skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So millions of American women can be extradited to certain Arab nations because they've posted photos online of themselves without their heads covered, contrary to the local law.

By doing it on the internet, they are "exposing" themselves to millions of people where that is illegal, and therefore should be extradited for it.

Even the passport photo of millions of American women is illegal in certain countries... seeings that's an international document, surely they've broken the law in those countries, no?
Why, are Americans, especially inside the two coasts, sensitive that foreigners may be not aware of their cultural norms?
Jumptap, Mobile, and the Four Horsemen of the Tech Apocalypse
Fifty Shades of Advice
Jesse, I think you missed the point. It's like the old Consulting axiom: If you can't be part of the solution, there's good money to be made prolonging the problem.
If you do a shared session tmux has one feature that was a big deal for me when comparing to screen. tmux will use the intersection of terminal resolutions of users in the session, whereas screen will use the resolution set by the creator of the session, which easily results in a too-large and unusable display for the other user.

Just took a screenshot to show it off, easy to understand when you look at this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/191376/Screenshots/mb06.png
Visa Europe is a completely separate, independently operating company from Visa Inc., with an exclusive and irrevocable license to the Visa brand in Europe, fully owned by its European member banks. It's in no way a US company, so nothing the US does really matters there. I don't know MasterCard's situation.
2-factor doesn't prevent your code from being swiss cheese, though. It helps prevent attacks on authentication. If you have a valid user, they can hammer on your swiss cheese code all day and eventually expose your database or worse.
That's an awfully restrictive definition of "pattern." For what it's worth, I'd say that more mathematics has been devoted to the study of patterns in the primes than to any other single topic.
What may be the world’s first cybernetic hate crime
HSBC asks for a primary password as well as 3 random characters of a secondary password. They could hash your original password + each of the characters in your secondary password, which would mean an attacker would have to crack your primary password first if the database was compromised.

From a UI perspective though it's pretty annoying having to enter 3 random characters of a (complex) password, although it's something you get used to.
Flickr already has an Android app, not particularly popular one though. There were late to the game, but so was Instagram.
I think the Hacker Community's opposition or support for WikiLeaks may decide whether it survives.

In that vein I'm polling HN users: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261481. Please participate.
Amazon Wants an Online Sales Tax to Hurt Smaller Online Competitors/Startups
Say, we end up with 100x faster but 100x bigger transistors. A core that's 100x smaller (transistor-count) is not necessarily 100x slower. With a 100x clock speed-up, however - propagation delays will be the main limiting factor for speed.

So, if this tech ends up being used, should I expect small, highly-pipelined, single-core CPUs?
My understanding is:
There's a DTrace beta for Linux. There are no plans to port ZFS to Linux (but, Oracle is investing a lot in making btrfs kick ass).

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/dtrace_for_oracle_linux...
[2] https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=234227...
It's not really a fair comparison. For long stretches of the route, it's just an orange line painted on an existing path. On some stretches it doesn't even have a line on there.

A lot of the expensiveness of freeways also has to do with completely grade-separating it from other traffic. This route has several grade crossings at busy intersections.
I agree. If there is more than one field it can get annoying to have the wrong one automatically selected, but with only one field - for sure, save me the mouse click.
Get Slightly Famous Using Press Releases
buildpacks are designed to work when you have one system/container per application. The goal is to produce an image that can easily be distributed to the auto-scaler and associated with the reference OS to provide application processes. The images are mounted read-only and no guarantee is made on the process lifetime. This limits the class of applications to ones who don't keep state internally or on the filesystem.

automated scripts like Chef / Puppet are designed to keep a system in a predictable state according to some code+data specification. It's not a guarantee though as things not specified by the scripts can have any state. They're more useful to maintain an heterogenous park of machines, systems that want to keep state on the disk like databases or even configure the underlying system that will run the buildpack containers.

that's how i see it but notice that there are some similarities. it could be possible to use chef to pre-configure a system image as a "buildpack", or to add some disk storage to buildpacks. although both not on heroku obviously.
Visual Anonymity: YouTube Now Lets You Blur Faces With One Click
Pattern Catalog : Java Application Architecture
YouTube offers face blurring (but not blanking)
Yup, it's fairly loud - though a lot of the noise comes from old habits of pushing the key all the way to the bottom of its travel - required for membrane switches, but not for mechanical switches.

