skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I halfway agree. Google and some other left-coast companies are the least likely to take advantage of CISPA's wildcard override-all-existing-privacy-laws loophole. Google has fought the DOJ in court before to protect the privacy of their users; they're fighting the FBI now. Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter have done the same.

But other companies, including AT&T, are far more likely to exploit this loophole (in fact they persuaded Congress to immunize them for illegal activity, post-facto): http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9986716-38.html

Your claim that a company could "not find authority" to share emails under CISPA is close to the mark but not quite there. First, the House Intelligence committee rejected an amendment by a 4-16 vote that would have required companies to "make reasonable efforts" to delete "information that can be used to identify" individual Americans.

Second, data that can be freely shared with FedGov including NSA encompasses broad categories of information relating to security vulnerabilities, network uptime, intrusion attempts, and denial-of-service attacks, with no limit on sharing emails or personal data. See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57579012-38/privacy-protec...
Nissan UK now allows LEAF buyers to lease the battery separately
Mine seems to. Shrug There's always a counter-anecdote somewhere, I guess.

Back when the iPhone 4 was new, my friend had some kind of HTC Android, and he would beam about how he could run a tool that would help him micromanage battery power so that he could shut off this app versus that app (which he had to do quite often). I simply never had to. As Anandtech can back up, the iPhone 4 had amazing battery life compared to its contemporaries. Though more anecdotal evidence seems to show that newer iOS devices consume more power.

Anyway, for reference, Settings > Privacy > Location Services. You can see what is actively using GPS. As part of its low-power design efforts, other than music, there really isn't much else that the OS will allow to run in the background. All other closed apps are frozen in a saved state. Also, Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services, at the bottom, Status Bar Icon.
Book Review: Eloquent Ruby
U.S. had 45,100 wind turbines at the end of 2012, a growth of 28% over 2011
How do you practice programming?
The next change to his site should be on the 18th: http://www.scribd.com/doc/119155590/DESOLEE
afaik, sms is out of band. so it would not have been affected by dialtone.
Here are all the PCL files rendered to PNG:

http://www.gironda.org/pcl/DESOLEE.png
http://www.gironda.org/pcl/SOLICIT.png
http://www.gironda.org/pcl/TRUMPETS.png
Exploding Art: da Vinci Code of Another Sort
It depends on the product - few people seeing lucidchart in their facebook feed have any use for it (or at least don't recognize said use). Lucidchart is a product where you only need it under fairly special circumstances (small niche).

The case for Pepsi is completely different - anyone can drink it, and just about everyone already knows about it, so social media is largely brand marketing.

I'd like to see comparative analysis of different social media campaigns broken down by what the existing ad spend is intended for, and also broken down by the main pre-campaign marketing channels.
True, but those are more like PSA's than post-mortems. There's not much one can learn from those announcements.
HN needs to get over _why. So he's a bit eccentric. This isn't news.
Ah, so you did. Sorry, I missed that at the end.
Scientists Can Measure Pain Using Brain Scans
I'm not making a pure scalability argument. Your solution of scaling the rails tier still suffers from far higher latency thus making choice of language/VM relevant. Rails is very, very slow — even if you cache everything behind it. So yes, you can scale it up, but it is at least 10x more expensive to do so.
Defining Churn Rate (no really, this actually requires an entire blog post)
On OS X (Mountain Lion), I used PCL to PDF[1] and got the same output that gabrielgironda got[2].

[1]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/pcltopdf.html

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540904
I'm a bike commuter, and in the past 3 years electric bike commuter. I had leg injuries and the electric bike I purchased enabled me to continue commuting by bike with light peddling. For the past 3 years my commute is 4 miles each way, with 1 mile of climbing on the way home.

I did not find the arguments laid out for velomobiles all that compelling. All but 2 advantages of a velomobile can be had with a US $1000 electric bike, such as:

* pedal assist for acceleration and hill climbing

* not arriving sweaty

* very low fuel/electricity cost

The velomobile could potentially give me:

* rain protection

* faster speeds

But it would also lose me:

* portability (can carry up stairs, take in commuter rail train, etc.)

