skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tried from Safari and Chrome on OS X Lion and it says I am not on OS X lion...
Not really a tip for your dotfile, but learn about all of Emacs's autocompletion variations. There are something like five of them, ranging from basic M-/ to CEDET's context-and-semantics-sensitive code completion tool.
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Sure, but many like the current default -- on a netbook, I used small icons, but everywhere else I willingly sacrifice a couple of pixels for an easier target.
Obviously the 'latest version' in that case would be IE8.
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It works on OSX Chrome too.
Found this on the hacker day page:
http://static.diffbot.com/images/webmininghackday/stalkerbot...
Did someone type in one of the karma brothers, tptacek or patio11? That might be what crashed the site.

I'd be interested to see the analysis it returns for a prolific poster.
Bjork is a bit confused. Pirates routinely break the copy protection on iOS apps which means that they will be available to install on other, appropriately prepared systems.

It's currently reasonably infeasible for pirates to reverse engineer the application, to the extent that they can port it to a completely different OS and architecture.

If that's what she wanted accomplished, the least she could do would be to open source the code and assets so that an enterprising Hacker could at least attempt an Android port.
I'm pretty sure my recent comments have been very grumpy. I wish I could get confirmation of this, but the service seems to be down.
This might be obvious, but this show is excellent, and if you haven't watched it yet, don't watch this video until you have, as there are some major spoilers.
Still a better overall experience than Eclipse.

Bazing!
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Twitter Moves Into Facebook's Old Office In New York
New User Tracking Vectors resistant to users’ privacy-seeking behaviors
It looks like you can’t hide from some sites online, even if you block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito” functions, according to researchers at U.C. Berkeley.
Did Newt Gingrich Buy Most of His Twitter Followers?
Your typical porn customer will pay for even crappy porn and a crappy site, but we're trying to get at least some of the people who wouldn't normally pay and let the other companies fight over the people who click random junk traffic links. That's the idea anyway :)
I think you linked to the wrong post ;)
This doesn't really add much. As an Eclipse user I'd be interested to hear why XCode is still a better overall experience despite these problems.
You mean a roundabout?
For what it's worth I think that the photo looks perfectly fine. I'd be a very happy person if I could photograph that well. Customers don't care how professional the profile pictures look. They care about their experience using the service itself.
Myth of the the extraordinary teacher
In this case, I think less is more. I know I will visit and comment on Forrst because the noise to value ratio is still relatively low. I don't feel that it is really an exclusive "club" feel, but it does seem to be more developers and designers that are actually doing the work every day than on more "open" places.
muscle memory is less relevant when mousing. the range of starting positions is large.
It's worth mentioning that geohot was, by no means, a fabulous programmer - sure, he's done a lot of great reverse engineering and security work, but if you look at his code, it was both advanced and sloppy. However, Facebook hired him to work on product development, even though he's known to not be much of a programmer.

Comex may not fit the profile of an Apple engineer, but I think he'd still do a damn good job as one.
Great news, thanks for the link. From the article:

On 06/28/11 the SFPD through investigative leads conducted a search of a premise in Belmont, CA. Two people were detained, but released pending further investigation. The search yielded some of the items that were taken in the theft.

Later on that night through investigative leads, SFPD officers made an arrest of Faith Clifton, female, white, 19 years of age of San Francisco. Faith was booked into San Francisco County Jail that night on possession of stolen property, methamphetamine, fraud charges and outstanding warrant out of Milpitas, CA.

SFPD has been in contact with the victim and have been in contact with the website company, who has provided as much information as possible in this matter.
Same for me (different numbers, though). I'm not surprised, though—I'm on an EC2 VPN, which some internet services are somewhat biased against (notably Stack Overflow).
That works of course, but Devel::REPL is much more convenient: (1) you don't have to end your statements with backslashes -- you can paste whole blocks as is, (2) you immediately see what your statement evaluates to, for example typing "42" in Perl debugger simply begins another prompt while typing it in a true REPL returns the value that your statement evaluates to (i.e. "42") -- which is not a big deal with simple statements but gets interesting once you start evaluating regular expressions, for example, (3) Devel::REPL remembers what you typed (or at least it works the same way as your system shell), (4) it is really easy to work out complicated things in Devel::REPL -- see for example this case of currying a function:

$ my $x = sub { my $x = shift; return sub { $x . shift } }
$CODE1 = sub { # this is what is returned by Devel::REPL
package Devel::REPL::Plugin::Packages::DefaultScratchpad;
use warnings;
use strict 'refs';
my $x = shift @_;
return sub {
$x . shift(@_);
}
;
};

$ $x->('hello ')->('world');
hello world
Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes
"Will there be Visual Studio?"

