skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I ask what people here think of Cassandra and HBase in terms of stability/quality? I seem to recall hearing bad things about Cassandra, maybe from reddit's use of it, but I'm not sure, or it might have changed.

I got bitten by MongoDB and still don't trust it, but I've heard many great things about riak. What does everyone think about the other two?
Could this be another attempt to get more UUIDs? Why should I trust this link?
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That would be sketchy legally; after all, just because the code is available doesn't mean it's redistributable.
That's a good point. Gotta trust someone, kimosabe! This is me: http://linkedin.com/in/bbunix, and no I don't want UDIDs.
> I use Chrome developer tools as my main testing environment - every time i check out compatibility in other browsers, Firebug ranks in slightly behind IE's built-in support for me.

Wow, somebody has drunk way too much koolaid.
Hey, Jeremy, you used to use Cassandra at reddit, no? I seem to remember it caused you many problems, is that the case? Have you used it/would you recommend it nowadays?

Maybe I should start a StackOverflow thread, or make a mini-site where people can opine about various technology products. I find myself looking for opinions every time I'm thinking of using a new piece of software for my business.
There's also the facilities, advertising, etc. 300mi seems rapidely small at this scale.

Firefox for Android did progress enormously as well.

I'm not sure all the other decisions were good tho (Firefox OS for example, even thus it makes sense mission-wise, it probably not the best idea for the money)
Make it really really really really really easy for pirate users to buy a legitimate copy so they don't have to keep looking for a new crack every time you release an update?
You are right of course, thinking this through - it is obvious that if innocents are targeted there is little honour in all of this.
Well, duh. I don't like all the "login optimization" work that's been done lately. A user name and a password have always served me well. On non-sensitive sites cookies have enabled me to automatically log in whilst the cookies are stored on the computer which is - of course - protected against outside abuse.

I know people are seeing this whole login thing as a UX issue but I don't think so. All solutions so far are just exchanging the user/pass combination stored in your head with identifying some device like a smartphone.

I won't go away from the classic setup until we get key based login using biometric data as a passphrase. Signing up automatically transfers your public key and login is reduced to a "please swipe your finger over <insert input device here>".
This is what AppArmor and SELinux are for.
Picking ebay items could be a bit of work.

But the tweetmeme idea is good, I'll keep that in mind, thanks!
=) Thanks!
I think you have acted foolishly and based on your decision you might not be cut out to run a company. The best strategy would have been to develop a business with your free time after work/weekends until you make enough to support you and your family.
Yep. I have a solid amount of respect for Sebastian, but in my particular case it's absolutely vital to take a step back and take a breath once in a while.

I'm so focused on how far behind I am, and how much farther I want to go, that it's a huge source of stress. So, whenever the stress starts to get to me, I sit back and I compare where I am now to where I was last year at this time (and the year before...). I realize that, even though the bank account still isn't where I want it to be, that I can do so much more now than I could last year; that even though there are projects still languishing, a bunch of them have been completed.

On the other hand, I know people who are content so long as they can find someone else that's somehow below them to compare themselves to. "I might drink a lot, but at least I don't drink as much as..." That seems to be a trap that just leads further and further down a hole of bad behavior. Pushing yourself to keep pace with exceptional people is a good way to never fall into that trap.

As badly as I want to get to a particular destination one day, I'd like to enjoy the journey a little bit along the way. To use a PCT thru-hiking metaphor, trying to keep up with Scott Williamson would make the trip of a lifetime a lot less fun.
UDID Leak : Identifying the Traitor
Buy Me A Pie Claims 2M iOS Downloads, Adds Gifting Functionality
I have been really impressed with Go's portability. I recently cross compiled a binary from a Linux machine for an ARM target and had it running from scratch in less than 15 minutes. Go could become a serious option for embedded Linux targets.
One of the biggest benefits of a tree of tabs is that it makes it easy to get rid of a group of them. You can double click a root tab to collapse its tree -- that's super useful right there; when you then close the root tab, all the tabs in the tree are closed, too. Makes it incredibly quick and painless to clean up after a prolonged research session, which in turn encourages judiciously opening tabs during research.
TiltShift.js - using jQuery & CSS3 to mimic tilt-shift photography (Chrome)
What happened gradually between then and now is that Vim's authors and users somehow rationalized that whole "modes" thing and built a very effective text editing machine on top of it.

