skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Creepy is about the danger of a hit in social status from being associated with someone with low status, whether that low status be because of poor social sklills, being ugly or anything else. It's about the possibility of contamination.

For men, yes. Dr. NerdLove offers more information on the female experience (http://www.doctornerdlove.com/2012/05/labeling-men-creepy/). To summarize: "78% of the victims of sexual assault or sexual violence are women", so it comes down to perception validated by the statistics.

Even with the above, "creepy" remains a gender-neutral label
minimum usage policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk
None. If fact the TPB ban work-around rely on old technology, a proxy, or a VPN.
I think I was wrong. There's only one coolant (or coolant family), but several server-cooling systems. There are both liquid and phase-change systems, and I'm not sure which this is.

3M is the chemical firm which developed the coolant ("Novec"). Leeds/Iceotope is a customer:

"UK company Iceotope, that patented liquid cooling for servers in the data center back in 2009, has released new products to market that use 3M’s Novec, an engineered non-flammable solvent it says makes the cooling process safer."

http://blog.iceotope.com/2012/03/iceotope-liquid-cools-cabin...

3M is also developing a server cooling system, independent of Leeds/Iceotope. This is the one in this press release, and I was mistaken to identify the one with the other.

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/NA-DataCenters/D...

The 3M system is phase-change. I'm no longer sure what the Register is writing about, but Iceotope is researching both liquid and phase-change systems:

"Iceotope Ltd, registered in Guernsey, is a technology company that researches and develops liquid and phase change cooling solutions based around heat pipe encapsulation."

http://blog.iceotope.com/2011/12/assets-of-green-data-centre...

Here's their liquid cooling system. One property of these coolants is their very low boiling point. That's useful for phase-change cooling. Another is that they have very high thermal expansivity, which means that they convect strongly as liquids (without phase change). That's useful for strictly liquid cooling.

http://blog.iceotope.com/2012/09/liquid-cooling-halves-data-...

They say the convection is 20-40x stronger than water, and overall heat removal 10-15x better. Since the Register article is saying "a thousand times" better heat conduction, I think they're taking about a phase change system. At least for that specific figure.
50km is massive.

Earth's largest crater[1] is 300km across, and that's thought to have been created by an asteroid 5-10km in diameter. The 180km Chicxulub crater[2] (this impact is generally believed to be largely responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs) was around 10km in diameter.

I'm kind of hoping this turns out to be something. I thought the Russian meteor the other week was a most amazing natural event, and something far bigger than that would be incredible (not to mention safe for humanity in this case).

EDIT: 50km is actually the upper estimated limit of the size of this comet. Wikipedia[3] says 8-50km. It's still huge.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vredefort_crater
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_Crater
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1
Thats just an error, if you check the IPs they all belong to EuroVPS who in turn seem to lease their lines from Leaseweb(Netherlands).
Maybe Eurovps office used to be in Kyrgyzstan and the whois data was stale at the time this was mapped. (e.g. http://whois.domaintools.com/77.235.32.0)
Same thing for the one in Almaty, Kazakhstan which is actually located in Belgium (http://whois.domaintools.com/89.106.244.21).
Another example 46.37.160.114 maps to Vladivostok, but it actually belongs to BurstNET London.
Don't you think you need users to move towards product-market fit?
I don't get it. How can anyone look at the subsequent explosion of IP and mobile services and conclude that telecom deregulation in 1996 wasn't a smashing success? I'm sure there's room for improvement, but I'm not sold on a radical restructuring.
When Acquiring That Big Customer Could Ruin Your Business (what the CAC?)
Oh yes, you can set your own dispatch characters, but the # is the dispatch character for the CL standard syntax.
There are really 2 types of piracy. Non-destructive and destructive. I believe the majority is non-destructive. People download things which they either do not have access to or do not value enough to pay for. If the option wasn't there to download it they wouldn't pay for it anyway.

