skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Buy a Synology NAS
* Buy a domain name
* Setup a mail server on your NAS (you get Roundcube in 2 clicks)
* Forward emails from gmail to your home email
* Backup to Amazon Glacier (in a few clicks on a Synology)

Now when a problem arise, just stop using GMail and use Roundcube directly.
Anybody else think it was odd they mentioned WMD? Didn't realize the definition of WMD was extended to stuff people make at home.
You could buy a pre-paid card and just use it to buy the phone.
But your comment only addresses part of the point.

You had no problem, but you had to retain physical access to the key for long enough to get it to the store and back.

With this service, that requirement goes away.

I'm not saying it was impossible before, but this makes abuse a whole lot easier and potentially much more widespread.
thanks for the tip. redshift seems to crash immediately after I launch it... not sure what's going on. Maybe it's time to switch back from xubuntu to ubuntu or something...
Grief, I had dead tree versions of the XView books back in 1993. Back when dealing with X was Proper Work. None of this GNOME bullshit.
So, there is no point in them existing then.
China: Cyberattacks Are Like Nuclear Bombs
They have been moving towards this for some time now with http://aws.amazon.com/fps/.
Is this any different from what pastebins offer?
The speed at which he switches hosts implies he's got quite a sophisticated tool chain set up for this. The level of skill really becomes parent if you read the rest of the log though.
If you're in the US, this phone will only get 3G/HSPA service on T-Mobile, and it's MVNOs.
So how do I read other people's blogs?
Yep. To me those kind of techniques are a warning bell telling me : this website is not worth visiting. I left immediately. If it's such a great essay, it will be repeated somehow, so I will not miss it. At the minima the comments here are usually enough if not more interesting.
You're absolutely right. Materially misleading customers about a product is "nothing."

If I post my e-mail address, will you put your money where you mouth is and send me five hundred dollars? Afterall, that's only 0.00001% of SimCity's first week sales. It's nothing.
Depends... because if your very first version, which is usually a prototype or a demo, made it to production, I think you might have missed the point.
You are a domain squatter. It's a shame people like you lurk on HN.
I imagine he did it the way we all did in the 70s and 80s: by digesting every shred of information from available print publications.
True. I always feel happy that I am writing good code until I leave it untouched for a month and get back to it to realize what a mess I made. The best way I have found to tackle this is to put comments everywhere, even at places that seem to be too obvious.
I got the same error earlier, that "VAT is empty". Now they've fixed it. VAT is automatically added. For EU customers, including VAT, it comes to 110 EUR (Keon) and 180 EUR (Peak). And yeah, I chose the 18-EUR shipping option. Successfully ordered the PEAK for 200 EUR. Yay!
I'm quite glad the story went away. Some company released a crappy product and people got angry. Why? Just don't buy it.

It's not as if EA has redeemed themselves in any way. SimCity still has a 1.9 score on Metacritic. The public still agrees this game is a failure and their sales will reflect that.
As in, all of your calendars should be managed by Microsoft Word?
Presumably the reason why inmates don't have unfettered access to the internet is to make sure they're not running some empire from behind bars but at the same time in this day and age this sounds like exceptionally cruel punishment.

If there is one thing that would help an ex-convict to re-integrate into society it would be to be able to read about what is going on in the outside world and to be able to self-educate so they can hit the ground running. After all if you leave jail without marketable skills chances of falling back into crime are higher which eventually serves nobody, least of all society.
Difficult subject. But it seems save to suspect that there are "some" inconsistencies in the story.

Debka had another take on the situation:

http://debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-do...
We did something similar.

Configuration file with sections/selectors of the feature to highlight [1].

Model to determine if the user has unseen "tutorials" [2].

JavaScript to show an indicator that new features exist [3][4].

It looks like this, http://imgur.com/a/ZWaHV

[1] https://github.com/photo/frontend/blob/development/src/html/...

[2] https://github.com/photo/frontend/blob/development/src/libra...

[3] https://github.com/photo/frontend/blob/development/src/html/...

[4] https://github.com/usablica/intro.js
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And you are totally clueless. And I'm not exactly lurking here.

Let me give you a hand so that in the spirit of the linked article you may educate yourself on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
23, CH
Can anybody tell me if it's the same for young americans as it is for young british drivers? I can't drive at the moment because the lessons cost £40 an hour, the test costs ~£150 with car hire. Insurance can cost up to £4k a year and petrol for my commute would cost me about £70 a week.
Same sort of experience in the UK, when trying to get a copy of my front door key made. You needed the original barcode that came with the keys to order copies.
You're over thinking this. Anyone with access to the car can open the glove box and look at the address on the registration. They could take a picture of the registration in no time.
I don't think people in HN like to encourage domain squatters.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/
There is no correlation between the blog comment you linked to and the statement you're quoting. Your comment boils down to little more than saying "Not true!"