Sure, modes may look old and weird when you are used to more "normal" paradigms but "normal" programs also use modes heavily: search/replace, open/save, preview… Vi[m] is just a little bit more extremist.

In my opinion, Vim's normal, insert and command modes (the main ones) are very beneficial.

One of the benefits is that it removes the need for chords almost entirely for the most basic text editing tasks. In a modeless editor, moving to the next word requires to hit at least one modifier and the right arrow while in Vim, thanks to its modal nature, you only need one keypress. Selecting word by word would require chords and many keypresses. What if we have 6 words to select? We have been trained, somehow, to keep the left hand on the two necessary modifiers and hit the arrow as many times as needed. How could we make it faster? v6e is Vim's answer: because it's modal, typing 6 won't input 6 in your text but how could we tell our "normal" editor to execute the next operation 6 times without altering the text? The obvious answer is "modes".

The main problem with conventional multi keys shortcuts is that a lot of tem are already taken by the OS or the windowing system or the GUI toolkit. A lot of Ctrl+[a-z] are reserved, same for their Ctrl+Shift variants and so on. If you want to provide "advanced" capabilities to your users you are forced to invent weird shortcuts with limited meanings and mnemonics. A nice and quite funny example of this limitation is Sublime Text 2: it is a very powerful "normal" text editor in its own right but it is also MORE powerful when you enable vintage mode. Liberated from the limitations of conventional shortcuts, ST2 is able to show its true capabilities.
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I love some features but it just causes too many troubles when working with it.

I need for example right-click menues sometimes and those are simply not supported. So the only workaround is installing packages that get me applications menues back which is then a mess where the buttons to close a window switch from left to right depending on fullscreen or windows all the time. Not that I liked top-menues to start with anyway. And certainly lot's of applications just work badly with the top-menu simply because Linux-apps never were written for that. So you get stuff like double-menues even with some applications which are in the offical distro.

Or the idea to use F10 as a system key - sorry, but it just isn't one and never was. Which is why it's used by lots of applications which suddenly miss a key now - who came up with this shit?

There is one reason Ubuntu stays on my Laptop - it works most of the time good enough with the hardware. And I can live with Unity most of the time. But Unity is the reason why Ubuntu doesn't make it on my desktop.
Yeah, some people really go overboard when it comes to Vi configs! I still find most configs to be at least usable though.
A case for physically engraved L/R markings on headphones
I get dependency errors on Chrome under Ubuntu 12.04, when I do a dpkg -i google-chrome-stable-whatever.deb.

But a quick apt-get -f install after I get those errors sorts it out.
mbox vs maildir...
Apple has everything to do with this. They're the ones who decided to put UDIDs on all their devices to begin with. And they know they've royally screwed up too - that's why they've deprecated UDIDs in iOS 5 and have started rejecting applications that access it. But that hardly fixes the problem since everyone will just use the Bluetooth or wireless MAC addresses instead - its not guaranteed to be unique, but close enough
Right on. Check out this too http://www.computer-book-authors.org/junglescan.htm

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/Amazon_Sales_R...

http://web.archive.org/web/20030729051353/http://www.jungles...

(also scanning (sub)reddit)
TPB Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm
In many cases yes, but there are additional issues Qubes is taking care of. For example AppArmor could only restrict your access to Xorg completely - but once you have access, you can read anything from the screen.
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Don't you think it's ridiculous that you've picked a guy earning a government pension at $301k a year and you're castigating him, when there are loads of people in the private sector earning up to tens or hundreds of times more than that? You could find people on Hacker News that make that much writing iPhone apps where people pay to click on pigs, or who figure out new ways to make ads harder to avoid.

