skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons you should use personal cloud offerings like Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) instead of public online cloud services.

Disclaimer: I work for Tonido.
Breaking bad is great. However, The Wire is definitely the best TV show ever.
>That's not ad hominem, look it up. Your view is childish and pedantic,

Oh, you said my view...If that's not ad hominem, then I should tell you that I think your view is idiotic and short sighted...I was holding back on that one before.

>but I mean, that's just no [sic] reality

Ok, I get it. The world is the way it is and we should not endeavor to change it. We should treat some people as special and others as not special. Score one more point for moral relativism.

With logic like that, I guess I should hope I'm not in a group that falls out of favor.

>Do you really want me to explain all of the culture of the Western world to you?

In all seriousness, I would be incredibly grateful to hear your version.
There is, actually, a loss to the provider. Every person's version of pirated movie X will be unique, which means the provider has to pay for more storage space than they would without encryption. (since without encryption they could compute a hash of the file and point to it on their servers)
15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test
What's happening to hackernews? While there's still a handful of insightful comments and submissions, the culture feels like it's starting to shift with everyone having their noses in the air. I'm starting to use this site less and less, and it's a shame. Oh well.
If you find yourself doing a platform, you're going to run into these issues.

The biggest problem seems universal: You were an idiot and cut a corner three years ago, and you have to break something to move forward. Now what?

The Mac has some classic and poignant examples of this that have actually been trapping people for 50 years. Such as: Use of the high byte of a pointer to have non-pointer meaning (some 1980s ear Mac callbacks set flags in the "unused" high bits of a pointer, and the IBM 360 team made the same mistake in some of their OS data structures). In both cases, fixing this issue was pretty nasty.

Study history or repeat it, your choice. :-)
It seems to be that in your 9-5 you cant play with new stuff and you're learning on your on time and not getting paid for that, start doing it in your job or change job now, you're bringing more value to were you are than they pay to you
no response from Microsoft on that? They should at least email them and ask them if that's what they intended to happen with the service.
Disrupting Health Tech: Check your symptoms and build a medical record
If you use IMAP then you have access to all your mail from anywhere, using a standard protocol.

GMail supports IMAP, but then so do many other mail servers.

(You can also use a web front end like RoundCube, if you want to.)
Unless the advisor's name goes first, due to alphabetic order... I guess having a surname starting on 'M' can harm my academic career :/
I was browsing on the original iPad. For some reason, certain PDFs seem to stress it out when rendering and it really lags. It also did not correctly display the SVG link.

So all I was left with was the JPG link which was unfortunate because of the lossy compression which makes the finer details slightly blurred.

A PNG would have been perfect and I noticed that all other languages had a link to a PNG but english.
Nice idea. I would pay a reasonable fee for something like this, given a few changes:

- Having it based on YouTube / Vimeo, not FB

- I wouldn't care about my friend's feeds to be honest, but I would love to be able to watch channels created by people with similar interests, on a specific topic and so on...
Thanks so much - our little team have worked their asses off for sure - you get it :)
More (awesome) videos can be found at the original Vimeo page:

http://vimeo.com/ztresearch/videos

(Why link to that blog? It offered nothing extra to the videos)
I would say that you might consider reading the complete 6-part series. :-)
Can we please get a good cloud storage provider from Europe? I'm getting really tired of American companies snooping on our data at will, or the US Government snooping on it at will as well, without even a Court order, just because they passed a law that says they can do that, or sometimes even illegally.
Dont trust your eyes. You dont see people eating fatty foods at McDonalds. You see them eating a shitload of sugar, salt, and a little bit of fat and proteine.

If fat would make people fat, why are americans the mos obesive nation? Your diets, relatively speaking, consist of less fat than most european diets.

But way way more sugar. In the states, sugar is in everything, including most hamburgers, bread slices and soft drinks.
You can do this right now. Select a widget and click the link icon (circle) in the little menu that pops up - you will see linking then.
“Anything that is really sensitive or extremely valuable or needs to be kept very secret, I wouldn’t store on anybody else’s servers. That, to me, seems ridiculous unless I held the encryption keys like with the online backup service that I use.”

He doesn't say anything specific about Dropbox that couldn't be applied to other cloud-storage locations.
Litigated.
Or maybe one hosted on one of the Pacific islands which is supposed to be a privacy and tax haven?
indeed, kids are good at adapting ...
the only thing that saddens me when I have to miss them is that I won't get this opportunity again to see them at this particular moment of their life.

giving them just 5 mins a day ... what a miserable dad would I be.
Thanks - we still have a lot of polish to add there but the core of it is working well.
God is for idiots
> Leaky add-ons usually cause zombie compartments by holding references to DOM structures within a web page even after the page has been closed or navigated away from. This prevents Firefox from garbage-collecting the page’s compartment.

