skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because those didn't come with threats doesn't mean all attacks come without threats. Also it doesn't prove that all threats won't be followed by an attack.

The unibomber is one example. He would send mail bombs if newspapers didn't heed his threats and publish his ramblings.
As a stupid person, I was offended.
Not so secretly apparently.
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Thanks a lot for this reply. I just checked it out and it seems great! There are a ton of cool classes on this site.
Why Instagram is really worth a Billion
It really depends on the size of the logs, the number of users, and the deal you can negotiate. We paid around $60K/year, but we had quite a lot of logs.
Thanks for the notice. I forked and downloaded it so I get to keep a copy.
Well yeah. My ideal tech has all the implementation details hidden during use and provides a nice little button to tell me how features are implemented if I choose to know.

Hackers probably miss this because they feel the implementation details are a core part of the experience. A system with no implementation details readily available in some form will have a hard time gaining support from the type of nerdy dudes who like to change the world from their garage without significant secondary draws.
The American version of SOPA already passed in 2008. It's called the Pro IP Act. That's how they are able to seize "local" domains like .com and .net, and I think .org, too.
I am a fan and a customer of ThrustVPS. They are similarly priced but with a lot more network transfer allocation. No native IPv6 though.
Traditionally don't people that bomb things like it to be a surprise?
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

Across the market the P/S is 1.28 according to this and it looks like the healthcare/internet industry is tops at round 4-5. Even a 'moderate' 20x is insane and not good for our industry from a holistic perspective.
So if folks aren't using RSS anymore, what are they using? Surely, they aren't manually browsing websites. I typically follow twitter feeds for updates but what's the standard RSS replacement for the average user?
Oh, I see. So then you wouldn't need a camera.
Technics turntables have strobe dots on the rim for calibration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLtlELevKdk#t=0m12s
We're currently looking for one
> I do not understand the sledgehammer approach the FBI 'cybercrimes' division deals with things with. ... I'm sorry but covert monitoring of a server is going to be vastly more beneficial for an operation than taking the server and is going to net more targets and more evidence.

I wonder if they'll auction off the server?

Fun fact. The federal government makes ~$3 billion a year off asset seizures. They don't have to charge people with a crime to seize property - the trial is actually conducted against the property itself.) The law enforcement agencies responsible get to keep 50-80% of the proceeds.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket/... (disclaimer - source does not pretend to be unbiased ;)
Theres this trendy little bar/lounge in philadelphia's old city section called paradigm which has these unisex bathrooms with doors that are clear when unlocked and fog up as soon as you lock them[1]. Once in a while it makes for a usually not quite desirable show when some one(or two) is drunk enough to shut the door without locking it and not notice the opacity.

[1] http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/I7ICPsQ45YVbLzKEBiHND... left locked, right unlocked
That's a good thought as I do the same thing in GMail. I'll add it to my personal todos.
I use the Mail app on my mac
Or the lack of the most basic elements of a media library: folder watching. No, I don't want one folder, I want to watch any folder. Seriously, how fucking complicated is that to implement?
First - So "no horizontal lines" is now a complaint?

Second - This is a limitation of the Operating System, where closing the root window closes the application.

Third - No, it just gives you shortcuts to the most important menu. What else would you want there?

Fourth - So have it on the side! It's not like horizontal screen real estate is the rare commodity these days. Also - really? Saying "this horizontal menu is not vertical" is criticism now?

Fifth - I guess you also complained about the "eye" in Photoshop before they replaced it with the "Ps" sign?

Sixth - Scrolling scrolls. It just... scrolls. Not sure what else to say here. Also, Ctrl+Scrolling Zooms, Shift+Scrolling scrolls horizontally. Seems pretty frigging straight-forward to me.

Seventh - Oh boo-frigging-hoo, there is two ways to the same end. There are also keyboard shortcuts, you know? Three ways!

Eigth - Are you trying to be adversary here? Transforming the entire image or just the layer are obviously separate, justified entities. And again - offering them somewhere else doesn't make them less useful, just easier to access. Not sure where else than in the menu (or the right-click copy of the menu) you've found them, though.

Ninth - I'm starting to be lost for words here... How about: Because they are two separate things? Are you even aware of their functionality?

Tenth - These are unfortunately named the same, but I would say this is in the nature of the beast - A color map is a justified concept and a filter that has 'mapping' behavior is a justified concept. So your criticism is more one of the English language.

I was really prepared to debate some of the more reasonable complaints (like color management, somewhat clunky plugins etc.) you could have with GIMP, but sorry - this is just noise.
Truly evil.
Everything is out of stock
Good idea. "The cloud" worked real wonders for Wikileaks.
Check the external links here for free versions of The Hacker Crackdown, a non-fiction account of the whole situation by Bruce Sterling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown
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OK. I didn't read all that, but...