Are you really going to assert that the private sector workers are all "earning" that money in some way that the government worker in question cannot possibly be? How do you know?

Why do you feel so strongly that this guy with a pension must be screwing you, but not the far more numerous, far richer people in our world?
Much better! If you make the links in the About page clickable, I think people would really like that ;-)
How international law applies to cyberwarfare examined
Here is more on this story:

"According to the Japanese media and other sources, a group of ten men wearing ski-masks burst into the Roppongi Club Flower today at approximately 3:40 am and assaulted four men and women sitting together in the VIP room, clubbing one to death and injuring the others. The men used a backdoor entrance which led directly to the VIP room."
http://www.japansubculture.com/10-men-beat-one-guy-to-death-...
When Do We Become Truly Conscious?
Websites aren't sufficiently sandboxed from each other though. Otherwise we wouldn't have CSRF, XSS and Click Jacking attacks.

If you build a webmail client, you need to know all about these attack vectors, and you need to go out of your way to prevent your application from being susceptible to them. Websites are insecure by default.

I don't trust a web browser with my email at all. Not yet. If I were to use webmail, I'd make sure to set up a separate instance of Firefox to run it in, with it's own profile. I will continue to use Thunderbird for now though.

I'm not against the idea of using webmail, I just don't think the web is secure enough yet.
Kimm Smith
There is no way that anything on the KS website could mislead you into thinking that you are investing your money to get a share of the company running the project.

Nothing to do with securities, stocks, options or ownership. Therefore it is really nothing to do with the SEC.
Building a SaaS startup in one of the least hospitable places on Earth: Japan
It's quite easy to buy now, and pirate users convert to buyers but very slowly.
CollateBox offering Free Beta accounts for those who share an use case
Just throwing this out here for people who don't want to deal with the madness that is WordPress: there are two very nice, full-featured blogging apps for Django that I've been recommending to people left and right.

The first one is called Mezzanine and is available from http://mezzanine.jupo.org. There's a shopping cart called Cartridge (http://cartridge.jupo.org) that works very well with Mezzanine.

The second one is called Zinnia and is available from http://django-blog-zinnia.com. Unlike Mezzanine, which also has some CMS-related features, Zinnia is just a blog engine. However, Zinna works great with django-cms.

WordPress is a resource hog. I ditched it a long time ago and I couldn't be happier.
I personally felt that the "What killed the Linux Desktop" article was completely irrelevant.

It seems there's always going to be some people who complain that GNU/Linux isn't 'good enough' or whatever, and as a community we should simply ignore these people.
90 Percent Use Multiple Screens During The Same Day
You do realize that AntiSec stated they have access to about 12.000.000 UDIDs while leaking only 1.000.001?

Maybe you should note that on your site, so even negative Results don't get too confident in their security
"because it simply ruins the overall musical experience when an earpiece is in the wrong place"

I've long wondered: Is this true? It seems to me that the stereo field would simply be reversed, which apart from some hard-panning SFX on old Pink Floyd albums, I'm not sure that would affect the music in any tremendously meaningful way. I suppose instruments slightly panned to the left or right in the stereo field would be mirror imaged, but I'm still not certain if that really "ruins" the sound.
"JavaScript rendering" is a nonsensical phrase. JavaScript is code, it just runs. Rendering is what the layout engine does.
Just one tiny mistake in the article:
Mysql IS NOT ACID compliant, even if someone @ mysql ticked the feature. Triggers / fkey interaction is not acid compliant in every single case.

This is akin to the much lesser issue of mssql accepting a trigger chain of max 32 depth, thus breaking ACID beyond that level (a detail, but important to know).

very good article otherwise -
Asynchronous web framework for Clojure
The first releases for OSX was the exact opposite. It took ages to start up, and still, to this day, Chrome just feels more "right" on Windows than on OSX. Things are way better now, but the start up speed is still not on par with Linux and Windows, for some reason. Not that it actually matters, I rarely restart my Macbook.

