skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
K-Pop takes America: how South Korea's music machine is conquering the world
There's a lot more to running a production database than simply installing the software. At a minimum you have monitoring, tuning, backups, failover/replication, and security. These and more are all tasks that some people look to outsource as it is outside of their core competency/business (for better or worse).
Effective communication for non-English startups (video)
So now that it's going to be digital, will Americans still get a special version designed for dumb people?
Colourlovers (YC W10) launches Creative Market
> Anonymity should be valued mainly to the extent it helps protect powerless from powerful.

What about anonymity should be valued, period, end of story? Otherwise "some are more equal than others"...
I have seen this advice a lot while I googled for python web frameworks. Wouldn't be more complicated for someone new to frameworks to learn Flask as is not an all in one and I will have to learn few more things: Werkzeug, Jinja 2 ...?
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Various partners have definitely acknowledged that they like the 'products for developers' space. They still fund plenty of gold miners though.
Oh man I wish I could claim that I wrote that steam script but I don't know js that well. I'll try to find the original version that I worked off of and post it here.
That is completely accurate in the same way that a slow truck delivering eggs packaged in solid lead cartons can be said to have a horsepower problem.
In the modern world, I think it's reasonable to ask whether monitoring of people's behaviour even in public is still acceptable.

If I followed you around and discreetly recorded everything I saw during a shopping trip and when you got home, there's a good chance that I could do all kinds of damaging things to you with the information I collected. I could be unpleasant (spoiling your kid's birthday surprise). I could be very unpleasant (spoiling your surprise proposal to your financee because I just watched you collect the ring). I could be downright criminal (identity theft, fraud, and the like).

I think many of us would consider that sort of "tailing someone" behaviour to be more than a little creepy, but it's important to understand there are good practical reasons for that instinctive negative reaction beyond just "I don't find it comfortable" (though the latter is important as well).

Modern technology allow us to do many wonderful things that we couldn't before, but also quite a few nasty things that we couldn't do before or that didn't have such serious consequences before. It's about time we stopped trying to apply privacy from 1912 to the world in 2012, and started asking why the principle of privacy is important and what it really means today.
I have been looking for high quality flag icons like these; I would be definitely using them in the future. Thanks!
The word-of-mouth effect
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop
They're implemented using the same data structure and given the language semantics (keys can be any scalar type intermingled horribly), how would you improve that?
How and when will Apple give up on Siri?
But in the case of Firefox, you are explicitly trying to do a web search. While in Unity, you are just running your local app launcher.

Confusing a private local search for your own files with an online search that sends information to a third party is is a fairly substantial privacy issue, and the fact that Canonical is just blowing it off (by saying "we already have root") is incredibly concerning about their judgement.
One step closer to accident-avoiding and self-driving cars
Raganwald: Even now, they speak out of both sides of their mouth, mumbling about free speech while disavowing approval of the choices this man made to make them money.

Voltaire (maybe): I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I don't think there was a dedicated one then (at least I never took time to look for them when I was a teen, more focused on whatever piqued my interest at that point) but you could find people requesting and filling requests for them throughout alt.binaries.pictures.erotica and associated subgroups. My teens were mid-late 90s.

I just googled and see there is an a.b.p.e.upskirts one now, but I don't know when that was created. Could've been there all the while.
Musicians legitimately distributing their songs don't get any hits. (No musician likely to generate a pirate-ish number of hits is going to use Mega to distribute the song - people who make money don't send their users to sites with completely different branding.)
Microsoft fresh out of $499 Surface RTs after one day of pre-orders
Show HN: GoJS - HTML5 Canvas diagramming library
I think combining fairly elementary economics and physics can reveal the cause of obesity epidemics.

Consumers seek to maximize the taste/cost ratio where
cost = the monetary cost of food + time to prepare

Sure you can eat healthy for cheap if you're willing to eat things that are not that tasty or if you're willing to spend time learning to prepare foods and then preparing them on a regular basis. I'd really like to see the economics behind that - like most things, stuff produced in mass is "cheaper" than stuff we make ourselves, maybe not in terms of monetary costs, but definitely in terms of labor savings.

The tastiest things tend to pack a big caloric impact, which makes sense from an evolutionary point of view.

Cheaper tasty calories lead to greater caloric intake, which often occurs at the same time an economy is shifting to less labor intensive work. This creates a perfect storm where caloric expenditure is declining at the same time caloric intake is increasing, leading to an obesity epidemic. It's simple physics, conservation of energy/matter. The energy intake of humans increases, but their expenditure declines, the surplus has to go somewhere. That somewhere is our fat stores.
> Turn-by-turn directions was an Android innovation?

