skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as this guy deserves some kind of punishment for the horrible way he has treated people over the years, he doesn't deserve 4 years for being a class-a asshole to people. What he did wasn't a hack, heck he didn't even write the script that apparently scraped the data from the URL. A 12 year old kid with an introduction to PHP book could even write a PHP script that did what Weev did, it's not a hack it's a cheap exploit (I've done this with sites like Google & Yahoo for scraping search results before). AT&T are somewhat to blame for failing to protect the privacy of their customers in this instance, a company has a duty of responsibility to ensure it takes reasonable measures to protect customer data.

If I were the judge, I would have sentenced him to maybe 1 year (for releasing the info publicly), maybe made him serve 6 months of the sentence and given him a 3 year good behaviour bond with some conditions on getting some counselling for his obvious narcissism problem. The justice system really needs to get with the times, because these computer related hacking/cracking/exploiting incidents are only going to continue being a more common occurrence. The justice system is riddled with judges in their mid to late 60's who were raised in a non-Internet world and thus cannot truly understand the depth cases like these have or comprehend the extent as to how these defendants should be prosecuted.
Same problem (1) in Argentina.
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> The current banking system is inherently insecure. If you have an account number and a routing number (written on the bottom of every check), you can pull money. Bitcoin is potentially much more secure.

If the company you store your wallet with is hacked you lose everything, if your laptop is stolen or your dropbox account is hacked... it's as safe as keeping cash in your apartment. If your bank fucks up your money is (almost always) insured.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/hacker-steals-250... http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/bitcoin-price-plu...

> It's way too difficult to send money today, especially internationally, and fraud is a huge issue. We shouldn't need something like PayPal. Bitcoin solves this.

Fraud is a huge issue that Bitcoin does not solve. Send your money over bitcoin and it's gone, forever. Paypal etc. offer protections, they're not bulletproof but they're better than nothing.
small bug, when you move 2+ word elements to the right edge they get pushed to two lines.

edit: at least, it seemed to be happening a minute ago.
Sadly these days that has to be specified. Carry on.
"Leaving GMail" != "Hosting your own Email"

You could easily just use another email provider that will take care of the "sewer of pain" while you use a web-based IMAP front-end (or develop your own).
So good at telling a story in an approachable way, but still a smart and open-ended way. Here's a quote where he discusses a piece he did for a show my wife put together:

For me the ideal joke consists of the viewer/reader providing 98% of the idea, and the illustration just filling in that last tiny piece of the puzzle, that makes everything come together.

Much of my work certainly wouldn’t have happened without the inspiration I am getting from spending time with my kids; but I try to use this light and playful approach merely as a visual Trojan horse to tell a more or less grown-up story. One thing has changed though: since I have kids I can lay on the floor for hours, playing with legos and wooden bricks and pretend that I am actually working.
The hope is that it would simplify and speed cross platform development.
Nice looking site overall.

As others have mentioned - image optimization will help you a lot. Taking a look at firebug Net profiling, the homepage footprint weighs in at 2MB. 500K is your "studio" image, followed by the bridge bg photo at 370K.

So just optimizing these 2 images will reduce your bandwidth by around 660K or 33%. I'm guessing you can do both in 210K (150K bridge, 60K studio = 210K) possibly better.

EDIT: decided to actually fix it instead of just talking about it.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6653594/pantastic-there-i-fixed-it....

studio.jpg photoshop jpg 70 quality
ggb.jpg photoshop jpg 80 quality

old: 494k + 369k = 863k
new: 64k + 1k + 70k = 135k

savings = 728K or 36% of your total homepage footprint.

Save more by splitting all your polaroid shadows to png, and the photos to jpg 60-80 quality.

Requires html/css change to layout studio image as 2 images stacked on top (separate shadow png)
FWIW, I don't think this should be a criminal issue. I support the right of the telcos to put in whatever twisted and crazy terms they want into their contracts, but their only recourse should be a civil suit.
yeah and you can get chrome behavior in ff in the search bar, too. well except for the bug of course. The ff search bar does search for what you typed, not what you typed last. (and does shows instant results, too) best of both worlds.
> Quietly informing the authorities does little.

