skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. "more secure" ≠ "100% secure"
Interview with Eric Weiner, Author of Geography of Bliss
lol, one simply can't move that engine by himself...
I have some screencap/pdf processing applications that are win only so I decided to go with windows. I have thought about getting separate/non public boxes for the win only apps that I need but funds are tight so this may need to wait for another day.
"None of this would be possible without permanent Battle.net connectivity."

Er, no, all of it would be possible. There is absolutely no need to have a permanent connection. And hey, even if we assume that it wouldn't be possible, why not make the cloud stuff an option that you can turn off? Maybe some people are responsible and keep their computers backed up and would rather not lose access to the game they paid for each time their internet connection flickers.
By signs like this, we know that we are living in the end times.

Repent, ye sinners! Tremble, ye mighty! Be fearful, for your Lord sees all, and as the end of days bears near, he shall tally your works, and by the truth of them shall ye be judged!

;)
The impact of IT Outsourcing
all these problems you describe exist equally so in the real life. just that in the real life theyre more tied to race/religion/money.

so imho having the same issues, decoupled from social issues is a major step forwards.
> The problem here is that the whole security model is upside down.

I had to scroll two screens down to find your comment.

At some point Google and Facebook(and everyone else, these two are just the most popular right now) inverted the rules. Years ago it was completely unacceptable for any piece of software to mine any piece of data without your consent. Screens had to be shown explicitly "do you authorize we contact server X in order to send data Y?"

Fast forward a few years and these companies are out there providing Javascript libraries that are essentially urchins on every web page. Every web site which uses Google gadgets for example, like maps or adsense or whatever is giving their visitor's client data to Google - screen resolution, IP address, web browser used, allows them to set tracking cookies, etc.... Same with Facebook javascript gadgets. Since when is this OK?

This would have been completely unacceptable a few years ago but somewhere it got lost. Now it's not only ok for Google and Facebook to track you everywhere, it also seems to be OK to FIGHT over having access to even more data!

The whole privacy thing has been turned upside down. These people are not fighting for our privacy, they are fighting over who gets to access MORE of our personal data.
Google finally closes Motorola deal, picks Dennis Woodside to run company
It took Apple a long time to connect good design with something that could take a big chunk out of a market. It won't be any different for its competitors. It's slowly happening with laptops. My Toshiba Satellite from a few years ago already looks great and has great usability. I'm sure newer models are even better.

How many years did it take non-Apple laptop manufacturers to figure it out after Apple proved you could make a nice laptop that people would buy?
I'm not too impressed by this product's teaching method.

I mentally store keyboard shortcuts as an association between key combinations and behavior I see in my editor. The name for the behavior is secondary.

This product provides you with the name of a behavior and asks you to type the keyboard shortcut that performs it. So it's building associations between keys and names of behaviors, not the behaviors themselves. That's a big difference for me.

I imagine this product's method could work for some learning styles. For me, I prefer to practice and apply keyboard shortcuts in an environment where I can see their results (like the actual editor!)
I understand why people are calling 'hoax' on it, but it is really possible, especially given that area of Morocco has an average temp of about 18C according to the internet. If he built himself a shade from the shell as the first stage he'd be pretty good for surviving the aspects of dehydration.

Plus anyone who's ever been near a 2CV know you could probably drill through the metal with a pencil if you tried hard enough.

Edit: some more info on why it's possible.

- 2CV weighs roughly 560kg, they were built to save weight all round so the body panels, frame work and mechanical components were built 'light' (read thin, no carbon fibre here).

- The engine will have been heavy, but it's a relatively small simple block, it won't have been easy but "give me a fulcrum and I will move the world". It's doable, I'm pretty sure if I bug the petrol heads I know I'll find one who's done it on something similar or tell me how it's done. Edit: brohee (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008052) posts that the engine is 66kg, which isn't super ridiculously heavy. Find someone who's around that weight and see if you can pick them up.

- If you're going on a desert holiday, taking water is a smart idea. 14 days water would be about 8/9 gallons for a man weighing 12 stone (I think, unless the 'recommended minimum water per day' calculation I found is useless). That seems like a lot, it's about 4 of the jugs used on water coolers, so he might have rationed it out and had less.

To round it off for you naysayers: http://citcity.citroen1.info/2CV/water.htm if multiple people can make boats out of them to race about a local lake there's every possibility someone could figure out how to make a bike.

(and yes, I'm locked into a 2CV research spiral now)
> It used to be frequency scaling that we measured

From the very beginning, it has been economically feasible component density, and as far as I know, that has not changed. Look at this graph for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore...
If all manufacturers dropped Android tomorrow, to make their own OS's or whatever, I'd still continue to buy Android phones made by Google and Motorola (if they can keep them competitive hardware wise, of course).

