skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You should not get out of your house then. Meteorites keep bombarding the earth(they are falling right now!!). A king cobra could scape the zoo and reproduce(they store sperm) in the woods, don't go there.

Don't be a dick. Online fraud is a real risk, it happens to people every day. Most people know not to send money to some random stranger who emails you, only to buy from reputable sites, or at a minimum to make sure you can claim back your money from your credit card provider if you get scammed. Which scenario is kickstarter more like?

>It is really difficult that someone could not deliver something. If so hardworking then something is better than nothing.

It's pretty easy to fail to deliver, even if they've tried; there was a story here not so long ago about a kickstarter made an iphone case that turned out to block the signal.

>A con artist is not going to give their face in a video for all Internet to know

Why not? Plenty of 419 scammers do.

>a con artist have not a proven record

Nor do many legitimate kickstarters. It's not like ebay where they post the feedback score right at the top and anyone without a high rating is suspicious.
He did say "OS", as in open source; which are all legally redistributable, if they are under a license that complies with the Open Source Definition.
Just how big is the BPM market?
But you can still drag and drop it on the Chrome extensions page or use the load button.
On the other hand, the attitude and cruelty (e.g.,beatings) you would routinely see from high school teachers is also totally unfathomable in 2012.
Why are you using Vim and not your previous editor?
You might still be able to find an app that has a much higher installation rate for users on the leaked list that for users who aren't.
Of course, that wouldn't be a proof but merely a first step to narrow the possibilities.
Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.
According to one report [1], only 1 million of about 12 million stored records were released by AntiSec, so the absence of your record is not conclusive.

1: http://thenextweb.com/2012/09/04/antisec-hackers-leak-100000...
Just a guess, but maybe its to make diagnostics easier. If something is wrong they can image the cables and look for breaks.
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Stop with the "firsts". This is clearly not the "first time programming was taught to first graders" -- especially since we were introduced to programming back in Kindergarten (20+ years ago).

This doesn't need to be a "first" in order to be an honorable pursuit. The link-bait HN title is really annoying and detracts from the message.
This is getting cliché. I think at this point I'm now seeing more posts railing against the use of the term "growth hacker", than I am seeing actual uses of the term "growth hacker".

This anti-"growth hacker" sentiment isn't bold or brave anymore. It's repetitive.
Why blindly trust an unknown entity that may have ulterior motives?
Just a thought: The modern vilification of hypocrisy strikes me as a step backward in one way - it makes people feel bad about having high ideals they can't always meet.
yes just like app.net lol
There already are lots of alternatives, which do not include web or mobile, but are very illustrative for common programming related stuff. Off the top of my head there is an old language called LOGO [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)]. I do not see need to tie imagination to web and/or mobile.
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1. Apple force everyone to move awayfrom udid

2. Nobody pays attention

3. Apples deprecate it

4. Nobody pays attention

5. Apple releases this

6. ???

7. Profit.
LOOL typical scaremongering
The accusation is that Apple INTENTIONALLY gave the FBI a database with twelve million records. That is what my comment refers to. It is preposterous to propose that Apple --or any company for that matter-- would willingly do that. The liability hole this would open up would be massive. They are a business and you can bet your ass that every decision with potential liability consequences is well considered by managers and their legal teams.

No, I am not an Apple fanboy, quite the contrary. As a developer I am very critical of their attitude and decision making. I think they really suck at some things and have been very vocal about it on HN and elsewhere. That does not mean that I would automatically vilify them for everything.

HN is very interesting at times. Most of the time you get positive feedback when you are for Apple and for politically Liberal points of view. However, sometimes the poles reverse and North becomes South. This is rare when Apple is the subject. I guess in this case it was as simple as not understanding what the comment was referring to, which can happen if someone doesn't actually read the original article in the first place.
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Please let's never forget: An IP-Adress is not a person[1]

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/judge-an-ip-address-doesnt-identify-...
Everything in moderation, including moderation. I think these virtues are a good rubric for your general lifestyle, but no one is saying you have stick to them every waking moment.
>The number of stopped terror attacks in the West over the last decade is
quite large

Bull. Fucking. Crap.