More seriously, some might already know Linux.
I expected to like it - I really liked Rome, also from HBO - but Game of Thrones fell completely flat for me. Somehow the directing/acting/script just didn't produce much emotion or attachment to the characters from me. There were some interesting scenes here and there, but overall, it was a bit like The Pacific (I loved Band of Brothers and expected to love Pacific too (I read the biographies on which it is based), but it fell completely flat for me.

But I can't hold it against HBO. I love Treme (by David Simon, who also did my favorite show, The Wire) and Boardwalk Empire is pretty good.

I'm actually curious to know if it's just me. Anyone else expected to like GoT but ended up not liking it? The dwarf character was great, but even he couldn't save that show for me.
Even if it is because they favored YC startups - so what? This message board is run by the founder of YC and isn't meant for posting sensational articles whenever one of their companies gets caught in the spotlight.
"we can't demand that teachers be excellent in conditions that preclude excellence"

We can if we keep judging "excellence" by standardized tests which we water down until they give an answer we like and institute policies which push educators into doctoring the answer sheets.

Or did you want the students to actually learn stuff?
Reminds me of Michigan left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_left
If you're worried about completely having to rebuild your 200K+ house, maybe you shouldn't be using AirBnB?

I don't use AirBnB - not because I don't trust them but because I don't trust random strangers to use my home. But that's just me.
I absolutely loved the books, haven't watched the show yet, though.
C++ is better for finding a paying job. There you have it, someone had to say it :D
I cant connect to mybtc. what is the story? Is anyone else having trouble connecting?
Take Me Cooler: Enter a desired temp - we'll tell you where to go to get cool
It talks like it should do a lot more, but all it lets me do is zoom in on a few panels of an infographic about the planets. Am I missing something?
Anyone know of a good app along these lines (not necessarily browser based) for working with timelines?

I've been reading a lot, opening a lot of tabs, and taking a lot of notes lately. I'm finding that organizing things by date/time works really well for making sense of piles of stuff.

I'd like to be able to throw things onto a timeline and then later read back the timeline in chronological order to get a sense of what kinds of trends are at work.

Any great recommendations will be much appreciated!
Not surprising. Back when there was only one bitcoin app in the Android Market, I toyed with the idea of publishing some smallish app that interacted with people's BitCoins or would provide remote access.

How hard would it be to get a pre-paid credit card, publish the app to the app store and have it simply email account credentials to some random throw away email address or just skim a tiny amount of BTC in the background?

It's funny, with BitCoin's design and the current user-driven banking solutions, people are realizing how much control banks have due to the implicit trust. I don't understand why people continue to naively trust these online wallets or even exchanges who will hold your BTC for you... they continue to display poor security habits and haven't done much of anything to truly earn users' trust.

(Note, these are general comments. I've never heard of this site before and I have no idea why the site is not currently accessible. For all I know, their power went out and they're totally legit)
On a related note, here is the process for making the titles. It's nominated for(and most likely to win) an Emmy.

http://www.artofthetitle.com/2011/05/12/game-of-thrones/
Well, the host seems totally offline. Was there content there, or is this submission's title your personal interpretation? The whois information has a good chance of being fake though.
I know nothing about the books or the series, but it was just some people riding around and not falling off cliffs or out of castles to me. I don't think there's much in the way of spoilers in there unless you're only halfway through or something.
So happy to see Eddy and Dashin continue succeeding! I feel like "I knew them when", back when they were running their Beard Papas shop here in Chicago and hacking away at this idea.

Love stories like theirs.
I personally like it, but a few of my friend didn't. I asked them why and mostly they didn't like the pace of the show and found it boring.

One thing in common though was that each one who didn't enjoy it preferred non-fiction (or semi realistic) to fiction in their reading. Note this is a sample size of 5 so its nothing scientific, just a general observation.
I can't believe how fast the problem with patents is becoming a mainstream issue. Npr, some other well-known medium (forgot which), and now this.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Startups
I tried a few zips around the country. All it ever did was tell me to go to San Francisco. Is there something more I'm supposed to be seeing here?
I guess I'm hoping for standards in this area to hurry up. Then you could do it between any major site and any other major site.

Kinda like linking accounts for easier sign-in (one site becomes the identity provider, the other becomes the relying party). But in this case, the purpose is to satisfy another end user of the validity of the claims, not the site a user is signing into.
1. Excellent UX and branding

2. Services like github pages which allow me to host my blog and sites for my projects (if I had any) without dealing with hosting nonsense (and its free)

3. Everyone else is there

4. The price is entirely irrelevant. $7/month is less than I spend on lunch most days. (Yes, I should make an effort to spend less an lunch.)
I develop in C# on occasion and use Linux for some stuff. It's not like one precludes the other. But that's sort of weird as a requirement sheet if there's not more info forthcoming.
Why not Linux developers willing to learn C#?
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"If you dare to join Greplin and sign up for an account, I guarantee you will wonder how you ever lived without the service."

