skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a strong online presence means putting up pictures of what's important to you. That means that pictures of your kids are out there and traceable to you.

Personally, I don't think that it increases any danger to kids, I use my real name and post pictures of my adorable kids all the time, but I respect those who feel differently.
Nope, I disagree.

People that are for this rule want _other_ people to use a profile name according to some weird (and inconsistent, not fully understood) rules.

People that are against this rule just want to define their _own_ profile name as they like.

Erm.. Seriously? Who's the one oppressing (if that even applies here, but you brought it up)?
"The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser."

- Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#style
>And it's possible technology such as this could reduce condom usage, and that's the disaster.

// It's also possible that it could prevent promiscuous sexual activity between people that wouldn't have used condoms and are infected.

I wonder if parking sensors increased the number of parking crashes because people stopped looking out of their windows when parking??? Anyone got stats on that?
How could a sane supposedly normal person come up with an idea of such a link?

It's all part of the magical thinking. If you know someone's True Name, you have the power to require them to be polite. But if it turns out that you don't have their real True Name, your spells will fizzle!

Geez, the more you think about the "civility" rationale the harder your head hurts. Let's go back to the simpler explanation: Google wants to require everyone to use a canonical identifier to make it easier to perform the giant JOIN across your entire life. Now the rationale of the "report your neighbor" link becomes clear: People who don't use their True Names are committing the mortal sin of... (shudder)... denormalization. Off with their heads!
The many pleasures of iPad games
Sounds very cool. I could really use something like this as infrastructure for a project I've got in mind. Not sure if you're planning an API or to open source any components.

Regarding the name, both surfscrape.com and clickgrabgo.com are available. Those were just the first couple things that came to me.
I thought Google axed Gmail Labs a while ago... Turns out there's more than one Labs in Google, and they're killing off some other one.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewe...
Still doesn't make sense to me. Aren't they still better off with one less set of Patents they can get sued for? It's as if they picked the worst of two bad options.
>DRACO selectively induces apoptosis, or cell suicide, in cells containing any viral dsRNA [, which is RNA with two complementary strands that id the genetic material of some viruses], rapidly killing infected cells without harming uninfected cells.

and for the cases when pretty much all the cells of specific type are already infected?
Ask HN: Have you tried a snail-mail-to-web (virtual mailbox) service? 
Dear HN: I'm a hacker currently based in California. I'm looking to take on the on-the-road lifestyle -- travel to Asia, and hopefully try to support myself by building iPhone and Mac apps. I'd like to have a place to receive occasional snail mail while on the road.

Googling a bit reveals some services that will accept your mail via their PO Box, and show scans online, for something like $20 per month. Examples of companies I found are Virtual Post Mail and Earth Class Mail. Unfortunately, it's incredibly hard to tell if they are in fact legitimate or trustworthy. If you have actually tried one, I would highly appreciate your feedback of how it went!

Thanks.
I think he had a heroine addiction as well. Or wait, maybe that was Bill Wyman who was addicted.
It seems more like Google App Engine than Heroku, in that by using this service, you are tied to Parse's infrastructure and can't easily change.
I wish this were satire.
Show HN: My first Rails project is like Groupon for movie lovers
Well that guy from Wired that test drove the self- driving car with the sensors actually did crash the car the first time he tried to use it to parallel park...

At any rate, the analogy is weak. Testing partners for HIV only makes sense if you're planning to be in a monogamous relationship with them, and ideally should be done 6 months after the start of a monogamous relationship.

You should use a condom with a girl you meet at a bar no matter what. An HIV test doesn't help you at all.
I am almost kind of sad that I will most likely never be able to witness one of these.

Almost.
I think you'd need to tattoo their foreheads.

[Hmm this'll be an interesting one to watch the votes on].
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Also note how responsive he is on Twitter (MG Siegler just tweeted him a question and got back an answer instantly). Somehow, we are in this weird world where MSFT is talking to everyone through a human face and Google has disappeared behind PR statements. That's quite a change.
I love the hash tag support. Nice work!

Edit: here's an example of linking directly to one of them: http://sandropaganotti.com/wp-content/goodies/demos/cards/in...
Perhaps at the time they declined, they thought they still had a chance of winning the patents without giving them to Microsoft and Apple too. Or perhaps they thought that it wouldn't be worth the money they would have to chip in to the group to share them. Both are plausible reasons.
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One Monitor or Two?
thanks benatkin :)
A lot of ships were ordered and never used due to the recession. Ship owners are going to experience the same problem the housing market is: more supply than can be realistically demanded. Though someone's going to figure out a way to turn it into a bubble.
I'm an IOS developer, and to be honest I wouldn't use Parse (at least not today).

1) Unless you're building a mobile client for an existing website, would you really bother with authentication? Can't you just transparently store users with a UDID?

