skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That carries the implication "why not simply return 'while(1)'?".
I've had that same resolution, to do regular backups, but couldn't settle on a good method. I have a problem with the regular full/differential/incremental on monthly/weekly/daily schedule, as there was too much file duplication (therefore I couldn't maximize my backup history). I too settled on using the rsync with hard links method (homebrew scripts similar to rsnapshot, etc), but felt like I was still wasting too much space because this didn't support compression (plus you had to ssh in as root on the target host to store your files).

Long story short, in order to get something I was comfortable with I eventually wrote my own backup tool that accomplished something similar (incremental backups forever, but full snapshots of the system on each backup), but has compression and uses SQLite for its database backend. I'm working on finalizing it as an open source project up on Github if anyone is interested in it (need to finish the documentation, and add status report functionality yet, along with some misc. cleanup). But so far it seems to be working for me.

Edit: I forgot to mention the project name. It is on github.com/derekp7/snebu and I just set up a domain today pointing to it, http://www.snebu.com. Like I said, a work in progress (the download links on the web page are auto-generated by Github, and will always pull the current version from the git repository). In the next few days I'm going to load test it a bit more, once I get the unit tests written (and dogfood it a bit more) I'll tag a 1.0 release and update the page.
office communicator
Art Game allows you to make art from classic games
Did you know East Germany is practically owned by Slashdot? [1]

1. http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/Slashdot/NzAzMA
The accent is good.
Usability Testing with Paper Prototyping
"Unless the NSA/FBI/whatever is decades ahead in mathematical research from what is common in academia"

I wouldn't be surprised. Basically 9/10 people that study cryptography in the US end up working for the NSA. Look at the NSA's budget, and then look at how many cryptography professors there are.

However, that said, IF they managed to decrypt AES somehow, they are severely limited in what they can do with that information. Basically anything they do with the decrypted data has to in no way alert anyone that they have that capability.

So that data DEFINITELY can't be used in court, nor for a whole array of other more covert operations.
tl;dr of this comment: "Don't try to innovate and move things forward yourself, only the big guys are allowed to do that"
"To solve this we’ve been brainstorming and thinking which features or tweaks we can make. But the problem is that we came up with lots of ideas and we don’t know which one to choose.

We can send an email asking our clients which one they like best (but I don’t think we will have lots of feedback). Or we can think the features as little MVPs with minimum goals and remove them if they don’t work out."

Don't do either. If you're not getting traction with your core product, it's time to go talk to your customers. You may have a great product, but something isn't clicking for them, and adding more and more features isn't going to make that any better. And how are you going to know which feature is "the one"?

I worked for a great product manager who once said "even if you tweak something and now you're doing 300% better, that just means that before you were 300% wrong".

Talk to your customers!
No reason to just be passive and do nothing.
This is awesome! Our company allows customers to create templates using editors like CuteEditor and Redactor, but this would absolutely blow those options away!

Will keep an eye out for 3rd party integrations in the future!
CouchCachet
Feel free to get in touch through email. I can give some quick pointers.
Migrating from Ember.js to AngularJS
Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by avarice. This is just like Goldman Sachs, deliberately confusing the customer and then making money off that confusion.

When GoDaddy did this to me I let the (somewhat unimportant, fortunately) domain lapse and bought it back with Hover.
I just read an amazing one:

"Oswald acted alone and Ruby got no help from anyone"

And I've got a bridge to sell you too ; )

Must be nice to live in a land made of pink-ponnies and honest people who'd never abuse the system.
Aaron Swartz was not a saint
Sounds pretty cool. Starred already. I hope it works out nicely, I'm happy using a mish-mash of unison and git (depending on particular needs) for my own stuff, but I'm using rsync for my fiance's entire PHD folder (including large amounts of data, word docs, downloaded papers, etc) and I'd make good use of a tool like this.
Whoa, hold up. Is it really necessary to label me as "apologist scum"? This seems in itself a bit of bullying.

To be very clear: I haven't labeled you a "white knight," accused you of "trying to sleep with dykes" (!?), said that you shouldn't report men hitting their wife, approved of racial slurs or anything like that.

