skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say this Anon's action inspires other Anons within the federal government to take in a USB key and torrent a few GB of internal emails. Then it's a huge win. Any Anons with sysadmin skills will now join the federal government (they're always hiring), turn off logging, bundle up a tar, cover their tracks, and put it on the web. Nothing will take down a .gov faster than shining some sunlight on their Pentagon Papers. If caught, each Anon can invoke federal whistleblower statutes and dare the courts to jail them and spawn one hundred more Anons. Some will no doubt be jailed, but the power to administer computers is now the power to hold unjust institutions accountable. This is information war.
Please figure out a way to take equity eventually (there are organizations which help non profits do this).

I, and a lot of other startup founders, have limited income to donate, but potentially have equity which could be worth a lot of money someday. It is a lot easier to donate equity than current income.

It adds overhead and complicates your "transactional" model, but it might be a good way to fund your overhead, or to fund longer term projects, and could eventually be a recurring income stream to pay for some number of treatments.
I was a former Wikipedia admin (three times, actually), and I can tell you that you don't need to be an admin to correct articles.
Sounds like my little running-total calculator:

http://static.steve.org.uk/expenses/
He's not running a slum.
Text size on iPhone makes this site a huge pain to read. Too big...
I was just really confused. Is it or isn't it the same OXO who have been producing stock cubes since the 19th century (and built the highly-visible OXO tower in London)?

On searching, it appears not to be, and the US OXO brand was 'invented' in 1990.
It's based on code from my ShareIt! project (http://github.com/piranna/ShareIt) and both are interoperable thanks to my WebP2P protocol :-)
(i love this thread)

Brogramming's lasting meaning? Being Goofus in production: pushing code live from your laptop with no commits, no warnings, whatever, mostly in situations that feel like this: http://youtu.be/O_HyZ5aW76c?t=1m
While FarmLogs may have unique selling points, there's already a lot of software targeted at farmers ... I can think of two in my local area:

- http://www.agintegrated.com/

- http://www.zedxinc.com/
Indian kickstarter for social development
The prosecution wanted something along 6-7 years, but it's the judge/jury who decide (not sure which in this case).
I actually loved that part. Even better was showing the many obvious quirky rip-offs from OXO products.

Very gentleman like response and correction, well done OXO.
What university was that? (Was it even a university? Doesn't sound like any I've heard of...)
Pakistan bans Call of Duty and Medal of Honor
Funny that the first idea it showed is almost exactly what I'm working on now. I couldn't believe it.
Is the data encrypted on the wire?
Awesome work piranna :D
Can the WebP2P protocol be used for Bittorent, too, like instead of that Torque thing they have?
Files are transferred as blob. Encryption can be dropped in if required. :)
There's really a lot of hyperbole in these discussions.

Apple gives you a single signon for their App Store, iCloud, and many of their other services. It unifies your interaction with Apple related HW and services to a single identity. Does it anger you that Apple forces you to sign into your AppStore account to use iCloud when they could be separate? Facebook is used by many sites as a signon credential (which is what I mostly use it for).

For the most part, all of this talk about Google "forcing" you to use G+ to access their other services is really about promoting a single signon, centralized account profile, instead of having different accounts on different properties. This yields a consistent user interface, and centralized location for you to view what information Google knows about you for all their services, and how to delete or export it. You can choose to not "sign in" on some of the properties, for example, legacy YouTube logins still work, but honestly, is it really better for the user if you had a different account for YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Drive, etc and had to log into all of them separately? For example, having Google Wallet linked to your profile lets you buy something on YouTube, in Google Play, or elsewhere, without fumbling with a credit card.

Unlike some of Facebook's services/apps, Google does not automatically share your activity on some news feed every time you do something on their sites, you have to specifically choose to share it. Indeed, it appears G+ doesn't want to pollute the feed with lots of autopublished stuff which interferes with S/N search quality, which is one reason theorized as to why no "write" API exists yet.

