skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the father's motives aside from the article, but I have a 4yo daughter and try to do whatever I can to encourage her to have, "I can change/fix that" as her first instinct when she runs into obstacles or problems. Whether there's a "war of the sexes" or not, boys are encouraged to hack way more than girls, so I'm more concerned about my daughters getting encouragement than my son (hypothetically... He's 1 so I don't really know yet).

So I saw the article in that light: a father wanted to hack donkey kong so that he could show his daughter that hacking donkey kong to make the princess the hero is a totally normal thing that she should expect to learn to do as she gets older. Maybe I'm projecting too much onto the story.
Really? And why would the NSA be interested in the services of simple scammers? These are not hackers, crackers or anyone with sophisticated skills. They're just scamming people into installing what is essentially a pimped-out VNC server. I bet there even aren't any exploits involved in getting access to the features that they use, just standard APIs.

All in all, I doubt the NSA (or any TLA) would hire them.
We are on track to 150k active factoring in yesterday's posts. Our biggest day so far this month was 3/6 with 10k+ actives
Drugs based on Resveratrol 'could help humans live until they are 150'
So domainers only have to upload a Wordpress and post some blog post (with copied content) and they have done something with the domain,that is not the solution
That's what I was thinking. I've had skript kiddies who (probably automatically) broke into computers I ran in some form or another, usually no harm done. The idea of the government handing out national security letters all over the place, gagging ISPs, Google, whoever from even saying they'd been searched in past years, on top of the NSA monitoring, Room 641A split cables to everywhere - that is what freaks me out, not some random pervert who might hack a webcam and see me browsing HN in my bathrobe. When I was a young man, the president was having his reelection committee flunkies break into the Democratic party headquarters to bug it, and if those political shenanigans have gone on, you can imagine the bugging and monitoring of people like Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Hampton, and the anti-war people who were monitored back then and who Michael Moore shows are still under surveillance in Fahrenheit 9/11. The dangerous anti-war hippies in Peace Fresno.
Actually, I misspoke. I'm looking for IMAP hosting, not SMTP. (Although I obviously will need to send email as well.) Basically, just simple email for single-person use.
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Well, both Brouwer and Bishop fall into the category of constructivism for philosophical reasons. As I mentioned, this doesn't garner much sympathy from ordinary mathematicians. Brouwer and Bishop wrote against the practice of classical mathematics with considerable vitriol, as opposed to proposing constructive mathematics as an additional lens for viewing classical results. In the era of widespread use of computers to perform calculations, the advantages of this latter point of view are obvious.
We used Streak for a while too. We moved on after a while seeing no real progress on bringing it to browsers other than Chrome. The main issue for me was that I couldn't check things on the go with my phone/tablet.

We are now delighted users of Base (https://getbase.com/). Great features, super responsive team with very functional mobile apps (tablet and mobile). And it comes from somebody who religiously hate Sugar CRM and Salesforce. We haven't it the limit of the free plan but will gladly pay when we do.
Bill C-56 is "ACTA Through the Backdoor"
If your complaint is that the presence of aggressive DRM means that the seller/licenser isn't really adhering to the stated or implied license, then the correct remedy still isn't to change the wording from "buy" to "license".
Like this? http://www.gotealeaf.com (disclaimer, I'm an instructor)
Ask HN: Spare Netflix developer account
Hi guys, I built Flixeye: http://flixeye.com as a side-project for watchlist notifications of streaming movies.

Until now I was using Netflix' OData API for movie lookups, but with the recent API changes[1] OData will be retired, which would break my little app. To make it worse, Netflix is no longer issuing new public API developer keys.

I was wondering if someone can share/transfer their inactive/unused Netflix developer account with a valid API that they don't use. I can then use the API instead of OData for my app. I'll really appreciate your help.

Please email me at info@flixeye.com

Thanks!

[1] http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Changes_to_the_Public_API_Program
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I agree. I think there's some kind of Pavlovian thing going on here because I have cyan and purple syntax highlighting for the "funnest" elements of my code.
Not to hijack this thread, but since so many appear wanting to be interviewed, if any of you work on the graphics side (designer, animator, modeller, ...) let me know, TideArt.com could use some more interviews.
I have what is probably a zombie company. Here's the dilemma: I'm doing this alone, I really, really want this thing for my own personal use, and I have a ton of feature requests. So now on the one hand, I enjoy working on this thing and I'm delighted to see the next feature being added. On the other hand, I'm condemned to look at my failed startup every day. How do I deal with that?
Can you provide some contact info?
Online betting.
To boost innovation US needs to abolish software patents and significantly rework the whole sick patent system.
Tomb Raider has it's own history with sexism. Nearly no athletic women have a chest like Lara Croft. And I am not referring to chest muscles, which are relevant to an action hero.
Fear of the Blank Page
Just open sourced the backbone.middleware module we've been using at Teambox
take away alaska's enormous per-capita federal subsidies and they'd be dead in a heartbeat.
This depends on which field of study you're in. If you want to go to grad school for astrophysics, getting that high GPA score is important. But, I do agree that halving your time to get a B+ versus an A is good. This type of decision making shows that you're good at managing your time and setting your priorities right.
Dump Dropbox -- Can you trust Dropbox to secure your stuff?
Is this topic a honeypot for flagging? I accidentally flagged this and oops, my flagging link on all stories is gone.
Reminds me of Heroku's homepage.
Yes, the message format of polyphonic aftertouch is similar to that of a note on event (= note # + pressure). Channel aftertouch includes only the pressure.