If an add-on relies on persistent references to closed pages by design (such as a form data history plugin), is there a way to adapt it to this new feature to not let Firefox sever it's references under the assumption that it's a memory leak?
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
I guess you are right, we are not planning on profiting from this at first.

Its a pain point for some, since I see lots of people scrolling through their news feed to find a video they watched before or just to kill time.
While I agree, this is kind of a no-brainier. Dropbox is a great service, especially for keeping settings and such in sync, but anything that needs to be kept private shouldrpbably be kept...private.
If you want to make distinctions among vaccines that's one thing. Questioning "vaccine usage" generally is another. "Vaccines" have saved millions of lives from smallpox, polio, measles, DPT.
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Thanks for the replies.

We are actually working on a categorization/tagging feature.
We are really sorry that you are annoyed by the lack of FF support. We will get to it as soon as we can - hope you might give Fluid UI a try at that point.
Thanks for pointing out the arms/ammo ban. Didn't notice that very relevant point amid the proliferation of prohibitions. This sucks for us federally licensed collectors (FFL C&R); bizarre that storing a copy of my license on SkyDrive could cause MS to completely reject me as a customer/user. Seems a "final straw".

Instead of "place a copy...", I'd suggest rating SkyDrive "zero" and deleting it.
There's no way that opening this door to athletes would end well. Once the first story comes out that some guys heart exploded during a race due to doping, the whole thing would be shut down.
I hope this comes as a pleasant surprise then :)

http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/
No. I will be following up on this, if you send me an email (in my profile) I'll try to let you know when an analysis is available.
It's cool, I just don't think my Facebook friends have very good taste.

"We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me. I don't friend people on Facebook because of their great taste in youtube clips, I friend them because I know them in the real world where stuff like that doesn't really matter. Maybe you could add some other avenues of relevance, like connecting you to other Airfeed users' feeds directly based on similarity of videos you've posted to your own feed.

I like that you pull in videos from pages I've liked, that adds a lot of relevance, nice.

It's a bit slow obviously but I'll give you a pass on that. On a related note, I do have to mention that the "your videos are being fetched, please come back in a few minutes" is a bit of a showstopper. At that point I'm liable to say "screw this" and close the tab and never return. It should 1) auto-refresh when ready, and 2) give them a reason to stay, either a fun animation or a small random video from their feed they can "play now" or some instant gratification. I'm sure you know this already, in which case, good job, keep on developing.

Also I agree with another commenter—no need to call everything a "startup" just because it's the hot word around here. It's a web app. Great start.
The problem with ectasy is that it is illegal and you are not able to judge the quality.

That makes its risky in society, but not by and of itself.
Some copywriter at Apple is going to have lot of fun with this. Expect the quotes from the judge to appear prominently.

I wouldn't be to happy about this part of the verdict if I were Samsung.
I'm far more interested in the mechanics of how this was pulled off

Here's an earlier analysis:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/06/15/how-green...

I could easily see some Obama supporter pulling something similar and creating a firestorm around the Romney campaign.

Political campaigns already use similar tactics to create/shape news.
You seem to keep thinking I'm talking about the real effects, when I'm talking about perception. The perception is flawed. No amount of pointing out that the dangers are non-zero will change the fact that the dangers are generally badly overstated; you need to show that fallout really is as dangerous as people think, which I gotta tell you, is going to be quite a challenge.

This is sort of what I'm getting at when I said people will have a hard time reading my post as being something other than pro-nuclear advocacy. justinatjustat is also providing a vivid demonstration. People simply can not help but collapse "It's not as dangerous as you think" to a claim that "It's not dangerous", no matter how obviously illogical that is once plainly stated. Even here on HN, talking about it rationally is a challenge. There's something deep, deep inside of us that is just utterly freaked out by radiation. I wonder if it's part of our disgust instinct (which is, evolutionarily, a relatively recent development and nearly isolated to humans, almost nothing else on Earth can be "disgusted" as we can).
Using Google+ to Track Severe Weather [Experiment]
When Google+ introduced Events, I thought it would be interesting to see if they could be used to collect images, videos, discussions during and after a storm. With the threat and chance of severe weather in Indiana today, I created a public G+ event for anyone in Indiana today. It could be a total flop, especially since it's hard to predict the weather. We'll see what happens!
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The user you replied to is (humorously) suggesting that since the SkyDrive ToS are so objectionable they are quite likely to incite profanity (at least amongst the internet cognoscenti), thus itself becoming a forbidden item under its own ToS if placed in a SkyDrive. 'Twas a form of satire, ridicule intended to expose truth.
Oh, that's how they work! I hadn't looked into it but I have one sitting around at home waiting for a spare weekend so I can dissect it to figure it out.
6 Surprising Facts About Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
That's also how chain hoists work - I'm still amazed at how much you can lift using one!

