skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think she probably tripped over the no-work stuff. So you're a professional singer? Going to be doing any singing? You are, but you just said you're not going to be working over here...

There's really no need for the whole thing to be so damn Kafkaesque (shut in empty rooms, not told what's going on for hours), but in all likelihood that's more to do with the sheer incompetence of UK airport staff than any actual malice. And they really are incompetent.

I saw a fight break out in the passport line at heathrow airport one day, over a racist slur. I was amazed how far the staff let it go, they seemed compltely disinterested. In fact other civilians had to restrain the two fighters and the staff still did nothing until some of us started shouting "Aren't you going to get off your arses and bloody do anything?"

Useless bastards...
don't miss 12/12/12 12:12:12
Bonus points for timing it perfectly so:

TZ=GMT date +"%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S.%N"

gives

12/12/12 12:12:12.121212121

(shame it's not an even number of digits on the nanoseconds value)
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last time for a while
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Interesting that this has been around for so long. What are the ramifications of leaking mouse/ctrl/alt/shift if they don't have any context about what you are clicking on?
It is disingenuous to say it has nothing to do with copyright. Copyright is the law your are ignoring when you decide to pirate it because the price is too high.

I presume that if you feel able to opt-out of that law that you wouldn't mind if I opted out of laws designed to protect your interests if I find them inconvenient.
With the US it's been fine for me to go over and work as a technical trainer in our US office for a few weeks at a time, but I declared everything on the VISA waiver.

I'm not sure on the specific rules for the UK, but yeah 'I'm going to play a few gigs, but, uh, don't worry I'm not getting paid for them' probably is a bad thing to say.
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'Hacker' doesn't only refer to software developers. It has evolved to mean more than that. HN is a community and if a story makes it to the front page the community obviously wants to see it there and finds it interesting/useful.
Celerons of that era were very easy to officially overclock generally because a great many of them were underclocked by Intel.

They ended up with far more of the more expensive 400+MHz capable parts than they expected to produce (presumably they were overly cautious when predicting how well the production process would work and therefor how many of the better rates chips thye'd get) but too few of the cheaper 300Mhz and 333MHz rated parts that were actually selling well - so they rebadged faster units as slower ones to fufil sales promises for the slower units.

This meant buying a machine based around a Celeron 300 or 333 (often referred to as "Silly-rons" at the time) was a lottery: you might have got one that is genuaninely expected not to be stable if run much faster, or you might have got one that Intel could have sold as a 450+MHz device.
Hey, quick question for you. I've got a version of Chrome with JS and plugins disabled that I use for not entirely trusted links. Do you know if there are still some exploits we're vulnerable to, especially on Win? I think I remember hearing a while back that it isn't foolproof.
(Totally OT: And the best part is that you guys are here with us listening to our feedback)
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I like to consider it a British penchant for piercing the corporate veil and de-reifying the collective.
Who says they don't have any context?

Off the top of my head I know ingdirect had a virtual pinpad. Combine this with a XSS vulnerability Icould easily send you a link to login to your bank website. The link would then load this type of mouse tracking data.
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That's a bit like saying, why not support IE1 (which by the way is newer than the i386) because it's just a subset of IE10.
Rising housing prices for owner occupiers are popular politically. Or at least, they were until the bubble popped and people started noticing that real household incomes had never risen to match the housing prices.

The alignment of class interests has changed on this issue. Renters and net debtors are now the majority, rather than the bubble temporarily making every other owner-occupier into a net profiteer.
It makes me sad from a retrocomputing standpoint as well. I have a sun386i in storage that I always said I would port linux to one day. Oh well...

I can't blame them for wanting to drop it though, not only do you not have the full range of atomic operations, but also the MMU doesn't respect the WP bit from kernelspace which means special code in copy_to_user()

I wonder how long they will keep the 486SX alive now that it's the last one that requires 387 emulation.
Looking at the holes and crocks of shit we see every damn day related to HTTP, HTML, JavaScript and the whole programming model that surrounds them, it's about time someone just shot it all and started again putting security and privacy first rather than playing whack-a-mole all the time.

Unfortunately I fear this is not possible based on the sheer momentum that this ball of sticky tape and string has.

I think the sheer number of articles that paper HN all the time over browser and protocol vulnerabilities, leaks and problems back up my assertion.

EDIT: just to add, my frustrations are based on having to spend 5 hours porting some JS code so it works properly on all browsers.
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Not if there was no hum where you made the fake recording.
I agree. He rambles incoherently and it's hard read his writing with much flow. He even said how mopey he was so the story felt mopey to read, not necessarily appropriate for a play by play of a man's botched trip to London.
There's NBCloud (http://notebookcloud.appspot.com) if you want to host notebooks on your own Amazon cluster (great for using the parallel computing features).

