skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are already quite a few funds like that, torservers.net and noisetor.net are examples of that, both have lawyers on stand-by. I recommend donating to these folks to keep exit nodes online!
Brave Robotics Transforming Robot Car Rolls out
Nope, H.264 in Matroska is not a standard.
The Cost of Downtime
I believe this article specifically states that it inludes Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, Phillipines, and Vietnam with the typical Orientals.
I'm not complaining on the use of the ampersand, but unlike many people seem to believe, it's not semantically equivalent to "and". Beyond just joining two items in a phrase, the ampersand marks an association between them and emphasizes it as a single definite idea, a "thing".

Ampersands are often used to mark brands, names and cultural items made up of multiple components: Johnson & Johnson, Dungeons & Dragons, bread & butter, fish & chips, Gold, Smith & Associates.

If I say "I had some fish & coleslaw" that would make a few people wonder if this is some popular recipe they should google.
Can someone explain why the discovery of ice and organics on Mars and Mercury such a surprise? If the prevailing opinion in science is that life formed spontaneously on Earth because the required chemistry was already present, doesn't it follow that similar compounds would be found through out the solar system? I get that each planet has a dramatically different composition in terms of what it primarily consists of, but I would expect traces of things like water and simple organic compounds to be found in various concentrations through out the solar system, no?
Ice on Mercury, the closes planet to the Sun? Unbelievable. Indeed Wikipedia tells that the temperature gradient on the planet ranges "from a very cold 100 K at night to a very hot 700 K during the day." I used to think that Mercury is a half-molten radioactive hell.

For me organic material is not that exciting. Such substances as methane seem to be everywhere in space.
Actually this was just released!

http://www.mailvelope.com/
ITunes 11 hands-on: a faster, cleaner, more connected version of Apple’s jukebox
How do such obvious things get past a QA team 
Looks like there is a bug in the AppStore. My question is I am sure there is a dedicated team for testing before release. My question is how does these obviously visible bugs get past standard manual and automated testing procedures
Be aware that the key for saints row does not work when you are in Germany.
Luckily, the humble bundle support is good and will help you out if you have problems, at least they helped me very fast :)
It would be even nicer though if they would mention this on the official page.
The first few minutes of Idiocracy covers all the bases and is very insightful in its presentation.
UK Pirate Party Asked to Take Down Pirate Bay Proxy (by BPI)
150th 1M/1M Roundtable – An Inside View Into Mentoring 2.0
It's just a little sad to see how they did it, when they could have done it so much better. :/
This would be a fun time to have VSAT IP network bandwidth available over Syria -- there's probably a lot of space capacity since the US pulled out of Iraq (the US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were basically the best thing to happen to the satellite networking industry ever).

You can pretty easily get a $1k earth station which can fit in the back of your car and set up in 30 minutes by someone with an 8th grade education and ~4h of training.
"Mcor 3D printers employ water-based adhesive – no toxic fumes, lasers, airborne powder or toxic
resins – enabling the machine to easily co-exist in an office or classroom."

http://www.mcortechnologies.com/mcor-technologies-announces-...
This really rubbed me the wrong way. It feels like they're taking advantage of my generosity.
Whoops, meant nanosecond. Thanks.
If you do anything with video/photo's and many other types of things the space adds up quickly. I had 2TB filled with just games that I had purchased. Just my steam folder alone is pretty massive. Files are getting a lot larger with the amount of storage we have access to.
Just compare a floppy disk to a CD to a DVD. You've only used floppy's and someone comes up to you and shows you a CD... "WOW! what legal use could you POSSIBLY have for that!"
No, they gave you android versions in addition to the Linux/Mac/Windows versions.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/dell-releases-powerfu... This Dell seems very nice.
150th 1M/1M Online Roundtable Kicks Off Scholarship Contest For Entrepreneurs
I love these highly technical blog posts on recent events by cloudflare.

