skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm feel pretty good with Lloyds (UK). While they're not perfect, they:

- don't have silly password restrictions (login is username + password 1 + 3* n'th letter from password 2, transfers need password 1 again, large transfers to unknown destination needs phone confirmation (automatic service))

- have website working well in pretty much any browser

- provide instant SMS notification about low balance and an account summary every week

- have pretty low waiting times (whenever I call, it's rarely more than a minute before my call is picked up)

- process my statement and split known records into groups showing me money spent/earned from various sources (car, house, food expenses, etc.); they find recurring payments and put them into a calendar which gives a good idea of how much money I need and when; effectively they killed the need of using local app for keeping track of my account

- they provide exports into csv and other formats (although they've got a "known issue" for years where the export range is approximate - it can add or miss a couple of days randomly)

- they do watch my account - when my employer missed the payday by 1 day, I got a call to check if that's expected; when I got a larger incoming transfer, I also got a call to notify me about it and check if it's expected (did not request that before)

I do recommend them to other people, because they're better than other banks I had to deal with.
I wish that 2012 would hold just one thing for Google: focus.

- Focus on making the first web-based Excel-killer.
- Focus on making GMail *really, really, really fast*.
- Focus on fewer products, not more.

Those are the three things that drive me insane about Google. Despite their resources Microsoft Office is still better than Google Docs, GMail is still sluggish and yet they still keep releasing new products. So frustrating.
and when there was a critical security bug in Tarsnap, he behaved with extraordinary integrity and openness (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...).

More than anything else, cpercival earned my trust simply by being honest. There are precious few companies I could say this about.
I doubt it was a decision they made. That is a page that wouldn't be regularly updated, I think Tumblr made their position on SOPA very clear and Godaddy now opposes it (whether you believe that or not).
Firebird SQL Project Newsletter, Issue 2
We might be stretching the metaphor a bit here, but I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to create an aspiring model meetup. Of course some credibility in the community would help (ie sponsorship from one or more local model agencies) and you would need to provide actual value (perhaps in the form of "tricks of the trade"), but why wouldn't aspiring models be looking for this kind of thing?

And why couldn't you be the one to create it for them?
Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?
All 28C3 torrent files zipped from http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC
Below the article, one of the commenters (who claims to own the map) refers to its price as "under $12.95".
I'm not PG but I remember reading that it was a sliding scale based on the average karma... so if your karma grows slower than the total karma, you might have lost the ability.

I can't find the interesting link with the analysis I read it from (it was from around the time PG removed the points), but there's some confirmation here:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#cantdownvot...
I just emailed the author of the article (Seth Stevenson) to see if he would let the mapmaker know about his map being mentioned on Hacker News. Maybe we can get some contact info for those of us interested in purchasing the map. I know I would be interested in one.
> It is the last dictatorship in Europe...

I don't know if this qualify as a consolation, but Hungary is making huge strides on the way to dictatorship too.
HAKEN!
Sorry to tell you that there are valid attacks against the PINSentry used by Barclays - see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/bank_reader_insecuri.... I don't know of any actual breaches though.
the output is literally physically photo-realistic, with fully-accurate GI lighting and accurate BSDF material interaction

This isn't true at all.

At what point are the equations "accurate"? What margin of error is acceptable?

We still have a long way to go before we can claim accurate lighting equations.
After Flying Through the House, Crowdfunding Bill Stalls in Senate
Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking
It's true that all legislation has a political dimension, simply due to the fact that it's is the work product of politicians, but some legislation has a much broader sphere of interest.
Actually you are most likely wrong. There is really good evidence that the number of calories don't matter and that the type of calories are everything. People associate the number of calories as mattering because they change other things at the same time. Please watch videos from Gary Taubes who wrote "Good Calories Bad Calories" and "Why we get fat".

Here's his google talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4

On a personal note, I lost 40 lbs and I eat far more calories now than I did before. Open you mind for a bit and really watch that video, you might be convinced that what you think about calories are all wrong. I certainly changed what I thought was true as fact.
He's probably using List-unsubscribe. You can add headers to your emails that give users a way to unsubscribe from your list if they click "mark as spam" (and many do, despite an "unsubscribe" link appearing at the bottom of the email).
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Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops (text article with attached video)
Same here. I must be missing something big here because none of this makes sense. Its reinvention for the sake of it.
The Inhumane Web
I think the author is trying to illustrate that showing up/networking is a necessary condition for success. The point is that no matter what else you do, unless you are in a place where you can meet supermodels, you will never date one.

