skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screenwriter wonders: Could this be done by a good hacker in real life?
I'm a screenwriter with a lead character that is a hacker...
He needs to get 100 boxes of protools audio software that "fell off the back of a truck" to not be identified as stolen when he goes to re-sell them as new.

Could he create new authentication numbers for them and get protools to accept them?

Or any other way to tackle his need...

Thoughts, help, ideas.

Thanks!
> luck plays a role in success

A role? A part? Are you serious?

> adopting these values will make the world a better place and reduce the burden on public services

That's such bullshit. "If only poor people would just work harder and save more - everything would be awesome". Reality check: poor people work long, hard hours for minimum wage with no hope of escape.

> luck plays a part in success

Delusion - it is strong with this one.
"What stops any country that's adopting it from simply forking their own version?"

Nothing. Anyone could start their own bitcoin2. But new instances of a digital currency cannot debase other instances. So that isn't a viable way for a government to capture bitcoin, or to debase the value of the original bitcoin.

In fact, were I running a banana republic with a worthless currency, I'd be tempted to try using a new "bitcoin-space" as a currency with strong protections against being debased. But that has plusses and minuses if you are a government.

The reasons people are using this particular instance of bitcoin is that it was launched successfully enough for people to have sufficient confidence. The mining mechanism is one key element.
> a) Required a $99 purchase of an Ouya console to enter - EVEN THOUGH - Ouya is supposedly an Android based platform and any functioning Android game should be able to run on the Ouya.

The Ouya runs an additional API that provides a game menu similar to that of the Playstation's XMB or the XBox 360's Guide, as well as support for its controllers and hardware-specific features. Games for Ouya need to be able to support that API. Games not targeted directly to Ouya may not be able to adequately support the controllers and hardware.

(I do not have a dev kit, so I don't know the specifics.)
At the top level it's also a game of keep-away.

Google is more than willing to pay a premium sucking up all the brains in the valley and letting them sit around twiddling thumbs so that competitors don't get to them.
Java, Silverlight left in cold as Firefox disables all plugins by default..
It can get smaller.

> As a result, hazardous elements such as the assemblers, the bacteria, and the nanobots were blown into the desert, evolving and eventually forming autonomous swarms. These swarms appear to be solar-powered and self-sufficient, reproducing and evolving rapidly. The swarms exhibit predatory behavior, attacking and killing animals in the wild, using code that Jack himself worked on. Most alarmingly, the swarms seem to possess rudimentary intelligence, the ability to quickly learn and to innovate. The swarms tend to wander around the fab plant during the day but quickly leave when strong winds blow or night falls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)
There are two things: having privilege, and wielding it over people. If you are white and male and have a good job, you have privilege and there's nothing wrong with that. No one really has a right to check you for that.

If you then go on to tell all kinds of people that you got where you are by working hard and everyone else just has to work hard and they'll get there too, you're minimizing their challenges. They have to work harder to maintain a realistic, positive attitude with respect to the hurdles in front of them, which makes their life harder. Meanwhile, your life is not affected at all by the conversation, you go back to work and are productive. That's wielding your privilege, and that's a dick move, and people have every right to check you for that.

As for the difference between privilege and luck or blessings... Privilege is a kind of continuous luck.... one's maleness pays off throughout their entire life. Finding a dollar on the street is only instantaneous luck. And privilege only applies to things that are substantial advantages in the sort of common denominator pursuits of the median individual. Your maleness helps you earn more money which is something pretty much everyone needs to do. If you have small wrists and can easily clean out the inside of glass jars, that's not really privilege.

As for why you hate the word, perhaps you hate it because you think being sexist and racist means you're evil, therefore having privilege makes you evil. But everyone is sexist sometimes and everyone is racist sometimes. It's harmful, but it doesn't mean you're evil. It's just the way people work. That said, recognizing your racism and sexism and seeking out ways to be less so is an opportunity to be good.

As for people making you feel guilty... No one has a right to make you feel guilty. If they're trying to make you feel bad, they're just being an asshole. That said, they could be simultaneously being an asshole AND checking you on something where you're being an asshole at the same time. If so, I would just forgive them (to yourself) for trying to make you feel bad, and thank them (to their face) for helping you understand better the ways in which you're harming people. Learn something and don't let the petty stuff get in your way.
wasn't "pasture" a slackware thing?
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Eliminate the bean compartment and dispense the beans from a centralized location just like the water. Either using an augur or a pneumatic tube delivery system.
The ADHD data is from Russell Barkley's research textbooks.
That makes me sad. VMWare pays its interns a higher "salary" than what I currently make. (But that's apples to oranges. I'm currently a UX designer that just graduated last year.)
Yes. I wished I had many upvotes to give for such an expansion! For example, is there someone out there who experience "passing as white" in certain areas of the U.S. but not in others? It's like a Reddit AMA, but better!! If not, maybe OP can go undercover as a "real hispanic"?
Not to take anybody away from this great story but I had a similar post last week. I posted on HN in a bad time so it didn't go front page with only 3 upvotes. Without any funding or PR we reached 1 million users in a B2B startup. You might also like that post.
http://www.jotform.com/blog/68-1-Million-Users-What-I-Learne...
Seems to be working fine, but I'd honestly never use it. It's pretty difficult to do anything other than very simple HTML websites.

