skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strangely when someone asked how else zooming could be done the first thing I thought of was a circle clockwise and anti clockwise.
Ahhhh, we've come full circle. Back from the days when script kiddies would DoS a site or 'crack' a telnet password, then deface and claim they have street cred.

I would love to find someone who has actual street cred and had their account information released by these chuckleheads, and put them in a room together.

This isn't about politics. I doubt these losers even know anything about the companies they attacked. Fucking douchebags.

However, I should also blame the companies involved here. If they can afford $1000 for some kind of web app firewall they probably could have detected sqlmap raping their site with faulty queries.
Don't really want to hijack this thread so feel free to downvote me if you feel its not appropriate.

We launched a product that protects you from these attacks - more discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4444478
Somewhat, but it's pretty limited in that it only verifies that the contents are valid JSON. You can't query against it with the built-in tools.
Theirs is not to send a message, it is to decide guilty or innocent, to interpret the law not write it.
I agree wholeheartedly. Is there anything even resembling a replacement now? I'm looking for long-term, searchable archives of widely carried groups (typically the rec.* hierarchy). I don't even care about the binaries groups. I just want to be able to search old posts and post with a relatively nice interface.
Can confirm this deal, I use it with some clients at the moment, I get 40,000 credits per month for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question#Definition

Sorry but I'm an asshole. You are using it wrong.
So Comcast and Time Warner, quite possibly the two largest cable companies in the US, both ban Roku users from using HBO Go. Who can use it then?
Becoming a webdev help?
Hello.

I'd like to pick up on learning html, but I'm not sure what the K&R of the web world is. I really want to design layouts like instagram or twitter, be able to design functionality like ycombinator and get into the groove of things. Should I look at xhtml or 4.0? Kindly help guys thanks.
Isn’t this standard procedure for any relational database?
> A lot of what needs to get done by extensions really can be done via simplified API like Chrome's.

A lot of useless stuff yes, the useful stuff? Not really. Good luck building something as wide-ranging as Firebug through Chrome's API.
How to answer this question has made me argh as well.
My answer is entirely based on how I judge the person asking. if it is a recruiter of some sort; "Yes". If it is someone who I guess is a bit more familiar with HTML5 level I would ask them to be more specific.
This restriction likely comes from the studios which provide the content (these deals usually contain DRM restrictions on how the content can be distributed), not the cable operators.
Seem like the app is the right place for that logic to exist.
How is Vimperator these days? Is it comparable to Pentadactyl? I remember switching because of some deficiency, but I don't remember exactly what.
I'm not exactly sure what the exact definition of 'linked to' would be?

My understanding was that you could- for example, (if necessary) modify a GPL executable so that it could be interfaced via unix sockets, and then use this to communicate with your own code. This would work exactly the same as if you created a gpl program to interface with a pre-existing closed-source program.. they would be two separate programs, working together for one aim.

Am i wrong?

Similarly, if i were to create an appliance with private code using linux, and included say samba for file transferring, this would not mandate the release of all code, as there would be no direct link between samba and the application code (although constituent parts of the same product). Otherwise how could closed source software be distributed with linux distros?
Check out Pixelapse, which is kind of like github for designers: http://www.pixelapse.com/
The Untouchable Economy: Why Americans Are Turning Against 'Stuff'
Possibly the biggest news in 9.2: index-only scans. That's going to be huge. Cascading replication is pretty awesome, too.
Compare this to pg's essay "Stuff": http://paulgraham.com/stuff.html:

I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can't afford a front yard full of old cars.
The text of the patents is specific. The fact that you see judgements like this implies that the interpretation (at least by this jury) is as broad as it seems to be. No where in that verdict do I see a narrow, careful reading of the technicalities of multitouch UIs. They got asked questions of the form "Did this device infringe?" and answered "Yup", almost without exception. Where exactly is the subtlety you're talking about?
For Facebook, Frank Gehry Designs A Paradise For 2,800 Engineers
Usenet is great for downloading a lot of things, but one in particular is TV shows. You can download them minutes after they air on the east coast, so if you live on the west coast, you can see shows before they actually air. Very convenient.

Please stop talking about it, though :)
Posted a couple days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4435348 not much discussion though.
Why? What's even the point for the year.month version numbers? I know ubuntu uses that, but as far as I'm concerned it's a completely useless complexity, the first half increments half the time, and the second half repeats non-stop, parsing that is actually more annoying than a straightforward "is 22 bigger than 19?".