Showing up is one way of making your own luck, increasing the chances of those serendipitous run-ins that always seem to be littered throughout success stories.
"Why would remaining gang members care about former gang member who disappeared in unknown direction and does not cause any trouble?"

Ignoring the obvious answers, try this one on for size:

Who fucking cares? The fact is that they do care.

You need not understand the problem for it to exist.
Is building insanely great products your goal in 2012? Nowbox is hiring
NOWBOX is your personalized TV guide with best of YouTube.

We are currently featured on App Store's 'New and Noteworthy'. The Next Web called us the slickest way to watch YouTube on your iPad. Check out some of the nice things others have said about us on Twitter.

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We are looking for a technical backend lead to design and implement the next generation video platform. We are Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/Postgres/Heroku based but are open to use the best tools for the job.

Besides having shipped web and mobile products, you must be passionate about mobile video space and love to work on hard problems in real time data, ad targeting, machine learning and video processing.

More info is at: http://nowbox.com/jobs.

If you are ready to build a new video platform with our awesome mobile team, please email me at thomas@nowbox.com with a list of projects you are proud of.
Apple's Cards app makes it easy to send thank-yous
Thanks for fixing. Didn't think you would've done anything with it, but I prefer to boycott apps that ask for more than they need just in case. :-)
Orket = Orkut, further proof that there wasn't pressure to use it!
Good point, I didn't mean that at all. I was looking over all the comments and remembered what these types of posts turn into. I had no intention to hi-jack anything. Noted for future postings as something to consider.
I live in DC and fly into reagan all the time. There is a small park at the very end of the runway where you can watch planes landing that fly just 100 ft above you. It's pretty awesome.

The author of this post suggests you should rather fly into Dulles because the approach to reagan is so dangerous. What isn't factored in is that in rush hour, a commute from dulles to DC can take 2+ hours (and, mind you, the DC metro area has the worst traffic and highest rate of accidents in the country). From reagan you can take the metro and be downtown in 15 minutes. Also, a mere cost of a taxi from dulles (or BWI) to DC will cost just as much as your airfare.
If you're worried about a state-level adversary, then yes, you should always turn off your computer when not using it. They could still be spying on you and wait until you turn it on to kick down the door. There are people who have thought about these things, too. One suggestion is a dead man's trap, like a pad that you sit on, so if the door gets kicked down (or they snipe you from outside the window), as soon as you stand up (or fall off the stool) it scrambles RAM and shuts down the system. That's a super high level of paranoia, but still makes encryption useful.
What is considered success for consumer mobile apps?
SST Web Test Framework (in Python)
Samsung Copies 5 Scenes from 2 Apple Ads + Steals Actress
There's more information at http://scripts.mit.edu/wiki/Technical_overview_of_scripts.mi...
That changes my thoughts.

If you are not buying names to try and resell but only registering because of ideas that you have I would say 65 is a high number. Simply because you couldn't possibly develop that many ideas. (One of the problem with owning many good names by the way is not knowing which one to focus on. If you only own 2 good names you can't stray to far.)
Skyrim will kill your social life. But social life < slaying dragons anyday.

Hilarious!

Prediction for 2012: Facebook IPO surges before tumbling down within four months as children and senior citizens overrun the site.

I think Path could smoke Facebook eventually.
What about BSD? I hear it falls in with Apache and MIT. Is that accurate?
"The refactoring capabilities of modern-day IDEs help immensely with
reducing the amount of work one has to do to make syntactic changes over
the whole codebase. So the argument that developers tend to over-engineer
when coding in Java to avoid any pains that may arise because of its
verbosity doesn't hold, IMO."

Refactoring tools might be nice and will help you here and there, but
there's a difference in the abstraction abilites of a language like Java
compared to language like Haskell.

It's not only about the amount of code, but also about the complexity of
the code, when building abstractions.

Yes, a refactoring tool might help you dealing with the complexity, but
it's still there and makes it more difficult.