* storage space (barely bigger than a regular bike so home: garage, work: office).

* multiuse paths

Even at the SAME cost these disadvantages would outweigh the advantages for my use case - it currently only takes me about 3 minutes extra to get to work and about 6 minutes extra to get home over a car. The roads to work are all 25 MPH with lots of stop signs and traffic lights so being able to slide by cards on the right is an advantage of a regular-sized bike. And it doesn't rain that much where I live - I commute via bus 5-10 times/year due to rain. I really don't like taking a bus so that would be a time I'd love to have a velomobile - but not at a cost of thousands of dollars so I can skip taking a round trip bus ride 5-10 days a year!

On the other hand, I can certainly imagine a use case for a velomobile: If you live in a flat area with lots of rain and snow and a commute that uses roads that go faster than 25 MPH - perhaps the Midwest of the U.S.

edit: formatting
I'm almost certain that you cannot 3D print functioning LEGO bricks. Considering they're plastic, those things are manufactured to extremely fine tolerances.
You got it wrong. "It's probably cheaper to HIRE someone"
Very exciting: "It's very difficult to advertise one's self from exile - am I crazy to think it can be done?"
Kevin Mitnick's Favorite Hack: McDonald's
Thanks for the link. I'll try it out.
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I consider a dial-tone to be a waste of network resources.
the second image uses the word "exile" several times. Exile is typically associated with being cast out from one's group. The _why saga was before my time as a Rubyist but I always thought he vanished, i.e. left on his own accord.

Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of? Or does anyone know what he's talking about?
Confirmed. Uploaded the PDFs I got to Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635291/Solicit

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635255/DESOLEE

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135635189/Trumpets

http://www.scribd.com/doc/135650965/Caprice
I kind of hate those amendments (without having read them). I'm not really defending CISPA (I would like better security, but I generally distrust the government both for competence and for goals/morality/ethics).

1) NSA and USAF are specifically the only parts of the USG I want to have access to this data. I trust NSA and DOD way more than I trist FBI, DEA, etc. to not fuck me personally if my data is somehow included in a dump given to them for anti-terrorism purposes.

2) Useless bureaucrat. I don't believe in oversight of government by government; mandatory reporting requirements to the public, with independent watchdogs like EFF/ACLU, are the only thing which would really work for me.

3) Vague thing is vague.

4) I don't really want companies to have to do PII filtering; I'd rather they be able to dump bulk data if under attack, since J. Random big dumb company or non-security startup is in no position to do forensics, filter, etc.
This is a silly false dichotomy. We've built our own business, profitably, from the start, by paying prevailing wages to top-tier talent who are located where we are.

It benefits our community and our country, but it also means that we're getting the best possible talent, locally, without the overhead of managing and communicating with remote non-native speakers.

The author simply wanted higher margins, and achieved them by externalizing costs onto their community. That's not to say that such a thing can't be successful; look at WalMart.

However, it's fallacious to state that they couldn't have built their business otherwise.

Lastly, it was this line that really got my goat:

> At the time of launch, I wasn’t even making that much, so I could I justify paying someone more than I was making myself as a business owner? It was a hard pill to swallow.

You, the business owner, have all the upside. That's how you justify it.
When dealing with physical objects, sure, you have the same problem as regular currency. You need to rely on the weight of the law and the reputation of the seller to give you the material item you requested.

However, (a) that's not a deal-breaker, otherwise fiat currency wouldn't work, and (b) you can programmatically enforce rules on the transfer of intangible assets.

For instance, Namecoin adapts the Bitcoin protocol for the purchase of domain names, which are a limited but intangible commodity. If I buy a domain name with namecoins, the network itself enforces the sale.

