skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This distinction is only relevant to maybe 1% of wikipedia users

I disagree. I have looked for content on WP before, only to find it has been deleted by deletionists. I have also given up creating new articles because of deletionists.
God says...
cross, and follow me.

10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had
great possessions.

10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How
hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus
answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for
them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! 10:25 It
is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Hey thanks. On the page you linked to, it said "optimized for mobile" something. I have to say quite impressive--loaded very quickly. Didn't do anything after that, but I'll be damned if that first frame didn't make it down in like 2 seconds.
Wow, this is great! I love it. Hold on, no. I hate this. This reflects what I try so hard not to be - a lazy reader.

Let me explain this reaction: The execution lacks the huge opportunity to make me, and many others, actually read the ToS we often so easily agree to. I realize there's a reference in every bullet, but it's not enough. The interface (linking to Google Groups) is terrible and not encouraging.

This is a start, but I'd argue it should serve for a greater purpose. An educational purpose, considering even us nerds tend not to read ToS. It's a lot to do with the fact we read less in the era of Hacker News (quite surprisingly - and you know I'm right), we want everything summarized. Optimize our time. But that's off topic.
It doesn't exist. They just made some fancy images.
You can no longer recover a Google account via a voicemail message, and AT&T now allows you to lock changes to your account with a passcode. And, the people that committed this particular attack are now in jail awaiting trial.
Just general defending of a company's positions. A good reputation among engineers is very valuable to these companies.
New colour Maximite microcomputer or an interview with its creator
Show HN: Strange Whois Records for Major Sites
Open your Terminal / Console / sh prompt and type the following:

whois aol.com

whois google.com

whois microsoft.com

... etc.

Can anyone explain why WHOIS/Verisign can't prevent this? I found some explanations but none of them made much sense.
Thanks, much better than the gif.

But I'm confused...it de-scrambles what amounts to an ls -la? I gleaned from the op that it de-scrambled an image?
Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets
A vast majority of its users has nothing to do with its community

So, your thinking is that Wikipedia should be more like YouTube comments.

In the words of John Lennon, "Well, you know..."
Apple Stores: Brilliant Branding but a New Product Speed Bump
Thats bullshit.

Hav you not noticed the banking scandals in the past few years? Have you not noticed that NOTHING has been done about them?

Also, if you look lower down the thread - I stated that a moratorium on bot based HFT should be put in place until we can fully understand how to regulate these properly.

Equating me with dictatorial banning of cyptographics is ridiculous.
Google failed to not 'be evil' in australia
Do you think once the automated car gets to the point where it causes 1000x less fatalities, that people would still allow the freedom to drive a 3 ton missile around public? I personally think not.
This mostly has to do with Life sciences. Most other fields have embraced open publishing and data collaboration, with remarkable results. Life scientists stubbornly insist on defending their tiny castles and not changing the rules with which funding is given.
You can also find the same information about textbook rentals by going directly to Amazon's site and going to their textbooks department.
... Britain, Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and Austria.
AFAIK almost every bank in India has now been ordered by the government to use 2 factor authentication. What's more, a specific bank I use has also included an interesting approach against phishing attacks.

You are basically assigned an access phrase and access image. They ask you to look at these two things and know what they are. Then, when you visit the site you enter ONLY your username. Once you click submit you're shown your access phrase and access image. If this were a phishing site, there is a high chance that your access phrase and image wouldn't match so you'd know to GTFO.

This is followed with a 2 factor authentication. Pretty solid IMHO :)
Facebook Announces Non-Social Mobile Ads Framework to Spam Users
Is it worth getting a Linux cert?
I second the recommendation for Duo. Know them personally and yes they do rock!
This is a good comment. I first got excited about Riak because I'm an Erlang programmer (hence why I knew about it) and tried to build a side-project web app using it; only to realize Riak is poorly suited for the type of task where you need anything remotely resembling the relational model (and all of the tools that come with it).

It hasn't been until two years later that I've actually found a need for it - it handles very specific pieces of our data model that grow rapidly and doesn't need to be queried or indexed in any complex manner. We still use a relational database for user records, profile records, transaction records, etc...
With anti-shill order, Google/Oracle judge enters “uncharted territory”
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virtually guarantees cancer

That's not true at all, the incidence rate of lung cancer in smokers is less than 20%. That's still much higher than for non-smokers (0.4% - 2%), but hardly a "virtual guarantee".
Oooh... that was capital of "I". was reading and thought that I`ve missed definition of kind a important acronym "JT". silly and ironic indeed.
Slamming a photographers camera in his face you call complex? i would call it stupid abuse of power, if the police officer felt threatened, he should act like a pofessional, not a bully from highschool.
The only thing you don't get is multi-site replication. They gotta pay the bills; cassandra gets its love from Facebook...
Before you even think about this can you make sure you've got the basics down. No one in this day and age should have basic SQL injection attacks, but there clearly are given the number of 'whoops we got our database stolen threads'. Add to that Remote Code Injection, XSS, CSRF, Session Fixation Attacks etc.
I'm not a particular fan of Windows or Linux, but yes, I agree with this. I went through a phase where I installed multiple Linux distros into VMs and Ubuntu was quite easy.