I have simply made an observation about an certain, occasional obnoxious behavior by certain males... I have never said that arguing against misogyny, or speaking out against bullying (etc.) are wrong. I certainly don't think those things. I certainly don't "apologize" for people behaving in a discriminatory way. I simply say that sometimes people aren't doing what they say they're doing. I refuse to give men carte blanche provided only that they claim or pretend to be defending someone weaker than themselves, but this doesn't in any way imply that I reject people trying to defend those weaker than themselves. Why does this seem to be so controversial?
U.S. Army to build soldier "resilience" to fight suicides, violence
We just switch to Acronis, haven't had any issues. I have no clue with the storage provider is.
Note that this bug doesn't affect modern browsers AFAIK (just tested on Chrome). Firefox fixed this bug back in 2007 for instance.
Speaking as someone who has actually been suicidal, it does seem pretty clear that he was depressed. From his blog posts it seems that he typically had a lot of stress-related health symptoms over the years, including depression. It seems that he simply tried to do too much, got burned out as a result, and couldn't/wouldn't talk about it to anyone. Not all depression fits nicely into the 'clinical depression' pigeonhole.
I understand what you were saying, but it was said in the context of the first comment I was replying to. There the OP said, "A small but SIGNIFICANT scientific group arguing that we are not the primary cause of warming"

The use of the word 'significant' was a value judgement on the OPs part, and one that I wanted him/her to substantiate. You replied with a link attempting to substantiate that claim, so I replied with that context in mind.
I'm not interesting in pirating apps, I'm interested in either prevention and/or not selecting iOS as a games platform. Nothing has shaken me more than buying an iPad 3 off Craigslist because the dude couldn't jailbreak it to get free apps. (And he definitely did not come across as a technical person.)
You owe it to yourself to check out rsnapshot [1]. It handles any daily/weekly/manual division for you.

[1] - http://www.rsnapshot.org/
Libtins v0.3 released, a fast C++ network packet crafting and sniffing library
Big Data: Big Hype?
Please see [this](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167904) and [this](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5167868) for my response.
Wikinews interviews DDG, Opera, Mozilla, Wikimedia about DoNotTrack
This is not what it seems. See here: http://goo.gl/b8uWE
MLB had a good tweet during the blackout: https://twitter.com/MLB/status/298247417462140928
The bookmarklet tries to load the script and possibly other assets (I didn't check) from an insecure domain. This will cause any sane browser (I'm using Chrome) to block those assets from loading on any site served via https.

I would suggest you serve those assets via https if at all possible.
Thank you for that advice. I will remember that...I will be moving my domains to Hover or namecheap soon.
> but on Android (don't know about MS phones) I can run whatever I want.

Yeah, you need to install some other 'security app' that is essentially another rogue/thief to defend against any other burglar.

This has happened and is still happening in China where the Google Play is blocked and a number of 3rd party markets exist and thrive. Even a social network app would bother to remind you upgrading some other apps you have installed. Who knows who is stealing what?
would it be legal, if the author paid them whatever they wanted, transferred the domain out of godaddy's control and then requested a CC chargeback with the bank?
Banks usually side with the customer.
daveramsey.com is a good source of information. See for example http://www.daveramsey.com/radio/highlights/?urlVars=2010/7/1...

A few particular points -

Don't use a debt consolidation company, they're a rip off.

Get a copy of your credit report so you know who has your debt and for how much.

Deal with your debts one at a time -- smallest to largest.

When you have some money, call the first debt collection company (the one with the smallest debt). Negotiate a settlement in full. Don't pay them anything until they agree in writing that your payment settles the debt in full. (Email counts for in writing). Do not send them a personal or business check that has your checking account number on it and don't give them electronic access to your checking account -- they will clean it out. Send them a cashiers check for the settlement amount instead.

Repeat for each debt.
I had the same thing happen - I tried to turn off auto-renew by deleting my payment details and somehow managed (through godaddy's misleading interface) to cancel all of my domains effective immediately. I lost something like 30 domains in the process and support refused to re-instate them for anything less than something like $3000.

This is old news, but you shouldn't be giving these guys your money.
>> I'm the product of a Western-European system. Yearly tuition was like $2k.... IMHO, the real problem lies in the acceptance of the status quo in the American educational system and the unwillingness to let government play a role (through taxation, grants, etc).

So, just to point out, your education didn't only cost $2k per year. Moreover, it didn't only cost you 2k per year – your system just does a better job of disconnecting the costs from the education.

You will be taxed more throughout your life for that education (or, well, paying for the same thing for others, but essentially, it's equivalent to you having financed your education, except you have no choice in the matter) – admittedly, you're likely not going to be taxed as much as I'll pay outright in loans (my guess, only), but it's not as big of a spread as you're trying to claim here.
> This is based on models that have been refined over decades, and data and analysis from multiple separate scientific disciplines that agree with each other.

Models on decades when considering climate change are meaningless: we are talking about extrapolation, going into a warmer world for which we have no models working so far. Beyond that point it's just supposition.

> climate science is 'still very much a work in progress'

It is very much a work in progress, since there are clear setbacks from the reality vs what has been predicted so far.

See this - do you see a huge global warming effect?
http://h16free.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ipcc_fig1-4_mo...

