skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see that tried in court. I have a feeling that argument won't work very well. I have some limited experience in this area, as I worked for a bankruptcy trustee for a number of years. Debtors tried all manner of convoluted arguments to escape the spirit of the law. Judges have very little patience for that sort of thing.

The judge will make a limited effort to understand Bitcoins, but the core question will remain, "what harm was done and who was it done to?" The "owner" of the Bitcoins was, unquestionably, deprived of value.

So see it however you wish: Bitcoins as tangible property that was taken, or Bitcoins as tangible property that was irreparably damaged. Either way, the judge will ask the same question. Who was harmed and how?

Escaping the conclusion that the attacker's actions are responsible for the loss of value is impossible. You can bet that the State will consider these arguments very carefully if they catch the perp and bring charges against them. From there, it's up to the defense to find a jury so dumb that they'll buy the "Bitcoins aren't property" argument.

Regarding the arguments relative to video torrents, I believe this to be an error in logic. If I copy a video from a friend, that friend can continue to derive the original value from the video. That is, the friend can continue to watch the video and enjoy it. The act is different in that the original holder of the Bitcoins can no longer use them once they have been "copied" (to use your terms).
Yeah, and you only get the content if you visit from Google and not go the URL directly.
I want the games to be under the GPL so that derivate work has to remain open source. But to have GPL apps in the App Store you need permission from all copyright owners. If someone forms Skeleton Key and releases their own version in the App Store, they need my permission since I'm one of the copyright owners.

So I just me giving my permission before anyone has to ask, but only for the purpose of App Store distribution. They're not allowed to re-license my code as proprietary for any other purpose.
Yes, they really do. Start here and keep reading down the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity#Consequence...
Same here, I get the pain point but am not motivated to try it... maybe I'm just not target audience.
From Java code to Java heap
11" Macbook Air = 1.08kg
HyperJuice 60Wh external Battery = 0.36kg

Comes in under your weight limit, will give you 10+ hours. Only disadvantage is it's a cumbersome / weird form factor, macbook plus external batt.

However, if you find a decent small bag, it won't really be that much of an issue.

http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice-External-Battery-for-Mac...
Don’t Ask Customers What They’ll Pay. Tell Them.
Video: What's New with JRuby from Core Committer Nick Sieger
I was supposed to paste the same link, good thing I saw this.

However, I must say that this scientific explanation doesn't quite explain it all. This 'morgana' (I think it is what the phenomenon is called) has been made apparent in the 1650's, although obviously not carrying the same name. The Titanic sank in 1912. I very much doubt that this phenomenon was not yet introduced to the sea men during those times.
A mockup of the 1984 Apple ad, welcoming Windows 8 to the world
Nice. How much?
If they had used 'unlock-at-boot'/true-crypt style disk encryption and kept the password/key off the machine they would have been safe from this attack. (They would also have to provide the password/key every restart.) It is only in hindsight that something like this seems worth implementing!

Your more general solutions would protect from an attack that rooted a live system rather than just resetting the root password while the machine was offline.
It is my understanding that desktop browsers do present the prompt, but mobile browsers do not. This feature was mostly designed for mobile, since the browser cache in mobile tends to be constrained. I have a feeling as things move along, that prompt will go away entirely.
Hey, a friend and I were talking about this yesterday. Do a lot of people use Github for Mac? Are there any download / usage statistics?
Series A Funding With and Without Pre-orders 
Just a quick question i need input from you guys on. If hypothetically my startup has in the vicinity of $1M pre-orders, what scenario is more likely to play out in Series A funding? A) VC's will give me more money but still want the same equity stake they would have asked for if i had no pre-orders or B) drop the equity stake they want and give me the same amount of cash if i had no pre-orders?

My query is i would assume that VC's would rather pay more and get a larger slice of the equity especially with pre-orders verifying there is a market demand for the product, however; that is entirely my take on things and might not reflect the relativity of what would occur in such a situation.

So whats the likely outcome in such a situation?
I did this one time at home to share some files quickly somewhat securely, and sent my friend a cert to install. It worked fine. At my Fortune 500 of course the wifi has certs, but they don't do any certs for authentication (er, unless you count drive encryption and NT security?) but no HTTPS ... of course SSL for user keys, but no "authorized clients" style of client based keys.

I think it is probably the perceived overhead of operating your own CA, even though modern web app like interfaces exist and make doing such a thing a breeze. It could be that the less technical people like architects (that don't have to implement it themselves) just assume that it'll be too much of a conceptual thing to try and sell. It works tho! And seems like it would be in theory more secure given the features of revocation, but I guess that's the same as turning off someone's ID in the directory perhaps.
The GitHub app never felt amazing before. I don't know if anyone else had the same experience I did, but it was forever doing weird things when redrawing the window. All gone.

