skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps craigslist could put up a checkbox (like they do with the never-checked "It's okay to contact me about products ...") that says something like:

"I'm okay with people finding this listing through another service."

Perhaps because they don't want people to get to their listings that way even if they want to, and thus don't want your opinion? (Edit: and perhaps they really aren't as interested as they claim in making it easier for buyers and sellers to find each other?)
Considering how much effort went into stuxnet and flame this seems to be rather weird. Go to extreme lengths in coding malware to... play AC/DC? Something doesn't seem quite right.

The choice of music is excellent though ;)
Links: The Broken "Ballot Box" Used By Google & Bing
Agreed. It'd be great for interoperability to get a set of quality, conformant open source provider implementations in various languages. I've implemented OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 as middleware in Node.js, available here:

https://github.com/jaredhanson/oauthorize
https://github.com/jaredhanson/oauth2orize
Nice work. I like the idea and it looks like you've executed it really well.

I'm curious how you determine whether a given review is positive or negative, did you use something like http://nltk.org/ ?
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1988. Big difference.
Well it's $2,000 per year, not per semester.
Are semesters a year long in most vocational schools?

I guess this program would work for anyone who wanted to pursue a vocational program as a part-time student while slaving away in an Amazon warehouse. :O

Maybe if this actually works well people will be joining Amazon's workforce to pay for school instead of the military. Ha!
Floating point precision isn't the problem - when your output is 8 or 10 bit resolution, floating point differences aren't a big deal.

The biggest blocking factor is amount of code that needs to be ported to make it work. High end SFX companies spend virtually all their man hours implementing new stuff. They don't have the time to go back and reimplement everything, and their customers aren't so cost sensitive that they demand it.
Netflix Hits Its Q2 Numbers
My advice, somewhat harsh, but I believe true. If you build an OAuth endpoint, build an OAuth 1.0A endpoint. It's stable, powerful, and effective. There is no effective OAuth 2 "standard" yet.
Not as much as for killing babies! http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/?s=killing%20babies
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It's tragic that the SF city government is so set in its ways. There's a lot of people who are priced out of SF because of the city's reluctance to increase housing stock and to maintain rent control.
Stability and reliability, are they the same thing?
How do people get beta access? I'd love to look at moving workloads over to GCE.
HTML kind of sucks as a GUI though. You have to work really really hard with Javascript to make it work semi-well.

HTML+HTTP works really well as a way to scale up client / server GUI over a high latency / low bandwidth network. That's its strong point; not that it makes for a good UI in terms of human factors.
A very fun game, indeed. Like "drharris" said, it would be neat to see more examples! It's a really awesome game, regardless, though!
Was pretty fun. I was totally wrong on Coke, though. And I somehow got a 3.14 for Apple? :P Would be cool if the answers were given at the end as well, perhaps side by side with your guesses?
Maybe they should have named it “gox”. Then you would just have to filter out the Dr Seuss references.
Document to Document conversion API. eg: docx => pdf

should be secure, auto detect formats, etc.
Affective - causing emotion or feeling.

I was conscious of my usage although ill be the first to admit i make typos all the time. To elaborate, writing can evoke feelings good or bad, feelings of familiarity or confusion, and these feelings can lend to a more persuasive writing. This was my point in the second paragraph.
Sounds healthy. I'm certainly not alone in being a city person who wouldn't want to live anywhere that doesn't have everything in walking/cycling distance, good public transport and all the other features of a dense urban setting.

I wondered how long SV could continue to bitch about talent shortage whilst ignoring such a major portion of the population. Especially young and ambitious talent tends to gravitate towards the lifestyle of major cities, and has been for generations. Why would tech be an exception?

I'm guessing a lot of young people currently employed in Silicon Valley consider living there a (minor) sacrifice rather than a perk.
Not to worry it is confusing for everyone. My experience when drilling down on these things are that generally in marketing advertising literature a 'core' is what most people would call a 'thread.' Engineering documentation is usually more precise but when its perceived value, perception take priority over precision.
>Why do opponents of IP rights keep saying it isn't stealing? //

Because we're looking at the legal definitions of theft (for which stealing is a synonym) in various jurisdictions as opposed to the Merriam-Webster definition.

In my current jurisdiction the Theft Act 1968 Section 1(1) defines theft/stealing thus:

"A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and “thief” and “steal” shall be construed accordingly."

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/1

In legal matters it's preferably to be precise so you can be more certain what the exact ramifications are.

In any case the man-in-the-street, I warrant, would remark that stealing someone's property meant you had taken it away. For example, you steal my car. No one without an axe to grind is going to say that I still have access to and full unrestricted use of a car if you've stolen it.

I've read caselaw where the key element as to whether theft had occurred was whether the goods were carried off. If you attempt to steal something but don't actually end up denying the owner of their goods (eg you drop it before leaving the premises) then you've not stolen anything and the charges are lessened [if not negated].