In case you're interested, I e-mailed to the address on your GitHub a copy of the message formats from the MIDI spec. I don't know where I found it (it's not freely available) or else I'd have linked it.
nice to learn this. thanks
As a grad student, this is especially relevant since I have three courses that are mandatory to getting the degree. One subject on "Enterprise Systems" was more of a history lesson in software, and another subject comprised largely of unpublished material by the professor.
I kinda feel foolish looking at the effort I put in to study those two subjects, when I could have spent the same energy in something else. Like learning lisp maybe, which I have been wanting to for quite a bit.
I also resonate with putting extra effort into obtaining an A+ for a relevant subject that goes a long way, which I am now doing for a course on Virtualization and another on TCP/IP Architecture.
documentation is getting better and better these days, although i cannot argue documentation part.
Thanks, that may come in handy.
Ask HN: Where can I find some really good business plans?
Hello everyone, I'm using a business plan format as a way to document my knowledge and findings while performing some due diligence on a business idea. I was wondering if anyone had, or knew where I could find, some really good examples that I could take a loot at.

Thanks,
If you're working with python, I would recommend looking at buildout first. The best part of working with plone lately has been learning bootstrap. For working with Django and buildoout see eg:

http://www.slideshare.net/zerok/django-buildout-en-presentat...
http://www.sophomoredev.com/2012/06/how-i-use-django-virtual...

As for managing deployments and general devops, I am currently looking at ansible.
The paradox Schrodinger pinpoints in his famous thought experiment cannot be explained by a simple appeal to random variables. Such variables would be the "hidden variables" that Einstein and others attempted to find to explain Quantum entanglement.

Von Neumann thought he proved that hidden variables were impossible, but In the 1970's, John Bell introduced Bell's Inequality, and showed us that hidden variables can only be used to explain Quantum entanglement if one gives up on naive locality.

Things get hairier from there when you try to combine non-local theories (such as Bohm's) with relativity.

It's complicated.
I've been using BeautifulSoup for a couple years, so it's what I'm most comfortable with. I'd heard of scrapy before, but had never given it a seriously look. That'll change based on all the positive things I've read about it in this thread.
Abraham Robinson's Non-standard analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_analysis) used a modern axiomatic approach to legitimize Isaac Newton's intuitive use of infinitesimals, by creating a superset of the real numbers, some of which were smaller than any ordinary real (infinitesimals), or larger (infinite).

He then went on to prove new things with it.

And he started out as an engineer.
Actually I'm perfectly competent at making my own decisions. Piss off.
Try again, next time with data like "posts after 10pm get fewer up votes than those during other times of day. Even when controlling for timezone."
Maybe its because saying 'Google researcher' is more polite than saying 'Google employee' which sounds more fishy?.
Love this. Good luck on what you're doing.

Won't submit because, um, uh, the world isn't ready for me yet :)
Surely the bottleneck is on the CPU for any system bought in the last couple of years? Keeping the GPU fed is going to be the challenge with WebGL.
My first thought on this was, "Awesome!" And then my second thought was, "Could this guy go to jail for that?"

It's so sad that a guy doing something as innocent as this could be faced with fines or prison because our legal system is so screwed up.
why are all the screenshots of Windows machines?
The argument against numbers and URIs
Seriously. It's amazing how many services do this. Xbox LIVE and PSN are two other examples.
There are no more tech startups. There are startups that use technology, but writing CRUD apps to manage house cleaners and town cars isn't developing new technology.
As a teacher in a top grad school, the grades matter somewhat, but if you show yourself to be smart as fuck in class (by asking good questions/making good comments), and get B's, I'm still recommending you.

Yes, teachers do get asked who their top students are by employers.
You can contact me at poweredbygingersnaps at yahoo . com. I much prefer email to phone but crawfordcomeaux I will call you tomorrow afternoon. I live in Chicago.
If you're writing code in Node.js, I assume you're doing it on a Unix (Mac OSX or Linux) development environment.

If that's the case, I would suggest AWS or something like Linode. While Azure has Linux support, I think you'll probably be better off with a service where the majority of users are using Linux and they have more supported distributions. AWS is probably a better fit there.