As an aside, every PyCon attendee agreed to a code of conduct during registration, and the conference staff are available to address and remedy violations of that code.
hey guys

i've forked the google rss extension, updated it and loaded it to the chrome store - so that it works with feedly, newsblur and theoldread
* have removed google reader, igoogle etc.. from the list

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...

cheers

justin
You seriously suggested diet coke to someone wanting a non-sugary alternative to coke? Ok, so that's unnecessarily snarky, but diet coke is pretty much the farthest away from the non-diet colas you can get with the diet variations. These days at least I believe it's that way on purpose, as it's created a distinct market for itself.

Coke Zero is a lot closer, but Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max are both vastly better approximations to their non-diet versions.

RC Light, though, is the only diet cola I've tasted that ever got close to fooling me into thinking I got the non-diet version. It's worth a try. But RC tastes quite different to Coke (much stronger caramel taste) so someone looking for a diet alternative to Coke might not be happy with it.
Harvard overhead rate: 69%. North Dakota State U: 44%.

I would love to see how much of the $175 million Harvard took as overhead went towards 'building depreciation'.
> That's rather the point of Soylent, to deliver a well balanced diet.

Comparing a well-balanced diet with Soylent is not a waste of time: if nothing else, it's evidence for the debate about whether all the micronutrients and random stuff in 'real' food is subjectively noticeable in the short-term or whether you really can get away with just macronutrients and a few other chemicals.
Actually, as other people mentioned, the real attribute that XKCD is using is "title":

<img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/aspect_ratio.png" title="I'm always disappointed when 'Anamorphic Widescreen' doesn't refer to a widescreen Animorphs movie." alt="Aspect Ratio">
Or about how many thousands of AT&T customers fled to a competitor who takes customer data privacy seriously, upon hearing of the incident.
Thank you, this is the kind of well reasoned argument that makes HN worth it.

I don't pretend to know whether Bitcoin is going to $5,000 or to $0, but I do see a big market opportunity along with some very large risks.

Here are a few more:

* Positive: increasing mainstream interest and investments -- Coinbase, Silicon Valley Bank, Wordpress, Reddit, Mega, Tradehill, etc.

* Positive: greater public awareness of the risks of government monetary systems -- Cyprus confiscating bank deposits, central banks printing money, etc.

* Negative: online exchanges and wallet services frequently compromised.

* Negative: association with conspiracy theorists, fringe media personalities, etc.

Let's have a fact-based discussion. Speculation about exchange rates based only on gut instinct is just noise.
Good on him for taking accountability and leaving. Most CEO's run companies into the ground because they don't want to relinquish the power they have or acknowledge they have screwed up. People will be quick to draw a conclusion to his resignation and the lacklustre debut of Simcity, but a guy who has been at the top for over a decade doesn't just quit over one fiasco. This is a guy who realises his direction of a company hasn't led it to the holy promise land of profitability and he's stepping down to give someone else a shot, this guy deserves some respect for that.

Can we stop talking about Simcity now?
Diet Coke contains HFCS, and is no better for you than regular coke. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/diet-soda-diabetes-...
"Coupled with profitable mining becoming impossible"

Well it is incorrect to state that. Obviously, as the exchange rate increases, mining becomes more and more profitable. In fact, as of today ($50/BTC, difficulty factor around 4.9M, 25BTC/block) mining has never been so profitable in over a year(!) since January 2011 ($6/BTC, diff=1.1M, 50BTC/block)!
How does Rust resolve move semantics for ~-values at compile time? What does this do:

let a: ~Point = ~Point { x: 10, y: 20 };
let b: ~Point = ~Point { x: 20, y: 40 };
if (foo()) {
b = a;
}
println(a.x.to_str());
ESpecially since you're almost always a major stockholder
I definitely agree to a certain extent. I go hiking regularly and I wear a chest-mounted camera harness for my DSLR, which I always take. I take 50 to 100 photos on each hike (unless it's a place I've been to before) and I definitely notice that the hike becomes somewhat more passive for me in that regard.