I'm always surprised by how software can feel so, so much better with no new features but just a lot of effort under the hood.
On Not Sucking at Twitter – Four Simple Tips to Get More Followers
Ben Bernanke sunk the titanic!
A net naive.
Ancient article. But as a side note, startssl.com uses them very effectively.
No one said it was a controlled leak from a marketing department. It could have been managers (at any department, or multiple departments) issuing a statement that the new development software/hardware can be used on the public Internet without worry. I'd imagine the executives or directors would know (or be told) what could happen, and they were comfortable with it.

At that point, it's not a release of information and it's not a leak, but rather a controlled leak.
GitHub continues to impress — culture, team, and product. I've heard some criticism of their enterprise sales process but I'm a happy user of their personal edition (though I've somehow already used up my 20 slots for private repos, boo)
I wouldn't be so sure. This particular guy may be gone to retire on his private island or whatever, but the industry still will be there. And so far they are winning and the rest of the internet is losing. Right now they already acquired capability to take any site off the internet merely by sending a message to the services provider, and take any content off a popular site like YouTube by using an interface specially built for them, often without any human intervention or consideration for real rights. They are completely exempt from any due process and from the concept of "innocent until proven guilty". When it comes to copyright, it's shoot first, sort out later, and they're holding the biggest guns ever.
So the industry confidence that internet users will get tired and with relentless pressure the industry will succeed to take more and more rights from them is completely founded. This is what happened repeatedly up until now, and winning one instance doesn't change it. There will be more laws like SOPA, and if past experience predicts anything there is a very big chance that they will succeed in sneaking it in one way or another. At least that's exactly what happened till now and we don't have an effective solution for that - so far they had only a handful of failures, and they found new ways of doing the same. For example, they failed with SOPA that was to give them DNS control - but they effectively control big parts of DNS already, see recent HN stories about Godaddy and Verisign domain takedowns. And they won't stop until they will have same as SOPA and more.
IIRC Kimbo was a street brawler who went MMA not the other way around. That he did so well against well trained fighters says a lot.
Javathcript - Javascript with a lisp
Startup Secret 41: Young at heart
I found the headline funny: my job for the past 3 months or so has been heavily involved with SSL client certs. Of course, it's on a private network, not the Internet, so that makes it easier. (By which I mean "easier to force the clients to use them", not actually easier to use.)

I absolutely agree the browser interface for certs is terrible. The post is from 4 years ago, and the interface still looks just the same, and is still just as much of a pain in the rear.

I would take this over "What color was your first car?" any day, though.
"there are already names for people who do that."

Honest question: What name is that? (English is not my first language.)

And since I cannot quite interpret the tone of your comment I have to ask bluntly: Do you find it okay what the Samwers do?
Yes, PhoneGap is used to tie it all together and to create a bridge to the local notifications API in iOS.

I'd recommend it to anyone looking to bring their web oriented skills to mobile apps.

I plan on porting this to Android soon since PhoneGap allows almost complete code reuse (except for dealing with notification scheduling).
There's an 's' missing in that title that changes the entire perspective of the article.

Damn link-baiting.

Oh and by the by, lol @ 50 year projections. What will the translation of a 2012 dollar be in 2062?
Only thing I'm missing now is a gitx-style history view. I want to see merges.
They affirm there are very few devices with this resolution. My GA data (and others) disagrees with this. As for the IP range, I think this makes it more legit. But I'd love Apple employees to troll Ars :)
> "Render unto Caesar that which is due Caesar", etc.

Not all Christians have the same interpretation. I was taught in Catholic school that this meant that everything is God's and nothing is Caesar's.
Hackers had 'full functional control' of Nasa computers
So just like how I authenticate with GitHub and SSH? That could be very useful.
Probably because people want to be able to change browsers/computers without the bullshit of transferring around an SSL cert and doing so in a secure fashion?
Ask HN: Has anyone found a better way to build a SXSW Schedule?
I find that the SXSW scheduling website doesn't give me the sorting/filtering tools I need to really figure out what types events are happening when. As anyone found a better tool, or somehow obtained the raw event data to do your own filtering/sorting?
I think the bigger issue in general is that client certificates only authenticate the machine, not the user. That is, unless you password-protect the certificate — in which case you've only succeeded in adding a step to the process of getting into your site, a process that most commercial sites would like to streamline as much as possible because it's essentially a giant ramp in the middle of your funnel.

Basically, even if the cost is marginal, so are the benefits for most sites — and although I haven't implemented this myself, I do not believe the cost would be marginal once you take into account all the new problems it creates.
Apple doesn't allow autorenewing fees for "just apps". You have to be basically a magazine that makes episodic content the end user ends up owning.

