skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I know Hacker News types think that’s a great list of niches, but it’s actually a really terrible one. You can’t sell to ANY of those people."

Even as a conversation between two people it's ambiguous what the "you" means, in spoken english it would be distinguished by emphasis.

For example "YOU can’t sell to any of those people." would imply the speaker is referring specifically to the addressee, but "You can’t sell to ANY of those people." would imply a generic "you" referring to the general case of being able to sell to those people.
Monitoring and support backdoors are common and pervasive in most networking gear. This isn't something that should be considered lightly.

There's been some hullaboo about Chinese manufacturers putting backdoor access into their devices, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation particularly: http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/21930-China-Has-Backdo...

Legally mandated backdoors exist on Cisco gear as well: http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/03/hackers-networking-equipmen...
Previously posted and discussed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251313
And, Sequoia invested in Square too.
Bit awkward on iPad.
Some BitTorrent clients are installed by default on the OS when you buy the computer.
NurdRage looks to community to fund own laboratory
Right, yeah I use this one too for anywhere I need printf a-like formatting in JS.

But isn't this the other side of the coin? Formatting numbers as strings, not parsing strings to floats? (forgive me if I'm off base on this, I'm only looking sideways at this right now.)
Which is where leveraging Open Source comes into play. We have ROMs for home networking gear, we have bootable distros for security purposes, we have open source builds for Android. No reason similar projects couldn't be aimed at enterprise type kit. You'd still require hardware manufacturers, though open standards and whitebox builds might come into being. And there'd be distro wars, but very likely 2-3 lead contenders that would be the default safe choice.
That sounds reasonable, thanks for the explanation.
Thrown in some fast streaming with download options. Include a ad supported version. Offer it worldwide.

I can see that work quite fine in competing with existing services out there.
Well, I don't like the army thing much myself. But, government does like a "war" on this, that and everything. Perhaps its language government might understand, hell, may even respect.

Maybe too, its sort of beefs up the geeks. I get the impression that the government / corporate cartel treat tech folk like harmless meek geeks. Perhaps language like this helps change that image a bit?

That aside, what a brilliantly put article. It sums up in words what so many feel but cant fully articulate.
It took me awhile to get the joke. Its simply a unique mapping dictionary with a fixed number of buckets and no hash key conflict resolution.
Just picked this one from the library. Around here, few people know it (Brazil).
When I was a student a lot of the houses I or my friends lived in had belkin routers/wifi access points. I don't think I encountered a single one that worked reliably, so I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.
Once again, every preprint (in some areas) is in the arxiv: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2637.pdf
When you undo, it's undoing it very weirdly.
Isn't this just an implementation of the filter described by Wilt and Wither back in 2003?
MIT consults staff and students over Aaron Swartz probe
thanks. you have a github profile or some blogposts describing those cloned features that you made?
Or... it's been done for 'thousands of years', more recently described in 1787 by Ernst Chladni http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni.

There are descriptions of this process in ancient Arab and Indian texts, and the results match images drawn in sacred spaces around the world.

The simple way to see these images is to place fine sand or similar medium on a tight drum skin, and play an instrument (or even sing a sustained note) loudly near the drum. The sand will 'dance' to various set patterns, widely differing for each note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiSCBXbHAg [please do watch this video, it's easy to imagine that this could have been seen through history by drummers - and give it a try at home, it's really easy to do, and blows kids/friends/spouses minds!]

The cryptic symbols in Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland may be musical instructions, copied down from the shapes formed during the processes described above, before written music was mainstream, and used to decorate the ceiling of the chapel: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_rosslyn_code/2011/05/...
Ask HN: which is the most influencing quote you ever came across?
"Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it."
source : http://blakemasters.com/
Surely the recipient is copying the data from their network router onto their own computer, and likely from there to their hard-drive.

They have copied the data.
So even if I do everything right to protect my identity, someone can now identify me based on my writing. Amazing, and scary.
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Funny & Interesting question on stackoverflow - GW-Basic to Javascript port
"The 1 and 2 character names are common because in earlier versions of Basic, variable names were restricted to 2 characters max."

Straight out of the stone ages
Hey,

My last bog post was just about that.
Feel free to have a look, you might be able to grasp some ideas :)

http://www.lengrand.fr/2012/12/how-we-won-our-first-startup-...

