skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All _why has done is make changes to his website

Yes, but knowing full well that they would be read and discussed and linked by thousands of people.

That's the whole point on doing it on his website -- ie on a publication medium. If he did it on his hard drive, nobody would have noticed.

That said, why nobody worries that those sounds like the texts of a depressed man, maybe even someone about to do something D.F Wallace style?

Everybody merely assume this is just playful clues to some cool new project, while they don't read that way to me.
Do you know if there are transcripts of the Nixon tapes? (Personal quirk, I can't do audio-only media as I just zone out and stop listening.)

Edit: Found it: http://nixontapes.org. It's a lot, which one should I look at?
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This is needlessly hostile. Being responsive is good. It's not contentless; he admits their current process sucks.
The site loads up fine for me, and an Etherape scan shows that the site uses more than just one or two servers.
Did you know that there are things as anti-tank weapons, or that it's official US Army doctrine that an armored force that attacks a city will get its posterior kicked (they're useful in supporting infantry in urban warfare, and infantry close support is required to keep tanks safe from a lot of the former). And you're betraying more than you realize by focusing on weapons as a proxy for tactics; professionals focus on logistics, and I would hope its relevance in supporting armored forces in this context is obvious.

As it was, I've read about, and am about to read a book that covers this, that after we chased the British out of Boston, when they returned in force and landed in New York we got a most unpleasant surprise from their new mobile artillery forces. We proceeded to lose very badly for quite some time.

As for nuclear weapons, they're only relevant if you expect the government's response to be the nuking of opposition cities. If you think that's likely, you've certainly made the case that our government could get evil enough to require its (very careful) overthrow.
And the service is named fark??
A wise man once said: "Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups"
I felt that ExtJS4s MVC concept was easier to grasp than Angular. But I had to replace parts of it with DeftJS to get it to do what I wanted.
Mirrored on imgur: http://imgur.com/irnkk5e
It can also become quite awkward, especially the physical copying.
Just the fact that they're young makes me think international rather than domestic. If they're bombers they don't exactly seem the conspiratorial old bitter unabomber type.
I think it's reference to to the bill that allowed gitmo-like 'hold indefinitely' powers to happen to US citizens on US soil.
Venmo has a $5k per week limit on payments as well as cashouts.
It reminds me of "On the Day Before" from The West Wing:

Toby: The President said he was gonna veto the bill. C.J. announced he was gonna veto the bill. He's gonna veto the bill.

[...]

Josh: Sir, if the House successfully overrides the veto, we're gonna look weak.

Bartlet: If the House successfully overrides the veto, we are weak.

In essence, if President Obama fails to make good on his promise to veto it, he will look weak and cannot use it as a negotiation position next time. Congress won't believe him.

So yeah, I'm pretty confident he's gonna veto it, regardless of his actual position on the law (which may be good enough). But in terms of politics, not vetoing it would be a blow. Hopefully they won't override his veto.
No, neither of these suspects came up on 4chan or reddit.

There seem to be no real hi-res images of these suspects, except for a photo which just showed up of suspect at site #1 [1]

[1] - http://imgur.com/a/34wtj
One had a clear and lengthy view of the other.
Citibank and Chase both have money transfer services via email. QuickPay and PopMoney, I believe. I have used both of them and they work. The sender needs to have an account with the originating bank, either Chase or Citi but the recipient can have an account anywhere with a routing number and account number. The bank facilitating the transfer will ask for ACH access to your receiving account and place some small transfers into your account. When you see those transfers they are like activation codes which you then use to validate that you are the owner of that account.

This certainly works in one off situations but I would love to see Citi or Chase productize this via an API for authorized merchants, etc.
A prepaid phone specifically purchased to be used briefly and then replaced is known colloquially as a burner phone or burner.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepaid_mobile_phone

So basically a phone that can't be tracked to you and you can get rid of and replace easily.
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Usually what I've seen is that successful products are often ones that let average people become richer. ViaWeb, DropBox, AirBnB, AdSense, AdWords, EBay, Etsy, Kickstarter, Google Apps - these are all B2B2C products that let ordinary people make some small amount of money doing things that are quite within their grasp.
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The handling of these photos has been very interesting...since early this morning, the FBI have been telling the press that they do have good footage of the suspects...but they didn't release it until the end of the day, at least 12 hours later.