I never understood the point of using a less capable language and then
using a tool to compensate it, e.g automatically generate code for it.
Still no reason not to go for more battery life.
There a lot of critics here, but also note
-Belarus produces enough food not to starve
-It doesn't allow any migrants
-It tries to control everything so it is not effective at all, but also that means during hard time it will survive
-It will always has gas and oil from Russia, because there are several key Russian defence facilities there.

But myself don't want to live in a country where internet is filtered and restricted.
It sounds like you need to use the kill ring & pasting from the kill ring more. It preserves indentation levels, and selecting a region then M-x indent-region will handle all this for you.
Is this what 37s has been up to? I feel they are going the way of ENTP ( see Lighthouse ticket tracker ) ...
Could this be a security bug? Is there other ways scrip+css can take over the rendering, which I guess is done by XUL? Advanced click-jacking?
And there's a flip side to female objectification - male zombification. As a modern male, I'm pretty damn sick of 'sex sells', especially when the thing being sold has nothing whatsoever to do with sex.

Want to use racy ads and associations to try to get me to buy lingerie for my gf, or condoms from your website? Ok fine. But, ahem, Godaddy, are you seriously trying to persuade me to buy internet domains from you using a sex sells strategy? Godaddy girls? Really? I couldn't think of anything less relevant.

But that's the problem - when men are bombarded with messages and images that link things that have no connection whatsoever, over time it actually does create a connection by weakening the critical faculties necessary to reject the association in the first place, and makes men more vulnerable to manipulation, power of suggestion, etc.. Moreso in some men than others.

Sex is one of the most powerful concepts to link to totally irrelevant products or services since it triggers our ape subroutines. See the same associations enough, and when it actually comes time to evaluate a purchase or other decision, those ape subroutines have more influence and control vs. your reasoning and critical faculties than they should. This effect is pervasive and pernicious.

So, the flip side of female objectification is male zombification, or a weakening of critical and reasoning faculties. It's not just females that suffer from female objectification in the media.
Its news in that every time they make a blog post its the best thing in the world and has to be on the front page
I only want them to keep pushing search forward, i get a feeling we are going nowhere in that end
I liked the word technology. (and the world)
I've often thought with today's sensors and wireless tech that there should be an accessory and mobile app that constantly measures your blood sugar, good for diabetics and optimal-nutrition folks alike.
Once you learn Python version:X, you won't care about what version you're using.

Forget about the version crap and focus on learning.
Definitely build things on your own. Start with some small projects to keep your morale up. Then increase the difficulty and scope of the projects you are building. The good part about building things is that it can be educational and fun. And yeah you should post your code to Github for extra points.
Click on one of the images on the top left and then click the button to start tracing. It took me a minute, also.
That surprised me a bit. I knew my facebook would have zero as I'm careful about that but twitter had a couple I didn't know about, as did dropbox.
TLDR: author doesn't understand freemium and gets mad when he doesn't make any money. Author spams clients and gets mad when clients flag his spam.

freemium can be brilliant. take github, search HN, it has been discussed at length.
This is something with universal appeal, so if you could go for high traffic and allow the user to browse and add products from partner sites you could make money from sponsorship deals and advertising.

although i can see a danger of making it too commercial looking and putting folk off
Where would you go for embedded jobs?
I realize that HN is not typically for devs who program close to the hardware but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the discussions here.
I do however feel a bit lonely since I don't know RoR/Node/<anything web> but have spend years working on embedded stuff.
Where's the job postings me?
Real logical test. Can you find the cat?
Read this article hotklixed a min ago! This is really amazing. Only 2(TWO) % of the people can find the cat in UNDER 2 minutes. Are you among this group of people? Try it :)
What about on my mobile? I am not aware (as I havent looked) of any encryption available to the data on my iPhone, or MyTouch 4G.

Further, I use Gmail - I have zero expectation of privacy from google.

I also store all my important docs for work and personal on DropBox.

What will I gain from encrypting my laptop? aside from it being stolen/lost - I dont see any added security/benefit from doing this.

