skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many geeky guys, this turns out to be a self-indulgent view that will virtually guarantee that they'll spend their life alone. I've met plenty of guys who think that they should just be able to find the video-game playing, D&D-, MtG-, hard scifi-, Linux-loving girl geek of their dreams. If they can, more power to 'em! On the other hand, I'm willing to bet that their chances will be significantly increased if they develop a taste and passion for art and cinema and cuisine and travel, etc.

Of course, it's not going to work if you end up having no real interest in these things, but if you do, then you might take these interests off of the back burner.

Another common fallacy is that you can weigh 300 pounds and yet attract a 110 lb waif. It's been known to happen, but the odds are stacked against you.
Yes quite, it is nice that is framework independent.
I was hoping someone here could shed some light on this. This would apparently be the first time (according to Google) Tufte has ever talked about experimenting with blue-boxes. I have no doubt he (and whoever his Stanford roommate was) had the technical chops to do it. I just wonder how he knows his was the "first"...since blue-box experimentation seems to have spontaneously come about after hackers put 2 and 2 together...and there was no Hacker News/Slashdot/Internet to post (with a timestamp) the exploit. Perhaps the AT&T official acted as if it were the first time they encountered a blue box in the wild?
I am angry too, but at the mentors who accepted the worship of a troubled young man and led him to this. Why don't you make your pointed comment and risk a ban? Please, I can take it and it would be refreshing to see instead of all this crap directed at law enforcement. And if you are not creeper out by some of Aaron's mentors fondly recalling his cuteness, you are not paying attention to what was going on there. And now his corpse is being repurposed for several agendas. I'll go first and welcome a ban: fuck that.
Built-in scripting language available on all major operating systems?
I'm sure it gets plenty of love. Just not that kind...
Changes the filesystem root to be inside a certain folder.
How does this differ from the Chrome to Phone plugin?
FWIW, a few years ago, someone asked Tufte for a copy of his out-of-print "Data Analysis for Politics and Policy" and Tufte posted the PDF files of it:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

It's an excellent book. Not as groundbreaking (or as illustrated) as his data visualization books, but filled with interesting observations on the intersection of data and policy. He really should do a new edition of it.
Care to explain the difference with Chrome To Phone?
If you can't be as good as Bobby Fischer, try to spend your issue with people have different skills to you. The best academic collaborations I know of all contain a "generator" and a "filter" of ideas.
The whole thing.

I think it was more than just touching, and I also think that it puts the lie to anybody that still wants to harp on the case not being the prime factor in Aarons life over the last two years as well as the reason why he choose to conclude it.

There are a number of very good questions in her address, questions that have no easy answer. Especially the ones about technology being used to improve the world, and the bit about 'magic'. After all, it really is close to magic, we wield all this power and we use it in the aggregate to sell advertising and gizmos. It's certainly food for thought for me.
Anyone interested in solid advise / best parctices should read the NSA RHEL hardening guide [1]. It is great and provides nice details. They also have a tips pamphlet for quick reading but limited details [2].

[1] http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf

[2] http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/rhel5-pamphlet-i731....
Mega could be the twentieth to do this and do it badly, with the amount of media attention Kim Dotcom is getting they would still have 50% of the market share half an hour after launch.
I have installed it. time will tell whether I will actually remember to use it when I need it.

One thing you should definitely fix - once you install Android app and run it for first time, it tells you that you need to sign in using your G account. I thought the reference is for the web-app since the android app already listed my G account email address at the bottom of the screen. In the web-app I checked I am signed in and yet I could not do any push. So I was frustrated why the wep-app does not recognize my android device. I touching the android app randomly and finally a random click on my email address made the connection.

Its definitely not obvious how to pair the device with the web app. You should make some button in the app

Otherwise I like it :)
You could probably already do that with the R package caret.

It can train models for you automatically, so you could loop over every model available and return the top ten predictions. Of course it wouldn't get around the need for feature engineering, but its theoretically possible.

Note - do not attempt this unless you have lots and lots of machines, as it will take a very, very long time.
The perfectly round Os in toyota are the giveaways. I got them all correctly, except for MATTEL for which the only difference is the stroke width; and which I ended up flipping a coin for (incorrectly).

That said, I did get a degree in graphic design, so I may not be typical when it comes to this.
I agree, it's leaflet's default behavior and I don't think it should be. Easy to disable though.
Mandatory ACLs, built right into the database and integrated with the OS that the system runs on:

https://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/

Assuming, of course, that you have some good way to connect a user's login to the app (which is probably being delivered on the web in this day and age) with an SELinux role. Luckily, we can do that too:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501228
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very interesting. If this had an API and/or a chrome extension I could see myself using it a lot. If you're looking for collaborators ping me (email in my profile)
It turns out that Tufte developed the content for "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" while at Princeton.

