skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama on the record just a couple of days ago:

"I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the [inspector general] report before the I.G. report had been leaked"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584849/obama-i-didnt-k...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/16/obama-i-didn...
I guess some of us are no longer that (un)lucky. We have already started(up). :)
There is

a) no guarantee they won't crash (the air safety record is
mostly one of very large spaces between planes and terrifyingly good maintenance)

b) UAVs will make very good active deterrents against *other* UAVs spying on your drug corner / bank robbery / illicit affair.

Expect to see them crashing down around you any day now.
Don't mind at all. I just don't want to thread jack the OP.

To get back on topic a little bit. I understand how he could want to make amends for what he's done, I do coding, algorithms, and websites usually for free and help others with any questions they may have that I have an answer for, but the PR being portrayed here is that he is "happy," to be caught.

The quoting words just sounds like he's trying to capitalize on a conviction (example: who did the video rendering? and I've seen this done ALOT inside)...not that there's anything wrong with using your circumstances to your advantage, but just careful with the wording.
With certain frameworks and languages, I have just decided to bite the bullet and use Linux to avoid running into bugs that the minority have.

Logically, if few people have a bug, it won't get as much resources to get fixed. It's like developing a Rails application on Windows, I can do it sure; but _should_ I?

Linux Mint is a great alternative to the clusterfuck that Ubuntu has become and it's been a simple transition from Windows 7. Multiple monitor support is intuitive as well. No configuration needed.
Will do! Thank you very much!
Why do it needs to be logged in with Google to try it?
I really don't see that happening, unless it was done under the table. And even then, it would most likely be with lower-tier companies that believe they could fly under the radar and get away with it. Of course I'm a bit burned out on what-ifs and conspiracy theories in general.
Right, and it can be a smart intervalometer, with a little pop-up, "taking a picture in 5, 4,... (to skip taking a picture this time, tilt your head to the left)". Or, "you seem to still be sitting in that waiting room, skipping the timed picture as per your settings (tilt your head left to make an exception this time)." And "you will soon be arriving at the party on your calendar, increasing rate of auto-pictures and going into silent-running mode for two hours (tilt your head left to cancel)."
In our (Rackspace) defense I will say that we definitely don't rely on a customer getting bigger and being stuck with us as a result due to migration pains. I can demonstrate that logically if you will follow:

Surely this audience is aware of OpenStack and our commitment to such having open source the first major components a few years ago. With such knowledge you can logically assume that we want to be interoperable with other companies' offerings on the same platform.

We really believe in this "fanatical support" thing and we believe we can compete with others on a fair playing field because of it. We do this in part by paying attention:

If our support fails in areas and it's made public in places like this website, trust we are reading about it and discussing it at various levels. Furthermore, we are always striving to get it right. Take that from someone who isn't paid to read this, but paid to write software.

FTR, these are my opinions as someone in the Rackspace culture. Take it for what its worth.

Tell us what we suck at so we can do it better (like you did, drfritznunkie). Thanks.
I've played with white women (and one Hispanic woman) who also enjoyed it. I've never seen anyone not enjoy the game.

Most of the people I've played with are Jews, and the presence of cards like "Auschwitz" and "Nazis" isn't a problem. The game is only really unplayable for people who take themselves too seriously.
Groopic.com Expiring - Anyone Want It?
I registered the domain groopic.com a while back and was planning to build a group photo sharing app. I no longer have any plans to do that and the domain is set to expire on 5/22. If anyone HN'ers want it, I'd be happy to transfer it. You'll be responsible for the renewal fee but that's it.
Absolutely. Would love to read a case study how they did that. 99% of my purchases are on AMEX.
I posted numerous stuff on Facebook. Critical of both our government (US) and Israel. Then I noticed a lot of Spear phishing emails ostensibly sent from my facebook friends. I use an alias on facebook and they addressed me by my alias name (something friends wouldn't do) so I knew what the nature of the email was.
Seems like governments are investing a lot in electronically targeting outspoken individuals.
I suspect it has more to do with stringing together the inputs/outputs of multiple programs, which is outright painful in python. The syntax is terribly verbose (import subprocess, use subprocess.call, refer to a few enum values in the subprocess package, wire them together which requires a line of code rather than a character). Worse, pipes are tricky to implement correctly. It's easy to deadlock the python process by overflowing a pipe's buffer (wait for exit to read the buffer, buffer fills before subprocess exit, deadlock), so people who don't have an intimate knowledge of the underlying implementation will find themselves stuck with a bug they can't fix.

