skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I replied elsewhere. Isn't it possible this is just a side-effect of how the data was exported?

Primary sort is by username. Secondary sort is by UDID.
I'm guessing that program is a way to get some free workforce (at the price of hotel/tickets) to demo Samsung products - like independent - but carefully selected and instructed by Samsung, of course - fans of the product instead of regular (and probably more expensive) marketing people. Just like ads where "regular people" read the script instead of professional actors - supposedly it makes the message so much more authentic.

Unfortunately, the bloggers were not told about the nature of the program and thought it is entirely different thing where the company invites independent journalists to write about their product. It totally makes sense to me that two branches of marketing don't communicate properly and get vastly different ideas about what the program is and then poor bloggers left at the whim of erratic and not very smart petty manager that threatens them when things not go as planned. For me, this madness totally makes sense in a general way things don't make sense in big companies.
Makes me wish for more space travel during my life time.
There's always one person in the comments section that leaves a comment that couldn't be any further disconnected from the discussion. As pointed out you're getting confused with the CIA, it even quite clearly says in the Wikipedia article you linked: "...a failed assassination attempt organized by the American CIA and British intelligence"

Lets not make this situation out to sound worse than it is. The FBI having access to 12 million UDID's and user information which apparently had holes in it anyway is nowhere near as bad as innocent civilians being killed and seriously injured. It's bad, but not that bad, calm down.
the only implementation that makes sense to me is tony stark's phone in iron man 2 - clear screen, control whatever is viewable through the glass through the magic of movies.

the iron man armour also has a jetpack... coincidence?
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Come to think about it, that's true. Often I'd click back, and the page would fully reload, and not bring me back to the same scroll position.
I'm seeing some pretty fundamental issues here. I suppose if you assume that you'll have total control of everything loaded then some of the assumptions made here may be an ok trade off, but from my experience it's better practice to be more guarded.

Specifically:

1) the window.onload is being directly overwritten without any chaining. The safe way is to first store a reference to whatever was in .onload beforehand and call that in the overwritten onload.

2) the load check uses an interval on a 10ms timer. Chained setTimeouts are much better for performance and 10ms is quite an aggressive default. 50ms gets called 5x fewer and has a imperceptible difference to the user.

3) _async is some big ol' global var with no function scoping at all.
There's really only one extension Chrome needs to get me to switch. Currently that extension is called Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar in Firefox. There have been variations on the theme like Smart Bookmarks Toolbar and others, which may or may not be broken in current versions of Firefox (something FF is awful about - extensions seem to break way too easily, but in this case at least they exist!)

All it does is hide the names of bookmarks on the toolbar so all I see are the icons, until I hover over one of 'em. It seems really minor, but I really don't want to give up my little row of icons, nor do I want to delete the names of all them (which I used to do, long before smart people wrote extensions to hide the names)

The closest thing I can find on Chrome is "Iconized Bookmarks Bar", which simulates the same idea, but the implementation is terrible. Instead of an actual toolbar, it inserts a little HTML thing at the top of every page. It works fine on 90% of the web, and causes various levels of havoc on the other 10%. For example, it made it impossible to log in to Amazon last time I tried it because the hover logic on the Login menu got screwed up.

I assume that the functionality I want is simply not possible in Chrome at this time. I haven't actually looked into doing it myself though, it's just not that important when I've already got a browser I like just fine.
Just use MacVim and the bundled mvim.

Open file in MacVim:

$ mivm file

Open file in Vim:

$ mvim -v file
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So, hold on the PyCharm 2.5 purchase at $59[2] till tomorrow other wise, you will need to pay for the 2.6 upgrade too!

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I could've guessed :) I've been resisting the urge to develop the text file further for ten years—it's been a valuable lesson of what's good enough when it comes to me.
Does anyone know how they use their 300 million?
They could have a thousand software engineers working on their product, which is probably more than what Google/Apple/MS uses on their respective browsers.
I don't see a problem if somebody voluntarily agrees to tell how he likes Samsung phone (especially if he genuinely does like it - why not?) in exchange for free ticket to the trade show. It may be not the best marketing trick ever, but certainly by far not the worst either. The fact however that people were misled into this and then threatened was really bad. If they knew it from the start I would have no problem with it whatsoever.
Oh I know, I keep getting penalized from everyone for "not caring what anyone thinks and wants to compare me to"[1]

But, y'know, sometimes you still want some perspective on how you're doing :)

[1] for instance my mum and grandparents keep throwing people my age who are "starting real adult lives already" at my face, whereas I'm just playing around with freelancing instead of looking for a job job
Not sure where you got that idea: I use pathogen without involving Git at all.
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"There are too many stupid people in the world. I'm not saying we should kill them all or anything. Just take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself." -- Unknown
Several of his projects show he has an affection for applied number crunching and low-level programming. C lives right at the intersection of these domains.
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> I can see that comprehension is not your strong suit.