Assuming that the FBI had total control of this release schedule (and that'a a big if), I don't see the strategy of this. Even if they were 99% sure that they had legit footage of possible suspects, why announce that, until they are good and ready (i.e. within an hour) to release them to the public? In fast-moving crime scenes, the strategy is usually to withhold as many facts of the crime from the public until a good suspect has been nabbed...among other things, this prevents people from claiming to have witnessed specifics when in fact, they only saw them on TV or heard about it in the news.

When a witness (or suspect) tells the police a fact that has been withheld from the public, that's a tool for the police to use to determine a witness's reliability.

In the case we have now, the suspected bombers have had at least 12 hours notice that the FBI had working images of them. Even if it were a complete bluff...what would be the point? Isn't it better to keep the suspects in as much ignorance as possible? It may be that at least one of them is dumb and complacent enough to think they've gotten away with it.

But this is a new age of news dissemination, so maybe the FBI was just flying by the seat of their pants. Part of me thinks that they did have a suspect/person of interest all this time (since yesterday's erroneous reports) and that this release is a partial ruse to flush out a co-conspirator (who, if he/she believes the press conference, thinks that the FBI has no one in custody yet).
This is the same bunch of <i>professionals</i> that brought you the Waco siege.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
And I'd imagine a successful prosecution will render her completely beyond political reproach and put her on the fast track to higher legal leadership (which she must already be on to be assigned this case).

So, if nothing else, an HN angle here is that the outrage of 3 months ago is completely undone and meaningless. Moreso than even the common cynicism of that time would have charged.

I have no basis to object to her assignment to this case in isolation (I would imagine that she's perfectly competent in prosecuting a case with less moral subtlety), beyond complaining that in a just world she should have at least fallen too far out of favour to be assigned this case, and that there must be other US Attorneys in line who could handle it at least as well. But it would be public-opinion suicide for any tech causes to widely protest someone who will soon become a public hero.
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My understanding is a bit different:

* If he vetos, they have to vote again

* On the second vote, both houses need 2/3rds (not just the house)
I've watched the footage a couple of times. I don't see either of them losing their backpacks. What part of the video are you seeing suspect #2 without his backpack?
I heared they switched from LGPL to GPL suddently, which filled the devs with fear, I guess :\

But yes, I use it for corporate software, since my company pays the license. Also it's strong in the table and charting parts, which are the butter and bread of many corporate devs.
What a poorly written and immature article! Calling Dwolla "a bunch of clowns" because you couldn't get your account verified right away is just ridiculous.

It's also ridiculous to claim to "understand the whole fraud aspect" and then imply that they are engaging in fraud because the money hasn't been transferred back to the other guy's account within a single business day. And claiming that Dwolla is too good to be true because it didn't work out for you right away? Really you want us to take you seriously?

These things take time and these businesses cannot and should not be run without adhering to processes and rules that aren't transparent to consumers. As a payment processor, a false positive is much worse than a false negative.

Dwolla is providing a fantastic and much-needed service. In my experience the people at Dwolla are providing a great service and doing a good job of it. Their support has been responsive and very well done.
Is there anyway to "stitch" together the photos to improve quality? Like filling in details on the hat for instance. I could have sworn I have seen similar technology before.
A cheap disposable phone
But we really do think you would benefit from joining the Optical Transportation Switching Society for only an additional $10 per year.
Running a development firm is a lot more than just engineering and marketing. It's a full fledged business and everything that comes with it.
The primary release is from the fbi YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M...

There are two unblurred suspects in that video, and the FBI site has some other grainy photos of the two suspects.
Wayback Machine has the article: http://web.archive.org/web/20101222093524/http://oppugn.us/p...
Be careful calling them "fuckers" - that kind of thinking will lead to conclusion making.

http://news.yahoo.com/teen-am-not-boston-marathon-bomber-175...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
Encyclopedia Mythica
Maybe they are putting these pics out knowing full well that they are not suspects and they already have the real suspects either in custody or are on their trail. This release could be a bluff. Wouldn't be the first time.
Darn, even I have errors in there and I proofread it, argh.
When I read on the fbi.gov that US.A. Carmen Ortiz is in charge, I am not surprised that the daily routine of these 2 innocent people was already drastically damaged for the upcoming years.
anonymous cell phone. cell phone bought without any identification used.
I think this is an excellent response! To add on, if you truly want to hit it big (like the Googles, Facebooks, etc), look at the market space the company is in and moreover, see the potential spaces it can/plans scale into.

