skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through a similar phase during my high school years where I felt like I was weird and an outsider. When I was about to graduate, I found a gym, started working out and it changed my life. I feel happy for the kid in this story because he was at the gym, interacting with mature adults, and learning the discipline of weight training - great way to build a good foundation for his future.
I've been saying it for a while: the publishing industry right now is where the music industry was ~3 years ago. The cycle is going to be exactly the same. At one point big music figured out that removing DRM let them sell more songs, and they finally dropped it. It looks like publishers are starting to realize the same thing. About time, too--I have an ereader that I like to use but I refuse to buy DRM ebooks on principle, and the selection of unread Gutenberg books is growing rather slim :)

Eventually publishers will also bring down the prices of their books ($10-$15 for an ebook? Really?) and discover that they can bring in even more profit. But that discovery is a year or two down the line still.

Thanks Charlie for giving them an eloquent and firm nudge in the right direction!
Is there anyone who's actually used it and can comment on how good it is?
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Perhaps people churn phones more than they do iPods?
I've been using Nightly for months now and it is surprisingly stable.
I don't know, I'm pretty bothered by this. I checked Google Play the day I purchased it and it was only available w/ a contract.
That's why when I saw it at Fry's I bought it because it was unlocked. Should have waited two more days and gotten it at half price. In any case, I'm going to go complain to them about this. I believe they offer price matching.
Well, it's only natural to check out the opposite sex. It's like a part of our DNA or something. Nothing creepy about that.
I'm sure most of the responses to your comment have technical reasons for their disagreement, but I agree with you for anecdotal reasons.

I have a Garmin GPS I wear when I run, it connects to 3 (at least?) satellites and I've never seen it be off by more than a few feet in altitude. I'm sure there are some random points in the graph with anomalous readings but the overall "smoothed" graph seems very accurate.

Granted, there are times it loses its signal altogether, but that is not a resolution issue.
It shouldn't be complicated to write a FUSE client, should it?
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Maybe they did to no effect, or maybe the content was of such nature that they didn't want to draw any extra attention to it. Pure speculation of course, but no matter the reason, they achieved the intended end result "efficiently".
More lunacy. What possible sense can anyone make trying to determine anything "before" the universe? What is the page before the first page of book? Where was I before I existed? This is all nonsense. The universe has existed "forever" because time has no meaning without a universe.
This behavior of unplugging the destination of the DDoS is common with smaller hosts. They don't have the capital to spend on expensive mitigation devices. There are times when these attacks affect their entire network (bad design), so their quick and fast solution is to null route you at their cores.
I don't know about the scale of the DDoS attacks but have you tried cloudflare?
> I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Fodor's

Man, I'm 30 and this makes me feel old. :) In the print travel guides market, it's one of the big names. It comes from the generation before the more backpacker-oriented guides (Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, etc.) and targets more of an upper-middle-class family vacation type of audience, but it's still fairly popular, within the print-travel-guides space.

It does seem that their move into digital guides is quite recent and incomplete, though.
My point here is that the number of iPads is listed twice...
It's strange that the top comments here are blasting Google for things we couldn't care less about.

I think it's awesome. Especially the search integration and ability to build apps. Dropbox is dead.
man how much time must it have taken to crack accounts manually thats just nuts.
How much does google know about you because your friends use gmail? It knows quite a lot about me.
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It is actually cheaper to launch a DDoS attack then to talk to the webmaster, if you already control enough zombies and value your personal time highly enough.

The attack might have been launched for the fun of it, too. Why not, when you won't be affected personally?
i think thats fairly obvious but perhaps not to all.
I'm in the same boat. The the thought of installing this never crossed my mind. A few months ago I even set up my own email server on a spare Linode so I could ditch Gmail.
> or had to "downgrade" and sit those two years with lowerclassmen

Good guess! Yap had to to that. But it was a fun time. I already knew all the material and didn't really have to work. Had more time to hack on my computer which is what I really wanted to do.

> yet another "future leader" failed the "task". ;)

True. Not much of a future leader more of a introverted nerd who likes to code. It worked out great for me though.
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iPods: they’re up from the same quarter a year ago != iPod didn’t fare so well: Sales are down 15% over last year’s quarter
People get hacked and/or locked out of accounts surprisingly often. A good (and tech-savvy friend) was recently hacked, and managed to get thousands of dollars transferred before found it.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you have a Gmail account please follow Jeff Atwood's directions below. Turn on two-factor authentication, make sure you've verified a phone number and recovery email address account.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...