Compare this to a shell where the combination of &&, ||, and | can fit on a single line what would have taken dozens of lines of python.
Wondered what your comment was about until I saw your username. Although I'm not one to really demand sites provide support for browsers without JS enabled it does seem a bit silly that the site requires JS to just display what is basically a static page.
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You may have heard about Docker on HN in the past few weeks. Docker is a runtime for LXC (Linux Containers). To quote the website:

"Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system and hosting provider."

The Docker project is growing faster than we were expecting. We have a long roadmap planned for the project, so we're looking for one or several full-time engineer willing to contribute full-time on the project.

It's not only about Docker but also about any other projects related to Docker (Python, Go, etc...).
Watch Out: Google Will Dominate the Web for Decades to Come
Vile? Wow...don't get out much?
Yes. I'd like it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4398665

Also note that winning a $4 ticket will net you $6 :-)
So the actual expected ROI is -64%
Still orbiting the Sun ... though probably noone knows where any more.

For example Apollo 8's S-IVB-503N went into a 0.99-by-0.92-astronomical-unit (148 by 138 Gm) solar orbit with a period of 340.80 days.

Humor: Apollo 12's S-IVB-507 was discovered as an asteroid in 2002 and given the designation J002E3 before they realized what it was.

There's a rundown here: http://www.fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/S-IVB
My own disappointment with EFF comes from many years of watching them go from a grassroots group to being an established thinktank in DC. I don't feel like they represent me and that feeling was certainly reinforced during the past two years with regard to Bitcoin.

It's only my personal opinion. You should donate to whomever you want to. As I said, EFF taking Bitcoin is good for Bitcoin.
> Sure. These things are about getting new and interesting companies to build on Google's infrastructure. Then when the time comes to acquire them and monetize them through advertising, all the integration is already done.

That seems to be a strained explanation, particularly in the case of paid Google Apps.

> Interestingly I signed up for the trial of Google App Engine. The only thing they wanted to approve me was for me to enter my GMail password. In other words, they'd already scanned my email and decided if I was a good candidate. Worrying, no?

The trial period for App Engine was, I think, limited for the purpose of controlling rate of growth on the platform until it was ready to be thrown wide open. I don't think there was evaluation involved at all, which is why they didn't need anything other than your login information.

When Google has rolled out products with limited previews with evaluation criteria, they've had applicants provide explanations of their intended use and other information.
Love to hear your thoughts & ideas!
I wondered the same thing. Hack?
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I was confused why the submission title specifically mentioned that the laptop belonged to an activist, but the end of the article indicates the persons life might be endangered as a result. I can't decide if this is sensationalized or not.
I first read that as Apple's ID And thought it was like the Microsoft certificate attack.

Looks like Macs market share is growing. Was this distributed in the store?
You just need to find a way to hack the lottery: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/
What a cool pic. I'm glad that you made it and put the link here. I want to hang it up on my wall!
Yes, I agree. I do flag when discussion is toxic.
You might get more hits if you update the title to indicate room needed in SF. "Help me" is extremely generic.
Ha, well in your book. But once you buy a ticket, the $1 is sunk cost and you currently have $0 left of your $1. If you then get $1 from the ticket, you did "win" it and are $1 better off than you would have been if the ticket was not a winner. If you're willing to shell out the $1 in the first place, you should be happier winning $0.23 then being stuck with a losing ticket.
Apple iOS 6 devices get nod for U.S. military use
1) What does that have to do with this?

2) FTA:

>Q: What can or should individuals do?

> Stone-Gross: Do not allow installation of applications that are not distributed through the official Google Play marketplace on the device

So this malware isn't effective unless the user explicitly makes their device vulnerable, doing something normally only developers or hard core users - people who are likely to spot this attack - would do.
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But chip cards already sidestep the problem of skimming.

You only insert half of the card into the chip reader slot and, for what I remember or could imagine, let the ATM exercise some challenge-response protocol with the on-card chip so that there's no way to and there would be no point in actually trying to copy the chip because all you see from the chip is an interface to it.

I haven't had the magnetic stripe on any of my cards swiped for at least a couple of years. Last time I did was probably because of dirt or grease on the chip's contacts prevented reading it. The magnetic stripes still exist for now but everywhere I go there are chip readers, from pizza restaurants to little shoppes.
That is not irony. I think Alanis Morrisette should be brought to the Hague and stand trial for crimes against lexicography.
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They're in some sort of heliocentric orbit [1]. They didn't track them.

One's been rediscovered, initially designated as asteroid J002E3 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB#Stages_built

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3
People were saying for years that the superior UNIX design and the bad Windows code is the reason that Windows had a huge malware problem but Linux and Mac did not.
I love CaH but I do have to say that the founders are full of themselves. I and several other friends/entrepreneurs have reached out to them regarding ideas to build associated products that would help build their brand. Even companion apps and such since their content is under Creative Commons. Every single one of us was sent back extremely rude and vile replies. This article just reeks of more narcissism.

