skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing numbers.

Are you using something like Mono to share code among platforms or are you doing total rewrites for each port?
Where's the EFF Panopticlick for your FB likes? To tell you how well you stick out or blend in with the crowd? (though blending in with the crowd is just security through obscurity...)

A couple days ago someone was asking for an automated FB deliker app/service, to automatically unlike everything you've liked on FB.
It's ironic -- the "anonymization" technique of pixelating the image and blanking the names doesn't really work anymore: one can easily just search by the other attributes to find the people again, there is enough entropy in that data.
Buyout vs failure. Last I heard they had no revenue model, so...
I tried sending an invite to another email address to join a team and the Register Page URL in the email was simply "http://login/register

Chat is nice, but there are lots of ways to do that and I need something where I can make sure people are submitting feedback, otherwise I don't want to give them the discounted goods in exchange for the feedback.

I think I realized what will work.. some sort of e-learning software. I would basically just pass/fail each item tested on whether an "exam" was submitted, but I do have some quality requirements for feedback. Having used Moodle before a bit, I think you can give more or less points for multiple choice answers. I wouldn't care about the aggregate of these but maybe could use that too.
But if they're going to be backed by private equity ... those guys REALLY want their 20+% return in five years. And they'll direct Dell to shutter unprofitable or non-key parts of their business as soon as possible.

I expect Dell to be a much smaller company a year from now.
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i just read them and stuff
That original link grinds most browsers to a halt.
Haha. I have read Bad Pharma and I have been following Goldacre for years and I agree mostly with what he says. Please do not assume my ignorance just because I disagree with your view.

I fail to see where there is "under-regulation" in the pharma industry. Try setting up a Pharma business, you will be surprised how hard it has become.
In fact, TimBL itself created the WWW using a NeXT machine.
I'd hold on with the 'brilliant' qualifier until we see the interface, but the concept certainly looks fitting to the OS model. Is this the entire JSON though? I'm missing at least a keywords child there.
I set up FreeNAS on a Proliant Mini and am very happy with it. ZFS takes a little while to grok but it is pretty sweet once you understand it.
You submitted an ad with tits in it to an -American- broadcast network and asked them to run it during kids cartoons. They said no. Enjoy your free press.

(Seeiously though: love your service)
I've heard it in real life far before that. Its a way of re-emphasizing something that was just said.
I feel sorry for people that need to devote so much mental energy to managing their email.
IOS or Android games aren't as immersive as old GameBoy titles
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The only public record of your marriage is "X and Y got married." If your marriage included a prenup, that information is kept private. You don't have to state for the public record precisely why you feel like getting married. Seems fair the only public record of getting unmarried should be "X and Y got divorced."
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I have to imagine it is a combination of both the attractiveness of a big payday and being able to move on to something new.
Dell desktops and laptops are incredibly popular in India because they are officially Linux supported (N series) and because of their CompleteCover warranty, which is awesome.

Macbooks are very expensive out here, plus Apple warranty is really, really bad.

Surprisingly, the other company which has a decent after sales support is Samsung (Lenovo sells through resellers, which screws up the experience).
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At the very least developers should make the Android app first, which would still have the potential for about as much userbase, and then make the iOS first, perhaps using this:

https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/

At least they wouldn't waste so much time just to get rejected from the beginning.
namecheap.com offers hosted email with Open-Xchange for annual prices ranging from $3 to $30 (details: https://www.namecheap.com/email/email-hosting.aspx).

Basics: 3GB/5GB/10GB, all have POP3/IMAP, some have "mobile" meaning ActiveSync and comparable technologies. Since the most expensive is still only $2.50/month it's not likely to be a wallet-buster either way.
That's the thing about Javascript. The tiniest little XSS or subtle origin violation results in the entire browser app being 100% 'pwned' (to use the technical term).

The pwnage can even persist into the future for that user when you consider the ability of browsers to cache content and HTML5's data store.
At first glance, it almost seems as if they turned the various segmenting functions in Facebook ads into Graph Search. Except you can now see in much more detail who those people actually are.
You can see the early version at marketplace.firefox.com
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No site that has a 25x25 count grid of animated avatars to show who "reposted" deserves to get traffic
When the announcement of this plan was made at last year's GenCon, they were very clear that more books would be added as time went on, likely in short order. It's a pretty big catalogue.
Dieties and Demigods (hardcover printing, no Cthulu/Elric) was there this morning.
This one brings up a few interesting issues we seem to discuss around here. Regulation and the FDA, rates of failure (This provides a bit of a contrast to the oft-repeated refrain that software engineering is the least mature of all engineering disciplines -- how common is 40% failure in the medical industry?)

