skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The name your rapist idea is terrible in the form the author lays out as there's no requirement for evidence. It would be relatively easy to game such a site to discredit people, which in turn would discredit the site. To be fair, an anonymous at both ends site could be a force for good. The author of an article highlighting harassment could verify the story to a mod team, but by not having the naming and shaming we can focus on the problems existence (which seemed to be the problem the article author faced with 28c3) rather than the inevitable backlash in the naming and shaming. I think this is much more constructive, less high risk and overall has a better chance to influence in a positive manner than naming and shaming alone.
Write Clojure on your iPad
When you clock on the video it should start playing automatically.
That's because your laptop's wireless connection quality is sub-par. The fileserver might be on the LAN, but the laptop's wireless is going to be your bottleneck.
Hanging out on boards, IRC, reading hacker publications will get you access to exploits of others. If you want to develop your own zero day exploits you need to become a really really great programmer. Then gain an understanding of the layers that live between the publicly accessible part of an application and the core system you want access to (usually the OS). Learn everything you can about those layers and how the creator has protected the system from unauthenticated users.

Sometimes you're dealing with completely open source apps. These are more secure but the plus side is that you have access to all uncompiled source code.

Sometimes you're dealing with all or part of the stack that is proprietary. These are sometimes less secure but you don't have access to easily readable source code so you need to use special tools to figure out what the creator has done to protect the system.

If you're trying to get into a specific system, intuition often helps you choose where to spend your energy first. You'll have a feel for what code has the least eyeballs on it or the less competent developers writing it, or less frequent updates so you look there first.

FYI there are two kinds of zero day exploits. The first is one you just discovered and no one knows about it. I think of that as true zero day. The second is one that fits the classical definition of the developer having zero dev days to fix it because they haven't been told yet, but many other folks may know about it. Discovering a true zero day security hole is very hard and getting harder because of the bounties being offered now. Often regular zero day holes are discovered by others who got hacked using it and simply back-tracked the hackers steps.

Hope that helps. I'm the developer of Wordfence, a security plugin for WordPress. Also disclosed the timthumb wordpress vulnerability last year and fixed the hole by rewriting timthumb.
I agree with your sentiments here (except battery life, I use desktops). Javascript is the cause of nearly all my most hated "features" that websites use. Disabling it makes these websites better. Google does not try to out think you. Comment boxes do not highjack your browser's hotkeys. Websites do not tell you that you can't right-click.

The latest fad for thumbnail-image animation is especially infuriating. A plain link is easy. I can choose where I want it opened. I can easily toggle between a full-size image to one that fits my browser window. The worst offender in this regard even hijacked my middle click so I could not open the image in a new tab. It pushed me so far I actually went looking for instructions on compiling Firefox and looking to remove Javascripts knowledge of a middle mouse button. (I didn't get very far.)

Another almost equally infuriating feature is the infinite scrolling page. I hate them. They don't add any useful interaction.

The worst thing, though not directly caused by javascript, has got to be "visibility: hidden" and "display: none" style attributes. Websites love to hide things and sometimes entire pages behind them for no reason other than the fact that you can make something to click on something and have javascript show it. (Another thing I wanted to remvove from Firefox.) Some people directed me to Firebug which is great for deleting those attributes. I seem to recall Google+ doing this at its begining, now it shows me the page on the few occasions I go there.
The world needs more people like him: in a position of power with the guts to stick it to companies who put money before humanitarianism.
Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/) and MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/) are my preferred text editors.

Sparrow (http://sparrowmailapp.com/) is my favorite email client.

I can't live without a window resizer on OS X. Use SizeUp (http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/) for easy window maximizing, half splits, and quadrant resizing.
I would recommend two tools, one is called email and the other is called the phone. Depending on whether the place has an email address or a phone select the appropriate tool, contact the proprietor and inquire as to whether his establishment will be suitable for your purposes.

Given that your using tools used to sellbed and breakfasts on the internet chances are high that the proprietor has both breakfast AND wifi.
GPS isn't accurate enough to tell you what lane you're in. I'm sure it uses GPS for navigation, but it must use active sensors on the car itself for the actual driving.
Sounds like Star Wars droids, but a bit more annoying. Designing a system of sounds that would be robust to noise and distortion, high bandwidth, and pleasant-sounding for humans would be a really interesting challenge.
stuff I have installed

* rather than vanilla vim, try MacVim

* textmate is popular, though I don't use it

* tunnelblick for vpn management

* video: vlc, but mplayerx and MPlayer OSX Extended are popular options

* TotalTerminal (make terminal show/hide with a keystroke)

* cyberduck (ftp/s3/whatever file transfer client)

* keka as unarchiver

* xchat aqua as alternative irc client
Did your laptop make a daily commute to work in a bag?
Did you walk or drive?
Seconding Alfred.