I had tried to upload my website template that I was working on that used head.js (lazyloads javascript) and it was not working correctly.

>6/10
Nice redesign. It is definitely more intriguing, for me at least, than the current exec site.

However, your current font choice for most of the text displays pretty badly on Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/ERhwXio.png

Take a look at the small text (especially the e character), such as "Tell us what you'd like and we'll get an Exec on it within 10 minutes. Everyday from 9am to 9pm."

I've verified this on two installs of Chrome on Windows 7 (Version 24.0.1312.57 m and Version 26.0.1403.0 dev-m), so it might be worth looking into.
I can't wait for a *nix shell to pipe objects around, instead of text.
Yeah, wow - like how they can just label anyone a "terrorist" or "al queda sympathizer" - and simply with that label they are justifying the murder and imprisonment of these people.

Gee - they'd never do that would they?
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You shouldn't feed sad -- I don't think it's useful to compare these internships to long-term jobs.

Do we even know if these interns should expect those rates when they apply for an actual job?
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Contra-indicator number #27: When things have never been better - then things are about to get a whole lot worse.

Regression to the mean is a bitch.

Enjoy the hay while it lasts my fellow engineering brethren - winter is coming :)

Note: I saw the last boom blow up. Let's just say that it had a negative impression upon my forward looking optimism.
For those of you who missed the premier tonight like me, don't despair: the full episode will be streaming at pbs.org tomorrow:

https://twitter.com/AmExperiencePBS/status/29901343642211123...
Are you suggesting that outcomes are purely the result of random chance, and that an individual's values and behavior have no bearing?
I look very Indian(but come from the subcontinent, not the country) and have a marked accent(slightly different from Indian). I too am interested in what I have been missing out on. I know as a non-Christian in the South, my chances are probably worse, but I never considered my Hispanic friends(middle class, well educated) to be less privileged than white people.
Super basic - Would fool a high percentage of the audience.

He could hack the software to call home to his own server, rather than the protools server.
I did read it, but I didn't address it directly enough. Is seems like there a few red herrings popping up in this conversation. Homographic urls, for example. Similarly, if users are used to being logged in, or recognized, due to the presence of a cookie in their browser, then, yes, they are going to see something different. But that can hold true regardless of whether security images are used or not.

What a phisher can do is emulate the 'clean' state. Not logged in, no cookie. Some users will get suspicious and leave the site, sure. It's like a sales funnel, you don't have to convert every visit to make money.

My problem with security images is not that they would never do any good, but that they will do more harm than good. They basically make a promise that they can't keep.

To deal more specifically with your example: I'm not sure what the most prevalent system is but the default one described doesn't involve an extra security question. The image is presented after the user enters their username but before they are asked for their password. If the site follows this flow, then we have a problem. Now in your case the flow is a little different.

It seems to me that showing users a different page based on a cookie is a good idea in that if a user hits the no-cookie version, they might be alerted. But the good part doesn't have anything to do with security images.

As others have posted, the real value of security images is not their security. It's marketing and compliance.
Though it would be a real challenge to quantify, I bet that Adobe ultimately made more money in the end out of the arrangement than if you had simply foregone learning the software, using those skills with legitimately purchased tools later, and indirectly through contributions to the wider industry.

However, that just means that in this case where the alternative was no use Adobe wasn't hurt by pirating. However, in another situation when the alternative to pirating is the sale of software, the loss isn't any less real than the loss to the candy store of not selling candy because it was stolen.

--

On another topic, do you believe that there would be significantly more opportunity in Puerto Rico with statehood?
While many people like to make fun of and dismiss conspiracy theorists, they don't realize that some conspiracy theorists have been following particular events closely for many years and are making connections between events that are decades apart. Whereas the opinion of someone who is less informed on certain things would be that a current event was a standalone anomaly.
I investigated launching a Bitcoin exchange traded product (ETP) about a year ago. One of the issues was the market cap of BTC - an ETP would not be profitable with under $25 million under management. That is still 10% of the market cap.

