skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wondered how much Germany benefited from the restrictions on keeping a standing army, and being (effectively) defended by the U.S. military. The chunk of budget spent on that surely must have been used more productively.
Re: the iPhone emulator part, check out Pieceable. It's being mostly open sourced soon. https://www.pieceable.com
Spending a billion on something then killing it in under a year.... not sure how much you can 'learn' from that. And they can't do that forever (or even a lot). Spending, say, 15 billion over a year to 'learn' about 10 new ecosystems/industries - even MS can't sustain that pace for very long.

And what did they 'learn' about 'mobile' that many of their employees (especially rank and file) probably already knew? There's usually far more cost-effective and less public ways to 'learn' about stuff without making your company look totally inept.
For a moment, I was hoping this was going to be a machine learning class taught using SML... :-/
"Still, I don't really think Germany can be blamed. Unless you think of
the "weaker" countries as children who can't take responsibility for
themselves."

Well, you can't directly blame Germany, that's right.

But someone had to lend all that money, and I don't believe, that no one
could see the real financial situation in these countries.

So, what did the banks wrong, and why nobody looked after the banks?
Even Justin Bieber is probably bigger and more known than internet memes.
No.

/g/ isn't insane, you're taking everything that people say on 4chan seriously. Which is a mistake.
Like the author, I probably use 'ls -ltr' more often than any other variation of ls. It's more useful to view most directories in date order (newest nearest to your cursor), although of course this probably won't be news to most GUI / Windows users.

Edit: A small shell script over my history proves my guess is correct:

plain ls: 59
ls -ltr: 8
ll: 6
>implying /b/ actually goes through with all those raids

/x/ is the only board that actually does get raided. it's probably the worst board on 4chan (i'm a pixie AMA).
You can view the course page via the link given in a sibling comment, but be aware that the course is apparently using Google+ for class discussion as well.
High SMS costs?

It is exactly why I put the range of countries above. Can we be in a worse situation than them all?
Mitmproxy: an SSL-capable man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy
Perhaps I meant it as a half-rhetorical question; I'm not the only person I know who doesn't have a cell phone, and if you take moment to consider it, I'm sure you'll realize that you know some people in the same position.

There are in fact significant demographics - children and the elderly - where cell phone adoption is rather low. Ironically enough, these are the very groups where enhanced security measures may be most useful.
Do those passwords have less rights? I figured that if any of those passwords got compromised, you were screwed (until you found out which one and revoked it).
The memo does nothing to establish whether Samsung is infringing patents. But this is just the sort of thing that sways juries. And trials are about juries.

So yes, this is how the system works. Both sides putting in enormous effort over admissibility of minor documents, outcomes swayed by minor missteps.
"The same thing is playing out with Android - not sure why they didn't learn from the MS story."

Who is "they" and will it be easier to get Android on the phone than it is to get Europe?

The financial viability of Android does not depend on the quality of the user experience. Just on data collection.
* Edit: Ah, technically they did break into the email account. The first time I read this I thought that they just had access to the account info page (doing things, such as purchasing or accessing account settings, requires password-entry by Amazon)

No, they did not have to break into the Amazon account.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...

> First you call Amazon and tell them you are the account holder, and want to add a credit card number to the account. All you need is the name on the account, an associated e-mail address, and the billing address. Amazon then allows you to input a new credit card. (Wired used a bogus credit card number from a website that generates fake card numbers that conform with the industry’s published self-check algorithm.) Then you hang up.

> Next you call back, and tell Amazon that you’ve lost access to your account. Upon providing a name, billing address, and the new credit card number you gave the company on the prior call, Amazon will allow you to add a new e-mail address to the account. From here, you go to the Amazon website, and send a password reset to the new e-mail account. This allows you to see all the credit cards on file for the account — not the complete numbers, just the last four digits. But, as we know, Apple only needs those last four digits. We asked Amazon to comment on its security policy, but didn’t have anything to share by press time.
OK, so I turn on two-factor authentication for GMail, but...

1) I immediately have to create a application specific password to actually read my mail on my iPhone.

2) If anyone ever gets access to that secret password, or any of the others I create, they have full access to my email and any password resets they generate.

3) I will have no idea this is happening since I would expect my mail to access that app password daily.

So your fancy two factor authentication still ends up resting on one piece of secret info as the weak point. Am I missing something?
Thanks. A couple follow up questions:

So does the user sprinkle the powder after each slice, or does the machine somehow do it? How would the machine make an even layer of powder?

Why doesn't the powder stick to the print head, or get pushed around unevenly by the print head?

