skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defense in depth.

People should really all consider doing what I do: install a throwaway VM on your system from which you surf the Web. For all the sites that I don't trust I do surf from a VM which can be erased / re-installed at will.

For sites I trust, like my GMail / Google Docs, I surf from a separate user account. I'm using a firewall that can do "per user" rules and I'm only using whitelists. By default no packets can be emitted. Then the user account used to access GMail / Google Docs is configured so that it can emit HTTP/HTTPS trafic.

No Java in the user accounts / VM that do surf the Web: and I'm a "Java" dev (Java + Clojure). Java can be installed only for one user account on Linux, without needing to be root.

Wanna do online banking / MoneyBookers / etc.: boot a read-only Linux CD / DVD.

Yes, it is slightly more inconvenient than using your main user account to surf the Web. But so far security and conveniency haven't exactly been good matches yet.

The state of security today is really terribly bad. It is so bad that I'm going back to a "stupid" Nokia S40 phone until things settle down.
Emscripten is trying to move their backend into LLVM which would accomplish the same thing.
> At some point we put away our childish things and we solve our problems like adults.

I hope that doesn't mean you'll wait for me near the bike stands.
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Does it have posting by email like Posterous?
Not real impressed that it can't handle a HN load.
We're moving to Posthaven.
Yeah, the average blogger doesn't even _know_ half of these words.
Running Idea on 64bit Ubuntu here. Yes, there is a solution and it is a huge hack. The idea is to make your own fonts with hinting info stripped out - check out http://gleamynode.net/articles/2280/

For instance this is how Go code looks in my IDE: http://i.imgur.com/jcWVFuS.png

Some people don't like the blurry look but I have grown quite fond of it.
NASA: Meteor Exploded With Force of 20 Hiroshima Bombs
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
Same problem, I use chrome bookmarks mainly (due to the sync with my mobile and every other chrome I have) and Pocket. And sometimes also Kippt.

I wonder if there is a service that syncs your Chrome bookmarks (one way, read only) to some nice web UI that allows better searching (e.g. search by folder name, not just bookmark title)
You come off like an entitled, smug prick, FYI.
The next class session someone suggested that we should have signed a paper proving we were there after he left.

Hindsight.
Mind sharing your product with me, I would really like the chance to use it?
Redshift isn't Postgres. It's built on top of Postgres, similar to how Infobright is built on top of MySQL.
For all the flak HN gets about fnid problems, etc, it's still awe-inspiring to me that such a popular site runs on a single server, with so little admintime ;)
Make a new copy directly using this link to avoid the Simple View warning.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Apam75iNJI9idDN...
How can anyone believe this will hold true? Especially coming from the founders of Posterous who sold out and then shuttered their service?

Was Posterous created to not be sustainable? If so, then Posterous's users were duped from the get go into using something that the founders knew wasn't sustainable and would eventually disappear. That's not a good way to treat users and it surely doesn't inspire confidence in the founders' next projects.

Honestly, I find pitching this service on the day of the news that Posterous is shutting down to be kind of tacky. I'm not trolling or trying to be negative...I'm just suspicious of why anyone should trust this.
Just wait for it, the Obama administration is going to be sued for infringing a patent for a process that protects people from patent trolls.
I did the same after the acquisition was first announced. It took about an hour to get it running, and fully monitored by my Nagios installation.
To me, it's a check against a teacher making an obscenely hard test that even the smartest students can't pass. The logic would be that if the best and brightest can only get a 60, then the exam should be curved.

This assumes that the best and brightest are actually really smart and knowledgeable.
Does all of HN run on one single server?
> 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.

> That false binary choice includes a big assumption. Do you see it?

Just one? I think it includes several, but I tried to narrow it down to what I guessed you would think the most likely possibilities are.

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

I don't have time to second-guess every possible opinion you might have; I'm offering my own opinion and trying to ferret out what yours is.

> If I was a guy, I'd find Couple's apparent opinion of me insulting

And you never say why. Is that a moral judgement on your part?

> My question: "Do they KNOW what they're doing? Do they SEE what they're portraying with their video? Do they know what narcissism is?" is a useful one

Is it one you intend to find the answer to?

I think it's pretty clear, from having observed a whole range of marketing material and cultural artifacts (TV shows, etc) that this really is how people think about relationships, and that this company is appealing to that thinking in this ad.

I don't have a massive amount of statistical data to prove this, but I don't have a high regard for statistics anyway. I think it's better to consider as evidence things you can observe directly, rather than having faith that some bean-counter is getting his stats right.

