skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you are, but believe it or not the competition between Eastlink and Bell Aliant FibreOp are making the market pretty good here in the Maritimes. I think, anyway.

I pay $99/month for 50M/50M internet, phone and TV (with the movie network, a couple of extra 'networks' and the full home DVR). Admittedly, that's for 12 months, but I can renew at that price for another 24 months after that.

If worse comes to worst I'll switch back to Eastlink. For now, though, it was worth switching just for getting Bell to run network cables throughout the house for me for nothing :)
Show HN: Simple Delicious stream built with HTML5/AJAX
"It then replaced every compromised computer and set up new defenses in hopes of keeping hackers out."

I hope that's just poor reporting, or does the Times' IT department really have that poor an understanding of how computers work? No wonder they got pwned. And I'm not buying the "we gave them free reign for four months on purpose" line. It makes no sense.
A command-line tool for Machine Learning
If you don't like the Australian Computer Society accreditation, you could could always become a Microsoft Certified Professional.

Which one is the bigger joke?
I was hoping for a real hipsteruby filter :(
Firstly, their true NRE costs are closer to $200-300k IMHO.

Secondly, $200-300k is not "nothing". I bet they tried to raise investor money, but didn't find any. $210/day/unit is a lot, but Bitcoin still remains relatively a risky investment.
Seems inner city Sydney is a 'holiday area'.

[ http://australianpropertyforum.com/blog/main/3204321 ]
As far as software is concerned, until we have proper liability for defective software, ala Civil/Mechanical Engineering (where one signs their name to the design to certify safety and fit-for-purpose), we have little right to call ourselves (Software) Engineers, and hence no real reason for a professional accreditation/certification body.

I also just looked at the website, and all of the membership levels look like rankings in a guild system to me. Spend your time, pay more money, rise in ranks. Protectionism at its finest, and even though I'm heavily a software developer, I'm still against this burden.
About Symantec's technology, it is worth noting that antivirus scans are based on identifying malware in one place, then being able to recognize that malware everywhere. This does not particularly help you recognize malware that was custom made to only be installed in one location. Particularly not when the people who were making that malware themselves have access to your anti-virus scans prior to deployment and can verify on their own computers that you do not detect them.

Therefore there is no surprise that Symantec failed to provide any meaningful protection during this attack. They know this. But they hardly want to admit it in front of all of their customers.
>> Generates a new project from an archetype, or updated the actual project if using a partial archetype. If the project is fully generated, it is generated in a directory corresponding to its artifactId. If the project is updated with a partial archetype, it is done in the current directory.

I don't recall trying that however, sorry that whole description from the link you provided, it just doesn't make sense to me. In general, when I try to use Maven, Eclipse ends up complaining. Then I fix it so Eclipse is happy then Maven complains.

Maybe the answer for me would really just be get the Maven and the Eclipse people to agree on how to create and manage projects with the Eclipse wizards.
Hahaha. I don't agree with the sentiments you've expressed, so I have no eloquence to contribute on their behalf. While the rejoinder you offer to what you term a blanket statement is a series of blanket statements, that is but the first layer of silliness here. The invocation of Hanlon's Razor on behalf of federal prosecutors is if anything more incoherent than the amusing snippet I quoted. Does a prosecutor live today who could utter that maxim with a straight face? The burdens you would impose (affidavits? proof... of a tautology?) function to obfuscate rather than illuminate. If you desire mellifluity I suggest you take a deep look into your soul.
Let's see what TWC's response is to http://wunc.org/post/universities-work-together-bring-ultraf...

They already got the NC legislature in their pocket http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/22/nc-governor-will-let-cabl...
FWIW, A couple of (semi) recent local news (here in Peru) about the practice...

http://america.infobae.com/notas/57978-Peru-joven-estadounid...

http://peru.com/2011/11/28/actualidad/otras-noticias/video-m...

I am not saying don't do it.. just be careful with what you do.
A domain controller is a Microsoft server, not custom built software.
Many HN submissions are of articles written by authors who don't have any editors. Those articles are self-published either on blogs, personal websites, or forums.

Anyway, regardless of whether an author or editor is responsible for the title, way too many titles to articles with good content suck. Improving on those titles while staying faithful to the article's content should be encouraged, not discouraged or tampered with.
Way to go Google! Chase 'em with a hot stick! I'm so sick of charges that don't make sense. We bought Roku and a cool HD antenna, we are now Cable Free!!! TV not Internet.
it may not be a big problem at present, as there is a huge real estate boom in Australia. But when there is an economic downturn these regulations are going to hit older areas extremely hard, just like they have in many other nations.
"Can a 32-bit OS machine use up all 8GB RAM + 20GB page file?"

One of my submission titles was changed to the above.

