skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any tennis players reading Hacker News?
Hi guys!
Are there any startup fanatics that are also tennis fanatics? I'm developing a tennis ladder and tournament management website. It's still in the beta phase, but fully functional. The url is: http://www.laddero.com
Any input/suggestion/criticism is highly appreciated. Thanks!!!
Most of the problems I mentioned: conversations of any length could be read in the normal English left-to-right and top-to-bottom direction, adding someone to a conversation already in progress was easy (as was removing someone), I don't think spam could ever have been as big a problem on Wave as it is in email, changing one's mind and the ability to edit what has been said was trivial in Wave, and it created a single, canonical conversation as opposed to the fusillade of conversation chunks firing back and forth (and multiplying times the number of participants) that we've become so familiar with in email.
So, what's going on here? Why does the font size keep increasing like that from not closing tags?
I think a tag system instead of a directory system may be better for categorizing libraries. For example, is D3 is "data / undefined". Arguably it could exist in multiple categories.
Yesterday Lumigan was available
Lumigan contains the active ingredient called Bimatoprost that belongs to the class of prostaglandin analogue medication. The pharmacological action of this prostamide substance lowers intraocular pressure by increasing the flow of aqueous humour that causes pressure if accumulated inside the eye.
Plus it seems to 'split' tags resulting in things like this:
<width="25%" align="left">

Not very pretty.
Yeah I didn't mean for it to sound all rousing like that, it just came out that way.

You're probably correct in that "4 organizations in the world need to agree on TLS PKI policy", but that doesn't make it a good thing. The problem is that these N ~= 4 organizations tend to not see themselves as directly bearing the risk of a security failure in the trusted root program. The true Relying Parties are greatly underrepresented in this discussion.

I see people from many of these orgs here in this HN discussion. And, yeah, you can count on some folks getting an earful as soon as the occasion arises.

For anyone coming to RSA 2013 San Fransisco we'll be having an SSL/TLS panel discussion. This topic seems likely to come up.
I really liked it. Imaginative. There's millions of startups now trying to solve (mostly) the same set of problems. I think a good new twist is needed, but also to pull people in. Capture their imagination, and this did it for me.

Keep at it because you obviously have some terrific creative ideas.
Google's attempts at buying Moffett field and taking it private have been unsuccessful. The 'take measurements when we fly in' was a nice hack to get around stipulations about all aircraft must be working on research but at the end of the day both Sunnyvale and Mountain View have made it clear they do not want Moffett turned into a General Aviation airport and once the Naval armory got Lockheed moved it has become only a matter of time before the Military wants out. NASA doesn't have the budget to run the airport facilities.

It has been the topic of quite a number of spirited debates at both city halls.
Okay, but you should pick a more likely threat instead of making a shark attack argument.
What's the desktop's uptime?
Fair point, until the bit where his PC is trying to send information to the CSIS.
My wife is a big fan of the term "ballin on a budget", which means that we get nice things by saving for them, and by learning how to make things like nice meals for ourselves. If we go to a restaurant and pay a lot of money for a plate and decide we like it, we'll figure out how to make it. Slowly but surely that bar of "what's worth going out to a restaurant for" is shrinking. Not that we don't go out to restaurants, we love doing it because it's fun, but we're learning how to make really high-quality meals together.

The other part of her "ballin on a budget" lifestyle is saving for nice things, not going into debt for them. The car we own is totally paid off. While it's not the nicest car you'll see in LA, it's definitely not a hoopty. One thing I do notice a lot about West Hollywood especially (where I live and work) is the fact that at least half of the nice cars have dealer plates on them still. People must not keep cars for much longer than a few months or something!

I like the term "30k Millionaire" better if you want to degrade people who go into debt to look richer than they are lol
Maybe Wolf 'has learned how to hack'...LOL!
But sneaking it in through a backdoor and smearing it on their server is probably not going to be well received. (any unintentional puns are entirely unintentional).
Sounds pretty obvious to me. I get my pet supplies delivered in exactly this manner by Petflow. I have to assume that their ordering system is implemented using a computer...
They are using EM's for font-size, which is a relative measurement.

This means that if you set your font-size to 1.5em, and you have an element inside (as a result of the unclosed tag) also set to 1.5, the one inside is set to 1.5 times that size (or 2.25 of the original 1em). That cascades on and on and on and...
Main reason: You need to have reverse DNS that resolves each IP address to the appropriate Star Wars line. You don't have control over the reverse DNS for IP space you don't own (such as 10.0.0.0/8). Without the reverse DNS you'd just see IP addresses in the traceroute output, and no "It.is.a.period.of.civil.war."

Secondary reason: To prevent IP address spoofing, many routers have "reverse path filtering," which drops packets with source IP addresses that shouldn't be coming from the interface they're coming from. This would put a stop to the ICMP TTL exceeded messages and you'd just see stars in the traceroute output.