Downloading content which you would otherwise pay for is destructive. It is like what the OP describes above. He was downloading things he would otherwise have paid for. Money wasn't going to game makers. He was effectively stealing and its damaging to people making the games.

Film / Music industry people think the majority of piracy is destructive. I think they are wrong. I have spent thousands of pounds on things I discovered through piracy. However, if you are downloading things you know you would otherwise buy then really it is difficult to deny you are not stealing or at least conning content owners out of money they are owed.
If the candidate said all of the above instead of just thinking it within their head, I would award them additional points. When I'm interviewing someone, I care about how they think and process instead of what they know.
> it's telling that no other operating system except Windows commonly suffers from this problem.

This is an honest question, as this area isn't my specialty, but could this be for the same reason that people used to perpetuate the myth that Macs don't get viruses? Attackers simply target the platform with the largest market share.
Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/feb/28/online-piracy-is...
Or how fast.
Rooftop Farming Flows At New Bronx Housing Project
First of all, the firmware does not prevent you to use other OS. Only one function is locked to Windows and it seems Microsoft is open to allowing others to boot with it [sidenote].

Secondly, every single iPhone/iPad is locked to boot iOS; most of the phones with Android are locked as well. (And obviously Windows phones are locked too). And by locked I mean locked, not few clicks away from using the device as you wish (as is the case with notebooks and desktop computers). How come it's not rendered illegal?

Sidenote: I agree with the fact that Microsoft shouldn't be the one deciding who gets the key and who doesn't. My opinion on this is that if everyone can't agree on one impartial organization then hardware manufacturers should be the one deciding it. Obviously it would be best if users could add their own keys.
This is why Firefox has a quota on localStorage, per eTLD+1. Of course people keep complaining about this quota...
They mention that they posted the code last year, in August. Does anyone have a link to that code? This is so incredible to me!
Maybe not in a "he stole my bike" manner but certainly in a "we sell copies of this and he took one without paying" sense, which is really the point. I won't make assumptions about your position, but the argument you are making is a pedantic and irrelevant attempt to justify behavior that is clearly a violation of someone else's rights.

I'm not saying the current media cartels are right. Not at all. But people taking this approach only hurts more reasonable arguments that might actually be constructive.
Now there are already three comments adding no value.
No it's a shit idea from end to end.

Any PKI based system is a shit idea unless you are personally in control of the trusted root CA, which in this case you're not. I think that is what Linus is saying.

Google for "certificate authority compromised" and you'll see what utter wads of shit for brains this could be entrusted to.
I'm lost as to what's going on here. I clicked your links and I read your description but I don't get how they are tied together. For example, how does your opening sentence have anything to do with the Google Docs links?

"Tomorrowbook is a web search engine that displays results as an infinite list of favicons by default."

Link #1 - to a jpeg

You then say "The goal was to offer a more visual display of results for children, elderly and mobile devices." Too vague - are you trying to offer a more visual display for the favicon next to the search results? Is that your "differentiator" I assume? I'm just so lost here.

EDIT: No one wants a "web search engine that displays results as an infinite list of favicons by default." People might want to view the favicon next to the search results but no one wants an "infinite list of favicons by default."
I would think that an impact of mars by this body would delay any further plans of visiting mars for a while. The level of atmospheric dust would be... tremendous. I wonder if 'backsplash' of rocks and other material would pose a threat to the mars orbiters?
If you don't have product-market fit it's normally much easier to move the product than it is to move the market.
As rplnt as said:
> but apparently it's beneficial for them economically to only sell Windows machines

Maybe in Vietnam it happens just the opposite. It's easy to sell a computer _without_ Windows that with it.

I don't get why the companies cannot sell "empty" laptops without OS installed, thought.
I've entered a budding relationship with a pretty neat woman just last week because of her initiative, so I'm glad to report it can happen.

