skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would actually love to be assigned a secure credit card. Remove the number on the front, and remove the magstripe (the countries I visit all use chip-and-pin now)
This is very similar to webrtc.io, except that webRTC.io is actually open and doesn't require their proprietary API (and it's agreement).

https://github.com/webRTC/webRTC.io
Yea - at least the answers are on the page. Quora is 100% filtered cannot view. They should be banned from the index.
How to Break Into Security, Miller Edition
Because it's not about Apple?
I don't from that link; just a big green "Sign Up" button at the top and unblurred answers below
Since the display is larger and a more suitable aspect ratio for widescreen movies, movie viewing will probably effectively get a ~30-40% larger space.
TuneWiki reinvents itself with new iOS App
Here you go.
http://pastehtml.com/view/c7fxyfuan.html
> Wait the US doesn't have an 'E'? (Is 'F' short for Fail? I thought it was just the continuation of the sequence)

Well, apparently it's more complicated than that. I always assumed that the lack of E was so that there would be no confusion with the ESNU system (which a number of students used to have in elementary school, but then they switch over to the A-F system in middle school). Also, many countries outside the U.S., including non-english speaking ones, use the A-F system. Still researching the origin.

I had previously believed that the A-F system was universal across the US college system, though apparently University of Arizona has the 'E' grade.
> I'm a bit disappointed that they can refuse you service for any reason at all.

This is actually a problem with the methodology (I think): most probably, none of the service providers pledge to provide service to you, so they can all refuse service for any reason. Github should probably get credit because at least they are honest about it.
I'm asserting that your server isn't a thousand times slower because a thousand times slower would be a high-end eight-bit microcontroller. An Arduino, say. Feel free to correct me if your server is in fact running on an Arduino or equivalent.
You're welcome to discuss this specific point at https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tosdr/b6ryqY9NdMw/discussi...

Since all Twitpic does is hosting public pictures for Tweets, I would assume as a user that if I click "Delete" then the pictures would be… well. Deleted. Having a short period to rescue the picture from a back up would be acceptable.

I don't understand your example with the "high profile blogger".
Cable networks blocking BBC’s U.S. iPlayer aims
So how does a senior engineer graduate to architect?
They could let you delete deleted items permanently, like Dropbox does. Storing data you uploaded with no way to delete it does have privacy implications, since it may be looked at by people working there and could be a lot more sensitive than a cat photo.

I'd say a term that is more unfairly given a thumbs down is giving them a license to user content, since it's impractical to operate a user-generated content site without this.
This is EXACTLY the same argument when Vista came out, which was a subpar release, and yet another "Year of The Linux Desktop" was not upon us then nor is it now. This was also the same argument when XP came out. I remember the slashdot kiddies saying "Its Win2000 with fisher price colors! Mandrake will be the new desktop." Err, okay. I love FOSS, but the idea that Joe Sixpack is switching to Ubuntu because the start button is missing is a little overblown.

I'm begining to feel sorry for MS's Windows product. Its a damned if you/damned if you don't scenario. If they don't innovate and do something different then they'll be criticized for being stale. When they do innovate they're criticized for confusing users and not sticking with the same tired WIMP formula.

I get it, these critics are biased, but lets at least wait until the RTM gets in the hands of users before we call it a disaster. It might very well work out for MS. Win8 went from a joke on these forums to a brave OS after the MS surface announcement. Public opinion is quite fickle isn't it?
If a company thought someone could do your job for less money and let you go that is not discrimination. That's a healthy labor market.

They may have, mistakenly, undervalued your experience but that's a bad leadership decision, not discrimination.
With a Startup Weekend happening every 2 weeks, Startup Bus sending 3 buses next year, a vibrant ecosystem, and now official 500startups presence, can we officially say Mexico is happening?
Scheme is so old that there is not one language but rather a family of dialects that are considered Schemes. The Scheme community has several times made a standard on the parts of the language(s) that various implementors can agree on. The standard is small though. All the major Scheme implementations come with many language constructs and libraries not covered by the standard.

