skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Symantec AV Update Sparks Blue Screen of Death for Windows XP Users
Every consumable can be replaced - just not necessarily by you. Every structural component can be replaced and installed according to manufacturer recommendations - just not necessarily by you. Replacement parts are available for a seven year window - just not necessarily sold directly to you.
Code spelunking in the All New Basecamp by Nick Quaranto
There's no loyalty on the Internet (and why should there be?)
To whom? I can poke a hole in it by just looking at it the wrong way. I'm buying a T-Shirt, not a pair of pantyhose.
Hanlon's razor. If anything, attacking via their hosting company shows bitconica are more secure than the vast majority of internet companies. The attacks took more effort than those on HBgary (a dedicated security firm), LinkedIn, Lastfm (who I know have more clue than most internet companies), ....

Even in 2012, internet security is still a joke. There's no need to invoke conspiracies.
No... every field as a spectrum of talent. From "stars" to "very good" to "competent" to "don't go near that one".

There are VERY FEW "stars". So few that you cannot possibly skew the entire talent base into two buckets (stars, and also rans) as this article does. It's shortsighted and extremely damaging advice, especially for new programmers.

You also cannot hinge your business on hiring only stars - if you do, you're going to spend far too much time finding unicorns when you could be executing with a solid base of professionals. In no other industry have I seen this obsession with finding the "real coder" or the "rockstar developer".
Isn't this what kickstarter accomplishes or could?
The products I use the longest are from Apple.
Woah, who knew NSIncrementalStore has been exactly what so many of us have been looking for. After a quick scan through, this looks like it completely replaces, not wraps, the default SQLLite store, yes? In other words, if the network is down, you can't save anything that would be synched later or request any queries that weren't cached? Or maybe I'm just not reading things right.

Full offline functionality is pretty important to us so I wonder if there is a nice way to make the NSIncrementalStore wrap a regular old SQLLite CoreData store and fault out to the network if something isn't found locally and conversely, store any new calls that need to be made until network is available.
Have you used PowerShell ISE 3.0? Its user experience is better than the standard tools on *nix that I've used, and of course much better than the old powershell. You get very good autocompletion (similar to what you get in IDEs like Eclipse or Visual Studio), syntax highlighting, debugger, etc.
Yes, it's better to base one's actions on empirical studies than on intuition. Yet we all have to put our pants on one leg a time, and it's far, far better to be out of the house in time for work than to sit there paralyzed and unable to make a choice between "left" and "right" simply due to lack of definitive statistical analysis.

As a tangenial but relevant point, there are empirical studies that show the inverse correlation between the number of programmers on a given project and code quality. Nevertheless, I have never seen anyone argue for hard limits on the number of contributors per OSS project. Methinks all the calls for hard data, while seemingly all about science, are really about emotion on your part.

(Sorry about the ad hominem - I am really not trying to attack you personally, I promise - I just don't know how to make my point without it).
So, even though the problem is real. This is basically a site to promote a book and nothing else.
Cute sales technique.
I have kids. I'm happy they _always_ ask for a password... Free apps can be malicious e.g giving away location to parties unknown. But still you're right - this could be an option users can decide.
The only .xxx domain I'm actually aware of is http://couch.xxx which is IrisCouch.
If you want a secret tip to exploring a new world, download Papers (http://www.mekentosj.com/papers/), put all the interesting publications you find in one Dropbox folder, and import them. The annotation and note features - as well as the back-up option - makes this a really enjoyable way to publications.

It really is something to read papers that define the way we think, and it's a nice alternative to short blog posts and (pop) articles versus (pop) books.

Here are some papers to get you started:

\* 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=0998565

\* Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006

\* A technique for isolating differences between files: http://ejohn.org/projects/javascript-diff-algorithm/

\* A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme: http://static.usenix.org/events/usenix99/provos.html

Maybe this is cheating, maybe it isn't, but I definitely recommend it.

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If you want to get political, some left-of-centre-leaning writers you can't go wrong with:

1. Matt Taibbi on Wall Street, Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog)

2. Frank Rich in American politics, now at New York Magazine (https://twitter.com/frankrichny)

3. Glenn Greenwald on civil liberties and foreign policy, in moderation (http://www.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/)

4. Juan Cole on the Middle East, in moderation (http://www.juancole.com/)

5. Lawyers, Guns, and Money (http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/)

6. The New Yorker's long-form articles. (I find their blog posts to be really poor, by any standards.) Also, ditch the Malcolm Gladwell articles.
Moveline has interns push code.
Co-founder of 99designs here.

For clarification, there's no such thing as a $200 web design contest on 99designs.

