skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest company in the world making their money on the backs of exploiting the very poorest is a common trope so it's one that doesn't get much fact checking.

Except they did fact check those parts:

"In our original broadcast, we fact checked all the things that Daisey said about Apple's operations in China," says Glass, "and those parts of his story were true, except for the underage workers, who are rare. We reported that discrepancy in the original show. (...)"

What wasn't true was the stuff that the guy claim to had experienced personally.
the description sounds like textbook manic symptoms.

if i were this guy and suddenly had a huge internet audience watching my movies and then accusing me of distortion and lying, i can see it triggering a manic episode really easily.
My recollection is that, at least initially, the Guardsmen stationed in airports after 9/11 were issued guns but no ammunition. Not sure whether it was due to red tape or what, but that certainly illustrates the US approach to "security" quite nicely.
I guess Kony wasn't the only one shooting thousands of kids
Because I know the value of being in the Silicon Valley, and I'm doing whatever it takes to be in that environment. And surprisingly, my set up is not uncomfortable for sleeping.

As for working, most of my time will be spent in coworking spaces. Spending 16 hours a day in a workspace won't hurt my productivity.
Uhhh...

Wow...

Maybe it shouldn't...but that makes me think a little less of this guy.

I have always tried...

but now I think I will redouble my efforts to fact-check and look with a critical eye, at issues that come to my attention via 'Clicktivist' campaigns.

EDIT:

...He is described on the organization's [Invisible Children] website as a co-founder and "our grand storyteller and dreamer."...

Not at all a slow news day for clicktivism. Better to just rip the band-aid off though... less painful that way.
Bizdom U: application deadline is Friday, March 23, 2012
I agree, it's a bigger population and Craigslist has tons of ads for startups that are growing and need more assistance. What he is doing can be done from his computer, and he doesn't need to leave his wife.
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In the video, they say that the water is filtered and chlorinated before going into the cooling system.
Not quite.

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#linuxsyswithoutgnu
Hey? Artist? Padrino 0.10.6 is out
Actually, no, after contemplation I realize that it would be much worse to split the compatibility of 3.2 and force library authors to qualify their compatibility targets by the minor version. After all, if the hypothetical 3.2.new didn't require any porting effort to support 3.3-style unicode literals, then library authors would have even less incentive to port their libraries to 3.2.old for all the people who can't upgrade, or won't upgrade, or who don't realize that their version doesn't feature a critical language addition.
Thanks for the feedback. That's kind of my goal for tonight. I'm going to keep track of the total number of rounds that each person has guessed correctly, I think. Something along those lines. I think this would maybe prompt people to want to have a lot of successful rounds, which means played a lot of rounds.
Flipboard Gets Retina-Ready, But Will Users Spend More Time In-App?
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I was just wondering what you during the time after you left Yahoo and before you started YCombinator?

(I know some of the things you did included writing essays and publishing Hackers and Painters, working on Arc, and deliver talks.)
I won't comment on my personal negative/positive take on this - doesn't much matter.

But the main issue I see, as others have stated, is the sheer amount of effort involved in merely surviving each day, every day. Not being assured a minimal level of safety, warmth, and shelter, is both physically and mentally draining. I don't know about you but I can't even work well if I wake up one hour earlier than usual.

Seem quite counterproductive from the "I'm doing this for my startup" point of view.
I was taught in a crypto class a few years ago that an algorithm commonly used to encrypt messages runs in time proportional to the number of 1 bits in the binary representation of e, thus a smaller e is better and so 3 (11) is a very good candidate efficiency-wise. Is this true in the real world?
The Last American Man (1998)
Looks almost identical to the website they have today.
This is how the app idea started, actually. When I showed it to some friends and watched them play, there just wasn't enough sense of a game mechanic, I guess. When I showed my dad, who is not the most technical guy, he saw the timer and felt rushed to guess before it was up. That's when I realized that I should make it more of a per-round type thing, and the goal is to get all 3 correct. It just felt more natural, I guess.
What does the Nexus brand mean anymore, though?