In the way it's done in Google Maps Navigation? Absolutely. I used a variety of standalone turn-by-turn GPS navigation devices, including Tom Tom and Garmin, before getting an original Droid in 2009, the first device with Google Maps Navigation. There was a world of difference between the two devices, and things have only gotten better with time.

I don't have any experience with Windows Mobile, but like the OP said, it's all about putting things together into a cohesive package. That's exactly what Google did with Maps Navigation.

> As for your criticisms as to how the iPhone works in the real world, the iPhone's industry leading customer satisfaction ratings (and by a comfortable margin) suggests that you might be overstating the case just a smidge.

I don't think that customer satisfaction ratings are reflective of a company's level of innovation. I know several people who've broken the glass backs on their iPhone 4s and 4Ss three or four times. The reason why they haven't complained (too much) is because there's an Apple store 15 minutes a way that will quickly replace the glass plate for free.
Quick hypothetical scenario.

If I were to open a free wifi network and let anybody use it, say call it: "Free Internet!" and many people used it.

Could I intercept those users personal information suck as Facebook usernames, passwords, emails, etc?

How deep would me penetration go? Or will I only be able to intercept packets?

I always tell my wife to not use online banking etc when she visits a cafe with free internet, but it's just a hunch - not based on my actual knowledge on the matter. That's why I'm asking. Thanks!
Twitter could work as a way to engage in a conversation. For instance, if I tweet about going shopping for clothing, I wouldn't mind if Old Navy tweeted a coupon at me. That's much more complicated but if they could figure something like that out, the ads would be much more useful.
True but this also helps a lot of people who aren't as comfortable with CSS layouts to better understand how grids work. I remember when I was green having one hell of a time understanding how to position elements in a grid and no tutorial really made the idea stick until I used a couple of grid frameworks and messed with them. So I think there's more benefit to this than you'd imagine and as a professional developer myself I actually haven't seen a grid implemented in this way before and it actually gave me a couple of ideas.
In order to minimize complexity in your set up maybe?
Depends if you believe

Judge not, so that ye shall not be judged

Vs.

Judge, and expect to be judged
There's only a handful of ways you can craft the simplest design of a tablet

But apparently that idea is itself radical, since almost no tablets before ~2007 strove for the simplest design.
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AES JS libraries do exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_implementations#Javascript
Not at all what I'm saying, but one of them went into a profession where publicity was the name of the game and the other is just trying to buy groceries with your kids. The paparazzi has been harassing celebrities for decades; it isn't right but it isn't new, and people look down on the people those photographers and often grief them. Cyberbullies taking pictures with their phones behind someone's back for fake internet points that give them some sort of credence in their community is just flat-out disgusting.
The only way you could actually take anyone's bitcoins against their will is by whacking them over the head and stealing their private keys. The solution I proposed is instead to create a "schism" Bitcoin network that refuses to trade with the pyramid scheme operators and does not recognize their coins as valid.

Nothing is being stolen from another person. Instead, the schism network's users will be protected from being robbed in the future by early adopters who possess a great many coins without having placed any dollars, gold, etc. into the exchanges.

Yes, my solution is in some ways harsh and inelegant, but if you don't like it, you should be prepared to deal with the Great Bitcoin Flood once Satoshi and friends finally decide to cash out. Or avoid Bitcoin entirely.
There's also significant market momentum to overcome as screw tops are often associated with cheap wine at the (typical) consumer level.
I think I'd almost prefer to read the questions and answers Google Translated from Russian!
There's a cork recycling bin at the Green Life (owned by Whole Foods) in my hometown. They don't mention what they use it for, as far as I can tell, but I'd guess they sell it somewhere.
Does 10Gen just allow people to trample the trademark on Mongo? Imagine if the company was called OracleHQ.
Thanks for the suggestion - looks like what I am after and I can probably jump on a web framework after I do this one. I only knew about Udacity this one: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr20... and I wanted to skip it as being another introductory course.
>Mega will also grant direct access to their servers for entities such as film studios, allowing them to remove copyright-infringing material themselves.

How? Is this if the person that uploaded the file is openly distributing the key?
You can say that, but there's no way to prove it short of commissioning a study. I don't think the DMCA requires you to hire statisticians to investigate the usage patterns of your site.

And what if someone uploads a wikileaks like pdf that gets downloaded by thousands of people? Is that going to get automatically shut off.
Yelp is going to let users know if it thinks a business' reviews are bogus
nowjs has no concept of security.
My favorite is "It's better when it's unprotected."

