skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect this was driven by frustration.

HMG are driving hard to push government to citizen interaction online to reduce costs and speed up the transactions. The financial transactions are a huge amount of money passing over the Internet leaving aside the serious duty of care they assume for vulnerable or at-risk citizens.

This relies on knowing who is driving the browser you're transacting with. when you're dealing with the entire population there are a lot of people who it's difficult to establish a valid identity for.

Knowledge-based authentication is the 'good enough' answer used by commercial providers but for a significant proportion of the population it's broken by their social network use and footprint.
Just like Windows always has, and then some. Chrome's already got a Metro-friendly build (though the UI is still identical to the desktop); and Dropbox et. al. can hook in via "Contracts" (similar to Android Intents) to other apps and Windows itself.
Looks good on my computer, but unfortunately it's rather broken on both my Android phone and tablet
I recently had cause to log in to facebook (first time in 6 months) because my account had been compromised and was used to place a bunch of ads ("find hot guys in your area") which they had apparently approved (and ran to ~$100 in a few hours).

I was impressed with the account recovery process ("you entered an old password -- do you want to recover your account?"), but I felt like they were completely optimized for recovery versus preventing the intrusion in the first place (ala Google's two-factor auth).

Anyway, in this case they obviously took the wrong approach with the blogger and I hope it blows up in their faces. (Microsoft and everyone else used to not be nice to security researchers, Facebook will no doubt learn that cooperation is a better strategy too).
This is pretty insane. Did you ever agree to the confidentiality of the conversation you were having?
Would love to help! What kind of meetup are you thinking?
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I am kind of thinking this will be FTL but you will be able to board and fight off boarders yourself in first person as well as program various ship systems.
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The 'ugliness' of Python
Water is heavy. For spaceflight, what almost always counts is the performance of something per unit of weight/mass. It's not so efficient to launch a large mass of water that contributes nothing to the mission besides boiling off on reentry. Your article mentions this offhandedly: "But the weight of all that water on a real mission may well swell launch costs."

Water is a good coolant because it absorbs lots of heat energy in boiling. But that's not so efficient for its weight/mass, since a water molecule boils only once and then is gone. A solid material can disperse more heat per weight over a longer time without being consumed.
I wonder if Apple and Microsoft will get that at some point, i bet on Google not because they are superior in every way but i can trust them not locking me out when i change the ecosystem.
Congrats on launching Dan. ;-)
it's cool. but it is in no way unnerving.
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Absent a trade surplus or radical and drastic cuts to US military spending, paying down the debt is impossible.

This sort of deleveraging would suck too much money out of the economy. We are barely hanging on borrowing a trillion dollars a year.

The most likely scenario: minimal economic growth and near-zero interest rates for the foreseeable future.
Citations? I am familiar with the parent's argument, but haven't heard this one before.
Living in an "important swing state" at the moment, the last thing I need is more factoids about the presidential race. Every form of media is completely saturated with the same talking points, and it is quite exhausting. It would be nice to hear more about the senate, house and state elections.
I don't think I've seen any media coverage/ads for any election besides the presidential race.
FYI Facebook has two-factor auth as well: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920.
So Facebook is not only the x largest state, but also acts on the same level of paranoia as government agencies do?
"Y Combinator is the most exclusive thing in the world that you can openly apply to."

I hope you don't actually believe that... if you do, start-up groupthink is definitely getting to you.
It's clearly a viral marketing ploy. Standard theme: create some type of countdown website (or some other cryptic message) then seed a few high popularity forums by pretending to have stumbled across this thing nobody would ever actually find.

Yeah, I'm looking at you DonnyV.
Not unnerving, but pretty awesome!
There's a certain implied responsibility that comes with releasing source. While the community is clearly better off with any sort of source release than with none, their reputation could still take a hit if the source release has problems like these.
I know this is Hacker news, but hacking, bootstrapping or kickstarting are slowly becoming meaningless buzzwords.

Please please stop using them for anything.
Congratulations! Excited to get more students in my group so I can learn what's going on back at my alma mater and help out.
You're right, it's not that different - what killed us was unsupported gems that were wired deeply into our system, along with operations weaknesses that made changing ruby versions extremely challenging.

We took extra time to refactor those weaknesses out, so future changes like this one will be much simpler.

Incidentally, we don't parse log files - our agents send Thrift, JSON, and Ruby Marshaled data. String changes affected us a little bit, but the vast majority of the code in that tier is Java anyway. Only the front-end code is in Rails anymore.
This is pretty cool. Geolocalized data is huge
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James,
Thanks for asking this question on HN. My position is same like yours. I am a UNIX system admin and I am also trying to learn coding. 16 hours on HN and 0 comments is the proof that people do ignore sys admins who are trying to change their career to coding :)). That was a joke BTW.

