skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suggestions:
1) Mention that it is Windows only and supports Windows 8
2) Take the screenshots with the DevExpress Metropolis skin if your app doesn't look too bad with it. It looks like a "modern" windows 8 app
3) Big free 15 day trial button
4) Basic version for $20; Advanced version for $99 (e.g. Report designer only in Advanced version)
I would have said the same thing after discovering the stash.
Not because I actually planned to do this but because the situation is bizzare and that's some sort of humiliating humour.
Awesome. I will make the change tonight and will offer a trial version.
The reason why I was so excited about FormLabs — over RepRap, MakerBot, and all of the other above Kickstarters — was the fact that they were looking to do stereolithography (SLA), vs a more CNC extrusion method like the above. It is a much higher quality process.

This is what 3D Systems calls out specifically and I imagine the patents are about this. I'm not saying I agree with it but I am saying that FormLabs is the first Kickstarter I've seen to tout SLA, which is probably why 3D Systems thinks they have grounds.
Thanks. This is why I love hackernews.
I should have refreshed the page before stopping to write my comment, you've explained it much better :)
Thank you so much for this info! So, if I understand you correctly, the airspace above the freeway is still restricted even though the Highway is public land? Is this accurate?

I agree that it's entirely feasible that this was a military exercise.

What seemed particularly strange about it from my POV was that the drone was hovering directly above passing traffic. As I mentioned, it had extremely good attitude control and was just lingering directly above the flow of traffic with what looked like cameras.

I can't personally understand why a "military exercise" requires hovering over civilians for extended periods of time, but I'm sure there could be extremely reasonable explanations. I'd still like the benefit of at least being offered one though.
I'm sure you could cherry pick parts of Finland that have even lower gun violence. Conversely, unlike your cherry-picked states, parent actually chose Finland for its exceptionally high gun violence. Even if you broke out the 50 states few would be within the normal range for wealthy countries.
>their fork is designed to allow a system to be started even if the /usr/ directory hasn't been mounted yet.

What a terrible reason to fork. This feature is useless. Putting /usr/ on a separate filesystem made sense 20 years ago when storage capacities were small, but not anymore.

On Fedora, /bin, /sbin, and /lib are symlinks to their counterparts in /usr. I applaud them for this effort to simplify Unix and move away from cargo cult ritual.
You're right. I was definitely generalizing a bit. This is a thick-client 1-user app. It can be multi user, but that is coming down the road.
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I tried to make my situation clear so as to avoid making it seem like I was commenting on other people's situations. Not everyone can easily avoid taking liquids along for example, and I certainly don't want to imply that people in other situations than mine 'invite' security hassles.

But part of what I'm trying to understand is why any of the current rules "should" make me feel like shit to go through - taking a few things out of my bag and removing my shoes are easy and quick. [Of course I sympathize with people who have horror stories, but I don't think everyone posting on HN, Slashdot and Reddit have personally been treated egregiously].

What is it I am missing? Is there a moral principle people of having to go through security people are upset about? Or frustration that the TSA is a large part security theatre? Or is it that so many people traveling do so in configurations that get much more hassle than I do - traveling with children, unavoidable liquids, medical devices, etc. ?
I do a bit of consulting for MS CRM and this looks like a straight ripoff of the UI from 4.0.

What differentiates CRMFly from any other CRM product? Are you competing solely on price?
You missed Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer which raised $830,827

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/printrbot-your...
Mostly echoing what others are saying here. When I deliver a wordpress site to a client, there is no way I am going to include pirated software. I don't want any sketchiness finding its way back to me. Also, I will pay for any software/plugin/theme that costs less than my time to build the same thing. It's just a matter of numbers. A $35 theme can get me 80% of the way to a client's desired layout. If I'm getting paid $500 for the project, then I'm making $465 for only a couple of hours of work, rather than $500 for several hours of work (starting from scratch).
Javascript has standard runtime, that you can use in both browser and node.js (and any other place), which includes Array.forEach and all other high-level stuff. Candor doesn't have this, and thus there're no need to maintain it.

Embedder is a project that's using VM to add scripting. In case of javascript, embedder is node.js, browser or even couchdb. In case of Candor - it's a candor.io (so far).
I'm a junior developer and I've found that the old guys lack creativity, but they make up for it with experience. The people who have been programming for 20 years have seen languages/frameworks/libraries come and go, they know what good code looks like and what's just trendy. The more you ask them why they're making decisions you think are retarded the better you'll get at programming.
Dude, that comment has seriously made my night.

