skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never imagined high-level CEOs would actually put things like this on paper.

Seriously, isn't that one of the first rules of illegal activity? And many of them went to school for white-collar crime; the rest of us had to learn that stuff on our own!
Alexa rankings are not reliable.
I've previously earned as much as $110,000, and spent it without effort. Cabs. Big nights out. Clothes. Fancy restaurants. A nicer apartment than I needed.

Now I've been living on less than $2000/month for a six months. I had a nice apartment in South Slope (roommates, $700/month, 40 minutes to Soho), and have recently moved to Queens (with my girlfriend, $600/month, 30 minutes to Time's Square). My girlfriend had previously been paying $1200/month by herself, on a salary of $65,000, maxing out her retirement, and socking away a couple grand a month.

We never take cabs. We drink at home. We go out to great restaurants ($50 or less for two people), but not up-scale ones. We cook a lot at home. She takes lunches. We work really hard not to buy more crap we don't need.

I've lived here for 12 years. I started out in Harlem and loved it. Over time, the more I paid for my life here, the less I liked it. The old, gritty New York is getting harder to find, and it's getting easier to never see it. Once I started living cheaper, suddenly I found myself in the New York I'd been missing for years. It's full of surprises, real people, history, and depth. In my opinion, the best way to really live in New York, appreciate it for what it is, and get the most out of it, is to try to spend as little money as possible. The best things in life are free?
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Framework First, Product Later
A free muffin or breakfast sandwich shouldn't offset a bad salary.
You underappreciate what computers can do these days.

GPU password crackers run at billions/second. "The cluster can try 180 billion combinations per second against the widely used MD5 algorithm" ( http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack... ). That's not exactly the same task, but close enough that I'll estimate the actual performance as 100,000 faster than what you estimated.

That takes you down to 2.5 years with 25 AMD Radeon HD6990 graphics cards, which costs $1000 each. For $100,000, based on your estimate, a dedicated and well-heeled hobbyist can probably find a match in a year.

Wait a few years and that price goes down quite a bit. In a decade it will likely be a semester project at some schools.

Even if I'm off by a factor of 100, GPUs are fast enough that a mid-sized organization would be able to brute force it, should they be motivated.
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The Pirate Bay documentary 
'TPB AFK' will be released for free on February 8th.
Article has some backstory and the trailer!
I want to know how the security and cryptography work with my files and shared files.
This only shows a lot of people take data without context as "truth".

Example: I might work for a charity related to prostitutes. So ofcourse there is a possibility that I "like" something that has to do with prostitutes.

I think lack of context is what's most dangerous these days.
Why the Java threat rang every alarm
How to build user confidence (in your UI)
Ask HN: job board for remote, telecommuting, or non-location specific jobs?
I've had a few jobs in the past where I worked as part of a remote team. I'm trying to find a position like that again. Most job boards emphasize finding jobs by location. Do you know of any that focus on remote, non-geo-specific jobs?
Same here in Italy. Here they tax for any apparatus that is meant or adaptable to receive tv or radio signals. So basically anything with a graphical display.
In Windows it was called "DLL Hell". All the shared dll were in system or system32 and when a program updates it, no one knows what would happen to the other programs. Now it's almost fixed because each program store its libraries it its directory.
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Not sure if you tried the search string. "More than 100 people" were returned on this and most of them in the top results were indeed employed elsewhere.
The first company to produce a Redbox-like burger, fries & shake kiosk will make a mint. I can envision those in breakrooms of small businesses everywhere.

Remember, not every business is in the middle of a city with plenty of restaurant choices nearby. If the company I work for didn't have a cafeteria, I'd be in for at least a 3 mile drive to the closest fast food place if I forgot to bring lunch.
That's an important clarification. The article is eager to make a sensational statement, offering a clever bait-and-switch claim in the first paragraph. It starts out mentioning signups...

"If the launch day signups and traffic were something to shout home about, after the surge of media attention that Mega garnered over the next few days from sites like ourselves,"

...but ends up supporting its claims with Alexa traffic ratings...

"it only got stronger and now we’re at a stage where Mega has almost broken into the top 100 sites in the world."
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"We welcome the ongoing #Mega security debate & will offer a cash prize encryption challenge soon. Let's see what you got ;-)"

I can't think of a better way to get someone with real crypto cojones to fix their crypto missteps. Power to Kim and what he´s doing. 50GB for free is amazing.
RTC in your app with AddLive: Part 1
What can't "music, movies and/or pictures" be sensitive? People used Megaupload to, for example, exchange video and music for works which hadn't yet been released, and for personal images which would never be released.
Great article. Funny thing that I was planning with my colleagues a project right before I read it and we realised that planning is not going to help a lot.

