skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shameless self-promotion here:

PrivateCore (http://www.privatecore.com) defends against memory extraction attacks like this. We treat main memory as a hostile device and encrypt all data before it leaves the CPU.

We're venture-backed and hiring a memory-management researcher if you're interested: http://www.privatecore.com/careers/memory-management-researc...
Right and further:

"The paper's offices and presses were originally housed in a two-story building at the intersection of First Street (now First Avenue) and Morrison Street, but in 1892 the paper moved into a new nine-story building at 6th and Alder streets"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregonian
It's still left right reversed though, just try it with something printed on the paper.
I completely agree. As a person that gets 50+ days skiing per year, and loves powder, you have to PAY ATTENTION. Those powder runs look great until you understand how wrong it can go.

And people, don't jump into tree runs to avoid anything. It's plenty fast in there and if you are too slow, you're dead.

It's OK to ask for a ride down from the lifties.
Brute-force search of 373 million Turing machines
Ão is a notoriously difficult diphthong to pronounce for many native speakers of other languages. Wikipedia says that it was even used as a shibboleth in the Paraguayan War, but it doesn't cite sources.
Collaboration with Google Creative Labs
How to complete your NaNoWriMo 30-Day Novel
Have you read the Pragmatic Programmer? They talk about how to handle a situation like this. From what I remember it said to build a pocket of excellence in your dev workspace first, and then expose everyone else to it.

Set up the CI/build server on your machine, have it email everyone when the build fails. They will see the use of the tool then, and when the team accepts it they will hopefully get an official server to host it on.

Write tests for your code, and when other devs work with you on issues, or break things, write tests and send to them "Hey, i wrote this test that shows the code you wrote is failing, can you make it pass?" Also ask others to make unit tests. You will have to write the bulk of tests. You probably know which others on the team are open to writing tests and working with you on the pocket of excellence. Get them involved first, and then the idea will spread. A good idea would be buy them copies of Pragmatic Programmer too.

No, you aren't process oriented. A software team that doesn't at least like the idea of automated builds, and tests is crazy. As far as if it's a good place to work and improve one's skills? That depends. In some teams you might never get them to adopt the pocket of excellence. If you are working in a place like that, then it's probably not a good place to work. But if you have a shot at converting them by just doing it on your own first, then it would be a great opportunity to get experience with setting up these aspects of a software shop. And you can put that on your resume, blog about it, etc. In that case it would be a great experience.
The 6 months is what you need to cover expenses until you hit another payday.

If you have an in demand skillset like OP or can run to mom and dad for rent free living then you can reduce the total required with little additional risk.
I'll give it a whack.

First off, I'm defining "good food" rather strictly. Something you'd see in a chef-owned restaurant, where the chef either went to culinary school or worked in prestigious restaurants. (Cooking, like programming, can be learned without school.) I'm not saying they have to have a Michelin star, but they have to be making a real effort to make good food, so not Olive Garden. Most of the people who disagree with me simply don't like my definition of good food (and perhaps find it snobbish) which is totally fine.

So imagine you took a list of everything on those menus, and started filtering out anything using a technique a rice cooker is incapable of. I suppose my statement might not be literally true, there might still be SOMETHING left on the list, but we'd be talking less than a percent.

There are a number of things you just can't do (I think) in a rice cooker that you do at least one of in pretty much every dish you'd see at such a restaurant. You can't cook something at more than one temperature, for instance. You can't cook at any temperature above or below 100 celsius. You can't get a Maillard reaction (the browning of a steak or toast and it's associated flavors) or caramelization to happen. Right there you've knocked out almost everything cooked that you'll see on such a menu.

You can't roast or sear or sautee anything. A rice cooker cooks only with conduction in a wet environment. (I'm assuming convection occurs too when there's still enough liquid in the pot.) It's too hot to simmer and too cold to braise.