That's exactly what Harj said. Within about a week of installing Greplin, he was saying he wondered how he had ever managed without it. Almost enough to make my buy an iPhone.
I thought the same thing. I cannot think of a company that more flagrantly demonstrates their disdain for customers every day more than eBay.
True. You'd already need to be familiar with the characters and settings to consider them spoilers, but at that point, they wouldn't be spoilers, because you'd be at least that far in the books/series.
Studied Perl before Python years ago. Never got a chance to actually use it, whereas Python became one of my favorite languages.
Pace of VC Investing By Subsector
Sorry for the outage. Not sure what's going on right now -- our server can't get the HN site. Here's a screen shot to give you an idea:

> http://stalkerbot.com/Stalkerbot_sample.png
there is another great alternative to mybtc - https://qbitpay.com
Only if they are negligent or worse. Landlords carry insurance on the structure. Tenants are responsible for contents of their apartment.

Hopefully if you rent and use Airbnb, you have a renter's insurance policy with high liability limits.
It's not just you. I heard it was great from coworkers and friends, but I also find the characters pretty flat and the plot predictable. I always get this vaguely racist feeling from these medieval fantasy worlds -- in this case form the way the grassland people are depicted as backward with gifts of snakes at weddings.

I will say one thing it has going for it -- that theme music really stuck in my head.
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Exactly. If someone was going to do actually this, instead of fantasizing and appointing Financial Ministers, they would have to be doing international law research, engineering studies, raising millions of dollars, talking to real entrepreneurs....which is exactly what I've been doing at The Seasteading Institute has been doing for the last 3 years, to pave the way for ventures like this.

When something is usually done as a fantasy, I can understand why you'd pattern-match it to fantasy. But just because it's usually done wrong doesn't mean it can't be done right.
thats like saying its not up to the cigarette companies to put a warning on their package of lung cancer, or for every ladder manufacturer to put a warning not to step on the top step, cause you can fall. Yeah its probably common sense, but for liability purposes there's plenty of precedence that its up to the company to educate/warn.
Can you please talk about the economics of doing a video based small startup?

I have a couple of ideas that would involve users uploading large video files and me having to store them at least temporarily.

I don't yet know if this is a show stopper for what would be a on the cheap side project.
New York, NY && San Francisco, CA

Pivotal Labs is always looking for talented developers. We're an agile Rails/iOS shop and have done work for clients like Twitter and Groupon, not to mention a whole host of startups. We're located in the heart of Union Square at 14th and Broadway.

And we just bought a new ping pong table.

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#RefRef – The new DDos Tool By Anonymous
Anonymous is all set to launch its new operation of hacking and defacing the top websites with a new DDoS tool . The tool is considered as the successor of their previous DDos tool called LOIC.

Read more: http://www.newtechie.com/2011/08/refref-new-ddos-tool-by-anonymous.html
I don't see how most of the changes help the end user. I only see how it simplifies and constrains the user interface. Those two metrics are orthogonal.
Yeah, saw that back when it was first posted. Nothing new in the linked article.

Better update, if you go to the site.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

It looks like they've just printed some alpha PCBs.

Also, they are now talking about it being the size of a credit card rather than a thumb drive. Release target is end of 2011. Cost target is $35 for the full version or $25 for one with no LAN or USB and less memory. (Given the development stage, that could easily all change.)
I on the other hand, was blown away by the shows and it gives me shivers to re-listen to that theme song.

It's about taste and connecting with the characters. If you don't connect, emotional reaction falls flat.
Why is China really going after Facebook?
These views about piracy seem almost identical to the pirates' views about piracy.

Many nfo files include things like "try before buy" or "if you like this release, please buy it".
> hosting is cheap and easy to find.

It's not like you can get a private VPS for next to nothing and, with things like Google App Engine (which supports Python and Java) going for almost nothing, there is little reason to go with PHP unless you have most of your code already written in it.
It just let me in. I am a paid member as well. You may have to wait for a couple of hours and try again.
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I think it's unfortunate that Apple chooses to not build it's hardware in the US, or model its manufacturing on Germany's successful mid-size firms.