No password.
I am a bit sad seeing you downloaded so harshly just for stating your opinion.

For me a big part of the hacker mindset is wanting to understand how anything(!) works. How the things we use every day function in the deepest sense, how they are created, why they exist. This post explains everything about Cork in great detail and I loved learning all that. I hope that HN will always value posts like this highly.
That's interesting. It's a fine line though. I think I'd get annoyed pretty quickly if after every tweet I was solicited for something.

I've been thinking about a real-world analogue for these types of social communities (e.g. synagogues) that actually makes money. The only one I can come up with is something like a fraternity. You pay dues, and have a local chapter that's also part of a larger national organization.

I'm not a giant fan, but it's very similar to the App.net model. Obviously you don't see massive scale, but you do get money without interfering with the social dynamic. Interestingly, the very fact that it costs money may make it more appealing to join. Curious to see where that goes.
I've been using 12.10 for several weeks now. The only difference I notice is the new kernel, otherwise my xmonad desktop looks just the same as in 12.04.

Although the installation was a bliss. The fastest OS installation I've ever done. Even the boot time is pretty fast, around 6 seconds with my workstation.
that's all good and well, except for it to resemble the previous model, there would need to be a mechanism for key exchange and search by title => key, which would need to move underground. without a search facility it loses most of its piracy value.
It is institutionalized, when there are groups on reddit or wherever that regularly shares and encourages creation - isn't that what the conversation was about? SO what is your comment about? Simple denial is not an argument.

And I'm guessing millions now know - how many is enough by your estimate?
This looks very interesting, but can anyone tell me how scalable is this? All the examples I've seen are small scale; but can it support, say, 1000 clients? 10_000 ? Higher?
It's not that easy though.. Bitcoin transactions are public, and the community is relatively tightknit. Eventually a thief has to use a payment processor to get real dollars from their heist, and from that point onwards look over their shoulder in public.
> "Fat poor people?"

This seems only incredible because you don't understand the mechanics of being poor.

Contrary to popular belief, the main bottleneck of being poor is not access to food - the market has solved that part remarkably well, and farming improvements throughout the last century (Borlaug is perhaps rolling in his grave) means that food in general is so cheap that everyone in a developed country has access to it.

The main bottleneck of being poor is time.

A poor person spends considerably more time just to ensure survival than a wealthy person, and has remarkably little "disposable" time remaining in a day. Long, irregular hours, possibility of multiple jobs, lack of access to speedy/on-demand transportation, lack of access to time-creating conveniences (laundromat far way instead of laundry in the house, for example), all serve to make time the rarest resource for the poor.

That's not an exhaustive list by the way, and I don't pretend to know the full exhaustive list.

All of this means that the poor gravitates towards fast, low-effort food, and the rest makes sense.
The general algorithm that more activity, better quality food and less total food will lead to weight decrease holds for even those unfortunate individuals who have genetic disadvantages and/or a history of obesity.

Yes, they may need to do much more activity and eat much less food or in different ratios than others to see results, but that doesn't change the fact that the same algorithm is: 1. the only known way to make progress, 2. well understood.

I was trying to sidestep the very issue (and same old tired conversation) you're trying to avoid: blaming individuals.

Because while it's arguable that a given hypothetical person might be overweight due their own choices and failings, it's next to impossible to argue that massive society-wide changes in health, in a single generation, are simply the result of huge swaths of a society all making the same bad personal decision, all at the same time.
/r/trees and /r/athiesm might not evoke the same rancor in you as /r/CreepyShots but I am sure it does to somebody.

So, while I don't personally think they are equivalent on an offensiveness scale (I personally don't find /r/trees or /r/atheism offensive at all), somebody might. Should reddit censor those subreddits too? Maybe they should allow people to take a vote on controversial subreddits every week and remove the ones that don't make the cut? I don't know.

I am not defending CreepyShots. I am trying to start a conversation that might lead to some answers that I simply don't have. How do we defend open expression of ideas while censoring things? Is it possible? How offensive does something have to be to reach the censorship threshold? Is there a better test (e.g. legality (doh! /r/trees) or potential danger to others (doh! /r/athiesm)?) Can we let the mob decide on a periodic basis?

