skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People always use the example of all cars having the same basic controls when they are talking about patents. But they normally forget to mention that there was a lot of experimentation with different control layouts and systems before a default was established. It took decades (I think) but that's how good ideas can come to the front.

Experimentation in the marketplace is not a sin. Sometimes designers cannot figure out the best solutions before shipping.
Todo.js written in CoffeeScript + using backbone.js
htop (and by extension top) is for CPU / memory / load information only.

Normally to get network and disk stats I have to run a combination of dstat, iotop. A simple screenshot comparison: http://i.imgur.com/eQPuQ.png

OTOH htop takes up ~2MB per instance, while glances is taking up ~13MB. Glances also doesn't have the ability to sort by columns except by CPU/mem %. You can't kill browse or kill processes from the list either.
>> intelligence organisations in democracies

Democracy != immutable state.
Profitbricks vs. Amazons EC2
Doesn't 16% sounds above the average ? Could it be related to app warez on jailbroken devices, somehow ?
done, put a notice on the repo though
Terrorism is quite easy in today's world. By definition terror scares people, hence a strong voter pressure to stop it. This results in a Big Brother society.

The number of stopped terror attacks in the West over the last decade is quite large, that would hardly have happened without spying on the citizens.

Is it worth the security? I don't really know. As long as it is in very stable democracies, it ought to be safe...
Maybe I should apply for a patent for earphones that detect left/right ears from orientation (or a predefined wearing order) and swap stereo channels accordingly.
Coder Survey Results - 17% of developers still use Dreamweaver
Heroku is hiring in Europe.
A lot of the "scene" traditions and symbols has a lineage back to adolescent boys in the early 80's as that's when many of the influential groups exploded onto the scene, so even if they're emulating a traditional style, they're emulating one that arose out of kids who wrote badly who tried to sound cool.

(I've some really horrible examples to my credit too, but thankfully I don't think any of it has survived)
I doubt it's Apple. I checked the list, and there're tons of German people in there too (one can see that by how they named their iPad). I really doubt that the FBI would be interested in tons of German girls, for example (many iPads seem to belong to girls named 'Sandra' (iPad von Sandra)). If Apple were the culprit here, they would have been able to just deliver the UUIDs from people residing in the states (since they know which UUID is connected to which app store).

I hardly think it's Apple that leaked the information. Even if it's hard to believe for some people: Apple values their users' personal information pretty high.

I personally believe that this is from a internal FBI job, so they got this information in a non-legal way.
*that have iDevices.
i wonder if the FBI got the UDID list from Apple, or if the FBI has a stealth app in the App Store and people gave up their info voluntarily when they installed it...
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Whatever one might think of the Yakuza - this is an amazing and interesting article, that really should get you thinking - it has gotten me thinking anyways...

I am not saying you should change your mind on any subject - but the fact (no sources, only ekianjo statement and a few others I have spoken with over the years), that "The yakuza also acts as a form of local police" and better / more successful than most "authorized police" do, is a really interesting thing.

I know that it's not the smartest thing to let police, police themselves - especially when their income is through criminal actions.
But maybe it would be interesting to dig out, why their ways seems to work better than many police forces.
Which, by the way, also seems a corrupt at times.

A couple of things I think is interesting to think about:

What is corruption?
Would if it was o.k. for a police officer to cover over his partners (minor) wrong-doings?
Then it wouldn't be corruption... Family maybe?

What makes the Yakuza better at policing than police? A harder and better hierarchical structure? The concept of honor, but in a strong "family"-like context?

Is it just the plain old simple reason: people are... lets put it nicely: eager to not cross the wrong path?..
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Install Calibre and then follow the instructions here: http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/

If it's not DRM protected, but rather a "secure" PDF, you'll need some other tools that can remove the owner password. About.com has a list here: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofthetrade/tp/pdf-passwor...
Wow. You are one insane waste of skin.

By the way, I am neither republican, or democrat, or american for that matter. I just am fascinated by american politics, in much the same way that some people are fascinated by particularly gruesome car crashes.
"Knot theory" always concerns strings that are joined at either end to form a closed circuit. Regardless, I don't think abstract mathematics does much for you when the problem is so simple and 'practical'.
When you have children you have very little free time. Maybe 10-15 hours a week if you are really dedicated.
The problem is with the (losing) teams that aren’t copying
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its like spot-a-fed at the defcon. here we go.
Dude... just make a scratch on the right-hand one (or left-hand, if you prefer) and feel for it?