Here is what you said: "Because the defense must first provide some evidence that a mistake was, or could have been made"

It's false, I corrected you. A statistical probability of a false positive is not evidence that a mistake was, or could have been, made. It is a statistical prediction for a particular outcome, and it's not a mistake -- the practitioner is assumed to be performing the procedures as specified, and is blameless.

If I say that, given the usual distribution of population IQs (mean 100, SD 15), that 4.78% of the population will have an IQ at or above 125, is that a mistake? Will someone be brought up on charges of negligence?
I am also a PhD student working on brain-computer interfaces.

I agree that this particular EEG system (it looks like an Emotiv EPOC) is fundamentally limited in bandwidth and quality of electrodes, and so I am surprised to see this level of control from it.

I would argue that other, higher quality EEG recording systems are much more practical than cortical implants for the foreseeable future, especially from the perspective of we hackers.

Check out the Wolpaw EEG lab. Good EEG brain-computer interfaces can, surprisingly, have comparable bitrates cortical implants - without having to crack the skull open.

Here is a video of cursor movement from a few years ago, at around 8bps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJQ0HqThU4c
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Because the old SnipMate still works very well. Thanks.
The article ends up with a misleading statement. Kickstarter is not a crowddonation, it is not a crowdpurchasing site. Its crowdfunding, which means there are risks involved and there is mo money back guarantee. As a backer you expect a product as return on your investment, but it is not 50% guaranteed.
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Seriously? Personal info about the President was leaked? Not that this particular instance looks like a big deal. Doesn't the NSA secure the President's communication? That must be carrer-impacting-embarrassing for someone.
They should just have the "Choose another stance" options available anyway without an extra click. Make it more convenient. On many of the questions, I couldn't answer just yes or no, I had to answer "yes, but..." and so on.
Bandwidth is cheap. Memory and disk space are cheap.

I think the days when it mattered are really coming to an end personally.

The amount of space (memory/disk/bandwidth) taken up by binary code is minuscule compared with data/video/streaming/games/etc etc
I seem to see a disproportionate number of pro photographer accounts (grep for dot coms as device names) which might point to some commonality--some photo app? A quick search showed more female email addresses, but not sure if this is related to the source or if it is related to the likelihood of women using their email addresses as device names.
Congrads, you've made it to HN! Now for Pete's sake add some contact info and details on your blog! I'm from the Netherlands like you, but you're contact page is almost empty. Put your company's name, address, experiences, linkedin, projects and what not on there. You need to start building trust with regards to future clients and people that might want to hire you to help them finish their projects.
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there are lots of good things on the radio that aren't related to the DRM-heavy corporate world, and always will be as long as I can help it. not every artist bows to the RIAA, just all of the ones you've been exposed to through their influence machine.

if it's the case for you that every time you hear a song on the radio you are reminded of the excesses of the intellectual property patrol, I humbly suggest changing the channel to your local non-commercial station. perhaps you'll hear something you like.
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How is that "dark art"?
That's like saying "you can't calculate pi just from software". We're willing to presume the presence of some type of general-purpose hardware when we talk about software.

Some of his projects require only the use of commodity hardware of the type sold at Walmart. That's categorically different than something that requires a custom built software defined radio transceiver.

That said, this project looks pretty cool.
>> It's correct because the present system is set up that way. But this doesn't mean it must be that way, or that insurance requires a large pool of clients with the same policy and coverage. That's a coincidence.

> No, it is not.

It is a coincidence, and many insurance companies write policies that apply to only one person. They can do this because a large pool of people, all with the same policy, is not essential for the system to work. Example:

http://voices.yahoo.com/bizarre-insurance-policies-famous-ce...

A quote: "America Ferrera is the newest addition to the list of stars who have some of their body parts insured. Famous for her role as Betty Suarez in the top-rating ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty", Ferrera has had her smile insured for 10 million dollars by Lloyds of London."

One person, one smile, one client, one policy.

> The economy exists to serve people, not the other way round.

Please, to discuss that topic, start a new thread. It has precisely nothing to do with present topic, which is how insurance companies work.
Jesus Christ! Someone ought to make a freagin poster of that! Awesome!