Racket started as a Scheme but changed name to Racket a few years ago to signal that the racket language is much more than plain standard Scheme. One remarkable thing about Racket is the that the module system allows implementing other languages as modules with relative ease. Included in the Racket distribution is therefore an implementation of R6RS (and R5RS) the most recent standard (R7RS is coming soon).

Also included is implementation is a typed version of Racket, an implementation of a logic programming language and, yes your eyes are not deceiving you, Algol 60.
It was upped from 1 to 3 years. You can read more here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status#Canadian_citizens_i...
check out commonterms.net ;)
I like how this summarized the state of the industry, but I feel like "the cloud" angle was a bit forced for a lot of those companies. Most of these companies had nothing to do with the internet / cloud.
And you can't get new versions of apps without upgrading the whole OS (including every other app) every few months.

Ubuntu 12.04 is nice, but it is already "abandoned" in the sense that new versions of apps that came out after 12.04 dont generally offer 12.04 packages.

You can get Windows exes which work on 12 years old XP, but there is no binary for an Linux OS that was published 4 damn months ago.

Until that _fundamental_ flaw with Linux software distribution is fixed, Linux as an end user OS is going nowhere. No sane user is going to install an OS, or even worse, buy a computer with an OS, for which there is no standard way to update or upgrade apps other than reinstalling the OS.
I think part of the disconnect here is due to the fact that the development community in the DC area is really quite broad.

On the one hand you have startups & companies with Bay Area caliber talent, including more high profile ventures such as OPower and Living Social. On the other end of the spectrum are budget web-dev PHP shops that maintain web pages for government agencies.

Nonetheless, I've never heard of salaries as low as those you're quoting - and they're most certainly not the norm.
Age doesn't matter. If you are smart, work hard at getting better all the time, and stay up to date on the latest tech/langs/methods you will be hirable.

All but one of the best devs I've worked with are older than 37.

Though the ramen/YC/bootstrap companies get most of the press there are so so so many jobs at larger, more established companies with great benefits and work/life balance where you get to solve hard problems. They are actually pretty fun places.

Seriously, don't think about this again. You are wasting time you could be spending learning a great design pattern, or making your own Android app or whatever.
What factors influence DAU/MAU? Nature versus nuture | andrewchen
> All of your work gone in moments!

Your work should never be dependent on a single device staying functional.
How World of Warcraft Could Save Your Business and The Economy
On the security page you can turn on email notifications for system additions: https://www.dropbox.com/account#security

On your account page you can enable RSS feeds. The home page then has a link to the feed, which I have in Google Reader. It includes all file changes, as well as machine additions and removals.
Yep. Especially since A/B/C/D/F is confusing to non-Americans. Here in Britain there's the Scottish and English systems, with different A-F or A-G scales.
Just answer me this: why does Google insist on using a phone for this?

Really: the company's got far too much personal information on me. Pick something else I can use. An OTPG (similar to the RSA keyfob), say.

Added bonus: this gives a pathway for other services to also offer 2-factor auth.
I agree. But sometimes the copyright license conceded by the user goes way beyond what's needed for the service. Why do you give rights to sublicense and to transfer to Facebook or Twitter?

Details: http://tos-dr.info/topics.html#copyright-scope
Does "remote wipe" also wipe attached drives, or just the system disk? It would really suck to also lose your Time Machine backups that way. I alternate my TM backups between several disks, leaving one of them off-site in case of catastrophe, but I'd still lose a good chunk of data if remote wipe targets attached volumes.
Probably that I'm using RockMelt and not Chrome. I don't know enough about extensions to even make a guess at why some work in RockMelt and some don't.
Mozilla networking dev Patrick McManus: The Road to HTTP/2
Unless you get the ARM version, which I believe is called WinRT. I think that could be the biggest problem for Microsoft. People are used to being able to install any old Windows application, but if you get the wrong kind of Windows 8, all those x86 applications won't run.
The World Wide Web Is Now Old Enough to Drink
One thing I gotta say that a lot of Netflix bears really don't seem to get: it's not that easy to replicate how well Netflix just works. A lot of financial analysts believe that anybody from Time Warner or Walmart could just jump in and easily perform what Netflix has done.