Also, if you want a quieter keyboard but still want mechanical switches, you can go for the Rosewill keyboards with Cherry MX Brown switches - it gives you a tactile bump, but no associated "click". You'll still make a lot of noise if you bottom out, however. If you get out of that habit (easier on your fingers, by the way), they're quiet as a mouse.
Thank you for clarifying, I just assumed search results would be missing. Which now that I think about it doesn't make much sense.
Opera, as far as I know, was the first to support this. But this site is about using duckduckgo's !bang which is a readymade list for you.
Sheesh, really? You're going to bring the Affordable Care Act into this? If wanting every citizen to have access to affordable health care and insurance and spreading the costs is some subtle way of intruding into their privacy, then I guess all they want to do is spy on you...
(victim) Prof. Steve Mann's blog post of the incident: http://eyetap.blogspot.ca/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdona...
Just out of interest, what would peoples suggestions be for implementing a secure bank login system?
The substance weighs just 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter. It is 75 times lighter than Styrofoam.

OK. So how does its strength compare with other materials?
Hackers at HackerRank
It's like inception. A hub of hackers built by hackers and we're just getting started.

Goal:
To build a place where problem solvers (hackers / programmers / mathematicians, etc.) hangout to solve interesting challenges, contribute real-world problems, build hacks and many more.

Achieve:
We're not trying to disrupt the recruitment industry, not trying to disrupt the education industry, etc. We are building something different. Imagine if there was a room in SF where the top 5000 problem solvers of the world came to everyday for several hours?

The value of that room is incredibly high, and its occupants would have the power to decide the pace of the world and how it should work. We're building THIS, online. It sounds like a monumental task, because it is, and it is something we're truly excited and passionate about.

Culture:
We (founders) are extremely hardworking guys, and that runs into the culture of the company as well. This might sound cliche, but you have to experience it to realize the intensity of the work.

We're a small team of hackers and designers. I have no idea where each one graduated from (or whether they even did graduate). We value focused, hard work and persistence, a quality you can expect from a founder. Naturally, our hiring process is pretty tight and it requires a clean YES from everyone.

If I had a lot of money, I would invest in every team member if they started out on their own sometime in the future. This has turned out to be a great metric in building a team that you'll really enjoy working with.

Place:
We're a small team based in Mountain View right opposite to the YC office.

How to apply:
You can signup in the terminal at hackerrank.com, and apply using the 'apply' command (apply <URL> <why-do-you-want-to-apply>)
I'm on a Mac, almost always Photoshop but I recently bought Pixelmator. Not sure if I can use it for production work yet but I wanted to support their effort if nothing else.

PNGpong widget to compress PNGs Illustrator for vector stuff
I tend to get a Visa gift card from at least one person as a holiday gift. I spend them online without registering them. The big retailers expect lots of gift card buyers after the holidays and don't seem to be doing AVS.
HackerRank bots which played 2.2M games
RedPhone. A secure calling app for Android.
If you think you can avoid knowing SQL by using ORM, you don't understand what ORM is and what problem it tries to solve.

Namely, what you can't avoid, if building an object-oriented system, is that you ultimately need to map those DB values to your live objects. Whether you end up using an off-the-shelf ORM or you hand-code the SQL yourself is less relevant.