And don't forget the part where you have to enter a 25 character, alphanumeric CD key. If you have a couple of machines in the house, hopefully you remembered to mark which key you've already used! I sure didn't.
Worth reading:

http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Why-doesnt-Wikipedia-innovate...

Some interesting technical (and also 'philosophical') aspects.
That's the problem with designers, they always want to "enhance X with great design", ignorant of the fact that the object of their OCD desire for "great design" (in this case the world's most popular web service) obviously has great design already, as it's the most popular website in the world.
and here a virus in action ...

http://pastebin.com/EZRWHKzn

;)
This is one of those things where I say "isn't that illegal?"

And then realise it's the people enforcing the law who are breaking it. Even if it isn't illegal, no chance they'd enforce that.
Black Market Drug Site 'Silk Road' Booming: $22 Million In Annual Sales
Well, got to cut them some slack for effort.

But the result is atrocious.

This is exactly the kind of stuff you normally get when BigCorp meets CI-agency.

Every single detail gets backed by an elaborate, esoteric justification, so everyone has their asses covered. Nevermind the horror that is the end-result. What matters is that "we made the button bright pink and 2 pixels tall because studies have shown bright pink catches attention and small click-targets invoke natural curiosity"...
The biased comments here are too childish to smell professionalism and probably hurt the brands more than help. Florian posts are extremely professional and often fool many readers and even other professional bloggers. Compare that to the average HN/reddit trolls. [1] Huge clear difference, I doubt any of them are professionals.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=taligent
Hope they don't wage asset forfeiture on him.
Is this the part where we mention Ken's talk on trusting trust for the 1,000th time?
And if the opinion of the majority doesn't work for your case, you can seek an appeal to the court of social justice for the opinion of the minority.
Nice work, but I think that a white-label API like Pwinty.com would be more profitable.
100 Languages in 100 Weeks
What I was essentially saying was you can pay for EE for the support even if you weren't getting it for the multi-site ability.
Setting up those cameras would be illegal where I live.
Well, continuing to use Gmail as an example, there is an account recovery system, which IIRC asks for a bunch of details to try and determine if you are the account owner (account creation date, names of labels used, etc.) If Google or a third party would provide a list of these details, then you could collate that info as additional insurance against your posited scenario.
Opinion on Skylightit.com - release of integration with PayPal
I'm curious how you're making the connection between "Atlas Shrugged" and the "looterism" in the article.
I don't think that Google would say otherwise. This is just a status report in the beginning of the program.
Piwik or google analytics.
Both free. Former open source. Prefer the former :)
They already send credit and debit cards in the mail. Is this substantively different? Do we have widespread problems of postal workers stealing credit or debit cards? What's in place to prevent that, and why couldn't the banks use similar measures with an OTP device?
Do people order prints anymore? Judging from various online services and service standsis at Costco, Walgteens, etc. they must be, but I don't see many recent phptos and photo albums is definitely a thing of the past. Maybe there's a small market fpr nicely produced photobooks. I haven't used my photo printer in ages.

Am I totally off?
Riak's documentation is horrible. It reads like a whitepaper; spending more time explaining how Riak is built than explaining how to build something with Riak. It's suitable when all you care about are early adopters, but will put off everyone else.

Trying to understand Riak by its documentation is like trying to understand Redis by reading up on ziplists.

Edit:

I'm the author of the two Little books mentioned above. I have no doubt that Riak's documentation can be much more approachable. (and I have a love-hate relationship with writing and would never write for money, so you can't hire me, if you were so inclined)
I expect it will be a mixture of carrot and stick like any good phased replacement. Dedicated lanes (since they can drive 2ft from the car in front) and higher speeds because they are able to cut the reaction time down so much lower.

Eventually making it mandatory for some classes of roads (motorways / highways).

At some point in the very distant future your classic car will only be good for showing off on track days or classic car meets.
You're not factoring in the Media, which will raise a big fuss about taking away their rights and robots not being safe... you get the idea. I can't imagine how people will react once there's an actual possibility a car could be driving on the road with no human controlling it.
Seems a bit snarky to me. Engineers don't price IPOs, bankers do. And because of that it reads more like

"I'm really pissed off you are now rich and I am still not rich."

or perhaps

"I thought it was going to go through the roof and so I bought some and it didn't so I lost a lot of value and now all this stuff that I'm reading makes me look stupid for having believed it in the first place."

