skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said Kuhl would eventually find a buyer because there is a market for his work and he's sold in the past. It is reasonable to assume he would have sold the bills he made.

Regardless, since just printing the counterfeit notes is illegal he became a criminal by creating them, not by selling them to the police. The entrapment did not create the crime, Kuhl did.
Oh no little cutie pie!!
They might be able to tie in some form of NFC or mobile wallet, with your amazon account. "Pay anywhere with your amazon account". I could see that as a nice market lever for them.
Is it just me, or does PaddleOver, one of their two demo apps, doesn't actually work?
How Consumers Are Hopeless at Math
What is a good games for kids to you?
I don’t have GraphicsMagick installed on this machine, else I would try this:

$ gm convert http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/ -comment '' x.jpg

…and…

$ gm identify -format '%c' http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/
> if I've got to make a choice between finishing a product or being a good parent/husband I'll take the latter

And that's why most successful startups are founded by childless, unmarried, under 30s.

Being young correlates to being energetic and not risk averse, and having no family commitments correlates to choosing the product over going to soccer practice.
His math is sound and he clearly states his underlying assumptions.

Using the recently published infographic, AirBnB revealed it did 5,000,000 nights in a 143 day period. Grossing this up by 365 days equals 12,750,000 nights projected for 2012 (5M / (143/365) = 12.8M).

This calculation implicitly assumes that the rate of bookings does not increase for the rest of 2012, which is probably not true looking at their impressive growth rate. The author backs out a 19% month-over-month historical growth rate using other statistics published in the same infographic. Using this rate of growth, he derives a projected 17.6M nights for 2012 versus the 12.75M above.

> with the length of each reservation increasing substantially from the year before

The 17.6M projected nights makes no explicit assumption about the "length of each reservation." The 5 million nights published by AirBnB could have been 1 user booking a 5 million night stay (it wasn't) or 5 million users booking 1 night stays. It doesn't matter, the length of reservation is embedded in the statistics and not separately dealt with, so the author cannot be growing that assumption.

> the post is assuming maximum commission on each reservation

He does not use the maximum commission on each reservation, which we established would be 15%. Instead, he uses 13%.

> Payments collected on behalf of other parties (i.e., the payment fee) are not treated as revenue under GAAP.

I'm not going to argue GAAP accounting, but from a cash perspective, AirBnB is collecting 9 to 15% on each reservation. If a listing is for $100, the Guest pays somewhere between $106 and $112 per night (i.e., 6 to 12% markup) and the Host gets $97 ($100 less $3 or 3%). Therefore, AirBnB is generating revenue of $9 to $15 on every $100 in reservations.
Anyone else read it aloud in his voice, pauses and all. Occasionally picturing him blowing himself up while setting the charges and all that?
Matraka is seriously worth a watch. All 2d canvas, and it actually has music in a 1k. What's funny is that p01 is the reason I got into web demo development, and he's actually using the png technique I came up with. Makes me proud to be a hacker.

Edit: It also won a much-deserved first place in the DemoJS 1k compo.
Posting HN comments in the comments section instead of in a submission? Truly, it can't be that hard!
It doesn't play mkv or avi files.
Let the internet be his grave. May he rest in Cheese.
Totally happens, even though it is not supposed to. If a dev didn't outright break the rules then they shouldn't be blamed. The rules in this case would be something like "a peer must review before deploy" - if you bring down the site after breaking that rule, you're going to get fired most likely.

I've never had COEs come up in my or others' performance reviews.

If the boss who owns the COE "gets it" and has internalized the old-school Amazon culture then there won't be blame. The bosses really take the hits here, they do get personally blamed for these things. If they can't stand between the team and the more senior management then they are not doing it right.

