skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My startup cucumbertown.com is hit with similar issues.

Initially we blocked all Ec2[1] & spamhaus ip list. But then realized Flipboard proxies[2], some blog aggregation proxies etc are based on Ec2 machines.

What would be a good way to block such rogue machines? Is there a community sponsored list or Ec2/Rackspace ips that are creating issues?

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528

http://flipboard.com/browserproxy/
I bet he has never even used it. Windows 8 is really good so I am sure many people/blogs will be talking massive trash the closer it gets to release because they know its going to be a very relevant and possibly even well received.
I'm curious what the author's definition of "spirituality" is if it has nothing to do with religion or a belief in the supernatural. The author mentions meditation, but I don't see any inherent link between meditation and spirituality.
This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Would be cool to have the BCS rankings in there as well.
My uncle once told me "You're a genius. Keep doing what you've been doing".
Really have to disagree with summer vacation. Motivated students need time to learn and explore. While Newton's account is slightly controversial, he invented Calculus when he was at home from school (school had shut down due to the plague). I've always got more work/studying done during vacation times. Less holidays would have crippled my exploration.
No that different from Google's, Facebook's, Apple's, et al. methods employed in Europe to avoid paying taxes.
Once again, the 3S screen is lower resolution than your visual acuity at normal viewing distance, so the 4S is a clear upgrade. The linked article is talking about the pointlessness of upgrading to a higher resolution when the screen in question is already higher resolution than your eyeball is capable of resolving.
Tweetbot for Mac is Here - It'll Cost $20 Though
Yes, let's cripple online shopping.
Right. Startups that are "innovating" on what's legally acceptable seem to do pretty well once they reach momentum. We can certainly debate the "rightness" of it, but the fact that there's a debate there is a real obstacle to keeping out other players.
Actually, V8 implements an older version of the spec. You can get a polyfill created by the designer of the Proxy spec here: https://github.com/tvcutsem/harmony-reflect

It requires `node --harmony` (actually only Harmony Proxies and Harmony WeakMaps, but the rest doesn't hurt.)
You ice baby! Ice cold!
You may enjoy http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
I doubt his motivation was not "a fun exercise in 3D device modeling" and probably something more like a pump and dump scheme, considering SNE's record low. If you look at the timing of it, it's pretty suspect.
> The last eruption had an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8 (described as "mega-colossal")

I'm not going to lie - this made me giggle.

Assuming this theory holds - then at one point in time all our futures depended on the actions of less than 1000 people - which makes me wonder about our future generations. Will they say the same thing about us living on planet earth?
Does the iPhone still drop the texture resolution when it's scrolling? (I haven't looked closely at anything recent.)
Another alternative to MapKit is MapBox's opensource iOS SDK. They have better support for OpenStreetMap layers and custom maps built with TileMill.
> these kinds of post (and we seem to get a lot) usually strike me as "a list of good things about me" or "why everyone should be like me".

Yep... That's why the mysteriously named skill, "spiritual" may actually be quite important and why the OP should work on it a bit more. Beginners' minds don't go around dispensing advice. I think that touches lightly on the "social" as well...
The death of the PC has been talked about for many years as well. What makes it different this time is that it's microsoft themselves admitting it, and planing their next move with this in mind. There's this show called Windows Weekly in the TWIT network [1]. They often (always?) have microsoft employees as guests to the show. And if you watch the show, you'll see they'll clearly admit that microsoft is sure the PC era is ending for real this time. They know very well the company must change, a lot, what they do to keep themselves alive.

You might argue that they'll succeed in their new strategies. But you sure cannot say that everything is fine and there's nothing to change, or to be alarmed of. Not even microsoft would agree with that.

[1] http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/283
You can't steal anything by DDoSing. You could only kill the servers until the next reboot ... and all over again.

No data will be compromised, but it will still be a pain in the .. head.
Widows is dead with version 8. Long live windows. I think he should rather have said enterprise PC's and workstations are dead. It's clear to me that for normal users ( disclaimer, I work with HPSCs all day ) mobile will become the compute device and each display/'workstation' will have some sort of GPU and connection to the mobile device either wired or wireless in the next 5 years. I can't wait to buy an android device like this. Certainly Apple would do well to team up with NVIDIA for their MBA line and offer an external discrete GPU for when you want sit down at a proper desk with a large screen.
This startup wants to kill the question "when are you free?"
Can we please use some of that 100 million investment to buy an infrastructure that is more resilient to these kinds of DDoS attacks?

Pretty please?