I have the same frustration with the back buttom. I get it in the case of POSTed data, but couldn't they just differentiate on it based on current situation?
Antisec Hackers: We got 1M Apple Device IDs From FBI Agent’s Computer
Good point, I'll update it now...
Thanks for the data point. Are these neighborhoods good school districts as well?
Why hasn't the finite element method been applied to neural networks?
Unofficially, most people writing articles about Go would try to tag them with "golang" for search-ability ("golang" is also used for all the Go e-mail lists).
Dear news orgs, re Twitter
Survey’s that forced NBA and Ticketmaster...
The news of NBA and Ticketmaster collaborated website is running wild these days and has it the top spot in the news line...
Why Net neutrality is incompatible with 'Internet freedom
So does that give an individual browser window its own identity and icon in Cmd+Tab switching? I'm asking you because my Chrome on Mac doesn't have the menu items you mention.
There were books published before copyright existed, and would be if copyright was removed.

With only a handful of exceptions, successful writing isn't enough to make a good living under the current regime, where writers make money by having a day job. As with music, publishers who make money, not creators.

Copyright infringement isn't theft, and no amount of tough talk will make it so.
Apologies. From the article, I thought it is released.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473402
If you've been exposed take some time to help us identify who gave this UDID's to the FBI. (Already working with 3 exposed device owners)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473833
HBO to stream its content to customers without cable..., but only in Europe
Try KDE, it's pretty easy to enable focus follows mouse.
Not everyone is a polished orator.
If you've been exposed take some time to help us identify who gave this UDID's to the FBI. (Already working with 3 exposed device owners) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473833
So, you not tested it with KDE. I was using dual monitor setup for a year with KDE and it's amazing ! The only problem that I had it's thanks to crap ATI drivers.
While I don't agree that it would "ruin" the music I find it a bit disconcerting if I'm listening to something I am used to hear the "right way" reversed. But that's obviously only for music I already know.
I agree about C++ or Java in colleges.

I would add that in high schools we are still taught Pascal here in Poland. I was 15 years ago, and I heard that Pascal is still the first language.
What can he do with just a UUID? Really, i don't know...
> If your UDID is contained in the list, take a minute to help us identify the traitor that did give your information to the FBI without any your agreement and without warrant !

Wouldn't it also be useful to gather information about who WASN'T on the list and what Apps they have? Maybe device type as well.
Valve have already stated multiple times that they are done with the episodic model, so yes, the next Half Life release should be HL3 rather than episode 3. Which is likely why it's taking so long.
It is cute, pretty stright forward, but I've been waiting long time for something, well, better suited for untrained user. Linked kind of interfaces are good and necessary for power users, but a simpler and more subtle one could be added.

For a home user there should be bare minimum of task oriented steps available. Like - add a service, set up dyndns or any other reverse dns service, add a file to download queue, perform backup, etc. Configure network shares without knowing anything about samba or bonjour. Set up streaming to your devices without diving into terminology of upnp or airplay. Etc.

Proprietary synology DSM (http://www.synology.com/dsm/index.php) is great, but it's proprietary. It is probable that there are some alternatives which I have not seen due the great vastness of the internet.
Javascript Data Visualization Tools
ABC conjecture proved?
... If you take a look to the headphones shape, they only fit in your ears one way. So no need of L/R engraving...
FYI - I don't know if that quote is real. It was a post-WWI Cold War quip that has been attributed to many people (even Bob Hope).
The device type is given in the leak
Using MongoDB as Publish Subscribe Middleware
No: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4473747
Sorry I meant in relation to the UDID's not in the list.
Sorry, I don't think this strategy is workable. Consider - 74% of apps I tested sent the UDID to one or more upstream servers. Furthermore, Flurry alone received UDIDs from 15% of apps I tested. That's just one aggregator, and they surely have nearly 100% of UDIDs on file. The APNS tokens narrow it down somewhat, but not too much. It's also not at at all clear that there is a single source involved - this could be an amalgamation of a number of sources.

