skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh yeah, daylight savings.

goodnight!
I've heard about them, too, but when I find the relevance of your point, I'll drop you a line.
Almost every single 'issue' on this page is nonsensical FUD.

1&2 - Let's not trust Amazon's system but instead just some other random company!

3. Deduplication as an invasion of privacy? Last I checked it didn't work across users (as this ridiculous page suggests) for coming on a couple years now.

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"... these aren't just problems that affect Dropbox"

Yeah, the probably affect the vast majority of the cloud-based backup systems.
I wrote C in the 1990s on IBM mainframes, PC/DOS, and OS/2. I used some IBM mainframe, Microsoft, and OS/2 documentation. At one time I wrote some C code callable from PL/I for the TCP/IP calls, available to C but not to PL/I. I wrote some little utilities in C on OS/2, e.g., for sorting files of strings. Recently I wrote a grand, very carefully considered solver for Ax = b where A is a m x n matrix and x and b are m x 1. So, the A need not be square and if square need not be non-singular. I was fairly careful about numerical accuracy, etc.

For the C documentation, I recall only one point: Due to all the different addressing options on x86, the Microsoft C compiler had a crucial but nearly secret command line switch we needed. I found the switch only by some strange efforts. It was not in the documentation. None of the documentation I had was much beyond just K&R.
I meant to fix the false positives on the domain name availability, or is that issue related somehow?
Hunter Moore at one point operated a website dedicated to posting pornographic images, ostensibly without the permission of the participants. (I say ostensibly because as far as I know it hasn't gone to court. The media coverage certainly implied that permission was lacking.) He used the presence of other, more legitimate pornography to defend the site but in my opinion legitimacy wasn't really his goal. (His new website's selling point is identifying information.)

As a free-speech advocate I'm leery of defamation lawsuits in general, but (again, in my opinion) Moore has gone well past the point of being merely 'offensive' and moved on to actively endangering other people for no reason. Accusing someone of possessing child pornography because you don't like them is getting pretty close to the line as well. So I don't have much sympathy.
Yep. If you have any mail on your companies email server it's fair game.

Hence why the need to keep work and personal life seperate is important and keep bitching out people on work emails (or any emails for that matter..) is super important.
Would deduplication by technological means necessarily imply lack of security?
The main idea of this campaign is "First isn't always the best", very confusing...
This has got to be a smear campaign by a competitor. That last part

> But keep in mind, these aren't just problems that affect Dropbox... these are problems that many online storage providers have. Make sure to find out if your online storage provider can answer these questions before you trust them to secure your data in the cloud.

is particularly slimy.
I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on domains (for businesses, not hording), and I use Name.com because they support two-factor authentication:

https://www.name.com/services/namesafe

I can't comment on their customer service because I've never needed it.

I don't use Name.com for email. I've never used a domain registrar for email. I use a family account at FastMail:

https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/family.html
I think this is not necessarily the best comparison. It would be just as interesting if, for instance, a father found that all desks available were somehow inadequate for his daughter and made one for her from scratch, yet we don't go around telling people they should learn wood working. I think it would be better if more people could code but I think equating it with literacy is a bit silly.
This is sort of happening to my side project at the moment. I am also losing inspiration for development, too. It's in a deadlock where I'm waiting for inspiration, which won't come until I resolve my fear of failure; on the other hand I am trying to resolve my fear by waiting for inspiration, which won't come until I resolve my fear of failure; on the other hand I am trying to resolve my fear by waiting for inspiration, which won't come until I resolve my fear of failure; on the other hand I am trying to resolve my fear by waiting for inspiration, which won't come until I resolve my fear of failure; on the other hand I am trying to resolve my fear by waiting for inspiration, which won't come until... shooting sparks and explosions
lxml.html is great for most cases.

I developed this one for my own web scraping:
http://docs.webscraping.com/
Generating power through nuclear fusion is a technological solution to a social problem. Improving desalination might be another. Arcologies might be another. Fundamental improvements in human health would be a possibility.
what does "on your own" mean..? something I just want to putz around with, or does something that I'm hoping to start a company around qualify?
The book "Why the Jew" seems to address the issue more universal than the other. I'll read the this one.

No, I did not intended to say "Or are they asking for it?". However I do not care if people down vote my comments.

Thanks.
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So I thought everyone was across this stuff, at least since it blew up on the net a couple of years ago.

Dropbox is a really easy way to move files from one computer to another and to keep multiple computers syncronized. It's not particularly secure, and I wouldn't ever store work on it, or basically anything I'd be upset about being leaked to the net. It's also becoming a "default cloud" for iphone/android apps to use to make it easy for them to do synchronisation.

