skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not if I should laugh or cry.

It's nice that government overreach is (potentially) punished.
On the other hand it's an embarrassment for the entire legal system that defending against such overreach costs upwards of $500k.
Oops. Looks like the mods added it.

Also, apparently previously discussed - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503860
And he gave away his share of the Mojang dividend. Mojang still paid him 400 M SEK in licensing fees in 2011, and another 640 in 2012, which amounts to nearly 200 million US dollars.

Not making a comment about how awesome or not-awesome giving away $4M USD is. Just adding context.
Accuracy doesn't sell as much advertising as alarmism.
I thought the site was about dating not hookups. People find their life partners at work all the time. Sexual harassment cases happen because people forget their social boundaries at workplace. LinkedIn is not a workplace, its just a social network of people, same people who also use Facebook and dating sites.
I think you'll enjoy this fascinating lecture and Q&A by Glenn Reynolds held at the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism on your very question, entitled The Higher Education Bubble and What Comes Next: http://vimeo.com/15821943 Check it out.
Great. Now, can you say who ever said that it was voodoo ?

I only see someone who said that it was safe to type it in a software, but I can be wrong.
Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
Thank you for posting this. There are tremendous inefficiencies in the US system. Some are just dead enders from past times, some stem from American individualism and it's ideology, and a lot from failures to invest in infrastructure and our human resources (our citizens).

Of course health care is an incredibly contentious topic but I was struck by the sheer waste and cruelty of the system when I read of the story of a 24 year old man that died because of a tooth infection.

He went to the pharmacy with two prescriptions, an antibiotic and a pain killer.

Lacking the money for the higher priced antibiotics he only filled the pain killer prescription. He died from that infection.

Society spent at least $7000 per year for 12 years to educate this young man and we let him die for lack of $70 for a prescription. Even if you feel no empathy and discount national shame this is an example of breath taking irrational economic waste.
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Is your belief system shred to pieces when you learn that the US spends twice the percentage of GDP on health care as nations like France with worse health outcomes?
I just did it and got this in my logs:

184.73.36.14/ec2-184-73-36-14.compute-1.amazonaws.com - - [02/Feb/2013:06:12:19 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 11310 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/5 Powered by Spider-Pig by tinfoilsecurity.com"

They're definitely hitting the URLs, I just think they have a backlog.
Genetically modified herpes virus can block spread of ovarian and breast cancer
Wat. I'm sure lots of work that gets done at Microsoft is misguided or redundant. Welcome to working at a big company.

You misunderstood me, I don't really care about the fate of anyone working there. I am more thinking about the brain space wasted with deceptive marketing claims, the money extracted from people, not to mention schools, and the horrible waste of people investing in learning about the MS ecosystem and the proliferating it. Microsoft learned to eat chalk, and the hard and scary way it learned to open up a little, but Mr. Bill Gates was once perfectly looking forward to the internet being a flop and everybody using MSN, to name just one of dozens examples clearly mapping the ugly underbelly. And far from silentely trying to improve the world without caring about the credit too much, MS was always keen on talking about stuff they didn't come up with as if they did, without technically lying.

Microsoft isn't special in that regard, sure, but to me even the best achievements are seen on the background of corporate armbandism and become morally worthless at best.

I am perfectly fine with someone who owes their life to the Gates foundation loving the guy, and happy for every life saved. But when it comes to me thinking Bill Gates is "cool", it just doesn't work out that way. So when someone else implies I kinda have to agree that this is all super awesome, I resist. Yes it is, but it doesn't make up for the other stuff, not one iota. Apologizing for all the lies and FUD about Linux, now that would be something... because hey, if people save money that way, they can buy healthy food, or go to a doctor of their choosing, and that's good thing, right? right?

Why is it always that we first allow a bunch of clowns to run just about everything, and then are grateful for the breadcrumbs they let trickle down? I am sure there are many people in China singing the praises of some party members who helped them get surgery or whatever. Yes, and? Take a step back, see the individual parts and how they fit together. Suddenly it's much less impressive, and the real heroes turn out to be the ones giving their lives to help others who DID NOT first sell a bunch of drugs or whatever to get the means to do so.
I'm using this one: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/8391

The range ain't great, but it's enough. Combine it with a laptop and good wifi, and I can go quite a ways.
Not only are the canisters "not disposable", they also are not the property of the purchaser of a SodaStream device. Instead, canisters remain property of SodaStream and are licensed to the purchaser.

http://www.sodastreamusa.com/Assets/ULC.jpg
Mac Pro is too slow to appear in Geekbench top results
I made a spreadsheet of 53 victims I found. It seems the defining trait is that the account was opened in 2007. There was like one or two from 2006 and one from 2012 but that one may be spurious. Also, almost everyone on the list unambiguously owns an iPhone, but that may just be a coincidence owing to popularity and my sample being inherently weighted to English-speakers. Only found one non-English user I was confident was saying they got the email.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmIfHssIKuJgdFF...

