skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago I went and bought myself the cheapest Yale type lock I could find in order to teach myself to pick it. After repeatedly failing I took it apart and discovered some of the pins had recesses that were designed to defeat this kind of attack (I think they're called "spool pins"). I never managed to put it back together again, and that was the end of my lock picking career.
Sums it up beautifully! Though one should not underestimate the downfalls most encounter on the way, or the very real possibility of failure. I have never encountered higher highs and lower lows than during my phd. Though it has made me a better person.

You learn how to think (something no undergrad could ever do so rigorously).
You learn how to motivate yourself.

Invaluable lessons..
There may not be a disagreement: I'm not arguing that this data should be closed. I believe it should be freely available, and should be freely available in bulk form.

My only point was that providing open access to cases so that individuals can learn the law is a solved problem via Google Scholar. Bulk access is not a problem for individuals. I say this as someone who has worked to create better legal research tools for nearly 5 years: the first 2 on a startup that failed, the next 1 at Scholar, and the last 1.5 on a new startup that I believe will finally succeed.

So while the desire to open up PACER - and the attention given to it - is great, I don't think it will have any effect on the future of individual access to law, or to the future of innovation and business in the legal space. I don't think lack of innovation today has anything to do with lack of bulk access today. I think the deficiencies are more a reflection of the fact that innovation in this space is really hard.
While we're sharing anecdotes...

In high school, I was doing a programming course. I was working on my assignment in the library, when the librarian came in and started yelling at me for hacking. I explained that it was course-work, and she said "Oh, alright then.".

One week later, she came in yelling at me "I've already warned you once about this!", and kicked me out of the library.

* confused-look
Making an immutable queue with guaranteed constant time operation
> Developers go where the users go

You are aware that, except in a tiny fraction of the world, users are going massively android, right?
250 square feet Living Competition... the new normal?
Okasaki's research paper: http://www.westpoint.edu/eecs/SiteAssets/SitePages/Faculty%2...
It also comes in handy more often than you'd think. Picking real-world residential locks is usually a Bad Idea even if you're allowed to, but with a little practice anyone can learn to open cheap wafer locks (like you find on desk drawers) or padlocks in seconds with nothing more than a couple of bobby pins.

Like when I cleverly managed to mail my apartment keys to myself, including my only mailbox key...
The binding pin won't bounce up and down when you actuate it with the pick. The non-binding pins won't offer any resistance at all. Also, when you manage to get the binding pin to the shear line, the tension wrench will sometimes give up a little more rotation.
This is a really great guide. Many good points there. You should definitely read it if you plan on trying anything.
You must've been somewhere nice that had fast internet. I think most people back then had dialup, and downloading a single song would take at least 20 minutes on their 28.8k modem.
They haven't shot him because everyone would notice :)
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/16/apples-icloud-icon-it...
I would love to see this effort open sourced - both for others to learn from and to establish it's security more openly.
You restrict based on age ratings. That's the whole point of his argument.

You set the rating restriction, block the communication apps, Safari, and the kid cannot go download another browser and surf. If Apple goes lax on these ratings, then those parental controls stop working.
You're thinking of it backwards.

The device settings and parental controls are set BEFORE you hand the device to a child.
At good uk universities you get excellent guidance, with multiple intermittent milestones and ongoing scrutinisation of your progress. Unless you pick a rubbish supervisor who simply doesn't care. Though I only can speak of Oxford..
Red hat isn't cut out to be a full stack partner. Not large enough to support the 38,000,000 PC's Dell sells a year. Indeed, few companies are.

Nevermind that partnering with Microsoft made Michael Dell a billionaire and the thirty year relationship between the companies. Or the lack of a roadmap for Linux and a mobile strategy.
Yes, because it can bring joy!
All those keyboard short cuts & everything is cool. We have tried so many of them but it is hard to find one which every member of your team like something.

It really is impressive.
I personally find that I cannot code when I have music playing, because music distracts me and I find myself listening to the music instead of being able to think about the problem. I concentrate best in silence.
I love this.

Youtube's default homepage is so cluttered I usually jump to my subscriptions immediately, with your framework I've actually been browsing youtube channels. Never happened before.
I think hardhead might have just been referring to keeping a "full time job" which is impossible in many of the STEM PhD programs in the US. A lab-mate of mine has a child, and I know a few others in my program that have children as well. Almost all STEM PhD programs offer stipends for TAs and/or RAs, so you might get on the order of 20K/year to be a student. That being said, there are no shortage of people claiming the grad student -> postdoc -> nontenured prof. -> tenured prof. route is hostile to those wanting a family.
2012 Hackathons in Review
What would it take to turn my house into a Faraday cage? :)
You just waited that long to download music. That was all there was to it. MP3 was mindblowing when it was first released, in terms of how good it sounded for the size.