For example, according to this[1] source, there have been not even 50 terror
attacks against America in the last 90 years. And while the amount seems to
have increased recently, this surely has absolutely nothing to do with the US
playing world police and giving more and more people reasons to hate them (not
that this excuses terror attacks, but you get the point).

This whole bullshit is a gigantic pile of FUD and propaganda. There is no
terror threat. There never has been any. At least not more than randomly
getting shot on the street or dying in a car crash caused by a drunk driver. I
don't see people pushing for universal surveillance of the blood alcohol of all
drivers or some other nonsense.

The whole thing is so fucktardedly ridiculous that the FBI regularly invents
terror suspects[2], and arrests them "last minute" to then claim it has "once again
eliminated a threat to national security". Everything's fair game to continue
their bullshit pushes for more surveillance and less civil liberty. And what's
even more enraging: people like you buy it.

Conclusion: No, we don't need surveillance. No, we don't need fed agencies
spying on everyone and everything and no one to keep them in check (who watches
the watchmen?). No, we don't need bullshit laws that further and further
infringe on every human's civil liberties and human rights for no reason but
"um... well... uh... BUT TERRORISM!!!1!1oneoneeleven".

[1]: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001454.html
[2]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/...
The key word in the article is "popular" content. It is well known that (a) relatively new and (b) relatively mainstream + popular content (especially movies) is heavily monitored.

The article title is misleading. They logged only popular, public torrent content. I'm certain that many, many other file sharers were not even seen by their study. It's all just scare tactics.
Of course you can work around it if you know how to google, but Java and Python are much easier to search. If you look up "java books" or "python books" you get links about programming language books, not about coffee/Indonesia/serpents.
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Its not in the users interest to pre-order, unless there are steep discounts. So if the pre-order is discounted, i'd say a user can weight his/her risk and then do it. However, if it was a full price preorder, then its definitely not worth it.
I would imagine that rendering takes long enough that you could get pretty backed-up trying to do live updates keyed to a slider -- at least without some kind of debouncing or throttling.
Which history books? I bet I can find history books that talk about streets filled with pick pockets, muggings, fights, drunks, homeless people, all being rude to each other, threatening each other etc.

This happens today and it happened in the past. I'm not going to believe any claims that it's worse today than in the past without evidence. It's certainly not self evident.

Do you have any better examples than school children? You can't really compare the force behaviour of oppressed children who are scared of being tortured, to the behaviour of children today in schools today. Maybe we could make them less rude by beating them into submission, but that's not a reasonable compromise.
> you're getting confused with the CIA

No I am not. I was talking about the executive branch of the our government.

> Lets not make this situation out to sound worse than it is.

I was commenting on the assertion that this is 'illegal' and thus how could FBI possibly do this. And my response was that it seems illegality isn't exactly stopping anyone, be it FBI, CIA or other agency.
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Great to see another hole in secure connections being plugged.
What does 3 hours mean? I don't need that long to download anything.

And I doubt that if I download some rare indie music stuff, that anyone would care to monitor this torrent.
Except that it is illegal to collect IP addresses in some European countries (Switzerland for example). Here's the link:

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number8.18/collecting-ip-addres...
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Not to get all relativistic[0], but the primary reason we don't actively instill these values is because we no longer look to classical Greco-Roman society for inspiration.

Variously throughout history (Renaissance, Neo-Classical era - Franklin's time, etc.) society has upheld ancient values as the highest. In modern times, they've largely been replaced by scientific values. This was a big debate around Darwin's time (replacing the classical "liberal education" in Latin and Greek with modern scientific study.) It's also increasingly prevalent today, as universities are basically just for career-preparation. The dominant metric when evaluating universities is almost always "earnings following graduation".