I mean it's cool to have some rough estimate but you can never be accurate, especially when a project involves doing things for the first time (ie. innovating)
Eh, it's not so bad really: we've also entered an age where any programmer, if they choose to do so, can roll their own search engine and build something pretty OK in a reasonable amount of time. That's amazing if you think about it; back in 2000, I could not have imagined building my own Excite.

The kind of parsing that Facebook is doing (or planning to do -- I don't use Facebook, so I don't know if it's implemented yet or not) isn't all that hard. I do it with my own toy search engine. Comments like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099787 are compiled from results for searches like, "top submissions with 'hackny'", or "recent submissions from qz.com". I'm currently compiling a huge data set that should let me do neat things like, "front page threads with comments from [user] and [user] from last week" -- or just about any other logical query you can think of.

Technology is really damn cool sometimes.
update everything, top to bottom, so frequently that breakage is common.

Breakage is not common for me on Arch. It was probably more common a few years ago in Arch and back several years when I was using Gentoo but I rarely ever have to dive in and fix anything anymore.
As someone who has opkg on his router and NAS... This looks very tempting. Especially on the Android tablet.

Edit: Android says source for this is available on demand. I've asked him to post it on github :)
Interesting article.

I have one request for you (the owner of fail0verflow.com): please enable me to increase the font size on your site. Reading that font size on a 24" monitor is painful.
Why is that?

To a lot of us, Firefox OS sounds like a miserable platform with many serious problems.

1) There are basically no users at this point, of both the platform and the Firefox Marketplace.

2) Firefox OS is far back in line, behind Android, iOS, BlackBerry OS, several Windows variants, Symbian, MeeGo, and various other platforms that currently have actual users.

3) There's nothing really compelling about Firefox OS for customers. There's nothing that makes it more appealing that its competitors.

4) The emphasis on developing apps using HTML5 and JavaScript is not appealing to many good developers. Going from the power of languages like Java, C, C++, and Objective-C on other mobile platforms to HTML5 and JavaScript on Firefox OS is a pretty big step backward.

5) The Firefox Marketplace won't be publicly launched until later this year. Even if that was as early as tomorrow, that's still ages in the mobile world.

6) It looks like Mozilla is just playing catch-up with Apple, Google and others.

So it seems to be a pretty big dead end to a lot of us, that's destined to failure.
If you leave in an area with a good wifi coverage it make sense. Agreed.
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It's not a tax. It's a fee, required to pay by law to fund independent channels of opinion free from government and/or private funded influence.

200 eur a year is quite cheap for what you get.

http://www.radiotjanst.se/en/Radio-and-TV-fee/
A cure for cancer? This ‘big data’ startup says it can deliver
Sort of a meta question: If you manage to use Facebook without ever "Liking" anything, will your face never show up in advertising for your friends?
It's an important question - I don't know myself, because I don't know Elixir and I'm not even sure if I want to learn it (I like Erlang syntax...) but I'd like to know this too.

My quick guess is that no matter how much work goes into Elixir it is not going to replace all the libs written for Erlang, in Erlang - and so basic knowledge of Erlang is still needed to use Elixir to it's full capabilities, even if just for reading Erlang docs.
Forcing pharma companies to publish all their research is like asking startups to publish data on every technology stack they used & tested, everything from A/B testing, usage stats etc. Interesting, yes. Funny it was your industry, probably not.

Sometimes in a clinical trial a drug is discovered to not "work" in some patients, for example ones that have a concurrent condition (drug x works fine except if patient also has condition y). The results of that trial may not be published. Trials can be used to fine tune the profile of the patient you ultimately want to prescribe it to. I don't really understand what the problem is with that. Companies in almost all industries conduct research behind close doors.

I worked for big pharma doing clinical trials for 5 years and really disliked it, but I feel there's a serious witchhunt going on. People are being very vocal over something they know little about.
> I wonder if there isn't some definition analogous to "Turing complete" for social graphs? i.e. with a sufficiently powerful API, any question can be answered. Just as Turing complete-ness leads to viruses, worms, etc, might "XYZ complete" social networks lead directly and predictably towards A, B and C bad outcomes?

This graph search is just a fancy database interface, it's basically "SELECT name, age, etc from users WHERE location = 'Teheran' AND looksfor = 'men'" (massively over-simplified).

So, no it can not answer _any_ question, because it's limited by _what_ and _how_ you ask _and_ the data. You can't ask it something it doesn't already know.
Nothing in this correspondence surprises me. Just an everyday Steve Jobs.

What I worry about is his apprentice - Mark Zuckerberg. Who is possibly more brutal in his approach, and potentially far more dangerous.
How A Local Government Can Help Local Startups
Valve urges users to get ubuntu and join linux beta for steam
Tree of Life (~3,000 species, based on rRNA sequences) [pdf]
Thanks; I agree totally with that. The important thing is that this can be really misleading:

> And holding back criticisms now really does a disservice later in life.