And enjoy the week-end, it's awesome !
Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Internet to end government surveillance
Some more feedback: If I do a search for direct, one-way flights from Tallinn to anywhere next month, the experience is awful.

"anywhere" appears to search a list of cities in sequence, not in parallel.

The top city on the list is Beijing (I doubt Tallinn-Beijing has ever existed or ever will); Dubai, Shanghai and Incheon are also in the first ten. Combine this with the server speed, and you have me staring at a throbber for far, far too long for searches that I know won't succeed and should have been trivially filtered out.

If I repeat the search, the same 48 cities are shown in the same order. Please stop trying to get me to go to Beijing. Consider a longer list, randomising the order and searching in parallel.

Your search results show no direct flights from Tallinn to London or Paris next month. This appears to miss results from RyanAir, EasyJet and Estonian Air. (Of these, your coverage page only claims to support EasyJet.)
Careful. Some in San Francisco might get off on the caning.
Tiny tech ZigBee harnesses puny power: Who needs batteries?
Here is mine :
http://www.lengrand.fr/

Started as an image processing blog, but turned into "my life as a developer" kinda blog.

Hard to always find time to write though.
Kinda - I still don't get what code they are talking about and what Paypal has to do with it
Ok two markets, U.S. and Japan. From the same article:

In markets where Android is leading, it is consolidating its lead, accounting for over half of all smartphone sales in the 12 weeks ending December 23.

Doesn't sound like something Apple fans should be cheering about to me. Personally I'm not anti-Apple. I'd just like to see them get back to making interesting new stuff instead of polishing what they already have and suing everybody.
I am self employed and thus I can more or less travel at any time I want. I can easily trade flexibility against money if this allows me to travel more.
I read the preprint in the arxive, but I'm not an expert in this area.

This doesn't look like the usual mixture of crackpotology and misinterpretation. It's better skip this article and to keep your $200 for the next one.
Hmm if I knew this existed literally a week ago I might have gone with backbone instead of Angular. Do you by accident know of an ediable-grid with angular directives and proper bindings?
I would advise that you dig a little deeper, and check out some of the other underground hip hop stalwarts, you may be surprised by how musically creative and lyrically talented some of these people are. In fact, it's got to the point where a lot of the artists in that space are now middle-aged and are making quite mature hip-hop (as a genre it's pretty young so this is the first generation of artists to get to this stage)

If you like The Heist, checking out Macklemore's earlier effort (sans Ryan Lewis) "The Language of My World", is probably a good place to start. It's got a little less polish but a whole lot of heart.

Other people definitely worth checking: Atmosphere, Eyedea & Abilities, Blackalicious, Jurassic 5, US3, Hilltop Hoods, Desa, P.O.S, Ugly Duckling, Shad, Abdominal.
Regardless of how good it is, I don't feel comfortable installing it because of the permissions it requires. You don't lose much by visiting fb.com in a browser.

Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.

Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.

Allows the app to modify the data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific contacts. This permission allows apps to delete contact data.

Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.
See also Gervase Markham's "Poetic Licence" http://www.gerv.net/writings/poetic-licence/bsd.html
Certainly,but it'll more awesome if it included by default. It will give a more IDE type look .
Also Dad's Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)
Hey this looks really cool! The last time I rendered some data in a table I used d3.js, but this looks much simpler for the more advanced stuff.

Do you have cvs support? That would be nifty because large table datasets are usually in csv not in json, so it would be nice to skip this intermediate step.

By the way, how did you make the documentation? It looks really nice.
I guess they could be using "partials":

>Any complex tone "can be described as a combination of many simple periodic waves (i.e., sine waves) or partials, each with its own frequency of vibration, amplitude, and phase." A partial is any of the sine waves by which a complex tone is described.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_%28music%29#Par...
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Best way to deal with cold calling rejection
I solved that by using Paymo Plus (a tool from Paymo). Although I set up projects and everything in the online account, I use Paymo Plus on my PC to automatically record everything I do in a day. It records everything, browser, PDF editor, text editor, IM, etc. At the end of the day I just link the time entries and voila, I'm ready to bill the client :)

I use it because I'm not a big fan of starting and stopping for each task.
Comparing sequences without sorting
Just wait us Aaron!..
Looks excellent! I don't have an excuse to play with this right now, but I'm forwarding to a colleague that is going to love it. Can't say much more than big thanks for sharing your work.
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This looks really nice. Do you think similar algorithms could be used in electromagnetics, for example automatic design of antennas?
This has also been considered in Ubuntu: "MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu" https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2012-Februar... and an intermediate conclusion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2012-Februar...