[0] I don't necessarily agree or disagree with Classical values, but I do think we should sit down and make our own decisions, rather than blindly do it because Franklin/Plato/etc. says so.
This should not come as a surprise to anyone who has been following the developments within the P2P-world. If you still care about privacy while you connect to a large amount of computers, a proper VPN or a similar service to mask your origin is the way to go.
Why does there need to be only one source?
More like a cheat packet than a cheat sheet
Hey, thanks, that looks really nice. I mostly gave up on QuoteVault since I'm busy with other projects now. However, one thing I still lack is a good solution for reading texts offline and highlighting quotes in there. There's instapaper, kippt, and many others, but they all just allow offline reading, but no offline highlighting. There's one solution, which does kinda work, but the offline support is wonky. I'm seriously considering building a small app that reads read-later lists from different services and saves the quote data somewhere else via an API. Would quote.fm allow something like that? I see there's a read-api, but I haven't seen a way to add an article or add a quote for an article. Or did I misunderstand something? You can also hit me by mail for further discussions if you're interested. terhechte AT gmail com
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Tactic suggests an objective. So to what ends might BBC use such (according to you, very typical) tactics?
>"Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."

I disagree with this one. Small talk can lead to big happenings, and have many times in my life.

That being said, I'd modify it to: Focus. Avoid multitasking so as to not do multiple things poorly.
The HN title is unclear, but the point is that this would be the first time programming is taught to all first graders in a country. At least that's what the article's title claim implies: "Computer programming will soon reach all Estonian schoolchildren." The article itself doesn't seem to suggest a mandatory curriculum change at the national level, though.
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While its great that Graham has said all this, and it shows a lot of professionalism, it was probably not really necessary. After all, its a book, not a research paper. The point is, it gets more expensive to fix a bug later on. We aren't going to shoot down the book because some numbers, only tangentially related to the subject (of learning TDD for iOS), were off. Still, kudos for blogging it when he came across new information.
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Implement here ASAP!!!
Have been in the same situation. Get something on paper saying they owe you a certain percentage of stocks in lieu of your services.

Also get something called "Subscription Agreement" from them.
I really like this. I also have the Hacker News Enhancement Suite [1] and think it is almost as good as the Reddit one.

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[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...
He also made a pdf version.
http://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=03...
A big production issue...that is my vice. Nothing like a nice high severity issue to get the brain cells going.
Your anecdote does not trump data.

Sorry.
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Call me cynical but I am getting very skeptical against a lot of well established "truths" in Software Engineering: the cone of uncertainty, the orders of magnitude difference in programmers productivity, the efficiency of TDD, ...

Most of these well established claims simply don't have enough empirical data to sustain them. They're all bloggers' hand waving and empty claims.
Respectfully, I think you don't know enough about my lifestyle to know what makes a good rubric for me.
They did mention the vulnerability they used

During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by
Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action
Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the
AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files
were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of
"NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS
devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device,
type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone
numbers, addresses, etc. the personal details fields referring to people
appears many times empty leaving the whole list incompleted on many parts. no
other file on the same folder makes mention about this list or its purpose.
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I think it means 3 hours from the initial torrent availability on trackers.
Always inquired them about that, never got a decent reply. That case in the article was enlightening. I will not go to kickstater without an LLC to hide behind!
I understand what and why are you saying that. But I don't think it would be polite at all to rough the author up. Considering the time that (s)he took to write this down and decided to shared with the world.

Sorry, but it sounded really weird to me to ask for politeness in this context. What I would do is suggesting the change of format, or even better do it by myself if that would be bothering me that badly. Just saying...
I like this:

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Other versions available.

Go to the page and search for your thing, easy.
that is not necessary,

If more people had more (safe) sex, the world would be a better place.
First to teach programming, sure, I remember learning Pascal when I was in the first grade, that was about 15 years ago.
Yikes, that doesn't strike me as very intellectually sound.

"The fact that no studies have produced findings that contradict the existence of a teapot orbiting Jupiter..."
Here's an example of an explicit plan to pass on a similar list of virtues: "A Boy Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent." Not as good as Franklin's list in my opinion, but it's exactly the type of thing you're saying we need, there are many boy scouts, and there are other organizations with similar goals and explicitly taught virtues.

