skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would rapidly become the Unix-wars of the 80's all over again... OR Microsoft would gladly step into Google shoes, completely uninvited but unchallenged, while wielding their deadly patent swords.
The author's advice about filling out incubator forms is spot-on. I've found that completing a mock-application is extremely useful in organizing my thoughts and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of my ideas. That point also feeds into the last point - there are no bad ideas, just ideas that haven't been thought-through enough - filling out applications while declining to submit will help prepare you for when you actually decide to take the plunge.
What's not innovative about being able to massively scale products for a global audience? For example, Gmail debuted with 1000 times more storage than its competitors and when it launched many people thought it was a joke (because it was too good to be true and conveniently launched on April 1st).
The OP doesn't even mention that Hemingway was a one-time KGB spy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed...
Thanks. Re: indexes - patches welcome :). I don't expect them to be hard to build though. Since embedded-mongo is in memory, they're just a bunch of hash tables.
Removing the photographer's shadow is essentially the same as removing a more directly visible subject from the photo.
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Removing your shadow from a photograph is most likely an aesthetic decision, which is an area of reportage photography that you dare not tread. Photojournalsim has enough to answer for regarding selective composition/cropping (for example framing a shot of a group of people where it appears that they are alone, whereas if you had a wider crop you'd see more people).

Using the clone tool at all is pretty much a red flag.

Banning for life might seem harsh, but if you're the AP, you pretty much can't trust any further images that you get from this Photographer, so it's really the only option for them.
or the fact that NO ONE is using it.
Has anyone developed anything that would completely delete a disk when a decoy password is typed in, whilst displaying a fake OS instance filled with a legit looking my docs, internet history etc?

In that case you give them the decoy password and they clear your machine for you
Chrome doesn't interrupt you, throw up a UAC prompt, or break half your extensions when it updates. Though Mozilla is certainly working on improving the experience, invoking it many times more frequently before doing so was fairly anti-user.
I suppose you were referring to the thermite used to burn up the documents in high-security safes rather than as a general bomb.

That's not a plausible scenario with general-purpose computer parts. The lab would obviously have made backup copies of the drive first.
The site looks nice, in general.

But "$10 dollars"?

"Click here to start a transfer. Just $10 dollars. As painless as possible."
It's still a bunch of HTML the CSS is toggling though, right? I think in this case, adding Javascript to the mix is an advantage.

And why does everyone animate each part of the lightbox separately? It makes it so unbearably slow.
This was nearly the same experience for me.

Background:

I am a rather technical person -- been messing with computers since MS-DOS 4 at the age of 8ish (sorry, not trying to show my epeen, just giving context) -- and was always apprehensive with social media.

Recently, when my work position became more of a project management position, I had to start getting to know Facebook -- which, previously, I've never touched at all before. This was about 2-3 months ago.

Starting with Google+, as a relatively new Facebook user, I just don't want to use Facebook anymore solely because of reason #2.
wonder if a lot of people think of Android not so much as a Google thing but as an "off-brand iPhone"
Resize your browser and you'll see that they eat their own dog food.
Remember when Anonymous broke into HBGary and consequently, rootkit.org?

Releasing the emails was just one outcome. The other was that any dangerous knowledge (or digital weaponry) lying around there were ready for the taking.
OP mansplained that her act was not "throwing a bottle of hot sauce at the speaker in the middle of his or her presentation."

Regardless of her mansplanation, in fact her act was "throwing a bottle of hot sauce at the speaker in the middle of his or her presentation."

Imagine you're the principal of a middle school and you heard what happened in the auditorium. Are you going to give both kids detention, neither kids, detention, or one kid (which one?) detention?
i always hate to see products fail, but it is kinda nice to see reality set in for Color, rather than a 2001-esque media frenzy and IPO. it gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, the bubble isn't as bad this time around.
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Ah, can't believe I missed that one. And I consider myself an enthusiast.
We had this discussion about ~12 years ago with the attrition.org defacements gallery.
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>Bill Gates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...
Great feedback, thanks! We were trying to poke fun at all of the “get rich quick” tips out there, but I’d agree that the video is too long and doesn’t offer much in the way of value to the viewer.
I believe their idea was to take as much info as possible from the image's metadata to construct a profile of who you are and then presumably target ads to you? Not sure what the rest was.
I always assumed that money off the table tended to happen much later than B rounds, isn't this an exception because they're doing so well anyway ?
Android is only a threat to Apple's profits, but not its market. There are things that vertical integration provides which are unique and of value to a decent sized population. For instance, it is hard for Motorola to replace a handset which is past its warranty to build brand loyalty. Or hardware only manufacturers cannot provide free or cheap training sessions which may be seem inscrutable to us, but are meaningful to a lot of people.