Also see "Oracle Makes More Moves To Kill Open Source MySQL": http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-to-...
So , since it seems that MariaDB is the new "real" mysql is there any good reason now to do this?

On a more practical note, if I have production servers running mysql should I in theory at least be able to just drop in MariaDB as a replacement with the same config files?
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Originated from a quote by Einstein.
Blog Post - Connecting Opsview To Your Service Desk
The title is totally misleading, what he is showing is exactly the work of engineers, that is, defining a set of targets and constraints for a problem and using the right tool to find the best solution. In fact, you have engineers involved at each step in the provided solution, to define the problem, to select the right algorithm, to run the simulation/optimisation and to critically assess the quality of the answer.
Looks awesome. I wrote Backbone.grid last year, basically some view extensions with a much lower level approach and many unresolved issues. This is were backbone (and other MVC) shines I think. Hope to see similar stuff in ember.js angular.js and so on with nifty gems for easy generation of admin section. kudos
Anonymous hacker group: Two jailed for cyber attacks
I've been using it for about 2 or 3 years - basically since it's first release. And I actually think the latest app is the best they've done yet. Which isn't really saying much given the latest app still sucks badly.

But around 2 years ago, it was so bad I was running 3rd party Facebook clients on Android - some of which were littered with adverts.

When being subjected to numerous intrusive adverts is less annoying than using the ad-free official app - well, then you know the in house developers clearly need a lesson in mobile development.
It actually is more like $200mm gross (due to discounts, and that's run-rate, not 2012 I think), and then goes to Chase Paymenttech and to the card associations, interchange, issuers via chase -- as well as all their other costs. So I think netting $50mm off the transactions is generous.

They have at least 500 employees -- figure $100k/ea loaded cost, only possible since I think a lot of those employees are not engineers. That's all of it right there.

They really need to be in the 50b/yr range to be doing well. OTOH, they will probably get there in a year or two, and I don't see their costs going up much.
Milkdrop is probably the best general visualizer ever made. There used to be an iTunes port but I think it died long ago, which is too bad.
Google adds WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta
Typescript interfaces
Small business content strategy 
This infographic was inspired by the content marketing strategy I’m using at Informly. Feel free to share it or embed it on your site (link under the image).
Plenty of examples of just that, here's one: http://alglobus.net/NASAwork/papers/Space2006Antenna.pdf
Just been playing with the Quake 3 demo on my Nexus 4 and it looks stunning - really excited to see where this takes mobile casual games.
Then Life magazine was among the misattributors; I read the quote when it was published (and was delighted, because it matched my own attitude about athletics).
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Create a Retro Navigation Menu with CSS3
In this you'll learn how to create a vintage-looking navigation menu using pure CSS3. I hope you'll enjoy this tutorial and you'll learn some new techniques.
Given that skyscanner doesn't find easyjet results for me, nor does it find ryanair I'm going to guess that they don't let these services pull in their data to consumers. I am guessing this is an ownership issue, and that they want to process customers themselves, rather than through resellers.
No csv support. I didn't intent to make a full-blown web-based spreadsheet (but you never know :) ). The documentation is just plain old hand-coded HTML styled with Bootstrap + some well chosen header fonts. The code editor (not much of an editor now that I've put it in read only mode) is codemirror.
The previous post gave more reasons that 'notifications'. Read it more carefully - the important one is 'integration' which covers a host of possible behaviour.

One example - uploading photos straight from the camera. This is a html5 api but the browser support is appalling: http://caniuse.com/stream

More examples - integration with contacts? (i.e. appearing as an option next to call/text etc). Registering under the 'share' menu in Android? Registering as an Intent where appropriate? Ability to run background tasks?

I don't know if Facebook uses these but there's certainly good reasons for an service with it's wide spread of potential functionality to do so.
I wasn't sure that was the same paper, due to the different title and somewhat different list of authors. Even though the subject matter is the same.
+1 for Ryanair (even though they are an awful company). You are also missing norwegian which pretty much is the go-to budget airline for anyone living in the Nordics/Scandanvaia (& Baltics).
The H1B is a temporary work visa. It's not a "sit around for a year and find yourself" visa, nor is it a "get on the path to citizenship" visa.