Sorry if I come off as a whiner, but I think human beings generally like to express themselves when something in life is upsetting/depressing to them, and I don't see why I should have to shut up and put up just because I'm a guy.
WHy are they reasonable and NY Times is not?
It's a nice little library but it looks like the meat of it is in Enumerable which is pretty nice but it's really slow when working with larger arrays.

If you don't need the events then lo_dash/underscore is probably the better tool.
Sure, but if they were able to get into the top 500 shouldn't that be a business worth more than $10m? Especially since it's user created content, and if they do it right they could keep rising in the ranks of top sites.

I'm curious if they were experiencing a growth stall or even negative growth before selling. Because if they were growing, I don't understand why they would sell and abandon their product unless the offer was ridiculously high.
I have about 1300 and Chrome's bookmark interface is slow at this quantity so I use and recommend this extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neater-bookmarks/o...
What mailing list?
I have email from April 2007, and I don't see it.
I do see other emails from you, but mostly about random stuff. Nothing I can find that appears like you describe.

(I'm not claim it's not there, i'm just trying to find it :P)
also, it has a great search feature/filter built in
We're not that far from the speed of light barrier. There's a fixed amount of time it takes for any information to get from one end of a chip to the other and back. Only shrinking the die will decrease that.
http://imgur.com/VuSH2j5
Agreed. If this is really about checking your knowledge, it would probably not be hard to convince the prof or TA to let you get feedback on a practice final, for no grade, without screwing over the rest of the class. Or you could just use what you learned to code a project and put it online for real peer review.
Bank of America has a feature called ShopSafe (https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...) where you can create temporary numbers that redirect to your real Visa or MC account. BofA assures me that the generated number continues to work even if you lose the physical card and get a replacement.

You can use the temporary one for up to 12 recurring payments, which means you'd have to update your payment info for a bunch of services every year, and each card is only good for one merchant, so you'd need a different one for each.

It may be better to just get a separate card exclusively for recurring services to reduce the chance that it gets flagged because of travel or other suspicious activity (Christmas shopping, etc.).
Instead of setting up a longer living backup for each case, it would be interesting to setup a generic storage mirror and a corporate foundation that can keep these sites alive.

When a startup shuts down a product, they can donate the domain name or point it to the mirror to keep it alive.

Something like archive.org, with some donated servers and a couple of people working on it.

Twitter and other acquirers usually only want the team, and this is happening more and more. We are losing large parts of the web. I wouldn't be surprised if less than 1% of Posterous is exported and goes to live on in other forms. Either way the URLs and links all die.
I don't know if I would be comfortable with this kind of stuff. Hacker News is read by many people and if your post inherently has something to be liked, it will most likely be. You can then expect it to go viral from there.

But requesting that your friends upvote your posts shows that you're expecting to garner attention by the number of upvotes you've gathered. It doesn't matter if you say "upvote this if you like this", most friends will upvote just for your sake, some might not even take a look.

IMHO, just let the content of your posts/links speak for themselves.
We don't run a shopping cart, but one of our databases at present is at 11.3TB on PostgreSQL 9.1 and we're by no means dealing with small sets. We routinely juggle several Gigs at a time when we need to do analytics. We didn't see a reason to put this on a cloud since bandwidth + electricity is still cheaper for us than bandwidth + storage in the cloud at present.
How America and Europe are trying to bolster their cyber-defences
For the record: for a computer systems course I TAed, the two professors, myself and the other TA spent 6 hours total in a room grading, for midterms and finals. For two different semesters. So, it varies.
Thank you for Pineapple, it's such a wonderful resource, plus the design is really great. Did you design and develop it yourself?
Big fan of Pinboard.in
Except none of those things can realistically kill every person on the planet. Nuclear war would maybe be the only threat I think has a higher likelihood of making mankind extinct than a meteor, which is why graphics like this scare the crap out of me:

http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/NuclearWeapons_4fa46...
A lot of people will migrate their content, but there's hope that a lot of it will be preserved by the Internet Archive.

You're covered at least! http://web.archive.org/web/20120106215046/http://iamwil.post...
Memory of chimps ‘far better than human’
I keep a strict minimum. I use folders as much as I can. I sync them through chrome & firefox (I have different bookmark for each browser). I use multi row toolbar. ( http://i.imgur.com/1UQ915E.png )

Also, so as not to flood my toolbar I "star" some of them in Firefox. It doesn't appear in the list but I can still give them some "tags". For example I've tagged all the hipmunk, matrix, skyscanner, easyjet, adioso... to the words "plane, tickets, travel" etc...
Who Supplies Apple? (It’s Not Just China): An Interactive Map
Not just a single server, a single process on a single core (last time I asked pg at least).
Write your own blogging engine and self hosting? That's what I do.
The only exchange I've had with one of the founders (Garry) was on Twitter when a YC company named SnapJoy launched a campaign to "free your photos" from Flickr.

