skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mainly on HN because people here tend to value privacy and there were already some great discussions about TSA (Transportation Security Administration). I still don't know how I would react if somebody (even a security officer from a foreign country) asked me to log into my gmail/email account.

That's even worse than an employer asking an employee to log into his/her Facebook account. I keep all sorts of private information in my personal email... I've got nothing to hide but I'll think twice before flying again to a foreign country.

Edit: Typo
Linux developers doesn't necessarily imply there'll be Steam for Linux Desktop™. It may be that Valve is looking to finally build their Steam Console and base it on Linux.
One of the best short articles ever to grace these pages. Absolutely right on, on every account. Thank you, Abbie, Raymond, and Bruce. Don't ever stop teaching these vital lessons for innovative success.
Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3
I don't really know. I was thinking about either adding tons of extra features and making a $10/year subscription to access them or offering paid "featured" file promotion.
As a physicist*, I would suggest speaking to an electrical engineer.
It seems that the "mpt" who owns that domain today and is responsible for this article is not the same as the "mpt" that wrote the original article [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/mpt/status/209033178705436672
I know that it is definitely not a good time to submit a story when someone else has submitted that same story. If your link goes into the story with more detail, fine, but when everyone submits the same story from 10 different tech blogs, which are just echo chambers of the same story anyway, that is not good.
Picplz will shut down permanently
I'm glad I took a second look at this. By using the "paywall" terminology, I thought inititally this was meant to annoy visitors by hiding content away like the NYTimes.

Rather, I see the potential uses for selling ebooks, video lessons, access to Minecraft servers, etc.
You have a very severe security vulnerability on your site. Please provide an email address in your info I can contact you at. (The email field is hidden to others.)

Edit: interwho has fixed the vulnerability. There was a CSRF allowing you to take over someone else's account if they visited your site.
When Groupon was growing early on, it was an example of a successful startup founded without the usual Silicon Valley trappings, in Chicago. When Groupon flames out, it's an example of Silicon Valley's excess.

Can't win, it seems. ;)
Does anyone else think this has little to do with 'bringing Steam to linux' and a lot to do with SteamBox, the rumored console Valve is working on.
Relevant/similar in the UK: https://gocardless.com/paylinks
I have missed out on job opportunities and travel opportunities that were in Saudi Arabia. Perhaps people should know about that as well.
steam for linux is coming http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve...
I'll try my best to explain this:

To sell something on Breeziee, you'd have to first upload the file to a web server or hosting service (ie. imgur, Dreamhost, mediafire, etc...), put the url of your file in the link field on Breeziee, and finally, share the link to the paywall page that is created for you.
Like the ten screeners arrested for smuggling in the past 18 months? If terrorists were interested in taking out a plane, TSA would be the easiest way to get a bomb aboard.

They'd bribe the screeners and tell them the bomb was drugs.

No TSA would place security with the FAA which would be world's better. FAA is already doing a great job handling air traffic control and airline safety so they would do a far better job than the criminals, perverts and pedophiles that work at TSA.
Done. You can also contact me via the contact link at the bottom of the page.

Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks. Will do.

edit: support email sent
That's true, but this article seems to indicate that it will be there for the regular "desktop".

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve...

It is of course possible that they are planning a console and that this is why they are focusing their efforts.

If they do develop a Linux based console then hopefully it will still make sense for them to support "proper" Linux as part of that.
Show HN: Continue using bit.ly without dealing with their bookmarks
Facial Recognition Software Distinguishes Between Real And Phony Smiles
GTD sucks for creative work.  Here's an alternative system.
Really? Aside from white goods, it seems most things these days are multi-voltage. And even then, it's still mainly North America that strays more than 10% from the standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weltkarte_der_Netzspannung...
Would it be worth your time if it flopped? I think you should do it if you really want to.
Matrix multiplication on GPU
Shit No One Says: “I Found My Awesome Job on Monster.com"
homo

reality is broken--angels want it that way. Fuck em. Stupid conversation.

God says...
an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
covenant with thee; 26:29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not
touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have
sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

26:31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to
another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
peace.

26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came,
and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto
him, We have found water.

26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba unto this day.
Diaparate impact means disparate racial impact (or disparate against another protected class, but usually racial).