If you want to expand those visas or reallocate them, advocate for it. I'm hugely in favor of eliminating nepotism based immigration (what we have now) and replacing it with something favoring high skilled individuals [1].

But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for temporary work visas.

[1] This is, however, a political non-starter. Bush's amnesty bill was killed because someone slipped this in as a poison pill.
Good work, like it a lot. I almost feel allowing tabs should be a browser based setting, I'd have it enabled, but I can imagine other people wouldn't never need to use a tab.

I built something similar for keeping indentation/bullets/lists on new lines to assist with Markdown in an ordinary textarea -> http://jamiebicknell.github.com/Markdown-Helper/

ps: long time lurker, first time poster.
Sorry I'm a bit late with this reply. I'm the guy behind that site and only noticed this post.

The idea behind not sharing the idea up front is simple. I have plenty of feedback that the idea is pretty good. I don't need further validation, at least until I have something to demonstrate. What I need is people that I am going to love working with, and who have the best chances of turning this into something really cool. I figure the best way to do that is not try to win them over with the idea, but with the type of team I want to create. The last thing I need is people liking the idea and then consciously or subconsciously overlooking, or even hiding, the differences in our style/values/goals/personality in order to work on the idea. No idea will be strong enough to hold a team together if we are simply too different in all the other areas.

I may be wrong, but this is how I want to build the team. I have had enough people contact me to express interest, as well as others who have emailed to say they wished they could code just so they could join me. And those that I have met in person have all agreed that this strategy is likely to lead to building a very strong team. So at least for some people this approach seems to have some appeal. But I understand it wouldn't work for everyone, and I'm fine with that.
NASA Engineers Resurrect And Test F-1 Engine Gas Generator
TQuery API - extensions for three.js
This looks like a goofy amateur science thing.

>"The CymaScope is a new type of scientific instrument that makes sound visible."

Really? Because we have been making sound visible for centuries. I have around 40 plugins in my Logic Pro that "make sound visible".

>"The CymaScope has applications in almost every branch of science simply because vibration underpins all matter. The ability to see such vibrations permits a depth of study previously unavailable to scientists, engineers and researchers."

Really? Because it seems rather simple to make one...

>"Music, in the absolute sense, is the invisible geometry of the cosmos, a delicate tracery of frequencies that harmonise with each other and from which all matter manifests."

Only if you define "music" very loosely, and probably not even then.
A must watch talk, on joearms thinking and humour.
talk is about on writing C compiler.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ECC-Fun-Writing-Compilers
OOCSS and RWD - Andrew Hathaway
Just released this article. I think that it's an idea that needs to be futher developed. Thanks.
I see what you're saying. I remember the different treatment by the police between people protesting/marching in Washington. One was peaceful and non-violent (Occupy), the other peaceful and 'don't-tred-on-me' (Teaparty). Hackers build this world and they can fight back as well and they know it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025512/-Police-Vio...
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
- Oscar Wilde
I love Lua because of it's reluctance to use symbols (such as braces). It's mostly an aesthetic thing. I think it looks great.
Someone who can sell doesn't really even need to have the app written to be able to sell it and gather funds. Your idea sounds attractive from the POV of the programmer, but from the other side it is not attractive. You have to realize something, people who can sell (who can really gather money like that) are worth more than most programmers out there.
Very few people can sell than those who can program. The "hustler" can just hire programmers easily. But programmers have a hard time finding good "hustlers." Why? Because good "hustlers" already have money and can pay programmers a salary. No need to dilute their value by taking in a co-founder.
"Fail we may, sail we must" - A random fisherman talking to a dj/producer called Andrew Weatherall. He made out a song with this title then.
...lowering unemployment and increasing aggregate demand.

It's certainly true that importing new employed people will increase the denominator in the unemployment rate will reduce unemployment, but that doesn't help any human.

I believe you are making the fallacy of reasoning from a composition change. Amusingly, one of the better explanations of this I've found is at OpenBorders: http://openborders.info/compositional-effects/
>I think it might be fairer to look at AMZN's price to revenue ratio and compare that with other big companies which have margins AMZN might reasonably have when they start trying to make profits.

There is no indication that they will ever make huge profits. The Amazon you see is that Amazon you WILL see for the next 10-15 years at least.