I actually thought the article will be about Biopace bike chain rings: bikers are using them as an advantage in races (and it really makes sense!).
Thank you to everyone for the excellent comments and feedback about Fluid UI. So many points of view and really excellent issues raised here - we love feedback, good and bad.

Just as a note, if you want to log any issues/glitches or praise our support forum is http://getsatisfaction.com/fluidui - we are pretty active following up there.

We will try to reply to as many comments here as possible.

Cheers,
Ian
By "do the encryption for you" do you mean that they should encrypt on what you send them on their side? I'm afraid that gains you nothing. Not only they control encryption method, they also have unencrypted data and your key. Encryption must occur on client side to give you safety, and I would argue against using JavaScript to do it(after all website can be updated without your knowledge, and it is not practical to review site code each time you load it).
Something to do with the alignment of mars, the earth and the moon I think...
Here are more details about why we started Smilerr: http://smilerr-blog.tumblr.com/

We are still in the MVP phase. Your thoughts/comments will be very valuable.
Non sequitur. If everyone does something and it's an evil thing to do, then everyone is being evil and should stop being evil.

Don't argue that patents are good because everyone uses them. Find a better rationale for your patent love!
Nobody stops people to use a stackable encrypted filesystem such as EncFS or eCryptfs over Dropbox. This "cloud security snafu" thing is getting old.
I got 1/3 of the way into the article and said to myself, gosh this sounds just like Valve's Source Multiplayer writeup they did many years ago. Sure enough! The author mentions 1/2 way the work is based off of it.
Not at all. With bitcoin every transaction is publicly logged, and anyone can see the flow of Bitcoins from address to address. Alone, this information can't identify anyone because the addresses are just random numbers. However, if any of the addresses in a transaction's past or future can be tied to an actual identity, it might be possible to work from that point and figure out who owns all of the other addresses. This identity information might come from network analysis, surveillance, or just Googling the address.

So - Bitcoin won't keep you anonymous.

Edit: Sorry - I was reading your comment in the context of the previous commenter worrying about ending up on a government watch list.
>"It's kind of disgusting to encourage people to fuck up their bodies to win an athletic competition."

You know what else is disgusting? The fact that we have medicine out there that, because it's seen as "performance-enhancing" in sport, maintains a stigma of being disgusting and harmful.

The same people who tell you that taking steroids and other enhancers will instantly shrink your balls and kill your liver are the same folk who told you that smoking a joint would make you jump off the roof of your building. It's nonsense.

I can't wait for the day when humans are taking performance enhancing substances of all sorts, fully accepted by all, because they can enhance performance. Who doesn't want that?
Yes, but out of 25,000,000 users, how many of them know what encryption is, nevermind EncFS? The important point is that it's generally a good idea to treat anything you don't control as nearly public.
It's not a Chrome app, is a web app.

However, the guys have just released it and haven't had much time to make sure it works on other browsers yet. The only thing that shouldn't work on Firefox at the moment is the audio as it uses Web Audio API. We'll look into it asap.
I don't get how 'amazing' those features are. Funny apple making the simplest thing and making people believe it's a revolution and it's magical... btw, this message has been send from a mac, I'm mac and windows lover ;) I like linux too for servers! :D
This happens because Tomcat is unable to release some classes from the classloader. So every time I load a new WAR lets say I am using Spring. Tomcat doesn't remove the old Spring Jar from the classloader and just loads a second one for my updated WAR. After doing this a few times (Depending on the size of your app, permgen size and how many 3rd party libraries you have) tomcat will throw a permgen error. There is nothing Tomcat can do about this. It is the classloaders problem. Also it is not recommended to "hot deploy" to a production environment.
Crowdfunding assumptions
That's not the way "free market" is understood by the vast majority of people. In your version of a free market murder is also a common business strategy. Google could just kill any engineer who dares to work for a competitor.

No one wants to live in a world like that. So when we say "free market", we mean a market with an agreed-upon set of rules that everyone is aware of and that are generally followed and enforced.
+1 It looks really cool, I just hope it doesn't end up like Twitter...
Is this the Hottest Kiss Ever Photographed?
requires my email address - sorry nope.
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Thanks so much - The Edit Room looks very interesting, I like the immediate connection - will check it out some more. If you'd like to talk, drop me a line on ian@fluidui.com

Cheers,
Ian
The fourth link quotes Guyanet directly, so perhaps you stopped too soon?
Risks Deferred Are Risks Accepted
Could have something to do with the intensity of the storm we experienced here in NYC yesterday....

http://www.travelerstoday.com/articles/2357/20120718/nyc-sto...
The assumption that people face discrimination because of race is ham fisted and wrong. People face discrimination in the U.S. largely because of their CULTURE. Dress the wrong way, speak in the wrong dialect (whether that is an Appalachian dialect or a Memphis African American dialect) at a job interview, and you are likely to be discriminated against.