If you and your boss mutually hate each other (which unfortunately I have seen) then it won't go well.
I've been following the work on RequireJS for two years and think that it's an evil project that sabotages the rise of CommonJS, NodeJS and NPM by leading client-side Javascript coders to follow a non-standard, awkward way of JS development. From the very beginning, it forces coders to cover their code with awkward code and maintain it manually. It's completely insane. I even think that I'm wasting my time by talking about it.
This is what I want. I can never get the whole story from just the slide deck. Need the talking too!
D without a doubt.
Weather Channel buys Weather Underground, its crowdsourced competitor
A modular browser environment: the Link Architecture
I am currently reading "The President's Club" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Presidents-Club-Exclusive-Fraterni...), which is a book about the unofficial club formed by former presidents. It's also, necessarily, about the relationships that all of the presidents in the modern era (Hoover on up) have had with each other, both in and out of office.

One of the major themes (so far) is the notion that nothing can prepare you for being president. The job is so hard, so complex, and the amount of information the president has access to is so much more than everyone else, that all new presidents have I-knew-it-was-hard-but-not-this-hard moments. The only exception perhaps being Eisenhower, whose job as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII actually did prepare him for being president.
distributed 100,000 frames. So the clicks metric comes to real life?
Why did it take so long? Small team, SDK limitations, funding? I can't imagine that porting an Obj-C code base to Java would take as long as it did. (Doesn't matter how long original code base took; that was development, whereas porting code is more "manufacturing") Not trolling, just curious.
Any practical use for this or just for fun?
WebRTC will have peer to peer API by the end of next year.
It's rather infuriating (from experience) :) If you do go about it and want to discuss it more I'd be happy to.
Absolutely. The notion that Amazon "subscribe and save" reference disrupted toilet paper in particular caught my attention.

Subscribe and save is interesting, but paying 40% more for toilet paper doesn't sound very disruptive to me. It's cool for offices and people with more money than time, but not disruptive.
similar. my mom is a physical therapist and her building also has some doctors. a few years ago her employer/state laws banned accepting gifts (like lunch, pens, and pads of paper, &c.) from drug reps, but I still have a massive box of clicky pens with weird drug names on them from before the ban a few years ago.
btipling raises a valid question, stop down voting and instead post a reply.
I'm not sure that working 16hrs per day vs 8hrs gives a 2x increase in productivity. Maybe not even 1.5x - maybe not even 1.2x.

And even if it was a 2x increase in output, I'm not sure that that's an enabling variable in a startup's success.
It takes about an hour of use to get there, honestly; it's not quite like keyboard chording. And you adjust very quickly when things change — I have no trouble going back and forth between a large Intuos (12x8" active area) and the Bamboo Connect (5.8x3.6") I carry around in my laptop bag (except that I really miss the spinner and buttons).
My comment is far from a cheap insult. At Quantcast we handle 300,000 requests a second in 14 different cities, and we can failover between cities in 6 seconds. And we're doing a lot more than just log a pixel on each request, just to be clear. It makes maintenance and upgrades really easy. It was a bit of work, but we're always up.

Even a child knows that when the power fails, you can't turn on the TV. This isn't specialized technical knowledge.

EDIT: I'm not going to keep responding to your comment below. I'm certain that if I were involved in the design of Netflix' infrastructure, they would be able to survive problems that affect whole regions. (AND I DONT SEE THAT NETFLIX NEEDS 6 SECOND FAILOVER, THERE ARE MUCH EASIER WAYS TO DO IT IN MINUTES).

EDIT: My repeated, emphatic comments are intended to serve a purpose. Everyone should be aware that this is a real problem and you need to plan for it, and it's pretty clear from the discussions on HN that people are surprised by the Amazon downtime. I personally think Amazon does a fantastic job as it is, and Amazon's reliability issues are not an excuse for the downtime of their customers.
It did not entertain me. Sorry. Nice work though.
Lit·er·al·ly/ˈlitərəlē/
Adverb:
1. In a literal manner or sense; exactly: "the driver took it literally when asked to go straight over the traffic circle".
2. Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling.
Reading throught the comments, it's amazing to see how much damage the cowboy culture of our community has produced. "Every engineer should be an architect." Ha, ha, ha...