Thanks EDW!
Yeah, when people refer to kickstarter donations as "investments", it's an instant flip of the bozo bit for me.
It's never too late to learn new things. It may be difficult when you are older but many mathematicians were late-lerners [1]. It's more important to be honestly interested in what you are doing. You should be pursuing your own goals not someone's else. That will bring you satisfaction and motivation for working and innovating in your field.

[1] http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3591/mathematicians-who-we...
I think that iXsystems' support of PC-BSD is something like an attempt to do that, but it seems like they're not doing much workstation stuff these days, whereas previously they were at least trying to do slightly more. PC-BSD is getting a reasonable open source ecosystem and user experience around it, though, such that someone who can handle the business development and hardware side of things would have a rather easier time than someone starting from stock FreeBSD.
It's amusing, but it has some serious problems with the questions.

For instance, one of the questions is whether we should end the war in Afghanistan. What does that mean? As far as I know, EVERY major and most minor candidates want to end the war in Afghanistan. Where they differ is in HOW to end the war.

Another terrible question is the one whether the debt ceiling should be raised. Most people don't know what the debt ceiling is. They think it has something to do with the debt or deficit, and so will answer as if the question is whether the debt or the deficit should be increased. In fact, the debt ceiling has little to with either the debt or the deficit.
Personal information about someone who had their device name set to "Obama". Let's not get all crazy now.
That's why you need to learn Vim without plugins. Vim can "open files really quickly":

:e *ba<Tab>
:vs ../**/fo<Tab>

I love CtrlP but you can go a long way without any plugins. It just takes some time and effort.
>Based on the title, I first thought that you were opening your code for a day, or making a "hack fest for everybody who wants".

Yeah, that would have actually been awesome! Stopped using Buffer because of annoying things (like inability to post to selective FB lists). I might have popped over for an open day to fix this for them.

Though one could imagine the logistics would be tricky.. closed source codebase leak etc.
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They're the candidates for the Green and Libertarian parties, respectively.
At work, we have different workflows from rsync and ssh into the machine, running a build script to git pull.
For my pet project, I work with git push to the production server. Works pretty well with git post-recieve hook and phing (ant for php) targets to update dependencies (through composer) and doing some health checks.
>> Food growth rate increases arithmetically, based on available land. Population growth increases exponentially,

> Sources?

It's called "mathematics." Fields of corn don't spawn little offspring fields of corn on adjacent plots of land, but people do spawn little offspring people. The first is an arithmetic increase (as long as there is still arable land), but the second is exponential.

> Malthus made the same mistake, if I remember right.

Nonsense. He predicted something that hasn't happened yet. If a geologist predicts an earthquake with a probability of 50% within 30 years, and 35 years pass without an earthquake, does that make him wrong?
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The UDID leak is a privacy catastrophe
Seems like organized crime in Japan is like their inner fascists or inner authoritarianism leeching out from their facade of democracy, especially if you need Yakuza support in order to win the presidency.
Hi. This is a site I would use personally, if you could provide a meaningful view for a European, filtering out items that sellers aren't prepared to post to me. (Postage within Europe is quite cheap).
I have certainly had a few failed projects, as I've taken on too much work before. As some of the commenters to the OP pointed out, this is a challenge that many freelancers face. Indeed, as with any mistake, we learn and grow.

That said, I feel you are calling me out in a public forum is a bit inappropriate. To say I didn't produce a single line of code is a bold statement. As you called me out in a public forum, I'd be interested in discussing publicly. As your statement has the potential to cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars over my career, I realize personal litigation is an option, but I'm a civil person who would prefer healthy discourse, even when my character is attacked. However, that doesn't seem possible, as I have no clue who you are. I have chosen not to hide behind a made-up identity. You, however have the username "hackernews": I assume you are an employee of YCombinator? I doubt it, and to that extent, your username has the potential to be a libelous misrepresentation of Paul Graham's brand.

If you do not have the professional integrity to identify yourself, feel free to let me know who you are at a ColdFusion conference; I am a speaker at many of them.
I am presently researching these so-called NoSQL databases and one thing that I keep wondering is why can't all of these database still support a limited form of SQL-like language?

Almost any json document could be represented as a db table as far as I can see. Why can't I query using a common language instead of learning each of these NoSQL database's own way of doing simple stuff like returning documents of User object that have a gender field value as 'male'. In SQL, it would be something like "select * from users where gender='male". Why can't NoSQL databases support a query similar to that? Why do they require me to describe a similar request in their own unique syntax?

I sometimes get the feeling that coining a term like NoSQL is a marketing gimmick which hurts people actually trying to learn the nuanced differences but I am only getting started. Why can't we extend SQL to support "NoSQL"-specific cases instead of replacing it with nothing.

