skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it is 12. Here is a basic usage guide:

# groupadd yubikey
# usermod -G yubikey USERNAME
# echo "yubikeyid" >> /home/USERNAME/.ssh/trusted_yubikeys
# (yubikeyid is first 12 characters of the OTP)
# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/yubikey.sh
# (this file is /usr/local/bin/yubikey.sh)
# echo "Match group yubikey" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# echo " ForceCommand /usr/local/bin/yubikey.sh" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# (that's a tab before ForceCommand)
# /etc/init.d/ssh restart
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On the Invention of Money
Healing Powers of some Special Spices
154 Startups Selected in Start-Up Chile’s 2nd Round of 2011
All three points are very valid. On the "Rise of Big Data", it still surprises me that there is this large migration and acceptance for cloud computing; people need to control their data or risk misusing it by 3rd parties. On the issue of "Laws and Regulations", it IS a mistaken belief that it will deter cybercrime; but more importantly, the internet freedom for legitimate users is at stake. On the issue of "Cyberwar", there is no doubt it is already here; we are complacent in thinking that no attacks on a given day is a "good day" when, in fact, no attacks may really mean we've failed to detect security breaches and those that wish us harm have already compromised our systems to be used at a later time.
Great Idea, Ive already sent a card from my Ego to my Self.
I second the request for sending "special occasion" requests. Also how about international mailings and mass mailings, I have lots of family in Germany and they need christmas cards/thankyou cards.. and I am the lazy type so only 20% of my family gets a card, this would help lots

Also in your Proof email it is not apparent whether I need to take any action if there are no issues, wording changes perhaps? Maybe also on SendWrite "stationary"?
Three things would have to be recorded in that case: the "you" part of the start & stop times, as well as the times themselves.

I'll take your word for it that he's a decent person. I certainly have no reason to think otherwise. But that doesn't change that his service is recording information that it ought not to be.
Congrats on launching. Its refreshing and inspiring to see people who go from start to launch so quickly, rather than the examples of people in stealth mode for 12-18 months before taking on customers.

There are a couple of services that do similar things, but it seems like a couple possible differentiators would be keeping it dead simple, and perhaps eventually focusing on mobile users.
Well, at least for now they are the underdog, so it would be in their interest to be more open in the "social" space.

The Yelp case, whatever you may think about it, is in a completely different realm.
Social Objects
Link Title of the Year!!!! :)
It's hard to make an apple-to-apples comparison here as private companies in the past decades have been forbidden to do what NASA has done. Not to mention, NASA's most memorable achievements were fueled largely through patriotic furor.

I suspect that it's possible. Much of NASA's flouted benefit are the technological discoveries it has made while solving the problems of Space exploration. Assuming that those discoveries have benefited our society economically more than NASA has cost it (an argument I've read before) then it seems like their would have been at least one sufficient financial incentive for private industry to pursue space if given the chance. Not to mention R&D that can only be performed in a zero gravity environment. A patent system could make all this profitable.

But there are still so many other concerns, such as national defense that crop up in talk of private space exploration that it's really hard to make any real comparison.
You should let me send the first card for free, but make sure I make an account and then follow up with it. Check out Touchnote, which is an iOS app that lets you send people cards using photos you take with your phone. They have a good startup experience that converts you into a return user pretty effectively.

It might be interesting to put a note in the card that tells mom that she can send a card back to me by emailing a special address as well. It would be nice if I could pick something for her that she feels is familiar, for instance myname@sendwrite.com, as opposed to the anonymous mail@sendwrite.com, which feels like I'm emailing a company.
Maybe I am missing something.. but, where does one register?
ChromeBooks (ChromeOS, actually) isn't the market leader.
"Illegal" only has meaning within the context of a jurisdiction. Compare the rules on shooting unarmed burglars in California vs. Texas, for example.

The only reasonable way to read the article is to understand that "illegal" is shorthand for "Illegal in my jurisdiction, and in jurisdictions with enough power to get local law enforcement to turn the screws on me." It is simply impossible to follow all laws written by all countries; what is prohibited by one country may be mandatory in another.

No ISP in America is going to care if you post what would be protected speech in America from China where it may be illegal. From the point of view of the American courts, breaking that Chinese law is actually a public service; Here, the right to say bad things about our government is protected by our highest laws.

So yeah, I see no contradiction. The company is trying to obey laws that apply to them, and allowing customers to break laws that are outside of their jurisdiction.
Embarassing federal shutdown 2011, Act 2
Wow, what an awesome response. And such great ideas and feedback. I'm ecstatic.
Also posted here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3030723
My senior design project was for a medical device company. Five of us worked our ass off for 4 months to come up with a machine that would assemble parts of a biomedical device. At the end our system worked great, and it clearly would have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars a year in wasted product. Everyone at the company was very excited about it, and they planned to use it on the actual factory floor.

