skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but in the US don't a lot of states have stalking laws that would cover this kind of behavior.

I see this site has info by state. Dunno if this kind of thing exists in Australia...

http://www.haltabuse.org/resources/laws/index.shtml
I'm hopeful for Bank Simple, Square, and others trying to fix up the way we pay each other and take payments. Having operated a small business (salon) for the past two years, merchant accounts, payments, etc are all a total black box and you have no options/control.
Stacy Horn has some good examples applied to both genders, even in the 1990s, in her book Cyberville (http://www.amazon.com/dp/044651909X), an account of her time running ECHO. Even if only a small percentage of your users are insane, a large community seems to get a few.

I do agree women are visibly treated differently, especially in the sense of pervasive weird harassment, like random sexual or hostile comments from dozens/hundreds of users for no reason. The specific issue of crazy stalkers trying to get you fired may also apply to women more frequently, but I'm less sure of that--- 4chan has a history of doing that sort of stuff, mostly to males, and bloggers and website admins who piss people off get it all the time. Both Richard Kyanka of SomethingAwful and Rusty Foster of Kuro5hin have writeups floating around somewhere of some of the harassment they and their families have received due to running popular forums (in rusty's case it more or less caused him to check out).

Not really sure what to do about the stalker problem, since that appears (in this case, at least) to have been a single person, and problems that one-in-a-million people can cause are difficult to stamp out. The pervasive harassment problem, of course, could and should be fixed.
So how did they work this out, licensing-wise? AFAIK, MOSX is only allowed to run on Apple HW to be license compliant. Did they develop their own VM or are they using something like ESXi 5 for the virtualization on Apple HW?
Samsung RV518 - Metallic, Understated, Ergonomic and a Gig of Nvidia power
Interesting; it has anti-circumvention provisions. These provisions would appear (to my not-legally-trained reading; this is not legal advice) to apply to software such as BIND. After all, anyone can run their own instance of BIND, and thereby "resolve to that domain name’s Internet protocol address notwithstanding the measures taken by a service provider under paragraph (2) to prevent such reso lution".

This seems like a bad consequence, what with BIND and its equivalents being absolutely vital pieces of Internet infrastructure software.
Check out http://www.runrev.com, they have a product called LiveCode which is a modern day HyperCard. It can compile to iOS, Android, Windows, Macs and Linux.
I love listening to Sussman. You can just hear the passion in his voice.
You've missed out on better battery life, definitely. I have a Desire running 7.1 Cyanogenmod, which is 2.3 and it has massively improved it.
Bayley is just supporting negative stereotypes about how women can't handle the pressure when she lets a troll get the best of her and changes her whole life because of him.

No, you're helping to perpetrate such a myth by writing a comment like this without taking into account all the facts. Unless you label people who repeatedly phone your employer and make accusations of paedophilia as mere trolls.
Designers That Write - Learning from The Old Guard
What we have here is a full blown disruption from the iOS platform, Android smartphones and Facebook games. Nintendo's customers gained with Wii and DS didn't stick around.

Sony should be next to fall with their Vita platform which learned nothing from the current disruptors.

Microsoft has sidestepped this disruption with Kinect + foregoing a mobile gaming device and just turn WP7 into a gaming platform (in 2012)
We're still experimenting with colors of the radar intensity values. It's turned out to be surprisingly difficult to make a color palette that is both clear and not totally ugly.

Our best results have come from ripping off the color tables of false-color NASA astronomical photographs.
Ext JS 4.1 Performance Preview
I think the last half century of European history proves that the sub-Hayekian argument implying increased government intervention necessarily leads to dictatorship is even more intellectually bankrupt than those in favour of a fully planned economy. 35 hour working weeks and high minimum wages are not a radical or untried idea. Arguably excessive regulation of working conditions has contributed to many of Europe's present economic and social problems, and that's a subject worth discussing, but the imagined threat of mass-murdering autocrats isn't one of them. In HN of all places we shouldn't be invoking Godwin's law at this stage of an argument.
[India] The Startup Centre Launches Accelerator Programme
You'd also need mawk instead of gawk, imake instead of make, etc. etc. - there's loads of those little programs which don't have 100% compatible replacements.
Reasoning in the article has a flaw - no factorial is a perfect square, but how do you know all intermediate results need be integers? At the least, this deserves an additional argument. (Though it would be fair to say that factorial is only defined on integers, I think.)
Anyone interested in what its really all about should read the book: http://www.amazon.com/Software-Craftsmanship-Imperative-Pete...

Uncle Bob seems to have hijacked the term to relabel XP after Scrum got all the Agile glory.

Or better yet, attend a conference or meetup.