Keep up the good work guys.

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-and...
I know this is a weird suggestion, but the best combo for me is a Macbook (air or pro) with Parallels running a Linux VM full screen.

Performance is shockingly good, you don't have to worry about drivers, and you still get access to a bunch of nice OSX things inside the VM (Retina res, keyboard shortcuts for volume, Mountain Lion's speech dictation, etc)

Plus, you get that sweet sweet Apple build quality.
And I can't stress enough that selection and evolution are not equivalent; selection is only one evolutionary force, and in humans probably not a very powerful one due to our historically low effective population size. Other forces in evolution include genetic drift, migration (gene flow) and mutation.

As the article discusses, the major characteristics of human populations in the recent past centre around demographic changes i.e. small populations where drift dominates, giving way to massive population expansion, where mutation and drift likely play a much more powerful role than selection does (for nearly neutral variation, which is the vast majority of variation).

This could potentially change if the human population ceases its expansion, stabilizing at a greatly increased level for a long period and with high levels of gene flow. In this case, selection could have more of an impact on nearly neutral variation than it previously has.
State of the Union: The Marriage Between Budget and Spend 
Budget: an estimate, often itemized, of expected income andexpense for a given period in the future.

For many businesses, budgeting time is busy time when managers meet, brainstorming occurs, complicated calculations are done, negotiations are conducted and finally, a set of guiding figures are released.
This is probably the best explanation of the Syrian outage I have ever seen. Cloudfare are exceptionally good at explaining things like this and even included a video of the Syrian traffic slowly dropping off. Expect those "cut" cables to miraculously be repaired shortly.
You could've just asked me earlier. Anyway, there is a hotness rating which is combination how fresh the article is, and how many points an article has.

For example, an article with 45 points posted 10 minutes ago will have a higher ranking than an article with 10 points posted 45 minutes ago.

The Surface article with 50 points was ranking much lower than articles with less points posted before it. That indicates flagging.

As to the front page being wonky, can you point out any instances of articles with 50 points posted 1 hour ago being in the second page?

>how are you concluding that flagging causes something to fall off the front page any faster than normal

That's the whole point of flagging. If the flags are many more, it will even kill the post completely.

Also, see http://hnrankings.info/4848998/

The sudden plunge does not happen with other stories.
There's also the issue of not having a pointing stick on Macs

Isn't it the case that the Dell ultrabook also does not have a pointing stick? Hopefully someone can chime in and confirm/deny this. I looked on the site, and it appears not to have one.
Easy way to shut off your internet connection. Quit paying the bill. ;)

Does the government have to pay for those lines? Or is that handled by some other entity?
This tells us nothing about how it was turned off, only that the routes were withdrawn from the global routing table. Which isn't "how" it was turned off, by why it's stopped working.

There's some guesses in here, but the title is rather misleading. No one still knows why these routes are no longer being advertised, only that they're not.
You got all four (OS X/Linux/Android/Windows) platforms where they were available (might be for all games; I haven't checked). This is my purchase page: http://i.imgur.com/IN58e.png
This is a bit of a strawman. The fact is that the people (on the assembly line) following instructions are less valuable (and thus will get paid less) to a firm than the people "at the top of the money funnel" who are the decision makers.

Whether or not advertising has intrinsic value doesn't affect this.
Outsourcing the "Un-Outsourcable"
Haven't downloaded yet, but apparently they use Helvetica Neue Light for some interface elements now. Perhaps you don't have that installed and it's defaulting to Bold?
Thank you very much for this. At least one other person has mentioned it on Amazon[1] which I found after reading your concern.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/review/R26SUGNEEZ4UDK/
I would personally recommend a Samsung Series 7 15.6" laptop. It has a super thin bezel around the screen so it form factor is more like a 14" laptop. It is less than an inch thick, and is very portable. Mine has an 17-2675QM quad core in it, and it is expandable to 12gigs of ram(4 gigs is soldered on the motherboard). It also has a radeon 6750m in it. But most importantly, it has a 1600x900 MATTE display. I run only ubuntu 12.10 on it, and it does take some configuration out of the box to get set up right, but a quick google search is all it took. Few minor things don't work on mine, but overall I am extremely happy with it.
Starbucks and Apple offering $30 gift card combo to benefit AIDS foundation
Aren't there plenty of exceptions to this though? Microsoft's margins on Windows is higher than what the OEMs can get for their PCs.