However, in this case I'm documenting the trails for a hiking guide, so there's definitely a legitimate reason for me to do so. Once I have documented an area already, I tend to photograph much, much less along the trail unless I really find something worth taking a photo of and enjoy the hike in a much more active manner as a result.
That is awesome.
If you follow the chain of transactions from 12RYJjGk22NiNbhTHffCrCso4XgVzet5Eh (biggest wallet). It all ended up in a MtGox account...
Mozilla does encourage community to give their ideas. There a zillion projects going on at Mozilla that would die for some constructive thinking help, although not all get the same attention.

That's also while I like organizations. No matter how people go at Mozilla saying they don't listen.. it's not quite true. Decisions will never satisfy absolutely everybody, but they listen and ask for tips quite a lot.
Suggestion: Could you include an 's' magnet?

Magnet sets never have them, but they are useful for turning a verb from the plural form into the singular ("downvote"), and vice-versa for nouns.
Yea I agree. Separating purpose from pleasure is definitely important. But I would guess photographing for purpose today is in the minority. And I don't think Instagram counts as purpose.
I'm not the parent but he's probably referring to the opinion of some that SD is the equivalent of a spammer and its transactions should be blocked. You can find lots of threads on bitcointalk.org discussing it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150405.0

SD notifies losers by sending them a very small transaction. Because of this SD generates the majority of BTC transactions and inflates the size of the generated blocks.
As someone whose only real exposure to C level programming has been iOS and Obj-C, the way I read this it works similar to ARC, am I correct in that conclusion?
Reverse Engineering McDonald's: How to Make a Scarily Authentic Filet-o-Fish
"in a nutshell: man only started eating a significant amount of carbohydrates about 10,000 years ago."

This is a myth and patently wrong. Anatomically modern humans evolved on a diet of cooked food, the bulk of which was tubers and other root vegetables.

EDIT: 'tubas' -> 'tubers' derp.
Just because those genes exist doesn't mean they're evenly distributed. For example, look at the spectrum of lactose tolerance: some people do just fine, some people get a little gassy, some people get severely ill.
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In large organizations, the shear overhead that is IT creates these barriers. Developer tasks are often slated with plans one to three years long. IT fears ad-hoc, one-off, slapped together, or anything like it because it becomes a maintenance problem and takes special skills.

For example, in our organization, IT prohibits the use of Access to build applications, because they end up being a versioning nightmare with copies all over the place, and no concept of "source code".

End users end up building applications in Access because they can, and it will take them two weeks to get a prototype. If they ask IT to do it, they'll need a departmental budget (politics!) and it will take six months to get started (between people who intentionally slow down process in order to look important, and the filled up timeslots of developers). Then, it will be in the standard IT development environment (for us, .NET and MS SQL) which means it is opaque to the customer, and every change they ask must go through IT, and gets bogged down in IT process.

So they go with Access. Two years later, that employee has moved on, and IT gets a phone call from the customer "We have this mission-critical application that has a bug and we need you to fix it!" and then the real pain starts.
In the same vein is J.C.R. Licklider and Robert W. Taylor's "The Computer as a Communication Device" from 1968 [1]:

"future version of this system will make it possible for each participant, on his own TV screen, to thumb through the speaker’s files as the speaker talks—and thus check out incidental questions without interrupting the presentation for substantiation."

