skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is to clarify the main thrust of the article. TLDR, if you will.

It sure looks like Anonymous lied. But they could still be telling the truth, if an FBI agent just happened to have Blue Toad's UDID list on his laptop. Which frankly doesn't sound as far fetched as alien overlords.
You realize the second photo actually is an iMac, not the HP product? There is a huge white (or aluminium) bar at the bottom of the screen of the iMac, which the HP doesn't have. From the photo I'd estimate it is at least 10cm high.

If your dad couldn't tell the difference, maybe he needs new glasses? Or perhaps the money for an iMac was wasted on him and he could have gone with a cheaper (plastic instead of aluminium) PC.
I was wondering what happened to the old mixest. I had a pretty huge favorites list before it was killed.

PS - your design work looks great (on both versions of mixest as well as your portfolio)
OS X Battery Life Analysis from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion
Your direction sounds pretty much ideal. I'll keep checking in on this project.

Meantime I've just installed go... Wish me luck!
Check out this Financial Times piece on Hiroshi Mikitani. It talks quite a bit about ‘Englishisation’ and the contempt felt against Rakuten.
Good to see they don't forget the obligatory, "we take information security very seriously," line.
The Figure 8: Essentials of Master Data Management, part 4
The services for landlords are really amazing. Have you considered expanding to the US?
Jack Dorsey: We Need Revolution, Not Disruption
You are being mocking and misunderstanding my intent. A proper scientific approach would independently and fully evaluate the effects rather than assuming it is "ok". That is not fear-mongering, it is good scientific process that requires a unbiased oversight.

Is the issue potentially slight? Yes. Is it still an issue? Yes.
Okay guys, here it is! It took weeks of non-stop testing but we finally have the comprehensive look at battery life from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

This was requested after we performed our earlier tests that focused on Lion to Mountain Lion. The good news is that 10.8.2 seems to bring a HUGE improvement. I just hope whatever changes Apple made survive into the final version.

I hope we were able to answer your requests and comments. Please continue to let me know if you want us to test other scenarios.
> The significance is that unlike in, say, python, Read and Eval are separate.

They are separate:

* http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html#ast.parse
* http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval
Didn't work on Android with native browser for me.
I believe I know three people who have all said something almost identical to that a little over 10 years ago (I kid you not).
Titan 0.1.0 Released -- Big Graph Data
I agree.. I've just tried it. It took forever to load and when it was loaded, I felt in an ugly wysiwyg editor with buttons and editable fields everywhere. I was troubled and had no idea where to look or click.

I feel that I really didn't give rizzoma a fair tryout but then if the first impression is overwhelming and scary, it's hard to move forward.

I'd suggest cutting all the crap and introduce more complex features over time.. or when it's needed.
Learning Clojure: Clojure Faster than Machine Code?
This is a brilliant explanation of the effect. Does anybody know of a forum that has some structure that will keep that from happening?
"For Menuez, so much of the current tech scene is preoccupied with profit, whereas the digital word he documented, at least at the beginning, was less interested in making tons of money and more interested in fundamentally changing the world."

I haven't spent a lot of time in SV or around the people in that tech scene, but this seems like accurate portrayal of the current situation.

Can anybody elaborate on his comment?
It would be cool if they included Cooper Black for those of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s.
[copied from dupe thread]

much of the argument against anonymous seems to rest on the march date. from the article:

The discovery of the theft casts serious doubt on Anonymous’ claims that the data
came from the FBI, and was pilfered in March.

"Timing-wise, (their) story doesn't make sense," he [the CIO] said.

but when you read the blog of the guy who tracked things down, he says:

While searching, I stumbled on a partial password dump for the company! And it was
dated March 14, the same week that the hackers claimed they’d hacked into the FBI
computer. Suddenly, I felt a lot more confident again, and I mentioned this
connection in the email.