The recent CERN CLOUD experiments results show that many climate scientists seem to forget that there's a huge fireball in the skies that may also have an impact on our climate. It's not all about CO2.
Show HN - Showing users what is trending locally. Looking for feedback.
We have just launched in Princeton, NJ, Kalamazoo, MI and Grand Rapids, MI and just looking to get some thoughts from the hacker news community about what we are doing.

We show users what is trending locally based on social media engagement within the businesses around them.
I believe because it is a government-granted monopoly there must be regulation to introduce competition or the customers will be taken advantage of (especially with something like internet which should be regulated as a utility in the first place).

Like your case in Germany, and elsewhere in Europe where they are required to lease the "last mile" at a reasonable price. Internet connections in countries with these regulations are much faster and the charges are less compared to the USA.
How would electing Romney show that the US was not bound for the same fate as Argentina?
Wow..never realized that this actually happens. How come no one has dragged them to court on this? Deleting credit card != waiving off the service that has been paid in advance for the next year(s).
Not quite, thanks to Flash.

http://lists.webappsec.org/pipermail/websecurity_lists.webap...

Rails and Django patches/recommendations on the issue:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypas...
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/releases/1.2.5/#csrf-e...
Well you're running the same version I am, then, but I can't say I've experienced any of the issues you describe. I came over to Android from iOS with the release of the Nexus 4, and while the Android UI is certainly more complex (which seems to be your chief complaint), it's eminently more useful as well.

Your complaint that "it has a desktop" seems particularly curious, as there's no functional difference between it and the iOS home screen. Sure, your apps "live" elsewhere, and you can make folders and shortcuts, but what's wrong with that? Beyond "it's PC-like", is there some UX disadvantage it entails?

PINs - I use the pattern, which I find much easier. Actually, that's a nice segue into the biggest improvement I find over iOS - the keyboard. I thought it was a gimmick at first, but the pattern-swiping style of typing is bloody brilliant. I'm consistently amazed at how well Android guesses what I'm trying to type. In fairness, though, this is really only useful for touch typers who know where the key they want to hit is on the keyboard. My buddy, who's a hunt-and-pecker, just found it frustrating.

Photo Album is Gallery - and Apple calls Internet Explorer "Safari". The fools.

Poor synching on GMail - actually, I find the mobile GMail app works better than the web version. I'll consistently get notifications of new emails in my inbox on my phone 5-10 minutes before getting them in-browser. Sure, it doesn't tell you when it last updated (and it could), but it's not really a practical problem as it seems to be constantly up to date.

Anyway, I'm sorry you weren't impressed with your Android experience. I've been an iPhone guy for the last 3 years, but recently made the switch to Android and my only complaints are with the N4 itself: glass back and small battery.
We have just launched in Princeton, NJ, Kalamazoo, MI and Grand Rapids, MI and just looking to get some thoughts from the hacker news community about what we are doing.

We show users what is trending locally based on social media engagement within the businesses around them.
Godaddy are one of the most incompetent companies I've ever had the misery of dealing with. Their web interface, customer service and general customer experience are all awful.

I've always moved my domains away as soon as possible (I've only never had domains with them when purchased from another member).
I thought the code might be missing `event.preventDefault()` (http://api.jquery.com/event.preventDefault/), but I see it in the code: https://github.com/bradjasper/subtle-patterns-bookmarklet/bl.... That’s the code for the bookmarklet – does the website use that exact same code?
godaddy really blows. they seriously do make things a lot harder for the customer so that they are -forced- to stay with godaddy.

And their retarded overhyped ads don't help either; why are they putting up trash ads at ridiculous rates?
What's a "record"?
How and what are good to include when describing the function, but not for specific statements of code.
did you cry ?
Actually this prevents XSSI (cross-site script inclusion) not XSRF (cross-site request forgery).

XSRF vulnerabilities allow an attacker to issue web requests on a user's behalf; oftentimes though people only call it a vulnerability when you can issue a request that changes some state. And XSRF is usually prevented by including a hard to guess token with the request that is tied to the user and allows you to determine whether the request was generated by an authorized party. Please don't try to prevent XSRF by using while(1) :)
http://www.amazon.com/Startup-Field-Guide-ebook/dp/B00B8BVAG...
Godaddy would fight the chargeback. It's not like CC companies always side with customers -- the company gets a chance to make an argument.

What most likely would happen is Godaddy would point to some line in the ToS and then point to you agreeing to it.
namecheap is a lot better. I am also moving to namecheap as well for all my domain which is hosting by fucking gomummy
Because their hard disk is full ;)
Science is not fixed. A long time ago there was a long standing agreement that the sun and other planets were orbiting around the Earth, and they had complex models (Ptolemean ones) to calculate their trajectories, and that was reasonnably working well until humanity was able to get much more precise tools to measure the planets position and found inconsistencies.

The History of Science is full of such "largely admitted theories" that fell flat when new data, new methods were introduced.