If anyone wants to take those usernames and write their own script to divine some knowledge from the API, feel free
I would feel better if I new how they handled passwords. Hopefully it is a hash and not encrypted. And hopefully that hash method is bcrypt (or something similarly painful to crack).
I think it only affects 10.8. I have tried the suggested methods of this thread in Chrome, TextEdit, iTunes, terminal and Safari but nothing happened in 10.6.8.
Sweet, will check it out, thanks!
You cannot conveniently remove YAML from Rails. It is used in dozens of places in the framework, including some code paths which your app is virtually guaranteed to exercise.
"Here's to the sane ones"
So I have an interesting proposal. Carmen Ortiz is the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. We get all kinds of stories about her along this vein, but really she's the only US Attorney we're giving this much scrutiny for. I propose we randomly select three other US Attorneys and subject them to the same scrutiny, illustrating whether it's just that Carmen Ortiz is an awful human being, or whether it's the entire system that's broken.
And that whatever killed them did not damage the radio and/or auto pilot.
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Startup delivers personalized content tailored to patient’s disease stage
Hilarious. I pranked my friend with this, and now he's pissed. Oh well, it was certainly worth it.

Interesting, though, what exactly causes this bug. It seems as if the built-in spellcheck seems to misinterpret the string "file:///" as some sort of alien construct, or perhaps false typed directories trigger some sort of lockdown. Either way, it's very puzzling how this sort of thing made it past the OS X developers, especially with Apple's level and standard of ultra-high quality control.
> I really don't like the attitude here. Your significant other moving, is _not a silly thing_.

I don't want to speak for the OP, but I took this sentence as, "Losing a good developer because his significant other is headed to medical school is a really silly thing for a company to do", which I would completely agree with.
> People that think "Gender is a performance" and that there are "basics" that have to be learned have clearly been steeped in post-structuralist thought

As someone who knows a thing or two about post-structuralism, I also know many, many people who think "gender is a performance" and know absolutely nothing about it. Your assumption that everyone knows the entire intellectual history of the ideas they espouse is a bit wrong.

Furthermore, while it's true that Butler et. al are some of the more prominent proponents of 'gender is a performance', one could easily believe that gender is performative for a different reason. A implies B does not mean B implies A, and all that.
The short answer is "be the change you want to see in the world"

The long answer is a consumer's collective. If you are in the US a good example are the credit unions, where fees (of all kinds) largely don't exist. In the US, Consumer's Collectives legally have a democratic corporate structure. Private corporations legally are more like a dictatorship. Public corporations have a board of directors and are legally more like an oligarchy (unless one single person constitutes most of the board).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_cooperative
Does this work, at all? I get nothing but "There was an error - please double check the URL and try again". There is no-one in the support chat provided. As far as I can tell it simply does not work.

And, to head off the inevitable comments, yes, it's free, I know: I'm just letting people know not to waste their time with something of zero value.
To be fair, the sodastream is pretty awesome even without the cola syrup. I usually skip the sugar water (or make my own) and it's still worth while.

And you can always hack the CO2 cartridges for DIY refill.
IBM Security Tool Can Flag ‘Disgruntled Employees’
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The point is that it's not the _responsibility_ of the oppressed to educate their oppressors. Obviously, it can be useful, and education is a big part of it.

But it's perfectly legitimate to say "Listen, I cannot explain this to you, but understand that what you say hurt me, and if that matters to you, you should take the time to figure that out."

It's about the asymmetry: for the privileged, this is a situation, an unusual part of their day, something that needs to be dealt with. For those who aren't, it's an ingrained part of everyday life. Your entire life could be devoted to education and there still wouldn't be enough hours in the day.
Priceonomics did an analysis: http://priceonomics.com/soda-makers/sodastream/
MacPiorun on Referly
Some Info on GDP http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.sg/2013/01/ten-reason...
I'm not sure how that addresses the issue of too much judicial latitude on the top end. Giving judges discretion to reduce a sentence makes good sense. Giving them discretion to go up (or equivalently to go anywhere which is "down" from the stars) is abdicating the duty of Congress and inviting injustice, and the uncertainty provides undue leverage to prosecutors in plea negotiations, especially for an accused with little experience with the justice system. And the uncertainty isn't just in the judge's adherence to the guidelines, it's in what goes into the calculation. The guidelines are obviously very complicated ("43 offense levels" etc.) and you don't get to present your case to a jury and learn their findings of fact before deciding to take a plea, so whenever there is a fact in dispute that causes an order of magnitude difference in the guideline sentence, the guidelines force the accused to take an unduly large risk in going to trial.