I know how I personally deal with it. I just don't subscribe to those subreddits.
be aware that this isn't a great user experience - a number of ubuntu specific features will work poorly or not at all while you're logged in under gnome shell, and several gnome 3 desktop integration features also won't be working. It's mostly fixable, but very much a trial and error experience.
This library is the culmination of two years of work by myself and another programmer. There's still lots to do, especially in the realm of animation and performance enhancements, but in spite of these I think it is one of the fastest and most complete canvas diagramming libraries to date.

Sorry about the site's look and feel, I have had little time to give it a (vastly needed!) makeover, but some people were asking when it would be released so I thought I'd make an announcement.

If you want to get right to the samples you can view them here: http://gojs.net/latest/samples/

If you have any questions (even just canvas-specific ones) I'd be happy to answer them. I've been consumed by canvas for some time now, so much so that if you asked a canvas question on StackOverflow there's a 10% chance that I was the answerer!
Having worked there, I can guarantee they'll handle layoffs in the least diplomatic way possible. I'm guessing an email saying, "Thanks for your 30 years of service, see ya!"
Well, if you own the AP you're going to have quite a bit of visibility, but that might not even be necessary...

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1827928

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
Amazon Web Services itself has three distinct services [1] for database as a service: SDB (2007), RDS (2009), and DynamoDB (2012). If there wasn't demand or money in it, I'm sure they would have stopped at their first, simplest iteration.

[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/
I had a startup where we put countries in a pulldown. The country list was pulled verbatim by me from one of Google's properties, which I assumed to be up to date. Within a few days I had several emails from people in Macao saying the name of the country was wrong and needed to be fixed. The entry had some mention of China in parenthesis and it wasn't until I researched a bit further I realized it was a 'special administrative region' of China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_administrative_region

While I had no horse in the race, I welcomed the opportunity to learn more about someone else's culture. Perhaps it's not so much taking sides as it is better understanding all the people who are involved.
If Mega doesn't do that, another group will. Then that group will be partially liable too.

Part of the point of this is to make the problem too big to raid, too many people to litigate.
Writing a Python Book... in Python
Wonderful video, thanks. The hollow sound of the axe hitting the bark and the breaking are fantastic. I have no idea why, but I love them.
Whether or not you use this hack, you can't naively trust the client to always send valid UTF-8; you're right about this. But because of this bug in IE, rejecting posts with invalid UTF-8 as malicious will net you some false-positive cases, where the user isn't malicious but the browser is being stupid. This hack takes care of the stupidity, leading to a better user experience for people who would otherwise have tripped the false-positive.
No, it doesn't. Spectrum analyzers can detect WiFi signals regardless of whether or not they are broadcasting an SSID, which includes discerning what channel they are on. By extension, most software built-in to WAPs that automatically chooses the channel to reduce conflicts will do similar spectrum analysis. You can read GP's article from TechNet for more information on this.
check out http://localresponse.com/ - they do something similar but based on explicit and implicit checkins (disclaimer: I interned with them about 2 yrs ago)
Hack or not: picking sports and cashing out (legally)
I enjoyed an entrepreneurial one to the effect of:

"Pay 1711 10 bones for access"
Twitter, Reddit and the battle over freedom of speech
Programmers is for things related to the profession and trade of programming, and is more people- and politics-oriented (e.g. how do I get a raise?)

Stackoverflow is for stuff strictly about code, APIs, languages, syntax, etc.
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> That is a morality! That's a moral decision.

I understand it to be more of an economic/legal decision, not moral. Laws are crafted after morals, but following the law does not make you morally sound. It only allows you to maintain your freedom by avoiding prosecution.

> Every decision you make has a moral component;

What we're discussing here is the moral motivation (or lack of it) of Reddit. Any moral implications it has for the population are irrelevant.
No disrespect whatsoever to MongoHQ, but I'm skeptical that there will ever be a big market for database as a service.

These are all niche, and likely to remain so:
- Companies willing to use public cloud;
- Companies willing to adopt NoSQL;
- Companies willing to move production data outside of their control;
- Companies who would rather not manage their production database.

Operating in any one of those niches is challenging, let alone at the intersection of all of them.
Tweetbot for Mac is available in the App Store
Not as straightforward as in other more established server-side frameworks, I assume. It's part of the reason I'm reluctant to ditch my server-side framework of choice (Rails) in favor of an all-encompassing solution like Meteor. There are more than just javascript clients that need to access my APIs.
Tweetbot For Mac Now Available For $19.99: Token Limits Blamed For Price
I'm working on a social card game platform targeting web / Facebook, phones, and tablets.
I usually despise the word, but Google has indeed disrupted turn-by-turn navigation. The day they announced to provide it for free and integrated, TomTom and other stock crashed.