He [the CIO] didn’t think the March leak (which they’d already been aware of) was
related, but that the rest of my findings were concerning.

so the only evidence against it not being march is that blue toad are saying otherwise. against that, there's the original claim plus the known password leak. and blue toad are going to look bad if this was from march and they didn't notice (not that they look so great right now in any case).

again from the blog:

I’m still not completely clear on all the technical details.

something doesn't seem right. the fact that the password dump comes from march seems like a huge coincidence, with no evidence against it, except the word of someone who may be motivated to deny that.
You make it sound like HP copied someone here. HP's designs just follow the natural evolution of computers.
It's more like a thunderbolt display: http://www.apple.com/displays/

EDIT: I see that lloeki said the same already.
Did not work on my iPhone. Double tapping zoomed in as expected, but afterwards the design resized itself again. The result is quite funny ;)

I like the idea, though. Looks great on bigger devices.
A hard-to-read blog post best summarized here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4500661

a macro that expands his code into code that
adds type hints to all of the vars
Ben Horowitz: Dinosaurs Were Not In Favor Of Being Replaced By Birds
Never had a photo printer, but I don't think they were inkjets. They produced "prints" that looked like photos (the same material). Actually not sure if photo printers are still commonly being sold, though - last I checked was a couple of years ago.

Where I live you can create such prints on the fly in every drugstore. They all have photo printing machines.
"Well … we invented it."

I hate this kind of faux 'Apple-sque' marketing. These printers have existed for long and there's nothing new about them. Its just not authentic.
It wasn't at all obvious that Google could do better than the big four of the day. There were at least thirty upstarts that had good results in some way or other. My money wouldn't have been on google.

With paypal it seemed crazy that sellers would hand over control of their bank accounts to this unqualified, unregulated company. Given paypal's history of account freezes, it still does.

Video sharing sucked in 2004, damn right. Microsoft and Real and Aol and Apple were pouring big money into making it work. Could we've guessed that someone was going to make a lot of money in internet video? Sure. Could we have predicted that it would be youtube? Much tougher. Dropbox was the same; there were hundreds of other products making much the same claims about how they could synchronize your files easily. Likewise skype; we'd had netmeeting for years (even today, polycom are still in business selling software that works less well than skype for hundreds of thousands).

Can you predict that a given service could be done much better? Maybe. But picking which startup is going to win based on that is a whole lot harder.
I've been watching/waiting for Yeoman for quite a while now. I can't help but wonder how much Twitter's Bower pushed you towards launching today. This looks to fit a lot more of the workflow than just package management though and does a lot of the things I'm currently doing myself through a huge mashup of other tools.

EDIT – totally missed that this in fact uses Bower for the package managment, so probably couldn't even launch until that was released.
William Moggridge, Designer and Laptop Pioneer, Dies at 69
Reminds me a bit of http://are.na
The iPhone were I currently live (Northern Ireland) seems to still have a massive grip on the market. I'm still in grammar school (high-school), and I can safely say that aside from a few Android phones and a lone Windows phone, out of ~150 people every single person in my year (17-18 y.o.) has an iPhone.
Why ‘User Friendly’ Is So Friendly: A Tribute to Bill Moggridge
To log bits of information quickly I added this to my .bashrc:

log(){ date >> ~/log/$* ; cat >> ~/log/$* ; }

I try to keep it simple but I keep several files.
There is one for general ideas which is called "projects", another one to log new words I've learnt called "voc.en" (English is a second language for me)
and so on.

For example:

log projects <enter>

write something cool...
<enter>
<ctrl+c>

--------------------

cat log/projects

Mo 10. Sep 07:16:02 CEST 2012

write something cool...
"If your dad couldn't tell the difference, maybe he needs new glasses? Or perhaps the money for an iMac was wasted on him and he could have gone with a cheaper (plastic instead of aluminium) PC."

I wouldn't expect a comment like this from someone with over 14,000 karma, and who has been a member of HN for over 5 years.
Actually I think that is what a lot of systems are moving towards... a real-time outliner/wiki. I use WorkFlowy with others to manage releases and other information and with just a couple multi-user oriented feature it would match your description. Trello is in this direction as well. Google Wave just felt toooo real-time and free-form.
Another note on the nav: when I zoom in on android there's a float element that covers a lot of content. Makes reading difficult.
> “Today there is no patient money in Silicon Valley,” he says. “And that means that there isn’t enough time to make a similar kind of breakthrough.”