So, to summarize what I've learned from this thread:

Next time I sleep with a schizophrenic woman who brought a pocketknife to her failed startup, when I hear her go to the bathroom at night I'll be like "Hey baby, no need to get all slashy-slashy doing the serious wrist thing, I mean, just look at Hitler, he had problems too."
i enjoyed this post.
An upvote and a thanks from me, too.
i) Write a scraper that compares electronic prices on Craigslist with what the fair value is on ebay/priceonomics. Auto send emails to craigslist sellers who are selling below market value, purchase, and then sell on ebay/craigslist. You can do similar live negotiations at moving sales.

ii) Airbnb your home, especially if you live in or near a big city. Or rent a home to Airbnb.
This test doesn't look right. For instance, Django comes with its own ORM, and a bunch of stuff in contrib. Does the test count the code in contrib as well? To be fair, you would need to take for instance Flask, and add SQLAlchemy and a bunch of extension to get a meaningful score.
Regardless of his past, why did he pull so much information? And turning it over to gawker seems a bit wrong. He should have contacted the company. If they didn't do anything then he should have gone to the media.

It seems like he acted irresponsibily with the situation. It wasn't just one misstep, it was a few.
Amazing. I can TAB-2014-TAB-F-TAB-14 to set a date. No drop down and clicking through months then finding the day and clicking on that.

And somehow it knows how my browser normally renders drop down select fields and just blends in without imposing a different visual scheme of its own.
There's however the documented cases of the guns carried onboard that they did not prevent. And there's documented evidence of TSA confiscating butter knife from the pilot (obviously, he was going to hijack himself), purse with picture of a gun from a 17-year girl (that was undoubtedly Hermione Granger and TSA knew she could turn picture of a gun to a real gun with her magic), plastic lightsaber from a small kid (Anakin Skywalker, I presume, and everybody knows how he turned out, so better to be safe) and a plastic 4 inch GI Joe gun from another kid (again, who knows those underage magicians - maybe they could turn it to the real one). I have no idea why they have problems proving they prevent many acts of terror, with such record. People must be stupid.
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I believe the original SLA patents have expired - they're from the 80's. I suspect there's something akin to "page turning" patents in 3DS's portfolio that they're trying to use. It's no surprise this is happening, but it's pretty crazy none the less.

I never got why Stratasys didn't sue MakerBot on simple stupid grounds? I'm also interested to see if MakerBot has a response as well - as they may also be infringing some stupid minor thing.
Interesting. I'm consulting on a project for a heavy traffic website and the SQL Server was chosen. I'm not the DB expert on the project, but when I asked about SQL Server's equivalent to Oracle RAC, I was told there wasn't anything like that. From our experience on the project SQL Server's clustering technology was pretty amateur compared to Oracle's...
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The success of iPhone apps development industry runs parallel to the swift flow of success of iPhone series. If we think in a quite irregular manner, iPhone development has also offered various job opportunities as thousands of mobile application development companies has already recruited or looking forward to hire iPhone app developers.
If I discovered that someone hadn't locked a filing cabinet, and then I rifled through it, found a whole bunch of names and social security numbers, recorded all of them, and then went to talk to a news organization with this list without ever notifying the people whose filing cabinet I'd gone through, do you think that would be OK?

Because that's pretty much the equivalent of what happened here. You say "AT&T put this information on a public interface and relied on obscurity of serial numbers to protect it"; this phrasing puts the blame on AT&T. Yes, they should not have done that. But that's about equivalent to forgetting to lock a file cabinet; it's a mistake that someone made. Weev then took advantage of that mistake to violate the privacy of thousands of people, providing their personal information to a news organization.

Now, I don't necessarily think that they should have been convicted of everything they were convicted of. Unless there are facts that I haven't seen, they haven't come anywhere close to committing identity theft. But you do have to admit that Weev did not exactly handle this responsibly, and did invade people's privacy.
Very interesting. Looks great.

First question: How can I sync the data with others on my team? (ie. is it possible?)

The questions page isn't working.
"You are disquieted at the level of privilege displayed."

Spoken like a true data security professional.
This is a video of some guy pronouncing the longest word in the world.
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Designer here. Dump. You can find a better representation of what you're doing. I'm not getting the connection between CRM and fly, besides a fly is a negative connotation to begin with.
Are those fugitives powerful men/women that have history of crazy ventures, plausible conspiracy theories, and constant communication with the world? If so please link their blogs too.
For me, it is a feeling of being subjected to stupid and demeaning procedures which exist only for show. When I pass, for example, Israeli security - which may take more time, but does it in a completely different way - I do not feel this, because I feel I understand what they are doing and why. TSA has no real reason to grope my ass and my balls - they do it because somebody somewhere decided they should, and his reasons probably were nothing but covering his ass in case something happens.
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So you say that a court would not use 18 USC 1030(a) to charge someone of a crime:

> In other words, no court has gone so far as to adopt anything close to the absurd outcomes suggested in this piece.

