skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see where he gave permission for the app to post Tweets for him. He gave it access to his Twitter account, but that's not the same thing. To continue your analogy, the stranger was invited into his home, gave him a form to sign that said he could inventory the items there, got it signed, and then proceeded to publish the information in a way that wasn't mentioned on the form.
Does this count as a violation of one of Asimov's Three Laws?
Oh hell yeah. I'd give up 5% for the exposure (under the right circumstances and with the right business/product) the marketing alone is worth it.

I think this process skews the risk/reward relationship found in typical investments because the companies they invest in get 3-10 minutes of advertising. I'm sometimes surprised they don't do more deals at lower valuations on that alone.
First robots have arrived in plan to replace 1 million Foxconn workers
This looks a lot like BugHerd (http://www.bugherd.com). Might be worth looking at what they do?
If you have to explain to someone why they shouldn't be using ECB, it's hopeless. Instead, you need to be educating them as to why they should be using someone else's whole cryptosystem, like NACL or Keyczar or PGP.

Crypto is a place where a little knowledge is often harmful. You tell someone not to use ECB, so they use CBC instead. Now they're vulnerable to a bunch of new practical attacks. You list those off, and they switch to CTR, and their stuff is as trivially decryptable as simple XOR encryption.

What's the point? It's better to give people the (honest, accurate) impression that they don't know anything resembling enough to build a cryptosystem so they won't try, fail, and screw over their users.
This should lay the groundwork for plenty of poorly built sites that are easily hacked...
The CBC padding oracle is one such attack. There are a bunch of similar ones. They're "chosen ciphertext" attacks.

Again, even if you get this part right, there are other things that go wrong. TLS is authenticated, and it fell to two adaptive chosen plaintext attacks because of two different implementation details they messed up. And no public cryptosystem in the world has been as thoroughly tested and analyzed as TLS.
The users will still post on your forum and claim they don't know what iapcracker is. and argue incessantly despite having crash reports that logged it in memory
Congratulations on your first blog post! It looks pretty good, very attention grabbing. Please follow up with some more focus on the positives. I will be very interested to read more information on the correct way to implement crypto in all its subtle contextual glory.
I'm not clear how this would do any damage that MS won't do as part of pursuing some other course. Does anyone doubt that they're going to milk their cash cows while pursuing (say) the mobile market?
You're aware that pregnancy doesn't normally involve the stomach, right?
Node-Firebird 0.1.1 is released wih blob writes
"But by the very nature of making it public it's no longer vulnerable to blackmail"

Too little, too late.
IE 10 Preview on Windows 7
But the fact WebGL doesn't have to do everything a standards-compliant Canvas has to is the whole point! That's exactly why it's a faster way to draw, and the results are quantifying that. IE doesn't support a new API to draw faster; we highlight this with the performance measurements. I still think this is a totally fair thing to do. Even just how much faster is an interesting point: Chrome measures 25x faster in one test, and that's Javascript going up against the native code in IE's engine that presumably issues Direct3D calls to draw the canvas. You could easily assume Javascript would have been slower. I think overall it's both an interesting and valid point to make.

For the record - the different rendering with WebGL was a separate point about supporting shaders, the performance measurements were all based around identical-rendering tests.
Most unpythonic module name ever. Change it to logger.
beating != dissonance.
> I guess I just don't understand that viewpoint.

Bob should be paying 40% tax. Bob uses normal legal means and reduces his tax burden to 25%. Some people think he's a but cheeky; most people don't really care (or are jealous that he has an accountant); some people say "good on you!"

Ann should be paying 40% tax. Ann uses a bunch of weird interpretations of tax law to squeeze through loopholes. Ann has to keep changing her finances because the loopholes keep changing. Ann pays about 0.5%. Ann then claims that she can hire a cleaner, and so we should be grateful that the cleaner pays PAYE and can buy goods which will have VAT.

At the same time as Ann and Bob are avoiding tax everyone is going through tough times; their jobs are at risk, their services are being cut.

Everyone knows that rich people and companies avoid some tax. Most people really don't care, so long as some kind of tax is being paid.
"It works all the time for people having affairs"

It rarely works ~well~ considering all the times that they're caught due to the extreme amount of suspicion their actions generate.
Keep in mind that it's a 10-12% difference in mpg. It's like saying the 30mpg car is "inefficient" compared to the 33mpg one.
Terrific piece of hack. Anyone know where can I find a similarly transparent umbrella stand?
I wanted to make use of multi-threading provided by python?

As far as i know that line is automatically false. Yes you can use django for returning html and json(django-tastypie for example).

