skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the plausible deniability of the contents,
from a legal standpoint, if a court issues an order to divulge the contents and ownership of the box, the owner of the storage resources (banker) can comply, whereas the owner of the encrypted anonymous storage network node cannot.

I'm not going to make a blanket statement that this is a good or a bad thing, since it largely depends on what's in there (the technology itself is neutral); and some jurisdictions might define as depraved indifference (minimally) or facilitation (maximally) should the contents be illegal.

Also I can easily foresee that being unable to trace the provenence of data stored on one's node could put one in a difficult position to assert it isn't one's own, when possession is usually all that is needed for criminal liability.

The banker can cover the ownership case, and hence his backside.

As far as public/private goes, it seems this network from what I read, maintains an opacity shield with regards to contents, but is peer-to-peer storage. So in that regard, neither the safe deposit box nor the storage network are "publicizing" anything, per say.
Actually this may not be the case. I was doing some testing recently where I happened to have 32-bit codecs for a video format I was using, but did not have 64-bit codecs. Media player could play the file, but explorer could not thumbnail them. Media player is 32-bit, whereas explorer is 64-bit. After installing 64-bit codecs, the explorer thumbnails worked.

This would suggest that the thumbnailing is not done by media player.
Those records were an asset. He paid $2000 or so for the records and they had a demonstrable market value of $10,000 (he sold them.) The liquidity could be questioned, but it wasn't a liability.
I have a client who just switched to GMail, and most of the enterprise development team is in a state of revolt... apparently they are cracking down and removing outlook since people were just using the outlook client to get to their GMail.

One complaint I heard was the lack of sorting features (sorting your inbox by subject, sender, etc.) which also drives me nuts when I use Gmail on my personal account.
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> Never mentioned I disagreed with her. Where did you get that assumption?

>> I don't understand what the article is about. Is she trolling for page views? I don't understand why she considers herself "violated" by Apple. Don't people make backups anymore?

Let's try this again. She complained an upgrade shouldn't have made her existing rss feeds and subscriptions inaccessible.

You said you don't understand what the article is about, she is trolling and implied what's the fuss about since everybody should make backups.
I am not familiar with Mercurial. Would it benefit students to learn it over Git?
I don't use Mixpanel frequently, but could you not just put the Javascript file somewhere more reliable? Why not pull their code down and put it on your own CDN? I've done this with Mixpanel in the past, I believe. This wouldn't solve their API endpoints not responding obviously, but it's an easy way to take the issue into your own hands for the time being.

Also, I don't think I would ever make your core logic depend on events from something as dispensable as a third party analytics service. It just sounds like a poor design choice to have some core site functionality occur after receiving a response from something you do not control. I'd try to make those Mixpanel requests more "fire and forget", if you will.

Edit in response to you response below:

I think you're missing the point here. The scope of their documentation probably does not include best Javascript practices. You made some poor implementation decisions and now you're getting burned. At least now you have experience using third party services and probably won't be so trusting of them, again. Trivializing service stability and other things does not make your point any more credible, though. Personally, I think it makes people overlook your point because it makes it sound as if you have no idea what you're talking about.
Same here. I wish we had an MP widget that insulated us from downtime from the mixpanel API.
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Yeah unfortunately it's how things work. I'm not criticizing, lots of people do it, but in this case I just felt it was a little bit too forced.
Really neat! I might be a newbie to this, but how do you get those client-side javascript function calls over to the serverside? I am assuming the client's browser is running the Mixpanel Javascript and that your events are serverside.
I think you only have to prove the prior existence. It does not provide patent like protection but relieves you from the patent restrictions.
Wow! I had no idea there were so many extensions available already. I had kind of assumed Gnome 3 was so young that none were available yet.

They definitely should publicise these more.
Could this be the year of the Linux desktop?
I'm just trying to imagine how a book like Catcher in the Rye, Finnegans Wake, or To Kill a Mockingbird would have been changed if it were subjected to these sort of analytics by its publisher.

I can easily see future books being edited and re-written from edition to edition (not that "edition" will continue to have any meaning) in response to analytics on reader behavior.

30% of readers failing to finish a book, and dropping off near the same place? Let's rewrite that chapter to keep people turning the pages. Lots of people highlighting a controversial passage, then not buying any more books from that author? Tone it down, smooth out the "problem areas." A surprising number of young women reading a particular book? Let's "pink it up" and throw in some romantic subplots that tested well in focus groups. How about embedding some multimedia into the book, and some product placement while we're at it?