If you want to make the point that bolstering public education is a wasted effort, then think of countries like Finland or Norway who have an excellent public educational system. Go on vacation there, and you'll be surprised, for instance, how well the average person there speaks English. Now compare this to the US or the UK where people usually don't bother learning a second language, and your average shop clerk has a hard enough time communicating in his mother tongue.
Is burning a story still effective?

HuffPo will run a story from a mid-tier news org (AFAIK), and then it will go viral.

So it seems this might be a deprecated crisis PR strategy.
But it makes them way easier to find next time a government invades another country. Politicians do not like to get "caught" twice - well unless it is an indiscreet sexual liaison. (cynical me?)
Do you trust the home depo staff with effectively permanent copies of your keys? Potentially just takes one bitter guy getting fired and deciding to make a little money to sink the whole ship, and the security of that end of the service isn't something that you or me's going to get to take a look at.
There are several minutes of delay in there. I could just about set up a brand new VPS, ssh to it, install irssi and connect within that amount of time. Let alone logging into a system I already had set up.

It does not impress me in the slightest bit.
XSS, stored XSS everywhere
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/37206008.jpg
People on HN don't typically encourage cluelessness, you really should be careful with what terms you use around here. Language is a powerful tool when used properly if you start using words without knowing their meaning you make a fool out of yourself.
I have utmost respect for this guy, after spending 25 years
in prison he still has such a positive outlook, thinking about how he can utilize the internet to his advantage.

It teaches us something about not giving up our future even if the present is less than stellar. Startups are hard, but imagine if you would have to wait 25 years to realize your ideas...

As cliché as it is, never give up!
Most workplaces block certain websites anyway so I don't see why they could not do the same thing for inmates. Maybe they shouldn't be using Tor, but I don't see why Wikipedia is a problem.
Show HN: Got featured in Indian Express (Geek diaries)
Same here.

Another problem: They charge VAT even if you have a valid non-spanish VAT number.

I guess it's a pretty wild day for a small company :p
Paypal withholds Skullgirls funding
Free lunch is over , Google tricked you into relying on them now you are about to understand that there is no such thing as a non paying customer , even in the internet world.
> It's only a matter of time until human drivers will be banned

Last I checked robots still can't vote. And if it came down to voting between Google cars and human cars. Well, fuck Google. Roads are built by taxes, which are paid by people. As long as everyone pays those taxes everyone is entitled to use them.

The self-driving car has been solved for over decades. They behave well on closed tracks and that has never been in dispute. The real development is making them work in an environment with cars, people, bikes, pets, etc.
Open Feedback Publishing System from O'Reilly is another source
http://ofps.oreilly.com/
Don't get me wrong, this is a cool demo, but as someone who experimented with verlet based physics before I don't understand what is so impressive about a basic implementation in JavaScript.

The math behind it is ridiculously easy and JS got faster over the years.
And as someone already mentioned there is a 13 years old paper about verlet physics in games so this is everything but new.
Apple's recent stock price drop: it's not the first time it happened
... waiting for research of the influense of bluetooth on sleep, especially when in close proximity to a brain :]
MIT's 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013
I agree. I think this was an important closure to a situation that was spiraling out of control. According to the Washington Post, one of the reasons the FBI released the photos of the suspects on Thursday was to curb the vigilante detective work.

“Find people carrying black bags,” wrote the Reddit forum’s unnamed
moderator. “If they look suspicious, then post them. Then people will
try and follow their movements using all the images.”

The moderator defended this strategy by arguing that “it’s been proven
that a crowd of thousands can do things like this much quicker and better.
. . . I’d take thousands of people over a select few very smart investigators
any day.”

In addition to being almost universally wrong, the theories developed via
social media complicated the official investigation, according to law
enforcement officials. Those officials said Saturday that the decision on
Thursday to release photos of the two men in baseball caps was meant
in part to limit the damage being done to people who were wrongly
being targeted as suspects in the news media and on the Internet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside...
Can we ask the mods to change the link to the one you provided?
The project I'm working on (http://www.musubimail.com) was originally meant to help keep in touch with professional contacts, but I've been using it for beta-user follow ups to some good success.

I made groups based on how soon I need to follow up (this week, next quarter, etc) and have them track certain labels in my Gmail inbox. If someone needs to move groups, I just flag their email with the right label and wait for the reminders.

Let me know if this is something that interests you!
25 years is an enormous amount of time. Think of the cost to society to lock up people for the bigger part of their productive life.
> In which case the impressiveness must be coming from the lack of domain familiarity.

One of the nice things about a site like this is being exposed to domains that one is not familiar with. I for one know beans about physics simulations like this, so it is interesting.

