skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A compromised kernel does not seem that unlikely. I am not fammilar with Windows, but I assume it supports hotloading code into kernel space (like modules in linux), given this, it would be trivial to get from root in userspace to arbitrary code execution in kernel space.
it relates to hacking elections.
Thanks for writing this up, this was a great article and exactly the kind of thing that attracts me to hacker news (if not why I sit and F5 it all day).
Steve Jobs' Yacht
While they're clearly doing some things right, if I get another unwanted email mentioning the phrase "thought leader" I'm not going to be responsible for the results.
Yup. Fire away.
Electronics That Fight Infection and Dissolve Away
start small by working on projects in your local community, hacker spaces, networking with people who might need your skill. take on anything that is reasonable enough for you to pay the bills.

do a good job, and you will get referred.

your referrals referrals will refer you.

your referrals referrals referrals will refer you.

and then you can hire more staff and grow
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Changing Detroit, one startup at a time
Disagree. Justification causes the so called "River" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) that can cause readability problem.

With the relative lack of typographical control on the web right now, it's best to keep text non-justified.
It's always seemed weird to me that wikipedia has a problem with scaring away potential editors. I for one love editing wikipedia and never found it in anyway intimidating when I started editing in my teens, although I'm probably part of a sizable edge case of humanity that enjoys the relative complexity of the process of editing itself, markdown et al. I don't find the culture to be off-putting either, because the culture gels nicely with my personality traits and those of any person who would enjoy contributing to an encyclopedia.

Wikipedia has a learning curve sure, but like learning to use a shell instead of a gui, the pain is certainly ultimately worth the gain. The barriers to entry are nowhere near as high as those I imagine serious, academic editors face in their careers.
Same goes for diagnosis, which is basically finding the maximum likelihood culprit, given the evidence (symptoms, patient history, age, gender).
Pretty smooth. I like the idea of looking at the work before offering to fix it.

Think I will try this approach someday. Could be a learning experience as well
I remember hearing that after you get a year or so of work and networking under your belt, it mostly just flows. And I didn't really believe it a year ago, but now I see it. All the people I've met from hackathons to the accelerator program to random events, it all adds up later and I get approached for work a good bit now.
Is today the official "post depressing things about YC to dissuade people from applying, but not really" day (sort of like converting to Judaism...)?
Linkedin Skill Endorsements Gone Awry? Initial Review & Recommendations
What? Transistor sizes hit UV wavelengths around 1995, during the Pentium era. That's a reasonable statement to be making to provide context.
IBM is fantastic at using their research for PR, but it usually takes a very long time until these breakthrough announcements show up in products. The challenges on the road to competing with established tech for a completely new technology like this are formidable.

An announcement like this is great but it is no reason to get overly excited just yet. Many other technologies have been proposed and have either disappeared or have found employment in niches (GaAs for instance), for now Silicium still holds a formidable edge when it comes to the most important measure of all: economy.
I have been running the Tokyo iOS Meetup for the past two years or so. People often stop in looking for iOS developers, so I can get a lot of projects through that.
What a scary sight. They are having mechanical turks roam their support forums for support stars giving big-company-esque answers:

Sorry to hear your experience with Google Drive was troublesome PayamM. Google Drive is constantly improving and thank you for the feedback!
How did you get an invite? I've been on the waitlist for well over a year without any updates from them.
IOS 6 app store crash on your iPod touch 4? Restore.
if you are a student, http://stalkninja.com/ is a good place to start
Zynga's stock price is below book value, and it hasn't been an incentive since about 2 days after IPO. The employees have already been hurt by the company themselves much worse than any outside influence can at this point.
Dropbox startup can easily bring my "spinning rust" platter to knees. They really need to copy TrueCrypts "make way for IO activity" option during encryption.
I'd guess each section is unique so there is no frequency analysis; the next section is picked at random instead of saying "Whoop whoop" is followed by "gundam style" 20% of the time, by "hey sexy lady" 50% of the time and by another "whoop whoop" 20% of the time.
At some point I shut off google drive because every boot it would give me about 20 popups that it couldn't access a drive that didn't exist.
Yeah the log scale hides his point. A log scale is useful when you want to highlight the rate of growth, e.g. for something that grows exponentially. But I'd expect Wikipedia to grow linearly, not exponentially - on a log scale it is hard to distinguish anything that is subexponential (which includes linear growth).
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But what if we were talking about software? If the creator of Braid or Minecraft wants to keep the source closed in order to get paid for their time, it may not be noble, but it is at least understandable.

So what's different between closed-source software, and Amazon encrypting Kindle firmware in order to sell each unit at a loss? Should we also force Gillette razors to be compatible with all blades? Where does the line get drawn, and on what basis?