G+ is plus.google.com, if you are on other properties signed in, then the biggest benefit is having the Share button be able to pull your contacts, combined with a single place to manage your settings for everything.

In many cases you have a choice. You can use Chrome without signin. You have incognito windows. YouTube doesn't require signin unless the video is NSFW, etc.

I for one, appreciate the "G+ as a common layer across Google Websites" for the purposes of unified profile/single-signon. The plus.google.com newsfeed service is just one addition service you can either choose to use or not. It's best not to think of G+ as a social network + activity stream like Facebook.
Given the small time window for an attack to be viable I have to wonder why a more concise and succinct message wasn't used. It does make me wonder if the bark is bigger than the bite.
A social network that does nothing but serves web pages isn't a "social network", it is a "web server"

A social network that does nothing but allow the user make use of web applications is not a "social network", it is often called an "application server", or perhaps still "web server".

A social network as originally defined, was a particular kind of web application where one could describe real-life relationships to a machine which would then attempt to assist the user in maintaining those relationships, for example by sharing drunk shots or funny cat videos.

Google+, in almost all its integrations with other Google products, does not count as a "social network" in the traditional sense -- rendering a "G+" button in an endless series of places where it might accidentally be clicked does not constitute helping the user maintain real world relationships. Forcing users of older web applications to create a Google+ account in order to remain a user of that older web application does not constitute helping the user maintain real world relationships. Integrating arbitrary applications tightly with Google+ does not unconditionally constitute helping the user maintain real world relationships.

In every conceivable way Google+ is a failure as a social network: almost everyone uses Facebook for what Google+ tries and fails to achieve, these "stats" only serve to highlight this each time they appear in the news. In the meantime, it has turned into some kind of mediocre blogging platform, except it doesn't support RSS (because that would encourage people to never visit the site – undistorting the stats against Google's favour).

To count me as a "social network user" I would first expect said network to have helped me maintain real life relationships somehow – Facebook does this, and not by pilfering my Gmail address book, not by tricking me into clicking a share link while I watch a lolcat on YouTube, not by crippling my favourite applications (Reader), and least of all not by rendering blog posts.

Google's only successful social applications to date (IMHO) have been Gmail (including Talk) and Reader, and they already managed to kill one of these in their panic to beat Facebook.
Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Site, Threatens Supreme 'Warheads'
It is easy to play devil's advocate on something like this. Technically yes, you are right, it is not hidden. What I am saying is that I find it bad form that they spin your stuff down when you are paying so much for a SERVICE.

The purpose of the dyno is not to prevent spin downs, it is a provision for background processes, think processing orders, updating information from external APIs every hour, etc.

Your comparison is obviously bogus as we are dealing with a service, not products. It is more like paying for a spotify premium account and still having to listen to ads. He is being treated like a free user, while he is paying for premium service.
I don't think Google can even index most Facebook posts.
Indeed. Here is a picture (http://i4.minus.com/ibokGCW1TVxmUA.jpg) which has been colorized.

(It is Ulysses Grant btw.)

His clothing looks out of date, but it just seems so real.

(Photo shamelessly stolen from www.reddit.com/r/colorizedhistory)
And how is that different from the way Facebook counts its users? If anything I find using Hangouts a lot more "engaging with Google+" than just clicking the Like button.

In other words, every time you press the “Like” button on NFL.com, for example, you’re an “active user” of Facebook. Perhaps you share a Twitter message on your Facebook account? That would make you an active Facebook user, too. Have you ever shared music on Spotify with a friend? You’re an active Facebook user. If you’ve logged into Huffington Post using your Facebook account and left a comment on the site — and your comment was automatically shared on Facebook — you, too, are an “active user” even though you’ve never actually spent any time on facebook.com.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/those-millions-on-fac...
Poetic!
I've spent twenty years in the fertilizer business and written software for both fertilizer and seed businesses.