You can use their non-renewing subscription, 30% still applies, and renewing is a bit of a hassle.
I'd be very interested to know if it's even possible to create a game where you genuinly feel remorse for killing an innocent person while chasing "the bad guy".

Many games have innocent bystanders, and there is a spectrum of consequence, from none (GTA), to inconvenience (Oblivion), to an instant game-over (Ghost Recon). In any case, I've never felt bad, since it's just a game.

Can a game elevate the characters to a point where you feel, even for a moment, real loss? I don't think it's very easy, if even possible.
There are a few 2048x1536 monitors. But that's not the only line of evidence the article's conclusions hinge on. There's also the OS, the version, and the source of the connections from apple's corporate IP block. Given all that, and given what we already know about the iPad 3 (it will have a higher resolution display) Occam's razor leads to the conclusion that these are pre-release iPad 3 devices. The 2nd most likely conclusion is that this is an intentional hoax on the part of someone within Apple, which is hardly a more credible idea.
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The thing with 99,999% of martial arts is that they're practicing the wrong thing. At best they're practicing for competitions and some are even trying to pose as street-cred martial artists but yet that's a whole another universe away from survival. And survival isn't about fighting—at all. The thing is, it wouldn't be legal to teach survival in a dojo.

Fighting is about winning but survival is about... surviving, and anything goes. Survival is dirty, in the sense that if you think it's going to be a fight you will only realize he had a knife when the damn thing is already between your ribs or whichever side you momentarily forgot to leave less protected. Survival is something where you will get injured, bleeding and body parts disjoint very quickly; most often both of you do, and running like hell is often the best way to survive: in a war that might not always be an option, though.

Of course, that is, assuming it started as a one-on-one situation and ended as one, too.
Now that Firefox, Chrome and Safari all sync through various cloud accounts, is that really still an issue?
Why Microsoft & Ebay's Advantages Can Be Bad
Just because things sucked before HTML and CSS doesn't mean that they're the pinnacle. I personally find debugging HTML and CSS incredibly frustrating. Uneven standards implementation across browsers doesn't help either.

And I am seeing first hand how UI designers find CSS (it's NOT intuitive at all).

We build things with HTML, CSS, and JS that they were never designed to be building blocks to. At some point we either have to accept that these are not up to scratch or we can continue to see the web eroded in favor of native platforms (most of which are even more closed).

Attitudes like this makes this quote ring true: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
My experience with the AI class was weird in the sense that the profs would say things like "I don't blame you if you got this one wrong" but then score the answer wrong.

This gets to a greater question (which they also addressed) is that a deeper more involved question makes you think more, and hence they felt that people who got things wrong perhaps did more work and challenged themselves more, which as a whole a good thing, and I'd agree.

Some things just don't lend well to being binary right or wrong. In the ML class however, their code was a little more modular, and they had a lot more clear warnings about what you could and couldn't touch, and then the grading system was interactive and you could repeat your tests (and they did like what was described here and tried for more general problem spaces to see if your answer was written generally as well)...

So this is tough! The cynic in me says that this can make one go down the rabbit whole that "the man" is trying to indoctrinate you into an arbitrary system of their own choosing that isn't necessarily empirically correct, but then I remember my intro to Philosophy where they state that you really have to frame the debate or else all bets are off, and you just can't get any work done in chaos in like that.
MIND THE GAP - A Business Guide to NON-Business Communication
You want more command line Javascript runtimes? There's Rhino, but it's slower than Sunday with your in-laws...

Truth is, you only need one, as long as it's a good one.
We have a direct quote from Steve Jobs' official biographer from Jobs' himself, unless you mean that the Office/IE development was more important than the money.

The money seems to be so that MS felt that Apple's success was tied in to it's own, and thus won't skimp on the IE and Office development make them to par with their Windows versions.
I have heard (BBC documentary, a couple of years ago) that about 10% of soldiers are evil/psych/sociopaths and become heroes because of it (or die trying) and about 10% behave similarly because they are so unselfish that they are willing to sacrifice their lives.

That documentary also stated that modern military training tries to get rid of the former, and to shape more people to behave similar to the latter 10%, and is fairly successful at it (as measured by the fraction of soldiers willing to actually aim at the enemy)

So yes, there probably is something different about you. Whether to call that wrong, I don't know.

I googled for some reference on this. I havent read it, but I think http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316330116/warcatslai... is relevant reading on this subject.
Why no tax on making money from money. These high tax rates are on money not an people with a lot of money making money...
Ahh, good times... not. I clocked over 6000 hours guard duty during my military time; a game based on my experience would be a few minutes of action and hours of boredom.
(disclaimer, I'm a MS employee).

some advantages:

* Hyper-V support(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper...).