Reading California state law, http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen..., it's clear that US states apply a similar test of whether goods are "taken" (stolen, taken and carried off) in order to describe an action as theft.
I have heard people saying "we love competition". I wonder if they really mean it. Not saying one cant't love competition, just that the phrase is used so commonly that it's hard to digest.

I, for one, hate my competitors. Basic insticts perhaps?

Is not disliking your competitors something that is practiced by majority? OR is it at least very common? Common enough to point at a company that doesn't follow it?
CVE-2012-0217 - Intel SYSRET FreeBSD Privilege Escalation Exploit Released
Hmm that is a good question, which I didn't consider. What I said would have applied to the original method that Padmapper used to scrape data directly from Craigslist but probably not under the new arrangement through 3Taps. Probably nobody is bound by the TOU except Google, and unless Google has a collateral contract (TOU) with 3Taps and/or Padmapper there probably isn't a claim at all. Good catch.
It is very interesting to see the group move to a switchable voltage, expecting to support 5V, 12V and 20V. My first reaction was 'oh no.. going to fry some 5V electronics with 20V' but if all the negotiation is done right - and not too easy to spoof it should keep people from building cheap adapters to go inline, request the wrong voltage and fry things.

The voltages are a nice choice.

5V: backwards compatibility. Everything is 5V.

12V: same as your car - lots of things run on 12V. It is easier to build a step down converter than a step up. so that gives the hackers some options.

20V: It was genius of them to step up to 20V. as others have pointed out, charging a laptop (often 17-20VDC required) is perfect. This is also a good choice for keeping the conductor size small in the cable. We get to 100W (wow).

now if you really want to be forward thinking, maybe look at the way electronics have moved from 12V, to 5V, and then to 3.3V. If they want this to be super portable for future use, maybe put in 3.3V - although I can't think of what it would be used for right off.
Nice --- really like the layout
I think a "city library" model would work better. Patrons don't get get to borrow books until they've returned or paid for the old ones. So as a freelancer, you would stop working until they pay you.
Lots of fun! Occasionally, whatever color I guess, it gives me a 0. Happened twice, on Dropbox and on Apple. I tried the game 3 times.
Four screens to victory
Very cool - where are you located? There's an NYC event this Thursday actually:

http://www.meetup.com/NY-Hardware-Start-up

DM me your info: twitter.com/nickpinkston)
> When a group can interfere with how you hunt for a place to live something is up.

What entitled bullshit. People/companies do that all the time. Padmapper could've run out of money and shut themselves down - would you pursue a court injunction on the basis that they shouldn't be able to interfere with how you hunt for an apartment? How about if they changed the UI in a way you didn't like?
"[...] whether that's at Amazon or in another industry."

Because, you know, Amazon is the only player in its industry. Oh wait ...
They have a public interface. I'm using it without agreeing to anything. They can't make me agree by presenting me with checkbox. They can't prevent me from using their interface if I don't agree. On the other hand I can't make them actually publish the information I entered or keep them to their word on anything they declare. It's not what lawers like but that's how internet works.
The Go language seems to have some substantial documentation, which is great. Though, throughout, the code snippets would look better with some syntax highlighting.
They hacked into some workstations. This isn't the same as stuxnet.

Presumably this was a bug in a VPN software somewhere, which led to, probably, some windows machines. The fact that this was at a nuclear facility is kindof pointless; it's just an office.

Stuxnet specifically went after industrial control systems, and destroyed the machines they controlled.
"People posting ads on Craigslist do not necessarily want or intend for it to be reposted on other sites."

That argument appears to be invalidated by Craiglist's own terms of use, which say that when you upload a listing to Craigslist they can syndicate it wherever they want (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4287519).
Haha small easter egg. The correct image should fade on top of your guess after clicking "Compare". Would side by side comparison be nicer? The main concern was screen real estate.
Closed Timelike Curves Make Quantum and Classical Computing Equivalent
IANAL but AFAIK it is only a civil matter (i.e. not illegal) since it is a usually prosecuted as a tort of trespass to chattels. For such a case to succeed the prosecution needs to show that the actions of the defendant deprived them of use of the good they were trespassing on. i.e. they need to cause enough of a burden on the servers that the claimant or their customers could not use the service.
Haha one level we really wanted to build was Google, 4 colors! Actually the hardest challenge would be remembering the order of the colors lol
Wouldn't they just integrate wireless charging into the battery? To eliminate the need for a port?
Great game, was amazingly close in a few, horribly far off on others. Thanks!
any founders will do, they figured.
The link says, "The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down." That seems like more than just your average office computer.
Hadn't actually dug into the ToS, but the bit:

> You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution...