Even when dealing with something that requires a central authority, like regular currency, Bitcoins have worth. For instance, if I want to transfer money between service A and service B, Bitcoins can act as a common intermediate protocol. Although the two endpoints are still required, we can replace a lot of the inbetween mechanism, and reduce the dependencies between the two services.
MD.org Domain Name Sells For Over $550,000
Why Every Enterprise Startup Needs a 'Wolf'
What I Learned From Raising a Series A
Have you looked at how the Sauerbraten engine works?
Hackers Point Large Botnet at Wordpress Sites
Activated carbon filters are reputed to take care of this. Suck the air from your printer into an activated carbon filter and you can let it back into the room. Trivial if your printer is already in a box, still easier than cutting a hole through your wall and running a duct through the "important guy with a window"'s office.
Writing is important.

I have friends that are successful programmers on both sides of the fence. I think the real question requires a little more self knowledge. Coders will do fine with no school experience, however computer science opens you up to so many possibilities.
Let me save you the trouble of reading the article:

> herp derp derp outsourcing.
Syme - Remote collaboration tool
Good to know that "by definition" it's "not outsourcing". Failing to fall into that particular narrow categorization makes all the difference to the economies involved.

(Yes, this is sarcasm.)
Not exactly related, but nonetheless interesting:

A blog post by Doc Faustroll (@faustroll on Twitter) on the strain of being evil, including reference to Dick Fuld of Lehman

"Fuld at least had something of the physiognomy of the raptor, of the beast of prey, a kind of last remnant of aggressive character."

http://congruenz.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/the-strain-of-bein...

On my wall hangs a Japanese carving

The mask of an evil demon, smeared with opulent gold

In sympathy I see –

Bulging veins on the forehead, expressing

the strain it is to be evil.

-Bertolt Brecht
You wrote a lengthier comment that enumerated the failed CISPA amendments that I need to take some time to respond to, but in the meantime:

Regarding PII in threat data, we're talking about orthogonal concerns. The amendment you're talking about would require all threat data to use (presumably commercially reasonable methods) to scrub PII. The concern there is accidental inclusion of PII; it's that disclosure of, say, IP addresses in NetFlow information might uniquely identify customers. But providers today aren't required to fully anonymize NetFlow when they cooperate with investigations. The amendment was a sensible measure and I wish it had passed, but its failure does not break new ground for privacy nor does it change the original scope of the bill. When we last discussed CISPA on HN, that amendment didn't exist, and I still didn't think the bill was scary.

The PII concerns I'm referring to involve the idea that CISPA could be used to frame individual citizens as cyber threat protected entities so that raw information about them could be shared by AT&T incident to some supposed attack. That is an interpretation of CISPA that was explicitly rejected by the bill's sponsors; they cite specific language they added to the bill to counter that interpretation.

(I didn't downvote you and don't understand why anyone would downvote you, but I could get downvoted here for saying "water is wet", so oh well.)
To respond to one of the questions posed in the second print job, yes, I think he is on the right track here.
The site is served from github. This appears to be the repo: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com
Wait, what? We don't have Clipper or key escrow of any sort. You seem to be arguing that every measure ever introduced into Congress has to be judged against the dumbest ideas ever introduced into Congress.
> Was there an "exile" event that I am not aware of?

No. He left of his own accord. Read it as "self-imposed exile" or something.
Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure
OK, but that seems completely overwhelmed by the simple fact that Apple explicitly supported consumable IAPs from day one.
It would be only conjecture, but maybe by having light shed on his actual identity, he felt his hand had been forced? Thus leading him into exile?
Gmail account locked down, what is current prognosis
1) do i understand that i should not try to log in for 24 hours or it will make it harder for google to fix/unlock the account
2) wondering if i will ever know why this happened. the only unusual activity was inserting a photo which repeatedly would not anchor in a message
This is a true Hacker project.
He did delete his own accounts, yes, but that doesn't mean that he didn't _feel_ unwelcome.