Even one pot dishes (and anything that isn't a one pot dish, which is the vast majority of the food I've described, is out by definition unless you have numerous rice cookers) usually take multiple steps. For instance toss the chicken in to brown, remove, sweat some onions, toss in some peppers, put in some plum tomatoes and white wine, raise the heat a little to deglaze and burn off the alcohol, lower the heat, add the chicken back in, braise. Etc. (Season the chicken with salt and a little piment d'esplette in the beginning and you've got poulet basquaise! You're welcome HN.)

So what can you do in a rice cooker? Boil stuff, that's it. You rarely in any decent restaurant will be served something that has had nothing done to it but boiling, in fact, I can't think of anything and like I said, I'm a foodie. I travel around a lot and have been to a lot of restaurants.
That's not my experience with Chrome on Linux; everything worked.
The best advice I ever had was: do something physical, something mental, and something spiritual every day.

For the physical, that can be as much as walking the dog at night or taking a brisk walk at lunch.

For the mental, you probably already have that covered since you're likely problem solving all day as a developer.

For the spiritual, you don't need to be religious, just take a few minutes out every day and either meditate, think about things, or, and this is my personal favourite, self-hypnotise [1].

[1] Since I have eczema I learnt about self-hypnotism from this book: "Skin Deep", http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skin-Deep-Mind-Program-Healthy/dp/09.... I'm sure there are plenty of others books that probably describe it better.

EDIT: P.S. Great blog by the way Michael. I don't agree with everything you say, but it gets me thinking every time.
Google apps gmail data privacy
We all know that with free gmail, google mines your personal data for the purposes of showing you ads (and for who knows what other purposes they are not saying). Does anyone know what the story is with paid google apps mail? How private is the data?
Oh, the irony... People willing to pay for high-quality vinyl (analog recordings) built from a higher fidelity digital recording of the physical object.

Why not just listen to the digital recording in the first place?
The videos on both Firefox 17 and Chrome 24 worked for me on Linux.
It's worse than that, unfortunately. Everything is implicitly convertible to a string, and every string is implicitly convertible to any other type. So, if you pass a dictionary into your function that expects a list, it will happily convert between types for you. I do not like this sort of behavior in my dynamic type system.
Works fine for me in Chrome and Firefox on Xubuntu.
Letter From a Passenger: “What Really Happens in the TSA Private Room?”
I can imagine Twitter publishing a application/tweet+json media type or similar, and clients and servers either supporting this or not (and exchanging Accept headers and 415 Unsupported Media Types as they go), but I don't get what that has to do with HAL.

For example, the "comments" link relation in

http://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/

points to

https://api.github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1/comments

but no-where in the document does it say what media types that endpoint will accept.
Still haven't received an email. Just logged into my bank account (I used my debit card) and I don't see any holds or anything. I'm beginning to wonder if the transaction actually went through. In the order process there's the page that said if it takes longer than 30 seconds click the link below to continue. I had to click the link and the following page had an order or reference number (which I didn't bother to write down because I assume these things go through fine... I've never had a problem before).
I also don't want to accidentally double order, so at this point, I'm now prepared to have not spent the money should the order process have gotten borked.
Hmm. I don't really know. I tend to be a pretty all or nothing person (shocker right?) so the day I decided I wanted to learn to cook, I bought books like The French Laundry cookbook and the Culinary Institute of America's textbook. I'd tell someone who really wants to learn to cook to use rice makers for making rice.