So if you hire a smaller fraction of any racial category of applicants than there were in the pool of applicants or in the workforce of your region, then your hiring method has disparate impact. If you use an objective test that contributes to that disparate impact, you have to be able to prove by thorough studies that it was the best method to pick staff for the specific job you are hiring for. Such studies start around seven figures and won't work for positions with multiple responsibilities or difficult to measure outputs.
US Aid to Israel $3B

TSA Budget: $8B
2012 Drone Budget (non-black) $5B
2013 Drug War $25.6B
Did you take the design from http://socialcroc.com/?
And the only kind of plug the size of the aircraft carrier :-)
Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped
Is this related to http://www.apifydoc.com/?
The site is asking for an email which also happens to be a PayPal account (Placeholder text is "Email (and PayPal) address..."), along with a password. The user is not a known quantity and it's his/her first submission to HN, it's very possible he/she is hoping that PayPal email addresses/passwords that you put in match. There is no HTTPS, no seals or verification, no guarantees of the security of any of your data and that your password is not being stored in plaintext. There is a security vulnerability and the site was a purchased template. It's quite possibly legit, but without more information I would avoid.
I'm bcrypting the passwords.

Exact method: sha1(bcrypt(sha1(md5.'othersalt').'salt').'anothersalt') and a few more salts + sha1s
Also reported here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4022499 (thenextweb.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4023083 (phys.org)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025048 (mit.edu)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027080 (wired.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058384 (flagged dead)

None have comments.
This looks like a great project. Wish I would have known about the Kickstarter campaign for it sooner. Can't wait to try it out.
What happens if the hosting server, or web server drops the file? If someone pays for a file and they find it is unreachable they will have a negative view of your service.
A more or less big dip for a tech company when the lock-up expires was already an old cliche before the dot-com bust. I'm puzzled why the companies don't do more to prevent it.
No page file generally means apps crash hard when they reach the limit of memory. On a multi-tasking OS not set up for making individual applications hibernate, that's a recipe for data loss.

Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, we had this thing called cooperative multitasking. It sucked. It meant that a single unresponsive application could potentially lock up the entire system, and you'd lose all apps. Now, we have preemptive multitasking. The OS calls the shots. Without a page file, we'd be back into a similar situation re memory: a single app could consume most of the system, and all other apps would fail on allocation - and most apps are not written to be stable in the face of allocation failures. It's either that, or background apps would need to be suspended or killed arbitrarily by the OS, or some other kind of drastic limitations on productive work.

I have 16GB of memory in my system; but I regularly run utilities that consume a large fraction of that (enough that the 12GB in my previous system was starting to look pokey - and my prior system with 8GB IIRC, I had to run utilities sequentially instead of in parallel to avoid page thrashing). The advantage of having lots of memory is that you can write utilities that build massive in-memory data structures. Problems are way easier to solve when you can rely on being able to stuff everything into a big hash table, rather than worry about temporary files on disk, or god forbid faffing around with a database and losing orders of magnitude of performance.

Page files, even in the presence of large amounts of RAM, are what enable this approach on workstations, in two ways: it means you won't suffer an app crashing from out of memory as you skirt the line of maximum physical memory; and secondly, and probably more importantly, page files backing allocated pages means the OS is able to free up memory sooner for those applications that demand it.

If you use your computer for casual use and don't stress it or do much critical work with it (i.e. use it much like you would a phone or tablet), you can get by just fine without a page file. But if you actually want to use the thing, a page file is a very handy thing to have.
powercfg /change disk-timeout-dc 0

powercfg /change disk-timeout-ac 0
It's funny you should mention Japan. If you have ever actually visited it, I cannot think of any large culture that could be more different from Anglo and especially North American culture...
Nope. It's built from a template.
To explain the issue further, tersely, at the risk of being downvoted, in America, the average score among blacks is a standard deviation lower than that of whites, on IQ tests, that is, 15 points. Given that IQ is normally distributed for the most part, using IQ as a factor in hiring will reduce the proportion of blacks who pass the 'bar.'

This gap may diminish if you're looking at a pool of people who passed some previous threshold, eg they have a degree in math. But even then, some of the gap remains, due to the shape of normal distributions. Think of the heights of men and women, and how even if you looked only at people six feet and taller, the proportion of women in that pool who just barely meet the threshold of 6' would be much higher than the similar group of men; despite the cutoff, the average height of the women would still be less than the average height of the men, within that group. Draw overlapping bell curves to see this visually, and analyze the areas under the graph of each distribution, to the right of a given cutoff point.

We do have a law against invidious racial discrimination. The current implementation of the law states that in practice, if some selection mechanism has a passing rate for one minority that is less than 80% of that whites, that is evidence of discrimination in the absence of validation of that mechanism. This is known as the four fifths rule. A test in which 10% of whites and 7% of blacks passed would fall afoul of this law. Say you set a 115 IQ threshold. That is +1 S.D. from the white mean roughly, and +2 S.D. from the black mean, meaning 16% of whites and 2.3% of blacks would pass, if drawing from the general population. That wouldn't even pass a 'One fifth rule,' let alone a four fifths one.