Also please put more info in the title.
PI is not something that can be delivered? If you're trying to understand why constants have the value they do then you'd need to know more about physics and not mix up math and physics. Math is used to help understand the physical world, but math transcends physics. The universe need not even exist for math to still be whole and complete. Admittedly we probably wouldn't be in much of a position to appreciate it without a universe around to show how clever it all is. What you're alluding to is the anthropic principal.
Is now the time to hire MBAs ? http://bhorowitz.com/2012/05/18/is-now-the-time-to-hire-mbas...
The only reason why this isn't a good idea is because the author doesn't appear to quite understand the entire tax implications. This makes me think he hasn't done his due diligence.

The author doesn't seem to realize that he will need to pay income tax on the money that he withdraws, on top of the 10% early withdrawal. This makes the cost of acquiring capital much higher than if he took a loan or an investment. If he has $100k in his 401k, and he withdraws it all in one chunk, he will be left with maybe $45k after 10% penalty and taxes.

The upside is that if he does this properly, ie wait until the next fiscal year, and if he doesn't have any other income income, the taxes he pays might be much less than if he had a regular income.

If all he needs is $40k, if I were him, I would look into alternate methods, like taking out a loan, etc. I've gotten some credit card offers for up to $25k interest fee for about a year (2% transaction fee). If he's this confident he will make money, maybe he should investigate this and if it doesn't take off, he can pay it off with a 401k withdrawal. He would need to figure out at what point he would be making income to pay back this loan, etc.

But straight withdrawing money from the 401k seems like a waste.
My company is willing to sponsor but given the length of time it takes, it's basically not in my favour. It can at times be a hassle and more like a burden.
Smoker's life worth $10,000
because teaching people the basics like variables and if/else statements will lead to poorly built sites?? Everyone has to start somewhere.
As an older guy with several visible tattoos, I'll chime in: "don't".

At some point soon, you'll mature and get older. And you'll realize that faded, unintelligible blob of ink really isn't that important to who you are.

And people will judge you. It hasn't really hurt me a whole lot in life, but I definitely had to jump over that initial hurdle of "I'm not a threat" again and again.
Regardless of what they paid, its already been spent and its likely that Facebook did not see much of that anyway. Even if they were to move to another social network out of spite they'd still have to pay that acquisition cost again and more since that network will be much smaller making it harder to drive more likes/follows/whatevers there.
Source code for Android 4.2 is being pushed to AOSP
Nexus 4 sells out in under 30 minutes
I ran into a problem trying to get it to take my shipping address, then it removed them from my cart.
Yes, but it as the screenshot says, it costs a lot to just reach your fans. Reaching friends of fans is a different issue.
He's not crying specifically about paying $3k, he's annoyed because Facebook moved the goal posts in a completely opaque way to the people already resident and established, which echoes a lot of sentiment I've heard recently.
It sold out way quicker than that. I tried to purchase it right away, had a phone in my cart, then when I went to checkout, it was gone and said Coming Soon. This was within the first 10 minutes of the phone going on sale.

UPDATE: The store is back up. 16gb appear to be sold out, but I just successfully purchased an 8gb model.

ANOTHER UPDATE: I just bought the 16gb model successfully as well. Both orders show as pending in my Google Wallet account.
Plenty of people sustain lengthy affairs without being caught by their spouses.
Geek Idol: A Competition to Promote Competitiveness
Absolutely. Rape as "justice" is a dark, horrible path and is not a valid deterrent.
How does this compare to: http://hello.corkboard.me/

Which, IIRC has been around a few years and I think the guy who created it is Tim Cutler??
Nokia acquires 3D street level imagery firm earthmine
If they can get your system to tell them if a message is valid somehow, perhaps by making thousands of attempts to pass a message and noting where it says 'login failed' or '404' instead of invalid message (for instance) then there are all sorts of things that can be done to recover messages and keys.

I highly recommend Dan Boneh's crypto 101 on coursera for anyone that has the time.
He did, I think the key word in that thread is the "here".

A lot of analysts like Facebook at the $18-$20 price point, something reflected in the stocks relative stability since August.

He did buy into the IPO expecting a quick bump which didn't materialize. And he doesn't blame Facebook for it.

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/04/facebook-handled-their-ip...
Google Reveals Government Requests For User Data, Content Removal On Rise
Gut instinct. It feels like an advertisement and I've yet to come across something that felt like an advertisement that wasn't. What made me think of it was an ad was just the way it was put together. It wasn't like other posts about comsumer electronics. Without even having to analyze it at all it just jumped out as being formulaic.

I'm not saying he's a shill and I couldn't care less if he were. I'm just saying that came off like an ad. And if someone paid for his Nexus 7 and Surface RT posts it would probably have been the people who make or sell those things. How should I know?