Is this true? If this is indeed true, what are the underlying factors? What does it mean "to change everything?"

One example: I suspect that lots of people fall into the trap of monetizing businesses in ways that trap them into old ways of thinking. Advertising is a prime example of this. I think advertising is obsolete. We should be using social graphs to make people more efficient at correctly judging products and extracting value from the transaction. (Amazon is doing some of this already, but the groups engaging in this are at arbitrary social distances. Make it easy for people of close social distance to collaborate, and you will have a game changer.)

Much of the social fabric of North American society has fallen apart. The kind of social capital that old communities had was powerful. Networks can be used to build this kind of social capital to great effect. (Witness the Arab Spring.) The emphasis should be on emergent trends, with some way of enabling users to efficiently filter information without deluging them.
More planets could harbour life
For example: if you have a coupon that has a start and end time (but the end time is optional), typically, you'd have a start_at and end_at datetime columns. The query for checking for an active coupon would be:

select * from coupons
where start_at < now() and (end_at is null or end_at > now())

Now, you can have a single column that represents the range of time that the coupon is active.

select * from coupons where now() <@ duration;

Plus, exclusion contraints. So you could prevent the database from storing a coupon that was active at the same time as another coupon.
27" iMac owner here. The bar at the bottom of an iMac is more like 5-6 cm.
Show HN: Google News, Slashdot and Twitter in 3D
Matt Blaze, on Twitter:

@mattblaze: So, instead of being tightly held data given to the FBI by Apple, UDIDs are widely available to random app developers you've never heard of.

@mattblaze: And thanks to Anonymous, if the FBI didn't have that list of UDIDs before, they do now.
I just got laid off this morning as a Rails/Ruby Dev. What should I do?
No, I greatly prefer C# to Java. I just prefer the clarity of thread management in Java - it feels a bit more high level than C#.
Thank you. Their interface was awful.
When I joined WELL they had introduced forums that were only intended for people who joined during a specific calendar year. Presumably it was an attempt to try and counteract the effect somewhat. Personally, it just made me feel ghettoized.

At an old-fashioned web forum I used to run we toyed with the idea of closing down and archiving old threads after they reached a certain age. The idea was to try and codify our opinion that old conversations might be worth preserving for posterity, but they aren't a substitute for new conversations and shouldn't be used as an excuse to stifle them. Never actually got around to implementing it, though.
It was closed at "not constructive", which is obviously thought untrue by the hundreds of people who engaged with it. So I can't agree with the specific closing.

It is a mystery to me why a question that yields some answers that are directly about engineers and some that could apply more widely could be considered off topic. One answer explicitly cites the Joel Test. Another specifically discussed the economics of software development, and why the management behavior is pathological specifically for engineering organizations. How much more on topic does one need to be?
Working on this kind of hack sounds much more compelling than coding for an overhyped Internet startup.

To my mind, solving an impossible sounding challenge is larger than ethics.
Pijn: koffie verzacht chronische pijn
Edit: one advantage of the paper process over the various software / cloud solutions is that I can still read those ancient notes.

Have you heard of this awesome thing called "ASCII"? Org-mode (among others) uses it, but adds structure, shortcuts and refiling, so you get the best of both worlds. Combined with something like Git and SSH, plus your own server (c'mon, VPS are down to what, $6/month these days?), and you've got replicated, versioned, encrypted, non-proprietary, non-lockin, forward (and backwards!) readable notes.
I agree it's weird that the scope of the patents aren't limited to the actual modems and that the modem manufacturers haven't handled the licensing. But, maybe things are too fragmented... the modem chipset doesn't include the antenna or the SIM card. Possibly the patents cover things that are only possible once assembled. Given different antenna designs you couldn't expect the modem manufacturer to provide a blanket license them all. If that makes any sense. Similarly a floppy disk drive manufacturer doesn't provide universal licenses for all possible software that could be stored on a floppy used in the drive.

