skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you minimise the number of things that require your distraction each day? If so, you might still be able to make progress against your main project, although not as quickly as you would like. Try to cycle through your distractions back to your main task several times a day. Aim to increase the time on your main task and reduce the time on the others with each week.

If it is multiple ideas/projects that are keeping you from focusing on one, then maybe you have to accept that the only way to make progress is to work on all in parallel. Be warned this will likely increase project completion time an order of magnitude, and you run the danger that nothing is finished in the end.
I'm only using Ghostery, I wouldn't expect that to affect the main content of a site.

Ghostery's blocked list:

DoubleClick
Facebook Connect
Google +1
Google Adsense
Google Analytics
LinkedIn Widgets
NetRatings SiteCensus
ScoreCard Research Beacon
Twitter Button
Tynt Insight

... just disabled Ghostery, and one of those is affecting the article content.
Interesting but it uses 80% CPU time on my system, here is a Java applet showing the same thing - it takes a long time to load but uses less than 10%:

http://www.zfm.ethz.ch/meca/applets/planeten/PG.html
Thanks for that - we wish anonymous feedback was an option - we use Get Satisfaction, it's a great service but it does require some form of sign in. We will keep your feedback in mind and maybe there are other things we can do.
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Graffiti artist who worked for Adidas is banned from Olympic Games venues
I posted this as it's obviously massively disruptive for this gentleman's business. What would happen to your business if something like this happened to you? What's the equivalent kind of thing that could happen, and how would you react to it?
Allowing enhancements puts any athlete that doesn't want to screw up their body at a severe disadvantage.
We use ec2 within our telecom infrastructure which manages peaks of several thousands of calls with full duplex call recording on (think IO here) We are using the elasticity of ec2 to scale on demand.

This kind of instance is a nice addition for us as far as our auto scaling is concerned.
As you put on more weight the amount of calories you need increases.

The initial claim was about 300 kcal more than you need, though.

My experience suggests plateau happens every time, without regard to the type of dieting done, unless it's quite literally a starvation diet. The only time I've manage to lose more than 100 pounds was on a diet of about 400 kcal a day. Reducing my diet from about 3500 kcal/day to half that (by the simple method of not eating every other day) worked really well for about two months, and then plateaued; total reduction, about 50 pounds. I've resigned myself to losing in bursts and concentrating on not putting much back on in between.

Of course, my sample size in number of people is low... :)
Just one minor thing... someone has to be with the kid every hour of every day. Don't know if you've been there but laying all that responsibility on your partner is, well, let's just hope the partner of the 5-minutes-a-day dad has patiente.
My guess is that Ghostery considers the javascript that is served by Twitter to be a tracking device (quite possibly correctly)... but I could be wrong.
Maybe, but so far Google has behaved much better that any other company would have in their exact position. Give Apple and Microsoft the same market dominance in online ads and search, and I think we would be a lot worse. Those 2 are behaving pretty badly even when they have much smaller market share.
Controlled doping doesn't fuck up your body any more than "normal" training does. Reckless doping is a different story though.
It's very likely that the entire volume is SSD, otherwise the tp99 would be atrocious (and if you look at the netflix numbers its actually quite good). The reason for the broad ranges is more likely that the SSDs have some inherent performance variability due to wear leveling and GC processes. Additionally, as time goes on, multi-tenancy will start to come into play (if Amazon has smaller SSD instances or larger machines), which will stay within that range comfortably.
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If I want to make a living as a professional athlete and I don't want the side effect of these treatments, then I certainly don't want other people to take them, because I will be outclassed and won't be able to make living without screwing up my body.
In theory, they can do the encryption for you, on the client, and never send themselves the key. However, the effort required to audit a given client and verify that they are in fact doing that, doing it securely, and doing it in a way where they won't later change their minds and grab the key or whatever greatly exceeds the effort of simply handling the encryption yourself.

