skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this one the most worrying:

"In 2008, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) obtained a temporary restraining order to prevent a talk at DEFCON by three MIT students who had uncovered physical and logical security holes in MBTA infrastructure."

I mean, the IOS guy worked for IOS, so he was divulging information that Cisco paid him to obtain. HBGary paid Aaron Barr to research anonymous, so they have a case for him doing the same thing. However, what kind of case could MBTA possibly have against some kids who found problems with their infrastructure? I fail how to see how such an injunction was anything but unconstitutional.
* Parkinsons found only to be 24% heritable using genes known to be associated with Parkinson and also not taking into account epigenetics
And 30years later I still have to deal with bugs because somewhere a "c:\note" wasn't escaped as a "c:\\note"

I can be on "c:", type cd "d:\data" and still be on c:
None of this '90s-style sniffing is necessary: HTML5 supports multiple <source> elements allowing browser to choose and has canPlayType('video/webm') for JavaScript.
I think it's a chicken/egg problem. Everyone goes to these hubs because that's where the jobs are. Jobs stay there because that's where everyone is.

My parents were enticed by a job offer to move out of the SF bay area. The offer was better money, and all moving expenses paid, but they ultimately declined. Their reasoning was that for their type of jobs, the SF bay area was the best place to be unemployed. So they stayed.
"the service can't use its genetic testing to give you a heads-up about upcoming disease in your physiology, which is one of the big sells of 23andMe"

Nonsense - I have a common variant of one blood clotting factor known to be responsible for a greatly increased risk of deep vein thrombosis and life threatening pulmonary embolisms. My mother has the same autosomal dominant gene.

She was hospitalized for DVT and PE following a knee surgery, was genetically tested and found positive.

23andme identified me as being a carrier of said mutation and followup genetic sequencing confirmed the diagnosis.

Now I know, with certainty, that I must periodically get up and move around during long car rides and plain flights or risk a life threatening event.

Health-related discoveries aside, there are countless things to be analyzed from 23andme data, including ancestry and data mining for correlation with biometrics (imagine being able to reconstruct facial images based on dna samples alone).

There are always hypercritical crankpots to speak out against any new technology. If only these people would imagine constructive ways to make use of this so-called "useless" data.

Innovate people.
Hacker Bus, On The Roads of Brazil
>given that we are taught from birth to obey authority figures (parents, family, teachers, policemen) /without question/

One of the important aspects I'm trying to maintain with my kids is a right to reply and express their opinion. My eldest's teacher goes against this, she demands "do it first time" whilst I demand a response - he can refuse but he can't ignore a request, if he can reason his way out/in to something then that's far better IMO than blind obedience.

It can be a useful simplification in the sense that one needs a child to obey commands like "don't touch the hot stove" and "don't run in to the road" ("stop" covers both).
Yeah, guess people are different. I would NEVER invite strangers to be in my house alone. Esp not with my stuff still there. I can't comprehend why anyone would. Can't understand how airbnb is popular service. But, it is. Like I said people are different...
What the cable companies are worried about is that the networks get all the ad revenue from online viewing that's why they have leaned on Fox to do this.

Their only new revenue model is bandwidth caps
There's also the tragic lack of an antiglare option (rather, the mandatory presence of a glare-inducing piece) on the mba vs. mbp15hd/mbp17.

I wish they'd fix that for the ACD 27 and iMac, too. I've been using Dell U-series IPS panels (U2410, U2711, U3011) for everything due to being matte and cheap ($400, 750, 1k!), but the new Apple display with the docking is pretty awesome, so I ordered one. Sadly, the glossiness means never using it in a room with external lighting :(
Apple Charges Customer 122 Times for Lion
We heard the exact same arguments in 2008 when Android released. Have people really forgotten how events unfolded just 2-3 years ago?

For reference, this is what shipment numbers look like only a few months after Android tablets started hitting store shelves:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20082707-64/did-the-ipad-r...

This shouldn't surprise anyone that doesn't have thick Apple blinders on their head. Manufacturers are starting to release better hardware, on cheaper devices, and in faster timelines than the iPad. The only thing holding it back is that developers have only had a few months to start writing apps tailored for tablets running Android. And in that vain, just like the smartphone market, it's literally just a matter of time before history repeats itself.
Chrome is free. Google builds websites to attract advertisers. Which makes Google's lack of openness all the more perplexing.

And what's this about not being able to get the Android source!? I'll buy an iphone right now if that's true. At least Apple doesn't try and pretend they're not evil.
already there at my uni.
Eventually profit? Last I heard they were on track to make $100 million this year.
They are still suing each other. There could be a system where there is a cartel that only sues the small ones.
Nokia Debt Cut to Two Grades Above Junk
How is this different than BDB?
Even the Hulu+ (paid) option also has ads, doesn't it?
Any comparisons of performance or functionality against BerkeleyDB?
Watch what customers do, not what they say
You can discuss the managerial points in this article, but as an aside:

I hate articles like this.