Also, as someone who recalls what Javascript was like 10 or more years ago, yes, I am impressed with what it can do now.
The set of strings is isomorphic to a Cartesian Product of sets of the same cardinalities as the set of options (for example, if the template was "{I,We} like {HTML, CSS, Javascript}", you can make a set {0,1}x{0,1,2}, where each element in the product set maps to one string and vice versa. For example (0,0) might represent I like HTML, and (1,2) might represent We like Javascript).

Because there is a one to one map (bijection) between the Cartesian Product set and the set of strings, the size of the product set is the same as the size of the set of strings.

The cardinality of a cartesian product AxB, where A and B are sets, is |AxB|=|A|x|B|, so to find the size of the set of strings, you just need to multiply together the number of options at each point in the template where you have a choice.
Are you serious about the analogy?

An improperly driven car can harm other people, even with the best intentions of the inexperienced driver.

An improperly used computer by a well-intentioned user -- not so much.
Five Hidden Tricks You Can Do With You’re Mouse’s Middle Click
I've spent the last ~6 years of my professional life as a single, jet-setting, 20-something year old for exactly the reasons you've described.

I was raised in a family where having a mother at home, who was active in my community, volunteered in activities I participated in, and generally always there when she was needed. I absolutely adore stay at home parents (but wouldn't pressure anyone to do so) and am looking forward to being a dad, or having a wife, who has the means to do so. This is a large reason I love working in the internet industry.

One of life's greatest lessons for me has been - the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. When I have kids I want to shower them with gifts.
Airbnb: More than a Threat, It's a Great Disruptor to the Hotel & Travel Sector
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There was also an interesting Top Gear segment where Mika Hakkinen gave James May a racing lesson[1]. In it they talked about why Finns seem to do so much better than people from other countries in motor racing. A bit of it was to do with their driver training.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bmqdnx5R1U
not that surprising...
That wasn't popjam was it?
You forget that use of WMD means you can be subjected to "enhanced interrogation" (aka torture) to extract "actionable intelligence" (aka "whatever nonsense we make them say, such as 'Obama is not American'"). Therefore adding charges of WMD opens up new doors for prosecution and sentencing.
As a purely hypothetical argument, there's a net benefit to society if someone's productive efforts go into stealing from or otherwise harming other people. How many people fall into that category versus how many can be reformed or otherwise kept from causing harm is something I don't have facts about and is probably another debate for another site.
Checkout by Amazon always struck me as very similar to paypal and has been around for years. https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/cba
Yeah, but you're not thinking big picture here.. now we get a whole new generation of "OBVIOUS_IDEA with SIMPLE_IMPLEMENTATION in a browser" patents to role through... a whole new generation of free money.
That's tragic, I assumed to get 25 years he must have killed somebody
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Author is Michael Santos:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_G._Santos
Website: http://michaelsantos.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelgsantos
More: http://about.me/michael.santos

He did a degree, began a doctorate and wrote 7 books whilst in prison, and seems he hit the ground running when he got out. Good for him.
By far the fastest way to make myself fall asleep is to enumerate all possible excuses for not going to sleep yet. Either way I "win"...
Dovecot + Roundcube hosted on a cheap VPS, with Thunderbird (on the Desktop) and K9Mail (on Android) as client works pretty well for me. Dovecot 2.2 implements several new IMAP extensions, so you can do serverside fulltext search, threading and push of incoming mail, and with some work[1] it should also be possible to sync your contacts and even a calendar with your server (I must admit though that I haven't tried that yet).

The only thing left to be desired is support for tagging in Roundcube. Thunderbird has it, but it would be nice to have it in the web interface, too. There's a ticket for it in the Roundcube tracker[2] but it doesn't seem to receive much attention yet.

Personally I hope that with the recent closures of Google services more people choose to run their own services with free/open source software. With VPSes and modern tools this is cheaper and easier than ever, and if we want the web to remain free and open, it's much better to have some diversity and decentralization, instead of placing everything in the hands of Google and Facebook.

[1] https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/389
[2] http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485799
I guess there is that, it explains how he knew about Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn and also what an Apple iPhone + Safari is.
Have you tried their original programming recently? At the turn of the century HBO and Showtime started producing really amazing original shows that easily rival any movie and have become the top tier of TV shows. I would venture to say that most people that get HBO nowadays do it for the original programming and not the movies.

These premiere shows had a much different feel than normal "big 3" network TV shows. They tend to be much more serial, with story arcs that go for whole seasons or even longer. They also tend to have much shorter seasons (generally around 8 to 12 episodes). This serial style really lends itself well to in-depth story telling and the shorter seasons means more attention is spent on each episode (since they don't have to constantly churn out new episodes all year).