I am not trying to be obtuse - but can one explain to me why I would want to do this, other than expressing my tech savvy?
He fails to mention that on the approach you get one of the best views of DC you can get, the pentagon on the right, and the entirety of the city on the left. It is one of the most scenic approaches of any major airport. And it being 10 minutes from downtown is nice as well.
I think Lipsync - https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync - might be better, Git isn't great for lots of large binary files.
Bestseller: Making a mark with its brands across India
Great article. It's nice to hear from experts in other fields regarding things that involve their expertise, but affect me in ways I didn't previously understand. It's not unlike being in one of those conversations with my relatives on how the computer works...
Detroit - Do you believe?
Commenters are failing to mention that the article is about why you shouldn't fly a plane into Regan, not why you shouldn't be on a plane that is flying into Regan.

All of the issues is about piloting, not about traveling.
Truecrypt has a hidden OS option. It does sound like some work, however.
I have to agree. This doesn't look like anything too revolutionary. It looks high-featured but in the wrong areas.
I don't know what it says about me, but I accidentally logged into my Dad's Facebook account when I was visiting home last week. His total notifications: 12.

Then I logged into my account. My total notifications: 1.

My Dad's 67. He and his buddies are everywhere on Facebook.
This is all good, until you get any kind of disk corruption. Good luck getting any of your data back.
There are plenty of real reasons to dislike Elsevier. Making up hypothetical ones only discredits the OP and adds noise.
Table tent printing
Table tents are used in many industries,from restaurants to hotels.Anywhere people gather,table tents are a great way to advertise.you can convey your message in a simple manner and they give you the flexibility to put a personal touch on the message you want to deliver.
Microsoft to enable Linux on its Windows Azure cloud in 2012
SOPA from a publisher's point of view
How to delete every Facebook wall post, wipe your Timeline 
While it may be an inexact science, automative tools can be used to speed up the Facebook wall deletion process. From 'magic buttons' to macro scripts: here’s a number of ways of how to do it.
In order to solve the problem you typically need to understand it.
Asus Screwup - Transformer Prime has a 128 bitAES locked bootloader
The Commodore 64 Is 30 Years Old
But how would you know beauty if you did not also know the lack of beauty? In the same way as, what is light without dark? You can't truly appreciate one without the other.

You could be right about the "everyone is beautiful to someone".

I agree, the fashion industry is not much better. If I was king, I'd have everyone aim for athletic/fit. I suppose that's just one person's preference though.
Passwords to become fossils by 2017?
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Perhaps the most important part of that article is the last two paragraphs mentioning the White House's request for comments on the question of public access to federally-funded scientific research. Links provided:

http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/action_access/11-1117.s...

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-04/html/2011-28623.h...
I clicked through your site. There were zero hints anywhere that you were looking to sell anything at all until I had gone through four or five pages to create the card with including the page of questions I had to answer that left little doubt about your future plans. By the time I hit the pay option I felt ambushed, and worse you had spent zero time marketing to me while I was on your own site!

You are 100% right about free customers being much much worse to deal with, I don't envy you there at all. But they don't owe you anything either. With a free tier or trial you're buying an opportunity to market to people and convert them into paying customers, that's all. If you didn't manage to convert that's on you not them, though to be fair it is a very difficult job unless you have a good product.

You got some good experience and learned some things that are quite valuable. People will print out free letters but nobody will buy. Traffic like that at Christmas can absolutely make you some real money - I'd suggest trying again next year with some good quality holiday merchandise and amazon's toy affiliate program. Pretty much every visitor there will be buying toys that month, they are thinking about it right and done right quite a few will consider it helpful.
He meant the Eurozone, I think, and it is definitely outside the Eurozone.
FC Barcelona - Cesc, Thiago y Fontàs, en el Festival de la Infancia
Yeah, there's nothing brighter than a clear winter day with snow on the ground. OTOH, some places (Seattle...) just get rainy and damp and dark in the winter.
> Trusting proprietary, closed source software (in other words, a third party) for encryption is missing the point of encryption so hard, it's not even funny.

I don't have the experience, knowledge, and time (+ effort) to review every source-code line and every theorem used by an encryption application ... to make sure it's not doing something it shouldn't.

And (chances are) you don't either.

So it's not about closed-source or open-source, but rather it's about trust.
Big Data: What We Saw in 2011 and What to Expect in 2012