skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a similar story of a Canadian or somewhere that cracked a weakness in the mechanics of a scratch off game (Monty Hall paradox exploited in real life!) for consistent average winnings.

And of course the famous MIT Blackjack team.

Of course, a lottery loves publicity, and they don't care which player wins, so win-win.
Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of Kim Dotcom
Up to 15 minutes commute usually covers area of ~400 Square miles. That's a lot of housing to choose from. How is that narrow?

I agree that telecommute could be the right choice. But then SF vs Minneapolis comparison is getting meaningless.
What were your odd of winning summed over all your plays?
Hit me ayo[at]hipmob.com!!
Of course you can compare any two teams - click on the logo and select the team(s) you want.
A few months ago Tim Cook went on record saying he "wasn't going to leave any price umbrellas". As Ryan Jones (via Forbes) observes, "a price umbrella is the cover that a market leader provides other companies by establishing a premium price for their products. Competitors can enter the market at lower price points and disrupt the leader’s dominance, in Jones words, 'from the bottom up.'"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/07/22/apple-w...

Per this logic, $299 seems like the best bet. This is $100 lower than the point where iPad and iPod prices presently converge ($399 for either a 64GB Touch or a 16GB iPad 2). This move would also mean dropping the price of the 64GB Touch to $299 (where the 32GB model currently sits) and dropping the 32 GB to $249, which is where you find the 160 GB iPod classic ($100 above the new nano).
This is a fake news dude. Check this out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678064
I just imagine that my dreams can come true! Maybe I bought a ticket yesterday and just forgot! Or my mom secretly bought a ticket for me!
Detroit is not, as some comments are suggesting, in a state of anarchy.

Yes, there is crime, similar to other major American cities with crime problems (like St. Louis or Atlanta). Yes, because of depopulation it is hard to get groceries, do your banking, or catch public transportation. But this does not mean the 700,000ish Americans who live in the city proper live in "anarchy".

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula there are also many roads that don't get salted and plowed, and long waits for ambulances - do those people also live in anarchy?
Many thanks for the share. Awesome watch.
Does Synapse do anything that the regular unity searchbar+lenses doesn't?
This looks pretty fishy to me. There are a lot of super-simple passwords like firstname.lastname and then stuff like )(^!@tyukjas or )(klhkdgkajst2.

The simple passwords are too simple [ali@ic.fbi.gov - noentryplease1897182 - really?] and the complicated ones are way too complicated [I assume they don't use tools like 1Password and such].

Also most of the emails are firstname.lastname@... and every 3rd of 4th is Firstname@... and some of them are really weird, like SCAM@ic.fbi.gov - juyt8&81igasd, Bogdan@ic.fbi.gov - 19127gasdg8991872
I bet you would be more effective donating directly to a worthwhile recipent than running through layers of adminstrative overhead.
If you aren't being DDOSed, you aren't an interesting service.
Have some evidence that your position pays better. HR departments will buy salary reports that under report sources like BLS (that they use to justify your low wages to themselves), so you better bring some good stuff. When a substantial change in responsibilities or work environment is made bring it up. This might get you a token 1% or so which your company will just take out of next year's 2% raise.

Going someplace else works great. Expect 10-30% more unless you are already at the top of the pay range for your job and market.
I think WinRT on top of Linux could be waste of resources (as it was with moonlight). WinRT might not even succeed on Windows
Chinook: the program that conquered checkers
No uproar because the previous uproar was strongly backed by Microsoft. Google apparently doesn't care about funding a 'Microsoft is a bunch of hypocrites' campaign, which is probably for the better.
I wouldn't expect any huge departure from the existing sound architecture (PulseAudio, ALSA).
> I was a huge Ubuntu supporter from 2005 to 2012. And now I warn people to not use it.

Wow, this is sad. Especially since it is so easy to install a different window manager on ubuntu.

sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop

will install xfce for example.
Read the article.