The good news: that approach filters out the men with gender-relations issues sooner rather than later, leaving more time for those few that make it through.
Crime: Warning Gore: Hack Saw Blood Bath
I'm going to get the ball rolling for anyone eles who is thinking about jumping in:

http://sidebar.io : Sidebar.io - The best design links, every day.

http://www.helpareporter.com/ : HARO - Publicity via reporters around the world

http://www.founderweekly.com/ : Founder Weekly - For entrepreneurs featuring best curated content

http://freelancersweekly.com/ : Freelancers Weekly - Actionable advice from Brennan Dunn
It is not reasonable to assume that because a phenomenon is not observed in a small sample size, that it will also be absent in a much larger sample size. The volume of fracking fluid being pumped into the ground today is orders of magnitude larger than has been used historically.
Interesting question. I wonder if you could get into this list (without nefarious purpose) if you provided some major hosting service? Eg: I see k12-schools in the US are on that list, it would make sense to allow someone providing shared hosting to get on the list (to avoid users setting cross-domain cookies). Eg: appspot.com and blogspot.* is on the list[1].

More information:

http://publicsuffix.org/submit/ (and the rest of the site, obviously)

[1] http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/ef...
Big Data tools cost too much, do too little
Wouldn't this be helping us terraform Mars faster? I think a lot of CO2 is trapped in ice on Mars, and we'd need that to make (presumably genetically enhanced) plants live there. A body that large hitting Mars could help raise its temperature.
Is there any info on how this would affect the rovers?
They very recently added a feature to Gist to help deal with spam.

https://github.com/blog/1426-spam-spam-spam-spam
This is a great idea! I was actually just recently looking for something like this, to help with testing on an app.

I think my only concern would be security with those who are testing your app, because you would most likely need them to test use cases by giving them special accounts and such. Is there some sort of checks and balances for people who are testers on the site? Can you make the testers sign a NDA before they test (if the project happen to still be in BETA or something)?
How are PC vendors hoping to sell laptops to corporate buyers whose IT departments want to reimage all those machines (a lot of them with Linux images) without wasting time going into UEFI setup menus to turn off Secure Boot one machine at a time?
CinnamonJS Find In-Page Text using Synonyms
On your point regarding higher prices: I think the idea is that AT&T would be able to charge whatever access fees they want for service to rural and low income areas. They would have to compete with other VoIP services, sure, but those services need to be delivered over some infrastructure.
There is a more recent post from Leonid Elenin with updated data:
http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/c2013-a1-siding-spring/

"the comet might pass just 41,000 km [...] from the planet’s centre [...] 100% certainty that the planet will pass through the gaseous envelope of the comet [...] will be subject to intensive bombardments by microparticles which, among other things, might cause malfunction of the space probes currently there."
I wonder if the system to report abuse can be abused.

Can someone report someone's non-spammy gist as abuse and get it removed? Will that person get some sort of notification or warning so that he get a chance to backup the (legitimate, non-spam) gist?

Because if there's a chance that one's valuable gists get deleted without warning, that's a concern.
Any background on who "Conformal Systems" are and why they would operate exit nodes ? I'm not really familiar with who they are and what they do, but they seem to be the only one in the top-25 that isn't either a hosting company or a residential ISP.

(apart from Formless Networking, but that one is a bit more well known)

Not that it's not nice of them, but it seems a bit out of place.
Hm. Interesting to observe, but will this throw a lot more crap into space that we then have to worry about in a few decades?

I assume it'll knacker any landers we have there as well through either seismic activity or dust penetration.
Right, and the police should not have the right to pull you over for speeding. Only someone with a massive sense of self-entitlement could call the West's civil liberties scraps. We could have total freedom (anarchy) but I don't think you would like it.
Bezel-less & Shared Mobile Displays Nearing Reality
Ask HN readers from Europe: Why hackful.eu is not active?
I am from Europe and found out that there exists similar site as Hacker News for Europe http://hackful.eu where we can discuss start-up ideas. Is there any reason that is not active?