Perhaps a bit bourgeois for HN, but I thought it might stimulate discussion.
I use a standing desk a lot (six of eight hours, doing it for the last couple of years), am a bit unfit and pudgy, and I'm doing fine. I can get in the "zone" just the same as sitting, and as far as I can tell it hasn't negatively affected the quality of my work.

To me, it feel like it kills the post-lunch haze, and reduces the friction to move around. I find it easier when brainstorming to pace or just walk away to a whiteboard, for example. I shift my weight from one foot to the other, bend my knees, and generally move around a bit during the day. I take sit-down breaks every hour like you'd take a stand-up break.

I tried it out by stacking some things on my desk[1]. Make sure to keep the same sort of ergonomic setup with standing as sitting (eg. monitor at eye-height, arms flat to the keyboard, etc); staring down at a laptop is just going to make you unhappy.

I'd be careful before jumping on the stand-all-day bandwagon, though: http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

(And beware of confirmation bias[2] when first switching over. If you're happy with it at first, give it a little while before deciding whether or not to go for the long haul. Last thing you want to do is regret dropping the cash on a standing desk.)

1. http://instagram.com/p/MUmlP/ http://instagram.com/p/SWS7gDO6Tg/ http://instagram.com/p/Jy1d6Qu6cj/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Why the Forever Project hit a nerve
As a kid, I learned how keyed locks work by playing the video game ZZT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT In "Town of ZZT", one of the built-in worlds, there is a board where you have to move what are effectively tumblers to clear a path through which a column can move freely.

Ah, here's a screenshot of the board! http://tf2tags.com/dr_dos/img/zzt/town/zzt_036.png

This board is show as a whole, but in the game the board was "dark" and so you could only see what was within about 5-6 blocks from your character.
Intel ends an era, starts killing off its own PC business
Interesting. I certainly know what you mean by the Tomb of Horrors style, but I think of that as a particular style of older module, not the norm. Possibly just because I cut my teeth on the Against the Giants modules, which I seem to recall being pretty straightforward.

Given what you've said, it feels a bit like I'd object to both styles of adventure...
Sometimes, mostly between 2000 and 2008, I wished I had.
So Jobs loved to micromanage. And it worked at Apple and at NeXT and at Apple, because Jobs knew a thing or two about software. But micromanaging your own cancer care doesn't work so well, does it now?
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> The "If you can break SSL, you can break MEGA." made my day.

If the the security of MEGA reduces to the security of SSL, then all this Javascript crypto amounts to just extracomplicated security theater.

Q: So why bother?

A: It might be useful in a situation like Megaupload where the adversary seizes their servers while simultaneously shutting down their service.
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I didn't say they weren't driven in the same way. Most cities can be planned much better.
Says the person who wanted to leave school for a fulltime job but stayed because your girl friend made you?

Yeesh.
It's a good thing I always used alias' with Facebook.
You don't even have to imagine, it's already happened.
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plenty of people have done this before, they just weren't nearly as focused on dodging legal liability for housing copyrighted data.

to claim that nobody has done client-side encrypted storage with sharing is clearly incorrect.
>meet people, learn new things, travel abroad and do the things that are not what you are studying, because those things you can't read about in a book or some blog.

How are any of those things exclusive to University? Especially considering the cost?
technically correct...the best kind of correct :)
Anyone seen a good prebuilt 'in-DVCS' issue-tracking system that still has web/arbitrary push notification bridges?
A lot of this material was previously available from Paizo as pdfs several years ago, though the quality was not always great.

But Wizards changed their mind about whatever deal they had with Paizo and forced Paizo to not only stop selling the items, but to also remove the purchased items from the purchaser's libraries.

I had purchased a couple dozen of those, some of which I did not have backed up and so have lost. I am not at all inclined to pay Wizards for them again.
Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize is another poorly conceived contest
I'm always happy for people who get aqui-hired, but at the same time the constant threat of this happening is why I don't bother using new web services that don't already have a huge critical mass, it just isn't worth the hassle to get all my data into some service and then have it go away a few months later.

In any case, kudos to the Snip.it folks for handling this in probably the best possible way I've ever seen one of these services handle something like this.
If you are a sophomore or junior in college right now, and you get a job offer doing (for example) Ruby on Rails, you will likely learn nothing in your final years of college that will help you with doing Ruby on Rails in that job.

But maybe the job will involve more than just a web frontend to a database. Maybe you will will need to optimize a solution somewhere, and you'll think, "Hey, I bet I could use simulated annealing for that". Or you'll think, "Hey, I could write a simple grammar to solve this just like the first problem in my compilers class". Or "I can simulate the system variance by convolving the individual component variances" and thus you'll be able to provision your system better. Or whatever.

Sure, you could have figured out how to do all of these by carefully reading wikipedia. But how would you have even known the right questions without having been exposed to the material?