I've mentioned elsewhere that when I read stuff like this I feel sympathy for the Author because I think they might be in a lot of pain over something and trying to work through it. Not everyone has good tools for that, sometimes just screaming at the top of your lungs makes you feel better.

As a person who lives in Silicon Valley and could easily be painted by William's broad brush strokes as someone who "has their head so far up their ass that they are eating their own bullshit" I regret to say that I've not lost (or gained) any money on Facebook stock, don't own a single share, and like a lot of people here don't own it because I didn't feel it merited a price over $30 a share. This isn't because I'm a genius and or smarter, its because I looked at the business and said, "You know I don't think it supports that valuation."

But that said, its a hell of a business. Facebook made over a BILLION dollars last quarter, that is over four billion a year at those rates. I was at Sun 10 years and it just just crested $3B on its ways "hopefully" to $5B and folks were estatic. It is pretty impressive what these Facebook folks are doing.

But what William is so upset about is its stock price. And to that I'd say why the hell do you care what the price of Facebook's stock is? What does it matter? Smarter people than you are evaluating it every day and making bets on whether its priced higher or lower than its future value, as they play that game they exchange money, it's sort of a score keeping system with them, and they have more strategies than a roulette player has ways to "beat the house."

Now if you're an executive at Facebook you care because it limits your options when it goes down, as an employee maybe it changes the model plane or boat you can buy, as an outside observer it means nothing. So why the angst?
Indeed. The whole self-driven car isn't a new idea - various individuals and university disciplines have been trying the idea for the last decade over in Europe - it's legal to test these ideas on the road in some countries over there.

If you make the assumption that all cars will be AI, then traffic-handling becomes very, very simple. It's not obstacles or accidents that cause serious problems for traffic, it's the fact that you can't know what all other drivers are thinking.

If all vehicles behaved to a certain rule set then all vehicles actions could be predicted, and as a result designing logic to accommodate that is made much easier.
Given the purpose of the site and it's broad potential reach (and the fact that it's not a domain that requires pushing the envelope in terms of rich user experience), I was pretty suprised to see that the entire 'Rated Services' section was a giant white block in Internet Explorer 9.

I could understand lack of support for IE7 (or perhaps crappy formatting), would raise an eyebrow at lack of support for IE8 (given the nature of the domain and that there's no compelling reason for a lack of graceful fallback in this case), but lack of IE9 support is a bit... suprising.

I certainly hope the team plans on addressing this, otherwise you're cutting a large chunk of browser users out of the picture for (from what I can see) no compelling reason related to the technical requirements of the kind of content you are delivering.
Well, someone said "with the Boeing overhead, that's like them getting half the money that SpaceX got"... ;-)
JSpath
Bresenham's Algorithm is a useful argument when someone suggests that software patents are a good thing. How far back would the progress of computer graphics have been set if Bresenham or his employer had claimed ownership of this idea?
To the designers of Wikipedia Redefined: it looks BRILLIANT. I am so totally inspired. Thank you!
UCouldFinish and Rampant Stupidity at the University of Central Florida
$10 AeroPress filter can "filter smaller particles than any other metal filter"
I like to keep in mind http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html for these topics. And it does seem like there have been more and more of them--hopefully at worst it's a trend to "tech, programming, startups, and politics" rather than full generality. From that essay, the large number of comments on these threads is explained by "Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions." Though I would add that this extends to many more subjects, including bashing companies.

If submissions to nothing more than image macros ever get popular, then it's time to jump ship because HN has become way too much like Reddit.
That’s My Professional Ambition
The problem about long-term figures is that no one ever mentions the long-term total; e.g. if you waste one minute every hour, for 9 hours per day, for 260 days per year, that's 2340 minutes per year!

but you've spent 138060 minutes working.
Yeah it was actually a fairly prominent part of the movie in that case.
People like to hear about Apple stuff. People like to hear about security stuff. And Marco has name recognition, so maybe people who wouldn't otherwise take a second look come by, upvote, and comment.
Definitely, white labeling this is the way to go. Plenty of apps could use a feature like this, but would be much more ideal if it appeared to be all a part of that app to the end user.
No, the script requires ascii input. If you use jpg2a it will take a JPG and turn it into an ASCII version of the jpg, at that point you can run it through this descrambler.
I'm using a netbook. I think without "Readability" I woudln't have been able to make it through most of their post because I kept hitting space about twice per second. From looking at their redesign for an article page (didn't care much about anything related to the wikipedia homepage, I never use it), it seems like they don't care too much for people with small screens either: about half of the available screen estate available to my browser would be covered by their menu thing at the top.