I find the Craftsmanship crowd to be a much better overlap with the HN crowd than say what the Agile community has become.
Residence Protection California delivers very best new property safety technique
The annoying thing about the PlugBot is that the "creator" is trying to get patents put on the device - as if putting Metasploit on a PlugPC is anything unique (been doing this since they came out). See "© 2010. Patent pending." at the footer of the about page.

From talking to others in the local security/hacking scene (the PlugBot creator and myself live in the same area) nobody seems to be impressed with what he wants to do with it. PwnieExpress is a much better alternative. But, in reality - if you're planning on using these there's no reason why you wouldn't just buy and build yourself.
I've read it. There are billions of disturbed weird people in the world. Lots of them make it online. This is one of them.

It's a shame she let it bother her.
Show HN: InstaBAM - Find Instagram pictures around your current location
If You Sell Technology - Learn from Steve Jobs
What impact is this going to have on them from the legal side of things? They've got enough trouble with Facebook Ireland Ltd. and privacy/data retention, but now that they're actually storing user data in an EU state, does that make things more complicated for them?
I'm somewhat amused that he says he found turning RPN to an infix expression awkward, because the easiest way of doing it (with redundant parentheses) is identical to actually evaluating the RPN, except you simply quote the operation you were going to apply, and the evaluation stack is made of strings.
Haha very cool idea! There's even stuff happening near me, amazingly enough.

Not sure yet, have to look at the options.
Hush little microprocessor... AVR and Arduino sleep mode basics
That's really interesting.

But the leaked information doesn't need to be collected at anything close to clock-cycle sampling periods. For example, there have been successful timing attacks demonstrated from sampling only the time taken by the overall private key operation (millseconds). Note that these guys demonstrated a side channel attack with an ultrasonic microphone.

Yes, the standard assumption is that an attacker will be able to prompt the server to perform a large number of private key operations at predictable times. This is not unrealistic, it usually only takes a half-dozen TCP packets or so to get a web server to do it immediately. (e.g. http://thehackerschoice.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/thc-ssl-dos... )

This paper discusses some effective attacks on LED leakage using telescopes. http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/static/techrep/2011/RHUL-MA-2011-07... :

"A practical upper boundary on data rates by optical emanations was estimated at 10 Mbps (Megabits per second), but they thought that greater data rates may be feasible."
A couple of points if I may:

1. If you speak at conferences, especially about a non-technical subject like "women in FOSS projects" (which is more likely to get sexists riled up), you are going to get unwanted attention. Pretty much every speaker who speaks on a controversial, or non-technical, or just media-glamorized topic is going to get harassed - if not hacked. It happens all the time to men and i'm sure it happens to women.

2. She started a "geek feminist" website, so that didn't help in terms of getting some sexist asshole's attention. It's like starting a "geek black people" website and not expecting white supremacists to send hate mail. I'm not saying it's justified, only that you have to expect the assholes out there will come out of the woodwork to give you shit.

3. I need to do something that feels rewarding and fun, and the work I was doing - which involved lots of speaking at conferences wasn’t giving me that any more. - So stop speaking at conferences? The tech industry has more going for it than giving talks.

4. If the guy isn't posing a physical threat, suck it up and ignore it. Do you know how many people troll me every week? A lot. But I make myself a target - just like being bullied in school - and thus I need to defend myself or move on.

5. Stop trying to 'get more women in technology'. Why is this seen as a serious problem that needs fixing? Go ahead and work to reduce sexism, I think that's necessary because the internet tends to reduce everything to childish unprofessional behavior. But nobody's code is going to get better just because there's more females working on it. Instead, focus on improving the tech industry as a whole instead of one little facet of it (like the distribution of gender).

I'm sorry if I sound unsympathetic. I do sympathize. A friend of mine stopped working in the underground infosec community because he was putting out a magazine and people were sending him hate mail. I understand he didn't want to get shit, but he had to expect haters - it's the fucking internet.
But thats just part of his troll persona. He's like 14, lives in his parent's basement, and hates the bright light of the daystar in the big blue room.

If a woman said hi to him, he'd spooge his pants and pass out, complete with nosebleed.
The statement (insult, trollbait, whatever you want to call it) doesn't make sense.

I would be a bit unhappy and would try and get away from the guy, but I wouldn't challenge him on it and try and start an altercation.
Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? (ie: free ideas to hack on)
I'm not asking because I want ideas, I'm asking cause I keep having them. Seems like plenty of folks want weekend projects and I keep stubbing my toes on something I'd love to see show up as a Show HN post in the near future. I figured maybe other folks could toss some of their lingering projects-I-won't-get-to in the pile as well. I'll leave projects in the comments and let things get voted around on their own merit.
So it's her fault that a continued campaign of harassment "bothered" her? Have you ever experienced anything like that, or are you just guessing what it would feel like?
What an amazingly effective demographic gathering tool the BBC has created :)
There are assorted "zap" bookmarklets that can be a real eye-saver when needed.