Seems to be vital to this case.
Four theories on the cryptography of Star Trek
I really love this idea, but I have a big problem with colour selectors. I'm not sure if it's unique to me or a common problem, but I can visualise the right colour (and could pick it out of a line up) but when playing with a colour selector all colours blur into one and it becomes very difficult for me to differentiate colours effectively.

I could look at 100 different Coca Cola logos and point out which has the right red, but trying to colour it myself is an impossible task. Even now I played the Coca Cola logo 3 times, even after seeing exactly the right colour I can't get it right on the selector (my score every time was between 73 and 77).

Anyway, actual feedback: For some reason some of the logos don't load, although checking the console I see the following errors so I assume it's server issues:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR) http://brandseenapp.com/success?score=0&game=Basic&l...
Uncaught TypeError: Property 'width' of object #<HTMLImageElement> is not a function
Uh oh... Bye bye Google and all search engines.
The article mentions a very similar result:

"In a study on the effects of sleep deprivation, investigators at the University of Pennsylvania found that subjects who slept four to six hours a night for fourteen consecutive nights showed significant deficits in cognitive performance equivalent to going without sleep for up to three days in a row. Yet these subjects reported feeling only slightly sleepy and were unaware of how impaired they were."
A Developer's Guide to Screen Size
Arguably the identity part modifies the type of theft, as in "theft using your identity". They take your money, or your credit, and use your identity to do so.

Either way I think that one is arguable. Can you still enjoy free use of your identity once it's been used in this way. Remember in this that your "identity" is not your real identity attached to your person it's your identifying details as used by banks and such.
Thanks, i will have a look at this
Why use BugSense?
In this case it means 8 cores/16 threads. Logging into a cc2.8xlarge instance shows 32 threads.
If you really do need 200W, can't you just plug 2 cables in? I've seen quite a few USB devices that have an extra plug to draw extra juice.

wow... just think if every USB3 port needs an extra 100W of potential from the PSU in your computer (plus the overhead of switching effeciency). So if you have 3 USB3 ports that would mean +300W on your supply (to be safe).
There are a lot of companies that are scraping Google quite successfully. Many of these are for 'rank checking' services that provide ranking data for certain keywords over time; these are heavily used by SEO and marketing agencies.

The two that jump to mind are Authority Labs and SEOmoz.

I guess: a shed load of proxies. :)
FWIW, the legal basis of suing because of bandwidth and server load is called a trespass to chattels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels
Very nicely made!

I seem to misremember a lot of logos as having red in them, when they don't. Anyone else have this problem?
Personally, I'd prefer if Facebook acted a little more like Craigslist with my data, not the other way around.
So very many things wrong with this piece.

1. Show him the money: I'm not sure he's comparing apples with oranges here. He makes a good living from iOS, but (crucially) by consulting for others who themselves may not have a sustainable business model. There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting the indie dev model isn't sustainable on iOS, either, from AppCubby and Sparrow to the iconFactory and more.

2. Open vs Closed: I don't think one data point (the app store) is enough to damn open platforms. The Mac is open by his definition, and so is Windows. Are those both "bad for business"? Hardly.

3. Open vs Open: He then conflates "open" (as in I can install anything I want on it without going via a store) with "Open" as in open source, when the two are very different. Piracy is possible on a on a closed-source open-install platform, the open/closed nature of the source is absolutely irrelevant here.

He tries to join the two with a hand-wavy "piracy is easy on Android because it has an open mentality", when the source license has zip to do with this. It makes all the later jabs about Stallman more than a little strawmanish.

4. Choice vs Free: This is more a pedantic point, but you can't go from "too much choice is bad" (which I'd agree with in certain contexts) to "and so freedom is bad". He doesn't back that up, by the way, just asserts "but freedom is bad". No, it is not bad. Sometimes freedoms collide, and sometimes they can be traded. But "overwhelming choice is bad" and "overwhelming freedom is bad" are not synonymous statements.

5. Lock it down (unless it's a movie or album that I want): His conclusion in this piece is basically "Close it down and keep prices high to beat the pirates". Which is an interesting contrast with http://mattgemmell.com/2012/02/17/the-piracy-threshold/ where he says "Open it all up and keep the prices very low or I will pirate".

There's more to be had in this post, but I think I've reached enough errors to abort. At least this one didn't end with "disagree? amuse me by telling me".
Linus Torvalds reviews, loves, the Google Nexus 7
Netflix Beats "Returns To Profitability," Reports $889M In Revenue
Beautiful and useful website that I look forward to come back to. I, however, thought that the "RottenTomatoes for Books" was Amazon. In what is this site different?
It depends, but generally yes as I do it. I've found that in most cases the size of data associated with an event is quite small and easily passed around as objects, arrays, or whatever is needed. So if a particular module for a sidebar, a headbar, or mainview all need to update based on an event they subscribe to, each module constructs it's own templates based in the data passed with the event.
Redis is a particular product, not a catch-all for low latency in-memory data stores. So saying your product is a Redis (which you did, rather than making an analogy) was merely embarrassing attention grabbing marketing palaver which does discredit to your product and suggests that you don't have the attention to detail and critical thinking skills required to properly implement a product in this space. See: MongoDB.
Yes. This isn't about piracy, this is about personal property rights. The OP essentially decried the existence of my personal property because it hampers his ability to make money.