"You will not send a letter or a telegram; you will simply identify the people whose files should be linked to yours and the parts to which they should be linked-and perhaps specify a coefficient of urgency. You will seldom make a telephone call; you will ask the network to link your consoles
together"

"When people do their informational work 'at the console' and 'through the network,' telecommunication will be as natural an extension of individual work as face-to-face communication is now. The impact of that fact, and of the marked facilitation of the communicative process, will be very great—both on the individual and on society"

[1] http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
Considering he used absolutely no violence against anyone, I don't think he deserves any violence to be used against him (including, obviously, imprisonment).
Could someone explain this to me? I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what the issue is here.
Getting a grippe on common illnesses that lay us out
"Carbohydrates" should be replaced with "grains".
Because it tastes disgusting :D

I switched from sugar in my coffee to stevia about 1 1/2 years ago, it was the first non-sugar sweetener I tried I didn't find disgusting.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150405.msg1598258#ms...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150481.0

There were a few more discussions around this time too, a few people including a pool operator want to block all businesses and applications that "abuse" the blockchain. This shows that a few higher ups in the Bitcoin community are short-sighted and very selfish, and also shows the problems Bitcoin will have at getting any larger.
Yeah, found it. Sadly I'm in Germany :/

Will probably get one of my friends to bring me some when they visit home the next time.
Poor examples for the article.

> Load images automatically

I tried this and I see the text box for Google Search perfectly fine (Google.co.jp where I am) so this did not break the internet in any way. The text box even highlights blue still so it is definitely visible. Also, he is not considering the entire 3rd world country market where Firefox tends to dominate precisely because it is so flexible in it's bandwidth friendly options. So perhaps 2% in the world as a sum but it is probably a MUCH larger percentage when looking at specific regions of the world.

> Enable JavaScript

I use noscript on Firefox but have disable Javascript via the browser before (specifically when I use Chrome). I just remember to enable Javascript when I use websites that I know require Javascript (ex: online banking). Again, this is a huge plus in third world countries since it greatly reduces bandwidth consumption (which is also why I use it because my connection is pretty poor).

> Turning off navigation

Agree with this one. Makes no sense. Especially when you can go into full screen mode if you want to maximize screen real estate.

> Turning off SSL & TLS

Agree here but it is listed under the advanced options, which to normal users means, "don't touch this stuff." If you actually change anything here, I would expect the person to know what they are doing. If you want to call for streamlining "Advanced Options", then that is a very different argument that has to be made.

> The entire certificate manager

Again, advanced options.

> Override automatic cache management

Extremely useful. His argument here completely ignores use cases such as:

* Running Firefox as a portable app (USB drives have a write limit so turning this off is crucial).
* Operating systems that run off flash media. Who here owns a Raspberry Pi or any of the numerous embedded PCs?

Firefox might be good at determining how much cache to use on low storage systems, but it is probably not a good judge of when to turn off cache completely to prolong the life of certain hardware.
Also, my experience is anecdotal but I do remember my Firefox cache eating up a huge amount of disk space before which prevented me from installing new programs on my OS (until I went and manually cleared the cache). Why? Because at the time that space was free. Firefox had no way of knowing when I would want to use that free space in the future.
A global financial currency can surely give the world many times the value of Facebook. But the price increase does not represent interest in Bitcoin as a currency, but instead as a speculative investment vehicle and/or store of value. You yourself talked about not exchanging your bitcoins: it sounds like you wish to own bitcoins, but not circulate or spend them. They are not a currency for you.

This is as predicted by those who say that Bitcoin is a deflationary currency.
Can somebody translate that into English please?
Now this is getting interesting. For a decentralized virtual currency:

A person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods and services is a user of the convertible virtual currency and not subject to regulation as a money transmitter.

I would translate that to mean "no sales tax"... and that won't last long.
Is there a way to enforce laws that doesn't require violence or the threat of it?
Implicit in the advice is the (strong) assumption that not everyone's going to take it.

-_-
You could try plain soda water flavoured with a small amount of concentrated cordial/squash.
I like the slightly bitter taste of cola and of course the caffeine.
Just downloading it will give you blisters.
Sure. Of course, a credit card doesn't restrict what you do with things you buy with it.
What that means is that people mining bitcoins don't need to adhere to the regulations for Money Servicing Businesses (MSBs): http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/

However bitcoin exchanges/wallets (i.e. Coinbase) will need to.

