skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could bit.ly just see if a Location header is sent and if it there is one that is not to a .gov domain to not use the 1.usa.gov shortener?
The 70's-90's is when stop and frisk became prevalent. Now it's established practice.

I'm not saying what the TSA is doing is okay. I said I find it amusing to watch the armchair civil libertarians come out of the woodwork soon as something inconveniences them and argue against the TSA from an extremely principled position.
DDOSs are typically defeated through buying lots and lots of transit. That's an exercise in outspending your adversary.

A small entity like github should be trivial to saturate.
ReDoS: regular expression denial of service
what is up with this ambiguous skill set that you have mentioned? believe me, if your good at what you do... and you are on a team of incompetent dorks, then telling me to develop "social" skills is a lose-lose situation.

your thesis gets: "denied"
Care to elaborate why GitHub would be a target for a state sponsored DDOS attack? Seems a little far-fetched, for a website that is virtually unknown outside of the developer community
Wouldn't this be an easy fix for bit.ly, just crawl the url and see if it redirects to a non .gov site?
Agreed. It should be rank ordered by losses then wins.
And the number pad doesn't work.

Otherwise, I like it though.
Oddly enough, I fit that mold pretty well.

But I have a Nissan Hardbody, which is a small engine truck. Good gas mileage, reliable as hell.

I like it.
Also often misquoted by leaving out "A foolish" so programmers and designers can dodge criticism on their APIs or designs.
It's pretty incredible that you can create a render in 7 hours including making the model, and nobody noticed that it wasn't even a real phone. 3D Photo-realistic rending has come a long way.
I disagree with your emphasis of "hospitals", because I think of hospitals as much more dangerous and threatening than airports. Your odds per visit of being killed by hospital-acquired infections alone are hugely greater than all forms of death caused by air travel.
although the first to do space tourism will be the rich.

They will hover over us and instead of thinking how small they are, will feel at peace having escaped the rest of us... who are now too small to see.
API Hack Sunday - October 21st, Hacker house, $500 cash prize.
oh, thanks. that's very nice of them. i really didn't expect that level of honesty.
6 Billion subscribers can’t be wrong
Which devices allow them to interact with other devices such as TV, radio, outdoor and in-store, and finally, help enable product purchases
and other types of transactions?
> or being able to blot out the entire planet with your thumb held at arm's distance, as was the case for the guys that made it to the moon

At first I didn't believe you, but some quick math confirms this. The angular size of the Earth from the moon is 1.9 degrees, and the angular width of your thumb at arm's distance is about 2 degrees.
I think this discussion is just semantics at this point. Any highly refined idea to the point of tangibility is indistinguishable from execution at that point.

I wish this post would have given an example of one of these great "ideas" that have clear intrinsic value, even just in retrospect. Like what? Facebook's "idea" of an exclusive social network? That seems more like execution than an idea to me, especially considering we all know the story that multiple teams tried it and one won out -- and the one that got the traction was the one people cared about.

It seems to me that ideas, at best, are negatively important. A bad idea can kill a company obviously, but a "good idea" (whatever that means) guarantees nothing. I'd much rather have an all star team working on a terrible idea, since the idea is the easiest thing to pivot from. You can't pivot from your own team and skills -- well, maybe you can fire everyone (including yourself?), but that's kind of precisely the point.
Dear sweet "Grams" is only on Facebook because that's where her grandchildren hang out. If they leave, do you think she's going to stick around? Doubt it.
In the broadest sense, github is a site where anyone can upload and publicize any file of reasonable size. Depending on who is uploading what, that could easily make them a target.
It could just be some rogue deployment script running from EC2 that are a little more active that it should be. Imagine someone is deploying their 1GB repo from GitHub to 100 small EC2 instances :)
Not a book, but Andrew Ng's coursera course (or Stanford class video lectures) are great and have lots of practical tips.
Has anyone seen data on # of opt-outs?