Although he did self-publish the book later at his own (considerable) expense, where do you think the money Princeton paid him all those years came from?

If you consistently apply Swartz's idea here, Tufte is in the wrong for charging for work that taxpayers helped fund. But I have a different take: Swartz's idea is bogus.

"In 1975, while at Princeton, Tufte was asked to teach a statistics course to a group of journalists who were visiting the school to study economics. He developed a set of readings and lectures on statistical graphics, which he further developed in joint seminars he subsequently taught with renowned statistician John Tukey, a pioneer in the field of information design. These course materials became the foundation for his first book on information design, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.[5][6]

After difficult negotiations with mainline publishers failed, Tufte decided to self-publish Visual Display in 1982, working closely with graphic designer Howard Gralla. He financed the work by taking out a second mortgage on his home. The book quickly became a commercial success and secured his transition from political scientist to information expert.[5]"

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte
I hear you. As a Quebec resident, I've been getting screwed all my life by these restrictions on contests. I don't even know why we're listed there alongside Kim Jong-il, Ahmadinejad and Castro. There's probably some law somewhere that the government of Quebec voted, but I don't know what it is.

"A Competitor is not eligible for this Competition if he/she is a resident of the Quebec province of Canada, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan or Syria."
This is really solid, thanks for sharing.
Chrome to Phone has had a big influence on PushBullet. The convenience of things being placed in your notifications is huge but Chrome to Phone hasn't pushed past being all about web stuff.

I want to be able to put my own notes, lists, etc on my phone, not just webpages and links. And files too, of course.

Simply, PushBullet will be a superset of Chrome to Phone.
Both are used, and password logins are disabled. As I linked to in the article, those sysctl tweaks are recommended by the NSA handbook.
I could see making all writable filesystems noexec - _that_ would make sense. Making all of /dev/shm read-only, and thus breaking the POSIX shared memory API? Madness.
Just installed it. It's not a about pushing specific urls, but instead you push specific predefined data types. The ones available right now are "Note", "Address", "List", "File". Pushing is done by visiting the site at this time, though I can imaging a browser extension is in the works.

Personally, I don't think I'll use it - I use dropbox when I want to sync a file with my phone, Evernote for notes and lists, and just Chrome to Phone for addresses (via google maps) or urls.
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At this point the holdouts include Afghanistan, where (quoting from the article) "Islamist groups [promote] the belief that polio vaccination is a front for covert sterilisation and other western evils." Six vaccination workers in Karachi and Peshawar were killed last month.

Does anyone know what Gates thinks about the CIA's fake hepatitis vaccine program in Pakistan, run Shakil Afridi in order to confirm Osama bin Laden's presence? Has he put any pressure on the US government against that idiotic idea? Because one of the reasons the Taliban resist vaccination is because they believe, with evidence, that US NGOs are state actors bent on espionage.
Thanks for the feedback.

Since we target iOS developers, do you think it would be too soon to start charging once they've released their app to the App Store (but leave the service completely free and unrestricted for as long as they are in development mode)? Or do you think we should be strictly resource-metered, in that they only need to pay once they've hit some level of activity?
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Beware of bastille - not sure if this still an issue but this is a dangerous bug: http://serverfault.com/q/444948/100094
That is really weird... Especially the warning about president Hollande about the Google tax.

Why is it weird? Because since free.fr badly messed up and decided to give the finger to net neutrality, a french minister did ask free.fr's CEO to come explain himself and to fix the situation as soon as possible with Google.

Basically free.fr was planning to remove Google ads by modifying the HTML served to users and even the socialist running France at the moment thought that violating net neutrality like that was not acceptable (in their own words it was a violation of net-neutrality and france is very much pro-net-neutrality).

And Orange is an ISP, just like free.fr. Not a media company.

So I wonder if the author of TFA isn't confusing two different things: the right to archive / link to french magazines / publications (like Lemonde.fr) and the net-neutrality issue.

IMHO users are paying for a service and companies unable to cope with the bandwith their users are demanding shouldn't use fake adverts to advertize bandwith they cannot provide.

In addition to that: go Google, wire the entire europe with fiber and let's be done with these lame ISPs ; )
Doesn't work for me. Latched to my email and shows my phone on the dashboard, but when I try to push something nothing appears on the phone. I've tried pushing the sync button too. Is it US only? Or does it need wifi on the computer?
Does coursework at a privately-funded institution count as publicly-funded research? Let's pretend that Princeton is a government institution: if someone uses his own salary, from the government's payroll, to develop and self-publish a book, that work belongs to the government? Did Tufte's mortgage belong to the government (or Princeton, in this case), too?
That's a great addition.

