skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how does not having to take the final hurt his education?

He can still study just as much as he would've before.

He still has access to resources to check the results of that studying.

I'm extremely skeptical of concerns that it would have a significant negative impact on future classes that this exam could've potentially weeded people out before. It could happen, though when I was TA'ing most weeding-out usually happened before the final...

I guess the anonymously-screw-everyone-else solution would also give him the opportunity to have a spectacularly sociopathic answer to that YC application "hacked a non-software system" question...

Frankly, if you're going to screw things up for everyone else like this, given that it doesn't actually let you learn anything more than you could've anyway, the least you can do is to do it face to face. Heck, I'd be secretly hoping that one of the "guards" did try to start something physical. Then he'd both bomb the final and be in trouble for assault or whatever.
I've got a strip of favicons in the bookmark bar in Chrome for stuff I regularly visit. For sites/pages/content I want to keep longer-term, I use Evernote. Useful in case the site changes, or goes offline too.
The fundamental reason is that Pepper plugins live in a separate process, so latency is high - a security measure, but one that I'm arguing is unnecessary and forces highly unfortunate design choices.
There's a story about a student (in group theory) being asked "Are G and H isomorphic?" and replying "G is isomorphic, but H isn't".
This is good advice, but I'd amend it to say this:

For your Facebook-viewing browser, disable all plugins. For the most part, you won't be viewing anything that can't be viewed without HTML5 and Javascript anyway. The added advantage to sequestering FB activity to a browser is that you won't be tracked by sites that use FB widgets.

Another added advantage of putting FB in its own browser, and YMMV, but it's easier to prevent impulsively checking FB in the middle of your normal work-related internet browsing, as it requires opening a new browser to do so.
It's Friday night. My favorite band (http://www.theanatomyoffrank.com/music) is playing a house show in my town, which is the best kind of show because it's BYOB. Then, my best friend from Texas is in town for the night, and we're meeting up. I'm definitely going to go tear it up and create some memories.

And yet..... all I can think of is to stay up all night creating a "replacement HN" just for Saturday morning. I just started using Django and it would be perfect for this. Must. Resist. Must. Live. Real. Life.
In case anyone wondering colo place appears to be The Planet.

whois -h whois.arin.net 174.132.225.106

NetRange: 174.132.0.0 - 174.133.255.255
CIDR: 174.132.0.0/15

Name: 6a.e1.84ae.static.theplanet.com

Address: 174.132.225.106

OriginAS: AS36420, AS30315, AS13749, AS21844

NetName: NETBLK-THEPLANET-BLK-15

NetHandle: NET-174-132-0-0-1

Parent: NET-174-0-0-0-0

NetType: Direct Allocation

RegDate: 2008-06-17

Updated: 2012-02-24

Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-174-132-0-0-1
Notational Velocity + Dropbox
Back a month or so when Quora announced blogs, I said a better move would have been for Quora to pickup the Posterous service.
1. Export bookmarks to HTML

2. Bookmark the resulting HTML file or upload to someplace online.

3. Use browser find function.
I use Firefox Sync to keep my bookmarks and history synced between my personal and work laptops and my phone. I like that Sync keeps my bookmarks encrypted on the server, and I have no interest in a web UI; I just want my browser to have the same resources available no matter which system I use it on.

I do wish Sync supported different bookmarks toolbar folders for different systems, though. At the moment I just only display the toolbar on one system.
Yessir! Did the entire thing myself :)

By the way... This may seem crazy but I knew I recognized your name. Someone registered with your same username 6 months ago. Heh. Sometimes my memory is awesome, and other days I can't remember what I did the day before.

http://pineapple.io/profiles/citricsquid
this is glorious!
It's complicated.

First, yes, Java is that prevalent. There's no a single corporate company out there were there's not Java devs. As simple as that. Then Java is also on so many systems even outside the corporate world: both Windows on OS X. It's typically not there by default but on Windows it depends on who ships the machine. On OS X now at least they don't ship it by default but it's trivial to install.

