skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So please explain to me: what the hell does the input method (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen) have to do with the low-level security properties of a system? If anything, the switch to tablets and thus more ubiquitous computing makes security an extremely critical issue (see the many discussions about permission systems, application sandboxes, malware leaking personal information etc...). It will become even more pressing in the future, if you think about devices that are controlled by thought (EEG etc...).
I agree with what you say, but I think we also need to consider cost as well as capability of the underlying product.

Introducing cost massively changes how that equation stacks up.

"How many tps can I run given a budget in the form of these 6 available servers". Well the boxes are under spec for what you want to achieve with an RDBMS, but yeah no problem with XXX nosql product.
I am a subscriber to emusic.com, who were offering drm-free mp3 downloads long before Apply or Amazon, and I have bought a lot of music from them. Unlike Amazon [1], their terms of use [2] seem to be silent about ownership and transfer.

Whatever the legal reality actually is, I consider that I 'own' the bits that I've downloaded, and could give them to my children if I wanted. I do think that it pretty unlikely that my kids will be interested in their old dad's music collection though.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId...
[2] http://www.emusic.com/info/help/terms-of-use-uk/
Thanks! In gnome-panel, this brings up the left side menu.

I'll try the help whenever I'm in Unity again.
Same here. Whatever the machine, be it netbook, thinkpad or dual screen desktop workhorse, I have more space horizontally than vertically. Tabs belong to the left.

The added benefit of having a _tree_ of tabs (usually most of the nodes have HN as a root for me..) is something I wouldn't want to miss again, ever.

And FF Beta on Android still beats Chrome in terms of usability for me (talking about both rendering speed and nifty things like addons).

I open Chrome Canary every once in a while, out of curiosity. But day to day it's not for me.
This book isn't for you, then. I understood it as an introduction to programming, using Go.

The official Go website http://golang.org has everything you need, including the spec [1] and the insightful Effective Go [2].

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec

[2] http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
Does this include a library for accessing Canvas ? Thanks.
Organic food 'not any healthier'
Couldn't an American request a FOIA for this to see what's the level of information gathering on iPhone users? Could EFF sue them for it or something to unveil more?
I'm not sure this is accurate. The Kickstarter terms of service say:

"Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill."

http://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use
This might be true, I merely stated the default.

(Not everywhere in the world you can find something sufficiently independent, but you are guaranteed to find "intellectual property" there)
"Refocus on encouraging growth" is fine. Disturbing markets with political preferences for 'this or that' is not fine and will deepen the recession.
Cache memory is still not cheap.
> since this company was once in TC for not being able to stay in SF asking for SF-based employees only is weird at best.

Totally understand the confusion we've created here with our slightly unusual path so far :-)

We've been travelling for a year whilst we applied for visas and we're heading back to SF with visas to set up a base there and have an office for the first time. Nothing too odd I hope, we simply took the opportunity to go travelling whilst building Buffer for the last year after we found we couldn't stay in the U.S. :-)

We're all going to be back in SF, so we're looking for people a little in advance. Remote work first, but joining us in the SF office once we get that set up in a couple of months.

We'd certainly go to the high end of this salary range (and it's intentionally a broad range).

Hope that clarifies a few things, would love to answer anything else!
Is there some good reason for all those steps to actually get the file after downloading? I don't see the point of encrypting it, or of having a tarball with just one file. They also suggest checking the file integrity of the download, and then also checking the integrity of the final extracted file--this seems completely pointless as the final extracted file is derived deterministically from the download so you've already checked it when you checked the download checksum.

Am I missing something?
Yup

apt-get install <something-in-repository-or-ppa-you-added>

will bring down all the dependencies needed. That's the reason they package stuff against release numbers, so the dependencies are all consistent.

dpkg -i <some-random-deb-you-downloaded>

may give dependency errors.
Whatsapp, ebuddy pro, ebuddy XMS, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Space, FML, XKCD, Facebook, Spotify, BBC News, Dropbox, Steam and PokerStars are the more popular ones official I have installed. I also have Cydia, a few tweaks and finally Installous (didn't want to admit that - I don't use it often - but thought it may spread some light here)
What is an average work day like for Larry Page, Mark Zuckerburg & Jack Dorsey?
If in doubt, download and turn flight mode on before running, then uninstall?
Interesting. I was thinking failure to persist updates, inconsistent health check results, those types of nasty corner cases.

Sure. Premature optimization and all.