Kickstarter makes some 5% on these projects. Their site hosting costs can't be very much...

I'd really like them to be, to some degree, consultants to project creators, and hire people that have business expertise in various types of projects.
This seems relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/7/16/
Patrick Collison
Founder, Stripe
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Patrick_...

Ron Conway
Partner, SV Angel
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/11/1106_ceos_on_electio...

Ben Horowitz
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Founder, Opsware
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/ben-horo...

Travis Kalanick
Founder, Uber
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/images/201...

Jessica Livingston
Partner, Y Combinator
http://www.foundersatwork.com/author.html

Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, Rakuten
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/images/photos2007/nb20070331a2a....

Tom Preston-Werner
Founder, GitHub
http://mixergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Preston-Werner...

David Rusenko
Founder, Weebly
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/David_Rus...

Ben Silbermann
Founder, Pinterest
https://talentmechanic.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/ben-silbe...

Joel Spolsky
Founder, StackExchange, Fog Creek Software
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Joe...

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Facebook
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...
Is there any place to watch previous videos for those of us who missed them?
That's something I noticed too, but that is probably just a reference to the DNS-servers they used to resolve the data (ie. not the target).
Why things fail
Photographs of Google's data center
...but can you then rebuild the board on your own PCB so that each project doesn't use up the expense of a whole G120?
Probably should rename this to "billion reposts."

Can we move beyond this simple issue and discuss more complicated aspects of security on HN?
Plus the whole "open source hardware" thing...
What are the top single page apps that you have?

One close to this implementation that caught my eye this week for its design is http://deploybutton.com/
i doubt it. 8.8.8.8 is google's dns. or there is global conspiracy going on...
Yeah but they can just implement this in a week or two, whenever convenient, and get all of the money.
>They say they made that side bar to "work well with touchscreen devices, too"

did they say that? People said that when ubuntu released unity, mostly critics, but i don't remember any official statement saying that unity was designed as a touch-friendly interface. Bigger targets are better for mouse users as well.
That is incorrect. All of Europe defines unemployment in accordance with the ILO, and the ILO counts a person who has performed any work as "employed".

http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?id=778
Ubuntu for Android is a separate, but related effort.

Again, quoting Mark: "We have two short cycles before we’re into the LTS, and by then we want to have the phone, tablet and TV all lined up."

[speaking individually, not representing Canonical]
Note there appears to be a bug where the use of ControlPersist breaks the use of '-W'. You end up with 'bad packet'.

openssh-6.0 release notes has this:

* sshd(8): unbreak stdio forwarding when ControlPersist is in use; bz#1943

I haven't tested to see if that resolves the issue yet though (on osx which of course does not have 6.0).

However, the netcat version works fine.
It's actually becoming more popular for games. Bastion for example uses Mono in order to run on Linux.
Looks like an interesting emoticon.
What? You guys don't think that HN is enough troll bait for someone to spend $100 to DDoS a web property you care about?
Google Play leaks image of Nexus 10 tablet?
What Kanye West & You Have In Common
I think people that say things like that are just terrified that no one has any idea what is going on. :)
fun times, an image source option for the background would be a cherry on top re the demo.
I started realizing that after I started appending hip hop quotations to all written communication after becoming an avid read of Ben Horowitz.

"I love bad bitches and that's my fuckin problem"
-Two Chainz
Did the OP ever say that he was a paying customer?

I don't see anything concrete in the article. He says he transferred his _business_ number over, but I don't see any mention that he had a "Google Apps for Your Business" (i.e. paid) account.

I'm fairly sure that Google Apps For Business does, in fact, provide telephone support.

<disclaimer> I'm an engineer and not an expert on support options</disclaimer>
freerdp runs well in Ubuntu today. Additionally, we've baked thin client support into Ubuntu Desktop starting with the most recent release (12.10).