I have in the past worked for a company that essentially asked for everything I did 24/7 be assigned to them. I negotiated my right to develop on my own time anything that did not compete. It took a few back and forths with the legal counsel, but in the end it was fair to everyone. If they aren't willing to do that much for you, I'd find a better employer.
If <<The "Constitutional problem" copyright seems to create with respect to music is "inability to listen to newly-released songs by favorite musicians without paying for them".>> was the idea you got from my writeup, I clearly failed to present my concepts adequately.

Ok, yes, it's true that this can be an issue for some people. But that does not make it a constitutional problem.

The constitutional problems have to do with the purpose of copyright (it is supposed to foster creativity) and its character (it is supposed to last for a limited time). [And, if you are going to try to bring up Eldred v. Ashcroft, note that the facts of that case included no mention of human lifespan and the court does not rule on facts which are not contested. But there are other complications also, and we should be demanding Congress to write better laws... if only we could figure out what those laws would be.]

Anyways, I was commenting on what might be some reasons for widespread adoption of the mentality you are talking about. (And note also that I believe I said nothing in opposition to iTunes Music Store.)
1. There is only one China. The pretenders in Beijing will be overthrown soon enough.

2. The list is misleading if used, as suggested, to prioritize languages to learn. It seems accurate enough as far as sheer numbers go.

3. California should just be marked as an exception to every list of facts. (The only country where you can comfortably live you life speaking only Vietnamese, except California; the first twenty digits of pi, except in California; &c)
absolutely agree, I would LOVE to hear the C1 French speakers demonstrate their savoir faire with la belle langue NOW, with further years of practice post-C1 mastery.

I can guarantee that:
1) you will sound nothing like a native speaker
2) I will laugh
<conspiracy theory>

Apple is intentionally keeping iTunes on Windows a "sub-par" experience to attract more users to move over to MacOS. I think the majority of non-power don't understand the problem is with iTunes specifically, and would say something like "The whole damn computer sucks".

</conspiracy>
Microsoft's record 3rd quarter revenue: Windows grows, Entertainment staggers
Do you have info on related sites (e.g. site X and Y are direct competitors?) If you do, you can use that for word clustering and find classes of related words. For example, if you have a set of 250 email providers, you might see "mail" and "email" a lot more than for domains in other categories, but you might also see something more subtle, like "postman" or "contact" or etc. Probably not as subtle (and cool) as Cyrus, but at least heading in the right direction.

Another idea: get a dump of Wikipedia and do a TF-IDF analysis on all of the words. When someone types "mail", you look at wikipedia.org/Mail and look for the most unique words. As it happens, the Mail article does mention Cyrus the Great, so as long as Cyrus is a pretty rare word in the corpus, it might be a suggestion you can make.

That said, there is such a thing as too clever. If I typed in "mail" as a domain search query you told me to create the website "CyrusMail", I would wonder what the heck that was all about because I don't happen to know the relationship between mail and Cyrus the Great.
> learn a language is through your significant other

That's a common misconception, and I have personal experiences: actually spoken communication with different native speakers improves your capabilities much more than the communication with only one, given the same amount of time.
The bomb threats began to really start picking up this month, but started after spring break. I also just got the notification of two more bomb threats made.

Here is a spread sheet about the bomb threats (not made by me):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlvhxmKEu6UpdGZ...
Very cool! Need to promote it a bit more with some usable, helpful demos maybe?
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I didn't look into this in detail, but doing a quick google search reveals a lot of plugins that allow text to speech. There seemed to be a lot of relevant results, one of htem that might be an integration within OSX and not just a browser plugin.

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...
Yeah, good luck getting LaTeX to be accepted for interdepartmental correspondence, let alone inter-company.

Also, Word can track revision history on each document. What's the equivalent for LaTeX? A git repo?

The upshot of network effects is that if you work for anybody but yourself, a Windows PC with a moderately recent Microsoft Office is a requirement.
Flouting law enforcement does not strike me as a good design goal. If the law wants you to stop doing something, they will make sure you stop.
think about an old tire rolling through paint. you'll see the same artifacts every revolution of the tire. the key idea is every cycle creates the same pattern.

so, you could have a mechanical system that hit the tube every /24th of a second, and you'd get some effect, but i think it would be hard to get the impact and recovery to be EXACTLY the same, or close enough you don't notice.

If you use sound to squeeze the tube, rather than pushing on it, the distortion and recovery are much more consistent, so you get the same pattern. I'd guess you don't have much control over where the drops actually appear. you'd have to wiggle the tube around on the speaker to get the right distortion.
Most people don't believe a bomb will actually blow up or something on campus. I think what freaks people out is notion that the person(s) making the bomb threats are trying to observe the patterns and behaviors of how people react during an evacuation.