What you can do to get noticed is instead of you going to people and asking for job why not you build something (a website, an app, or any other thing) to get their attention. I am planning to do the same. Sharing your code on github will be an perfect strategy but if it is not working for you then try to make something practical out of it. I am sure with your kind of confidence you can build something nice and attractive.

Good Luck with your quest.
we use HTTPS to talk to the API, even though the main site isn't. i know this isn't ideal, but we're aware of it, thanks!
I can't imagine spending over a month writing your YC application is something PG would recommend, but I do love the idea of having a few random people explain your application back to you. That's great advice about being sure you're writing is clear in general.

I can't imagine "we're already making money" and the fact that you were doing it monetization journalism (an RFS and a tough one) didn't help you get in more than the clarity of your application though. That seems to be a proof point beyond anything you could have written, to me.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I prefer Python and find it is more inferable than Ruby.
What I don't understand is why manufacturers were able to do something as crazy as reverse-engineer the lightning bolt encryption mechanisms so they could start selling after-market lightning bolt cables, but something as simple (to my uneducated mind) as reverse engineering a screw driver just hasn't happened.

I would think by now there would be at least _one_ vendor in a country with fewer qualms around intellectual property who would be willing to violate whatever licenses/patents/copyrights there are on this pentalobe screwdriver form, and make them available at a very healthy markup to the many, many iphone/ipad repair shops out there (not to mention those interested hobbyists who would like to open up their own phone)

Particularly if that vendor was already manufacturing an assortment of other screwdriver bits, I would have to believe the marginal additional cost of analyzing these new screws, and creating a screw driver that could map to it properly, shouldn't be that great a challenge.

Are there any mechanical engineers with more knowledge than me who might be able to explain why this hasn't happened?
Secure calls, messaging, and e-mail
Somehow, the most interesting thing to me upon clicking this link aren't the answers but the relationships and demographics of responders and voters on Quora.

At a glance, looking at the top voted answer here. The upvoters are 13% are followers of the responder, 6% have surnames which are common in the USA, 15% have surnames common in India...

I'm sure the folks at Quora are drawing all kinds of interesting trends out of all those relationships.
We had the same suspicion but only one customer had observed it repeatably in the wild. We turned out to be customer number two. :) If you're running 1.9, definitely get agent 3.5 as soon as you can.
Out of curiousity, do you find that a lot of people applying under RFS don't understand their domain? It seems to me that a lot of those things are things that are both clearly broken, and not yet fixed, which means you get a lot of people from the sidelines saying "Oh all you need to do to fix that is ..." not knowing that the exact thing has been tried and failed dozens of times.
What is Michael Brutsch doing in a private moderator discussion board on Reddit?
I don't know why Facebook reacted like that. But as I understand, those information are not from Facebook itself. They are from an unknown third party app. Also, anyone who has a knowledge in Facebook API can mine those information by creating a Facebook app. I'm sure those app like "God wants you to know" have more than 1 million Facebook information.

By reacting like that, I think Facebook can be considered as guilty as charged.
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I really liked your resumonk. www.resumonk.com My score 85/100

Coming to engem (70/100)

I want myself to customize fonts(style+size)
Sometimes I donot want to show users my area/industry or no. of connections.
I donot have a pic on linkedin, but it shows a broken image on engem..

On top of everything, this was a really good attempt.. Keep going
You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life.

I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.
It would be a stack overflow, except Racket does not stack overflow--it will grab more memory, make a bigger stack, and continue. Eventually your problem would be "out of memory".
Its not quite identical, if you launch it via the desktop its the same but if you launch it via the "metro" launcher its more like a Chromebook.
Oh, come on. It's only 2 more weeks. Just think of it like a really big sporting event, except way less impactful ;)
Since I have the preview on a VM, I figured I'd look into this for you. An installation of Chrome gives you a desktop and a metro version. Chrome doesn't give you the option of pinning a page to the Start screen. You can still use the Win8's Share feature to send a link via the People hub or Mail. The People hub lets me send via Facebook or Twitter. Mail works as you'd expect. Pages that were previously pinned with IE remain pinned after you change your default browser to Chrome, but you can only have one Metro browser, it seems. The pinned pages open in Desktop IE after that change.

I won't know until tomorrow (Friday) about Skype as that is when they release it for Windows 8. Other tools likely will require some effort on the part of the developers to support the native features. You're a good a judge as me as to whether open-source apps will make that effort.