Ubuntu for Android is positioned as a fully functional desktop on your phone. I'll leave it up to you to connect the rest of the dots.

For some more details, my blog:

http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2012/09/27/ubuntu-12-10-rem...

[speaking individually, not for Canonical]
That's exactly what they want you to believe.

Never underestimate the frightening power of a large number of evildoers hitting F5.
I am not a lawyer.
There is a concept of "derivative work" and copyright protection extends to derivative work. A translation[1], for example, is a derivative work regardless of being complete. So subtitles fall under the same copyright as the original work and distributing subtitles without the copyright holder permission is an infringement of his copyright[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derived_work#Definition
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fansub#Legal_and_ethical_issues
http://www.justin.tv/startupschool
Isn't this the situation that Cloudflare was designed to protect against? Their service is free as well.
Create a Compelling and Comprehensive Story
(author here) - if you're at YC's startup school today and have questions, come talk to me. I've got a yellow tshirt and look like my Github pic.
TSA removes X-ray body scanners from major airports
Large-scale design in Haskell?
HSBC websites fell in DDoS attack last night, bank admits
Been doing this for some time now—getting my precious seconds back one login at a time.
Unfortunately, they also cut down on the search space quite a bit.
Book Review: Professional Plone 4 Development
Who has grudge on us?
It's nicer to have a job where you don't have to work so many hours that there's no time to clean your own house or make your own dinner.

These perks seem like a way to continue to grab extra hours from employees lives while making it seem a little less odious. And that's why they're not just giving their employees the value of the perks as cash -- which would be simpler for the employer and much move valuable to the employee, since they could spend it on something they might actually need.
Since I'm in the process of buying a tablet, I'd welcome elaboration on "it's simply too fiddly to resize text all the time".

Do you mean that (like Mobile Safari) Chrome does not reflow text, so that you cannot make the text big enough to read without making the text expand past the edge of the window, so you have to scroll each line of text horizontally?
No grudge necessary. This comment thread is lulzy enough by itself. Watching an entire user community freak out over not being able to access their source code in real time over HTTP is a good enough payoff.
Nope. I'm looking for videos from this year, not previous years.
We have most of the videos from previous years collected on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/series/startup-school/
He forgot that lottery can be rigged.

He also forgot about paying taxes in case of winning lottery.

Not sure why he cannot dream about getting rich without playing lottery.
Unix Toolbox [2007]
Fine, you guys asked for it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=259458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859853

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674911

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619344

People that exploit these kinds of things continue to innovate, but HN seems to be stuck with XSS, SQLi, and malformed XML.
Who is that startup that had their funding yanked after signing documents and moving from Houston to San Francisco?
They'll probably be up on that link in the next day or two.
So you can spend years in court fighting the defacto standard only to win a pittance as well as an informal blacklisting? Most filmmakers would rather just suck it up, move on, and learn from the experience rather than dwell on it and make it worse.
Um, no. The reason they DDoS financial institutions is so they have a chance to cash out the stolen goods immediately. Stolen financial data has an expiration date and the DDoS extends that just long enough for it to be useful.

DDoS'ing github because you trojaned a source tree calls attention to the fact that you did it. Only the dumbest of all hackers would do such a thing and that is almost certainly NOT what is happening here. When you trojan a source tree, it only becomes useful after your intended victim downloads and installs it, which can take months or even years.
i just switched over from using bash aliases (as described in the article) to an SSH config file last week. The best thing for me is that it doesn't just make ssh easier to use, it makes all the ssh family of tools easier. scp, sshfs, rsync etc all suddenly require less typing to use.
I.... don't think so. It's hard for me to remember for sure, but if it did it wasn't anything big.
Interesting, I tried to read the article and my browser (Chrome V22) went nuts. I don't know what sort of JS wired is pushing these days but from this side of the screen it made their site unusable. Sad really. So I went to the http://arduino.cc site ('official Arduino site') and it has no news about a 32 bit Arduino. Ther is an article on Hackaday though : http://hackaday.com/2012/10/03/finally-an-arm-powered-arduin...