ST2, TextMate, and MacVim are all good – I personally prefer MacVim.
I concur with the above post -- we travel with a Cradlepoint router and Millenicom USB modem. You can securely bridge to wired ethernet if available (some routers bridge to wifi) and if anything looks fishy or flaky you can seamlessly switch to the modem.

I've often thought it would be a cool idea if these websites had a tool which automatically assessed a property's wifi quality via a quiz and/or a series of tests. But if you have the modem, a landline becomes a luxury not a requirement.
http://sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/home-en

Yorufukurou - hardcore twitter client
unfortunately its not a very clever system. sounds complicated for no apparent reason.

this is actually the 2nd time they're having elections because the previous time didn't manage to form a strong enough coalition.

what surprises me is the 37% abstaining in an election which from what i hear will decide the long-term future of Greece and the Eurozone. it must really mean greeks are fed up with their politics or lost hope that there's a solution to their crisis.
I would also give credit to Indian patent laws that allow people like him to shake things up.

"In 1972, India made only the process for making drugs patentable, not the drugs themselves."

Compare this to the US where I believe you can patent the active ingredients of a drug, allowing pharmaceuticals to charge more for lifesaving medicine for a longer period of time.
Expand the first mention of the HDA acronym on the homepage.

You could have based your product on FreeBSD to use ZFS. There would have been no licensing issue or people to deal with since the BSD license allows modification and redistribution.
My point was to ask you describe the sorts of information which are best sent via the slow web. I gave some examples where it wouldn't work, because of the need for timely responses.

Your example of receiving an hour television show on a 4GB card does not work, because we already have that. It's called Netflix. I mean, it's a perfect example of what you're wanting, but it's already a solved problem built on top of the postal system, and not based on uucp nor your proposed slow web. There's nothing stopping you right now for implementing this via the postal service - so my question to you is, which types of people would want this sort of system, why would they want it, why will there be a long-term demand for this sort of service, and why doesn't it already exist atop the postal system?

It looks like you propose that the newspapers could leverage their delivery system in order to deliver the data. But surely the postal system is the better fit, given that newspapers don't deliver to place with "only five people" and instead charge more so they can mail the newspaper.

The other problem I have is that you keep coming back to "radio-management." That's not important. We can wire 99+% of US homes with wired connection - we did that with power and are nearly there with phones. Why is radio important if you can get 14.4K wired to your home? Assuming a rather low value of 1KB/sec over twisted pair, that's 2GB per month. If you also want local wireless for the house, that's under $100. I set up that system 10 years ago for myself.

To emphasize, 1KB/sec is fast enough to download the entire NYT in 6 hours.

So the potential users, after removing the Netflix factor, are 1) those people who can't get any network connection, and 2) those people who are restricted to dialup but want more than 2GB/month, and don't care about 'fast web' responsive access. Both are small and decreasing in numbers.

Oh, and how does someone signal which 4GB of data they are interested in? I tried but completely failed to come up with any solution which doesn't require a large majority of the sites in the world to rearchitect their interface for this tiny minority - and that's not going to happen.
TinyScheme
Straight up genius!!! Would love to see it built in at OS level as it has all sorts of uses.
Great to know that someone else shares this apprehension. I cannot believe how callous HP is in developing their consumer products.

It first started with our HP laptop that died multiple times over the warranty period. And then some friend's machines as well .. the central issue in almost all the cases : bad thermal management.
I'm fairly appalled by the bulk of this article and frankly surprised to see it on the front page of HN. There are some potentially good ideas that with some smoothing out could fly, but there's a lot of stuff that's scummy, if not illegal.

The biggest problem I have with this is that this post's intent seems not to be to advance equality, or even the role of women through the hacker community but to drive a wedge and almost treat the gender gap as some sort of war. In her post, men only seem to be referred to in negative terms (as with the 28c3 panel and references to naming and shaming men who may or may not have done bad things, as no burden of evidence appears to be needed), something that I find deeply unsettling. When someone puts something like this forward as an example of feminism, I see it not as feminism but as a form of misandry. If we want to do good things for women that's fine as long as we can do good things for men and accept our differences. But really, as hackers whenever we can we should be doing good things for everyone.
I think they may have had a small pivot recently, but Room77.com was building software that let you do things like see what the view will be from a given hotel room and get info on things like street noise. This would be up their alley as well.

It would involve manual data collection but it could be a very useful service. Configure a handheld of some kind that can sit in a (vacant) room for a few hours--maybe a day--and measure ambient noise, wifi signal strength, even the amount of sunlight.
Partly - the specific ones all seem NOAA originated, which iirr is the American oceanographer group. They along with Navy proper have very vested interests in identifing unusual ocean sounds. But just as you can find parrots that say good morning, given enough fish swimming past enough deep seamicrophones, eventually one ofthem will
sound like they are whistling a braoadway tune

sorry folks, fun, creepy but in the end self selecting and
probably in the strange things happen on the planet category.
A pump does not remove the need for shots and as for the accuracy, well that is up for debate. You still have to learn the bias of the readings it generates versus the manual test. It is a lifestyle change from shots, you will be moving the point of insertion quite a bit and some sports may be better served with a shot regimen.