(assuming "closer to the money" is a synonym for closer to the end user)
Ask HN: Feedback needed on NewsQast - new local news aggregator
NewsQast is a local news, weather, and traffic aggregation service providing a single view of news across multiple local sources.

I would like to ask the Hacker News community to provide me feedback on the concept and usefulness of the service. I'd like to know what you think would make a news site more valuable to you as a consumer. I'd also like to know if anyone has any suggestions on making news sites like this more engaging.

URL: http://www.newsqast.net/

Thanks for the feedback.
This isn't a reply directly to you, Winthrowe. But more to this line of thread.

The wrongs of Paypal have been mentioned, but most account blocking happens when a user violates Steam's TOS. Being an abusive jerk online while logged in and playing games. Or cheating.

Now, I think that's bullshit. You still paid for those games. I think you should own them. Completely. At most they should block you from their servers and their online play.

But with Steam you can easily download any title you own as many times as you like. Steam has its own problems, but this they got right. You can even back them up quite easily. (Man, that used to be a broken tool, but even it's good now.)
Ask HN: What's the most annoying 16 digit password to manually type?
Long story short, I need to give a password on a piece of paper to someone I don't like. They can't store it or change it, so I'd like it to be as annoying as possible. Any strategies you can think of? End to end of the keyboard, etc?
I still find it interesting as someone who if you'd ask how to turn off a country's internet, would give you a blink stare in return.
Pitchenvy: Showcasing the best startup pitch decks
> Is it reasonable for the police to investigate an exit node operator for traffic coming from his node, even if they know he's an exit node operator?

In theory, you are right and the police would probably need to examine his servers to determine whether Tor was involved in this. In practice, they will probably just harrass people in the hope that they will confess and keep his servers for a long time (or forever) because they lack the expertise for such an investigation.
The one you can't remember.

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> You can't replace the SSD (it's soldered onto the mobo), and replacing the RAM is not recommended.

That's not quite correct. The SSD is not soldered, it is replaceable. The problem with the SSD is that it's not a standard mSATA part. The RAM does appear to be soldered to the motherboard.

Source: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Hardware Maintenance Manual - http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guides-and-manuals/detail.pa... - SSD replacement instructions on p62; note the absence of RAM replacement instructions, indicating that it is not a Field Replaceable Unit (FRU).
You're right - I did lack perspective and empathy.

I never thought I'd be the busy guy without time or energy to filter through and respond to every application we get.

The problem that I've encountered is that at < 15 employees, the best hires are generally people we pursue. Literally 90% of people we've spoken to who apply through standard means are ill-fitted for the role.

This post is designed to open the perspective of myself, the "busy startup guy" as well as Amar, the "I want to be a part of a startup guy".

The idea is that everyone should go above and beyond to get noticed. Most people don't. If you don't really really really think you can make an impact in my business (and haven't shown me so via initiative) how can I really know that you're not just another tire-kicker?

Remember, a seed-stage startup is on an egg-timer. Every minute needs to be productive and every conversation needs to create value. We need to pick and choose our battles wisely.
It's more than a defacto action in regards to Windows. WinSuperSite articles are killed upon submission automatically.
4 whole months? You definitely just doubled down on overconfidence. It's only one job search, you have no idea which lessons apply generally and which are only true for the current ecosystem. Read about the Dunning-Kruger effect and avoid coming off as overconfident at all costs, when interviewing young developers/technical people that is a giant red flag in my experience. It's almost a deal breaker for me.