Having recently read about the Sony Nexus fake I find myself even more distrustful of tech journalists.

From the hackaday article it looks like it could be an improvement on the original concept.
Fair enough, exciting project!
In reality we usually get the worse of both worlds. There has been some progress in eliminating discrimination (Uber's system in particular resists driver discrimination), but it is still rampant.
Google’s Crystal Ball
When compared to the other end of the spectrum, such as the Google Nexus 7, which barely sells for more than production costs, 400% is a huge margin. I'd doubt you would find too many other companies out there who are making as large of a margin on their mobile devices as Apple is.
Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged?

Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?
Is there a list of people who have already spoken? I have missed quite a few.
Fake news...http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4678064
Can anyone who's there please post the schedule for the day ?
When you are producing a product that costs less or the same to make than other manufacturers products but you sell it for more, people are paying a premium for your product.
Presumably because it would have been buried among the hundred or so other comments in there?
Might want to put (2007) in the title.
While I'm all with you on talking about advanced security, the reality is that most people here don't understand basic security. I think talking about the low-hanging fruit is important -- everyone has to start somewhere. And as always, if you want to see more advanced security stuff, post it! I'll upvote it for sure.

Edit: This does make me think that I've been meaning to write a blog post about a security issue I discovered for about 6 months now. Time to do that.
Has anybody had any luck with Kivy on iOS? I'm interested in it and wondering any thoughts/experiences?
to make it more natural to type a passphrase
"This person claims he was locked out of his paid google apps for business account."

Yes he did. And he didn't include what his service representative told him. You see on my paid account under the tools "Manage this account" there is a support tab, and that tab lets you send email to a real person with your account id and generally they respond reasonably quickly. So what what did they say? Now the poster says "locked out of his account" what did that mean? Can't login? Or can't send email? Can't use Drive? Can't use Calendar? Was it just him or everyone who uses the account? When you're paying for a service, if your service provider denies you that service you can sue them more easily.

Now I have been emailed when my logging application tried to send a bunch of emails, I was notified that it had been 'spamming' and disabled until the spam stopped. I sent back a nice explanation of what our systems were doing, and a whitelist of addresses that could send that sort of email, and they set it up. No more issue.

The bottom line is that there are missing bits in this anecdote that would help give context to the 'abuse' comment. But they are missing.
It's also very amusing for the real translators who have been F'd in the A seriously in Finland for the last few years.
Paying an extortionist is the one way in which you guarantee that you'll be extorted in the future.

Think of it as entering into a subscription arrangement.
>>the simpletons at the government

Don't you think this was a little unnecessary?
If you have a city that gets comparable service as relatively remote rural areas, then yeah, it pretty much is an anarchy.

The only thing that you can fairly compare a city to is other cities. As far as cities in America goes, I think it is fair to say that many attributes of Detroit are very reminiscent of an anarchy. There may be better examples, but Detroit stands out for its former prominence.
The company I work for owns a site which has a niche community of buyers and sellers. There is a particular guy on there who has a reputation of scaming other users. When the users complain and post negative feedback about him, he threatens our company and follows through with DDoS attacks until the negative feedback/comments about him are removed.
Evernote Pays For Employees To Have Their Houses Cleaned Twice Per Month
Agreed, except that as a business owner I am frankly arguing that the people worth keeping should get 20% yearly pay rises or I lose them.
That's interesting, because I have not touched my iPad since getting a Nexus 7, except to test websites on it.

I use it for reading ebooks, some browsing the web, reading email, managing my calendar, and very occasional casual gaming. It's fast and responsive, and as far as seeing it, the display is sharp and bright. It's not an issue (which is saying a lot--I'm legally blind).