But really the problem ain't Java but Java applets.

Java as in "The JVM" is actually not bad at all on the server side: on the contrary, it's very robust. There are have been two very lame exploits in 2011 allowing Denial of Services on Java webservers, but no remote exploit working on Java servers.

The problem is Java on the client-side: i.e. on people's computers. In other word: the issue is pathetically lame Java applets.

Java applets have to be the most stupid, silly and insecure lame technology ever invented by Sun.

You should have been there in comp.lang.java.programmer back in the nineties when people were saying how stupid, silly and insecure a lame tech Java applets were... Only to be laughed at by the like of Jon Skeet (the most upvoted user today on StackOverflow). To most Java early adopters Java applets were "the nuts". Supposedly the one tech going to solve all our problems.

It "only" took close to 15 years to prove wrong all the retards who thought Java applets were a good thing.

And now we're in this big mess.

For end-users it's easy: remove Java or disable Java applets.

But for the corporate world it's not so simple: many devs are, well, Java devs. Because Java is pretty much what powers the corporate world (hint: no, it's not Excel).

Then even if most apps tend to be webapps now, there are still a lot of in-house apps which are Java apps and corporate drones do need to use these apps.

Then there are all the Android / dalvik devs: world is moving to mobile and Android is huge. Hence Java is huge.

Hence you can count on many, many, many more Java exploits being used to infiltrate companies.

Companies whose users / devs are using very poor security practices anyway.
I'll throw another recommendation in for pinboard.in.
> they hide the applet, they don't stop execution.

The OP is wrong about this. At least for Safari/ClickToPlugin – I just verified it myself. After all, it'd be fairly pointless otherwise...
> This happened last month, so it was 0-day THEN, not NOW.

Yes - Facebook made it clear they were exploited prior to the patch getting out.

== SNIP ==
The compromised website hosted an exploit which then allowed malware to be installed on these employee laptops. The laptops were fully-patched and running up-to-date anti-virus software. ...

After analyzing the compromised website where the attack originated, we found it was using a "zero-day" (previously unseen) exploit to bypass the Java sandbox (built-in protections) to install the malware. We immediately reported the exploit to Oracle, and they confirmed our findings and provided a patch on February 1, 2013, that addresses this vulnerability.
== SNIP ==

The difference between zero-day and not, is that if you are attacked by an exploit that your vendor hasn't seen (and presumably has no patch available for) - you are particularly vulnerable. Once a CVE has been assigned, then your platform/software vendors are now more "on the hook" for any exploits that occur after that date.

Two indications of a security conscious company:

1. They have a very short period of time before the CVE identification and their patch (hopefully automatically) rolled out.

2. They announce security vulnerabilities inline with a patch - thereby reducing the number of zero day exploits.

Microsoft, in particular, has been very aggressive in announcing security exploits, and rolling out patches in the last 12-18 months - Adobe and Oracle could learn a lot from them.

> So far the latest fixes (in browsers and in Java) seem to have been effective.

Unless you have a very specific reason (SSL VPN, Enterprise App, perhaps a youtube video, or specific application) - you should no longer be running plugins in your browser. I've been running with Safari and all plugins disabled for about 14 months, switching to Chrome for youtube videos has been about the the only inconvenience. The last exploit in flash/java/pdf/xxx may have been fixed, but you can certain there will be more in the next few months.
Write games, not engines
I had a lot of bookmarks too. But how many times I used it? Once, twice a year? And I never got to really organize my bookmarks. It's always bothered me.

Now I rarely use bookmaks. I just keep a few that I visit daily.

So, everytime I need something I go to google. And I use pocket for things that I really wanna read later. If I don't read it in some time, I just delete the link.

It had worked fine for me. It's simple and focused.
I use pinboard too. If you're on Safari, Cloudmarks is a great companion to Pinboard: http://canisbos.com/cloudmarks
About this:

>And they charge $5 per month, so
>the sustainability is more clear.