Also, PiCloud (http://www.picloud.com) has a notebooks tab for launching an IPython Notebook as a job. That's useful because it means you can use their compute and data facilities with it easily.
And here it is, the Pope’s first tweet
Lets say you buy a $2m home as a single person. And lets also say you could just as comfortably live in a $250k home.

Ah, you Silicon Valley folks and the bubble you live in.

Hint: most Americans and, indeed, most citizens of Earth, could never afford a $2m house, or often even a $250k house.
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I'm interested in installing EPD, but it seems to want to install in my C:\Python27 directory (I'm on Windows here at work). Will this overwrite or otherwise interrupt my existing Python installation?
As an Aussie who has to occasionally suffer without mixer taps, I must ask:

What do you do when it's cold and you want to wash your hands with warm water? Your choice is freezing-cold from one tap, or boiling hot from the other. Why separate them?
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Executable documents are powerful tools for teaching and learning. Focus in this area will pay off all across the Python community.
Huh? I'm in the UK and every tap in my house (with the exception of the bath) is a mixer. Is this unusual?
As a side effect, those chips also helped launch Internet publishing - sites like the improbable Toms's Hardware, founded by a German M.D. if memory serves, cut their teeth on overclocking advice and benchmarks.
It's an Internet Explorer vulnerability. Shell level IE exploits are one of the reasons Firefox and Chrome have done so well, because they're more secure. Don't paint every browser with the same brush.
Sage Notebook interface can be used for Python, R, Octave, Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX among others. http://www.sagenb.org
I see how Heathrow's 4 hour immigration line could lead to this kind of thing. And if the staff (or UK government) really cared, they wouldn't have a 4 hour immigration line. Tip: never fly to Heathrow directly from outside the EU.
Too. Many. Full. Stops.
An interesting statement, which would be more interesting if backed up by facts. All brothers are basically virtual machines running remote code, how could they be secure?
I've already checked them:
* http://www.erpsystems.ro/ -> this is a demo
* http://www.apersis.ro/openerp.html -> under construction
* http://www.openerpsaas.com/en/package-details (from Elastoffice) -> it's not very clear to me if they provide training
* http://www.openerp-romania.ro/ -> just a "contact us" form
* http://www.intellisys.ro -> couldn't find anything about OpenERP
As its universities turn out engineering grads, Poland attracts US tech giants
Do you know how hard that would be?

It's not momentum, the browser is essentially a universal OS, the holes would still be there if you started again from scratch.
Helium + balloons = serious problems
Yes I know but the sheer number of articles aggregated across all browsers point to the architecture of the web being completely flawed.

Consequentially, they're all as bad as each other.

"More secure" is subjective i.e. it's more secure to us public but who the hell knows there aren't 100 zero day's out there in the wild changing hands for thousands of dollars.
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A vague generalization. Can you conclusively say that all the YCombinator (or any other similar incubator) startups are groundbreaking innovations?

Given the transformation that technology is undergoing, there are too many low hanging fruits to be ignored. And if you try to define "startup", then you are already on a slippery slope.
It sounds to me like the company has no heart or soul, thus was stillborn to begin with. You wanted to be independent and work on things that were inspiring and meaningful to you. You got the independence but not the inspiring and meaningful work. Doing more of the same is not likely to remedy it.

You are sick of working on your own and isolated. With what little you have written here, it sounds to me like getting a job elsewhere and moving would be the best option currently. Once you are in a more vibrant work setting, you might find something which inspires you. I would suggest that you start another company only if/when you find that inspiration, that thing which strikes you as meaningful.

Until then, it sounds like client work vs. a job is "six of one or a half dozen of the other". They are both just a means to pay the bills. But, in this case, a job has the benefit of pulling you out of your current rut. It sounds like that is the better way to bet, the thing which has more promise for ultimately leading to a business which might thrive.
It's not considered a particularly honorable way of making money in the west either. We're just less concerned about honor.
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Yes I do know how hard that would be. I didn't say it would be easy.

Actually the browser is a non-universal OS which has several vendor extensions and incompatibilities which poke you in the eye day after day.

It's like the UNIX fragmentation in the 90's (OSF/1=Firefox, HPUX=Chrome, Solaris=IE, UNICOS=Opera).

It's possible to build something without holes. You just have to hire the right people and actually think about it before adding shitty features.
Can someone explain to me in a few words what the difference is now between CouchDB, Membase, Couchbase?

I was looking into CouchDB a while back and loved its concepts but then it became an apache project and there was couchone and membase and coucbase and i lost track of that is happening in the community.