Pitt has the tallest educational building in the US (Cathedral of Learning - which has had 14 bomb threats), plus many other buildings on campus are rather tall too. I cannot begin to imagine how exhausting these bomb threats have been to the police. Many people don't want to evacuate the buildings either. But what if some lunatic takes advantage of how desensitized and relax people are becoming to go a shooting spree... that is the more scary thought.
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I use, pay for and love Evernote. But:

Valuations are usually based off of earnings, not revenues. Using revenues doesn't make much sense, unless you don't care about actually making money. You know, like Groupon. If you're spending 2 dollars to earn 1, who cares what your revenues are? Only in the land of bubbles does it make sense.

Based on this math, Apple should be worth nearly 10 trillion dollars.
Interesting that the blink tag never made it into Lynx since it should have been relatively trivial given that there is an ANSI escape sequence for it. I have fond memories of dialing up a BBS with dramatic blinking warnings and ANSI style art that had elaborate blinking designs.
>> The U.S. Senate has already passed a bill that will make
>> the devices a requirement, and the House is expected to
>> approve the bill as well.

I'm not very well versed with the political process in the US
but why aren't these bill ever discussed (or voted on) before
they are passed.

Doesn't the public get to vote on these important issues?

(By the way, I come from a country where I don't get to vote on
individual bills. Just thought things were slightly better in America.)
I agree with your overall sentiment. But I still contend that this strategy isn't going to work out for them in the long run. We live in a world where content can be accessed directly, quickly, and on demand. The industry can try to "ensure" that the most interesting content is only delivered through their pipes, but given the ease with which this content can be procured elsewhere, that approach doesn't seem like a sustainable long-term strategy.
I think LaTeX is built for perfectionist, pedantic academics. That is not to say I don't secretly love it, but after spending hours battling the program trying to get it to look right, I usually end up asking myself what's the point?
And boosting economies outside of the US?
Probably can be used in court but doesn't need to be. Tons of people have these. When there is bad behavior by the other party, you upload the film to youtube and then stand back and watch as the legal problems resolve themselves through nationwide vigilantism, which is far more just than our current corrupt court system.
I've been a customer for years. They're a great operation. Their owner is on hacker news with username lsc.
If it really matters to you, you see my real name. Get in touch with me, and I'll put you in touch with university professors from Europe who will vouch for my progress in the language. But only if you promise to come back on here with your real name (like I'm using mine) and admit you were wrong.

Otherwise, I'm sorry we've both lost this amount of time arguing past each other, when you've clearly made up your mind that no one can learn a language fluently in 5 months, to and even beyond the C1 level as described in the standards posted (the CEFR had not yet been adopted when I was in school).

PS -- And to be clear, I'm not unique, or particularly unusual in my abilities. I've known many other language learners who have learned a language fluently in under 6 months. In fact, most of my translator and interpreter colleagues probably can learn a language in about that amount of time.

PPS -- I'm offline to play with my kids. Good luck.
Perhaps I should be a bit more clear and less snarky. I think Cycle has had a great press release, it has advertised their product well, and like any good press release it doesn't so much read like an advertisement for a particular company as it does as real news. This defines great execution of the PR technique known as 'article placement.'

One of the qualities of making it a great soundbite is that Schrodinger, the company that it nominally the topic of the story, goes on about how their 1,500 core cluster can't give them the resolution they need but a 50,000 core cluster makes everything clear. Understand that a 'westmere' processor is potentially 12 cores (if you use Intel's defintion of threads and I'm sure they do), and the typical motherboard is 2 CPUs so that is 24 'cores' per machine [1]. A 1,500 core cluster is 62 machines, that is a couple of cabinets worth if you're using Supermicro boxes, less than a cabinet if your using OpenCompute type cabinets [2]. And at maybe $3K each that is an investment of $186K, maybe $250K if you included switches. Which is about 1/3 what it would have cost a pharmaceutical company to buy a VAX minicomputer back in the day.

My point is that if you're in a multi-billion dollar market place, you can afford to spend more on your hardware. And even at approximately $5K/hr a 50,000 node cluster is only 2100 Open Compute servers in 24 of their 'triplet' cabinets.

That is about 1MW critical kW of compute power. (1MW being the power commitment you would have to buy from a colocation center to power it) and even that is a fairly small foot print at Amazon, Google, Facebook, or even Apple with its new $1B data center [3].