If you want to store stuff in a cloud that you wish to stay secure (code, pictures of yourself naked, your amature fanfiction), and you want the kind of "drop it in a folder" ease of use that Dropbox has, the best bet is probably SpiderOak.
Don't tell anyone but very carefully selected disciples.
Don't forget this one: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-f...

Honestly, all these (with the exception of Alaska) come down to population density. In the US, it's not North versus South, it's urban versus rural, as far as demographic divides go.
> the issues raised by (iirc) Mircosoft and Apple against webp becoming the HTML5 standard video codec

"webm" is the video format (and uses VP8). "webp" is a related image format.

[webp is not very compelling as an image format on its own, but maybe the relationship with webm confers some advantage...]
How could this be illegal? He's not redistributing the work.
Kim Dotcom?
Why not both?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specif...

waiter there's some lxml in my soup!
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The affiliate space is so tough. Be proud you managed to raise at all with that model. When I tried once upon a time, investors looked at me like I was nuts. (And I was.)

And it's not hard to see why. You need to sell about $2mm worth of stuff on Amazon to pay for a single engineer (estimating with a 5% payout). It gets even worse when you add in all the complicating factors that surround sending someone off your property to convert. And in your case I believe you were sharing a portion back with the customer, so it's even a smaller slice of a small slice.

I think affiliate models are perfect for part-time bloggers and the like, but to build a big venture-backed business on the model is an incredible challenge.
Can you elaborate a little more on the server-side statefulness of Lift and the issues you encountered?

I was reticent about statefulness on the server-side, until I read an article about statefulness in Lift[1], which does mention how having session affinity helps with it.

Mostly, my questions are: does it scale and how do you handle state loss (due to servers catching on fire or other hardware/software failures)?

[1] http://lift.la/lift-state-and-scaling
please read the article ... at least.
The existence of email at universities predates the use of email by other organizations -- thus, there are a different set of norms expected by faculty.
Aren't most of the screenshots of what you are seeing the script kiddies computer point of view?

There were only ~3 screenshots that show the victims OS GUI. OSX usage is what, 8%? .92.92.92 = 78% chance? I hope you're not taking the article as evidence that you are 'safe' on your choice of OS.

The first time I ever felt that my privacy was violated on a computer I was a using NeXT slab.
it's resveratrol!
Read between the lines. There's likely been fraud here. They aren't coming back from this.
It basically means something that currently isn't your full-time gig (although I suppose someone could be independently wealthy and working on their own project full-time). I want to talk to people that are taking their free time and using it to build projects and be productive. The people that are scratching an itch and can't be stopped from building things. It would be amazing if some of these projects end up turning into companies and full-time jobs, but that doesn't necessarily have to be the end goal. I just want to interview people that are passionate about what they are doing and can't help doing it with the time they have.
Hopefully in the future when all users can install trusted root certificates and only run software that is signed by a descendent we won't have this bullshit.
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came from python (and tornado) to ruby, if it wasnt for sinatra, i'd have stayed with python and tornado. great work, keep up the clean syntax and lightweightness.
sadly, every time we move towards this, people start screaming about "palladium" and "dee-arr-ehm" and "but then I won't be able to install Snarling Sealion!"
The question, in my mind, isn't about whether or not it was OK for Harvard to search their mail server, but rather why they would need to do it.

First of all, does Harvard attempt to punish the person who leaked the controversy to the media? And if nearly half of the 279 students were suspected to be cheating and were going to be asked to withdraw, would they really expect the issue to remain hush-hush?
I'm usually not for vendetta, but with that punk i would not mind. Is this thing legal really ? or is it because the victim are not big corporations that can bribe lawmakers to make it illegal ?
The world is not divided into scumbags and non-scumbags.
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People that do this are evil.
The NSA wants mathematicians to work on cryptanalysis and cryptosystems. These ratters seem pretty far from having any skills whatsoever if they need a book to help them get John and Jane Q. Averageuser to run their malware.
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Both are true IMO, we really need to be vigilant about whether we can install our own certs or not.
I get the feeling that the author has learned nothing. He is pivoting from a damn hard startup, to one that is nearly impossible. If you look at the bottom of the top 10% of YC one of the companies is Octopart. That is a medium hard startup, which is probably a better target.
This seems really silly to me. In large institutions it is very common for this to happen, and the email accounts and all the content in them belongs to Harvard. This is the case with pretty much any employer. A clever faculty member looking to leak to the press should a) not use their Harvard email address or b) better yet, pick up the phone to provide the tip.
That change is not something you should be putting off for a few weeks. You're on HN right now, you've got a little buzz and some traffic, and changing the existing site to have lighter text would take less time than writing any of the comments you've made in this thread.
Until someone hacks the certificate and then all hell breaks loose.
Previous submission already on front page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5354259