Prices start at $599 but you really have to offer $1000-$2000 or more to get a good result. You browse thousands of finished web design projects here to see the outcomes that customers get:

http://99designs.com/web-design/contests?show=finished

I think the quality speaks for itself... the typical 7-10 day turnaround is also very helpful for a fast-moving start-up that needs results FAST and doesn't want to spend time getting multiple quotes/proposals and reviewing contracts.
The Man Who Is Walking Through Detroit, Like A Human Google Car, Counting Trees
Apple's answer to obsolescence is to make their stuff good enough that it doesn't need to be upgraded continually throughout its lifetime in order to remain competitive. I'm pretty sure you'll get more use out of a sealed, non-upgradeable MacBook than you'll get out of most other similar alternatives.

As for your iPad screen, it seems rather unfair to criticize a company by imagining the worst case outcome and then imagining that's what they did. It's pretty common to give customers refurbished replacements, then take back their old broken stuff, refurbish them, and give that out to the next customer who needs a replacement. This way customers are insulated from the annoyingly-long repair times, but they can still reuse repairable equipment. There's no reason to think Apple just tossed your old iPad in the trash.
Wasn't that a completely diffrent thing, not governed by the OS, but implemented by each app independently and not wit the side-swipe app swiching?
...and .53 x height for women.
Apple Calls EPEAT Pullout Mistake in Open Letter
We have looked at BrowserID and may use it to bring the same to the web. We'd already started before BrowserID was announced...
Most enterprise software in 2012 looks a lot worse than Google in 1998.
I think that's the number one thing people have been overlooking in this scandal: EPEAT is behind the times by not even offering relevant standards for Apple's most important product segments.
Going forward all merchants have to consider the Groupon/GOOG Offer cost while pricing. They already factor in credit processing - and can't discriminate on Cash customers. eventually a customer paying cash and not using any promos will pay a lot more for the same merchandise.
So, assume that Apple's marketing dept. is all dudes.

Doesn't that run contra to the idea that diversity is necessary/good by definition? Apple's marketing dept. has done a pretty damn good job, what with helping propel the company to the heights that it's gotten to.
> Don't other people assume that anything .xxx is NSWF?

No. I've seen quite a few blogs that use .xxx. I gave more weight to "byfat" in the domain. I assumed it was fat the developer at twitter.
Cool, I've always wondered why there is nothing like this for general rides. Why niche on burning man, why not a general ride board?
umm.... google news? reddit?
Clarifying my posting this item: there's been some occasional discussion of the relative merits of BMI (I'm not convinced there are any).

One counterargument is "BMI is cheap, easy, and roughly accurate".

Height-waist ratios are equally cheap, easy, and more accurate, particularly in assessing populations of varying lean body mass (not readily accounted for in BMI), as adipose tissue tends to aggregate prominently at the waist, while muscle hypertrophy in the same region tends to be somewhat less pronounced.

Use understatement is hereby noted.

Link-bait sites are hereby notified that posting a waist-to-tallness calculator is strongly preferred to propagating the BMI myth.
It's bad news, running CoffeeScript without compiling it to JavaScript first. If your code throws an exception it won't print line numbers. Don't take my word for it: https://github.com/isaacs/coffee-cleanse

I also take issue with the name. Node is extremely popular among front-end devs and others have pointed out the popular skeleton CSS base library.

Finally sprockets is obsolete for JavaScript, with CommonJS/AMD and tools like browserify and RequireJS. It's also obsolete for stylesheets if you're using Less or Sass.
Bummer, no Linux support for papers.
I just noticed that this is from a 2009 paper. Has this method made its way into any products by now?
No doubt the "new" one he got at a discount was a refurb as well. I had to exchange my 3gs due to a bad battery. The Apple guy brought out a white box 3gs as a replacement. I asked if it was new, and he got a little cryptic only saying it was in "like new condition."
I don't believe in hero worship.

I also don't believe in tearing down people who have achieved great things in some effort to attribute their success to mostly luck.

Your other post is rife with the fallacy of special pleading by critically examining fortunate occurrences in his endeavors while making no mention of obstacles he overcame like surviving the internet bubble collapse, being fired, having to compete with Fiskar, and countless other things you nor I know anything about.

You could just as well say that I arrived at my office this morning through pure luck. After all, I didn't slip in the shower like many people do, I didn't get in a car accident as is statistically common, etc.

Also, I was at Apple before and after the return of Steve Jobs. The internal differences in the company when he returned were palpable and quantifiable. He certainly didn't do it alone, but it definitely wouldn't have happened without him.

critical aid provided by the much maligned and mocked US government

Well, when you're spending a quarter of the GDP of the largest economy in the world, some good stuff has to happen somewhere. Those of us maligning and mocking just aren't happy with the cost to the economy and our liberties for the meager gains.
I think it may be a shift, but not a worrying one. Those particular traditional Steve values were not the good ones. Until and unless they show a trend away from Steve's good values (e.g. good taste, favoring customer experience in engineering compromises, willingness to compete with their own products when necessary), I think this is a good thing.
"Custom" security/authentication solutions always scare the shit out of me.