I cried for days after.
Install Git Bash and/or msys. It's really not that bad. I fired my mouth off about PowerShell before learning more about it. PowerShell in Windows 8 does come with powerful remote conenction abilities and if you grok what PS is, it's better in many ways than it's unix (bash, zsh) brethren.
[Edit] Nevermind. Found answer: http://ventureforamerica.org/

An informal DevBootcamp-like fellowship like the one above is the solution for some Gen Y kids. They can properly contribute to https://www.hackerschool.com/ and cut formal education time.
China appears to be engaging in highly sophisticated attacks of the like that major companies need to be aware.

The RubyGems fiasco is the result of remarkably incompetent decisions by everyone in the chain of control.

The lessons are completely different. In the first, it's that you have to expect that you will be compromised if a determined and capable attacker targets you.

In the second, it's that you will be compromised if you use software written by people and maintained by a community that seemingly lacks any remote resemblance of engineering competence.
Maybe they actually meant every compromised computer OS (i.e. hard disk)?
This isn't as worrying as when they start suing blackberry (as in, the actual fruit) stands.
Things You Need to Know to Clone a DVD
Do you often watch DVD movies at home? If you do, then you must own a large array of DVD movies on your shelf. So I guess you must also clone your DVD movies frequently, not to redistribute to make profit, but just for the sake of saving the original DVD discs from being damaged, accidentally or normally. Hence, here raises the question: now that you make backups of your expensive DVD collections, do you know everything about cloning a DVD? Among the essentials, there is one thing you need to pay extra attention to, that’s the need of a piece of quality DVD cloner software.

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Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that pip didn't handle multiple versions (though my comment certainly reads that way). I intended that to be a comparison of "full-blown" package managers with conda. (As were the user-home-directory and cross-platform comments.)

At any rate, pip is really fantastic, and I use it constantly.

However, being able to handle non-python dependencies is huge in the scientific world, where lots of python packages have a _lot_ of non-python dependencies. Widely-used packages (e.g. numpy, matplotlib, scipy, etc) don't have very many, and are well supported, but a lot of the less widely-used packages can be a real pain to build.

I'm excited about it because conda has the potential to replace a couple of virtual machines I currently keep around for this purpose. I'll certainly admit it's not a majority use-case, but if it works as advertised it will be very useful for me, at any rate.
Jeez, NYT. 2FA much?
>> Whether or not you believe the Arab Spring actually resulted in good outcomes, the salient fact is that US funded groups started the revolutions and prominent neocons (like Fukuyama in that WSJ article) were/are calling for similar actions in China.
This is why the Chinese government feels that it is under attack by the United States

The Chinese don't give a rat's hoot about the Arabs. They attack American computer systems for obvious reasons, obvious to most of us.
For a broader, frequently updated, shorter-form and better categorized collection of this sort of reading check out http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/forums/40-Trip-Reports
This is what I call art that takes real talent.
When there's a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling the shovels.
> How is Android the biggest consumer platform to hit mankind?

If I was going to make that argument (I said it was "arguably" not absolutely) I'd point out that Google is activating 1.3 million devices / day with no sign of slowing. And those are just Google devices. That's 450m devices per year, nearly all of them "consumer" devices. In just 15 years that would account for the entire world population (and that's including children). Windows was certainly influential but a large portion of that was not as a "consumer" OS - the vast bulk of its influence and impact came from businesses. There might have been one Windows computer in a house but there will be 4+ Android phones, plus potentially tablets, TVs and other devices that run Android. So if you're talking size and numbers (ie. "biggest") I think Android has a pretty good claim on it. But I'm not disputing you can argue the other way. Just the fact that it's arguable at all though is pretty astounding.
Very few if any. The focus isn't really building companies or startups, but more-so to fit the theme, learn some new stuff, and build something cool in a month. A lot of people come in with a ton of web-programming experience and do it for the competition and prize money, but there are also plenty of noobies learning how to make websites for the first time.
Of course not. But it isn't the problem either.
It's just a PR shrug.
Yes I do, on pulseaudio 1.1. Definitely better than it used to be, though.
Edit: It took me so long to write that that you edited your comment before I finished. ;) I think we're in agreement.

It's not really about privacy (which was why when I saw the quote in the article, I giggled, and thought "That reporter's being funny"), it's about the fact that Symantec isn't even in a position to have a comment about it.

If they were super on the ball and forthcoming, they might comment "We make software which is designed to protect users from the overwhelming majority of malware and viruses. There does not exist any solution which can completely guarantee safety from infection, but we have detected and stopped billions of threats."

Don't get me wrong, the AV industry (actually much of the security industry) should be embarrassed by how fundamentally primitive things are; it's a bunch of horseshit.