The little bit I've seen came from a recent visit to a small regional airport in a swing state which I'll keep anonymous. This airport serves ~4000 passengers per day. The woman had a piece of paper where she kept tally of opt-outs. At mid-day there were ~40 opt outs (including mine). So 80/4000 = 2% opt-out rate I'd say is higher than I was expecting!
This is what makes the Nexus season exciting. Although a lot of people will probably be disappointed.

I think he should have toned down with the bump and specular maps. The nature of the "scuffiness" was what tipped me off immediately. Also the pogo pins just didn't look right. Could have done without those too.
Sounds like you need to look at that quote a little bit more... I think your missing the point.
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong
Two digit range in a dirt-cheap super-fast roadster? Yes, please.
> Sv is 1 joule of radiation absorbed for every kg of a person's weight, but that 1 joule could come from alphas, betas, gammas, or x-rays. It may be a fixed amount of energy, but whether it comes from photons or electrons or positrons or helium nuclei is _IMPORTANT_.

No, that's factually incorrect. You're thinking of the gray (Gy), which is 1 J/kg no matter what. 1 J of gamma absorbed is 1 Gy and 1 Sv, but 1 J of alpha absorbed is 1 Gy and 20 Sv. 1 Sv of neutrons is only 0.1 Gy.

It doesn't help that they are dimensionally equivalent, so there's a proliferation of unit converters which consider the conversion to be 1.0 always.

> Unless someone works with radiation, I cannot imagine how anyone's skin is constantly bombarded by these types of particles.

Depends. Some people have granite countertops in their kitchens which give off Radon, an alpha emitter. (Not all granite does this.)
Meta: I really cannot get over thinking "Cisco" whenever I see "IOS". Is HN auto-capitalizing these titles?

The first few pages of results on HNSearch reveal that whenever iOS is the first word in a title, it is "IOS", but if it isn't then it stays correct. Except for this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4673060
The interface is excellent. If you had NBA statistics, I would be willing to pay for this.
Does a man drifting at sea feel like he has escaped humanity? Even a wealthy man?
I think your[sic] missing the point.

Speaking of missing details and being wrong . . .
The answer to Facebook's (and everyone else's) HTML5 app performance problem
Offering financial returns would be against kickstarter terms of service (and possibly illegal depending how it was structured).
The reason for the controversy is

1) this level of dose is thought safe if absorbed throughout the body;
2) there is no consensus on whether this level is safe if absorbed solely in the skin; it sounds like the question simply has not been studied.
The Ultimate Guide To Link Building Content Creation
While not as famous as Tor in Iran, for example, there are VPN implementations on GitHub, in addition to what rcthompson said.
Great article great tips except for the last paragraph haha. I think the article should have omitted that last one. It feels like it ruins everything, like all the learning of the article gone to waste LOL. Feels like I'm learning from an asshole. But then you think: well we should all learn from each other, but only learn the good things, not the bad ones. No one's perfect.
The shower problem
certain small businesses may provide charge-ups for free to customers

I just spotted a free electric car charging spot at a drugstore in Seattle (Wallgreen's on Market st. in Ballard). It made me feel like I was in the future.
Thanks for replying. I'd still love to know more about the process of getting permission to show conference and team logos.
How many failures did we predict for Facebook and Google and only god knows how many other companies. There is at least one every week for Facebook. Windows & Microsoft aren't going anywhere. At least not any time in this decade.
implementing a vm in javascript would be noticeably slower than compiling directly to javascript. Dart has its own vm, which will eventually be bundled with chrome since it's a google-backed project, but for backwards compatibility it still needs a dart source to javascript source compiler.
Wasn't that the original goal of Java, like, 20 years ago?
hmm, it autocapitalized on submit, but not on edit.
No, I am not trolling. Please try to read comments more charitably instead of assuming malice. Yes, I was comparing skin dose to the annual limit for the whole body. Depending on what you count as skin, skin is 2-5% of an adult's mass. So it would take thousands of scans per year to exceed the dose limit. In other words, safe.