There is a surprising amount of unused IP address space out there, which can happen when, for example, an organization has a large allocation and they're not using all of it. This is kind of unfortunate but there's not really a practical way to take small amounts of unused address space and make use of it elsewhere on the Internet.
Sure it does. You can create an IAM user, give that user only PutObject permissions to your bucket, and publicly share the key/secret key for that IAM user. Then people can use those creds with any s3 upload utility.

Alternatively you could probably make a static web form that does that automatically thus isolating people from the need to understand S3 utilities. You could even make it drag/drop enabled so that literally all one has to do to upload a file is drag it to a web page.
I'm unfamiliar with that phrase, but are you saying CIH couldn't have happened in 2013?
You can drop the https to just http.
Video of Star Wars Traceroute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJELwSV1P0
It's my understanding that it takes months of interaction to be a viable startup mentor. A several minute to several hour phone call seems more like consulting advice, to me.
So it's ok for PJ to hide, but not for Florian? How did you draw that line?
Even high-profile organizations have a spectrum of competence within their offices.
Given the thematic resonance with folks who identify with Anonymous I wonder if this site is trolling. Lots of people have figured out that its very baity and not very factual so one has to ask, what is its real purpose?

I like Snowwrestler's comment that its an attempt a building a mailing list for later political action, that is very optimistic. Given the state of the world and the not so low level annoyances for people with means that various hacktivists have inspired or created one wonders if this might be a partial response.

We just got another demonstration that when the federal government sets its sights are arming Jihadists on American soil they can find someone stupid enough to take them up on it. [1]

[1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/02/08/fbi-helps-thwart...
On MIT campus you can tell which building you're in by your IP...
I thought people valued information sharing?
Thanks, but it won't work. The file URLs are published in reports and the file URL must be constant. With versioning the constant URL is the latest (i.e. possibly overwritten) version of the file.

I have studied versioning and other aspects of Amazon API, trying to find a way or trick to enforce my rules, but there is no such way.
Robot Workers and the Universal Living Wage
Love it :-) I'm really looking forward to reading the code.
Yeah, this "CISPA is back" page doesn't seem to contain much info about what's new with CISPA. Here are the two news reports from yesterday about this new cybersecurity bill:

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/281309-r...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-08/obama-said-near-iss...
A calm, sensitive broadcast which gets to the facts of what aaron did and did not do in that closet. Although there is no new information here, it is heartening to see accurate details concisely conveyed to the public at large.
I'd say the greatest key to motivating someone to learn and keep learning is to have a feeling they're accomplishing something. Small projects that make it clear the person is getting somewhere and finished in a short amount of time might be the key to that. As we program longer and do much more complex projects, we tend to lose how impressive even small things are, such as building a menu on the command line or taking input from a few html boxes and spitting out a reply. To someone just learning the basics, all of that seems quite amazing I have found while tutoring a friend that was starting out programming.

Others have pointed out that making projects that are of interest to the person learning is also a key. I think combining both of those is perhaps the best solution.
related: "Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193725
For the limited scope of the work that they do (which is essentially limited to what the NSA does in the US. They don't really do what the CIA does), and with a relatively small $600 million dollar public budget, they're known to be quite competent.

This story sounds...weird. I doubt it is quite as he suspects it is.
I doubt he brought his desktop with him to NYC. It's the desktop that's acting suspiciously.
many (if not all) trusted roots have this same offering

Really? Care to name names?

If this is so common, allowed, and totally above-board, why is the industry being so secretive about it?

Why won't the CA industry disclose even the number of sub-CA (constrained critically, noncritically, or not at all) private keys in possession of 3rd parties (HSMs or no)?
"Nothing beats it" get it? If you've got "nothing" your in a superior position to someone who owns one. Wink wink.
Tech Alley? Toronto’s Vibrant Startup Scene (and why Hypejar loves it)
This is balderdash and largely character assassination.

The author's post contains essentially two points:

- "Open Data hasn't resulted in 100% government transparency"

- "There are corporate influences in the open data movement, therefor the open data movement are just corporate sockpuppets"

These two points are ridiculous on their face.

Movements are things that take time. They are a process. They require citizen engagement, advocacy, and political pressure. The fact that the open data movement hasn't radically altered the way that politics are done in Canada (or the location of your choosing) does not mean that progress is not being made, or that we shouldn't stop demanding better data and better accountability.

Second, if one is to write off any movement with a corporate interest, we may as well give up on the open source software movement. That a company like O'Reilly views open data as worth their time and attention does not mean that they wield undue influence over the subject material of what it is that people work on or wish to achieve. I would love to hear any accounts of O'Reilly or ESRI or Microsoft or Omidyar killing or interfering with projects because they disagree with them.

