skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To say that this guy was an idiot is an understatement.

He's better known to me and my online pals as "tylerknowsthis", a reference to Tyler Durden and his philosophy of destroying the capitalist system to "free the people." Say what you will about his ideals, his methods and actions are beyond retarded.

Here he is at Defcon in 2004 talking about how they need more "footsoldiers" to "fuck shit up in the streets" - to the point that Priest has to come on stage and denounce violent acts or acts that hurt people. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1269112265902193941 In general he defends the use of violence as the last act of a person who is desperate to defend freedoms for people who didn't ask to be helped. His website HackThisSite is a sort of propaganda and training tool used to entice young black hats to join his cause.

You can find a list of his previous run-ins with the law on his wikiepdia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond (My favorite is where he attacked a 70-year-old holocaust denier that was having dinner at a restaurant.... what productive direct action!)

He claims he steals his power, water and internet access and at times squats abandoned buildings and eats "freegan" so he isn't helping the capitalist system flourish. At the same time he kept a part-time computer programming job to make spare cash. So he can keep fighting the good fight against capitalism.

I think he may have still been on probation during the events of the Stratfor hack, so he may be royally fucked by the prosecution unless he too snitches - something he has repeatedly said is the worst thing any good hacktivist can do.

He's one of the longest-running jokes my online friends and I have. His rants against "the system" and hypocritical actions which seem to have little purpose serve to foster flame wars and is frequently banned when people get tired of his shit. He then comes back and threatens to "curbstomp" or "shiv" anyone who disliked or banned him. Basically, nobody but the LulzSec freaks like this guy.

Yet again the same people who try to get away with petty online crime get caught due to negligence, bragging and misplaced trust in other criminals. If only they'd learn that trusting a criminal is probably not a good idea they might not be arrested right now.

edit: In case anyone wants to verify this account (in a WikiLeaks-style full transparency way), here is a brief dump of a public chatroom on a public irc server of his comments. I don't have the entire log, just his comments. http://pastebin.mozilla.org/?dl=1506078 http://tinypaste.com/a104418f (it's around 1.8MB)
Can you recommend some of the best?
Signed in to Google? Encrypted search becomes default, across the globe.
The class itself won't be posted for a week or two, but it will be at http://generalassemb.ly/
The Panasonic GX1 Compared with a Cann 5D & G9
No, the FBI is not incompetent.

Anonymous/Lulz was/is the biggest hacking group ever. They were hacking businesses, law enforcement, media, websites of the US Congress and the CIA (just to name a few).

I really doubt that one could describe a plausible ranking system of law enforcement priorities that wouldn't direct real resources at Anon/Lulz in 2011.
Standing near a MRI machine is also likely to erase the magnetic material on any of your credit cards -- plus they could never shut off the machine. There's probably a bunch more obvious reasons why MRI was never chosen.

And if some metal object were to get stuck on the machine, they'd need a team of people to remove it. Every airport would also need to keep a good stock of liquid helium for the cases where machines need to be shut down.
EDIT* My situation in Ontario, Canada: the cutoff date is Dec. 31. So if you are born Jan. 1 or later, you are the oldest. If you are born in Dec., you are the youngest.

What a really fascinating topic. I'm reading all this because I now have a 4 month old son (born in early November) and an older nephew born in early January of the same year. My nephew can walk now and my son just drools and hates tummy time - and they will be going to the same school and same grade! Eek.

I thought for sure my son would be at a disadvantage but I realized that both my sister and I were skipped 1 grade when we were 3 and 3.5 years old. (Side note: we did not attend a North American system.) We were always the youngest in class. She was physically the same as the other girls, but I was smaller, so I always lacked confidence growing up as I was always the smallest AND youngest. Thankfully in high school I hit a growth spurt and reached nearly 6 feet. Skinny, but still - I was tall.

Both my sister and I turned out just fine. We always had good marks and went to university. She even has more credentials. We are both extremely social, and she is very mature in the sense that she can negotiate and do business with people with far more experience than her. So no issues there.

All this to say, both of us were skipped grades and we turned out just fine, and we always tried to achieve more than others in our class, and we have more often than not. So if there are any parents out there with young children, don't worry so much about your child being the youngest in the class. Simply reassure them when they it looks like they lack self-confidence and they'll be fine. This is not scientific, nor can I really remember how I felt when I was 4 years old. Just wanted to give anyone else a point of view from a simple grade-skipper who gets bored easily :)
One interesting thing from this was that the FBI couldn't trace him via the Tor network until they had his physical location. Good for Tor, glad to see they are still anonymous.

If I had been him, I'd have put Tor on top of a couple of vpses in some select countries around the world.

That being said, he was reckless and too ideological without considering he wouldn't be furthering his ideals. Its one thing to dump company secrets, its another to dump personal CCs.