I know what a sievert is (your definition is incorrect) and I know different types of ionizing radiation affect different tissues differently. But the safety margin is so great (89,000!) that it would take a new mechanism of action for such a tiny dose of X-rays to cause disease.

Edit: Because you deleted your comment, other readers now have no clue what I responded to. :/
In Ruby 2100 is an exact integer. In JavaScript, it is promoted to a poor floating point approximation. If you want to try to preserve Ruby's numeric semantics, you can't use native math.
There's some statistic out there somewhere from some paper which found out that like 3 out of every 4 (or something ridiculous like that) cyber attack on the US government comes from China so...it's not that farfetched.
I learned about the Anatomy of a Hoax the hard way.

When I was younger I tried to play a trick on my friends by making them think Google had hired me as their youngest employee. Turns out I not only tricked my friends but half of the tech news/blogosphere, despite my press release being full of spelling and grammar errors.

I learned a lot that week about the internet, the media, and my parents...

Context: http://news.cnet.com/GoogleNewsdumpspartnerafterprankitemapp...
Ask HN: What kind of discount would you require to buy a Chromebook with ads?
Never click on links until you are on the destination site is the advice I give to friends/family who aren't computer sophisticated. (Up there with Never Open attachments in your email and never install new programs on your computer)

Those two practices, typing in "www.wellsfargo.com" instead of clicking on a link that suggests it will be taking you there, and never, ever, opening any attachment, cuts down on 95% of the malware attacks that these people experience.

Most non-computer users aren't sophisticated enough to understand what links they can, and cannot click on, so they are safer just typing out URLs and navigating from there. It's great advice for those people. Bookmarks make the practice a little more efficient as well.

As much as we computer sophisticates despise the "Walled-Garden" aspects of the Apple Store (and soon, the Microsoft Store) - those should also significantly reduce the amount of malware people end up installing when they add new programs. It may not eliminate it (as we saw when Path uploaded people's Address Book information onto their servers without asking the user permission) - but, between application review + client-side checks on privacy - malware infestations have experienced a radical drop on stock iOS devices vs what a user's computing experience used to be in the Bad Old days of Windows 95/XP in which even _I_ got nailed by a trojan or two.
I'm not sure how I feel about the ethics of this. Did we learn anything we didn't already know? That most tech bloggers don't properly source their material. That once enough momentum is behind a story, more well-established outlets will run with it as well. I think most of us knew those things already.
Oh I get that. I'm sure they did as good as job as possible, but it still makes me nervous.

As nice a language as Ruby is, I don't think it's worth the trade-off. I'll stick with CoffeeScript since it's a nice compromise between Ruby and JavaScript.
Every programmer should have the skill of ...startup? What fluff. I think what he's trying to say in this section is
(a) - it is more satisfying to work on a project you care about than to be well paid
(b) - you will be exposed to the entire product lifecycle at a startup and not at a big business, which is useful if you are planning to build products at your own startup later.

Aside from the semantic quibble that neither of these are 'skills' that a programmer should have, I think (a) is proposing a false dilemma, and (b) is not necessarily true, and even if true, is not shown to be useful to 'all programmers' (per the title) but just 'programmers who want to be entrepeneurs', a much smaller group.
Meet Code for America 2013
Certainly I can't influence this election from where I vote in New Jersey. But maybe my vote today will influence the next one.

(I'm going to throw out the pretense of being unbiased, because it's easier to write honestly. But feel free to replace my favorite candidate according to your conscience.)

There are many people who believe that the GOP has turned its back on its core principles; indeed, the Tea Party was a pretty strong demonstration of that. Yet the party persists on playing the same old political games despite these loud voices. So the people need to speak in even louder terms to make them hear.