I used to work on wall street, and these sort of articles were rampant up until the burst: they glamorize financial "wizards", hedge funds, trading life etc. They're financial porn. They glamorize what, in my opinion, is a dubious field. All the while attracting all sorts of people into a field that has already proven it's "value" or lack there of to society.

I'm starting to see more and more articles like this, and it frightens me how quickly the world is getting back to where it was just a few years ago.
Email Intervention
I know from a couple months ago hearing the founder of omniture Josh James talk about changing a button and color to a homepage. He said it caused his client to grow significantly and caused sales to go up 15-20% almost overnight creating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

The website they helped fix was still in its beginning years. Their client was ebay. I wouldn't be suprised if this was the website he's talking about.
I can't believe anyone would rent out their home. I assumed most people rented out spare properties, not their primary residence.
Customers that want encryption - aren't the sort of customers you want.

"We need encryption for our business data" = indemnify us against any financial loss, PR disaster and legal implications of us losing any data, however we manage to do it.

ps. did we mention we need it to be acceptable to our credit card processor, our military customers, the data we hold about peoples health records.

pps. and this is all shared with our European subsiduary so it has to be acceptable to all their rules as well.

ppps. sorry did we mention china ?

We will happily pay $5/month for this simple encryption service
I would say the majority of people don't really care about the difference between BR and regular def DVD's. Hell, I know/understand the difference and I still don't care.

Audio CD's offered many advantages over tapes and records: audio quality, form factor, reliability. DVD's were much better than VHS for the same reasons. Other than being higher quality, BluRay doesn't really offer anything. I'm not going to replace any of the DVD's I own with BR. In fact, I'm getting rid of the DVD's and depending on streaming services so I don't have to store all that crap.

Based on that, I would actually wager that DVD will be around a lot longer than BluRay. 8 tracks were popular and are basically all gone now, but people still use records.
e.g. YouTube.
IMO, the absurd part is, how do you bring a 93 year old dead person back to life?

Or to put in another way, what is more likely: That the future can bring back a dead old and then frozen brain, or that they can reconstruct an individual just by brute force computer simulation, no need for anyone to be frozen?

If the later is as likely as the first, what exactly is the point of freezing?

Perhaps you might be better of trying to create interesting things which will make the distant future more likely to want to simulate you in high precision?

Or perhaps Aubrey DeGray would be much better off applying his impressive brains to getting an MD and going into basic research, instead of being a cheerleader for his ideas with only a Gerontology PhD.
More about Ankit fadia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankit_Fadia .He appears on MTV india and does a show called "What the hack".
Plblocks: Add block support to iOS 2.2+
Where to start learning Computer Programming Languages?
Not impossible. Very burdensome and lonely, but not impossible.
I live in San Diego. I hear there is a war for tech talent, but it hasn't spilled into my neck of the woods (yet?).

What is interesting to me is how unwilling startups seem to be to:
- Grow their own talent internally by hiring inexperience.

- Entertain SOME SORT OF telecommuting arrangement for those not in the Bay area. Doing this would open up the rest of the West coast for '1 Week in the Office per month, 3 weeks work from home' arrangements.

- Pay for relocation. YMMV but I don't see it that often.

- Open satellite offices in areas where talent is easier and less expensive to get. The space shuttle program just ended, and there are BUNCHES of good engineers looking for something interesting to do (In Florida). Georgia Tech has a legacy of churning out smart engineers (In Georgia). San Diego still has double digit unemployment (Plus the surf is better than SF!), and there are dots and pockets of good engineering talent all across the sunbelt with cities, states, and municipalities who would LOVE to incentivize 'hot start-ups' to open an office there.

This is a case where I can see acu-hiring makes sense. Get a 5-10 person team that is already kicking ass and in an office, swallow them up for $1m/head. Boom, for the price of $10m you just got 10 engineers who already work well as a team, a satellite office that you can use as an anchor in a new geography, and an escape from the localized talent war.
"They ... found the passport, cash, credit card and grandmother's jewelry I had hidden inside. They found my birth certificate and social security card, which I believe they photocopied "

Why would you leave your birth certificate and social security card behind when you have strangers occupying your home?

