skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backpage is owned by Village Voice Media, which publishes alternatively weeklies, including the Seattle Weekly.

It's no surprise that the other Seattle newspapers (Seattle Times, The Stranger, another alternative weekly) would be trying to stick it to their competition.
Congrats! This is a really cool opportunity.

I would suggest thinking about what kind of a book it's going to be, and who the audience is. Is it more of a reference book for people who know HTML and want a hard copy? Or is it for people who are learning HTML for the first time, and want to learn HTML5? Is it a book that assumes people know what vim and emacs are? Or is it a book that takes 1-2 paragraphs to explain what a text editor is? Is it a book for nerds? Or a book for retired dads looking to make their first website?

I'm not going to say 500 pages is too much or too little, because I don't know what kind of a book you're writing yet.

Also: some hackers here already mentioned that a lot of HTML5 information is available on the internet. I would think carefully about what your book will do that a google search can't.
Dane & the Saygent team, props for your response :)
Could be worth sifting through some of these:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104

Otherwise I would definitely post in the main forum.
Governors have that power.
"Would people still buy your product even if it was rubbish?" If so, it means you are providing (something of) a solution to an important and unsolved problem.

(Most) people don't buy technology or products, they buy solutions to their problems.
Sebastian Thrun Needs Your Help to Break a Record
I am writing you to ask a personal favor. I am trying to break the student record for the largest online class ever taught with my new class "Intro to Statistics", which will begin June 25th. Sign up, forward this e-mail to your friends and family and let's set a new record!

We've also launched a challenge for high school students. Winners will get a trip to Stanford University and I will be delighted to give a tour of my lab!

Thanks,
Sebastian Thrun, Professor

The link : http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/st101/CourseRev/1
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Actually Governors don't have that power in this situation, since it involves Federal law.
Search vs. Findability vs. Information Retrieval
Search engines worked on brutal way of organizing information based on keywords. They would basically go through a junk of information and try to extract out of there the best matches and put them on indexes. If we could note the order, is Junk of Data, to Order by a third party who analyzes your content based on keywords, NLP and some other great metrics.

What Findability should be, and what the Semantic Web promises is a new approach. Order first and then the rest will be easy. By using Faceted Search or other Information Retrieval interfaces findability is achieved. Computer Search is based on indexing a junk of data, while Findability should be a process defined at the moment when the data are created.
Unfortunately, once a conviction is final, it's fairly hard for courts to use any sort of discretion; there are strict limits, made stricter by legislation in recent years, on what kinds of challenges they can consider. Though as the article notes, the exact scope of the limits as applied here is unclear, so they might conceivably be expanded.

On the other hand, executive pardons and commutations have always been intended as a partial safety valve against too process-focused jurisprudence: the idea is that a thoughtful executive has the power to say, "this is not the just outcome" in specific cases, approving exceptions outside of the usual proceedings of the law. Unfortunately for that theory, though, in the past few decades pardons and commutations have become a big political risk. If you pardon someone, you get no major benefit (a handful of bleeding-heart liberals will like you, but not many), unless the person is really well-connected. But, you incur a bit potential risk if the person you pardoned ends up committing a future crime; the "Willie Horton problem". So the safe course of action is to let ten innocent people rot in jail, rather than risk pardoning a dangerous person (the exact opposite of the traditional maxim).
A PC User Perspective: Hands on with the Retina MacBook Pro
Win a trip to Stanford with Udacity challenge
Using Org mode to Blog with Jekyll
I don't know what your budget is, but $8,000 is not a lot. I've managed dozens of software projects and I would never trust ANYONE who says they'll build ANYTHING for $8,000. Very, very few successful websites, rails sites, iPhone apps, or desktop apps were ever made for $8,000. Even for a simple MVP. Hiring quality people costs money. Hiring lower quality people leads to problems.