Literature will survive this latest attempt to measure the creativity right out of an industry. Good movies still make it on the indie circuit despite the focus-grouped blockbusters, good games still get made by small shops. I just can't help but feel a tinge of sadness as I watch books and literature get consumed by obsessive measurement and cold-blooded analytics.
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explorer is the same program that runs the desktop. They still could get away with just restarting explorer, but that erases your state and makes everything look broke for a few moments.

I don't know why they do it this way, but nautilus is the same way so I guess there is some reason.
You can definitely find an internship! I honestly don't know too much about the computer science industry (I'm in the arts and entertainment industry), but it never hurts to apply. I know within my industry, a lot of companies are looking for students with at least two years of college under their belt, and I assume the computer science internships are probably fairly similar. Go out and apply to as many internships as you can find. Lots of places might be quite enthused to get an intern for a whole year, rather than just a summer internship that a lot of college students get.

Where are you located? I assume you'll want a paid internship, so you can save up money to continue your education (if you decide to return to your school)?
Redesign? Maybe. Just 8 years later than GMail.
Just maxed my captcha failures and have to try again later. Either I'm going blind, I'm dumb, or their captcha is broken. Regardless, I hate captcha's -- there has to be a better way.
Here's how I do it using Google Chrome:

1. Sign in to personal Gmail by going to gmail.google.com
2. Sign in to work Gmail by going to mail.google.com/a/foo.com (obviously, replace foo.com with your work domain)
I wonder if that means Redbox and other physical renters still have a chance of staying on.

I feel that if renting media still exists in the future, it would be a solid niche for physical media to exist for. I always imagine that one is more likely to watch Netflix DVD's that arrive in the mail, because it exists in physical form and are more of an "incentive" to customers to continue with their experience. Whereas I always see my friends with Netflix's streaming library on endlessly scrolling through it, unwilling to commit to watching any particular film or show. Is there a random function?

A physical rental is like an investment that you've already committed to.
I don't know how much water this will hold as those gentlemen had to announce before hand they were going to sell stock. The bigger lawsuit should be with the fact that Zynga issued positive guidance. The officers should be held accountable for explicitly deceiving to their shareholders.
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As for the licensing, did Azul obtain a TCK from Oracle/Sun to say their JVM is for Java? If they did, it is unlikely they will open it up under a permissive license (e.g. MIT, BSD, Apache, etc).

One of Apache Harmony's big reasons for not obtaining and using the Java TCK is that it wouldn't allow them to release their JVM under the Apache license.
I use focus follows mouse and it works pretty great. There are a few circumstances where Openbox's focus follows mouse mode is more finely tuned (for instance, when un-maximizing a window, the window under the cursor receives focus instead of keeping it on the window that you just unmaximized); overall it works really well.

One thing the gnome3 guys are doing is putting application menu stuff up in the task bar (window-specific menus will remain in the app window), but when focus-follows-mouse is enabled, the app-menu will remain in the menu-bar instead of up in the panel.
It'll be interesting when this interface can be used to control a prosthetic hand.
Which is terrible. That's like everyone expecting their food to be bland and overcooked. It's almost Soviet in its depressingness.
Just click on your account name in gmail, hit add account at the bottom of the little menu, and bam more accounts in more tabs.
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I always find these sorts of situations to be kind of surreal.

Twitter has a wide number of policies that capture a large number of behaviors and they selectively enforce them when someone who has paid them a lot of money tells them to.

Twitter isn't a public company, they aren't even a 'news' service with any sort of reputation to uphold for impartiality. They have a bunch of servers which throw around the equivalent of SMS messages to a bunch of clients based on a self assembled directed graph by its users. Those servers cost money, the place that hosts them costs money, the people who run them cost money. 99% of the people who use twitter give them no money in exchange for that privilege. So the 1% that do give them money get to call the shots. Is this astonishing? Is this evil? Is this even surprising?

You want a service that is less beholding to the 1% use indenti.ca, you want to share what ever the hell you feel like with the folks who may (or may not) want to hear it, you can rent sn EC2 instance and blast it out.