Why doesn't the powder fall out during printing?
The difference is, as you mention, that for your Blizzard account there is one app that needs to be changed to use 2FA, whereas with Google you are using your account from dozens of apps that they do not control and that can not be made to support the 2FA login process. It's an unfair comparison.
The only time I regret turning on TFA is when I'm laying in bed with my laptop and my phone is slightly out of reach.
So how does this compare to the quality of the rep rap? Is this a better approach?
What if they hire some stats bloggers and become the next Nate Silver - only with analyses that WE can all interact with and learn from?

What if this could improve statistical literacy?
What, you've never heard of Acix?
/kidding
OculusHub - Oculus Rift developer community
Funny how the Samsung apologists have gone from saying "of course it's not a copy, they had these designs before Apple" to "what else could they do?". This defence of plagiarism as being somehow in the better interest of consumers is laughable. "intellectual property is first and foremost intended to protect users"? What have you been smoking?
Very cool. I worked in support, and would deal with some of the portal guys from time to time in Ra'anana
@nhoss2
Slightly offtopic:

Love the honesty on your http://labs.im/ page. But you might be underselling yourself. You are saying you are willing to work cheaply because you are young and a risk.

You are capable of using node.js, you use phantomJS, you seem to have good product and ux thinking and you are able to use github. Just the last one alone puts you on the upper 50% of the worldwide freelance market. Not to speak of the first three things i mentioned.

As somebody living in UK i appreciate your modesty and i wish you all the best for your jobhunt. Projects like this are genius thing to do, continue until you find something :)
The linked article mentioned this:
http://static.yubico.com/var/uploads/pdfs/Howto_GmailYubiKey...

YubiKeys are relatively cheap and would provide a nice alternative to using a phone, IMO.
Sounds like a healthy relationship.
The perks are largely about (1) having something cool to talk about, and (2) feeling respected. Perks aren't the only possible way to achieve these but they're a good indicator.

With my friends I can't talk about the details of the awesome technical projects I'm doing at work-they won't find it interesting. But I can talk about how fun it is that we have tons of autonomy, about 30 different board games in the office that we play at lunch every day, a beanbag chair we can use for naps, and have a foosball table.
>implying /b/, /mlp/, or /v/ aren't actually the worst boards on 4chan

There is some genuinely interesting stuff on /x/ once you filter out the fakers and the roleplayers.
It's not a 5 second hassle. I don't get a cell signal in the steel gymnasium even though the wifi works fine. I physically have to go outside to get a code every time I want to log in. And then if my phone is not working, or I leave it at home, I'm screwed.
what would have been perfect to do is give 5% cash back on every purchase with a visa made in london during the olympics. The marketing would have been far more 'word of mouth', the benefits more direct, much happier customers, and it may have prompted people to actually consider getting a visa card if they didn't have one. Or a random "one person per day using their visa card at the olympics wins $1 million".

All of these wouldn't have prevented competing currency, but likely meant almost everyone used a visa anyway, assuming they had one. But hey, what do I know? I'm just someone who has a visa card and would have been pissed off and offended at this campaign had I been at the olympics, just like the OP was. I guess we're not the target market, although I can't really determine who is the target market.
Tool Nirvana | Prototyping with Axure
I think it's worth pointing out when the title is a blatant attempt to get more people to read it. If they'd just said "WPA2 Isn't Broken Due to Defcon Hacking" then a lot less people would click through. I'll give him credit for starting off with "Quick answer: no" though.
I've always argued this about NYC compared to the EU. Taxes hit you hard living. But as many people would guess, NYC is filled with bankers with deep pockets and thus the means to skirt around the tax rate.
Ask HN: Practical differences between B2C and B2B
Title says it. I'm interested particularly in how to launch. With previous b2c stuff I've done, I launched as soon as I had something that didn't break constantly. It still broke often, but it would be usable and thus testable. I'm now researching for a b2b idea I have. Should I have a more complete product to start with before drumming up clients. Will businesses lose interest more quickly if they see 500's occasionally. Or if the feature set seems slim at first?
Not on AT&T, as far as I can tell. It's either $20/month for unlimited messaging, or $0.20 each. So, unless you're sending or receiving more than 100 messages a month, you're better off without a plan.
If you regain control of the phone number before someone finds the phone and uses it to seize control of the Google account, you wouldn't lose anything more than the phone.
This is sort of a separate question and one that is separate to the trial.

The trial is asking "did Samsung copy Apple?", this question is "should that matter?" which is a question for our law makers.

The side you don't talk about is what benefit accrues to someone who does great design or R&D or produces great art if it can just be immediately copied by someone who doesn't have to make the investment in time or money. If that deters investment then it's not necessarily in the long term interest of the users.

Personally I'm not intrinsically anti-IP, I see some benefit, I just think the level of protection that's afforded goes on for too long and is handed out to too easily.

My feeling is that if you look at how markets develop, there is a period where there is rapid innovation followed by a period of stabilisation and standardisation. If we provided protection during the initial period (maybe three to five years) that provides incentive but may also encourage innovation as people looked to innovate themselves to compete.