And validation is no sure thing either - police and fire departments have had these tests validated and still have the results thrown out regularly, due to disparate racial impact, i.e. relatively few blacks and Hispanics (average IQ: ~90) passing the test.

On a related note, explicit racial and gender quotas are more efficient than the race- sex- and IQ-blind, approach in use today. A quota would mandate in effect different thresholds for different groups, but it would allow one at least to use this selection mechanism. Within given groups, one would obtain more efficient outcomes. The problem with quotas is that they make racial preferences explicit, while abandoning such selection methods entirely is only an implicit, de facto racial preference, a rather subtle and hidden one at that.
What makes you think it works on small family groups? All we can conclude from ev-psych is that making stuff up didn't cost the imaginers much reproductive success personally - we have no idea what it did to the actual victims having stories made up about them.
For small stuff Heroku is great. We're an ad agency doing a bunch of small sites and Facebook games with little traffic (small marketplace). The cost is spread out over many clients and it works out for everyone. That's the opposite of the scenario this article presents: one API with one database and one party that pays the bill. We have very low hardware requirements, but would like to manage as little as possible.

PHP/MySQL shared hosting was always the best way to get a site up quickly (cheap, reliably and fast). Now finally there is a comparable hosting option for simple stuff written in Python/Ruby/..?
This gives new meaning to winner-take-all. Either a billion dollar acquisition or bust! You have to wonder whether someone else might be interested in acquiring a competent company in the space for something short of $1 billion, though.
True, but you learn after the first time, and it's pretty non-lethal (I think? It doesn't seem sharp enough to do serious damage, but for something to hurt that much your body must think something's up). The real problem with British electrical standards is the nutty "ring main" system.
Maybe it's due to 4chan's huge community size that fools are not a problem as they seem in smaller communities. Additionally, there is a whole slew of tools to identify (and punish) fools such as karma, comment voting, etc which perhaps weren't as widely available in the past.

4chan has mods who routinely remove child-porn and other questionable, non-related material. http://www.4chan.org/faq#whomod
37 signals has a similar experiment,

"Back in 2008 we shared some of our workplace experiments including the four day work week (still in effect May – Oct), ...."
mentioned at:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3186-workplace-experiments-a-...

and the 2008 article:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experiments
nah... community is always good at cleaning-together :)
I would say you shouldn't. It all depends on what type it is to be honest. I would target windows 7, mac, and linux and ignore windows 8 for now.
Is this any better/different than Gumroad?
Folly: The Facebook Open Source Library
If i understood correctly JSONP supports only GET but CORS supports all http methods. APIfy can only provide GET Requests (Index and Show) over a static html page
Clay Shirky's "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy" is also a very good read on the matter:

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Got it. Thanks a ton!
it's in a fullsize case, but the Compaq cq2701 seems to have more and better for $20 less... ( bought one for my wife last weekend .) It's a 2.3 GHz G630T dual-core, which is fine for her uses. Yeah, it's Win7, so what, wanna fight about it? :)
It could be Chrome O/S-ed in a short interval...
Brian, the only damage control you should be doing now is apologizing profusely to everyone for trying to manipulate this community. You spun a very sad story and left out incredibly crucial facts that did not serve you. That is simply unacceptable. This is clearly the act of a very immature person who is not ready for the world of business.

Your post is now clearly shameful; the fact that you went even further and began accepting donation money only escalates that shamefulness. Did you really think that the details you left out wouldn't come to light?

You've handled this very poorly. Apologize to the community, apologize to WhosHere before you get smacked with a defamation suit, and hire a damned lawyer to deal with your legitimate trademark and breach of contract lawsuit in a court of law instead of wasting time dancing around in the court of public opinion.
So it sort of happened once 10 years ago and it involved actual that was probably worked on during the work day and on the company's equipment. Whereas here we've been referring simply to possibly having and idea ready to work in soon after deserting the company. I'm not sold.
I suppose you could file a case with PayPal.
Very much looking forward to seeing how this turns out. To view a list of some of the public-facing things Michael wants to change, take a look here:

https://github.com/michaelficarra/coffee-of-my-dreams
No fees, you don't need a credit card to buy something.
Sure Signs That a Good Startup is Going Bad
Which means nothing if it is possible to snipe the passwords from the HTTP request. Firesheep, anyone?
Some things come to mind when looking through the source. Perhaps they are pedantic gripes, but perhaps they need some work. I had these observations while looking through memcpy.c:

1. Assumption of power of 2 word size. The ALIGN macro is defined as one less than the size of size_t (which should be enough to hold the length of something in memory). I would be more comfortable with it being defined as the the size of a processor WORD rather than as a length of memory.