Note: I'm not defending anti-circumvention laws. No one should ever see a courtroom due to exploration and curiosity. I am simply arguing that it might be beneficial, in some cases, to allow creators to keep secrets (or at least, to try).
Wikimedia has the numbers (some scrolling required):

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm

It is recently slightly lower than linear, but by no means looking as bad as the article suggests. In fact ( reading from the plot in the Atlantic) it took Wikipedia five years (2001 - 2005) to reach 1M articles, two years for the second and roughly 1 and a half years each for the next two million. From the more detailed statistics at Wikimedia, new articles are now added at roughly 1000 a day, down from 1600 a day in 2006.

[added]I just found the linear plot of en.wikipedia articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnwikipediaArt.PNG
Macarena, Las Ketchup and Numa Numa are three other recent ones (some contain English elements but the main catchy parts are in other languages).
It's the same thing on the x86 version, I found it strange at first, after a couple of days its just faded into the background and I don't notice it.

Video of the effect here
http://youtu.be/ddwo-AN2SmU
Most pieces added to Show HN don't need that much fixing, that's why I tend to check, plus it's good to be useful to the community as a whole, there's no point only half trying, especially not if you expect to land work from it.
You're not defending anti-circumvention laws? Then you shouldn't have said 'devil's advocate' in reply to a comment only talking about consumer actions.
Show HN: How to easily/effectively test your django models & forms
We weren't planning to. Do we need to?
I don't understand. How come this seemingly personal blog is on github.com? Thanks!
Uninstall Microsoft excel macros
Tweeting from the command line
I find it still messes up my rhythm a bit; the distraction might be slowing my typing speed down during a burst. Is there an HCI principle going on in this feature or is it just eye candy?
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Don't be ridiculous. If the premise is whatever creates business opportunity is good, why on Earth should we legally protect selling below cost and trying to make up on service charges, but not a business unlocking those devices and selling software for them? In fact, businesses can already accomplish the former through contract law. The only purpose that is served by creating laws against jailbreaking a device (in addition to laws against distributing others' copyrighted work) is vendor lock-in and monopolism.
As a developer who smokes, there are a couple aspects I've discovered that I think make the habit more popular with developers.

Obviously, the short-run benefits of smoking are far outweighed by the long and medium run detrimental effects, and this isn't an argument in favor of people smoking.

1) nicotine is a cognitive enhancer, giving short term improvements in attention and memory.

This has pretty clear benefits for programming. See sources/citations at end of comment for more information.

2) The nicotine addiction withdrawal cycle of leaving the building to smoke every x hours provides a relatively scheduled context shift. I've found this to have similar effects(albeit more mild) effects to timer based productivity techniques with timed periods of focused effort followed by breaks. I frequently have 'aha' moments in the elevator on the way down to smoke from my office after being stuck on a particular problem or bug coding.

See:
NIH 1992 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1579636
"
Abstract
1. Nicotine improves attention in a wide variety of tasks in healthy volunteers. 2. Nicotine improves immediate and longer term memory in healthy volunteers. 3. Nicotine improves attention in patients with probable Alzheimer's Disease. 4. While some of the memory effects of nicotine may be due to enhanced attention, others seem to be the result of improved consolidation as shown by post-trial dosing."

Cognitive Effects of Nicotine Amir H. Rezvani and Edward D. Levin (2001)
http://directory.umm.ac.id/Data%20Elmu/jurnal/B/Biological%2...
I publish my personal blog on http://pages.github.com/. HN only displays the github portion of the domain, sorry for any confusion.
Right, but they didn't hack the ACS, or Piratebay, or Wikileaks. That's worth keeping in mind.
I'm doing contract work for my former employer.
It's not that basic, it's stochastics for beginners, which in my biology undergrad was taught in Maths II, and in my sister's med. undergrad was taught in the last year I think, and she still struggles with p-values (especially how to interpret them, and adjust for cut-offs) in her PhD.
At nine bucks a go, after a week or two they might find it cheaper to buy their troll dolls from IV's mail room.
It doesn't seem that this is the case this, its even obscured as an optional update. See the linked article for more information.
I'm prepared to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here, and suggest that Office is a bit more complex than your average user-land application. I suspect a lot of the code is either quite old or low-level, to a much larger degree than a typical app. It's not just Microsoft - think about how long it took Apple to migrate iTunes from Carbon to Cocoa, or Adobe to get 64 bit PhotoShop on the Mac.
Smart words: aim to earn money instead of raising money.
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The indie producers are probably the party in the most acute pain here.

A movie is a couple hours entertainment to the viewers but a livelihood to the makers...
I'm a Prada customer and agree with both this and the article. But while it's a delightfully aesthetic experience, I've found their service to be cold and unfriendly. Like many boutique style stores, they seem to place value on assistants being aloof rather than friendly. I have no idea where the value is there but it clearly exists as it's so common in high end stores.