I call First World Problems
I take it you are not a fan of John Donne then.
FWIW CPAN works like this. A "namespace" (eg. IO::Foo) is essentially assigned to a user and only they can upload packages in this namespace. [http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#namespace]

Also it's very common in distros for maintainers to be granted only access to a list of packages, which is similar to what Ubuntu is doing here (and indeed already does). In the distro case, the maintainer is usually different from the principal developer of the program.
An apology to readers of Test-Driven iOS Development
I challenge the validity of the statements. There doesn't appear to be any good-quality research on correlation of IQ and sleep habits.
I'm in almost exactly the same situation. Scarily similar. Also 32. Wife is pregnant with our first baby, due February. And I've spent the last few years in the same company, but have reached the point where I want to achieve things that I can't do where I am. So, I handed in my notice a few weeks ago, and my last day is friday.

On monday, I start down a new road :)
You're absolutely right on the problems with visual search and I'm trying to encounter it by writing short teasers/abstracts about the presented products or designers.

Thanks for Your advice!!
> What boggles my mind about Chrome is how terrible the location bar autocomplete is.

What boggles my mind about Chrome is how completely fucked up its cache behavior is, considering the number of people for whom it's the primary development browser.
Standard data formats
Python Cheat Sheet
Not mine,found it on reddit.I submitted this here because I thought it might be useful to some people.

Here is the original link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/zbwme/is_anyone_interested_in_the_python_cheat_sheet_i/
OK...I know this way.
I did with my first born son :)
Hey, that's what I'm bootstraping myself into right now - I'm currently three months into my first data science consultancy job (more on the programming/infrastructure side of things - extracting/preparing data, launching large distributed jobs etc.). I'd be delighted to talk with someone who's been in this market longer than myself, but can't really contact you (no e-mail in the profile) - please give out your e-mail address (either in public or just e-mail me) if you'd like to talk.
Do you have similar information stored about the Cydia users? How many users do you have?
Not mine,found it on reddit.I submitted this here because I thought it might be useful to some people.

Here is the original link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/zbwme/is_anyone_inte...
Its hacker news, not daytime television. We don't have to pretend to be boring middle of the road when talking to each other.

What I find fascinating about this story is I've seen much larger and much more elaborate cable lacing jobs that look just as good at telco central offices and data centers, but its always very vague about what exact part of my NDA or employment agreement I'd be violating by posting (or taking, or distributing) pictures. These mars pictures, cropped, may be the only chance for a civilian non-employee to ever legally see professionally done cable lacing, weird but true. There's a zillion other places to see the surface of mars, but only a few to see cable lacing.

Its interesting that in advertising pictures they always use superglue to make the cables look "PHB-good". So you can't see cable lacing in ads, which is too bad.

Done correctly, cable lacing is, literally, an art form. One guy I worked with "knitted" geometric patterns as he spaced the lacing in various locations and used different colors. Also I saw at least one large example of AT+T being "dot matrixed" into a large bundle of cables by careful spacing of lacing.

Artistic cable lacing is kind of an "apprentice" masterpiece situation, you learn lacing well enough to do art, then you show it to other techs (and your boss) to prove you're not an apprentice anymore, then, sadly, for most techs, no more lacing art work. Oh well.
There are certain conventions on instrument location which are very rarely broken. Drum kits are an easy example to examine, almost always panned so that the individual pieces match their positions relative to the drummer: for a right handed kit setup, hi-hit usually to the left of centre, ride cymbal to the right, toms high-low left-right.
Another comment mentions orchestral layout for classical music.
You would probably notice something was different even on pieces you'd never heard before.
I'd find it pretty disconcerting, or mistake it for a deliberate departure on the part of the producer. But then I don't have any symmetrical headphones, so it's never been a problem.
Apple earbuds are anything but audiophile quality. Pointless article from a pretentious "audiophile."
Are instanced classes really necessary?
...assuming this has any connection to LEA
Well, one piece of the puzzle is in the Lulzsec Pastebin itself. the hacked file's original filename is supposed to be "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" and a quick Duckduckgo gave me http://www.ncfta.net/ those contractors as source of the data.
And 12 million is the number claimed. Only 1 million is shown.
Anonymous' credibility is good. I haven't heard of an instance where they were caught lying in a high profile incident like this.
I will reserve judgement until I've given it a try. It might not be the ideal solution, but it looks like a nice stop-gap solution.
>Could it be that you're an anti-apple fanboy?

I indeed am, sometimes. And my post was biased, it was a bit of a bait. I can do the apple-fanboy as well though, if the topic calls for it.

On a more serious note though, I think Apple doesn't give a fuck about privacy- things like saving geolocations, the DRM in iTunes, unique device identifiers and stuff like that really makes it look like that at least.
If there is indeed an ongoing investigation, FOIA would not apply (reasonably enough).
MD5 is not the best cryptographic hash... it's weird that they would be so paranoid as to include two hashes but not use something harder to collide with.
I'm better off listening to http://www.linux.fm/ .. it's more fun than listening to this guy
Er, sorry about that :-/
22 business lessons founders can learn from Oliver Samwer
"I've never installed: Other"
That's a looong list.
100% Telecommute (REMOTE)

Canonical

Technical Architect for Cloud Engineering Team

From the posting:

Alongside four or five engineers, you'll be part of an agile engineering
squad working to develop Canonical’s cloud technologies. You will be
responsible for designing and building new cloud products, and for ensuring
that the architecture of those products will remain valid over time.