Not to mention the ultimate goal (of Chrome and Firefox both) is probably to have "version number" fade away for everything but debugging/problem checking, users shouldn't have to care, the browser is "always up to date" and that's that.
Hitched to the China wagon
Yeah, my comment was a lot clearer in my head. I meant that I was about to launch into a minirant about fair taxation in the US. I did a double take and realized that I had hit an emotional trigger very similar to the kind the article is calling out. I think it's very valuable to examine our emotional attachments to words, and I think that's the best thing to take away from the article.
You have to understand, before it was called "Hacker News", this was "Startup News". A heavy focus on startup culture and entrepreneurship is a part of the DNA of this site. I expect it will always be that way. Complaining about startup / entrepreneur articles here is almost akin to getting in the water and then complaining that you got wet.
Obama Declares Nigeria World's Next Economic Giant
There's a FUSE for OS X, so a port should be possible (should be possible for other *nix too, as long as they have FUSE). I currently don't have access to an OS X machine, so no immediate plans.
Strange, works for me on Firefox and Chrome. Can you look in the error console? Debug output goes there, could help narrow down the problem.

Edit: The "troubleshooting" section on the page might help.

Edit2: If that doesn't help, try clearing the cache and reloading, I've seen that fix things on Chrome, not sure why.

Edit3: And specifically for Chrome, make sure pointer lock is enabled, it's disabled by default.

Edit4: I think I can reproduce this, once every few runs it stalls like that, because Chrome fails to decode audio sometimes. Reloading fixes it for me.

Debug build is up at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80664946/index.html which tells you what is causing startup to fail in the error console.
Over the years, I've had too many issues with Unstable breaking when I needed it most (generally something work-related). As a home/hobbyist system, it's probably fine though.

The article's mention of this Tumbleweed distribution is interesting - a stable, non-breaking core, with up-to-date applications. In fact, achieving that sweet spot is why I migrated to OS X some years ago. I'm going to check it out.
Conversely when you have a bunch of tabs open Chrome will be gobbling up memory whilst firefox is quite svelte these days- much better than Chrome here.

I can't say I have an issue with load times for either, although i rarely wouldn't have a browser open so it is becoming like the 'irrelevance' that some people claim boot times are, to some extent.
The Failure Fallacy
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines
Full Disclosure: I was one of the participants in the first Boston Startup School class.

One of the great benefits of the program was the plethora of networking opportunities that appeared via the instructors and the constant interaction with local startups. The program also focused on a diversity of skill sets & preparation for positions that are critical to the success of most startups: Marketing, Product Design, Sales & Biz Dev, and of course Software Development. We also had participants come in from all over the United States and the world, so I don't think drawing in top talent would be too difficult once the program has established itself. Even so, the program thrived on people with an entrepreneurial spirit and drive to learn & create rather than pure technical talent.

I'm not sure that BSS could have done well in a startup poor environment since it's success depended a lot on the participation of local startups. That's not to say, however, that a different program with a different business model couldn't succeed in such an environment.
It's Python. If you're entitled to the source, you've already got it.
Yup, I was wondering the same. I'm hoping they don't switch out SengGrid for MailGun.
Stories are generally told to reinforce someone's existing narrative. If you think someone is an idiot you will tend to tell stories of them looking foolish. If you think someone is brilliant, stories of them looking clever. All humans, if you looked at their sum-total of actions/decisions, could likely be equally well placed in either camp. Which stories are remembered/repeated is probably as much due to chance as desire for historical accuracy. Not many people, when they think of Newton, think of an alchemist.
Game mechanics can't be copyrighted; unfortunately, there is very little that can't be patented.
Am I the only one that's bothered by seeing that red dotted underline for ANonce, SNonce and Ack?
I wonder if the mesh subReddit knows about this.
Yeah I asked for an invite ages ago, haven't heard back. if they ever let me in it might do the trick.

Separately, actual github for designers would be cooler because I could:

1. Have an "artwork" git repo which my designers interact with in this way, but which I include as a submodule to a larger git repo for my programmers.

2. Use the same bug tracking for art as I do programming

3. Backup the git repo because its an open protocol vs. some proprietary thing.

Again though, I'm lazy and don't have time to write project management tools for myself so if these guys ever got around to sending me an invite I'd probably just settle.
How I learned to stop worrying and love my community
On my machine with standard 5400RPM drive - the difference between Chrome and FF startup is barely noticeable. May be it is some addon that's slowing FF down for you?

No matter how better Chrome gets - speed and security wise, I just don't seem to be able to give up FF. Addons, cross platform consistency (I use OS X, Windows and Linux all 3 in a typical day), Font rendering, continuous memory usage improvements, less site specific issues etc. seem to be all keeping me on FF.
That's not a fix, it's a different tradeoff.