Then after the market has settled down and there are clear winners and losers, the protection is moved and the standardisation you talk about can come to pass as the foundation for the next wave of changes.

But critically IP needs to be looked at on a market by market basis. Having a one size fits all system that covers drugs that need years of expensive testing, music that might be written in a few hours, software that is almost certainly redundant in a couple of years and hardware (that depending on it's nature could fall almost anywhere on the spectrum) is mad.
The cosmic ray observatory founded by Victor Franz Hess is still being maintained and operated by the University of Innsbruck:

http://www.uibk.ac.at/astro/observatory/hafelekar/index.html...

(I had the opportunity to visit it when Innsbruck was hosting the Austrian Physics Olympiad in 2000)
Yeah, I was really trying to sarcastically point that out more than seriously ask if things have become worse. Still, interesting stuff there, especially the bit about having to go to a separate desk in some places in Greece.

It's interesting to compare with the situation in China, where credit cards are very rarely used, but I've never had a problem paying with one in any kind of decently-sized store or restaurant. You almost get the impression that they knew you were coming and set aside a card machine just for you.
Then why? Lack of demand? Market not interested? Support costs too high?
The HTML5 Parleys Player
...and this framework has been around even longer than that, although the vocabulary has typically been "Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
Sorry, this is the one I meant to link to (probably the similar one you mention). Might be a better design to scale up. Don't know if the TEC is any more efficient though.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tpod1/tpod1-thermoelectr...
Why Statistics?
I don't know what other demographic asteroid mining could possibly target.
A simpler design for asynchronous APIs
A little less. They can't be combined with the 2nd step verification to make changes to settings that require 2 step verification.

So instead of losing access to your account, you just lose all your email (yay!).
Never having to worry about mineral again is amazing work. I wonder were they will be in 20 years I guess we will see.
If the allegations in the screenshot you posted are true (tl;dr: since 2008, the /b/ board is run by law enforcement as a sting operation), several prosecutions would have already run their course in the four years since the alleged start of the sting operation. Court decisions being open and including the details of the sting, we would have heard about it, wouldn't we? I think the press would have had a field day with that.
Google Native Client - NEXE Modules From CTOR to DTOR (Part 2)
Scheme's missing ingredient
That's a pretty sweet idea! Good job.
They were made infamous by reddit, due to them starting to beat that dead horse a year after 4chan got bored of it.
This is _exactly_ what version control is for.
How do you get 2-factor auth enabled at all without entering a phone number? Their help page says that you can switch from phone-based to Google-Authenticator-based authentication after enabling 2fa, but I can't find a way to skip the phone step for turning it on in the first place. This is the screen I get when I click to enable: http://i.imgur.com/cm6Km.png
After a day of using the alpha, here are my thoughts on App.net
Online banking security chief admits £2.5 million fraud
Building both sides of a network, as GoPago or LevelUp attempts to do, is very hard to accomplish - as merchants have to shift away from their current PoS and trust the newcomer enough to embrace them. Further, you will most probably keep both old and new running in parallel, which will further introduce complexities in to keeping the business running.

That is not to say that these solutions are with out value. But they do face an uphill battle, and they should focus equally on proving the merchant value proposition to businesses that are forced to transact in cash vs those who have an entrenched relationship with networks.
Dark Reign 2 Open Sourced
Blogspam and slower site with less info than the original...
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4282
Listing files in order of modification time?
The U.S. constitution makes it quite clear that intellectual property exists for the benefit of citizens, to promote the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries.
BLOCKED! (At work.) Not that I expected any differently, of course, heheh.
I'm not sure there are any such restrictions anymore. Germany has a standing army of about 200k soldiers, down from 450k in 1990. The US still has about 50k troops in Germany, but I don't think they're defending us (or controlling us) as much as they're hanging around in an allied state closer to multiple conflict zones.
Most android developers try to ensure that their apps work with popular devices whether or not there is an official partnership. I can appreciate the PR value of all these 'an existing android app will work with Ouya' announcements, but I thought that ecosystem compatibility was part of the original value proposition.
Fab: Europe Will Be 20% Of Fab’s 2012 Revenue
Your labs.im pitch is probably going to send you the worst freelance jobs you'll ever have. Nobody gives a shit about your situation, and your University tuition fees. Actually, this signals a red flag for serious clients: You might drop their project as soon as you get some financing.

Promote yourself as a young, intelligent and enthusiast developer with coding and design skills. Price your hourly rate at $80-100/hour; and get your tuition paid in the next couple weeks.

Edit: Quite a discussion here. I'd like to add that an important part of doing business is trust. Clients are going to throw lots of money that's going to evaporate on HTML and JavaScript code. They want to be sure that you are the guy who is going to give them the right result.