Details at https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CA...
Well, d'uh, you don't get your money back, period. That's the first thing I learned when reading their FAQs and other pages.

It's like a donation towards something that you find great/interesting/useful, with the added benefit of some kind of return. Or you could consider it an investment, small loan, without security or guarantees of any kind.

I don't know, the article makes it seem like a negative thing for those who first hear about Kickstarter...

Fund raisers should not do "the right thing" and return any money, either - it sets a bad precedent, especially if you return the money only to some and not everyone.
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Not that Apple would bother to answer your questions, but why couldn't a developer have willingly shared this information with the FBI, in order to help them investigate a crime against that developer?

The paranoia on these UDID threads is ridiculous. Investigating crimes is what the FBI primarily does, so if they've got any information it's most likely for that - not some broad-spread domestic surveillance scheme.
This is very interesting, I think it summarizes the story of most first time entrepreneurs trying a saas startup, spotting a great opportunity, building a mvp, knowing your competitors and learn all the basics of business, and there is a crucial factor for a entrepreneurs in a foreign land: Culture, its all about humans.
Its a really nice read, and I think if you apply the same universal strategic rules you are likely to succeed anywhere else
100% Telecommute (REMOTE)

Canonical

Software Engineers for Cloud Engineering Team

Python/Go/Cloud Stuff

Details at https://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=CA...
It's not necessarily just 'rich' people/clients, but the effect is more easily seen there. What you're really talking about is 'value' pricing. Figure out what value something has to someone, price based on that value, not on the value or cost of your time, and see what happens.

I did a job for someone that took 20 minutes (including time to invoice) and I sent an invoice for $200. My understanding was that they'd had a couple people trying to fix the issue for an entire day before that, and they had a TV deadline (ads going out that night with a link to a broken website). $200 was nothing compared to the time cost of adding more people who couldn't find the problem, or having their client paying to send people to a broken site. The fact that it took me 20 minutes didn't factor in to their thinking when paying the invoice.
Maybe you're thinking of high treason? It's possible to be a traitor to things other than countries. Actually I think the reason more people are on FB than the US is because there are fewer obligations.
That certainly makes (more) sense. Good luck with the move and the hires.
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Could Curiosity contaminate Mars with microbes coming from Earth?
Correct me then, don't just downvote. And try not to be so patronising.
I contributed to a lot of projects.

As an example I contributed to Tim Schafer. He is showing us how a real game is done, the ups and downs. This is very valuable information much more expensive to get any other way.

I'm getting tens of times more value from my KS projects that what I paid for them, and I had paid A LOT of money. Not a single of them failed(Double digit number). It is easy to spot a professional(or someone that will become a pro) from a video.
Dropping -ms- Vendor Prefixes for IE10
Works on other sites as well.
Huh, it seems to me that the first way produces both/either aspiration or ambition, whereas the second way produces complacency...
Remember that the FBI had their own agents reporting back on the 9/11 attackers using planes as weapons and that these reports were ignored.

They can't even manage their own internal information, so their fishing through our personal information seems a bit reaching, eh?

How can a government not love "terrorism"? It's a catch-all phrase that allows it to act as it wishes with impunity.
The SWAT VW CC. So, Not Blending In.
CAMP 1.0 – An Open API for PaaS Application Management
Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm
I have never understand why the L/R marking have persisted.

Why not just have one braille dot for left, two for right ?
I really like the idea and I just can't wait for it to be more prevalent on mobile devices.

I'm sick of the lack of control over my data I have on android (not to mention iOS).
How does that prove that an FBI laptop was the source of this information (per the grandparent post's question)?
If you like these you might also enjoy my rules of life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Foobaz
ActiveRecord and Azure
Yeah, my bad -- I was being slightly hyperbolic on my iPhone. A more nuanced comment would have been "It is very difficult to convince a Japanese company to purchase SaaS on the low-touch sign-up-with-your-credit-card-and-go model."
Does it have an APNS token? Is it possible to send yourself a push notification and see what app it appears to come from?
For anyone who doesn't know, htop actually does a fair bit more. For example, go to a process (arrow keys or "/" to search), then press "l" to show open files (with lsof) or press "s" to show a strace. You can also renice processes and send sigterm or other signals to them.
No, we should. Complain loudly about "fradulent investment schemes".

