skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hate to use this analogy, but consider abuse desks the police of the Internet for a second.

Your local ops team notices a lot of SSH break-in attempts coming from Sprint's network (for example). They forward the logs on to the abuse team, who reach out to the abuse team at Sprint. In the same way that a cross jurisdiction investigation would be handled by two police departments working together, the two abuse teams will work together to investigate and remediate the problem.

Now imagine if the Seattle Police Department contacted the Chicago PD about an ongoing investigation of a jewelry heist, and the Chicago PD says "we are too busy to deal with this" and forwarded it on to the thieves so they could respond directly and help the Seattle PD with their investigation... Now the investigating officer is compromised and at risk. Sure, he was a known as a cop to the bad guys before, but now his enforcement actions have made him a direct target.

This is a system that has worked for 20+ years. We have our own mailing lists, meetings and conferences, heck even a private direct dial phone system.
Do note that you can buy the issue directly on ComiXology's website and then download it into the app.

Also, given that "The Boys" is available in app, I am having a hard time figuring out what could be worse.
Still some learn it before they're even 15.
It just gives me ennui.
I'll quote an excerpt from Lea Verou's exquisite article on sexism (http://pensieve.verou.me/post/47360690848/what-is-sexism) that I think helps answer this in a broader sense:

There is a lot of talk about what’s innate and what’s acquired. Characteristics we considered male or female for centuries are constantly being proven a result of nurture, either completely or by a large part, as tiny innate differences that grow intro troublesome gaps with social conditioning. Modern neuroscience keeps demonstrating how adaptable our brains are, and how society takes on the role of conditioning them on fixed gender roles from an incredibly young age. Have you ever noticed how gendered toys or child TV programmes are? How many people keep telling little girls they’re pretty and little boys that they’re smart or brave? That’s only the start of a rabbit hole that goes quite deep…

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100516.gif
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse (EFF and several law schools project on DMCAs)
Can't say I can parse the meaning of that question.

If your workforce is distributed there are two solutions; put everyone's cell phone into a directory, give everyone a VOIP dial-in-direct (DID) number.

A number of remote workers use Skype.

But the big thing missing from your question is this, "What problem are you trying to solve?" You make the statement "A system with limited IP phone support has reached its limits as the workforce becomes more distributed." but that is merely a facet of what is going on in your environment. Who needs to talk to whom? how often? why? (what do they discuss) Intra-company? with customers? with vendors?
The entire point of Linode's private network is that you're not routing across the Internet to deliver traffic to a machine in the next rack. If you're not using RFC 1918 space that is properly configured, at least one router has to make a decision on whether to eject the packet onto the Internet or keep it inside, as you allude, which means you've added at least one hop to all private communications. The reasons you don't want to do that will be obvious once you scale a bit.

By all means, encrypt your traffic on the private network if you're so inclined, but encrypting across the public IP space and encrypting across RFC 1918 space do not accomplish the same goal, particularly not with the same latency or redundancy characteristics.
Thank you for creating Just Landed. It's worked for me in exactly the scenario you described.
The land rush behind the Bitcoin price
I am in the Pitchbox beta, and it's a pretty clever take on traditional CRUD apps. I believe the whole site just dumps data into a backend that is then manually searched by agents to match companies with developers. These agents then manually email the developer and converse with them personally.

EDIT: Changed wording
The app looks beautiful, and solves a problem elegantly, but it's not a problem that I would pay any amount of money to solve better than a text message or airport/airline's flight tracker does. Even the 99¢ price tag seems like an overpay.
The horror!

Also, is there a word that refers to this sort of cyclical argument? ie: someone makes generalization, I say "all generalizations are bad" in reply, someone else makes a generalization arguing against mine, and so on? I feel like there should be.
As long as people know, it's fine for Apple to use weird connectors.

Asus soldered the (tiny) SSD into the EEE PC and that's worse.
I await it's publication and sales figures.
:/ the article kind of left me wanting more.

How many customers have paid using bitcoin in the first week?

How much of this a novelty attraction versus an actual payment alternative?

Is there a payment dispute system for BitPay?

How did BitPay an the bar owners get put in touch? Is there some interesting business development story here?
I'm really impressed, great work!
Why is that a reason to not take it serious? It's an order-of-magnitude estimate, like Carl Sagan's "billions and billions" of stars, or the Bible's "40"
When i think of people controlling their identity, i dont think of just an email address. I think of their name, their gender, what they look like and the context their data is put in on the web.

Persona seems like it has everything to do with the signup/login process, and not the actual identity of the person who already has some kind of data of that kind floating around the internet (the kind people want to sell to others).

There's no way that this gives someone the ability to go back and erase whats already out there now and somehow give them control over where their information resides and how it's used more than it is now.