Apple's and Google's models are pretty orthogonal, and there is space for both. Sure they both compete aggressively, but it's everybody else whose models are in a mess.
This reminds me of the kerfuffle over the Drunken Batman slide "Black People Don't Use Macs" http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtmfd/1097058025/
I think this was discussed here the other day (can't find the link, sorry). The thinking went something like this: a passphrase is equivalent to a combination wall safe and not to a lock with key: one requires a physical thing to open it, the other requires something within your head. The something within your head is equivalent to testimony.
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I rarely say this. But seriously, this:

Lean Startup philosophy says the last thing you want to do is raise a whole lot of money, build a product in secret, then spring it on a world that may not want what you've built at all.
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I'm adding the compromised emails to www.hacknotifier.com - you can check if you're part of the release there.
I'd agree. As I said in the other post, iOS and Android are playing pretty orthogonally. Sure they compete aggressively, but it's quite different market segments and sizes they are aiming at (at least for now).

You need a non-iOS competitor to stir up Google.
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I haven't seen this (yet) in any local media, and it's at least given me the opportunity to email all the Booz employees I know and urge them to at least change their passwords.

Having the information quickly is advantageous to both sides.
Sucks to be BAH. Yet another consultancy that doesn't practice what it preaches about security
Due to the anonymous nature of these things, some of these recent attacks could easily be from within the USA's govt, just like the anthrax letters were.

It does seem clear, though, that we all have a lot to learn about protecting information...
Here's how I explained it to my facebook friends:

"It's like facebook and twitter had a baby and let skype watch."
That's just the way things are and nobody cares, or at least: no-one visible cares.

The only people who appear to be speaking out on issues like this are Anonymous. What does that say?
> At this point, I think these guys should be given a job.

Who says they haven't been offered some?
Well I gave it a try. But I am missing something:

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Perhaps, but also: quasi-feminist efforts to reclaim the word and imbue it with some positive qualities, of which a few examples would be:

• 'Bitch', Oakland- and then Portland-based feminist magazine, launched 1996

• Meredith Brooks' 2000 hit pop single, 'Bitch'

• a boomlet of books with 'Bitch' in the title, ranging from Elizabeth Wurtzel's 'Bitch: in Praise of Difficult Women' (1999) to Helena Andrews' 'Bitch is the New Black' this year

That is, I don't think it's just hip-hop or glamorization of misogyny that's the popularizing/de-taboo-ifying factor here.
That's the Vetinari Solution: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ev/rationality_quotes_july_2010/29b...
Color 'launched' a few days after SXSW, and the founder wasn't particularly aware of the event or able to recognize the lost opportunity. SXSW would have given it the dense mass of people required to give a great first impression
Ain't released yet. https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
Every time I see the term "digital weaponry" or a synonym, I think of a bleak future where citizens are jailed for possession of "military grade encryption systems".

I don't know if it's because I'm inside the industry, if software is inherently easier to create and duplicate, or if the damage is somewhat smaller, but I really can't see any software as a weapon.

A tool used in war? Sure. But a weapon? Hardly.
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s/medical emergency/sudden unplanned expenditure/ to not miss the larger point. An unplanned expenditure could very well be a medical emergency, but there are many other reasons someone might need more cash suddenly. Car wrecks, legal fees, etc. With only $25k in the bank, even making a sudden trip to a close family member's funeral can eat up a meaningful percentage of total savings.
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you can try to remove the shadow in the darkroom by "dodging" (blocking light from the projector so that the negative doesn't shine so brightly on the area that will be dark in the final print). but it's very hard to do well for something with a well-defined outline and even if you could match the outline exactly (perhaps by printing a mask) it would look odd because the detail would be missing in that area. that's why something like photoshop doesn't attempt to correct the brightness, but instead "patches over" with a copy of similar texture from elsewhere in the image.

but this is all going off on a tangent. it's not really "science" or even "practice" that's important here, but a culture of trust. and so what the newspapers have done is argue along the lines of "people used to trust film photos, so we will freeze things there and allow only what was possible then[1]". so the limits are really quite arbitrary (but not unreasonable).

[1] without cutting up and pasting over and ...
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Hypothesis: Brand loyalty is the new Nationalism.
Google working on a marketplace for advertisers to buy and sell your data
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090106205401AA...
Anyone ever hired a freelancer on equity?
Just wondering if anyone has ever hired a freelancer on equity. I'm working with someone on oDesk.com and he seems to be a good fit. Just wondering it is a right move to offer him equity to come on board?