If you're writing your node app on Windows, then I would undoubtedly go with Azure since you'll be able to utilize Microsoft support and will likely need it at some point.
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/3.0.0-wip/less/gri...

You might be looking at the 2.3.1 (master) branch, which didn't use border-box :).
Let's not use FDIC as a crowbar to micromanage consumer banking, please. There are so many better dials for the government to turn than resorting to that.
FWIW, don't opt for the E1/B1 part of the curve in that graph. I graduated with a GPA around 2.2 and it made it very hard to find a job.
The book you mentioned looks great and ( I've heard of it ) but I'm kind of on a tread mill at the moment. I do my best to nudge basic CS concepts in the direction of my Javascript learning ( exploring basic sorting algorithms using Javascript etc. ) The problem is there aren't any books like sicp that use Javascript. Just to get familiar with Scheme to use that book might take me a few months. So all my conceptual learning is taking place within Javascript, while additionally learning to dodge the "bad parts" , dom manipulation, and the entire web of intricacies of HTML-5. Within Javascript all that stuff is part of having a strong foundation. I would love if there was a theoretical CS Javascript equivalent of sicp. Thanks for the response.
They may be prejudices, but I don't think that they're unexamined.
But it (the judgement) has nothing to do with revenge porn; it's about a tweet that the scumbag made, accusing someone of having child porn.
Sorry if it sounded empty, there is a reason why I didn't include examples. I'm not really saying "don't use libraries", more just that you should understand the problem first before looking for an easy solution. To be honest, I've done all my scraping in PHP/Perl over the years. Only recently have I started to look into other options such as Python and NodeJS (hence looking at this thread).

I don't claim that my scrapers are better off because they are written from scratch, but they do the job that I want them to do. If I find a target that has a "quirk" I write that into my classes to be used then and in later instances. The real point of doing it this way is more about knowing what the scrapper is doing, rather than what it might do. When you're scraping, you're walking a fine line. Targets may be fine with you doing it to them, but as soon as your scraper freaks out then starts hammering the site, you're in trouble (even worse if you end up doing damage to the target).

I'm not saying that 3rd party libraries are prone to doing this, more so if you forget to set an option or handle an exception, you might screw yourself. If you wrote the scraper it's your own fault for not handling the issue properly. If you used a 3rd party library and the library bugged out causing the issue, you can't really go after the writers, right?

This all comes back to understanding your target, and to understand them, you need some form of knowledge on how it all works.

In response to your questions - I do a lot of things manually when setting up the scrapers. I don't import the data into any sort of DOM (due to watching memory), and in doing that I'm not really concerned about Encoding (for the record I'm generally dealing with UTF-8 and Shift_JIS only) or Broken HTML (I do a general check over the source to see if the layout has changed. If it has, it exits gracefully sending me update notifications on what changed, then puts itself out of action until I reset it. If it's a mission critical scraper, lets just say that I have a myriad of alerts that are sent to me). It's probably not the best way of doing things but it works for me.

Sorry if I was vague, I probably should have put some sort of rant-detection on my mouth. If I didn't answer something specifically, it's not that I was ignoring it, it probably just fell into the "I don't trust it so I don't use it" category. Again, not advocating that people shouldn't use 3rd party libraries, just that you should at least know what you are doing before you do.
Would be nice if this site actually listed alternative services that satisfy all of the criteria they are negative on Dropbox for.

I am a big fan of Dropbox, but I do admit I REALLY wish they offered the option to at least encrypt certain directories within my account or even better the entire contents of it.
I like how "the Northeast" is represented as wealthier. As a resident of Maine, I can tell you that ain't why we have more passports. Rather, think about our position in the North, having almost no markets for manfuactured goods to the south (better served by cheaper states in the Southeast), our markets are almost all in Canada. And thank you 9/11 now we all need passports to get over the border.
Perfect night for this if you're in a place that just had a DST switch-over. To me it doesn't feel like 11:30PM at all. Initiating "get the fuck off the internet" subroutine now...
You can learn Lisp on your own, outside of the curriculum. But you would not learn that unpublished material from the professor outside of school. Unless the professor's material was rubbish, maybe everything worked out for the best. Once you get a job you'll have 25-45 years to learn about more practical topics.
I can't comment on that particular option. But it does resemble the format. Dunno in terms of cost because the link you provide does not mention it. If you could share that information then it would allow others to compare.
Having just served on the admissions committee for a top CS school, a student's recommendation letters and publication record are weighted far more heavily than his or her GPA. That said, the GPA is not entirely discounted---especially for those applying from unknown or lesser known schools. It can act as a red flag if the rest of the application is not stellar.
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What exactly is revenge porn and how does "defamation" apply in this case (I am aware that the suit does not involve defamation in a way related to revenge porn)? If it involves posting pornographic pictures involving others that approved of the pictures in the first place, how could that activity constitute defamation?
That's a fair assessment. Still it's a shame their work more or less petered out due to politics, personality and philosophical disdain, had they played better with others and taken a slightly different path they could well have been better regarded than they are now.
I use http://scraperwiki.com It's pretty neat and handy! For beginners here's a tutorial I wrote sometime back http://blog.sanspace.in/scraperwiki/
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HTML5 WebRTC version of Skype - Twelephone
I know exactly what the author means. At a couple different points in my life I've had jobs that were great for me at the time in every respect--good money, nice people, lots of flexibility, good technology choices, etc.--except that the product just didn't ship! And didn't ship. And didn't ship... And it completely ruins the experience, no matter how good the other factors are. There is nothing more soul sapping for a builder than the creeping concern that the fruit of his/her passionate efforts may not see the light of day and be used by real people. It's actually much, much worse than the concern that those real people will hate it, or won't care.