It was going to take 2.5 years for the FDA to approve it. In the meantime, it sat on a shelf waiting and waiting and waiting.

With timelines like that, nobody can accomplish anything without billions and billions of dollars.
Libuv status report
Baez has a lot of cool stuff on his site. Whenever someone asks me "What happens when a flashlight is traveling at the speed of light and you turn it on?" (this happens more than you might think) I refer him to this page: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLigh...
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Microsoft Attempt to Address Windows 8 ‘Linux Worries’
This seems like borderline spam to me.
For anyone interested in this subject, the presentation has clean, easy to understand drawings which make the reading so much pleasant. I read all 154 pages mainly because of that, and I must admit it gave me a cleaner picture of how ZeroMQ can be integrated in distributed systems. Thanks for sharing
IOS Developers Reporting In-App Purchasing Outage
This is a classic "get off my lawn"/"everything was better before" argument. There will always be time for real human interaction. To the extent that technology has changed the way we interact with other people, it has always been possible to go backwards and live the way you want. As an example, I prefer to live with housemates instead of living on my own, even though the latter is what society "expects" me to do in a time where most of us can afford to live in our own apartments.

There has always been criticism of new communications systems and claims that they will destroy normal human relationships. Things may change slightly, but in a free and democratic society you always have the option of going your own way. And unless your views are completely esoteric, there will be others who do the same. If your "friends" are happy with catching up by reading your Facebook profile, would you really get anything out of talking to them in the first place?
How I Know Facebook is "In Trouble"
I didn't get what you mean by 'not web-scale'
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Dude...its all such a blur..I'd have to rent a time machine and hit the computer graphics depts at all the ivies.
But I did find some JTable code from way back then, in the bugfix archive
http://www.mail-archive.com/classpath-patches@gnu.org/msg018...

public void setRowHeight(int rh, int row)
{
setRowHeight(rh);
// FIXME: not implemented
}

So that was actual code that Sun shipped. A method setRowHeight(rh,row) that allowed you to change the height of row number 'row' to 'rh', instead changed the height of ALL rows to 'rh' because the alternative was too hard and therefore not implemented! So much for multi-height rows.
>Wasn't the issue they were knowingly advertising illegal goods, which happened to be what you wrote, but the important part was illegal?

i'm a little baffled by your statement. The same drug produced in another country - illegal to advertise/sell in the US. The same medical procedure performed in another country - do you think it is legal to advertise/sell it in the US? IANAL, lets suppose that it is technically legal right now. How fast the Congress can close that loophole once it starts threatening the health care industry profits
- bear in mind that there is the same really great "public interest" reason here of protecting public from dangers and side effects of services by low quality, cheap, cost cutting foreign quacks non-licensed by US medical board.
My biggest grief with YouTube currently is, that I still need to have Flash enabled in order to watch ad-powered videos.
I haven't actually tackled this problem, but using setTimeout to reload would be my first attempt at this issue. If that doesn't work, I might design my app in such a way that it can remember its state, and make it so that some buttons actually refresh the page. (This would detract from user experience, but hey, Ads do the same)
My point was that if you're party to a crime, whatever contract you have probably isn't going to help.
HP stock hits 6-year low after Whitman named CEO
I'm a single founder of http://mmo-mumble.com, a voice chat hosting service aimed at MMO gamers. I've been running the service for 2.5 years, and I'm up to about 900 paying customers. It's not a full-time job yet, but it's kept me afloat through other revenue problems, so I consider it a resounding success.
The Attraction of Galicia and Northern Spain
As I said, "Contracts aside...".
Superluminal Travel is a sexier name.
According Arethuza's comment below, at least one of the labs is 1400 meters below ground. Also you need to calculate the straight-line distance between the two points, not the distance over the surface. Although for calculating the difference that's probably a good enough approximation.
So if both stations are 1400 deep and your calculation is correct, the difference should be 14x21=300 meters. Which is a lot more than the 15m effect they found, which suggests they thought about this.
They should downgrade the claim from: "speed of neutrinos is...." to: "speed of pulses of neutrinos ..... on average, as predicted by the maximum likely shape of the pulse", which sounds much less profound.

This would apply to every paper in existence. If you want to know the methodology, you read that section of the paper. Putting it in the title only obscures the message.

