skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously hope you're not serious.

1) Of course, you _can_ allow everyone to see your pictures. That's not necessary though and one of the (many) privacy concerns this site seems to focus on. If you share your pictures, you share a HUGE amount of data. Ignore the passed out/joking stuff, you might tell me a lot about your place (expensive stuff in the background? pictures that show a street name?) and your habits (always going to his parents on weekends. currently on vacation). This is, in theory, very easily exploitable, for someone with a criminal mind and the balls to pull of a stunt.

2) Regarding Facebook apps: Well, don't allow those to access your data? You saw what this app did (and automatically, without a human involved). It can exploit the date your coughing up every day in ways that you probably didn't think about before.

Bottom line: If you're the 'share with everything and play any FB game' type this might not shock you, but others might wake up and stop being very careless with their own private data.
Original story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...
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Very clever but I imagine it would be cost prohibiting given the amount of people that will try the app out.
Agreed, this is something that takes a little getting used to.

Diagrams help: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/ddl/index

Max's posts also include some good examples, although they predate some features like column indexes: http://maxgrinev.com/2010/07/12/do-you-really-need-sql-to-do...
WordPress o Blogger?
Easy for your brain, hard for the machine.
We launched a startup at DEMO 2010 vowing to change e-commerce. We had an office at the Santa Monica airport. My neighbor was David Ellison. My other neighbor was Harrison Ford.

We pivoted and I left to focus on my own company in NY.

We often had meetings that involved major VCs and founders visiting the area. I left the company with the impression that Santa Monica rocks and is definitely "silicon beach".
I wonder what could be seen through a normal wall of wood and gyproc or brick.
Likewise, found about 30 that I had allowed access to - no idea when I did half of them! All gone now!
Luxury Limousines
Anyone else wish they weren't working w/ Samsung, to me the phone just looks like a cheap 3GS knock off. I loved my N1, hell even the G1 was decent for it's time, this just looks so meh to me(here's to hoping the software is the WOW part)
Design is much more than aesthetics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Rams.27_ten_princip...
The only 'official' Windows 8 Preview device so far in the wild(commissioned for manufacture by MS) comes with this setting http://cdn.windows7themes.net/pics/windows-8-uefi-secure-boo...
According to the current Forbes profile, Dropbox is already profitable, though it's not revealed exactly how profitable they are.

> The 50-million-user figure is up threefold from a year ago, and it has solved the “freemium” riddle, with revenue on track to hit $240 million in 2011 despite the fact that 96% of those users pay nothing. With only 70 staffers, mostly engineers, Dropbox grosses nearly three times more per employee than even the darling of business models, Google. Houston claims it’s already profitable but won’t reveal margins.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...
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The dividing line between stupid and brilliant is usually determined retrospectively.
Analysts Promote "Creative Destruction" at Gartner Symposium
I agree with you, but I think that this was within the 30-day permanent-delete-from-trash window. If you are saying that the the 30-day window is too long, that's a reasonable opinion. Maybe Gmail could offer a user-settable window length, with the default at 30, while more savvy users who trust their own email management could set it to zero.

Update: I would even be willing to pay Google for extra features such as the above, and more importantly, for guaranteed/quicker support from them if anything goes wrong.
Dropbox's platform coverage is truly impressive: Windows, Mac, Linux (LINUX!! GUI _and_ command line), Web, iOS, Android, Blackberry. And it just works on all of them.
They could make a land grab for enterprise users. There's tons of stuff you could do with that money to make Dropbox attractive to corporations.
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I use MS as well as nix depending, and I do agree that this scenario has simple, clear cut advantages to use nix. That being said, this article just made me feel dirty. I don't know why people have to overstate a point or politicize everything.
Yes, that seems to be pretty much the norm these days. But at valuation of $4B (as reported by TC), $250 million is just 6.25% dilutions so founders (and other early investors) did get a pretty good deal.
Angry Unions Sever Ties With Democrats, Obama
Thought the same thing myself, that is a massive amount of money for a company like this.
Samsung are doing a great job of going toe to toe with Apple in a bunch of spaces - mobile, ultrathin laptops. I think they're a good potential partner.

But your wish will come true - the suspicion has got to be that it will be Motorola get's the next Nexus, and potentially picks up the brand name on an ongoing basis.
When I got a Google Plus invite I invited my entire Facebook friend list to it, via exporting Yahoo contacts to GMail, and selecting all the emails.
Of
the 400+ people I invited, 21 ha e accepted their invitation. Less of my friends use it than that though, maybe 5.

This is only relevant because I'm a teenager.
Yeah, that's a bummer too. Maybe that's a good thing to tell the boss so we can get upgraded early.
People don't take you seriously when you merely tell them about a problem. They start taking you seriously when you demonstrate the problem. It takes some knowledge and imagination to extrapolate from a reported security problem to the possible consequences. Many people, unfortunately including those in IT helpdesk positions, lack either the knowledge or the imagination.