(But good of you to post the canonical URL.)
Did you read the article? Harvard (apparently) violated their own policy for faculty email, which, among other things, states that "The faculty member is entitled to prior written notice that his or her records will be reviewed, unless circumstances make prior notification impossible, in which case the faculty member will be notified at the earliest possible opportunity." It's not a standard corporate email policy.
This is just stupid. I haven't bought the book, I haven't read it (I don't know pydanny personally), but I teach Python and Django courses. My Django courseware has several shoutouts to best practices I got from pydanny, uses crispy-forms of which he is the godfather, etc. I see one sentence of valuable review and two paragraphs of trolling.
My primary concern with DRM is its anti-user behaviour, whether such an attitude is codified in the license or not. I believe it should not be allowed at all because I believe it violates natural rights that the users of software and hardware have. Setting aside the fundamental philosophy, I'd say I probably agree with you regarding the wording; namely, that the term "buying" must be removed needn't be the remedy. I think Algorias put it well by instead stating that the term "license" must be included in the marketing, whether one states "buy a license to this product" or else elects to shorten it to "license this product." In either case the licensed nature of the product is at least introduced, even if it doesn't come with "Defective by Design" warning labels.
You can trust exactly no one to secure your stuff, that's why you should encrypt it and have multiple backups at different sites (some of which might be cloud). Problem solved.
I've been reading too much HN. For a good 4 second my brain interpreted Apply as made up app-maker startup domain name type thing. App.ly!
You're not acting like it.
State loss is something I've been doing a great deal of thinking about. Right now a page reload is necessary, and I've written code in the past to essentially store any modified fields before running the page reload and restore them when the reload completes.

However, I'm still working through the conceptual aspects of restoring a page without a reload, over AJAX, provided I can figure out a good way to do it without compromising Lift's basic built-in XSS resistance.
"When you do this, you're wasting time that could be spent sleeping."

Why not just argue the general point: When you are on HN you're wasting time that could be spent doing something productive.
Does Firefox provides this option? I don't recall. Besides, there is an option to encrypt sync data or the password.
LOL, glad I didn't go overboard on the snark. Thanks for clarifying this. :)
The jqXHR object is something that passes by unnoticed by many jQuery developers. A simple use of promises can sort a lot of problems and clean your code pretty well.
I find attitudes like this fascinating. If they were within their legal right to do this, that explains why the resident deans are complaining instead of suing.

When did the fact something is permitted become reason to shut down or marginalize discussion on if it should happen and/or be permitted?
It depends on what you want to do with yourself. You also need to be able to be brutally honest with yourself.

If your goal is to be a doctor, attorney, MBA, you need to sell your soul to get the best grades possible. A JD/MBA from a top tier school translates into a high paying gig when you leave. The same degree from a state school means you get to review contracts for some County or work at Starbucks.

I had a 2.2 GPA in CS -- mostly because I had to work full time through school, was lazy, and didn't have enough time. I love computers and IT, but didn't have passion for what I was doing. I was passionate about history and writing, and ended up with a dual major that was fun for me (I had a great in history), even with hardly any time investment. I stuck with CS because I had no interest in academia/teaching/law or other things that a History degree helps with.

I adopted a system like what this guy did... I was actually detained by campus security in the final for one of my "E1" classes because the professor had never seen me and thought I was taking the test for someone.

That meant that I wasn't going to be working for a top tier technology company. So I got a job with a tiny company, built a network, and ended up with a pretty awesome role.

If you're really struggling with the material and can't get an A after giving it 110%, you're just not at the top of the curve. It's not the end of the world, accept it or move on to something you are passionate about.
It's in the FAQ section.
"Revenge porn" is posting pornographic pictures of your exes (or other people of whom you have such pictures, and don't have permission to post it publicly). The idea being that you shame your exes by posting your dirty photos of them from when you were dating. Apparently the sites also include real names and hometowns of the people posted, or in some cases even addresses and phone numbers, to increase the chances of them being embarrassed by people who know them finding the pictures.

This particular defamation suit has nothing to do with revenge porn per se. It just happens that the founder of a revenge porn website is a huge asshole, and started making (presumably) baseless accusations of pedophilia against someone who campaigns against cyber bullying and who helped shut down his first revenge porn site. The details are a bit more complicated, but that's the gist.