The notion that open data is some how tainted by corporate touches is also so freaking frustrating because there already are businesses built around open data that everyone uses.

Is government weather data somehow suspect because the Weather Channel has built a business around it? Should we block someone from building a business like the Weather Channel on government data? If so why? It's freaking open data, it's not like the Weather Channel controls it.
Nice that you're tweaking things. You may want to move Underscore from "helpers/object-extends" to "application-tools/utilities".
The library is called jQuery, not Jquery - same with jQuery UI, DOM is an abbreviation.

It looks like you've crudely turned things which aren't words which start with an uppercase letter into ones which do, for no reason.
I'm a fan of Laravel and FuelPHP and if you're looking for a micro-framework take a look at Silex.
I'm sick of tiny, tiny type too, but not in my browser....

Rather, almost all modern video games seem to have huge amounts of insanely small type, that's in many cases literally unreadable on my TV because I have a smallish (20") olde-style CRT television with only analogue inputs, not a wall-sized HDTV. The pixels in the characters are blurred into unreadability—even putting my nose 10cm away from the screen and using a magnifying glass, there's text which cannot be deciphered (seriously, I've tried this).

This is particularly bad with CJK text, because it has more fine details, and especially for CJK text translated from English, as they typically don't increase the character size enough to compensate for the differences (I guess they're trying to re-use the same layouts).

I find it hard to believe that even those people who do own wall-sized HDTVs are comfortable reading much of this text, because people generally sit fairly far away from their television. I suppose it's a sign that video game makers are designing for the PC, and then doing a very poor job of adapting for consoles ....
I suspect it's more likely to be "mind blow" for experienced programmers of less dynamic languages than novice programmers. Indeed, if you start by declaring functions as variables you're halfway there.

The way you pass around functions in, say, PHP (or more accurately, the way PHP fakes it by using syntax sugar for eval) is a lot more confusing.
This is probably the hardest problem to solve in building a tool like this. Ive thought a lot about this, and here is my thinking:

Its not an either-or scenario. Tags are great at grouping similar libraries together, but it doesn't work very well when you look at all the tags together, since there is no clear hierarchy.

Categories are good, on the other hand, for creating a clear structure for looking for libraries. If a user is confused about where to find something specific, they can just search it.

My plan is to combine the two approaches in jsdb: have a clear and very general category system, and a tag system for finding inter-related js libraries.
MIT Chocolate Lab
Winston Churchill is supposed to have possessed this sleep-wakefulness pattern. But the article might have mentioned the other variety of "bimodal sleep" -- the one in which one hemisphere falls asleep while the other stays awake. This pattern is seen in migratory birds and dolphins:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep

Never was the expression "I was half-asleep" more literal.
Spying on and harassing activists has, for a long time, been a big part of what CSIS does.

Give me a break.

Canada has a very open door immigration policy. Unfortunately that open door draws in people who actually don't like what Canada is about (which makes it weird that they would come here) and who conspire against, effectively, Canadian society. I welcome that law enforcement cares about this and does normal investigations.

Further from a corporate perspective it is well known that China, in particular, is going absolutely rampant with corporate espionage in the West. This is a major concern.

Or just call it some sort of "anti-activism" creed.
Just look at the root program members in the Mozilla program, look at EFF data or the great notary.icsi.berkeley.edu/trust-tree/

As for disclosing all CAs have agreed to disclose -- no secret here at all.

And clearly from this thread I am being very open :)
Not necessarily. The recipient systems could automatically access the URL to check for updates - ie no human in the loop. At a minimum it would notify that a system related to the recipient has checked in, but there is no evidence that a human was behind it.
You seem rather strident in your defense of this patent. What exactly are they claiming, beyond scheduling milkman-like deliveries with the added text "with a computer"?

If that's all there is to it, then why would you defend such an outrageous patent? If that's not all there is to it, what else is there?
This reminds me on TruTwit, in my opinion on of the most spam'iest services on Twitter. But it is some smart disguise.
Same goes for the DHS. Yet, from the Wikipedia article about Cryptocat:

Cryptocat developer Nadim Kobeissi was detained and questioned at the U.S. border by the DHS in June 2012 about its censorship resistance.
You should attempt to contact the Canadian Civil Liberties Association as soon as possible and protect the evidence on your laptop with your life.
Perhaps if you described these technical controls in more detail we could reason about its security instead of by way of obscurity.
Ask HN: What are some companies that do "presentation interviews"
Instead of doing a standard 45 minute interview, have the candidate give a 45 minute technical presentation to the team?

