are in my work group won't see the post even if they're also in another group that does have permission.

This is a vastly superior approach, it seems to me.
These patents have already been tested in court by other Android handset manufacturers and MS won. Samsung would only be increasing the cost, reducing the likelihood of a favourable partnership deal and postponing the inevitable.
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What worries me about this is the original intentions of the owners of jquery.it.

Diff suggests the plan was probably "Serve adsense ads." That is the punchline to quite a bit of spam.
iPhones and iPads are perceived by some as invulnerable to viruses or spyware, like a game console. It is important to note that this is not the case.
I like this:

"Through talent, focus, and a work ethic that is the envy of his peers.."

Also, that he has what some would consider failures that did not stop him in his tracks. He got up, dusted off, and continued to work hard.
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In fact, Facebook lists already do everything he praises Circles for in this article. They might even do a little more (e.g. share with List A, excluding anyone in List B).

As he correctly notes later in the article, the lists feature is not prominent on Facebook, and therefore few use it (or maybe few people actually want it?). But it definitely will not require a major architectural overhaul by Facebook.
Ask HN: What do you think of these claims on VC deals?
I read this on an anti-VC website and took it with a grain of salt. What do you think?

"Here's a bonus 11th reason why venture capital is bad. It is by far the most expensive money an entrepreneur can ever tap into. Let's do the math to see why this is. Suppose you and a venture capitalist agree to a "pre-money" valuation of $1 million for your start-up, and the venture capitalist then invests $1 million for 50% of the equity. After the investment, the company is said to have a "post-money" valuation of $2 million. Being 50/50 partners sounds acceptable, right?

Three years later the company is sold to a Fortune 500 corporation for $5 million. Do you and the venture capitalist each get $2.5 million from the proceeds? Not on your Nellie! The venture capitalist will have a so-called "liquidation preference" built into the original investment agreement which allows him to first take out 2 to 5 (or more) times his principal before anyone else sees a penny. So, let's say that in this example he takes out $3 million (i.e., a "3X liquidation preference"), plus any accrued dividends on his preferred stock. After exercising the liquidation preference and cashing in his dividends only $1 million is left. You, the founder, and your team, will then split this remaining money on a 50/50 basis with the venture capitalist.

This is a simplified example of what happens. In real life the founder and her team would probably receive far less than even the $500,000 due to all the fine print clauses."

Rest is here: http://www.antiventurecapital.com/venturecapital.html
"Just UI polish" is a hilarious way of stating this. It's not just the UI that needs to change, more importantly it's the UX. It's disappointing if they are willing to ignore the importance of something like this. It's not just a "lick of paint" that's needed. They need to rework the whole concept and this is time-consuming and difficult to do right.

The super embarrassing thing for Facebook is that Google already told them what they were going to do. Take a look at this slideshow by Google's UX team a whole year ago [1]. That's right it's Circles!

Google has really done their homework on what makes a social network work and Facebook has no excuse for executing their own version of Circles so poorly with Groups and Lists. They've wasted valuable time pandering to advertisers when it was blatantly obvious what was coming. Google's vision wasn't secret.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
So I guess you're saying you're not feeling lucky anymore?
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Yeah, they have been pushing Groups (like including it in the sidebar) but it's not very useful for privacy filtering since it tells the group members they are in the groups.

Given that, Friends Lists aren't especially hidden either. Account > Edit Friends > Add a list. But using them for privacy is hard: you need to select custom privacy, then say show to specific people, then type in the friend list name in a box that looks like it only expects a person's name. Kludgy. (The iPhone app is actually much better here: it just includes the friends lists in the privacy dropdown.)
I need to do a write-up on the stats from my Hacker Newsletter project, great idea. According to the MailChimp stats I have about 45% of subscribers using mobile devices and of them about 99% using iPhones... but I just don't see that being the case. Need to look into that more.

What did you see in terms of locations? Last time I checked it was around 50% of the subscribers were from the states and the UK second with about 8%.
You must be a fast typer!
I wasn't offended per se, but it did make me think a bit about sexual politics in the workplace.