But they have absolutely nothing to gain by commenting about it, it would be walking into a hornet's nest. So they get to deflect it by saying they won't comment on a customer issue.
In that case, you might enjoy this bookmarklet I made a few weeks ago: http://dergachev.github.com/descriptive-url-bookmarklet/

It automatically extracts the title of the current page and appends it to the URL, like so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c#doodling-in-math-...
http://ihackernews.com/comments/5043231#hacker-news-mobile-d...
https://github.com/dergachev/chrome-xpath-link/issues/2#crea...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5043231#devopssysadmin-c...
http://drupal.org/node/1427148#meta-how-should-joke-modules-...
https://gist.github.com/4331769#rule-of-thirds-bookmarklet
http://bl.ocks.org/4360892#u.s.-airports
http://www.redmine.org/issues/12778#defect-12778-upgrade-to-...
https://twitter.com/dergachev/status/290914183220981760#twit....
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdER...
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4305#solr-4305-xs...
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/inl/2434325556.html#bes...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54771108@N07/6959604522/#circus...
Great article. Chrome is an amazing piece of software.

Talking about web browsers, I can't wait for the next big step. Mozilla and Google are already moving ahead: When web browsers become the whole OS. With web apps becoming fully capable, and with native apps increasingly network integrated, the distinction is becoming meaningless.

In that vision of web browsers as OSs, there is a big limitation. More than some still incomplete APIs, or a few ones still missing, the problem is the whole development story. Web development is still a chaos. The web platform, is a soup with far too many ingredients. Why we still have to develop application's UIs, using a document markup engine?.

The web is rich. There are all kinds of resources. It is non-sense to express all of these resources, with a single development paradigm: html-css-javascript. Native development, is more flexible. There is the possibility of choosing the right tool for the job. I hope that one day not so far away, browsers will gain similar capabilities. Support for multiple separated, specialized development environments.
I believe Matt is strongly pro accreditation.

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/fierce-debate-is...
Is it art or craftsmanship?
If these things can print money, then they're worth $200-300k.

If they can't, then they're not worth $1.k/ea.
Will go ever well when Netflix suddenly stops working.
I never joined. The ACS was not referred to in a positive manner when I was at university.
Don't forget ZRTP, and solutions like zfone.
Completely irrelevant, but I must say I like the phrase "everybody is pissing on everyone's curtains".
Totally different. MCSD and the like are actually ok for training in very specific areas of study, assuming you don't cheat of course.
What do you use for complex and large datasets? Last time I dabbled in office software, the gist was the the openoffice versions were missing a lot of advanced features in the spreadsheet.
jebblue, I believe the point of the paragraph you highlighted is that China feels it's under attack by the United States, not that it cares about the Arabs.
Hey Alaska, I'm Jesse, one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com).

Happy to answer any questions here or via email (jesse@devbootcamp.com).

Here are some employer-centric things worth reading, from companies that have hired our grads.

Exec (http://iamexec.com/blog/your-credentials-are-worthless-here)
TapJoy (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4414594)

From a fall student now at Ouya (http://dmragone-at-dbc.tumblr.com/post/39338810976/thank-you...)

I don't want to hijack this thread, so happy to talk here or elsewhere if you're interested!
Part of the problem with Canada is that it's less dense than many other countries. Unless you already have serious financing, it's going to be very difficult to be able to pay for your own fiber lines. I imagine the regulation makes it tough to start your own Telco as well.
A lot of the code may be automatically generated.

Some C# developers use T4 to generate data access code, for instance. This can amount to several hundred thousand lines of code for a moderately sized database. If there are several large databases being accessed, like is often the case in reality, then I could easily see there being millions of lines of automatically generated code in a single project.
I had the privilege of being a judge this year. An extremely interesting takeaway from this competition is the changing climate of web technologies/design every year. I was a participant in the competition two years ago and the level of complexity and refinement of the websites was not really close to this year's overall. Two years ago, the focus was very much on building and clean HTML5 sites without much other emphasis. Now, Bootstrap has helped the generally design-lacking MIT students put some shine on their websites, and tools like node.js and Backbone are making more rich, real-time applications much easier to build.

From seeing the difference in two years, it's clear how important open source technologies are for helping people push the boundaries of what the web is capable of with less effort than ever. Of course, many of these things existed just two years ago as well, but improved projects and exposure is helping move things forward.
Which gets people interested in Math again. Win | win.
Proposition HN: I will build a website for your non-profit, free.
Not sure how Canada's laws are, but in the US it is heavily regulated. You can't just become an ISP, even if you could get the city to let you trench fiber. FCC licenses are heavily policed.

We don't have duopolies in internet throughout most of the country by accident or because no one has noticed. It's because it's illegal to operate otherwise.
BlackBerry 10: So Many Announcements, Where Do I Start?
Oddity central is one of those horrible sites that have a dozen links in the article - all back to their own site. SEO gone amok.