A startup I worked for a few years ago did this, and it was awesome. From looking around careers.stackoverflow.com and other popular job sites, this technique is not as popular as I would have hoped. Does anyone know of a company (startup or not) that utilizes this interview method?
I think that you actually should meet someone IRL, have them stay over with you or stay over with them.
Investigating people who are doing unusual things is part of their job. In cases like the Occupy movement, it's entirely appropriate for them to say "gee, something's going on -- it seems mostly peaceful so far, but does it have the potential to become violent later?" and investigate.
IIRC they haven't turned off compiz on Linux.
You're right in saying that 3D printing is a damn inefficient way to make a bazillion drywall anchors. But I only need one, and its a 10 minute drive each way in a 7000 pound diesel truck to go and get it.
So I guess I think that you might be well advised to go to the dean and say "listen, we pay you good money, and we expect our instructors to actually do their jobs, rather than to farm them out to machines."

At the same time - and I mean no disrespect - this is community college we're talking about. The purpose of community college is to pick up skills, rather than a liberal arts education; you should, at that price, expect to get a somewhat reduced response.

I am with you here; this seems lazy and inappropriate.

But you get what you pay for. OKCCC is $75 a credit hour. By contrast, my alma mater currently charges $24,000 per year (out of state,) and nominal is 15 credits a year. Even trade schools tend to cost several hundred dollars a credit hour.

At that kind of price difference, you have to realize that you're forcing a lot of corner cutting.
US And Europe Move On To TAFTA: Yet Another ACTA/SOPA
Can you recommend a smartcard?
People forget about IM.

For all #1 items, IM the link. It is temporary, and ephemeral.

For all #2 items, email them.
Adapting Humans for Space
"Temporal" means either "relating directly to time" or, idiomatically, "relating to the affairs of life on this earth instead of the afterlife". You meant "transitory".

Your situation is fascinating. You are simultaneously me (although substitute software exploit development for Minecraft hosting and subtract a lot of dollars) at Jesuit school in the '90s and, from what I can see coming, my son (now 13).

Can I offer you some more advice?

* Find some honest, worldly adults, preferably some affiliated with colleges, to lock down the advice you're getting about going GED instead of finishing school. I'm finding it jarring and disquieting; on the one hand, if the people advocating GEDs are wrong, you could be making your life much more annoying by complicating your entrance into college; on the other hand, if they're right, sticking out school is actually going to make college harder because your grades are going to suck.

* Read fiction, and get a book on writing (check out _Style: Towards Clarity And Grace_ --- it approaches writing the way K&R approaches C), and take writing seriously. You write like a very smart teenager; you don't edit, and you choose puffy words, but you also write like someone who doesn't hate writing. The world cares very much about this. Writing clearly and confidently will get you a long way in your career. You won't find many successful adults who will tell you otherwise. Participate in forums and, when you do, try to be mindful of how you're writing; there's no better way to learn than to practice, and no easier way to practice than to yell at people (gracefully) on forums.

* If you're serious today about a future in technology, learn to code. I know a lot of people who dropped out of college early for careers in systems/networking who never learned to program, and it hamstrung them later in life. High school won't teach you anything about programming, but the first few semesters of a good college CS program are a forcing function that does. Don't settle for PHP! If you're already doing this, congratulations, and keep on it. Software development is the fissile core of the whole industry.

* I'm probably the 1000th person to tell you this, but that's because it's very true: you will not necessarily want the same things when you're 30 as you do now at 15. The world is full of talented technologists now working as doctors, lawyers, accountants, and teachers. Screwing up college doesn't close many doors in technology, but it does almost everywhere else. As you get older, your degrees of freedom diminish, and obstacles you create for yourself now can become forbidding later. Keep the doors open.

Let us know how all this goes!
That requires "standards" compliant behaviour which won't happen. Similar issues happened back in the days when people used to respond with "click this link to verify" as ill thought out anti-spam measures. The inboxpro proposal is also vulnerable to backscatter, joe jobs etc.
I'm with replicatorblog below. The article is sensationalist. And psadri is correct in that "on-demand manufacturing" is the real revolution.

From the article:

Q: "What percentage of the square footage of Home Depot is devoted to items that could cheaply and easily be 3D printed?"

A: Less than 1%

Here's some thoughts on the real issues in the space:
http://www.nickpinkston.com/2013/01/some-thoughts-on-digital...
The only relevant piece of advice here. This is, after all, Canada: if it is indeed CSIS who setup backdoor the OP's computer, there is a paper trail. Lawyers know how to obtain this paper trail. I don't know Canadian law, but the worst I could possibly think of in any of US/UK/AU jurisdiction is that the paper trail says "confidential, pending investigation".

I should add that while the malware in question may indeed talking to CSIS servers, this could be the case the CSIS servers themselves are hacked -- more likely by an automated worm in service of spammers (and honestly this is what the 'PG' person sounds like to me -- a scammer/spammer) than any scary entity.

Regardless, this is a legal, not technical matter at this point. Get recommendations for a lawyer in your area (you could also try contacting the university staff for this -- they may well be required to help you find an attorney), talk to them. Avoid posting anything else to a public forum.