The only problem was that SnapJoy was a bigger black hole than Flickr was. An API to access your photos was coming soon for months and never came before they were acquired by Dropbox.

Somehow he was arguing around that point. Unsure how but it couldn't possibly have made sense.

I have nothing against Garry or anyone else involved in these projects/companies but it goes a long way to hurt those of us [1] trying to build software where users actually control and retain ownership of their data.

[1] I founded The OpenPhoto Project in 2011

https://github.com/photo

http://theopenphotoproject.org
> We got NoSQL (esp. JSON based ones) instead of XML. Close enough though.

NoSQL still stores tables, not trees (or at least the NoSQLs I've paid attention to do). That's the change he was predicting. You still need a tabular schema for your NoSQL database.
Posterous: A reminder of why you should own your online presence
Eight Camera Apps That Kick Instagram's Ass
>The story is simply, "The Tesla lost a ton of range overnight, unexpectedly. Tesla said it would come back after an hour of low-power charging."

But why is that the story? The story could just as easily be, "The NYT reporter stopped charging when the battery was less than 3/4ths charged and subsequently couldn't finish his trip. He experienced some unanticipated range loss overnight, but it was less than what he would have needed to finish his trip."
I've being using http://delicious.com/ ever since, works fine for me.
Right now I just dump them into Firefox. I'd like to keep archive copies of the pages, but I don't want to use a third-party service for that, and I haven't found anything to my liking.
I've been keeping reocities alive out of pocket. It costs a few hundred every month in hosting costs and another few hundred in machine write-offs. I got about .37 in bitcoin donations, so I'm a bit short still :) But I think it is well worth doing. I assume hosing posterous would cost a lot more than that so I'd have to find some funding but I'm pretty sure this could be done.
2,000 startups will be launched on Monday morning as a result of this downtime.
This is probably one of those times when we can thank the Internet Archive for preserving the internet that's no longer with us, or, in this case, the part of the internet that's about to go dark.
or you could try ibogaine... works just as well.
I would cut the video into small chunks and store them in a Dropbox folder over a wireless connection if I wanted to implement this myself in an area where you could get an affordable unlimited data plan (that is the case in some parts of Europe at least). If that's too much data for you for bandwidth and/or cost reasons you can instead grab individual frames out of the video scream every second or two and save them as a JPEG files to be uploaded to Dropbox.

I use this solution in a non-car surveillance application but, admittedly, there's an x86 Mini-ITX board running Linux involved.

Edit: phrasing.
> As a university, they have no business being in the medical products business.

Why? While this line of reasoning might carry some weight if Northwestern were a public university (though I'd still require some convincing), Northwestern is a private non-profit institution, with a highly ranked medical school and clinic.

Supplementing their income with drug sales instead of higher tuition seem like a perfectly logical thing to do.
> You might have acted rationally had you decided to take the exam, but you'll find that social pressure will occasionally make everyone (a) much nicer than you, and (b) in blatant disregard of game-theoretic rationality.

I definitely would have acted rationally, because I place very little value on getting to skip an exam or on proving a point about the grading system, and much more value on actually getting the education I paid for.

> Actually, to make it a real case of Prisoner's Dilemma, he could have given the students who took the test a 100 and everyone else a 0, but given everyone an 80 if no one took the test. Which I would have found much more interesting.

It's already a real case of the prisoner's dilemma, but with different rewards for different people depending on what they value. Most of the students in the article placed a higher value on not having to take the exam. I would place a higher value on taking the exam.
Logically speaking, you are correct, but human beings are rarely logical; even less so when there's a group of them.

Taking the test may provide self-validation, but it will do so at the expense of all of your classmates failing the course. In the end all you'll prove is that you were so inept (socially) that you were willing to sacrifice all of your peers for nothing more than pride.
When Posterous emerged I had high hopes for it. My first post was quite enthusiastic.

http://przemoc.posterous.com/rouse-e-by-post-ie-why-i-am-her...

But I quickly understood that their service wasn't meant to improve at all. Every problem I reported to them was dismissed (directly or indirectly). So I created following page to warn the others.

http://faulty.posterous.com/

I thought about the idea of posting via (plain-text) mail seriously, but they weren't sharing my mindset.

I left posterous long time ago (well, my CNAME still points there, have to fix it...) and I see it was a wise decision.

Rule #0 of the internet: you have to constantly backup it!
Why should I trust that this will last longer, given the same people are involved? The fact that you charge $5 / month? What do I get for $5 / month versus, say, my own VPS running whatever blog software I choose for the same money (or less)?
The way I did it was to write lots of functions that take e.g. an array (the same approach works for other things) as their first argument, then a function that I called unbind which converts a function of x arguments into a function of (x-1) arguments where the first argument is replaced with the this pointer. Then you can have a function ('bless') that copies all of those 'unbound' functions onto a real data object or prototype. That way you get the best of both worlds and it's up to the user as to what they bless.