Based on the information you provide, unless you have min. $50,000 to invest I would recommend a technical co-founder or a seed investor.
These characters are covered as well. Basically all keys that produce characters are included.
Ask HN: Where can I get a document printed in SF?
Fedex Kinko's?
You can subscribe to the mailing list using the form on the http://getkeysapp.com page. I will send notifications about such new features (e.g. keyboard layouts) to this list.
"I wish everybody was as nice as I am."
What have I expected? He really says it and gives the finger.
It's really awesome, but please, Europe exists...
A good point. If the nytimes article is to be believed, stuxnet was actually used to talk Israel out of performing more physical attacks.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'll take an infected computer over gunfire any day.
Because ed is the standard text editor.
Benchmarking anything on EC2 instances will yield statistically suspect results. You know nothing about the other workloads on the box, the underlying hardware, or the network connectivity.
TLDR: Linus at a Q&A, a woman asks why Nvidia still isn't providing any support for Optimus on Linux, Linus responds that Nvidia is being really difficult about that without good reason and "Fuck You Nvidia!" (flicks off the camera).

Her question actually starts a minute earlier than the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA&t=48m14s

PS - Bravo Linus. This is issue is a real PITA, and a bit incongruent considering the historically awesome driver support Nvidia has provided for Linux.
I was looking for specific recommendations that people have used. Thanks anyway.
I agree with you on T420s vs. MBP. But it doesn't stand a chance against the 13" Macbook Air (my favorite, also because it's relatively inexpensive).

When I got a T420s, I was surprised by how little of an improvement it was in terms of screen, weight and thickness with respect to the T40 series. As the standard bearer for quality PC laptops, Lenovo has had years to come up with an answer to the Air, and I think it has failed.
I'd agree with most what saurik said. Mindset is one of the most important things about anything. It's always not about WHAT you do, but about HOW you do it. A person who really learns is someone, who views himself while he does something and repeats it later on to discover what he did, how he did it and what else he could've done.

But that's not the reason, why I'm writing here. Since I started to get better at anything I'm doing, I realised that it's always about the little things. If you see someone do one thing that is small, great and everybody loves it, then what actually happened was that this person did millions of small steps that where stupid before. You just didn't see it. Millions, it's not a joke! And of all these things, a lot of them are about just learning boring things. If you want to become a cracker (I'm morally neutral, so I don't really care WHAT you want to become), then you should start out with learning to code and to learn to code quite well. Then you should learn all about how the internet works. That means learning to code more, and then to also learn all about the network protocols and layers and also about how the hardware is wired. Learning all this will automatically show you the limits of what security can achieve (for example you will understand naturally that there can't be a perfect code. Every code must contain the information it tries to hide, some where. So every code will be broken some day.) and also where people did mistakes. And if you have the right mindset you will find ways to hack systems, that actually don't even involve to circumvent security systems.

To make a long story short: You need both, mindest and a lot of knowledge.
Nonetheless, those outdated assumptions linger and the irrational fears are widespread and easy to exploit. And that is exactly what is happening, every time a new gtld is opened.

You want to use Amazon as the example? It's a terrible example, because Amazon are savvy. And yet, it turns out, even they do own amazon.biz and amazon.info. The worthlessness of those namespaces is evident: it didn't even occur to you to check them!

Amazon didn't register those for the SEO; it's a pure defensive registration.

Feel free to write to Jeff, tell him to let those registrations lapse 'cos he doesn't need 'em.
It's a shame he doesn't go in to specifics, just saying "Fuck you" makes him look like a child, which I am sure he isn't.