If you have come up with some innovation that you believe is so simple that you are amazed the entire industry has ignored it, there is probably something glaring insecure about it but you simply don't understand security well enough to see it.

Apart from that doesn't stuff like lastpass basically solve this problem?

Also what if I want to login to several accounts from the same phone?
I was going to write some snarky comment, "I was just thinking it was time to replace my commemorative AOL coasters"...

However, this might be useful for the people who are buying PCs @ bestbuy. Especially if you get the BestBuy associates to hand them out / suggest them when someone buys a new computer. Also, lest we forget, AOL is not the great company it could've been but the free CDs did help make them the giant they once were, they just didn't pivot fast enough.

In conclusion, by having an insightful thought I also got to share my snarky comment.
So this means that CSI's "enhance" is actually more possible than reputed.
I agree with most of your post, but would clarify:

>> People complain about how HN is getting worse. That's probably true and it is true (and will continue to be true) of any such social site in the future.

Two things:

1. "Worse" is subjective.

2. I think it's more of a trade-off between quality and size. Hacker News doesn't have to get "worse", but would have to remain niche in order to avoid it. That is why subreddits can succeed, because Reddit is essentially a platform for lots of niche communities.
Design how business communicates. SendHub (YC W12) is looking for a designer
We're looking for a talented designer who’s as comfortable in Illustrator or Photoshop as they are in HTML and CSS.

Skills: Illustrator/Photoshop, HTML & CSS (cross browser)

Nice to have: Git, Mobile Web Experience

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We're based in Menlo Park (right by the caltrain station) and while we're flexible on remote working, you'll need to be around the office.

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Agreed. I'm surprised you didn't mention that it costs a nominal fee ($5 or $10, IIRC) to join. I've always imagined that prevents issues with multiple sock puppets and trolls and whatnot. If a mod deletes your account for abuse, it's not free to spin up a new one.
I wouldn't worry about it. Actually, I'd worry more if Apple didn't change at all after Steves departure, since that would be a sign that they were afraid of thinking for themselves. I don't think Apples success is dependent on being a dick, and I hope they more towards opening up things (like the Gatekeeper certificates on OSX).
AWS outage vs a leap second (Stats from PagerDuty)
Did you read the article?

The author does not talk about needing to compete with XBox360 or PS3 or anything like that. The author's objection is basically that the people on the project appear to have underestimated the practical aspects of actually producing the device in quantity.
I believe it's the same guys running RideJoy, which is a YC company
This is slightly off-topic but does anyone know how pages on this site load so quickly? It's almost instantaneous on my computer.

Does it use something like this? http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/async_ui
Prismatic. http://getprismatic.com/ (Although, strictly speaking, it's much more than that)
N/M, after scrolling down I saw the burning man ticket giveaway by ride joy, who seem to offer that service: http://ridejoy.com/
> - cycling unfriendly

Unless you are coming from the Netherlands or Denmark, I don't think this is really the case.

The US has changed vastly on this front and I would rank it more cycling friendly than most places. Mind you many municipalities are still quite unfriendly to bicycles, but San Francisco and New York City (just to name two) have changed vastly.

San Francisco has taken street lights that were timed for cars (so a car would drive down the street and get all green lights if it were to drive straight) and changed them to 13 miles per hour, so that a bicycle will get all green lights.

It's certainly no Amsterdam, and there is still a long way to go, but I'd rather pedal there than most places.

(NL, DK, parts of BE and DE are still more bicycle friendly than anywhere else I've been on a scale that simply won't make sense to a person who hasn't been to those places. Caveat, I've never been to China, rumor has it that there a lot of bicycles there too.)
I can imagine some pretty interesting car rides with Burning Man regulars.
is there any good central repository for these kinds of frameworks / best practices?
Yeah..."after digg," seems a bit five years ago.
RestKit (http://restkit.org/) is working on something similar. Right now you have to manually push your data back to the REST service, but in version 0.11.0, they are going to add exactly the kind of functionality you're looking for:

https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/pull/573
Now we’re not even allowed to link to the Olympics website?
HAML user? Here's a better HTML to HAML converter
Bitcoin market activity may not be large enough to ever pay back the significant cost of building a secure exchange. Also, as TradeHill and CampBX discovered, people just won't move off of MtGox no matter how bad it is.
Fifth Moon Discovered Around Pluto
Hey stkryzsiak - funny you should mention that. The company behind BurningManRides.com, Ridejoy (where I'm a co-founder) is something like a "general ride board".