I understand why people call for this, but it's really a very narrow window of "security concern" where that's a valid feature.

Much better would be an open API, and an open source client, which does the encryption, preferably not even technically affiliated with the cloud provider.
We're not going to patch the patch
Pacific islands typically have poor internet connections...

Japan excluded. Australia not.
What evidence do you have that too many calories dont result in weight gain?

I bet you that if eat 5000 calories of "healthy" food and your daily requirement is 3000 you will gain weight, and if you eat 2000 calories of "bad" food you will lose weight.
Didn't you just describe the Youtube homepage when you are logged in?
CentOS has name recognition: It means "people who go on vacation a lot".
Who is stopping this athlete from choosing the option of participating in the no-enhancements category?
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We're you scraping google for that, and did you have any problems with that ? (i.e. Google tend to block automated queries)
Agreed ofcourse. However MS seems to enforce them lacking this; stuff is in private folders and no bad things are done. Of course you want to enforce rules; we run a big photo site ourselves and we know how that works, but we wouldn't ban people for pics in private albums. Nor do we (ever) check them.

But yes, if there is something wrong you want to have the RIGHT to remove + ban for any reason you see fit. MS is a company, they have no obligation to host your crap. Well, if you don't pay. If you do I think it's even muddier water IMHO.
So Rockstar is a patent troll like IV, and they're just waiting for a company to step on a patent landmine to go after them. Hopefully they will be involved in a high-profile case soon, so the Courts or the Government can shut them and others like them down.
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Quick! Post it to HN! Then post it again! Then post it to HN again! Then post it again! Post it every 52 minutes! Keep posting it!
Why not just encrypt your data with your own keys as well ( https://www.boxcryptor.com/ )
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Submission guidelines: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I found it interesting and the discussion was even better, I've regularly had a low-grade curiosity about nuclear testing, the effects on people, etc, and a lot of that was brought up (with references true HN style) in the comments. So it is exactly hacker news.

Much like in real life as a programmer - it's not always editors, programming languages etc, sometimes it's just fun. Not too long ago, the whole dev team ended up roped into a heavy discussion one afternoon, we were debating and calculating the observed effects of some hypothetical phenomenon, full whiteboard and math style. The boss comes in and tells us problems with our math and helps us whip up a quick simulation to figure it out. (this is at a university, the bosses are pretty smart cookies, professors and the like) After a couple hours for us (an hour for him), he says, "ok, I guess I should probably suggest you get back to work, but this was fun!". Amusingly 2 of the devs got modules back on schedule the next day, apparently we all just needed some hard but fun and unrelated problem. HN can have that too :)
Thanks, that's awesome. And it's from 2009.
If you think Dropbox is bad, what about the recent preview of Office 2013 that stores all business documents in the cloud by default? (I haven't been able to find any mention of client-side encryption.)

Non-US governments should seriously consider anything from sales bans to education in order to protect their citizens' privacy and business secrets.
> Just make sure it's not the only place you store it.

This is the main problem for me. I'd love to have my working files (say photoshop files) in dropbox so I could access them on any mac I use, but I don't trust it to hold the master file. All it takes is for it to be flattened in one place and I lose layers everywhere.

Does anyone know of products that clone files to Dropbox? Almost like TimeMachine with dropbox as the target?
Or, if you want to go a level deeper, go to the video poster's own site: http://www.ztresearch.com/
Why does Google search result page have only 10 results?
Why not 12, 15, 20 ?
Is there a more secure cloud drive option for sensitive data out there that is as convenient as Dropbox or Google drive etc?
Access doesn't mean backup. If I have a document in Google Docs only, I can access that from anywhere with an internet connection. If I'm talking about a cloud backup, I mean e.g. Dropbox where I have more than one copy.
Nice, clean design.
Having multiple categories doesn't really solve the problem. First, it divides the market, and second, anyone who uses enhancments and can get away with it in the unenhanced category still has an advantage.
Scrollify adds support for CSS customizable scrollbars (Firefox too). ioio.js
> "stay the hell away from Microsoft"

That would imply that MS is unique here -- they're not. Apple's TOS for iCloud * says it scans content and may revoke service if it finds content it deems "objectionable," "obscene" or "in poor taste" (that last one cracks me up ;) ).