Now if I was the FBI, I'd be trying to combine the successful methods of having undercover agents pose as terrorists with a hacker bent. Its the same sort of system, albeit purely digital.
Isn't this video a proof that a copycat of the 9/11 would be obvious to do ?
I wondered how these would look as iOS tab bar icons — I added a script to generate them using ImageMagick: https://github.com/jogloran/Font-Awesome
Request: an empty/reverse/outline icon-tint or droplet

Nice stuff, going to try to use it sometime!
Yes, you're correct. Do you study Old Norse? When new technology or terms arrive in Iceland usually new words are created, or old words are given a new meaning (as opposed to adopting foreign words, such as telephone (sími in Icelandic, which is an archaic word meaning wire). Einhverfur is one of those, I suppose. It can also mean what you said.
The Pentagon is Building a Robot Army
Theres a freaking "Apple distinguished educator" logo on the bottom. We need to talk about taking education, not brand loyality serious.
The C++ standard library is actually quite small. Check Herb Sutter's keynote at Going Native 2012 for an entertaining visualization of its size compared to the Java or C# standard libraries:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012...
Google would really like your money, but in order to get it, they'd have to spend a lot of money. The reality is that there are so many laws about IP and money that it's nearly impossible to sell music or collect money in the US. Any business that does this successfully only does so after much hacking around US-based corporations and laws. Each new country is a fresh start, and the intersection of laws between two countries is almost always the empty set, meaning that there is no scaling effect. It's like swimming to shore while being sucked out by a rip current. You die.

A Google engineer implementing payment processing rules costs the same as a Google engineer inventing the space elevator. So Google is not going to do something like launch a brand new super complex product in every country, because that's money that could be spent on something actually cool.
great article, thanks! :)
IDE's with GitHub code comment integration
Is there an IDE (or plugin for Eclipse, for example) that integrates the GitHub API such that you can see and add pull request comments within the IDE?

I occurred to me while switching between Aptana and GitHub's pull request inline comment view, that it was a bit dumb to search for line numbers to find the comments when GitHub's Pull Request Discussion API[1] provides the data you'd need to integrate it into your IDE.

Already done? Or something I should look at building?
I know that there is probably conflict between Google Wallet/Checkout

I'm confused as to what you mean here. Purchases on Play are branded "Google Wallet".
The best defense is probably to not blabber to people who might identify you. That's how they got most of the clues, according to the story.
The laws of market implies rational actors and decisions aimed at maximizing revenues. Lawyers, especially new ones, may consider reputation more valuable than cash. A begginer charging $800 an hour will get nothing. To maximize profit should charge any price to get his first clients then go upward. However, if he has the patience of trying to find clients for several months and sticking to his initial price, he will end up getting one (there are many irrational actors out there). That is not a profit maximization strategy but a shortcut to high reputation and a gamble many lawyers may be tempted to do, especially those that have a high self-esteem.
I am pretty certain that the price was 0.095, not 0.085.
Moreso just a personal preference. I migrated to Mac from a PC so I was so accustomed to gVim that MacVim was an easier transition for me.
This is fairly common practise - for example pastie/pastebin, Skitch, Facebook - all have 'private' URL options.

I thought it was obvious, but that's only because I immediately understood the implications of a shareable URL. That's not going to be obvious to everyone, and GitHub really should change the "[lock icon] Create Private Gist" to something like "Create Hidden Gist".

"Hidden" implies it's there if you find it. "Private" implies a whole lot more.
And, a package doesn't prove much. The return address can be fake, and the recipient can be unaware that he was mailed pot.

The perfect crime!
I believe a major frustration is the costs of discrete advice or legal services. This is caused by a high fixed cost associated with even interacting with a lawyer. Calling, scheduling a meeting, signing paperwork, paying a retainer, going to an office, and so on.

I used to be the business intelligence lead at Yelp, and saw that people gravitate to products that make the entire experience of engaging local service providers as simple as possible.

With those problems in mind, I'm starting Lawdingo.com, a market for immediate legal advice delivered by lawyers over video chat, billed by the minute. The product is still in development, but I have some great startup lawyers on it if anyone would be interested in trying it out. Feedback on Lawdingo is much appreciated.
And how many terrorist hijackings/crashes in the US were there before 9/11?
The response is to not be terrorised. It is to live well and not in fear.

An interesting comparison is a popular Israeli song from a few years back: Yalla Ya Nasrallah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8pVvJIzllA). They respond to (not merely a single act, but frequent!) terrorism with taunts, humor, and an attitude of defiance.