This is a service I pay for and my business relies on. Having it down three times in three days impacts our work.
I'm thankful this type of problem hasn't come by my desk so far, but at this stage in the game I would assume that there would be a number of mature libraries for doing the ie8 iframe shuffle. I wonder why they went with a custom solution.
Node.js ACL
So Windows 8 is the end of Windows because people apparently aren't talking much about desktop PCs anymore?

That seems like an awfully weak argument, given that there are still countless millions of desktop PC users, many of which run Windows. Plus, lots of people use everything: smartphones, tablets, desktops.

I must say I'm getting a little tired of these 'Windows 8 is going to crash and burn!!' threads. In truth nobody knows how this experiment will turn out - I'll personally pay far more attention to actual sales figures 6, 12 and 18 months from now.
Bay Area sheriff seeks drone for thermal imaging and surveillance
DARPA-Funded HackRF Aims to Be a Wireless Swiss Army Knife for Hackers
They are clearly following the Amazon model and pursuing growth rather than profitability:

http://ycharts.com/companies/CRM/revenues
I emphasis that not because I think hospitals are particularly safe but because I think the damage a malfunctioning x-ray machine may cause has a higher chance of being recognized for what it is in a hospital.

At the very least, people in hospitals tend to stay there longer. The radiation burns from Therac-25 took up to several days to become visible. Any damage that these machines may cause is likely going to be much more subtle, making the situation even worse.
Thanks everyone for your feedback! I'm planning on sharing an update in the near future, hopefully with some successes.
Bitly just posted in the blog comments that they stopped this exploit. That was fast -- yay.
Link to comment: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/19/spammers-start-usin...
So, now that you've graduated college, did you apply to Google? Did you get the job?
It proves a point IMO and educates readers on how these rumors start and why they shouldn't be trusted.
Similarly, Romney has recently said "I have never said I was pro-choice" but he did, multiple times, say that he "supports a woman's right to choose".

So, the verb form is OK but the noun form is absolutely not.
Ask HN: startupschool 
How do you make most out of http://startupschool.com/ ?
Dealers Sue Tesla to block stores in NY and MA
I'm thinking this could backfire big time against dealers. It's going to expose the out-dated dealer franchise system. Most consumers don't understand why you can't buy vehicles online or through the manufacturer.
The Typography and Layout behind the new Signal vs. Noise redesign
The radiation one received to treat acne was substantially more than the amount of radiation one received in the car ride to the doctor's office.
It's not really racist to say something like that especially when there is strong supporting evidence.

Racism is where you advocate treating somebody differently because of these differences. So it would be racist to say "White men are too slow therefor should be banned from taking part in the olympics"
But how many people even pay that much attention to the operating system any more? I was talking to a non-techie friend a few days ago and he didn't even realize that he was on Mac OS X 10.6. It's not just something most people really think about any more.
Forget svn ... May they be doomed to use RCS for the rest of their days ...
This may backfire on dealers. Most consumers don't understand why buying a car is such a hassle. It's mainly due to the out-dated dealer franchise system. Dealers are going to fight this tooth and nail, we'll see if consumers take notice.
We'll have a blog up and I promise to cover this.
Google Could Disappear in Five Years
I saw a pizza delivery guy plugged into a Walgreens charging station near Seattle last week! Don't know if he was in the process of delivering a pizza at the time, but he had the doohickey on the roof.
Actually, I don't know of a single ie8 frame communication library. Most are part of bigger libraries and we were trying to keep things slim.
Exactly. The sheer number of employees CRM is hiring, month after month, is staggering.
SVN's too good for 'em.. let them use Visual Source Safe forever.
Ex-Goldman Executive’s Tell-All Book Falls Short
Yeah, I'd like to know about the process of showing team logos and the stats. Are you just scraping the data from somewhere, or do you have permission to use any of this data? I'm wanting to build and application similar to this for the NHL (if we have a season... har har...) but the licensing of big teams is scaring me away some.
How do I find a designer for our Windows8 app?
See my Twitter @stefek99 for some screenshot...

Need some help with laying out the items.

Any suggestions?
The Therac-25 wasn't plugged into a wall socket.
Only for sites that you don't already have an account on, and which don't use a paypal-like service. Although since there are consumer protections on credit cards, it might make sense just to warn on bank account and routing numbers.
I thought that too, until I tried binding Super+T to launch a terminal in Gnome Shell. Turns out Unity eats all Super keypresses even when it's not running.

One workaround is to install CCSM, rebind the dash key to some key combo you'll never actually need, then set your key bindings normally.