But if you've ever used Amazon Prime or HBO Go, you know it's actually significantly more complex than that, and Netflix has only made it LOOK easy.

Whether or not that leads to long-term success, I don't know, but I do know that people seriously trivialize how difficult it is to stream tremendous amounts of high-quality traffic with very few hiccups.
Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident
I like the comparison to the "building computers in your garage" era, this really is the start of something huge.

Making a new technology space accessible to the masses is always the first step in a revolution.
So, you work for a company that pays bargain basement rates and affords very few benefits and an inflexible schedule. I'm sorry to hear that.

That being the case, I'm increasingly unsure as to why you were lecturing me on employee retention.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4348808
Looks like you would be competing with nosupportlinuxhosting.com. If you are planning on offering a similar amount of support I can see it working. You might be able to save money on staffing by hiring locally (in Africa) if you can find the right skill sets.
>Has any synth organisms other than what's come out of
>Venter's lab been created and proven viable?

You should think of the Venter work as a technical demonstration of building a very large piece of DNA (>500 kilobases, a small genome) and transplanting a whole genome into a microbe that had its original genome removed. Most of the immediate practical applications of synthetic biology don't need pieces nearly that large. If you want to add a genetic pathway to produce a chemical product, it's typically <10 additional genes that need to be added to a production microbe and that will be <50 kilobases typically.

> Any pointers onto papers that have come out of this or new
> medicines, etc?

There are lots of industrial microbes out there now. For example, most Amino Acids that go into food supplements are made at massive scale - >1M tons/year by engineered microbes.
Live example of multi-user chat with webRTC.io

http://multiwebrtc.nodejitsu.com/
Good point, but remember that between hot-shot startups (e.g., livingsocial as the poster-child) and budget PHP gov't website shops are the contractors that design a lot of aerospace guidance and control software for NASA, the Navy, etc... Also NSA is a huge employer, and a lot of contractors for the NSA and NASA (among many other agencies) have extremely technical and high-level software and hardware engineering positions.
It's probably worth using now that they publish everything you read as well.
That's a fair point. You can discuss this at https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tosdr/hI5Too_uDVk/discussi...

I'll be happy to reply over there :)
(if we spread the discussion too much, it will be lost)
The "Find My Mac" feature is on by default. I just turned mine off in the iCloud settings
I just have an Emacs open in another windows that I can switch to if I need to edit something non-Racket.
Thanks. I had done a quick search beforehand to see its origin because I knew it was used in rage comics. Upvoted.
EE used to hide the actual answers until you signed up, but it hurt their SEO. (I think there was a temporary scandal where they showed the Googlebot different pages but it got fixed.)
Isn't this typically the case anyways? A hacker with access to your email account can just use the password reset mechanism to get a sign-in link to your other web sites.
There are services like http://termsfeed.com/ that will make one up for you on-the-fly depending on your site's features. I can't vouch for them, but if you're concerned, they might be an easy place to start.
Nice slick app, thanks.
I think by cloud he just meant "outsourced services." DNA synthesis definitely has nothing to do with the internet.
I won't deny the value of exposure. But I think soft skills and a lot of other things are over hyped. Some of the best engineers I know can't put together a sentence in English.

I can't speak for how it is in US because I haven't been there. But I really can't think of anything that can be done only in valley but not in India. But yeah again, I can't be so sure, because I have seen the things only from one side.
The Firefox column is based on Firefox 12. The current version (Firefox 14) adds support for the FullScreen API, and Firefox 15 beta has support for remote debugging. getUserMedia is also coming soon.