I'm not even trying to be sarcastic. I can't figure out why I should be excited about this. Okay, Google's cooperating with some unnamed hardware manufacturer and some unnamed wireless carrier to produce this device, but what does that mean for me?

Nexus doesn't mean that it's produced with a given hardware manufacturer, or even a given set of hardware (beyond the implication that it's generally the best available at the time). For phones, it doesn't mean that it's tied to any given carrier, though it also doesn't necessarily mean that it can be used between carriers either (thanks to the GSM/CDMA incompatibility). It doesn't mean that the device won't have carrier bloatware on it. It doesn't mean that the device will be the first to receive updates (for proof: take a look at the angry Nexus S users who still don't have ICS). It doesn't even mean (anymore) that the device will receive updates directly from Google! Since Google's now apparently establishing a two-versions-per-year schedule for Android, those once-valuable promises mean absolutely nothing.

I have a Galaxy Nexus, and I love it - I'm glad I upgraded. But I honestly don't know what Google thinks the Nexus brand means - maybe they have some idea, but they're not doing a great job of communicating it to even a tech-savvy Android user. I'm glad that Google took the UI to the next level on ICS, but unless they solve this problem very soon, Android's in trouble.
I read somewhere that fitness gyms are about cycling people through their facilities as fast as possible since you could never fit all the people that have memberships there at once. If anything I'd think they'd love to have a guy who pays full membership go there just for a shower.
Not anywhere near big enough to be cryptographically secure. RSA uses 2 numbers as the public key, e and n. n should be more than 1024 bits, and it really doesn't matter how big e is. The default for e for a while (and cryptographically secure in theory) was 3 because computing y=x^3 mod n (aka RSA encryption) was cheap. What matters in RSA though is n being large and hard to factor, not in e being large.

EDIT: my bad, I misread the "2^16+1 bits" as 2^16+1 every time I read it.
"The Fourth Man wants to remain anonymous for now" lol makes you wonder how long that lasted :P
The great thing about roguelikes is that you can only play them so long before you decide to make a random map generator, and then a line of sight algorithm, and implement A* pathfinding and suddenly you're making your own.
There's a huge untapped market of casual users that are too price sensitive to be buying the iPad. That's very likely the market a $100-250 tablet would be aimed at. This is the same market that the kindle fire is already selling to. In the case of the fire the hardware is mediocre and I would expect the same from whatever this device is supposed to be.
We are a young company. In the previous blogs we talk a bit about the factors that made doing the experiment possible including that one.

One clarification on your last point: the company didn't actually fund any of this (except for travel insurance for everyone). All the employees who chose to go paid their own way. This was what made it virtually 0 cost for us, and one of the reasons why some chose to stay behind. Families and significant others were another reason.
"PariSoma is in San Francisco and will cost $295 for full-time."

Why is PariSoma so expensive? That's triple the cost of Hacker Dojo. You can rent an apartment room in the valley for < $200 more.
The list is actually just a list of accepted organizations who have filled out their profile on Melange. Check back in a few days as all the orgs create profiles.
I just added this clarification to the post: as Cory said the whole trip was company-endorsed and employee-funded.
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It's disturbing to see blatant prejudice on HN against someone who may have a mental illness. (I'm not a doctor, and I'm not saying he does. Maybe he just went on a drinks / drugs bender, in which case judge away.)

His erratic behaviour shouldn't be causing you to scrutinise their information; that's something you should be trying to do anyway.

For a reputable source you could try IRIN (Yes, I post lot from them. I have no connection to them.)

(http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95083/SECURITY-Fighting-Kony-...)