2) Client-side caching is the biggest pain in IOS apps. Network calls are relatively easy. I try to make simple/dumb calls to the backend and just do smart filtering and data manipulation on the front end. Parse doesn't really help here. Do they have integration with core data? They don't even seem to mention it.

3) Some of those testimonials are hilarious, but clearly fake. Why not use real ones?

4) You usually need a server running for a landing page, anyway.

5) No support for storing images or audio. Storing simple strings isn't that useful.

Anyway, just my honest feedback :) Good luck!
Safari and Chrome do support hardware acceleration for 3D CSS transforms.
Source? The only way too many ships being built would affect the picture that way if those ships entered service since after mid 2008. I'd like to see a source for that.
This was my first rails project after going through Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial. It was something I wanted myself--a way to make sure I didn't miss any of Amazon's video on demand daily deals (99 cents to rent, 30 days to watch).

I learned a ton working on it and have already made a whopping 20 cents!

I'd really appreciate any suggestions for improving or marketing it.
Google is more sophisticated than that. They've been tracking your identity in searches for years. They know what you search for, what you read and what you buy. That's all the identity they need for their ad business. Name? Meh.
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EFF Calls on Cisco to Do the Right Thing
Repost of an old essay; Yahoo Answers style title. We can do better than this.
Will Parse provide offline support? I saw sync mentioned, but it seemed to be more with respect to syncing multiple devices by virtue of a common web-based datastore.
Why Microsoft can bully smaller firms into patent submission
I was thinking of this sort of thing, http://furius.ca/optcomplete/doc/sample-output.html, but I've a feeling I've seen it done better than that somewhere but can't track where.
Me too. Sadly, it's not. It's amazing how pervasive incompetence is and how low that sets the bar.
I'm throwing my vote in with the guy who suggested maybe he's getting money from the companies for getting more people to call about their services. Both ends are getting scammed, but it costs one of them time, and one of them money.
I didn't miss them. I think those will be much harder to reliably interrupt loops, especially around file I/O. That infinite loop was caused by bad state and those programs (currently) don't handle bad state well.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1212013/Reve...

I remember going on Google Maps and seeing what looked like a lot of ships docked right where they were supposed to be, but I lost the coordinates.

edit: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

I'm looking to see if it's still there.
I'm not much of a rails developer. I refrained from describing what constitutes "stupid" software development since everyone's heard best practices lectures...
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I'm hoping this eventually ends up in something amusing like the press release exchange Amazon and Barnes & Nobel had a few years ago. Barnes & Noble was purchasing a book distributor, and Amazon released a press release commenting on that, where they compared themselves to David fighting the B&N Goliath: http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...

Barnes & Noble wasted no time in responding, and pretty much thoroughly pwned Amazon. I can't find B&N's release online anymore to cite, though.

Amazon's response? I shall quote it in its entirety:

SEATTLE, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Oh."

http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...
So, you were the one. Thanks :)

The hive mind disagrees with my sense of humour today. Or maybe it was the ALLCAPS. I would have quoted Tom Swift but since we were talking about why we might not go to Europa (and I don't recall what book it was where he went to the moons of Jupiter)... shrug oh well.
Yeah as far as I'm concerned, the cross-site tracking thing is a straw man.

They used evercookie-ish methods to track people who don't want to be tracked. That's unethical, full stop.
Why I contribute to Wikipedia
Paul Ohm: Broken Promises of Privacy [pdf]
This is very American. That's not to say that other countries don't have some of this information, but from my experience to a lesser extent.

There's a lot of transparency in a lot of contracts / arrangements. A lot of information ends up on public record. Buy a house, get married, poor credit rating etc. Most of this information is accessible in some form and these companies are simply aggregating it.

This information is generally much more difficult to collect in other countries (with my own personal experience being in a few European countries), if it's even accessible at all.

I'm sure there's exceptions but this does seem like a very American problem.
Thanks for the link. Although you're right, Universal Music was the largest corporate contributor in that quarter the amount in question wasn't huge (80,000 pounds) and much smaller than a lot of private contributions (12th overall). Also looking at subsequent quarters (http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/party-fi... and http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/party-finance/party-fi...) there doesn't seem to be a pattern of ongoing contribution.....which maybe backs up the original poster's claim that the content industry is late on its payments.
As one of those nerds who didn't get along with people as well as I wished in high school, I am kind of dreading the reunion. I have had a few awkward get-togethers with people I knew as a child before who remember me in ways I wish they didn't, but high school reunions are on a different scale. On the other hand, in some ways I relish the chance to show folks that I'm not the same as I was.
>The DoJ ruling merely means they can't really leverage those patents against Google to stifle them more, which I'm sure the legal departments of Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle would have loved to do. It means those patents are less of a threat, but it wasn't a win for Google either.

