skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's a few ways to do it, but what's usually done is to have a large bitmap filled with random values that's accessed by a function of threadID and current pixel (or whatever other info you have handy).

Do you have any good links that elaborate on this kind of technique? I had an idea that sounds a lot like this once, but being fairly ignorant about the topic I had no idea what to call it or how to implement it.

Thanks.
Well, I disagree with that fundamentally. You don't found a successful tech company because you know what a recursive DNS query is. You do it because you know your market and you understand your customer.
I am unable to load even the shortest replays.

Edit: This appears to be a chrome specific issue.
Look at str2, it says poutinecoutu
Seems to be the username of someone in Quebec (Canada), coutu being a very common last name and poutine being the national dish.
This nickname has been used quite a lot on different hacking forums:
https://www.google.com/search?q=poutinecoutu&aq=f&oq...
That gets into the territory of intent. If he intended to crash the ship, then it's illegal. If, in the normal course of working on his laptop, he changed the map's endpoint to somewhere else (say, the local Wal Mart), he did not intend to crash the ship.

Is Dom intending to cause harm with these pictures? Is he actually causing harm? Those are the relevant questions.
You're mistaken.

I worked on the 787 and a derivative of the 747. They use protocols defined by ARINC (google it) that are only used in the airplane industry. Stuff like telnet need not apply.
ummmm of course not, that's kinda the whole point of political lobbying.
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Immigration benefits the economic elite, but is either financially neutral or harmful to the larger population.
http://cis.org/immigration-and-the-american-worker-review-ac...

That's just a financial perspective but there are other costs to consider. As NumbersUSA and others document immigration is harming the environment. Robert Putnam and others have documented how immigration is eroding trust and social capital in American communities.
I think the volume/unit time during the crash is generally higher than during the bubble phase. This can be seen in the steeper slope of price-time graph during declining phase compared to the rising phase of most bubbles. I guess fear is a quicker call to action than greed in financial markets.
I'm a student currently enrolled in a Web Dev Bootcamp program in Nashville,TN, learning about all the basics to front end development. We found ourselves needing to utilize a tool for basic server-side storage for a class project, and happened upon Backlift. This tool has been perfect for the apps that we've been building, and it couldn't have been easier to setup and get running. More impressively, when I found myself needing help with modifying some of my stored data, the founder himself was eager to help me find a solution. Great service!
The EXE is an AutoIt3 script (they didn't even scrub the AutoIt version from the PE metadata).

You can run the AutoIt3 script through Exe2Aut (an AutoIt decompiler) and you'll find a pretty mundane remote access toolkit which inserts itself into \Run, checks to see if it's running in a variety of virtualized environments, and, if it's not, can start one of a couple different remote control payloads. It looks like it's got a rudimentary Facebook credentials theft mechanism in its first stage as well.

This is a pretty common for-sale driveby script kiddie exploit - it's depressing how effective these still are.
Why I'm quitting Mendeley (and why my employer has nothing to do with it)
A little light on the policy details.
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Ah, that makes it fill the entire browser window - which is pretty close to what I want! Thank you!
Chrome doesn't render emoji. I believe it uses it's own font rendering engine or something along those lines. OSX does render emoji so Firefox shows the character (which I believe relies on the OS font rendering engine).

See http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41228/why-do-emoji-... for more details.

Also, I am not an expert about this so I could be wrong about the details.
When I was at Microsoft I had to pay taxes on the free gym membership they gave us. It was normally a very expensive gym, so the taxes were quite high.
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I prefer a white on black terminal too. It's more comfortable switching between terminal and sublime text without color inversion.
Um, there was definitely DDOS'ing going on. I witnessed it myself with a bunch of other sites (bitcointalk, bitstamp, bitcoincharts etc). Mt Gox was trying to do damage control and spin it positively. That failed and now they are reporting DDOS again.[1][2]

"@MtGox Maintenance Over however we are now under a DDoS attack." [1]

Mt Gox has taken a credibility knock, which has a ripple effect on the BTC pricing right now.

Overall it probably a temporary setback, but does bring to light irrational exuberance voices ignoring others that were calling for a more decentralized ingress/egress between USD and BTC. IOW bitcoin needs more exchanges to drive competition, and perhaps even meta-exchanges too.