An interesting technique that many of the shows use is to base themselves off a book series but make the entire 10 to 12 episode season cover a single book. Dexter, Game of Thrones, and True Blood all seems to do this with reasonable success. It allows them to get much more detailed than a 2 hour movie based on a book could possibly be.
What is the longest possible sunset you can experience while driving?
The "Security" page addresses this very concern:

> Keyjacking is not allowed

> Worried someone's going surreptitiously copy your key with our service? Not to worry. We don't accept surreptitious or flyby pictures of keys. The key must be held in the person's hand, with their fingers visible. In any case, we require a credit card to ship the key, so in case of fraud, identity can be traced back. We respond swiftly to all inquiry from law enforcement agencies.
Start by simply backing up your emails regularly with BaGoMa
IMO, don't over estimate the size of the "technical crowd" vs the entire readership here
Training CEOs and innovators to overcome self-doubt
Sounds pretty neat. But where the heck did they come up with the name "Shloosl"? There's no way I'm ever going to remember that one.
Could you please elaborate on your method?
Do you decide before hand what X will be?
If not, it looks a lot like counting sheep.
Depends on what your definition of "deep" is. Have you watched Game of Thrones? The story is very complicated and I can't imagine a 2 hour movie being made out of it without dropping a lot of story on the floor.
Specifically what they said is it isn't stored digitally. So maybe they have it written down on a piece of paper.
The problem is that by all measures, Google is the most reputable provider... of course there are some problematic stories from time to time, but they probably happen also with paid providers, just that you don't hear from them so often because there are less people using paid providers! :)
For anyone wondering about the name, it seems to be a web-two-ification of the German word for key: Schlüssel.
Cannot stop tearing.
It is ridiculous how some dangerous inmates manage to communicate with the outside world and continue to commit crimes through their network. By allowing them to use Wikipedia, they can leave coded messages as orders for fellow gang members. This happens with traditional mail and you can bet it'll be more wide spread with Internet access.

I believe prisoners need the ability to learn and improve themselves while in prison but the problem is much more complicated than ban tor and allow Wikipedia.
I think we need a paid email provider, someone who's sole business is to provide email services, and maybe a calendar. Someone who you can host your own domain with and someone who's mission it is to ensure their customers have privacy, security and can rely on their services. Someone who doesn't just guarantee their services for as much as you pay for them but someone who is willing to put their ass on the line to prove that they're a good provider.

Sure, you could just set up your own email server but why go through the hassle? There's a real opportunity here, my mother doesn't know how to set up her own email provider, neither does my aunt. A good email provider will make it really easy to do everything related to email with advanced spam filtering capabilities and will run a very tight ship.

A man can dream.
Show HN: Newsvibe, an RSS reader
We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla
If you are so dependent on GMail, pay the $50 per year for the Google Apps for Business version.
Well, I wouldn't call it either a fantasy or a soap. It's more about politics than almost anything else. The fantasy parts are much more restrained than I expected when I first started watching (seriously, pretty much nothing fantastical happens from after the first scene of the first episode until the last episode of the first season).
You can run a Bayesian filter over pairs (or even triplets) of words (although this could cause the probabilities to be a bit off, because pairs like "although this" and "this could" are not truly independent). The downside is that as you do this, you drastically increase the size of the model and the amount of training data required.

Bayesian filters can also take more than just the words in the text into account - for example, they can take the submitting IP address (or perhaps /24 or ASN) into account, or a spam classification from external sources.

There are certainly better methods that could be built for recognising unknown templates - a simple known-state Markov model would be sufficient for the cases where templates substitute one word at a time, and you could conceivably use an unsupervised learning algorithm to discover an unknown number of models from a large corpus of comments.
Maybe it just wasn't a very intetresting story. Gamers had to wait a couple of days for EA to fix their servers. Not very shocking at all.
Give them access to a static, read-only dump of Wikipedia hosted on an internal prison server. Update said dump once every month.
I agree...
Then the skid chose the nick "root_" in an attempt at appearing to have "rooted" some box...
It's no difficult task to ssh into another server and reconnect, and if "ryan" is who I think it is, he's a bot herder who enjoys DDoS attacks on those who upset his false sense of superiority.
He's well versed in server management, but exploiting other's servers is what he's working towards, and he failed to crack a server belonging to some friends of mine, so his only recourse was a DDoS.
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Yeah - doing X work was "my job" for a few years in the early nineties. The various O'Reilly XLib/Xt books were a godsend. Still have 'em somewhere in the garage.
The great Generation Y debate
This exact concept was done very well by a HNer two years ago:

http://dittokey.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391571 - Show HN: DittoKey - Door keys copied from a photo app.

For my money it's a cool idea, but an overtechnical and imperfect solution to a rare and cheap problem. Keys are cut in minutes, cheaply, with professional guidance at tens of thousands of places around the world.