One reason I found out while browsing that hackful is not visually appealing but that can be solved.
I find your reply humorously telling -- wallet app means just that: a bitcoin wallet application. Google and it's associated services/applications are not the end-all be-all ;)
Thanks. I missed that one. Not much cost info there but, I like the sound of:

"In computers, a Sandia Cooler would mean that we could finally cross the 4GHz/150W TDP thermal wall — or build computers that are thinner and quieter."
The torrent user experience is poor. You interact with tacky, ad-rich sites to download files that you have to open up in often buggy desktop client software before receiving a product of highly variable quality.

Contrast this with private trackers, which often offer:

1) Extremely high quality files.
2) Extremely well curated.

Having used Spotify for the last year, I find the experience vastly inferior to when I used private torrent sites. Of course, I get to massage my conscience with the knowledge that I am paying real money. More and more though, I'm sceptical of how much of my money content producers ever see. I'm starting to feel the same distaste for Spotify as I do the traditional media distribution companies. More, I've lost that sense of building my own library of music.

Can it be so hard?

1) Low cost. Low middleman fees.
2) High quality product.
3) Absolute ownership of what I buy.
4) Good UX.

Once this is done, there'll be no need to lobby for breaking the internet.
Last week he very kindly answered some doubts about international startups on YC. And that was a ASK HN with no upvotes...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253584
It took a little googling. Here's a potential answer.

The paper the article is based on talks about "absorption imaging". Googling that I found another paper [1] in ArXiV which describes the method a little bit: "absorption imaging, where the attenuation of a laser beam passing through an atom cloud is measured, is the workhorse of ultracold atom experiments. The shadow cast by the atom cloud onto the CCD allows an estimation of the atomic column density."

And if I understood correctly, a CCD is a "charge-coupled device" [2], sort of a digital camera. And that's where the shadow falls.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.4206v2.pdf
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge-coupled_device
My first "real job" was at a company that developed equipment for radiological surveys for decommissioning efforts, and after a short time was given the responsibility to develop a VB5/6 application that turned out to make a lot of money and gain a lot of favor contract-wise. A few months in, I was tasked to our largest project (and the largest decommissioning project in the US), and traveled back and forth each week.

As someone on the go, I thought it was a good idea to keep the source code for that app on my flash drive (there was no Github back then). For 6 months I worked directly on that flash drive, adding new features to support the large project, and expanding the abilities of the application to gain us even more favor. One day, I plugged in the flash drive and Windows gave the warning that it was corrupt and needed to be formatted. Immediately my heart sank, and the drive was indeed dead. My last backup was about 3 months old, and didn't even include some resources like icons and graphics.

Long story short, I had to sit there for weeks and re-code everything I'd lost, using the latest release as a reference to what was missing. On the plus side, my design was probably better the second time around, but nobody was pleased that any new releases would be delayed a month at least.

I now keep that flash drive, still in its corrupt state, as a permanent fixture on all the desks I've worked at since. It's a constant reminder to not be stupid when it comes to time-expensive intellectual property.
When you run out of passion, or will.
If we need more than 8 decimal places, we have a new currency of very similar nature with a more convenient base unit. By that point, the principle will have been proven.
From what I gather, it would be useful for targeted attacks - bruteforce wouldn't really be viable if your handle takes 50 years to generate in javascript?

Not that it's hard to get people to click links, but am I missing what's so "nifty" about this vuln?
Interesting, all the Berlin exit nodes are in a place that is a huge construction area on the Museum Island. Based on this I suppose they were only able to do city-level positioning (GeoIP or something similar).
Sure, I hope he is reading my aplication instead of answering "what if..." questions! :D
There's nothing new here. The exit nodes are public knowledge.
Responsive images until we get the picture
Thanks for the positive feedback :) The testers work independently and often sign NDAs at the moment I am working closely with the testers and clients as a match making kind of service.
I agree. Majority of Central London ones are right in the middle of the financial district.
And just by coincidence they are placed at the center of the capital.
> assuming something on that post could link off to something substantial regarding it's subject

I don't think that is the case; it's only using the keyword so it can be indexed against it. The links themselves are either self referential or your generic spam links.