But your point about UHF/VHF is very interesting and I'd also be interested in learning more. There were at least a few famous big battles over radio (Tesla/Marconi/Edison) and TV (Farnsworth/RCA) but these are inventor vs company (probably more entertaining than bigcorp vs bigcorp). I'm sure the transition to color TV was quite ripe for company vs company battles. There was also the big change in patent law/precident mid last century. In an entrepreneurship course taught by a patent attorney, he described it as patents suddenly having big value while having been nearly worthless previously.
Things like choice of materials and finishing aren't "the natural evolution of computers". There are deliberate design decisions to the brushed aluminum design, decisions that HP didn't even bother to make for themselves.

This product from HP is shameful.
> Isaacs has said that people should use NPM for client-side packages.

Link?
BOOTP and DHCP use the same ports and general packet structure, so Wireshark has the dissectors grouped.

I was humored by that Wireshark screenshot. ARPs and DHCP/BOOTP requests from a freshly-booted device are not al that unusual.
Yes -- exactly why electrical circuit simulation tools sometimes get used in non-electronics contexts. Here's a simulation of your spring-mass-dashpot system in CircuitLab (JS-based circuit simulator, which also works for some mechanical models like this): https://www.circuitlab.com/circuit/pr4n2d/physics-car-suspen...

We also have some combined electrical and thermal systems such as https://www.circuitlab.com/circuit/a4xaa6/sous-vide-combined... . Looking forward to the rest of your blog series!
It provides an SaaS solution, and it had a security breach. If we compare their solution to Salesforce, is it Salesforce's (legal) responsibility to keep all of your customers' data encrypted and inaccessible to anyone except your company? Only if they provide an SLA saying that, or otherwise advertise that feature. Blue Toad never advertised that feature, and it wants to be invisible to its end users.
Nice!

I tried using it for a result that contains really wide columns. I'm seeing a screen full of hyphens separating the rows.

You'd think that the hyphens would stretch across just one line of the screen, instead of across the whole result set. See https://img.skitch.com/20120910-fn1abpp3w94yhg63hc8yemt4a4.p...
Spent a little bit of time playing on this and really really impressed.

I've written a progressive enhanced forum (for mobile) and think there's a lot of room for some re-thought ways how forums could work.

But!

I did find navigating around PIvory a little hard work. I definitely had to think and discover. A lot of menu options aren't visible until you click in certain areas. That's great from a clean-design point of view, but frustrating for a new user.

I love the grey scheme, with the only colour being when you hover over icons. That said, hi-lighting your posts (and leaving your image always in colour) would be nice.

It really is an awesome effort. I'm inspired.
Paypal making a change? An automated e-mail I just received from them.
Rewarding your PayPal performance

Dear * *,

PayPal appreciates your business and continues to design its products and services with you in mind. Our goal is to make sending and receiving payments simple and seamless.

With that in mind, we want to share some good news with you. Due to your feedback and outstanding account performance, PayPal will no longer temporarily hold your funds in the event of a dispute, claim, or chargeback. These processes used to require funds to be held in a pending balance while the outcome was determined. Going forward, your funds will not be held in a pending balance.

Please be aware that we still need your assistance by responding accordingly in a timely fashion, and that the dispute, claim and chargeback process will remain the same. Although PayPal is not placing a temporary hold on your funds, a lost dispute, claim, or chargeback will still result in your PayPal account being debited at the time the case is closed. Please note there are other transactions that can still result in funds being temporarily held and this new change only applies to claims, chargebacks and disputes.

Your account performance will consistently be monitored and the terms of this feature are subject to change based on your selling performance. In order to maintain this feature, above-standard performance is necessary. PayPal sends system-generated e-mails which may cause you to see references to held funds in e-mails, disputes, claims, and chargebacks. Despite this, your account is exempt from such holds at this time.