It's a real shame too. It will go out of style in a year or two and, gasp, maybe these people will have to get real jobs or start a real company! Assholes.
I absolutely agree, I think there definitely are.

I'm not saying there are only 2 kinds of people, but that there's sort of a divide. This divide appears to be nearly dichotomous, and it seems to follow some pretty fundamental beliefs about humanity and our place in the world. It's no doubt a stochastic process leading to such a divide, and it's no doubt continuous, but there's a line where if you're on one side, you sort of think it's okay to use some negative reinforcement with people and that they need that to grow stronger (a self-reinforcing idea), and if you're on the other side you sort of think it's not really okay to punish (also a self-reinforcing idea), and the self-reinforcing nature of those ideas leads to their internal reinforcement to become stronger, such that we really do get clustering of individuals who all hold this strong belief about people, and reinforce each other.

There are very few people in the middle of this, and while the child and the personality is not a dichotomy per se, the belief about punishment vs. reward; negative vs. positive reinforcement—is quite dichotomous, not because the world is black and white, but because of the effect of internal reinforcement, groupthink, and time. People gravitate to one side or the other, and having a middle way on these sorts of issues is not attractive to the human psyche or, as it turns out, the way ideas naturally propagate and grow within people.

Politics works precisely the same way, and indeed shares many of the roots of this very opinion on humanity: does punishment work better, or does reward work better? Do we leave the poor to fend for themselves, or do we proactively help them due to their circumstances? It comes down to the way people believe humans work, and again, these ideas gravitate naturally toward opposite ends.

It's quite sad, because reality really is somewhere in the middle, and an effective strategy would take into account the reality of human behavior in addition to the side effects of negative reinforcement and the benefits of positive reinforcement and result in a well-balanced type of policy or parenting style that's scientifically sound and based on truth. But that's not how we work with our offspring; we do what we believe is right and try to do better than our parents, and maybe if we read here or there that this or that is good for the kid, we'll take it into consideration. I truly believe most parents are trying to do what's best for their child, if they can, and it's ignorance and false beliefs about people in general that leads them to make mistakes. I think that's the gist of it.

So you're right, the world isn't black and white, I appreciate you opening my eyes to the truth of the middle way and the truth behind the incomprehensible layers of complexity. It's just fascinating to me how people form ideas, and especially how dichotomous ideas take hold and self-reinforce, because I really think they do. I think it's one of the great problems we could solve in society in the next few dozen years with great benefit, but there's probably not anyone with the right mindset to study it correctly.
Thanks for the links. And the summary as well. :)
Frankly, this incident is too trivial to affect my attitude toward EFF.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to make informed decisions before signing up for something – so where are the specs?

- What sort of encryption is used where?
- How is this encryption ‘enforced’?
- How are messages stored/logged and accessible to whom?
- How highly available are these services?
- How are users authenticated?
- What limitations exist for use on tablets?
- …

Just calling something ‘real geeky’ and throwing out some buzzwords is…well, insufficient to convince me.

Edit: added ‘to convince me’
Shane Todd, American engineer in Singapore, wasn't assassinated after all
The $12 million figure isn't confirmed. Just the author speculating based on reported sales figures and "made" doesn't account for the cost of producing the game.
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It seems to be quoting a tweet by Jacob Appelbaum. I think that the idea could be that they don't know who put the malware there. As this person was an activist, it's possible that it was there by the government this person was opposing. How does the Angolan government treat activists?

I imagine that if a similar thing happened to an Egyptian activist during Mubarak's time in power that it would not be such a stretch to say such a thing.
I'm curious what they said to you or how they were rude.
Vagrant is also an awesome alternative to a VM or full installation of any Linux flavor. I've been playing with it and together with the subset of Linux commands that comes with MSysGit I can even SSH into the Vagrant box from the regular Windows command prompt or Console2.
Stock options: There is a thrill to knowing that, however small the chance, there is a large payout potentially waiting for you.
This is exactly what I've done. I started a nodejs project and opted for Mint for my first actual linux experience. No real complaints after a year.
The correct word to prefix "is harder than you think" is always "humility".
So, the reason of cutting the Sandbox mode has finally showed up...
I think you'll always get that in the pop psych pieces; they'll always always try to reach some eye-catching conclusion title to pull people in. I haven't read the original paper, but I highly doubt they made a case for causation unless the statistics backed it up; and if the stats did back it up, then the science does in fact say causation and not just correlation. It would be interesting to check.
I took a look at the odds in my state. The lower dollar amount tickets have worse odds. The higher you go up in ticket price the better the odds get.