I find the discussion about what Twitter should or should not do in this case surreal.
There is a very simple way to install Linux on any Windows PC: a VM. I'm not sure why more people don't do it. It gives you all the flexibility and strength of command line while the battery life/drivers/software support of Windows. Its easy to back up, transfer to other PCs, etc...
It doesn't lose the ability to be tuned--the state of the piano merely drifts over time if it is not maintained--imagine your teeth drifting in your gums without a retainer, for example. If it spends 80 years warping a certain way, it will just take another 80 years of careful tuning to warp it back in a gentle, safe way. Most objects are not lucky enough to get 80 years of human attention after 80 years of inattention (stradivarius violins are a notable exception--these violins stay in tune just fine, despite being over 300 years old--they are nice enough that people have decided to keep tuning them).
I don't see any reason as of yet to go back to my HoTmail. It still looks the same in the new outlook.com.
Have you tried the audio version? It's even worse.
This is terrific.

By the way, if you take just a handful of lessons, you'll probably get further with your playing than you might think. There's way too much "you have to learn music as a kid" mentality out there — adults can pick up the basics, too.

I estimate that anyone with a better-than-tin ear can play something like http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Freebies/Classics/WTCPrelu.... in a matter of a few weeks after learning some scales.
Your math is off. You could do 3500 requests per hour with 10 accounts. You'd still need thousands of hours (i.e. a few months) because we are talking about millions of API calls.
> I wouldn't call that a "Haskell based browser". 1500 lines of Haskell against maybe 300 KLOC (guessed) of webkit alone.

WebKit is much bigger than that - at least one order of magnitude bigger (that is, 3 millions of LOC).

So yes, this is a tiny wrapper around a huge C++ codebase. The name is kind of misleading. But still a cool project.
Every form if using a capcha should have another checkbox saying "I cannot figure out this stupid capcha and hence I am/can not going forward with this form. You lost a potential customer"
I use my old mac.com and new me.com emails and it works beautifully. The iCloud mail interface as well as everything else about the experience is just great. Very, very little spam, lightning fast, no ads, integration with my iCal and therefore easily accessed from all of my devices. Gmail is good, but I find it's overrated.
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All I can do it quote a 1980s era Doctor Who Cyberleader "Excellent!" (or maybe that is Bill and Ted), either way they are both apropos.
I thought the entire purpose of the Patent system was that if you _don't_ publish it, and someone else does, then that other party gets the patent protection, even if you invent it. It encourages people publish their inventions/designs/processes/etc... instead of keeping them hidden in the back office.
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You can confirm any given peer is holding a particular portion of a file (sometimes called the "confirmation of file attack") however you can't prove they published it.

The peer "block chain" will only contain transfer metadata, not specifically which files are transfered. That information is only known by the peers involved in the exchange.

And that's where the anonymity of the system is definitely inferior to FreeNet: peers involved in any given exchange know exactly what was transferred and to what IP address.

I decided not to solve the anonymous transport problem because Tor, I2P etc are working quite diligently on that and it's a hard enough problem in and of itself. I think this has been a big stumbling block for FreeNet.
It's also difficult to avoid getting so excited and consumed by the process that you lose focus on what your business is actually doing. The acquirer is sending their deal team but you won't have one working for you (even if you get a banker/broker, it still takes up a lot of the founders' time), so someone still needs to mind the store.
Their captcha is _really_ frustrating. I spent well over 2 mins going through atleast 20 of them. This was the only ugly part of the new Outlook experience though.
Interesting that MIT Tech Review wrote an article on this, since a lot of great research (at various universities, including MIT) is now a lot easier due to easily available human task workers. Hopefully this will make research easier, maybe reduce grad-student drudgery, and speed up scientific progress for everyone. (Task work is useful for business, too, but it seems particularly useful in the same ways cloud computing is useful -- the ability to rapidly spin up a short-term task to handle load, without persistent staffing costs.)
He paid $2000 for 8000 records, so at 25 cents each, most of the $3 was profit.
I click on my account picture in the top right, then click on "Add account" and log into the other one. Presto, two accounts.

Disclaimer: I am about 99% certain this is not some weird internal Google feature (not on the gmail team, don't worry), but it's also been > 1 week since I had to go through this performance so I may have forgotten some detail.
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I see click listener attached on duck in the developer console. Does anyone a the script?
It also gives you all the overhead of running two operating systems, and all the expense of purchasing a commercial one to use a free one.