In 1996, Geocities began offering a deal: pay $4.95 a month and no ads will be shown on your site, and you get to use your own domain for your website. I signed up immediately. 3 year later, Geocities was acquired by Yahoo. 10 years later, Geocities was closed:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/index.php

There is nothing really permanent about any of these services. Ma Bell may have offered a reliable phone service for almost 100 years, but in the era of the Internet the half-life of consumer sites tends to be much shorter.
Right, but xml "objects" are annotated with some name, whereas json nodes aren't. This is a hassle, but it's also very convenient when you want to represent something that doesn't map 100% perfectly onto the underlying structure. So as you say, you _could_ represent a date in lots of different ways. In xml that's doable, and somewhat comprehensible. In JSON it's usually jibberish. And that's just dates - good luck with anything more complex.

I still think JSON is a more promising format in the long run. But it certainly isn't great - it's just bad in a different way, and somewhat more minimalist (which is good).

Also, I can't for the life of me understand why someone would dislike xpath. It's like the one best thing about xml - it's simple, concise, and easy to read. I'd absolutely love an xpath equivalent for json, which just doesn't exist.

Just expressing obvious things like "person[name='bla']/nickname" is so much more wordy in an explicit function style. And notice how the rest of the world - including most major js(on) libs have long gravitated towards that (monadic) style of querying - it's not just me, almost everyone prefers it. CSS; SQL; jquery selectors; even a filesystem glob - every complex datastore gravitates to some variant of the same pattern, and it's something json consuming libs do not yet do very well. I'm sure they will someday - but it's a real lack right now.
Sorry late response... One is WiFi Analyzer. Shows Channel, strength, encryption, ssid. Has a nice little great with signal strength along with min/max/avg. Not sure if you can get it from appstore now as someone else pointed out can get OpenVPN officially there now :)

Also... I'm curious as to why Apple hasn't added a SBSettings / NCSettings type feature as most other smartphones have toggle buttons in the "notification area" which make life a lot easier.
A fast object compress the air in front of it reducing the amount of water that can be solved into it, so the excess of water condenses.

It's very visible in planes about to break the sound barrier. Look for Youtube videos. The cones are spectacular, but also notice how a trail is sometimes visible originating from the tips of the wings.

So you don't need to inject the water, but to extract it from the air compressing it. Anyway, I'd bet the meteor trails consist of vaporized matter from the meteor itself.

Edit: see this one at 0:20:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9MjutMhLs
Well, we've had similar drugs (though not vaccines) for a while I believe, and they don't always work as they should.

A guy I worked with was a recovering alcoholic on a "return-to-work" program. As a part of this program he had to take antabuse to stop him from drinking again. He died from a fatal heart attack within a month after he started working. It turns out he'd secretly still continued to drink even while on antabuse, which put an immense strain on his heart (antabuse gives tachycardia on consuming alcohol), causing the heart attack. Sad story.

Alcholics have a really strong urge to drink, even though it causes discomfort.
Verifying access log requests
When I was in the Army the officer in charge of my section commented that another PFC was better because he read the software manuals so he could answer questions that came over the phone.

I said I memorize things that I can't look up easily.
I'll believe that once you actually have an escrow policy that e.g. ensures both source and domain names go into the trust of <public domain, non-profit org> if you sell or fold.

Until then, that pledge is just words which can be rescinded any given time.

To be very clear: I am not insinuating you would break your pledge, but as a user, I'd be unwise to trust a non-binding statement on a web page.
This is a beautiful example of a strong commitment device! I've been collecting examples of commitment devices at http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/#AUG (my startup, Beeminder, is also an example of a commitment device).
> I wonder if companies like Strip/PayPal/Visa will try and lead the way or if they'll wait and be the acquirers.

By the looks of things, they'll sit on the sidelines and do nothing.