It's almost impossible that would happen, but I'm just saying I wouldn't miss them if they left Android. If they think they can just replace Android with Tizen or whatever, and people will follow them, they are very wrong. Google would just get most of the business then with Motorola, and it would get a lot closer to Apple's profits.
I'm curious why you say that Sense is bad - not doubting, just curious.

I recently got the HTC One X and have been very happy with its usability and performance, but then I don't have access to a stock Android ICS phone so I can't make the comparison.
SpaceX Dragon takes flight
Facebook shares hit again as valuation doubts rise
The thing weighted about 200kg, so the stand was there so that he would not have to lift it up.

Also, at no point it was really an emergency as he had ample rations.
The letter wavers between being a heart-felt plea for academic research and verbal abuse against activists. I don't particularly mind the latter, as I feel the actions of these activists are inexcusable, but from a PR perspective it's usually not very smart to call people idiots if you want to win them over to your perspective.
Well, it would be possible, but it would be slower, clunkier, more prone to errors, etc.

As soon as you store some data locally, you have to do a lot of sanity checking, and synchronisation is a pain, and so on.

Personally I think you should have the option of making an 'always offline' character, with no access to the AH, but I think that would involve Blizzard putting too much data on the client side -- which it obviously doesn't want to do.
Another step in the right direction!
I'm not saying they're a bad ad network or intrusive. I just mean their ads are functionally exactly the same as everyone elses. Their ethics doesn't make them more effective.

I actually meant alternative explanation to the parent's observation that all advertisers seemingly have suddenly all become idiots.
> Do you own the data or does the company you post the data on own the data? This is a decision that needs to be made

This decision was made long ago. The remedy is called habeas data and YOU own your personal data and nobody else. Whether other parties(like an employer) can USE your data, is a matter of contract and agreement. But who owns it is already decided.
It wasn't really an emergency. He had plenty of supplies, and was only a few kilometers away from the nearest town. This is as much of an emergency as your car breaking down on the trip from Dallas to Austin.
Banking Trojan Bypasses Mobile Security
Callback hell doesn't have to exist. Python has gevent / eventlet and Node has tame.js, among others.
Three. The Chinese don't quite count as a superpower government yet but they're getting pretty dang close.
Ya and trello shamelessly ripped of the idea from sticky post-its...who got their idea from the gutenberg press.
As Facebook’s Stock Struggles, Fingers Start Pointing
This is why the Demand Media model (the massive production of content part) makes some sense.

Google wants publishers to make high quality content, but they don't understand that the ROI for that model is often piss poor, and very unfeasible for small, beginning publishers.
The answer is video games.
Testing Roo Add-ons
Seems to be using Google's data visualization API, line chart, curve type "function" (https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery...)
For all the people expressing doubt, please:

- read the original story [1], in full. Google translate is your friend if you can't read French.

- find out a bit more about the 2CV car before commenting. It really is a very simple vehicle.

Ovi256's explanation [2] also gives a bit more context.

This story is emminently believable. And an impressive hack!

[1] http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto2.html

[2] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4007857
Every time I've attempted to use this feature, it hasn't worked. Not sure if my experience is unique.
You're grossly underestimating how many "Android" fans are out there, how many blogs promoting Android, and so on. The Android ecosystem is quite large. About as large as Apple's. They wouldn't just "leave Android". If anything people will treat Google even more like a cult, as Apple users treat Apple and their products.

If the Google Glasses are successful, that sort of loyalty to Google will only increase, like it did for Apple with the iPhone, then with the iPad, and so on.
Insight: Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO
backbone/coffeescript Facebook friends collection
Credibility of this is very doubtful indeed. Even if the 2CV was easy to deal with mechanically, the task of doing this in itself is a challenge in the middle of the desert. Add to that he didn't plan on breaking down and had tools + food/water to last him the trip. Then you take the precision of the work itself. He even bothered to add a license plate and he managed to level it as well.
I'm not an electrical or thermal engineer, but even if we hit a wall as far as process sizes, couldn't they make bigger dies with more cores?

Like, if we can't get much smaller than a 12-nm process, couldn't we just make the die twice as big and put a big-ol heatsink on it to get to 128 cores or whatever?

It seems like architecture is still a bigger barrier than process size when it comes to getting >16 or >32 cores on the chip. How big will the current ring bus architecture that intel has scale?
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http://french.cars.free.fr/moto2cv/index.htm

is a much better article about what was really done.
I'm pretty curious who the other people are.
Reminds me of one part of Neil Gaiman's recent commencement speech [0] that's been meming its way around:

People keep working, in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance) because their work is good, and because they are easy to get along with, and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three. Two out of three is fine.