I harbor few illusions that my vote will put Gary Johnson in the White House. But I do hope that when all the votes are counted, the GOP will say, "if all those votes for Gary Johnson had instead gone to our candidate, we would have won". If that were to happen, then I think there would be a strong incentive next time around for them to choose a candidate and platform that would be more palatable to those votes they lost to Johnson.
New site ownership verification option in Chrome Web Store
Because the App Store devalued the price of software. $0.99 was not normal before 2008. You can't build and maintain great software on $0.99.
* very low two digit. If you use, for example, a bunch of lead-acid or something like that, you'll see much more than 2-3x reduction in capacity.
Just SSH in general. I can't push to my repo from my laptop in most cases.
How SocialCheck.me Builds A "Trust Infrastructure"
Maybe I'm naive, but could they be stealing someone's code? Otherwise I think it's just someone who's trying to prove something.
The name of the company that makes the scanners is actually called Rapiscan? How did I miss this?
Should we all vote for Mitt Romney then? jk :)
One small step for mankind....and one giant leap for privacy
Hah, read the title as "football, the sort you play with a round ball" and got rather excited. Only minor disappontment ensued when I realized you were talking about "handegg". ;)

Still, I love this kinda stuff and have been pining for more creative, dynamic presentations of futbol stats. I wish anyone could explain to me why every darn mainstream coverage site has the same, boring chart of the same, boring dozen stats. Sagarin does some fun math, but his presentation is uninspired at best.

For all the uses of highly-dynamic HTML5/JS that are distracting and unnecesary, presentation of stats is just a homerun! </zing>
> Yes. But unless our understanding of physics and/or biology is very wrong, they're not dangerous.

Our understanding of the relationship between low-level doses of radiation and cancer is frighteningly incomplete -- to the point where it's not even certain that the cancer rate doesn't go down when low level radiation increases. This is nothing more than an appeal to authority -- the FDA makes the policy, not the science.
My favorite part:

' I, an individual with no previous worldwide recognition save for a frontpage Reddit post, managed to alter the behavior of people in Russia, Japan, Uzbekistan, and Italy within the course of 24 hours, all from the comfort of my home while exerting next to no effort.'

'The internet is still in its infancy. The mobile space is a goddamn zygote. Stand tall, Mr. Dev and Mrs. Entrepreneur; don’t be discouraged. I get it, you’re burnt out, but there’s so much more we can do in this space. We can all make our marks, make some money, and change peoples’ lives.'
"Know Your Niche - Sports" Video Interview with Jim Boyle of iPlaybook
may whoever is doing this be doomed to use SVN the rest of their lives ...
This is a problem with the .gov sites. Forget the shortening issue; that any site would happily redirect anything is nuts. I get they're doing it for tracking purposes, in which case, would it be that hard to whitelist the redirect URLs?
Meta-comment:

When you post using the indentation formatting to get fixed chars, you get a scrolling mess like this that's pretty much unreadable.

Putting in that indentation doesn't improve your post, it makes it enough trouble to read that I don't bother.
GitHub Pages had DoS today https://status.github.com/
How to run a Windows service as a Linux daemon
I wonder why you felt the need to leave this comment.
Or <meta http-equiv="refresh">, or a java-script redirect, etc, etc?
They're going for "rapid scan," not what you're thinking of. Still terrible either way.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir? - John Maynard Keynes
It reminded you to take the next rumor with a bucket of salt. And for some, to think twice before investing in a company, based on rumors.
It was called out as a hoax pretty early, though, much earlier than other hoaxes we've seen online.
This is beautiful. What charting libraries are you using?
Bergie's halloJS is awesome!

Would be great to see some keyboard support in the future however. eg Super-B/ctrl-b for bold. Haven't tested on Windows, but OS X is lacking working functionality in the latest build
The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists [pdf]
It's the standard weapon of botnet blackmail. Target a large site, bring it down, ask for money.