I expect to be able to load software of my choosing on hardware that I own. I expect to be able to delete software that I disapprove of or is causing me harm. I expect to be able to browse files and delete data that I don't want. I expect to be able to monitor my hardware to ensure that it hasn't been hijacked. I expect to be able to disable or block any tracking software, and at the very least, to close any back doors I find. I expect all this because I own a fairly powerful general purpose computing device, the greatest invention of mankind.

Maybe Joe User doesn't expect to do these things himself, but he should expect a choice in services and providers, not a blanket "Sorry Joe, I'm afraid I can't let you do that" from a single malevolent dictator like Apple.

So yes, a company that promises such things by selling me something (rather than just conditionally renting out the hardware), and then continues to exert their control over my property at my expense and for their profit, is morally wrong.
This is certainly an area that needs clarity badly. Banks are clearly not disinterested parties when it comes to Financial Calculators (just like your Financial Advisor's Retirement Calculator is biased toward products they can sell you)

Once you nail this one, you should do the same for owning 'working' assets. Which is to say what sort of rate of return could one get on their money if they created an LLC, bought a property, and rented it out. All the same things go into the equation but the variables are subtly different (what mortgages can an LLC get that an individual can't? How about the other way round? Etc.)
Happy to chat about it if people have questions: AMA. Thanks for the post 21sappers!
Congress Must Act After US Government Admits To Warrantless Wiretapping
"Late fees are critical."

In theory you can assess late fees and you might actually collect some.

But the truth is if someone is jerking you around on payment and they offer to pay sans the late fees most vendors will accept that and move on. In fact I've had people who claim to be filing bankruptcy (claim) and offer x cents on the dollar for any amount owed. In the end you make a decision do you want to take the money or go for door number two.

Legally entitled really means very little. What counts is the cost of enforcing the contract and the time it takes and any leverage that you have (like a kill switch as OP had mentioned)
And even when it's running, you have to expect up to at least 16V, some of the cars and trucks with larger alternators will run a bit higher, I've seen 15V myself but I've always heard that 16V is what to expect.
Great, now reverse engineer this one:

http://www.discogs.com/UBSB-Traceroute/release/95703

:)
This program only covers inexpensive two year community college degrees, and only for a small number of subjects.

The subject limitation I can understand, it's not unreasonable for the employer to lock out degrees that they feel might not directly benefit the company.

But the two year degree restriction, which locks out all serious degrees and universities, has no justification other than being incredibly cheap on reimbursements. It would be better to have nothing at all since community college tuition isn't that expensive to begin with. If I was there I'd interpret this limitation as more of an insult than anything, and I have no doubt that many there will see it the same way once they look into the details.
Yeah, that was one of the biggest announcements they made this year. If it works (and why wouldn't it?), it'll put an end to the piracy problem while at the same time allowing you to side load any non-pirated application you want.

What wasn't clear to me was whether or not it was going to be enforced on older versions of Android. I imagine it will be though.
For the immense value they provide to the hundreds of millions of users, having a 100-200M revenue is not "swimming in [insane] $".

They're profitable alright, but let's not kid ourselves that they have by choice left a LOT of money on the table, which is why all these value-added services are trying to take a share of the CL-pie.
Either a side-by side comparison, or at least show on the color selector where the right color was.
Still tweaking with the scoring algorithm, it got really hard to test against myself cause I knew the colors so well lol but this is a good data set!
But then you lose the information that both ((usually modular) arithmetic, and strings with concatenation, et al.) are monoids, and have a similar structure, and creating generic functions which might use that symmetry becomes more difficult.
Ask HN: Complete POS For Consignment Shop?
I was asked to create a complete system that includes a point of sale, register, and a way for users to create bar codes for products as they are pulled off the truck. These items will be based on a split like it works in consignment shops.

Instead of creating such a system from scratch, though, it would likely be better to simply buy a pre-existing solution, but I have not found anything good. Do you have any recommendations for products that fit this description?
Err, that's actually a very reasonable Terms of Service.

It says that you own everything you post, but you are granting them the rights to use it. The only unusual bit is that you are additionally granting them the right to go after people who scrape your content on your behalf.
Side by side comparison of the color wheel and lightness/darkness would be fantastic. It would really give a better idea of how close or far away your guess is.