If Jeff Atwood was paid to write this I don't give a shit. If he wasn't paid but was asked to write it I still don't give a shit. If the link to the USB stick is an affiliate link then I'd happily click it to get to the purchasing page if I wanted to buy it. None of that stuff bothers me. This isn't an issue of something I take issue with. I'm just saying this comes off as subtle marketing, that's all. When I read Coding Horror I hope to read some interesting stuff, not see an advertisement disguised as a post. But even that's something I don't take much issue with. Its disappointing but I just close the tab, go about my day, and maybe another time there will be a better post.

I could also be wrong. That's fine.
WPEngine is smooth - but not that smooth.
I am interested in what technology startup founders use to differentiate themselves from competition. Allen Tsai leveraged Wi-Fi Direct. You?
He had to give the app access to his Twitter account. That doesn't mean he explicitly gave it permission to post to his Twitter account on his behalf.
Dude, if I follow a page, I want to get updates on it.

Now he's having to pay extra to make sure I get updates?
There are other systems out there that we can use to maintain the "interested party" connection, e.g., twitter, email, rss feeds, g+, $your_system_here.
I have one in my car, with my entire music collection on it.

Though I might want to delete some, since my car's interface for switching between albums is serial. Takes a long time to go from A to Z.
Because outside of Silicon Valley, Google+ is perceived as a ghost town.

Every time someone says this in a HN thread, dozens of people respond with cute anecdotes about how great their experience is, but this place is like an echo chamber. If you actually go out and get the public _perception_ of G+ it's quite negative.

I mean Vic got his big G+ talk at I/O completely cut off for the sake of another product. That should show you the shift in Larry and Sergey's priorities
It would be nice if Google would release some sales numbers on this. I'd imagine it would sell well in Europe where the lack of LTE is not an issue. I don't see it selling that well in the US, most people here get new phones every two years when their contracts are up at subsidized pricing.
Getting fired always sucks, but at that level it's not a career ender. He's beyond financially independent, has a broad view of the industry, and a lot of contacts.

Each of these are viable:

- Run a medium sized software firm.

- Run a large division of a major tech firm. (For example: Software at HP)

- Start up something that would have been impossible in Microsoft's hierarchy. No need for outside angels.

- Become a hands on VC.

- Teach computer science and business.

- Run around the world for a year while figuring things out.

It has to be tough emotionally, but there are many options for talents like this.
Just like in every other country that has launched it...

It would make it so much less painful if they atleast give me the option to pre-order the next batch so i don't have to recheck all my info-sources all the time...
The Google store was extremely slow during this period. I tried to initiate a purchase around 5 minutes after they became available, but 95% of my clicks resulted in errors, and when it finally went through, the Wallet info collector hung for another 5 minutes. When that finally went through, my cart had had the phone removed from it, and they were once again out of stock.

So the 50 minutes is probably somewhat inflated. Had the store kept pace it probably would've been more like 10 minutes.
i like the UI of redline better. Quick and easy integration. and free too :)
Of the top 5 developers I've ever worked with -- they are the X when I ask myself "what would X do?" when faced with a really hard problem -- 5 of them have PhDs in Computer Science.

Now, a PhD in CS is a bit of a double-edged sword. It's often a danger sign that someone has spent too much time on just one theory. I wouldn't recommend getting or using a PhD as a signal of being a good developer since there is way too much variance.

(Ob: I have also worked with great developers with no formal education.)
Why Hyperic is Going to Support PostgreSQL Only As a Backend Database
It's because the CPI is actually gamed. You just have to change the basket of goods measured fast enough to keep the rate down. Like the substitution of hamburger for steak that Greenspan did. The website detailing how this "isn't shady" is laughable. http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpiqa.htm

Check out http://www.shadowstats.com/:
"One of my early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP (now GDP) as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked me if I could fix it. I realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for my client (official reporting was similarly revised a couple of years later) and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless. "
what area are you in? (if you don't mind me asking)
My fiance and I had to tag team the site to finally get an 8GB after the 16GBs ran out. Got a confirmation number and receipt, but haven't received the confirmation email yet.

It's like trying to get a bag o crap, but with a phone!(tm)
I fought with 10 minutes of errors before getting to the checkout screen, and upon hitting submit, got another error. Cart was empty and it was back to "notify me." Got an email an hour later saying my order went through. Stressful.
I use it much like one would use Google Voice; forwarding to my cell phone and a couple of SIP phones with some call flow stuffs. A DID with unlimited incoming is $2/mo. With the e911 charge and outbound minutes I pay ~$3-$4/mo total.
MailChimp uses 1TB of RAM in Redis for anti-abuse AI model
I was referring to the new Canvas 2D context 'imageSmoothingEnabled' property: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
I don't understand how retweeting makes one liable for libel. Isn't it just an attributed quote? Is accurately quoting someone really a punishable offense in the UK? This is a frightening idea, even outside the realm of Twitter.
JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have)
Huh...AFAIK, that Stack Careers ad is at the bottom of most of Atwood's posts...it's a text ad that seems to be part of the blog template. I'm OK with ads being served on blogs.
In Canada contracts are still typically three years. I've been salivating over this for months.
If you find a correlation between MBA and cluelessness then I would either doubt your sample size or your methods. Be very very careful in any kind of statistical fashion to allow anecdotal evidence to cloud your opinion.