If someone was really interested in learning to cook, I'd tell them to get Ruhlman's 20 and Ad Hoc at Home. Both are relatively approachable and explain technique rather than just list off ingredients and instructions. Then work your way up the Thomas Keller chain (Bouchon, then TFL) because not only is he on everyone's short list for best chef in the world, but he puts a huge amount of effort into the books, even down to the typography, which a lot of other great chefs don't. (John Besh's book is great too btw.) He really goes out of his way to explain why he does the things he does.
Ask HN: Best web-sites to present new API for devs?
Hi! Will need few advices from community. Releasing new API soon so would be great to know about sites for API (other than programmableweb, etc)

Thanks!
The Spelling Error That Survived
I'm going to have to try this because why not?
Agreed. This article, more than anything else I've seen, convinced me that this is the future of news. Newspapers seem ridiculously outdated by comparison.
Working fine in Chrome on Mint here.
Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in Senate
@jrs235 if you got to the point where you saw a reference number then the transaction should go through just fine. There is a delay in the emails that you receive but it should arrive just fine within hours.
Apple Reportedly Killing Chargers That Power Both Lightning and Legacy iGadgets
Show HN: Micro commenting tool
now I know where tumblr and flickr got their names.
Buying that! I know far too little about Eastern cuisine.
Why Fast Internet Is Worth Re-Locating For (Do The Math)
Works fine on Solaris in FireFox 10 ESR.
Actually I'm not sure what value you can get from this list at all.

This is the methodology:

"Then we tagged all of the companies that have links to attorneys and mailing addresses frequently used by Intellectual Ventures. The resulting list is about 2,000 companies.

We have not verified that each and every company is definitely a shell corporation for Intellectual Ventures (doing so would be prohibitively expensive), but some obvious overlaps are apparent: managing corporations, telephone numbers, and other factors."

Right off the top I'm noticing a number of the same addresses which are, in fact, addresses for well know companies in Delaware that register companies and corporations ("The Company Corporation" is one of them). I've used them. I'm not sure this information really provided is of much help.

Most importantly, plainsite labeling this as a statement of fact "PlainSite exposes the Intellectual Ventures shell game." and the HN title "Plainsite Exposes 2000 IV Shell Companies" is clearly wrong (as a reading of the text I've quoted shows).
Exactly. And everyone likes braising.
A recruiter phishing for hiring managers maybe? But I would suspect this is legit and totally above-board. This is part of what online communities are all about.
Maybe I read too many Thomas Keller books :) He'd yell at you for not skimming.
All the videos are HTML5 <video> tags for me. The mountain-top diagram isn't Flash, either.
50,000 paying users sounds awfully unambitious for a VC-backed web startup. A projection of a modest Pinboard-like future like that can't possibly be what these firms are basing their investment decisions on. They probably think IFTTT have a shot at getting millions of users.
In case it's helpful, here's a screenshot of what this article looks like on an iPhone (Chrome): http://i.imgur.com/B1ZkO.png

It won't let me zoom out or zoom in. The only way to read the article is by dragging back and forth repeatedly.

Technical/debugging note: everything was fine before the top header image fully loaded. I could zoom out and zoom in before that image showed up, so therefore that header image is somehow removing the ability to zoom for iPhone users (and is also causing the 200% zoom-in).
It's great, but I can't help to get flashbacks to the mid '90s multimedia era. If someone would have shown me this as the future cutting edge back then, I probably would have been disappointed.
Not at all. A lot of my favorite foods are peasant foods especially French and Italian) none of which can be made in a rice cooker. They're often quite difficult to make, they just tend to use what are (or at least long ago were) the cheaper parts of the animal.
Some of us still didn't stop. A bad name is a bad name, regardless of how good the product might be.
huh? this is like selling a strtok web service. i must not be understanding the target audience or intended use case -- what is it?
Digital apocalypse: the death of MMO worlds
I did the damn-the-emergency-fund-full-speed-ahead loan repayment plan myself. You're basically gambling that you won't suffer a cash shock. That can be a reasonable gamble if you are e.g. well-insured, have very stable employment, have family support, have other income streams, etc etc etc. Otherwise, you'd consider the marginal 10% APR or whatever you're paying an insurance premium against a cash shock.