(Disclosure: I'm a mobile Firefox developer.)
is there a similar list for regular desktop browsers, i.e. non-mobile ?
NetflIx doesn't get new releases. I don't care why they don't, but the fact remains that they do not. I cancelled because of this. I really like NetFlix as a company, but the lack of selection kills it for me.
tosback.org is no longer updated.

Yes, the facebook TOS are difficult to archive: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.facebook.com/leg...
issue on GH if you have a solution: https://github.com/pde/tosback2-data/issues/1
I wonder if people would use an email form more than a link to post on a feedback forum. If you have both, which should be more prominent? Do most users prefer the private nature of email feedback if given a choice?

Empowering users to see what other users are having problems with, and to potentially help each-other seems like a big win, though it likely decreases their odds of communicating directly with you, for better or worse.
That's not a DYI Porsche. That's literally a pedal powered car with a Porsche shaped body.
Security questions are pretty useless for protecting access as well. They're typically information that is easily available to a lot of people you wouldn't want to have access to your account.
You can on the website.
Don't forget to remove the credit card information from iCloud/.Me too.
Where does an engineer/programmer start to come up to speed on synthetic biology? Are there any essential books in the field like "Learn Bio-hacking in 21 Days", "Bio-chemistry for Dummies", or "The Structure and Interpretation of DNA"? Or do those still need to be written?
Recruiting Technical Co-Founders
Is it somewhat realistic to assume enterprise IT is increasingly becoming irrelevant when it comes to the desktop?

I mean, how insane is it when people have to work with technology on their job they've ditched 5-10 years ago at home for being too outdated to be even be give away? There comes a point where enterprise IT loses all credibility.

At this pace, during my lifetime homeless people in third world countries will have phones that are more modern and powerful computers than office workers will have at their desk. The practices enterprise IT currently still holds on to don't seem sustainable to me.
Found one - http://caniuse.com/
+1 that was a horrible, horrible UI change. So much so that I wrote them an email just to complain about it. I don't know what they were thinking with that one.
Apple also sued HTC and Motorola. They are attacking every successful Android manufacturer. It has nothing to do with what Samsung did specifically. Apple first decided to sue Samsung and then the lawyers came up with the arguments.
What kind of customer are you focusing on? Personal homepages, blogs, basic online presence for brick-and-mortar businesses, e-commerce sites, application hosting?

What level of access do your clients have? Web interface only, FTP, UNIX account with SSH, root on a Xen VM?

At the $1 level, transaction fees may eat up a large portion of your revenue. What is your plan to deal with the issue?

Are you planning to make a profit, break even, or will the service require financing indefinitely?

How will you make potential customers aware of your service?
We hope to launch a service precisely to help with this (toofactor.com). It's great to see this additional attention and options in the space.

Google Authenticator is a great service imho, but I find myself moreso pleased with the 'application specific' password feature which allows me to abstract my exposure even further.
Providing reliable and very cheap hosting, while the major local providers offer hosting packages starting at 4 USD/month. So, basically, it is a place where you get your small website hosted and don't overpay (given the economy of some African countries).
"Pedal-Powered..."
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Somehow, I'm not surprised.
Can't wait, love the mod!
This comment is irrelevant. Apple is suing over Samsung's newer devices not some old pre-android phone. If they had a problem with that older phone they could have sued over that one.
Oh great, so now I get hassled with two factor authentication for every stupid, crummy, brain-dead web app I use? No thanks. This level of security is overkill for the vast majority of apps out there.
Two of those issues are irrelevant if competent OEMs decide to sell computers with Linux - they'll make sure the hardware works with it.

The menu in the word processor is a work in progress, but in the meantime it hardly makes Linux impossible to use.
Oh, Jason, not Jerry.
This must be you then.
http://jasonkelly.com/
Conventional locks are far less secure than most people would realize.