Definitely wouldn't have linked it otherwise!
Government contractor. Feel free to guess what they're being paid to do...
Reimplementing the Wheel
We've needed a crowd-sourced human testing platform for software products for some time.

It would need granularity: as a developer I should be able to purchase N minutes of time from N people, potentially in such and such a demographic.

It would need an API: I should be able to build human testing into my deployment infrastructure.

It would need accountability: at minimum I want webcam footage of the tester using my product.

There are complications, but I see no reason why almost all of these couldn't be overcome by sufficiently smart automation.

Someone go build this!
Yes, there are several (it involves signing up for a "win free ipod" type deal) but not really anything that would stop a bad guy.
Witnessing such an event could help get humanity serious about existential risk, from comets or otherwise. I, for one, am hoping for an impact.
I recently found out about a service that pretty much offers this. It's called Pay4Bugs: https://www.pay4bugs.com/. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?
Last June, when this first came up, I commented:

I was thinking about the implications of using this technique to analyze e.g. political speeches and try to catch people lying on the act. Your application (winning on card games) seems very interesting too

Now, with the Google glass getting closer to being a real thing in the market, the possibilities are endless (for the good and for the bad). Unfortunately, my mind is kind of twisted and I think about the bad first. Must be a side effect of all the security issues I'm researching.

For instance:

# Google glass + Eulerian magnification + facial expression recognition = Instant "Lie to Me"-like[1] microexpressions expert.

# Google glass + Eulerian magnification + TSA agent: "picking" suspects by the way their pulse react as they get closer to the agent using the "apparatus". Of course, the real criminals would just take some kind of drug to avoid being detected...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me
The Onion and The Oscars: Let's move on
It would also dig a deep crater. Depending on the depth of the hole, the atmosphere may be dense enough at the bottom that you wouldn't need anything more than an oxygen mask and a heavy coat to walk around outside. Some have proposed intentionally diverting comets into Mars to Terraform it, as they would add water and create craters which could be used as oases.
Facebook needs "Silent Connect"
I have also done this exact thing. Luckily, it was on a development database, so nobody ever had to know! Easy mistake to make, for sure.
If it does infact hit, will there be enough time b/w impact and shock wave for curiosity to upload a high def video of the asteroid entreating the atmosphere to a satellite if it is in it's vicinity?
Bloggers, Have You Registered For The Big Blog Exchange #BIGBLOGX
>> That's just bad business advice.

I'm no MBA or startup guru, but I don't often hear "Founders in very early stage/prototype stage should avoid interacting with their users". Early stage interaction is critical to the success of the product.

>> Having a dedicated person to do it is actually more productive than the founders themselves doing it

If the goal is to get to know their audience needs, and iterate the produce development quickly, then dev-to-dev feedback is absolutely critical. Now is probably not a good time to clog the feedback filter by adding another human to the mix.

You can spend 30 hours working on your product backlog of features that haven't been vetted, or you can spend 30 hours getting to know your audience and discover that NSCoreLibFoo gives people the most trouble with push notifications.

What would convert more: a homepage hero about the three new features you dreamed up OR the fact that PushLayer can fix everything that sucks about NSCoreLibFoo (which half of your audience hates with a passion as you discovered).
The obvious question: will Curiosity see it? If so, it should be able to get some AMAZING footage!
Europe isn’t your streets and avenues
Probably not, C-F bonds are extremely stable, so perfluoro compounds are biologically inert. The datasheet says they made some animal inhale 10% (!) Novec gas for 4 hours without effect.

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=66666UF6EV...