The amount they're charging would be reasonable if the software integrated with the fertilizer dealer and/or farm consultants software. Very few farmers in Michigan bypass the dealer for services. In the short planting season both the farmer and his dealer need to be working together closely as a team.

If FarmLogs made that easy they'd have fertilizer dealers as unpaid salespeople similar to the way accountants convinced their small business clients to start using Quickbooks.
Good one! Is it worth watching the whole movie?
Ask HN: Review My Startup, TagtheBird
Hi Everyone,

I’ve seen how helpful answers to “Ask HN” requests have been in the past, and now that I’ve released the first version of web I’ve been working on, I figured I would make my first post to HN to ask for some feedback from you all.

TagtheBird is a site where you can do some things that you can't do on twitter. I copy paste what we say in about us page:

We love Twitter. We can follow interesting people, but sometimes we do not want to know everything they do in their private lives.

On TagTheBird users can post tweets from Twitter and tag them. Users can indicate their interests and can see tweets that match them. This will eliminate "noise" and gives a new perspective: interests.

For example, if you like basket and video games, you can indicate this on TagTheBird and by clicking on My interests we will show you tweets related to basket and video games.

TagTheBird gives you the chance to find interesting tweets from users you do not follow.

You can see top voted, most commented and most retweeted tweets of the day, week, month, year and all time.

You can vote for tweets and you can comment on tweets without having to answer to the author. More than 140 characters are allowed. You can paste a tweet link, an image link or a youtube link.

If you are a Twitter user, you can know how community values your tweets through the votes, comments and retweets.

I’d love to hear what you all think. Website is http://www.tagthebird.com/

Thank you for your feedback.
Why tab navigation sucks in Chrome, pt 2
A new development era
Thats the plan :D. WebDHT is what we need to actually replace bittorrents.
Few Points.

1. To the Post above on VP8 better then x264. Comparing a single frame, single video, single....? isn't very detail. VP8 has improved A LOT!. That is true. But as far as i am concern and many other video encoder it is also true that it hasn't match x264 yet.

2. VP9 is great! It has matched and in many case even exceed x264 quality. Although there would still be areas where x264 perform better simply because it is much more mature.

3. So given more time VP9 will very likely beat x264 quality. It is only with 10% range of HEVC / h.265 JM, under benchmarks. So it will very likely beat that too.

4. Do bare in mind JM is reference encoder. So it does not in anyway show the full potential of h.265 as a codec. While VP9 is itself the standard and the best encoder available. If you look at the difference between h.264 JM and x264. I will argue it is very likely x265 ( If DS decide to do it ) will still be better then VP9.

5. Daala... as much as i love Mozilla, knowing their pace of work and Daala's current condition, expect it to compete with h.266 or VP10.

6. Patents are not evil. Patents Trolls are.
Facebook's Platform Policy Explanation Only Raises More Questions
Let me quote Derek Sivers: "To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions."

http://sivers.org/multiply
16 Habits You Should Do Every Day
Seems to be the both OXO and Quirky are acting in good faith here, and Quirky just went completely of the reservation instead of even considering they may be wrong. I can understand how this could happen, for instance if OXO's initially didn't take Quirky's case seriously enough to give it a decent response like they're doing now.

The ball is in Quirky's court now. If they have any shred of decency they will at the very least admit that they completely overreacted and that the case is more complicated than they claimed.

I don't expect that though. There is something horribly "off" about the lame way Quirky dressed up a PR stunt like genuine protest, the kind of people that do that are not the kind that are likely to admit mistakes.
https://twitter.com/aestetix/status/295121141805223937

Based on http://66.153.19.162/clarity1.txt through clarity3.txt, it looks like NIH docs.
Mayer predicts mobile personalized future for Yahoo at Davos
"Instapaper, but for Location"

Rand McNally is Web 3.0 certified!
"They also got in touch with my peeps to basically say that they’re within their legal rights to do this, and that I should be happy for the exposure (even though they do not credit me, and have not even publicly acknowledged that it’s my version – so you know, it’s kind of SECRET exposure)."