I know my technical soul mate is out there somewhere – it’s just a process of kissing enough geeky frogs to get to the geeky prince charming i.e. technical co-founder of my dreams.

Ew. Really? Obviously she can use her hotness to get geek boys to rally to her cause, but ultimately shouldn't it be the strength of her ideas that sells the position?
Writing a C library - API design
That isn't how contracts work unless that was explicitly in the original agreement.
The groups are still a bit different when it comes to how they're actually used in the site. First of all they still require a mutual friendship and they're also separate from the main sharing area of the site. Google+ has the idea more integrated into the site's actual foundation. Whether or not that is something that the casual user will want still remains to be determined.
New iPhone App Makes Searching for Attachments not Suck
The bitcoin miner's experiences can also be found in the world of gold mining:
http://www.economist.com/node/18774624
I don't think the issue is as much technical as it is about the nature of the community. digg, reddit, hacker news, etc. all have similar features, but quite different communities. these communities are generally molded by where they exist in the mind of the user, which can be influenced by the UI. HN only allows up-arrows to create a positive slant, reddit has a functional looking UI for a technical slant, and digg aims for a mainstream look. This is why facebook, twitter, and google+ aren't necessarily direct competitors, because they are all designed to scratch a slightly different itch.
When Guests Check In, Their iPhones Check Out
Honestly it seems like the majority of the article's attention is spent criticizing Google for allowing you to download a file from a site you didn't intend to, rather than warning others.
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What really baffles me in Facebook is that you can't change the privacy on existing entries. Delete and recreate is the only option.
> it's really unsettling to think that a simple website could remotely exploit a security flaw and provide complete access to my iOS device.

The thing is, these exploits exist before the jailbreaks themselves. If jailbreaks were no longer released publicly, the exploits would still be there. Who knows what would have happened if they were discovered by someone else (and who knows that they actually weren't)?

When the PDF exploit was found for the last jailbreakme exploit, the first iOS users to have a patch available to them were those who jailbroke their devices. Apple followed shortly thereafter.
The headline's awful, and the tone of the article sensationalistic, but I thought it made some good points.

If the description of Google+ is accurate (don't have an invite, haven't really tried to get one), Google may have found a solution for Facebook spam. I tried to use my Facebook account for awhile, but it quickly became a wall of Farmville updates. I know there are settings I could use to get rid of those, but investigating it seemed too much work to bother.

So it seems that Google is attacking Facebook at their weakest point, and that's pretty interesting and worthy of discussion, and I'm glad it got up voted enough that I saw it, in spite of the bad title.
I would frame the situation a little differently: Google got good enough that we started to trust it for this purpose (which we might call a "brand-name lookup services") but then in the last few years, it has declined and become untrustworthy.

IMHO Google is very vulnerable to competition by new brand-name lookup services.
Having removed *.co.cc from their index, is Google going to continue to index it? There doesn't seem to be any reason for them to do so (they would just be throwing the information away), and if they don't then they would never become aware of the 301 redirect.
Major turn-offs:
- "Noel: in the Philippines, runs recruiting operations and SEO"
- "Design team in Moldova: they make the designs, you code them"

That's two parties in hard to reach timezones who are more senior and have some influence on the tech? I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole unless I get some written agreement that I would be given free reign to fix this if it becomes a problem (which it most likely will).
If you're an experienced software developer with skills in some of the following technologies: PHP/C++/Python/Rails/Django/ASP.NET/SQL/JavaScript/etc and you live in a dynamic market like SF/CHI/PHY/NYC/RDU/etc, then it's enough to simply create a profile on one of the career sites. The recruiters will be after you shortly.

Getting a job via a job board and recruiter won't be all warm and fuzzy like meeting an employeer at a conference. It will be more like buying a used car, but you still don't have to apply in this market.
It's in the post.
This is also another example of why having more top level domain names will make things worse, not better.
I'm not sure this is what the parent meant, but in America at least, the antislavery movement was part of a broad social reform movement which was strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day. For example, see the connections between Charles Finney (a prominent theologian) and Oberlin College (one of the first integrated universities). Also, look up the full lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic- it sounds like nonsense outside of the context of 19th century revivalism. The reform movement and its consequences make an interesting historical topic.
Clever use of content negotiation!
This is an interesting point - why does jquery.com have a https version in the first place? And why did someone bother to set it up with a self-signed certificate?