There are always excuses and extenuating circumstances and heartfelt resolutions are made to change, but it seems that once a project has become large and complex and still hasn't shipped (or at least garnered outside interest and stakeholders), there's very little chance that it can turn around. The leading causes of perpetual shipping delay seem to be featureitis, perfectionism, and vanity, which usually come together, as a trio, and manifest into what is essentially the fear to release something small and targeted due to insecurity that it won't be well received and will shatter the grand vision. They are reality-avoidance strategies. And these problems become more and more dangerous as the project grows in size and scope, because there is more and more surface area for the featureitis to latch onto, and each new feature requires unanticipated time to make 'perfect', and exposes new unfulfilled use cases that lead to more features and so on, and no one's ever satisfied with the whole picture. It's horribly Sisyphean and demoralizing to toss one's creative energy into such a maelstrom.
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is it weird how I could tell the difference between the apple imitation and the Microsoft's original version (noticed it right after I read the "If")? In all honesty, I think that the apple version has a little bit more balance and neatness to it, but I have nothing against comic sans. I guess I qualify as a mediocre, amateur designer, since I dabble with design often out of fun, even earned money from it a few times, but I am not sure if my naive opinion counts.
The big one is #6, implying client side encryption. With that, most of the others are mitigated or irrelevant.

The services I'm aware of with client side encryption are Wuala, SpiderOak and the controversial reborn Mega.
I think that's why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Education methods are weakened by the philosophical divide.

Philosophically, aren't divides (ie. the presence and consideration of multiple perspectives or approaches) exactly what real (ie. non domain-linked) education needs?
I used to focus on be software and not on shipping it. Water a lot of time trying to get things to be perfect. But I wasted too much time that way. Worse yet, a lot of my design decisions were wrong. So I had to go back and redo stuff that could have been taken care of had I shipped earlier. Nowadays, I focus on shipping and iterating. It's better to fix it along the way than to stay paralyzed and never get anything done.
Wow, this is some intense FUD.
They criticize Dropbox for relying on S3 for data storage and Amazon for hosting, and using deduplication.
"Does Dropbox store multiple copies of every file?

Unknown. Dropbox doesn't state whether they keep multiple copies or not. But, we do know that Amazon charges less for 'reduced redundancy'. It is unclear if Dropbox stores more than one copy of your files."

Anyone able to figure out who made this? It seems way too blatant and amateurish to be a competitor, but I don't know who else would have the motivation. WHOIS is private, and the FaceBook page didn't give me any yields either.

There are legitimate reasons not to use Dropbox, but this is just a terrible attempt to spread panic.
Who created this? It seems strange that it focuses on the negatives without offering up any alternatives.
When you think about why you launched the business and what your expectations were, you will likely find that it wasn't mediocrity that you had in mind. So, by that definition, mediocrity is failure.

But, it can actually be worse than failure if you let it keep you in limbo too long, thus preventing you from reaching your true potential or achieving your mission elsewhere.

And, if you find that it is not enjoyable or actually painful to continue, then it can be far worse.
Pretty sure that's only asked because they offer need-based scholarships to women. If you don't need the scholarship, you could probably leave that unchecked if it makes you feel more comfortable. The blog post announcing the scholarships states explicitly that there's no other special treatment:

"We're not going to lower the bar for female applicants. ... Women will be judged on the exact same scale as men. We think to do otherwise would be insulting and counterproductive. We care a lot about getting more women into Hacker School, but we won't do it at the expense of the quality of the batch."

- from https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/1-summer-2012-applications...

I'm in the current Hacker School batch (which is awesome), and can vouch that the above seems 100% true. On the whole, as a group, the women are every bit as smart, as experienced, and doing as cool things as the guys are. As a result, no one has to think much about gender - we just hack. I hope your concerns don't hold you back from applying.
Some speculation on Twitter about who's behind this: https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/310894891808993281
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