This also goes hand-in-hand with "Everyone can be a programmer" mantra that everyone likes to repeat. Go teach pointers to 20-year olds and you'll realize how most people can't be programmers.

I don't understand where this culture is coming from. I definitely can't fix my car; when I see my mechanic, he doesn't tell me how I should go learn how to fix my car. I'm confident he's much better at fixing my car than I am. The same is true with other professions -- lawyers don't tell clients to go interpret laws on their own and dentists don't tell people to go remove teeth on their own. What is it about our community that we ingrained into our youth that "writing code" is the thing that everybody must do?
Excellent! How do they spread? People no longer leave MS-DOS or Windows 1.0 "boot floppies" in A: to get infected on the next reboot.

The implementation of UEFI needs to be flawless for the keys and the signing to make any difference, leaked or not, except for control of the consumer marketplace. Look at "rooting" Android smartphones, or putting alternate OSes on the Wii. Imperfect implementations spoil the security.

Even if "bootkits" are making a boot sector virus comeback, UEFI will not make much more than a temporary difference.
"this wasp can somehow [...] find the right places to lay its eggs"

I bet this wasp is playing the "you do not need eyes to hit bullseye if you throw a million darts" game. It is sufficien t if some of these wasps, almost by accident, happen to lay their eggs in the right place.
Jelastic Receives $1 Million Grant to Develop Private Cloud
Simpler Search
Inception time, try fontBomb on fontBomb code! http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/js/main.js
Amazon Wireless already exists, but not in the sense you're describing. They sell phones and plans on the existing carriers.

http://wireless.amazon.com/
This is an essential move on Cisco's part but the damage has been done. We should expect more of these. A friend bought a Samsung TV which wanted to download updated firmware from the Internet when she turned it on the first time. (it has a bunch of, IMO worthless, streaming features built in) With all the pieces there at what point does the TV accidentally 'brick' itself? Or you have a RandomBrand unit where RandomBrand goes out of business and the TV tries to download and can't so becomes worthless.

Eventually "no software changes needed" or something to that effect will be a 'feature' that sells gear. Or of course open software.
Commenter is referring to the binary data at the beginning of the file, which makes up the file header for the jpeg. It is before the <html> tag and is neither commented out or actually ignored.

The browser actually picks that "text" up and shows it on page. It's just the html content itself contains some css rule to make that text not visible.
Relentless Relentlessness
"We believe lack of clarity in our own terms of service has contributed to many of our customers’ concerns, and we apologize for the confusion and inconvenience this has caused. We take responsibility for that lack of clarity, and we are taking steps to make this right."

Hey Cisco, what about having people locked out of their own routers? ( http://www.neowin.net/news/cisco-locks-users-out-of-their-ro... ) I don't see it mentioned in your non-apology.
Free Domain transfer if you switch to Badger (1 year extension and free privacy)
It's interpreting that data as "text" and sticking it at the beginning of the <body> of the document. The css makes the body invisible so you don't see it on the screen (unless you disable that rule) - take a look in the DOM inspector.
But valid HTML5! Just kidding, 934 Errors, 73 warning(s) when validated as HTML5.
> Simply put, it allows anyone to utilize our powerful technology to create completely fresh and new experiences for users with just a couple lines of code.

Worst use of "simply put" I've seen in a while. This page actually puts it simply: http://torque.bittorrent.com/labs/

> Turns all torrents links into regular downloads. No torrents to manage. Just content.
a) The article didn't say anything about the poor, nor did I say that it did. I simply made a correlation about how the poor are unable to take advantage of significant discounts due to capital constraints. And the example I was using didn't use the phony discount but the true discount offered by volume. Pay attention... :p I understand the differential between the two pricing strategies perfectly well.

b) I also never said nor implied that saving $200/month would make someone rich. But to dispute that there would be no improvement in a family with an extra $2400/year is silly. If you believe that to be the case, please send me a check in that sum. ;p

And further, you can't use the present market to determine long term returns. Today's market is quite lucrative if you pick the correct investments. If you just follow the Dow or NASDAQ up and down, day trade, or let management fees eat up your seed corn, you're at the whim of the market.
The true problem with PHP is that people waste enormous amount of time writing about what's wrong with PHP. And others - on reading this stuff and voting it up on news sites so that it occupies precious front page real estate.