Anything else I can look into for you?
I've updated the post to clarify, as obviously nobody knows for sure. Many financial pundits think it might happen, with the RMB backed by a combination of gold and a basket of currencies.
At the start of the jump you're already going about 27000 km/h (ISS orbital velocity). The falling part of the problem isn't the hard part.
An HTML5 application. Unless you pronounce H as Haytch (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11642588).

An is for words beginning with vowel sounds. The letter the word begins with may or may not be a vowel. An umbrella. A university. An RDBMS. A SQL (if pronounced sequel), an SQL (is pronounced S Q L).

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I just took a look and read some reviews, impressive specs. but still hate the design, this doesn't look like a slim computer. really love the specs, but unfortunately hate the design/look.
This was published in Jan 2012.
Note that the "binary blob" is not executing within the linux kernel or the arm core at all, it's running on the videocore, a mostly undocumented piece of a black box.

At some level this is the case for all hardware. Take a ordinary ethernet nic. Back in the days it was a piece of silicon on a PCB and some glue to get the data onto the CPU and main memory. Such a chip is treated as just hardware, a black box in which we can poke at some registers, get some interrupts a shuffle data back & forth.

Now, inside that black box of a NIC is a whole world in itself. The act of framing and deframing ethernet with all the details around it is actually quite complicated, the spec. even for 100mbit ethernet is orders of magnitude bigger than e.g. the spec of TCP/IP. There's a lot of stuff happening inside that NIC - and there's parts that break. (e.g. as shown in some parts of this rather hilarius piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8EFwKVKdA).

Now - as NICs got even more complicated, and supported even more stuff, checksum offloading, more buffering, SSL offloading and many other things, parts of many NICs today have a lot of the functionality implemented in FPGAs. Which we some times doen't see, and in other cases have to upload a binary blob to before it can be activated.

The difference is now that the pre-made chip on our NICs can change, with software, after it's been shipped from the factory. This is increasingly common for many types of hardware, in this case for an OpenGL core, though perhaps even a level up from FPGAs. But we can still treat it as a black box, through which we just send commands, poke at registers and so on.

Now - I'm not saying such stuff shouldn't be open source - it would be awesome if it were, it'd allow us to fix and extend them. I'm just saying that what's done with the "shim" for the videocore on the raspberry is a common approach to interfacing with peripherals - the main difference is the black box have to be programmed after it has left the factory.
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It's not a problem with the legal system, it's a problem with human nature. It is easier to blame someone for doing nothing, then to blame someone who does something and fails.
Is Apple trying to stop end users or repair shops?

What percentage of ios users have even considered opening their phones?
I think Sony overestimates the amount of piracy that this will enable. I softmodded my Wii long ago (in order to unlock the region to play Japanese and European games on a U.S. Wii). Ever since it's been an incredible pain in the butt to keep it updated to the latest modded firmware revisions in order to play legitimate games. Almost every time I buy a new game I have to dig through an incredibly dense array of sketchy forum posts and file sharing sites to find the newly patched custom firmware.

If a person were looking to play a game on its release day (legitimate or pirated), they would find the process so time consuming and annoying that I doubt more than 1% of Wii owners would bother with it. I would guess the same pattern would repeat for hacked PS3s. Of course, even a 1% loss in sales would be a pretty big blow for Sony and the other developers, but it's debatable whether or not that population would have paid for a pirated game in the first place.

Does anyone know if Nintendo ever announced how much they've lost in sales to piracy on the Wii? Has Sony ever released estimates on how much they might lose to piracy?
Those "reviews" offer no conclusions and are basically lists of facts.

Fact is, the app store in it's current state is very, very weak. It currently has fewer applications on it than iOS did when its store first launched.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)#Number_of_laun...

Also puzzling was the decision to include every piece of office except the most important one (Outlook)

I'm honestly finding it hard to see a use case for this device. While I'm really looking forward to the full fledged version when it launches, the RT looks like a confusing solution in search of a problem.
Gold trade has features that are similarly key to bitcoin trade: immune to inflation, anonymous, and untraceable. Could BTC supplant Gold as a currency in that regard?
Anonymous Hackers leaks 1.35GB Italian State Police Data
The word hacked gets thrown around way too much.
Thanks, I wasn't sure so I asked.

Ambiguous sentence that could easily be taken out of context, as evidenced by the replies below.
This article seems quite dated now. Doesn't seem to be too hard to source drivers for these screws now.
> I think a laptop would suit her needs the best. However, "must make g/f happy", is what my brain says. Do you guys think the Surface RT is a solid choice?

You're in an awkward spot. She wants a tablet and you think she needs a laptop. What does she actually need the device for? What she needs will dictate what device would be best.

Does she just browse the web and send email? If so, get her a tablet. As a laptop replacement, I'd say go for a 10" tablet. (I'm recommending the Surface, of course.)