Odds are if you eschew an ORM in favor of hand-coded SQL layer, you'll end up writing one anyways - only you're likely to do a shittier job of it than people who understand the problem area far more intimately (e.g. Hibernate committers).
I came here to say I wouldn't touch any Oracle product with a 10-foot pole, but you put it so much better.
Make careful note of the word "aims" in this article title. They compare mobile devices and... well, that's it so far.
Judge rejects secrecy bids in Apple vs. Samsung battle
With all due respect, that is the stupidest, most ridiculous idea I have ever heard.

Spend more than a few hours in an area ravaged by meth, like San Bernardino or Riverside Counties (especially the high desert). Meth is available from so many sources the sheriff and police don't even enforce possession crimes unless except as add-on charges to other, more serious crimes. Consequently, meth is dirt cheap.

This permissive attitude essentially legalizing the drug and lowering the costs hasn't made the meth problem go away; it made it worse. Now instead of rival meth biker gangs fighting each other over profits, you have thousands of meth heads who get high, usually injuring themselves and any people who happen to be around them while they're dosed (usually, their children).

Even the rich and middle class use drugs regularly in this country--hell, our last 3 presidents have all admitted to using illegal drugs. The solution is not to make drugs more freely available. That doesn't work in a free society because people will consciously choose to use drugs, and the rest of us will have to clean up their messes. The solution is to cut them off at the source.
You are saying that Oracle's goal is to make sure that CentOS customers can access the resources of a billion dollar company in order to get security patches on time.

If that were all that was going on, then Oracle would just provide funding and engineering support to CentOS.

Since you aren't doing that, one of two things must be happening:

1. This is part of a long term strategy, which means it will somehow make a play for my wallet on some future date.

2. This is not part of a long term strategy, which means it is a low-level initiative. Most likely it will chug along until the responsible middle manager retires, transfers or gets bored with it. If by some happenstance it becomes successful enough to attract the attention of top management, then goto #1.

Bottom line - Oracle is a business and wants my money. I know it, and you know it. Using free products from Oracle is like accepting a favor from Tony Soprano. Sooner or later, the bill comes due.
Brian Chesky Explains How Snow White Pointed The Way To Airbnb’s Future
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there was an interesting discussion on this on reddit -

"technically Osama bin Laden himself stated that 9/11 was to wake up the american people, to commit an act so harsh towards actual Americans, that they would say "why me" and then research the situation.."

Poster then links to the source quotes from Osama where he explains his motives and reasons. Interesting read, if only for the direct quotes, which are pretty essential for this discussion. Until he linked it, I never realized how strange it was that these discussions happen all the time, without many people actually being able to pull up the source material.

Link to source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/wcpls/this_i_my_friends...
You're already on a government watch list so donate away! :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4259441
Why Google is staying away from open-source hardware and Facebook’s Open Compute
So India isn't an "emerging market"? Only 8.5% of population has broadband connection in India..
This is all Greek to me. What is FDNN? And why is this possible now, but wasn't done before? If it's just changing a gateway provider, why did this take so long? Basically, what has changed, and how is MasterCard/Visa allowing this now?
Apple's disappearing vertical scroll bar patent
It looks great! I see no reason to slight cURL, though. Its CLI was intended for humans.
The sad part is that I think they honestly think that it's good to have a domain name like that.
Bing integrates Foursquare data to boost personal recommendations
I had a dream last week that scientists would someday be able to remove the Higgs Boson from atoms to make truly weightless materials. I should patent that.

As far as "flying away", from the video embedded in the linked article, you can see the aerographite is barely able to sit still on the table before the rod is introduced - one of them is about to fly away just sitting there. It just "looks" extremely light.
[Ask HN]Is there a ballpark on how much $ to allocate to build an MVP?
Write mostly once, run mostly anywhere with Mono
Precisely!

I've been using ORM pattern throughout my career, and have even designed/built one 10 years ago because what was available at the time wasn't gonna cut it functionality- and performance-wise for the system we were building (a real-time bond trading system). Nowadays most mainstream ORMs do the job rather adequately.