Pardon me if I'm missing something here, but doesn't the post exactly say that that has what weev has been charged for?

> This is the issue behind the recent conviction of Andrew Auernheimer for “hacking” AT&T.
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I'm curious. What if you use the iPhone Configuration Utility to generate the output file? I've done this before to roll out multiple phone configurations that all had pre-configured email IMAP and SMTP settings for a large organization.

I didn't alter any cell based network settings. Though I recall the output file from the iPhone Configuration Utility was merely a text file. I believe, though I'm not 100% certain, and this was around iOS3-4, that I opened the file in a text editor. I think I recall this because I came to the conclusion one could make a web based configuration utility that output the same data file.

I'm pretty sure it was just simple XML. It may be a binary plist type file now, but plutil should solve that problem.

Couldn't one manually edit the output file to contain the values they desire, import the file, pop in the SIM, and have a functioning iPhone on iOS6?

Just a thought based on some very old memories. Anyone care to fire up iPhone Configuration Utility and see what file type it generates. Even if not XML, a hex editor should allow the changes, no?. A small git-hub project could probably create all the needed profiles for the various carriers out there for unlocked phones.
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Could you please explain how convicting a person that hacked into AT&T means we have fake democracy? I must be missing something here, could you elaborate a bit?
>This is why they speak quickly against comparisons of the United States as a whole against Scandinavian countries or Japan. Those countries do not have the ethnic heterogeneity or deep-seated institutional racism that the United States has experienced and still experiences.

America is not unique in that it faces challenges and obstacles to being successful. Japan had two nuclear weapons used on it's citizens, half of Western Europe has been invaded and occupied in the last 70 years, and Australia has had the worst drought ever recorded. Those examples barely scratch the surface.

Your line of reasoning that America is "unique" or somehow "different" because of the challenges it continues to face is a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

Facing challenges and obstacles is all part of the challenge of building a successful country where the average person on the street has a high quality of life. When compared against other first world countries, which have also faced very large challenges to their success, America does not rank well. Stop making excuses and finding reasons to excuse yourself from greater comparisons.
A few random comments...

This value is not what it says:

SECONDS_IN_DAY = 86400000,

That's the number of milliseconds in a day. Instead of a magic precalculated number, why not create all the relevant constants so the values become perfectly clear:

HOURS_IN_DAY = 24,
MINUTES_IN_DAY = HOURS_IN_DAY * 60,
SECONDS_IN_DAY = MINUTES_IN_DAY * 60,
MILLISECONDS_IN_DAY = SECONDS_IN_DAY * 1000,

Personally, I find these kinds of string constants get in the way:

STRING_DIV = 'div',
STRING_TR = 'tr',

The string 'div' is never going to change to something else, is it? It would be better to just use the string directly where you need it.

This is an amazing and scary piece of code:

/**
* Get the count of the number of
* days in a month, given the
* month and year
*/
getCountDays = function( year, month ) {

var
// Set flip based on if month is
// before or after July
flip = ( month > 6 ) ? true : false

// If it's February
if ( month === 1 ) {

// If it's not a leap year
// then 28 otherwise 29
return ( year % 4 ) ? 28 : 29
}

// If it's an odd month ID
if ( month % 2 ) {

// If it's after July then 31
// otherwise 30
return ( flip ) ? 31 : 30
}

// If it's an even month ID
// and it's after July then 30
// otherwise 31
return ( flip ) ? 30 : 31
}, //getCountDays

It also calculates leap years incorrectly - try getCountDays(1900,1). February 1900 had 28 days, not 29.

Why not let JavaScript do the work for you?

getCountDays = function( year, month ) {
var msInMonth = new Date(year,month+1) - new Date(year,month);
return Math.floor( msInMonth / MILLISECONDS_IN_DAY );
},

This will handle all leap years correctly.

You can probably do something similar in your createDate function to avoid the manual tests.

Also the name getCountDays is not very informative. Maybe getDaysInMonth?

The settings options use names_with_underscores, but that's not very idiomatic in JavaScript (except for capitalized constants). camelCaseNames would be more comfortable.
One thing I believe is that if something is revolutionary, it's going to be revolutionary without you having to say it.

This essay made me feel a little unsettled. It described things I find myself doing (solve small problems and let them grow) for the sake of solving problems, which hasn't been popular with all the people working on being revolutionaries in my life.

After I read Startup = Growth, I felt I read the YCombinator Manifesto, and so much clarity packed into an essay where most others replace one set of confusing concepts with their own.

Together, I think this essay speaks to something bigger that I've believed in. You are the only, and most important start you'll ever work on. learning to learn, recognize, focus on and solve the right kinds of problems is what will make all of the difference.

After reading this essay, I get why YC focuses so much on a person's tenacity.