Don't like it? Don't use it. Move along.
As pointed out by someone else, the browser has been instructed via CSS to hide the body. If you inspect the page and manipulate the CSS to show the body, those odd bytes (ÿØÿàJFIF,,ÿþr) do get rendered.
I'm not an armchair scientist, look at my bio. I was personally the driver behind the resiliency that we have at Quantcast, and if we had done anything less we would not have succeeded.

I'm happy to help anyone who is serious about uptime, just email me. There's a reason that I post under my actual name, and there's a reason that I make my contact information avilable.
Add Some Pizzazz to Your Text Boxes with HTML5 and CSS3
Most online text entry fields, including text boxes and search boxes, look exactly like the name implies — very “boxy”. Relatively few website owners have availed themselves of the latest coding advances to incorporate subtle touches into their form elements to create an entirely new look.
I don't get the hate for software architects. Would you try to build a skyscraper without an architect? No? Then why is having one a problem for a large software system?

Sure, if you're building something small, one person can be architect and general contractor and electrician and painter, etc. But the idea of division of labor is usually seen as a good thing. Not sure why we hackers should see it any differently. If you're building enterprise software systems that span multiple divisions and locations of an enterprise with 30,000+ people in 100 countries, ya know... you probably do need somebody who's job is to look at the big picture, see that the pieces being assembled fit the needs of the firm, and that the pieces work together in a clean and elegant way.

Having an architect, where needed, doesn't denigrate or devalue the role of the developers at all. It really is a different role that needs to be filled.
Did they advertise it as "locked until you agree to whatever agreement we want to force upon you"?
... not yet anyway.
This may be deeply stupid, but I'm new to IRC, and I'm getting a message on Freenode saying "Cannot join #php (Channel is invite only)". Am I missing something? Or is it possible to just watch the discussion without participating and that doesn't require an invite?
I remember your comments from some time ago, where you described Mathematica as a good Lisp-like language with good development tools. I am also curious about Mathematica. Have you changed your mind? Why?
I was able to add javascript code in there and it executed properly, but the browser won't parse the jpg as html unless I give it a .html filename extension. I don't see how this could be easily exploitable.
Yes, certain versions of IE can be tricked into executing javascript in images: http://www.h-online.com/security/features/Risky-MIME-sniffin...
I'd rather be rich at 70, than poor...
really nice! Do you ship outside the US? i think i might not have a way to print it :/

P.S.
doesn't :e stands for :Explore and takes a file or a directory?
An Amazon feature phone with a 4" screen and free data for Kindle books selling for <$100 on contract would be interesting. Basically the Kindle Phone (not the Kindle Fire Phone). Just a small Kindle with a phone built in, and free data ala the 3G Kindle.
I'm getting a kick out of those comments! I'm glad that they find humor in the little things. It's a nice reminder that people still have fun programming. Reminds me of some of the stuff the Github guys release.
have you tried to share with someone else? if you send someone a link, and they click on it, you'll be able to see each other and share freely
lol "send money" for discovering an idea that is at least 15 years old? gtfo.
try http://paddleover.com?name=Patrick&cu=OK65EnZh0FpNPNnn&#...
Even at the cost of family and friends? I dont see work as sacrosanct. Its a section of your life devoted to help you sustain a living. Some people love it, some people dont. There are other parts of your life that need the same, if not more of an attention to develop your character as a whole.
I doubt that Ubuntu is "the forefront of 'Linux on the Desktop'" because it is willing to compromise and use binary blobs and the like.