> Invisible Children only publish information on LRA, or suspected LRA, activity on their LRAcrisistracker.com website, while other acts of violence in the region - where aid workers say the “DRC government is absent” and there are alleged human rights abuses by FARDC and Ugandan troops operating with the assistance of US forces in CAR - never get a mention.
I absolutely agree, Doug. My wife is completely on board and supportive of this. We reached this decision together. At this point, if I tried to stay in LA she wouldn't even let me.
Retina-replace.js - Progressive enhancement of images for retina devices
Founder Story: Creating a Company Vision
Well... No, not really. Subpixel rendering takes advantage of the arrangement of component pixels, but not their shape.
Ask HN: Have you used any cool apps built on the Steam API?
"Tablets, however, are a luxury item... The people who buy them are buying them as luxury/status items, and that means Apple."

iPads replace laptops for many people which explodes your hypothesis. I've never purchased a laptop in my life due to expense but I did buy an ipad. New category =/= luxury.

Apple has won this category because (among other things) they were the first successful entrant, their software is more refined, their ecosystem is better and their distribution is leagues better.
Good site idea, but my location is totally wrong and I don't see a way to manually enter it so it is more accurate.
I seriously hope this is a joke. If you can't make it happen when you have a place to live in one of the largest cities on earth, you aren't going to make it in SF. Oh, I forgot, SF is "the center of the startup universe." That seems like a good reason to live out of your car.

If anything, it would make more sense to move OUT of SF to pursue a startup, since it is one of the most expensive cities in the US.
Analysis of Fast Modularity Clustering on Twitter
See my other comment, but I think you underestimate the physical and mental strain something like this usually entails. Hey if you are going to do it you are going to do it, more power to you. Go get em!

I just think "being tired" in all senses of the word is a pretty impactful thing. As a young person I never understood why people would complain about xyz, to me, through my ignorant ass teenaged eyes I thought everyone was just weak-minded and dumb.

When you are young you are invincible sorta thing. And hell I'm still young but now I seriously think .. damn I'm tired. Damn it sucks to get sick. Damn what if this, what if that.
I overdosed on caffeine recently. That sounds pretty "funny" actually, but caffeine is a real drug and suffice to say I completely tripped out. One of the worst experiences. Long story short it made me really really really really prioritize a healthy lifestyle. I don't want to feel unhealthy, its not worth it.

Mom was right. Eat your vegetables, balanced diet. Exercise every day. Take a minute to relax. Love your friends. See the sun.

Ok shutting up now.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3601687
How I got massively faster DB with in-process replication
As a startup grows, so does the user or customer base. First come the early adopters. If you're one of those, you should be prepared that the service you're using can be discontinued any day. That shouldn't be a problem, because, being an early adopter, you already have the next new thing in view.

Once the early adopter phase is over, a service should - in my opinion - have started making profit. It's very nice for a startup to have enough funding to take their time while figuring out how to generate revenue, but from the user's point of view, that's hardly reassuring.

Users should trust services, that are making money. It reduces the risk of the service being shut down when the funding money runs out or the company gets bought.
Wouldn't you be much more productive if you were well rested (sleeping in a car isn't all that comfortable in my experience) and not constantly worried about hunting down the next shower, even discounting the time you'll spend on doing so? Having gone through an eviction taught me it's hard to focus on your work when you're worried about your basic needs.
I'm not sure where you're getting the prejudice angle from, the link is merely information about a topic that was widely discussed here.
@willvarfar: Why did this appear on your stream (per HackerFollow) and now its not? :)
From the Legal page (http://web.archive.org/web/20050324100821/http://ycombinator...)

"Privacy Policy: We're too lazy to look at log files, and haven't yet written any software to do it.

Terms of Use: When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page."

Love it. Unlike many other sites, this one hasn't changed in years.

edit: privacy policy is gone (so I presume they got around to writing the software)
Some of my friends have lived your dream lifestyle for a few years now, in their cars/RVs, on couches, or literally in tents. Freedom isn't quite free.