Their continuing relevance will be inversely proportional to the success of Bitcoin.
Sure, but when that emergency crops up in the middle of that 40 minute commute, you aren't going to be helping the team very much.
me too :-).
I think many people assume you should always charge a Tesla fully "just in case", but that takes much longer (hours longer) than filling up at a gas station. In practice people take shortcuts, especially when its freezing outside and they'd rather be arriving sooner at their hotel. Its human nature. The author's mistake is trusting the mileage reported by the car in cole weather, then trusting Tesla's PR lackey when he was told the range loss was a software glitch.

"When I parked the car, its computer said I had 90 miles of range, twice the 46 miles back to Milford. It was a different story at 8:30 the next morning. The thermometer read 10 degrees and the display showed 25 miles of remaining range"
Tumblr and twitter both USV companies. Surprised they didn't just segue users to tumblr.
I wrote a small Sinatra app that I have on my vps. No authentication whatsoever but it hasn't been spammed yet.
Oracle BTW offers paid support for old Java versions long after they no longer release public updates. The Feb 2013 end of support date for 6.0 is for free support.
Pride? No, partially a desire to actually get all of the education you are digging yourself into debt for, partially out of annoyance of a childish prank, and even more partially out of annoyance at a childish prank that assumes your cooperation.

If they want to be a bunch of clowns, that isn't my business. If they choose to make their clowning my business, then I am not responsible for the fallout when I don't fall into step with them.

And make no mistake about it, there was without a doubt social pressure and coercion in this situation. Your response to me demonstrates that quite clearly. If a cornerstone of your prank is your peers not being "squares", then your prank is coercive.
What tool did you use to design this?
I'd be more than happy to help out if Twitter are willing to do it with Posterous. Register a non-profit and then go out and approach some of the larger co's for funds and/or resources to keep it running forever.

Make static backups of these sites using their sitemaps[0] and then ask them to donate or point their domains

[0] https://posterous.com/sitemap.xml (warning: 1.5MB)
Hey all. OP here. When posterous announced the acquisition a year ago, I moved all my posts from both blogger and posterous to wordpress.

https://iamwilchung.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/i-got-into-yc-a...

Excuse the ugly template, but the story's still there.
Yup, just like people with cheap "prison" tattoos.
There is a conceptually neat non-implant solution if you want a compass sixth sense: http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/.
What are we supposed to do on Saturday morning?
WWI ended on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The dickhead statesmen came up with this time to make it memorable. Do you know the hour that any other war ended? Unless it was tied to a mnemonic? If you do, shut down your computer and get some fresh air.

Sure, questions like the one about a lightest/heaviest wood is not so easy,but for a well educated person it should be of no issue

Are you trolling? I'd make an honest bet that less than 1 percent of people holding masters degrees could answer this. People would just guess (incorrectly) mahogany and get on with their non-trivial business. Hell, forget 1 percent. Less than .01 percent more likely. Harvard graduates can't even tell you why we have seasons.
>> You think we're having a big debate, but we're not

> True, because you're not coming out and saying what you think is true; you're just attacking my statements.

Yes. I don't have to have a position, nor do I have to share it with you. Why? Because I'm not trying to describe 100% of all humans, walking around, with my own little pet theory. If I were, the burden of proof would be on me.

> Maybe you don't think women have a choice. Maybe you don't think there's such a thing as free will at all.

No. The enormous hidden assumption is that 3 billion+ people can be jammed into your tidy little binary choice. You've seen it all… you've figured it out. You don't have "a massive amount of statistical data to prove this" -- you have zero data to prove this.

But still, you think you know. Enough to dare to say to the world: "This is how men are. This is how women are."

Oh good! Jonathan Conway figured it out. Stop the presses, everybody! Trim the wicks and lower the shades… we're done here! Everybody out of the pool!

What sheer, monumental gall.

By the by, nobody asked you to "shut up and put up just because [you're] a guy." Nobody asked you to shut up and put up at all, in fact. They merely pushed back against your labeling of the entire human race, because well, that's what people do when they see idiotic things on the internet. They push back.
Why Devops Matters To Developers
> Enjoy the ride home on the short bus, man.