This guy has done the company a huge favor by actually demonstrating the problem.
If you care about your privacy settings and lock them down. you are (probably) not the target audience. And part of a minority anyway.

Speaking of which, how many of your FB friends would grant ~impersonation~ rights to an app without lots of thoughts? And - could that app then, using your _friend_ as proxy, play this particular game of fear with you?
>They'll probably justify that by claiming it will help reduce piracy and support costs and say that it helps bring computers to more people.

Their stated reason thus far is that it prevents rootkits that load even before an antivirus can run, thus being able to hide itself. I don't think it reduces piracy, or support costs except those caused by boot malware.
Of course not. At least not yet. The only missing piece is to bind the data that is already found in the html to the data found in the view-model object (or create the view-model object from the html, or some third strategy). This has been suggested a couple of times on the mailing list, but no-one has stepped up to the plate to implement it.
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> Can you please explain how you jump to an understanding

Please read Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. Unlike his recent work, that one is really good.
Siri authentication bypass
How SubString method works in Java
Minisito o pagina di vendita:
Sorry, I don't read articles divided in pages. Fuck you Forbes.
I think sites like Reddit and Digg, whom depend on Cassandra, will care quite alot.

Reddit, which is growing very much, will appreciate the performance improvements.
wow - can't take a joke around here obviously
It's honestly not that big of a deal. It sounds much scarier than it is. Typically a generous helping of common sense and thought will deal with the bad cases.
I just figured with 45 million users why would you need $250 million.
In addition to the accounting if Anonymous' role in things, this dabbles in a good accounting of the movement that was bubbling from many different places. Good article.
Seeing Value in Ignorance, College Expects Its Physicists to Teach Poetry
Could be participating preferred, accumulating dividends, etc. There's a lot more to it than straight %.
It's the first phone with a major new release of the best-selling mobile operating system.

While the phone itself won't sell as many copies as the 4S, Ice Cream Sandwich will have a larger install base than iOS5. There's a lot of people interested in what's in it.
> What I thought was interesting is that if political decision-making is performed by an area in the brain that is completely separate from, for example, problem-solving, then this fact doesn't play very well with the above theory.

It's meaningless to perform a study on adults. By the time we're adults, our views are more or less set. At that point, your brain is simply retrieving an already established pattern and there's no need to store it in the same place where it was constructed. Doing a study on adolescents would be more meaningful. Or perhaps confronting people with an issue they have never encountered before and forcing them to pick a side.
AFAIK, that's entirely a political issue at this point. We have the technology, we just are just skittish to process the fuel thru the bomb-suitable phase, and haven't correlated catastrophic failure with building the facility on a tsunami-and-earthquake-prone site. Psychology, not technology.
Surely won't be the last banker hacked in solidarity with OWS. Just wait until they get inside an unsuspecting Quant's email.
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This is an interesting and unique advertising opportunity for Scrolls to stay on the map and get attention throughout its coverage and eventual release.

You dont need to try and dazzle people with screenshots or gameplay videos or demos, you just keep posting updates about the case and everyone reads them out of interest and you get your little slilce of mindshare and remind folks to try it out when it is ready.

This seems like a win win for Mojang and a lose lose for Zenimax.
Why the World May Be Running Out of Clean Water
Women 2.0: Number Of Women Founders Doubled Over Past Three Years
That would be a huge distraction. If they're already profitable (according to Forbes) with the current model, they should focus on the product and customer acquisition, not cost-cutting.
What are they promoting?
Any proofs for calling Tehelka's news fake?
Macros are just a different sort of abstraction. It can be used to solve some problems very elegantly and it can be used to create an incomprehensible mess.

A programmer who has never heard of exceptions may say: "What, so exceptions can interrupt the normal program flow at any time!?" or "Why would I ever want to handle error conditions at a different part of the program? I handle errors right after every function call." or "Exceptions sound scary and inconsistent".

A programmer who has never heard of garbage collection may say: "What, I can't tell ahead of time how much memory my program is going to use?", "I want to know when my program allocates memory and frees it. This shouldn't happen nondeterministically!" or "Automatic memory management sounds scary and unpredictable."
LayerVault boasts over 1,500 users just two weeks after launch.
Using a cell phone while driving is illegal in some places (like California, Maryland, and probably other states). However, this might make things worse. I've noticed several disturbing trends in places where using cell phones while driving is illegal:

1) People keep the cell phone closer to their lap where it's harder to get caught by a policeman, instead of between their eyes and the road (which at least keeps the road in their peripheral vision).

2) When people look up from their cell phone, they are now spending some of their time looking around for cops instead of looking at the road.