* Refreshing to a clean state without reinstallation. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/04/refresh-and-re...)

* Better support for large disks.(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/29/enabling-large...)

* Easier setup(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/21/improving-the-...)

* Less restarts after updating.(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/11/14/minimizing-res...)

* A task manager which I certainly like much better.(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/13/the-windows-8-...)

* Reduced memory consumption(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runti...).

* Better malware protection(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/15/protecting-you...)
There are plenty of terrible programming languages. Programming languages are designed to solve problems, so a language that fails to solve any problems (or solves only a very specific problem with limited application) fades into obscurity - it still exists though, and is still bad.

Searching thedailywtf.com for the term "proprietary language" comes up with some fun stories (MUMPS, Labview, etc).

Having taken a compiler design course in college which involved attempting to create a simple proprietary language, I can attest that attempting to write a programming language will result in bad far more often than good. The halls of any computer science program are littered with terrible language experiments that barely function, mine included.

To extend the chef analogy the author uses; a good chef may be able to make a palatable dish out of rotten meat (isn't that what curry was invented for?), but the meat is still rotten.
I also agree, I do nothing illegal online so I fear nothing when it comes to Google "invading my privacy." I have a hard time understanding the people who obsess over leaving no trace online (unless they are doing something illegal). I also saw the story where Target used data mining techniques to predict pregnancy...all I can say is awesome.
SO has swag for top rep earners so it's a distinction without a difference. The original article talked about getting paid for answering and I thought you were reacting to that with your post.
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Hopefully GitHub for Windows follows shortly!

The latest I've seen them mention it is here, less than one month ago:

https://groups.google.com/group/msysgit/browse_thread/thread...

And their fork of msysgit mentions that its for "Github for Windows" in the description:

https://github.com/github/windows-msysgit
As I said below, all together makes sense for the iPad3 testing. But they say that resolution is very odd, and I don't agree (like you said). I'm not denying all the article, just their resolution argument.
FTP has no security at all. Usernames, passwords, and data are all sent in the clear, in plain text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp#Security
Speaking as a musician with a small body of work, I want people to download my songs, pirated or otherwise.

If you want to give me money, send me some or come to one of my shows. I was involved with a label/mngt. company in the 90's and they just ripped me off. Don't give them any money by buying "official" records.

Kill Hollywood: Pirate...download and direct your dollars directly to the musicians. Ignore the agents and the middlemen. They're parasites.
Yes.... what's your point?
Oh c'mon. If you define civilized society that broadly than anything capable of organized warfare is by definition a civilized society. It would be a pointless tautology. In that context my response that systematic murder is uncivilized (and that therefore a society that engages in systematic murder is an uncivilized society) becomes a direct contradiction in terms. So that's obviously not what I meant.

When I speak of a civilized society it is in comparison to other societies. Not all countries violate human rights on the same scale, and therefore, not all countries are equally civilized.
Considering how obsessed with image, marketing, etc, Apple is, I would be extremely surprised if the Marketing department weren't hugely competent in this matter, including knowing about user-agent strings, logs, etc.

Ask yourself: would Steve Jobs have known about this? Yes, of course. So, why wouldn't the person he hired? This is not a clueless marketing department we're talking about, here... it's probably the most competent marketing departments of any technology company in the world.
Refuting the “sixteen concerned scientists” about global warming
I'm Italian and I live in Italy, and sometimes I see really interesting startups that (IMHO) could be successfully launched in Italy too. Sometimes I think I could be a copycat like these guys, sometimes I think I could just adapt their idea to my country market , other times I think about contacting the (tipically) US startup guys and ask them if I can help them in some way to launch here.

So, maybe it's time for a new (?) kind of job, the New Market Facilitator (or helper or.. feel free to find a better matching english term for it): a person that could be contacted to evaluate a specific market (i.e. a country), that can deal with localization, local laws etcetera.

What do you think?

PS if anyone is interested in launching their service in Italy, feel free to contact me at startup.in.italy@gmail.com (freshly made :D)
I use it for importing repositories, and sometimes as a historical diff tool, but usually not for commits. Looking forward to updating.
I have now built 5 mobile banking apps for iOS / Andrdoid for 4 different clients. We have proposed this as a security measure to every app we've built so far. It is a perfect solution since many banks can now identify the user and ensure the the traffic is really coming from them. It also helps that since we're building custom apps, we don't have to rely on simple cookie+ssl based solution.

Guess how many companies bite? Zero. None of them want to do it, and these are major nationwide banks. So much of their knowledge comes from handling browser based sessions that they can't imagine a different way.