I'm not saying it's a bad option, but it does have downsides.
Is there anyone on HN that's actually surprised at how Zynga turned out? I mean really shocked and surprised? Or even surprised at these accusations of insider trading? Pincus was known for doing shady even illegal things just to make money. Famous for saying "I did every horrible thing in the book, too, just to get revenues right away." and I don't mean to repeat myself over and over but let's not forget, most of Zyngas games were clones, flat out clones, of other people's IP. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-zynga-is-just-like-micros... , then there was the Tiny Tower theft. The whole company was built on screwing other people over for money. So the insider trading accusation fits quiet well with the company culture.

Even if they're cleared of insider trading, we'll all assume it was because they were good liars. It's hard to trust Pincus after everything's he's done and said. Insider trading sounds exactly like something he would do.

The sad part about all this is that Mark Pincus is intelligent and capable. If he wasn't such a bitch to green paper I think he could have built something truly amazing and earned his place in startup history alongside Zuckerberg. He had the intelligence but the soul of an animatronic robot. If being a heartless, emotionless, immoral, profit-extremist worked, there'd be no need for Human CEOs because robots programmed to be "dicks" would have taken over companies.

Moral of the story: Money is not the goal. It's the result of achieving a goal.
I would start with Git because so many open source projects are on Github. But, I would also learn the basics of Mercurial and Subversion.
Could you point me toward that multiple instance tweak? That's something I've wanted for a while.
Microsoft has been through this already with the failed Alpha port of Windows. It should be interesting to see what plans they have to mitigate this.
I went through a small acquisition (single digit millions) and we're building a membership site that would help people understand this process (from the seller's perspective) and the potential pitfalls, what sorts of things do you think must be addressed? Or perhaps need greater attention?
Let's break it down: Zynga is a company created for the sole purpose of abusing simple people psychologically to make them part with their money. (This does not make the entire employee pool evil. They employ hundreds of actually good people. Most of them stay good. Some buy into the kool-aid and become toe-the-line shadow puppets of evil though.)

If manipulating people is your primary focus day in and day out for years, it can make you unbalanced. You begin to think you can get away with anything. After all, you've been doing horrible things for years and nobody has stopped you -- heck, most people don't even realize what's happening. It's a short leap to see how they start to elevate their abuse to the level of deceiving and manipulating public markets.
The difference between me and the complainant:

I don't work for a massive news organization. NBCUniversal owns a broadcast network. Broadcast spectrum is held in public trust, with monopolies on access to that spectrum granted to a limited number of parties.

To my mind, this makes their executives publicly accountable. Y'want your fat media exec salary? This is a cost of doing business.

And let's be clear: this guy's work email was shared. Not his phone number, not his home address.
The title is incorrect: Azul are not open sourcing Zing JVM, they make it available for free to open source developers, but only for "development, qualification, and testing". Still nice though.
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This threw me off as well. I thought Microsoft was supposed to be security conscious, but putting in small, arbitrary limits in places where they don't belong is not reassuring in the least.

They also make it insanely difficult to use a password manager, as the login page URL redirects from outlook.com to some randomness that's 205 characters long.
Passwords can't contain some set of characters either, including spaces. Just why....
Why is that not a private email address? Just because I have a corporate email address, that doesn't mean I expect random fan mail or people I don't know emailing me complaints/whatever. Twitter received a complaint from NBC, and according to the Terms of Service, the account had to be suspended. Obviously this backfired, but that's not the point.
The success of this reinvention hinges on being able to attract the next generation of hackers. The future belongs to them and they should be encouraged to invent is as they see fit. The risk is that throwing away the existing way of doing things pushes away people who are active contributors and have know how about the codebase. So far the desktop is losing because the next generation of talent seems to be fixated on the web stack at this point.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/xgjrw/we_are_the_team_...

Disclosure: I work at MS, but not on this product and have no special insight into their workings.
I'd send my mom to a web hosting service that'd register it for me. Otherwise she'll get confused and wonder why she can't do anything with it afterwards.
A great idea but there is no information on their site about what data you actually get. Maybe innumerate literature types don't care, but us data heads certainly do. I would want to know what sections people read, what they don't, and critically I want to know what the distribution looks like, not just the mean.
Relying so much on a single company, and what it means for Windows 8
The Samsung F700 sure looks like an iPhone, at a distance, until you try to type on the thing and realise it has a pull-out hardware keyboard. How did that work out for successive designs?

It makes you wonder if Apple really was copying off Samsung, as this article suggests, then why was no single Samsung model was as least as successful as the iPhone in the same time frame?
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Is Twitter.ie a phishing site?
I was wondering if twitter.ie is a phishing site.
Its domain information looks suspicious: http://whois.domaintools.com/twitter.ie