[1] https://twitter.com/MtGox/status/322281690309468160

[2] https://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/456123227805423
I agree in principle, but I also think something about the check-in mechanics improve the quality.
Can't argue with this. I pulled some crazy hours in my more naive days hoping to get a payout from my "equity."
Plus, the pedophile drug dealer puppy strangling wife-beater can also walk across the border (north or south, your pick) and probably not get deported, like the 11 million illegal immigrants who are already here.
But if you throw someone in jail when they give it back, then there's still no incentive to return it. You could arrest someone who repeatedly returned laptops, but that just makes the loop condition 'for person in friends + family'.
> So, how about if you could have a Linux boot image onna stick, properly
> secured, no Java, several BitCoin apps preinstalled and optimized to boot
> extremely quickly into what would basically be a sort of BitCoin Wallet
> dashboard interface. You could plug in the USB, hibernate, flip the switch
> and be Bitcoin banking within seconds. Then unhibernate and get on with
> whatever you were doing on your day-to-day OS.
>
> That way it can be completely separate from whatever risky, dangerous and/or
> irresponsible things you do on a regular basis with your computer--things
> that seemingly are worth the risk as long as they don't directly give
> attackers access to thousands of $$$ digital cash.

Bitcoin: a currency for regular, everyday exchange.
The United States should just go the route of Canada, and give permanent residency to individuals with in-demand skills who meet a high standard for linguistic ability, educational achievement, and work experience. If a person's got the skills, there's no reason for the country to mess around with a temporary visa.

Once this is done, the United States should bump up the numbers of skilled people it can admit by cutting back on the unskilled people it bizarrely decides to admit every year. The over fifty thousand people given permanent residency each year through the diversity visa lottery have no real qualifications other than being lucky. We could replace each and every one of them with someone with an advanced degree and strong work experience in an in-demand field.

Never going to happen, though - not when the government's primary focus is figuring out how to make citizens out of low-skilled economic migrants who've already shown they don't care about following laws.
I always pronounce __foo__ as "magic foo."
This is very neat. Good job!
So, u never save for later?
i would love to be able to use machine learning with this. for example, if you released the "universe simulator" in a binary/open source would be more than enough to start.

any thoughts on this from the creators of the project?
Yelp is definitely the thought share leader in that category, and I would GUESS the user and revenue leader as well.
Normally I'm all for bricking these units or fun shenanigans.

But in this case isn't there a case for some cross-cultural education?

Popping up a message asking for information about Iran; language and culture and customs and how the black market works and etc etc?

(Not speaking any Iranian languages isn't a problem. There were about 100,000 people in 1990 speaking Farsi in London - there will be many more today.)
I feel like I don't really know enough about this to speculate. I think both articles (this one and the one it links to which argues the opposite) both have some good points. But I get the impression that, like me, neither author really knows this space well enough to draw good conclusions.

I like the data point (from the baptiste piece) that offline commerce is still 95% of spending, thus it is a 19x larger market than e-commerce. I think the point in the shah piece about "I didn't even want a pastry" is also good. But to me it doesn't really argue that this is a failure. To me, it argues that this is a first step which, like all first steps, will need to be followed up with refinement of their monetization strategy.

I have a certificate in GIS. I live without a car and have some other issues. I have been thinking here lately about my frustrations with using the internet to try to find stuff in the real world. In many ways, the internet has been a godsend in that regard. But in other ways it has been pretty crazymaking. I asked a bit about this elsewhere recently. It didn't really result in some huge epiphany that I am just doing it wrong. It resulted in me concluding that this intersection of the web and the real world is just not that well done yet.

So I think Four Square is breaking new ground. Yes, that's always risky. But I am guessing they understand this space better than the hn equivalent of a few "armchair politicians" looking on from the outside. (My dad had a brilliant solution for every social ill ever. And was happy to share his wisdom while watching game shows and eating peanuts and doing not a damn thing about any of them. So, erm, I learned long ago that "talk is cheap.")
Probably a hash map from words to definitions along with a list of positions within each definition record. I may post an implementation later if nobody beats me to it but I don't have time right now.
Essentially the same comment is reposted in every bitcoin thread. It adds little to the discussion.
In theory, there absolutely is. In order to get a green card you have to provide all kinds of proof of relationship.
This is the letter of the law but everyone knows it's a joke. There are very successful consulting firms that guide employers through the process of "documenting" that workers are not available at the "prevailing wage." They list jobs in unlikely print publications and devise ways to disqualify or discourage applicants.
Evidence of bad judgement :)
http://www.cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages

http://hothardware.com/News/Study-H1B-Visas-Lower-US-Program...
I thought this too, but it downloads a Java applet.
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What's the point?