Also, doesn't admit or apologize when he's shown to be wrong, and responds with cheap insults instead.
I'd argue that "better designed" is subjective here. Hacker News is optimised for high content density. Designer News has lower content density, but there's more space between posts (and visual signposts in the form of "badges") which makes the front-page easier to scan. I appreciate both approaches.
This is a great summary: "Having a sense for something that is invisible to everyone else can mean that many well-designed things are very poorly designed for you."

Thanks!
This is what we're building with Tent (https://tent.io). The idea is since you can always host your own Tent server, it doesn't matter if your hosting provider shuts down.

You can migrate your data to another server and change your entity (global user identifier) as part of the protocol, so there's no messy "please update your address books" (that part happens automatically.

Data is stored as posts and post types are developer extensible (posts are JSON and binary attachments), so if your favorite app is discontinued, another developer can make a great app that interacts with the same post types.

We're working on a Tent app that imports Posterous posts right now.
Where people struggle learning Django
Right.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Do not take advice from Sherlock Homes, because he is fictional and thus can be no smarter than his creator, a man who quite literally believed in fairies, and could not be persuaded that Houdini was not actually magic.
And I recall the last time I looked at the source (when it was released with Arc), it didn't use a database either. All the data is stored as files.
A less permanent way to experiment with magnetic sense would be to superglue the magnet to your fingertip. It might be a bit less sensitive, but there are no incisons involved, and depending on how well the glue bonds, it should come off in a few days to a week.
Forget educational merit, he paid for the damn test. Is it so unreasonable for him to want to take it?

If his peers want to make it a matter of "do something you don't want to do, or else you are a 'square'", then they can kindly fuck off.

The only proper way to organize a prank of this sort is with an anonymous vote. If there was not an anonymous vote, I would anonymously choose to not participate.
I think I saw a video about a guy who made something like this himself once. It was pretty neat as he could navigate with his eyes closed and stuff like that!
I know this is offtopic, but it's a great point...
There's a paragraph that says "This is a fair point." next to it. It basically says that we all stand on the shoulders of giants - and that other inventions allow new inventions to be discovered/developed.
This is the EXACT reason I disagree with most patents.

Apologies for the off-topic rant, but it's one of my passions. I'm most probably preaching to the converted.
There is probably a service that could take care of this for me, but generally skip bookmarks altogether and just email myself the URL and a few Keywords that are meaningful to me. Then I can just use Gmail's search to find what I'm looking for at a later date. So it's essentially browser/OS/device/location agnostic.
Let me put on my tinfoil hat...

Maybe the "first-world countries" will criminalize all use of Bitcoin as Bitcoin continues to rise and their currencies continue to deteriorate. Respectable citizens and companies will not be able to use it (without massive deception to avoid detection).

However, all the other countries will increasingly adopt Bitcoin.

In 25 years, there is a global economic renaissance, except the first-world countries of the past are now the dregs of the global economy.

</tinfoil>
It seems unlikely you would've been been able to check your knowledge due to the nature of the grading system being employed.

In my experience, getting a final exam back complete with annotations and corrections is generally not done: you simply get a grade reported. In the case of you being the only one taking the exam (e.g., the professor let you take it after everyone decided not to show up), you would've gotten an automatic 100.

That is to say, you could very well not know anything correctly, not realize it, and be none the wiser when you get your grade back.
I gave up on bookmarks. They just pile up and I never go back to read anything. Search is so powerful that within a few keywords and filters I can find exactly what I'm looking for without the need to store it.
Maybe the problem is the size of the implant. I've seen pictures of rice-sized implants - that's IMHO far too big to go into a fingertip - unless you don't use your finger at all.

A smaller implant would be less sensitive to magnetic fields, ie less distracting.

I'm not really into implants, but maybe something no bigger than a needle could be tested by an eager volunteer?

A biocompatible coating is needed, which increases the size - the technical challenge is making an implant small enough, coating included, to be helpful without being painful or distracting
By "cyberware" do you mean something like this? https://idea.popcount.org/2012-07-28-am-i-a-cyborg-now/