I can imagine what a parallel song would sound like (Bring it on Osama / Blow up all the buildings you want . . . ). It would never have been written here. It would never have become popular. I see in that an indictment of the culture.
Check out icon-tint. Does that one cover it?
A pat down just on the sides as soon as you come out of the scan would also work.
The same thing was happening just 80 years ago in our own country:

> California was emphatically not the promised land of the migrants' dreams. Although the weather was comparatively balmy and farmers' fields were bountiful with produce, Californians also felt the effects of the Depression. Local and state infrastructures were already overburdened, and the steady stream of newly arriving migrants was more than the system could bear. After struggling to make it to California, many found themselves turned away at its borders.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tsme.html
"Laptops still require some picky shopping if you're planning to run Linux on them"

This is the show stopper for me. I hope it improves since I'm uncomfortable with the direction apple is going.
I'm only familiar with building pricing models. Thanks for the quick list and links. I kinda want to get into this.

Sans hat tip.
I studied the costs for such an approach on facebook, using amazon mechanical turk. 80% success on comments, 100% on likes.

Details on http://en.blog.guylhem.net/post/18384978350/mechanical-turk-...

I wonder how frequent it is.
Time Machine is very poorly implemented, and is quite fragile as a result. Keep rsync backups in parallel (not of your time machine volume, those actually depend on inode numbers(!)).
Ask Joel: Thoughts on the new Basecamp?
Joel, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the new Basecamp.com.

37signals completely completely rewrote the product from the ground up - which you have strongly advised against.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

They also eliminated a bunch of functionality that was present in the previous Basecamp "Classic" version, which you also strongly advised against.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html

I'm curious if you believe this is a good move on 37signals part or a huge misstep.
Go here, and read this blog post by Dwolla CEO Ben Milne:
http://blog.dwolla.com/retail-merchants-rejoice-web-kiosk-on...

Remember, these are cash-based transactions!
No credit card fees, chargeback concerns, or
signing necessary!

Now go here, and read this official statement from Dwolla:
http://www.betabeat.com/2012/03/06/dwolla-releases-statement...

Unfortunately, as is a reality with all financial services
(e.g. banks, credit cards, etc.), predators can use stolen
identities to create fraudulent accounts without a victim’s
knowledge. That’s why Dwolla requires numerous identification
and verification steps. A necessary byproduct of this kind of
fraud is bank-level reversals, “chargebacks” issued by the
institutions on behalf of the victim, not Dwolla.

There's really no way to square those two statements. Now Dwolla does go on to say that:

Most all merchants are well aware of the problem, which is why
we’ve always had something in our terms of service about
chargebacks since Day One.

Ignoring the tortured logic in there (merchant awareness can't really be why they have chargebacks), is this true? If so, then I guess all Dwolla is guilty of is contradicting their marketing hype in the fine print of their terms. Sleazy, but not that uncommon. Does anyone have a copy of their early terms of service?

Moving beyond that, I'm also quite shocked at their reversing charges and then retroactively changing records. That seems like a fairly huge breach of trust, and yet Mt Gox confirms it ("the transactions just disappeared from the history at first, without any notice"). I think Dwolla needs to come clean about how the hell that happened, and what steps they've taken to ensure it can't happen again. I'm uncomfortable with a payments processor that thinks retroactive changes to statements could ever even possibly be okay, especially in a post-SOX world. I want to see some acknowledgement on their part that they've screwed the pooch, and that it won't happen again the next time their tinkering with their systems. That's not the sort of think a trustworthy company would try and sweep under the rug, in my book.
"xeroxed"

Clever, Mr. Kay
I have issues with both #2 and #5, having just gone through the getting hired process myself. I think a portfolio is good, but I can't stand this "let's look at Github and Stack Overflow" attitude. To my interviews I brought four projects that I plan to sell one day and one project that I worked on but wasn't mine, so these projects are not open source and I don't like this trend of employers expecting all this open source code. I have real working programs in my portfolio, that should be good enough, if I show you the code you would just nitpick on it anyways.

Give them an audition project: Just no. The suggestions in the article definitely help, but audition projects as I've seen them are horrible, and even with the suggestions, you still need tons of time that you probably don't have unless you are unemployed. Maybe if it's an hour test-like thing, I had a good test project with a company that was an hour long, it tested me on a programming language I had never used, I guess it was more similar to a hello world programming example than anything else.

However my other experience with audition projects was the week type. It was two questions, given BEFORE the first interview as a pre-screen. The first was a 2 page single spaced paper on an economic question. This was about 10% the length of the major research paper I had to do around the same time, all I could think of was how much better my time would be spent doing that.

The coding question was far worse, something about triangulating a trapped miner using his cell phone records. There were so many things not explained that I would need, like the API of the cell phone records or how the data was stored that I felt like either I would have to ask the guy for more information than he would give or that it would be totally fake. Oh, and on top of all that, they gave me a deadline of the work week, not even a weekend. I was in school at that time and only had a few hours on weekday nights.