What is the problem?
Aside from the FU, its a nice and interesting talk with an engaging Q&A that spans: decision making, being blunt by choice, micro-optimization, licensing, commercial interests, limited success on the desktop....
From "If you like subversion, you are ugly and stupid" and now this. I always enjoy this man's talks.
Isn’t the main reason we are bad at these things because we don’t really care for them. I’m not suggesting we are asexual but that we don’t hold flirting etc. in very high regard.
I own a Unix introduction book from the early 80s (I think) that describes a customized/extended version of ed as the author's choice of text editor. vi is mentioned as "this newfangled editor that has more features than anyone needs and is such an incredible resource hog that it leaves barely any memory for the actual document on a large PDP-11".
It's important to consider that Grugq is selective about his buyers. He won't broker a deal with Syria. As long as he sells to friends of the World Police, prosecution is not really a risk.
Unlike Intel and ATI, Nvidia doesn't play nice with open source developers.
Doesn't mean it can't be statistically valid, the noise just means you need to run more tests.
Presumably he said that because nVidia makes it difficult for developers to develop open source drivers for nVidia devices
To add some perspective here, Justice Scalia went so far as to claim the government has the right to kill a known-to-be-innocent person so long as they were at some point found guilty by a habeas court.

Here's the quote:

“This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged ‘actual innocence’ is constitutionally cognizable.”

I personally loved Alan Dershowitz's retort, though it's a lot less relevant than the words of someone who sits on the Bench:

"Let us be clear precisely what this means. If a defendant were convicted, after a constitutionally unflawed trial, of murdering his wife, and then came to the Supreme Court with his very much alive wife at his side, and sought a new trial based on newly discovered evidence (namely that his wife was alive), these two justices would tell him, in effect: “Look, your wife may be alive as a matter of fact, but as a matter of constitutional law, she’s dead, and as for you, Mr. Innocent Defendant, you’re dead, too, since there is no constitutional right not to be executed merely because you’re innocent.”"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/08/18/scalias-cat...
I'm behind the times here, but it took me a second to realize this was really Linus in the video. I still think of him as looking like the now-10-year-old photo gracing his Wikipedia article (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Torvalds.jpeg), but he looks a lot older here, possibly accentuated by the business attire.
That's a shame, it's a hell of a lot of fun!
A man who speaks his feelings about his passion, oh how will we ever handle this.
"I like offending people, because I think the people who get offended should be offended."
It's an open secret that they both build them and buy them. Where the stuxnet ones came from is uncertain, but it could have gone either way.

I've heard they'll actually pay for one they already have if they hear a broker selling it. In this case, they are paying to keep it scarce (as these deals come with exclusivity).
The idea is quite interesting. I love the idea of virtual economic systems.

It's a little strange, though. He doesn't look at all like the average nerd as he describes himself.
I'd heard it attributed to Winston Churchill. But, some Googling reveals other attributions to George Bernard Shaw, and nothing conclusive either way. So I'd say that it's uncertain who said it, or even that someone famous did.
I was surprised no one else had mentioned wargames. There are several at http://smashthestack.org/ that cover a wide range of exploits (from simple buffer overflows to format string exploits and md5 collisions). My favorite one was to develop two BF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck) scripts that print out different strings, yet have the same md5 hash.
Churchill
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/300099
It requires you to pay for service until the end of July first. And then you may get the credit (if you were fast enough). Seems like a so-so deal to me.
In a print shop, duh. Is there more to this question?
It's still much harder to find ATI drivers for Linux than Nvidia drivers.
You might want to take a closer look at tunnelr.com. They do support
both OpenVPN and OpenSSH based tunnels, and both of these work fine on
MacOS. I don't own a "normal" Mac, but I did see MacOS tutorials on
their site, in fact, there are two tutorials, with each using a
different method.

You were a bit vague when simply stating "mobile device" but if memory
serves me, Both OpenVPN and OpenSSH will work on some "mobile" platforms
(Android, iOS, etc.). I've never tried it personally, and I don't know
what kind of "mobile device" you use, so for your specific case, I could
very well be wrong.