But then again Silicon Valley is moving closer to mirroring bullshitty Hollywood scene. I see you got some hits from hackey tech news blogs so you're already up a few. Ride the hype for as long as you can.

I would rather in 4 months time smile seeing you write a blog post about how you sold your company for a mil than anything.

Take care and good luck.
I know the guy that made http://tf2recipes.com/ -- and it's a pretty nifty iOS app that makes use of the Steam API.
ha! It does. Thanks.
Most of the projects listed are pretty well known. I'm curious to see the rest of the list.
According to my calculations from a year ago, the Motorola Droid would be a "retinal" display at a viewing distance of 12.45 inches.
You're right, it's not a high pressure donation situation (hacker dojo is _way_ more in your face about it). However, there are two donations bins right in front of you when you walk in the upstairs door into the space. I just really want to see Noisebridge continue on in all its glory, and making sure that people know that it's all membership/donation run is part of that.

Being on Mission St., it seems there's always been somewhat of a problem of Mission St. craziness colliding with Noisebridge awesomeness. However, from what I can see not being in the space a ton (I live in Palo Alto, and only make it up a couple times per month at best), there's been added pressure on the space in the past 6 months or so. Anecdotally, it seems word has gotten out in the homeless shelter community and Occupy community that Noisebridge is an awesome place to store your food/stuff, hang out on the free wifi, and sleep on the couches. Needless to say, that's not seen as excellent use of the space, and has been a challenge for the volunteer run, often introverted, consensus based organization that Noisebridge is.

Having said that, I've been up there several times recently to hack on hardware projects, and Noisebridge has been awesome, vibrant, and filled with great people working on cool stuff. It's just going through some challenges that would benefit from people helping promote it in the right light.
I genuinely thought that all Nexus devices were stock Android without carrier modifications. Is this not the case?
IPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs?
good point, removed the arrow for now.
Not quite, the cost of RSA encryption is O(k^3), where k is the total number of bits, not the number of 1's. But it is cheaper to have less 1 bits, as (abusing big-O notation), the cost is more like O(3k^3-z^3), where z is the number of 0 bits. That's why some people are using 2^32+1 instead of 2^32-1.

In theory the size of e doesn't matter, but a larger e does make it harder to brute force the message text.
Let's not cut it short. This isn't a digression, this is the subject at hand.

Calling lapses of journalistic integrity "slip-ups" is a disservice to serious journalism. Running a story without adequate fact checking because it will gain you viewers or because it closely aligns to your biases is a serious breach and shouldn't be downplayed, no matter what the ideology of the perpetrators are. The media is in a sorry state these days and this is a big part of why.

Edit: On second thought it's possible I may have misinterpreted your intent. If you mean that it's not worthwhile to delve into ideologically based score keeping, then I agree. I only object to the notion that we shouldn't highlight past transgressions, or that we should downplay them as effectively "accidents". In reality there is a history of effective hoaxes and "black bag" operations involving the press, in some of the most egregious cases where members of the press were fully complicit. That's worth talking about and bringing to the surface even if an attempted reckoning of the integrity of, say, Fox News vs. CBS is not.
Thought has occurred to me but I'm looking forward to this! Will be neat to be able to go from home to work without actually walking a full block at either end.

Pretty sure one of the 86th street entrances is coming up on my block because they dug a ~40 foot deep hole and have a giant white truss sitting on my corner.
Security and safety
The galaxy nexus released to Verizon had no google wallet and added one or two pieces of Verizon specific software including their backup assistant. I don't believe either piece of vendor bloatware could be removed just disabled.

edit: The other pieces of software is My Verizon Mobile.
From the article:

"In our original broadcast, we fact checked all the things that Daisey said about Apple's operations in China," says Glass, "and those parts of his story were true, except for the underage workers, who are rare. We reported that discrepancy in the original show (...)"