3) Fines are often low (e.g. $25 or $50 for first offense), and thus not a huge incentive to stop.
The military application is obvious: wallhack!

Support for it in FPS games will be instant.
Google Offers to compete with Groupon, Living Social
Rapid7 Launches Community Edition of Metasploit Pro
you didn't get the hint, right? you divide by zero because you neglect all other circumstances and of course, human nature ..
Why did they need to propose the name filter: for the property? Old versions of IE (5.5ish to 8) supported a filter-property that was hooking into DirectX to do something similar, but by no means identical.

filter: is still used for the various PNG fixes out there.

This is going to cause endless issues and confusion and I just hope IE copes with a filter: it doesn't understand or we will be back to browser-sniffing and serving different markup to different browsers.
In most parts of the world, especially war-torn developing regions, a concrete wall is a "normal wall".
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I think iCloud could actually help Dropbox.

Say an iPhone user (who only has a PC) says "Wow, iCloud seems really neat. I wish it worked with my PC though. "

Then his friend says to him "You can try Dropbox. Not exactly the same, but pretty close. Here's an invite. "
Dropbox turns down Apple acquisition worth 9-digits
Yeah, but it's not a new problem. See the Kinect, for example.
As per HN guidelines, I submitted the exact headline of the original story But be warned: there is no mention of physicists, poetry, or physicists teaching poetry. All the anecdotes center around liberal arts doctorates trying to teach math and Newton. Interesting, but I would've much rather read an anecdote about what was promised in the headline.
"Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that."

Can anyone throw more context around this hack. Technical challenges to accomplish this will be bonus.
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They needed all this money so they could implement read-only folder sharing.

(I kid, I kid, huge dropbox fan here ;) )
We should stop calling live projects beta
This (along with the Filters spec, with has a lot of overlap) are quite welcome for me.

- Real drop shadows! It turns out that many modern UIs have objects with irregular shapes. box-shadow only does...boxes. Not terribly useful.

- Real glow! See above. Lots of times you just want to be able to say "make that thing glow". Oh, it's not a rectangle? You're screwed. Time to make a sprite. Which you will have to edit and upload every time you tweak the glow. Ugh.

- Blurring effects! You can do all sorts of neat things with this.

- Color manipulation! Say you want to darken an element when a user clicks on it? Can't do that right now.

- Distortion filters! Very useful for making games. You can create all sorts of crazy scene-warping explosions.

Yes, browser inconsistencies suck. But other than that...you know, HTML/CSS/Javascript isn't that bad. Flex/Flash/WPF/Android/iOS are really not that much better. They're all good at certain things, but in the general realm of "creating interfaces" they all have issues.
They deserve credit for jumpstarting this. The first thing I remember about OWS is that Anonymous was promoting it on Twitter. So I don't know if they are the absolute initiators of this movement, but there might not be protests today or they might've lasted only a couple of days if it wasn't for Anonymous supporting and promoting it, and trying to get as many people there as possible every day.
I hope they buy AeroFS and integrate it into dropbox, giving it a P2P component.
Let me precede this by saying - JS is one of my favorite programming languages. And I agree, unless you know JS you will not be a well-rounded client-side engineer.

But...

Unless the styles are integral to the functionality of a certain component (usually layout or box model), I prefer to keep the styles where they belong. To me, it is much easier to maintain styles in a stylesheet - especially if you have jr. devs or designers working with you. Yes, CSS easily becomes a big ball of mud. But if you organize it properly - and maybe even use something like LESS or SASS - it is much more maintainable.

It is also the responsibility of a good developer to know when to apply certain techniques. For instance - a simple "grow on hover" is very easy to achieve via CSS animations - with a fallback to non-animated grow on IE etc. But a "grow on hover and then do crazy animations" is probably better accomplished with JS.
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And they STILL cant offer users encryption.
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Interesting. I would have expected the android phone to perform better.

I would question whether or not he had already talked to Siri before the test, as such prior experience is likely to make the whole test meaningless.
Losing $13.5 Billion to Piracy Spurs Europe Law Reformers: Tech
Researchers Discover a Way To Make Anything a Touch Screen
I thought your comment was valid.
Summary of Sold-out "Science of Inbound Marketing" Session at Dreamforce 2011
An invention solely for military purposes? Sorry but I have to say no.
Are you familiar with Chris Guillebeau's blog(the art of non-conformity)? He has some great insights about being self-employed and the fear of change, especially for those who have a steady jobs/mortgage/kids/etc. I alwas go there for inspiration and reassurance when I need it.

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/
I suspect the real problem is just that those images are so noisy - in the demo with two people moving around, for instance, it's almost impossible to tell at times whether there's one, two, or more blobs. Certainly it wouldn't be very reliable from a single frame, you'd have to use the movement information.