Using OpenSSH via SOCKS support in applications or by using a
SOCKS-Wrapper like "DSOCKS" by Dug Song or similar ("Sockify for
windiws, etc), take more effort than running OpenVPN. It might take more
effort, but if you don't mind the hassle, it's most likely more secure
than the common alternatives (OpenVPN, PPTP, etc.). The only thing
better than OpenSSH (in my opinion) would be using a correctly
configured IPSec implementation. But getting IPSec right makes OpenSSH
look very easy.

You might want to note how in this discussion both Fredrik Strömberg
(kfreds -runs the Mullvad VPN service) and myself have intentionally
tried to avoid disparaging PPTP. Whether good or bad, a lot of people
like PPTP for various reasons, and a lot of VPN services offer it as an
option. Other than for the sake of curiosity, learning, and
experimentation, I would never use PPTP. When it comes to both security
and privacy, PPTP has many known problems and some VPN service providers
refuse to support it due to these issues.

Trying to be fair to those who like PPTP is being a bit too generous
since the security and privacy of people is at stake. None the less,
development work is still being done on PPTP, and it has supposedly
made some improvements over the years.

EDIT: I misspelt Fredrik Strömberg's name. Sorry. (sigh).
I'd like to see the prosecutors of these cases jailed for the equivalent time lost by by those wrongfully imprisoned. "Sovereign immunity?" Sorry, I guess you should do your job then. If you find out later that you did your job so wrong that someone loses 10 years of their life, you sure as shit better be the first one in line unlocking their cell.

Public officials have great power, and there needs to be an equally great responsibility and consequence for abusing that power. And yes, being ignorant or making the wrong decision counts as abuse of power.
GQ: Stanford undergrad's "Muthuball" wows the NBA
"A Stanford undergrad's new super-nerd study suggests that there are really 13 positions in basketball—not just five. And NBA front offices might be able to use this new information (plus an esoteric branch of mathematics) to more effectively construct their teams. If Moneyball revolutionized baseball, 'Muthuball' could mark a new frontier for the NBA."
I don't quite understand the point of this. What's the benefit? Isn't this the exact same thing as going through my Followers list on Twitter and looking at which ones don't have the blue "Following" button next to them (which would give me the more interesting metric, people whom follow me but I don't follow)?
I've complained about this via their support channels a few different times. They're in the middle of a what seems like a very big security fixing phase right now relating to "something provided by one of their vendors". When I asked about it I was basically told to go away.

They really offer a very good service over all, but their transparency is atrocious.
or just oozes sleaze ("pickup artists", ESR etc.)

They may be sleazy, but they're basically right.
A great explanation of what happened with just enough self-effacing humor to make me like them. I'm not sure how the fine calculator ties into the rest of their business offerings ... perhaps it will be upgraded to accept voice input instead of this pesky typing stuff.
I see the book is from late 2006. An honest question for better understanding the security research field: how and how come is it still relevant? Things like algorithms (a la TAOCP) I can understand, as if you prove for example a lower bound for a class of algos it will stay like that forever, but in security research I would imagine the people involved protecting themselves from what is now 6 years old bad practices.
What is the point of this? It was incorrect with the username I put in.
Holy shit.
Jquery Mobile, eat your heart out. Step aside, and move over.

I'm trying this. looks great!
I guess the problem is that Nvidia pretending to be Linux supporting company (they even joined Linux Foundation) while completely disregards linux users in many ways, e.g Nvidia still doesn't support Optimus in drivers for Linux. What stopped them? Today almost every second laptop goes with GPU built with nvidia optimus technology and it's can be a very painful experience to use linux on such devices.
That doesn't reflect his opinion. First, Linus states Nvidia is an exception, one of the worst trouble spots. And he is also very upset because Nvidia at the same time tries to sell a lot of chips into the Android market, a Linux based system. Very ungrateful of Nvidia. I agree, fuck Nvidia.
Same thing happened to Larry Page. When I saw the Charlie Rose interview I hardly recognized him.
Reflecting on EU 'Cookie Directive'.
Saygent has responded and there's a new discussion thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121750.
Wait, what? There are radeon drivers within the open source ecosystem, and AMD also supplies an alternate proprietary driver, bad quality as it is, for those people who find 3D support essential.