Here's an actual link to the artists profile:

http://diegokoi.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24
Very neat. Is there a demo site of this someplace, outside of the screenshots? Do coinbase still charge a fee?
Good point. This reminds me of a previous workplace where we made EEG software - basically 20-odd squiggly lines progressing across a screen.

Going from nothing to version 1 is huge. At first you don't record EEG, now you see the squiggly lines.

Going from version 1 to version 2 is not so huge. The squiggly lines are still there (a little prettier) and there's a ton of analysis tools. Far, far more work went into version 2, but take a punter's opinion and it'll be 'meh, not much'. Little change in basic UI does not mean little functionality added.
Nasty is insulting your mom, the size of your penis, and your race. It's just short and straight to the point without a buncha fluff.
Maybe I should have highlighted the whole drivel of a comment ... my point ... remains what I wrote. America trying to teach Arabs about the virtues of Democracy is +not+ why China attacks American computer systems.
Someone has poor understanding of how computers work, but it isn't necessarily the NY Times.

Once a computer is compromised, you can't trust anything about it. You may believe reinstalling the OS is enough, but it is possible that some remote control tool is still lurking in a main BIOS reflashed while compromised, or in the GPU firmware, or tens of other places.

While it should potentially be possible to reflash everything, it is practically cheaper to replace the computers. Do YOU know how to reflash your bios with a trusted version, your GPU firmware, etc?

I don't mean "I know how to look it up on Google, and I'm sure I can do it if needed". This thing is hard to automate and do at scale even if you do know how to do it, especially if not all your computer models are uniform. Depending on how old and varied the hardware is, it is very likely that the economical solution, (assuming you suspect an attacker capable of these feats), is to replace all the computers.

[Though, all the hardware they replaced it with has been, most likely, built and QAd in China. Why would you trust _that_? The rabbit hole goes very deep. Practically too deep for anyone without a billion dollar R&D budget these days]
Which is why many houses now have GPOs (power points) in the ceiling space, and the light fittings are appliances plugged into the GPO, rather than permanently installed. Domestically, it is legal to work on things that are not permanently wired in, the main constraint being that you should follow good practice, so you don't kill someone.

I'm surprised that a keen DIYer hasn't tried using a 3-phase 32A plug to plug their house into the mains, and claim the entire house is an appliance.
And I'm not buying the "we gave them free reign for four months on purpose" line. It makes no sense.

There's a sort of interesting journalistic gamble at work there. If you're confident that your backup systems are untouchable and you're able to track exactly what is going on, you could gather evidence for a truly ground-breaking story. Unfortunately like usual there's no iron-clad evidence that the Chinese government is behind the hacking, so it's not the story it could have been.
Maybe they mean OS and BIOS?
Doing CYA Instead of CIA
IOS 6.x Jailbreak evasi0n website
Coming soon?
Besides the obvious security benefits, this also makes sense as part of Mozilla's HTML5 campaign. By getting users to think of plugin-based content as "foreign" and "inconvenient," they bolster users' opinions of pure Web-based content. However, by allowing a simple clickthrough, they hopefully prevent users from just getting frustrated and switching to Chrome.
Ask HN: Majored in Chemistry, should I go back and get a CS degree?
I'll be graduating soon with a bachelor in chemistry, and while the subject is deeply fascinating (I'm taking many graduate courses for fun), there is little future in this career.

There isn't enough room to elaborate on this subject here (if anyone wish for it, I can), but to summarize, the job salaries are generally poor with low ceiling and the working conditions are hazardous. Graduate school is another can of worms that I won't go into.

I'm posting this HN because I have no one that I can trust enough to ask IRL and I don't know of any other website with a higher signal:noise ratio.

I've recently taken an interest in programming and prospect of freelance work is highly appealing. If I can make minimum wage while working anywhere there is an internet connection, I would take that without hesitation over the standard 9-5 job even if it pays 4x-5x the salary.

The problem is, after 140 credit hours, class tuition is raised by 50%. Once I graduate (I have 1 credit hr left), going back to get a CS degree would be a problem because many universities restrict 2nd bachelor degree earner from coming in and there is no financial aid after the 1st degree.

Either way, a CS degree will cause me to go deep into debt and more downtime in school.

I have no doubt that I can pick up programming on my own (while moving back into my mother's basement or supporting myself through some part-time job) much faster than through formal classes. After all, most of what I learn from chemistry courses were self-taught, except for the advanced organic graduate courses.

But breaking into the freelance arena seems incredibly daunting without any credentials and experience.

So in short, I'm completely lost. Maybe with advice from HN I won't make the wrong decision a second time.
No one said what you're disagreeing with. Try reading the comment again.
You mean when people click to activate and think nothing of it?