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
37signals? Haven't heard of them in a while. That is why you don't give away everything for free. Rails, Basecamp (which started completely free), etc. are still used, but only developers know hat 37signals isn't a traffic light company.
They can make themselves different in other ways:

1. Hardware design. Even cosmetic stuff.

2. Good support. You know, being able to call a human being on the phone.

3. Easy OTA updater (No more Kies and god know what else)

4. Write an itunes clone for syncing that isn't terrible. Or license double-twist.

5. Useful crapware apps. Apple differentiates itself with stuff like Siri. Why is Anrdroid crapware like "Buy this 4.99 caller ID service?"

There's so much room for improvement here. Considering ICS has all the eyecandy we need, its time to get out of the whole "Lets build a skin and add lots of crapware" that is turning Android into the smartphone ghetto.

FWIW, its not just Android. I know a lot of iPhone users who have never upgraded the OS and never will. They don't understand the utility of doing so. I'm afraid a lot of this conversation depends on how geeks use their equipment, which is fine, but the hoi polloi isn't clamoring for updates like they should be.
Experimenting with Real-Time Search using Sphinx (at craigslist) 
I'm happy to answer questions here on HN about this or how we use Sphinx in the more traditional mode.
TV has changed. Tell me when/where new episodes are available.

I watch TV on cable, hulu, netflix, individual network's websites, or increasingly on internet tv stations like vbs.tv, etc. I'd love a service that tells me when new episodes are available of things I want to see across all of this cruft. The individual source generally do an awful job, and it's become a job for an aggregator.
It's a real Mac. From their FAQ:

> Am I renting a real Mac?

> Absolutely! We use only authentic Mac computers made by Apple. We do not use any virtualization or sandbox technology to synthesize the Mac experience.
Not that I agree with RMS's naming insistence, but you cannot refer to the kernel as 'the operative system'.
The C toolchain is the tip of the iceberg, there's X, multiple desktop environments, the core utils, VMs and programming language interpreters, etc.
They all ship in your operative system, and just to put it in perspective, even open/libre office alone represents a larger bulk of code than the kernel.

I'm fine with the name 'linux'. But we should indeed acknowledge that we call it Linux mostly for historical reasons, not because it's the most fair name.
Do wish that they had released the Maps API to the API console in parallel with this announcement so that we'd know what we were in for (or at least given a date for its release so that we know when to check back?). My back of the envelope estimate for our usage is just a little bit terrifying right now.

Also not a fan of having to go through a Sales rep to find out anything about the pricing structure for Premiere.
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Are import taxes of 100% ((1200 - 600) / 600) realistic?
> Have you ever experienced anything like that, or are you just guessing what it would feel like?

White-knighting aside, have you?
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Yes, initially. But as the manufacturing processes mature, these prices reduce dramatically over time. Price reductions of an order of magnitude are not unusual over the course of two or three years.
I heard population is expected to rise to about 9 billion at which point it will start falling.
MoPub opens real-time bidding marketplace for mobile publishers
A related quiz: If you are observing a random number generator which seems to just keep on spitting out ones, how long do you have to sample it before you can determine if it's random or not?
Foul language and harassment in the games industry? I'm shocked. Perhaps it's just due to white male privilege that I've never been called a "gaaaayyyy nig faggz" while playing online games?

[edit: sarcasm. Like anyone who's ever delivered a headshot, I've been told "fu homo chink".]
I had pretty decent success with the products from KNJN (http://www.knjn.com/). It's affiliated with FPGA4Fun (http://www.fpga4fun.com/) which will help with the learning.

Recently I've been looking at the small, low-cost boards by XESS - http://xess.com/prods/prod048.php

Keep in mind that writing logic is quite different from programming. It's quite the mind-shift.
I think the last half century of European history proves that the sub-Hayekian argument implying any increased government intervention necessarily leads to dictatorship is even more intellectually bankrupt than those in favour of a fully planned economy. 35 hour working weeks and high minimum wages are not a radical or untried idea. Arguably excessive regulation of working conditions has contributed to many of Europe's present economic and social problems, and that's a subject worth discussing, but the imagined threat of mass-murdering autocrats isn't one of them. In HN of all places we shouldn't be invoking Godwin's law at this stage of an argument.
Rental property as an alternative investment
looks readable in Safari/OS X 10.6 , pretty dim in Firefox or Chrome/Win7
Hi all, just wanted to show you guys a app I made with my iOS developer friend during some spare time in the evenings and weekends.

When Instagram launched their API we thought it would be really interesting to see your location through the eyes of others so we made this pretty simple application.

You can also like and follow people you find, plus there's a map view search and freetext search too.