It eliminates virtually all of the easiest "threat vectors" to your Gmail account.
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mac sales

Waiting for the Ivy Bridge refresh myself. (not that it's an Earth shattering improvement over Sandy Bridge based machines but I have no urgent need to buy right now so I don't mind waiting)
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VMWare Source Code leaked by Anonymous Hackers
maybe they teamed up at the conference
Infographic: Rise of the Slacktivist
I'm sure he could have got his computer back much sooner if he was sensible but he was a dumb kid, I imagine he just waiting for the police to give it back to him (probably low on their list of things to do).

He had a habit of rubbing people up the wrong way, bragging about being having 'leet' computer skills (he didn't) and doing idiotic things like mass net sends at school so I'm sure it was in many ways his fault. Does show how paranoid the police can be about "hackers" though.
OMeta#: What if you could subclass your favorite programming language? (2008)
I haven't read the actual post yet, but the title made me laugh as I read it internally as:

"What I Wish Someone Told Me After Two Iterations of People Telling Me Things"
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After reading this article I am sure of one thing, he is not a minority. This existential crisis of "weirdness" he refers to is the luxury of those who are supposed to be normal.
Lotus Notes has this feature for a long time. You can disable forwarding.

But of course, you cannot prevent anyone from screen printing and forwarding.
And to no one's surprise, they're up 8% in after-hours trading.
Another step to reward high-quality sites
It's a pity the +25GB plan for $2.49 isn't as good a deal. It's $1.20/GB/year compared to ~$0.60/GB/year for all the others. It should be $1.25/month - $15/year. Glad I got grandfathered in with the +20GB for $5/year plan.

Here's all the pricing info I could find for Google Drive, Old Google pricing, Sky Drive and Dropbox:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag97-edaO5TwdFY...
КОМАНДА ВОСЕМЬ - (2012) - ВОЕННЫЙ - DVDRip - 4 серии из 4
Internet giants should equally value personal privacy and advertising dollars
I don't think tsegart is quite right on this one. Anytime you "express" words on a page, those words are copyrighted. Expressions are distinguished from more functional/factual considerations like labels, page numbers, math equations, etc.. So, my guess is that terms of service would likely be considered a copyrightable expression, just like software code, novels, and company manuals, because they are a manifestation of a lawyer's expression.

Assuming you copied Google or Facebook's terms of service without their permission, you would be in technical violation of their copyright. What they would sue for is less clear - unlike copying music, a textbook, or someone else's code, you're not really harming Google or Facebook's revenue through your copying like you would if you copied a competitor's design. In the extremely rare .00001% chance that Google's legal team decided to sue you, you're probably looking at a court-ordered takedown notice.

However, this discussion is largely academic. No one is probably going to sue you when you're bootstrapping and you can hire a real lawyer to change your ToS later. There's a good discussion of this on metafilter:

http://ask.metafilter.com/74055/Can-one-copyright-a-legal-ag...

Disclaimer: This is not legal advice, just my personal opinion. If you want to rely on someone's advice, hire a lawyer.
So if someone throws multiple tens of gigabits at your customer, and your upstream threatens to turn off your entire hosting company, you would respond "no way, we're going the extra mile for our customer"?

Rails Machine was, in all likelihood, compelled to act to either (a) preserve its relationship with is upstream or (b) preserve its relationship with its other paying customers that do not attract DoS attacks. Your idealism will fall down quickly when one annoying customer threatens service for every last one of your clients: it becomes a "do I continue to get paid or do I fight for this customer" equation.

Price out mitigation equipment and the multiple high-level engineers you will need to administer it before you respond telling me how wrong I am, by the way. The gear alone is an engineer's salary just to get started.

Edit: Fine, I dropped the Amazon example.
To get that into perspective, is that year-over-year or sequentially?
If you check out SLAM positioning, you can do some really amazing stuff even if all you know is how far away from the wall you are. Given a decent floor plan, you simply take frequent distance measurements as you wander around, using dead reckoning (the accelerometer will help) to keep track of your relative positions. You rapidly build up a local map of the walls near you, which eventually will map uniquely to one location on the floor plan. Our robot only had to wander for a few seconds to figure out where it was, and that was just using a few ultrasonic rangefinders.

I haven't heard of such a thing, but I imagine you could do something similarly cool with the camera of your phone. Or, even the accelerometer and compass, combined with a knowledge of the locations of doors and the available walking paths, may be able to give a reasonably good approximation of your current location--if you walked north for 30 meters, then turned left and walked another 20 meters, then north for an additional 5, in a typical mall that's going to limit the number of points you could be occupying.
That certainly makes sense, I wonder if it is encrypted using any proper scheme or something simple like XOR?