But at the same time, wonder what the _next_ money-losing thing that anyone who thinks Kickstarter is an "investment scheme" is going to need government protection from.

Do people _really_ think Kickstarter projects are the sort of thing that requires government/SEC oversight?

Edit: In retrospect, looking through the replies in this thread, there clearly _are_ people who consider Kickstarter backing to be "investment". I'd love somebody of that opinion to explain why they think that, and whether it's a wording/terminology issue with how Kickstarter and/or projects describe what they're doing, or whether it's something fundamental in the Kickstarter and/or crowdfunding process.
No, the UDID is a privacy catastrophe.
I know this is the age old question... But are these things effective? Is there any data on the ROI for campaigns for online advertising?
I think this proves that Apple's UDIDs are a horrible, insecure system. That is a privacy catastrophe.
Fabulous! just started using it now, great job.

I love approaches like this, as opposed to just moaning feature X doesn't exist, implement it!
Next time, we talk in German.
I have a pair of Sennheheizer HD555's, no L/R engraving but there are 3 raised dots to denote the left side. Fantastic sound quality, open-ear design, very comfortable wearing for long periods of time.
Actually, it’s more like 166:

$ grep -c -i "titanic\'" iphonelist.txt
166

It’s only 190 if you include names like “Titanic’s iPad”, but those aren’t funny.
> Wow. You are one insane waste of skin.

I note that you didn't point out any errors that I made.

FWIW, I'm pro-abortion.
A NoSQL discussion isn't complete without a link to the inner platform effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

Basically if your application domain is inherently relational or inherently "SQL" no "NoSQL", then building your own RDBMS in your application absolutely dooms you, unless you're not a "real" application writer but actually a RDBMS author.

I have having a conversation with a guy "I wish there was a library for (whatever nosql DB he was complaining about) I could link in to do transactions and indexing for me" my reply "yeah, its called postgresql". That's not trendy and buzzword compliant, he ended up annoyed with me. There's a "pragmatic programming" book "seven databases in seven days" which is a pretty good book and it describes polyglot database design a little toward the end... so you "need" a key-value store and indexed transactions and there's nothing that does both perfectly... Well, there's plenty of good free open source DBs, so install and use two DBs... its really not that hard.
It's great to see such intellectual honesty. It looks like the real perpetrator, however, is McConnell.
I wish more authors would check their references like that. Not that I am interested in iOS-development, but still.
Not working on my Chromium (18) but working fine on Chrome (21). May be Google introduce this filters in between, check your Chromium build.
Please don't password protect PDFs for books. It makes it a huge pain in the ass to actually read. I'd much rather you do what the Pragmatic Bookshelf does and just embed our name into the PDF.
Seconded. The UDID for one of my iOS devices was there, and I am in Poland. It is definitely not just the US.
> Fair enough. I think "The Elements of Style" is aimed more toward people who must communicate effectively with the smallest number of words, where efficiently conveying information is the only priority.

See http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction, if you want to communicate succinctly. The Economist's style is just one possibility, but they do manage to write short and efficient pieces.
This is pretty useful, man! Just started using it too.

I'm thinking of making a Chrome Extensions from this bookmarklet.
In-Memory Tweaks Boost Proteomics Research
Given that the UDID has been deprecated in iOS5 and Apple are now rejecting apps that use it, I'd be interested to see what level of actual vulnerability there is these days.
"The worry is what happens when a hard-working project is unable to deliver, or when a con artist takes the money and runs."

Do you worry about that?

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.

It is really difficult that someone could not deliver something. If so hardworking then something is better than nothing. A con artist is not going to give their face in a video for all Internet to know, a con artist have not a proven record.

People forget what the millions of people that could see something means.
Utter nonsense. Nokia didn't provide a smartphone OS for years, and Palm OS, while supposedly nicely designed, apparently didn't perform very well in practice. Their problems were not not copying Apple.
As a developer and sole founder, I would love to have your feedback on the GrowGuard. Some background: Last Januari, I decided to quite my job and do what I love most (HW hacking and startup), now after a few months of developing and getting production ready, I open up to the public here on HN.

Love to hear your feedback, Hans.
Down voted by mistake. Happens all too often when voting on the phone. I usually don't care, but your comment was exceptionally good and didn't deserve down vote.I wish someone finally makes wider gap between arrows.
You presented information which was wrong, thus the downvotes. Man up and take responsibility for your post rather than expecting others to correct your lack of research. Next time, don't guess what it means; look it up and present the correct information with a reference:

http://www.google.com/search?q=udid+site:developer.apple.com
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If you really want to achieve something, you need to benchmark what you have accomplished against your goals; not benchmark yourself against other people, or even against your earlier self, its the accomplishment that matters, not you.
Your grandparent asked two questions. He answered the other one.