Passports, ids, hard drives, diamonds .... these are all small but very important items that fit perfectly into a safety deposit box.
As soon as I saw this I was going to post about AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, the joy and pain of which were only surpassed by the hardware jumpers that occasionally tagged along. Long live DOS!
This isn't true at larger companies. At a lot of large companies, getting competing offers is one of the only ways to get substantial raises.
Kinda reminds me of this:

http://news.infracritical.com/pipermail/scadasec/2011-May/01...

the more I see in the security world, the more I think full disclosure is the only responsible way to work towards a more secure system.
Email Intervention by Gmail
>All the material stuff is superficial, the only thing of real value is you.

Our house was broken in to by youths looking for drug money. It took me a couple of years to get over the sense of not wanting to trust people.

The sense of betrayal was considerably enhanced by two factors - I was on a neighbourhood committee with the mother of one of the youths that broke in; an amount of cash was taken that belonged to a group that we volunteered with to help children on the estate from whence the youths came.

IMO the greatest harm was stealing [for a time] my trust in others.

People kept empathising with me as to how violated we must feel, how awful having people in our home. None of that mattered to us really though.
I once had a 9 month stretch with a huge, but fairly well-defined project. Typed so much I gave myself cubital tunnel syndrome. For the rest of the decade+, I've typed maybe a dozen lines a day as a high average estimate.

I suspect a lot of the numbers in the poll are inflated. Even a data entry specialist would have a hard time spending 7:30 out of 8:00 hours a day typing.
Redis. :) But more importantly, it runs as a server. I think what @jcapote meant is being able to use Redis operations without a server, like Leveldb or sqlite. I would love to see that. There's already some effort towards that direction [1], but using a google backed project instead of building a full library from the ground up could be a saner approach.

[1] https://github.com/seppo0010/redislite
You don't always have to get new data to make a splash. I particularly like this project (it's in neuroscience but similar things probably exist in biology)

http://neurosynth.org/

They are doing meta-analysis of the neuroscience literature.
It's already been submitted... it's quite popular. My top feature need for dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/2385/option-to-exclude-by-fi...
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Right, from the sheer scope of the raids I'm sure they thought they were dealing with some sort of syndicate, probably professional criminals branching out. They were absolutely dumbfounded, they didn't know whether to slap the cuffs on me or give me milk and cookies.
How do you know he didn't tell his boss before the conference and just announce his resignation publicly during his talk?
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Why would DEFCON want Aaron Barr on any sort of panel? The guy is at best a hack of a security professional and at worst a complete idiot of a slime ball who doesn't understand the first thing about technology.
Apparently the world's current official narrowest house is narrower at the front (47 inches) but expands to 22 feet. This one will be a bit under 60 inches the whole way through. By average width, this will be the narrowest in the world, not just Warsaw.
you don't need to pay anyone to use it in your commercial software.
Actually, they'll get blocked on access to NFS or other network-based disk, too. (but you can configure the NFS mount to allow signals to interrupt) I've seen NFS problems lead to loads over 100.
"The solution is that intellectual property and government granted monopolies are bad and should not be the law."

How do movies and tv work without IP? The answer is obvious -- 90% of tv is gone, hope you like community access shows. Movies would be shown in locked down theaters only -- no dvds, no streaming services. Games in locked down arcades only.
I love seeing things like this. It's too bad it's just a concept for now.

It reminds me of the Boeing 727 house (http://www.costaverde.com/727.html) or the modular apartment in Japan (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/garden/15hongkong.html?_r=...)
I've always felt, in a very non-disparaging way, that cryonics filled the need for secular humanists to believe in an afterlife.

An interesting point was brought up in the comments too, which is if we had a bunch of frozen folks from the 1600's and we could unfreeze them and bring them back to life, would that be the right choice?

That is the moral 'nub' which I find fascinating about this stuff (and yes it has been chewed fruitfully by writers before).

So imagine you could bring someone back from the 60's. What would they do today? The most brilliant computer designer would probably de-thaw believing that the IBM 360 with its channel architecture was the coolest thing. Show them the multi-issue pipeline of a modern microprocessor with register coloring, branch prediction, and early instruction retirement and their brain would explode.

When you are young the wonder of a new thing gives you the energy to read about how it works, when you're older (or just in a hurry) having to spend time reading the manual or 'fiddling with' a tool to understand it enough to use it is bothersome. Can you imagine waking up and everything you know is expected to be known by teens ? All your hard earned wisdom is worthless?

Since we're speculating there are things we can't really know but we can wonder about.

So what will be the economic status of these people once thawed? It could be 'good' in a post singularity world where anything can be made for 'free', or it could be 'bad' where thawed people are treated like the property of the person who paid to thaw them.

I would hate to find myself waking up, fuzzily, and have an insistent voice saying, "you've been reanimated by xyzcorp, click 'yes' to agree to their terms for paying off your debt to them, or 'no thankyou' to be re-frozen."
Nice prediction that may well become true … but there is no reason to believe that Apple won’t sell $150 smartphones. Apple is willing to be competitive on price – from time to time.