There is no circumstance where student loans will grow when you are actively making scheduled payments on them. Your balance will decrease monthly if you make your normal payments. Just mentioning that for sake of clarity -- some smart people I know don't necessarily have a lot of personal finance knowledge. Your loans will only grow if you either default on them or do something like triggering one of the income-contingent payment plans (which are a lot less good of an idea than people usually think, BTW).

Unsolicited financial advice: go to the institution you deposit your paychecks in and ask about consolidating student loans. (Another option, if you've been diligent about building your credit history, is taking a CC cash advance for a year, or take an unsecured loan. I'm getting unsolicited offers for either "1% fee, 0% APR for 12 months, then normal interest" from my CC at BoA or "9% interest, no fees" for signature loans from Discover at the moment.)
Is this the study you had in mind? http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.p...

I read about a similar experiment in the book "Automate This" by yc alum Christopher Steiner. They seeded a music website with unknown songs and it turned out that whatever was liked first benefited from the Matthew Effect. ie, people tend to like whatever is already labelled as "popular". Definitely an interesting study, but I fear we've gone far off topic.
So how do they generate revenue for hosting and stuff? Donations?
These are the droids that are being referred to I think:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/musiclab.shtml
"Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market."

This wiki article might be of interest too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect_(sociology)
Taste matters.

90s multimedia rarely had it.
That would depend on the eventual bit-depth I suppose. Maybe there is some micro-smoothing function on these new-fangled machines-of-the-future that will bring a new type of listening. It's not just the listening itself that gives pleasure to listening on vinyl, it's the sitting next to a turntable alone or with a small group of friends choosing tracks and have a physical connection to the source of audio.

Also, with vinyl you can always listen to your music without requiring electricity should you find yourself with only a needle, turntable and large sheet of paper.
The Future is Hypermedia APIs
I think it is. Thanks!
Brothers Grimm Honored With Interactive Google Doodle
Has anyone done something like this to scale out a hadoop cluster? I'm a total n00b at this stuff....
That's fair. The reason I put their email response in my post is so user's could evaluate for themselves how they felt about. The response so far has been mixed. Some are bothered by it, others, like yourself, aren't really worried. And that's fine.

The reason I reached out specifically to their security team is because on their security policy page that's the email they provide to contact them regarding security issues. Reaching out to their security team wasn't some intentional move to try and not get a quick response, it was just what made sense to me at the time.

I agree that their support is usually extremely quick to get back to you and it's one of the things I love about the company. Except for these issues and their security team's response, I love their service as well. I'm not rooting for them to lose here, I'm rooting for them to fix the issues so we can all happily move on.

They have been much quicker to respond to people reaching out to them over Twitter today and I have updated the blog post to reflect that. I look forward to having these issues all wrapped up.
First map of how the brain organizes everything we see
Really? No higher anything tells me to be a good person, I do it because it's the right thing to do and I've seen pain and wouldn't want people to experience it for no reason. Maybe you need someone/something to tell you what's right and wrong, but not everyone does.
You have a cleaner solution than my pull request hack. Thanks!
Actually, I think that this should have been HIS job, not yours. He's the business guy, you're the tech/design. If getting into the incubator is important to your business, and he's the guy who can hustle/sell. Why are you doing the application AND the design/development.

I'd say if he has been involved with the planning of the business, the incubator application would have been on that road-map and I'd assume it would have been assigned to him.

Now, that could be your flaw in taking too much on yourself, and not distributing the weight properly, but you might take that as an understanding that he isn't taking full consideration of what is happening, who is doing what, and what he should be doing.

I learned this lesson myself a few years ago. I had a start-up that was getting a decent amount of traction, and brought a friend on board as co-founder to help with the marketing/biz stuff while I did the coding. I head to lead him around for months, until we decided he just wasn't taking the initiative and getting things done.