From my personal experience (which very well may be colored by the one example above), I would have to say that projects as part of a hiring process are for desperate candidates. It will screen out the dumb or lazy ones, but it will also screen out the skilled ones because they will figure it's not worth their time trying to do tons of work for a company that very well may not give them a job, and that the time would be better spent doing something REAL (and not unpaid work for the company either), maybe even a project to put in a portfolio and show off to all companies they are interviewing for.
What do you mean you "wouldn't even invent a pseudonym"? What does that have to do with getting caught?
I tried this with 19kHz and 20kHz. Couldn't hear any of them on their own, but very clearly together.

EDIT: You can generate higher than 20kHz by increasing the pitch of a tone lower than 20kHz. Upon doing this, I could hear 24kHz and 26kHz together.
You mean getting a click for 5 cents? I got a 100% success on 10 cents during a test. Apparently, from the results most of the clickers came from India.
NSFW

George Carlin was the embodiment of NSFW, he was the one who went to the Supreme Court for the right to swear on the airwaves... And lost. The “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV” was one of his legendary routines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin
"I’m using a pretty basic home-assembled machine — Intel Core i7 processor, 32 GB RAM, SSD for applications and 3x 1TB HDs in a RAID for data..."

Clearly his definition of a "basic" machine is different from mine. Or maybe I'm just getting old...
I have a magic rock that protects against Tiger attacks. How do I know it works? Well, in 38 years of carrying it with me at all times, I've never once been attacked by a Tiger! It's pretty amazing... if you want one, email me and I'll see if I can scare one up for ya. They're pretty hard to get so it might cost a little, but it's worth it for the sense of security you'll have, knowing that you never, ever have to sweat a Tiger attack!
I tend to agree. It can depend though on circumstances and personality types. I think we can adjust feedback methods depending on who is involved, how well we know each other, and so on.

That said, some people try too hard "not to be a dick", and while nice and polite, they end up supplying watered down, fence-sitting, egg-shell treading fluff instead of useful down-to-earth efficient feedback.

Some designers get emotional. That's good - but they need to learn to channel that emotion into reasoning and solid foundation arguments to support why they did what they did. If they can't do that, they need to work with people who can assist them in doing that.

A colleague once used "intuition" as her rationale for a design/IA decision that was going to negatively impact on technical work I had to do. My criticism was harsh in reply, and I'm sure she thought I was "a dick". Well, that's just tough. Build a bridge and let's move on to the next task. All intuitive decisions can be unscrambled or decoded to find their basis. Especially true in design environments where you're working within defined limitations, scope and objectives. If you can't find a basis, then unload the criticism, keep our humor, and let's solve the problem rather than mess around.
Secure door entry and other uses of "capacitive coupling" technology (video)
Huffington Post too: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/
It really is all just security theater... keeping the peanut gallery scared, entertained... and at the same time self-satisfied about their unearned 'exceptionalism'...

BTW, has it occurred to anyone that someone intending a terrorist act could just blow up a carry-on before ever getting to the ridiculous scanner...

It'll shut down the airport for sure... and do it at a couple of airports simultaneously and you'll shut down the whole network for a day or two...

Stop letting government treat us like childish idiots... yes... things could happen... reasonable precautions should be taken. But this isn't a smart approach.
Many of the groups I listen to do do this -- this is certainly not that rare. Sometimes they go for a bit more money by releasing a separate CD with karaoke tracks, for example, but at least if you want it, it's available.

Of course, you can very easily get just the vocal track by subtracting the two. Sometimes the "non-vocal" track will still include backing vocals or the like in appropriate places, and just pull out the main vocal track.

Some musicians have even released every single track of their work separately; see "Desperate Religion" on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_(ATB_album) , intentionally inviting remixes.

For music where the vocal tracks aren't released separately, you can often pull them out nevertheless. The best is if you can get the audio in 5.1 -- vocals are almost always center-panned, which makes extracting them quite easy.
My point was that the employer could trivially trace the online account he uses at work to one IP address, which is known to be a proxy.

Now the employer wonders: Why is this account going to such trouble to hide its actions?
That blows. I'd like to hear how this turns out and how you handle it. Please update when you can. Good luck.
Historically that may have been true (if you consider making a product usable and finding users for it distinct from the task of making a product good), but the trend is very much in the opposite direction.

These days the difficulty in building a great product vastly outweighs the difficulty in finding an audience to validate it. Both skills can - and must - be learned, but these days, someone who is able to learn how to build a great product will find it comparatively easy to learn how to find an early-adopter audience for it.

This is what YC is talking about with their motto "make something people want".
Is this a joke? Do you guys expect all or even a significant number of employers asking to look through your FB accounts?

For developers, the job market is super hot right now; companies are fighting for talent, not the other way around. I don't see this as a problem we'll have to worry about in the foreseeable future.