Sounds like perhaps someone was testing something long back (cert was signed in 2009) and just never turned it off.
Why not sell this data to Google and other search engines, instead of competing directly with them?

Note that I've used XMarks / delicious in the past to get more relevant results. When a link has been bookmarked by many users, it is more likely to be interesting. It was extremely useful when approaching an unknown subject.
I understood that patents are for the opposite: not to patent ideas, but a particular invention.
The first thing I tried was to change the password (iPhone 4 4.3.3) after jailbreaking but the MobileTerminal crashes upon launch. Same story after a phone restart.

Edit: Figured out the problem. Looks like the MobileTerminal in the CYdia repo doesn't work for iOS 4.0 onwards. The following is a working version from the author of the app:

http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/wiki/Installation
s/staring/starring

Sorry.
Sure. But to what audience does that need highlighting?

Is extremetech's audience really so unfamiliar with the basics of technology that they needed an article to point out that this remote code exploit demonstrates that users are vulnerable to a remote code exploit?

I get that there is some audience that might need to have it pointed out to them that people walking into your house and taking your stuff illustrates how vulnerable unlocked doors are, but is the audience for that article really hanging out at extremedoorlocks and commenting on Locksmith News?
This is a URL shortener that gives a link that sends "preview" processes one place and actual users somewhere else. It works for google plus and facebook and several other "preview" bots. Proof-of-concept because I don't like URL shorteners in general, but it links to a restricted list of sites.
I don't have a G+ account, so forgive me the question: since everything seems to be cataloged based on circles where you put people, how does it work for unapproved followers? Is there an 'empty' circle for them?
Ah, I dislike it when someone (especially a non-technical person) talks about me working all night.

This is going to be my future job ad:
You recognise the importance of a fit body and mind.
You work out.
While at work, the words "Facebook" "Kongregate" "Hackernews" sound like jibberish to you.
'Being right' just means 'delivered a successful product' to you.
It's not like every great idea is immediately obviously great. I could have sworn one of the values in this community was tireless drive when nobody else believes in your company, doing whatever need be done to make it a success?

How is what she's doing (if that's what she's doing) particularly different? Especially considering I bet there's at least a couple founders on here who have occasionally turned on the charm to help reel in female investors.
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone in their right mind would pay a patent license without knowing the patents that they're supposed to be infringing?

How many millions of dollars do you think major multinationals tend to hand over on faith without seeing some sort of evidence and paperwork?

MS may create FUD by talking about patent infringements in general terms but the minute you ask someone for money you need to make your case.
Is it Groups or Lists?
That's what I thought or are the 200k for training people who have been used to MS Office etc.?
Did it work? I am also looking forward to get one. But it seems they are not accepting any new sign up.
Google+ profile data scraper class
Leaving the emotion of Google+ being awesome out - what is preventing facebook from copying this? They have a huge number of users who are not going to leave overnight. Facebook we all know can turn on a dime to get products/features out. If these features are really that sought after and good they could just implement them and give it to their users. Why won't that work?

Also facebook is a platform as much as a social network. People play games on there probably more than post pictures or tag their friends. That is what sustained facebook and made them utterly dominant. That is not going to change with G+.

I agree G+ is a good service but why is everyone making the grave ready for facebook?
There is a fairly simple heuristic that could combat this, which I assume is possible with Google's architecture (which I know little about, so I could be wrong here!):

* if a page A refers to the same external css and images as page B on another site, and those external resources are local to B, then assume B is more original and should be ranked higher than A.