...or install Xubuntu.
Banks were being hit the first week of October, then I know some VoIP servers were being hit such as Callcentric by DDoS. I can see why the banks were hit, but not why so many much smaller businesses are being attacked.
You should go as Larry again for halloween. teehee.
I'm not going to defend the byline (because it's cheap and inappropriate for the context) but there is a distinction between racial humor and racist humor. Not everything that addresses the concept of race is automatically racist, especially when it's not mean-spirited or demeaning.

It's a line that I'm not clever enough to tread, but other people seem to pull it off. Look at Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder. Very racial, not really racist.
These machines are plugged into wall sockets, therefore they must be safe.

Is that what you wish to imply?
Ask HN: Auckland mentors?
I'm a university student at Auckland University of Technology. I've been struggling with my studies for a long while and trying my hand at web development at the same time. Lately I've been evaluating my skills. Being on Hacker News for all this time, I've seen so many interesting projects and its left me feeling very insecure about my skills and my future career.

Suffering from anxiety and depression makes it difficult for me to attend meetups though I have tried. IRC channels have been helpful but they lack that personal touch you can only get from sitting across from another person.

I'm looking for a mentor in Auckland. I don't ask for much. Just some advice on what I'm doing wrong or what I could be doing right. At the moment my main focus is web development. Despite all the attention given to apps I still see the potential of the web. If there's anyone in the Auckland area skilled in web development willing to meet me and give me some advice, I'd love to hear from you.
Ask HN: Rhodes vs Mirah for Android App developement
With Ruby background, which tool is better for learning Android app development?

Any other tools/frameworks out there other than these with a Ruby flavor to them?

Thanks
It's a naked picture of you that doesn't really look anything like you and contains no identifying metadata. Imagine if the last 100 naked pictures from Logan ended up on the internet. Would anybody be able to identify them?
I'm sure that's what they are doing now. However it takes time to setup new servers as well as writing code (that's been throughly audited) to help protect their existing and future servers.
What are you using for the help array overlay?
What are you using for the help arrow overlay?
The colour bands are artifacts of the camera lenses and housing. From the wikipedia article[1]:

The result of the brightness is a bright burned-out image with multiple reflections from the optics in the camera. The rays around the sun are a diffraction pattern of the calibration lamp which is mounted in front of the wide-angle lens. [..] In the photograph, Earth lies in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image with a small angle between the Sun and the Earth

The following picture demonstrates the relative position of the sun and the Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_System_Portrait_-_V...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Camera
A picture would have been worth 1000 words here.
The chart you posted was about revenues not profits. Same argument applies to Amazon also but they are at least making some profit. The strategy of pursuing revenue and growth only makes sense for so long. At some point you have to cash that user base and make money.
Did it really impact your work, other than slightly inconveniencing you?

"UGH GitHub down again, I guess I have to go work on something equally as important for upwards of an hour"

I call shenanigans on you, good sir.
FTC Offering $50K to Get Rid of Robo-Telemarketers
Hack3rCon Conference in Charleston this Weekend
Matsch's Maxim: A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a small mountain: everything appears small to him and he appears small to everybody.

http://www.quiltersbee.com/murphy.htm
For those that are unaware, parent is referring to the "Double Irish" strategy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement).
Am I the only getting tired of people running hoaxes on purpose just to see how many people will bite on it?

The fact some of these get covered by major tech blogs only makes it harder for people to get legit news on stuff they care about.
Amygdala Sensitivity to Race Is Not Present in Childhood
Incredible. I will definitely return to this.
Love it! Now a quick question, is there any way to allow for editable blocks to be re-arranged via some form of drag and drop interface?

Or is there anyone out there that knows of a library that could possibly do this?
It's funny how many programming jobs are designed explicitly to insulate you and not require any of these skills. Just code and let the adults do all the talking.

In many organizations, it's easy to get caught in a catch-22 where to advance, you need nontechnical skills, and to develop nontechnical skills, you need to advance.

For some, this means they get to do what they love without much hassle (see "do you still want to be doing this when you're fifty?"), and for others it feels like being stuck in the mud.

I'd bet a lot of people contemplate doing startups just to get out of the "technical" tarpit more than actual desire to start a business.
Panel: The Revolution of Software-Defined Networks
I hope all the non-tech folks do move to tablets, phones, and webapps. Then maybe windows 9+ can drop the pretense of user friendliness and become much more technical. Who knows maybe they could strip out all the bloat and produce a highly customizable OS that would appeal to programmers and tech enthusiasts.
It seems like the people with real leverage (i.e. movie stars) demand a cut of the gross (pre-expenses) instead of the net.
Hallo looks amazing! I need to find a way to integrate this into Drupal.
Not if you've been lied to and believe that pill is the only way to prevent a horrible death.
Windows 8 is both infuriating and brillant
We have a couple of those already. FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian...
Since when is it OK for the services I rely on and pay for to even slightly inconvenience me ... for three days in a row?

