skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flickr hasn't much changed their business model or their service offering in a long time, meanwhile online storage costs have dropped through the floor and competitors have been innovating like crazy. There isn't quite a "flickr killer" out there just yet for flickr's key users (avid and professional photographers), but it's getting closer and closer.
I think the observable result is a confirmation of the well known rule: "people, in their vast majority, are good."
Had to view your source to differentiate the two Playstations you have there. The top one is PlayStation 2, with 154.59 Million.
Facebook shows even more fear (of Google+, etc.)
Except by you stealing from it....
...says a guy who submits non-hacker news to Hacker News. =)
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Thanks so much for helping. Unfortunately, I'm still a little meager on the media end of the network. I know some local technology writers, but I don't know if there's an angle there for them with what you're doing. From the looks of it, you've got some decent content to get running with.

Fortunately, your site is ripe for catching the coattails of big news stories. If your satire is edgy enough while not crossing the line, you might bring to light some interesting points of view (through the absurdity of the story). Sometimes this could get you mentioned in editorials, or other writers who are covering an incident/event from all sides. (And probably a lot of SEM traffic, as well.)

Another suggestion is to write specific pieces in direct response to easily criticized pieces on other beats. Audiences love counter-point (especially when the topic is juicy at the time) and will flock to your content more easily.
The down votes seem to imply that I'm wrong. Please could someone enlighten me as to why I'm out of line here. Yeah, sure this guy calls himself a "Security Evangelist" but this has absolutely nothing to do with his skill set being used as a "hacker". Any Joe on the street could and likely has done what he has .. the title is sensationalism and frankly I've become tired of this nonsense in the media over these riots.
That seems quite unlikely. If only because of HP's actual business presence in Ontario. Surely some of their Mississauga employees went to Futureshop... http://welcome.hp.com/country/ca/en/contact/office_locs.html
Every time I want to use Bing for some advanced searches, I'm lost. Like if I want to find something within the last 24 hours, how do you do it?
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I think a lot of people read into Jonathan's Card as a charity thing, and reading the HN comments that always struck me as a gross misinterpretation of Jonathan's initial sentiment.

There is a difference between Random Acts of Kindness (Jonathan's card) vs charity.
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As someone who also over-analyses, I completely understand. Don't let analysis-paralysis get you!
Facebook stole every contact and phone number in your phone
Put differently, purchase first, warn later IS the way VISA and credit cards in general work. Step 2 after warning is telling the card company those aren't your purchases, and then they void them out.
No, just because you become a criminal doesn't mean you lose your right to privacy. Whether the act itself was unlawful or not doesn't really matter (to a certain extent).
You are right but I am guessing well over 90% of the +1s are coming from Google+ users.
I found this somewhat depressing. Basically another way for folks to track you down.
I think Sam/OP should transfer all the money he took back onto Jonathan's card. In small increments of course in order to curb further abuse like what he committed.
Agree with what fpgeek said, and I would add further that rebasing by default for pull, certainly does not preclude you from using local-only feature branches!
I second the noise point. If you do "GPU-intensive tasks" (i.e., gaming...) and you actually have a laptop with sufficiently powerful graphics card do run them, dissipating that power will mean running the tiny fans at full speed, and that's loud. To quietly get rid of that power, you need large-area flow, and that means a desktop.

That, and the cost-efficiency of a powerful desktop, is what prevents me from going all-mobile.
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I am pretty new to this community. I feel the functions of the YCnews are very limited. I know keeping simple is always good, which is a principle of many hackers. However, a little bit improved functions could make YCnews much better!
Looks like the story just got pulled. I wonder if it was from all the criticism over the use of the word hacker, or if it was for privacy reasons.
Disclaimer: I am a Google fanboy.

I am as unhappy about this development as anyone. I don't understand the insistence on real names, not just because I think it's wrong, but I just don't understand what the motivation is. What's the upside?

Here's the only thing I could come up with:

Community. This early in its life, they don't want Google+ to become a cesspool of fake/joke accounts, youtube comments, spam, and "brands." They want it to be a real place for real people to share about real things. They don't want it to become Myspace. [Edit: I think you can also see this emphasis on noise reduction in how Circles are set up and how game notifications aren't part of your stream unless you want them to be.]

But I hope the plans are bigger. I hope they're just going for a nice clean introduction for a large enough user base, while temporarily marginalizing edge cases in order to give the mainstream a pleasant initial experience, so they can leverage that user base into a more successful version of what they tried with Buzz and Wave: an open, standards-based interoperable social networking environment that's more like the open web than a closed social network.[1]

The fact is, if they're planning on opening it up eventually, there's no stopping pseudonymous/anonymous activity or brands or even spam to some degree.