If I remember right -- I'm thinking back to the kerfuffle over Google Drive's and Dropbox's TOS -- the other services have similar clauses.

* - http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html
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I haven't used either, but http://sparkleshare.org/ and http://owncloud.org/ seem to be the best open source options. I may give them a try soon - I'm getting more and more concerned by Dropbox.
Good to know!

Nothing works in Firefox (14 / OS X) or Opera (12 / OS X) at the moment.
Monitoring Sucks. But Monitoring as Testing Sucks A Lot More
I don't think that the associated brain damage linked to ecstasy makes it that safe in either form. Scientists can't assertain just yet as to whether the damage is human repairable or not.
This says "Any use requires licensing via [...]", and yet the web page doesn't indicate that it obtained any such license.

So, is this illegally copied material on the top 1 spot of HN?
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Glad Etienne posted here, for some reason I couldn't find my login for HN.
"What evidence do you have that too many calories dont result in weight gain?"

You should read the parent again, more carefully. The point is not that that is not a true statement, the point is that is a vacuous statement, and therefore, the wrong question. It is not controversial that things that cause weight gain cause you to gain weight, but it's not a useful statement for either science or engineering, and we have collectively wasted an awful lot of time and research while laboring under the delusion that this was some sort of actual explanation, rather than a mere restatement of the problem.
wake up on the wrong side of the bed? relax.

yea, there may be reasons why they eat too many calories (they eat the wrong foods so eating less leaves them tired), but they gain weight because they are eating too many calories. it truly is that simple, however as i think you pointed out, truly fixing the issue is going to be more work than simply saying "eat less" and requires a lot of (re)education
Fear not, I just pushed a fix for this. Let me know if you run into any more deal breakers!
Agreed, very nice. I did some demos like this a few years ago, and it was definitely not as clean. Modern JS libs are marvelous things.

(eg: http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/design/engine.svg)
I don't reboot my desktop for months at a time. Current uptime is 25 days... 25 days ago I moved offices. X stays up. Firefox and Chrome and most of the other applications I use regularly stay up. Why should this be exceptional?

What's faster than an SSD for loading an application? Switching to the already open window.
Google also did a very good job introducing security vulnerabilities, and also a sandbox for trying them out. Their take at Cross-Site Request Forgery: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/part3#3__cross_site_reques...

The sandbox: http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/start
Maro, try this link : http://centrc.com:4005/ It is a proof of concept I did in one evening for the next part of the discussion. It uses Three.js to render the stuff.

:)
I think the versioning support built into Dropbox solves that problem. Should someone flatten your psd you can always go back a version and be okay.
I don't see any reason to be shocked about marcos statement about dropbox.

Dropbox has the only advantage to be the first cloud-storage provider who get's the job done right. It's not Dropbox's security that made it so popular, it's just the way how simple it is to setup. Create an account, download the client, insert credentials and BAM you're ready to go.

There is also an alternative to Dropbox called "Sparkleshare" (http://sparkleshare.org/) it's nearly equal to dropbox's functionality (except the webinterface). The only reason why i'm not using it (yet) is the fact that they use there own IRC server to keep your data in sync (some kind of sync-messaging between your client machines).

So if you're having real security concerns, you can use sparkleshare and use your own IRC server (https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Notification-serv...). Rent a small/slowish VPS with enough hdd space for your needs, run sparkleshare on it and you have your own dropbox. :)
The game is looking pretty cool! Hopefully the article/demo helps out in some way.
I guess I'm in the minority to side with Microsoft on this one. Look, the guy uploaded nudes, maybe it was even porn. He violated the rules. This isn't censorship, it's not creepy, it's the rules.
Give it a few years and people will get used to it and come to accept it.