Huh. SSD from a major chip vendor perhaps? I had one of those bite me just a few weeks ago. in my case it would have been fine if the drive offlined itself. but the intermittent io pauses killed performance, but not health checks. Actually, same type of problem RO FSs make me scared of.
Ustream suspends Vobile DRM amid outrage over Hugo Awards takedown
Me too - this idea would make a really useful service
That ended ubruptly and without much in the way of resolution?
Apple should send iPhone 5 event Invite today, it's Maths
The UDID is a SHA1 of a few fields (including a couple MAC addresses): we actually know the exact algorithm; if you are seeing patterns in them it is either a trick your brain is playing on you or a trick the user is playing on you (some people modify their UDID occasionally to keep themselves from being tracked by apps).
It's a different approach that works for some people. These days I don't like having to do ctrl+* to do an action, I find that it strains a bit my hand when repeated for days on end. To each his own.
> The ones we don't grow up with sometimes even sound romantic. They're thugs, pimps, and murderers. Don't ever forget that.

I found this out the hard way. If you ever find yourself in a bar in Japan, accosted by a nice Japanese man who's in any way vague about his job description, make your excuses and leave. It's not an adventure, and it's most definitely not OK "because you're in Japan".

Also, pay your rent on time.

<Paranoia>

From what I understand the sort of organization we're discussing here uses google alerts to keep an eye on any online mentions. As someone who would like to move back to Japan some day and who has a very joined-up web presence, that will be all for now.

</Paranoia>
Forgive me if I am mistaken, but don't all you need is a UDID to send a push message to a device? I.E. via Urban Airship.
EU tries to sneak in a mini-ACTA through the back door
Yes, sorry - I'm on the road at the moment, and wrote that in a rush. Part of the problem is that there's not much users can do at this stage. The ecosystem of companies that use and abuse UDIDs is fragmented, and each service that relies on UDIDs for identification or authentication can have its own unique problems. I guess it would be possible to start aggressively releasing a list of services that users should close their accounts on, but that would also be a shopping list for bad guys out to take advantage of this situation.
Thx, I will add the details. In the mean time. If you need to contact me. Check out: www.wasigh.nl!
Maybe the problem is saying all programs have to behave the same. It would indeed be irritating to have every unix-tool link to it's own libraries. But most well-known tools are small programs that don't get constant feature updates. But it's a whole different thing for typical desktop applications. Those are often way more often updated than the distros and there's no 2 distros out there having the same library versions which might be needed for an app to run. Still distros do not like if such applications use separate library versions... and that just doesn't work so well except maybe for the handful of high-profile applications which have enough maintainers. I mean even keeping an up-to-date Iceweasel on Debian already caused me trouble with library dependencies just some months ago - and that is probably the most prominent desktop application in the free software world.

It's getting even stranger in the world of free games. When games need library fixes (very typical situation as games and engines are very interwoven), which are not yet in a distro (and won't be for some time because the library is for example not yet officially updated or maybe a certain patch simply won't be included). On a system like Windows it's no problem - modify the library source and add the dll. On Linux distro's... well, just not easy possible. Which means funny enough that it's easier to modify library sources in the in the proprietary microsoft world than in the free software world. We got freedom coming with library + distro gatekeepers so to say... which pretty much sucks (even for the library authors).
I got my FTL keys yesterday as well. Now I just need to work out how to deal with the damn borders :(
I run Cydia, and have determined only 16.7% of the UDIDs in that file are from jailbroken devices: I thereby do not believe that whatever managed to get this data is anywhere in our ecosystem.
No, you need a push token, which is a combination of device id and app id, and is only generated when the user authorizes the app for remote notifications. Additionally, you need a certificate on the server that is authorized to send messages to that app id.
Nice work, I would change that you are browsers sniffing to detecting variables declared in the window for webkit prefixes.
I've been using the Ian knot for years, it's absolutely brilliant.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot
There are plans to set up European Agency's. Mainly to add balance to the US colored ratings.

For now you could also check the Chinese Rating Agency: "The Dagong Global Credit Rating Company, which lowered the United States to A+ last November after the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to continue loosening its monetary policy, announced a further downgrade to A, indicating heightened doubts over Washington's long-term ability to repay its debts."
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/08/02/china.us.rating/i...

Funny, communists lowering a credit rating because it's too socialist (Keynes and loose money policy).
Which Key Factors Influence Sustainable Development?
I'd extend the title of the post with ... but definitely don't benchmark yourself against the folks on HN either.
Sorry, it really didn't occur to me that people who raised that much money would not have a business, but maybe it's more common than I thought.
Sure - me. Both my iOS devices are on this list - confirmed both by name and UDID match.

However, I renamed my iPad around last November after I started using it more in public, yet its original name (easy to find if you search for my HN nick) is the name listed.

EDIT: Oh, and fwiw, law-abiding natural born US citizen here. But who am I kidding - LEAs don't give a toss about that.
UDID checklist: http://dazzlepod.com/apple/ Partial UDID search accepted, i.e. search "d565" instead of your full UDID "d56504ca3b268177f76fef0c2c446ba183afd12b"
Without doing a point by point, intents is certainly the one that most people look at Android and wish iOS had and background updates would be nice.