Alternatively, does she need to write/edit documents occasionally? Basically, does she need Word? If so, go for the Surface.

If she wants a traditional keyboard, either get her the Type Cover or a hybrid tablet.

If she needs other desktop software, either get her a hybrid like the ATIV Pro, or wait for Surface Pro.
I'm 29. Since I finished my undergrad I've gone to grad school, done work for huge companies, small companies, universities, and worked at a startup. I think all of these first hand experiences will prove to be very valuable in my future entrepreneurial endeavors. As always, YMMV.
Sounds like a Project Euler problem.
I use DropBox, Chrome, GTalk, VLC and it all works fine so far.
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You can find pentalobe screwdrivers on iFixit's online store, or Amazon. They're exotic but not that hard to find.

BTW, this article is a submarine (see Paul Graham's submarine PR essay) for iFixit, at least partially.
I'm assuming the orbital velocity has already been scrubbed off, and we're talking about a simple fall, which is more in the spirit (if not the letter) of the original question. Could you prevent the velocity from building up with a large drag device such as a balloon in that case?
amazon just launched kindle for windows 8, so one of them is in, I am confident apps for the others should be out soon. Netflix , hulu apps look gorgeous on windows 8 pro desktop
The huge number of hooks that Windows provides to third party developers is both its blessing and its curse. I highly recommend Raymond Chen's blog for a (often hilarious) description of this world.

AFAIK, Windows 8 takes interoperability further with new features like intents, while still offering the full Win32 API (on x86 builds).

Play / pause controls are a good example. Applications have been able to integrate via global hotkeys since.. Vista? Maybe XP. Either way, I am still able to control Spotify on my Win8 laptop using the hardware controls. As I would be able to with any application that chose to implement support.

Windows continues to be the only OS to provide this kind of deep out of the box support on a broad range of hardware from multiple suppliers.

Edit: grammar
Congrats on the win, but:

"...we basically don’t have an accent..."

You do. It's called "American". :P
Yes 4.0 had panorama.
I'm not sure about it but as mentioned in the linked ars article I think the main point in both cases is to raise the price of entrance. The pentalobe screw driver might remain less cheap than others more common screw drivers, and in the case of the thunderbolt cable maybe they knew the authentication chip would be cracked but in any case it will raise the manufacturing cost of the cable by making it more complex.
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The issue you run in to is what people consider reputable sources. If the only sources you trust are Gizmodo and TechCrunch, it certainly is a consensus.

Though, at that point I think there are bigger questions to ask...
I wonder how frequently used the accounts which are used for fraud are?

But I guess it's tricky -- maybe I'm signing in from a remote location after many months of inactivity to post some vacation photos, and can't receive texts on my phone because it doesn't work in whatever country I'm in...
I think from a simple standpoint, no citations are needed:

Fact #1) The U.S. borrows a bunch-o-money, therefore there exists a bunch of money available to lend.

Fact #2) Owners of that money would prefer a higher yield, but there does not exist enough alternative assets to put such a hugh amount of money, e.g. look at gold and oil price curves. Real estate is an option for some but it's messy and illiquid.

Fact #3) There currently exists no viable plan for the U.S. to reduce their unfunded liabilities, so what exactly are the owners of this money putting their trust in?
The last gasp of laptop Linux?
http://www.amazon.com/Silverhill-Tools-Pentalobe-Screwdriver...
A new developer by definition doesn't know what best practices are, so they can't judge whether the example app they're working off of is safe or not. By way of a too-abstract analogy, learning multiplication tables is not reinventing the wheel.
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well its an unfair comparison, the iOS store released much later than the iphone, here windows 8 is launching along with the store, so in contrast its a much better start !
20 years old. No Facebook account.

I 'deleted my life', and y'know what? Nothing changed. I still have the same friends I talked to before Facebook, still meet up for drinks on their birthdays, still arrange nights out, and still share what's going on in my life.

The best thing about no Facebook? I know what information is out there, and nothing personal that Advertising Inc. can buy.
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Yeah, why not just go for a simple UART terminal?
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Contrary to the article, h264 is not currently working on Android Firefox (2012-10-11 release), or at least it doesn't for me.
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He says that all future firmware updates can be decrypted, since every PS3 must be able to upgrade to any future version, but can't Sony just put an intermediate update that changes the keys and is the only one that older consoles can update too, and then after having that one update you are allowed to the newer updates encrypted/signed with newer keys?
I actually wrote most of this post about two months ago. Finished it and posted it recently after talking to some friends who were at YC Startup School and also seeing that article (which was pretty bad, IMO).
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I found the video where he surprised everyone with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aPSbXnQGSM&feature=relmf...
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Yes, you read correctly, it's TDD for SCSS.