This is an example to show people what a one way function looks like. I even say at the bottom of the blog post that you wouldn't do this on a computer. This specific one way function is hard for a human to reverse. Writing a computer program to automate Bob's work is completely missing the point.
Apparently, there's dedicated Google support for Chrome Pixel.
No, it's simpler than this. Just put Hugo Teso on the no-fly list. Then have him arrested for terrorism if he tries to enter the US.
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I tweeted @hiddenapp 20 minutes ago to ask if this is legit or marketing. No response yet, though I'm pretty sure they're looking at their feed to capitalize on the publicity. Most likely a marketing stunt in my opinion. If turns out to be that, very dodgy.
There's 8 thousand startups trying to 'help you meet people.' Few, if any, work out. It's just not a burning need for real people.

Navigating the physical world around you? Huge set of opportunities.
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There's a third angle: Exploits.

UCSD and UW researchers have demonstrated the ability for an attacker to take full control of many modern cars just by dialing the car's 3G modem.

By "full control", I mean everything from "unlock the doors and start the engine" to "engage/disable the brakes and stop the engine"

Over a range of experiments, both in the lab and in road tests, we
demonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of
automotive functions and completely ignore driver input — including
disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand,
stopping the engine, and so on. We find that it is possible to bypass
rudimentary network security protections within the car, such as
maliciously bridging between our car’s two internal subnets.

http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf

Edit: No, they really did demonstrate these vulnerabilities on real cars, it's not a theoretical analysis. Here's a link to their full research talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOziIwXic
Yes but real cryptographic functions, like SHA256, are extremely hard to reverse.

I doubt writing a crossword solver is an easier solution since that would need to deal with word definitions and is hence a natural language problem.
As someone who worked at a weird consulting shop in Fremont, I can affirm that underpaid H1B employees exist.
> U.S. has several programs intended to exploit foreign workers, such as the H1B program, without really offering them a path to citizenship.

Without comment on your broader thesis, the H-1B is something of a bad example here, in that it is a dual intent visa which provides a path to citizenship, in that one may apply for an immigrant visa (the direct route to citizenship) while on an H-1B, whereas most non-immigrant visas, including other work visas like the H-2B and H-3, do not allow this.
Your assumption is that now Mendeley is going to suddenly shed it's sheep's clothing and reveal itself to be a wolf. As a Mendeley employee (and a scientist, not a PR person), you may not believe me or you may think I'm just naive but I think you will have to wait and see.

Nothing we've done over the past 4 years should give you reason to worry and there's plenty of reason to believe that Elsevier doesn't want to piss off our community.
Pretty looking app
I really dislike the way OS X handled their full-screen stuff. If I knew how to turn it off - and I've googled around - I would. :/
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An algorithm that takes polynomial time would not be feasible given the size of a dictionary, assuming you're running it on poor old Bob (who is not a computer).
Admittedly I don't check in often. I use Path / Facebook for this now.

Trey Titone suggested in the comments on the post that if Foursquare could do frictionless sharing with the app running in the background, maybe they could get more checkin data. But I think the battery constraints / privacy concerns are too high, at least in the next 18-24 months, for people to opt in for this without getting much product value.

Battery life will get better, apps will be more battery-efficient, and privacy concerns tend to fade away. But frictionless checkins don't seem highly compelling to me from the user point-of-view for people to make the necessary sacrifices that adoption would demand.
in this case,

- she's not a minor (as far as we can tell) so having/publishing her pictures are not illegal in the UK.

- She's not a UK resident or have established a valid UK contract, or contact UK authorities about international law concerning rights to the use of ther image

So, i'd say it's pretty legal. Douchbaggery, but legal.