That said, your house isn't directly connected to 2.26 billion people who can make hundreds (or thousands or billions) of bump-key attempts per second.
Well, regardless of whether it works or not, if you can show you have x number of users signed up and thus using your service, then you can ask a bigger payout of your VCs (just a guess).
Sure, AmazonBasics has a capacitive stylus that several iPad owners I know use, and my point was that this is a much less elegant solution than, say, this device or the ThinkPad tablet, which are designed for use with actual pens. I also know a number of ThinkPad tablet users all of whom love the pen and bought the device specifically for this purpose.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Cra...

Not sure I agree with most the conclusions drawn in that article.

The article does say that "sure enough, Google displays recent listings from Craigslist right now," which does seem to be true for me, too, when I try.
I found this great little jQuery bookmarklet generator from Ben Alman:

http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/

You can just paste this code in and generate yourself a bookmarklet to reveal the quora answers (should work on all browsers).

$('.blurred_answer_wrapper').removeClass('blurred_answer_wrapper');
$('.with_signup').removeClass('with_signup');
$('.signup_cta_on_answer').remove();
Curiosity says good morning from Mars
How often do you get a new stapler?
Note that even a cheap, pay-as-you-go phone emits a breadcrumb trail of mobile network (and possibly GPS) location information. Unless you power it down between connection attempts. In which case it still emits breadcrumbs, though fewer.
For anyone interested in real, gas-powered DIY sports cars, look for Caterham (genuine kits, the best quality) or the multitude of Cobra spin-offs.
Even if you can remember the titles it doesn't help. I signed up last year and cancelled a few months ago. The first few weeks I spent entering titles and being told that either they didn't exist (they did, Netflix just didn't have them) or you had to change to mail plan.

As a simple example IMDB lists Keanu Reeves as being in 70 films. Netflix thinks he has only been in 6 and you couldn't name them.

But Netflix didn't even remember my searches. Later on they added one of the (many) titles I had searched for, but because searches weren't remembered I only found out by accident.
"Synthetic Biology - a primer" http://www.amazon.com/Synthetic-Biology-Paul-S-Freemont/dp/1...
Internet Archive: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Books, Music, and Movies
I understand what their claim is. My point was that it's entirely unrelated to the evidence in question. Unless you think the bezel and curves and color choices constitute the reason (!) for Apple's success with the original iPhone.

And to be clear: I'm fine with the idea that you can get a design patent on very narrow grounds to protect branding aspects that trademarks don't. Make Samsung change their plastic then. Don't use that as a springboard to argue they should be sued out of the market. That's just evil.
I actually thought about answering support questions from locals by offering a support package for an extra fee. But the idea of the referenced website sounds very, very interesting.
Creating Your First Node.js App and Deploying to Heroku
Let's see if HN allows this long link directly to the generated bookmarklet:

http://benalman.com/code/test/jquery-run-code-bookmarklet/?n...
How about a getting started page that is as easy as this one:

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-d...
Here is a working video of it on the streets of Vienna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8Xo7OvM4A

It's novel but not fast or practical. I would like to see this with an electric motor assisting the pedal power.
This is slowly changing - apps submitted through Ubuntu's app developer site are updated separately from the OS. And new Firefox versions are pushed out automatically to stable versions.

It will take some time to adopt this model, but I think that's what Ubuntu is aiming for.
I kind of wonder how Google's driverless car handles the situation in extremely populous cities such as Shanghai or HongKong.
I graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering when I was 36 years old. Except for a couple of year break when I was running a pottery shop/art gallery I have worked ever since. I tell the other 50 something guys I work with that I am in a better position than they are. A quick glance at my resume, someone thinks I am about 38 due to my graduation date. This gives me a chance to at least get an interview.
99designs Makes Its First Acquisition, Scoops Up European Rival 12designer
Why Are Investors Fleeing Equities? Hint: It’s Not the Computers
We use Geiser[1].

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/