The important thing is you have choices and can pick the browser that makes the tradeoff you prefer.
Stuck at the end on preparing in Chrome. No errors for me. Just the following: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wucwzSxM
Sure, use a domain-specific tag. As long as it contains an href, you're still doing HATEOAS.
Spot on. Even when that's as easy as clicking a bloody button, you see screenshots of iOS with hundreds of updates waiting in their store application.
I'm also still sticking with Chrome. Firefox's processor usage is really problematic for me. It keeps on utilizing ~15% of CPU even if only one new tab is open.
U.S. Military Disciplines 9 Over Video and Koran Burning
Paras's (founder of Wingify) blog posts on

Sorry your cool web app is probably not going to make money

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/webapp-is-not-g...

How to find startup ideas that make money

http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/how-to-find-sta...

might be appropriate given his stunning success (congrats Paras)

The other great thing about Wingify is that they aimed from the beginning at a global product vs a 'localized' knock off of an existing American product.
It's also illegal and some of us actually believe you should pay for other peoples creative work.
Any Feedback?
Firstly, Windows XP isn't three generations behind, it's two. The current version of Windows is Windows 7, and if you buy a new computer today, that's what you're going to get.

Secondly, Vista doesn't count. Microsoft screwed up severely, and now they have to pay the price for it in terms of PR and market attitude. Windows 7 has been out for just over 3 years, and anyone technically literate who bought a PC 3.5 years ago probably had Windows XP installed on it (and with Microsoft's blessing).

I know XP bashers refuse to admit it, but XP was installed, legitimately and with Microsoft's support (and to their profit), well within the useful lifetime of a typical home PC that is still running today. If MS choose to end support in an attempt to push people onto newer software platforms, that's up to them, and either the market will accept it or it won't.

But calling XP antiquated is just denial. Sorry, but we don't just throw away working systems after a couple of years and climb back on the upgrade treadmill any more.
> India is not a police state. India is a bureaucratic state.

Agreed - I nearly laughed when I read this title. One could construct a more convincing argument that India is an anarchic state (at least, anarchic in the Snow Crash sense - the government 'exists', but it's not central, and its authority is all but nonexistent. A 'police state' with effectively no authority or power is hardly a police state, at least the way we usually use the term). Obviously India is neither of the above, but you get my point.

Just a few months ago, there was an electrical fire in our garage (in India). Thankfully the private security guard for the house next door was able to convince the private construction workers down the street to put it out, because the fire department took almost an hour to get there. Why? They couldn't figure out where we were, even when given our address, and even after contacting the local police. (The police are a completely separate department, and there is no real equivalent of 911).

Police states may be bad, but how much do you really fear a so-called 'police state' that isn't even capable of locating its citizens when they comply, let alone identifying the ones who don't? India is a very large country, and it's very easy to slip through the cracks if you need to... and sometimes even when you try your best not to[2]!

And this experience will be very different depending on which city/state you're in, which if anything underlines how India is not a police state - it's not centralized or organized enough to be one.

But the second part of your point is nothing new - in fact, this is a dramatic step forwards from the early License Raj[1] days, IMHO.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_De...
1. I only use (a modified version of) packfile/ packfile idx from Git. No commits are actually created. It sounds like you're looking for something like flashbake (http://bitbucketlabs.net/flashbake/).

2. phoenixfs doesn't create commits, so no git-push.

3. I currently don't have access to an OS X box, sorry :(
>To capture a valid handshake, a targeted network must be monitored while an authorized device is validating itself to the access point.

I think it's a really noob question, but how do you monitor a network if you are not connected to it?
Really cool. I couldn't figure this out!
How to use adwords effectively
I want to participate because I would like to be part of a community of 'doers'

Welcome aboard.
You get elected
What software are you talking about? CloudCracker?
This blurb (relative to TheAtlantic's other articles) sounds like a response to The Cheapest Generation

(Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421897)
My review (of wifiprotector.com): dude, this looks like a virus. Spruce up the page! Give me some screenshots! Please, let me trust you!
That behavior never stopped, in fact it's so common that it's not news anymore which is probably why you haven't heard of it in a while. http://news.cnet.com/Defaced-site-archive-retires/2100-1001_... Who said it was about politics? I should also blame the companies involved... Exactly, this is about making unsafe companies feel unsafe.
This strikes me as somewhat of an edge case - to add a full rules engine for what is essentially a very app-specific set of behaviours.

One main reason the application is the best place to manage these rules is that it's rarely just the email content that dictates the engagement pipeline. Whether a user has interacted with a component, or logged in, etc, are all app-side variables which may affect whether or not you wish to send a given email.

That said, one method some of our customers use at PostageApp to simplify some of the logic is to pass a UID to the API based on the unique parameter sets - e.g. recipient + template + hour - and rely on the engine to discard the duplicate API calls.
The same way you tune into a radio station, these packets are in the air for everyone to see.