Maybe i'm missing something, but this doesn't seem to provide any more utility that i need now since i haven't even incorporated any social login to my site anyways (and don't plan on it either).
"male/female" sounds like more of a biological taxonomy than "man/woman", to me.
It shouldn't be that surprising. I tried vim for a while, but I prefer sublime text. It's true that vim is more powerful, but for me that power seems to mostly theoretical. It doesn't seem to make me significantly faster in the real world. On the other hand, the basic text navigation keys in sublime text are the same as they are elsewhere in my os, so I don't have to switch in and out of "text editing mode" frequently. In any case, congratulations on advanced text editing learning curve.
San Diego’s Innovation Establishment Faces Its Own Innovators' Dilemma
> ... is an embeddable scripting engine that implements a Turing complete programming language based on JSON.

why would you make a scripting language based on a data format already based on a scripting language?
I absolutely hate them! There's nothing wrong with giving people who break the law a punishment but it feels like it's one step closer to 1984. Now they can catch me committing crimes without being present. They're watching me and it feels very invasive. I don't mind getting stopped by a cop but to have robots (cameras, same difference) doing it feels wrong. What's next? Are they going to start monitoring me on my private property? Are thought crimes next?

It's a slippery slope. Today people get used to being watched on public property and being issued tickets. The more people get used to this the further the authorities can go with it. And if you know me, you know I'm the furthest thing from paranoid when it comes to privacy issues. I assume nothing is private anymore and I just don't care but when I can be fined by a camera that's just crossing the line.

It also comes across as really lazy and sleazy too. A very cheap way to make a lot of money quick. When you get one of those tickets you really have no way to contest it. Yeah, you could go to court but they have a video and the law assumes the robots are always calibrated correctly and they don't know nor do they care if your wife is in the passenger seat having contractions or whatever the case may be.
Where I live red light cameras are triggering all the time when people clearly aren't breaking the law. For instance the red light camera near me is notorious for flashing cars coming to a stop too quickly at a red light. It will also incorrectly flash you if you're making a right hand turn on red every once in awhile. The problem isn't with automation per se, its with the fact incorrect judgements cost time and money to everyone involved.
Female, technically more pansexual but I happily take part in the bisexual community in the UK [1]

Fun fact: I personally found it helped me to be queer when you're a woman in IT. I've generally found creepy guy control much easier by being A. butch, and B. generally stating I'm not interested in guys [2]. I was able to handle awkward interview questions along the lines of "But you're a GIRL" [3] by claiming to be "one of the boys". This doesn't mean that all of this wasn't a painful compromise, and I know I was ultimately confirming to heteronormativity rather than smashing it. But we do what we must, not because we can, but to survive.

I'm currently working on getting an LGBT+ organisation started in the office. If you have any experience of running one, or are generally LGBT+ in the UK, feel free to get in touch :)

[1] http://www.bicon.org.uk/
[2] 80/20 in favour of women, to briefly adhere to a binary system
[3] Actual interview question. And people wonder why I'm a feminist hacker....
As far as I can tell, the officers tend to err in different directions depending on whether they are ticketing themselves or OK'ing red light tickets. For example, in my area, red light cameras also detect when you roll a legal right-on-red. I got ticketed for a very safe turn that I slightly rolled (i.e. I approached slowly and stopped for less than a second because I'd been watching the cross street for several seconds already), which no police officer would have looked twice at. I've heard many other people complain about the same thing.
Securing Internal Applications
Ok, their preference for being called something other than male/female aside, what does it mean? They're hermaphrodites or transexuals who have breasts & penis?
Twenty-One Hours to Exploit
The app is really designed for the person who is doing the picking up (it shows no departure information), and does notify them when to leave (as well as prompting you to text your passenger on arrival at the airport). It sounds like you'd like to be able to use it as a passenger and remind the pickup person (who perhaps doesn't have the app) that they need to leave. Is that right? Would like to understand the use case you're envisioning.
However, man/woman suggests biological/legal adult. Previous polls have established that there are legal minors using the site as well.
The barrier-to-entry on AWS is in fact infinitely lower than on Linode:

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

The ongoing TCO of AWS is much higher than Linode, of course. But that's precisely my point: you want to capture customers at birth, incubate them into adulthood, and then charge them a lot of money now that they can afford it.
It's funny, because in yesterday's PayPal thread I said we were due for another post about the app store screwing someone over: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5515736
The latter converts to better since there's one less step to get to the download :)
I think all in all I spent almost a month on DO, and I believe I left under 2 weeks ago. I have a friend that's still on DO (he likes the low price and needs the RAM to compile rust) and in his experience the network issues are still around but not as bad. Either they've improved things or droves of people like me tried it for a month and ditched.
Coinsetter raises $500k to bring leverage, shorting to Bitcoins
Why would I need to switch back to SQLite in order to synchronize data? Just because the magic promise of iCloud sync is broken right now does not mean I need to throw out Core Data. It just means I have to continue to roll my own data sync layer for a time. (and if you are cross platform this need won't go away) Also, most of Apple's teams are small in size. My money is on this getting fixed eventually.
Why not just use Arch?
yeah, so that's another good example of the future of administrative subpoena surveillance. I knew that the converged ap and modem was pretty common with dsl providers, but at least the ones i had seen allowed the customer to control what firmware was running.
And yet, as far as I know, it never really broke through; I think that if Apple had come with NFC for the iPhone 5, it would've. A lot of app builders and companies aren't doing anything with NFC yet because the iPhone doesn't have it, disregarding the 70% market share Android has nowadays (although only a small percentage of those have NFC).
In big-co speak that could mean either it's close to free, or they're rearranging their capex to prioritize Austin in order to compete (e.g. someone else isn't getting upgrades)
A service that mirrors SQLite databases across devices.
I'm happy to announce this as a find of the week. Boy there were some good laughs in the public mode.

And yes, I'm quite sure private pads might be of use in certain situations.
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Kindle edition on sale for $1.99
Save Posterous to Tumblr now with video & geolocation support
Yikes - the HN cynics are out in full force lately.

Kudos to Jon, Graham, and Sean for putting together a great app. Looks clean and works wonderfully - can't ask for much more!
IOS App Store accounts for nearly 75% of mobile app download revenue
The maintenance commitment cannot be understated. If you add some kind of processing to a file format, people are going to expect it to always be there, and always work, so you're taking on an eternal renderer maintenance workload. That said, we'd love to cleverly render all sorts of formats. The limitation is the time and developer energy to do it right and keep it updated.
Ask HN: Help. What is good work and how do you make yourself qualified for it?
I recently took a new job and I think I made a huge mistake. Previously I was working at a startup that tanked so I had to make a move but I really don't like the work at the new shop. The problem is this company is not really a web product or a tech company, more of a brick & mortar business that needs a strong web app to operate. I decided to work here because it's a good culture fit but I find I already miss working somewhere that thinks of itself as a tech company.

So I ask, early in your career how do you find meaningful work? And how do you make sure you are prepared to get those job offers? Recently I interviewed for a position that seemed awesome at a YC startup and didn't get the job because I stumbled over an algorithms problem so sometimes I question my technical qualifications. I have a liberal arts degree and was mostly a hobbyist programmer prior to 2 years ago. That said, I've never struggled to ship working code. I also code in my spare time and read a lot of technical books and articles in effort to catch up to the fact that I don't have a formal background in CS. I feel like my soft skills are great, I'm friendly, I'm a good communicator, I'm motivated to learn, I listen to my co-workers. I'm just not super experienced/an ace 10x engineer (though once again I do ship production code, strive to make it readable, write tests, learn about new technologies, go to meetups, and push myself to be a better developer at every opportunity!).

What are good things to look for in a workplace? Not physical traits like quiet space and the dev environment you need but what kind of work have you found that is a good day-to-day and gives you a chance to learn new things? Have you ever gotten over not having a strong technical background?

And am I being reasonable? Do I expect too much from work?

How have you found your best work experiences? Especially if you're someone without a CS degree.

FYI last couple things I'll say - I'm in NYC if that helps and one last thing about myself is that I have stubbornly walked the line between development and having an impact on UI/UX. Might that be a problem? I've really tried to strive to be someone who has a holistic impact as a developer in addition to being an effective programmer.
Rigth now using heroku, and a new app I'm working will need a postgress backend. Because heroku docs state that the use of many schemas cause performance degradation I wonder if linode or other host could provide the kind of reliable postgress host as heroku?
We have a 25 mile stretch of SPECS cameras near here. Fixed infrared cameras, with automatic number plate recognition, that calculates your average speed between 2 points. They do seem to work and it's a pretty fair system.

It's really masking that the fact the road needs widening to handle the traffic safely.
LOL. Seriously though, there are real benefits: don't be late or forget to go to the airport and leave your guest stranded; don't go to the airport too early in the event of a delay and spend hours hanging out at the terminal. I've done both of those, and I'm glad I no longer have to.
The battery man - Physics & Chemistry
Signing up with SSDTWEET nets you $11 of account credit too.
That's the plan. I think High School grads could realistically get $40,000 starting as Entry-Level Web Designers or Developers, then work up to $100,000+
Yes, do look at this classic. This, however, is about a remake. They are throwing around semi-famous names involved, but I would be surprised if it reached even half the quality of the original.
To my surprise, there is :)
A minor quibble with an otherwise great app. Glad you're on it.

Every federal agency is required to designate a FOIA officer. In my limited exerperiance, the helpfulness of these officers vary wildly between agencies.

http://www.dhs.gov/foia-contact-information

TSA's is about 2/3 of the way down the page. Good luck!
That's not just your pet theory, it's commonly accepted by psychiatry.