It's true that it makes the analysis a lot harder, and one of the questions after the talk was about making shorter bunches of neutrinos. The duration of the pulses are probably just set by the width of the proton bunches in the ring, in which case it would be nontrivial to make it much shorter.
I am a former government contractor, and all things being equal, I believe the real reason that the government likes contractors is that they are non-union employees who are relatively easy to obtain and release.
Great analysis of the OPERA neutrino results.
"From my time in the valley, I'd say dishonesty, misleading clients, breaking promises, not delivering on time, all of that is very much a part of the sv culture."

Vaporware comes to mind.

As well as my own personal experience being told not to inform mfg. reps and vars about known bugs and problems (this was early 90's). Not knowing the ropes at the time I was threatened in a meeting for suggesting we do something that is more or less routine today.

And this type of dishonesty brings much pain and frustration on people using the product.
I know someone who got selected and frequents HN (as I am sure there are a lot of people on HN who have friends who were selected). Congrats to the 154.

And to you, XXXXXXX. You will know who you are when you read this. The next step in your dream is now a reality!
canned primates are not the future of space. I wish every dollar spent on it was spent on brain research. i want to explore space in an appropriate body, not this laughably fragile meat one.
They claim the geodesic measurements are done to within 0.6m, and the majority of that uncertainty is introduced by the need to triangulate down the tunnel to the experiment.
Steve Blank: Why accountants don’t run startups
Adv. iOS crash reports for beta & app store and now improved beta distribution
Adobe patches Flash bug that has already been exploited by Hackers
Stuxpocalypse: Hide Your Women and Children
Tell HN: Techie founder looking for a Django co-founder for ecommerce idea
Hi fellow HNers,

this post might not get enough votes, but it is worth a shot - so here goes:

I have been researching an ecommerce idea for the past few weeks.The idea falls under the scope of idea # 20 in the list of ideas PG posted a while back:

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

But how do you decide what you want?

This problem of 'product discovery' is something I'm trying to address in my idea. Current online shopping sites (Amazon, Zappos, ebay etc.) are horrible when it comes to product discovery. If you know what you want to buy (eg - macbook air 13"), they serve your purpose well. However, if you are looking for come comfy flip flops or a dress to gift your wife/GF, you can get lost in a maze of endless list of items that you keep scrolling through. All of a sudden, you realize that the hierarchical navigation that works well for product categories like electronics, books etc. doesnt really work for categories like clothes, shoes etc. Most of the sites have a one navigation / layout fits all categories approach - which I think is wrong. Product discovery needs to have the element of serendipity in it -- else, shopping is not so engaging / fun. I do not want to use cliche phrases like 'disrupt online shopping', 'next amazon', '$x billion dollar industry' etc. All I want to say is that I have a solid vision of what the product needs to be and I'm ready to go all in.

About me: I'm not a business guy and this is not one of the 'business guy looking for technical founder' posts. I know how to code and I prefer to code in Django. I currently work @ a startup in SoMa. Building an ecommerce site is not trivial. That is one of the reasons I am looking for a co-founder. Additionally, I want someone so that we can keep each other motivated and complement each other's skills.
I would prefer to have a co-founder in the Bay area so that we can meet in person and see if we click.

If the idea sounds interesting, feel free to drop me a line (email is in the profile) and we'll take it from there.
When it comes to global worming you have two models one of which is what happens after a fraction of a second when you have various levels of CO2 in a column of air over in daylight or darkness. That's a well understood thermodynamics problem and rarely debated, but you will have little trouble finding out the specific details on this issue.

The larger model is based around how that the extra heat maintained gets distributed around the world and everyone knows this is far less accurate. The people building this are well aware it's highly limited but by trying to balance the errors in both direction they hope to create a good estimate. The problem is when you start tweaking the heat distribution equations it's easy to find errors in every direction because they are greatly simplified so it's easy for someone to introduce systematic errors by only correcting issues in one direction.

Which is why you provide a high level description but when you release your source code you open yourself up to a lot of fruitless debate. Sort of like someone saying based on your methodology the rocks are really 1/1,000,000th a year older which means your science is a joke and less valid than my consistent theory that god created the world 8 weeks ago. But, if you actually build a model from scratch under similar assumptions it's going to have similar outputs and error bars or look really biased.
With all due respect to the judge, crap like this shouldn't have been patentable in the first place.
Dealing with this for Etude right now. Just giving a free pass and logging extensively so the transactions can be audited later.