Moreover, the sentencing guidelines are still full of harsh penalties. When Congress presents the authors of the guidelines with a maximum penalty of 25 years, it makes a five year prison term seem generous to the accused, notwithstanding that it is in actual fact an extremely harsh prison sentence in absolute terms.

And, correct me if I'm wrong, whether something is a felony is based on the maximum penalty rather than the imposed penalty. So even if your actual sentence is "only" a number of months under the sentencing guidelines and in practice, you're still a felon for the rest of your life with all of the disqualifications that come with it if the maximum penalty exceeded a year.

I don't think it's too much to ask for Congress to better differentiate between more and less serious crimes and to set appropriate maximum penalties for each.
I am skeptical of this claim, and I've spent a decent amount of time both writing C++ for games and in the Java guts of Minecraft. At one point it had pretty significant perf problems due to naive drawing behaviors; it does no longer and is pretty solidly optimized--though there's not much you can do about GC pauses, it doesn't really impact the gameplay.

Keep trying, though. You'll snark well someday.
If you have Xcode you can reproduce the crash in a scratch Xcode project. Drop an NSSearchField into a window, run the app, enter you-know-what, and boom. (I used NSSearchField since that's what I found most easily crashes Finder, VoodooPad, and System Preferences. Maybe NSTextField works as well.)

The assert that fails is this:

assertion on /SourceCache/DataDetectorsCore/DataDetectorsCore-269.1/Sources/PushDown/DDResultExtraction.c:1576 "CFStringHasPrefix(urlVal, CFSTR("file://"))" failed :wrong extraction: File://

There's an extra slash at the end, but I left it out because it crashes Safari.
The point is that you're talking about an aggregate. It is impossible not to benefit (in aggregate!) from the patriarchy as a male. All straight white males are oppressors, but some of them attempt to recognize those advantages and not trample on others any more than they have to.

But that doesn't mean they don't benefit, even passively.

(P.S. I'm a straight white cis male.)
CPM, CPC, CPA, and the Transfer of Risk
Double Robotics (YC S12) gets Best of Show at Macworld/iWorld
There is a break even point after which you do save money, but the up-front costs are fairly steep. This is best for someone that drinks soda on a daily basis.

From someone in my family that owns one, some flavors are good while others (fake Dr. Pepper, for example) are horrible.
The privacy concerns of the last part of this proposal are kinda scary.
There was a hoax around delivering burritos (IIRC) by quadrotor a while ago - Was very disappointing, it'd be an awesome business!
Am I the only one who looks at the 'FairTax' and finds it anything but fair?
It's definitely a spell check bug, I've got that feature turned off (always hated it) and none of this is doing anything for me.
Binary patch, for entertainment purposes only, do not actually use: http://twitter.com/landonfuller/status/297592929923502080
Forbes is nothing more than a content farm these days.
Reproduced on Sparrow with success. Whenever you touch the line with File://(/) it will crash.

In one instance the Sparrow crash caused the entire mail library to be corrupt and I have to download all my mails again.
I do UI design so I sam ure this won't apply but on the lotto-like chance that it might; I set up my work like an assembly line.

When doing HTML or MXML I concentrate on having all the art completed first including the wire frame or comp. Then I build the structure of the page, then work on presentation in CSS. I do not do HTML or CSS concurrently.

I think the key is to have a plan, make a procedure, then follow it. Don't bounce around.
You are confusing cause and effect, the factors are already present in families who are dedicated/resourceful enough to consider homeschooling, so homeschooling simply has no effect in that case.

It is already known that the most important factor in whether a kid learns or not is their home situation. These studies are on the effectiveness of schools assuming the home factor can't be changed easily by society.
This would definitely put the brakes on the consumption a bit. Do you think it would get to pass? Yeah.. no.
Why did no one notice that Dave runs away if you get it too dizzy?
Golden Eye Hit UK With Piracy Letters, First Innocents Step Forward
> I hope it gets a billion hits.

1998 called. They want their web stats back.
Carbon- An App to Sync and Backup Your SD Card or Cloud Storage
Who drinks just pure soda water? I'm American and I never see this. My wife visited the Ukraine and it's apparently quite common there. I also found Argentina drinks a lot of "agua con gas". Still, I'm just fine with plain flat water and some ice.
Not really. Dropcam and the Logitech units seem to be the best-in-class.