There is one nice feature of having a pump, with an always attached device you can get warnings when your asleep which can save your life. Many of these devices will either beep or vibrate or both when you enter a danger range. Even if it does not alert you it could alert whomever your sleeping with; even pets will take notice and possibly wake ya.

Last note, most insurance plans expect the pump to be replaced after a couple of years so find out up front how many years before you should expect to replace it.
At first I was like "Well, animals, obviously", but now I'm not so sure...
Spamming Back
Upsweep is even worse man
100M is actually a lot of traffic, if any of my projects had that much traffic i'd be feeling that whoever serves my banners deserves to earn money from me.
Future U: Rise of the digital humanities
It's 1AM here, I don't think I'm gonna play it. :)
...took the lazy way out and said that if "race" is taken into account, then the United States is second to none in provision of public education, which is simply a lie.

As is his norm, tokenadult ignores the data and vaguely appeals to authorities while attacking straw men.

Thaumasiotes didn't claim the US was #1, he merely pointed out that most of the gap Tokenadult cited is caused by student quality, not education policy. Nothing tokenadult has cited (here or elsewhere) addresses this point.

Tokenadult knows all this, but for ideological reasons will attempt to mislead people unfamiliar with the topic. He has already been made aware of the facts Thaumasiotes cited several times, and has repeatedly failed to address them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315126 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463278 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3321276
Django is a framework and Ellington is an application. Both frameworks and applications can be open sourced.
Try standard terminal, I prefer it to item 2.

Home brew or mac ports help install unixy tools. Work on the assumption that whichever you install, at least once a year you will have to completely remove it and reinstall it, as sometimes they get in a mess.

Apple mail is OK, I prefer thunderbird, but it isn't very Macy.

VLC tends to play whatever you chuck at it.

General note - HFS tends to get unhappy (performance-wise) if your drive gets more than about 85% full.

When I first got a mac I was tempted to install lots of hacks to standard apps and the OS. These seem much less popular nowadays, but still try to resist any, at least for a while. Mac OS X is very hard to debug if it starts to misbehave.

finally, never install the .0 version of any new OS :)
I have been working online for many years now and I share your pain :)

I don't think relying on the information the Owners give can be a solution.
They want to sell and they'll consider their shared wifi connection always "fast", whatever that means.

We have developed a niche platform for vacation rentals which would allow you to build a website dedicated just to vacation rentals with internet connection.
(some call it an Airbnb builder, but this is not accurate for many reasons. One of them is that we don't do peer to peer).

Anyone wanting to open a small business to fill this niche could use our CMS to build the site and select the accommodations from the thousands we have.
We have local Managers who visited personally most of these Owners and Accommodations, so they can provide you with hard data such as Actual Internet Speed.
SpeedTest.net results for instance.

This is different from letting the Owners check that "wi-fi" checkbox.

I had the "only fast internet accommodations" idea long time ago, but we're waiting for the right person/team to come in and do it.

The system is http://www.adormo.com and these are some other niches we built already just to give you an idea:
http://www.topfamilyhomes.com
http://www.kitesurfsleep.com
http://www.petfriendlystays.com

If anybody is passionate to solve this problem with us, please send us an email!
What we need to do is throw away the idea that smaller class sizes are always better, at least for mathematics. I have nothing against primary- and secondary-school teachers--god bless 'em--but we are letting their egos get in the way of educating our children. If they don't really understand the material themselves--and many of them don't--they need to admit it and let their kids go to someone who does understand the material when it comes time to teach math for the day.

I don't care if there are so few people who both understand math and can teach it to children (and are willing to take the job) that all of our math classes consist of 500 students. If that's the case, bring in bright highschoolers (who also understand the material) either as volunteers or part-time workers to act as "floaters". Let the class consist of one highly-paid individual with a math degree and passable teaching ability and half a dozen low-paid teenagers who understand fractions and are good with kids.

Of course, this would require many adult schoolteachers to admit that, when it comes to elementary math instruction, they are totally unqualified. That's a hard thing for a teacher--or, for that matter, an adult--to admit.
I still have a key-chain thingy that beeps back when you whistle. No Bluetooth and no proximity sensor, but it runs on the same battery I put in in early 90s :)
Every news organization that I've talked to that's used Ellington loves it. If they want to seriously make a change for the better in an industry dominated by antiquated CMSs that users hate, they need to open-source it. Hopefully they make the right choice here.
Seven marketing sins
Sometimes, life critical devices have to make themself desirable to the user.