A big annoyance of mine with CtP is it's one-way, I can't send links to a browser. Would it be possible to PushBullet a file/link back to a browser? Maybe the last browser that pushed to the phone?
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So this is essentially a textbook case of monopoly abuse, with the twist that because it's across borders they're getting away with it?

I'm a little surprised the response wasn't to delist every Orange property from the Google search engine and block access to any Google property for any Orange customer. It seems to me that doing so would effectively render Orange's mobile broadband offerings dead globally, for the five minutes the discussion would last. Presumably someone at Google decided that such a strategy was too risky legally and/or in terms of poisoning relations with ISPs more generally.
Thanks for the link! That is interesting.
And yet being male still almost perfectly correlates with being a violent criminal. asdfologist probably picks on a loose use of word "correlation", correlation is by definition symmetric. pg is really talking about conditional probabilities, but honestly I think everyone understands what he means.
None. I have a free Dropbox account that has stuff in it but I never really use. Is there a list of Show HNs?
Have you ever checked out any of Paul Nahin's books? You might like those.
> Why the heck people will continuously give away private information with no safeguard that information will ever remain private in the future, I will never understand

I do understand. People don't evaluate risk correctly. They are fundamentally irrational in all sorts of strange ways. Humans have a strong optimism bias[1] so even if they know something bad might happen to some people they know that will happen to other people, not to them. The benefit, even when it's tiny in comparison, they get right now.

Thanks to the fascinating new neuroscience around cognitive biases you too can go from thinking you'll never understand to despairing for the future of humanity!

At least now someone will probably do a Firesheep-esque [2] "look how creepy you can be" app that will get some attention. And that kind of attention is exactly the antidote to the optimism bias as well as many of the others at play here, it's actually very effective because it plays into other well known biases [3][4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias

[2] http://codebutler.com/firesheep/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_bias

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
The original interview on Wired is far, far better: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/ff-qa-larry-page/all/

Relevant parts:

Larry Page: I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we run companies. If you read the media coverage of our company, or of the technology industry in general, it’s always about the competition. The stories are written as if they are covering a sporting event. But it’s hard to find actual examples of really amazing things that happened solely due to competition. How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

...

Wired: One area where people say that Google is indeed motivated by competition is the social realm, where in the past two years you have been working hard in a field dominated by a single rival, Facebook. That’s not the case?

Page: It’s not the way I think about it. We had real issues with how our users shared information, how they expressed their identity, and so on. And, yeah, they’re a company that’s strong in that space. But they’re also doing a really bad job on their products. For us to succeed, is it necessary for some other company to fail? No. We’re actually doing something different. I think it’s outrageous to say that there’s only space for one company in these areas. When we started with search, everyone said, “You guys are gonna fail, there’s already five search companies.” We said, “We are a search company, but we’re doing something different.” That’s how I see all these areas.
The cable isn't a mystery, the article states, but its fate was. Also, the cable's not in Cuba -- It was laid in 2007 between Cuba and Venezuela. They just activated this undersea internet link, and the real mystery is 'how's it misconfigured?' Slightly misleading title.
Thought that could perform better with this tittle rather to the one you sugested, anyways will have it in mind for my future posts. Thank you.
OS X users, I advise using

brew install rlwrap

instead of downloading the tarball in the link. You may feel tempted to download a tarball and compile readline. But I experienced the problem mentioned in rlwrap-0.37/BUGS:

49-On recent OS X sytems, libreadline is not the real thing, but a
50-non-GNU replacement. If the linker complains about missing
51:symbols, install GNU readline and try again.

This may then lead you to attempt compiling and installing GNU readline, which will ultimately lead you to try to solve more problems you're having in compiling readline. You might find this fun. But if you just want to get things over with, there is an easier way. Homebrew[1] to the rescue:

brew install rlwrap

Perhaps this is just obvious to others. Would've saved me a few minutes to hear this, though.

[1]: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
> Note: Round trip latencies for crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are approximately 60ms and 110ms, respectively.

Damn - just out of the reach of my intution.
Yeah, so what's the point? If you have a separate user, you can't access other users' files anyway, unless you have root. You can access the system files, but there should be nothing of much interest in there anyway.
I tend to agree with you about the "generic secure setup". The problem with making read only some parts of the file system, as other persons said too, is when a legit application will want to access those locations, a better solution is to remove execute rights on the desired locations.
Thanks for the cool ideas you shared with us.