Since never. At least for businesses that want to remain an ongoing concern.
I think there has been some work on OS X keybindings, but in general, Pull Requests are welcome!
I'm the growth person who spec'd this flow

There is no select all/message all option in our picker. Each contact must be explicitly selected
About radiation: Let's say that the article is correct and the radiation risk is very low -- 6 to 100 additional cancer cases per year among the millions that fly.

The question I have is this: Are the machines preventing 6 to 100 injuries or deaths from a terrorist attack every year?

If so, then perhaps the extra cancer cases are worth it. But if not -- if the scanners do not reduce the risk of terrorist attacks enough to offset the very small increase in cancer cases, then the machines are a waste.
If it were a pump and dump scheme it would definitively a super sophisticated one.
An Open Letter To Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos)
Fact Sheet on U.S. "Constitution Free Zone"
Here's the breakdown of charting libraries OP is using

* HighCharts http://www.highcharts.com/

* jQuery Sparklines http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

* jQuery Knob http://anthonyterrien.com/knob/

Being a fan of data visualization myself, I find this work inspiring and would like to hear his thoughts on why those libraries over using either d3.js or Raphaël.
there is a lot of enterprise software (Windows only) which is not going anywhere for another 20 years. for these businesses, Android is not an option.

Windows 8 is designed to run on mobile devices. What is stopping Microsoft to create Windows 8 mobile phone which you can plug into docking station and have full desktop experience?
All of those things you mentioned are to a large degree explained by science.

Spirituality appears to require at least some belief in something beyond the material world. There are certainly things that can be taken from spiritual practises that can be useful but in most cases there is an explanation for this value that does not require any belief in the supernatural.
Football, a sport played on foot.
This was also a much used trick: http://news.ycombinator.com@1249739877
Although most browsers have implemented a warning of some sort it can still hoax spam-filters that use a regexp pattern which doesn't account for this type of behaviour.
I agree completely. However, personally I am using Flask only because tacking SQLAlchemy on top of Django feels so hacky. I wish there was a second full stack framework with SA.
Microsoft will not go out of business when Windows ceases to be the dominant desktop OS. They will reshape themselves like they did before. Microsoft started selling BASIC interpreters for 8-bit computers and shifted its main cash cows a good couple times. It may never be as profitable as it was in its height, but to say it will cease to exist is exaggerated.
As Keynes said, "When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?"

When I was younger, I didn't know what confirmation bias was. I had to be introduced to the concept. After being introduced, I was able to make better decisions. Although it may seem trivially true to you (now?), it's not to everyone.

You may be reading more into "change their minds a lot" than is intended. A lot in this context means "more than most people". There's a reason phrases like "strong opinions, weakly held" become popular in rationalist circles. It's an emphasis on better decision making.

I think the first time I heard about this idea was in Marilyn vos Savant's Brain Building. She argued that societal infatuation with "having the courage of your convictions" is not the redeeming quality it's made out to be. She mentioned that she could always give her opinion on an issue, but she was also always prepared to change her opinion upon new information.

I'm pretty sure Bezos does not mean you should change your mind 180 degrees at each new contradictory piece of information. Like a Bayesian spam filter, if you've had lots of pieces of evidence for one position, it should take lots or very significant new evidence to change that position.

Decision making biases of various sorts are my chief pet peeve in modern life. It's almost impossible to discuss public policy with people, even in the smartest online forums I know. I think it's banned at Less Wrong. When I listen to the media, I spend most of my time ticking of the biases I hear.
The thought that the manufacture of these machines may have displayed similar hubris and dismissiveness is frightening.

A risk, no matter how unlikely or small, is never worth taking if there is no payoff.
This goes to show that Blender really is a top of the line 3d modeling tool. I have used it in my games. It has a steep learning curve. But if you know how to use it, you can make really good models like this guy did. Its nice to know there is a full featured 3d modeling tool that is open source.
> for these businesses, Android is not an option.

No, but old licenses of XP or compatibility layers like Wine are.
Twenty Five Million Dollars for Blended Learning
Fascinating dream. Being in space must be a huge jolt to the psyche in the first place, let alone remotely viewing Earth. I sometimes experience anxiety just from looking at the sky on a particularly clear night and knowing how fucking enormous those little dots really are.
Just the other day during a design discussion I was arguing for X instead of Y and was reminded that I was the one who introduced Y earlier in the discussion. I was finally able to bring out Walt Whitman during a technical discussion and responded "I contain multitudes". :)