So the defamation lawsuit is about his pedophilia accusation, not anything directly to do with the revenge porn sites, though I think there are some other pending privacy lawsuits about them too.
Or it could be the most likely explanation: the existing US federal investigation of Intrade is moving to the next phase, a grand jury has issued a sealed indictment of Intrade staff, and their assets have been frozen.
Let me see if I'm hearing you right:

1) I'm a man, and I don't notice sexism, therefore it doesn't exist.

2) The women I've talked to never told me they experienced discrimination, therefore it doesn't exist.

3) My wife doesn't like programming, therefore all women don't like programming.

4) Being Portuguese is an equivalent status within the technical community as being a woman, and should be treated equivalently.

Is that what you're saying?
When I evaluated the use of HTML5 section elements last year, including the nav element, screen readers didn't support them.[1] Also, there wasn't any benefit to using HTML5 section elements.

A book named The Truth About HTML5[2] provides additional reasons not to use HTML section elements.

I've yet to read about any benefits to using HTML5 section elements.

[1] http://www.accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/10/jaws-ie-an...

[2] http://www.truthabouthtml5.com/
:)

Reminds me of the "Dad gives Link a sex change" story from last year for Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/i-am-no-man-for-zelda-...
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True. What else? No experts I know like investing in this space. What are the returns for investors to date in music startups, exactly?
Mobile version is still showing trade prices and other info https://m.intrade.com/#home
I bet it came as a big surprise to the Harvard faculty that the same asshole stuff everybody else's boss does is the sort of thing their boss does, too.
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I like the implication in the hack that the pink umbrella and handbag now belong to Mario. Two hits against gender stereotypes!
I'm sorry Karunamon, but nintendo has not being kind to peach. Check out super princess peach for her big game!

She navigates the levels by running, jumping, hitting blocks, amicably respecting other life, and having super-powered mood swings.

Actually I lied about one of those, she murders everything in sight of course. So that's a plus.
Based on the single review for the book on Amazon and the "15 of 52 found helpful", this seems to be an inflammatory topic:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Q6XM1A/?tag=saloncom08-20

I'd be curious to see more scientific reviews of the book first before buying it.
Look at some older versions in the page history (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:EnTerr/Paul_...) before the page got whittled down before some deletion attempt, and you can find quite a few.
I was last at Harvard in 1981, but even as a teaching fellow for one course I was faculty. My ID said "Faculty", I could eat at the Faculty Club, etc. Ditto when I was a Post-Doctoral/Research Fellow there. (Some of my fondest post-doc memories are of sharing a lunch table with guys like Tom Schelling.)

I'm guessing that "Resident Deans" are like what we used to call "Senior Tutors". Whether or not that's the case, it seems pretty clear to me that Harvard tradition would call for them to be treated with the same courtesies (other) faculty are. Indeed, by a large margin, they probably have MORE influence on undergraduate students' academic success than any one professor or teaching fellow generally does.
The issue wasn't people leaking the controversy to the media, it was that A resident dean forwarded private email from the administration giving guidance on how to advise athletics students on how to withdraw gracefully.
Given this basic math, it amazes me that these ideas still get funded.
Sigh. You web guys are completely blinded to the rest of the engineering universe. You actively oppose all attempts to do anything genuinely new, and then say "look! It never works!"

Meanwhile, the rest of us non-web people grow increasingly tired of even trying to contribute or explain anything, since every novel gets shut down. The end result is that you've created a perfect echo chamber of self-fulfilling prophesy -- the web technology stack remains stuck and broken, and you actually seem to like it that way.

I don't work on AAA games. I work on development tools and end-user applications, where having good tooling directly translates to better user experiences.

The fact that you think no-compromises performance is only the purview of AAA games is exactly why you have no business being an OS vendor. I hope -- for the sale of our industry -- that Apple, Google, and Ubuntu eat Firefox OS' lunch.
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FWIW, this demo runs on Chrome Beta for Android with WebGL enabled (although the UI is a bit unusable in that context).
#7 is a good one too.
I think that misses the point, and the article discusses why. It's not about what Harvard could do; it's about standard protocol for treating faculty, and it's about trust. In the academic world faculty are usually treated with incredible amounts of respect, and several people interviewed in the article see Harvard's actions as a breach of that standard.

This guy puts it well:

>Harry R. Lewis, a professor and former dean of Harvard College, said, “People are just bewildered at this point, because it was so out of keeping with the way we’ve done things at Harvard.”