Having said that, I have a fair share of gripes against most of them, but I still find that people who bitch the most about ORMs are those who understand it (and the problem it tries to solve) the least.
They don't in the UK either, sometimes you need to register them (and supply the same info when purchasing) but you can put in whatever info you want there...
Meth is relatively easy and inexpensive to make. Crrently the primary difficulty is acquiring sufficient quantities of the OTC ingredients (i.e., cough suppressant) used to make the drug.

Banning meth is paramount to combatting meth use. Meth is already a pervasive problem in rural areas now, despite its illegality. If meth use is legalized, the meth problem in this country will explode (pun intended).
What a Successful Facebook Mobile Strategy May Look Like
Using an ORM or plain SQL?
Judging by the iBook/white MacBook-like white plastic backing, I'd have to agree.
The problem I have here is price. This just doesn't undercut an mbp, and it would have to to get me to buy it
Day 2 of Prolog
Netflix rolls out ipv6 to streaming users
Exactly, you are not, that's why i'd rather trust RedHat with my OS then Oracle.

BUT, strange enough, i'd say Sun had a pretty good reputation as software company, great engineers and minds. In the past, i'd rather agree to use Sun Solaris rather then some Oracle Linux. (Now, that Solaris is from Oracle, i wouldn't do that anymore)
I don't know anything about socialcam. I just heard of them for the first time with this headline. My comment is with respect to the wide range of small acquisitions.
Thanks for compiling this. It helps get a bit more depth out of the article and at least strive to hear what Miles was talking about (although some of it honestly still alludes me).
Questions to ask an AWS expert
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I imagine it had something to do with the judge saying that the "US is the enemy", thus indicating that he could not impartially judge a case in which the U.S. was the primary opposing litigant.
yeah, couldn't agree more
Or sources: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/att_assisting_...
This has to be the funniest thing I've read today.

A permanent reminder to whoever looks into Oracle Linux of how they've treated the Open Source community.

The sweet, sweet irony.
Not applicable. This is not a new standard; merely a new tool.
Responsive Layouts, Responsively Wireframed
Zuckerberg’s 1.05% Loan Shows How Wealthy Stay Rich
Yes.. As little as possible. Read the Lean Startup for some examples of MVPs without even writing code.. As far as ballpark examples of cost, the standard can be expressed by this formula: Target Cost = how much you think you need/2; the corollary being Actual Cost = budget*4
Iceland has also introduced some pretty progressive legislature to protect online data and communications:

http://immi.is/Icelandic_Modern_Media_Initiative
The government and it's corporate henchmen are all to quick to prove the necessity for resources like wikileaks by ignoring the law that all the "secret" information was immediately declassified by being in the public domain once it hit the intertubes. Their lawyers know that, the degenerate brass has been told that, yet they still go on and try to scare people with threats to their livelihood. Why? Because they don't want people reading the dirty laundry and just how reprehensible it is and they want to control.

Reading or accessing wikileaks cannot threaten your security clearance. As stated, it is the possibility of being compromised that will threaten your clearance. The more you are scared of accessing wikileaks because you are not aware and assertive of your rights, the more you could be compromised by blackmail, which is the threat. It's mostly not what you do, but whether it can be leveraged for manipulation that threatens clearances.
The structure is on approximately the same scale as the wavelength of visible light. I think that's in common with other recent ultra-black materials, it's either that there's just a huge amount of surface area or some sort of quantum-mechanics effect.
People still home-school in Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling_international_sta...

More to the point, while it's mandated that people buy car insurance few people argue that that's not a 'free market' because regulation is not the same thing as a state monopoly. After-all people also need food.
"So why doesn't this thing just fly away, if its density is 0.2 mg/cc ?"