Many wifi chips can be put into 'promiscuous mode' which allows them to monitor a channel and capture all traffic on it.
Yeah, I tried that but it would never install (kept trying to connect to the update server). I went to the website to manually download and that's when I noticed it wasn't updated.
Its wireless so the same way you can overhear two people talking.
But these things are problems and need to be fixed. If you are the right kind of Indian, NRI, or foreigner you'd be fleeced of money, time, and happiness, and you'd get the hell out of the situation as soon as you can. If you are, say Muslim or some "wrong" caste/community in the wrong place, say good bye to any sense of dignity or sense of justice/faith in the system as random bureaucrats/cops or even powerful individuals harass you. These are real, important problems that need to be fixed. They won't be fixed by ignoring them.

Yesterday or so, a passenger was actually beheaded in a crowded train in W Bengal. Nobody was apprehended. In every town/village/city you will find people being harassed by babus, and victims of extortion or violence by police and/or criminals.
You're also screwed if you have WiFi Protected Setup enabled (Its enabled by default in most routers). Once can easily crack a WPA2 passphrase easily in a few hours using a tool like reaver.
As a Londoner I think saying the corporate non-sense spoiled the Olympics is very much overstating the facts.

Yes, it left a slightly bitter after taste. Yes I'd have liked local businesses to be able to cash in to some extent on the Olympics. But seriously, it was a great event, something I will probably never see again in my lifetime and I'm glad to have witnessed it.

Unfortunately it would be really difficult to put on an event of such magnitude without sponsorship, and if everyone can associate themselves with the games then I'm sure that would ultimately reduce the value of that sponsorship.
Seems like a fairly common strategy these days.

1) Build an API so other developers can innovate features

2) Cut off access to popular features made by other developers

3) Clone said features from step 2
Another proof that people illegally downloading art (movies, music, books, ...) is the category that spends the most money for art (spending it here for Usenet access, but also moviegoers, paying for gigs, buying the vinyl of this great album they found in FLAC on rapidshare, etc).

It is now well know, and it's about time for the major companies to understand it, piracy is not their biggest problem, their biggest problem being their uninventive, old, broken business model.
Until they finally figure this out, more money will be spent on Usenet access, rapidshare accounts, etc.
The first three words of the article are a link to that article.
Ask HN: A non-traditional thread for biz guy looking for tech cofounder 
I’m a business founder of a startup looking for a tech co-founder and having some struggle with it. Without going into too much detail, the major differences between me and the stereotypical “biz guy” are the following:

1)	This startups website is already developed and built
2)	This startup has already generated some revenue

I was initially looking for a co-founder who is in my geographic location, but everyone in my network already has their hands full. Plus I’m moving to San Francisco next summer so I guess this isn’t a huge must. At this point I’m really just looking for a good developer who can make some weekly updates for me. Maybe contribute a little bit of design? This startup relies heavily on promotion which would be 100% me. I just need someone to help me make adjustments technically.

I’ve tried out co-founder websites and have had no luck. I’m not sure if these types of websites are just not useful? I feel like this proposition would gather some interest since this isn’t your typical “please build my idea” offer.
What is the command for aircrack-ng to generate the pcap file with the handshake?

(For those curious mac users, you can simply type "brew install aircrack-ng")
I agree- have a few "learn more" buttons, videos etc
Likely comes from cable companies as well, they don't want you watching television except through their boxes (hence cableCARD never taking off).
Thanks! The download link goes to CNET download.com where they make sure all software is trusted. but I understand we should improve the page so people actually feel reassured before they click on download.
How does it secure anything? It just tells you about the existing security. What exactly does this do?
As one of the comments mentions, you can bypass this whole step by using Reaver, which attacks the WPS pin number instead of the encryption scheme. It's not 100% and it takes 8-12 hours to complete, but it does work.
Amazon.co.uk updates UI
It's a US extension of a European patent application: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=...
Rethink, or try removing, the word "Encyclopedia" in the app's title
Trackable Banknotes, at Last
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Look at it this way. Lets say I give you 5 characters to create a password. If you use all numbers then each value can be anywhere between 0 to 9. That's only 10 values! So that's 10 to the power of 5. That's only 100,000 permutations.

With letters, assuming standard English, you get 26 per value. Or 52 when we include case. That's a big difference. So lets say I only give you 4 lowercase characters. That's 4 to the power of 26. 456k permutations. So almost 5x more secure with less characters!

Your offline password cracker can crack numeric only passwords with ease. Heck, if you know who supplied the access point, you can narrow your search. For example I have uverse and I got a 10 number password by default, just like all uverse customers. So if you know its a uverse customer you can tell your cracker to focus on 10 digit permutations. There's only 10 billion permutations there. With 10 lowercase letters its 141 trillion.
It is absolutely comparable to Pentadactyl. I switched from Chrome to pentadactyl and then to vimperator after getting fed up with all the bugs.

http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Pentadactyl_vs_Vimperator