Apparently the lies are more about what he claimed to have personally experienced.
High five! Maturity rocks!
That's assuming nobody ever looks at anyone else's commits. Inserting an exploit into someone else's software by pushing a new commit on top is extremely risky, because it's highly likely that someone will actually look at the commit and notice it's doing something wrong. Inserting malicious commits into the history of a repository is what an attacker would love to do, because nobody is going to pore over the old history of the repo, and this is exactly what git is going to prevent.
That's good advice. One of the first things I do when I move is find a gym. I find it really helps to break the day up and go work out for a bit. When I finish and get back to work it is almost like starting another day.
This seems like it might be a decent Android competitor to the iPod touch, which is actually a pretty smart move.
Very glad to see our work (Field) mentioned in the context of Victor's talk — he's really nailed the essence of an important argument, and it's nice to see these ideas get some play in the broader programming community. If anybody is looking for some more live coding in JavaScript, we have that too — http://vimeo.com/31452523 (Canvas) and http://vimeo.com/31452523 (WebGL).
I tried looking for your resume after reading this comment (I downvoted you).

If you think working 16 hours a day makes you more productive, I'd have to imagine you are not an experienced developer.
Web pages can sniff to see what Chrome extensions you have installed
Here's a way: get a ton of users.
I also love Amazon. I once ordered a big bulky heavy hardback book and it didn't arrive, so I emailed them and they replied that if it doesn't arrive after the full 6 weeks that they say to allow has passed, email them again for a replacement. So about a week later, I emailed them again because it still hadn't arrived and hey said "no problem, replacement sent, let us know if the original ever arrives" (it didn't) - the next morning I had my book, they over-night couriered it to me from the US to Ireland. Probably cost more than the book, but I love buying stuff off them ever since.
Measuring Site Performance at the Wikimedia Foundation
IPad 3 jailbreak
So it looks like the lucky owners of Apples new iPad shouldn't be waiting too long for a jailbreak.
A couple of hours ago @musclenerd posted a picture on twitter showing off his latest work also stating no ETA for release.
However a couple of days ago @i0n1c (Stefan Esser) stated he would be jailbreaking (untethered) his new iPad iOS 5.1 as soon as it arrived.
He has recently posted on twitter stating that it's done and as soon as he remembers his YouTube password a video showing the untethered jb will be posted.
Hopefully this jb will be good across all devices.
Just have to wait and see.
(hopefully not too long tho)
Luigi Auriemma's Explanation of the MS12-020 PoC Leak
The article may raise some generally interesting points, but the logic seems completely flawed.

Couple of facts/opinions as reported by the article:

- no big distribution uses btrfs as a default, although some are going in that direction

- normal users have no exposure to btrfs, because it's not the default

- bugs are still found in btrfs

- oracle should not release fsck tool, because it's not tested

This does not compute. It makes no sense whatsoever. Software in early versions has bugs. That's a universal fact. No standard user jumps to new software if there are existing alternatives. Of course it's not a default, but how do they imagine the testing is going to work if the only way to use the system is to compile it yourself from some obscure branch? Who is going to be happy to test the file system for which an early version of the repair tool exists, but is hidden in some obscure location? Where do the field testers and community come from if the access to the latest version is not as easy as possible?

I can't grasp what is he complaining about really... That the option to use the not throughout tested filesystem (even though he starts with saying that won't ever find all bugs) is exposed to users? That's the field testing, he's so keen to see happening. That's exactly what will make the file system more stable. If he doesn't want to use the experimental features, he should not use experimental features!

He also seems to have some bias in what a complete file system provides... "Btrfs isn't even fully developed yet, because the developers are still working to integrate RAID-5 support, more efficient compression algorithms and various other improvements". Well - once developers go into integrating compression as an out of the box option and start working on a built-in RAID support, I believe the file system is complete. These are very interesting, but completely optional features.

I couldn't disagree more with this article.
It'll help porting which will get momentum moving behind v3.
Porting from wxWidgets to Qt would probably solve that along the way.