This is much less based on metrics as the above response, but it is definitely important especially if you want to get into a company that can hit it big. And this is also a question (about which markets they plan to scale into) I think you can ask the company if/when they are interviewing you. Best of luck!
Yes. And nobody flinched much when this happened in France, and a few decades ago at that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uxAofXJCh8
Connecting with like minded people online shouldn't be that hard
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That's what the cynical person in me is thinking. However, the realistic person in me is thinking: if that is the case, then the FBI released these photos knowing full well that innocent men who look at all similar to these blurry photos are now at risk of getting beaten/murdered...which would not help the investigation.
If anybody is looking for a mirror...

http://imgur.com/a/wRl0g
I know what you mean, but given the context of a job interview, by definition[1] you are in a lower power position.

I agree with sibling comments, though, that respectfulness is not mutually exclusive with alpha-ness. And if in general you are a respectful person, a high-power posture will probably not impact their opinion of your respectfulness too much.

[1] Assuming you really want the job and unless you are a hot shot who is gracing them with your willingness to work for them.
I believe there actually is! Isn't this part of the new version of Adobe Photoshop?
The "How 2.0 Changed" section only lists dropping support for IE 6/7/8 and reduced file size (from dropping the IE support?). Are there any other note worthy/major changes or just minor bug fixes and the like?
You use the chrome developer tools from your desktop browser and hook them up to your device plugged in via USB. The same goes for mobile safari.

https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/re...
The rest of George Hart's site is interesting as well, especially his encyclopedia of virtual polyhedra [1]. There is also a part 2 of "Mathematically Correct Breakfast" (this time a trefoil knot) [2], and his sculptures are worth looking at as well [3].

[1] http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html

[2] http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/knot.html

[3] http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/sculpture.html
I'm disappointed in the technical solution for uploading footage at www.BostonMarathonTips.FBI.gov

It would be very powerful if they had a public-(upload-only)-dropbox where folks could drop relevant footage in a seamless manner.
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Unfortunately, that sets a very dangerous precedent. Already we have a situation in which senators and congressmen skip debates and skip votes, and end up uninformed about the bills they do vote on. Do you really want to increase that?

And if they can vote absentee for 'extreme' circumstances only, who gets to decide? The party leaders? The proponents of the bill? The opponents?

Feingold is the only one that sticks out in my mind as bucking this trend - he never missed a single vote, even as he was losing his 2010 re-election campaign and his opponent was working the campaign trail every day.

Unfortunately, people like Feingold are the exception, not the rule.
Photos And Video Of Boston Bombing Suspects Released
They're pretty essential.
Google Translate says "Standing on the sidelines" (Chinese)
I got one of these today. I thought "well that's annoying" but then I thought "nah I guess it makes sense. I wanna know they know they aren't going to email me any more."
Boston Workstation[0] is another, that I used quite a bit at work for a while. Pretty powerful, although I have no more desire to touch VB ever again.

[0]: http://www.bostonsoftwaresystems.com/
In the press conference they said they found one suspect and then took time to check if he was working alone or with someone. They wanted to have all suspects before the released anything.
These are pretty clearly different people than the 17 year old. The Yahoo article is currently confusing cause it has photos of the actual two suspects and none of the person who came forward on the story, but the person who came forward isn't in the FBI photos.
Maybe they were hoping that the knowledge that FBI have good footage would be enough for the suspects to hand themselves in... before this turns into a public witch hunt.
No more support for IE 6/7/8. Yay!
I'm amused to see that the FBI has a YouTube account, and posted the surveillance video on there. :)
If each object is a megabyte, you could stick them on microSD cards packed in a cube as tall as an adult.

(1 card is 0.11cm x 0.15cm x 0.01cm, 32GB. 32k objects, 31.2M cards needed. 165 cm x 165 cm x 165cm = 110 * 150 * 1650 cards = 27.2M. Instead of 165cm which is 5 and a half feet, say 6 feet, so try 166 * 122 * 1829 = 37.04M, enough to use some error-correcting codes just in case.)
Whoa!

> Why? Makes yourself a favour, learn any of the native SDK just enough to make a semi-trivial app and you will clearly see what native provides and what webtech solutions severely lack and will be lacking, because the technology was not created with apps in mind.

First off, I ran a iOS native app dev team for 1.5 years and am a huge proponent of native apps. Attacking me personally is something frowned upon here.

> I don't get where this stupid notion of Apple being anti-web comes from.