Source: Coulton's blog http://www.jonathancoulton.com
Being "unable to sign this agreement" is a great way to decline the opportunity to do all the development, maintenance and marketing for the idea for 49% equity and a nice meal in the nicest way possible.
Exposing emails, hacking the FBI? This is not at all helpful.

Murdering politicians, assassinating police officers and judges, freeing the wrongly imprisoned by force. A willingness to die fighting. Any or all of those would change things, possibly for the better. But this, this is a waste of your time and ours.
Hah, yeah, no relation to the famous OXO cubes.
I guess my itch is the fact that at work I do the same thing almost every day (make them websites, add guest checkout, style the page, integrate X and Y's API). It's becoming tedious and boring. I think my learning curve is now flat. I need some new challenges from which I can learn new stuff, use more math and elegant algorithms.

This is why I think I will be going to make some small games (monogame & C#, js)... and after I learn JS properly, I will definitely try some functional languages (Haskell). I think this will make me better at programming and help me see things from a different point of view... and most of all, have fun doing new things.
Sugar Haskell tries to catch on syntactic extensibility of Lisp
I think the protestors were just the company staff, who took the day off to participate in a publicity stunt.
Yes, it's the most peaceful in absolute numbers. It's also the shittiest in absolute numbers. Subsidized by cheap, surplus energy, courtesy of ancient plant and dino matter.
Samsung Galaxy S4 : faisons le point sur les dernières rumeurs.
Another related book is "What is sustainable": http://www.amazon.com/What-Sustainable-Remembering-Our-Home/...
Here's the introduction from "Anonymous Operation Last Resort 101"

*1. Welcome to #OpLastResort-TwitterStorm!

You have been selected to assist this important Operation because we're pretty sure you know how to cut and paste. #OpLastResort is a long-term Op devoted to honoring the memory of Aaron Swartz and continuing his important work. Anonymous has prepared content that they would like shared with the world, and it's up to us to make sure it goes everywhere. Other Operatives will be spreading the news to major MSM outlets, YouTube, Facebook, and other websites while you participate in the push to bypass the bias and get the word out directly to the people via Twitter."

(Further details: http://pastebin.com/d2nvt263)
Like many, you may have confused copyright law with ordinary respect and decency.

Personally, I'm against any and all forms of copyright. That doesn't mean I cannot consider people that pass of other people's work as their own to be complete assholes.

Also, there are plenty of other laws to cover that. IANAL, but I'm thinking of plagiarism, forgery etcetera.
It rather depends on the patent claims. There are over 500 patents on barbed wire, and searching for "paper clip" just now, there are new paper clip patents in the last few years, like 6,973,700 and 7,500,301. To say nothing of the many design patents for paper clips.

So not, it's not obvious that it will be rejected. It could be a seemingly minor thing. I brought up paperclips because in Henry Petroski's "The Evolution of Useful Things", the author describes how one paperclip patent claim was for the variant where the outside wire extends beyond the loop of the paperclip. That seems like a minor variation, but the submitter showed that no one else had done it, and got the patent.
Are you saying you disagree? Because that sounds willful.
Isn't the browser supposed to stop pages from making connections to machines other than the server they were downloaded from?

Has that requirement been dropped? Or does this do something strange to get around it?
<p>This does not work optimally on this site because the following issues:</p><ul><li><b>It uses HTML tags in javascript alert boxes</b></li></ul>

http://tmp.fnordig.de/scr/aacc737f52.png
Not the situation I was insinuating. That child will not be left on their own, presumably they have a family who will care for them and help them get past it. In a situation where the person is just left to basic care, and has no other future care options is what I was referring to. I should have been more clear.
Can you say martial law?

I know several officers who belong on either side of the integrity fence. Losing the bad ones violently will only turn the good ones against whatever good you're hoping to accomplish.