Obviously many people just ripped their own CDs. Many CD-ROMs didn't support ripping CDs at a data level - so you had to rip in real-time via analog! Crazy.
Because many people are still stuck using applets in the browser. The JDK won't run those.
The New York Times Introduced a Web Site 17 years ago today
I'm not so sure using encryption just to eliminate liability for themselves would go over all that well. It makes sense to me that they would lie about the purpose.

Certainly if they are advertising security for end users, they should deliver it properly, but honestly I doubt that is their actual intent. This seems to be the sort of 'security' that only needs to be strong enough that they can say with a straight face in court that they cannot break it themselves.
Messages between users database design
The cheapest house I could find in Protola Valley is $2.1M:

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/140-Campo-Rd-Portola-Valle...

It does not really seem like a choice...
Looks like they're re-releasing that one on dead tree:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndac...

Interesting that they're doing this now. It always felt like Wizards of the Coast was trying to shoehorn me into the latest edition.
Mobile nvidia cards with nvidia's Optimus technology require two steps to work:

1. Install Bumblebee (requires a PPA) and possibly x-swat PPA as well. [1]

2. Launch video programs through optirun. For example:

java -Xmx1024m -jar minecraft.jar # non-Bumblebee users
optirun java -Xmx1024m -jar minecraft.jar # Bumblebee users

If you run the first command but have an Optimus card, the program will still run, but it will use the weak Intel GPU instead of the powerful nvidia GPU -- which is plenty powerful enough for "normal" desktop usage like web browsing, email, word processing, or video players, but a recent 3D game will likely turn into a slideshow.

Hopefully the Steam client will make it easy for people to use Bumblebee by giving a GUI to install the PPA and automatically invoking 3D games with optirun.

[1] http://bumblebee-project.org/install.html#Ubuntu
I was not at my own personal computer.
This is super interesting as well!

http://woodgears.ca/combolock/index.html

Now you know why you had to go twice around when opening your school locker. ;-)
Having been to a few universities, including UW, I'm going to suppose that it's due to a well-tuned culture in the math faculty. There's not so much BS; there are good, committed and intense instructors; the curriculum is great; the resources are good; the faculty is small even to the extent of being 'tight'.

Probably, too, it sits atop a Canadian culture of higher learning.

I mean, the reasons it's good and gets props are extensive.
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for engineers in SF
PlanGrid makes tablet apps for construction. We’re being used on construction projects as small as a McDonald’s and as large as a $700+ million hospital. Our users are project engineers, superintendents, electricians, and plumbers, and they love our app (because it's easy to use). PlanGrid is a tool; people use it everyday to build real things.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched. Our market is also one of the biggest on earth.

We're looking for generalists and front-end engineers with design sensibilities. Our front-end tech is iOS and backbone.js. You will be our tenth employee and fourth member of engineering. Send a resume and examples of your work to: jobs@plangrid.com

We tackle really challenging UI problems. Our software is used by smart and talented people who aren't necessarily tech savvy, but still need to wrestle with a ton of data. Our product is as enterprise-y as you can get in a startup, but we develop PlanGrid to be as easy to use as Instagram.

Specs: salary = $100k, equity = 1%, location = San Francisco (4 days/wk from our office 1 day/wk wherever you want)

Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
Huh? It's perfectly valid in theory for one piece of trusted JavaScript to download another from an insecure source and validate it before evalling it - the attack scenario is not the browser being compromised, it's the source delivering malicious code. (Whether this is really a useful thing to do compared to serving all the JS in one place is another question.)
>>Learning an editor, the terminal for you computer, and a new language is not something to do while learning a framework.

I made this mistake when I was learning Ruby. Ha! Good times!
Did I miss something here...?

"In 1991, I started work at NeXT, as Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing. It was the internet, before there was much of an internet. We called it Interpersonal Computing, but nobody paid attention until 5 years later when the WWW was born."

The web existed in 1991, and Mosaic was launched in 1993. I first saw it in 1993, and it was a pretty big deal at the time. Have I misunderstood his '5 years later' statement?
White House Announces National Day Of Civic Hacking To Liberate Data
"Spontaneous City"
Dell, Nokia, Borders, Blockbuster. The world changes and people shift platforms. It doesn't matter how good the company is when they don't have products anyone wants. The enterprise market is still there but not so much with Dell and it is never going to have the same margins again. Microsoft is just going to draw this out.
The ad hominem way of discussion may or may not be present in technical debates in general. What actually doesn't surprise me is that this style surfaces on publications associated with Dotcom. If you happen to speak/understand German you (really!) should read this: http://arnold.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt
Basically the file contains old newsgroup postings from de.org.ccc wherein Dotcom (Kimble) argues with or better harrasses the CCC guys. It's really "worthwhile" and and an eye-opener.
Case in point, the founder of the startup I work for.