Perhaps you should take a look around outside your echo chamber and join or start the type of movement you're complaining doesn't exist.
Some tips on anonymizing VPNs from a previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913985
Appreciate the link. Just installed the extension and loving it. :) Collapsible comment threads and a whole lot more!
> Lines in a vimrc are much less of a headache than git submodules etc.

I disagree. This may be true if you don't understand git submodules, but git submodules are not hard to understand with just a little effort. Once understood, git submodules are very easy to work with.

Also, this may be just a personal quirk, but I'm not very fond of managing vim from within vim. It would bug the living daylights out of me to load vim just to update my plugins. I'm probably the only one who feels that way, though.
As someone currently going through Learn Python The Hard Way - this is an awesome resource. A lot of it is over my head, but it is an awesome way to scan through stuff without having to dig through the official documentation. It also helped solidify some of the concepts that I am learning, so thank you.
An IP address can be assigned to a person that can be held legally responsible easily enough, though.
Yeah, that's the spirit! Some person makes a free document that they think will help people, so let's push document formats down their throat.

Be sure to tell them about Linux while you're harping on their file format choice.
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Are you a member of the NCFTA, perchance?
I think the above post was pointing out that Germany actually spent incredible amounts on infrastructure and business. I have a hard time believing the US had 1000x the resources. Germany had the Silver Arrow Mercedes race car that was doing 250mph back then. They also didn't have much restriction on what scientists were allowed to try.
Buzz words are annoying, but sometimes they help communicate...

As companies grow, they have to hire "business people" including dedicated marketers. One of HN's and Silicon Valley's problems is figuring out who is a business person who can add value and who is an "idea person" has has traveled to the valley to kill time over the next 3 years before getting a real job.

The solution is the term Growth Hacker which, while annoying actually serves the purpose of filtering the highest production people from a huge amount of potential marketing candidates.

I'm not sure if we will ever see the term Finance Hacker or Accounting Hacker but I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some other terms develop.
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I guess we better start tracking everything the FBI does. You know, so we can prove their innocence.

Besides, what's the big deal... if they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to worry about!
> We're talking about the FBI, not the CIA

They are both part of the government and the culture of 'laws for us vs laws for them (the regular people)' is present in both.
Semantically speaking, I don't think you have to disagree with this. Small talk and trifling conversation are not necessarily one in the same. "Trifling" implies that there is little value. Small talk may in fact have great value if it helps to forge connections that pay off later.
Personally I think that there's a big risk of Kickstarter acquiring a bad reputation here. Whilst a lot of the comments on this thread show that some people look at Kickstarter contributions as donations or investments, I don't think that that's the case for the large number of people putting money into some of the kickstarters that get funded via the site, in particular kickstarters focused on making a physical product, where the product features heavily in the reward tiers

I'd also say that the site itself doesn't make it that clear, that the money is an investment or gify. From the Kickstarter proposals I've read I don't see them heavily mentioning the idea that the backer won't received the reward at the tier that they donate to if the project doesn't succeed in creating the product.

If you look at some kickstarters that have big delays on their delivery (e.g. Zioneyes http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zioneyez/eyeztm-by-zione... ) there seems to be a large percentage of backers who were expecting a product and aren't very happy not to be getting one after over 12 months)...

Definitely from a personal perspective I'm more careful now about what I back and specifically the track record of the project creators (i.e. have they done this before).
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My, that's the least readable site I've seen on HN in a while.
Incoming: another walled garden.
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To those of us outside of the USA, at what age are people in First Grade?
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the orders of magnitude difference in programmers productivity

I am skeptical of this too. It makes more sense to have huge swings in ability, not productivity. Ie a poor programmer won't take 10x as long to code a given feature, he will just hit a ceiling of ability and not be able to do it at all.
If you have any questions about designing iOS applications or about the book I'd be happy to answer them!