This is absolutely the worst thing they could do. There are plenty of politicians, police officers and judges who are doing everything they can to free those wrongly imprisoned. Besides that, not everyone who works inside the "machine" is evil; most are just doing their jobs to whatever capacity they can and I assure you, they don't sleep well when their work is used for injustice.

Violence is the worst option. Ask India. They got independence peacefully after violent rebellion failed.
Who can fly drones in UK airspace
The question is does giving your money directly to a street person help them more than giving it to a shelter so there are more places for people to sleep at night, and healthy food for them - or is it just faster and stronger gratification / reward for you? Not saying this as a put-down.
GoVoluntr
There are millions and millions of people, tens of millions in North America, that aren't taken care of well or properly. Fixing people when they're bad enough to absolutely need help or they'll die, otherwise letting them suffer, isn't a great attitude to have; Not saying that is your attitude, though it's what our culture currently has in place.
My Gmail account got hacked. Google won't help. I need your advice.
Hi, someone is sending spam from my gmail address to my contacts.

I found out yesterday when a friend texted me saying he was getting spam from my address.

I logged into my account and found some failed delivery messages of emails I'd never sent myself.

There is no trace of sent emails left in the Sent Mail folder.

I also can't see any suspicious login activity in my gmail login history at the time the spam was sent or any other time.

The thing that's worrying is that they got hold of my contacts. It was an account I was not using directly any more, so I have closed that account now.

I have 2-factor auth enabled on my other accounts and have even changed all the passwords again.

I have reported twice to Google, but haven't heard back anything yet.

Edited to add:

I have looked at the original email message and the header does suggest it came from google. I reported the Message ID to google along with the full email message.

I also suspected it may be some app or service that I gave access to my contacts to, but I didn't see any in my app access list.

That's why I'm turning to you guys to ask if any of you've been in a similar situation, how do I secure my accounts, and trace down the cause of this particular incident?

Thanks
I thought Javascript wasn't allowed to touch any files on the local filesystem?
When G+ initially came out, everybody here was excited to have an alternative to Facebook. Posts about their increasing user numbers were celebrated and everybody was excited.

Then it became clear that Google, like Facebook was going to force people to use real names and since then, everybody likes to hate on G+. Whatever they do is said to be even more evil and whenever they or others publish user numbers, everybody is explaining how the data must be wrong and how G+ is a ghost town and a failure.

Can't we just be honest here? Yes. The real name policy sucks. But does this mean the whole G+ is a failure and every evidence to the contrary must be wrong? Just because you dislike it doesn't mean everybody does.
it doesn't suck. its way better than IE - complain bout that instead.
This currently works only on the latest browsers; like Chrome 24 on the desktop. Its still not 100% stable. Stability and support for other platforms will soon arrive through browsers updates and polyfills.
File API is the answer. http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
Encryption ought to be standard. Making it optional means most people won't use it.
Well you can downvote me all you like, but it's just not bigotry. Merriam-Webster defines bigotry as the state of mind of "one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance".

This is just not the case, so first of all you are wrong.

And second of all, that you think one should spend his charity with maximum (perceived) efficiency is just _your_ ethical view.

I give charity to the Dutch cancer battle fund. I don't do this to save anyone I love, they are either already dying of cancer and won't be helped because of my donation or have already died.

A majority of people will never live to die of cancer. It is a disease that kills rich healthy people. Yet I give as much to them as I give to unicef. It is because the disease hits close to home.

Anyway, that might make me an egoist. But not a nationalist bigot. And frankly I think it was hateful of you to introduce those slurs into this conversation.
> I'm confident VP9 has a much better chance of succeeding this time around.

Yup Micro$oft and Apple (partners of MPEG LA) will totally let that happen.
Am I missing something? Can you complete the thought?
Great. So what's wrong? Is the job market rigged? Do you suggest niche specialists get underpaid?