So when I read the story, I was left thinking "Gee, if using a cluster that was 33x bigger got them such great results, why not use one that 3000x bigger? Wouldn't that just answer the question?" And of course I took a moment to analyze that thought and asked the question every critical reader has to ask which is, "What is this article trying to say anyway? And do I believe it?" And that was when it becomes obvious what the article is saying is that Cycle, the company that makes a living creating virtual super computers for embarrassingly parallel problems out of EC-2 instances has reached the point where they can get 50K cores running the same problem." Which is great and all but like a long story that is just a setup for bad pun, it leaves me feeling jaded, and hence my snarky remark that if all it takes is more cores, Google should stop trying to be a great advertising company and switch to being a pharmaceutical company. Which, when you say that out loud you realize it couldn't possibly be that easy and yes, its a snarky way of expressing irritation that I was lead to believe there was something newsworthy here when there wasn't.

[1] http://opencompute.org/projects/intel-motherboard/

[2] http://opencompute.org/projects/triplet-racks/

[3] http://gigaom.com/apple/apples-new-north-carolina-data-cente...
That "view source" line make this the most incredible VPS service landing page I've ever seen.
Yeah, but they have to hold on to that stuff for a while. a 5 year old cash is still cash. a 5 year old computer is a doorstop.
Somewhat relevant http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854047
Let's see. In the war on drugs, a number of police forces have been caught delaying drug busts so that they can make more money from seizing cash (as opposed to seizing drugs). What's the cybercrime equivalent?
I am not a lawyer. If this is of concern to you, you should see a real live employment lawyer in the state in which you will work.

That said, CA law (and I saw the word California in that document) places some restrictions on invention assignment agreements [1]:

For instance, California Labor Code §2870 provides that an employer may not
include provisions requiring employees to assign an invention created entirely
on the employee's time without using the employer's resources, unless they
relate to the employer's business or anticipated business or result from the
work the employee performs for the employer.

But I'd just tell your prospective employer that you want a carveout for stuff on your time on your equipment. There are so many engineering jobs right now that you should be able to credibly claim you'll find alternate employment.

[1] http://www.calstartuplawfirm.com/business-lawyer-blog/IP-own...
It's worth noting that iPhone does not equal Mobile. What about Android? Even if Chrome is the only Android browser supported, that would be plenty!
Cable/satellite is basically the sales & promotion department of HBO. Providers give away months of free HBO at their own expense. They have sales & customer service reps up selling HBO aggressively. Providers do direct mailings, billboards, etc to promote HBO. Why would they give this up? They're going to use the same strategy to push HBO GO via cable/telco video providers.

When HBO finally does make the shift to a standalone IP service it's going to look a lot more like Netflix than the iTunes Store. HBO doesn't want to sell you a couple episodes or even an entire series. They want to sell you the entire HBO service every single month. They will continue to stagger their original programing so you are enticed to keep the service instead of canceling after your favorite show is done for the season. They will mix in older catalog titles with newer titles to keep programming costs under control. They will continue using the HBO service's popularity as a platform for launching new original programming.

The fact that no one else has been able to pull off the HBO model via IP yet is a pretty good indication that HBO has time to gracefully make the shift to IP on their own terms. Netflix is trying but they don't have the original programming yet and that's a huge part of HBO's success.
...Or they would be if they hadn't used a PDF generator that managed to completely befuddle Safari. I believe this is the first time I've ever seen a PDF that Safari can't render.
For finding generically related words, maybe the wordnik API? http://www.wordnik.com/words/mail#related

More abstract relationships (mail -> Cyrus, image -> Lenna) might be gleaned by crawling Wikipedia.
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This isn't Scala. In python list comprehensions are single threaded and have a very specific meaning (i.e., their computation order is deterministic). The pattern for working with parallel maps etc are done with separate map functions (see concurrent.futures.Executor.map).
I was a satisfied customer of thrust too but their support staff has become really terrible. They broke my reverse DNS and it took a week to get it fixed (they kept closing my ticket saying it was fixed without verifying that it was. Turns out they had missed a period somewhere further up in the bind file.

The prices were great though.
I agree with you on everything but your first point. It's just as reasonable to assume an old domain has fresh content as a new domain, there's no connection between domain age and how fresh the content is on it/how active it is. Look at Reddit, or for that matter HN. Older domains, fresh content every second.

But yeah, old domains basically have had more time to accumulate trust/links/shares/content, so they're more likely to do better in the search engines.
I agree and whom ever is doing this is motivated to keep doing it. Initially the bomb threats started in bathroom stalls and then to emails of just one bomb threat for a day. But the situation keeps escalating, today 13 bomb threats have been made.
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I had a strange experience with these guys. I signed up and didn't get anything back. When I sent an e-mail two days later telling them to just forget it and cancel my account, they told me they were busy and didn't get around to setting up my VPS. Just weird...