Would love to get some feedback, good and bad, it's still rough around the edges but it was fun to make and learned quite a bit.
Does morality require treating all human beings equally? Perhaps not.
Adding to this story: Nexus One denied Ice Cream Sandwich, becomes official relic of Android's yesteryears

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/nexus-one-denied-ice-crea...
Ask HN: Do you know of any organizations bringing tech to classrooms?
I'm looking for a handful of organization or program that is bringing technology to the classrooms, whether it be through giving away iPads or creating technology that students can use.
I can't see writing text-based Lua scripts on an iPad as anything other than an anachronism.
They need to fire the guy that approved the Wii U. They could have produced a better Wii with processing that exceeded PS3, maybe with a lighter device that retrofit the old attachments. Instead tried to merge the DS line with the Wii, and even though I love the Wii, I hate the Wii U controller.
We kind of covered this the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3153290
Investors punish Amazon for disruptive growth
Stalker? She should get the police involved then.

Oh wait, she did, and they weren't interested because it didn't rise to that level.
One of my favorite talks from Strange Loop... Sussman has amazing breadth across several domains (math, physics, electrical engineering, computing) as well as a long perspective on where we've been and where we can go. He (and Julie) were a true joy to have at Strange Loop this year.
She mentions in her blog post that she is not completely quitting tech. From her blog,

>>I’m particularly interested in using open tech to preserve and promote independent music, so you’ll continue to see me around in many of my usual tech haunts.
Does the iOS agreement spell out the "Documents" vector ? It only appears to mention that all code should be included with the application and not downloaded.

It seems that a word processor that allows macros in the documents would be a litmus test for this policy.
Interesting argument that logic alone cannot be used as a basis for morality.

Can I propose instead, the computational basis for morality: simplifying, this would entail creating different population models with different morality codes and then running them to see which model creates the most stable model.
Same here. I have spoken spanish all my life and constantly read books written by spanish speakers from all over the world and have never come across this word before.
Thanks for your advice, yes I have asked questions on Stack Overflow and found the response to be excellent, and I plan to use it in the future.

But with a mentor you can ask more general questions, whereas with SO it tends to be more code/error specific.
What exactly is your point? People shouldn't whine that other people are bastards? It seems more than a bit like victim blaming to me.
I feel your "professionalism" may be more applicable to larger, corporate environments.

With a small team size accompanying early startups, I personally feel having the core people click is extremely important.

I of course don't know what number hire the poster was to the startup nor do I know how long the startup has been around, so perhaps the startup is past the "honeymoon" period.
Which is basically the time-honored "Underpromise, Overdeliver" (UPOD) method. UPOD is pretty reliable in a corporate setting, but it can be tricky in a client-contractor relationship. If you're a contractor, and you have reason to suspect that you're being vetted against other contractors, underpromising to too great an extent can work against you. So it becomes a delicate dance between promising enough to win the bid, but not promising so much that you set yourself up for failure.

BTW: that was a great episode!
Agreed. However, it's up to you to do what you want with the newly created trust.
Not true if you got a 2nd generation iPhone. You could have gotten a 3G as the latest phone and been unsupported for 9 months on an 18 month contract.
I'm guessing it's the sideways version of upgrade or downgrade: the new OS isn't better or worse, just different.
We are turning in circles here.

1. ricw: I'll buy iPhone because Android has no OS upgrade

2. gbog (me): You can root

3. nasmorn: Mom, dad need you to root, annoying

4. methodin: Mom, dad don't care to upgrade OS

5. loire280: But we care.

It reminds me when a bunch of old trolls tried to play with me on usenet decades ago. No thanks.
This guy is a hero :)
How does it solve the issue? By making the UI better? But won't OEMs want to "differentiate" by installing their own bloated flashy custom UI?

Not to mention the uninstallable adware and junkware installed and always running in the background. Does ICS solve this?
It's not just the "C toolchain", it's the whole userland. GNU is most of that higher level user experience; Linux is the lower layer you mentioned.

(Then again, I might be more inclined to say I run "GNU" if the FSF wasn't so damn ossified.)
Well, she didn't do herself any favors by talking at conferences about women in tech, or setting up a feminist movement. If you wanted to attract abuse, that's a good way to go about it. It should be expected.

Why didn't she talk at conferences about code?
It costs about three times less money to build it yourself, by the way. Buy the hardware, install BackTrack, and Go.
As tincholio says, I added the word true on purpose. When you use a real linux stack, things like this are possible:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/openoffice-org...
If your developer needs to be somewhere physically to test location services, he's not very good at researching alternative solutions:

https://github.com/futuretap/FTLocationSimulator
This doesn't seem to be all that uncommon here; I've read several similar stories--a couple of months ago I read that a woman had been robbed of a bag containing about 40 grand and it was returned to her before she even knew it was missing. It seems to be common for people to bring large sums of cash on cruises to gamble in the casinos. Or they've won it there.
Dave Winer doesn't seem to like anything, does he?