skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data Superpowers for Rubyists
Or disruption. Which 5 industries is Vooza going to disrupt?
I couldnt agree more. It is not often that I say Microsoft tried to do the right thing, but here they did! Users are customers and customers should have the right to OPT-IN to advertising tracking. However, some idiot in his/her infinite wisdom is now forcing us to OPT-OUT.

I rarely applaud MS, but IMO? BRAVO MS!!!
Favorite part: Then we can go... International.
To be fair, the intent of Gimme Bar is to be a personal web-saving tool first, and a "social" tool a very, very distant second.

There are enough tools and applications out there that let you share links and pictures of stuff you like, but not many that are completely focused on ensuring that those things you like stick around in an easily searchable and backup-able way.
Are there any startup businesses like the sort of business you would like to run one day?

A huge, huge part of success as a developer is learning how to work in a team, deal with clients/customers and manage real world problems outside of coding. It's really hard to get experience with this in a classroom or online.

Any sort of ad agency or product company will expose you to "soft skill" problems that will be applicable to building software products.
I enjoyed the satire in the video like most of the commentators below, but I have to admit I almost entered my e-mail address just to see what they'd send from a site that's obviously a spoof. (I didn't)

I'm really hoping that they're collecting as much demographics about the visitors and those who do enter their e-mail as possible. Wouldn't that make an amazing social experiment?
Yes, I just meant that he didn't orchestrate and/or carry out the murders of innocent people with the sole purpose of inciting terror.

I don't think there's much to argue about here.
Reminds me of Zombocom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com / http://www.zombo.com)
Where'd you get that idea?

https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/changesets

11 changes in the last 30 days. And it looks like pygame has an active community: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/info

The site could be more coherent, but I didn't have to look hard to find those things.
Terrible.

How about this (with thanks to another HNer):

You patent a specially engineered cow to taste good with your specially engineered steak sauce. One day your specially engineered steers jump my fence and rape my cows. Upon realizing this, I begin buying your special steak sauce from you and eating my new cows with it.

When your analogy is not about "patent law pertaining to genetic material", you wash out the absurdity.
Socio-PLT: Clustering Languages
Facebook Interns Earn Nearly $7,000 A Month
Mozilla's Shumway pushes Flash to off-ramp
Blogs are from the past, welcome feathers: blogless writing and sharing
In our team, we all like to write. We want to share our thoughts and opinions. But blogging has it's own set of limitations and expectations that don't always fit with how we write.

You need to manage a platform (either hosted or as a service) with everything that comes with it - setting up a theme, defining tags, categories and so on. You need to constantly write otherwise a new visitor may think your 2 months old blog post outdated and that you've moved on. Visitors also expect consistency of topic, while we may want to write a variety of posts about different aspects of our life and being. A flame post about the actress we hate, or a personal post about how life is going in general. What's more, the internet as we know it never forgets, while our opinions change.

The word "Blog" comes from the combinations of the words "web" + "log", meaning that all blogs result in a list of all articles. We want to focus on each article and we want to give that article only to our readers. There are enough networks and services that allow you to share what you write with interested people, why do we need them to register and follow your blog as well? Rather than taking up your time to create an intricate blog, why not just offer a direct link to the article and save your readers time too? When that article is no longer relevant, and is not shared or read anymore, we believe it should slowly and automatically disappear.

We believe writing is an important part for everybody's personal growth, but a blog with all it's limitations and expectations can be daunting to the casual writer. If you are curious and believe in our manifesto check out http://feathe.rs and sign up. We will open it up for everyone soon.
It may seem anachronistic or iconoclastic, but I appreciate this about the BSDs, as well. I love old code that's still doing the right thing.

I sure hope illumos can survive as a sustainable project. OpenSolaris was a gift. Oracle taketh away. It will be a struggle.
What is plug&play? Is it a concept similar to Microsoft's driver system, or is it a startup, or is it a standard for API designers?
I had to dig to find it, but it seems to be this one: https://twitter.com/HBO/status/210390531623227392
‘Big brother’ lamp posts can hear, see and bark ‘Obey’ at you
I'm probably just missing something, but can you explain how the concept is going to fix cache latency CPU <-> GPU?
Please. The retina display is a higher resolution screen. Apple shipped a 165dpi display on the original iPhones. The Android manufacturers leapfrogged that by about 40% to ~235dpi (in the Eclair/Froyo devices). Then Apple upped the ante by another 40%, going to 330dpi. This is the way technology works.

It only looks like a "completely new display" if you weren't paying attention to competing devices in the year or so leading up to the iPhone 4 release.
I've worked in INFOSEC (of a sort) before and now I generally work on routing platforms. One thing that I've been schooled in pretty carefully is the law as is pertains to import/export of cryptographic technology.