I could apply with any of my ideas that mostly live in the future, are useful, functional, valuable, and most of all, simple and obvious. I didn't know if I could belong in an accelerator, but, just for the personal mentoring alone for becoming a better creator of what's missing in the future, I'd do it to just be around the conversations.
dunno, why you get so much hostility from other posters, maybe they just really don't like being told "other people have it worse off".

anyway, one of your key points i think others on this thread are missing is that this guy has (even in failure) a huge amount of real-world experience that will land him 100k+ salaries if he chooses go to a corporate job.
In my opinion he's just full of shit.
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Good point. I was thinking that a lot of the characteristics of great entrepreneurs are really just things that make them more volatile. So for a % of the people they will be more successful, but for another percentage of the people with the same characteristics they will be a lot less successful.

I have no evidence to back this up, just food for thought.
Casts doubt on any benign intent in my mind.
Harmlessly? I know this is off topic, but....

A close friend of mine was killed by a stray bullet this year at a 4th of July celebration. She was in a crowd of thousands of people gathered to watch some local fireworks. The shooter was miles away and probably has no idea that they murdered someone.

http://statenews.com/index.php/article/2012/07/student_shot_...
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From what I understand they are infringing on a patent by 3D Systems which has something to do with pin head support structure. If this is the case they can easily update the software to use a different style of support and they would be in the clear... That's just speculation and I have no confirmation on if thats the case or not.
To be fair, I doubt most "mainstream media" (ie. CNN, WSJ, NYT, etc.) would have noticed/cared about this information.
That's a really simplistic. The real world isn't that simple and it can take years to get your business off the ground. Suppose the original inventor spent several years perfecting a 3D printing process and then 4 months after he starts selling his printers (before he's built up a rep, a steady stream of clients, maybe with still no staff) some other schmuck with a shitload of VC cash swoops in, does the same thing, but undercuts him by having a more efficient manufacturing process or outsourcing to China or something. That'd be kinda shitty and you wouldn't just tell the guy to suck it up, work faster and invent something new.

The purpose of patents is to give new companies with brilliant ideas some breathing room where they can grow their business.

I don't know the background of the given companies in this situation, but it's possible that 3D Software was being muscled out by a bunch of kidz with a flashy kickstarter and a nice promo vid.
Linux malware can now turn all sites on a Linux server into silent hell-pits
Ahh, when I wrote that comment I was thinking of residential ISPs. I agree that there is more competition in the wireless ISP space, and I don't think we're getting shafted _too_ badly by the pay-by-the-byte plans there, compared to what I would expect if residential ISPs got into the pay-by-the-byte business.
It does not matter on what AT&T relied. As long as it was clear that this information is not intended to be public and he was doing something the system was not intended to do and circumventing access controls, however easy it was - and anybody with half a brain would know it was not intended to be public and he is circumventing access controls - the only right thing to do was to notify the admins, delete all the data and stay away. Bruteforcing the access and keeping the massive amount of data could not lead to any other outcome but him being considered a criminal.

This is old, but some people seem to misunderstand it still. If your neighbor has a weak lock, telling him about it is OK. Picking the lock, coming in and going through his private things, while keeping some copies of his bank statements, credit card numbers, etc. - is not OK and has a high chance of landing you in jail. And no, "he had a sucky lock" is not a good defense. You knew it wasn't your property and it wasn't a public place.
Could you back it up with some other sources then? if there's more to the case, where this more can be found?
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Very nice. What made you decide to go with the no-password option? I've never actually seen that before and it's pretty wild. Is there anything stopping someone from logging into your account?
Rework it, on low priority. Get rid of the trail, and try and rework the symbol into a more squarish shape, because that way it can be used as the app icon. If done this way, the the product logo will be a combination of the symbol and a wordmark (CRMFLY) - "[X] CRMFLY" - which is, in my experience, a very practical arrangement that maps well to all common uses.
> I see enough young kids in my surroundings getting into trouble with parents, debt collectors and all kinds of other nastiness

I suspect you are embellishing your story a bit to rile people up. You can easily complain to Apple, Facebook, or any platform that has these games, if your child spends a huge amount of money on the game. It's called a "chargeback", and is very easy to do. The game developers have to return the funds by contract, and the user is typically banned as a result.

My understanding is (from personal work on social games) that the highest-monetizing users, across the board, are the older users. Even if the game looks like a cutesy kid's game, it's normally the case that it wasn't really designed for children. It only looks that way to hardcore gamers.

For the most part, children that unwittingly spend a bunch of money make up a very tiny fraction of revenue for these companies. Any of them that spend a huge sum normally end up receiving a refund a month later when their parents find out.
Post states Jeff Bezos couldn't hack, he graduated in EECS according to wikipedia and a few other sources noted he was a CS major.