I guess people with netbooks would be worse off.
My only comment is that if you can make an overpriced IPO, that is good for you. It is bad for the suckers who were dumb enough to buy in, but that is a different story. If the share price goes up quickly after an IPO, the price was too low. If the price goes down quickly, it was too high, but why should you care? If you want to pay me $1.50 to buy $1 bills, I will sell as many as you will take. The current market valuation only really matters when you want to trade. Otherwise, worrying about your stock price is a bit of a pissing contest. BTW, I did not buy Facebook or Zynga. They were both pretty obviously over-hyped and overpriced (it seems most IPOs in most industries are), but the stock holders prior to the IPO made out like bandits during the IPO.
It's hilarious from the start - first thing they do is throw out the logo that incorporates multiple languages and says 'fuck you, we're going English for Wiki'. They compound this by then making all the various logos English-derived, so these guys have basically shouted to the world that they don't grasp the basics of their client.

They even propose a feature that shows everyone how much English dominates the other languages in other languages, being the colour bar. And if you want something not in English, you have to find the nigh-undiscoverable 'roll over top right corner' to have the language selecter appear. They're pushing really hard to make non-English users feel like second-class citizens.

Then they redesign the page to make content harder to get to by putting a giant damn banner at the top of every page. Literally a third of the page is the banner. It's a wonder they didn't suggest putting some 'subtle' advertising in or something.

This redesign literally made be laugh out loud several times. My main regret is that I don't have a marketing budget, because then I could ensure these jokers would never get any of it.
Why the App Economy Isn’t the App Economy, But the API Economy
Something with exactly escape velocity from a body always has zero total energy. That's the definition of escape velocity.
The one's who do not want to create value but use the benefits of other's hard work.

"Rand's heroes must continually fight against "parasites", "looters", and "moochers" who demand the benefits of the heroes' labor. Edward Younkins describes Atlas Shrugged as "an apocalyptic vision of the last stages of conflict between two classes of humanity — the looters and the non-looters"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_shrugged#Property_rights_...
Let's not forget, most of the large credit card hacks over the last years happen to merchants who are either PCI compliant, or to processors themselves. PCI is not what it's cracked up to be aside from being a pita.
That is a very sensible guess. I am too now getting the blur.
My guess is older people who discovered that they have a camera on their smart phone and know how to use it or hipsters that want to be ironic and "print film" in their instagram filters.
I feel like this article misses a number of points.
Firstly, the modern IPO is chiefly about giving early investors and staff an exit ticket. It is therefore in their interests to price it as high as possible. The fact that there was significant hype around the business meant that they were able to achieve this valuation. The fact that this is distinct from the original aim of the sharemarket - that is, capitalising firms to create new ventures (Think infrastructure - the golden age of rail, factories, etc) is an interesting side-note.

Secondly, the marketplace often operates on the stupidity of the masses. Intelligent fund managers stay away from overpriced IPOs, the uninformed masses pile in because they hear the hype and are not value investors so don't know/care that the revenues aren't behind the company.

3- A successful IPO is one that is fully capitalised and gives the company new cash.
It is not one that goes through the roof. This would represent a failure of the Merchant Bank to properly capitalise on the company's value (They could have charged a higher value for the IPO as that would have better represented the fair value of the company)
- in fact, in a perfectly valued company it should track mostly flat as the investor return is priced into the dividend + some accumulation of value.

The Facebook float, and the Zynga float, and numerous others, thus represents a good example of management and investment banks fully capitalising on the hype surrounding them to extract maximum returns for the early investors.
The fact that this screws later investors is secondary.
Most of these things will not be possible merely because they give you an unfair advantage. What you call "racing" I call "being at my destination much sooner", and, yes please, I would like every other car to step aside so I can get home faster. Which, of course, only means that everybody will try to abuse this.
Thanks for this, as well.

I had perhaps a dozen or so old entries on there. Now, I don't know if there are actually any serious security implications here, especially since most of those instances are genuinely defunct. However there's no sense in leaving them around if I'm not using them anymore. Maybe it's worth checking out and pruning? I don't know.
Logical explanation, however the point of an IPO is not just liquidity in for your employees, but also to raise money for the company, and allow the public to buy in. If you don't price it so the price goes up, then you're doing everyone, even your shareholders a dis-service because they have a 180 day lockup period, so when the stock is at $15/share at the end of lockup, you actually screwed employees as well. The only person who actually made money on this was Merrill Lynch.