Holding back criticism isn't the problem; their limited understanding of the world is. Once you name the problem, the best solutions look quite different; there's no need to tell them their work is low-to-mediocre; they'll be saying it themselves (but with a drive to improve).

There are also still people who will be nasty to kids with the idea of "toughening them up"; this is crap as well (kids can better deal with shitty behavior if they have a solid idea of what is non shitty behavior, and if they haven't been traumatized into having intense emotional responses in conflict), but I don't have time to get into that in depth here....
"Nice to know that several years of chronic anxiety problems and panic attacks was 'just' a bad trip."

It's roughly analogous to if you get PTSD after getting raped. That doesn't mean that rape causes chronic anxiety per se, even though it's a common outcome. I'm not trying to say that mushrooms didn't have an adverse effect on your life, only that it wasn't due to psilocybin directly altering your brain.

"I'm not on anti-depressants and haven't been for years, but your advice seems completely bizarre."

That advice wasn't for you specifically, I'm just saying that it's the standard advice. But it normally applies for people who have had a bad trip a week or two ago, not several years ago. The idea is that the only way to come out of it is to follow whatever you were going through until you get to the logical conclusion.

Here are a few guides in general to dealing with 'bad trips':

http://vimeo.com/16702478

http://www.maps.org/videos/source4/video9.html

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/faqs/psychedelic_crisis_...
You might want to put some effort into making this site more discoverable for a first time visitor.

All you get is a full-screen image and some person's name in the center. There's seemingly nothing else to click on, nowhere to scroll to, and no nav.

It's not until you click that circle in the middle that you get any text, site navigation, or indication of what the site is about at all. And it's a pretty big leap to assume that casual visitors are going to care enough about Anoop from the homepage to dig that far.

Now I realize that there actually is nav on the homepage. But it's hidden where nav doesn't ever live and disguised to look like nav doesn't look. So for the purposes of a new visitor, it doesn't exist. I personally never found it.

For a better first visit experience, consider adding a title, some descriptive text, a clear "what is this" button up top that looks clickable, anything other than just dumping people into this thing with no instruction.
"Erlang does not provide macros"

I never wrote any myself, but what about parse transformations? Aren't they essentially non-hygienic macros?
Bought more than one domain name...
Interested to know, since I've never "liked" anything other than friend's status updates, (and I "unliked" all the autoliking they did when they converted a bunch of profile fields into likes a couple of years ago).
I remain convinced that the best security of all is to encrypt your files yourself, on your own computer, using trusted encryption software (I use bcrypt), with a strong password, before uploading the files to any cloud based storage service, even the ones with excellent trust ratings.
He Conundrum of Digital Publishing – HTML5 or EPUB 3?
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Solving classloading issue while adding pooling support using c3p0 in JPA
You don't have to keep your eggs in the fridge at all if you consume them in less than a week or so.
shared libraries can be versioned - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-shlibs/ind...
It's using 15px with a 22px line height, which looks pretty typical and about as readable as any other blog. Even the code blocks are 14px, noticeably larger than the 12px in HN comments.
Is Apple really doomed?
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This looks really, really cool, especially the vim support. What would be really awesome would be a native port of gcc and other supporting tools to create packages on the platform. That would enable public repositories where people can easily post builds of other apps of note.
What strikes me most is the absolute single mindedness of Jobs, especially in contrast to Colligan's appeal to empathy. This is not acceptable to Apple. What a way to talk!

Colligan goes to great lengths to establish commonality, using rhetoric like "Like you, ...", "...as you said...", "We can both try...", "...big enough for both of us...". He invokes individual liberty, "this is America!", rationalising and depersonalising his stance.

For Steve though, there appears to be one thing only: stop doing what you're doing. He belittles then intimidates, in clipped dismissive sentences. All Ed's appeals to reason seem to mean less to him than the mud on his boot. Stop. Doing. What. You're. Doing.
This Stunning Web Experience Will Make You an HTML5 Convert
Thanks Nikolas! Glad you liked it!
I'm guessing because of his prior experience he must have gotten some decent lawyers to consider that kind of thing
I disagree, while Arch is pretty good, core bugs get by that shouldn't get by. An recent example is python2-urwid issues with wicd-curses, which resulted in wireless not working.
Are Entrepreneurs More Prone To Depression And Divorce?
I call it being screwed over when you pay over $100/month to have your site 'spin down'.