Tip: Make a decent lab page. Look at design agencies in sortfolio and copy them (not their design, their strategy). Build a couple more projects, and open source them on Github. Send emails to design agencies, and try to build a network.

Finally, decide if you want to do this for a living or concentrate on EE. The overhead to get a single project is the same to get a constant stream of projects.
While I get your point, I think much more than 1% of America is aware of the entity that is rage comics/lolcats/image macros. Pretty much every kid on the Internet these days knows what those things are or has seen them and is thus aware of them. The number will only increase.
Online fraud is expected to grow substantially in the near future, as e-commerce and CNP (card not present) transactions are expected to grow exponentially in relation to offline (or Card present).

With card issuers planning to issue Chip cards (to stay in compliance with Visa's EMV Mandate), fraud will shift from retail to Online (where Chip offers no additional protection), as it has already happened in Europe with the EMV shift there.
As a hacker, I've never taken a marketing class (or even a business class) and this all just seems like common sense to me. Pardon my arrogance, but it does seem to me like we hackers/coders are inherently better equipped for branching out into other areas of business than MBAs are at branching out into technical areas. That's not to say there aren't a high number of MBAs who can hack; it's just that a hacker's ability to quickly recognize patterns and manipulate systems to their will makes it a bit easier, whether it's code or the flow of information/relationships between people required for business/marketing.
> The social security system was crippled 5 decades ago, …

Check the history of the Rentenversicherung: It was basically ruined by inflation caused by the First World War. [1]

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetzliche_Rentenversicherung_...
I agree, this is top-notch work. I would drop the beatup negative attitude, it's a big turnoff. You could easily get a remote part-time job in the Valley for 100+$/hour — think of it, that's only 40 hours of work to pay off your tuition.
You only type that application specific password once. You're not typing it to log in via wifi at coffee shops, airports, etc. You're not typing it every day for a keylogger to pick up, should your machine be compromised in the future. You're not typing it into borrowed machines or net cafe machines in some hotel business center.

So, no, it isn't perfect, but it's a heck of an improvement. That is, if you believe your machine to be reasonably secure on day 1.
To Be or Not To Be Cited in Computer Science
> what benefit accrues to someone who does great design or R&D or produces great art if it can just be immediately copied by someone who doesn't have to make the investment in time or money.

If you assume that everything Apple invented was trivial to copy. Then even then, Apple was still the richest company in the whole planet before having ever bothered that anyone copied them. The richest company in the whole planet. It seems to me that the R&D investment already payed off, lawsuits or no lawsuits. I believe that answers your question.

It's clear from these results that Apple and competitors will invest in R&D anyway no matter if they get copied afterwards. It still pays off for them. I'm pretty sure the world won't stop inventing new things because some are being copied.
"So... you seem to have a gambling problem"

(during a job/bank loan interview)
FTA:

You can install a standalone app called Google Authenticator (it’s also available in the App Store), so your cell phone doesn’t need a signal.

Also:

You can print out a small piece of paper with 10 one-time rescue codes and put that in your wallet. Use those one-time codes to log in even without your phone.
> So your fancy two factor authentication still ends up resting on one piece of secret info as the weak point. Am I missing something?

A vastly reduced, easily managed attack surface area that in practice results in overwhelmingly fewer account compromises.
> That was certainly not perceived as the "perfect" solution
> at the time, and probably still isn't. There was room for
> innovative differentiation in how user input was handled
> (physical keyboard, Palm grafitti-style input, chording keyboard, something new).

I understand why this perception exists, but I do not think that it represents a fair assessment of what happened.

The first Android device after the iPhone was the HTC G1, with both a keyboard and a trackball. The first two "high-end" (IMO) Android phones were the Motorola Droid and Nexus One (one had a keyboard, the other had a trackball). There were also some Blackberry-esque designs built in the past couple of years (cf, Motorola Charm, and a couple of others). There have also been variations on hinge design and screen setups (HTC Desire Z hinge, and Kyocera Echo).

Samsung themselves have built a couple of high end Android phones with slideout keyboards for both AT&T and Sprint.

The fact that they've settled on a slate design has less to do with their attempts at differentiation than it does with providing what the market has been asking for. They've tried building the other phones, they just don't sell to as large of a demographic.

I can't imagine anyone today picking Palm graffiti-style input over Swype, for example.
What is this for? Or is it just a cool way to try new technologies without any real purpose?

EDIT: I didn't mean it in a bad way. Trying new stuff is a perfectly fine reason for doing things and this looks quite beautiful. I was just looking for an answer like "this helps you see whether more karma is given on weekdays or weekends". Statistics and visualization should answer meaningful questions, I think.
Getting started with Kendo UI Mobile & PhoneGap Build
Lesson in demographics: AARP Magazine is top magazine by # of subscribers
For the XBox model to work, apps will have to cost $40.