The display and responsiveness are no better than the iPad, and the retina display on the new iPad is a bit crisper, but I prefer the 7in form factor (lighter, easier to hold/use with one hand) and the customization options that Android offers over iOS.

I know Google had a lot of problems with them initially, some of which effected performance and display... maybe you got a dud?
CloudFlare will protect you from DDoS attacks to an extent.

There are 2 kinds of DDoS attacks I know of (there are more but they're similar): bandwidth exhaustion and computer resource exhaustion.

Bandwidth exhaustion DDoS mitigation is difficult, because it requires you to have a fat inbound pipe to let all the bogus traffic through. Fat pipes are _expensive_, there are few hosting providers that allow you to have a dedicated line more than 1 Gbps.

Supposedly their Business plan ($200/month) protects against this, and their free plans protect much smaller amounts of traffic.

You can prevent against some common resource exhaustion attacks (SYN floods) by having a proper firewall setup.

CloudFlare has been known to let the attack traffic route to your server if it's big enough.
This link should help. It seems like they've live blogged everyone who has been on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677964
How do you define "nongovernmental"? I think an argument could be made that each of those are/where governments, although perhaps a little alien seeming to us.
What we tried was a system very similar to what was described in the post that yes, I did in fact read.
Its "Fake" in the context of the original post's claims.

And FYI I did post a comment at-first but hardly anyone noticed it (that includes you too).. probably because the original post already had over a 90 comments and people didn't bother to go through all of them.

And I could already find some online websites and tech news blogs starting to pick this news up from here and spread it on the internet. This kind of news spreads so virally! So I made a post out of it so that people notice it. And they did. Mission accomplished :)
I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.
Actually, I would say that at least in the division I was in we took 360 reviews very seriously.

So for example if a mgr had bad peer and subordinate reviews but a positive manager review HR would step in and force a resolution. If none of (or only a minority of) your peers or subordinates trust you it didn't matter what your manager thought. Now that said training was always the first thing to try, which in fairness we did with any knowledge worker.

As for contributions and measuring impact yes, the entire team had bonuses based on performance and results. In fact we tracked milestones to expected costs and if a team beat it they were rewarded. Not just a team lead but the whole team. I so hated filling out WBS cards.

While I was there we had three changes in various leadership positions because of team dynamics. Honestly, at least in my group my complaint was sometimes to high a sensitivity to team grumbling.

But I know there were places in the organization where protecting management was done, which is complete BS in my book.

I also totally disagreed with some arbitrary numbers we had to meet, like having a certain percentage of our project developed offshore. That was asinine and made no logical sense but to supposedly save a few dollars, and my bet it cost us more than it ever saved us.
Why is the use of abstractions (such as LINQ) so taboo?
I'm sorry to say, the first thing I did was this:

http://imgur.com/z6bd7
That's great - I only know of Aloha but this whole new ecosystem springing up from contenteditabke is really impressive.

Whilst it is of course possible to replace a CMS with flat HTML files what is the main target Market you see for this?
>I don't want any attention

So you make a post about it?
You should test the level cutoff concurrently. Try 5, 30, 100 in a multivariate test. Spend enough ad dollars to get a comfortable level of significance within a week. Roll up the test for everyone. Make sure you don't tell anyone how many free levels they'll get until they hit the wall. Repeat. :)
What is your USP? (Unique Selling Position)
(EDIT: This was a YC company, and she specifically said it wasn't a YC co, so this probably isn't it, but similar)

Storenvy (Kansas City, Mo not Houston)

http://joncrawford.com/post/20378314843/how-i-got-kicked-out...

I assume that's the one you mean -- I met the guy and he's actually pretty reasonable, so I think the whole thing was just an unfortunate situation.
I wish they had two separate video feeds, one for the speaker and the other for the slide presentation.
The chances of these people using the same password elsewhere however...
AOL's Alto Aims to Tidy Up Email Clutter
Bitcoin Friday
Disagree. I didn't know about that attack and found it very interesting.