If it is strong encryption I suppose the thing to do would be to capture the key in memory, but that would require more patience than I have.
> All his mails will just drown in a corporate maze of diffused responsibility and mis-communication.

Or worse: They could be used to prove he is guilty of something, whether perjury, or in threatening the eventual demise of Hasbro. Good intentions tend to come back to bite you when large corporations and their legal teams are involved.
Technically most of his post is illegally and providing evidence is the worst thing he can do. There is no way he can prove the owner of the license was in fact the acting guy, so providing his name is calumny.
A service to handle updates is good.
A service per application to handle updates is not very good.

Why is chrome bad? It at least can't lead to a system compromise.
comparisons are always yoy. comparing the current quarter with the previous quarter doesn't make sense due to seasonality (holiday season, summer, etc.).
Despite all its flaws, Yelp is the best solution I've had for finding good restaurants and other services. I love being able to read reviews by locals I might randomly see, browse through their profiles and see what else they like. In the vast majority of cases the crowdsourced reviews are awesome. Unfortunately their verification and filtering system is weak, and needs major improvement (an identity verification program would be awesome). Yelp is still a great service overall, and the fact that I use it over ZAGAT or anything else tells you a lot about how effective it is.
> This qarter only includes two weeks of the sale of the new iPad.

good point.
I guess you could try adapting a Gantt chart:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
Ars liveblog of the earnings call by Jacqui Cheng:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/04/liveblog-apples-fy...
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All features are useful to some subset of the user base. I'm just trying to help compile a list going the other way of things Dropbox does and Gdrive doesn't. It is up to others to determine how much or little they matter. That the list is so short indicates just how competitive the gdrive offering is.

I've never encountered anything that reliably reads my handwriting, and that includes my brain!
Amazon did not drop Wikileaks fearing DDOS attacks. They dropped Wikileaks fearing Lieberman.
If you're sensitive to Pentile screens, save yourself the trouble. I was excited about this phone but it all went out the window when I held one in my hand. The screen is, to me at least, a horror.
In such a case, those who launch the DDoS may have no legal/legitimate grounds to take some disfavored content down. (Perhaps it is embarassing to their prophet, government, guru, criminal enterprise, or movement.) They may have asked for material to be taken down, and the hoster said, "no, it's legal content" – at which point the DDoS is launched as both primary censorship (disabling access to the whole site) and censorship-by-blackmail ("take it down or your whole site stays down").

On the other hand, it's also possible that the originators of the DDoS are angry about something the hoster did take down. Perhaps they'd put up material against the rules, Pastie took it down, and in a tantrum after-the-fact, they decided to retaliate with a "well if you won't host our stuff we'll block eveyone". (This is a bit more like the Anonymous DDoS against payment services they didn't like.)

Without a statement from those involved, it can be hard to determine DDoSer motivations, but those are some common patterns.
Now I can explain it to my wife!
I don't remember it being about either DDoS (if anything, I thought they went to Amazon to avoid the DDoS, seemingly somewhat successfully) or "ToS" (which to me has an implication that Amazon decided they didn't like the service, as opposed to caving under the pressure of other people not liking the service).

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/12/wikileaks-kicke...

> The Wikileaks website migrated to Amazon's cloud hosting service yesterday after being hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Amazon decided to discontinue serving the controversial website this morning in response to pressure from critics, including prominent members of Congress. ... Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was among the congressmen who pressured Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks. He told AFP this morning that he plans to question Amazon about its relationship with Wikileaks.
This seems unlikely as Prometheus is being directly by Ridley Scott, not James Cameron.
Will it check if the file was already uploaded before so it does not upload it again? like Dropbox
True, but "intentionally or knowingly" will probably be a key part of the relevant legislation.
> That's actually the right way to do it.

No, it's not. If Firefox is installed by a non-admin user, it should go into the user's directory. If it is installed by an admin, then it should ask if this is an OS-wide installation and only then drop it into %ProgramFiles%. Chrome got it absolutely right.
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Live Forum for Mobile Games
I google search for Mobile Games Forums but can't find other than the London one.
I'm interested in forums for iOS/Android Game developers.
Any Ideas ?
Google Drive's Folder View
Chartbrain makes watching music videos awesome again.
Also claims to work on Linux: http://www.boxcryptor.com/download/#platform_linux_dl
I fixed the 30 characters issue to allow up to 70 characters. And you may also use + signs in emails. The SMTP error doesn't occur anymore, and even when there was an error the email was still subscribed so no need to resubscribe again.
Hahah yeah, that grabbed my attention too. Last month I registered a company as an iOS developer, and there was a lot of faxing to Apple involved. It took me a while to find a working machine in the building, and figure out how to send these things...
This is interesting, I do want to ask though why you went with stacked graphs as opposed to overlaid line graphs. This makes sense when comparing disparate data points (Load vs Memory vs HTTP Requests), but are you doing this with similar data points as well?