More pressing is float, i.e. volume being traded or sitting on the sidelines able to be traded. The concern is that BTC is like the diamond or Facebook private stock markets - a tiny float, bid up by a few zealots, unable to sustain a broader liquidation event without a significantly impairing its price.

BTC is still of tremendous interest, e.g. practically uncorrelated with the U.S. money markets, though that will get eroded as it plugs into the financial system. But the complexity of the BTC microstructure is holding back the development of deeper, more sophisticated markets.
Of course not.

The bottom 90-99% is incredibly useful. When you're building basic CRUD applications, when you need to write documentation, when you need to build test suites, I could go on. Debugging and bug fixes too.

Let's face it -- in real-life business programming, there's a tremendous amount of "grunt work" that is not particularly intellectual.

Hiring "A players" or the "1%" for that is just silly, wasting both money and talent.

For a startup that can only afford two programmers that wants to do something uniquely different, however, hiring from within the top 1% may be quite essential.
If he could somehow work out the algorithm that the serial numbers follow.

The software or server only knows that a serial number is correct by either :

1) It matches an algorithm
Ie, if your algorithm was 'all even numbers' are correct serials, then if your boxes had the numbers 100, 102, 104 then it may be obvious that 106 would be a correct serial number.

2) The software connects to the software creators server to verify a random serial number on the box is stored in their database and hasn't been activated before.
To get around this, you could either hack the server and copy their database or intercept the response from the server to the application and emulate this response that indicates 'yes this is a valid serial'.

Though I think your character would sound cooler if he did #1 :)
No unfortunately.
This is not even remotely surprising.
Twitter: 250,000 users' data compromised in hacking attacks
Speaking as an alum of a technology company that does not appear on this list, that is correct.
HN news from a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150129
Boxes of software? Software are downloaded. Dinosaurs come in boxes.
Where you do think your values and behaviours came from in the first place?

Your values/behaviours are given to you via both your genes and your environment - which are effectively random. If your parents were prone to addictive behaviour in an environment that provides addictive substances - you will probably do the same.

This reminds me of thing I've always found highly curious about how the religious think.

They can't seem to understand that their choice in religion is relatively arbitrary and geographically dependent. Born in America you're Christian. Born in Pakistan now you're Muslim. Born in India now you're Hindu. Born in Israel now you're Jewish.

The fact that people can't seem to understand that the reason they believe in X god instead of Y is merely a question of a few hundred miles.

Life is particularly arbitrary. For example: I'm an atheist because of my environment (middle-class male, western country, studies science and technology, with access to freedom of speech). This is irrelevant as to whether atheism is actually the right option (which I believe it is - but then of course I would :) - the key fact to understand here is how the environment determined it.

Finally, physics eliminates the case for free will. So yes - you do what you do because you were set up to do it.

We're all just biological machines.
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Just like any lock, I guess it just buys some time
God says

not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even
thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his
quarter; none shall save thee.

48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of
Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by
the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not
in truth, nor in righteousness.

48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves
upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they
went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly,
and they came to pass.
You've got to remember: we're talking about people who haven't had their coffee yet.
First I've heard of this; the availability of remote tracking makes me significantly less interested in a Tesla.
Most Facebook Users Have Taken a Break From the Site, Survey Finds
Option #3 is unfairly presented. There is no reason a language couldn't implicitly box every type, but automatically create efficient specializations for (some of) the types actually used. You can have your cake and eat it too.

Of course, it's not easy to write such static optimizations. But it is, in principle, possible, and the sort of thing you only need write once.
The key advantage of the mesh is not to perfectly prevent water from flowing along it, but to be something that even the most caffeine-deprived user would not accidentally try to pour water on. Even if it does nothing mechanically to prevent water from entering the machine, it will psychologically prevent misuse.
I wonder why it would be $100 cheaper. OEMs are supposed to get a discount. But yea, the exchange rates etc are why MS provides geographically restricted versions of Windows.
Software Upgrade Hygiene: Stop Putting It Off, It Will Only Hurt More
Amazon does have more experience working with customers. Hopefully this really pushes Android app purchase to the next level.
I'd love to hear your solution to this problem.
I never met your father, but I miss him now too. We need more great men like you've described him to be.
Partially correct. SMS is limited up to 160. The 20 difference was to account for the username and various other possible things I believe.
> Oh man, this tugs on all sorts of sentimental DOS strings. Especially that first phrase about people under 30 not knowing what DOS is.