That's my optimistic fanboy take on it. I just don't see what else they get out of the policy. I definitely don't buy the "it's for advertising" line. They don't need your real name for that. And it just seems like too much of an obvious backlash and logistical mess to have to deal with unless they have a good, large, long-term reason.

[1]: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/google-plus-social-backbone...
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I have as well. Great game.
Oh, it's back now but the name of the school on the screen shot is wiped out, as well as the guys eyes are crossed off.
Ask HN: Any "Data Scientists" here at HN?
Anyone here at HN consider themselves to be a Data Scientist (or alternatively, Data Analyst, Competitive Intelligence, etc)? Would you mind sharing a bit about your job, your day-to-day work, what skills are absolutely required? Do you work 9-5 or as a freelance contractor? Is it possible to break into the field without a specific degree?

I'm a molecular/cellular biologist that is wanting to leave the field. I think data science looks interesting for a number of reasons. I have past experience programming a number of languages and work with large data sets on occasion due to my current day-job. One of my hobby projects involved data-mining Medline. I have cursory knowledge of statistics (Ttest, anova, correlations and linear regressions, etc) but no advanced skills yet. Essentially, I think I have the foundation skills required for the job but no marketable experience.

Is it possible to re-define yourself as a data scientist? I know in programming, you just need to code up a few side projects to demonstrate your aptitude. Is the same possible in data science?
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Seems like you have duplicated some functionality of Google Keyword Tool.
Yes, you are right that the OS can schedule two Python threads to run at the same time, it's just that one of them will only run a few instructions and then block, just not any Python instructions. I hadn't really thought that through thoroughly, thanks for pointing it out.

Ah, I see now what you meant with constant locking. I interpreted your words as "constant" as in happening all the time as would be the case with fine grained locks instead of one long-lasting, global lock.
I wonder if it uses Tahoe-LAFS behind the scenes?
Some of them don't really fit in a given generation (the 32X was an addon to the Mega Drive/Genesis released in the later years of the console, the Mega-CD was an other addon released earlier to equip the Mega Drive against the just-released TurboGraphx16-CD, the VirtualBoy did not really fit in any category).

* The Jaguar was a 5th gen console, the generation leader was the PlayStation with ~100 million units sold. The Jaguar sold under 250000, or 0.25% of the leader, other major entrants of the generation were the N64 (33m) and the Saturn (10m)

* The CD-i was something of a hybrid console/media player (only time I saw it used was a driving school, fwiw), it's nominally part of the 4th generation whose leader was the Super Famicom/Super NES. The CD-i sold ~500k units, the SNES sold 50 million. 1%. The the other major entrant of the generation was the Mega Drive/Genesis with 40m.

* The 3DO Interactive was a 5th gen console, sold 2 million, 2% of leader (PS)

* The TurboGraphx16, I think calling it a failure is a bit of a stretch: it was a 4th gen console and sold 10m units (~20% of generation leader) while it was pretty much only available in japan, where it performed quite well indeed. Comparatively the Saturn bombed much harder (and the Dreamcast did even worse, compared to its generation leader)
should be iPads, not iPhones/iPods, to keep with the spirit of the OP
We do have the "ask" tab, but everything is included in the main stream of news. I would just prefer to keep things separated and organized a little better.

I'm not sure what the solution would be exactly; the subdomain/forum idea is just a suggestion. If it was a separate forum, it could house all talk-related items and categorize them as "Questions", "Job Postings", etc.

I just wanted to see if anyone else had the same preference and if there are any better suggestions.
he violated your privacy and so did you, when you installed a tracking software. the difference is that you're putting the information on the internet and he is not.
I've only made multi-item purchases from iTunes a few times, but every time I've gotten a call from my credit card company within a couple hours. The last time they said that it's become so common for fraudulent activity on a card to start with a "run on iTunes", then move on to other online sites if the card still works.

The only thing I would recommend to Scott Hansleman is to drop PayPal. They can be easier for small donations online, but with how far behind the curve they are in consumer fraud protection I refuse to make purchases with paypal anymore.
As a social experiment, if I leave my bike on my front lawn over night for weeks, eventually it will be stolen. Everybody expects this to happen eventually. Does this excuse the thief?
But he specifically mentioned having to physically be at the Starbucks. Why would he do that if he had cracked the PIN? I think there's a way for them to transfer from one card to another, physically at the stores POS system. Can't think of anything else.
I expect there's still at least one twist left. rjett [0] and I [1] noticed two more interesting things:

1) Sam commented in the previous thread about buying food for homeless people from the card [2]

2) Sam's brother Daniel was one of the first to mention the possibility of the card being hacked [3]. His startup also funneled close to $600 into the card [4].