Mohammad was trained as a physician, but has had a long-standing interest in software (and has even some experience coding, though we don't let him touch it nowadays).

http://www.patientsknowbest.com/about-us.html
Leaving Canonical [2011]
Great job going over the upcoming changes in Rails 4, that was really the concise overview I was looking for.

R.I.P 1.8.7
I better idea might be to use convergent encryption only for really large files. Practically this would mean deduplication of software, movies, etc.
Thanks for some common sense. Couldn't this be easily solved by releasing two apps with different age ratings? The 17 rated app could additionally require a login to their verification system if they want to have a complete database of such users. I don't see the problem.
My work (a ~9000-strong ASX50 company) puts/used to put each and every one of us Engineers through a day-long 'Working Smarter with Outlook' course. It'd run the gamut from Outlook's structure and how to get the most out of it (eg: telling you to piss off the various locational icons such as calendar, journal, etc. in the bottom-left and use the folder tree instead), tips to get the most out of appointments, using your calendar to fill your day up and keep focused on tasks, to inbox management.

For inbox management, they preached the '4 D's' of inbox - Do, Defer, Delegate, Delete. It works quite similarly to what this link is describing, though including delegation helps include the managers who need to dish out work to their team. I've always found this to be a pretty powerful tool, and it seems many of my managers use it too. We've found that it's helped them get a hold of the 'inbox noise' they often get bombarded with, given the overuse of CC.

It's a lot of work to set up, but I encourage everyone to try one of these approaches. Blocking out a chunk of your time and burning through emails without any time spent on each of them is a really liberating feeling and helps deliver this zen-like focus on your other tasks. I think it's the fact that you're structuring your entire work schedule by doing it which helps so much.
What's news here? We already knew how much Steve Jobs loved to design products.
*Correction: As noted by another user, Win+Page Up and Page Down can be used to change the monitor on which the Start screen appears. Apologies for any confusion - I forgot about this hotkey.
Goodbye Ubuntu
So who controls the budgets or do you just hand the "independent entity" a pile of cash and let them do what they want?

Also, drug companies often hire physicians and researchers (often the best ones) to help with drug development far before any trial is run. Would you like to exclude those experts from input on the trial design?

From your comment I get the sense you have a limited understanding of what is really involved in drug development.
How a $20 MVP has made me $X0,000
I doubt it was a social of educause (the edu registrar); more likely some credentials specific to MIT were compromised.
They get shut down for copyright infringement and immediately come back with a service touting a privacy system. Privacy from whom?

At Megaupload, your files were private from other people. Mega themselves has/had no interest in snooping through your files. Various copyright enforcement agencies are very interested in ensuring that users are not violating copyright.

There is nothing about their system that is less secure than Megaupload was. In both cases, everything goes over HTTPS. The only new addition (no matter how broken their system is) is that now Mega cannot be reasonable expected to monitor file upload content, or provide third parties with the ability to monitor content.
There are legitimate complaints about access to court dockets as well. While you assume that the public isn't interested in court dockets, there are important segments of the population that do want that.

Take for instance reporters. Say for instance I wanted to cover a court trial. If I want to see if there's a new filing, I have to login to PACER daily and pay ten cents to see a court docket.

Then if there is a filing, I have to pay more money just to see the filing (10 cents a page for the first 30 pages).

There's no way to "follow" a case. And following cases manually gets very expensive very quickly.

Say I was a legal scholar interested in patent cases in certain districts? How would I access those cases?

Or say I was just a citizen who wanted to stay on top of the Google vs. Oracle trial.

None of these use cases require any of the "value-add" from Lexis-Nexis and they are all democratic with a lower case d.

PACER is largely useless for any of these use cases, because it is regarded as a slush fund for the court system, which has NO incentive to do right by the public. $15 free per month would get you about 3 days of filings in the Google/Oracle case.

A publicly free PACER, one that's actually useful to the public, could e paid for by slightly higher fees for attorney submissions.

Would it eat into LEXIS or West profits? Probably a tiny bit in the short term. Long term, it presents a long-term existential threat as a much cheaper, more democratic indexing system could eventually supplant those two.

Regardless of those two, there are compelling reasons for this data to be public to anyone who wants and the technology to do so isn't that complicated anymore.