Edit: It's not so simple. See child/grandchild comments.
Ask HN: Chase Server Error Gives Everyone a $0 Balance
My roommate screamed at the top of his lungs 35 minutes ago, "My account is empty!!" After which I heard the door slam and his car speed off to what I assumed was the bank.

He comes home 20 minutes later (we're lucky to be close to a chase bank) and tells me, "I ran in and started yelling for help! The guy tells me that they just had a problem with the server and that it's happening to everyone!" Clearly these errors can come with extreme reactions, so it left me wondering, did anyone else notice this?

Maybe this is a good opportunity to discuss if any other banks have made similar errors before, and if so, how frequently.
It's not stealing a car if you ask for it and they give it to you. That's what typing a URL into your browser is. Asking the server for info. AT&T could have easily programmed it to say "no".
I don't eat sugar sugar anymore, but consume plenty of fruits, so I wouldn't consider myself addicted to sugar.

However, I simply could not eat enough calories through the day to fit my lifestyle without eating carbs. I tried, it didn't work. Burning ~400 calories every day before breakfast and adding another ~900 calorie burn at boxing practice every two days ... just nope.

I can't even fulfill my caloric goal when eating carbs on the days I have boxing. My stomach can't process that much food.[1]

When I was strict about avoiding carbs, I lost about 5 or 6 kilograms quite quickly. Took me about 11 months of grain eating and concerted attempts at a caloric surplus to gain back the weight.

[1] One of the strangest feelings I have ever felt is being hungry while having such a full stomach it feels eating another bite will make you vomit. This often happens after boxing when I mess up my "every 3 hours" eating schedule and haven't eaten enough calories before going to practice.
Diet Coke does not contain high fructose corn syrup. (http://www.livestrong.com/article/258491-ingredients-nutriti...)
Small number of people overall does not take into account where those users are concentrated. A lot of the options he uses as examples are extremely useful in third world countries where Firefox actually dominates the competition precisely because of how easy it is to configure it to be a low bandwidth browser. Africa probably being the best example of where Firefox dominates. So while it may be 2% overall, it could be something huge like 50% of the userbase in specific demographics/regions.
>Do I really think that it has doubled? No.

Then it sounds like the speculative bits are driving, even if there are other passengers in the car.
Yeah there is probably more to it than Sim City. Too bad EA turned into such a despicable company - the early days with the founder, Trip Hawkins, were a very different story. EA at its beginning was considering creators and developers as artists and treated them like rock stars. Those days are long gone.
No, which is why I don't like laws against non-violent actions.
>Don't listen to the "it's out of control" or "is very due for a crash because it's rising so quickly" stuff. It comes down to a very simple test: do you think that there are significant reasons Bitcoin would or would not gain acceptance as a mainstream currency?

Bit of a strawman.

>If you think that Bitcoin will ultimately be widely adopted, buy now. $50 / btc is very cheap in that world. If you think Bitcoin will fail, then any price is too much. Any mumbling that "it's doubled in a month and therefore is set up to come back down to earth" is just hand waving.

Bitcoin's use as a currency does not depend in any way on its value. A shirt selling for 1 BTC can sell just as easily for 0.5 BTC. In such a case where the government-mandated currency becomes useless and BTC is used as a true currency fallback, if anything it becomes a major problem, but in this present world it's basically just a proxy for sending fiat currency and a speculative asset.

I love BTC. But I don't need to hold on to any amount of it, or depend on any particular value, to use it to buy stuff. When huge corporations deny donations to Wikileaks, or when Paypal randomly freezes assets, having a digital currency is not only desirable but a necessity. Those of us that would use BTC for its intended purpose (assuming it isn't just a massive social engineernig hack from Satoshi loloolololo) don't even care if it crashes.

That said, I see the price as purely speculative at this point.
I see he has done his homework by adding choline. well done.