It sounds stupid on the face of it, but for a 13 years old already stuffed to death with complexes, the difference between a bluetooth device no one sees and can be checked quickly, and something with tubes running through your clothes to your pants can be like night and day.
Can't recommend Sublime Text 2 enough.

Same with Sparrow for (non power use) GMail.

Currently enjoy Found (over Alfred and Quicksilver) as a Spotlight (native to OS X) replacement -- it's free in the "App Store"
Pink doesn't just include watered-down reds but also some colors I can't see as red at all, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_pink#Hot_pink
Echoing the other poster here, I think it's naive to assume that it's failing due to a low-quality codebase for a variety of reasons. It's largely the same developers that brought us Django, but more to the point, even if it had the ugliest code base known to man, that wouldn't impact sales.

What they're likely running into is in trying to compete with 'good enough' blogging platforms. Ellington is positioned awkwardly outside the high end of consumer-grade blogging and well below the low end for most enterprise-class CMSes. The customers they have are elephants, and unless you have a specifically tailored sales team, elephant hunting is a very hard business to be in, especially for the kind of product that Ellington is, wherein it is not solving any core business needs for anybody except, probably, other newspapers and journals and the like.
I say go for Launchbar. The clipboard history is pretty rockin in my opinion.
A very interesting idea. How many tones are there? How many beeps need to be made for 1KB of data?
Anyone doing this at scale using Scribe/Flume with HDFS and Hive/Pig/MapReduce?
You may also enjoy qb.js (http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92) which is pre-loaded with Nibbles (previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042896).
Linkinus is a pretty nice IRC client as well. I believe I got it on sale on the App Store for like $5. I'm sure it's more now though.

I definitely suggest HomeBrew over MacPorts and Fink. I've had much better luck with it.

TextWrangler is a great free editor. I use Sublime Text 2 for anything that I may need some standard editing. For more complex stuff or if I'm doing more than opening a single file, I prefer MacVim.
I purchased two apps within the first few weeks after my switch to a MBP:

1) Moom (move/zoom windows) - http://manytricks.com/moom/

2) TotalFinder (enhances the finder) - http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/

Some other must haves for me:

* MacVim

* Alfred

* Cyberduck

* Homebrew

* VLC
No on the license front. Splunk is way too pricey, IMO.

Thanks for posting this! I've been eyeballing logstash for a while but had not run across Kibana's UI. More fun reading ahead.
I'm a big fan of Jumpcut (http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/), a dedicated clipboard manager. Several other tools that include clipboard management have been mentioned but if you don't want the rest of the functionality, this is great for it.

iCal and Mail do a fantastic job syncing with Google and Exchange, so I use those.
I'm back from holiday now and should have some time to work on this - Alex
Have you seen these threads?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147642

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161855

I found them pretty useful -- have a look!

Also have a look at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407705
Linus Torvalds: 'f**k you, Nvidia' for not supporting Linux
DVD Ripper is an excellent tool that I use often. If you deal with video you will want to install Handbrake, too (and of course vlc).

Geektool is an excellent tool that makes a lot of stats about your Mac on the desktop, it's infinitely customizable, but has a steep learning curve, maybe to be installed in the second batch.

I hate iCal, although it does integrate different calendars. I think it and Mail tool are some of the poorest designed Mac software (e.g. compared with Outlook) but what are you going to do.

Secrets is another advanced tool, that exposes many hidden setting for the Mac.
Regarding the FizzBuzz myth, I think it's selection bias that makes us think it's just a myth. After all, everyone I work with would find the FizzBuzz problem child's play to the point where we, like you, don't trust that it's meaningful.

But having recently had the experience of going to a local job fair with the goal of looking for students to fill internships, I met with over 70 individuals that day. While we didn't administer the FizzBuzz test, I'm confident that less than a handful could have completed it during the interview process.

This is by no means concrete proof. But, I think for many of us, we suffer from selection bias, because even the worse people we work with are light years ahead of what the great majority of "programmers" can do.
I'm in the content business and like to "keep the faith" as it were. But sites that sell out so badly do make it kinda tempting.. ;-)
Does Apple's Passbook App Make Cents?
You might like Things, if you're into stuff like that:

http://culturedcode.com/things/
* iWork - Cheaper than Office and better in my opinion

* Transmit - FTP

* Pixelmator - 90% of Photoshop without the high cost but still with a slick interface

* Cornerstone/Versions - SVN

* Textmate - Code editor

* Wunderlist - Todo list

* Fantastical - Easy way to access and add dates to your mac calendar

* Concentrate - Block HN and other stuff when you need to get things done

(Note: Most of these are not free and are between $10-$80 but well worth it in my opinion)