Personally, I wouldn't waste my time on that, that's a rather straightforward image processing problem that could be made much easier by improving the output quality of the machine, which I imagine would be necessary anyways for this to see any real use in the field.
No idea to tell you the truth. This is probably one of those 'build the hype, keep people guessing' campaigns and eventually it will all come out.

There really was nothing in the clip that indicated any form of a product or brand. It could be a movie teaser or a teaser for a TV show and if it is, I for one will watch it.
Ask HN: Young 'Developer' seeking Advice
Hi everyone,

Over the past several months, I developed Read for iPad (http://readapp.net | Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9GLjAZu0T4).

This was my first serious project. Now my parents are forcing me to study at a university, where I have no interest in being. I have relatively low grades (30 points, International Baccalaureate) and I am afraid that I wont be able to apply/get accepted into a 'better school'.
I'm afraid that without proper education, I won't be taken seriously as a developer and that I wont be able to go 'further' to build the right connections. I love learning new stuff & I really enjoy building software. What should I do?

Thanks,
Maximilian

Edit: I am Austrian. I went to a boarding school in England for five years
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Then come Chris, Jason and Joe (who has a Dropbox tattoo on his arm because he feels “Drew is changing the world”), more MIT brothers aiming to live a California dream they all imagined back in Cambridge as “billionaires, bottles and babes.”

Eww, that's offputting.
Osinot- Open Source Internet Of Things
I have been thinking about an open-source, secure and private implementation of 'The Internet of Things'.

I am at the stage where I have a good idea how the system could work from a high level perspective, however I wanted to take it to the next level by recruiting fellow hackers.

This is just a message to see how many people would be interested in working on something like this. If you have expertise in Android, Beagleboards, Audrino, Linux, Wireless Networking(Wi-Fi or TV White Space) and Encryption, get in touch if you are interested to learn more.

email me: hiren.umradia@gmail.com

Cheers
Hiren :)
I am a Lisp newbie. Here is, effectively, the Lisp equivalent, along with the typical Lisp style guidelines:

(defconstant +logging-enabled+ t)

(defmacro log-message (message)
(when +logging-enabled+
`(err-say ,message)))

(log-message (crazily-expensive-computation))

Like other structures, they can be abused or used with great success. Based on my limited experience with a number of quicklisp-downloaded packages, I have found macros helpful and unnoticeable as macros.

Irony: Fewer bracing symbols.

In the next blog post, I am hoping to see how perl 6's macro feature handles the parsing of passed-in code. Specifically, I would like to see an example for do-in-reverse:

(defmacro do-in-reverse (&body commands)
`(progn ,@(reverse commands)))

(do-in-reverse
(princ "First")
(princ "Second")
(princ "Third")))

Prints "ThirdSecondFirst"
I never claimed to have proof that there would be sufficient demand for this. But if I had to prove something, I would start looking at the number of users who use apps that allow you to use multiple twitter, facebook etc. accounts.

By the way, my wife already manages different identities by using different services (ie facebook and linkedin).
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And they deserve credit for building alliances with existing activist networks while they were organizing Operation BART protests. Without these, Anon's impact on OWS wouldn't have been much noticed. It's a wonder to watch a the movement suddenly manifest itself in real space, after half a decade of chaos and lulz.
FYI: Hoogle dies on :: and `, and gives a wrong result for =>.

Please note that this is just a simple problem, with a solution of printing out the right reference cheatsheet.

The real difficulty comes (IMO) when looking at piles of symbols in code and trying to determine what kind of meaning is coming from the symbol soup (C++ and Perl are notorious for this too).

Quite often (usually?), of course, public Haskell is written in a very clear and readable style. That's a major reason to use Haskell - to write in a readable language.
Because putting the onus for removal on Patrick is a dick thing to do.

After all, Patrick owes Sebastian exactly nothing, Sebastian writing this piece does not oblige Patrick to ask for a removal or even to communicate with him on the subject.

It basically says "I will create a clever little boundary that I know will never be met so I get my way".
Both.

Take the courses you need to get a degree, and do what you know and love in your spare time.

Going to college is not about learning anything useful in class. It's learning to go to class every morning at 8, learning to learn, and absorbing everything else around you as you grow up in those 3-4 years.
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It is a feature, that is, working as intended. You can disable Siri from being used while phone is locked under "Passcode lock."
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Won't be able to make it this time, #7 was great though with an awesome crowd. Definitely up for #9!
I wish they would stop with the not so cutsy dessert names. It really makes it confusing to keep track of what's what.
That is hecka totes wack.
Commercial through-wall radar back in 2005, but using UWB instead of S-band: http://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/news_pr150.html

It's not clear what the advantage of using S-band is. Higher resolution, perhaps?