No. The DoJ ruling means that they can't leverage the patents against Linux. The OIN patent license only applies to Linux code. That doesn't necessarily apply to the Android UI, for example.

That's the primary reason that I think the DoJ would have made the same ruling. It gives the Linux code the same protections that they had with Novell.
Yea try scaling a legacy client server application. And you will know why its dead.
That's actually helpful levity when considering service offerings like this[1]:

DRDL interconnects control and data sessions of protocols like FTP. During the identification process DRDL aggregates detailed traffic properties like MIME-type, filename, chat channel and SIP caller ID. This granularity enables you not only to see the Xbox Live traffic, but rather the Xbox Live users who are playing Halo 3.

It's not clear whether use of a VPN/SSH would prevent this kind of traffic analysis, but an obfuscation daemon of some kind could surely be written.

While it's kind of interesting, I've never researched how networks like Freenet, or WASTE, etc deal with those issues (or, if they even address them at all).

[1]http://www.proceranetworks.com/products/drdl-technology.html
This is really useful feedback, especially #2 and #5. Better support for caching and other filetypes are features we're working on for upcoming releases. If you don't mind, I'd love to get your feedback in more detail - if you could shoot me an email at kevin@parse.com that would be great. If you're in SF I'll buy you lunch sometime ;-)

P.S. those testimonials are real!
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Nerds are unpopular in forced social settings like secondary schools because they're huge assholes

Um.... no more than the rest of the human race. You're going to have to have some heavy-weight citations there.
I would guess they are doing whois queries, but be careful that you don't inadvertently get yourself blocked.

Another point of caution-- perhaps it is just urban legend, but I've heard that some shady registrars capture the domain you're looking up temporarily so you can't register it anywhere else.

That (possibly unreasonable) fear is why I find myself checking the existence of a domain from the CLI before I actually use my registrar of choice to register it.
I see a lot of people do stupid shit because they don't seem to think it will make a big difference. One mistake isn't a big deal, is it? The problem is that it becomes habit, and then you're making plenty of these, and you think it's okay, but in reality a lot of these mistakes have become normal.

I think the most profound thing about the post was that it showed a striking difference between determined practice and directed practice. Just being determined and putting in the hours will _not_ be sufficient to pass a plateau of learning. Sometimes you need _directed_ learning to push you past that plateau.

Applying that to code, I think this is the difference between just programming a lot and thinking you'll get better, and actually reading texts, reading code and talking to other programmers to see how other people do things better.

For example, you can start using more anonymous functions in your code because all the cool kids are doing it, but unless you really understand how to deal with high-order functions and what a map and fold are, you are just going to be doing stupid shit that doesn't really help your code at all.
I agree with the overall point here, but isn't this just the same as saying "practice" and/or "keep practicing, especially with those that are better than you"?
From http://puck.nether.net/~rtucker/faq/funny/amazonbn.html the B&N press release which elicited the succinct reply:

NEW YORK, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 6, 1998--The following is a statement by barnesandnoble.com

With regard to the acquisition of the Ingram Book Group, Barnes & Noble, Inc. is amused to read Jeff Bezos' quote, where he describes himself as an independent bookseller: "Goliath is always in range of a good slingshot."

Well, Mr. Bezos, what with a market capitalization of some $6 billion and more than four million customers, we suppose you know a Goliath when you see one. Your company is now worth more than Barnes & Noble, Borders, and all of the independent booksellers combined. Might we suggest that slingshots and pot shots should not be part of your arsenal.
I used Earth Class Mail for a year or so, a few years back. It worked great and I had no complaints. It's a legit business, though I cant' say with certainty that they weren't stealing all my secrets or anything. (Though if they did, they never did anything malicious with the information, because nothing bad happened.)
Runs great on a run of the mill >2 year old PC w/ Windows 7 and Chrome 12. I'm sure YMMV depending upon quite a few factors, but I was actually surprised how nice and smooth it was for me.
Convergence is a secure replacement for the Certificate Authority System
I'm using their 860 lumens version which looks very similar. It works great
Alternatively, I'd encourage you do to "stupid shit." Lots of it. Isn't that what learning is all about?
The argument to be made is not that Google has no right to set a "real names only" policy, but rather that Google OUGHT not set such a policy because it is harmful in the ways others have been describing.
>Google claims that such suits would only be to defend itself when sued ("no first strike", just mutually assured destruction via countersuits), but Microsoft hasn't replied to that claim.

I don't think MS has to. They're currently licensing a lot of Novell's patents, which means that they're protected against any infringement claims. I don't believe that situation would have changed even if Google won the entire bid-MS would have just given money to Google instead of Novell.
You're talking about the contents of the virus capsid.