Fighting DDoS attacks is not trivial, especially if you're against a sophisticated botnet, and your code has multiple slow parts.
As far as I am aware, gnome 2 was losing maintainer focus. Certainly right now, it's hard to clearly find gnome 2/debian sid results on google - something that is important when things go wrong. XFCE is somewhat coarse but usable... if only it wasn't the only desktop that prevented my laptop from resuming from sleep. The tiling WMs I haven't installed, but when looking at their webpages don't seem to be traditional desktops - floating windows, ability to put thing on the desktop itself. The latter item is important to my workflow, and I can't understand the religious zeal with which people think that the desktop must be clear these days...
Workers move closer to lower Manhatten
From what I've seen it's usually a rational business or policy decision. And your adversaries are in, or acting through, states with a weak rule of law. "Exposing" these actors is impossible/useless until you address that.
"With more people viewing the Earth from afar, perhaps the world will gain a little more perspective, and a better sense of proportion."

Interestingly enough the reason we have the pictures of the earth from space is that Stewart Brand started a petition to get them declassified because he thought seeing the pictures would induce the same sort of experience (and pro-social behavioral shift) as LSD. Apparently he actually had the idea while on acid, while sitting on his roof in San Francisco.
Hey, he had to work Hacker News in somewhere.
The word "their" refers to Cloudflare's racks, not the datacenter's racks. Cloudflare might have two racks out of a thousand, but all the equipment in those two racks were supplied by Cloudflare, not rented/leased from the datacenter.
The Men Who Built America - New series on the History channel
Sprite Animations Using Icon Fonts
"Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned."--Avicenna
Sites that involve credit cards or banking are in a whole different category. For those I think the best advice is to only use https bookmarks.

In that vein, here's an idea for a browser feature. When someone enters something into a form that looks like a credit card number, bank account number, or bank routing number, black out the entire browser (including the url bar) and require them to type in the domain they think they're submitting to. If they get it wrong they can't submit the form (at least for a few minutes).
When you live in one town all your life you get a better/different perspective when you travel to another city. The same goes for then visting other parts of your country and then inbetween countries and then continents. Each time the effect is more pronounced than before. You realize the insignificance of many of your "problems" when you met other people from very different socioeconomic backgrounds. I wonder if space is just the most absolute point of this effect.

Elegant blog post. If only because it didn't overcrowd us with thoughts but rather set the stage for pondering.
Yo Dawg, I heard you like Steve Ballmer
Several months ago I was getting fax calls at 1am-2am repeatedly. The phone company told me to use this service to mark the calls. However, it turns out that since the nature of the calls weren't technically "harassing", they couldn't do anything about it. Apparently if someone calls me in the middle of the day and says "penis", that could get them in trouble; but waking my wife and I night after night is not harassing. Go figure.

So the police couldn't legally do anything, and the phone company wouldn't do anything. That's when I finally dumped traditional telephone service. If the phone company isn't interested in giving me a product with the features I want, I'll find someone else who will.

Now I've got VoIP service. I can see a complete record of who called me (subject to CID spoofing), and I can set up blacklists for incoming numbers according to my own whims.
Seems like it's using a lexographical sort on any column with numbers and letters (like "42 yds").
Advice? If you get something smaller and more focused in the big company - The political stuff only LOOKS like it has gone away, know that it is there and you'll have built up negative political equity when you didn't see the politics. When you come out of your project be mindful that the companies political immune system may see you as a pathogen to be attacked.
Would love to see a breakdown of how you set this up as well as know what libraries.
I haven't read the article because I read comments first and the comments are confirming my suspicion that it is mostly nonsense. But I wonder, how does something like this make it to the front page? Are people upvoting it and not leaving comments? Perhaps downvoting of articles should be allowed.
> 1. Always use jslint.

Or jshint!
He is better off making sure that his company is not facing the end soon. For a company that is in business for almost a decade, they are yet to turn a profit.
Nothing special here, tax shelters work by generating artificial tax losses that are written off, or by using indefinite deferments.

In this artificial losses are generated by the movie theater piling each shell company up with faux "service charges".