And then, of course, there's that next job ten years from now, that isn't Ruby on Rails. It's something else, maybe even in a different problem domain altogether, where the Ruby on Rails expertise doesn't give you any advantage. Wouldn't it be nice to have a good solid grounding in a wider base of material?

Several times in my career, I've been brought in to tackle a problem that has been vexing other (and maybe even better) programmers, and I've said, "Well, I don't know much about it, but I think we could solve that problem using X", where X is algorithm or technique I learned in graduate school. It is great to be able to have those moments, and I know had I not gone to school (and gotten my MS) I would not have those insights.
We used to rip each others music at LAN parties when not playing Starcraft :-)
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agreed, doing aes-256-cbc with a MAC is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when it's a clear case for using a pbkdf.

you can probably drive a nail with a screwdriver handle if you try hard enough.
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Licenses are only part of your cost. By running your workloads inside virtual machines you end up with more simpler machines that cost less to operate (because, being simpler, they break less often). You also get better hardware utilization.
I think it's also worth saying that phrasing it as "picking a rubbish superviser" puts an unfair blame on the student. By the time you realize your advisor is neglectful, or incompetent as a teacher, or actually neglectful, you might be a year or more down a research path. There might not be another professor at your school qualified and willing to supervise your research. The choice at that point, whether to tough it out or to throw away all your progress up to that point, is an incredibly difficult one.

(FWIW, my advisor in theoretical physics was merely neglectful. Almost all of my friend in an experimental field had advisors who bordered on abusive.)
Sensationalist title on the part of VentureBeat; the only claim in the article is that Intel plans to exit the desktop motherboard market, which isn't quite equivalent to the company shutting down its primary business.
Phish?! On HackerNews?!! Worlds are colliding Jerry!
Join a Hacker House in Colombia, Feb 2013
We have an open room for a cool hacker in an awesome apartment in Medellin, Colombia. Our 5th person dropped out at the last minute due to an emergency, and we're looking for a cool replacement.

It is for 1 month starting Feb 4 and ending Mar 6. Right now, flights from the US are as cheap as 330 bucks from Washington DC, LA, NYC, and Chicago. Rent will be $800.

A little bit about us:

Eric L, founder of rocketlease.com, online rental applications for landlords
Sean C, founder of havemyshift.com, shift swapping for hourly workers (Techstars)
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Clayton J, founder of thehoth.com, link building for digital agencies

A little bit about Medellin:
Awesome city, you'll be living in the safest, best neighborhood in town, and there's a large and growing startup culture.

Here is a photo album of the place you'll be living: https://plus.google.com/115675522907727282422/posts/QgWoK89FZCT

Obviously we're intersted in filling the place, but it's equally important to us that we think it'll be a good personally fit and that you'll be fun to be around.

If you are interested, available, and able to make a decision quickly on this matter, please get in touch!

email: eric@rocketlease.com
It doesn't explain MacGyver at all.
We're entering the worst period in serach history
My biggest regret is tripping on mushrooms. It permanently ruined aspects of my mind.
kind of cool, but i don't get the utility of it other than being a party trick for hackers, and its probably confusing to non-terminal users.
Even though I'm actually overall pretty positive on the value of higher education, the argument lost me at:

> "The question is, “Can you be successful in truly meaningful ways without going to college?” The answer for most of you is “No.”"

... because it sets up two simultaneous No True Scotsmen: any given counterexample can either be dismissed as not "truly meaningful success" or not by "most people".
Most people I knew had 56k modems by 98 (by '99 I had a cable modem), 128kbs compression was the standard you'd find, and getting a song for free by just waiting 15 minutes was still magic

Edit almost forgot about Ethernet in the dorms. I picked my college because of high speed Internet.
if the crypto implementation is this poorly thought-out, you can only imagine how shaky the rest of the backend code is.

it would not surprise me if the service is shutdown again somehow. i would guess they would lean on the banks of CC companies that process his CCs first.
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I recommend "Practical Lock Picking" by Deviant Ollam for those whose interest was piqued by this. Besides all the technical goodies, it contains some interesting moral views on locks and lock picking that apply to the digital world as well.
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Sorry yes I was being rather general and should clarify that I ended up down the wrong path in my software work, didn't feel that I could change to anything more interesting - and really just desired a fresh start.

I do appreciate that there are fields in IT where one can make more of a difference, and I hope it works out well for you!
This is how the most common lock works, but it doesn't cover side-bar locks, Medeco's, or other slightly more advanced setups. Still, good reference point for a basic understanding.
I've published an app to the Mozilla Marketplace and for the most part, it just work.