The whole thing started as a social experiment. Sam clearly considers what he's doing a part of the social experiment. I think it's still ongoing -- I fully expect another post, possibly later today or tomorrow morning, detailing the different reactions to his "I bought $25 of food for the homeless" comment and his "I bought $675 worth of food for starving kids in Africa" comment. Couple that with "me and my brother actually paid in what we took out" and we've got the makings of quite the experiment!

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878622
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878196
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2857712
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858120
[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danielodio -- $100, $49, $300, and mentions of a total of $85 on twitter
Asked on Stock Overflow too ...

Will be using bcrypt :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7044785/what-is-the-safes...
No doubt because you reused the non-trivial password and someone read it out of a stolen database.

Password strength is a red herring. Password reuse is a far bigger problem then weak passwords.
The old way is now known as "Presentation Mode". Although, it seem to use Lion's API.
Seems to be another case of 'Paypal isn't a bank.'

And while the Author seems to understand that (and hence didn't keep a lot of money under their control) it is something a number of people 'miss.'

What I find most interesting is that a lot of people would like Paypal to be a bank (or certainly more bank like) and complain bitterly when it comes up short, and yet few actual banks seem able or willing to extend their business model to include a lighter weight payments services.

The discontinuity in the market (a demand for services served poorly because the best entity to serve it doesn't enter the market) is one of those things that makes me wonder if anyone is paying attention or not.
FYI. The general term for this type of business is a "pop-up restaurant", there was a thread on HN about them a while back which you might find useful.

Also I believe both maxstoller and richpalmer2 on HN have founded startups in the selling home cooked food space, so it may well be worth speaking to them about the legal aspects of it and their experiences.

Another startup in this space is http://www.gusta.com/ (actually founded by ex-AirBnB employees).
> some of them can be overcome: external peripherals for ergonomics, larger screens, and extra storage.

Once you've attached an external monitor, external keyboard and mouse, and an external hard drive to a laptop, you're using the laptop exactly as you would a desktop tower: something you only need to touch if you want to insert a piece of removable media.

In that case, you might as well fork out a few more dollars and put a real desktop tower in that space. Sync everything and enjoy the extra speed.
Google+ Punts on Kafkaesque Name Policy
It was a password that I only used with iTunes, or at least, I thought it was. You may be correct. I'm more vigilant with my passwords these days.
I just looked at the Amazon sale page and saw it had one review from the author saying that he is the copyright holder, then refreshed the page and the review was gone.

So it seems that Amazon is aware of the problem and is deliberately continuing to distribute his book while concealing any information about the copyright challenge.
> That's exactly my point.

No, you said adding the iPad sales to the graph would make it meaningful. What meaning would it mean to the graph? It might change the meaning of the graph to "the iPad sells well, other tablets don't" but then the consoles included are meaningless.

The point of the graph is "these tablets don't sell for shit, here, compare to sales of stuff which didn't sell for shit either".
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Has this sort of thing happened before? "PicPlum acquired the assets of a previous Y-Combinator company PicWing, and took over its printer relationship and initial user base."
... and ZFS copy-on-write has been known to cause severe performance degradation for databases. Not to mention that too many SAs keep the default ZFS block size, which is far too large for OLTP databases.
Strip away all the fluff that Sam put in his blog post and what do you have? You have Jonathan's 'take a penny, leave a penny' project. You have Sam who thinks he's very clever by showing how someone can come in and siphon off the pennies and whoa ... spend it on other things.

The amusing thing is Sam thinks he's done something really amazing or insightful. The whole 'donate to charity angle' is just Sam trying to justify his actions and put a veneer of credibility on his uninspiring actions.
I noticed he forgot to black out the guy's IP address 90.201.72.42 in the screenshot.
Un abrazo grande! Buen trabajo.
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Not long at all, actually. The first time I added people, Google was recommending around 600 users. So I just selected all, the dropped them into a new circle. Same process to get the rest of the remainders over the next few days.

Now, Google shows maybe 100 or so recommended users, which is below my threshold of "fun number of people to add at one time". I say "maybe 100" because, interestingly, Google+ no longer shows the number of recommended users. I wonder if they removed this feature because of visual clutter, or were finding a lot of people abusing the feature like I did.
They aren't random consumer electronic devices; they're consoles, the market for which has similarities to the "tablet" market in that they're ancillary devices for consumers with winner-take-most developer ecosystems.
If AeroFS is a big honkin' Java background app, I worry, because I worry about the Java ecosystem itself. Who knows how long Oracle will keep it updated? Will new versions of Java break the AeroFS daemon? And I just hate everything Java (bias showing there).