It's a stark contrast to the Apple Store where they chase similar aesthetic ideals but fill the stores with down to earth, friendly staff who make you feel like they're happy to have you in the store, despite being the tech equivalent of a Prada store.
> But what if we were talking about software?

But, in this case are we talking about software? We are actually not.

Lets assume we are talking about software - it still makes sense to me. For example, if Microsoft sells MS Word to me I am free to make custom modifications for myself. Of course, making modifications and reselling it is unethical but the lines are pretty clear - you've got to make the user have more control over the product he pays for. Otherwise, you are just violating fundamentals of living.
Assume Any Motorola Android is as Secure as a Bank of America Home Loan
I've never really understood the child pornography thing.

Criminalizing mere possession of such images seems like a roundabout, largely ineffective, and perhaps even counterproductive, way of tackling the real issue; the sexual abuse of children.

It blurs the very real and very important distinction between those who are sexually attracted to children and those who will act on that attraction to sexually abuse a child.

It criminalizes the inquisitive, has the potential to make people inadvertent criminals, and ultimately — to return to the original subject matter — it makes a crime of possessing a particular sequence of 0s and 1s, which strikes me as particularly absurd.

My personal suspicion is that sexual attraction to children (primarily referring to teenagers here) is not the abhorrent, unnatural illness that people speak of in public, but a perfectly natural, harmless preference that is far more commonplace than most people would like to admit.

Ultimately, I'm for the free sharing of 0s and 1s in any order, and I'm not the least bit swayed by the child pornography challenge.
"having worked at amazon, where lying is key..." wow what group were you working for?
For every ten upvotes, a shirt is donated to Hurricane Sandy victims
Just a little bit of background and clarification: This is my second event on Reddit, and I have a feeling it's going to go extremely well.

Normally, when one of the following shirts is bought, we make another one and throw it in a box we'll be donating at the end of the year.

http://apparelbykarma.com/store/products/2013-male-the-cause-shirt/

http://apparelbykarma.com/store/products/2013-female-the-cause-shirt/

However this time, we are going to be donating separately to a completely different cause. We will be adding a shirt to the box every time we reach an increment of 10 upvotes! These shirts will be donated directly to Red Cross for them to distribute.

http://apparelbykarma.com/store/products/2013-green-prototype-shirt/

Apparel By Karma's background: We are a clothing line which donates 5% of our profit to a different charity each month. We try to tie in a bunch of different clothing ideas that are comfortable, affordable, and helpful to those who desperately need it.

So without further ado, lets see what we can make happen! I will update the thread with our progress hourly.
I can easily imagine that MS store employees have been instructed to do this as a result of this issue. If that is the case, good responsiveness from MS.

Somewhat reminds me of the following story. Not exactly, but it is an interesting read anyway:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/25/charles_eicher_chris...
You may have heard of paying yourself first to gain success in personal finance. Well, if you're looking to expend your energy on some passion project, you need to dedicate your first energy of the day to that passion project.

If you have to go somewhere you're not passionate about for your 9-5, it's unlikely you'll be excited about working on anything when you get home. If you wake up on Saturday and go straight to the yard work or laundry or other domestic tasks, you're not going to want to skip that family picnic in the afternoon to work on your novel.

Expend your first energy every day on your project. This is even easier if you're a consultant or similar entrepreneur and you can set your own schedule. 30 minutes, 2 hours, whatever, take your best and most productive work and put it into your passion. Then give your leftovers to the other stuff you do to get by.
Americans, I think, just generally smoke less than people elsewhere in the world.
Very myopic view restricted only to English language. There are more than a 100 major languages in the world. So now Wikipedia has to concentrate on other languages.
To expand on this a bit, Romney is more likely to take urban republicans in greater numbers over suburban republicans. This is similar to in the general Obama is expected to take urban voters over suburban voters. I suspect this "analysis" could just as easily be done to show Obama "tampered" with votes after the general.

You gave a much better explanation, but in all seriousness folks, flag this story(I already have) and get it off the front page. It's nothing but pseudo statistics from someone who doesn't have a clue hoping to stir controversy over "evil republicans".
VeriSign Doesn't seem to understand SSL/TLS/PKI Threat Modeling
Oops. It's back now. Sorry about that, I intend to upgrade that site but have been taking on some new things lately and haven't had much time. Also, I don't really follow Hacker News, but a friend pointed this post to me. Feel free to follow up with me any time on Twitter, email me at tim at radtastical dot com, or come see me at one of the meetups that I organize. http://meetup.com/sviphone
I've been testing Dropbox, box.net, Google Drive, and AeroFS head to head for the past month or so (I guess I should add SpiderOak, Wuala, Bitcasa, and maybe something else I don't know about)

They all do pretty well for small datasets (1-10GB of text files, office documents, mp3s, and sometimes 1-2GB video files and similar files) on OSX and Windows 7. I haven't tried them on Linux or mobile devices much. They all kind of suck with multi-user access (which I simulated by putting clients on all my machines and using them randomly), larger files, etc.