If you're not in a hurry, wait for the camera module for the Raspberry Pi, and then for projects like ZoneMinder to adopt it. It's expected to stream 1080p30, 720p60, and full 5MP (2592x1944) resolution at at least 1fps.
Why would the spell checker be running against in-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?
I suppose Google wants to do no evil nor set up an infrastructure where evil could be conducted. Think about it, half the "stuff" on eBay is crap and the other half is fake crap. Perhaps Google wants no part of all that drama per their mission statement.
Typing "File:///" in these also cause a crash:

Spotlight.

Find field in chrome.
Another link, with disassembly and a patch: https://twitter.com/landonfuller/status/297592929923502080
A nice desk for hackers
This thread is how I wish all discussions were on this site. Disagreement that is just polite enough, tons of facts on both sides, both sides with reasonable opinions founded in reality. Thanks roc and protomyth.
One discussion I didn't see in the earlier NYT hack discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5143046) was what current best practices/readily available tools are for containing/detecting attacks, from the perspective of running a corp network/startup service, and as an end-user when faced w/ APT-level attacks?

For those deep in the trenches, is there a good resource for getting started for those technically inclined/interested in learning more? Presumably there are basic things like proper firewalls and MFA, but also more advanced things like pattern/anomaly detecting IDS's or traffic monitoring tools?

On the user side, are there smarter ways for detecting when your system is RAT infested (seems like a IDS running on your laptop should be able to notify you if you're system is sending out a new VNC/IRC connection...)

Back when I was more into system/network security, the open source tools (Tripwire, AIDE, Snort) were all ... rather manual/labor intensive. Have things evolved as the sheer amount of attacks/attack vectors have increased?
Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.
Think of what you are doing as a contribution rather than a race or a talent show and then do your best.

If you want to play the saxophone as good as Charlie Parker, you got to put in the same hours of practice that he. You may be "mediocre" but there are people who will want to hear you play.

I will never paint like Monet nor swim as fast as Michael Phelps but trying too do so has been a rewarding experience. Eight Alcatraz swim crossings and paintings that people like and are hanging on their walls.
Learned to touch type recently. I opted for Dvoraks. This is probably my biggest pain point.
It takes me 30-minutes... The alarm goes off and I hit the sleep button six times. You are probably young and you need more sleep. This may not help but it gets easier to wake up the older you get.
I use Dvorak for shortcuts. They're fine. The Emacs shortcuts are better, actually.
Dell may go private as soon as Monday
Most pencils are made of graphite which is a form of carbon.
The CIA is responsible for intelligence, not law enforcement, domestic or otherwise.
Definitely true. Of course people who care are probably the same people who realize they will not win the lottery and thus can simply forego the e-mail address (giving their receipts to charity, as suggested) and the other 99% would happily take their "free" lottery tickets.
> can you say who ever said that it was voodoo

Listing every single app under the sun when it's completely obvious a common and widely used component (doesn't matter what's its name so really no need to know Cocoa and that it's probably NSTextView) is used is acknowledging it as voodoo.
My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.
Many good points made here; the one thing I think everyone missed is how exhilarating and SCARY MineCraft can be. If you have been spelunking in a labyrinthine cave system for (in-game) days and racked up a huge bag of loot, every monster around the corner (or over your shoulder) is alarming in a very real way. Getting killed doesn't just mean a manufactured in-game penalty ("go back to last save point") it means the possibility of literally losing everything you've just been working for and discovering.
You have your own answer: Someone who's invisible on the Internet, with unproven skills to the first tier of hiring, applying for remote work. No one in their right mind would hire you because you're impossible to vet. Any manager seeing your email would likely think you're an outsourcing firm in Bangalore trying to present as a lone wolf.

You want to get hired for remote dev? Build a strong online profile by working visibly with a prominent project, and network through there to get someone who's worked with you to vouch for you.
Let's see.

Ultimate Rally - never got past the planning stage, who did he take money from?

letsbuyit.com - He said he was going to invest and then didn't. He never promised money to the people that lost it here, they were just speculators. Yes it was illegal, but he didn't breach any agreements. (Actually might not have been illegal at the time)

bin Laden bounty - nobody gave him information leading to finding bin laden so there is no bounty, I don't see the problem here

Trendax - well that's clearly a scam but I can't find if people actually invested there

Liga.net - please tell me I missed something and you didn't put this on the list for cheating in a video game
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No artist is never happy with the stuff they make and those rare times that one is exhilarated by what they created... well, it came about as a result of serendipity, spilled paint or by accident rather than a solid plan.