People who think there's a correlation with MBA's and cluelessness are themselves, just as clueless.
Profound and honest post!
^ Just followed this.
It worked.
Seems like they are batching the stock avail.
Got the 8GB at 9:45 PST
Good luck!

EDIT: server interacting popups are the root of all evil.
You talk as if you're proving the article wrong, but from what I recall of the people on the list, it's just the opposite.

Chris Dixon, for example, worked for years as a developer and more years at a VC before he founded anything.

Jeff Skoll joined eBay after it was already profitable. And he had started two businesses before getting his MBA.

Trip Hawkins joined Apple specifically to work with successful entrepreneurs to learn how they did it, and he joined them at 50 people, not 15.

None of these people would have made the mistake that the MBAs who approach Matt did, which was assuming that the mere having of an MBA qualified them to take a major role at a startup.
Google issues new Transparency Report; Surveillance on the Rise
Guide to Going Paperless for Educators
I had a similar experience. I was refreshing the page at 8:30-8:40 and when it finally gave me "add to cart" I spent about 10-15 minutes trying to get through until finally got sent back to "coming soon". It was very fast.

I understand possibly wanting marketing hype from selling out quickly, but the cryptic error messages and lack of performance on the server (from arguably the biggest internet company in the world) was disappointing.
My logic was that because they're unobtrustive, they're way less likely to get clicked on, and so sketchy Android devs don't really bother with it.
for what it's worth, 3 of the 9 top level comments are distaste for the layout. i realize you'll be hard pressed to create a landing page that satisfies everybody, but this is a pretty textbook poor experience. very concretely: the only content that's actually surfaced (repository name and movie poster) is useless.

i won't give any advice here. i'm sure netflix has a more informed design and experience team than HN. my only intent in responding was hoping to bring to light the severity of the issue: why make a custom landing page at all if you're going to redirect half the audience to something more functional?

edit: upon refresh, the page refuses to load and it can't get the data from the Github API. none of the repositories are listed under "our repositories", and the console error is Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'forEach' commits.js:50. this looks to be because the Github API is not returning any repositories, and instead returns this error: "message": "API Rate Limit Exceeded for [my client IP]"

edit 2: also, depending on window browser size, there are other javascript errors. i can't tell if these actually manifest problematically since the first issue is already preventing any content from loading: Error: Invalid negative value for <rect> attribute height="-33" netflix.github.com:274
For a counterpoint, see here: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/why-does-odd-evengas-ra...

"And post Hurricane Sandy, we have the issue of Government mandated gasoline rationing. On any given day, 50% of customers cannot legally tank up their cars due to the last digit of the license plate number.

Experience in NJ and NY shows that rationing has worked tremendously well. Gas lines have gone from 3 hours down to [crossed-out]15 minutes[/crossed-out] nothing, even as many stations still have no power and fuel deliveries are not back to normal."
Most corporations would NEVER do this. Hats off to Netflix for taking a bold step forward.

BTW, Linux is an edge case (< 1%, let alone << of 1% of paying traffic for Netflix!), and companies have to prioritize their resources.
Thanks for the info. I was under the impression that python supports multithreading. May be I didn't do enough research. Updated the title.
What a repulsive reaction. This is how babies are made (albeit not with the "stomach", sigh...). Your mother looked like that too, and might very well have a few shots like this in a flip book somewhere waiting to horrify you.

And what's wrong with "staging" a photo? Pregnancy is a pretty big deal, some people feel it's worth celebrating. I don't see anything wrong there at all.

Good job. I came to this thread ready to crucify this woman and her company based on their unbelievably bad design decision. Now I feel like I need to defend her from sexist creeps...
Dropbox surpasses 100 million users
> There's no reason to curate information that you wanted to get to begin with.

But are you sure users actually wanted that information? I strongly believe this assumption is false.

If I "like" something, I want to express that I like it. I want my friends to know it. It's not a "subscribe" button, it's a "like" button, and contrary to what people in spam^H^H^H^Had business may believe, people actually attach meaning to what is written. It's not a #:G4202 button, it's a "like" button. If you call it "follow", you get a different meaning and different expectations.

> What if Twitter implemented something like this where certain tweets from a person you are following do not appear? How would that feel?

Twitter is not Facebook. Twitter is about following people. Facebook is about showing people (my friends) what I like (and not necessarily caring what it has to say).

I, for one, welcome these new changes and want to repeat by GP: good riddance!
In the UK, I'm fairly sure this would be considered libel.