See this post for the source of these figures:

http://corte.si/posts/security/apple-udid-survey/index.html
Ask HN: Smart people sleep late?
Some researches suggest that people with higher IQ sleep late. e.g., <http://bit.ly/OUp4m6> (google the keywords and you get bunch more)

However, this doesn't make sense to me because I personally know some brilliant people are morning type: maybe wake up at 4am or even 3am.

HN people, do you sleep late? Do you feel you have a higher IQ?
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It's a horrible mess on Chrome for Android. Use with extreme caution (and testing).
Note that it's more like the concept of a 'team' or 'project' rather than a single owner. Anyone endorsed by the team who creates the app (where a team can be a single person) can upload new versions.
Validated Learning. Real big company example.
Yeah, it was a joke.
For many projects, if you wait until you're profitable before you jump in full time, you may never take that step. Some projects just need full-time attention to get them to the point where they pay your mortgage. Presumably (or rather, hopefully!) Emile has looked at the current revenue growth and (with the attention he can give it full-time) projected the revenue he thinks it will generate in X months, X months being the end of whatever runway bootstap/funding money he has, and has concluded that at that point he will be able to pay his wages.

Statistically speaking he will fail, and I'm sure he has already thought of that and has a plan B in mind incase that happens. (Thats my devils advocate speaking, its a good idea and I have no other information about Emile, so he may very well beat the odds and I hope he does).
This is a question we should keep asking Apple until they give a proper, real answer: Who gave this information to FBI? If they say they gave it, then we know Apple gave this information and it will be a PR nightmare for them. If they say they didn't, then they will imply FBI obtained it illegally and we can focus our attention on FBI.
Then you should check out http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/ubuntu-software-centre :)
Google Chrome has been so successfully primarily because they plaster a big advert for it on the front page of google.com if you're using something else. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent browser, but I bet they wouldn't have a tenth the number of users if they didn't exploit their unparalleled advertising power of the front page of google.com.
Never say never. I said that about Firefox after leaving Internet Explorer.
Let me know if you find other relevant questions to ask.
Ask them for a dollar! :)
Square Enix's CoreOnline makes console games 'free' online
They could asked for a hash of the device uuid. That would be safer, but you would still have to visit the site. With that request they could match ip, browser info, and device uuid.

Perhaps, it could be put entirely into javascript.
Nice effect!

These kind of effects always seem kind of pointless at first, until a company like Instagram comes around and almost defines their whole product around them (same with Pinterest and the Masonry layout). I'm sure very cool things will come out of the new CSS blur features too.
I saw this and thought it might be awesome for my Ubuntu desktop and my servers but then I thought about what it actually is.

This appears to be a splash of Munin/RRD (for monitoring) with a load of stuff for editing settings and running things. Remotely. As root.

I'm sure it's great but it's a big fat hack waiting to happen. Munin and SSH will do for now.
Yeah, this gives a whole new meaning to having live backups/redundancy. I guess this is an advantage of hosting on EC2 since there would be difficult for the FBI to seize the physical server.
Developing a Windows Phone 7 App - starting with the prerequisites
There's a pretty nice power law in the names, which would support a real random sample. http://tinypic.com/r/11gmwjl/6 That PDATX.net business is really weird, though.
Dancing with OAuth: Understanding how Authorization Works
Absolutely; if the dependencies exist within the appropriate Ubuntu repositories, or the ppas you have active, then the needed libraries can be installed.

Random downloading of debs from Web sites could lead to a situation where a different version of a dependency is needed. "foo needs libnaff-ubuntu345 but libnaff-ubuntu345 is not going to be installed" type errors result.