At $1 you might see odds up too 1:5 but all of the $20 tickets are <1:4. The best I saw was 1:2.89. I'm not goot with stats but wouldn't have been better to buy 5 $20 instead of 100 $1 tickets?
The continued existence of us British :D
Probably not. The article said it was from a link in n email. As this was a spearphishing attack, the attacker probably doesn't care that the developer account doesn't work anymore.
That's where we're headed, right? Smartphone cameras are so small already that they could be embedded in a pair of glasses without the dorky hardware hanging off the side. Make them sunglasses and no one can see you winking. Or just video your entire day then edit it later to extract creepy stills at your leisure.
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Another scenario, Google constantly runs a system looking at tweets, texts, and news stories. Anytime something happens that is criminal and significant enough for it to notice, it turns up the logging for all the Glass devices in the area.

If it were opt-in to send the resulting log to law enforcement, that would be totally fine. If not, things get worrisome. But what about in between? Say sending the log in is only done when the user clicks ok, but the police subpena Google for who all had their Glass devices in that area, so they can contact them directly. Gets into the area of withholding evidence and such.
Drop me an email - ajstiles@gmail.com. I've got the authorization code ready.
Good and bad. Actually, bad right up until Apple revokes the cert.
You're not dumb. It's a subtle point, otherwise special relativity wouldn't have been necessary to invent. (You may find it worthwhile to read a more normal article on special relativity -- it's much easier to understand than general relativity.)

The two rocks land just as Bert and Dana are closest to each other. The two rocks are equally distant from that point. But as the light propagates towards them, Bert continues to move towards the light from the impact ahead of him, and away from the impact behind him. Thus he will see the light from the former impact before the latter.

(The traditional thought experiment is described in terms of trains and lightning, instead of buses and moon rocks. If you do a web search for that plus "special relativity", you should find plenty of descriptions that are closer to the original.)
I don't think that strategy cost the charity any money, unless the boxes would not have sold out anyway. The return on the boxes is fixed regardless of who buys the tickets.
That's more or less what was done to game the Massachusetts lottery:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mit-students-scammed-m...
"People with loving parents have turned out screwed up kids, just the same."

This simply does not matter if there is a statistically valid conclusion saying the opposite.

There will always be outliers and anecdotes. You should be looking at the statistical trend, not individual cases.
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New US Regulation allowed EFF to Accept Bitcoins
2.0 is not in distributions yet, you probably got the version from 2009. Find your distribution here: http://fishshell.com/files/2.0.0/linux/

And as others have also said, fish knows nothing of your bash history. It'll work fine with quake; use chsh to change shell for your user.
They didn't want to get tagged as fringe, so they wait to accept bitcoins until right after the largest bitcoin exchange had funds seized by the DHS?
I just found out the other day that in fish you don't need to use the 'cd' command. You can just type out a path and it'll change to the folder.
Really strange that he spits out his last two surprising philosophical answers and then doesn't explain how the first one pertains to awk at all.

First, AI has discovered that brute-force combinatorics, as an approach to generating intelligent behavior, does not often provide the solution ... A language that maximizes what the programmer can attempt rather than one that provides tremendous control over how to attempt it, will be the AI choice in the end.

Okay. And... awk has this quality? What can I do in awk but not in C or a lisp? In what way does programming in awk lead you toward less brute-force solutions than any other language? He doesn't support this in any way at all.
Here's the non-mobile link for old school non-mobile peeps: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2013/05/find-hidden-patterns-with...
Ask HN: How do you track your personal health/exercise?
A quick question for the HN community.

Do you use fitbit, runkeeper, nike+? One of each or all of them? Is there one place and keeps them all together?

And, do you share your progress/stats with the public, friends and family, or no-one?
That wasn't a joke.
It's interesting that the Eclipse devs were not aware until now that users actually don't like using it.
Or perhaps your Facebook friends had their own accounts randomly hacked and phishing messages were sent to every one of the account's Facebook friends.

At any given point in time, half of America is posting some sort of critical message about the government online.
We also open-sourced a good part of it here: https://github.com/dotcloud/sandbox/.
I strongly disagree with this. Afaik they don't even have a single person based permanently in DC, and they don't generally play the DC/lobbying game. If anything, that could be considered a criticism of the way they operate (too idealistic, not compromising enough to be pratical). But they certainly haven't become a "DC thinktank."

They're very much still a grassroots organization. For example, they had a big impact in the anti-SOPA and CISPA campaigns.

To a degree they've shifted their work to providing legal representation to technologists in courts. But that is very, very important and much needed work.
Do you really think violence is acceptable in any way?
If you weren't aware, Family Guy is a fairly popular low-brow humor cartoon TV show. It's in the same category as The Simpsons or South Park.