What may seem "obvious" to a group of scientists now, even if they constitute 90% of the voices out there, may not be the actual truth.

I am not saying who is right or who is wrong, but even if you had a consensus, it would not mean that they get it right. We are ever learning.
You are talking about the ad -> success

The worst thing for a company is if the ad is completely ignored.
Not only have the loans been repaid, but TARP was unfortunately a necessary evil. I'm certainly against socializing banks, but in this case we had few alternatives. A great book on this is "On The Brink" by Henry Paulson (former Treasury Secretary).
I'm guessing Markov Chains[1]. Effectively, each phrase is determined randomly from a pool, the options are dictated by the preceding sentence. They're a surprisingly effective way to produce a few sentences that seem logically connected, despite being more or less random. After a few hops, of course it can go off the rails.

And they have a simple grammar that allows them to pull famous names, places and drop them into predefined slots. Someone else already pointed out, it's basically Mad Libs.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain
Plenty of people had nothing good to say about Aaron Swartz. You'll notice that, aside from the black bar on HN the day his death became public, none of the people associated with YC, Reddit, etc., have said anything about him or his death. There's an excellent Latin phrase for all that:

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
They'd probably send the unpaid invoice to collections.
Anatomy of an Upvote
When you have 7 tranches on average & you have considerable discretion over what your put into each tranche, you can essentially "buy" a rating.

Yes, I believe that was what was happening and it wasn't something the rating agencies became aware of after that the fact.

There's agency which is tasked with testing the goodness of milk. Let's the some milk suppliers have figured out a way of doctoring the milk so that it appeared to be good while actually being bad or even poisonous. Suppose the agency was aware of this doctoring and instead did nothing.

If that agency happened to promise the goodness of said milk, would that agency be liable, despite the milk "honestly" passing their tests?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

Should we feel like because the figures of various sorts used to rate CDOs etc were "poisoned" in 2005-2008 and the rating agencies were "unlucky" enough to make a lot of money knowing certifying a lot of BS, that these agencies shouldn't be punished for their good, "honest" work?

"Don't hate the player, hate the game and keep your hands off my ill-gotten gains..."
I think that would depend on Godaddy's willingness to prove that it was in fact you who initiated the payment.

Knowing them, they'd be all over that for a penny.
Where did this happen? I'm reading this and I'm a little shocked. I don't understand why people can be such jerks.
Lol :-) nope...because most of my domains were still working..except the one that was close to expiry.
Just do a google search for "filetype:sql @gmail.com" and you will find thousands of `users` table dumps.

I dont know how useful it is for passwords but very useful for email spamming!
Perhaps ideally it would be just a general sabbatical period. Those who have children can use that time to fill the traditional maternity/paternity time and those who cannot/will not have children can use that time to do whatever they please.
I thought the book was also pretty interesting. Paulson was in a very difficult position -- one I certainly do not envy -- so his first-hand perspective was worth the read.
I just finished tips book, pretty bad. In my opinion he sounds like a sexist and his attacks on Obama are really over the top.
I'm pretty sure I'll be buying one in the near future, regardless of the battery. I have a full featured Windows 8 laptop (Samsung Chronos 7) for most of my high end uses, and the ability for the Pro to literally double as a Cintaq tablet is phenominal.

Granted, if the device suceeds, you can rest assured next year they'll have somehow magically doubled battery life and release a new model.
How you obtain insurance determines your savings (or added expense)
Wow! I didn't realize that you could generate a public key given a private key. To me, keypair generation was just a "black box." I should have known (probably studied it in class.) Thanks.
Learning About Algorithms Pt.1
I believe you are correct. I tried to do a chargeback once because the company refused to believe me, and there was no way into my account where my credit card was stored and they would keep charging it year after year. And they wouldn't just delete my card from their records.

I tried a Chargeback, but the credit card denied it after the "big" company argued it.

So, I ended up changing he number of my credit card, and they ended up canceling my account for non-payment/renewal.
GoDaddy's dashboard might be bloated which can be confusing but I doubt they deliberately delete domains after removing the credit card info from your account (as long as a domain hasn't reached the expiration date of course).

As the GoDaddy representative correctly mentioned, it is the registries who are to blame for any restore fees. It's bad enough that you as a customer lost domains so Verisign, PIR, Afilias or any other gTLD registry shouldn't ask for anything else but the normal renewal fee.
tl;dr: Google isn't saying for sure, other than that Google Fiber isn't a "loss leader or publicity stunt."
this guy is retarded
If someone wants to do something like this in santa clara, the economics don't work out for single family homes, but it would work for the larger apartment complexes, at least if I had someone else to do sales and inside wiring. I'm already sitting on the santa clara municipal fiber ring for other reasons.
A startup's guide to using Trello.