The reason is that there is a proper organization that people trust and understand behind it (Canonical). People with incentives, money and ads.

Idealism has little to do with it. Granted, Ubuntu would be a bit less popular if they were as pure, but I don't think it makes much of a difference in the end.
Don’t Jump to Conclusions About the Aggregation of Your Public Data
Could executable javascript be included in that?
Looks more like a chipmunk to me.
Hindi word 'Jugaad' means finding a work around and less costly way of doing things. It mostly comes in form of sharing/saving/using a resource wisely.
e.g. In India, Missed call does not charge anything to the caller. So it is often used as a way to indicate something or signal some event. For example, asking a friend to give you a missed call when they reach home. Some pics about Jugaad here: http://www.quora.com/India/What-are-your-thoughts-on-how-the...
Not hamstringing their upward mobility, but definitely hamstringing their retirement (assuming they're not funding it adequately). Of course inflation and risk are factors. I didn't realize that I need to include footnotes and references when discussing a common idea, that of investing for long term goals.

And I think Eliezer's experiment is a load of crap, imho.
Interesting write-up, but I expect you will have some problems over time with this.

In my experience the computer failures are relatively easy to manage. Power will be your primary issue, and to a lesser degree, internet. When we ran a lot of servers on UPSs, the UPSs start to become a major pain. UPSs fail much more often than hard-drives. And when the battery dies it cuts off power to the computer. You're using low-end desktop machines, so you probably don't have dual PSUs in each machine (if you did you could run each PSU to a different UPS). UPSs are also much more likely to fail when the grid power fails. So the power goes out, your UPSs will kick in, then 30 seconds later one or TWO fail. Can your power distribution can handle that? I'm no UPS expert, but this seemed pretty common across a variety of UPS products.

As for internet, multiple links is a good start. Load-balancing outbound traffic is fairly straight-forward. Inbound traffic is much harder. Really you need BGP. A BGP-based set of links isn't cheap, and doing the configuration yourself is hard if you don't have experience with it. The alternatives that aren't IP routing based are usually based on DNS, which is better than nothing. But the effectiveness of it is dependent on how your users servers/clients/browsers implement DNS caching. It will work OK for some users but some will cache the stale link IP for 24 hours -- not cool.

You certainly can work this way, and probably get three nines of uptime. But I can say now that we switched to a decent colo I sleep a lot better. We can focus more on building product, adding value for our customers, than screwing around with the utilities.

FWIW I'm basing this off of my experience in the United States.
Scrolled through for a few minutes and found one I had to buy. Domains are addictive.
Interesting thought but browsers should not interpret javascript inside an image. I would expect image rendering to be separated. Can someone with an expertise in browser design tell us how this actually works?
I'm sure what took so long is a combination of a) ridiculously poor/inconsistent camera API's b) less than satisfactory SIMD support. When I ported some camera stuff from IOS to Android it took me 3X as long due to the need to work around bugs in the SDK. I'm sure they had to do all sorts of nasty things with the JNI to get it performant as well, and I'm not even sure the JNI supports things like the C++ STL yet.
You're doing exactly what that article was describing, and calling Netflix's engineering team irresponsible children is a cheap insult. It's extremely insulting that in the process of saying you didn't insult them, you call them children again. So is repeatedly setting up and taking jabs at this straw man that they had no failover system at all, a year ago or last week.

You're basically saying "if I were in charge, Netflix would've been able to fail over to another region in 6 seconds". But you don't even have a fraction of the background info required to say such a thing. It doesn't matter that you've done reliability at Quantcast; Quantcast is not Netflix.
Machine Learning on Rails with Ruby
I don't like that I can't see how paddleover would work without installing the plugin. I bet you're losing a lot of visitors on that page.
It is a well known social hack to simply put a good suit on, walk up to people like you belong there, make them feel important and then get them to do whatever it is you want.
"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice."

By going with the flow, as many of us are wont to do, we get caught up by those who decide that they are going to go their own way.