2. Using the ALIGN macro in calculations of misaligned memory copies. This goes to #1's point: Suppose the word size is not a power of 2? Suppose the word size is 6 octets rather than 4 or 8. The & mask might produce incorrect results since there would be 0's in the mask.

3. There seems to be a lot of casting going on where it either shouldn't be or it looks wrong. A good example of this is the cast to void on line 19. If there is a cast, why isn't to the (size_t*) type? Even if this is correct, I now have to think a lot more about it, or hunt through the commit log. Yes, I could. No, I shouldn't have to.

4. The ONES macro is unused, and the ALIGN MACRO are not part of a header somewhere. An alignment macro seems like it might be beneficial in other parts of the library. I recognize that this increases interdependency, but I feel it may be justified since it would be useful in other place, and may be changed in the future.

I am very pleased that this library is being developed. I think competition drives up the quality of code, and libc is one of the places where high quality code is invaluable. (Looking at the comparison chart they provided was impressive!) I must admit I don't have good solution to the issues I found, so I'm afraid my criticism may not be as constructive as I would prefer.

Thanks for making this, it was quite pleasant to look at non Drepper'd libc code. :)

Here is the link I looked at for reference:
http://git.etalabs.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=musl;a=blob;f=sr...
There is also the Europlug.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug
Note that it says nothing about using a wrapper.
Windows 8 development via JavaScript, HTML, CSS is also surprisingly easy, especially if you have a strong web development background. If you have a web-focused application in mind, it really don't see any harm in dabbling with a Metro app build to see how it plays out.
Just to start some discussion on the dismissal of instant scalability: "Almost any company worth a damn can bring online a server within 24 hours, even budget companies. When have you actually needed turnaround time faster than that? If you did, maybe you should read up on capacity planning."

Realistically it is often very hard (impossible) to predict how viral something new is going to go. If some "superstar" grabs onto your app and publicizes it in front of 10x your normal audience, 24 hour turn around may not be fast enough.
Interesting effect:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Weltkarte...

Never cared about this svg file format, but how does it work? If I make a reload on the link the countries are drawn individually as the file is loaded (relatively slow network connection). Like a puzzle.
A note about the above. The article actually states that the best indicators of performance wasn't actually just a GMA (General Mental Aptitude) test or just a trial but in fact the combination of a GMA test and a integrity test or a GMA test and a structured interview. You're not off the hook by just testing well.

Of the combinations of predictors examined, two stand out as being both practical to use for most hiring and as having high composite validity: the combination of a GMA test and an integrity test (composite validity of .65); and the combination of a G M A test and a structured interview .(com posite validity of .63).
Among the html slidshows, impress.js impressed me the most.
Show HN: Extremely early brain simulation prototype.
As the bankers have well-established over the past few years, money == authority.
Alternate strawman: you do not use paid upgrades and at some point stop making enough money to continue developing and supporting the app and the API. All of your users are screwed , too.

It's easy to envision hypothetical situations and they're all already possible, leaving customers stuck having to gauge how serious a company is and how sustainable their business model will be. Paid upgrades don't change this situation but do offer a currently blocked way for developers to make apps with a long-term plan
Wonderfully entertaining to read. I was once told by a certified electrician (and physicist) that you don't even need a neutral wire and many rural services only have one "hot wire" and use the earth as the neutral "return" circuit (which really just need to have capacitance. I think the author could have started with a "one slot" age. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return
That's a good point, and I think in those situations the cloud will fall over just as easily. A lot of that will come down to your actual applications architecture and how well it can scale.
So its basically the same though... Just pricing/paying policies differ
Now would somebody please tell me what the little holes are for in the end of the plug prongs!?
http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/BEN2097.jpg
My sense is that the design is the product of well-entrenched people and/or policies.
Fbstring open-sourced
The benefit of running on Heroku is time savings. Not scaling. If I hit a scaling problem, that's a good sign that I am growing. Right now, I have no scaling issues because we aren't big enough so the savings of hiring a dev ops or learning chef while I make my product better is where the plus is.

Yes you become reliant upon the cloud, but it is only temporary. Buying faster hardware isn't hard
Folly - The Faceboook open source library
a billion or bust..on to the next one? seems like they take their arsenal (vc money) and navigate down a list of ideas.
opensourced at facebook c++ conference today. talk about fbstring here: http://ramisayar.com/fb-cpp-conf/
Enormous ROI for the company, not so much the recruiter, who enjoys the moral hazard of getting paid either way, whether their filtering sucks or not.
HN does have an API: http://www.hnsearch.com/api
What does Drew Houston, Motel 6, and Hairy Hungarians Have in Common?