As for the manifest file, you can get by with as little as:

{
"name":"Example",
"developer": {
"name":"Developer",
"url":"https://example.com"
},
"description":"My Description",
"icons":{
"128":"/img/icon.png"
},
"launch_path": "/",
"installs_allowed_from": ["*"]
}

With this, you can install your app from the Marketplace or from your own site (by serving it with the correct mime-type).

It is relatively easy to get the app installed from your own site, if you choose to ignore the Marketplace entirely (our code does it in ~80 lines of CoffeeScript) as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxeK1_xY98

One thing to keep in mind is that the window chrome which will house your application does not have back/forward buttons, does not have bookmarks, or an address bar. Remember this when designing your interface (you may been to provide in-app back/forward buttons, bookmarks, etc).

The only problems I ran into when developing this was that the API was unstable at the time (a few months ago) and that relative URLs for installation didn't work (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745928) but the devs in the mozilla #webapps IRC channel were helpful.

The nice thing about the Marketplace is that you can specify which form factor you want your app available to - Desktop/Laptop, Phone, Tablet.

On the phone side, things are easy:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7uT3PPCyPD8/UP9RTN-392I/A...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GB4Vt6YVTKA/UP9RSDzDy8I/A...

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dXnc0iuIBdM/UP9RRW_UILI/A...

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NReWzbudobw/UP9RnJEiHpI/A...
This can't happen soon enough. I hope it supports a terminal and basic dev tools.

Mozilla, please create a decent cheapo phone and I'd pay 2x to ship another one to a poor country.
it is essentially open sourced already - the client-side crypto is done in javascript which you can download or find online.
Since gailees's counterpoint is pretty lackluster, let me offer a different one:

University was never meant to be a system of general education. But because of the prestige garnered by graduates, it slowly began to be a status symbol. Instead of being a system of truly advanced knowledge, it has become an extra pipe on the education system, bringing to the table little intrinsic value. The concept of the university, in short, has been eroded by its growing recognition of the incapacity of its students. And because the university has access to funding that the public school system does not, it was able to expand itself to attempt to meet these needs; the price it paid was a loss of vision.

Entire swaths of the university curriculum should be torn out and moved into high schools, which in turn need to be re-conceived to produce fully-grown adults who find the choice between going to college and going to work to be a real choice. In such a world, the university is not at all necessary: it is where you go for that above-and-beyond level of intellectual rigor, but that is not a requirement for all people. Professor Holloway talks about the discipline and structure a university provides, but I ask why this is absent in the halls before one reaches university. For it must be, else these particular characteristics would not define the common student's need.

The university is necessary only because it is our latest patchwork fix on a system that is a conglomeration of patchwork fixes itself. If only Professor Holloway had advocated his ideas for secondary education, and considered the implications of such reform on the university due to the consequent changes in the nature of the applicant, I would have agreed with him fully.
Insanity is a highly subjective notion and in my view definitively anti-hacker.

Why? Sanity is a mob-rule, society-dictated perspective, with no clear definition.

Yes, 'sanity' in the eyes of society is useful within social systems. However, if one continues to 'function' (eat/sleep/do stuff interesting/be happy/not inflict pain and harm repetitively upon undeserving* others), then what's the problem?

My point is that conceptually, we should all support alternative mental modes of engagement, regardless of society's perspective, as long as they are harmless. We should support differences, not crush them. In heterogeneity lies strength, and humans' great strength is their capacity of abstract thought and communication.

Historically, we know that brilliant art and science derive largely from people who have been labelled insane by contemporary society.

Consider this when choosing to deploy words like 'insane'.

* Let's not get in to a greater discussion of law here.
I'm hoping to build that "disruptor" by crowdsourcing the effort, albeit the long way through social debate and discussion and not only soliciting "head note" type annotations

http://youtu.be/3m194rui52Q
The slip opinions go back 120 days (or it looks like two years if you find the "older than 120 days" link). California caselaw goes back considerably longer than that. As you surely know, precedent works on the basis of age in part. Therefore, Lexis maintains control over the vast majority of opinions and those that are most important.

I will lobby and I will point out as much as possible that Lexis and West are part of a system, whether coordinated or not, that blocks access to public documents.

The Court's power comes from the Constitution, not its budget.

The Session Laws appear to be available only as PDFs, and I'm more interested in the Code in any event.

Lastly, the whole reason we are having this discussion is because of the death of Aaron Swartz. Aaron believed very strongly in open access to data. If you have a problem with that it's fine, but your arguments come across to me as A) strange, as though you have some connection to the entities you are defending (though you may not), and B) rather tone-deaf and insulting, whether or not you mean them to be. Aaron died for these principles.

And with that I think I've said enough.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/19/indian-woman-arrested-ov...
Yep, looks like it's originally from here (and in much higher quality): http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43120