I get that a big part of SQL is joins and the philosophy of joins goes against the idea of NoSQL. The solution to that is to still accept SQL but just throw an exception when join is used with a link to educate the person on alternative implementations.
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I think that a good strategy of self-improvement is setting the bar a little bit higher than you can reach. You can achieve much with many little steps. Every step you take reminds you that you're making progress and motivates you to work.

I experienced it when I was studying mathematics. I read modern mathematics textbooks/papers at a snail's pace because mathematics is like a tall tower - in order to get to higher levels you have to climb the lower. When I looked at what I learned in a single day I didn't see much progress at all. But after a few months of learning I saw that I'd progressed much.
Don't iOS apps have the permission to use the internet without any hassle? In that case, I would assume by using such app, chances are, you are contributing to another entity's UDID collection.
508 email addresses (.com, .net, .org, .edu) used as iOS device names in this file, and several hundred phone numbers.
You got that wrong: ruby is not Rails, but Rails is ruby.

Meaning: any app using Rails is using ruby, so this list matches. OTOH, any app using ruby doesn't necessarily use Rails, so the other way around wouldn't work.

Working with Rails is a subset of what the OP was asking.
In fact, the version in development already runs Windows. The blog has a screenshot showing Windows running in 'desktop mode' (as in, you currently don't have single application windows for the Windows VM).

The extra requirements for this seem to be (ignoring that this isn't yet released) that you're having vt-x support, for all I remember.
I can't believe with nearly 100 comments I appear to be the only one to call the whole story of how these were acquired into doubt.

I'm not saying that the FBI story isn't true, but so many comments here just assume it to be 100% factual - there's no evidence that it was taken from the FBI vs found on a USB Stick in the garbage.

It's a big story, yes, but I think maybe a deep breath is in order before we all accuse the FBI of leaking/losing/stealthily acquiring something!

(I'm not a US Citizen, btw)
Okay, point taken. But kiosks are more than a little outside the scope of the discussion here. The people who want a great, open Linux laptop, tablet and desktop far outweigh the folks making kiosk software.
You could threaten to transfer the debt to the Yakuza if you don't pay, as a way of coercion.
To save anyone from having to sign in first: you'd see the download page for the Linux version.
I couldn't even guess the episode, but Marco has stated on is 5by5 podcast that he doesn't collect user information and only dips into user information grudgingly. I'd be surprised if this came from him as according to his statements he finds holding any user information that could be described as private unpleasant.
This is all based on recollection however.
Refuse to give personal information and carry minimal personal information in devices and websites outside of one's control.

If they don't have it, it cannot leak.
Good thing the announcement didn't say "A large monster from Mars radioed these in" - Imagine how upset you'd have been at NASA!!!!

A bit of a dick way of putting it, but there's no evidence the FBI is involved in this other than some words in an announcement that could be by anyone with an axe to grind.
Because some of your assertions are factually incorrect. That's a valid reason to downvote.
The internet attributes much to the wrong sources. And forgets many redactions. I wouldn't trust such a thing to the internet.
Files in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ are named by UDID.
btw: skype completely failed anyway on OSX since versions after 2.8.
I see these organized crime groups as like a political party/faction/gov't that simply aren't in power, at least not publicly.

Arguably, the Chinese gov't can be the equivalent of Yakuza in China, except they're publicly in power.

The US gov't also does extrajudicial killings, but is probably much more democratic than the above two groups (probably because of larger public presence).
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I am interested as well. I've studied something similar, the idea is to find the underpriced option in a group. The premise is that the inefficiency in the market will work its way out in hours/days. But it's pretty hard to find a substantial price inefficiency based on my research. Needed a large amount of money to trade.
Good stuff. I guess this is quite compatible as well.
I've tried all the UDIDs of the Provisioning Portal of my Company and I didn't find any.
Are you in the sfw or nsfw biz?
As a non-profit, the large focus would be on growing to further their mission. Of course, they're not simply just going to hire a thousand engineers in a weekend. Recruiting takes a lot of time and manpower. Mozilla is currently around 600 employees and projected to double within the next year. And only a portion of actually work on the Firefox platform, Google and MS throw multitudes more engineers at their browsers.
Are you sure they're not just really bad at writing?
I am an author (not of this book) and I very occasionally get an email asking for PDFs. Maybe one in a thousand sales are PDF. Since it doesn't come up that often I've never bothered with setting up a paid system; I just send them a link and ask nicely for a few bucks via PayPal.

Where do most people go to buy PDFs? Is it really a large-enough market to worry about?