In short: Is Couchbase somewhat like the next CouchDB? Does it still use HTTP/JS everywhere? I loved the fact that i could stay in JS/HTTP/HTML in CouchDB, query CouchDB directly from the browser and even build a whole website in that system. Now it looks like there are a lot of client libraries again, Is this not HTTP anymore?
Hi guys,

I posted on HN 10 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - about our site. It is a way for you to create giftlists and to find gift ideas in an easy way.

We got a lot of great feedback from you guys that we've tried to act on.

- A proper About Page
- Make the giftmark bookmarklet more obvious
- Improve the sign up process
- More categories and products
- Easier way to save a list
- Image optimization
- General look and feel.

So now we are back for more - we wondered if you had any more feedback for us. If not, no worries. Thanks again and have a great Christmas..
Immigration 101: just say you come to see Big Ben and Tower Bridge.
And setState should probably take kwargs rather than a dict of arguments. Might also be cool to use a context manager for a "complex send" e.g.

with light:
light.bri(220)
light.alert("select")

which would only send the whole request at once in __exit__, as in "transactional" APIs.
The world is a lovely, messy place.
Even The Hubble Space telescope had it's processor upgraded to a 486 from a 386 and it's in space.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/12/27/hubble_telescope_get...
Pope posts his first tweet
Should there not be a section here on "Documentation" - or teaching others through good commenting of your code?
This could be used to track entropy of encryption key generation(like trucrypt or, the new MEGA site, any site that employs mouse/key binding for entropy.)

Damn, this is FUBAR!
I find it particularly inspiring that they turned this into a game. And more inspiring still that folks spent 4 hours playing the game!
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That doesn't take account of what quality and price-point the old and new units occupied. If the old units were older housing with fewer amenities at a lower price-point and the new units were luxury condos with in-building gymnasiums and doormen, then she was right and you were wrong. In that case, the construction was shifting the supply-versus-quality curve to more supply at higher quality and less supply at lower quality. Lower quality isn't always a bad thing, because it naturally implies a lower price for those comfortable with the no-frills approach.
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It all depends. While I whole-heartedly agree unlimited is marketing BS, I have some solid traffic sites on BH that run fine. They're not holy shit traffic but they're solid traffic volume for a shared site
The INGDirect virtual pinpad changes the arrangement of the numbers everytime it loads and hides them when you click. That does provide some protection.
Ha. I hope it was obvious it was somewhat of a joke, especially in the context of an article about an 85 year old.

Though I also had in mind this Benjamin Franklin quote:

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
This is why entrepreneurs are idiots
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Correct, cookies are stored for the duration of an incognito session.

I find it a little annoying though that cookies are not sandboxed by tab, rather than by window/session. If I log into FB in incognito, and then do a little more private browsing in a new tab the FB cookies are still accessible in the other tab.

I guess I could be more vigilant with my browsing habits but I think this is a fair feature to implement at browser rather than forcing user to jump through more hoops to protect privacy. On a side note, when will chrome finally offer API hooks to allow NoScript to be developed for it?!
Best prepared to survive != currently self sustaining.

Of all the ME petrostates, UAE is by a long shot and then some the most liberal and has the most diversified economy. It's also moving the fastest towards becoming more liberal and getting a more diversified economy.

The kicker here, of course, is the meaning of being the most liberal "of all the ME petrostates" - the bar is not very high. That said, if you're married, western, well-paid, can keep your hands off your partner in public, don't routinely get obscenely drunk and don't do drugs (many, many people fall into this bucket without giving up any quality of life), you could find much worse places to live.
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I don't know if honor even enters into it, it's just not considered a particularly effective way of making money.
Last time I checked they were not.
The appeal of the star cities is the continuous, liquid market. For build-to-flip startups that grow rapidly and reallocate huge amounts of money without doing much, the second-tier cities just aren't an option.

In which case I think it's the build-to-flip "businesses" that deserve to die rather than the "second-tier" cities.

But what do I know? I live in a "second tier" city with its own Google, Microsoft, and Intel R&D labs alongside the nation's Institute of Technology. Somehow we're still considered second-tier and every freaking start-up still locates itself in the city 1 hour's drive south from here with Boston-scale housing prices in a country of Minneapolis-scale salaries.
¿Que? I'm not even sure how to interpret this statement. Monopolies of what exactly?
I have more than a folder full of paper work for visa applications that I have done over the years, mostly just to let me into countries for a visit, let alone work. Apart from that the paperwork I had to do to actually allow me to work in various countries. I am extremely careful about not breaking any immigration laws in any of the countries, e.g. not do anything that resembles paid or unpaid work except what's explicitly allowed in my visa. Once you get caught breaking immigration rules in one country, it becomes really hard to travel to other countries with strict immigration controls.