Most of the rest aren't a big deal for me personally but I can see why someone with different usage patterns and preferences would like the things you list.
Jailbroken eh? Wonder if that is the common link?
The upgrade cutoff date is in 2011, not 2012.
Qubes 1.0 released - strong security for desktop computing
I don't know when you last used it, and I don't use Firefox, but their sync system strikes me as pretty good. It even encrypts everything client-side using strong cryptography and you have to share the keys by opening another browser, I found it pretty great.
Slavery was fucked up, so we got rid of slavery.

Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple.

These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction doesn't really make sense.

I never said anything remotely close to the idea that I think what Apple is doing is OK, rather quite the opposite. But I'm not going to be mad at Apple about it because being mad at Apple accomplishes pretty much literally nothing. Instead I'll direct my frustration at the true cause of the insanity: the inane patent law itself.
Apple really ought to give each developer a UUID and then instead of exposing my device's UUID, expose the hash of both IDs combined. That would preserve the book keeping value of device UUIDs while preventing correlation of IDs between parties.
No: the APNS token is only changed if you get a new device (as it is tied to your device's certificate) or restore your phone (and not restore a backup: if you restore a backup it restores the token).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2338267/is-the-apn-device...
Borders?
Music is very important to me... a lot of genres.. depending on the kind of work I need to do: if I am building something complex which requires a lot of concentration I go for ambient music or even classical. If, on the other hand, I have to write something not very complex but tedious and repetitive, i go for tedious and repetitive music, goa trance, dubstep or dnb. Spotify is great: I've got some playlists especially done for different types of programming (web apps, max concentration, repetitive & tedious code, chilled down etc...)

But when it comes to other vices... heavy smoking, "full-fat" Coke and coffee keep me happy :) I will probably not be able to keep it up like this for long... I guess I should grow up and quit.. but that's another story
It might be a gigabyte if there were about 90 characters per line 1 or 2 gigabytes tops? "on the order of gigabytes" is a rather pretentious way of saying that.
For a much more in depth version of this thought experiment:

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta531.htm

Where descriptions of the geological changes that accompany a pole shift are often used as proof that prior pole shifts have occurred, other than the time line of occurring approximately every 3,600 years there is no inherent timeline record for the last weeks in such geological record. The pole shift rents rock and rearranges the landscape and is accompanied by huge tidal waves and exploding volcanoes. This is clear. Just how large or frequent the earthquakes were, weeks ahead of time, is not of record. Then there is the issue of folklore, as almost every culture has a story stemming from a prior pole shift. Where there is a written record, such as the Egyptian record in the Kolbrin, many details are carried in the report, but most cultures simply have a few statements indicating the horror of the hour of the pole shift or the days of rotation stoppage or perhaps a severe wobble leading into the horror. As this is clearly a description of the last weeks, no larger timeline is inherent. Where other phenomena are included, such as snow in summer or women so tense that they abort or do not conceive or intractable droughts, there is no sense of how many years such a phenomena was present prior to the pole shift itself.
He probably is using a tool that spoofs his UDID... a lot. ;P
I find it amusing that people working at Google came up with an ungoogleable name for their programming language.
The laptop was compromised while running. We do not know whether the disc was encrypted or not.
I grab PDF copies for all the technical books I buy from O'Reilly, PragProg, Manning Books, and Apress.
Raspberry Pi Tutorials
Blogspam, sadly I cannot flag anymore. Actual source is http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/04/hackers-release-1-millio...

The conclusion of that post is "It's not yet clear if the released push tokens can be used in any manner." so it is just the usual "must post about something happening on the internet even if I have nothing to contribute".
The problem is that if that provision were actually enforced, kickstarter would be of much less use to those people it was originally conceived of to help. If you are a small independent games company, film maker, or musician, the threat of failing to complete your project (e.g. it was too ambitious, you set your funding goal too low, you run into legal issues you hadn't anticipated, etc.) and being required to pay back tens of thousands of dollars you have already spent is enough disincentive to not use kickstarter in the first place.

In other words, if kickstarter campaigns have to repay backers if they fail, kickstarter becomes radically less useful and interesting as a proposition.
Quick check to see if your UDID was leaked
Good to know, thanks for the explanation.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4460922
You do not get real foreign accents on prime time American television, the viewers would be bemused and look for subtitles.

You get what Americans think are foreign accents, i.e. lightly accented. The one exception is that Brits playing bad guys are allowed to use camp, pantomime villain accents. Alan Rickman has made his fame and fortune from this, a shame as he is rather a good actor.