You can make the argument that nVidia Linux drivers are much better, but I don't see where you're getting the idea that it's hard to find AMD drivers.
Browser can and sometimes do override DNS. The omnibar is one recent example. This is obviously very bad.

It is like the NXDOMAIN problem.

Is it the web? Or is it some company's interpretation of the web? "In this situation, when the user types ______ the user should be directed to ______."

Remember AOL keywords?
There is basically no nvidia drivers available for many modern mobile GPUs on Linux, so I doubt that Nvidia is more linux friendly than ATI/AMD nowadays.
We launched with an Ask HN in 2008. Now established (self-funded) and if you check it out you'll see the execution is pretty elegant (esp. the tech). :-) Hah! It's actually the best product I've ever had the chance to work on.

Hackers that want to find success might find some inspiration from Daryl. He's dope.
The way most folks learn to do high end niche programming: In advanced degree programs, research organizations and through professional development at government employers / contractors.

Charlie Miller is a well known example of this - he famously markets himself as a reliable exploit writer, his background came from doing the same work at the NSA.

Nope, Charlie is definitely not the typical story. Most of these guys don't even have college degrees.
Apologies - I do need to do the reverse but most people follow more people than follow them. And yeah it is the exact same thing as that, but you can search it and monitor who's unfollowed you since you last saved your list. You can also track/check other people so it's more useful than just looking for the blue following button - which I often find buggy
It was CVS.
I don't think that this would have been the right venue to go into an in-depth rant about Nvidia's lack of cooperation. That's certainly not what the audience was looking for and probably not what Linus wanted to go into; moreover, I doubt anybody from Nvidia was there or would even have heard the talk.

The last point is somewhat ironic: if Linus had been reasonable and talked about Nvidia at length, Nvidia would probably not have noticed the talk; since Linus decided to be curt, the talk got onto HN and people from Nvidia have no doubt noticed it.

Besides, whatever you think about it, Linus's approach was indubitably effective. We are, after all, talking about the issue right now!
Maybe you don't want to, and that's fine, but you'll never be able to quit smoking if you do it while you are hacking.

Habits are associative and have triggers, and that's a setup to make hacking a trigger.

For me it's snacking so I'm in the same boat...struggling not to do it while at the computer.
Patterns of Effective Delivery (Embracing Uncertainty)
Agile software development was born ten years ago, with a gathering of industry luminaries in Snowbird, Utah. They were frustrated that so much ceremony and effort was going into so little success, in failed project after failed project, across the software industry.
They had each enjoyed amazing successes in their own right, and realised their approaches were more similar than different, so they met to agree on a common set of principles. Which we promptly abandoned. The problem is that Agile calls for us to embrace uncertainty, and we are desperately uncomfortable with uncertainty. So much so that we will replace it with anything, even things we know don’t work. We really do prefer the Devil we know.
Over the last year or so Dan has been studying and talking about patterns of effective software delivery. In this talk he explains why Embracing Uncertainty is the most fundamental effectiveness pattern of all, and offers advice to help make uncertainty less scary. He is pretty sure he won’t succeed.
Your link didn't quite work for me, starting in the 49th minute somewhere,

Using a fragment identifier to demarc the time offset works better for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA#t=48m14s
What username did you put in?
I'll add that I heard it was Oscar Wilde to the list. Who really knows?
http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww350/KyosukeKiryu/Pokemo...
I'm planning on making all the projects on my site open source on GitHub but haven't got round to it yet, watch this space!
That will help you find C bugs in open source software. Won't do a thing to advance your exploit-writing skills though.
Ask HN: Do you know a project like "Google console API" for submitting my API?
I've an API and I would to tracking requests, limits and more as "Google console API". I wonderif exist an opensource project like that, or a startup?