(I suppose DropBox has the same issue with Python to some extent, but at least Python can be fully embedded in an executable and bypass the system environment questions.)
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Agree ... There is no honor in his acts, just shame ... Please never say to your kids about u doind this.
I use Google Plus less because of this system. I got married in May, and would like to display my name in Google Plus the same way I do in Facebook- Smokey Bear Husbandsname. At least for a year or two it would really help people find me. Alas, there's not an option to display middle name, and it is stuck as Smokey Husbandsname.

I don't have an ID in that name yet either, so I guess I'm even at risk of losing my account.
Not including the Nook Color and other non-Honeycomb Android tablets (roughly estimated around 3 million and 4 million respectively, IIRC) distorts the results substantially, IMO.

Especially in a gaming context, my working definition of a tablet is:

1. Does it have a touchscreen?

2. Is it bigger than a smartphone?

3. Can it play Angry Birds? (a)

The Nook Color and most other non-Honeycomb Android tablets easily qualify on all 3 points.

(a) out-of-the-box with no rooting/hacking/etc
Underwhelmed with the functionality, newbies have been saying that for years :)
I think there's a huge opportunity for a startup that operates a social network that actually caters to people's desire for anonymity and privacy.

What IS diaspora doing these days?
The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to
protect the innocent.

On August 12th, trial was held in Department 98, Superior Court of the
State of __London, in and for the County of __London. In a moment the
results of that trial.

Shillip Herbert Keaver was tried and convicted of robbery in the first
degree - five counts - and received sentence as prescribed by
law. Robbery in the First Degree is punishable by imprisonment for a
period of not less than five years in the __London penitentiary. Because
of the viciousness of the suspect, it was decided that the terms would
run consecutively.

You have just heard "DragNet," a series of authentic cases
from official files. Technical advice comes from the
office of Chief Constable, Scotland Yard, __London.
The Revenues of a Moderately Successful iPad App
Bravo Jessica! I think people here may be missing the crux of the article: building a real business -- rather than an initial product -- is quite expensive.
I'm surprised content aware image resizing didn't make the list. It is a few years old but still pretty neat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadw0BRKeMk
It's amazing how when big media releases a story about "hackers ruining America", people come out of the woodwork saying "actually, the term for someone who practices forced electronic entry is 'cracker', and 'hacker' just means someone who writes code", but when someone uses it that way, the HN post fills up with comments about how the term 'hacker' has been diluted.

PICK ONE, GUYS.
Socialize paid $625 to Jonathanscard - that's enough for an iPad
The second is much older (mid/earlyish 90s) that had the same p2p based donate space on your drive and fragments of your files will be stored on other connected machines.

I think you are thinking of MojoNation, which died and forked off several sub-projects/companies based on its original codebase: Allmydata was just like Wuala but five or six years earlier that never gained any traction and now lives on in the Tahoe-LAFS project, and BitTorrent (which you have probably heard of...)
> […]because names are not unique.

Mine is. There's nobody in the entire world with the same first and last name.
Looks like this is a common problem and Amazon's starting to take it seriously: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/amazon-cracks-down-...
I argue that it's claiming the traversal of linked lists, provided you have a choice between at least two linked lists containing the same set of elements. I argue that this restriction is meaningless, because it has no technical impact in this patent. Even when the patent seems to try to be a little more broad, by trying to describe the data structure itself, this description also depends on traversal and nothing else: "[claim 1 ...] said primary function pointer functioning as a primary linked list to direct a computer program to a first sequence to _traverse_ said computerized list [...]" (x2 because the same thing is written for the "auxiliary" list, then x3 in claim 2 for the "tertiary" one).

There is never any interaction described between one list and the other -- so from the point of view of patenting I don't see anything difference between this patent and a mere description of basic single linked lists, description centered on its traversal (the various enumerations are to be considered as irrelevant in themselves, and are not supplemented by anything else).

That reason alone would be one of the major angle of attack of the patent, would it not be already even more basically invalid because of triviality and prior art. The only challenge would be to present those formal concepts using casual language clearly enough so that nobody would mistake this description as the description of a new structure (even in the hypothetical alternate universe where nobody ever previously used two lists at a times for ordering the same sets of elements)

There is no meat.
Indeed: @Socialize has paid $625 to @Jonathanscard to promote our SDK Speed Challenge. That's enough for an iPad, @sodio! http://besoci.al/q2I0QE http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878875
I would have called the account holder.