DRACO works by killing cells that contain viral dsRNA, which will include cells infected by most kinds of DNA and RNA viruses, because those viruses usually have a dsRNA stage.
Reinteract: a system for interactive experimentation with Python
This great post should be really encouraging: you can achieve a terrific competitive advantage right off the bat just by launching a business that manages to avoid doing stupid shit.
I'm getting really sick of MG's sensationalist writing. He's the reason I've unsubscribed from TC.
Doesn't make much sense given that one of the companies was a free service.
I own a similar model that looks the same with a little less lumen output (860 I believe). I don't notice flickering.
Apple's hold on metal chassis supply chain hinders competition
I read it this January after hearing it mentioned so many times. I was very impressed. My impressions were:
1. Ah, that's what it would have been like to attend a GOOD university!
2. Much of the systems knowledge I learned the hard way are clearly explained here. This would have jumpstarted my career by 10 years.
3. No current first-year student would sit through this. Though, it should be required reading for seniors.
Microsoft has a set of patents. We'll call them A. Google has a few patents. We'll call them B. The Novell auction was for a third set, C.

Now |A| > |C| > |B|, by a long shot. Defensive patents work by allowing you to countersue anyone who sues you, and claim they are infringing upon your patents. In the end, the parties settle out of court and agree to a cross-licensing deal, which amounts to, "I won't sue you and you won't sue me."

Because of the general stupidity of most patents issued, this is a game of quantity, not quality. Thus having 10,000 patents is far preferable to having 1,000, even if those 1,000 are for genuine innovations. This brings us back to our sets of patents.

Google doesn't have much to defend themselves with, hence their desire to acquire C. However, if they jointly acquired C with Microsoft, those patents could only be used to defend themselves against entities other than Microsoft. As MS has the rights to C, Google couldn't sue them for infringement, whereas Microsoft could still sue Google for infringement on A. The only thing Google would have gained is protection from Microsoft suing them for infringement of C. Since Google was primarily concerned about Microsoft suing them, this wouldn't have done them any good. It would have amounted to a multi-billion dollar settlement with Microsoft, only against suits based on C. It simply wasn't worth it for them, as they would have been sued anyway and still had no protection.
Humility is your friend. There is so much to know you must assume that, in areas where you are not already an acknowledge expert, you are already doing stupid things and you don't know it.

Related to humility: Never forget the fundamentals. I'm talking about things like basic sorting, searching, and big O estimating. Know what your data structures and algorithms cost in terms of memory and performance. I'm continually surprised by how many senior developers unknowingly drift away from the fundamentals.
Nerds are a lot like religious fundamentalists in this regard. They think they have privileged knowledge and think exposing others to it is a public service. Stereotypes about asocial behavior just feed into this.

The fact that nerds are often more provably right than the fundies doesn't make it less annoying for those around them who aren't nearly as excited by strange doings with quark-gluon plasma and the minutia of decades-old television reruns. You can be right all you like, it doesn't mean anyone else cares.
LinkedIn Posts First Ever Public Earnings Announcement
Thank you! This says it all.

How is a command-line supposed to be useful for normal people when it doesn't give the slightest idea of what I can do?

Normal people don't want to study man pages for ten minutes before they can do I single thing -- they just want to start a program and do things.
There's nothing wrong with doing stupid shit once. But it becomes habit quickly without constant vigilance. See Periodic's response in this thread.
Cookies disappear all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with users nuking them. Users rarely delete their cookies, a vanishing cookie isn't an obvious indicator of privacy concerns.

I should caveat this by saying that I wouldn't use an evercookie, though. While most vanishing cookies aren't privacy related, it's clear that a few are. We avoid all sorts of behaviors on the web to keep from treading on a few toes.
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Yes and no, the point is to practice smart. Not everything has equal pedagogical value and learning difficult techniques is worthless if you can't avoid idiocy.
>The Nortel patent purse had over 6,000 patents, but InterDigital has over 8,800. If the winning bid on Nortel was $4.5 billion, InterDigital should be well north of $5 billion.

That's $5BB that won't be used to create new products and technologies. It's $5BB that won't be used to hire new employees, and it's $5BB taken out of the pockets of shareholders. At least taxes go back into the economy. They might as well throw the money in a pile and set it alight.
The 'big boys' might avoid it by policy, but perhaps a rogue affiliate/commissioned-salesperson benefits.

Or, it could be competitors doing a denial-of-service attack on inbound calls, or a marketing-budget-depletion-attack on a pay-per-call campaign.

One way to deduce more: were the numbers he called the most commonly-advertised numbers for the target businesses, or other numbers through some tracked dispatch?
There's nothing to stop them from having a lot of overlap. Much like how Computer Engineering overlaps quite a bit with EE.