The PayPal Debit MasterCard Business Card® will also provide you with fast access to your funds. Thank you for your continued commitment towards the PayPal community as we partner with you to grow your business.

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To be fair looking at these it's a fair distance away from an iMac as well.
Apply to another place? Without much information there isn't much to say. Are you implying you were unfairly laid off, or are you just letting us know and asking for advice? If the latter, then start applying.

How about some freelance work in the mean time?
so the Personal Computer industry is like every other industry. How is this news.

Don't manufacturers/designers in the fashion industry (sunglasses, clothing, hats, shoes ETC.) The auto industry, house design, art, home furnishing, appliance, Hollywood movies and sitcoms, advertising industry, landscape (I could go on and on) do the same thing?

Please stop with this...
I wish they also said they were not collecting "other personal data as, full names, cell numbers, addresses,
zipcodes", which the pastebin posters claimed was in the original file.

Unfortunately, BlueToad's statement leaves some wiggle room.

"BlueToad does not collect, nor have we ever collected, highly sensitive personal information like credit cards, social security numbers or medical information. The illegally obtained information primarily consisted of Apple device names and UDIDs – information that was reported and stored pursuant to commercial industry development practices."

Edit: The "98% correlation" leads me to believe the publicly posted info is the full extent of the leak.
My Side Project Turns Two Years Old
A stack built from experience
Twitter login by scanning QR code
Curiosity could pollute any water it may find on Mars
Is this available for Windoze users as well?

EDIT: Nevermind, I see it is not supported yet, http://yeoman.io/gettingstarted.html Any best guess as to when this will be available?
RIP Bill Moggridge, the guy who coined the words Interaction Design
There are plenty of impossible-sounding challenges that don't require ethical breaches. May I suggest that you try to find one of those?
Postmortems are interesting. The "is down" posts are not.
Not having an aluminium bar at the bottom makes it very much look like the Apple Cinema Display, though.
Everybody is a publisher – but is anybody listening?
Yeoman uses Bower for package management
I am currently using Brunch[1] as a build system.

How does Yeoman compare, and why should I switch?

I asked this in a previous submission on Grunt, in a thread that talked about Yeoman, but I never got an answer.

[1]: http://brunch.io/

EDIT: It looks like the new FAQ addresses this issue: http://yeoman.io/faq.html > "How does Yeoman differ from tools like Brunch or BBB?" and "How does Yeoman differ from Grunt?". Post left up for other users who are wondering how this compares to Grunt or Brunch.

However, the answer seems a little... underwhelming. Apparently it's "we've made making your own scaffolds easier". Are there any other, unmentioned benefits?

EDIT2: Partial updates as I discover this myself (hope that's okay): one huge advantage is how it uses Bower beneath the surface. No more manual AngularJS/JQuery/other dep upgrading!!
Yet this is a site that mostly focuses on the tech industry so of course we are going to focus in on stories like this as opposed to other stories in different fields.
Your point is ridiculous! I'm so angry at the moment... How can people say something like this... I don't get it.
Non-tech-guys don't see such little differences. Especially if they are bit older. They just don't care and often people wouldn't even see the HP logo on the bezel either. They don't care. It looks like an iMac, which saw in a TV ad and want to buy one. Plus if the best buy guy says it is the same thing they will believe your words cause they don't know better.

It's not even about design but also about marketing budget which Apple pays for it's products. With copying the design, you even get the marketing for free...

I hate to say this but at the moment the whole PC / Tablet industry is copying Apple. And this nothing good at all. Not for Apple and not for everyone else!
The Don't Give a F#$k principle
Look, I don't have to "justify" anything. My initial comment was intended to add to yours, not to argue about a minor point or quibble about the meaning of simple natural language sentences such as "they have to work". I didn't assert or tried to prove that 76% is correct, I wondered why you thought 76% is implausible, as it seems totally plausible to me, that's all.

> Do you have the slightest bit of evidence that exactly 76% of the women need to work,

I never said that.
It surprise me that it took pc makers this long time to finally copy macbooks and imac.