The other aspect to this of course is that using es6 proxies, the library could have been made to behave exactly like the native array even without using one.
It's not obvious until you try to create a test yourself that creating a fair test is hard. Particularly for an intro course, since it's material that you know so well that you barely think about it consciously anymore. I took the same approach, and I was cognizant of the fact that some of my students came in with prior programming experience.
Roll your own! It's fun. My site is a custom made file-based blogging platform written with Python Flask, and it's a joy to use since I made it exactly how I wanted it to be made. One feature that I really enjoy is being able to call source files into the post. This allows me to create/update code snippets extremely easily. Markdown + calling includes on my source files is exactly what I needed to efficiently produce content, so I made it myself.
Haha, epic response.
They exist somewhere in the Opera cloud ether, and locally on my computer. Sync doesn't work, so it is a pretty crappy solution.

I thought briefly of writing some Pinboard.in extension, but I probably wouldn't be able to extend the built-in bookmarks system anyway.

Chrome sync doesn't work either. :/

I do prefer Opera to Chrome, because it manages bookmarks better, when I need to access them and search for something particular, though.
This begs the question: if the acquisition was talent acquisition why couldn't they have just sold the Posterous name and software?
Malware-Serving LA Times Page Went Unnoticed for 6 Weeks
Tesla, the New York Times and the levelling of the media playing field
I don't see your python code defining a distribution or sort key for Redshift which is an important design consideration. (For my own use case of log analysis, I sort on datetime and use an "even" distribution). Also doesn't look like you ran "vacuum" or "analyze" after doing the loads to Redshift. So the query optimizer has no statistics to drive its decisions.

And as others have pointed out, your 30 GB data set is pretty tiny. You could look at some of the in-memory DB options out there if you need to speed things up.
Looking at how exceptionally crude this "implant" is, it should come as no surprise to anyone how annoying and uncomfortable it turned out to be. The technique here is to embed a small magnet subcutaneously, that's it.

I think having a magnetic sense in general would be cool, but not like this. A real piece of cyberware instead of this crude body mod butchery might well be worth trying out. It would be especially nice if it was sensitive enough to work as a compass.
> JavaScript and the DOM have not been incredibly successful at turning the browser into a first-class application development platform.

Seriously? From where I stand, it looks like browser-based applications are destroying the desktop-based software market with alacrity, and are coming for mobile. And also that major vendors like Google and Microsoft are shipping desktop platforms where JS (and sometimes the DOM) is a primary way of developing applications.

The browser as application development platform is one of the two most important developments in software development in the last 20 years. That looks "incredible successful" to me.
On a related note, The New York Times just posted synced videos from a number of dash-cams showing the Siberian meteorite: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/15/world/europe/1...
#1 Software patents should be for no more than 5 years.

Perhaps that should be true of all trivial inventions. Drug companies, for example, tweak best sellers coming off patent protection by adding another compatible compound and getting another 20 years, although the original compound looses protection.
Another point, not mentioned in the article, is that you can't approach an MRI unit, unless you want to see the magnet rip out of your finger and ballistically destroy stuff on its way to the 1.5+ Tesla superconductive monster bathing in liquid helium.

/dramatic exaggeration.

Seriously, it can be very problematic, though. See http://www.simplyphysics.com/flying_objects.html
> Yes, it is slightly more inconvenient

That's not just inconvenient, it's verging on paranoia. Most people haven't got the time or the processor cycles to spare to run a separate VM. What's wrong with just disabling plugins for all but trusted sites?
Wow. Just wow. Your winning combination of charm, wit and kindness must keep your social calendar very full.

Enjoy the ride home on the short bus, man.
Jekyll with https://github.com/bhollis/maruku for markdown on steroids.
It seems that they were preventing other students from going in as well (at least that was the implication with the guarding of doors). So perhaps they actually learned to get what you want through coercion.
Or, at least plug it in overnight on a really cold day.
I don't think I have ever viewed any content on Posterous. I didn't even know what it does until I started reading these comments. On the other hand, I get sent Tumblr links daily. Multiple times a day.

If Posterous is the biggest competitor to Tumblr, it seems that says Tumblr has no real competition.
And the shiny new server replacing it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ibm_pc_51...
Ask HN: Tech predictions for the next 10 years?
The recent posting of the 10 Predictions [1], got me thinking. What predictions do people on HN have? Focus on tech. Upvote the best ideas.

This could be very interesting ...

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/ten-predictions