Thanks,
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Seems like a real stretch to me. HBGary like _targeted_intrusions_ with corresponding broad private information disclosures might have a bit of claim to that theory.

But as far as I can tell you just saw a couple of script kiddies run automated scans against whoever & whatever, happen to see a flaw at BAH, get in a dump a SQL database and then brag about how awesome they are. Big fucking deal?

Disclosing password hashes isn't going to bring down shit. It's like the hacker equivalent of the special olympics.
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Google+ privacy features exposed
So liquid cash, not assets, not investments? Seems pretty good to me, during a terrible recession.
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What's the link to the exact code in question? I don't see it.
This law is doomed to fail. Why? Because nobody can prove whether I simply don't want to disclose my password, or if I really forgot it.
Well, that's interesting. I certainly have seen tee shirts proclaiming the wearer to be a "Babe In Total Control of Herself."
Too bad their servers are slow as can be.
Actually, I don't disagree with you - it's a good thing (for a certain value of "good" - in a perfect world, things would all be secure, and we'd ride unicorns everywhere) that this kind of stuff is exposed.

What I disagree with is the "giving them a job" bit. I don't think that rewarding these kinds of people with employment is right - part of working in computer security is having a certain code of ethics. Whereas I'd much prefer that this kind of stuff be made public, giving them a job is similar to rewarding a thief with a job as a cop.

People are free to disagree, of course :P
Sounds like a search problem. A thousand +1s for adding search.
It's not just the regular bump, but SWSX was practically made for this sort of app.

I only wish I could "short" these types of stupid startup investments.
the DOJ have laptop (like a knife in a murder case). According to Miranda, the defendant have the right to remain silent (incl. all kinds of communications, ie. oral, keyboard typing, Morse alphabet using campfire smoke, etc... ) and, in particular, can't be compelled into communicating any information in connection with her/his using of the laptop (or murder knife), while the DOJ is free to have as much witnesses as they can describing defendant's usage of the alleged crime tool.
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I just got this msg on Twitter:
"Sorry! You've hit your hourly usage limit. Try again soon."
Hourly usage limit?? Anybody know what this is about?
Functional reactive programming for the web, or: where's my Lunascript?
I never had a chance to use it for its intended purpose, but abusing it seems like more fun. On Android, you can change the settings to allow "mock locations", then use a location spoofer app to put yourself "at" Times Square, then see all the photos from people using Color there. Trolling would be really easy as well, but I haven't tried that yet :)
I agree - that's gonna be everyone's biggest worry until it takes off.
Is reading a newspaper “Data mining”?
Data mining is a hype. As a result everything is called data mining. I suppose reading a newspaper to find some interesting information is called “data mining” by some people too.
...
The most important words or expressions here are : “extracting patterns”, “analyzing data”, “uncover relationships”, “discovery of knowledge”.
I'd say it's newsworthy and interesting, so I don't see a problem with it.
Big upvote on this one. I'll be using it. Instead of immediately freaking out when we see an insect (and calling an exterminator) perhaps this app will help us appreciate and respect them more?

I'm allowed to dream.
Sounds like what'd be much more useful is something like perlcritic: http://perlcritic.com/ rather than a -lint tool.

As the name implies, perlcritic can be fairly opinionated, but it has flags and a config file to handle what aspects you wish to criticise. (Quite a few of the 'Perl Best Practices' aren't, anymore, and just add noise to the output.)

Having an extensible plugin architecture for additional tests is also nice.
Big upvote on this one. I'll be using it. Who knows, maybe instead of freaking out when we spot an insect (and calling an exterminator), perhaps this app will help us appreciate and respect other living creatures more?

I can dream :)
Option A: Series B investor buys shares from the Company. Company issues new shares and the Series B guy owns 20% of the company. This dilutes everyone else's ownership (for him to own 20%, everyone else's stake has to come down).

Option B: He buys all of his shares from existing shareholders. This requires no additional shares so people who are NOT cashing aren't diluted at all.

I'm just guessing here-- I've never taken money off the table. But I can't imagine it working any other way.
I'm about as far from an expert as you can get, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable can shed some light on this:

"A classical computer seems to need time exponential in n to predict precisely the behavior of a general quantum mechanical system of n particles. (Yet nature manages to do it in real time.)"

How could we know this from inside that system? For all we know it could take a billion [whatever unit is used to measure time outside of our dimension] to calculate each step, and it would still look fluid to us.
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I carry these: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_...