I grant you that Heroku is a great service. Having a reasonably big site you'd need a system admin who costs $100/hour, Heroku saves on that too. I am not arguing against the technical convenience that it brings you. But I believe the policy of spin downs should depend more on if and how much you are paying, rather than if you are paying for a specific element of their service, in this case a dyno. It does not cost $15/month more to achieve what the poster wants, but $35/month.
Why should people wait? If they're automated wouldn't they also take orders from mobile devices? If those devices provided GPS location and if local traffic sensors gave road conditions then the food would be ready just as the customer arrived.
Unless you have no interest in watching the programs. Then it's horribly expensive
VisionMobile: For every 1,000 app startups, there is a developer tools startup.
20 Eye-Popping Interactive Experiences That Show Off What HTML5 Can Do
"PPAs are Ubuntu specific both in the sense that nobody else is using them and in the sense that if someone makes a PPA that package depends on a specific Ubuntu release and won't work on any distribution."

Well, you can use them on debian, other distros (Fedora etc) have a different model with equivalents.

"There needs to be a way for developers to provide distribution agnostic binaries."

Why? With source the distro maintainers can choose to build it as they like, apply patches if they feel the need, tweak it to run against the lib versions they have decided on etc etc. This is what makes linux distros great, that the binaries are built with and as part of the system.

"Distros can choose to provide whatever package management tools that consume the developer-produced raw data."

Big of you to allow them that freedom...
Web Browser Cryptography is a Good Thing
This article argues why cryptography in the web browser should be embraced and made to be secure. It gives a high-level proposition for a javascript code signing system.
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There are a lot of contradicting opinions about whether to do a PhD out there. The article together with most comments I read, just makes the issue more paradox.

I can only speak for myself, I studied swiftly Physics (diploma) in the number of semesters I was supposed to. While doing so there were some twists and turns in my private life, making my private life suck a lot when I finished my degree. So after all I also did not get a top grade, making myself think, screw the PhD thing. Anyway, I cannot tell how freed (and tiiiired) I felt when I handed in my f*g thesis.

Eventhough I did not go for the PhD for different reasons, I can understand that a person with a private life and non-optimal environment can have a "unpleasant" experience. On the other hand, I get the impression that top employers are increasingly looking for PhDs. In particular on challenging positions companies seem to love PhDs -- and not really like non-PhDs.
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Just curious, when you say that it's easy to roll your own web search engine, are you referring to things like Yahoo BOSS and Common Crawl, or are their other OSS projects / data sources out there I'm not aware of yet?

It's relevant to an important side project that I'm working on, but I'm new to search, so any links or other info you might have would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
This is true, but you need to do battle with "all the things around it" in order to get the thing to work properly in the first place.

I agree that to learn a language you should not focus on "operational" stuff, but once you get into web frameworks that line can get a little blurry.
# Add method foo only to instance x.
(x = Object.new).instance_eval { def foo ; puts 'bar' end }
A few years ago, someone pointed out to me that Coding is actually a design task. That when you code the answers of how to code something are never obvious.

In contrast, someone putting the bricks down to build a house has a much more defined task. The architects for real world houses were really the only ones doing design and that for 99% of them, they were good at it only when they were essentially designing a house that they had seen most of the parts already built in the past.

While design is not very easy, it is very hard (and way too abstract) to do design^2. Humans are just not very good at it. And that we should be very careful being a software designer or as the OP suggests building a framework without a concrete product built first.

Note: When I mean software designer above, I mean someone trying to spend a large percentage of their development specing out all the details that the coders (i.e. the designers of the software world) should be working on. I am not referring to Graphic Design.
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He had A-list endorsements coming through with the previous product, when it becomes that high-profile and main stream the U$A won't be able to just steal the domain without public due-process.. They had their chance, but they may still find a way..
Direct link to PDF, look on page 8 or just search for Palm: http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/~antitrust/sites/default/f...
Freedom software advocate warns about privacy concerns
I've seen a single McDonald's close down. So I guess it does happen.
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I'm trying to come up with a one off of the expression "A rising tide raises all boats".

As automation increases, the expected education level for entry into lucrative fields will increase equally. We will all be affected by this.
Any comparison involving "no worse" and GoDaddy does not have the intended effect...
I've written software for all the main platforms apart from BB. My rationale is:

iOS is closed / walled garden.

Windows Phone is closed / walled garden

BB is closed / walled garden.

Android is a fragmented, buggy shit tip of an environment and is mostly closed and uncertain.

Symbian is pretty much dead.

MeeGo is dead.

Nokia S40 is still alive but I'll be fucked if I'm writing J2ME any more.

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Some positive indications of FireFox OS:

It's open.

It's easy to access it.

The environment requires little proprietary knowledge i.e. deep specialist APIs and languages (no obj-c, WPF, XAML, that awful XML thing Android uses).

License cost for hardware manufacturers will be very low if not free I imagine so uptake on carrier's own branded handsets might be high.

As for catch up, I remember everyone complaining about how the original iPhone and Android phones didn't stand a chance against BB and Symbian...