I'm under 30 (28) and I still remember DOS and breaking (running arbitrary commands on) my Dad's work laptop, that he never used. The single greatest benefit of FreeDOS is letting me play my old games, specifically "Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of Orpheo's Curse."[1] This is, still, one of the most entertaining games I've played. I replay the game every year or two as a personal tradition. Some day I'll force my kids to play it.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4gsrXUjA4
It's a good thing a name like "exec" wouldn't immediately cause any hackers to think of something else, like, I don't know, one of the most important syscalls of all time.
I hope you're this guy:
http://ux.stackexchange.com/users/19103/ratchet-freak

Otherwise I'm e-mad
I've never heard of a company hiring an intern and paying them less than they made while they were interning. At the very least they'd make the same amount and gain benefits.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but I would be completely shocked if any of the companies on the list paid their employees less than interns.
The best part about this solution is the inevitable conspiracy theories about the Government fluoridating our beans.
Top engineers probably wouldn't be content merely sitting around, twiddling their thumbs. They want to build things.
We have a cafe style coffee grinder (next to our manual espresso machine) that has two hoppers: one for the beans, and one where the ground beans end up, from which you dispense into the porta filter.

I am guilty of filling the wrong hopper with beans (talking instead of paying attention). Twice. Not quite as bad as water, but still a PITA to pour everything out and separate the beans from the ground coffee.
When I think about Hackathons, I always think about GroupMe (reportedly acquired for north of $50M). It seems like an example of right place, right time, right technology, right audience. Lightning striking.

"We were at the first Disrupt Hackathon in New York. We had group SMS working on Twilio’s API. You could add people to the group using commands on SMS, or you can use an HTML5 webapp. The only problem was that you had to know numbers and type them in. I mean, it kind of sucked. But we added in an offers tab, and in the demo we were talking about the LOST series finale. In the top corner, when you clicked on the offers tab, it took you straight to an actual ad for half-price if you check out the LOST series finale event at Brooklyn Bowl. We basically demoed that we had a working group chat with a functional business model...

We had the idea a couple days before, and after we decided to go in we found it was a massive springboard for acceleration and growth."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/11/from-disrupt-ny-to-a-43-mil...
AWS is cheaper as terpua mentioned... but Zencoder has been awesome for us. Easy to set up and our video processes have been running with zero problems.
Indeed it has merged. Read more here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/02/ssh-import-id-now-sup...
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Amazon Wins Patent for Reselling Used Digital Content
I think you might be surprised if you check out what we came up with. You're right that in the beginning Jeff was interested in gamification, but when we sat down and started to crack at it, we found the interface itself was in need of the most work.

You can like posts in this release, but it's mainly to prevent useless "me too" posts. Users don't have scores. Posts do, but that's just so we can calculate a summary view for mega threads.

Additionally, almost everything is configurable. We give what we consider sensible defaults out of the box, but you can disable/tune a lot right now.

We also integrated features suggested by goons like a global API.

I've been a SA goon for almost a decade. I really want to make this software good. Actually I'll probably post a follow up topic there soon!
Ssh-import-id now supports Github
hnsearch.com/api seems to be superset of all the api available as they work closely with HN.
I had posted a side project (ssh-auth-id) earlier this weekend. My friend & co-worker Dustin was working on this in parallel (doh!), and we've merged our efforts. If you picked up ssh-auth-id, my apologies, please switch over to ssh-import-id.

Thanks!
They are getting more than what most senior engineers are getting in my company.

Living in the third world really sucks.
> growing up in Russia, using DOS, we were all gung-ho about using Norton Commander and its clones

One of my earliest memories is my grandmother teaching me "нц" (nc, apparently the Norton Commander binary) so I could navigate my way to Tetris. (Yes, we're that stereotypical.)
Your right I never though of end users just publishing docs straight to html, I wasn't being arrogant, small minded probably.
Try looking up anything for R
They make way more.
Anatomy of a bug - how Mac OS X chokes if you say "FILE"
Signs are also stupid because they're built on two faulty assumptions: one, that the morons read them, and two, that the mistakes of the future will be carbon copies of mistakes of the past. There's no bacon frying sign over the toaster oven at my work, and I've seen people cook bacon in the kitchen. But there's a sign over the sink listing things that shouldn't go down it, as if nobody has one of these things at home.
It sure does. You can access local storage, camera, GPS, accelerometers... just name it.
These are all bay area jobs. Factor in the cost of living and it's less than impressive.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764834
Federal Resesrve site breached by hackers
> We're all just biological machines.

Okay, let me rephrase the question. Do you believe that a biological machine's algorithm (i.e. values and behavior) has any bearing on outcome?
that's some cool idea :) Kudos!
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