Just look at air travel. It took just a decade to get people to accept having their genitals touched by people in uniform before getting on airplanes.

There will be some very, very minor outrage initially, and then that will subside and people will obediently adapt. Some will even claim that it is your patriotic duty to accept it.
Nobody stops people to use a stackable encrypted filesystem such as EncFS or eCryptfs over Dropbox.

I have never tried, and don't know, but does Dropbox deal elegantly with encrypted filesystems? If I have a 1GB encrypted volume sitting in my dropbox folder, and I save a change to a 1KB text doc in it, what does dropbox transmit?

My suspicion is that they transmit the entire 1GB file (falling ever behind each time I do a save in it). They don't do low level file hooks, to my knowledge, and there's no way they're doing large scale binary diff'ing.
Assuming Microsoft employees are ravenously pouring over your private folders seems a little short sighted: reliable skin detection is fairly easy to accomplish, which given a folder full of photos testing positive, might get a sample flagged for review. From a cost perspective, it would make sense that the sample might not have been reviewed manually until he contacted support.

It may also have been something as simple as having too many images in the folder fuzzy matching the huge DB of porn they have (Bing and Google probably have the largest collections of all kinds of porn on the planet). This is easily done using e.g. scale-invariant feature transform.

Certainly no cause for "stay the hell away from Microsoft".
Yea, their approach is one of many, I found it simplest to try and explain in a shortish article.
We've been highlighting apps on our blog, see http://blog.enyojs.com/tagged/app-showcase
Agreed, i really was blown away the first time I wrote something simple and it just worked... On my phones, my pc and my friends browsers.
It looks really good (good site design), and it seems like it would work pretty good. It just seems like the type of business that's one Youtube or Facebook update away from oblivion.
Unencrypted data is the main reason I am trying to move away from Dropbox to Spideroak that at least claims to encrypt stuff without knowing the key (cannot verify that as their client is closed source). The setup of Spideroak seems a bit more complicated compared to Dropbox though.
I use TrueCrypt to create encrypted files containing the sensitive data I want on the cloud. TrueCrypt is free and quick to install, so I can pretty easily access the files from any computer if I need to.
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Former discussion (the links is now dead) from last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247484
http://www.webgl.com/2011/11/webgl-quake-3-demo/
53 bits ought to be enough for anybody — The Endeavour
FunctionFlip: Reclaim your Mac's function keys
I believe he uses fastmail.fm. He mentioned this on B&A and on his blog in the past when talking about having control of your identity on the Internet.
Ran some benchmarks, really insane IOPS on this plan. Pretty average CPU performance (they're using fairly old E5620's).

http://blog.serverbear.com/post/27553311076/hi1-4xlarge-benc...
It's very likely that they are using Intel SSDs (likely 320/330, maybe 510+) for a variety of reasons:

Intel has a good drive reliability history, and is very enterprise friendly in bulk purchasing. Intel has had excellent firmware for their drives, which at the datacenter scale is valuable--people who have dealt with raid controller firmware(including Amazon) know all about this.

Traditionally, Amazon has not used SAS drives in EC2, opting for lower cost SATA drives. It's also unlikely that Amazon is using small numbers of high capacity (>=500GB) drives because they still aren't perfectly price effective; price per gb is ok, but replacing a failed drive is more costly.

Also keep in mind that to get to today, Amazon has been rolling these drives in huge numbers out through two enormous data centers, so it's unlikely that Amazon has picked a brand new drive (say the latest OCZ Vertex 4).

There are other factors that Amazon has bumped into while testing drives, but they remain unreported and internal.
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Am I the only one who doesn't own any valuable data?
I was almost hit by lightning a few months ago.