People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They’ll forgive the lateness of the work if it’s good, and if they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as the others if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/neil-gaiman-commenc...
Legally yes, the higher education market is open to for-profit competition. But as you note, reputation effects and history make the education market anything but competitive.
A better way of putting it is that "The only reason the A in Anonymous is capitalized is because of 4chan tradition." It's not a proper noun.
There should at least be a demo mode that doesn't worry about persisting history across sessions - just shows the product. If you insist on making an account for everyone, permit something like Facebook Connect so I can control how much data I give you and don't have to think about making yet another account.
> Leave your computer for a second or accidentally forget to log off at the library or apple store?

If you left your computer, then you have bigger issues to worry about (i.e., it being stolen, searching through your emails for CC info, etc). In other words, the malicious use of an export button is no bigger of a problem than it already is to leave your belongings unattended in a public space.

> But now you've made it even more enticing to steal someone's password

It is already enticing to steal someone's password because more often than not people use the same password across services anyway.

I can see where you're coming from on your second point, but I'm of the opinion I should be able to take the data I'm putting into a service (reviews, chats, messages, etc) with me -- it doesn't prevent the service from still monetizing that data (through ads, suggested products, etc), and if anything it continues to give the service an incentive to make their platform better so I would want to stick around with them only because of their superior recommendations and whatnot.
WebGL: 80,000 particles
I always refer to OmbuShop as "Spanish Shopify" - I don't know if shopify allows localized stores but there are so many payment issues in latin america they really need a solution thats targeted here...
Press Today: New Jersey Woman Says She Was Fired For Being Too Busty
Show HN: openpoll, a democracy for the rest of us
Hey HN,

I've been working on my MVP for awhile now and just released a droid app. I would appreciate it if you'd check it out.

What is openpoll?

openpoll is an online democracy that empowers Americans by letting them vote on state legislation they don't normally get to vote on.

Why is it important?

openpoll is important because it will give us a popular opinion on legislation. This popular opinion is an important check and balance on legislators votes.

Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks!

website:
https://openpoll.us

google play link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openpoll
Ask HN: Can you guys please help me get my U$ 300 back from Yahoo
Dear HN, yesterday I posted my issue here but it was a hectic day(first after Faceboo IPO I guess) and my issue is admittedly of little popular relevance.

I'd like to ask you for your help in recovering U$ 300 that Yahoo! incorrectly took from me.

My problem is described here:
http://zefonseca.com/blogs/zen/yuckhoo/

Essentially Yahoo! charged me U$ 300 for a "review" of a website that no longer exists. This is a scam, because they claim something absurd... that they actually reviewed a website that doesn't exist and that it met their quality standards!

I'm not doing it so much for the U$ 300, though that money isn't growing in trees, this is mostly about Yahoo!'s arrogance, they don't reply emails, they simply don't care.

I could just wait for the chargeback(it's been 2 months now), but I think others should know about this as well. Maybe this will cause Yahoo! to shift their practices and go back to being a great company, one which pioneered web search and has now severely declined.
Is there a blog post with this?
> The first hypocrisy is the idea of 'Openness', Google often describes their competitors customers as 'hostage' when they won't allow Google access into their system, or 'walled' because they use a closed model. However there is nothing preventing Google from allowing facebook to access Google's data.

I'm confused; facebook can trivially write software that would allow you to transfer all your G+ data (circles, contacts, +1s, etc.) to facebook using google's APIs. Facebook has no such APIs.

And I think your suggestion that these data liberation APIs exist only because G+ isn't number one doesn't really mesh with history and reality. AFAICT google is pretty committed to allowing the data you put in to come back out.
clickables

https://openpoll.us

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openpoll
"A main element in their paranoia is that they are concerned that the release of GM material outside the containment area is going to do all sorts of awful things to "the environment," They don't seem to realise that by breaking into the controlled area and damaging the plants they are actually spreading the material themselves."
costs for larger dies do not scale linearly. A chip with twice the area is at least 4x as expensive, if not more, depending on many factors like defect density and die packing. But you're right that this is the direction that the industry will move if process innovation stops. As a process matures, defect rates drop, making larger chips more feasible.
All sorts of things can be done without any user intervention, but if the user doesn't understand how it works, they can't use it safely, and they are a danger to themselves and those around them.

One can perform the act of driving a car without any understanding of what the engine does, but if you lack any understanding of what it does, you're going to park it in a closed garage, leave it running, and kill yourself or someone else because you were too afraid of scary mechanical stuff to learn.