Which is to say, I love the RECAP project, but it shouldn't be necessary.
I noticed something similar in reddit's various subreddits: /r/python/ usually consists of folks showing off their latest projects, while /r/csharp/ had more people asking questions about how to do such-and-such. /r/php/ is full of people complaining, which I guess shows something...
PACER is the federal system of records. Divorce and family law matters, by contrast, are filed in state court.

Some state court systems provide excellent access to dockets and documents (WI); others have access policies that make PACER's look open (UT).
> I believe most of the Steam Linux games available are native ports and don't use Wine.

Games ported using Wine are native ports. Wine's design goal was as a library that developers would use it to port their applications to run natively on any platform Wine supported. Remember, wine is not an emulator.
Our society has this totally backwards.

First, to find nudity, you have to go out of your way on 500px. Is it there? Sure. But is a 4 year-old going to run across it without concerted effort? No. And if they do find it, will it really have a negative impact on their development? Highly unlikely.

Meanwhile, you can buy an app that will let you watch UFC fights[1]. It is rated 9+. In case you're wondering whether UFC would be appropriate for 9 year-olds, I refer you to a Google Image Search for the St. Pierre vs. Condit fight from a month or two ago (warning: graphic and bloody) http://bit.ly/VSwUAJ

Like I said, we have this totally backwards.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ufc/id534568162
Whoa, mind blown
Real systems that try to implement this scheme generally wind up implementing the misconception that everything that contributes to the JS runtime comes from discrete Javascript files.
I just set my age restrictions to "4+", and was still able to open Chrome, Twitter, Flipboard, etc.

What I want is to be able to lock down certain apps so I can hand my device to my 4-year-old and know that he's not going to get into anything except the few games I have for him. Is that not possible?
We (SoundGecko team) are based in Australia :)

Definitely going down this path in terms of offline support.
They didn't say "Strong". They said "Stronger". They didn't say "Safe". They said "Safer".
I don't know whether it's the same outside of cities, but based on my limited experience, Japan appears either to have no zoning laws at all or to have such permissive ones that basically anything can be right next to (or, very often, on top of) anything else. Experiencing it after living in the US was a very jealousy-inspiring experience.
Whatever respect and excitement I had for Mega and Dotcom was lost when I tried visiting the link on Phone and iPad and it automatically redirected me to "An app will be launched soon for your device".

Huh, I don't know how they do not get Internet. All the messed up encryption and now this.

Bye Mega, I'm never joining of visiting you. And Kim Dotcom, sir, you make good entertainment but I don't think your services suit me!
Was That Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glasses in the New York Subway?
Defaults are everything.

Most people seem to heavily underestimate their power and potential.
Until someone calls it just bacon. Inevitable.
Yeah the article is pretty bad. These days even Forbes is producing garbage content (just catchy headlines and no meat to it). You are correct, google pays Mozilla since they use Google Search in Firefox and they have no business otherwise in Mozilla's development. Also Firefox OS just launched and who know what it will become so I believe that maybe another reason for Google to not worry about it yet.
what sort of github/heroku integration are you thinking of?
> "Many years later, when NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M" Very interesting way to look at it.

Really? I've always considered it the only way to look at it.
I have been brought up picking since I was in secondary school (Both Father and older Brother are locksmiths). It's very interesting stuff and once you see the in's and out's of peoples daily "security" you realise it's just about a game of not being the lowest common denominator. If a thief wants in, they aren't going to spend there time picking (or even bumping) they go straight for the snapper, or simply put the window through.

Apologies on the video music, you might want to turn it down but this is the first Video I come across of snapping a euro cylinder on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVeij3jffCM
Someone could have shown better judgement and not submitted it.
Ask HN: BackChannel Chat - A chat tool for teachers and students
Hi guys,
I've released a tool designed for teachers and students to 'backchannel' in a chat room designed for teachers and students at http://backchannelchat.com
It uses websockets and all the nice modern browser stuff.

I'd love some feedback on the wording around the features / benefits and its selling proposition.

Thanks
Is a culture of secrecy a good thing? Look at Apple Maps, it would clearly have benefited from more eyeballs.
Thanks! I've actually experienced the same thing.
hackaday.com - hardware/software hacks, pretty technical but some real gems pop up here
It's probably fairer to say that "Developers go where the users are willing to pay". As I understand it, iOS currently wins hands down in that category.
aush0k is back??
But you can star something without moving it out of your inbox. It then moves up into a separate list at the top; the delineation is very clear, and I don't have to bounce between different screens.

Things you don't want to see again should absolutely be archived. But if you're using the Gmail web interface, you don't have to slavishly adhere to a literal interpretation of "inbox zero".