A huge number of black Americans in the U.S. face discrimination because they grew up in a culture which affects the way that they dress, speak, and act. The Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has a fascinating book called Disintegration about the various cultures present in the African American population in the United States. The particular culture of African Americans that faces the huge barriers of discrimination, bad schools, and bad upbringing are referred to in his book as "the Abandoned."
As a white American who grew up in a trailer park in a mostly black area of the rural south, I happen to have a knowledge that most white Americans I encounter don't SEEM to have. And that is that the vast majority of discrimination against black americans is selectively directed against the "Abandoned", mainly in a passive, rather than active way. It is much more insidious in that sense.

I bring this up because too often I see whites who simply don't know anything other than what they learned in a college class say that "blacks" face barriers. It is much, much more complex than that. Here's a quote from a New York Times book review of Robinson's work:

"During the past four decades, Robinson persuasively argues, black America has splintered into four subgroups: the Transcendent elite; the Mainstream middle class, which now accounts for a majority of black Americans; an Emergent community made up of mixed-race families and black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean; and the Abandoned, a large and growing underclass concentrated in the inner cities and depressed pockets of the rural South."
Bizarre - I submitted this 4 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265126
Thanks for your kind words Brian.

With the trashcan there are two ways to delete a widget - you can drag the widget to the trash just as with pages or you can use the button in the menu if you want less mouse movement for the action. We thought in that case that offering both methods is optimal.

Cheers,
Ian
SAFECode Releases Security Guidelines for Agile Development
It seems we all may be missing the "backed" part - which I did on my first read through. They don't seem to be revealing how much of the logical volume is actual SSD, which I think is why they're instead putting down IOPS numbers.

Still, a huge and significant improvement over anything previously available. I'm looking forward to playing with it.
I find this kind of odd. I wouldn't store anything valuable on my own systems either unless I held the encryption key.

When it comes to accidental data loss, I trust cloud services a lot more than my own little server. Ditto as far as security is concerned (in that I assume neither of them are safe from being compromised).

If you encrypt it yourself, Dropbox is an excellent place to store anything valuable. Just make sure it's not the only place you store it.
I use BoxProtect on OS X and pure EncFS on Windows. The latter was so easy that you should probably ignore BoxProtect because it's closed source. See the bottom of this page:

http://www.boxprotect.com/?lang=en

The advantage of EncFS is that it's not a huge binary blob, instead you transparently store files with garbled names and garbled contents, but an otherwise untouched directory structure. I'm not sure if TrueCrypt can do that too.
> "We don’t know what you like, but your friends do" isn't really true for me.

A lot of things are behaving like this for me. When Netflix was first released here only myself and a few close friends had it, and we all have similar tastes. Now everybody seems to (go Netflix!), and so my recommendations really aren't relavent to me at all... It also didn't help that I set it up on the PS3 and my housemates watch nothing but Top Gear on it.
I can think of no less flattering phrase to describe HostGator: Unlimited until you get traffic.
How Sally Got Owned: Example of How Piracy Can Endanger Your Mobile Device
I would say that if you want people to read a relevant link, you should at least say "here are 6 links, all but $N are all red herrings." Have a little respect for the time of the reader.
Internet Yellow Pages (IYP): Good for SEO?
I wonder if Marco hosts his own email? Email's the place where embarassing/sensitive information is most commonly stored, not the FS.
Are Infographics in Trouble?
Wrong Question - Wrong Answer: Cust dev in Shanghai
It's interesting how a city shapes peoples' needs.

My stepfather works for the U.N., he's currently in Vienna.

When he was in Canada he had a gas-guzzling SUV, here in Uruguay he had a diesel BMW, but now in Vienna for the first time he doesn't own a car.. because he doesn't need one.

The person didn't change, the environment did.
CSRF: Cross-Site Request Forgeries
Wuala, http://www.wuala.com (by LaCie) deliberately keeps it's storage out of the US and inside Europe.
How many of those users care or need to know what encryption is? The argument appears to be that users treat Dropbox like a private store when it isn't, and somehow that's Dropbox' fault.
Thanks to both of the top commenters. Like I said, this is alpha version, so take it easy on me :)

Thanks for the feedback, and this is really helping me, great feedback, thanks! :)