I tend to read about people who travel and casually break immigration rules with a certain level of schadenfreude, whether it's singers just casually lining up some gigs or people who overstay their 3 month visa waiver to the USA.

Some people think filling in an ESTA is effort (man I have to spend weeks preparing paperwork to be able to be granted a visa that allows me to fill in an ESTA in the first place), but events like these make me realise that at least some people get a small taste of what it's like for the rest of us who spend part of our lives having to deal with ever changing rules and paperwork and being at the mercy of the mood of an immigration official.
does it make sense to develop an entire new city on shoreline when we face rises in sea-levels?
If it persists, it's the same thing really.
I think the style is appealing: conversational, casual, stream-of-consciousness. He's using full stops to indicate longer pauses, not normal sentence structure. I'm sure it's a choice; the guy's first book has 100 Amazon reviews, most very positive: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1905483902

That said, it's terrible for the typical HN purpose, which is to extract maximum information in minimum time. I skimmed a bit, said, "Wha?" and moved on.
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I think you're being needlessly dismissive of how hard a problem it is. There are legitimate use cases for capturing mouse position. You could certainly make a secure browser, but you're also going to strip it of much of the functionality that we enjoy today.

The problem doesn't exist because people just aren't paying attention to security, or because the entire architecture of the web is flawed. The problem exists because it's a damn hard problem to deliver arbitrary executable code to clients on demand and let them run it and do useful things with it without compromising security and privacy. The browser vendors have really stepped it up in the last few years, and it takes a very narrow view of the web to see otherwise.
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I noticed them so far only on UK based websites. Is this a EU wide phenomenon?
Hi guys,

I posted on HN 10 days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - about our site. It is a way for you to create giftlists and to find gift ideas in an easy way.

We got a lot of great feedback from you guys that we've tried to act on.
- A proper About Page - Make the giftmark bookmarklet more obvious - Improve the sign up process - More categories and products - Easier way to save a list - Image optimization - General look and feel.

So now we are back for more - we wondered if you had any more feedback for us. If not, no worries. Thanks again and have a great Christmas..
Media queries - we're doing it wrong
Why are media queries based on device/browser width rather than on the space available for a certain component? The device/browser width - actual context width relation is shallow at best, which is currently hurting the easy of implementing fluid/adaptive designs.
> OSF/1=Firefox, HPUX=Chrome, Solaris=IE, UNICOS=Opera

Oh, this is fun:

Xenix=lynx, BSD=Konqueror, Plan 9=Uzbl

http://uzbl.org/
Just removing javascript from a browser would cure most ills these days, and not all of them security issues.
Hah, ironic that this has an
'Error establishing connection'
Is that because of devOps or an absence of devOps...?
TEDx has almost completely ruined TED for me.

I don't trust that they care about quality any more, and there is far too much dumb self-promotion. It's a low quality source of knowledge and there are better curators around.

This is a shame, when it first started I could tell they were connecting me with innovative thinkers, and not those blindly trying to earn a quick buck.
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I don't know how the UK does it, but the rule in Mexico is that people without work visas can't do anything people normally get paid for. I think that's to minimize shenanigans. "No, officer, I just wait tables here for fun. Nope, no pay. Why would they pay me?"
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Tranquil is a programming language built on top of LLVM & the Obj-C Runtime
Anything you replace it with will have tons of vulnerabilities as well. Formal verification might help, but that's entirely orthogonal to the programming model.

Sure, it sucks to develop for. But it's not fundamentally impossible to make it secure and private.
Scipy is listed, and maybe matplotlib is considered a subset of scipy.

Now that scipy is supported, I'll start taking a look at python 3.
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> it's about time someone just shot it all and started again putting security and privacy first rather than playing whack-a-mole all the time.

I agree fully. So do the people working on Algol-68, PL/I, Multics, the Canon Cat, Plan 9, and, perhaps most relevant to this, Project Xanadu.

(Esperanto probably deserves a mention here, but it's duking it out somewhere with Volapük, Ido, Interlingua, Loglan, and Lojban.)
This is a tempting option in so many situations, not just software. But it never works because you can never wipe the slate truly clean. The state of the world is dependent on the previous state of the world.
I went to a wedding in Poland once. Oh my. They drink vodka like water (or wine), and it's hard to tell if they're drunk or simply happy.

After each course people stand up and dance, and then return to yet another bowl of soup of potatoes and bread, and a large glass of vodka.

My wife was sitting next to a very big guy who told jokes in a language that was a mix of polish/bad German/worse English. He underscored each punchline with a real punch that he would throw into my wife's arm, with his elbow. She weights something like 90 pounds, and he must have been over 200 pounds (of muscle). She would almost fly off her chair every time.
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