We make it easy and fast to match with friendly people going your way. We're mostly on the West Coast right now but growing quickly. Check us out at: http://ridejoy.com
Seriously! TV, dvr, Netflix...pure EVIL.The worst enemy of any side project.
http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis
Are you concerned about the BORG making a trademark claim? They are very protective of the trademark.
Your descriptions are in a very light grey against a white background; nearly invisible, consider increasing the contrast. Other than that, looks useful.
"startups should make sites that look exactly like that, but that initially they can get away with similarly low production values."

I'm assuming that that statement refers to YC startups as opposed to "startups" who may seek VC or angel funding (who may have limited knowledge and be more impressed with visual slickness). In that case the design, usability and appeal of the site matters much more.
A single source for sharing and retrieving all information.
> Yeah, I did only check on http://npmjs.org to see if the bin script name was available.

What you've just described is called squatting.
I don't think this is necessarily a problem. If the model is based on generating a secure (in terms of entropy) token that is then stored on the device or in the iOS cloud it's fine. Every app using that lib has its own token even for the same device.
Do you practice?
This one: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com
This is also fast in Safari because the array isn't sparse enough for JavaScriptCore to send it down the fallback path.

EDIT: In order to go down the fallback path the array needs to be both sufficiently large and sufficiently sparse (< 12.5% occupied). You can see the difference in algorithms by modifying your test case like so:

Dense, fast path:

var a = [];
for (var i = 1; i < 4e6; i++)
a[i * 5] = i.toString();
a.sort();

Sparse, fallback path:

var a = [];
for (var i = 1; i < 4e6; i++)
a[i * 10] = i.toString();
a.sort();
I'd much rather see some repeated submissions, rather than an empty broken page. But that's just me.
Isn't that basically the best possible reasonable outcome in that scenario?

Would you prefer to spend the same amount of money, and then wait 3-8 weeks for it to get shipped off to a repair facility to be worked on?
tried to order, site failed.

sucks.
And if it offered relevant standards then it's quite likely that Apple won't qualify given how they are assembled.
The scope of the protected invention of a patent is supposed to be defined very precisely by the claims (and indirectly by the specification, procurement history, etc.) If you have a very precise definition of what is protected, you can often find an alternative that is not protected.

Of course, I am speaking in generalities and individual cases may vary, but when people come to me with patent problems I often find a way to avoid a patent.

When non-specialists talk about patents they usually interpret the patent coverage based on the title or the summary, but the actual scope of protection is defined by the claims and it is usually much more narrow than the title suggests.
Made it about 3 sentences in before closing the tab in disgust as Wolfram's ego interjects when asked about Turing, and he claims that Turing got distracted and so failed to create concrete computation, so that task was "left to me." Ugh.
As far as I know, it's not possible - passing a device ID tithe browser would be a privacy disaster. You could use something like PhoneGap if you want to develop your app in HTML5 while having access to native APIs
Good. Don't link to them. Don't watch them. I care less and less about the Olympics every year. It's no longer about the competition if it ever was.
I agree that hn fits the bill well. It is quite limited in the diversity of topics and type of people, by design.

I've found I also get good mental stimulation by picking free online courses at random. For example Yale University has a brilliant set of lectures on Milton, which I knew very little about prior.
Every thumb drive I've ever found comes in nigh-indestructible plastic casing. I'd say the issue with this idea is less one of malware and more that Best Buy wants all the USB sticks that leave their store to cost $20+.
Exception accepted! I don’t think anyone has a problem with that kind of use. I certainly don’t.

So, yes, sometimes “retarded“ can be a neutral term.
You are absolutely right, he was talking about words that were important to the Party. Words that facilitated criticism, dissent etc. However, my point still stands. If you consider a child with a good vocabulary in two languages versus an excellent vocabulary in one language, which supports the superior reasoning?
Actually I think he did the right thing. He:

a). Isn't doing security for security's sake, and

b). He's giving his users a great experience.

BrowserID is new tech. Even if that adds any value it's not been field tested. I'm not sure whether he considered it or not, but I can tell you I wouldn't. At least not until someone's thrown some sizeable stones at it, and that doesn't make it fall over.

All of that said and done, I think there are better options out there - specifically something that supports services (active requestor profile) and not just the browser (passive). Something like Windows Azure Active Directory, for example, which has a proven pedigree, connects with anything, and above all follows the laws of identity.
This is part of a deeper problem with most mobile OSes.
I might give my phone to somebody so they can make a quick call or look something up online.
However, I don't really want them being able to dig through my history or be automatically logged into my email etc.

If I had a child I'd want to be able to let them use my phone but only in a special mode that allowed access to a limited number of whitelisted websites & apps.
Just wait, burritos are next.
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