If you can't be bothered to learn about public key crypto, someone's going to social engineer your key out of you without you having any clue what happened.
Weakling.

A 2CV motor is at most (later versions with 600cm3 motor) 66kg heavy.

See https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moteur_de_Citro%C3%ABn_2CV
About your first part: I recently thought about a couple of app ideas that centered around integrating different web applications (facebook, dropbox, soundcloud, youtube).

One of the red flags was what you described. The external service providers can pull the plug whenever they want. They can steal your idea, they can charge you for using their API. Of course, if you are lucky they might buy you, but I don't foresee too many 1 billion dollar acquisitions from Facebook in the future.
How about this: the need to police others often comes from the same root as the need to abuse them.
How many sales of Diablo 3 did they have so far? Something tells me not as many as they expected.
> many college students sitting in a lecture don't engage the material themselves to the same degree and instead rely on the professor to "teach" them instead attempting to learn it on their own.

On the other hand, material in a medium to large lecture is rarely custom tailored to individual students. If half of the class doesn't understand what slope represents in a supply curve, the experience is ruined for the more gifted students desiring to learn the finer points of economics. Once a lecture regresses into basic concepts you already know, at the loss of interesting finer points, it's quite easy to zone out and lose focus. When the "instructor" to student ratio is 1:1, custom tailoring can really benefit those outside the norm.

Even more, the student is driving the educational vehicle. It's quite empowering to be able to skip over videos about concepts I already know, especially when I can confirm my thoughts with a basic exercise (e.g., a multiple choice question, or short code prompt).
The part that sets off my incredulity here is that the whole purpose was "he had a lot of tools that he didn't want to get stolen." I have a hard time believing that bike can hold more tools than one could carry, or otherwise drag with a simple sled.
Why would it be clunkier and more error prone?

I remember back in 2000 using gamespy to see which games my friends were in and join them with a single double-click, pretty much friction free.

I don't see why being able to hex edit is necessarily a problem, if I want to play through the game with a fully decked out character why couldn't I?
Even more amazingly, he made a boat from another broken 2CV on another occasion in Africa. My, those 2CV's sure do break a lot.

http://chameaudacier.free.fr/bato1.html
I spent longer playing with it than I did reading the article.
It has a nice feel to it.
Check the source code of lamernews:

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

You may find some inspiration there ...
I really don't want to mentally lump Facebook with Groupon. I hope we hear an official statement about this from Facebook.
Ask HN: How do like to call your Internet Startup?
How do you like to call your Internet Startup? Possible answers shown below.

* Cloud Service

* SAAS Application

* Online Service

* Internet Service

Please share your thoughts.
2CVs where the first cars I ever stripped apart .. you can see in the pictures where he has one of the drive shaft brake hubs strapped up and the other side is placed in direct contact with the wheel to drive it .. simply genius. No question this is real and would work .. however the jury is out on it being constructed in the desert in 12 days .. but I'd put my money on it being true.
Why can't they just call the police?
Absolutely. IE still has tons of users in the world, and it seems a joke to not invite them to the party. It doesn't really bother me as much if they change the features per browser platform, but when you visit a site and it browser sniffs and comes back with a blanket message "Browser not supported please upgrade." that's when I know that the dev is a lazy piece of shit. They don't even bother to try to let it degrade so that people can still access the content, they just shut it off. Rediculous and immature is what this is, why would you put effort into being such a hater especially when its your customers that are being stopped?

I suggest that we windows users boycott the sites that simply block IE. If it removes features I would skip it as well. Not supporting IE shows a lack of commitment to your users. As a user, I object to such half-assed notions. Its already bad enough with the entire dev community telling their users what they must do and how they must act. There is really no reason to be blocking IE10 at this point (yes I've seen it and was shocked and amazed that the fool would actually do that).
This is a little like saying "What's so great about the personal computer? Universities have giant room sized computers and have had so for a long time!"

I just wish people had this kind of enthusiasm and press for every launch. There are great missions flown all the time and no one really cares. The SpaceX people are amazing, but so are the NASA, ESA, ISRO, Chinese, and Russians. All launches are beautiful and amazing.
Code gets reviewed for production at 6am by a guy freshly rousted out of bed who committed some of it four hours earlier, and who is doing this at the insistence of a "frantic" colleague, the fix involves "a bunch of commits" from more than one person, and his main worry is that he might be held responsible for a hidden back door maliciously inserted by his coworker? That's like driving home drunk with your headlights off and worrying that your car could get blown up by a drone because of eroding limits on the use of military force against civilians. I realize it's hypothetical, but man, fix your glaring problems first before you worry about unlikely scenarios.
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