One of the defining characteristics of ADD/ADHD is ability to focus for extended periods. The main reasons ADD gets a bad rap is that people (often children) are either focusing on something that adults don't want them to focus on, or there is nothing interesting that holds their attention so they become easily distracted.
piq - a jukebox for social spaces
Wow. That's a stupidly large amount of work, barfed out with seeming ignorance to the cost of implementation.
Actually your examples: mywhateverblog.com/red-widgets-in-texas/ and mywhateverblog.com/?p=545 isn't comparing keywords in URLs but Static vs. Dynamic URLS - and static URLs e.g. /red-widgets-in-texas/ is NOT better than /?p=545 - This is something that Google have even said so themselves[1]

[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/dynamic...
My Uverse internet only service has been great. They messed up my bill 3 months (not so great), but it only took 5 minutes on the phone to fix. When I called to get my iPhone activation fee waived, they told me it hadn't hit yet, so they'd call me back on my billing date. They did (surprised!) they said they automatically credited the activation fee (super surprised!).

Not sure I've been this excited about utility/telco service in a while.
Hopefully this puts pressure on other VPS vendors such as prmgr (nod) to upgrade their RAM offering.
> It's amazing how much intellectual talent we're missing out on because it seems tech scares away women.

The same can be said about how stereotypes, personality types and culture scares away certain races, certain subcultures, certain age groups etc.

It's not as simple as "scares away half the population"; it might be so much as "scares away 95% of the population", of which there is an unknown percentage that would not be scared if some small part of any part of how tech looks to the outside changed.

And then there's a question of how many of those are really scared off.
Not quite, as far as I know.
Yep, I just heard that HP, Yahoo, Google, Apple, FB and all of Hollywood are leaving California. Film at eleven.
Hi, I'm a founder of piq. I'm sharing this with the community to ask a few questions.

1. We're launching a Kickstarter in about 10 days. If you like the idea, do sign up to our list so we can reach out to you.

2. Does the website explain our idea and concept to you?

What we're trying to communicate is: piq is a little hardware device that's essentially a Roku box for audio -- except, it allows people around you to participate and choose what's playing.

Here's a video where I pitched piq -- http://goo.gl/NFbSH

3. Pick a song for our jukebox! -- http://www.piq.fm/try

We use Facebook for our voting system right now, and I assure you that we do not use any personal data at all {I'd be skeptical if I read this too, but we really mean it}
This is an alpha version, but critiques of design and experience would help immensely.

4. And if you made it this far, here's a sneak peek of our Kickstarter video: https://vine.co/v/bjp3aQeEYdj

Thanks for taking the time to read this!
I think ST2's chrome is functionally bad, rather than aesthetically, and I'm not sure it can be fixed with themes. The way the sidebar and the tab bar interact to show which document is active can be extremely confusing.
In the US, speed limits have a tendency not to be set to a "safe" speed, but rather to a speed that will optimize revenue from tickets. It's not terribly hard to find, in any town or city here, plenty of streets and even highways which have limits that are obviously below both the average speed of traffic and the design speed of the road, set largely for political (often money, though sometimes to appease residents who feel a street is "too fast").

So yes, let's have sensible limits first, and then worry about the enforcement.
That's way better than starting out at -40K, and struggling to find a job with your degree.
>Along with his businesses, Shrem is the co-chairman of Bitcoin Foundation, a group that stands for promoting and standardizing the new currency

>"When we opened a few months ago, I said that we needed to be the first New York bar to accept Bitcoins," said Charlie Shrem

So it's more like "Long-time Bitcoin promoter finally able to accept Bitcoins".
Sorry, I deleted my comment because the poll was killed. It has been unkilled.

I am "female -- none of the above" because I know what I am, I just don't know of a word for it. On psych exams, I test high for bisexual traits. From age 11 to 16, I had a string of girlfriends. I began menstruating, "discovered" boys and have been a practicing heterosexual ever since. But my wiring isn't entirely hetero. I don't think we have good language at this time which clearly distinguishes wiring from lifestyle. I imagine most bisexuals would be offended if I claimed to be bi and it would also send out the wrong social message. I already get hit on sometimes by women. I don't want more of that. I strongly prefer men.

I hope that clears that up for you.
Build The Absolute Smallest Thing
Yeah. They could also build a robot to mash on their keyboard (or make an arduino-based USB input device, or ...)

In non-demo scenarios, you'd have authentication and security rules set up to prevent this sort of abuse / trolling / etc.

The main reason I bothered adding the closure was so people wouldn't copy/paste the code snippet from the HN post and have it work. :-)
Let your Senator know what you think of the H1B
Whatever your opinion, now is the time to voice it to the decision makers in the Senate. It seems appropriate given we are the demographic most likely to be affected by changes to the H1B immigration policy.
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