Also: No, that's not an Ad Hominem (which is the term you want to use rather than DH1 if you want to sound like you know what you are talking about by the way, it's a classic logical fallacy)
Many of my friends have the same views of Mercury during discussions and I find it funny. I learned about these peculiarities of planets from Dav Pilkey (known for his Captain Underpants books) in his RIcky Ricotta's series. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Ricotta%27s_Mighty_Robot_...)
You might be right, sorry. Tiny mobile screen and a stupid client did not let me reply until now. My screen has a decent amount of cracks so it's a bit hard to read from. :)
Agreed. These are simple combinations of the 4 most abundant atoms in the universe. If anything it speaks to a lack of scientific understanding in the amazed, or maybe it's my (and your?) cynical nature.
Not quite one-off, but you can get small runs of injected molded parts from Protomold:

http://www.protomold.com/

They also do machined parts on a smaller scale:

http://www.firstcut.com/
Why is that? I'm getting a new mbp 13" (non-retina) soon and I intend to put Arch Linux on it. Other than bootloader issues (and maybe wireless issues?) I don't think there'll be other issues with it.
This machine seems lame to me at best (1366x768? Really?).

I did a lot of shopping around about a month or two ago. There were only three serious contenders. Asus UX32VD, Sony Vaio Z 15 and Thinkpad X1 Carbon.

Out of this bunch, Thinkpad was out because of insane price in EU and because Asus had a better screen and massivelly better value. Sony didn't qualify because it felt cheap and I really dislike Sony as a company. So I the only real worthy computer was Asus UX32VD.

Running Ubuntu 12.10 I am super happy with it (although shame on Nvidia for not supporting Optimus on Linux). If I were buying a computer now, I would probably buy Asus U500 (15.4" and Quad Core CPU).

But I am still in market for a new Thinkpad, when Lenovo comes to its senses and releases something 14" with 1080 or 1200 resolution and Quad core CPU.

I have a feeling that next year the laptop market for developers will be awesome.
Amazon is coming out with a product ever other day. I guess its because their big expo/conference is going on right now. I am waiting for an Amazon programming language to pop up.
Zynga’s amended contract with Facebook offers more flexibility
Online Service Offers Bank Robbers for Hire
Julian Assange on WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, Cypherpunks, Surveillance State
They haven't done similar bundles in the past, hence the surprise everyone is expressing.
Laptop Buyers Should Pay Some Attention to the Chromebook
And after this news hits the wire Zynga is -8.5% in after-hours trading.
Agreed. Tutorials have been great for learning but generally there is no way to know which ones are good and which ones actually still work without spending a decent amount of time digging in. Like you said, is would also be great, if tutorials could be built on top of each other to create a linear path.
Can Google Cloud Storage be used to just store personal Backups? Getting started with the service it seems that it's really targeted to developers. Why can't Google build an interface and offer it as a backup solution.

Maybe that would compete with their other offer of Buying Google Drive storage for five times the price.
It's probably part of the police mentality of "He's a suspect, that means he's guilty, but if we can't prove it in court we know he'll get off."

So they punish him extrajudicially by taking as much stuff as they can, delaying as long as they can sending it back, and sending it back in as poor condition as possible.

If they Google him and realize he's begging for legal defense funds online, they'll know he's not strong enough to sue them.
That makes a lot more sense, as much as I love tiling window managers it's not especially fun to get that far off the beaten path, for exactly the reasons you've mentioned.
I have found that even though apps for things like time management are a dime a dozen and none of them work like I want them to. Few of them are targeting to solo developers.

Throwing together graphs and a decent interface is getting easier every day with UI frameworks, bootstrapping tools and design snippets available for anyone to use.