Apple makes and builds high-end products and has the fat margins that goes along with it - instead of outsourcing all manufacturing to China, it could choose to build everything in the US, employ the locals and use that as a selling point. If I pay premium dollar for quality and durability, I would rather that support local manufacturing and local economies, than have that sitting in Apple's vaults. In the end, this is not unlike the the local food movement - people would rather pay extra and support local farmers and economies.
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There's a huge difference between vaccinations themselves being a CIA plot, and a vaccination drive being a CIA plot. I have no problem with the latter.
C++0x - Introduction to some amazing features
https://github.com/duncan-bayne/ubuntu-setup/blob/master/con...

Nothing really special: adds a bunch of modes that I use, tweaks clipboard behaviour & appearance, displays column data & full pathname, plus opens & renames a bunch of terminals.

Oh yeah, there's a VB.NET mode in there too. That was fun.
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All the hand wringing over American teachers is entirely misplaced. American teachers are very good. Possibly the best in the world. Once you disaggregate national educational outcomes by ethnicity this becomes clear. White Americans outperform all white nations except Finland. Asian Americans of all extractions outperform their home nations. Black Americans outperform all black nations. And so on.

Judging teachers without accounting for the students they happen to teach is rather unfair. But because race and ethnicity are totally essential to understanding this it's unmentionable.
Says "here's a slide deck" and links to Slideshare. Direct link:

http://www.slideshare.net/perone/c0x-introduction-to-some-am...
Guessing, Again
Show HN: The Heads-Up Grid
A tool for showing a column grid overlaid over live webpages.

http://bohemianalps.com/tools/grid/

It started as something simple for my own use during website development. I don't think anything like this exists. Would appreciate any feedback.
Why not link to the Gawker story since (for once) they're the actual original reporters of it:

http://gawker.com/5826645/
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That seems well designed and artsy, but doesn't really tell me much about what is wrong with Xcode as it currently stands.

I'm a Visual Studio and (text editor + command line) user as far as programming goes, so could anyone describe what these problems with Xcode are? As they could also be present on other IDE's and such.
Glad they did this, though I expect it to be quite thorny in practice.

For example, what about cases where they can positively identify the renter who was responsible?

That's bound to be the vast majority of incidents.

Are they going to pay out in those cases?

Or leave it to the owner to pursue in court themselves?

This is a good solid step, but it's only one piece of a comprehensive policy.
I hate to read anything about poverty in China. Brings me back to my childhood.
Fair point, but it doesn't really affect the sense of what I said in my original comment.

Also, just because economists haven't found a bright line between concepts doesn't mean they aren't distinct. I think there's a distinct difference between needing food, and wanting an xbox.
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I'll let the video speak for it self
> Is it really that difficult to see why this matters?

Yes, it is. Even the craziest wingnut can plausibly say that the US was after Iraqi oil, but a conspiracy theory to blast into Afghanistan and stay there for a decade seems like it would have little benefit for the US.
Well done. I'm sure it's been a difficult learning process, but this was most definitely the kind of humble, unconditional apology, followed by a set of hard action items that I wish more businesses followed.

It tales big people to acknowledge a screw up, apologize for it, and work hard to make it right.
So I get the skeuomorphic UIs, complete with bits of torn paper at the top of the calendar pad and all, without even the justification of a touchscreen? No, thanks.

Are they going to put a scent generator in my next Mac so my trash starts to stink if I don't empty it?
My time in XCode makes me yearn for Visual Studio (plus resharper). Random freezing, keyboard short-cuts that suddenly stop working (no reason), and a debugger that can take minutes to move from one call to the next.

Finally, compiling .a files between the simulator and native (armv6-7). Switching is an absolute pain.
We launched Novelo's site and spanish version of the app (getnovelo.com)!
The titles were pretty amazing, simultaneously being cool and helping to give new viewers some sense of the layout of the world. Like a 3D jacket map.
I think the solution that Apple would suggest is to just not put an "app-within-an-app". If the feature set is far enough apart that it feels like a separate app that needs a separate menu bar, it should be a separate app.

(I actually agree: when is that ever better than a dedicated app?)
Google has an experimental but in my experimenting very stable version of PB that is a C++ extension for Python so you get pretty much the same speed as C++.
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this is so true. i was thinking the exact thing especially in all his pics on techcrunch.

perception is everything and all those pics give the reader a different image for sure. more cocky, im the man kind of image.

its just that the pics dont seem right for the situation.

on a side note...i think hes a good looking dude (no homo of course lol)
>Not to mention Perl hackers used to pride themselves on super succinct code - in certain circles it use to be popular to include one liners to do complex stuff in email signatures.

One of my favorite examples of that was back when DVD John released DeCSS, and some Perl hackers turned it into a 7-line Perl script:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2001/03/42259
Dead for me too ... "User name not found. Might be a temporary outage. Sorry."

The screenshot is nice though.