Of course the SEO people will get around this by making sure they take copies of the css and image assets as well as the html ones once this is implemented, but at least it'll save the "target" site a little bandwidth.
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We offer a competitive salary plus an incentive and benefits package; a close-knit team who likes what they do and has fun doing it; and, if that’s not enough, there’s free all-you-can-drink soda, and free bagels on Fridays.

We're looking for a junior-level Python Developer to join our Test Engineering team, writing functional, integration, and unit tests in Python for our Django-powered business platform. As part of the Ops team, we also do light system administration and help write monitoring tools.

Requirements: an intense attention to detail, a love of learning, a passion for problem-solving, and a good attitude and sense of responsibility. You should also have experience with a dynamic language such as Python, Ruby, or PHP; be comfortable working on a *nix command line; and have general knowledge about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

We're committed to agile and open source; we use packages like mechanize, twill, Selenium, nose, and PyQT every day.

If you think you're a good fit for this position, apply with your resume and salary history. kboers (at) leapfrogonline.com
I don't get it, if they are in your biking group, why would you want to not share something with them just because they happen to be in the work group too?
So this TLD (I think it's safe to call it as such), was host to a lot of noise. But there must have been some signal there too.

Whilst I appreciate less spam in my Google results, and I certainly appreciate more safety when browsing search results, I'm not sure I like the idea of the whole registrar being blocked en-mass.
Enhanced interrogation sounds painful.
Religion ended slavery? Please explain

I'm not sure what anamax meant, but the abolitionist movements were highly religious. It's not just that they happened to be religious; their religion drove their activism. Wilberforce and Rankin are good examples.
Uh not really. Copy, not hotlink. The fake site would copy the originals (no referrer, no special sauce) and would be back to the current situation: a fake site looking exactly like the real one and ranking higher on google.
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You know how Dropbox accidentally sent out DMCA notifications to someone because that was an unexpected side effect of using an internal tool to take down a particular file out of a public Dropbox? It may be the case that Google engineers are fully cognizant of the side effects of their internal tools, and they may never have unintended consequences or room for optimization.

A lot of SEO comes down to risk/reward guesstimations. Heads, Google does what you think would be optimal and you get a wee bit of extra juice to your newly un-burned website. Tails, Google hired a human at some point and you're on your third website this week.

I generally get paid to advise companies for whom losing the website is sort of a big deal, so I'm fairly risk adverse with these things. I know folks with different models.
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I realize this is supposed to be satirical, so is it sad that I half agree with most of these changes, purely out of necessity? :(
Before the CTO, you might want to get a CPO (Chief Proofreading Officer).

"Let’s face it, only a fraction of your day is spent on the tasks and projects that directly effect your bottom line."
- http://zirtual.com/how-it-works

It should be "affect". Personally, I'm looking for a C3PO (Chief Proofreading, Pudding and Panties Officer) because I like for my people to multitask.
Why? How does that affect the author's arguments? Tu quoque is a fallacy, you know.
Do you have links/sources?

I only know of Barnes & Noble and Motorola fighting against MS, afaik everyone else immediately settled.
He is talking about Entrepreneur Magazine. Yes, Entrepreneur Magazine sues Entrepreneurs for use of the word.

Let's repeat that again; Entrepreneur Magazine is a magazine that sues entrepreneurs.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b42300781...
I should point out that this is classic blogspam:
You can see that the forum linked is dead except this one link.

Original post where the text was copied from is this:
https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26099.msg325505#ms...

Incidentally, the original poster is fairly infamous troll/critic in the biggest bitcoin forum. (Sadly, I agree with most of his conclusions and pessimism).

Pretty sure it is NOT original posters forum, someone just took his text to stir up some traffic for his forum.
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> but at least it'll save the "target" site a little bandwidth.

Which really is not the issue at all. Do you also suggest that people fearing home invasions paint their walls red, so the blood splatters are hidden if they get shot?
Yes, it would because Google+ following system is asynchronous, kind of like Twitter (though not quit). Facebook doesn't work like that, and it would be a MAJOR change if they implemented it. I think a lot of users that are used to how Facebook currently works would be very upset about it.
Murder, a Bittorrent based deploy system for use internally within a datacenter