None have particularly good performance (fucking Comcast Business; reasonably good on the colo LAN but still not what I'd consider great). Even with the LAN Sync options turned on, adding a new large file with a few client devices on the same LAN causes pain (multiple trips up and down...). A per-client 1/10 of the link size throttle isn't really helpful with 10 clients. AeroFS is different (since it's peer to peer), but is a lot slower than the LAN speed in my experience to sync. Having clients on VPN sometimes makes the whole thing even weirder, since machines on the same LAN aren't on the same network, so syncing traffic goes over a (potentially remote) VPN. And then there's the lulz caused by sync-over-cellular, which admittedly isn't transparent to the client (mifi hotspot sometimes).

Looking forward to just getting an 8x4TB Synology or FreeNAS for home, syncing with some combination of physical drives and rsync to/from the colo, and using disk in the colo. iSCSI seems like the best solution.

In the long run, I think what's needed is a smarter client -- it should be smart about syncing based on what network I'm on (VPN, LTE, etc.), pre-caching some files and not others (either explicitly or predictively, and maybe different on different devices)

There's also the huge mess of security -- both confidentiality and versioning/availability. For multi-user, you can't just layer truecrypt on top. It's depressing that someone yesterday asked "what's the best way to manage corporate documents without putting a copy on every laptop..." (data room style) and the best answer in 2012 seems to be SharePoint :(
You seem to be implying that the argument is absurd, but reductio ad absurdum is valid. "If X were true then we would have impossibility Y, so X must be false."
Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #17 – 7th of November, 2012
I haven't typed in Word on the Surface for a solid hour yet, but it hasn't bothered me in the x86 version on my desktop over the month or two I've been using 2013 there. Like joenathan said, it completely blends into the background pretty quickly.
There is another angle to this: a distracted population is a happy population. Or at least a population that isn't marching and burning in the streets.
I have mixed feelings about this. Laying people off, for business reasons, and providing three months severance, is not worthy of this kind of attack. Most of these people will get better jobs. Companies commit injustices against their employees all over the place, and Zynga is justifiably disguised, but this isn't a case of that.

I think the general precedent of increased employee empowerment (by increasing the consequences, currently at zero, of treating employees badly). I'd like to live in a world where employees have some power and a few hiccups or overactions on which I don't agree with all the details is something I have to accept. So that is to the good.

I don't think they deserve this for laying people off. Every company has to lay people off. The clawbacks, on the other hand, earned Zynga this.
Whedon on Romney
From my searching I can't find any practical reasons for it other than eye candy. It seems the only way to disable it is via a regedit

http://www.winsupersite.com/article/office-2013-beta2/office...
I wonder how much of this argument will always be made-- one generation after another. As a thought experiment I put myself in my father's shoes and replaced every reference to phone with television. The text still resonated. I'm tempted to try seeing how many generations I could go back (all the way back to Buddha maybe)... but I have fruit to slice.
Little coders
Maps and things like basic stability. When you can crash version 6 of something just by dragging icons around the place, wtf is up with that?
RPG MO, Multiplayer HTML5 Indie RPG Game, has gone Halloween
They do it for the page views. Its really simple to come up with a snarky title and talk about things without doing any research. What is crazy is that the original author probably came up with the "Why I returned my surface" idea months before it was even released. If it was not because of the Office issue it would of been some other half-truth/fixable issue that he would call a "show stopper" and laugh while it goes "viral".
Perhaps use symbolic links?
Ask HN: Groupon meets oDesk
Does the HN community see a market for a groupon site for software development. Someone posts a project idea, people pledge to fund the development of the project, bids for the project are accepted, once project is accepted source is available for users. A more complicated use case for software/website is the code is hosted and users split up marketing.
They will essentially never be able to stop the release groups from releasing stuff, but they can presumably prevent casual ripping by end users, then use the heavy hammer of RICO to go after the groups (DrinkOrDie...).

They need to make the value spread between pirate and legit as wide as possible, but rather than making better DRM (to make pirated sw less useful, but also make legit software less useful), IMO they should just focus on making legit software fundamentally more useful when legitimately licensed. I know Steam essentially got me to stop pirating games by integrating their social features, easy library management, etc. Mac App Store sort of does that for most Mac software, too. But there's also the issue of price point -- even if I bought every game I wanted, that's probably <$1000/yr. It's easy to consume >$1000/yr in movies/tv, music, and "internet content", and even easier to pirate, with less value on top of the raw content.
You're probably correct and I absolutely hate it.
Ask HN: Where do you (marketers) find freelance gigs?
After seeing the same post for freelance programmers, I'm curious where marketers go to find freelance gigs?

The post this is referencing:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710470