Static friction? It probably would float for some time in air if it wasn't touching something and there is no breeze.
Caution: simple blurring may be reversible, and YouTube admits that their process may not blur all faces. On the other hand, simple face blanking, blue-dotting, or a scramble-suit style superposition (from Philip K. Dick's _A Scanner Darkly_) would be irreversible. Not to mention that YouTube might keep the original source video, whether or not you click "delete original". Maybe.
No, Google is under no legal obligation whatsoever to link to your site, let alone promote your site/topic using keyword autocompletion or instant searches. There's more to the legal definition of "anti-competitive behavior" than "anything that hurts someone else's business", although it's vague enough that I can understand the confusion.
The open-source node libraries powering Cloud9
There is lots of commercial software out there that only runs on RHEL or is only support to be run on RHEL.
Apple Must Post Notice Online In UK Saying Samsung Didn't Copy iPad
As a dane who has traveled a lot in the us i must say that i wouldn't dare to bike in most american cities.
I took ML Class (quite easy) last fall, PGM Class (a ton of work, but well worth it) in the spring and have just started the Quantum Computing class. Be careful, they're addictive!
Paint.NET would be a vast help in place of MS paint. Lots of plug-ins as well.
DC/MD/VA have a lot of verrry long bike trails, and it makes a good deal of sense to use them instead of fighting the beltway traffic, if you live a certain distance away and have showers at work. But if you don't have showers at work, what do you do once you get there? Spray on deodorant and feel gross for the rest of the day?
That's another Old Linux Guy-ism, thinking that there's even a distinction between "viewport" and "resolution". When non-OLGs talk about "changing resolution", the don't mean, well, anything about view ports, because nobody thinks about view ports.
But this is a simple error caught by js(h/l)int. And it's especially easy to spot if you just declare each var one after another:

var a,
b,
c,
d;
e;

Then your editor (which you've a integrated a linter... right?) will protested:

yourJsFile.js |5 warning| 'e' was used before it was defined.

And if you have a global by the same name you'll see:

yourJsFile.js |5 warning| Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression.

Granted, if you assign it a default value then, yes you're going to have a bad time. But if you follow the white spacing rules of jsLint it will catch the obvious error.
I was actually suggesting suing the government for forcing Google to remove my legal business from the index.
To a person with hammer, everything seems like a nail.

Instead of spending more money on high-tech armaments for the drug war, about treating drug use as a mental illness epidemic and having more rehab centers and treatment facilities easily and cheaply available to people in high risk groups?
I don't completely dismiss it, but it's a huge burden for users, especially those who aren't very tech savvy. I'd love non-optional 2-factor auth for my bank account, maybe that would really introduce it to non-geeks and start making it less of a burden.

Anything that makes engaging harder (2-factor auth, captchas, which I'll get to sometime next week) will cost conversions and engagement. You have to weigh those things realistically. Security doesn't exist in a vacuum where User Experience doesn't matter.
I "heard" oracle folks got help from "centos" folks to rebuild "all" packages from redhat. Some packages just wouldn't build on koji. centos folks reportedly helped them.

This is pure "evil"
I might not understand the article correctly but only the contacts seem to be made of graphene. The canal is still made of SiC with far lower conductivity than graphene so it seems to me that the speed improvements wouldn't be as tremendous as what the article claims. Don't expect 100 GHz CPUs landing any time soon.
Protobuffs in Riak 1.2
It is certainly an another example of an anti-competitive tactic and the most probable scenario they achieved it was by ignoring Opera's existence on as many levels of their organization as possible, otherwise it just wouldn't happen -- if you know your "clever trick" doesn't work on one of the browsers, you wouldn't implement the "clever trick" as an universal solution. As such, it's not an accident, it's a consequence of their political decisions (something like "to all our teams: we don't like Opera, do pretend it doesn't exist, do force their users to switch" etc). It's bad enough, no need for more complex "conspiracies."
Washington State to Unveil Voter Registration on Facebook
Why Git tracks content, not files
Another alternative, in Ruby, is HTTY - https://github.com/htty/htty
A Hole in Mars