Some folks here might not be familiar with the plight of Phil Zimmerman, who had the bright idea to invent PGP when there was a real chance that ALL crypto in the US would be fiercely regulated by the federal government.

For his trouble, he was under indictment for something like 3 years while the federales were deciding if he had broken any laws or not. His supposed crime: someone managed to get PGP out of the US. Not him...someone else. I guess they thought he helped them.

SO this sort of thing isn't new; it's been going on for a while and there are lots of stories around about folks who decided to write books about secret crypto-loving agencies in the US and almost got arrested for doing so.

To ignore the reality of the government's position/actions on this is to invite trouble. Your best answers to an agent of the government are always the ones that provide a true but ultimately useless answer. Never lie.

I'm an US citizen, served in the military, and middle aged. On my last trip back from Toronto, I got flack from the border agent because my flight out was from LaGuardia but I was connecting through Philadelphia on my return. Border agent gets all inquisitive and asks how I'm supposed to get from PHL to LGA as if I'm trying to be subversive about it. I roll my eyes and show him my ticket from PHL to LGA and all of a sudden he realizes he's an idiot. Bear in mind, NONE OF THIS MATTERS. I'm a goddamn US citizen and I can enter anywhere I damn where please. Of course, I didn't ARGUE with him, I just showed him and went along my way.

The less upset/indignant you act when being questioned, the less suspicious you look. That goes even if you've done nothing wrong and are completely within your rights.
I'm guessing what happened was something like the following:

- They asked him what he did for work (as they pretty much always do at a border crossing, in my experience).
- He said he developed software.
- They asked what kind of software.
- He said CryptoCat.
- The officer, knowing that there are export restrictions on cryptography, gave him a longer secondary interview.

I don't think they're targeting anyone here, though I wonder just how much knowledge the interviewer had about cryptography specifically.
Wow, my employer sucks and is blocking Phoronix. Anyone want to summarize this until I can check it from home?
Or this more tech-oriented one from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso
Filevault 2 deployment and key escrow, by Google
CWI cryptanalist discovers new cryptographic attack in Flame spy malware
That would be fine if you wanted to retain the legacy hashing function. I was describing a migration from one hashing algorithm to another. You're describing modifying the existing hashing algorithm, which is something different.
The point is that computers are really fast now. There's no need to precompute anything, just crack hashes on the fly. The extra mangling slows things down.
This is in the context of hosting it yourself, not using a different large-scale business provider.
"For that matter, so did Color."

That is an epic burn.
Easy: everybody authenticate with Facebook Connect, then we just have a single location and storage mechanism to secure.
I'm fairly amazed that people are still stuck on the idea that Apple sells lower-specced products for more money and makes it up with, depending on your opinion of them, either a good experience or flashy marketing.

Certainly they don't win on every spec, but I think that if you do a fair comparison on all specs together, weighted by the ones that actually matter, you'll find Apple near the front of the pack. I guess people's opinions take a while to change.

As for the article, I agree completely. I finished it thinking, "That was interesting... wait a minute, none of that really made any sense." Too bad.
Are you using Ubuntu now? If you are, how easy/hard was it to transition from Mac OS, UI wise?

I've never used a Mac, but I get the feeling Canonical is mostly trying to be "inspired" by the Mac OS, rather than Windows. Because of that, as a Windows user, I found the transition to Ubuntu a bit frustrating, and I found Linux Mint much more natural to use - like I didn't really have to learn anything new. Surprisingly, I even find it a bit more intuitive than Windows 7. After years of using Windows 7 since beta, I still don't know where some stuff is located compared to XP.
In our team, we all like to write. We want to share our thoughts and opinions. But blogging has it's own set of limitations and expectations that don't always fit with how we write.

You need to manage a platform (either hosted or as a service) with everything that comes with it - setting up a theme, defining tags, categories and so on. You need to constantly write otherwise a new visitor may think your 2 month old blog post outdated and that you've moved on. Visitors also expect consistency of topic, while we may want to write a variety of posts about different aspects of our life and being. A flame post about the actress we hate, or a personal post about how life is going in general. What's more, the internet as we know it never forgets, while our opinions change.

The word "Blog" comes from the combinations of the words "web" + "log", meaning that all blogs result in a list of all articles. We want to focus on each article and we want to give that article only to our readers. There are enough networks and services that allow you to share what you write with interested people, why do we need them to register and follow your blog as well? Rather than taking up your time to create an intricate blog, why not just offer a direct link to the article and save your readers time too? When that article is no longer relevant, and is not shared or read anymore, we believe it should slowly and automatically disappear.