If i were on his place, i'd get enough personal information to 'convince' (wink wink) her that it was her best interest to return my property and report the seller (if that was the case) the local authorities.

Also, since he never mention that he tried to contact her, it makes him 10x more idiot.
I wonder why one installed an app to track his stolen laptop, and not set a secure password ?! Maybe it's hijacking to someone insecure laptop and installing a malware to steal their data or some other scenario!

(I'm not on side of so called theif)
"The over fifty thousand people given permanent residency each year through the diversity visa lottery have no real qualifications other than being lucky"

Maybe someone read too much Ringworld ! :) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teela_Brown

"Her sole qualification was that she was descended from "lucky" ancestors, six generations of whom were born as a result of winning Earth's Birthright Lottery. The Puppeteer saw this as a kind of artificial selection, tending to breed for a psionic power of good luck."
You can withdraw up to 1000/day once your account gets verified, and up to 10k/day once it's "trusted".

At least in case of USD limits, it's about anti-money laundering. The government requires them to keep track of who's doing the withdrawals.

Aside from this, the limit was 400, but they lowered it to 200, and then to 100 when there were issues a year ago (a similar situation to today's - a crash, and people panicking, etc.)
A simpler system could just be to have an absolute salary floor rather than fiddling with prevailing wages. For example, a program that allows you to sponsor unlimited visas as long as you offer $100k+ salaries. That would also allocate more visas to areas where the unfilled jobs have the highest demand, as measured by the willingness of companies to pay significant amounts of money to fill the positions. An area of expertise that a company isn't willing to pay more than $100k to get is pretty much by definition of only limited value to the company— or they'd be willing to pay more in trying to fill it.

The prevailing-wage approach somewhat strangely will prefer issuing a visa to a company that's paying $60k in an area with typically $60k salaries, over paying $140k in an area with typically $150k salaries, even though the latter person actually has expertise that is more in demand, measured in absolute terms.
I heard a story from the days of the Game Boy Advance, which supposedly had a similar feature.

Physically, custom carts could easily be made. To prevent this (from a purely legal standpoint) Nintendo made it so the GBA internal ROM was looking for specific data (validated by hash of sorts) on the cart, or it would reject it and refuse to boot. This data happened to be the (copyrighted) logo displayed on boot, hence it made unapproved carts either unbootable or illegal.
Foursquare is not going to be an important company in Meat Space search and discovery. At best they're a niche company. Google is the clear leader. Maps is the killer product, and no one can touch Google, because it takes time and billions to make a proper Maps product. Android, Google Glass, Autonomous cars. They are spending billions of dollars going after this market. In many areas they are decades ahead. If there is any competition to Google here, it will come from Facebook, not Foursquare.

The analogy that Foursquare will do to local search what google did for web-search is deeply flawed. Google created the ecosystem for web-search by buying up all the toolbars, and powering everyone else's site search, they they gave away free ecosystem products like gmail to keep people locked in. they pushed all the other players out and the English Language Market into their de facto search monopoly. They have already done this through android and Maps for the local search product.

Foursquare is an app. Google has hardware, an operating system, an ecosystem, and a database that is vastly, vastly larger and better than FourSquare. For Google to copy a Facebook Home like integration with their Maps product in Android, and then offer an AdWords type auction for local businesses to bid on customers in meat space is trivial. It will happen, but not yet, because smartphone penetration is not quite there as far as ubiquity and 'understanding'.

edit: changed offline to meatspace because my usage was confusing, since we're really talking about AFK as opposed to 'offline' which is pretty impossible these days.
"What Google built to drive you to what you want in the online virtual world, Foursquare is building in the offline real world"

I'd argue Google themselves are building that. Looking for a NYC Chinese restaurant? Google it. Looking for a spa? Google it. After Google, it's Yelp, with their depth of informative reviews.

Foursquare's check-in aspect really hurts their desire to be the "google of offline commerce". I don't care if a restaurant has a billion check-ins. And I don't want to hear 1-line random tips. How's the ambience? How's the food? How's the price? Unless Foursquare starts adding in ways for users to give them more in-depth information, Yelp is vastly superior.
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This reminds me the movie "Independence Day" in which scientist uploads a "virus" to alien spacecraft and disable communications between mothership and alien spacecrafts.