I think the market will stay crowded with no clear king (but Samsung and Apple certainly as two big players). Yet I honestly don’t know. I think it’s currently very hard to predict anything in the mobile space.
Flying art
Where is the updated response? This article just says there has been an updated response.
I remember vaguely... The first iMac was released in 1997, I think?, and the outcry was because they dropped not only the floppy but also parallel and serial ports. Some people called it "a toy".
OSS Proposal Template
I've been invited to contribute a component to an open source project that would have significant benefit for my company as well as all users of the OSS project. My company is not particularly well acquainted with OSS or what having an employee contributing to an OSS project would entail.

Would anyone happen to have a template for such a proposal that would help me communicate the benefit of this undertaking? Baring that, would anyone have any advice on the most salient points to communicate or resources I could use to explain OSS in layman's terms?
I think a lot of people overestimate the capabilities of Anonymous and the like. Surely there are probably a few in there ranks that actually do know what they're doing, but most are going to be script kiddies, or even lower (basically a human powered botnet operating the LOIC).

I think that what Anonymous does teach us is precisely why it is important to be a good cyber citizen, for all the bad media that will come up if you anger the hive. There's actual security lessons too (you actually need to make the effort to try and eliminate the low hanging fruit, to have security in mind from the beginning, to factor in the risks of a large data loss or defacement).

I think that book could be written by many people in the infosec world, as the details are already public and the attacks are not that sophisticated. The thing is that there are already lots of "best practices" that are not being followed that allow a lot of these hacks to happen. It's true that you may never be confident in how secure or insecure you are, but if you aren't doing the basics (using frameworks that help take care of the basics of things like SQLi, XSS, and CSRF vulns), then you're already behind.
Sure, but that was exactly what the author meant.
Code reviews are normally done after the developer has spent some time on the code. That is fine that it takes 20 second to determine the code is totally worthless, but the developer has already wasted DAYS of effort.
...but at the end of the day you can make the argument that
everything about personalities are evolutionary in nature.
ADHD? Useful for surviving in the jungle.

I've read about the "hunter vs. farmer" theory on ADD/ADHD. So far, from what I've read, no one has agreed that ADD/ADHD is an evolutionary response to/for hunting. Rather, it may have made the hunter quicker or more aware of surroundings, and thus made a better hunter overall.

It seems like the author is dumping on people for not getting it right, when he is not really getting the context correct themselves.
Jeff and Sanjay wrote the original protocol buffer implementation. The project was taken over by Kenton Varda, who rewrote the C++ and Java parts; this is what was open sourced. See http://temporal.fateofio.org/files/resume
It definitely seems to be the direction things are converging, but what you are talking about is much more than file storage, it's a full scale cutting edge multi-platform cloud OS. While it is definitely conceivable, if you look at how far the various single-platform client-based OSes still have to go, it sheds some light on how monumentally complex the task truly is. Especially considering that these OSes have companies many, many times larger and more experienced than dropbox backing them.

File storage is certainly a critical piece of the puzzle and I could see them making some major inroads towards standardizing the cloud, but I think the full breadth of your vision is still pretty far off. Fun to speculate on though for sure.
There's at least another asteroid following Earth in a quasi-orbital fashion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
Ask HN: I have a good idea.  Now what?
I'm sure this has been answered before, but I'm having a hard time finding the right search terms. I have a good idea for a startup and a little money to get it off the ground. Question is, how do I find a designer/developer to build the website? Can I just hire a web developer, or do I have to offer them a piece of the action?
Anyone else notice that the photo is of Cory Doctorow?
Or mobile phone

http://m.ft.com/cms/s/2/8ead4e1a-b86b-11e0-b62b-00144feabdc0...
I'd guess that both were derived from Medgar Evers:

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
You could also run a digital "rental" service - the "delivery time" is how long it takes to download when your connection isn't being used. Of course, that would only help people with slow connections rather than those with harsh caps, but it's something perhaps.
This is full viewport, not fullscreen.
Which I guess is fullscreen if you tap F11.

Edit - Scrap that, only works in Safari. My mistake.
The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed
It's sort of like staring at a car wreck as you pass by. Doesn't mean you approve of car wrecks or are glad they happen, but you can't help it.
I wish they had done a benchmark of mixed reads and writes. LSMs have some nice properties, but read performance in the presence of writes may not be as good as when there are no writes. With no write traffic, you wind up with only a single .sst file, so reads only have to consult that one table.

Still, good to have some numbers.
you're always free to _hire_ a web developer, people are definitely willing to work if you're paying them. Most people don't have the resources to do that at least initially, though, which is why it's usually hard to find good people to work for equity.