We are working to bring these features to our apps. Let the ideas keep pouring in at admin@joindrops.com
If you really need security consider using the grsecurity patchset¹ and pax². It's possible to patch the Ubuntu default kernel without problems. However understanding and configuring this takes time and patience. There is a great guide on Wikibooks through³

1: http://grsecurity.net/

2: http://pax.grsecurity.net/

3: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Grsecurity
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I know you've already spent the time to build the PDF and epub converters, but if you want to use Leanpub to get the PDF, epub and mobi versions, you're totally welcome to.

Since you already have Markdown, it would be ridiculously easy to do.

We don't take (or want!) copyright on anything generated on Leanpub, so you're free to do what you want with it after it has been generated for you.

I'm not suggesting is that you sell it on Leanpub -- we only want to sell things that are put on Leanpub by their creators -- just that you use us as a generator and distribute the files as you wish they're created.
Drop me an email. If you'd like to discuss your ideas.
Of course not. That's my entire point: given today's mixed economy, when public money is used to aid the creation of a thing, it does not mean that the resulting work ought to belong to the public, contracts and agreements be damned.

Swartz obviously did not agree with that, or he would not have committed those crimes against JSTOR and MIT.

(By the way, the "private" universities, Princeton included, are only nominally private, and it's been that way for a long time. I think that should change: there ought to be a full separation of state and education.)
Ask HN: When is your side project 'production-ready'?
I had a call with someone who wants to use a tool I built in their profession (medical). They asked me if the application was production-ready. I was confident in saying yes (the app has been running in production for months, and has tests at unit, functional, and integration levels), but I pondered if I could call it production-ready based on that.

How would you deem your side project as production-ready, especially when used in a mission-critical environment?

PS - The project in question is Dashku: https://github.com/Anephenix/dashku (also hosted at https://dashku.com)
Oh man, how awesome would it be if a high school CS class were able to have a lesson where they learn how to contribute to an open source project that their own school uses? So cool!
> I am angry too, but at the mentors who accepted the worship of a troubled young man and led him to this.

Those mentors are mentors because they treat people regardless of age as equals. Yes, Aaron had his troubles. But he wasn't guided by those mentors as much as that he was guiding them. There was more give-and-take there than you give credit for, you are reducing Aaron to the level of an incompetent, he was anything but. You are also making the assumption that anybody could have stopped Aaron from doing what he felt and thought was right, I think Taren's address at the end of the linked post has few things to say about that.

> Why don't you make your pointed comment and risk a ban?

Because well over 3 decades ago I decided that there had been enough undirected anger in my life and I figured out I should put that energy to constructive uses. The whole JSTOR affair and the very unfortunate conclusion (to put it extremely mildly) has taught me something about myself, that the lid on the volcano is not as solid as those 30 years have made me believe. Dumb, insensitive and uninformed remarks about this upset me and I have to work just a little harder to stay on the right side of the line.

So I won't be taunted by you. The last time someone successfully taunted me (highschool bully, he ended in hospital and I got a 3 month suspension) it was a disaster. I learned my lesson, and chose to develop in a different direction.

> Please, I can take it and it would be refreshing to see instead of all this crap directed at law enforcement.

Have you been paying attention at all? That 'crap' is grounded in a deep dissatisfaction with the way this case has been handled, by people at varying levels of power, including some in government. It has already led to an amendment proposal of the law.

> And if you are not creeper out by some of Aaron's mentors fondly recalling his cuteness, you are not paying attention to what was going on there. And now his corpse is being repurposed for several agendas.

I think you are entirely missing the point here. Aaron killing himself has woken up a large number of people to the fact that this has gone too far.

> I'll go first and welcome a ban: fuck that.

Too bad because I'd be happy to open your eyes a bit more, I think that's more productive.
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I did see in the logs that someone's Google account wasn't playing nicely. I should be passing along error messages better, hah. If you wanted to message me the Google account you signed up with, I'll look into it.
Email me - we can do that :)
Pushbullet is a superset of Chrome to Phone. Chrome to Phone can only send link while push bullet can send other Media as well such as addresses and todo lists.
I am leaving Facebook forever. And I have reasons to that
It is already available on torrent/cyberlocker sites.
lab website with more info and videos : http://lgg.epfl.ch/caustics
50 GB free at MEGA?! That can't be viable.

Consider: If you can write an rsync-variant with the API, then movie pirating will pay for the Internet population's backup system...
Hey man, I feel like your interests and mine intersect? Do you have any personal Twitter/microblogging streams I can subscribe to? :)