It's simple. The iPhone experience is only valid when good apps are made. Imagine you're Lotus123 back in the 90s and Microsoft is trying to compete with you. Microsoft creates a product that can read/write Lotus123 files, but has superior functionality. This is the same with HTML/CSS on mobile. It's called backwards compatibility. It can be the greatest and weakest barrier to entry for any company in today's technology.
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I'm curious, I watched the conference on cnn.com and there was some guy going off about the FBI lying and waiving around photographs that the press seemed to swarm after the official press conference was over. He said a website a few times, but I never got it. Did anyone else see this or know who he was?
Can we all agree the news is sufficiently broken?
Any example of a book or blog of someone who has done this? Would love to read this type of thing.
It's not the same as going out for a drink, dinner, museum, etc with people who have similar interests.
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I have to think that the suspects had to assume that there would be images of them. If you do something in public (much less a major event), you will be recorded countless times. The conspirators would have to be incredible dumb to think otherwise, which is why they are probably long gone.
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Thanks, at least most of my Oregonian homies said "Nay."

Where the hell was Massachusetts?
Gosh that'd be eerie if it turns out to be these guys knowing they walked right past you and your friends and to have a photograph of it.
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thanks for the heads up guys - fixed both! :)
The addition of the ability to just use querySelectorAll as the selector engine and not ship Sizzle is a pretty big deal, and not something I remember being included in earlier discussions about jQuery 2. qSA still includes a pretty broad set of selectors, and the ability to get the build down to 10k minified and gzipped puts it squarely in Zepto's territory, size-wise, eliminating the need for that particular wheel reinvention.
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You are correct. Both houses must vote again, and by that time many votes may change. A two-thirds majority in both on revote is required to override the veto.
No, the idea has pretty much always been that jQuery 1.9 and 2.0 would be feature-comparable, just with different sizes and supported browsers. See http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-an...
Maybe they are putting these pics out knowing full well that they are not suspects and they already have the real suspects either in custody or are on their trail. This release could be a bluff. Wouldn't be the first time.

Purely out of interest - and I'm possibly showing my ignorance here - when has this tactic been used before?
I don't think a job interview puts you in a lower-power position by definition, though I admit that there does seem to be a lot of social conditioning to make people believe this is always true.

The power dynamics depends a lot on the specific market conditions at a given point in time. If demand is low and supply is high, you do have a power disadvantage, but its just as possible to see the reverse where the employer is at a disadvantage.

The typical HN reader is more likely to be familiar with the latter than the former. Not because we are all hot shots, but because our industry is presently in high demand and has a low supply of labour.
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It's mainly because you have a bunch of text menu items and then this icon mixed in there. I'm curious why it's not under Graphs, since that's what it's most closely related to.
If you consider PayPal or a bank transfer as valid payment (and I suspect you do), then M0 is not an accurate representation of money supply. M2 or M3 would be more accurate, as most payments and deposits are electronic these days.
>labeled their work as speculation

AKA the "No offense, but..." of Internet witch-hunts.
By "found" you mean that they identified a possible suspect as being captured on video, right? Because I don't think they said anything about anyone being in custody, and the latest Times report doesn't mention that: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-set-to-mourn-bom...

So again, why tip off the suspect(s) to anything? I know the pressure for movement on this case is intense, but it seems like the FBI could get away with another day of "We're looking at some leads and talking to witnesses, we hope to make a break etc etc." until the photos were ready to be released without giving the suspects much warning.
The subreddit is just a gathering for keyboard detectives to jack each other off and should not be used as a source for anything by anyone.
Serious question. Please hit me with a clue stick.

Regarding 1.9, how can "old-IE compatibility often causes problems of its own" and "simplest way to support older browsers is to use jQuery 1.x on your site, since it works for all browsers." both be true at one and the same time?
Thanks for the reference... seems the proper accessory would need to be something that helps hold the two in the proper position through rising/boiling. Maybe something in high-temperature silicone? (And yes, it'd certainly force a different hole-to-ring proportion...) Needs experiments!
They were pretty close. The 4chan suspect had a forward-facing white baseball cap. The FBI suspect has a rear-facing white baseball cap. These kinds of minor inaccuracies are fairly common in crowdsourced solutions.
It's "unforgivably bad design" only if enough people don't click...

I understand your sarcasm, but 'good design' is an aesthetic, not a metric.

[edit: on second thoughts, I think I may have over-simplified things. Is 'good design' purely quantifiable?]