Hugh Grant sounds nothing like he does/did before that series started.
So "FBI theft" should be a new failure mode to defend against in web applications, right after SQLi and XSS? I'm handling this by not having any servers in the USA, hopefully GB is safe.
NOSQL tapes, A filmed compilation of interviews, explanations & case-studies
I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to extrapolate this information from your address book: I keep my own name, phone number, address, etc. all in there, and you can probably figure out which record is mine.
They've already deprecated UUID's so I presume the new solution is/will be more secure.
Probably Detroit or its peripheral cities (there are some nice ones, Birmingham, Royal Oak and more). Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) is trying to revive downtown and investing in new startups.
Also it's only 45min away from Ann Arbor which is an awesome city.

You can rent an apartment for the cost of monthly parking in SF :)
there's a quote from a German minister during WWII: "Their German scientists are better than our German scientists."
My question is, why isn't Kickstarter International in terms of startups? I am based in the UK and we could do with a successful service like KS here!
The push token is static for the device installation: it is not in combination with the "app id".

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2338267/is-the-apn-device...
Yeah, a 5-day-old account spamming his blog "articles" that are nothing more than reposts from MacRumors.
Ask HN: Does trademark infringement mean you're becoming famous?
Yesterday I received an email from Katrin Rampf, legal manager for the Pomodoro Technique® organization:

"We've noticed you're using our logo as app icon and twitter profile image.
This use of our logo is not permitted.
I kindly ask you to read our guideline and make the necessary changes to be in line with our guideline."

The app we're talking about is Tomatoes (http://tomato.es). I will change the logo as soon as possibile because I don't want to infringe any trademark but I feel glad for the first line of text from Katrin because she says that "they've noticed" Tomatoes app.

I call these "happy problems".

What do you think about it?
Funny, as a long time Vim user I still feel this was about certain Vi configurations. I guess that means I'm not yet far enough along to know all the keys that I should know, but even then, certain setups with Vi can be really painful.
Need a job? Learn to impress the robots
i think it's mainly because we'll never know, and it's not really the point that bothers most.

What bothers most is that this data exists at all, and what it's used for.
What's there to "invalidate"? You just made an assertion, not an argument.

You say that nobody wants to use desktops and people want computers to disappear. Unlike you, I don't believe that already, so do you have some evidence for it?
I'm a bit late to the party, but I love http://www.youneedabudget.com. I've been using it religiously for over two years.
Running New Shopware Version 4.0.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Ubuntu 12.04
Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing by Data URI Claims New Paper
$ cat iphonelist.txt | grep c63e008e6271c3ac128eb6a242a9817528b6baef
'c63e008e6271c3ac128eb6a242a9817528b6baef','b996a080e11265a0c93436ba0b13b7c07ee4e8eef6faeb8516917b015d7355fb','“Administrator”的 iPad','iPad'
'c63e008e6271c3ac128eb6a242a9817528b6baef','b996a080e11265a0c93436ba0b13b7c07ee4e8eef6faeb8516917b015d7355fb','Obama','iPad'

Looks legit...
There were people rallying against slave masters. Yes, back when it was still legal to own slaves. Do you say these activists had nothing to do with abolishing slavery? Do you say they were wrong to be mad at slave masters because it was the law back hen?
Ajenti - Linux home server admin panel
This might improve the user experience by visually signaling to the user that their mouse click to submit a form has been registered by the browser, and please do not click again while the server is processing your input.
ReactiveMongo - Asynchronous & Non-Blocking Scala Driver for MongoDB
How to incorporate social media into your business plan
Honestly, I'm pretty sure it's Facebook. They are the ones tracking everyone, including non-FB users, via a tracking cookie the moment you visit their site after all... And you know the feds just love that data that FB can acquire.
Much as I appreciate people using simple means to exploit technology in these situations, sharing mobile phone numbers and other such details in a publicly visible document is not a good idea.
Show HN: Analyzing redditors taste in movies
Great start! You are only going to gain some more traction from here. Please work on improving the "Terms" section of your site. If you want more buyers and sellers, you need to prepare a good Terms of Service.
And the highest scientific standards. His work raises interesting questions concerning the scientific process, what can be experimentally shown in spite of being false, how hard statistics is, even for the experts, etc. It doesn't matter what he believes concerning ESP: no one doubts his integrity, which means the results are mighty interesting.
it does when you want to have your vim configuration in git.
and vundle might be easier then (not, that using git submodules is so extremly hard).
This is what that makes the Rust Programming Language Promising
The desktop needs Linux if you care about a free desktop. I spend most of my waking life on the desktop and I just prefer a system that allows me to dig as deep into it as I want. Not because I enjoy the digging, but because I know it's available when I have to (once in a while).
How to monetize 1 000 000 users?
We've developed a small adblocking program similar to Ad Muncher and it's got quite popular :) While it's a shareware application, we still got about 1 000 000 users with cracked versions.
Any creative ideas on how to monetize them without obnoxious ads?
For example we could sell search quieries to remarketing advertising companies, but we block ads!
"I can say with a certain amount of confidence that I no longer derive any personal identity from the browser I use."

"Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back"

The irony.