What's weird is that this happened immediately after Apple put Etude on the front page of the store yesterday!
Kudos to the selected start-ups! :D
People interested in these slides might like to check out the Brubeck framework. It can use gevent for concurrency and ZeroMQ to communicate with Mongrel2, it's webserver.

http://brubeck.io
Yeah it looks like because vacation isn't an extra cost they don't factor it in but if you're only working 9 days out of 10 you shouldn't be compared against a contractor working 10 days.
Basically... yeah :). Thanks for summing it up for me!

Something else is I also don't really like IDEs. They really are a symptom of a larger problem. And the code navigation tools that ship with most Smalltalk's really suck. They're like looking at the code through a straw, and its really hard to quickly grasp the pattern of how things hang together unless there is a comment describing it.
I think this mostly affects subscription and re-occurring subscription type in app purchases. Developers often don't bother verifying other types, but it's critical for renewable subscriptions, as that server is how you check if it has been renewed.
Infinitely many mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one says: "I'll have a pint of lager." The second one says: "I'll have half of what he's having." The third one says "I'll have half of what he's having," and so on.

Then the bartender says: "You're all a bunch of assholes," and pours two pints.
This. If your hardware/software requires FDA approval, quick and dirty is NOT an option. And, I think unless you are know that domain (that is, the FDA approval process), you are likely to just give up because of how difficult/time-consuming it can be.
It happens in lot of places.

RT the ideas given by @evilduck
Coincidentally, Facebook now lets you add people to an "acquaintances" list, and easily set privacy on things to all of your friends except your acquaintances.
The biggest issue for me is the following.

When I post something on facebook, there's a personal context of who I'm friends with at the time. Three years ago, I was a different person. I was friends with different people. And I've never before had the access to old data.

Now, I (and others) are able to browse those posts in a different context from when they were posted. It's a pretty radical shift. For example, I've grown more and more guarded about posting things like "this job sucks" or something. But I used to do it years ago, because it was much more private than it is now.

Now others can go back and see my posts. It's opt-out instead of opt-in on my part. It's very different, and it's unclear to me what the ramification are. Might be bad, might be good.

Like everything else: "we'll see".
The main thing they are missing is the job security a federal worker has.
>it would be better to compare the programs forced onto one core

How is that fair? Python has true multi process capabilities where PHP does not. You can run Django and other web frameworks in multi process modes that would spread load out better utilizing system resources. This isn't true of PHP, from what limited knowledge I have.

While they're comparable under a single process, PHP does not scale nearly as well as Python does.
Be more upfront about the cost - I knew it was coming...I got the activate email link, still no mention of price - but I see you're alluding to something....stationary. After registering (3 steps) then I see - $4.99. I wrote a note to my mom. I prefer to skype with her for free. Put some use cases in your initial email - (ie: Interview follow ups, etc) for what your service might be used for.

It also wasn't clear where you deliver to....I wasn't sure if Canada would work.

By the way - the logout button is in a most unfortunate position when you are going through registration. I clicked logout rather than the BIG HUGE submit button because it was placed where I am used to the submit button normally being placed. Why would someone logout during registration? And it seems you needed to make this button BIG so people would see it (perhaps because others were doing the same thing as me?). Why not just cave, and put the submit button where it belongs and get rid of the logout button till i'm in the app?
>But if you decide to start a company in the heart of the startup world you should expect everyone to be working towards their own goals and plan accordingly. That means NEVER relying on ANYBODY more than you have to and ALWAYS having a backup plan.

couple quotes come to mind by association:

"Never believe them. Never fear them. Never ask them anything."

"You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself."
We also have no idea what other potential information the source requesting the information has to correlate it to.
> once you use an IDE that actually IS "integrated" as the acronym suggests, you will never turn back.

If you're unfamiliar with Smalltalk environments and are wondering what this actually means, watch this 3-minute video showcasing a Smalltalk IDE -- the class browser, method finder, and debugger:

http://vimeo.com/27850933

Anything else seems so... primitive by comparison.

Smalltalk's great drawback is over-reliance on the image:

"If your program misbehaves (and they always do) and corrupts the state of the process, things get tedious. Say you have a test that somehow failed to clean up properly. In a conventional setting, you fix the problem with your code, and run the test again. With an image, you have the added burden of cleaning up the mess your program made. [...] In general, Smalltalk makes it hard to [...] separate the application from the IDE."
-- http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/10/image-problem.html
Death by spontaneous combustion
All about faster than light neutrinos on physics.SE
Perhaps this is related to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019783 as an outage to fix the problem system-wide? Cross fingers.
How can we get our 16-bit crypto educational software running on Windows 7?
I think a pay for facebook where invasion of your privacy wasn't the product might be an interesting idea.
Really great presentation and really great code examples! Thanks for uploading this.