We've managed to still stay friends, and cutting early was the best decision.
Top Tech Toys for Big Kids
I was riding at Stevens the day before this went down. It was deep, backcountry avalanche risk was high. Crappy footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no34MOpMBxU

Ditto that sentiment. Live passionately, look out for others.
The trick is to always keep in mind what the data explicitly says. There is a correlation between states with low average income and high percentage votes for Romney. The sample in this set is the state. It says nothing about individual people. You cannot make any conclusions whatsoever about how individual income relates to voting based on that correlation. It is a fallacy to even attempt to do so without more data.
I'm not sure I follow. Ex ante the models were unknown as to their performance?
Completely agree on both counts. As designers and developers it will be difficult to resist the urge to replicate this all over the place purely for the visual impact, but I hope we don't.

The use was so fantastic here precisely because this sort of story cried out for exactly these tools to provide a deeper understanding.
spoiler: there is no actual pornography in this link. just sayin
Dumb question: isn't IFTTT one of the companies that HN always cautions against building (one dependent on the availability of others' sites/APIs)? Or does that only apply for sites dependent on 1 other service?
I learned using this book, which I quite like:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Sous-Vide-Temperature-Techni...
You do eventually realize that all the recipes are kind of the same.

After that just Google for "sous vide <food> <spices>". There are a lot of people obsessed with this style of cooking who post their results.
http://www.ullrlabs.com
Jimmy Wales' response on Quora http://qr.ae/1A4iQ

"That article is typical of The Register - typical nonsense. The number of falsehoods in it is substantial, so in the interests of time, I will cover just a few of the highlights.

1. "The vast potential for advertising attracted venture capital firm Elevation Partners (whose investors include Bono from U2) to court Wikipedia" - at no point in our conversations with Elevation was there ever a suggestion that Wikipedia should take advertising. Indeed, Roger McNamee was quite adamant that Wikipedia should not do that.

2. "Bono also urged Wales to drop the volunteers and hire professionals instead." This is absolutely and utterly false. Bono has never suggested any such thing nor anything even remotely resembling it. He's always been in awe of the community and how it all works.

The Wikimedia Foundation (and associated chapters) are incredibly transparent about our spending, hiring policies and practices, etc. The idea that the Foundation should restrict itself to the tiniest possible budget just to keep the site running is frankly idiotic.

And the idea that the Foundation has steadily increased our reserve position is bad is also idiotic. There can be such a thing as having too large a reserve, but we aren't close to that level yet. One think we know our donors are interested in (because of their response to banner messaging) is that we keep Wikipedia safe - and that means, in part, being fiscally responsible and building up a cushion for the future."
It's only dismissive if you assume the weird thought that facebook is the only way to reach me.
The entire point of the exercise is to make money, let's be clear about that, it's not about making sure people can reach me with "important" messages.

You seem to assume that facebook can or should be the way to reach people who have explicitly said "friends only" for their facebook messages.

Again, if i've said "i only want to see messages from friends", and something "important" goes missed as a result, that is the tradeoff I chose.
The rest of this argument seems to be "you chose the wrong tradeoff or we think you don't really understand what you are doing so we are doing our best to surface stuff that you explicitly said you didn't care about"
Snowboarding (resort and backcountry) is my preferred diversion from computers and 'real' life, and I was riding at Stevens the day before Tunnel Creek slid. This is a very meaningful presentation of a tragic event, and very real example of the risks involved in getting out in the snow.

For those of you more interested in the avalanche / snow-science side of things than that this doesn't render properly on your mobile device, check out http://nwac.us. Specifically, here is their initial analysis of the Tunnel Creek incident: http://www.nwac.us/media/uploads/documents/accidents/2011_20...
Oh hi, you must have HN confused with reddit.
What the New York Times's 'Snow Fall' Means to Online Journalism's Future
Maybe he can change roles from co-founder to seed funder. Ask him for more? :)
Augmented vision: distance and heat sensing with Arduino/Lilypad eyepatch
Nice in depth piece on mobile UX
Grafeno Poderá ser em Breve Usado como Material Estrutural em Larga Escala