Also, if you take _why as being separate from the human being who played him ("Subject" is the best I've got), Subject could have imposed exile upon _why, because they're not the same person. http://words.steveklabnik.com/why-is-a-role-not-a-person
Local Social Search :spring break project
Funny that you mention domains, because, while there might be some public good in patents, it's much harder to say about domain name squatters. Why have we not put adequate regs in place to eliminate squatters? I liked a particular domain name for a new startup. I approached the domain name owner -- a FB engineer no less -- who had bought the domain, and I offered him a price that would have yielded him 7500 in profit. He turned us down and continues to squat on the domain and do nothing with it. We ended up going with a dotme domain, which isn't ideal.

Now, as a lean startup we probably shouldn't have been looking for an expensive domain name in the first place. But ineffective squatter rules (10K for an arbitration!) are preventing the marketplace from making the most of attractive, catchy domain names, and instead we're settling on domains that do not adequately describe the business.
Interesting. Thanks.

I suspect the Payphone Project's mailbox locator was one of the first crowdsourcing web applications and predated the USPS effort.
What will remain then, I wonder? If you reduce a business to its absolute core value? Maybe the IP? A few intelligent people?
I've "swapped" H2 and Sybase in a Java/JPA/Hibernate project. I use quotes because H2 was an in-memory DB for the unit tests, but it has the same table structure in both cases. And it wasn't really swapped so much as built at the same time, but the same code did work on both.
Big Data Era Creates Demand for New Breed of Scientist
Rhetoric of Cyber War Breeds Fear and More Cyber War
Sure

<blink>Hello</blink>
<blink>World</blink>

<script>
var doBlink = function() {
this.style.visibility = this.style.visibility
== "hidden" ? "": "hidden";
}

var blinks = document.querySelectorAll('blink');

for (var i = 0; i < blinks.length; i++) {
setInterval(doBlink.bind(blinks[i]), 1000);
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</script>
By hiring globally, I was able to stretch a dollar much further, expand organically, and not have to worry about financing or issuing options (in lieu of fair market salaries like what most startups do). I was able to hire engineers abroad, pay them above their market rates, keep them happy, maintain high margins and maintain ownership. It was a win-win strategy.

This strategy has been talked about for, ummm, 20 years now? Yet, it's still not reproducible and scalable in every situation. Does it work? Yes. Does it fail? Yes. Does it work better than the latter model he mentions? It can. Does it reduce your risk? No. Can it reduce your risk? Yes.

Both models the author notes can be successful and you normally you'll get what you pay for.
Interesting, I just heard an interview [1] with Marty Cooper (inventor of the cell phone) who is working on a simplified phone for seniors called the Jitterbug. He mentioned that the phone has a dial tone to indicate that the phone has signal.

[1] http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/04/09/cell-phone-inventor
Self-exile, without deliberate action by others, is a common archetype.
Try this: console.log('%cHello world', 'font-size:100px;color:#fff;text-shadow:0 1px 0 #ccc,0 2px 0 #c9c9c9,0 3px 0 #bbb,0 4px 0 #b9b9b9,0 5px 0 #aaa,0 6px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.1),0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.1),0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3),0 3px 5px rgba(0,0,0,.2),0 5px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.25),0 10px 10px rgba(0,0,0,.2),0 20px 20px rgba(0,0,0,.15);');﻿
Based on a cursory examination of the comments, it seems like this would be a lot of fun (I'm guessing it's like a riddle or something)? Would someone care to offer a primer or background on what this is / how you start following the clues?
Kaggle is pivoting, and they don't intend "making a living on Kaggle" to involve contest winnings. Instead, they are offering a platform for prospective employers can use to contract to highly ranked Kaggle members.

And those gigs pay hourly.
I'm a Canadian software engineering student and I find this article insulting. The author blames recent graduates for wanting to be paid a decent wage. I guess he's missing the point that he only gets to be in the position he is in because other people before him thought it was a good idea to invest in Canada and make its quality of living rise above third world levels.

Also I'm not trying to be insulting but since when is Facebook marketing equivalent to building "cutting edge platforms".
It would have taken me 19 paragraphs to make the same points. I agree with all of them.