My Dad and I were on a fly fishing trip with a guide in a long canoe-like boat on a river. When the storm came up behind us, we pulled to the side of the river and took cover under the branches of some small overhanging trees. I wasn't very concerned, as the storm wasn't all that big and I'd been in similar situations before.

When it started hailing, I became a bit more worried, but I was still reasonably relaxed. Then I saw an extremely bright flash, screamed, and ducked. My Dad and my guide never heard the scream because the thunder was instant. It took me a few seconds, but I turned around to see if they were ok. They were, and they asked me if I saw where it was. I said that I just knew that it was close. They told me that it was about 3 feet to my right, and it hit the water (my Dad said he saw a hole in the water).

I definitely felt something from it, but I can't really describe what it was. I'd pay a lot of money to be able to see a video like this of that strike.

I'm pretty lucky to be alive/not disabled for life. Don't let your misconceptions about lightning put you in a similar situation. Read NOAA's guide on lightning safety: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/
Please look up the cost of, say, a deep water drilling rig. It is not free.
The idea behind patents was (essentially) to protect the inventor against being ripped off by those slower-moving but richer than he. They have become exactly the opposite: tools of the rich and the powerful to extract oligopoly rent from those without patents of their own to 'fight back'.

It is a completely absurd situation. We would be better off without them.
Email was designed to be explicitly private, where file sharing, well its file sharing.
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Two issues:

1) Upon login, my facebook username (which has a '.' in it) was 'invalid'. Just strip out any bad characters and use that for the login. Even better -- why do you need a username when you're logging in with facebook??

2) "Your videos are being fetched. Please check back in a couple minutes". You have to have this display a 'loading' animation and go fetch the videos with AJAX. You'll lose TONS of people with this.
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GPL v3 great purge that Apple is doing in stages means that all UNIX-y software on Mac OS X, including shells, gcc etc are now ancient and will eventually be phased out altogether.
Sorry about that - we're working on it. Not supported yet is a better description :)
Good point, but it's linear. It mixes accidental changes with intentional all in one stack. I don't want to have to undo good stuff just to get back to the stuff I lost. Visual stacks, comparison of versions, all of these are helpful... but at the end of the day, the tool should let me decide what version and changes I want to persist, and which I don't.
Disclosure: I'm the founder of aes.io :)

To answer your questions:

1. all encryption/decryption is done in JS. BouncyCastle java source code is used (slightly tweaked for performance) - it is compiled into JS using Google's GWT compiler.

2. flash is only used for triggering file save dialog, similarly to downloadify, in browsers that do not support HTML5 alternatives. In Chrome, which supports <a download>, flash is not used (100% JS/HTML5)

3. problems mentioned in the post you referenced can be generalized into two groups: (a) hijacking the server to serve "trojaned code", and (b) inherent JS limitations such as the absence of proper PRNG.

Concern (a) is valid. However, most client systems have auto-updating software products installed, with auto-updating enabled (browsers auto-update themselves; anti-viruses and OSes do the same, etc. - the Flame worm was using Windows Update to sneak in, I think). It is a universal issue in the modern "connected" world, and most users have to live with this threat if they want to use the Internet in any meaningful way; I can't imagine a person eyeballing the source of every patch they compile/apply on their system.

Concern (b) is not really valid now, IMHO. As mentioned above, it is possible to use a solid open-source crypto library either directly (e.g. Stanford Crypto JS library) or compile one into JS, to use proper PRNG, etc. With proper testing (standard/published test vectors; cross-platform tests - encrypt in JS and decrypt in java, etc.) it is possible to make good crypto in JS. And things like side-vector attacks do not look relevant here, as the attacking code needs to run on the client, which means the client has been compromised already.
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Been a firefox user since the beginning, and still haven't found a reason to switch to chrome. A "faster" browser doesn't convince me, and I like firefox's UI teaking possibilities.
Besides, never had those memory hogging problems everyone talks about (even on a 1GB ram linux desktop).