We believe writing is an important part for everybody's personal growth, but a blog with all it's limitations and expectations can be daunting to the casual writer. If you are curious and believe in our manifesto check out feathe.rs and sign up. We will open it up for everyone soon.
Random house checks, stops on the street, curfew, mandatory information delivery from private companies (not that this isn't happening already)...just to name a few possibilities.
http://AppFog.com has ruby, python and node, multiple regions today: Ireland, Singapore and US, adding Rackspace and HP soon. All free and backed by CloudFoundry
> Which means that tech and ad companies who say they comply with Do Not Track could simply ignore the flag set by IE 10 and track those who use that browser, which means Microsoft has no choice but to change the setting.

That's a reach. How would the ad companies know if the user manually turned it on or off? Ars is claiming they'll completely ignore any DNT from IE?
Perhaps my biggest shortcoming is not knowing how to make these library calls. I only write scripted code (node.js, PHP, etc.) and haven't done anything with binary libraries.

Also, I write a lot of apps which I release under the BSD license, and generally shy away from touching anyone else's binary libraries for fear of catching the GPL.
I just installed Firefox on Fedora 17 and found, to my surprise, that Do-No-Track was disabled by default.
The Retina display makes the whole device vastly easier and more pleasant to use. The iPad is basically a device for reading text and viewing images. The new display makes both of those far better.
Apple haven't announced which machines will be compatible with the released version of Mountain Lion, so it's premature to say that Apple are "blocking" it. "Blocking" is also different to "Not Supporting"

Minimum specs have changed between beta and released version in the past. Apple has also released firmware updates to make machines boot in 64-bit mode as well. It is well within the realms of possibility that your machine could become "compatible" before 10.8 is released.

Secondly, as a point of reference the current MacBook Pro's do have upgradable hard drives and RAM. However the battery is not easily replaceable.
I think the main difference, according to what I got from a friend who used it, is that the Azure PaaS offering is billed by uptime while Google's App Engine is billed by actual usage (because it can shut down unused instances).
Ha-ha. And nothing goes wrong.
Interesting.

"Recently GLG has created Hightable (formerly known as G+),[26] a professional question-and-answer website, edited and organized by its community of users to compete with Quora[27] and to attract more experts to their platform."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerson_Lehrman_Group
A Tale of East Asian History, British Loan Sharks, and a Russian Hacker
I was worried for a minute, but I can't actually think of anything a hacker could do with my last.fm account that I care about.
Impressive, though some of the machining around the various ports looks a little naff.
Yes, Ubuntu.

I'm a kind of old Linux user. I've been using it here and there for the last 17 years. Nine years ago I bought my first Mac and finally found Linux again when I started to be good in programming.

My setup is very minimal. Using tiling window manager (xmonad) and set of my own widgets. Everything is Solarized and with my laptop all programs full screen.

At work I've been using this kind of setup (but without Apple hardware) for years.

For me, Apple (or Microsoft) doesn't provide as good UI as Linux does with my own setup. My config files are even in SVC, so when installing a new machine, all my stuff is there right away.
"Will Soon Be"? How about "Has Been" and "For Years".
I'm assuming this:

Cortex A15 and Mali T658 will have shared cache
between CPU and GPU

is what you're looking for.
Scams hit worried LinkedIn users
"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis
That was my thought, this sounds like a great idea, but definitely seems a little pricey for a startup, would love to know the numbers (maybe the increased productivity is worth it)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qF1lx1w...

That might get you around the blocking.
the wattage measured here is not just the processor, its also the entire boards.

Ive done some benchmarks testing Intel Atom processors Atom330's and D525's against Tegra3 processors. On average the Terga3 processors outperformed the Atoms 4x-8x in Flop/s per Watt.

Admittedly that is not the only important metric, but gives an initial performance comparison between ARM and x86 performance
Yes, I believe that is what they are saying.
New MacUpdate Bundle
Soft links, hard links, junctions, oh my! Symlinks on Windows, a how-to.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.

"The filmmaker: Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, whose recent films include “My Country, My Country,” about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and “The Oath,” which was filmed in Yemen. Since 2006, Poitras has been detained and questioned at airports at least 40 times. She has had her computer and reporter’s notebooks confiscated and presumably copied, without a warrant. The most recent time, April 5, she took notes during her detention. The agents told her to stop, as they considered her pen a weapon."

...

"He [Jacob Appelbaum - a computer security researcher for the nonprofit organization the Tor Project (torproject.org)] has been detained at least a dozen times at airports: “I was put into a special room, where they frisked me, put me up against the wall. ... Another one held my wrists. ... They implied that if I didn’t make a deal with them, that I’d be sexually assaulted in prison. ... They took my cellphones, they took my laptop. They wanted, essentially, to ask me questions about the Iraq War, the Afghan War, what I thought politically.”

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/4/26/the_nsa_is_watchi...

* Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports [Video w/ Transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/detained_in_the_us_fil...

* "We Don’t Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance [Video w/ Transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/we_do_not_live_in_a

* Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails [Video w/ Transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/whistleblower_the_nsa_...
No: if Apple hadn't happened, personal computing would have flourished anyway. Intel might not have been so dominant in the µprocessor market, as the IBM PC was a panic response to Apple's success, and IBM's scientific PC, based on a Motorola 68K chip, might have taken a larger market share.

See Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines for more on the state of personal computing prior to the start of Apple.
It's also much quicker to parse through text than to wait for someone to say it, even if they are a fast speaker.
4. Expire all passwords and ask your users to come reset them. - No legacy code necessary

Regular users should have no problems if there's an accompanying blog post
Non-regular users might just remember about your site/service and come back :)

5. Use bcrypt/password stretching. Store the work value alongside the password and upgrade it as people log in.
To me that's not really keeping legacy code around; just an extra variable...
That means that I need to know about (and program chef to do):

logging

security hardening

firewalls

backups (both point in time and complete backups, both for database and for any other artifacts like image uploads)

testing backup recovery (both the point in time and complete backups)

replication

HA

LB

SSL termination

postgresql configuration

monitoring (security, system stats, application availability, individual process running)

performance analysis (both at application and system level)

method for deploying updates (to the application and to the system)

and the list goes on... you could easily make a career out of focusing on postgresql configuration, for example. these aren't simple things to do.

Different providers have different limitations on what you can do here. For example, AWS doesn't support multicast, which limits your options for doing High Availability.
Matt Green, himself no cryptographic slouch, says this is the biggest crypto story of the year: malware that included a new cryptanalytic result in its toolset. Zero-day vulnerabilities are somewhat common in malware; zero-day crypto results in malware are practically unknown.
If this comment came up in a customer development interview my notes would read "Likelihood of sale: not a snowball's chance in hell."
Ustream's CEO On The Occupy Movement, DDoS Attacks, And Internet Free Speech
ezl does not seem to have gone all the way down the rabbit hole with the oDesk tracking link. (I work at oDesk, but not on this, so I was really curious.) After about 3 HTTP redirects, the www.dpbolvw.net link seems to turn into some sort of affiliate link. So my guess is that a (possibly errant, but presumably very data-driven) affiliate was the one sending him e-mail about oDesk, rather than oDesk itself.

That seems to raise a broader question, which is: to what extent should companies be blamed (and thus try to control) for the actions of the people in their affiliate programs? Would you be unhappy about a blog purporting to be by a cute ice cream eating girl filled with recommended books with Amazon affiliate links? What are the standards in this area, exactly? (On reload, see dabent's comment below as well.)
I have had a lot of fun working with Unity but not for making a game. I have actually been using it at work to use as the platform for an experiment which is being done in our Universities Geography department. what it truly taught me was how much scripting can save you a lot of time in the tweaking department. As this is my first real project that I'm doing on my own, it really helped in understanding how important making your scripting generic really is. It also has shown me the weakness of Unity's GUI library as there are some limitations with it.
I think this will end up happening - Amazon already lets you suck out it's catalogue and push affiliate sales back to it. You could likely build very sophisticated niche virtual retail sites if all the bricks and motar data was there also.

Interestingly in the survey the number of ecommerce APIs was actually a lot lower than we thought it would be. This might be a blip in this "generation" of APIs, or that it's simply hard to do still.
Coincidentally (or maybe not), FX and AMC don't really offer streaming of their shows either. FX used to be great about it, but they've clamped down in the last year or so. AMC has always been uninterested.
I am intrigued. Do you have any quick links on hand, or pointers on how one would go about learning how to set up something like this? Or just learning about how to distribute services in general?

That is to say, I know my way around Linux, have set up single/standalone servers for all sorts of services, but have never known remotely where to begin on the distributed side of things, much less understand what is required to makes something "designed to be multihomed".
I find it so odd that this functionality wasn't baked into web browsers from the beginning.
Six dual-core PandaBoard ES boards stuck in a wooden dish-drying rack :) One of these draws a max of 5-6 watts under heavy load, so the whole "rack" should stay around 30 watts during cluster benchmarking etc. It's not completely assembled yet so there are no real numbers. Total cost about $1500.
I doubt their Hadoop clusters have password data stored in them.
SPDY and WebSocket both have protocol negotiation and framing but they are implemented differently. That's why Microsoft's S+M proposal essentially recasts SPDY on top of WebSocket so they can share the negotiation and framing code.
I couldn't agree more. The last concert I went to, I felt like far too many people were viewing the concert through their 3.5" screen than looking at the 90' stage in front of them.

I can't help but feel that these people will someday look back and have great pictures of these events but no memory of them.