Ryan, your head seems to be screwed on properly, so what are the things you would like to see done to CISPA to make it commercially feasible to share bulk data when banks or ISPs come under sustained attack?
What is the final image of that equation supposed to read? The one after “where the weights are” that currently reads “w_x = (number of custom”?
When a homeowner sells a home some kind of semi-serious problem is often discovered during the home inspection. I.e. a new roof is needed, foundation settling, etc. Often when you're buying all your readily available funds are being used to satisfy the down payment.

In that case the seller and buyer agree to "discount" the house by $x in the form of a post-sale rebate where $x is roughly appropriate for the repair. That way you don't move into a house that's badly in need of repair at a time when you're exceptionally cash-poor.

The better situation is to have the seller perform the repairs prior to the sale but often times the house is already under contract and you're expected to close on a certain date and it's easier to decide how much would be appropriate for the repairs and let the buyer handle it with their preferred contractor after the sale.
Can you point to supporting documentation that indicates that?
tptacek: You're quite right that neither are with us today. The reason: Clipper and key escrow were defeated by the same advocacy groups you claim, without any evidence, are trying to "fundraise by convincing willfully ignorant nerds" CISPA is bad.

I can imagine FBI director Louis Freeh saying the same thing when he was defending bans on non-escrowed encryption in the late 1990s: "Nothing wrong with mandatory key escrow! Silly ACLU EFF EPIC etc. are just trying to fundraise off of fear and emotion."
Self-imposed exile is still exile.
I'm not a rubyist but I believe your reading of the saga is correct.
This paragraph in particular irks me:

"When I first put up a few job postings for a senior developer position, the salary expectations for almost every applicant was $75,000 and up. Some of which were fresh grads with no significant experience."

Competent senior developers are few and far between, and command market rates well above $75k, depending on location. Compared to many cities in the US, there's an argument to be made that Canadian software developers are generally underpaid.
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A skilled auditor finding no flaws in something is evidence in favor of there being few flaws in it.

He never says there aren't any. He says there are surprisingly few.
What an amazing project that you have. I am blown away watched the video and installed it right away
Unfortunately it's apparently very difficult to keep up with Apple Mail. There's not a public api for the project to hook into, so GPG support always lags new releases of Mail.app by quite a while. 10.8 still does not have a public release of GPGMail.
He also claims (in the footnote) that Jack Black is another "character" he plays (making fun of their similarity in appearance). I'd take all of it as somewhat tongue-in-cheek

Some people are still understandably mad at him for taking down his repos when he disappeared. He probably feels a bit like a pariah, even though his actions were of his own choice.

There is a long history of the phrase "self-imposed exile". It's even the example for the word self-imposed in the American Heritage Dictionary
btw orignal Creator is Sindre Sorhus -- try this var _log = console.log;
console.log = function() {
_log.call(console, '%c' + [].slice.call(arguments).join(' '), 'color:transparent;text-shadow:0 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,.5);');
};

Then run some console.log("Hello Console") or other statements after executing the function above and see the prank ;)
You might need to adjust your leadership style. For example, use hand puppets rather than giving instructions directly. Also start referring to yourself in the third person; that usually helps.
I've had April 18th in my calendar for weeks after the initial activity at whytheluckystiff.net. Forget the haters, Ruby's better with _why around.
The Truth About Fogbeam Labs
Well, again, not exactly, because a bitcoin-like network can potentially enforce rules in a way that a physical commodity cannot do.
That's the old 0.21 version being tested, 0.30 was just released.
I wish there was a similar site where participants collaborate rather than compete to solve interesting data problems.
Hmn. This is a genuine problem. And you can support the real-names-for-public-reviews-to-avoid-spam policy (I'm mildly against, myself), while still believing this is a genuine problem.

Do the developers give you no alternate avenues for communication? No email contact or anything?
This was very much inspired by this post[1] from PMRobot, which is a great read. In fact, forget reading this and go read their thing first.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540545
What does EFF's opposition to Clipper have to do with what CISPA says?

You yourself have conceded on HN that advocacy groups have directly misstated details about CISPA. Now you're writing comments suggesting that I'm being misleading by pointing that track record out. That is not honest debate, Declan.