Maybe I'm crazy and just wasting time, but I have just started building my own apps for these sorts of things. It doesn't have to be perfect as long as it gets the core of what I need. I can iterate on them daily and these sessions are also great for daily practice on something I want to get better at. It also gives me a chance to exercise things that I normally don't have to deal with, like UX / UI design.
can you use alt codes?
Very bummed to hear this -- Company of Heroes was excellent and I was really looking forward to CoH 2; I hope they publish it before they go belly up.
I'm an atheist, but have an upvote for innovating in a sparse niche.

Also, Clickable: http://www.FaithStreet.com/
I like the way you phrased this: "Wrong for 3 reasons, I think:"

Here is my counter argument for what it is worth.

1. in-person help and advice from store associates.
Someone below pointed out that you may be overestimating in store associates. I'm not sure eitherway, but what I do know is that the printing will be done offsight and I would rather deal with a specialist over the web than someone who does some 3D printing, and sells regular printers etc. for my product.

2. Established supplier for many businesses, which means employees can start using it without having to go through the vendor approval process. It's much easier to dip into an existing corporate budget for some new project than to create a budget for it.

This is a great point and I could definitely see some value coming from the fact that I could just give my admin a part number for a 3D print rather than go through a ton of work getting a vendor approved.

3. First mover advantage. It would be better again if they had it in the actual stores, but I bet that's coming in larger markets.

Almost never in the history of business has a first mover advantage been a real advantage. I say almost because there was a previous discussion where someone mentioned 2 or 3 big companies that have done it, but the other 497 fortune 500 companies were copying someone else.
That doesn't sound like competition; it sounds like they should have been using ACID all along.

In any case, I don't think Google will stop using BigTable any time soon, especially with Spanner's massive latencies.
The cost of selling Galaxies | asymco
They should call this the THQ bankruptcy bundle
Does anyone actually read and care about this inane bullshit?
This is a pretty unlikely scenario for a typical use case. The attacker would have to own the electrum server that the victim is connecting to, and orchestrate a fake transaction. Even then, if the person double checks the transaction via a third party like blockchain.info, they would see it's fake.

I think you are over-exaggerating the impact of this vulnerability given the safeguards available to mitigate the attack, such as running your own electrum server or cross checking transactions with a third party.
Same here. For the benefit of those that don't like to type: https://holvi.com/ but I'm still not sure what's different.
Stay classy, Apache
Ask HN : How do these obviously visible bugs get past QA
Looks like there is a bug in the AppStore. I am sure there is a dedicated team for testing before release. My question is how does these obviously visible bugs get past standard manual and automated testing procedures
http://imgur.com/6NYCc
I think the point is that businessman selects employees who then make more money, are healthier, and therefore more reproductively interesting and successful. This means that a one can influence evolution without reproduction. This is something like an externally caused drift. The businessman can select who is more likely to reproduce, likely biasing work ethic, respect, etc.

It's a valid point. One should not be so quick to dismiss ideas.
And has been already debunked :) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-377
support, which kind?
Practically all normally-built laptops with 2 RAM slots are expandable to 16 GB.
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If they had balls they'd make it FREE!!!1
A surprising amount of people seem to be just flat out defending child pornography itself, actually. The fact that everyone talks about it so nonchalant is frightening.

People seem to care more about this guy's life being ruined than all the kids' lives ruined.
You might as well get a laptop with a 1920x1080 display if you're going for 15.6". Or get a 14" laptop if you want 1600x900.
I bought a Sony laptop and it hasn't hurt my independence. You're not saying things that make sense.
I'm sorry, I can't get past you comparing pedophilia to the gay or trans* experience. That's just despicable.
If they're looking for a more content heavy site rather than just a "face" for their B&M business, I'd point them to Wordpress, ideally hosting their own, but Wordpress.com offers hosted sites. The interface is easy to figure out and there's a ton of themes and plugins out there, as well as tutorials.
Thanks! Glad to have different viewpoints and still be excited about tech in new places.