The main reasons are that they're thin and fit in my back pocket easy so it goes everywhere, and since I'm always sitting on it, the paged being sewn in prevent it from falling apart. Composition pads are generally bulkier and glued together or spiral bound which is also pocket-unfriendly. I've got other 3x5 notebooks that are bulkier than the Cahier Journals and I just never take them with me. I'd probably avoid sitting on a binder clip too.

They also have rounded corners which help prevent the pages from catching on my pocket and getting folded/torn/ugly, and it has a nice inner pocket for receipts or other sources of notes. Superfluous, I know, but I like the cream colored paper better than white paper, and the plain cardboard cover develops a nice patina that other stuff generally doesn't.

They're about 3 bucks and only 64 pages each, which is quite steep if you write a lot, but I only go through one maybe every 2 or 3 months, which makes the cost difference negligible to me.
Lets talk about how the patent cartels suppress small companies in order to dominate the entire computer and mobile hardware industry.
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It depends on what you use it for. Without indexes, it could be used for testing without setting up a local MongoDB server, as long as there aren't too many records.
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Do I need a network of social networks?
I would love to be able to flag a post as public but also only make it appear in specific circles streams.

My Google+ followers are mostly migrated from Twitter and they are mostly technical users with a lot of JS background.

This means I don't want to spam them with "funny" pictures or one-off comments about strange stuff, maybe even local to where I live. I DO want to post that stuff to my coworkers though as they are at least moderately interested and posting it to Google+ is less annoying than email for all of us.

I can already limit these posts to the "Coworkers" circle, but that means that the post is now not public any more. People looking at my profile don't see it. I can't link it directly and when a recipient decides to reshare, they get a (otherwise well-meaning) warning, even though the post is totally non-private - I just didn't want to spam my JS followers with that.

This is a shame because with Google+, I finally found an outlet where I can post stuff for the various groups of people without spamming others.
I can't update my users' phones for them. Just pointing out that users stuck on older versions of Android, for whatever reason, may run into problems with the free cert. In the mail client, it will work if "TLS (if available)" is checked, but that's a departure from what other mail clients mean by that option.
Same. Even better: http://xkcd.com/904/
Google confirms “real” names a requirement for Profiles/Plus … mostly
>A bunch of discussions about why Google+ is better then Facebook etc...

Deflection, a common strategy by those who have not taken a walk with Mark Zuckerberg. By changing the topic, they avoid the social discomfort that comes with acknowledging they were not woodsworthy.
The "node" text is visually distinct from the "js" hex. It isn't really a cohesive logo.

I think the node text leaves a lot to be desired. It's cluttered, inconsistent, and that sort of hex lettering is cliché.

I agree with you. Using only the JS hex is much stronger branding.
Looks like they grabbed some sort of online course system's DB. I am guessing it isn't as secure as some of their other servers and it has independent authentication. So it isn't their main user/password database, but looks like people using their email address to login.
90,000 Military Emails Leaked After Anonymous Attack
That is one ugly-looking device. But if we're trying to compete on e-ink readers, I think the device to compete against now is the Nook Simple Touch. I loved my Kindle when I had one, but after using the NST I realized how rough a lot of the edges on the Kindle are. It really is a clear and solid step above the Kindle, and it's the device you need to compete with for e-ink. Wifi vs 3g doesn't matter; nobody buys books often enough to really truly NEED 24/7 connectivity across the globe. The NST touchscreen is shockingly responsive and totally obviates the need for a physical keyboard.

As for integration with Google Books--while I haven't used GB myself, I read a lot of Project Gutenberg books, and I'm assuming the two are similar platforms. The problem with PG books is that the formatting is just awful for a lot of the ebooks. Sometimes the person compiling the book will slavishly stick to a print edition, going so far as putting page numbers in or other print ephemera; or sometimes the internal coding is so bad that it only looks good on a small subset of readers; or sometimes the book is OCR'd and thus riddled with typos. What I'm saying is, you get what you pay for--and a lot of the free public-domain ebooks are just awfully compiled.

Hell, even some books I've bought from the Amazon store have been very obviously OCR'd with no second thought to ebook presentation or editing--a big example is one of Stephen King's Dark Tower books, which are huge sellers that you'd expect to have been ported to digital with at least a little attention to detail. Not so: the one I bought from the official publisher was obviously OCR'd and so riddled with typos and errors that I returned it to Amazon without finishing it.

So I guess what I'm saying is, I'm not impressed with this device. It's a generation behind the Nook Simple Touch, and integration with Google Books isn't enough to interest me given the awful or non-existent editorial oversight in most public-domain ebooks.