The full screen demo is really what triggered the question for me. I've got a bunch of servers that we monitor and have found that a single graph that shows load for every server gives me a better indicator for those that are outliers. Perhaps you're just not using this for that purpose.

Would love to hear some of the use cases, are you doing all of your graphing with this?
Alas, that's more of a messy patch over Windows' lack thereof, IMNSHO (Windows Update indeed exists, and updates the Windows OS, but that's about all you can do with it).
Well, if you want to believe that public statement (which I see maybe you don't in the second paragraph you edited in), then you also have to retract the DDoS argument, as Amazon expressly and clearly states that that is an incorrect assessment.

> There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against.
Say what? Yelp is pulling credit histories of people who join the site? If they are, that is way out of bounds for what users typically expect when joining an online review site. As a simple reviewer, I'm not engaging in any business with them, they're not offering me credit, and pulling a credit report on some anonymous internet user would not only be expensive but would require some serious disclosure (as having credit reports pulled actually impacts one's credit score). Not only that, but if they are doing it, it doesn't seem to be working very well.

Besides, I never supplied sufficient information for Yelp to connect me to my credit report without doing some seriously ethically questionable data mining.

Why do you believe that Yelp does this? If so, that would be more surprising to most users than the pay-for-play behavior we're seeing here.
I appreciate that large companies do have other options today, for better or worse.

What I'm asking is whether we should allow them to exercise those options. Doing so, as you hinted in your own comment, means that large companies have to become skilled investors, and this will inevitably become a significant or even the dominant part of their existence instead of actually making useful things or providing useful services.

As we've observed all too recently, not all of those extra investment options are quite as effective as they were supposed to be. Moreover, any investment option that is legitimate could probably offered to (now richer) individual investors if large companies were not allowed to use it. So I'm not sure where the big downside is of restoring the natural links between companies that do socially useful things like make good products, companies that make profits, and companies that are attractive to outside investors when they need extra funding to grow faster.

Alternatively, if these companies are going to be allowed to invest their profits on behalf of their own shareholders, perhaps it's about time they were regulated as financial institutions. If nothing else, shareholders should be protected from senior management who are erroneously convinced that they can do a better job gambling^Winvesting their shareholders' profits than the shareholders themselves can do of choosing where to spend a legitimate return on their investment.
Awesome; I hope Josh is able to get things back online. I'm curious how much support or assistance Rails Machine offered prior to pulling hosting.
They definitely do, I don't know if they offer price guaranteeing though. (matching is before the fact, guarantee is after). At any rate, you'll definitely be able to return it as a worst case scenario.
@everyone who doesn't work in hosting....

>"why did Rails Machine throw out the site so quickly?"
If you run a datacenter, you pay for an uplink. That uplink has limited capacity. 4gbit, 10gbit...whatever. A big attack can saturate that link completely, so even with the biggest most expensive "mitigation device" on the market (some of this gear can get into the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars for /one/ device, mind you), if a DDoS is overloading your upstream bandwidth providers, you can either have your entire DC brought to a crawl, or null route the site.

With that said, how did CloudFlare keep lulzsec up? Anycast, lots of iron, lots of smart technicians, and probably tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in bandwidth fees. TL;DR it was a publicity stunt that they very smartly played up.

DDoS is pretty misunderstood, and lots of clients think that there is some magical box that can take all the traffic. Again, if your link is saturated, a "mitigation" device can only filter the traffic; your upstream providers can and will take you offline if you don't fix it. Failing that, you get a massive overage bill and every other client at the facility is crawling. It's not really a good solution (mitigation devices /can/ help with smaller attacks, but for the big stuff, null routing is the best solution unless you have something like CloudFlare -- and even they will pull the plug if the attack gets too heavy, because it's simply not worth the expense to them to keep your site online.)
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I think this is really great. I started iOS development a few months ago and I find one of the hardest parts about making applications is differentiating the design. While I like the standard iOS design elements, to make a professional looking application you have to spend a lot of time tweaking the design. For me specifically it has been UITableView and the corresponding cells. I am glad that this gives me another option to explore and obviously I would have to customize this as well. But its a step in the right direction and hopefully other companies follow suit.

Maybe its just me but what would really make my day is some sort of equivalent of Bootstrap for iOS applications. A set of Objective-C classes that standardize and make it easy to quickly reach a certain level of quality design.
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